HINTS FOR THE DISTRICT CHARITABLE COMMITTEE. 
597 
1831 : 
The “ Strand Road” at Calcutta, towards 
the completion of which, Court’s contribu- 
tion has been requested.’’ 
In our next we shall notice the public 
works in Madras and Bonabay, as well as 
the surveys which have been effected. 
BORING.— FORT WILLIAM. 
A brass plumb by the break! ng of the 
string having remained at the bottom of 
the tubes used for the artesian spring in 
Fort William, among other means adoptejj 
to bring it up, a mud shell-augur was used 
to push it out of the way or to raise it ; 
having laid hold of it, the force required 
to bring it up was so great as to break the 
shoulders of the instrument. The Sappers 
and Miners, we are happy to say, have suc- 
ceeded in bringing it up from a depth of 
326 feet, by breaking of the valve at B. 
(see plate VI, fig. 14 and 15,) and disen. 
gaging the plumb by means of a jumper^ 
after which the conical worm -augur laid 
hold of the hinge of the valve of the mud 
shell-augur, the cutters of which were bro- 
ken off. 
The greatest praise is due to the Sappers 
who superintended, for their unremitting 
attention to the work. It is believed no da- 
mage has been done to the tubes, and we 
have no doubt, by the same talent and per- 
severance which have been hitherto evinced 
in this great scientific undertaking, tha^- 
they will now get to the depth at which 
water will be found. 
LIKENESSES OF DISTINGUISHED 
INDIVIDUALS. 
We have in our possession some very 
correct likenesses of distinguished individu- 
als who have lately left India, and of others 
who are still residing in this country ; we 
shall give one or two every month. 
There are some persons to whom deep 
scientific research and mechanical discoveries 
have no particular allurements. By making 
ourpublicationinterestingin every particular, 
we hope to win them to the love of studies 
of not less importance to themselves than 
to the community at large. 
FLOUR-MAKING RECOMMENDED 
AS AN EMPLOYMENT FOR THE 
POOR. 
We beg to call the attention of the Go- 
vernment and the District Charitable Com- 
mittee to Hebert’s flour-maker, described in 
our present number and illustrated by a 
drawing. It appears to us that much good 
would be effected, were the prisoners now in 
our native jails employed in flour and rope, 
rather than in road-making,on which, in our 
opinion, proper work people alone should be 
employed. 
To guard against the imposition of those 
who prefer idleness to industry, we conceive 
Hebert’s flour-maker might be used by the 
District Charitable Committee as profitable 
occupation for such as are dependant upon 
its bounty, on account of not obtaining 
employment elsewhere. Were the society 
to which we allude to rent a work- 
house, rope-making, cotton -spining, and 
other profitable labour might be introduced, 
and large returns for their present expendi- 
ture secured, and by extending such means 
of doing good give a moral character to 
the people and enforce permanent habits of 
industry and a thirst for improvement. 
LORD AUCKLAND’S FOURTH 
SCIENTIFIC PARTY. 
January 14, 1837. 
At this meeting Dr. O’Shaughnessy per- 
formed part of the eigth series of Farraday’s 
experimental researches, which will be 
found described at page 18 of our Review. 
He also exhibited, with much better effect 
than on the former occasion, his working 
model of a machine, producing moving pow- 
er by the application of electro -magnetic 
influence. Several splendid specimens of fos- 
sils were on the table, especially those 
considered to be new genera, others which 
Captain Cautley and Dr. Falconer have 
called sevatherium, found by them in the 
S ewalik hills. 
