The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

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most of the Flemish clocks is such as would not 1,
tolerated in the situation for which the clock for th e
New Palace is required.
It has been repeatedly intimated, in the form ,o 1
paragraphs in the daily papers and periodical publi-
cations, that only one individual in the profession
possesses the necessary capabilities to construct
public clocks of a superior description ; and also,
that the greater number of clockmakers do not pos-
sess any special manufactory for large clocks, and
that consequently work cannot be so well done, or
on such reasonable terms, as by an individual who
has such a manufactory. Further, that the tools
employed by the generality of clockmakers are of a
very inferior description, and ill qualified to execute
work of a very superior character.
The first part of this statement I feel called upon
to notice, which I shall, however, do very britily. I
was indebted to the liberality of my much-regretted
friends, Mr. Timothy and Mr. Francis Bramah, for
the permissio❑ to employ their foreman and manu-
factory precisely as though they were my own.
This I have done for the last twenty-five
years, and through the kindness of Mr. Ro-
binson, their successor, this convenience has been
continued to be afforded me in its fullest extent.
All my work, therefore, both iron and gun metal,
has been cast at their works at Pimlico, and all my
large work manufactured there ; the whole under my
immediate superintendence, by going on the premises
whenever I chose, without let or hindrance, and giving
my instructions personally to the foreman, without
the intervention of any third person. All my work-
ing drawings have been made by myself; and in
order to insure perfection in casting, my patterns
(of which I possess a large collection) are all made
of mahogany, under my immediate direction. It is
scarcely necessary to add, that the manufactory at
Pimlico affords facilities for executing work large and
small, in the shape of lathes, planing machines, and
tools of every description, as well as a wheel-cutting
engine, that will cut the teeth in a wheel of seven
feet diameter in a manner far superior to those
afforded -by any clockmaker's establishment in Lon-'
don. lam quite sure that I am much within com-
pass when I say that it would require a capital of not
less than 10,0001. to establish a manufactory foi
making public clocks, that would contain under one
roof all the convenience afforded by Mr. Robinson's
manufactory.

(Signed) B. L. VULLIAMY.
To the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods
$ &c.

• " In obedience to your letter of the 28th of July, I
have been to Norwood, and have minutely inspected in
detail the works, &c., made and fixed up in the church in
that place by Mr. Vulhamy. I beg leave to report that
it appears to me superior to any turret clock I have seen,
in the following points:-
1. I❑ simplicity of construction, there being fewer
wheels and pinions, both in the going and striking parts,
than in an ordinary clock; and those two movements
being perfectly distinct, and only acting together through
the medium of the discharging piece, any accident to the
one may be repaired Without deranging the other. In-
deed, this latter advantage may be said to extend through
every detail of the machinery; for the holes of the pivots,
in which the %heels work, being fixed by screws, the
simple removal of the, bosses enables a single wheel
or piece to be taken out and repaired or cleaned, without
taking to pieces the remainder of the works. This con-
struction also gives great facility for keeping the' ma-
chinery oiled.

" 2. In durability.—The wheels and pinions are made
of bard gun metal and steel, which latter, besides being
of long duration, have the lidvantage over the usual iron
case-hardened pinions, wearing equally, and not into an-
gular points, which is found to destroy the wheels most
rapidly. 'phis substitution of hard gun metal and steel
for yellow brass and case-hardened iron, appeared to be
general throughout the acting parts of the machine, giv-
ing more strength to each.
"3 . In regularity of keeping time.—The escapement
is a dead escapement, which has the least possible loss of
power from drop; and is so well contrived that it in-
stantly caught my attention. In this clock it maintains
in motion a pendulum weiging 1501b5.; which, being far
heavier than the pendulum of an ordinary clock of the
same size, cannot fail to make it go accurately.
" The barrel cylinders, round which the lines or the
weights are coiled, are of iron.
" The workmanship of every part is of excellent qua-
lity, and very far superior to that of the clocks at Wool-
wich.

" Conclusion.—From the above it seems almost cer-
tain that a clock of this construction, besides showing the
time more accurately, must last longer, and be more
rarely out of repair than an ordinary clock; and further,
from its simplicity, it may be looked after. and kept in
order by a very ordinary mechanic
t A clock that strikes the hours has one striking part;
if the hours and quarters two striking parts.
I have preserved the old pendulum, which, incredi-
ble as it may appear, is furnished, as well as the pen-
dulums I have taken from the Ordnance clocks, with
fans. I have also collected a number of escapements
taken from various clocks, some of which, though ex-
tremely curious, give, by their wear, incontrovertible
evidence of imperfection in their construction.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
RISTOL, Ocr. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE. B—The business was better to-day. The
sales are—Great Western, Quarters, 7 dis.— Ditto, New 171.
Shares, 5 dis.—Bristol and Exeter, 40 dis.—Midland, 6 per
cent. Stock, 113--Taff Vale, New, !;; dis.—South Devon, 11
Caledonian, Preference, 13% dis.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 23
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have to note a. further heavy fall
in shares to-day, and there still appears to be a very few
buying orders in the market. The sales are: - Caledonian,
Preference, 21i dis.—Great Northern (A Shares), Deferred,
234—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Bir-
mingham), Fifths, 6c. dis.—London and Nortk- Western,
99—Ditto, New Quarters, 234 dis.—Ditto (Huddersfield
and Manchester), 191, —ilidland Stock, 65—Ditto, .New
Halves, " 157 k c. Scottish Central, 21%—South-Eastern
and Dover. No. 4, Halves, 5% c—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 41.65. 3d. dis.
biANCHESTEIt, Ocr. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, 21/s dis.—East Lancashire, Preference, 3-14 c. Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), p,—Sheffield,
Quarters, No. 1, 10'4 dis.—North Staffordshire, B%—South-
Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 534 c.—Sheffield and Lincoln,
14% dis.—Midland, 67 c. —East Lancashire, New, 21A c.
dis.—Leeds, Fifthsc 6 c. dis —Manchester and Birmingham
A and B), .
BIRIKINGRABI, Oerr, !3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and North-
Western, 100— Midland, 68—North Staffordshire, 85( dis.—
Shropshire Union, 31A dis.—Great Northern, 14 dis.
YORK, Ocr. 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted t•-day was
as follows : —North British, Thirds, 3%--Ditto, Quarte 21. 16s.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 2114—Ditto (Ex-
rs,
tension), No. 1, 934—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 3/.
Great Northern, 3.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Bad Leg Cured by Hollo-
way's Ointment and Pills after Twenty Years' Suffering.
—Extract of a letter from Mr. Andrew Brack, black-
smith, Eyemouth, dated Aug. 10, 1848. "To Professor
Holloway—Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you that
I have obtained a most extraordinary cure, by the use of
your celebrated Ointment and Pills. For upwards of
twenty years I suffered with a dreadful bad leg, and dur-
ing that time I consulted several eminent surgeons, but
their efforts failed to do any good. I then had recourse
to your Ointment and Pills which, with the blessing of
Providence, has completely healed my leg, and made it as
sound and perfect as ever."—Sold by all Druggists, and
.at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.
A GOOD SHOT.—On Thursday, in the parish of
Tibberton, after a tolerable day with the gun, Mr. G.
Chamberlain, of the Star Hotel, was returning home-
wards, when he was startled by a rustling noise o►er-
head, and on looking hastily up he discovered the cause
to be two wild turkeys in rapid flight. The gun was at
his shoulder in an instant, and the next moment both of
the birds had dropped to the ground, shot through the
head at one discharge. One bird weighed:lolb., the other
71b. Where the noble game came from is a puzzler.--
Worcester Herald.

BIRTHS.
On the 19th inst., :at Lochnaw Castle, N. 8., the Lady
Louisa Agnew, of twin daughters.
On the 21st inst., at Gordon-square, Lady Rornilly, of a
daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Frampton-house, the lady of the Rev.
J. Tunnard, of a daughter.
On the 19th inst , at Radnage Rectory, near Stokenchurch,
Oxon, the wife of the Rev. R. S. Moody, of a son.
On the 19th inst., Mrs. W. A. Salter, at Amersham, of
a son.

On the 19th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, the wife of the
Rev. W. E. Light, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Thistle-grove, Brompton, of a (laugh.-
ter, Mrs. Charles Kelly.
On the 20th inst., at Great College-street, the wife of
Nathaniel Beardmore, civil engineer, of a son.
On the 20th inst., at the Avenue-road, Regent's-park, the
wife of Mr. H. Wordsworth, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., at Dunbar, N. 8., William Rule Broo-
man, Esq., Lieutenant RN., to Eleanor Margaret Carfrae,
youngest daughter of the late G. Turnbull, Esq., Dunbar.
On the 19th inst., Henry, the eldest son of John Fowler,
Esq., of Melksham, to Ann Ford, daughter of R. Barclay.
Esq , of Layton, Essex.
On the 19th inst., at Fulham Church, Edward, only sur-
viving son of Mr. W. J. De Lancey Arnold, of the Stamford-
villas, to Sarah, second daughter of Mr. R. Perry, of Broom-
house, Fulham.

On the 19th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, Francis Mount-
ford Woollaston, Esq., of Beoley, Worcestershire, to Emily,
second daughter of the late Captain Robert Young, of the
Madras Army,

DIED.
On the 11th inst., at Logie Elphinstone, Sir Robert Dal-
rymple Horn Elphinstone, But., aged 83.
On the 19th inst., at the Villa, Maidenhead, aged 90, tene-
lope, relict of the late W. Watson, Esq., of Queen-square,
Bloomsbury.
On the 20th inst., at Lyne, near Dorking, S. Bosanquet
Esq., late of East Woodhay, Hants, aged 51.
On the 18th inst., at Aberdeen, M iss Helen Henderson,
daughter of the late A. Henderson, M.D., Aberdeen. '
On the 18,h inst., at Oxton-house, Tadcaster, Sophia,
relict of the late C. Wilson, Esq., aged 75.
On the 18th inst., Emily Henrietta Ledger, eldest (laugh-
ter of E. Ledger, Esq., of Lewisham, Kent, aged 12.
On the 19th inst., at Cambridge-place, Clifton, James
Cheshire, Esq., aged 82.
At Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Lieutenant E. R. Dodwell,
Ist Life Guards.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
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Strand, in the Precinct of die Savoy, in the county Of
illiddlemg, Tuesday, October 24, 1848.