^team Engines in Cormvnll. ^^1 



STEAM ENGINES IN CORNWALL. 



In our abstract from Messrs. Lean's Report for March, pub- 

 lished in our last^ there were some errors. The second aiid third 

 paragraphs should have been as follows : 



WooU's engine at Wheal Vor, loaded 15*4 per square inch in 

 engine cylinder, lifted 35,759,081 pounds of water one foot high 

 witli each bushel of coals. 



His engine at WhealAbraham, loaded 15-1, lifted 46,681,105 

 pounds; and his other engine at the same mine, loaded 3*49, 

 lifted 19,390,210 pounds with each bushel. 



According to Alessrs. Lean's Report for April, the following 

 were the respective quantities of water lifted one foot high with 

 one bushel of coals, by the engines annexed, during the month. 



Load per square 

 Ponnfls of water, inch in cvliutler. 

 24 common engines averaged . . . .22,067,1-02 . . . .various. 



Woolf's at Wheal Vor 43,468,554 15-4 libi 



Ditto, Wheal Abraham 44,147,208 15-1 



Ditto, ditto 24,674,490 3-81. 



Ditto, Wheal Unity 34-057085 13-1. 



Dalcouth engine 42,900,035 1 1-2. 



United Mines 39,244,354 16-6. 



Wheal Chance ^ 4 1,804,14 1 13- 



The intelligence that a coriimittee of the House of Commons 

 had been ajipointed to take the subject of steam-engines into 

 tlieir consideration excited great alarm in Cornvv'all, which may 

 be called the land of steam-engines ', as it wa? apprehended that 

 prejudiced or interested people might press their opinions upon 

 the committee, and, taking advantage of the alarm excited by 

 the late accident at Norwich, induce some legislative interference, 

 without allowing time for proper investigation. The fear, con- 

 sidering the projjerty that is at stake in Cornwall, was not un- 

 reasonable, but we are well assured will prove groundless. A 

 committee of the House of Conunons is not likely to be easily 

 imposed upon by ])artial statements. The one alluded to ha^^ 

 had a laborious task to perform ; but, whatever might be the 

 prejudices with which their minds might be filled in common 

 with many others who had been told that steam-engines are 

 infernal machines, they have bestowed so much patient investi- 

 gation on the suljject, that the possessors of steam-engines need 

 be under little or no alarm about parliamentary interference. 



Any interference of this kind would be injudicious, and 

 prove highly injurious to the progress of national improvcnienr. 

 In this view of the question, nothing could be more natural than 

 tliat the miners hi Cornwall should have felt an uncommon <le- 



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