The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-02 00:00:00

NEW MODE OF GENERATING HEAT.

We copy the following paragraph from the Scotsman:—
''A new method of producing heat, rapidly. and without fuel,
is at present attracting much attention in London. It is exhi-
bited at the Jerusalem Coffee House; but the process is kept
secret. 'We have little doubt, that science will supply beat by
methods now mike wwn, tong before the coal fields are iishansied;
and we would advise our friends nut to stiut their fires front a
ch .ratable regard for the comforts of ilistaht generations. The
discovery of a high temperature in the interior of the earth
suggests one source from which a supply of heat may be de-
rived. Even in frozen Siberia, for instance, the temperature
of Jamaica would be found at the depth of 1700 feet, or one-
third of a mile; blood heat would be bland at a depth of 3000
feet; and that of boiling water at a depth of a mile and a half.
It is true, we are yet without a process for bringing this heat to
the surface (except where springs of water Cali be obtained at
these depths by boring): but who will venture to say, that a
method may be found of pumping up heat as we pump up water?
Science has accomplished more wouderful things than this."
Our contemporary has been misinformed in one point. Fuel
is• used, but in a very small quantity ; and the secret consists in
the nature of the fuel used, and the mode of burning it. Ac-
cording to the tests which have been applied to the stove, the
combustion of the fuel does not vitiate the air in any manner;
so that the ~ttle urn, or short ornamented column, of which the
stove consists, may be, and is, placed in close apartments. or in
a shut-up carriage, through the night, and the person sleeping
in the chamber or riding in the carriage experiences all the
warmth derived from a pan of burning charcoal being in the
room, without any of the inconveniences. There is said to be
no draft in it, and in fact, no communication with the combus-
tible, which is consumed in a shut-up chamber, and the air of
the apartment. No odour is, we are informed, perceptible; for
we have not witnessed the stove in operation. We should have
mentioned this subject before, but it was the express wish of the
proprietors not to have it noticed by the public press. But, now
that our contemporary has called attention to it, we cannot re-
ham from adding our mite to his information. Certainly we
know very little of it, more than that the stove, iu its outward
appearance, resembles the air or gas stoves used for shops, with-
out any grate, and appears to communicate the heat of the air
of the apartment by au extensive surface of metal being kept
continually hot. If there be no chicanery in it—and, perhaps,
bur readers way retneuiher that something similar, which turned •
out to be a trick, was exhibited in Leceister-square a few Years •
4,40, and made, the time, a considerable noise—the invention
promises to be of immense advantage. The problem of navi-
gating steam ships round the world will be at once resolved. but
we will not be sanguine of its results; for, as yet, the inventor,
who is taking. or has taken, out a patent, preserves his secret
inviolate. We are inclined to suppose, from what we have
heard and seen, that the discovery, which is said to be the result
of accident, is most iwrortant; and we augur well for it, from
knowing that it has beeu taken up by some most responsible
and respectable men iu the city of London.—Courier.

*PERSONAL SKCCRITY.—" Will you do me a favour?" says
young Geolge Brooks to his wealthy friend, Simon Hanson.
" t wish you to lead me a hundred pound., sir." "Call at my
counting house." rejoined Hanson. George Brooks was not
long in paying his respects. " What security can you give we,
y ming geatleman ?"--." My ow❑ personal security, sir." ---" Very
well, get in here," says Hinson, lifting up the lid of a large
iron chest. " Get in these!" exclaimed George in astonishment.
" Whirt for?"—" Why, that is the place where 1 always keep
nit securities."

lord Eidon delighted in repeating the following anecdote,
• character istic of his friend and master George the Third :
" l called with my brother (S'owell on the 4th of June. to pay
my customary salutat ions, and was summoned into his presence;
he was conversing with my old friend Dr. Glasse, of Wansiewl.
but rose immediately we entered, and placing a chair on each
ide of his own, desired us to be seated. He then burst into a
hearty laugh, cud exclaimed—' Doctor, have you, in the course
of your reading, ever before known of a king who eat between
two of his highest officers, who had each run away with his wife.
Rather hard, Eldon, eh, eh?' "

DWELLING OF AN AGED WIDOW.-At Ballinamalard, where
we next atteuded, and several miserable hovels, into one of
which 1 took the liberty of creeping. It was inhabited by a
feeble old woman of eighty-five, named Jane Lee, and her
daughter. The interior measured uiue feet six inches, by eight
feet two inches. The furniture consisted of, two small four,
legged stools. about eight inches high, and seven inches broad ;
a 21111,411 pan, and pat t of a moulded basket, which would scarcely
hold together; but out of which the poor old woman was eating
her dither of potatoes. A half-star ved cat was mewing most
otteousty; and in a corner of this desolate apartment, on a clay
floor, a quantity of straw lay, with a sort of blanket over it.
This served the purpose of a bed, and was obliged to be-moved
front one side of the but to the other, to avoid the rain falling on
them, through the Scanty root: 111 another corner lay a few
seeds* or oat husks, from a neighbonring mill; this formed all
their supply tor the fire. The floor was exceedingly damp, and
adjoining the wall was a small trench, or ditch, to hold the water
in; from which unusual sort of reservoir it was collected, and
thrown out of the cabin. The door, two feet wide, and four feet
six inches in height, extended to the eaves. The but had no
chimney, and that which bore the name of window consisted of
a morsel of glass, 41 inches in diameter, which the kindness of
a neighbour had contributed. The old woman had not been
able to pay any rent lately, and the landlord accordingly would
not be expected to thatch her dilapidated iesidence. She was,
therefore, obliged to get some one to do it, and pegged and
seraped a little straw together as she could, for the purpose.
The walls of this wretched abode were built partly of stone and
clod, and partly of sods. Jane Lee had lived in it eleven years.
*l.l appeared, as the reader does not require to be informed, in
a state of the greatest destitution and distress; the daughter was
afflicted with iliness, the consequence of a severe cold. The
widow said she was able in summer to beg a little buttermilk to
her potato, but not in winter! she would rather have a piece of
herring than buttermilk, /hr it Was more tasty. Au expression
of what I am stare was genuine gratitude followed the bestowal
of a small sum of money. She had been mother of three sons,
two of whom had perished in the army; the other went to
America. and she hail never heard of him since. The cottage
which I have attempted to describe, is situated—not on a lonely
and uncultivated moor or bog, far beyond the reach of civiliza-
tion arid the comforts of lire, but in the midst of a considerable
village. and in the vicinity of wealth The mi.ery of which it
is but a solitary specimen. is ;pit confined to the bile and ilisso-
late, but extends to the industrious and meritorious. lo Ireiand,
indeed, merit loses itr value, and industry become:. discouraged
and paralysed under the impossibility of being rewarded. Hu-
manity and justice require the application of souse effectual
rPrnedv for this acknowl,. iged evil, and it is to be hoped that
the wisdom of the legislature may speedily supply Effie. If the
sul,ject is hewn, as it toolowiteoly is, with difficulties of formi-
dable aspect. it .hould he borne in mind that the sufferings to
be relieved are lUt:i.:i4anle JLOgrics oat/ Beauties if
IreAned.