The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-13 00:00:00

arred, it might t
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his vessel, bni

safety-valves, the engines Would
•Yours, &c., K. Z.

THE STEAM-SHIP AMAZON.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Stet,—The late terrible catastrophe which has occurred with
spect to the loss of the Amaztm, Veit India Mail steamer,
kturally gives rise to reflections upon the first cause and

ature of the accident. The opinion generally held is that the
haft became so heated from friction as to cause the woodwork
the immediate vicinity to become ignited, and that the
_ _
.ied two or three times for an interval to

had bai

natural inference

.8 assigned were really the ease, the
se—what would remedy this positive
would observe that, with respett to
. _

n answer to this, I

course, from its acti
:he heat, wt
d that whey

rst generates, or receives t

I gradually ex•
has so reached

allowed to be

correct, theta the re

sinnile. Th.,. to
aecrease,, if possible, the temperature of the outer part of, the
shaft which is working in the brasses affixed in the journals
below the tem 'Atmosphere; simply because, if the
outer surf, inner cannot heat

rature of the
kept cool, t

To accomplish this, I would suggest that the oil, previous to
passing into the• ducts which convey the same to the shaft,
should pass over, say for each jotrznal, a small sheet of ice,
which, as it slowly melted away, to be renewed at intervals,
the temperature of the oil considerably below
ni consequently reduce the to

'bat of t

tureof the shaft,
.when
in action, possibly even to that on
the atmosphere. It may be advanced against thityproposit.,_
that the oil would become congealed'; but this difficulty would
be easily obviated by a screw which would permit the lubricator
within, or exclude it from the heat of the engine-room. These
remarks I with the view of drawing the attention
steam-engines, that such a frightful
As so recently taken place—if, indeed, it
-nased—abonld, for the future, by a
a^ricators, be prevented.
C. J. M.

!rely mak,

of mari

accident which
occurred from th

SCHOOLS FOR ST. PAUL'S DISTRICT

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL ST.

6t a,—The paragraph which appeared in your paper yester-
day, relative to the tea-party last week in Hackin's-hev, con-
cluded with the melancholy statement that " St. Paul's Church
is at present without daily schools." Now, Et. Paul's Church
is one of those cared for by the Corporation of Liverpool, and
mncif are contemplating the establishment of
;eighbourhood, for the physical, intellectual,
•us training of those who are now somewhat
'blic as juvenile delinquents, permit me to
iration, whose last annual account presented
50.3 i I 7s. ”cl., the district of St. Paul's Church
as suitable for and requiring such an institution:
There are in that locality a vast number of neglected chil-
dren, left to struggle upward to maturity in the grossest igno-
rance,_ superstition, idolati— -4 vice ; and as St. Paul's

as the Town

schools in the
moral, and re

expensive to the pu
suggest to the Cor
a surplus

Church, as well as
without "daily sub

_ , 4at,
George's, must needs be incomplete
" audit is presumed that, the council

are really anxious to dispose of the funds intrusted to them in
the best possible 'way for the benefit of the inhabitants, I
respectfully submit to them the propriety of procu►ins covered
and uncovered school premises in tbe immediate vicinity of the
two churches mentioned, prior to the erection of a juvenile

Trusting that you will give publicity. to this suggestion, and
at its consideration may lead to a remedy for the evil corn-
ained of, I am, Sir, yours respectfully, J. G.
Liverpool, 7th January, 1b52.

THE LATE TROTTING MATCH

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD

did not intend my name should agiiin appear in a
public• journal with respect to the late trotting match between
my pony" Jackey," and the so-called " Flying Cloud," but when
charges are made against me, without foundation, and'repeatsd
by others without hearing a syllable from me, I feel bound, in
justice to myself, to give the Mist full and public contradiction
to them.