New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-19

$4,000 in ard Of these latter indispensable institutions
lsw Reform seems 10 progress slowly. The Van Blu.
measure for Safety Fund Banks any Quantity hss
no, yet been debated There vii be railroad speed for
al Ills yet RS.
~ GRAslN's MAGAZINE tor March opens with
a rare biographical and critical essay on Thomas
CARLYLE and his Works which We are sure will
be read with abiding delight by thousands who
have been hitherto unaware even Of the name Of
Thoreau. To say that he IS pupil Of Emerson
and an admirer Of Carlyle would to those readers
be superi1ous. We must have room for a single
extract, treating Of the eonmonest objection to
Carlyle
Carlyle alone since the death OF Colerdge, has kept
the promise OF England Il is the best apology for al
the hustle and the sin Of that hss made
acquainted with the thoughts OF this man. Commerce
would not concern US much Il Il were no, Tor such re-
suits this New England owes him. debt which she
will be slow 20 recognize. His earlier essays reached u
al time when Colerdges were the only recent words
which had made any n0tsbs impression 50 far and they
found field unoccupied BY him before yet any words OF
momen; had been uttered in our midst Tie had this sd
vantage too, IN escher that ne stood near 10 hs pa
pills snd he has doub, Afforded reasonable ercour-
agement and sympathy to many an Independent but sol
tsry thinker Through him. usher We have been lat
tery. in great measure, made scqusined with what
philosophy and criticism the nineteenth century had 10
ofer-admtsd 20 speak 10 the privileges OF the cen
fury snd what he may yet have % say sui expected
here with interest than anything else from that
quarter.
1t "a remarkable but on the whole. perhaps not TO
be lsrented tina, the world unkind TO anew book
Any distinguished traveller who comes to our shores, IL
likely % get dinners and speeches OF welcome than
he well dispose Of but the best books noticed at
all with coldness and suspicion what Is worse,
grstuit0us OF handed criticism Il IL plsn that the ~
viewers both here snd abroad do not know how TO dis
pose Of this man. They approach him too easily as II
he were OF the OF letters about town who grace
Mr. Somebody's administration, merely but he already
belongs 70 literature and depends neither on the favor
Of reviewers the honesty Of booksellers nor the
pleasure OF readers for his success he has more 90
impsrt thsn % receive from bis generation He is
another such strong and finished workman in his craft
Samuel Johnson and Ike him makes the literary
class respectable As few yet out OF their sppren
tccshp IL they learn 20 be able writss are AZ
the same time able and valuable thinkers The aged
aud critical eye especially IL ncapacised 10 appreciate
the works OF this author To such their meaning is int
pslpsble and and they seem to abound only
in obstinate mannerisms. Germanisms, and whimsical
rawlings OF all kinds with and then an unaccoant
ably true and sensible remark On the strength OF this
last Carlyle is admitted to have what is called genius
We hardly know an old man 20 whom these volumes
not hopeessly sealed The language, they say, -
ooshness and stumbling block to them but TO many
a clear headed boy they planest English. and des
patched with such hasy relish as his bread and milk -
The fathers wonder how il tina, the children take TO
this diet readily and digest il with so little difficulty.
They shake their heads with msrust at their free and
easy delight and remark that Mr. Carlyes very learn
ed for they too, not to be out OF fashion, have got
grammar and dictionary il the truth were known. and
with the best faith cudgeled their brains to get little
way into the Jungle, and they could not but coniess, as
often they found the clue that Intricate ss
Blackstone to follow II you read Il honestly But merely
reading even with the best Intentions, Is not enough
you must amos, have written these books yourself -
Only he who has had the good fortune TO read them
in the uick of time in the most perceptve and reel
pient OF life, give any adequate account OF
them"
Among the remaining articles Of this number We
notice Singleton Snppe, who married for a liv-
ing" by 10 c Neal-rich in the humor Of truth
The Bnckmaker" genuine poem By L. b. Read
a Prairie Song, by Bryant, and-but indeed these
a re nearly all we have found time TO read. Among
the embellishments is a striking view of the Falls
of the Towalaga drawn by Smile.
-<zH--
EXPLOSION AT BALTIMORE AND rrs CAUsE.-On the
Sd inst round engine boiler in oil mill at Baltimore
rent asunder in the middle by explosion and the
ends projected great distance from each other
notice the particulars given they prove that these de-
struc,ye explosions the results OF the wrong con-
strucion of the Steam Engine which small change
would render safe.
The diameter of the bOerls stated at 20 inches which
multiplied by oneourih Of the circumference gives 3i
square inches the OF the end the pressure on
which Is sustained by the whole ring circumference
OF the boiler
The greatest force Of burst open round boiler
Is that which acts perpendicular diameter therefore
10 portion OF the boiler fourth OF the circumference
in length the OF the section through the axis Il
equal the of the end OF the boiler S4 square
inches and the pressure perpendicular to this section Is
equal the pressure perpendicular to section parallel
10 the ends Of the boiler but the pressure the ends
of the boiler Ia sustained by the whole ring or crcum
ference and the equal pressure the two semicylin
dric portions by the two sides onefourth of the cir
conference in length each together half the crcum'
ference that is half only of the amount Of iron which
sussns equal pressure tho ends OF the boiler and
this holds OF ali round boilers. whatever the diameter
or the thickness of iron strength Of steam And all
round boilers must invariably burst open at half the
force Of steam which would rend them ssunder end
wise
Therefore Ia the case at Baltimore and every other
wherein round boilers have been asunder endwise,
it has been the effect Of explosive action. This expo-
siye power cannot originate In the boiler for expo
sive property per Sc" has been detected in water
by chemical analysis indicated by the safety
valve
Il Is also msniiestly impossible that the enormous
force which breaks shafts cranks and other working
gear proceed from the boiler through tho narrow
steam pipe and valve 10 act with sudden and violent
force the piston, the Of which is twenty-five
times greater than the aperture OF the steam valve "
~ Who will 90 to the Musum this afternoon and
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