The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON. Jan. 9.—Wind at noon S.W.—Light breeze
and mild cloudy weather.
RAKSGATE, Jan. B.—The Alfinsb Egbardina, from
Dantzic, to Guernsey, has been assisted in leaky, having
been on the Kentish Knock. Sailed—Globe, Cape of
Good Hope.
COWES, Jan. B.—Wind S. S. W. —Arrived —For tuna,
Antwerp, from Havannah.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 8. —Wind S.S.W. to W.S.W.
Arrived—Mary Ann Wilson, Calcutta; Columbus, Deme-
rara ; H.M.S. Urgent, Malta. Sailed— Zurich, for Ne w
York.
PLYMOUTiI, Jan. B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Bourse
d'Anvers, Havannah.
MILFORD, Jan. 7.- Wind S.B.—Sailed—Albanie, Nova
Scotia.
SOUTHWORD, Jan. B—The Cheverill, of Whitby, sank
last night near here ; crew saved.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 6—The roadstead of Revel is
covered with ice as far as the island of Wulff. To-day
there are 13 degrees of frost here.
KoMOSBERG, Jan. 4.—The navigation is closed again.
BREST, Jan. 6—The Francois (sc.s.), Nantes, from Car-
diff and the West Indies, put in here with machinery da-
maged, leaky, Sm. and will go into dock.
LAURVIG, Jan:l.—The Concordia, Odens, from Lou-
den, was brought in here, on the 30th December. with
cargo heated, and discharging. Weather mild. Naviga-
tion open.
WATNEvonu, Jan. 7.—Wind B.E.—Arrived—Recipro-
city, from Monte. Video.
CORK, Jan.. 7.—Wind S.S. W.—Arrived— Acadian,
from St. John's, N.B.
Hunts, Jan. B.—The Johanna Andre, from Carlscrons,
to London, put in here yesterday, after being on the Dog-
gerbank—will discharge.

(PER ELIOTRIc TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTIWIPTON, rib*, 10 6.M.
Wind S.W., drizzly rain.
Sailed—Odessa, for Constantinople.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind S.S.E
Arrived—Water Sprite, from Alexandria ; Baccante,
Calcutta ; Laguno, Monte Video ; Halton Maid, Messina;
Britannia, Dantzic ; Anomina and Ticonderoga, Bilboa ;
Ellen Rawson, Ichaboe.

QIIMINSTOWN, Jan. 7.

Wind fiI.S.W.
Arrived—Princess Eleanor, from Demerara; Welcome,
Rotterdam ; Maxwell, Marianopol.
WATEETORD, Jan. 7.

Wind S.E.
Arrived—Reciprocity, from Monte 'Video.
DusiaN, Jan. 8.

Wind N.W.
Arrived—John W. Lovitt, from St. John's.

(BY ?SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND. Friday, 9.15 a.m.
Wind S.W. ; tide three houri flood; fine.
Arrived, Bth—Himalaya, from Mauritius; Humility,
from Bremen.
Arrived, 9th.—Maria Manuelle, from Cadix ; Jane and
Mary, Terceira • Northieet, Canton; Clive, Antwerp.
Sailed, 9th.—bheapaide, far Port Adelaide.
DEAL, Friday, 10.10 a.m.

Wind S.S.W., fresh.
Passed.—Fruiterer, from St. Michael's, for Hull ; Oscar
Vidal, from Moulmein ' • Baldera, bark, from the west-
ward; Blanch Moore, from Calcutta—all for London.
Prospero, London, St. Michael's ; Ida, schooner, Terceira,
London.
Anchored—Ross, from London, for Bathurst ; Princess
Royal, London, for Galata ; Ulvorstone, bark, Carthagena,
for the North ; Westmorland, London, for Cardiff ; Lun-
dale, London, for Lisbon.
The Lion, American ship, has been assisted off the beach
at Bingsdown, and proceeded to Ramsgate, in tow, last
night.

SOLUTION OF QUARTZ.

The Australian papers just received from Melbourne i
report the discovery, by Count Dembinski, of a process by
which quartz or silica is chemically dissolved, and all the
gold, metallic oxides, and metals contained in it precipi-
tated. His method is the following :—One part of quartz
in small pieces is, together with two-and-a-half or three
parts of carbonate of soda, brought to a red heat and
melted. Cast iron tubes are perhaps the best vessels is
which this process can be done. Silicate of soda is now ,
formed, deliquescent in air, and perfectly soluble in cold
water, the carbonic acid of tho soda being, of course, given
off by the reaction. This silicate of soda is dissolved in
water, in wooden vessels, and thus left for a few hours,
during which time the gold and all other foreign sub-
stances contained in the quartz are precipitated. After
the precipitate has been formed the solution of silicate of
soda is, by means of a syphon, decanted into another
wooden vessel, in which, by the inflation of carbonic acid,
the soda is separated from the silicic acid, and regained as
carbonate of soda. By decanting it again and evaporating
the water it is made fit for another dissolving process. He
obtains the carbonic acid, which is used for regenerating
the soda, from the same fire which he makes use of in com-
bining the quartz and soda. This he does by employing
the well-known centrifugal air-pump, and follows up in all
particulars the method of Melsens in the decomposing of
saccharate of lime. By inflating carboni• acid into the
solution of silicate of soda he separates the silicio acid from
the soda. This latter remains in water, the silicic acid has
been precipitated in the form of a transparent, nebulous,
jelly-like substance, which cannot be separated from water
by filtration. He now decauts the solution of carbonate of
sode, which by means of evapnration, he obtains again as
dry carbonate of soda. As such it can be made use of in
further operations.

MR. COST'S CLAIML—The following is an extract
from the eighth edition of the Encyclopmdia Britannica,
by Mr. William Fairbairn, F.R.S. :—lt would be a dif-
ficult task to enumerate all the services rendered by Mr.
Cort to the iron industry of the country sufficiently to
express our sympathies with the descendants and rela-
tives of a man to whose mechanical inventions we owe 50
much of our national greatness. It is perhaps not gene-
rally known that Mr. Henry Cort expended a fortune
of upwards of 20,0001. in perfecting his inventions
for puddling iron and rolling it into bars or plates,
that he was robbed of the fruit of his discoveries by
' the villany of officials in a high department of Govern-
ment, and that he was ultimately left to starve by
hen the
apathy and selfishness of an ungrateful countrained that
y. W
these facts are known, and it has been ascert
Mr. Henry Cort's inventions have conferred an amount
of wealth upon the country equivalent to 600,000,0001.
sterling, and have given maintenance and employment to
600,000 of the working population of the land for the
last three er four generations, we are surely justified in
referring to services of such vast importance, and in ad•
vocating the principle that substantial proofs of the
nation's gratitude should be afforded to rescue from
penury and want the descendants of such a benefactor."

MK IV. 8R0WN,_31.13., AND THE LIVERPOOL

FREE LIBRARY.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8.
At a meeting of the Town Council, held to-day, the
regular business of the council was suspended, in order
to take into consideration the report of a special com-
mittee, appointed on the Ist inst., to decide in what way
a suitable compliment might be paid to Mr. W. Brown,
M.P., as a memorial of his great munificence in propos-
ing to erect, at hid own cost, a building for the Liverpool
Free Public Library and Museum.
The following is a copy of the report :
" The 'committee having considered the matters referred
to them, report their opinion that, i❑ order to mark the
sense entertained of the munificence of Wm. Brown, Esq.,
M.P., in the offer conveyed by his letter read at the coun-
cil on the let ins., a full-length portrait of Mr. Brown, by
an artist of the highest eminence, should be placed in the
building, and that a suitable inscription should be recorded
on the frame ; and that, in addition, a marble statue of
Mr. Brown should be executed and placed in one of the
niches of St. George's Hall."

Mr. J. R. JENIERY, the chairma❑ of the special com-
mittee, in moving the confirmation of the report, said he
believed it to be the unanimous wish of the a puncil that
the recognition should be commensurate with the muni-
ficence of Mr. Brown. It was with that desire that the
committee proceeded to discharge the duties confided
them, and hence the resolution now submitted for the
sanction and approval of the council. The portrait was
to be placed within the precincts of the building ; but it
was thought that whatever was done in the precincts of
the building would ry.t be a sufficiently high recognition
of the well-known liberality and character of Mr. Brown;
and that, therefore, a statue to his memory should be
erected in a niche in what might be fairly called the
people's hall in Liverpool.
The motion was unanimously agreed to, and the
special committee reappointed, in order to carry out the
decision of the council.
The cost of the building will be about 35,000/.—a
princely offering on the part of Mr. Brown.
The letter above referred to, as having been received
by the Mayor from Mr. Brown, is as follows :
" Richmond-bill, Liverpool, 31st Dec., 1856.
"My dear Sir,—l have long been desirous that Liver-
pool should have a free public library and museum wor-
thy of the town, where the inhabitants, be their position
in life what it may, can resort for intellectual im-
provement ; and as some of my relatives and friends
expressed a wish that. I should build one, and present
it to my fellow-townsmen, I am prepared to do so
upon the site provided by the corporation. I have no
wish to interfere with the resolution the council
have already come to of leaving the plans in the
hands of the corporation surveyor, Probably it will not
be unreasonable for me to hope and expect that, in some
way or other my name will be connected with it, to show
that I have endeavoured to be useful in my generation,
and possibly encourage others who have the means to con-
tribute to usefulpublic works : and that some of my family
or executors may be continued on the managing committee.
—Ever yours respectfully, " Wit. BROWN.
" His Worship the Mayor of Liverpool."