The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-07 00:00:00

TELLERS.

Grosvenor, Ld. R.
Wortley, J. S.

HISTORICAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Motion made, and question put, " That a sum, not exceed-
ing 2,0001., be granted to her Majesty, towards carry-
ing out measures for the formation of a gallery of the
portraits of the most eminent pereons in British history,
in the year ending the 31st day of March,'lBs7." The
committee divided—Ayes 97, Noes 28.

AYES-9T.
Alcock, T. Grenfell, Chas. Pellet, A.
Atherton, W. Grosvenor, Ld. R. Pigott, F.
Baines, Rt. Hon. M. Hall, Sir B. Price, Sir R.
B all, J. Hamilton, G. A. Ricardo, S.
Baring, Sir F. Hildyard, R. C. Rice, E.
Bass, T. Hincjicy, C. Robertson, P.
Baxter, W. Horsman, E. Roebuck, J.
Black, Adam • Hutt, W. Russell, F. C.
Bland, L. Ingram, H. Sandars, G.
Blandford, Marquis of Keating, R. Seymour, H. •
liouverie, Hon. E. P. Keating, H. S. Shea, Sergt. W.
Bramley-Sfoore, J. Kendall. N. Smith, R.
Brotherton, J. Kirk, W. Smith, Abel
Butler, C. Labouchere,Rt.Hon.ll Stafford, A.
Chambers, T. Langston, J. H. Steel, J.
Clay, Sir W., Bt. Langton, H. G. Stuart, Cantata
Coote, Sir ci. H. Lewis, Sir G. C. Tancred, U.
Crossley, F. Littleton, E. Thornely, T.
Cubitt, W. Lockhart, A. E. Tite, W.
Dent, J. Lockhart, W. Vernon, L.
Disraeli, B. Lowe, R. Walcott, Admiral
Duncan, Viscount Luce, T. Warren, E.
Duncan, G. Macgregor, Jas. Watson, W.
Du.4.W.4. McTaggart, Sir J. Whatman, .T.
Eivart; W. ldslins, R. Wickham, H.W.
Evart, J. Masterman, J. Willoughby, Sir H.
Fagan, W. Monck. Viscount Wilson, J.
Fergus, J. Montgomery, sir G. Woodd, B.
Ferguson, Cal. Mowatt. F. Wortley, J. S.
Fergusson, Sir J. Napier, Sir C.
rawer, Sir E. Palmerston, Visa.
Fitzgerald, J. Paxton, Sir J.
Goderich, Vis. Peeliell, Sir G.
Graham, Lord W. Peel, Sir R.
NOES-28.
Davies, D. A. S.
Devereux, J. T.
Dillavyn, L.
Floyer, J.
Galway, Viscount.
Hadfield, G.
Kin:, J.
M ac Ashen, P.
Meagher, T.
Milligan, Robert
Michell, W .

TELLERS.

Baylor, W.
3lu'grave, Earl of

Acton. J.
A IlderEol4 Sir I.
Baird, J.
Barnes, T.

Murrough, J.
Pollard-Urquhart, W.
Scobell; Capt. G.
Shelley, Sir J.
Sullivan, Michael
Williams, W.

Barrow, W.
Bell. J.
Bond, J.
Brady, J.
Brockman, B. D.
Chamber'. M.
Cobbett, J, M.

TELLERS.

Spooner, R.
Phillimore, J. G.

SMOKE-PREVENTING STOVES FOR
OPEN F 1 RE-PLACES.

'Ye have had the pleasure of witnessing a ♦ery suc-
cessful adaptation of Mr. Lee Stevens's patents for the
prevention of smoke in open fire-places, at the extensive
premises of Mr. W. Barton, 39, Oxford-street.
A patent "deflector" has been added to one of Mr.
Burton's beautiful radiating stoves, which thus becomes
an article perfectly unique. The improvement consists

in the admission of air from beneath the fire-place,
through the back part of the grate, and thence into a
hollow chamber, which is so contrived as to deflect the
air in its then heated condition against the inner or back
part of the fire, and to force it into contact with the
carbonaceous gases, which are thereby converted into
flame, instead of being rtllo wed to escape in the condition
of smoke, so that whilst manifestly reducing the quan-
tity of smoke the heat of, the fire is proportionably in-
creased. To the eye the effect is not less pleasing or
palpable, for while the front of the fire is always bright,
upon the addition of fresh coal to it enlivening flames
are projected upwards from the back of the grate,
extending more or less from side to ,side in
such a manner as to remind one of the action
of a blowpipe, or to convey the idea that the fire must be
fed with gas in some way from behind the stove. The
effect is the same even when some coal-dust is thrown
on ; and, in any case, if the effect be lessened from an
excessive supply of fuel, it is instantly restored by
slightly stirring the fire to give vent to the current of
air from the deflector. With the material and appre-
ciable subversion of smoke, increase of heat, and addi-
tional cheerfulness of fire, we might well be content ;
but the invention yields further advantages, of enabling
a considerable substitution of small coal for large—in

itself an important item ; of also preventing the fire from
going out until all the fuel is consumed, and of causing
the ashes to be shed at the back instead of the front of
the fire. The invention is one of great merit and utility,
and the public will feel indebted to Mr. Burton for
introducing the invention in a form so well calculated to
exhibit its merits. At no distant day we shall expect
to Eee a general application of Mr. Lee Stevens's " de-
flector," as it is a perfectly unique article, and consti-
tutes the ne plus ultra stove for the drawing-room, and
as the perfect success of the invention has been ascer-
tained in one of the most inferior description of open
stoves beyond the possibility of doubt.

EXTENSIVE FlRE.—This morning a fire of a very
daring character broke out in the extensive premises of
Messrs. Morton, patent wool manufacturers, in Holland-
street, Blackfriars-road. The premises of Mr. Apsley
Pellatt and the adjoining property at one time stood in
great jeopardy, but, by the unceasing exertions of the
firemen, the conflagration was confined to the premises
in which it had originated. The cause of the fire is at
present unknown.
CHARGE OF "BRAWLING" AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—
A commission, appointed by the Bishop of Exeter, to
investigate a charge of brawling, preferred by Mr.
Samuel Carter, jun., one of the churchwardens of
Brampford Speke, against the Rev. Gecrge Cornelius
Gorham, vicar of that parish, sat at the Chapter-house,
Exeter, on Wednesday and Thursday. On the part of
the complainant it was alleged that there having been
some dispute about an inscription on the organ in the
church a vestry meeting was to be called to consider the
subject ; that Mr. Carter waited on Mr. Gorham, one
Saturday evening, and asked him to sign the notice,
which he refused to do, on account of the inconvenience
of such visits at that period of the week ; that on the
following morning the churchwardens affixed the notice
to the church porch without the rev. gentleman's signa-
ture • and that when he entered the church, on Easter
Sunday morning, before commencing the service, Mr.
Gorham went to Mr. Carter's pew, and in an angry tone,
and with violent gestures, asked him how he dared to
put up the notice without his signature, and peremptorily
*ordered him to take it down, and bring it into the vestry
for his signature, on pain of being presented to the arch-
deacon. For the rev. defendant many of the congrega-
tion were called as witnesses, who stated that they did
not perceive any violent conduet on his part, and that
they were not disturbed by what took place between Mr.
Gorham and the churchwardens. Dr. Buford his ad.
vocate, contended that no prima facie case for further in-
quiry had been made out, and the commissioners took
time to consider.