The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-16 00:00:00

WHY ARE _ NOT OUR RAILWAY CARRIAGES

WARMED?—It is now nearly two years since this ques-
tion was first propounded. Since that time railway
carriages in America have been heated; and during this
winter some of the Belgian and French companies have
also adopted means to warm their carriages. Have any
English companies taken up the scheme? No, not one
that we know of. Some ,may ask, is the thing practi-
cable? or will it pay? It is easily practicable, and it
will pay better than any other outlay on any line adopt-
ing the plan. The swift boats on the several canals have
long had the scheme iu operation—to warm their best
cabins. Copper tubes, about four feet long and six in-
ches in diameter, are filled with hot air, and laid
on the cabin floor; these will preserve and give
out heat quite sufficient for comfortable warmth
during a space of five or six hours. Indeed
we have travelled with one for eight hours, the
water unchanged, and there was a comfortable heat at
the end of the journey. How, you may say, can this
plan be applied to carriages ? Nothing easier. In all
carriages a narrow recess or box may be made across
and under the floor where the passengers feet rest,
betwixt the seats, but parallel with them ; and if the
make of the carriage frame will allow of an outside
opening to put the hot-water tubes, they may be fitted
with doors. If this is not practicable, let the door be in
the floor, and be perforated, shutting over the door, and
then covered with the mat or carpet ; this will equalise
and diffuse the heat. One or two stations will require
boiler to heat the water ; there must be tubes to bold it,
and the present staff of porters would place the%
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carriages in a few moments, even in thrrelonge_s
this cold
Think of going to London, or
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and
weather, warm all the way,
Reader, would you give an extra
wasrhilling for such a
luxury ?—Liverpool Journal.
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THE Alm Y .—DutrAN, JAN. 14.—Major-General
inahri srti hvßeeod3D-üblin district, in succession to Lieutenant-General
Wyndham. Captain the lion. J. W. B. Macdonald, aide-
de-camp to his Royal Highness, has also arrived in Dublin.
MR. LAING, THE EX-MAGISTRATE.—It is stated
that Mr. Laing has been appointed magistrate for Australia,
and that he leaves England next week to assume his ap-
pointment in that distant colony.
Sir John Forbes, Bart., late of Fintray House,
and Craigievar Castle, Aberdeen, N. 8., had made his will in
November, 1844 ; having well provided for Lady. Forbes,
his two sons, and five daughters: his wife with a jointure of
7501. a year, his daughters also with a provision under the
same contract, as well as a legacy under the will, the eldest
son succeeding to the estates of Fintray and Craigievar, and
the youngest to the Corse estate; and has left all other his
property to his eldest son. The acting executor is John
Angus, Esq., advocate, Aberdeen.
REPRESENTATION OF THE TOWN OF GALWAY...—.
The Limerick Chranklesays:—" The reports of the retirement
of Sir Valentine Blake, M P., for Galway, are very current
in that town, and that Mr. Solicitor-General Monahan is to
succeed him in the represehtation."
ACCIDENT AT THE LIVERPOOL AMPHITHEATRE*
—On Monday night, a man in the gallery of the Amphi-
theatre, who had left his place during one of the acts, missed
his footing while endeavouring to spring into his former seat,
was precipitated over the railing into the pit, a depth of at
least thirty feet, and fell upon two ladies. The bench upon
which they were sitting was split, but marvellous to relate.
with the exception of a few bruises, the man and the ladies
were, we believe, uninjured.—Liverpoolltfercw-y.