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London, England, 1854-08-03 00:00:00

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By FRANCIS H. RAMADGE, \l.i) ,

Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the
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A TREATISE on.A;THMA and on DISEASES of the HEART.

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TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.-4 RETIRED
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE at HARPENDEN.
"Harpenden, June 16, 1854.
" Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in adding my testimony to
the valae of 3 our Fireproof Sa'es.
" Last Monday night my house, warehouse, and premises were
unfortunately burned down; the tire raged very fearfitliv for about
two hours, and, owfng to the great scarcity of water, the whole of
my Premises and stock were consumed.
"The safe I purchased of you had a most severe test, in conse-
quence of a barrel or brimstone standing close to it and melting with
the heat of the fire, the burning lava running all over and under the
safe, which great'', added to the intensity of the heat; it remained
in that position about four hours, and when with great difficulty it
was trot out of the fire and opened, I found my books and papers all
uninjured.
" You are at liberty to make what use you please of this informa-
tion. _

"I am, gentlemen, yours respectfully

" WM. WALKER.
"Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son, 17s, Moorgate-street, London."
"Agricultural Laboratory, Harpenden, July 6, 1854
" Gentlemen,—l was present at the late fire which destroyed the
premises of !Ur. balker. Harpenden, and was much surprised at the
great amount of heat your safe resisted, and Will more surprised
(when it was made known to me that a barrel of sulphur stood near
it) that it was not end ely destroyed.
.' Being anxious to see if it had been attracted by the sulphur, I
scraped some of the blistered iron from the inside and outside of the
safe, and, from analysis, find much sulphuret, so that it must have
been greatly acted upon by the sulphur, yet the books and papers
were perfectly unin.iiired.
" I must in justice say that your safes are invaluable, and vary
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I am, Gentlemen, yours very faithfully,
"F. W. SIMCOE.
"Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son, 47A, Moorgate-street."

SPORTSMEN and OTHERS.—For the Twelfth
of August, the commencement of the Grouse Shooting Season,
MORES 'and SON have introduced the greatest variety of novel-
ties in the general equipment of : portsmen. The materials for Dress
and the style in which it is cut and finished,. warrants every sports
man to calculate on .a vast addition to his comfort which is condu-
cive to success. With Attire Improperle mad- the vexation of the
sportsman is inexptessible. but with the artistic productions' of E
MOSES an i SON ease and grace Constitut. the true element of enjoy.:
ment. !hose gentlemen who prefer their Sporting Dress to mea-
sure are reminded that the largest stock of materials may he selected
from at E. MOSES and SON'S Establishment, or at their West End
Bran Ch. The despatch and mom any maniftsted in .all commands
cannot be equalled by any hous rin the+ world. E. MOSES and SON
invite, attention to special arrangements for the enjoyment' of all
ollsses of soortsmen in the most complete and unparalleled manner.
New Style, is Flats and Caps, Hosiery of the most fashi,inahle and
corn:enable kind, B ots and Shoes of an easy, elegant, and service-
able ch iracter, and every article charged the lowe,t possible manu-
facturing prces.
The dress of the tourist manufactured by E. VOSES and -ox excels
I-, elegance and suitably; is adapted for the most fashionable pro-
monad,s, or for traveling by s-..a or land. •
' The tourist's hat, introduced by R. Mosas and SON, is the most
desirable addition • ver made to the traveller's equipment. . _

For Ladies, Gentlemen. Youths and Children, the eleglncies of
Dr. se, Hat,, Cep.c with-ever, dosc'ip:ion of Hosiery goods for the
sultry season, are prepared hy Mesas and . ON in the" most rnAg-
nificent variety, the most superior quality, and thn most economical
prices.
• E. tlosEs and SON'S wholesale branch. (Uspl'iys the most gigintic
Stock of ready-made &otbing, shirts, Boots and Shoes, &c., so ar-
ranged that Merchants, I aptains, and Emizrants may -elect without
lons of time to any amount, and may justly calculate on the largest
profits and the most speedy sale in any part of the °rid.
• Full LIST.; of OUTFITS for Ladies and Gen lemen, with ship-
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CACTION.—E. MOSES and ,e 4 rt haVill,; to guard the
public against imposition, hz.ving learned that the. untradesman .like
od of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
',batons reasons, they-beg to" state that, they have
No CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishmetnt, 154, 155. 156, and 157,icatin Mlnories, 84,
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• London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all commuicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia.
Merchant Tailo:0, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Farriers, Boot and
Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest
price, trom which no abatement can be made.
The Establishments are closed from ounce: on Fridays to sunset
on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.
A now Book,.with illustrations, entitled" The Echo of Public Opi-
nion," containing full lists of prices, our system et self-measure-
ment may be had on application, or post-free.
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Hier snricht man Dentqch

Qat si parla ItaLlano:
Anna sa habla Ftsoano

THE HALF-HOLIDAY MOVEMENT.—During the last
few days, the following circular has been issued to the
book trade :—" The undersigned being desirous of pro-
moting the comfort and recreation of the persons in their.
employment, as far as is consistent with the due die. .
charge of their business, by closingat an earlier hour,
have agreed to close their establishments, during the
months of April to September inclusive, on Saturdays,
at three o'clock. R. Bentley, Chapman and Hall, John
Churchill, Hurst and Blackett, Edward Moxon, John
Murray.—July 28, 1854." Some of the houses in the
"Row," amongst which is the Religious Tract Society
(wholesale department), itself employing upwards of 40
assistants, have also announced their intention to close
throughout the year, on Saturdays, at two o'clock—
magazine time only excepted.
CORKS AND BUNGS.—We recently visited the factory of
the London Cork Cutting Company, and proceeded through
a warehouse stacked with huge piles of Fork, tied up in
bales as imported into this country, to a little yard in the
rear of the building. Here we found one of the workmen
busily engaged over a blazing fire of cork shavings, on which
was placed a huge gridiron. He was "charring" the cork,
as the operation is called—that is to say, he was literally
broiling and blackening it on this gridiron. It is this pro-
cess that gives the bungs that dark exterior which they
always posses ; it also closes the pores, without at all
diminishing the size or lessening the weight of the cork.
Returning to the warehouse, we were enabled to inspect
the curious and interesting machinery by which the manu-
facture is accomplished. To those of our readers who may
be engaged in manufactures of various kinds, which call in
the aid of steam machinery, it may not be uninteresting
to present a brief descriptive sketch of the mode in which
these slices or sheets of the cork-bark were turned into
bottle-corks and bungs. A sheet of cork is placed on an
iron table, in which revolves a circular knife, by which all
" knobs and excrescence" are pared off. Parallel with the
knife, and at a distance from it, regulated by the size of the
cork required, is a little guage, or edge. Pushing
the cork
against the, edge of the knife, and passini,...it between the knife
and theguage, the sheet is speedily cut into long strips. One
boy can cut in this way half a ton of cork in a day. By a
similar process these slips are cut into little parallelo-
grams, the length of the cork required. A lad, at ls. per
day, turns out 80 gross, or 11,500 per diem,
while the
most experienced workman, by hand-labour' could hardly
do half as much within the same period, although he would
charge 5 or 6 times the money for his labour. These paral-
lelograms are then taken to another machine. The boy
places one on a lever, holds it there with his hand; the
lever, hand, and cork are carried up to an iron table ; two
" holders" now seize the square piece of cork exactly in
its centre, and it begins to revolve ; the hand and lever
return. Now there come, along, horizontally, a fearfully
large knife a yard in length—which catches.the parallelo-
gram of cork on the side as it is turning round to its edge.
It will easily be seen that the square is thus cut into an,
ordinary bottle-cork; and we may remark also, as a curi-
ous fact, that out of 10,000 of these parallelograms, a round
cork would, in every individual case, be cut of the very
largest dimensions mathematically possible; and not only ,
so, but the entire 10,000 would be, in the strictest mathe-
matical sense of the word, of precisely the same size and
circumference. As the knife recedes, the holders drop the
perfect cork into one basket, and the shavings into another,
and the knife, by an ingenious process, is made to sharpen
itself. From 16 to 25 corks can be, and are, cut in a
minute ; and there are children of from 12 to 14 years of
age who melee at the rate of 70 gross a day. By a similar
machine, though somewhat more complicated, bungs are
cut, both round and tapering, at one operation. There
appeared considerable beauty in the perfect accuracy and
precision with which these corks were turned out by the
machines; but this satisfactory result has only been at-
tained after the purchase, trial, and rejection of several
patents—after extensive experimentation, and the sacrifice
of a large quantity of machinery. The store-room was
suggestive of some interesting reflections. There were
packages of fifty or one hundred gross, or more, labelled
and ready
to depart, some to various quarters of the United.
d Kingdom, paid others for different parts of the world. r' •

Atholl, 4, store-ship, Lieut. Commander Peirse, will
Pay off, at Portsmouth, on Friday ; and her crew will
have granted a ten days' run, after which they return to
the flag-ship Victory, and may volunteer into any other
ship fitting out.
Dasher, 4, paddle, Captain Lefebre, returned into
Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning, to make good
some trifling defects, and on Monday next will accom-
pany the. Royal yacht, and be in attendance on the
Queen.

The Dauntless, Capt. Ryder, has sent all her invalids
on board the Waterloo, and is ordered to get ready for.
sea again with all possible despatch. She coaled yester-
day. Destination not known. Her mails were sent on
shore on arrival here, and proceeded to London the
same evening.

Rhadams.;thus and Melempus will not leave for Pem-
broke until Friday. Assistant Master Attendant
Tonkin, with a party of seamen riggers and pensioners,
will take passage in her, helping to navigate her down,
and then jury-lig the screw-corvette Falcon, and bring
her round to Portsmouth, to receive her boilers and
machinery. PembrOke yard has turned out the most
beautiful corvettes that any country possesses with re-
markable rapidity.
'The Janus, Lieutenant-Commander C. C. Kane,
arrived at Sheerness yesterday from the Baltic fleet.
She has brought'home as passengers Mr. E. K. Calver,
R.N., the Admiralty surveyor for the eastern coast
of England, who proceeded out in the Hannibal in
pilot charge of the squadron under charge of Com-
modore Grey. The following invalids are also on
board the Janus :—Sergeant Pontin, of the French
troops, from the Hannibal, invalided for dropsy ; John
M'Clay, A. 8., Royal William ; Thomas Gregory, royal
marine, St. Vincent ; Thomas Skegs, ditto ditto ; and
Peter Callagan, stoker, from Algiers. Further particu-
larsto-morrow. Close for post.

The Devonshire.-The whole of the masters, mates,
and crews of the ships taken for attempting to break
the blockade in the Baltic were liberated yesterday. On
leaving the' ship for London, the masters, mates,
and seamen came aft, and expressed their grateful thanks
to Lieut.-Commander J. )1.. Lloyd, of the Devonshire,
for the particular kindness shown them during their de-
tention_ under his charge ; and on• leaving in the Sea
Swallow steam-vessel for London, they, 29 in number,
gave three hearty and sincere cheers, wishing them a
long farewell. The names will be given fully to-morrow,
as requested by them.
Fire Queen and Sprightly, steam-tenders, have re-
turned to Portsmouth, from their Channel cruise, with-
out falling in with the ship they were sent in search of.
Industry, screw store-ship, Master Commander Brad-
ley, bas completed her loading, and is off by this time
to the Black Sea. We trust that now she is fairly out
of an English port we shall have no more growling. It
is absurd to affect to make a man-of-war out of a store-
ship, and officers should do well to remember the,special
service for which they are selected. The simplest way
to remedy habitual growling and fault-finding is to
make a change.
Sea Nymph, transport, received her mail on Thesday,
and sailed from Devonport in the afternoon.
Stores of every kind are still being got ready for the
Baltic and Black Sea fleets and armies, and the task of
providing them at home and arranging the means of
transport is continuously onerous. The large weekly
additions to the forces, north and east, impose increased
duties on the transport, victualling, and store depart-
ments. It is not only the first fitting out, but the
permanent maintenance also, that has to be looked to.
Everything must be arranged at home for the supply of
clothes, Trovisions, and stores for some 120,600 men,
French and English.