The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended June 26, 1853 : Passengers, parcels,
&c., £3,726 7s. id. ; goods. £1,725 93. Od. Steamboats :
£554 2s. 2d. Total, £4,280 9s. 9d. Increase as com -
pared with thecorresponding week last year, £2,399165. ld.

ST. AIDAN'A COLLEGE, BIRKENHEAD.-EXANIINA-
TION : June, 1853.—Fourth term : Mr. Burton, M.D. of
Medicine, Mr. Belcome, Mr. Coghlan, 8.A., Mr. Poole,
Mr. Weldon. Third term, 18th class : Mr. Bellamy,
Scholar, Mr. Graham, Mr. Austen. Third term, 2d
class : Dr. Cotter, M.D., Dr. Earte, ALD., Mr. Pym,
Mr. Walsh, Mr. Morgan. Second term, 2d class : Mr.
Vyvyan, Mr. Tunes, Mr. Clarke. First term : Mr. Green,
Mr. H. Morgan, Mr. W. Akenson, Mr. Trendel, Mr.
Hodgson, Mr. Lewis. Third term, third class : Mr.
Sampson, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Bullen, Mr. Masters.
Second term, 3d class : Mr. Watson. Examiners : Rev.
Dr. Baylee, and Rev. 11. P. Linton, B.A.

BIRKENHEAD Docxs.—The Trustees of the Birken-
head Dock Company v. Laird and the Birkenhead Dock
Company and another.—ln the Rolls Court, on Thurs-
day, Mr. Follett, Q.C., moved for an injunction to
restrain the defendants from lowering or altering the
wharf wall in front of some land leased by the company
to the defendant, John Laird, on the south side of Wal-
lasey Pool, other than opening with navigable gates.—His
Honour suggested that the plans of the works proposed by
the defendants should be handed to the plaintiffs for con-
sideration, and that the bill and notice of motion should
be amended, so as to enable the court to decide whether
an injunction should go upon the merits of the case gene-
rally.—This course was agreed to, without prejudice to the
rights of either party, and the case was appointed to come
on for hearing to-morrow (Wednesday) week.

BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUB.—A race for
yachts of the first-class, belonging to the Model Yacht
Club, took place on Wednesday, and excited a consi-
derable degree of interest. The weather was fine, with a
fresh breeze from the W.S.W., sufficiently strong to put
the capabilities of the second vessels to a severe test, and
at the same time there was enough of danger to give a zest
to the affair without exciting apprehensions for the lives
of those engaged. The club had engaged a Woodside
steamer for the conveyance of themselves and friends to
view the race, which was in attendance at the Landing-
stage at two o'clock, shortly atter which it left for Monk's
Ferry with a goodly company, including many of the fair
sex. There was considerable detention before the race
commenced, owing to the difficulty of getting the boats
into fair relative starting positions, but at 3 40 rib... 4.4
was given, and the whole of them hoisted sail, getting
away with apparently equal advantages. The yachts en-
tered were the Warlock. belonging to the Commodore,
the Kelpie, A. Sparrow, Esq., ; the Cyprian, P. H. Jones,
Esq., ; the Breeze, E. Haigh, Esq. ; the Sirocco, W.
Brown, Esq. ; the Truant, R. M. Grinnell, Esq. ; and
the Presto, R. Bower, Esq. The Sirocco, however, did
not start, owing, we understand, to the indisposition of
the owner. The course extended from Monk's Ferry
round the second floating powder magazine to a buoy
moored close to the Dingle, from thence round the first
powder magazine home to Monk's Ferry. Shortly after
the start the Presto took the lead, and rounded the
magazine in twenty-seven minutes, followed at a short
distance by the Breeze, in close proximity to which was
the Truant. This position was maintained until these
three boats had reached the Dingle Buoy, shortly after
which the Presto lost her mast, and was hors de combat.
In returning to the magazine the Warlock and the Kelpie,
which, throughout, were at no great distance, crept up ;
the Warlock closely following up the Breeze round the
magazine, in close contiguity again with which was the
Truant. The Kelpie here suddenly capsized, but a boat
being near, the crew were picked up without injury. In
the return home the Breeze continued to lead, arriving at
Monk's Ferry at 5 22; the Warlock at 5 25 305.: the
Truant was not more than a few boats' length behind the
Warlock. As the race was one of time, and the Breeze
is two tons more register than the Warlock, three
minutes were to be allowed in favour of the latter ; thus
leaving the Breeze the winner of the race by half a minute.
It was well contested throughout, and the closeness of the
boats, particularly in the race home, added considerably
to the excitement on board the steamer.

STEVENS' SMOKELESS FURNACE-THE

GENOVA STEAM ER.

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The heating of furnaces for the production of steam,
without the discharge of smoke, has a two-fold import-
ance—the absence of the nuisance on land and from small
steamers near shore, and the economy of fuel in steamers
on long voyages, as well as the foregoing. Many at-
tempts have been made to accomplish this desideratum,
and ingenious have been the several contrivances for the
purpose, but none appear to have been so truly successful,
and at the same time so simple, as that invented by Mr. J.
Lee Stevens. It consists in the combination of two sets
of fixed fire-bars, the first of which is fed by the cinders
voided from the upper set of fire-bars, with a calorific
plate ; by which arrangement the current of air entering
at the lower part of the furnace passes through two
strata of fire and thence between the calorific plate and
the bridge, and is thus so intensely heated as con.
tinuously to produce the entire combustion of the
gaseous products of the fuel, without the formation of
smoke. In practice it is found that the first set of fire-
bars do not require much feeding to keep up the action
of the furnace after combustion has fairly begun, for
which reason these bars are cast together like a grate, in
a much slighter form, and are placed horizontally instead
of inclined. It is also practically ascertained that the fire-
bars, and their carrying bars, are not, as had been pre-
viously apprehended, liable to inure debtruetion than in
ordinary furnaces. And practical experience has demon-
strated, among other proofs in favour of the invention,
that it increases the draught—uniformly distributes the
heat, and keeps up the steam in boilers of whatever form
—and that its continuous and proportionable supply of
heated air, by which the gaseous products of the fuel are
prevented from being wasted in the formation of smoke,
is governed by a property peculiar to the inventor's sys-
tem, namely—that the quantity of oxygen supplied by
the current of air is regulated by the actual demand, that
is, in due proportion with the intensity of combustion.
The fiercer the fire, and the greater requirement of oxygen
thereby, the more rapid the velocity at which the current
of air rushes into the furnace ; so that a self-acting re-
gulator is thus provided by an immutable law of nature;
and the necessity for any adjustable apparatus, always
dependent upon the uncertain attention of the fireman, is
thus effectually obviated.

The merits of the invention have been tested by several
individuals who have given testimonials of its efficiency,
and it was further tested on Thursday, on board the
screw-steamer Genova, which left this port for Genoa.
The furnaces, a few days ago, were fitted up by Mr. James
Taylor, of the firm of the Britannia Iron Works, Birken-
head, who lately supplied the same vessel with the borne-
rang propeller, invented by Sir Thomas Mitchell. On
board the Genova were—Mr. M'Larty, of the firm of
M'Kean, M'Larty, and Co., the owners of the vessel ;
Captain Bolt, Captain Green, of the Brazileira, South
American mail steamer; Mr. Stevenson, engineer of
the Charity, African mail steamer, Mr. James Taylor, Mr.
F. Morton, agent to the patentee ; Mr. J. L. Stevens, the
inventor, &c. The steamer left the Collingwood dock,
shortly after six o'clock, and proceeded nearly as far as
the Formby lightship, during which time the company
had ample opportunity of ascertaining the capabilities of
the invention. The result was, that the smoke was re-
duced to a minimum, the draught of the furnaces was
materially increased, and the steam was got up to a higher
pressure than before, with the same description of coals,
and with a less quantity— the coals being of the most
bituminous description. The anticipated saving of fuel,
founded on ascertained savings elsewhere, will be from 15
to 20 per cent. Previous to leaving the Genova, the com-
pany were entertained in the cabin of that vessel, when
Mr. M'Larty proposed " Success to the Invention,"
coupled with the " Health of Mr. Stevens," who acknow-
ledged the compliment, and spoke of the spirited liberality
of the owners of the Genova, who had been the first to
adopt the bomerang principle on the Mersey, and who
were also the first to test his invention at this port.

The Genova has benefited materially, in the absence of
vibration, by the application of the boomerang propeller,
and in comfort to the passengers through the absence of
smoke.

This invention should be applied to the ferry-boats
which ply from the landing-stage, as the smoke from
them under the present system is often a grievous nuisance.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.—The secrets of nature,
whether in their more extended or minute workings,
never came more fully under observation than in our own
time, and it is now characteristic of men of science, not only
to observe, but to control. The value of this.knowledie
and power is strikingly illustrated in the cultivation of
the HUMAN HAIR, which it was reserved for modern
genius to bring under the dominion of science. That
branch of the subject connected with its restoration, was
long the object of the most persevering solicitude ; but
now, thanks to the enterprise of C. and A. OLDRIDGE,
a preparation (the Balm of Columbia) is not only pro-
duced, but distributed through /most of the British pos-
sessions, by which baldness disappears, and a luxuriant
growth clothes the brow that/ but lately bore a few thinly
scattered locks. Many a gientleman whose head was ra-
pidly losing its natural ornament, has, by the use of this
Balm, recovered his locks, and found them curling in
more than their wontedluxurtance ; and many an elegant
woman who was dim yed at the diminution of her most
al
valuable decoration, as, by applying this active restora-
tive, imparted a salary vigour to her tresses, which have
again waved and 7dantoned in exuberance and beauty.
OLDRIDGE'S BAIA! causes Whiskers and Eye-brows to
grow, prevents t hair from turning grey, and completely
frees it from urf. Sold wholesale and retail by the
proprietors, 1 , Wellington.street North, Strand, Lon-
don, and by ost of the respectable perfumers and medi-
cine venders Price 3s. 6d., 65., and Ils. per bottle. No
other price re genuine. N.B.—The public are requested
to be on eir guard against counterfeits ; ask for OLD-
RIDGE'S ALAI, 13, Wellington-street North, Strand,
London. Sold wholesale by Messrs. RAIMES and Co.,
Hanover-street, Liverpool.