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BY SAMUEL LA'MEET, M.D..
9. BBDFORD-STBEET, BEDFORD-SQUARB,

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The object of this Association is totally to abolish the use of
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RAISING WATER discovered by the FOUN-
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either friction or faltering, therefore can never b• surpassed ; conse-
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servation of life and property either at Sea or on Land.

- AT SEA
numerous ships it has already saved, and the captains gratefully ac-
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" Captain Orcig, from Quebec to London, states that the Fountain
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being partly left without calking." _ _ _

" The Arg us brig, from Cadiz-, sprung a leak when three days out
at sea, and soon after her common pump choaked and became use-
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with a thank God for the Fountain Pump."

ON LAND -
the New Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service than a
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" We are delighted with the invention—it is a great boon to so-
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including in the seven the Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and in the
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grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of gun-
powder therein from exploding, which must have spread around de-
struction and death.
" North Walsham.—At this fire the Portable Engine was of great
service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but half
the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfolk Chro-
nicle, August 22, 1846.
At a Norwich fire Juno 2, T 847, the two Portable Engines were
the pets of the public. The cry was, feed the little engines and they
will do the work, which proved true. The four large engines present
proved useless.
Portable Engines speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atmo-
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Now the fact is this, all former Force Pumps, Lift-force Pumps,
Lift Pumps, and Chain Pumps are bad machines : they rub, grub. and
scrape the water upwards by friction, which wastes two-fifths of the
power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young
and Hatton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented
thus :—The quantity of water actually raised by any machine seldom
exceeis half the power consumed, after overcoming friction and
leakage ; and notwithstanding the best engineers In the world had
tried in vain for two thousand years to abate these palpable defects
in hydraulic machines, nevertheless, at last the victory is won, and
won for ever ; for friction and leakage are now both annihilated by
the new rollingsprinciple in pumps, and their effect augmented Itom
twelve to twenty (or about seventy per cent.), and frequently with-
out more outlay.
Most men can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 seconds, but
some men drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric-
tion Pump an active sound-winded young man of 140 lbs. weight can
raise 10,000 lbs. of water one foot high in a minute, and with a Foun-
tain Pump 9,000 lbs. in half a minute. Thus a continual and most
extraordinary lucrative advantage is gained over perpetual and uni-
versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power.
John Clenton Roberts, Esc., in his popular work, No. 1,110, did
well in placing Gosset's French Pump Abortion (that slaps the water
upward) side by side with the Fountain Pimp, which upset a good
deal of Folly. Because. Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump-
maker, Mr. iladdley, London, an everlasting pump-writer, and Mr.
Ewbank, America, an ignorant pump book-maker, asserted that the
two pumps were identical. But the Yankee out-fooled John Bull
and Paddy in No. 1,183, arid in No. 49G, Book-maker Millingion's
remarks are preposterous. However, on the other hand, Dr. Birk-
beck, Aberdour, Hay, Parkington, with many other discerning men,
after witnessing the perfect effect and the beautiful simplicity of the
rolling principle,, gave the invention the following true and ewnain-
able character:—The Fountain Pump is the most important improve-
ment in the art of raising water that has appeared within the last two
thousand years—the greatest advancement in the useful arts in
modern times. _ . _

•The Consummation Fountain Pumps are successfully carried out
for private and public uses, at lifts below and above 100 feet altitude,
for man, horse, and steam power ; dellv;Ting from half a pint per
stroke to 100 barrels of water per mirate, and rendering every fair
trial at competition ridiculous, whilit their durability is guaranteed
at less cost than common pump,.
W. SIIILDERS.

Foaatain Pump Works. Norwich, Nov. 30, 1847.
Sibs Mechanic's Magazine, Nos. 231*, 364, 343, 429, 430, 433,
482, 486, 407, 449. 482, 495, 496, 804, 509, 510, 525, 533, 458*
727, 804, 1,040, I,llo*, 1,183. Nos. illustrated are marked thus•

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.--Yesterday the half
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IL G. Latham, M.D., and Mr. Eccleston, B.A. Exa-
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Sylvester, M.A., and Mr. Boole. In the elements of
conktnerce, Mr. Payne (Leatherhead), Mr. Seggings
(Sudbury), and Mr. Lane (Plymouth). Examiners in
the other branches have also been appointed.
ORNAMENTAL ROOFING TlLES.—During the past
week two vessels, the Celerity and Joage Johanna, have
arrived from Belgium freighted with ornamental roofing
tiles. They are of a blue or slate colour, and cost, as we
understand, about the same as slating. One pattern in
form resembles a leaf, and would, when placed upon a
roof, have a picturesque effect. The use of these tiles
appears to be extending. We recently noticed that they
were used for the church at Staplefield, Sussex. St.
Paul's Church, Hull (Mr. Dykes, architect), has also
been roofed with them, as well as the boat-house on the
Serpentine, in Hyde-park.—Builder.
THEIRAJA OF SARLWAIL—His Highness the Raja
of Sarawak, after a visit at Holkham, the hospitable
mansion of our noble Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of Lei-
cester (where he was accompanied by the Hon. Captain
Keppel), is expected on Saturday at the Palace at Nor-
wich, on a visit to the Lord Bishop of the diooese.—
i Yarmouth Chronicle.

DR. _WHILE AGAIN.
TO TEE RIGHT HON. Da RD JOHN RUSSELL

"Et pereuntibus 11 ddit a 111 u libria ut ferarum tergis
contectilaniatuganum interirenr; t, nut crucibus ufiliciti ant
ilammandi, stque übi defies aet dies in usum nocturni
luaiinis uterentur."—Tacitus.

St. Jarlath's, Tuam, .Feast of St. Thomas
of Cante ribury, 1847.
My Lord,—Now that the e cries of the famishing
poor cannot be drowned atn uldst the tumult of dra-
matic execration, wickedly e; :-4sited for the purpose of
hunting down the character ,of the Catholic clergy,
allow me again to press upon 3 -our Lordship the para-
mount duty of saving the su. r riving remnant of the
Irish people. It is a duty f tom the repeated incul-
cation of which no impediment artfully thrown in the
way shall deter us ; and thov vh your last reported
speech in Parliament would : furnish but little hope,
as far as it was an index of y a'ur policy, still we will
not despond, being well aware Ithat the earnest impor-
tunity of the petitioners often iwrings from a reluctant
Minister what a love of hum Lenity or justice would
not yield. Your Lordship hes now time for reflec-
tion aloof from the recent stt arms of debate, amidst
which the sense and propriev of the Members, as
well as the lives and reputation. of the Catholic clergy,
appeared exposed to the sam a promiscuous destruc-
tion. The tender- hearted Pecrs have, doubtless, ere
now, recovered from the rapid ;succession of histrionic
horrors with which their ne ryes must have been
shaken whilst the graphic tr., ay of the Roman
writer was again acted before view, and bands
of immoral ecclesiastics were, paraded on the plat-
form, clothed in the skins of vrild beasts, covered with
pitch, and worried with yell.king animals; and the
blaze of the faggots with whh •fanaticism pursued
them rendered the masked monsters more ludicrous
in the sight of their spectators..
From the period in which the Roman historian
painted this first persecution of the Christians in the
circus of Nero, there is no of her event that combines
more of the cruel and the lu ilicrous than this recent
onslaught on the Catholic pe.ople and clergy of Ire-
land. And what, it may be: asked, has excited this
tempest of the passions in which reason seems to have
lost its control ? The people are on the brink of
famine, nay, they are plunge tit into all the depths of
starvation at Christmas, usu a Ily a season of festive
plenty. They are seen devouring raw turnips in the
streets. I have known whole families that would
have deemed turnips a luxury, subsisting for ten days
on rape alone, until they exhibited the appearance of
livid corpses. This is the condition of thousands in
this vicinity, of which I speak from my intimate
knowledge; and the condition of several districts is
worse, as I learn from the most trustworthy sources.
On inquiring of such persons, " Why not go into
the workhouse ?" their reply :usually is, that there
was no chance of admittance. until they left their
cottages, and that they see numbers who abandoned
theirs repulsed from those counterfeit asylums of
charity, without a chance of again ever occupying
their little habitations that w.ere inexorably thrown
down. Without admittance into the poorhouse,
and without the shelter of their own cottage, left be-
hind them in ruins, these poor people are made out-
laws from the protection of society, and left beyond
its pale, to draw their lessons :from the laws of nature,
with such comments as hunger and despair once sug-
gested to the patriarchal wanderer in the desert ; and

if those comments have not been more terrible and
more frequent, it is because the angel of mercy
seasonably appears in the person of the parochial
clergyman [refreshing the sad souls of the poor out-
casts at the fountains of grace, and pointing their
hopes to the reversion of a blessed inheritance. Nay,
I have known, on undoubted authority, a widow and
her orphan family to have spent four nights during
this inclement season stretched on the outside of the
wretched cot of which the ro.)l' was dismantled ; and
on inquiring how she could: endure so long the
piercing cold without any other covering but their
ordinary wretched clothing, she replied that they
were in a state of perspiration,. which she could not
understand, but that it was God did it—a sentiment
of piety suggested, no doubt, by meditation on the
couch of the Child of Bethlehtim, which breathed no
noxious inculcations, and which it would be well for
the profligate revilers of the Irish people and their
clergy to imitate.

Yet, in the midst of this suffering, which, if one
were to say would not be endured in England, might
be deemed a constructive incentive to crime, no out-
rages, thank God, have been committed. The Irish
are said to be a most peculiar race of people. No
doubt they are, and many an experiment of the
cruellest kind has been made on the extent of their
patience. But it has not yet been discovered that they
are found an exception to the general race of mankind
in the ler lings of hunger or of cold, or that they can
claim any privileged exemptioa from the alimentary
laws that govern the rest of the creation. Are we to
inquire with Job, whether the constitutions of the
Irish are formed of bars of inon, in order to test the
magnitude of their endurance ? No, they have the
same flesh and blood, and bowels of compassion as the
rest of their species, and, therefore, it is not just to
subject them to trials of hunger, or experiments of
patience, under which the human nature of the rest
of their species would sink.
Finding themselves members of a large and
wealthy empire, which, like those of the human body,
ought to assist each other—they demand, in the hour
of their need, a portion of that sustenance which has
flowed in a superfluous degree to one portion of that
empire, to the utter exhaustion of the other. This
their aernand is founded on the obvious principle of
reciprocal benefits and reciprocal burdens. They
labour—they till the land —they rear the crops—
they punctually pay and have paid all their stipulated
rents as long as God blessed their soil with abundant
harvests. And when the harvest is not sufficient to
pay the usual rent and maintain their families, they
are ignorant of any divine or natural law which
should oblige them to hand over the entire
of the produce to the proprietor of the land,
and to consign their families, the companions of
their toil in raising it, to utter starvation.
therefore, claim
They, an equitable share in the fruits
of their industry, through the protection of laws in
accordance with natural equity, by which those fruits
will be secured. Self-reliance, dependence on them-
selves, are fine and specious themes to speak on,
especially when seasoned with the caustic admixture
of a sufficient quantity of abuse of their habitual
indolence. They should still prefer to have to rely on
wise and equitable laws, regulating the rights of both,
rather than on themselves and their landlords ; for
they have found by long experience that this self-
reliance, so much vaunted, is nothing else than an
inexorable requisition of their industry to minister to
the cupidity of their task-masters, and to starve them-
selves on the vilest esculents ; and when they are un-
able to raise produce to the extent of their grinding
exactions, then they are humanely taxed with the
incorrigible indolence of their Celtic nature
Brought to this humiliating crisis by a process of
laws which made every provision for the landlord and
none for the tenant, and finding their petitions for
commutative justice generally answered by coercion,
they repeat their loyal and constitutional claims to
participate,
in the hour of their distress, in those
common funds of a united people to which they have
so amply contributed. And when they are repulsed
with contumely, as disentitled to share in the abun-
dance which flows from their own exhaustion, they
propose to the Minister a fair alternative of either giv-
ing them the full and stipulated benefits of the legis-
lative Union, or, if not, to dissolve it and while they
continue attached to the Throne to let the people go.
Yes, coerce and re-coerce, and coerce again until you
fill up whole cycles of coercion. The people of Ire-
land will never cease to cling with an enduring
tenacity to the throne of their beloved Sovereign ;
and to demand of the Minister, as far as re-
gards legislative union, to let the people go. What a
dilemma! to be reproached with mendicancy on Eng-
lish bounty if they claim aid from an Imperial Trea-
sury, or with uniting against the State, if to escape
the degrading imputation of mendicancy they claim
the protection of a native Legislature. You may fancy
you have laid prostrate every hope of a native Parlia•
ment by your recent coercion. You may succeed in
bowing it down, it is true, but it is only to spring up
with stronger resiliency. The people see no hope but
in justice, and in the justice of recent legislation they
have lost all their confidence.
I really cannot account for the infatuation that has
come over the counsels that have suggested the recent
crusade against the ministers of puce,
the preachers
of morality, and the preservers of order, for that this
onslaught has resulted from deep contrivances can no
longer be doubted. The priesthood of Ireland can
deny, as truly as indigeantly, that there is any ground
for these monstrous accusations. They the instigators
of murders ! who have chain€d by their holy influence
the fury of the passions, and been instrumental in
preserving the lives of those who levelled cottages and
desolated the country, in despite of all the incentives
to outrage which such deeds naturally provoked.
They have rather, as was Lite duty of ministers of
peace, thrown oil on the troubled waters.
With what exquisite morality the calumniators of
the clergy show themselves imbued, affecting such
horror for personal denunciations that have no exist-
ence, and feeling no remorse at their own denun-
ciation of this innocent body to the world. Those
who are now so profuse of this vituperation of the