The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 155,2,.

A deputivion from the Association of Employers of
Operative engineers, consisting of Mr. Field, (of the firm
of Messrs. Maudslay.Sons, and Field,) Mr. Ravenhill, (of
'he firm of Miller. Ravenh.ll, and C 0.,) Mr. Penn, (of the
firm of John Penn and Sun,) Mr. T. Fairbairn, (of the
fi-m of Messrs. W. Fairhairn and Sons,) and Mr. J.
B►yth, (of the firm of J. and A. Blyth,) had an interview
with Sir G. Grey at the Home-office, on Friday.
A court-martial was held at Portsmouth, on Monday,
on Lieut. Reeves, of the R )yal Marines, serving on board
the Rodney, for omitting to pay £23 on account of the
ward-room mess, and allowing a debt to accrue for his
mess and wine. He was found guilty, and sentenced to
be dismissed her Majesty's ship Rodney, and to be placed
at the bottom of the list of First Lieutenants of Royal
Mari nes.

There is now living in the parish of Pitminster a woman,
aged 104. named Betty 0 tten, the ages of whose living
proz.t-ny are 80, 78, 65, 63, 61, 54, 53—in all 558 I She
has also 40 grandchildren and 200 great grandchildren now
living, and several dk,scendants of the fifth generation !
She is supported partly by parish pay, and partly by the
benevolen,e of the ladies and gentlemen in the neighbour.
hood, who know her extreme old age. She has always
subsisted on the most simple diet.—Western Flying Post.
A fatal fire occurred on Friday morning last in Welbeck-
street , L qint], when an old infirm man named James
Webster, lying in the third storey, was burned to death.
Lie was a sheriff's officer, and had only entered the house
with a boy on the previous evening. Two other persons
escaped with difli,•ulty, hay ng been roused by a favourite
dog that slept in their bedroom, and got away by means
of the roof. The dog was unfortunately destroyed by
the flames.

The vessels building for screw war-steamers are the
Agamemnon, 90 guns, 600 horse, at Woolwich ; the Eu.
rvalus, 56, 360 horse, at Chatham ; the Imperieuse, 50,
350 horse, at Deptford ; the James Watt, 90, 550 horse,
at Pembroke ; the Royal Albert, 120. COO horse. at
Woolwich ; the St. Jean d'Acre, 100, 650 horse, at De-
vonport ; and the Tribune, 30, at Sheerness. No paddle.
wheel steam-vessels are building at any of her Majesty's
dockyards; but there are several screw steam-sloops not
enumernt, d in the above list, as they are to be fitted with
engines of 60-horse power.

Charles Wright, an ordinary marine, was tried by court-
martial at Portsmouth, on Wednesday last, for deserting
from the Asia, at Valparaiso, in December, 1850. It
appeared that he afterwards gave himself up, and was
sent on board the flag-ship and put on two-thirds rations.
When he made a complaint to the captain on this subject,
and asked to be restored to his proper rations, he was
immediately placed in irons. In this way he wss con-
fined upwards of six months. The court sentenced the
prisoner to receive fifty !ashes on his bare back ; to be
mulcted in all pay and allowance due to him, and to be
dismissed from her Majesty's service.

VARIETIES OF COAL USED FOR FUEL.—The kinds em-
ployed may be classified as the anthracite, the bituminos,
and the splint and Cannel coals. Anthracite coal is of a
peculiarly hard, tenacious, and stubborn nature, requiring
that it should he broken up into minute pieces, and largely,
and even forcibly, supplied with oxygen, to procure the
volatilisation of its products; this fuel, being smokeless,
we have hardly to do with in this inquiry, beyond recogni-
tion. Bituminous coal, that which is most commonly
used, is of a more triable nature, splitting up into frag-
ments, as its gaseous components are evolved in combus-
tion : in this process, a certain quantity of atmospheric
air is essential. Splint and slaty coal burn more freely,
and require less air than the preceding.—The Builder.