The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-30 00:00:00

service of the engines. Mr. Haig's invention re-
quires no steam funnel, and the principle of its construc-
tion appears admirably adapted for the consumption o f..
smoke. Lieutenant Vansittart, of the Gladiator, arid -
Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard, went
on board shortly before twelve o'clock, and the furnaces
having been previously ignited the steam was got up,
which is effected by five or six men turning a winch)
attached to wheels and 'pinions causing the rapid revolu- r
tion of a fanner, across which the smoke endeavours to
eicape on its emerging from the furnace; but instead of-
escaping into the atmosphere, it is mixed with pure air
and forced below the furnaces to nearly the front, where~
it is conducted by tubes, and, ascending through the
bars into the fire, is partly consumed, and any portion
that escapes is again arrested in its progress to the at-
moThere by the fanners, and passed through the fur-
naces until every portion is consumed. On the Ariel
leaving her moorings an endless belt was made to give_
the motion to the fanners, and they revolved with great.
velocity, causing a bright clear fire in each of the four,
furnaces, and generating, although iu old and incrusted
boiler., a sufficient quantity of steam for working t
engines. The vessel proceeded down the river beyond
Erith, and made several turns with and against the tide,
without any smoke appearing to emanate from the works.
The inventor laboured under considerable disadvantages
during the trial, in consequence of the leather strap becom-
ing loose several times. A similar diiadvantage occurred
the first time the screw-propeller was tried in the

Rattler steam-vessel, but the dialculty was easily over-
come by the intriduction of cog-wheels, and the screw-
pr,pelJer now bids fair to supersede paddle-wheels for
propelling steam-vessels. The application of cog-wheels,
to Mr. Haig's invention would give any degree of power,
and prove regular in their operation, and in large vessel*
propelled by the screw, or even in vessels of moderate
size, the whole apparatus could be fitted between decks.
The Ariel returned to Woolwich at 5 o'clock, and during
her progress appeared to surprise the passengers in the
numerous river steamers who witnessed her going at full
speed without a smoke funnel.

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain Hon. C. J. B. Elliot, to study at the Royal
Naval College; F. C. C. Macdonald, Second Master, to
the Merlin; Jabez Binstead, Second Master, to the De.
vastation; J. C. Little, Paymaster and Purser, to the
Rattlesnake; Charles G. Johnston, Master's Assistant,
to the Rattlesnake; Guy W. Acheson, Master's Assist-
ant, to the Victory; James Timpson, Clerk, to the
Athol; Timothy Sullivan, Naval Instructor, to the
Sidon; D. C. 0. Slaughter, Midshipman, to the Mutine;
Hamilton E. G. Earle, Midshipman, to the Rattlesnake;
Charles E. Burlton Naval Cadet, to the Trafalgar;
Robert filuaing, Third Engineer Superintending, to the
William and Mary; James Justite, Third geigtneei Su-
perintending, to the William and Mary; John Parker,
Third Engineer Superintending, to the William and
Mary; .Tohn Brown, Acting Third Engineer, to the
Acheron.

r PROMOTIONS.

George Willis, .to be Acting Gunner to the Ex-
cellent; James Jeffery, to be Acting Gunner to the
cellent.

SMOKE PREVENTION. -
After 'the Court of Common Council
,determined ou
Wednesday to petition both Houses of Parliarnent to.
prohibit the interment of the dead Within, the City;
discussion, of which the following is an abstract,' took
place upon Mr. ,Anderton's motion; the successful restl
of which we mentioned yesterday, to petition Parliament,
to- prevent nuisances arising from steine•engines and
furnaces in manufactories and.buildings.
Mr. ANDERTOA, in bringing forward the motion, said
it was one upon a subject of as much importance ha that
with which the Court had been just oceupied. There
was not an individual present who would not agree With
him that the• nuisance of smoke We's* one of the most
intolerable annoyancee to which the population'' of
tendon Were subjected. It wasimpossible -to' pee- seovtre * • _-
'London-bridge Without witnessing ine-disgastingeeffects,
but the injury i.t inflicted. upon _the tpilbli6leettith
much more serious than the shoWit gave ick the Publio
taste, and, the discolcirationeeit -gave _to the public. e ,
buildings. Li,verpoole had determined •to prpeepte.itsalf,' -
and had procured a Bill to be biOght in to
manufaetories'46 consume theirtewn smoke.: 14 Arier
large towns similar efforts were being matie, and it only
remained .for London to acloPt7the lana,beeprojecteof
serving the public. health by an appeal Wbieb, hetesel eve
doubt, wouldabe efficaeioue.=(Hear ;hear.)-- aleeflendeeoee:::
intention at so:-late an hour to into the tart:fell-late
merits 'of 'the question,. eepeciallyeaSethee,enbejece. lid ~. •
undergone a great deal of -dismission and exatniiiaeien
elsewhere.
Mr. KING said he.would snpport.the niati4n if it were
referred to a committee to draw up the petition,
Mr. R. TAYLOR said he spoke from experience when •
he said nothing: objectionable could arise from the pro-
cess of prevention.—(Heir, hear.); There was,in feet,
no occasion at all for smolre.e' ands the -removal of tie
nuisance could be effected in the most extensive cases at_
a very small cost. Those who saie,hise(lir. TaVorls).
steam engines at work would not imagine, from lookiug
at the vents, that they vvere at work at Pall ; fersthey • -
were so constructed as to be capable of. consuming their
own smoke, and not the slightest- annoyance was pro-
duced when they were in full operation.--(Hear, hear.)
Mr. AITCHESON said that Mr. Mackinnon, who had,
he believed, the charge of the Parliamentary procedd-
ings upon the subject, had met with considerable difl-1-
culties, and as it was a subject which involved very large
interests, it ought, in his opinion, to be referred to a
committee.—(Hear, hear.)
Dr. LYNCH said, the atmosphere of large towns was
exposed to many causes of vitiation, from which the
country was free. The famous &Ms-Evelyn, in the
Charles IL, recommended the removal of all Mainiqe--
turing establishments from towns. If it were known
how soon and how fatally the impurities, arising on
every side, from factories, laboratories, breweries, and
gas-works, vomiting forth tons of carbon, and other
deleterious agents, and polluting the vital air, in which "we
live, and move, and have our being," were mixed with the
blood, and incorporated with the system, they would not
be tolerated a single hour.—(Hear, hear.) To the open
spaces, which were few and far between, the poor, after
their day's toil, in vain resorted for pure air. In cities,
where wealth accumulated, poverty was banished from
its abode, regardless of the misery it had been proved to
create. When splendour usurped the surface, ch grada-
tion was compelled to burrow in the earth—space was
too extensive a luxury—square feet were sold for guineas.
In the alleys, or nests, or horrid holes where miser-
able wretches lived and clung together, like bats in
unfrequented vaults, there the leaven of sickness and
contagion never ceased to work—there the mortality
was 1 in le. From such places they turned out for
better air. They found their health was sacrificed to the
cupidity of the few. The atmosphere which Ged had so
lavishly provided, which was the first and last food of
man, which it was the duty of a good Government to
preserve uncontaminated, was poisoned to make a few
master men rich.—(Cries of " Hear, Lear" and murmurs.)
In a London atmosphere all plants perished. Next i
susceptibility and tenderness was the child. The mor-
tality in close neighbourhoods was more than one balf.
In adult life more than 100,000 passed annually through
fever. The deaths in England in one year from pre-
ventable disease, typhus, the scourge of the poor, were
frightfully numerous. Fever, like the plague, might be
averted by proper sanatory enactments. It was singular
that the primary requirements of life which Heaven had so
bounteously distributed to his creatures, were placid be-
yond the reach of the masses. The nobleman retired to his
lordly mansion—the aristocracy of the city to their
Tusculan villas at Brixton, Clapham, end Norwood—
the productive classes, like the galley-slave chained to
his oar, were confined to the vicinity by their occupa-
tions, and seldom or never inhaled a breath of fresh air.—
(Loud cries of " Hear.") The next beet blessing was a
plentiful supply of pure water, tuns of which were about
fourteen feet below the surface, but they dared not dig
for it. The water was a monopoly in the hands of a
company, whose shares had risen from 1001. to 14,0001.
each. These things must not be. The cruel monopoly
must be broken in pieces. The welfare of society de-
manded it. The Corporation was, by law and ancient
usage, the guardian of the public health. It must assert
its high and holy prerogative. London could be made
as wholesome as the Surrey hills by perfect sewerage,
by plenty of pure water, and by carrying out the ad-
mirable scheme of Mr. Anderton.—(Hear, hear.)
Science had invented adequate means to consume the
smoke. The object must be enforced by the highest
penalties. Cholera threatened to revisit us. It was
following its former route—where typhus was found
cholera existed, the map of one indicated the other ;
the best preventives were good air, good living,
and good water.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Lord John
Russell had pledged himself to early out a great and
comprehensive sanatory law. He was perfect master of
the subject. He was deeply penetrated with the evils of
the poor. He sympathised with their sufferings, and
has resolved to remedy them.—(Hear, hear.) The
wealthy order-perceived, by the report of the health of
towns, that the effects of the wretchedness of the masses
might reach them.—(A laugh.) That disease was of an
infectious character, as likely to rise in the upper regions
as to spread in the lower ranks, and that the interests of
all classes were identical. He hoped the Corporation
would second the holy and noble disposition, and that the
neglect of justice would be overtaken by the energies
of generosity, the claims of humanity met by the re-
cognition of its rights, and the horrors of disease
and death obviated by a wise, kind, and liberal legisla-
tion.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BENNOCH said, that it might be imagined from the
manner of Dr. Lynch that the Court were opposed, in-
stead of being unanimous on the subject. Ile (Mr. Ben-
noch) warmly approved of the proposition of Mr. An-
derton, and he did not know there was a single dissen-
tient, notwithstanding the vehemence just displayed.—
(" Hear, hear," from Dr. Lynch.)
Mr. HAnsusoN said it was easy enough to petition
Parliament to relieve the public from smoke. Ile had
no idea at all to what extent the interference would bo
efficacious. He had not heard whether the preventative
process was applicable to marine or locomotive engines.
Mr. ANDERTON—Not the least doubt of it. You can
see its operation easily.
Mr. HARRISON—I do not Imaisay the fact, and I ehalli
upon your authority for it Act, vote for your motion.
Mr. PRIOR said that be felt great interest in the ques-
tion. He knew that experiments had been ineffectually
made in many extensive manufactories. He had himself
set up all night open many occasions superintending the
application, but he had not observed its availability tie
any extent. He confessed too that he thought there w,.3
a good deal of morbid feeling mixed up with the que,-
don, and that it would be most dangerous to the poor
population to hazard the loss of the extensive mimutee.
tories which were carried on with, and could not be car-
ried on without smoke.
After a few words from Mr. NORRIS in favour of Mr.
Anderton's motion, it was carried by acclamation.

ANOTHER RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.— On
Monday the bakers increased the price of their bread in
several parts of the metropolis. The price of the 4;b.
loaf was increased to eightpence-halfpenny.

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