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icular und of nitrogen and oxygen with the same reference to a celo result; and , subj ect, and ‘no one else i 
opm ascertained, a as the fact of its being a — | thes it is poset we so often give | pts has, with | the like oben, 
compound wa sufficient for the purpose intended, viz., | If our tion has — of it its results if we find i| It is sufficient to say of his system, that it deals with 
e applying this waste product for the manu ufacture of | the poor but TT benefi rather than with facts, and with things rather 
ammonia. | sendi: . their children to tie and aly ta take "n sq v words: that, — ded for a class of persons 
At the commencement of E —_ — 1s transferred | away on the least € chance o € re to a elve out an existence from the material 
escapin, : d th x 
on of t gases — assumes thi 
to my own laboratory, and cde and th in|the ma ; that in the education we yc to their|of those objects to be legitimate subjects of interest 
converting them into ammoni 178 children, the springs of opinion among them have to them, and of reflection; and, as a principle, that the 
This t I did not feel satis- | never m n considered, nor their wants consulted. Almighty, in manifesting his wisdom and goodness in 
fied until I had t tried the eus on the large scale; It is in this that the secret t of Mr. . Dawes's success all material things, has, in mercy associa’ 
therefore, in November in the same year, an arrange- appears "uhr to lie. e elements of thought with labour, V — means of 
ment was entered into for this purpose with Messrs. the springs of opinion amongst the poor by consulting | exercising the highest intélligence with the humblest 
8. 
ose kind assistance v" the matter I take this oppor- | to — wants, by : a careful study of their condition. That it ds for this reason that thinking and doing 
tunity of acknowledgin: King's S ne s that what we 
e" apparatus fitted s up w i f t faith object and 
A furnace was built dite de: E: de of one man for hi — and, —— that the with an adaptation to some y-r we "p with. S araara 
— vitri tate tre and a brick gas retort, about | wages of re dr the parish of King’s xad borne v 
14 inches in — 8 feet long, "y d at both | very low, the mes fee. was fixed at — that of julgnent for no object, and with an adaptation wap 
2 was h its whole length. This retort ot other ne neighbourin schools, under the im im on that end. 
filled with and kept & a red heat; th il Assuming, then, that in the knowledge or science of 
ott tube e the chamber, ar a steam- jet to supply the of him for what A believed to bea — 5 — and | the. inge with which - Observation is familiar, or 
hydrogen, were attached to one end, ful educati associated with his 9 
E. hes ied = fixed an upright leaden cylinder, filled create pri belief in his mind. legitimate sphere for 2 exercise nn labouring man’ 
and 
De 
coke, istened with dil Who to be — — farmers, and to pay the reason and reflection ; and that 
these afford the means 
"din the p gases and steam through the highest fee, ae radesmen and labourers, Mr faculties and of — them to 
retort containing red-hot charcoal, both were decom- | Dawes claims the Te himself to —— e one are | the utmost limit of his powers, it s to “the science 
posed, the oxygen of each uniting with the charcoal to — ithin "rd Walls of the school on of of common things“ an important visis in the system 
form carbonic acid (C O,); the nitrogen and hydrogen perfect eq uality n their e gs of the school, and a gr — besar and this 
combining to form ammonia ( O, or without -— in the 4 in which they are p and seems to lie at the root of its s Mr. Dawes thus 
water, N H,); then ‘ho. probably forming carbo- € p same advantages of instru Pda ai speaks on t ems subj hei 
i i Wi 
i H 
decomposed by the diluted sulphuric — the sulpbate Here, then, a practical omm ute of the mes foregoing pages which h is ofa — kind I woul say, — 
of am Mole ida found remaining in solution. is | which * rad s recent measures appear to don — 2 — ^ — BÓ: —À 
solution was then evaporated, and in Fely, 1857, I first | body, an nd — public opinion now wen qud — tary schools Ka such a character of usefulness to their 
had the pleasure of obtaining amy quantity of crystals education i is not € mp ig — instruction qualifying t — to teach in me 
of sulphate ded ammonia, by this process, from a vitriol | to men's social Áo t the right of all, inasmuch | Subjects, introgasing — —7 th ——— I 
cham ber in a ual w ork. as it is necessary to the growth of every man's under- | and convey conviction with them the moment they aio - 
standing, and, int stat f lite i may please|and explained. It isa great mistake to sup that bays or 
invention b patent € ev when the T. God to ‘call him, an — element in his moral well- 12 and 13 years of age cannot —€— e 
rati 
make him undervalue it. It e th 1 
Me t rocess as it is to those interested in the ael — that the iE of 9 among ci rl t. — s 12 ae katin aa electric appa- 
matter, 155 ing deg so one else may apply it — rofit. the poor or years kin ratus, &c. One little asa text 
ably than pe and feeling — that--as A i 2h ms To treat labourers always as separate and dependent — minas corse om atter and Motion,’ and this is 
no reason why it should not succe: t | class appears the likeliest 3 perpetuate their The end of e dU ght to be, to prepare them for 
—it will be the means of advancing the manu- state of dependence. In all we —M to avoid | those duties and those situations in life they are called upon to 
factures, an 1 commerce" of this country, | wh — intermingling with them those s who, having — 3 they be *hewers of. wood, or drawers of water; 
emer; i ieved some E 
the sw ition, have ps 8 i i 
Pee f. it may be thought that the process is only | degree of independence (the employers and the em- | citizens and good Christians ; and I thh Et will be found that, 
adapted to such gases ‘as escape directly from the ployed), is to neglect an obvious means of cultivating | 27 rding as a teacher keeps this in making his instruc- 
— and c d any v the late improvements as | those feeling of T. ene 8 * mutua D T M rof Tife, or aie 8 
coke inde J „cannot be app lied; but and io and f P 
vas — teacher competent to his wo! 
Ta — rr ly ——— that many 
and labourers of 
carried out dn 
bya slight 1 modification, to [UE ie ands |" ther : about 
that may have been « — by the ilute sulphuric . o — of d and he ad ed their "s i ich- 
T ae teal —— mora upon ii uch, no t, to the | rn 
pei dp Red oiii ie ndpliig fest rr d ah ior oer 
in the nitrate of soda need em that " 3 ed. "s nett to 9 9 . — : whatever other process of i 
With regard to — ond “obtainable by these receiv: ucati i 4 
eans, I have not as yet been able to ascertain wae children were receiving, on condition of their paying 2 idonee — — 
pers ty as for e privilege a row te of remuneration. On place of it when he to bea man, and when his 
— stated, it appears probable a ‘about half of — el and on the 2 jednention should te tell u “rated tim 
the whole quantity arriving in this country is in fact that their children were offered a may be difficult to teach ‘him pce but not 
the — of oil of vitriol, or * hurie acid. i iion at home for 27. a year than they could — by | ct Yin results, and 
Now every t thousand tons of this cubic nitre, allowing sending them boarding school, for which they — these results toh 
10 per pet Pi ities, would, i the better ed 
ET 
ati 
N is substance, side my w. day. m enerally i count 
hich, at 307. per ton, would be worth nearly 17,0007., d of the — are accordingly those of farmers ee ose —— € de mn — 
many tho tons o Tm radesmen, and t. i wo-thirds those of moters of su. eola A 
they us r 4t. 
of the enormous amount of — material | late AR pro boen n disappearing E : : E — : 
daily wasted. M à T 5 jobs et oe — pit uh instruction “of the 
of i der thi FFF E dit of the | Shi 
it, may render this W al vanneces , and — ion of the farmer and t the te 
thus save the pocket of the m: urer, and at the la — that it is mpossi ible to conceive the existence Be uy: Doniores as NN books. —An Account of 
same time benefit the public. Tournal of the Society of | of a class d bya class of 3 
vm ig gnorant . or a „class of educated farmers in 
THE MONEY VALUE OF MANURES. 
If the one class is to be cated, we must educ: 
cate| The Phosphoric Acid in Manure.— The The various sources. 
| also the other ; and the e: ue ee the aon 3 
e | they both thus need can a ote $a br x e of a of England are Q) copr dep De e the 
here id and A o frat Ireland 
wa; c we spend our own money, i adapta the chi ä À Price Porthonitrogen (in ; 
we — e. What we give, we give to whom we like, and the King’s Somborne schools. is the nature of it| ofi (od I 5 
in the manner we like best. It is with us rather a| Mr. Dawes "—— fally . — in dis werk en) ^ : y P mms 
matter of sentiment and impulse than of deliberation. | titled “ —— ints on Secular Instruction.” No cost of the46 parts werte iis 
We do not make this Men the same Tr: other person having these im to attention gb. o o Ms. por uon. 
thought, and caution, thriftiness as we do — to have given the same deliberate consideration to the Groombridge and Sons. 
