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we cannot but regret in these manufacturing towns, viz. the 

 immense quantities of smoke which issue from the engine 

 chimneys. We are persuaded that, by proper arrangements, 

 and a very small additional expense to the proprietor of each 

 engine, the whole of the smoke might be conveyed away by 

 underground tunnels, in which the soot would be deposited, 

 and rendered available for agricultural or other purposes. 

 This alteration may not be worth making in the mining dis- 

 trict between Birmingham and Dudley, because it appears 

 that in thirty or forty years the mines there will probably be 

 exhausted, and the country restored to agriculture ; but, as the 

 cotton manufacture will probably long be carried on to a great 

 extent in Lancashire, it seems very desirable to introduce a 

 plan for getting rid of the smoke entirely in a short time. 

 From the flue of every fire let there be a small tunnel opening 

 into a large one, and in the small one a fan to be worked by 

 the engine, which should exhaust or draw out the smoke from 

 the fire, and deliver it into the large tunnel, there to find its 

 way over a furlong of watery surface. This furlong need not 

 be in a straight line; it may be in convolutions under the soil 

 of a garden, or under the floors of dwellings or sheds, which 

 it would warm, and it may be in several stories, one over 

 ajiother, the smoke entering at the bottom, and coming out 

 clear at the top. Only let the thing be set seriously about^ 

 and it will soon be carried to perfection. Other evils in Man- 

 chester are the over heat and bad ventilation of the working; 

 rooms. We have pointed out to a humane and rational ma- 

 nufacturer how easily the temperature might be regulated ta 

 within the quarter of a degree by the use of Kewley's ther- 

 mometer ; and every one who has seen the application of 

 ;^;ylvester's mode of circulating air in buildings, knows how 

 easy it would be to have a continual supply of fresh air,, 

 warmed to the proper degree. The tunnels for depositing, 

 the soot might be made subservient to this mode of venti- 

 lation, by having cast-iron tunnels within them, by which in 

 winter the entering air would be heated from the cooling 

 smoke. In a word, the more we think on the subject of 

 getting rid of the soot and perfecting ventiUition, the more 

 easy does it appear to us. The additional comfort to the in- 

 habitants, not of Manchester only, but of most towns m Lan- 



new principle; that of representing the opinions of its proprietors. These 

 ai-e necessarily numerous, as the shares are only 21. each, and no proprietor 

 is allowed to hold more than five. The price will be regulated yearly by 

 the sale : at present it is Id. The principle on which this paper is esta- 

 blished seems deserving of imitation. Every trade ought to have its news:- 

 paper. 



