The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-11 00:00:00

NOVEL STEAM APPAATEE.—The following is a descrip-
tion of an ingenious application of steam power, by which, in
Oxford Union Workhouse, the whole of the clothing and
other articles used in it are washed, dried, and ironed, iii an
almost incredibly short space of time. • No less than 1235
articles of apparel, bed-clothes, &c. were washed, dried, and
ironed, in two days, with the assistance of only eight women
and two girls from the school. This unique and elegant ma-
chine is the invention of James Wapshare, Esq. of Bath, for
which, we understand, he has obtained a patent. The appa-
ratus consists of a small steam boiler, with two pipes for the
conveyance of steam. By the one pipe the steam is conducted
to the coppers used for boiling the clothes, and supplying the
washers with hot water ; by the other, the steam is carried to
a closet, or large hox, in which the linen is to be dried. The
exterior of this box is
a wooden frame, covered with zinc ;
within it is fitted with pipes increasing in number according
to the extent of drying power required. These pipes are
arranged horizontally, one above another, connected at one
end by a bend or turn, thus forming a continued duct for the
steam. The steam is admitted at the upper pipe, and passes
its condensed water at the lowest. On either side of this
tier of pipes is a moveable clothes-horse, which is drawn out
to be hung with clothes. These horses are made close at the
top of the box, so that no heat may escape over them ; and
the clothes are so disposed on them as to form an entire
sheet, completely enclosing, and preventing any escape of the
heat radiating from the pipes, by passing through the articles
to' be dried. This disposition of the clothes, is easily accom-
plished, but difficult of description. On the outside of the
horses, or on that side which is not next the pipes, a valve or
opening is made on the top of the box ; and, a current of
air being admitted at the bottom, the steam or moist air de-
riyed from the clothes as they dry, is carried off as fast as it
is generated. One set of these pipes, with two horses,
would be sufficient for any:moderate family. In an establish-
ment so extensive as a Union Poor House, more is required.
In the closet or box erected are three ranges of pipes, and
consequently six horses, or two to each range, having an air
space, with its valve between each set of horses. Attached
to the flue that surrounds the boiler is a small oven for heat-
ing the irons, so that the whole operation of the laundry, as
far as heat is required, is simultaneously effected by one fire.

MUNTZ AGAIN IN HOT WATER !—Geo. Frederick Muntz,
Esq. the heavy and hairy member for Birmingham, has again
most greatly offended his worthy constituents. On Friday
evening last, in the House of Commons. the hon. and learned
gentleman, with the most complacent hardihood, said that,
" If he were in the government he would have his spies !
and in former times, when he took part in political agitation,
he believed that the right hon. baronet opposite knew every
thing that was going on. The right hon. gentleman had his
emissaries no doubt, and he had a right to have them." How
delightfully this " man of the people" is doing the dirty work
of the Birmingham whigs ! Will he again offer his services
to the burgesses of Birmingham ? We should think not. It
is said that the chartists are so enraged at this spy-defending
speech, that the effigy of the illustrious " Goose and giblets"
has been burnt in several parts of the town.—Ten Towns'
Messenger.

NEW MODE OF PROPELLING STEAM-BOATS.—Falkirk,
July 7.—An ingenious mechanic, residing at Grahamstone,
has been for a long period engaged in constructing a small
vessel to be propelled by means of pressure pumps—the ap-
plication of a principle quite new to the masters of this
science. On Monday evening the boat was launched into
the Forth and Clyde Canal, at Bainsford-bridge, and pro-
ceeded beautifully along the reach at a rate not less than 15
miles per hour, conducted alone by the inventor, who worked
the pumps. He is so much satisfied with his first experiment
that another on a larger scale is forthwith to be undertaken,
and a patent procured to protect the invention. He has no
doubt that it will, at no distant era, entirely supersede the
present mode of propulsion by means of paddle-wheels.—
Time". _ _ .

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STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA.—By the overland mail a
communication from the United Bengal Steam Committee
to the Peninsular and Oriental Steatn.Company has arrived,
containing proposals for a union between this company and
the subscribers to the steam fund in Bengal. Such a union
cannot fail to advance rapidly the establishment of steam
communication on the other side of the isthmus. Indeed,
we have authority for stating, that the wishes of the Bengal
subscribers have been in some measure anticipated by an
arrangement between their agents and the Oriental Company
for immediately building a vessel of 1,600 tons and 500 horse
power, to commence the communication between Suez and
Calcutta,—Supplement to the Asiatic Journal.

A lady of fashion stepped into a shop not long since, and
asked the keeper if he had any matrimonial baskets, she being
too polite to say cradles.
THE CHINESE INviNcinLEs.—On last Sunday morning
three English gentlemen went on board the chop boats lying
off the Leefung temple, in the inner harbour, containing a
division of the Imperial Invincibles. There are fifteen chop
boats, containing about 500 soldiers, and the chpp boat men
said, that four hundred more were hourly expected. There
are also two or three government row boats. The men were
civil, and employed in the peaceful occupation of cooking or
eating their breakfasts. In the court-yard of the temple
there are three brass and three long iron, guns. They are
not mounted on carriages, but on four-footed iron stands
about two feet high, on the fulcrum of which they traverse ;
the breech rests on the ground. It must be impossible to
take a good aim with guns thus mounted.—Canion Regis-
ter, April 7.

TILE GLASGOW COTTON, SPINNERS.—In the year 1838,
five men named Hunter, M`Lean, M'Neil, Gibb and Hacket,
were tried at Glasgow for murder, conspiracies, committing,
and hiring to commit, violence on person and property, &c.
The charge of murder was found, in Scottish parlance, " not
proven," but conspiracy, violence, and hiring to commit vio-
lence, were substantiated, and the prisoners were sentenced
to seven years' transportation. Disclosures of villainy so
frightful as that in which these conspirators were implicated.
had never before been known in civilised society. The sen-
timent of horror, and of the mischievous inadequacy of the
punishment were universal. The Scottish Guardian—a
Glasgow whig paper—said, " the apparent disproportion be-
tween the magnitude of the crimes and the leniency of the
sentence, filled the minds of all classes in this city With a uni-
versal feeling of astonishment." The Scotsman also took the
same view. " Three actual murders, twice as many attempts
to murder, several daring acts of incendiarism, with nume-
rous cases of assault, are clearly traced to this association.
The proof is too clear that the association was nothing less
than a conspiracy against life and property. After the dis-
closures that have been made, every one who remains in the
cotton spinners' union must be considered a participator in
an organised system of incendiarism and assassination. We
have not the slightest doubt that 111`Leati was concerned in
the murder of Smith, but full legal proof was wanting to con-
vict him." Yet these conspirators, or four of them—so in-
adequately sentenced to seven years transportation—are, in
less than two years, again let loose upon society, and are
actually paraded in triumph through our streets, levying con-
tributions as a compensation for the injury inflicted on them
by the law ! What is this but to offer a premium—fame—
money—honour—to murderers, conspirators, incendiaries ?
Can society be held together—is it possible to secure life and
property, in a country where such things are tolerated ? The
prospect thus held out by our rulers to those who have any
thing to lose, is absolutely terrific.—Manchester paper.
Among the many sound and striking observations made by
the gentlemen who spoke at the annual dinner of the Croy-
don Conservative Association on Wednesday last, it was well
and strongly urged by Mr. Paynter, " that there was this re-
markable circumstance connected with the history of the
men now in power, that the longer they held office, the longer
they enjoyed the means of promoting their own interests—
the more they lost ground. They were falling, session after
session, still lower in public estimation." This is true in'
itself, and perfectly conclusive as to the character of the men
who stoop to hold office, whilst they cannot but be conscious
that they are no less the objects of public execration than of
public distrust—detested by the poorer classes, whom they
grind and oppress; and despised and suspected by the re-
mainder of the community, whose feelings, sympathies and
principles they equally outrage.—Another point observable
in " the men now in power," was adverted to by Mr. John
Walter, which is suggestive of matter for serious considera-
tion. After an eloquent retrospect to Sir Robert Peel's last
term of office, who, as he beautifully and truly remarked,
" brought in his measures with dignity, and would have carried
them forward with efficiency," he turned to the reverse of the
picture, and asked—" Whereas since that time what have we
seen ? A Minister of State? No, not even a Ministry of Depart-
ments, but a Ministry of Commissions and Commissioner-
ships ! So that if any measure were erroneous, it would be
next to impossible to know with whom the blame rested."
This is the fact, and a fact not to be viewed without alarm.
The government is now conducted so as to be practically irre-
sponsible. Even to the garbling of the papers, ever reluc-
tantly laid before parliament and deferred to the last minute,
a desire to mistify and to conceal proves the consciousness of
guilt, and gives ample cause for public suspicion and fear.

VOLUNTARYISM.—The following remarks are extracted
from the " Home Missionary Magazine," a periodical sup-
ported by the Independent Dissenters. The passage is most
extraordinary, conveying, as it does, the present views and
sentiments of a party which has hitherto been most
clamorous in support of the voluntary principle, and most
determined in its opposition to the payment of a legal rate
for the support of a church establishment :—lt is most clear
that the voluntary system has never yet provided adequate
Christian institutions for any one nation on the face of the
earth ; the voluntary principle provides among ourselves for
a certain proportion of the population of large towns, but it
leaves the mass of the community untouched. It has had
fair opportunities of evincing its capabilities in this country
during at least a century, while the Church of England was
asleep, and while a rapidly increasing population was left
with scarcely any additional churches or clergy ; and yet,
with every advantage,—with liberal contributions from many
of different communions, the advocates of voluntary churches
have not been able to provide for any tolerable proportion of
the neglected population. You very rarely meet with a large
and flourishing dissenting interest in any place where it has
not either been preceded by, or is at this moment contem-
porary with, a pious and zealous ministry in the establish-
ment. The same observation applies to Glasgow, to Paisley,
and to all the great towns in Scotland; while in Ireland the
voluntary labourers are very few, and produce a very feeble
impression. In America, however, the inefficiency of the
voluntary system is evinced in the most appalling manner.
Immense tracts of country, peopled by tens, nay hundreds
of thousands of inhabitants, are at this moment destitute of
ministers, churches, and religious ordinances; and, as a
natural consequence, are falling victims to intemperance and
infidelity, and are thus preparing for the irruptions of Popery.
They, therefore, speak ignorantly, or weakly, who, in the
facts, talk about the efficiency of the voluntary principle to
supply wants so multitudinous as these."
PREROGATIVE COURT.—In the Prerogative Court on
Wednesday, Sir H. Jenner gave judgment in the case of Sir
Wilmot Horton, Bart., v. Wilmot and others. The late Sir
R. Wilmot, Bart., did on the 23d of July, 1834, aged 82,
leaving a widow, (his second wife,) and six children, namely,
the present Sir R. Wilmot Horton by his first wife, and three
sons and two daughters by his second marriage. He was
possessed of considerable property at his death, the residue
of the unsettled property being alleged on one side to amount
to £lOO,OOO, and on the other to about £50,000. The ques-
tion was as to the validity of a will executed in May, 1834,
which was a material departure from the disposition contained
in a prior will, to the prejudice of the eldest son, Sir R. Wil-
mot Horton, and in favour of the children of the second
marriage. The parties in the case were Sir R. W. Horton,
and Mr. Nicholas Eardley Wilmot, and his co—executors
under the will of 1834. The point at issue was the capacity
of the deceased at the time of the execution of the latter will.
It apppared that, at an early period, the eldest son had been
the principal object of his testamentary bounty; but subse-
quently he was desirous of providing for his younger children,
and that Sir Wilmot Horton (then Mr. Wilmot) having re-
presented to his father that he had an opportunity of forward-
ing the interests of his brothers by his influence with the
then government, (Mr. Wilmot holding the post of Under
Secretary of State,) the deceased made his testamentary ar-
rangements on the ground that his younger children would
be thus provided for. He was further induced to make Mr.
Wilmot a larger participant in his acquired property by the
representation of the latter that he was laying himself out
for, and in expectation of, a peerage. Some disagreement
subsequently took place between the deceased and the present
baronet, and an alteration in the will took place in favour of
the other children. Sir H. Jenner, who was nearly five hours
in giving judgment in the case, said that the circumstances
under which the will had been made, in the absence of Sir
W. Horton, in Ceylon, justified investigation; but he was of
opinion, that the court was bound to pronounce in favour of
the validity of the will, and to direct the probate to be de-
livered to the executors.