101 



Price of Yorkshire cold blast iron at Hull, 



(No. 1.) 5 5 0 



Difference in favour of cold blast iron in the 



market generally 1 12 6 



He contended that it was a duty Societies like this owed 

 to the public, to point out all such facts as were material to 

 its interests, but more particularly such as bore directly upon 

 its safety. 



Further discussion took place between Mr. Morton, of 

 Normanton, and Mr. Hartop; Mr. Morton holding, that, 

 taking a commercial view of the question, hot blast was pre- 

 ferable, as it was cheaper. He contended that there were 

 plenty of purposes to which the hot blast iron might be 

 applied. He considered that no opinion could be formed 

 upon the matter, as some of the most eminent and unbiased 

 experimentalists had placed the iron of Bradford and its 

 neighbourhood low down in the scale, a place which it had 

 since been shown it ought not to occupy ; and if doctors 

 disagree who should decide ? 



Mr. Hartop denied Mr. Morton's proposition, that there 

 was any purpose to which hot blast iron could be applied in 

 the quantity he had spoken of. There was no place in which 

 it could be used with advantage over cold blast iron, con- 

 sidering that the saving in its manufacture was only 12s. 6d. 

 per ton, as proved in his paper read at Wakefield in July ; 

 and the doctors having disagreed in this matter, the subject 

 has been taken out of their hands by practical men, and 

 hence the deteriorated value of hot blast iron in the market. 



The discussion upon the matter, of which the above are 

 the main arguments, continued for some time, but without 

 eliciting any thing further. 



