The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

• The extensive demand for iron both in Europe and in
this country, not only for railroads and ships, but an innu-
merable variety of pulposes, has stimulated the inventive
genius of some American, and the result is as important as it
is gratifying. Experiments have been made by Mr. W. C.
Green, of New Jersey, at the Boston Iron-works of Sherman
and Atwater, of the City of New York, whose extensive iron
foundries are in New Jersey. Mr. Green's improvement is in
the process of puddling the iron from the pig to the bar. In-
stead of using the pig iron, which costs about 35 dollars per
ton, he is enabled to use a large portion of the ore, which
costs but 2 dollars 50 cents. per ton, by which he effects, in
labour and material, a saving of more than 33 per cent.,and he
gives a far better quality of iron than that which is obtained
from the pig; as much better in appearance as China is better
than earthenware. We have seen and compared, says the Ex-
press, the new specimen with iron made in the old way, and
have marked the contrast as very great. Mr. Green's secret
consists chiefly in mixing a composition with his ore and white
in a molten state, by which the carbon is more rapidly ex-
hausted than it is under the old process, and the iron is thus,
in half the time, left tougher and finer.
• There is an axe factory at Collinsville, near Hartford,
Connecticut, in which 45 men turn out 800 axes every day.
The axes sell for 13 dollars per dozen upon an average. The
demand for them is almost illimitable. They labour in seven
shops. The sixth shop is sacred—" no admittance" is written
upon the door posts. The reason for this is, that a new pro-
cess for tempering the axes has been discovered—a process
by which a hundred can be tempered at once ; and that, too,
after they have been graund. It is certainly a most important
discovery.

STATISTICS OF THE STEAM NAVY.—A Corre-
spondent of the limes, in defending the Government for
raising the status of the first-class naval engineers by
making them ward-room officers, furnishes the following
statistics of the steam navy of this country. The steam-
engines employed in the navy amount to 38,938 horse-
power, which, at 50.. per horse, costs 1,946,4001.; and
the spare gear for ditto, at 5 per cent., 97,345/.; making
a total of 2,044,245/. for the value of our steam machinery
afloat. To work this machinery we should, at the rate
of 101 b, of coals per horse-power per hour, consume
4,172 tons of coals per day; take the average price in the
different parts of the world in which they would be used
at 30s. per ton, and we find we consume 6,2581. wen th
per say. Allow the whole fleet to be employed uEe-
third of the year at the same rate, and we incur an ex-
pense of 763,4761. for coals ; say for tallow, oil, &c.,
38,5241.; and for replacing and repairing machinery (per
naval estimate), 450,0001.; and we find our annual ex-
pense for working this machinery amounts to 1,252,0004
ABBY FOLSOM DISSATISFIED WITH AN EAST
VICTORY.—On Saturday Mrs. Abigail Folsom appeared
in the justices' court to answer to a writ of ejectment
brought by Mr. Whithridge, her landlord; but as he did
not appear to assert his right to turn Abby out of doors,
the court ordered him to be defaulted, and gave judg-
ment in Abby's favour. As this peaceable settlement of
the case cut Abby off from her intended speeoh, she ex-
pressed great dissatisfaction, and insisted upon appeal-
ing. It was in vain that she was told she could not
appeal, as the judgment was in her favour. Failing
to carry her point in that court, she mounted up to the
common pleas room, walked into the chief justice's
crimson-bound sanctum, called his attention to her by
tapping him on the shoulder, stated her grievance to
him, and insisted that he should receive her appeal. The
chief justice, as soon as he had recovered from his sur-
prise, ordered officer G. Andrews to remove the lady
from the bench and the court-room. It was not without
the use of some physical force that the officer ejected
Abby.—Boston Post.
A HORSE'S REVENGE.—Two days ago the owner
of a horse, at the time standing in Mr. Lamontagne's
stable at Point Levi, while in a state of intoxication,
entered the animal's stall, and it is supposed began to
tease him, when tho horse threw him down, and falling
upon his knees, worried him like a dog would. The
groans of the man brought the ostler and one or two
other persons to his assistance. When these entered the
stable, they found the horse kneeling and the man lying
on his back. The brute had his arm firmly wedged be-
tween his teeth, and it ss as with much difficulty he was
made to loosen his hold. The poor man had both his
arms broken by the furious bites of the horse, and the
bone of one, the left, was so ground to pieces, and the
flesh so lacerated, that amputation had to be resorted to.
his face is torn, and his body severely bruised in several
places. lie is now under Dr. Itacey's care, and likely
to do well. The horse (a stallion) is said to be ex-
tremely vicious, and only manageable by his owner,
who is known to have severely punished hark on frequent
occasions, to reduce him to obedience.—Quebec Mer-
cury, Oct. 15.
THE RAZOR-STROF MAN.—The liberality with
which this celebrated individual gives for charitable
purposes is well known. An instance occurred on Tues-
day last at Canandaigna. He left the cars at Blossom, a
Refreshment-house, and taking his stand before the
building soon drew the crowd from the tables to listen to
his peculiar eloquence. During the "ten minutes" he
had sold nine strops, and just as the bell began to sing,
he espied in the crowd a poor old man who was peddling
pea-nuts and candy. Instantly the razor-strop man
threw 18s., the proceeds of his sale, into the old man's
basket, and stepped on board the cars, leaving the object
of his benefaction astonished at so sudden. and welcome
an exercise of bounty.—Rochester Americam.