The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-05-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

REPRIEVE OF THE NANTWICII MIIRDERER.— Mr J. B. Manning, the governor of Chester Castle, received an intimation on Saturday morning from the Home Secretary that the sentence of death passed on Wm. Sharrat, for the murder of his wife, Eliza, at Nantwich, has been respited until the further signification of Her Majesty's pleasure. SUFFERERS from any disease should make haste to take BRANDRETH'S Puma. They do good, invariably relieve and often cure at once. It is now conceded by aU classes of medical men that BRANDRETWS PILLS are the best cleansing medicine, taking hold of what is needed to be removed from the bowels and blood when we are sick. And such safe remOv usually cures. Sold by all chemists lee "B. BEUNDRETH" 011 Stamp.  STEEL FROM CLEVELAND IRON, Mr William Corbett, of Opensh aw Chemical Company, Manchester, writes as follows to the Engineer of Baturday:—"l have been told that a new process has jest come out for eliminating the phosphorus from Cleveland iron. I have just had the pleasure of reading the paper in your last week's Engineer, and I find it to be no new thing at all. In 18.7 I was piddling Cleveland pig iron at the Star Ironworks, Stockport. I there lined my furnace with limestone, and into one beat I pat 6 lb. of soda ash and kept my damper down. That heat was rolled into rounds for rivet iron. I took a piece to Messrs Galloway's boiler works, Knott Mill, Manchester, and had it made into rivets and pat into a boiler. It was so good that they engaged me to manufacture the same upon their ground; I did so for twelve months, and used pll Cleveland forge pig. I used a rich alkaline base to eliminate the phosphorus. I then went to the Vulcan Forge, Clayton, and there made scores of steel slide bars for Beyer and Peacock, Fairbairns, and Jones and Son, of Liverpool, steel points for railways, mandrils for print works; all from puddle steel blooms made from Cleveland pig called Ormsby. If we broke a slide bar it had just the appearence of cast steel. We also melted puddle steel from the same pig in crucibles, and had the ingots tilted into tool steel, and made some hundreds of sledge hammers for Sandford and Owen, of Rotherham. I believe we cast the first steel tire that ever was cast without a seam or weld We made a mould exactly the shape of a tire—the mould was made in two halves catered together—we filled it full of melted steel, and then sent a block of wood through the centre about the size of a man's hand; we then uucottered it, and there , was a perfect tire. We then paid ,£lO 10s for Iprotection, bui ...lug no capital we got into the hands o • creditors, and the thing was bet. \ s • with Cleveland pig by usin A gap. bath tl wish the phoApho us out. I have a letter before me now, cut out of the Engineer of 1859, where I told one 'J. P.,' of Greenwich, that a good alkaline cinder would fetch all the phosphorus and sulphur out of iron; I also told Mr tdushet, when he and I were.cavilling over steel making in the Engineer, that he need not go one yard beyond the Cleveland hills to m ke the best of steel. The parties who are reading these papers do not seem to properly understand the nature of phosphorus in combination with iron. All the phosphorus can be eliminated 50 per cent, cheaper than the way they are doing. and still use the gauister lining in the converter. My process will not interfere with the ganiater, as it has no affinity for silica. They appear to know that a low temperature in the puddling furnace will bring away more phosphorus than a high temperature, bat they don't give any reason why; they only appear to know the rule of thumb - that soand-so will do it -but the trade wants to know the reas n why it does it? The thing is very simple if they will pull off their coats and combine practice with their theory. I find that many theorists will read a practical man's letter and learn something from it, and let it lie dormant for a time, and then bring it out as their invention. There is plenty of room yet for phosphorus seekers if they have brains and a little money. I have none of the bitten, through being short of the former."