The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

ON LAND

the New Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service than a
fire brigade. They act instantaneously at tke outbreak of a fire.

"W; are delighted with the invention—lt is a great Loon to so-
ciety."—Editors Liverpool Mall.

The New Portable ire-eagines have preserved a large portion of
Norwich from destruction, fur out of eighteen different properties on
Are in and near the city, they saved eleven -olely and seven mainly,
including in the seven the Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and In the
eleven, Meson. Horton's dyery, and 12,0001. worth of consigned pro-
perty ; Stoke mwtard, starch, and dour mll!s, aid Messrs. Butcher's
grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of gun-
powder therein from exploding, which must have spread armuid de-
struction and death.

" North Walsham.—At this fire the Portable Engine wis of great
service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but half
the property now destroyed might hortbeen saved."—Norf.,lk Chro-
nicle, August 22, 1846. '

At a Norwich Are Juhe 2, h 847, the two Portable Engines were
the peteoftee public. The cry was, feed the little engines and they
will do the work, wilich proved true. The four large engines present
proved useless.

Portable E
spheres. %dues speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atmo-

Now the fast is this, all former Force Pumps, Lift-ferce Pumps,
Lift Pumps, artd Chain Pumps are bad machines: they rub, grub, and
=ape the water upwards by friction, which wastes two-ilfths of the
power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young
and Hutton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented
thus :—The quantity of water actually raised by any machine seldom
exceeil half the power consumed, after overcoming friction and
leakage ; and notwithstanding the bast 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 rolling principle in pumps, and their effect augmented from
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 PumPan 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 Faun-
thin Pump 9.0011 lbs. in half a minute. Thus a continual and most
extraordinary ldcrative advantage is gained over perpetual and uni-
versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power.
John Clenton Roberts, Esq., in his popular work, No. 1,110, did
well in placing Gos:,et's French Pump Abortion (that slaps the water
upward) side by side with the Fountain Pump, 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 lie. 1,183, and in No. 49C Book-maker Millington'a
remarks are preposterous. Howevev, en the other hand, Dr. Birk-
beck, Aberdour, Hay, Parkington, with many ether discerning men,
after witnessing the perfect effect and the beautiful simplicity of the
rolling principle, gave the invention the following true and sustain.
able character:—The Fountain Pump is the most important improve-
ment in the art of ralsing water that has appeared within the last two
thoasand ye:rs—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; delivyring from half a pint per
stroke to 100 barrels of water per minute, and rendering every fair
trial at competition ildieuloui, whilst their durability is guaranteed
at less cost than common pumps.

W. SHILDERS.

Fountain Pump Works, Norwich, Nor. 30, 1847.
See Mechanic's Magazine. Nos. 231*, 364, 363, 429, 430, 433,
482, 486, 487, 489, 492, 495, 496, -508, 609, 510. 528, 533, 358*,
727, 804, 1,040, I,llll*, 1,183. Nos. illustrated are marked thus*

ENGLAND to INDIA and AUSTRALIA
The INDIA and AUSTRALIA MAIL &TEAM-PACKET
COMPANY, incorporated by Royal Charter, which limits the re-
sponsibility of the shareholders to the amount for which they indivi-
dually subscribe, and authorises the Company to establish commu-
nications to and and. from the United Kingdom, the East Indies,
Australasia, it'd New Zealand.
Capital One Million sterling.

Divided lute series of shares •f 201. each.

Sir George Larpent, Bart., Chairman of the London Committee of
1146 for Extension of Steam Navigation to ♦ustralia.
Sir William Terner, Bart., M.P.

Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., Agent for ]Ter► South Wales.
Sir Thomas L. Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New Bootle Wales,
Linden.

Lieut.-Col. Abdy, Indian. Army
Thomas BreWne, Esq.
Captain Cogan, Indian Nary
Archibald Cuninghante, Esq.
Captain H. M. Denham, 1.R.5.,

J. Maclean Lee, Esq,
Captain Richard Lloyd, Indian
Navy
Milbourne Marsh, Esq.
R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
J. Mentenore, Esq.
Sir.F. Waskett :dyers, R.C.S.
AileaAnder C, Ogilvie, Esq.
Rickard Paterson, Esq.
Robert Henley Payne, Esq,
John Wilson PiHans, Esq.
G. H. Stead, Esq., Master, Royal
Navy
Colonel Tarns, F.R.S.
William Gordon Thomson, Esq.
Lieat. Waghorn, F.R.A.5„ Royal
Navy
Melvll Wilson, Esq.

itayal Navy-
G. H. Donaldson, Esq.
Capt. R. J, Fayrer, ll,eyal Nay,'
Captain Ford, East India Maritime

Service
Captain C. T. Gordon, Royal Navy
E. S. Halswell, Esq., M.A.,.F.R.5.
Capt. H. Hamilton, Royal Navy
Gustavus Hamilton, EEq.
James Hunter, Esq.
J. A. Jackson, Esq.
Charles Joyce, Esq.
Frederick Lambe, Esq.

BANKERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., Cornhill.

SoLlClTolts—Messrs. Barron and Clarke, Bloomsbury-square.
India. Australia, China, and the adjacent regions, contain a popu-
lation of more than half the number of the inhabitants of the
globe, and teem with every product which eon minister to the wants
of man.

To carry cut effectually and economically steam communication
with those countries is the obiect of this Company, for whose ope-
rations there is an ample and profitable field, especially as regards
ear numerous and valuable colonies in the Southern Pacific, which
have au iicreasing intercourse with India as well as with England
—are the only portions of the British empire unconnected by steam
navigation with the parent state, and for which a charter by the
overland route has been exclusively granted to this Company.
The route sanctioned by the Lords or the Admiralty for this Com-
pany is vit. Ceylon, Singapore, and Torres Straits, the advantages of
which are, that Sydney, the tuetroplitan capital of the whole of the
Australasian colonies, would he brought to a certainty within 64 or
65 days of London (frequently in 60), and within less than 20 days
of India. The coal stations are convenient, excellent coal from the
pits at Neweastle, New South Wales, can be pit on board there at
7s. to 7s. 6d. per ten.
Prospectuses, with forms of application for shares, and further
information may be had on application at the offices of the Com-
pany, where a copy of the Royal Charter of Incorporation may be
obtained.
Offices. 24, Cornhill, London. JOEN TATES, Sec.