The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-17 00:00:00

ffilEibiNiisiiilXHlßlTlON AT THE CRYSTAL

PALACE.

In reply to Sir G. FORSTER,
Sir G. C. LEWIS said it was proposed to preventa thet
the
exhibition which had been announced to take place,
gitstluo f
Crystal Palace to-morrow, and the managers of the
ect
Palace had been written to on the subject, the r
reli _ BILL.
which he trusted would be that the exhibition
;entem-
p
THE VACANT SEATSears APPROPRIpAToN
ropriation of
t clause 3.
resumed a .
seats of St. Albans and Sudbury,
and
absence of the right
The house went into committee on the aPPP
Sir F. GOLDSMID regretted the;
(Sir James
that he would move the amendin n
for the Loltdon University
hon. baronet the member for Carlistlew,
hbiueth hhe Sir
Graham) had put on the yaPerand Kensington in the dis-
being substituted for Chelsea
Burnley be substituted move
Mr. DUNCOMBE,
tribution of those vacant seats.
Mr.
that
for Chelsea and Kensington.
Colon
be el
given proposed that an additional member
should
DUNNEto Cork,but was called to order, the hon,
member for Finsbury being in possession of the house.
Mr. move that the Chairman report.
Mr. SCULLY—
pro.
e to sit amain this day six
gross and ask leav ,:, months.
Mr. MASSEY (the Chairman of Committees) called the
hon. and learned member to order.
Mr. DUNCOMBE then urged the claims of Burnley to
IS said the Government did not bring
an additional , on the ground of its increasing popu-
s a comprehensive measure of reform, but
fl
oa r
wt
Si oi
ran r
ada n.
this dc w
Le a
billE t
LEWIS
merely to enable the house to distribute certain seats in
conformity. with the act of Parliament. He denied,
however, that the present bill was an insignificant
measure, as was shown by the anxiety of different places to
get one of the want seats, lie admitted the importance

of Burnley, but, considering that 13 seats had been appro.
priated to South Lancashire and the North Riding., he
thought giving the fourth member to Burnley would be
conferring too much on a limited district. _

Mr. SULLY then brought forward his motion, and
urged at considerable length the claims of the county of
Cork to one of the vacant scats on the ground of its extent,
population, and wealth.
[LEFT SPEAMING.3

TATTERSALLS'-(TillS EVENING).

NORTHUMBERLAND ELATE.
100 to 30 agst Underhand (taken)
Sto 1 agst Syringe (taken)
Bto 1 agst Joey Jones (taken)
ST. LEGER.
3to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
2,5 to 1 agst Big Ben (taken)

THE DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Elector (taken)
25 to 1 agst Ace of Clubs (taken)
k 5 to 1 agst Night Watch (taken)
33 to 1 agst Cellaiius (taken)
40 to 1 agst Patriot (taken)
40 to 1 agst Laughing Stock (taken)
50 to 1 agst Staple Oak (taken)
50 to 1 agst Ashford (taken)

FRENCH RECOCi2VITIO.I'7 01 ITALY.

la Patric has the following important state-
ment, which has been since repeated in the
Moniteur

"It is stated that negotiations will shortly be
opened to effect the re-establishment of diplomatic
relations between France and the Court of Turin.
Should those negotiations take place the result will
be the recognition de facto of the Italian kingdom,
composed of the provinces and of the States which
have been placed under the sceptre of his Majesty
King Victor Emmanuel consequent upon events on
which France has now no opinion to express, but
which have been accomplished under favour of the
principle of non-intervention recognized by Europe.,
" The renewal of diplomatic relations withlurin
would not imply, on the part of France,
as regards
the policy of the Italian Kingdom, any judgment
on the past, or any responsibility for the future.
It would show that the de facto Government of
this new State is sufficiently established for it to be
possible to entertain international relations with it,
which the interest of the two countries imperiously
demand.

"France, by her new attitude, would not pre-
tend to interfere in any manner in the internal or
external affairs of the Italian kingdom, which re-
mains sole judge of its conduct, as it is master of its
future and of its destinies. It would act towards

it as one day the great European Powers will act
in the American question, by recognising the new
republic of the Southern States when that republic
shall have constituted a Government on a basis
which will allow international relations to be en-
tertained with it of advantage to general in-
teres.ts."

TRO.VPSON'S BOAT-BUILDING

MACHINES.

On Saturday an opportunity was afforded to a
limited number of gentlemen of inspecting the
apparatus invented by Mr. Nathan Thompson, of
New York, for the building of boats by machinery,
and erected by him at Old Ford, Bow. In no
department of human activity has the talent of the
Americans been more conspicuous than in the con-
struction of machinery and its adaptation to the
ordinary arts of life. Hitherto it was considered
that the curvilinear form of a boat's timbers, and
the great variety of angular shaped pieces required
in the construction, presented insurmountable
obstacles to the application of machinery to boat-
building. These obstacles seem, however, to have
been completely overcome by Mr. Thompson, who,
after many years' study and labour, has invented
thirteen machines for forming and fashioning gun-
wales, floor timbers, cants, keels, stern, stern posts,
knees, transoms, and all the variety of forms and
angles, and bevelling of every width and taper that
are required, in order to build up boats and yachts
of every variety and description. The machines
invented by Mr. Thompson are of the most inge-
nious description, and appear to be endowed with
almost intelligence, so marvellously and so accu-
rately do they manipulate the timber required for
boat building. There are in the Royal Navy and
mercantile marine about 40 descriptions of boats,
and there is not one of them but may be produced
by these machines, so that the scope of their useful-
ness is not merely confined to any pattern or design.
When all the machines are at work together, and the
processes can be carried on in a consecutive manner,
so that every part of the boat is being simul-
taneously manufactured the saving in the cost
labour as calculated by the master shipwright at
Woolwich will be in the proportion of 7 to 32,
while the good character and accuracy of the
workmanship are secured by this employment of
machinery. The advantage which must result from
building boats where every portion may be made in
duplicate, and where repairs may be readily effected
in a time of emergency, must strike every person as
being scarcely less important than the economy of
production and the excellence:of the workmanship
by these means.
One of Mr. Thompson's most ingenious machines
is the "drunken saw," so called, no doubt, from its
eccentric motion. It is a circular cutter, but so
adjusted on a screw axis as to have, when in action
what may be called a" wabbling" movement, and
in the course of its eccentricities it cuts laterally as
well as longitudinally, and the effect is to form
what is known as a groove or" rabbit" in the tim-
ber with extraordinary accuracy. The use to which
this machine is applies: in connection with the boats
is for making the gratings, and the saving of time
and of manual labour in this part of the work is
very great. The " drunken saw" can easily do the
work of 40 men. A scarcely less useful and clever
machine is one for giving the required bend and
curve of the planking for the ship's side, which is
done to the most perfect nicety by a combination of
knives or cutters fixed on two rollers, the upper
being conca-,e, and the lower one convex. An oak
plank, passing under this operation, is brought
into the required shape as rapidly as an ordinary
planing machine, which finishes of
a plain
surface,
nakn and
in
othsetrbaoinaitn.g
Tishreerqeuiisreadd in order
cutter
for order to fix
t
the proper bevel edge to the timbers,
which giving
ichisalso very clever; and another very power-
ful and complicated arrangement for cutting the
rabbits for the plank to be fitted to the stern posts
and portion of keel. The machinery for bending
the timber in order to form the ribs is so constructed
as
to give every possible curvature that may be re-
quired in any part of a boat, whether for a small
lugger or a yacht of 150 tons, and of the finest pos-
sible lines. By the aid of all these mechanical
applications, a cutter, 32 feet in length, 7ft. 3in. in
beam, was, and may again be completed easily in
ten hours. It appears that there are some 25,000
boats built every year in this country, and it may
readily be imagined that there is ample scope for
building boats by machinery.
When on a visit to France for a short time, the
attention of Mr. Thompson was directed by the
Emperor to the possibility of constructing boats
which would afford greater facilities for the landing
of troops on an enemy's coast, and the result has
been the production of a " folding boat," which will
occupy a very small space on board ship, and
which may be opened out with great rapidity and
adapted for the conveyance of 50 or 75 menin.e
of
A commission, appointed by the ()overfl n'
the United States, reported very favourablynci
Thompson's machinery in 1859., a
ed most flatter-
arrival in this country he has obtainau
authorities, off-
ing testimonials from the highest
sof Mr.
cial, naval, and scientifie.„----

MORNING.—About
orpFilißrgcswrohoilke-street, Grosvenor- square,
Constable Clancoat, 100
twoDoE,cslTocitkuCthir-----—'llB I::
C, was on duty in triPPe. _
BCI-1% tahteonc
from the doorway of N 39, •
thheepherocuseieveodf smoke
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t.
o John
wasassunitmDgaiienklyirndiensoentr,rFeonr.Sttha..
'1
in savingo hir
e stations,l\ lesse
Messengers
ad-
joining residence d
gave an a
gseervs e
rhaalv having
were beensoon
despatch e three
dlatrom infvoaurri 0
upersons.
in attendance, and the firemen being aided by a large body of
police, under the superintendence of Mr. Hammel, and
Inspectors Holder and Rogers, the fire was extinguished,
lives of
but not before the various floors of the house were burnt
out. A fire also occurred about the same time at the house
of Messrs. Wale and Co., grocers, corner of Crown-court,
Soho, in the upper part of which house several families re-
sided, but all of Whom fortunately escaped. The fire was
principally confined to the shop and cellar, in which the
outbreak occurred. We believe both parties were insured.
Another fire occurred at a furniture shop in Upper Kenning-
ton-lane, on Friday night, about seven o'clock, which would
have been attended with great destruction cf property had
it not been for the providential circumstance of Police-con-
stable Kennedy of the L Division, who happened to be
passing at the time. He observed smoke issuing from the
cellar and immediately gave the alarm. The engines
shortly afterwards arrived, and the fire was got under before
much damage was done. This is the third time this active
officer has been the means of saving property.
COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—At the meeting of
council, on Saturday, the 15th inst., the following gentle-
men were elected members of the college :—Mr. S. i.r. L.
A. Bechaux, 8.A., Cambridge; Mr. E. S. Clo‘a, Hack-
ney; Mr. J. H. Clifft, Bath; Mr. S. c,.w,
hampstead ; Mr. D. Cruickshanv, oouthampton ; Mr.
J. H. Harris, Evesham : I.& .JJ. H. Hay, Renninton OFai. ,
and Mr, 0, Nmay.aer, Spalding, Groat Bersk: