The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

The nuisance, waste of fuel, and other inconveniences con-
sequent upon the emission of smoke from the furnaces of
steam boilers are evils generally known, and from the earliest
introduction of steam machinery, many endeavours have been
fruitlessly made to remove, or abate these evils. The thou-
sands who, during the summer months are in the habit of
making short trips in steam vessels to Gravesend, Margate,
Ramsgate, and the various places which afford a tem-
porary retreat from the din and bustle of this great
metropolis, can testify how much the pleasure of their
voyage has been alloyed by the disagreeable smell which issues
from the centre of the vessel where the steam boiler is placed.
Then as regards railways : many railway Bills have been op-
posed (aud justly) on the ground of the nuisance which the
smoke of the engines would occasion to the country through
which they passed; and Parliament has more than once im-
posed a condition that the Railway Companies should employ
furnaces which would consume their own smoke. Now in
order to comply with this enactment, they have been com-
pelled to use coke instead of coal, at an annual average
increase of expendiutre of 1001. per mile. We this
day witnessed a new patent smoke-burner in operation
on the premises of the patentees, Messrs. Chanter and
Co., Earl-street, Blackfriars. Without entering minutely
into all the details of the invention, it may be sufficient briefly
to state, that its principle essentially consists in so arranging
the form of the furnace, and position of the bars, that the un-
carbonized gas (which in the usual system is dispersed in
smoke) is compelled to pass through the most intensely ignited
portion of the fuel, by reverberation of the current against a
descending plane, constructed in the boiler, and allowing for
the gas no other egress. The result is, that not one particle
of smoke escapes from the chimney ; nor is this all, for by
thus consuming the smoke, the fire is rendered much more in-
tense, and a great economy of fuel is effected. The inven-
tion_is varied in twelve different forms, applying to every de-
scription of furnace. A vast number of engineers, chemists,
and scientific men have expressed their approbation of the in-
vention, which appears truly deserving of public approval and
adoption.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HULL.

The Committee met at eleven o"closi, when Mr. TUESSIOER resumed
his arguments in support of the qualification of the sitting Member, Mr.
Wilberforce.

Mr. HUMPHREY replied on some cases which had been cited in the
course of the arguments on the other side, and had not concluded at the
time of our going to press.

SHAFTESBURY.
The Committee met this day at eleven o'clock, when the scrutiny
into the vote of Robert Waring (objected to for non-papment of retest
NV RS proceeded with.

EVESHAM.
The Committee again met at eleven o'clock.
Mr. COCKBURN said an arrangement had been made by which the
Committee would very soon be released of its labours. As the parties
were then even on the poll, he would proceed to strike one vote from
the poll of Mr. Borthwick, and so place Lord M. Hill in a majority. He
thee called Benjamin Murrell, who deposed that he was agent for Mr.
Borthwick at the last election, and voted for him. He was paid. Vote
struck off.

Mr. Ausrm then ssid that he gave up the scrutiny ; and
there was then only one point on which he was bound
to trouble the Committee. It was in reference to the decision
of the Committee by which Mr. Borthwick was held to be guilty
of bribery in presenting a snuff-box t• the voter, Pearce. He, and
those Learned Friends who acted with him, were on that occasion taken
by surprise, as when they left the room they expected the Committee
were merely going to decide the points of law relative to the validity
of the resolutions of 1697. The Counsel did not feel that the snuff-
box ease pressed, or they would have called evidence to place it in a
very different light. He, of course, did not mean to impugn the deci-
sion of the Committee, but as the matter was extremely hurtful to Mr.
Borthwick, as well as to his Counsel, and as he could pledge himself to
give a totally different colouring to the affair, he hoped the Committee
would grant them the opportunity of taking from the resolution of the
Committee those penal consequences which then attached to it. He
trusted they would hear fresh evidence upon that particular case.
Mr. COCKBURN was satisfied in having got the seat for his client, and
would be glad if his Learned Friend would put the question upon a bet.
ter footing.

The room was then cleared, and was not opened for upwards of an
hour, when Counsel were called in and informed, that the Committee
had decided that they could not re-open the case.
Mr. COCKBURN said, on the part of the petitioner, he had then only to
claim the seat for Lord Marcus Hill, and that the Committee would draw
up the usual resolutions accordingly.
The room was then cleared.
In half an hour the Counsel and agents were called in, and informed
that the Committee had come to resolutions declaring that George
Rushout, Esq., had been duly elected to serve in Parliament for the bo-
rough of Evesham ; that Peter Borthwick, Esq., was not duly elected,
and ought not to have been returned ; that Lord Marcus Hill was duly
elected, and ought to have been returned as one of the burgesses to serve
in Parliament for the borough of Evesham ; and that Peter Borthwick,
Esq., had been guilty of bribery.