The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-07 00:00:00

P rNDTAN MAIL S.—The. Royal Mail
,
,7,t earn Pack
met Comp s
Ship , H.
139 R.N.. Comander, Isan:tappo inted toMEDWAYtake sat th,.
01 the 15th July The Medway will leave S,,uthampton
that day, at One, P.m., and will proceed dtrect to Fahnouth,
Yhere she will receive the Mails on the 17th of July, and depart
Immediately on her voyage far Barbadoes, calling to land and
'emba'embark Passengers at Corunns. and Madeira. The line of
rk
for both mails and passengers extends to all ports
of British and Foreign West Indies, Havannali, Gull of
1,1,1.11c0, &e., and is connected with the Company's steamers,
~etth run twice every month, forwards and backwards, be-
York Havannah, by Nass,,u, to Savannah, Charleston, New
and Halifax respectively, and also includes the coast c,)f
patu,tith America and isthmus of Panama. All the C?ra rany s
sesitets carry a surgeon approved by Government. Each pas-
4:dget has a separate cabin ; bedding and linen are provided,
e, the passage-money and steward's fee cover every expense,
ZPt ings, spirits. &c., which are to he
"ths may be se u -d at the Compan)'sOffices, 55, Moor-
gate-street I- I
N. „ , .07a( OU.
the All letters conveyed by these packets must pass through
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office.

STEAM TO NEW YORK.
1-1 E GREAT WESTERN,
lieutenant HOSKEN, R.N., Commander,
IS INTENDED TO SAIL FROM
BRISTOL Saturday, 16th of July, 1842
LIVERPOOL...Saturday, 3d of September
BRISTOL.. ...... Saturday, 22d of October.

FROM NEW YORK.
Thurs Thursday, llth of August For LIVERPOOL
day,
29th of September For BRISTOL
....u"daYs 17th of November For LIVERPOOL.
or Freight, or further information, apply at Bristol to
CHRISTOPHER CLAXTON, Managing Director.
M. Ward, Great Western Railway-Office, Bank.
°°l-- Gibbs,' Bright, and Co., North John-street.
rii-neam—John Poncia and Son, Tershore-street.
Leeds R. Goddard, Hull and East Riding Times Office.
Gh,;s"sigh and Womack, Accountants, Benson's-buildings
PaOw—H. B. Webb, Glassford• street.
Litr:rs---Andelle and Sosalas, Rue de l'Echiquier, No. 20.
Beam Tenders to convey Passengers on hoard the Great
e'de-Grace—William Davidson.
Ve t
tot:tem,. will leave Cumberland Basin at Ten, A.m., on Sa-
N thY,llail
the 16th Jul and the Ship will sail immed.ately the
arr ves on3,board.
EXTPiv• --
SlrE COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS, EN-
QC''
AVINGS, DRAWINGS, PICTURE-FRAMES, &c.
ESSRS. DEBE.N 11 AM. and STORE: will
Cov , SELL, by AUCTION, at their Rooms, King-street,
I.t".:,'Aarden, on FRIDAY NEXT, at Eleven o'Clock, a SE-
thirtir: L°N of fine OLD (ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, in.
SPecimens from the following masters, viz.:—
tr," Rembrandt Town
Ruysdael Decker
Ariders on Corregio Gainsborough
rmans
A Swaneveldt Pether
Tani Williams Vernet
ti
an other7,-. Bondi Koeter
eminent Artists; beautiful Coloured Drawings, Fine
"
°'..'ngsr Picture-frames, &c. &c.
May be viewed, and Catalogues had at the Rooms.
tbiiiIIING'S PATENT LIGHT VENTI-
tom,. LATING HATS, 215., are the best Hats ever offered
It tie notice' wearing out two of the ordinary-made ones.
etainir
tgret, 1g their shape and colour, short in the nap, allewing the
of bi- if perspiration, preventing head-ache and determination
kEsoi?d thereto. In a variety of shapes to suit contour.
pant e BEST
HATS, 18s.; second qualities, 13s, Ser-
12s,
~EST LIVERY HATS, 16s. Ladies' Riding Hats
14s, tq ;
best Gossamer Hats, 6s. 6d; good Beaver Hats,
et,e r .° '65. 6d. ; Horse-hair, Velvet, Cloth, and Fur Caps of
ceY description for Youths and Gentlemen.
tht House, 85, Strand, and 251, Regent-street. Copy

EIGHT FIRES AT NORWICH
8/1 „ Have rewently been extingui,shed by
`l.l-DERS" PATENT PORTABLE FIRE-
ENGINE.
Th (THE NEW PROPERTY PROTECTOR).
eelle,„"te,Eogines are carried by hand and placed immediately
'lttarter."eY can assail the main source of the fire at close
Whole .1 to the greatest advantages ; when they deliver their
bn,,,rt . uniform streams of water directly into the flames with
ng certainty and such
com surprisin
on engines can be brought
et action.h
thelf d„i° engine lever be worked briskly with one hand, and
the —iverY pipe pointed at a window 10 feet distance with
tiiitiOher band, it will show how furiously, steadily, and irre-
ter • the little fire destructor combats and con uers the
rifiQ foe q
tei,
etith:^—°' elegant, durable, and complete in Brass 61. 16s.
tipoti• There is not yet in existence a good fire-engine
parish large scale. At Alderman Butcher's fire
.the Patent
leriLO Pump filled 12 large pails with water per minute, deli-
th,t;g at. the rate of 50 and the two Engines 30 barrels per
the 1-; But with the former Parish Pump (which was one of
.best brass lift-force pumps of the London made trash) not
illtArrels an hour could have :teen raised, and probably the
7:ll.nio,uld have gained the ascendancy. London is a century
Nerwieh in Hydraulig Machines.
,T, lIE SUN" paper, July 10, 1841, and " Norwich
are * March 5, 1842, where all my inveterate opponents
try t- !armed, chepfallen, and laughed at, for they dare not even
Lk ° °otain the 1001. reward offered. "Because dame Nature
Du entered her imperative caveat thus !" SHAI.DERS'
4,,,,1) SHALL NEVER BE SURPASSED, which is now
el ,-"eallvproved to be the only effective, invariable water-
.in,existence, and when well carried out the most
Itioc"e pump in the world. It stands work as well for lifts.
141.1'14 below 100 feet, and it would be strange indeed if
•It
k '1")t, as a good Connector (of a Fountain Pump) will sustain
gstseure of 50 atmospheric whilst less than a quarter of that
04,11. 'would deliver water rapidly 365 feet high, or over St.
cross, London. V. SHALDERS.
'l/d,raulic-street, Norwich, June 18, 1842.
BY EMINENT MEN UPON THE IN-
YENTION—SEPARATELY AND JOINTLY.
lect.::kluiTer.v.—" The Fountain Pump is free from the de-
r/It:1s liabilities of the Friction Pump, and approtiches a
,11,1 eop;rraulic machine."— Dr. Birkbeck.--" SI-udders
Nature, and arrived at terfection."—Ebedour.—
t° ehokt,'ll,t,°ll is free from friction and leakage, and is not liable
' tt'Rton'Part• —Hay, Civil Engineer.--" This is Tim Pump."
" The Fountain Pump is the most important
Withi'„''',lttent in the art of raising water, that has appeared
e'ne last 2,000 years. It is the greatest advancement in
10re,45'0l Arts in modern times, and cannot fail to act in the
Itelblati°O of life ad.
property from fire and water to an ex-
°;
calculation."

At v SHALDERS' PATENT PUMP.
vk
itilit:ia4.-111!Itry Meeting held at St. 'llichael's at Plea, Nor-
, , 28th, 1842, the Parishioners unanimously con-
Shalders upon having, last May, fitted the
striabiwr% with an efficient, permanent, economical, and in-
thtt lthl dtrilr (60 feet in length). It was rightly remarked,
Zotritv p-ceil2ll the water delivered by the former Pump was corn.
tItlY„r1(1Y, that delivered by the present one has been uni-
' `'e%t's and raised with iSalf the labour.
(Signed) GEORGE IVES,
WM. WOODROW,
H. J. STEEL,
Churchwardens in 1841, 1842.
Norwich, Saturday, May 28, 1842.
thank; 'HER and SON beg to return their most. grateful
1441," ,to those friends and neighbours who so kindly and
tirslhrti'Y rendered them their assistance to extinguish the Fire
._lsed „Premises on Wednesday last. .
`etrtirh,,'"” likewise take this oppo, tunny particularly
.to re.
"Ittaci -rid 31r. Shalders' Portable Fountain Engine, which was
stn t=oo efficient its preserving their premises from total de-
Qisert;
•street, May 26.
tlf OF THE EDITOR OF THE "NORFOLK
ApiNICLE," ON VIEWING THE PREMISES
ciA4AI THE FIIIE:
I,rer4."°ut half-past one o'clock on Wednesday morning the
to hel'es of Mr. Butcher, grocer, Bank-plain, were discovered
4,1 r, 1°,4 fire by the night watch, who gave the alarm and called
:bteher up. It was at first difficult to discover in the
"Lots9.l"at.Part of the premises was on fire. Mr. Butcher
khp t that it originated at his neighbour's house,. hut going
t; the top of his premises he perceived where it was ; when
downando-pened the door of his store-room over the
t`ekt Ct of his shop, the fire and smoke burst forth so violently
re ha could scarcely stand on his feet. It appears that the
',tit h originated in this store-room directly over a paper loft,
aYi° i 'it it impossible to tell. Mr. Shalders, from over the
Pia B
time
Mediautetchly brought two of his engines, by means of
Butcher attributes his house being saved and per-
PtCdt,"te Whole street, for there being a good deal of gun-
t mid the premises, had this ignited the consequences
have been f 1 Notwithstanding the natural agita-
easi"ed hs,a-wthne.nea'r prospect of danger from fire, Mr.
Lklitl Ther himself removed the gunpowder from the premises,
f,,‘4° O,4:St of the goods from the warehouse and shop were
°tit engine r safety in St. Michael sat I lea
w"'th. The from the Guildhall was on the spot
f's,kll4e.,a' few minutes utes of the first alarm being given. but it
ge -Tossiblenutno bring this into phy for some time, as
.4.*Nl,"lWas not turned on ; but in the meanwhile
the °f alders' g. s (Mr. S. working one and his brother
the ii()ut",:r) Were supplied with buckets full of water from
''',,PJlear at hand. Mr. M. Yarington and his men acted
.1 "ter and promptitude. Mr. Steel, Mr. I Summer,
ersQst -halders agYdothers of Mr. Butcher's neighbours, were
?44ig zr".6-13in thnei services.e In about an hour and a half all
th: was removerd Mr. Butcher is, we understand, insured
[ll.lslorwich Equitable Office.
411likirs,e delay which appears to have occurred in furnishing. the
rrel,ll with water on the above alarming occasion, impera-
"et.' demands the immediate attention of the proper authori-
lettr ", the New .11 Company's works are the main public
bitleree%" "Ipply somei 'arrangments should be made for the
etezl s;reedy turning on the water into the pipes ; or
Y will
'ioniser or later rue the consequences.]

. (11., ' EDITOR OF THE " NORWICH MERCURY."
1. -„•;ednesti•morning,about half-past one o'clock, a fire.
Pla-,,,'",'(ttlere'd il eof Mr. Butchei, grocer, Bank,
tbss "sd
tv Mr. B. immediately rsst
Nre4,fterg por'ejmiuse.s.found it had taken place in a
gtyen °m situated over the warehouse. On the alarm being
et,d r• Sholders attended with his patent fountain I TgineS)
grest exertions the fire was extinguished before any
'tiglob:„e,"esotitiences had taken place. Thereis not thae
'treat l'" ",tnht that this fire would have been attended with
it
y,as
t:ltrely4s',,h.s,(l it not been for the fountain pump, and 6
fMr Shalders that the rt.
,nat and the exertions o .
ten
m.ntves
hipefo,P,rl"nptly extingui-hed, it being an hour and
the
t: en,' coold be got into play ; and at the time
was dig „tors
the store-room was in flames,
I",,her 0 • i" h was twice knocked d ,wii by
for on
shi„k oening toe .00r e
ve and fta,,s4.. but foituna,ely received no injury.
11-IITIES SAVED BY THE PORTABLE FIRE
, ENGINE.
tx, "edit, p
'lnguith .ouse on Elm-hill, the roof on fire, but soon
Nlr '4 by the Portable Engine.
nrton's
Dvery twice on fire, the second time, the pre-
faller,' with 12,000./ worth of consigned property, mu-t have
not the Pc; table E 'gine, after a lin„,
ht rare Rot the fire under, which wa, completely effected just
Ae,srt' rm engine made its apraranbet
premises
*nuld ' Dunn's Foundry, the roof on hie ; t e_e
Pr°tkti`i'r°°4 have been destroyed, but for the new property
strl„*atts' Foundry on fire, and saved by the new fire de-
-1641 1
irner's Ironmongery warehouse, slightly on fire,
"der by Portable Engine and
'at tables
&e., Waggon Horse-L.lle. The Superintend-
apps:re
nduty thitt null( considers this fire had a most alarming.
kery ,ceil as different's
extensive p. emises adjoining, being of
szteibiliZonuesttiltt (6driearaett.r., truA all have very soon been I,n
e F,, been ozbately arrested by Shalders s
"e cngine.