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Evening Star, Issue 2917, 25 June 1872, Page 3

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Seme facts of great interest are recorded in the scientific world, one being the introduction into the iron trade of mechanical puddling, as invented by an American named Danks. Puddling is such a difficult portion of the manufacture, that it has ever been the aim of our ironmasters to solve the question mechanically, but although several have very nearly approached the solution, it has broken down at a critical point. Mr Danks, however, has succeeded in producing a revolving chamber, which goes round the heated iron, instead of, as formerly, the iron being itself turned round the furnace. It is said to increase the yield largely, to and produce much better iron. The Iron and Steel Institute have been carefully examining the invention, and it has been decided to introduce it largely into England. It is seriously proposed to search for coal near London, that is to say, in Sussex, a little to the north of Battle. Mr Goodwin Austin deliberately asserts his conviction that, arguing by analogy, the coal beds which arc found in Belgium and North France, extending to Calais, may reasonably be found in the valley of the Thames and under the Weald on clay, and a trial is therefore about to be made to ascertain the truth of the theory. The Lords have been busy with the Aberdeen peerage, and although there have been no difficulties in the present claimant making good his tiHe, the whole story of George, Eatl of Aberdeen alias George Osborne the first mate, is equal to any romance that ever was written, and proves again that truth is often stranger than fiction. The Phillips case, in which the lessee of the London re-freshment-rooms compelled the Great Western Company so stop their trains for a certain time, that passengers might feed on indigestible pork-pies, has been reversed in a higher court, and will probably now go to the Lords. It shows what the profits of a railway bar must be, when thousands are spent in an endeavor to keep its custom intact. There is no other legal news of interest, save that Dr Laukester, the coroner and a rather well-known writer on health, is in the Bankruptcy Court.