HALL & CO., Sole Patentees, Wellington-street, Strand, London.
PATENT GAS and LAMP CHIMNEY.—COGAN’S ECONOMIC ELONGATOR, secured by her Majesty’s Letters Patent, is superior to any hitherto introduced to the public, produces a more brilliant light, and so effectually prevents smoke, that Gas may now be introduced into the best-furnished apartments, without fear or injury to its adornments. Lace-merchants, shawl-warehousemen, and others, will find it worthy their adoption. Common Lamps, with this simple chimney, though burning inferior oil, will give light equal to the Solar, and without smell.
Proprietors of gas-works, gas-fitters, gas-dealers, and others, desirous of becoming agents for the same, will please to make early application to R. COGAN, 48, Leicester-square, where the trade may be supplied with lamp and gas glasses, together with clock and figure shades of every description, cheaper than at any house in London. Priced lists of nearly 100 engraved patterns of gas glasses will be sent to any part of the kingdom by forwarding the address.
French and English fancy glass, alabaster ornaments, China shades, &c.
BUILDERS’ COLLEGE, LONDON.—To PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.—Mr. HANSOM, Architect of the Birmingham Town Hall, &c. &c., has associated with his practice an Institution to give enlarged facilities to students in Architecture and Architectural Engineering; and to form a superior class of Architectural Sculptors, Carvers, Modellers, &c., to be engaged in his own office and works until competent to practise a liberal and lucrative profession.
It has been Mr. Hansom’s study to lay down a plan for the instruction of architectural decorators and furnishers, which shall combine the advantages of the school, the office, and the workshop; so that general education, professional training, and handicraft skill may be acquired and perfected together—that the benefits of college discipline, and residence of systematic tuition under proficient masters, of lectures and examinations, and of constant familiarity with books, models, and works may be united in one establishment.
Pupils are eligible at the age of fourteen and upwards, and are articled in the usual manner as apprentices. The terms are moderate, and with other particulars, may be known on application at the office, 27, Foley-place, London.
The importance of a system of education as above proposed, it is scarcely necessary to point out. While other callings and professions are crowded, those to which this Institution principally refers are but rarely, and in many instances, imperfectly practised, and the demand for proficients is every day wonderfully on the increase. In proof of this, we need only to advert to the evidences of the growing public taste, and to note the tone and temper of the professors and patrons of architecture. Witness also the ornamented character of our public and private edifices, the restoration of ecclesiastical structures, and the building of new ones, on a munificent scale; the late fearful ravages of fire, causing the necessity of a large amount of rebuilding, and leading, most probably, to the remodelling of most of the large cities of Europe. All these circumstances tell how important it is that a school should be founded, and a body of professors formed to fill up the vacuity in that section of art which lies between the mere constructor of buildings, and the architect and engineer who gives the plan of the structure.