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including the Royal Commissioners appointed to report 

 on the ventilation of ships. The Marquis of Ailsa, a 

 practical shipbuilder himself and a member of the Com- 

 pany, was so pleased that he at once gave an order for it 

 to be applied to his new yacht. The public press, both 

 English and foreign, took the subject up with considerable 

 enthusiasm, and the articles which were written and 

 published at the time, all with special reference to Mr. 

 Boyle's system, would fill .several bulky volumes. The 

 invention has since met with great encouragement. It is 

 rapidly increasing in favour, being adopted on a number 

 of the large lines and foreign navies, and Mr. Boyle has 

 received numerous very valuable testimonials certifying to 

 the complete success of the system. 



From what has already been done, we should say there 

 is a great future before it, and that the talented inventor 

 will reap the reward he has so well earned. The know- 

 ledge that he has conferred upon the world an invention 

 which, so long as men go down to the sea in ships, will help 

 to alleviate human suffering is in itslf an ample recom- 

 pense. It was a proud moment in his life when, upon 

 the occasion of the distribution of the prizes at the Fish- 

 mongers' Hall, in the presence of a distinguished and noble 

 company, he was invited to the platform to receive at the 

 hands of Lady John Manners (the gifted wife of the 



