The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-13 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIPRIGGING

Partiality for old customs and appliances was, for some
time, an obstacle to the employment of chain for bobstays,
bowsprit shrouds, topsail tics, sheets, &c. It was, by the
more prejudiced, considered a monstrous deviation from all
known practice and example in the art of shiprigging to sub-
stitute iron for hemp. But by degrees this prejudice has
been removed, and at this moment it would be as difficult to
find a ship wholly rigged with hempen rope, as it would have
been before to meet with an application of iron. The chain
has been found to answer, but iron in an improved form
(wire rope) has been introduced as a substitute for chain.
Many naval officers and master mariners who have tried it
as standing rigging, declare that they approve of its use.
The wire rope is recommended for its lighter weight and
greater strength and durability than hempen rope. Its com-
pact form makes it preferable to chain. A. piece of it is at
present on trial on the Blackwall railway. This work will
put its pliability and toughness to a severe test but it is ex-
pected the result will prove that its properties as a running
rope are also of a superior order. In this case, its employ-
ment for all marine purposes will be speedy and general.
The Oriental steam-ship, 1700 tons, has been fitted with
it, as have also several yachts and steamers.
The following are the dimensions of the Oriental's rigging:
Fore rigging
Forestays 6 ft
Main rigging
Mainstay.. .
Mizen rigging
Mizen stay
Funnel shrouds

The Oriental made a very quick passage out against head
winds, to which the lightness of the rigging no doubt con-
tributed in a considerable degree.

THE LORD-LIEUTENA

IELAN D.—Lord Ebrington

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arrived on Friday morning from .
Dublin, in the Admiralty
steamer Merlin, Captain Townley, and proceeded immediately
by railway to London. His excellency was accompanied by
his sons, Messrs. John and Dudley Fortescue, and Mr., Mrs.,
and the Misses Matthew Fortescue.

THE LATE Da. STEWART.-
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The funeral of this much
lamented gentle. yesterday. The mournful
procession left the of the respected minister about
ten o'clock, and proceeded along Russel-street, Seymour-
street, and St. Anne-street, to the Cemetery, Low-hill. Six
mourning coaches and one private carriage, followed by about
130 gentlemen, attired in black, accompanied the hearse,
which was preceded by Dr. Raffles, in his private carriage.

CONSUMPTION OF THE SMOKE OF STEAM-ENGINE FUR-
NACES.—In this age of steam, there is not a more important
desideratum, as affecting the convenience and health of the
public, than the combustion of the smoke in the furnaces of
both marine and land engines. Various plans have, from
year to year, been devised ; but while some have proved abor-
tive in practice, others have been marked by but partial suc-
cess. We therefore hail with the greater gratification a re-
cent invention, which is practically found to attain the object
in view to an extent hitherto unachieved, and for which a
patent has consequently been taken out. This new applica-
tion is the more valuable, inasmuch as it combines the almost
entire consumption of smoke, with a very considerable saving
of fuel, and at the same time supplies the boilers with a regu-
lar degree of heat, rendering them less subject to corrosion.
Its practical effects are abundantly demonstrated in two of
the Woodside ferry-boats, now plying on the river,—the
Cleveland and Ellenborough, the furnaces of which, to the
great satisfaction of passengers, emit scarcely any perceptible
quantity of smoke. The invention, which is simple in detail,
is equally applicable to land engines, and, if generally adopted,
would remove the dense and murky clouds of smoke that
hang over our manufacturing towns, and by permitting the
access of pure air, conduce to the health and comfort, of the
inhabitants. Mr. Joseph Williams. manufacturing chemist,
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the
Bedford-street, Toxteth-park, in this town
agent of the patentee, for the disposal ofthisi%iruable inven-
tion. It has been recently noticed in the London papers
that several applications have been made to the Lord Mayor,
means of preventing the
recommending the adoption of some
nuisance of the volumes of smoke from engines in that
crowded metropolis, as well as from steamers on the Thames ;
and his lordship intimated, that notice of a motion on the
subject had been given for the consideration of the Court of
Common Council. That court would do well to avail them-
selves of the advantages held forth by the new and success-
ful " patent furnace."

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