The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-18 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Aug. 17.

The Queen drove out in a carriage and four
yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess
Louise and the Princess of Leiningen.
Colonel Da Plat was in attendance upon horse-
back.

her Majesty walked in the grounds with Prin-
cess Louise this morning.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out
also.

The Earl of Derby left Osborne yesterday, aud
returned to London.

The Hon. Lady Biddulph and Mr. Helps had 01
honour of dining with the Queen and the Rosa
family in the evening.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(Font the Illustrated London News.)
Probate of the will of the Right Hon. Augu.st3
Emma, Dowager Baroness Truro, was granted by
her Majesty's Court of Probate, on the 3d inst., t°
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, D.C.L., P•C';
Travers Twiss, D.C.L., Q.C. ; Edward Marjer''
banks, jun., Esq., of the Strand; and Chas. NorriS
Wilde, Esq., of Russell-square, the executors and
trustees. The personalty was sworn under £70,000.
Her ladyship married, in 1845, as second wife, the
Right Hon. Thomas Baron Truro, Lord high
Chancellor in 1850-2, who died in 1855. Her lair
ship died on the 21st of May, 1866, having executed
her will on the 15th of September, 1865, and 3
codicil on the 10th of October following. Iler
ladyship has bequeathed to the present Baron Truro
£20,000 ; also leaves his lordship the library, books,
maps, and pictures ; and the family and other por-
traits are specifically bequeathed to various persons.
To St. Paul's London, where her husband, the late
Lord Truro, was educated, her ladyship leaves the
portrait of his lordship in his black silk robes as
Lord Chancellor ; and bequeaths his lordship's state
robes as Lord Chancellor, and the three purses be-
longing to the office, to be held as heirlooms in his
family. Her ladyship bequeaths to Lord Truro
the principal part of the plate, which is set forth in
a list of many pages appended to the will. There
are many specific bequests of plate and jewellery to
other parties ; to the Right Hon. Stephen Lushing-
ton, D.C.L., £2,000 ; to Chas. N. Wilde, £l,OOO,
together with a service of china ; and to his wife
also a legacy of £l,OOO ; to the Right Hon. E. Card-
well £5OO, to Dr. Swiss 1300, to Mr. Marjoribaula
£3OO ; and there are several annuities, and also legs"
cies to servants. The sum of £l,OOO is to be 116"
in trust by the vicar for the time being of St. Law'
rence, Ramsgate, to keep in repair her ladyship's
monument, on which is engraved the words "Augusta
,
Emma, relict of Lord Truro, and only daughter of
H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex," the surplus to he
given to the poor of that parish. £20,000 is le°
to the fund in aid of the poor and friendless boys
of the metropolis not addicted to crime, the trus'
tees being those of the will, to which are added
the Bishop of London and the Chief Commissioner
of the metropolitan police force for the time being;
to the Nursing Sisters Institution, Devonshire-square •
£loo—all legacies to be free of duty. The residue
of her property is to be equally divided between the
Seamen's Hospital (the Dreadnought), the Shir
wrecked Mariners' fund, the Indigent Blind MY-
lum, the Orphan Asylum (Wandsworth), and GllY'°.
Hospital.
The will of Lord Frederick Charles Peter Beall:
clerk, Captain, R.N., late of Little Grimsby Nall"
Lincoln, was proved in the London Court by bjS
relict, and his brother-in-law, Sir Montagu Phu
Cholmeley, Bart., of Easton Hall, Lincoln. The
personalty in the United Kingdom was sworn under
£4,000. The will is dated 1855, and there are three,
codicils. The two last were executed on the Ist and
6th of November, 1865 ; and his lordship died on
the 17th of the same month, at the age of 58. -C°
his wife he leaves the furniture, plate, carriages,
&c., for her own absolute use, and an immediate
pecuniary bequest. To his eldest son he devises all
his real estate. To his youngest son he leaves all
his shares and stock in the Aberdeen Railway, and
a legacy of £BOO. The residue of his personal estate
he bequeaths to his eldest son.

The will of William Chisholme, Esq., of Tolling'
ton Park, Middlesex, was proved in London, 03
the 30th ult., by his relict and his brother, Job°
Chisholme, Esq., the joint executors and trustees•
To his wife he has bequeathed a life interest in bi°
property ; and, after her decease, he leaves t?°
principal part to his nephew, John Arthur Ch 10"
holme, and the rest to the daughters of a friend.

OIL VERSUS COAL FOR STEAM BOILERS.----rfli°
recent discussions as to our future probable coal 00)1).1
combined with the remarkably low price at which shale
can now be produced, have had the effect of causing maul
persons to turn their attention to the subject of using stic
oils as fuel, instead of coals, for evaporating steam front
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water. A gentleman has for a considerable time past be%
engaged in conducting a series of experiments for Oft
purpose in Woolwich, on account, we presume, of the
miralty, the question of fuel for steam purposes being One
of great importance so far as our heavy ironclads are co'-^-
corned. Yesterday, we saw exhibited at the engineerll3s,
works of Mr. Ireland, Broughton-lane, an apparatus I°`
raising steam in a manner different from but having th:
same object as that in operation for Government. it
patented by Messrs. Sim and Barf, and consists-in Placiv'
within the firebox of an ordinary marine boiler a generator,
into which crude shale oil, costing about Gd. per gall°l
is admitted, in combination with a jet of steam, the
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producing hydro-carbon gas, which, acting on the hob"
surface of the boiler, produces steam rapidly, with scarcell
any smoke and no smell. This method of using petrolellig'
shale, or other earth oils, may be thus briefly describie
bull
Knowing that at a certain heat, viz., that of iron at a d_
red, petroleum, shale oil, &c., will be converted into Pao'
there is introduced into the ordinary furnace space of a steam
boiler an apparatus consisting of a gas receiver or distribile
tor, below which are placed two pipes, connected with the
receiver at both ends. Into those retorts or generators
oil is introduced through a feed-pipe, the generators, in the
first instance, being brought to the required heat by I,l°J-i,
of a small coal fire. The oil is then turned on, and iraly° .0
atcly on coming in contact with the heated iron genera
converted into gas, and rushes up into the receiver, Whelld
it issues through small holes, and is burned as ordinga,
gas. All being in working order, the coal fire is raked Oof
and another receiver with burners is placed on the emf
grate, and being connected by a pipe with tho I.lPPer the
ceiver, a portion of the gas is thus conducted boloW the
generators and burned under them to keep them up t°
requisite heat. This is the method for burning oil 31°,,,,
but it is found that by introducing a small jet of stes';
stream of water along with the oil, the heat of the Pio,/
very much intensified, and the oil required very much re,
—also that nearly all smoke and waste of carbon are ',O.
vented. The action of the water or jet of steam is as follew,
The oil by its peculiar nature being first decoutposed,fl,o'lo' ee
tity of carbon previously held in chemical union t''''oloo
separated and free as soon as the conversion into gas
place. The water also being decomposed into its elent.bo' oic
the oxygen unites with the free carbon, forming calortioa
oxide, and the hydrogen mixes with the remaining P ducts
of the free carbon, in which state the whole of the pro „re'
are consumed, the mixture of carbon and hydre.gen,:`; its
ducing heat of a very great intensity. This itivention;for
present form is not likely to supersede the use of c°,:sr
land engines, but, appears to be one of great value roof tlje
going steamers. Thus in the case of the Persia, ot?0 tiyill
Cunard line of steamships, the following calcvlatiou:o be
show what tho result of the successful use of oils s.v°O. dove
to its owners. It is calculated, from what is now /)010ebr boar
on the boiler wo saw, that eight gallons of 0,1 P„,,,or's
will he sufficient for each furnace, and that the stii 000-
fourteen furnaces, in a voyage of twelve days, w„,,avd
sumo, therefore, 32,256 gallons,
costing £1,690. The Persia takes for her 110)0`0'. 0104
1,500 tons of coal, costing on board about £l,° eOO
showing that the cost of oil is £l9O greater than t 00.4,
of coal. But against that there is a saving of 1->f
weighing 169 0;0 eat
which at £3 per ton for freight is a gain ° fool
deducting from which the £l9O, the actual gamad be
one voyage is shown to be £3,803, to which sun' T. 'self;
added a saving in stoker's wages, as the apparat%se7pb, o,
ng~acting when once fairly in operation. The glass
the invention seems to be also applicable to ritell's_ heat le
making, and other similar purposes, where into.
required and must be under perfect control.
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THE NEEDLE-GUN.—The invention of
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gun, it appears, is now claimed by Ireland. GeP.tt b,,cl
Whitley is named as the inventor, and as halirs Tot-
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shot,
at Woolwich to Captain Norton's elongated _
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Whitley did not carry out the design he had
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another. his invention, the secret of which has been 5'
another. Such is the story told in lroland.
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