The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-26 00:00:00

...VIII; CHINESE COLLECTION.
ST. GEORGE'S-PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER.
This Splendid Collection, consisting of Objects Exclusively
Chinese, surpassing in extent and grandeur any similar display
in the known world, entirely filling the spacious saloon, 225
feet in length, by 50 feet in width ; embracing upwards of
Fifty Figures as large as life, all fac-similes, in groups, in
their native costumes, fyom the highest mandarin to the blind
meadicant in his patched garment. Also, many thousand spe-
cimens, both in Natural History and Miscellaneous Curiosi-
ties, illustrating the appearance, manners, and customs of more
than Three Hundred Million Chinese, respecting whom the
Nations of Europe have had scarcely any opportunity of Audg-
ing,lS NOW OIIEN for Public Inspection from Ten in the
Morning till Ten at Night.
Admission 2s. 6d.—Children ls.
EIGHT FIRES AT NORWICH

Htfve recently been extinguished by -
811ALDERS' PATENT PORTABLE FIRE—
ENGINE.
( THE NEW PROPERTY PROTECTOR).
These Engines are carried by hand and placed immediately
where they can assail the main source of the fire at close
quarters, to the grewest advantages ; when they deliver their
whole uniform streams of water directly into the dames with
unerring certainty and such surprising impetuosity. that the
fires are banged out before the common engines can be brought
into action.
If the engine lever be worked briskly with one hand, and
the delivery pipe pointed at a window 10 feet distance with
the other hand, it will show how furiously, steadily, and irre-
sistibly the little fire destructor combats and conquers the
terrific foe.
Engines elegant, durable, and complete in Brass 61. 16s.
each.

N.B. There is not yet in existence a good fire-engine
upon a large scale. At Alderman Butcher's fire the Patent
Parish Puinp filled 12 large pails with water per minute, deli-
`.(ring at the rate of 50 and the two Engines 30 barrels per
hour. But with the former Parish Pump (which was one of
The best brass lift-force pumps of the London made trash) not
16 barrels an hour could have been raised, and probably the
games would bare gained the ascendancy. London is a century
)thind Norwich in Hydraulic Machines.
•See "Ties SUN" paper, July 10, 1841, and "Norwich
mercury," March 5, 1842, where all my inveterate opponents
are alarmed, thopfallen, and laughed at, for they dare not even
itry to obtiin the 100/. reward offered. " Beeause dame Nature
nag entered her imperative caveat thus !" SHALDERS'
PUMP SHALL NEVER BE SURPASSED, which is now
Practically. proved to be the only effective, invariable water-
elevator in existence, and when well carried out the most
durable litnp in the world. It stands work as well for lifts
1111'11,16 belew 100 feet, and it would be strange indeed if it
'Ha mg, good Connector (of a Fountain Pump) will sustain
a pressure of 50-atmospheric whilst less than a quarter of that
41Neg$3110 "could deliver water rapidly 365 feet high, or over St.
Paul's-mins; London. W. SHALDERS.
sl,.,,ifitydr,,,aulAC-street, Norwich, June 18, 1842.

lEttntkitlM BY EMINENT MEN UPON THE IN-
VENTION—SEPARATELY AND JOINTLY.
' SEPARATELY.—" The Fountain Pump is free from the de-
fects and liabilities of the Friction Pump, and approaches a
perfect hydraulic machine."-_ Dr. Birkbeck.--" Shalders
has copied Nature, and arrived at rerfeetion."—Ebednur._
"' This Tromp is free from friction and leakage, and is not liable
to choke."—Hay, Civil Engineer.--u This is THE Pump."
--.Partington.
Jotwrt,Y.—" The Fountain Pump is the most important
iropreveinent in the art of raising water, that has appeared
Within the last 2,000 years. It is the greatest aivancement in
the useful arts in modern times, and cannot fail to act in the
preservation of life and property from fire and water to an ex-
tent beyond calculation."