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as Workimen, all alarm has subsided. Since the introduction of 
his system, the price of labour has fallen, and hundreds of valu- 
able lives have been saved to the community. 
- We cannot, in short, pronounce a better eulogiutn on the 
author of this valuable discovery, than by presenting our readers 
with the short but eloquent address of the royal and illustrious 
President of the Society of Arts, when delivering the premiums 
awarded by the Society to this meritorious individual: ‘¢ Mr. 
Ryan,” said the Duke of Sussex, ‘in rising to present you with 
the rewards so justly voted you by the Society, they wish it to 
be understood, that they do not intend these rewards as any re- 
muneration for your valuable discovery: for such remuneration 
you are to look to yourself—I inean, to the feelings of your own 
mind. But to mark their sense of your merits, the Society have 
voted you the highest premium ever given by them; and when 
I reflect on the personal risks and dangers you have run in bring- 
ing this invention to its present state—an invention which has 
already saved more than are now here present, and which pro- 
mises to render the most lasting services not only to this, but to 
every country that may adopt it, I feel an increased source of 
satisfaction in being the organ of the Society on the occasion.” 
It may perhaps redound still further to Mr. Ryan’s credit, to 
state, that no fewer than ten meetings of the Committee of the 
Society thoroughly investigated his plans and models previously 
to the final vote of the Society, so that every opportunity was af- 
forded for that ample and free discussion of his merits which they 
received. ee 
DEATH OF MR. THOMAS HENRY. 
We are sorry to announce the death of the celebrated Mr. 
Henry, of Manchester. The distressing event is thus announced 
to the public in Wheeler’s Manchester Chronicle of June 22 :— 
“Died, on Tuesday the 18th instant, in the 82d year of his age, 
Mr. Thomas Henry, President of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society of Manchester, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 
and member of several other learned societies both in this coun- 
try and abroad. As a practical and philosophical chemist he 
had obtained a high and merited reputation. His contributions 
to that science, besides a small volume of Essays, and his trans- 
lations of the early writings of Lavoisier, which he first intro 
duced to the notice of the English reader, consist chiefly of Me- 
moirs dispersed through the Transactions of the various socie- 
ties to which he belonged, and relating both to those parts of 
chemistry that are purely scientific, and to those which have a 
connexion with the useful arts. On a subject intimately connected 
with the success of the cotton manufacture (the employment of 
mordants or bases in dyeing) £ Mr. Henry was the first,’ to use 
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