taining four ounces of æther; then cork the flask with a glass stopper, and shake it for half an hour, afterwards allowing it to rest until the liquor becomes perfectly clear. 16. Best White Hard Varnish. one Rectified spirits of wine, two gallons; gumsandarach, five pounds; gum-mastic, pound; gum-anima, four ounces. Put these into a clean can or bottle to dissolve, in a warm place, frequently shaking it; when the gum is dissolved, strain it through a lawn sieve, and it is fit for use. 17. Varnish for Prints, Maps, &c. Dissolve two ounces of balsam of Canada in four ounces of spirits of turpentine. 18. Varnish for Photographic Plates. M. Dumas recommends, in order to prevent the deterioration of photographic drawings, that a boiling solution of one part of dextrine in five parts of water should be poured upon the plates, which will deposit a thin coat of varnish sufficient to effect the desired object. 19. Varnish for Tissue Paper to be used for Models of Gas Balloons. Add two parts of drying linseed oil to one of the solution of Indian rubber, and mix them by means of heat. Apply warm on both sides of the paper. (To be continued.) COMPOSED OF THE WELLINGTON STATUE STOLEN BRONZE.-Monsieur Soyer (not he of the Reform Clubhouse) was the great brassfounder and government contractor for public works in France. Information having been given to the Minister at War that the whole cannon, to the value of 100,000 francs, which had been voted by the Chamber last session for the tomb of Napoleon, had been illegally 'disposed of by the contractor, a domiciliary visit was forthwith made to M. Soyer's atelier, and the cannon being nowhere to be found, a warrant was issued for his apprehension. He had already absconded, but was arrested at the Chateau of Fould, at Poissy, and sent to Paris to take his trial. By a most extraordinary coincidence, and one which is really startling in its support of the doctrine of fatalism, it is proved and reported in the proces verbal that a great part of the missing bronze was sold to a contractor for the English market, and bought up to melt for the statue of the Duke of Wellington! The quantity of iron produced by Sweden, in 1846, was 115,105 tons, of which 110,000 tons were exported. The new church of St. Simon, Gloucesterstreet, Liverpool, was to be opened on Wednesday last. The architect, Mr. Hay, says the Standard, has produced his building at a cost of £400 less than his estimates, and has made a gift of a stained-glass chancel window, by Ballantyne, of Edinburgh, at a cost of £120, to boot. All Advertisements must be sent early in order to insure insertion. V. L. Q.-Litharge is, properly, lead vitrified, either alone W. P. wishes to be informed where the Draughtsman's Institution is situated, and also the mode of application in order to obtain admission.-Mathematics are generally taught at Mechanics' Institutes.-To reply to your other queries would be considered as an advertisement. SETS-OFF IN BOUND Books.-A correspondent states that London: Published at the Office of the SPORTING nications to the Editor are to be addressed); and to be had LIFE, 17, Holywell-street, Strand (where all commuof all Booksellers.-Saturday, September 4, 1847. Printed by W. COOLE, Lumley Court, Strand. CANOPY, a magnificent covering for an altar, An Ellustrated Glossary of Technical throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair, or the like. In Terms used in Architectural and Gothic architecture an ornamental projection over doors, windows, &c.; and a covering over niches, tombs, &c. . CANTALIVER, a description of bracket of CAPITAL OF CAP (in architecture), the head of a column or pilaster. CARTOON, a drawing or coloured sketch on paper, destined to be transferred in various ways to fresco, tapestry, panels, canvas, &c. CARTOUCH, OF CARTOUZE (in architecture), an ornament in the keystone of an arch, the གན་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་ག་་་་་་ན་། ངགག centre of an entablature, &c., representing a scroll of paper unrolled, for the purpose of inscriptions, &c. CARYSTA MARBLE, a fine description of marble found at Carysta or Carystos, a city upon the shore of Euboea. (To be continued.) WATER IN PLACE OF OIL.-We understand that an improvement has been made in applying water to lucubrate the shafts and joints of machines, in place of oil. It seems that it has been tried on the Jersey City and Paterson Railroad, and found to be successful. It is applied by an ingeniously constructed box, but regarding the exact plan of which we are not clearly informed. Water has been used for a long time in many places instead of oil, for heavy machinery, a stream being continually applied to the gudgeons; and the coupling boxes are so constructed that pieces of raw tallow touch the shaft and are kept almost cool by the water, and last for a very long time. The Pendulum Clock. THE year 1657 is generally fixed upon when the learned Dutchman, Huggins, adapted the pendulum as a regulator of clocks. Before this period (or rather before the adaption of the pendulum) clocks were regulated by the oscillations or rotations of a balance or lever, with weights hung on the extremities, capable of being adjusted in notches nearer or farther from the axis, for correct time-keeping. The pendulum clock was evidently invented prior to the date 1657; for a clock, in the shop of Mr. Sharpe, watchmaker, Dumfries, having the movement controlled by "a pendulum and escapement," legibly bears the date 1507-a century and a half earlier than the commonly received date of invention. Moreover, a clergyman in Glasgow has a clock, made for "George Milne, Holyrood-house Edr.," bearing the inscription on the dial-plate : "Remember, man, that dye thou must, And after that to judgment just." "John Sanderson, Wigton, Fecit, 1512," nearly half a century earlier than the date given by historians, who have clearly copied the date of each other. This clock is apparently of the same construction as the one in Dumfries. The wheel-work is supported by four brass pillars. The striking department is curious. It resembles the German systemthat of the lock and plate. The wheel which regulates the blows is filled with projecting pins, which, as the wheel revolves, press against the spring of the hammer which strikes inside the bell. Like all public clocks of character, it requires to be wound up every day. The pendulum does not beat "secinds." Some of the cyphers upon the wheel which revolves to indicate the days of the month are rude enough in character. It was in possession of two old maiden ladies, who got the beautiful solid oak-case painted with cart-paint! Originally it belonged to the family of Milne, of whom especial notice is taken in "the History of Holyrood-house." On the site of the north walk of the choir, still stands a neat monument Architect for Scotland, 20th February, 1643, to the memory of Alexander_Milne, King's restored by Robt. Milne, architect, 1776. In the Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, is a splendid monument to the memory of John Milne, father of him who built the palace, in which is this remarkable notice, that he was "Sixth royal master mason to seven successive kings of Scotland." The epitaph runs thus: "Reader, John Milne, who maketh the fourth John, Of seven successive kings, sleeps in this place." At the north-west angle, and towards the inside of the piazza, this inscription is cut on one of the stone piers of the arches, "FYN. BE. RO. MYLNE MM. IUL. 1671." Some of these dates, it will be perceived, corroborate the hypothesis that 1657 was not the year when Galilee's discovery of the pendulum was applied to mechanism.-Glasgow Citizen. Timber Mining in America. passes up the creek a few miles the stumps approach the surface, and near the edge of the live swamps they become very numerous.Scientific American. ON the north side of Maurice River Creek, New Jersey, the meadows and cedar MR. VERNON'S PICTURES.-The report which swamps, as far up as the fast land, are filled with buried stated that Mr. Vernon had given the larger cedars to an unknown depth. In 1814 or 1815 and better part of his celebrated collection of an attempt was made to sink a well curb near pictures of the British school to the British Dennis Creek Landing, but after encountering people turns out to be something more than much difficulty in cutting through a number of mere gossip, for the gift is now a certainty. logs, the workmen were at last compelled to Mr. Vernon, it is understood, retains a life! give up the attempt by finding, at the depth of interest in the collection which he has made twenty feet, a compact mass of cedar logs. It with so much taste and liberality; and at his is a constant business near Dennis Creek to death the pictures now under selection by the "mine cedar shingles.' This is done by prob-present Trustees of the National Gallery will ing the soft mud of the swamps with poles, be removed from Pall Mall to that institution. for the purpose of discovering buried cedar Mr. Vernon has made this early announcetimber; and when a log is found, the mud is ment of his intentions in order that the cleared off, the log cut up into proper lengths Trustees might provide at once a suitable with a long one-handled saw, and these lengths place for their reception. The National split up into shingles, and carried out of the Gallery, it is well known, is notoriously too swamp ready for sale. This kind of work small to receive even any ordinary addition to gives constant employment to a large number its treasures; and here is what we may call, of hands. The trees found are from four to in every sense of the word, an extraordinary five feet in diameter; they lie in every possible accession-for the collection is known to position, and some of them seem to have been consist of something like three hundred buried for many centuries. Thus, stumps of pictures. Another and proper stipulation trees which have grown to a greater age, and which Mr. Vernon has made is, that his which have been decaying a century, are found collection-or rather the selection made by the standing in the place in which they grew, Trustees-shall be kept entire, or apart; much while the trunks of very aged cedars are lying in the same manner as the Douce Collection of horizontally under their roots. One of these books is kept in the Bodleian Library and the instances is thus described in a manuscript Grenville Collection of books will be in the from Dr. Beesely, of Dennis Creek, who has British Museum. himself "mined" many thousand cedar shingles, and is now engaged in the business : "I have in my mine a cedar some 24ft. over, under a large cedar stump, 6 feet in diameter. Upon counting the annual growth of the stumps, I found there were 30 of them in an inch; so that there were 1,080 in the 3 feet from the centre to the outside of the tree. The stump must then have been 1,080 years in growing. To all appearances the tree to which it belonged has been dead for centuries; for after a stump in these meadows decays down to the wet, there is no more decay-none at least that is perceptible. Now we have 1,080 years for the growth of the stump, and 500 for its decay, and 500 for the growth of tree under it; for this must have grown and fallen before the tree, to which the stump belonged sprouted. We are thus carried back for the term of perhaps 2,000 years, of which 1,500 are determined, beyond question, by the growth of the trees. The better opinion is that these trees have gradually sunk through the soft mud of the swamps, after having attained their growth and fallen. Many, however, have decayed in their erect position, for the swamps are full of stumps standing as they grew. Within a short distance of the mouth of Dennis Creek, and about three miles from the growing timber, can be seen at low water, in the bed of the stream, numerous cedar and pine stumps, about 6 feet below the surface of the meadow, with the bark still adhering to some, when the mud is removed. As one METALLIC ADDRESS CARDS-A novel mode of advertising the names of tradesmen, has been introduced by Mr. S. Hiron, of Birmingham. By a peculiar mode of stamping, this gentleman has been enabled to produce address cards of metal, and which, according to the desire of the tradesman for whom they are made, bear the insignia of his profession, his address, and whatsoever addition he may think proper. As the material and work give them a degree of value, they are more prized than cards, and form a standing advertisement. The die can also be made available for stamping letter paper. A NEW EFFECT OF THE MAGNETIC TELE our GRAPH.-The various wires of telegraph begin- About the LONDON AND WINDSOR RAILWAY.-The railway from Windsor to London is about to be commenced at Datchet; the contractors engaging to complete the line by the 31st of May, 1848. |