The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

POLYTECIfICITSS'TITUTIOI4.

There has lately been deposited in the museum of this
establishment by the patentee, Mr. All, a very ingenious
apparatus, called the Archimedean Stove : it is called the
Archimedean, or Screw Stove, from the flame or heat from the
furnace or place containing the fire, being made to revolve in its
ascent through a spiral funnel, so that it passes through a
considerable length of space, and in so doing conveys and
emits a vast degree of caloric influence to the surrounding
atmosphere. There is no vapour, dust, or disagreeable
smell—no generation of unpleasant gases, and no danger in-
curred. The mode of feeding the furnace or fire-place is by a
tube round which the screw or worm revolves, the coke or
coal being put in at the top and falling into the fire-place as
the fuel is burnt out or consumed. There is also appur-
tenances for receiving the detnis of the fire, conveying away
the smoke, &c., which are simple yet complete• The cost of
the apparatus is very trifling, the expense of the fuel scarcely
a fourth part of what a common chamber requires. The in-
vention is that of a practical working mechanician, and in
the more valuable on that account, as it is the result of en.
perience, and not :he plaything of a mere theorist.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The performance
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The programme, arranged as usual, chronologically, con-
tains selections from the works of Henry Purcell, Gibbons,
Boyce, Croft, Blow, Greene, Weldon, Wise, Creyghton, Bat-
tishill, Kent, and Mendelssohn.
On Wednesday the Duke de Nemours gave his
annual party to the literary and artistical world of Paris, 4111
the eminent litterateurs, painters, and musicians of the capital
were present, besides a great number of the members of both
Chambers. The ony Minister present was M. de Sav dy.
the Minister of Public Instruction. None of the corpsdailiplo.-
matique were invited, The King and Queen of the French,
the King and Queen of the Bel ianee and the whole of the
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cent exhibition as an advocate in his own case. The illus-
trious entrepreneur himself gives out that he has been obliged
to cut, h
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BERLIN,
FEB. B.—Though, according to asser-
tions that may be depended upon, the finances of the Prus-
sian states are in such a satisfactory state that no special
resources are required to meet the regular expenditure, yet
several public works are contemplated to be executed at the
public expense; for instance, some important iron railways,
and likewise the construction of fortifications in the province
of Prussia, for which it is necessary to open an extraordi-
nary credit, which is to be procured with the co-operation
and guarantee of the United Diet. The Ministers of State,
Von Rubon and Von Arnien are appointed marshals of the
Diet for the assembly of the nobles and that of the deputies,
of the knights, the cities, and the communes.
THE WIDOWE' FRIEND SOCIETY.-011 Friday a
meeting of the subscribers to this charity was held at the
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, the Rev. C. Munro in
the chair. A variety of extremely distressing cases which
had been relieved were mentioned in the report. The balance ,
after all expenditure, was 25/, 6s. sd. The speakers of the
evening strongly appealed for public support. Thanks being
voted to die chairman the meeting separated,