The Publishers have added the following extract from 

 the Glasffoiv Herald of October 11th, 1850, containing 

 some important improvements in the apparatus for manu- 

 facturing sugar ; — 



NEW SUGAR-MAKING MACHINE. 



On Friday, last week, we were invited by Messrs. Neilson, 

 Hyde Park, to see a new sugar-making machine, just finished 

 at their works. This machine, which is the patented invention 

 of Mr. Edward Beanes, who is the representative of the Messrs. 

 Jseilson at Havana, is to be erected on the estate of his Excel- 

 lency the Count of Penalver, one of the most extensive sugar 

 planters in the island of Cuba. 



In constructing this machine, much attention has been paid 

 to the external appearance of the structure. In design, it is 

 not unlike a miniature circular temple, such as are represented 

 in pictures of Eastern life and manners, known as praying 

 temples ; and one would be ready to conclude that Mr. Beanes, 

 the inventor, had confined himself as much to the exterior 

 graces and symmetrical proportions of his invention as to its 

 utility for the purpose to which it is to be applied. A close 

 examination of the apparatus soon shows that every portion of 

 the machine has its separate and indispensable use, and that 

 the highest utility has not been sacrificed for the attainment of 

 architectural beauty. This machine is a good example of how 

 available iron may be made for elegant and useful purposes. 



The apparatus is, as we have said, circular. The circle is 

 twenty feet in diameter at the base. From the base spring six 

 large fluted doric columns, these columns are sixteen feet in 



