The next year will be unusually attractive and interesting to the readers of the Scientitic American. The great Exhibition to be held in New York, in 1853, will enable us to illus trate an extraordinary number of new mao chines, and as a standard work for binding at the year's end, the present, being the com mencement of a new volume, fo rms a good opportunity for engineers, mechanics, mill wrights, farmers, manufacturers, and alilove�s of science and art, to become subscribers. tors, emwwered

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... nd required to perform all the duties required by the law. Every steamboat is re. quired to have the spaces sur rounding the boilers safe from ignition j the boilers are to be tested by hydraulic pressure, at least once per anllum j each boat must have some kind 01 life-preserver for each passenger j metallic life-boats must also be provided. Vessels, according to their tonnage, must have from one to three Jorce pumps on deck for the extinguishment of fires, and there must be a good supply of bur . kets. Every engineer must be examined by the inspectors an<»get a certificate of qualification belore he can be employed to take charge of an engine,-and t he safeguards for carrying only a certain amount ofsteam, and to have, good gauges, are full and complete, but, at the same time, as we have said in substance belore, this law �ere but re.productions j and while they were servatory near Leamington, England. It w,_ astonishing the people of England, at the constructed by 11. :Mr. Craig, an Episcopalian Great Exhibition, the 'old machine of Mr. Bell clergyman. The tube is of. a cigar shape, was quietly cutting down its yearly harvest is 76 feet long, and is 13 feet in diameter. in the carse of Gourie, in Scotland. We can-Mr. Craig will soon turn it on the planet Ve not contradict these statements, except so far nus to settle the question whether 6he has a as if relates to the borrowing of the idea� of satelite or 'not. The Moon seen through it pre� Mr. Bell, by Americans. Let us have names sents a most magnificent appearance. , clear and dates for these stateinents j it is said that and colorless, with her rocks and mountain some of Mr. Bell's machines were sent to craters looming up in terrinc grandeur. �<e:::= = The New Bafety Steamboat Law.