The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

Perhaps the prophet had Father

fter all. -
LIGHT FROM THE GROUNI
most widely diffuse
where in living bod
are full of it

ew in hi

—Electricity is one of the

It abounds every-

es and in dead matter ; earth and air
The electrical light is produced by the
nrrnnl nnints thronsrh its noonev_ which

give forth an intense light. The requisite itoreOf elec-
trical fluid is collected out of the ground, by burying
therein—say in the garden oar street outside, provided
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I,llelC Uy 'nu aJ uuz u unougu—a series or galvanic plates,
formed in the usual way, of copper and zinc. Wires form
the opposite poles, and may be conducted to any part of
the dwelling. The approximation of the two points tipped
with charcoal, produces the brilliant and inexpensive light
of which we speak. A difficulty was at first experienced
in keeping the charcoal points in such a state as to admit

of the combustion being maintaine

aas, we un

,nt inven

and we may shortly In
have our houses lit by f

,ble to choose, whether we s

ing of time

.o to be on the eve of a disc-o-
same fluid instrumental in the

very which shall render the

production of power, by which mills, mines, railway loco-
motives, and ships may be worked instead of by steam,
which will then, as compared with this, probably seem a
clumsy and expensive method.

ARKWRIGHTS AS THEY ARE.—Some months ago,
the head of the Arkwrieht family died, and his will
'ed, and some

ame to be proved, tt

he pub:

of them not a little alarmed, at finding the enormous
extent of his wealth. The personal property was sworn
to be under five millions. Under five millions ! Why,
five millions yields, at a rate of five per cent. interest, an
annual income of not less than two hundred and fifty
thousand a year. Not more than two or three men in
England are known to possess such incomes. And then
the rate at which it must be increasing ! The Arkwrights
don't live like the Nugents. Their establishment, though
'- grandly situate, is remarkable for the
_.g-s and the simplicity of its enter-
nors of the family are devoted to no
extravagances. They keep neither horses nor
.ats, opera boxes nor Belgravian palaces. On the
jontrary, the visitor at any hour in the day, or any day in
the week, will find them in the mill, in the workshop, or
in the counting-house. The untiring energy of the
founder of the family lives in his descendants : the splen-
dour of wealth—the attractions of a gay world—political
or literary ambition,—all these things fail to draw them
for a moment from the daily routine of spinning and
weaving, the fingering of yarn, the examination of bad
cuts, and the casting up the accounts. They have no
pride of birth, no political dignity to support, like the
Sutherlands. Westminsters, and other noble millionaires.
Their millions have only to lie by and gain more millions
—a process which many fear may result in the contin-
gency suggested by the great Thelluson case ; from which
it would require the momentary ascendancy of the Old
English doctrines of the levellers to set us free. To such
of the public as entertain these fears I may suggest at
least one source of consolation—the Arkwright family is
already a very numerous one. The four or five millions
were broken up into Tnore than half-a-dozen portions. A
few years more will see these divisions again divided, so
that unless Masson mills, and the other factories belong-
ing to the family, should spin their golden thread faster
than hitherto, two or three generations hence will find a
numerous colony of the.Arkwrights, most of them blessed
with moderate fortunes, but none of them rich enough to
endanger the industrial or monetary stability of the
kingdom.—Mornings al Mills, in the Daily News.

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