New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-22
CITY ITEMS.

FAIDAT, jan q.
FIRE.-Thc premises 10 Resde street frame
building occupied as mix ego, ard grocery store vas
considerably damaged BY are about o'clock THIS morning
ExoRMoUs PRoFIrs os GAs-I7e london SIM
q last month contains interesting article Gas show
ing that ne fourteen Companies which supply the British
metropolis clear the profit Of three nens Of
collars yearly being from IS % per cent on Their paid
up capital. The Government coE,empla.e laying lax
On Gas Of "a cents ger 600 cubic ee which tax would
yied London, SIX hundred dollars and throughout
kingdom nearly ten mil ons Of dollars yearly Here
In New-York, the public are charged, well can
remember, dollars per 1000 feet 10 London the
price two dollars FOR the quantity and In Liver
pool Manchester and other large country towns, Gas the
Sun tells o.. is supplied the citizens u to IS cents
per 900 ieetnne or ten times cheaper than with U.s.
at may be interesting" says the SH, To show, from
Of the Companies (lake the Imperial for Instance
how these large proasare produced The yearly consup
ton q Goals By the Imperial Company IS SLIGO tons,
which produce 90 SIS chsdrons Of Coke, less 93 chs
droBs which produce las per chAldron, fk23j5 rs;
81 tons Of Coa produce 4s54J00oo cubic feet Of Gas,
from which be deducted one-fourh entire loss,
there being than three fourths sold 20 consumers
making the residue 800 cubic Of Gas per
1000 feet, making f09225 l0s The same quantity Of
Coal also produces $4,000 gallons Of Tar Ct I'd per gal
Ion IS -32 Os .rd 562 100 gallons Of Ammonia a. Ia
per gallon, fl542 Is 3d. making The total produce Of ST.
100 tons Of Coal amount % 1l51IJI - 3D. from which
must be deducted f0ss0 FOR Goals los per toG, and
f5s s 81 for dividend per cent from the proa.s,
which IS about IS per cent on the pat-up capital after
which there IS surplus pr0lt Of f762l3 0s %. Tie
proposed duty Of Is per 900 cubic feet would produce
from this Company alone z .20i after paying which,
they would sim hsve surplus Of f5s O59 ss "a for tyi-
d:nd among the Shareholders"
We have yet seen il explained why citizen Of
New.York pays nine ten times much for Gas as
citizen Of Liverpool The English article Is assuredy not
inferior in quality nor In durability Of light the relative
prices Of Coal. Oils Fat &C. will way clear up the
difficulty and that contrast Is about 70 be entered
the City with the Manhattan Gas Company Il but
just the taxpayers that the Of such difference
In price he made plain 20 Of ordinary understanding
LAUNcH-Will be launched from the yard Of
Messrs Perine Patterson & stack, WiIamsburgh. near
the Grandst Ferry Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
the Liver pool packeshp Andrew Foster, built for David
OGDEN Esq. and will be commanded By Capt. Howes late
Of ship 81. Patrick. The Andrew Foster will sail from
this port on the 18Th Of February ne1t
POLIcE.-Tbe basement Of house l42 Madison
81. occupied by Mr. r. Il. Collins entered last
lng and robbed Of quantity OF silver ware, with which
the thief escaped. Two gentee looking young fellows
last evening into the Of James NJ. Gillespie III
Bowery, and while occupying the attention Of the clerk,
the other helped himself 20 about S. worth Of goods with
which he walked Of. forty fahom OF inch Ma
na rope last night stolen from the steamboat Saga
lying az the foot Of Msrketst.- Michael McMen0my
was arrested on charge of stealing suntry articles from
the house Of Rev. Mr.. Krebbs IN Henryst- Francis
Gallagher locked up chyrge Of stealing 50
from the money drawer Of Jacob Herb William White
vas taken into custody on suspicion Of stealing scale
Team. =. Job Power was brought up and detained
charge Of stealing 81 from Patrick McCarty.