The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

AT iIEA.

nimerous ships it has already saved, and the captains gratefally ac-
knowledge the glerioas results. Two testimonial extracts shall
suflee :

" Captain Greig, from Quebec to London, states that the Ti ointnin
Pump being fitted in the Caroline, its great power was the means of
caving the ship and 230 souls on beard, two seams in the bottom
tieing partly left without calking."
" The Argus brig, front Cadiz, sprung a leak when three days out
at sea, and soon after her common pump eheaked and became use-
less. Captain Rutherford states all then depended upon her Faint-
thin Pimp, which for nineteen days and eighteen nights was IP,„ ac.
tien without a minute's respite, when all arrived safely in Lendoz,
with a thank Cod for the Fountain Pump."

ON LAND
the New Portable Fire-engiaes are of infinitely better serTice that a
fire brigade. They act instantaneously at tke outbreak of a fire.
" We are delighted with the inventien—it is a great boea to so-
elety.”—Editors Liverpool Mail.
The New Portable rire-engines have preserved a large portion of
Norwich from destraction, for out of eighteen different properties •n
Ire in and near the city, tkey saved ele wen solely and seven manly,
including in the seven the Queen's Cr►valry Barracks ; and in the
eleven, Messrs. Plortoa's dyery, and 11,0001. worth of consigned pro-
perty ; Stoke mustard, starch, and dour mills, and Messrs. Buteater's
grocery warehonses, jest in thee to prevent a large quantity of glut-
powder therein from exploding, which must have-spread aroma de-
struction and death.

" /forth Walsharm—At this firs the Portable Engine was of great
service, and by having owe of them ready, there is no doubt hat half
the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfolk Clue-
niele, August 22, 1846.
At a Norwich fire Jane 2, 1647, the two Portable Engines wore
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-Wien to a dozen atmo-
spheres.
Now the fast is this, all former Forts ramps, Lift-ferce Pumps,
Lift Pumps, and Chain Pumps are bad machines: they rub, grub, and
scrape the water upwards by Motion, which wastes two-fifths of the
power used, and progressively falter by leakage, whieh Drs. Young
and Hatton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented
thus :—The quantity of water actually raised by any machine seldom
exeeeem half the power consumed, after everceming friction and
leakage;, and notwithstanding the best engineers in the world had
tried in Tate for two thousand years to state these palpable debtets
la hydraulic machines, nevertheless, at last the victory is won, and
wen for ever ; for friction and leakage are now both annihilated by
the new tolling principle in pumps, and their effect augmented fretn
twelve to twenty (er about seventy per el)nt.), and frequently with-
out mere outlay.
Hest me* can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 seconds, but
same men drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric-
tion Pump an active sound-winded young Mal o'l4o lbs. weight can
raise 10,000 lbs. of water oafs foot high in a minute, and with a Foun-
tain Pump 8,066 lbs. in half a minute. Thus a continual and most
extraordinary lucrative advantage is gained ever perpetual and uni-
versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power.
Jahn Clenten Roberts, Esq., 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 Pump, which upset a good
deal of Folly. Because Mr. Hallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump-
maker, lir. 13add1ey, London, an everlasting pimp-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 Ne. 1,183, and in Ne. 494, Book-maker Millington'i
remarks are prepesterons. However, en the other hand, Dr. Birk-
beck, Aberdour, Hay, Parkington, with many ether discerning men,
after witnessing the perfect effect and O'e beautiful simplicity of the
tailing principle, gave the invention the following true and sustain-
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 *et altitude,
for man, horse, and steam power; delivering frem half a pint per
stroke to ISO barrels of water per minute, and rendering every lair
trial at competition ridiculous, whilst their durability is guaranteed
at less cost than coalmen pumps.

W. lIIIILDERS.

Foitatain Pump Works, Norwich, Moo. 26, 1847.
See Mechanic's Magazine, Nos. /31*, 264, 383, 429, 430, 433,
482, 486, 487, 489, 492, 495, 496, 508, 669, 510, 825, 623, 658*,
727, 804, 1,848, I,llo*, 1,183. Nos. illustrated an marked this'