The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-10-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—At Southwark Ponce-tog on Thursday, William Mew, a respectable looking lieu man, who described himself as a commercial tra°: bl was charged with attempting to murder Helen Fain,' to, administering poison to her. About three weeks ago'-,t, couple took lodgings in Bennett-street, Stamford -570 as man and wife; but the man was married to 01301' woman. It appeared from the evidence that, on 010 nesday se'nnight, the woman cooked a dinner aftelrioa she and Mew had some words; then Mew came stairs, told the landlady that his wife had left the 110.4 and that he was going to seek her. Mew had lecketyll doors. and he did not return till Saturday morning.,; ;0%. he asked if his wife had been home ; and on receo; of reply in the negative he left the place. His mannered cited suspicion, and the landlady's daughter , through the key-hole of his bedroom, and saw the 911 e lying on the bed. The door was forced open. 3”,,,w was found slowly recovering from a state of le,,' apparently produced by some powerful narcotic' would seem that she had been lying on the bed iaserc,oo4 from Wednesday to Saturday. The surgeons nothing to prove what drug had been administered bet woman told the landlady's daughter that Mew peuT4o/c. out a glass of beer on the Wednesday, and that on ing it she was immediately overcome. Mew was,„:101, quently traced and taken into custody ; but, as EaAl7otr not sufficiently recovered to appear at the Police' he was remanded. vegorf.  CoNsumpTioN of SMOKE,—A short time ago, -, chimp Chambers, of Glasgow, erected a new furnace aeuive ney for a ten-horse-power steam-engine, which foil their printing machinery ; and, with a view to releeoo, challenge respecting smoke, they applied Juckess Pt 01.0_,T smoke-consuming apparatus. It consists of vil/ssarr be called an endless chain of bars, disposed not ere ~,00,0 but lengthwise ; and this chain of bars forms the of the furnace, on which the live coal blazes. to moves very slowly forward—not more than at the of an inch in the minute—from the front to the bacti:y furnace, carrying the fire along with it. At the VA. apd bridge of the furnace, the chain of bars moves wow', comes back beneath. Thus it goes on endlessiLial morning till night. The apparatus is fixed on 8_1°1: sr which is run into its place on a species of raike;;--efill,4 the whole—that is, the whole bottom of the furo efri„ be dragged in or out at pleasure, by which mese' V, facility is presented for cleaning, renovation, 842;01 chain of bars is moved by connecting gear from t"'" ftl/4 engine. The coal is laid on a hopper at the moutP:th 10 furnace, and is carried forward by the bars, the 10, coal that enters being regulated by an iron door, 400: depressed or raised like a sluice. The principle or_:001Pi consumption consists in the slow and regular edel: to >t of the coal. Instead of being heaved with a 81391:il:tit to produce continual gusts of smoke, it is admit'''- 4.4 were, by hair-breadths. The ignition is therefolef tyi at a time, and what smoke is raised having to gO§otl/1:, bright fire beyond, it is necessarily consumed. Pew i>° gets up the chimney but a slight fume, scarcely Pp ble to the eye. The apparatus, we are told, i hes,.,. Ob ther advantage of economising fuel and attendae.:lo it sustains the steam equally with the common P ft firing. s, ViLAlt •