The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-01 00:00:00

VAItZETIES.

A FOREIGNER'S THOUGHTS ON ENGLAND.—EngIand, (says
Count Pecchio,) is formed rather for our study than for our
amusement. It is a vast book of science. Its theatres are the
arsenal of Deptford and Portsmouth, or the East and West
India docks ; its pictures are the manufactures of Glasgow, of
Manchester, of Leeds, of Halifax; its Coliseum, its arches,
and arenas, are the smoking forges and workshops, with which
whole districts are coveted; its Champs Elysees are its mines of
iron in Wales, of tin in Devonshire, and of coal at Newcastle.
England is not the enchanted isle of Alcini, where men pass
their days in song and laughter, only in the end to vegetate
and become brutes. The English are the men of Europe ; they
laugh little, perhaps too little, but in its stead they think how
►o sender life least unhappy, and to soften and educate the
grosser qualities of human nature.—Coum. Paccnio's Obser-
vations uj. an Exile.

THE CLIMATE OF GREAT The climate of Bri-
tain, it is very generally believed, has deteriorated by becoming
much more changeable than it was sixty years ago, This has,
with much probability, been attributed to the extent of planting,
to the introduction of green crops, and abolition of fallows in au
improved system of agriculture. Mr. Murray is of opinion,
that trees, by condensing the moisture of the air in foggy wea-
ther, materially affect the climate, and that thickly wooded
countries must oe colder and more humid than naked savannahs.
Trees are, therefore, it would seem, ready conductors of aerial
electricity, the climate being improved when woods are cleared
away, and becoming more moist by planting. This fact receives
corroboration from the history of our own country, as well as
from that of ;Si ortJa Aatierica."—Witite's Natural iliotury of
Seiburne.

PERKINS'S STEAM GENERATOR.—In some of vur former
numbers we noticed Mr. Perkins's newly discovered system of
generating steam, by means of a lining pieced within the boiler,
tiles eftecting a continuous circulation of the heated water; the
advantages anticipated were the generating steam with in-
'Teased rapidity, the preservation of the. boiler, and the saving
of fuel. • In proof of the great probability that the result will
faLy answer expectation, we are enabled to state that during
the last fourteen weeks, in *inch period Mr. Peildus has been
engaged in the application of his principle on the Liverpool
anu iNianchester rail-road, one of the locomotive engines em-
pioyed thereon, haring
,his lining or circulator introduced into
its boiler, has, during %ICU successive journeys, to and fro, be.
tween Liverpool and Manchester, run upwards of 20,000 miles
without the slightest appearance of wear and tear, the tubes of
the boiler, at the end of the journey, being as free from corro-
akin as at the first moment• of their use, and with a saving of
fuel to the extent of 40 tons,' when contrasted with the ascer-
tained consumption of another locomotive engine drawing equal
weight. These important results -must prove of vital conse-
quence to the great question. of railway conveyance, which so
touch occupies the attention of the public at the Foment time.
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