The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-02 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

MANUAL OF EXPERIMENTS ILLUS•
TRATIVE OF CHYMICAL SCIENCE.
BY JOHN MURRAY, F S.A &C. Eva. HIOHLEY.
Nothing could tend to demonstrate more clearly
the rapid strides making by the moderns in the
most interesting and useful of the sciences, than the
contents of this manual. Besides experimental
data of the utmost consequence, not only to the
Tyro in chymistry, but to the more matured stu
dent—and for all it is still a study—the volume
before us contains some pertinent remarks on the
nomenclature of the sciences, and also on the his-
tory of definite proportions ; and it is enriched by
much original matter, the result of Mr. Murray's
persevering and well directed labours. Our recom-
mendation may be thought to be somewhat tardy, as
we observe our copy is of the third edition, but we ale
not the less sincere, when we advise all whoever
would attain a concise knowledge of chymistry to
become possessed of the work.
We venture, however, to demur at one—and but
one—of the author's conclusions. In describing
Jackson's inflammable lamp apparatus, he opines it
to be " the best and most simple application of the
curious fact discovered by Dobreiner, at Jenp,
namely, that finely divided or 'spongy' platinum
is ignited by a current of hydrogene." Day's Self-
acting Illuminator we take to be a much better mo-
dification, and as we have not yet seen any written
description of it, we shall append one.
It consists of a glass-stand, which is about
half-filled with sulphuric acid, diluted with water,
in the proportion of nine-parts of the litter to one
of the former. To the cover of this stand, which is
not fitted too closely, an inverted bell-shaped glass
is affixed, being suspended at a little distance above
the bottom of the receiving-glass or stand. In this
bell-glass a coil of zinc is hung by a strip of lead,
which is supported by a copper hook from the inner
part of the cover; and the glass also serves as a
recipient for the hydrogene that is formed by the
action of the sulphuric acid on the zinc. Upon the
cover is fixed a bronze figure, from whole mouth the
gas is permitted to pass, when the arms of the
figure, which act as a stop-cock, are moved so as to
lift up an extinguisher from a miniature vase, over
which a small pellet of prepared platina is suspended.
On the emission of the hydrogene, the platina is im-
mediately ignited, and then produces the ignition of
the jet of gas.
For the information of Mr. Murray, as well as
that of our readers generally, and in justice to the
, ingenious manufacturer, we add, that his to Day,
) in the Poultry, we are indebted for this " new light"
producer.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY,

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, AUG. I.—Wind N.E.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. I.—Wind N E.—Sailed the Canada,
Briton, for New York.
FALMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind E. to S.E.,moderate.—Arrived
the Treasurer, Lowrie, from Port-au-Prince. Off port the
Hymen, Lotherington, from Jamaica.
SCILLY, JULY 30.—Arrived the Young, Augusti, from Rio
Grande.

BRISTOL, AUG. I. Arrived the Dominica, from Tobago.
HOLYHEAD, JULY 31.—Arrived off port the Indus, Hunter,
from St. John's, New Brunswick.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 31 —Arrived the Cumberland, Gardner,
from Baltimore: and Syren, Langlois, from St. Petersburgh.
Off port the Harmony, White, from Porto Cabello.
CORK, JULY 30.—Arrived the Lark, Smith, from Lisbon.
HULL, JULY 31.—Arrived the Chilton, Wilbridge, from
Pictou ; Clarkson, Irvine, from Quebec; Fanny, Estell, and
Ricardo, Munro, from St. Petersburgh ; Annies, Wright, and
Broderick, Peart, from Wyburg ; Ocean, Kirk, from Pernam ;
Commerce, Massam, from Stettin; and Sir David Milne, Hill,
from Dantzic.
COWES, AuG. I.—Arrived the Anne, Williams, from Batavia

The Drie Marias, bound to the Netherlands, and the Dank-
barkeit, for Dordrecht, are detained at Sourabaya.
The Elizabeth, Johnston, from Halifax to Guayaquil, is re-
ported to have been lost 25 days after being at Valparaiso.
Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Batavia,
dated March 19:—" Since the let instant no Dutch vessels
have been allowed to depart for Europe, in consequence of the
opinion prevalent here, that a war has taken place between
Great Britain and Holland."

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

The only arrival this morning is a Jamaica mail, which
sailed on the 11th of June, and from Carthagena on the 30th
of May, by which Jamaica papers have been received at the
North and South American Coffee-house.
The Earl of Mulgrave, it is said, complains of the conti-

nued vituperation of the press against him; but who has he to
thank for this, but the Court Journal, who so bespatters him
with fulsome praise, that it is necessary to counteract it, lest it
should be supposed that the Earl of Mulgrave was that great
and good man which he is represented to be in a paper, under
his immediate control. Let Lord Mulgrave muzzle the editor
of the Court Journal, his personal Secretary, and others of his
party, and we shall be content to be silent; but Lord Mulgrave
must not expect that his influence will ever curl) or suppress
the honest expression of public feeling, which he will always
find in the Jamaica Caurant.
_ _ .

(From the Jamaica Courant of June 10.)
It is reported that the Attorney-General, after keeping the
depositions in the case of the " King against Sundry Indivi-
duals," for wantonly injuring a number of tomb-stones in the
Jewish Cenietery in Spanish Town, has returned them to the
gentlemen at whose instance the prosecution was commenced,
with a note expressive of his determination not to be counsel
against the prisoners, as the offence is not a public one !
What ! the destruction, or even the attempt to remove tomb-
stones not a public offence? We should just like to know
if Mr. O'Reilly, or Dan O'Connell, would be after being
quiet if a Roman Catholic cemetery had been profaned. They
would not ; and we care not who the dead are ; their ashes and
the memorial of their friends ought to be considered sacred ;
and we are almost afraid that a little of the old leaven of
the Roman Catholic religion exists in the breast of the first
Catholic Attorney ",eneral of Jamaica. It is a well-known
fact that even savages respect the sacred depositories of the de-
parted, and Mr. O'Reilly has, we believe, the supreme honour
of being the first lawyer who ever declared that the profanation
of the " narrow house " is no public offence !
Robert Davis, a slave tried in January, 1832, for using sedi-
tious expressions, and sentenced at Sav-la-Mar, by a General
Courtmartial, to be transported for life, has been pardoned by
his Excellency the Governor, in consequence of a request made
by Mr. Stephen, previous to his removal from the Colonial_
office. In Ireland sedition is something ; but in Jamaica it
appears to be patronised merely to please the saints of England,
who, in their turn, if ever they obtain the ascendancy, will not
return good for evil.
Great fears are entertained for the safety of the cutter
Bridget, which sailed from Carthagena on the 28th April.
We have given a true picture of the cause which has brought
Jamaica to her present condition, and we have no hesitation to
state that while a single Methodist or Baptist preacher is per_
mitted to pollute our shores, we can expect neither peace
nor comfort in a colony to which nature has been so bountiful.
We received yesterday by the packet, Bogota Papers to the
12th ult., but they contain no intelligence of interest. It is,
however, hinted that the Venczuelian Government, under Paez,
will soon swallow up Columbia, and send O'Bando back to
New York with as little delay as possible.