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Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. rtINIDAD PETROLEUM COMPANY (Limited). ii, Th o Directors beg to give notice. that Share Certificates, Itchange for Bankers' rece pt s, will be ready for delivery Offices of the Company on MONDAY next, the 20th , 40t. 4 , Old Broad -street, E.C., March 15, 1865. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NEW YORK DIVISION—SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS. PE NNSYLVANIA DIVISION—FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS. (L imited), payable let April at the Consolidated Bank " 4 .lldt e d) . 4 110 COUPONS from the above Bonds will be PAID on Ist April, at the rate of 4s. to the dollar, and must be lett b.? clear days at the Office of the Company, No. 2. Old a j a d - street, London, 8.C., for examin 4 tion. If sent by post, u eclue for the amount wilt be r,mitted in course. 2, Old Broad-street, London, E.C., March, 1865. ItOYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, and bli sh PENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Esta- Pla,, e u A.D. 1837. under Royal 1 atronage), 17, Waterloo- London, S.W. ARTHUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary. Agents wanted in towns not yet represented. 46i: 20 ANNUAL PREMIUM. AGE. 25 1 12 5 35 80 1 16 0 40 •,____ 2 0 8 45 ANNUAL PREMITIL 2 6 9 2 15 1 3 6 3 ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE AbSURANCE SOCIETY. 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. Established 1824. T he Annual results of the Society's operations T,„ e Annual Income exc ee d s £201,000 rho few Fund safely inveite i is over £1,446.000 Th;rvir Policies in the last year were 466, assuring £271,440 Zhee' ll Us added to Policies at the l as t Di v i s i on was £ 2 75,677 Total Claims by Death paid amount t 0... £1,962,629 Thy to e following are among the distinctive features of the ety EDITIth SYSTEM.--On any Policy for the whole of Life, A ye e , the age does not exreel (0, one-half of the Annual at,i""utns during the first five years may remain on credit. trt,, r QaY eith e er continue as a debt on the Policy, or be paid a.. • - tim t4rl;,"Y RATES of PREMIUM for YOUNG LIVES, with g. Participation in Profits. kaPOPTMENT ASSURANCES .may be effected. without ktt 7, by which the Sum Assured becomes payable on the 14,rnent of a specified age, or at death, whichever event Its first happen. t o ett LID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned thbe I ncreased risk. tlitz.l,9_,UPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid uays after proof of death. h_Thr Reversionary Bonus at the Quinquennial Division in tlii,,alerkred 9S per cent., and the Cash Bonus 28 p er cent., 1 1 :1e Premiums paid i n th e 5 y ears. N'e next Division of Profits will take place in January, dup n and pereons who effect New l'olicies before the end of dlfi oou Ilea will be entitied at that Div Lion to one year's ad sl share of Profits over later entrants. 04 the of Rat etyes and Agents, Forms of Proposal can be obtained of Soci's or at Wit. GEORGN CUTCLIFFE, Ac nary and Sezetary. 0, James's-square, London, S.W. NoTITH OF ENGLAND WAGON COMPANY (Limited). In corporated under " The Companies Act, 1862," Capital £200,000, in 10,000 shares of .£2O each. Ftr(With power to increase.) do i ssue of 5,000 shares. D e p o sit .e. a share on applica 2, and Xi 10s. on a ll o t ment. Cal s not to exceed X 2 10s. °oa°, and at interv a l s o f no t l ess th an t h ree mont h s. (I t is not proposed to call up more than £lO a sham) Th e DIRECTORS. s 'Jit; -non. James F. St uar t W ort l ey (D i rector of Bank of Wharncliffe House, W., Chairman. ot. Clarke, Director of Works, Admiralty, White qnell Fsq. (Director of London and South-Western 40 1 1vray), Belrumit, Havant. to, k ,ander Williams, Esq., Palace House, Bi s h o p' s W a lth am. %chard Grosvenor, 31. P., Grosvenor Howe, Lon- With power to add to their number. „ AUDITORS. P itzrnauriee, Auditor of Great Northern, and of Lon 14V, Brighton, and South-Coast Railways. ar k Chadwick, Adamsoc, M'lienna, and Co., 27, Great cirge-street. BANKERS. Cooks, Biddalph and Co., 43, Charing-Dross, S.W. SOLICITORS. plessrs. Bireham, Dalrymple, Drake, and Co. INSPECTING ENGINEER. ChatiOS Cubitt, Esq., 3, G reat George-street, S.W. BROKERS. keens, Field, Son, and Wood, 9, Warnford-conrt, T hrogmorton-stre. t. SECRETARY. R. W. Hall, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 37, Gnat George-street, S.W. °D4 44.°11 Companies have been for some time in successful o 4 „a,ion. 1 a the Northern, North-Western, and Midland tfoii: i eB of England, returning large dividends, after due Leiki,„":fla made for depreciation of stock and other contin- Z '6 This Company has been formed for the extension It i t 311tem to the South and South-Western h i f it has been hitherto but partially known. districts, in jailw e n it is considered that every year a vast increase to the t the re turns nd other countries is made, and that accord 'ite,° made to the Board of Trade for 1863, be ,tte,f: t hree and four millions of tons of goods were carried 1 ; 11 4( ‘ i le lines in this particular district, it w ill b e ev id en t "'ln „ ample field is open for the operations of this Com t Companies are looked on with favour by railway i'itiall4flies and by their customers, the hire of plant being an e,4,eQnvenience to the manufacturer, the coal owner, and frier. A profitable business can also be ensured by en- Lttl e 4 into contracts for the supply of Rolling Stock to foreign 41 olonial railways. The demand for that accommodation tiyeZlar„cre and increasing. VI to'''. Mlclany does not propose to construct its own h wag ons, ow the plan of purchasing its stock from este is ed ,'N' er s, which has been successfully adopted by other Wagon ;u'epinies. This, from its coimmand of capital, it will be en jr,tfehit°do on advantageous firms; and a large profit, un tneo by any commensurate risk, cannot fail tobe secured 11 Thee nareholders. lef sources of profit in the business proposed to be . r "" ken by the Company may be divided into two classes, le tting of Wagons at fixed rentals, and '„letting of Wagons at redemption rentals former class of contracts hirers pay the Company Oi ts ll annual sum as will cover depreciation, repairs, and A t t ti 'e L e against accidents, as well as a remunerative hate th lu e capital employed. e latter class the hirers pay such sums as will return t:bertal invested, with interest ; the wa gon s r ema i n i ng th e t'tl;4 of the Company until the last payment has been ° :: til ,f l agreement which has been made with a well lltic(o,,Tanilfacturing firm in very extensive business, the can rely on a minimum return of 74 per cent. per If pon the paid-up capital of the Company. ie 4Vs , i,',fa? however, believe that, from the abundance of b u s ! - ► 4 f i nlinable and the pressing demand for railway plant, 6 - this country and abroad, the profits of the Company (},Cow;" Of con siderably larger. IV the Articles of Association mpg be map oted at ~,kers' and Brokers', and at the Trary Offices, and 'esfi-4,reernents entered into can be seen at the Offices of Otpii R ifcham and Co., 46, Parliament-street. %1:41i,, cations for shares must be made in the annexed form ; I,`MaPplication will be considered unless a deposit of .ela % w i t h e a , been previously paid to the Bankers. This depos i t . the , itVeturned if no allotment is made to the appl cant h ahas_ al lotment is made, it will be applied in payment on 00:18 ' e a allotted. httee ct uses and Forms of Application for Shares may be ed at the Temporary Offices and of the Brokers. `this Pot, n h „win OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. t; :`r-sheet sh,uld be presented entire to the Bankers t o ' t - any, who will detach the Receipt, and return 0 th. c ps icant.] u ecrs of the South of England Wagon Company G e N th ntl e (Limited). ad In f;len,—l request you to allot me shares of £2O tql I h e le, &nth of England Wagon Company Limited), ! I ltl 4 l lo t r o e cl u Y agree to accept those shares, or any less num iN ;4) 6 - 4 to me, subject to the regulations of the Comps .y, ZI1 0 ,9R I ; a s hareholder of the Company in respect thereof, 4 le,;;laeo - + - e to pay the ftirther deposit ot Z 1 108. a share on 4 4,i'latei"; ‘ and. 1 authorise yon o enter my name on the t sa ki,et S hareholders of the Company in respect of the .otted to me. Name in full ... Usual signature Address in full . Date ...... ..... —.. " L ' II iNTS for the Drawing-room, Library, k t , ,„ I V' at Ar".loMg-room, consisting of a new and e.egant assort 14a, .""SE Figures, Grou P a p erwei ghts , , Obelisks, Ink :Mitiful inlaid Tables, &a, in Italian, tkltorttdt Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. 41 4 t:1,1 M anufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine. 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Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tnry, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill. It. SWEETING, Hon. Sec; CHARLES NASH, Sec. Twin Screws versus Paddles. The twin screw steamship Mary Augusta, 970 tons and 280-horse power of engines, nominal, whose measured mile trial off the mouth of the Thames was noticed in The Sun of Monday last, made her sea trial trip on Tuesday between Dover and Calais, in a race from the English to the French harbour with the new paddlewheel mail steamer La France, the latest addition to the fleet of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and said to be the fastest boat under steam in the English Channel. The Mary Augusta had left Greenhithe at an early hour in the morning, and at 730 a.m. dropped her anchor in Dover Roads to await the time of depar ture of the next mail boat for Calais on the arrival on Dover pier of the express train down from Lon don due at 923 a.m. The train arrived on the pier with its usual punctuality in point of time, and very soon afterwards the mail steamer cast off from the Admiralty pier and stood out clear to view from where the Mary Augusta was lying, and, was then discovered to be the famous La France, she being, when time was taken, about three cables' length ahead of and on the weather bow of the Mary Augusta, the water being smooth, compara tively speaking, in the Channel, and the wind quite moderate from E.g.E. La France had thus the advantages at the start of smooth water—her specialize—and with nothing aloft to offer any resis tance to her passage through the water, while the Mary Augusta would have been better weighted for the race with her slim-bow'd rival had there been a sea in the Channel, and had her bark-rig aloft more nearly approximated to the rig of La France. The two vessels for the first five minutes after starting together from off the end of Dover pier head seemed to , be pretty equal in point of speed ; and _ . some of those on board the Mary Augusta began to think their vessel would make a sufficient fight of it could she but be made to " hold her own" with her rival, but her builders, who were on board, thought otherwise, and stated they felt convinced the twit screws must win the battle. The result proved the soundness of this opinion, and now ensued, without any doubt the most exciting and interesting contest that has ever yet occurred since steam was first applied for the propulsion of ships. At 9.53 both vessels began to open the South Fore land to the breeze, being at the time exactly abreast of each other and close together, with the paddle to windward, the twin screws appearing to slightly draw on La France, but a hot bearing developing itself in the starboard engine of the Mary Augusta, it was eased in its revolutions as much as durst be done under the circumstances of the ship's position with her handsome and dangerous rival, and her chance of suc cess thus far damaged. At 10 a.m. La France's stem was fairly in a line with the Mary Augusta's stern, de spite the hot bearing and reduced revolutions in the latter's starboard engine, the twin screws evidently beating the paddle " all to nothing" as the motion of the water through which the two vessels were cleav- ing their rapid way increased. In ten minutes afterwards the Mary Augusta placed herself in posi tion about three cables' length ahead of and in line with La France, and very shortly afterwards the latter with four cables' length astern, and on her leader's portquarter, emitting such immensevolumes of steam and smoke from her two funnels as satis- factorily proved that the engines were having more steam than they could make use of, and that La France could never at any time or under any circum stances during her yet short career have been driven with more purpose to win than at the present. The Mary Augusta, in addition to her loss of speed, owing to the decreased number of the revolutions of one of her engines, which persistently continued to be afflicted with the unfortunate hot bearing, steered at times rather wild from the uneven running of her engines, and this necessarilylengthenedher course. The Mary Augusta, however, still, as the cliffs of England les sened and those of France rose on the horizon, gradu ally and surely increased her lead over the gallant La France, and at 10 45, the heated bearing of the star- board engine having become cooled, its revolutions were increased, and from that moment the race was her own, La France, visibly dropping astern every stroke her pistons made, and the Mary Augusta clos- ing in with Calais pier at a tremendous rate of speed. At 11h. 4min. 45sec. the latter was close in to the pie'r's head, when, as there was no intention to take the vessel inside Calais harbour, her helm was put down and her head brought round for Dover-cliffs again, La France being then fully 33. miles astern, six minutes elapsing from the time of putting down the helm of the Mary Augusta until she met La France, both vessels continuing at full speed throughout, the one finighing her voyage to Calais from Dover, and the other returning across the Channel to the Coast of England from that of France. The time occupied by the Mary Augusta in the double run ?rom Dover to Calais and back was exactly 2 hours 45 minutes and 10 seconds—a rate of speed never before equalled under any circum stances by a screw steamer, double or single, nor yet by any paddle steamer, when the time was rigidly and impartially taken, as it was in the race between these two vessels, the manner of taking time very often giving a vessel an exaggerated average of her peformance---an error which was most satisfactorily avoided in the present trial between La France and the Mary Augusta. On arriving off Calais pier heads the owners of the latter ship, satisfied with their success, dipped their ship's colours on parting, which was courteously returned by La France. The run back to Dover from Calais was made by the double screw, with help from her fore and aft sails forward, but the wind by that time had freshened considerably, and a tolerable sea was running in mid channel, and wherever the influence of the tide was fully felt to windward. An oppor tunity was thus afforded of noticing the meeting of the vessel's bow and the sea as she passed through the water. There was no wave hanging on in front of the stem, all that could be seen of entering force and its resistance being merely a fountain spray of water—white from its small volume and the ship's great speed though the sea—with no other visible disturbance in the waters through which lay the ship's course. In the return of the Mary Augusta from her sea trial trip to Gravesend the South Fore ■ land was passed at 20 minutes past 4 p.m., a heavy gale blowing from N.E., which continued, the ves sel behaving beautifully. The North Foreland was passed at 20 minutes past 5, and the Tongue light- ship at 6 . 15, Gravesend being reached at 9.15 p.m. The success of the Mary Augusta not only proves the superiority of the double or twin screw principle over the principle of the single screw application in point of speed (the superiority in steering and ma noeuvring powers is sufficiently admitted), but it also proves its superiority over the latest and best applied paddlewheel system, La France being not more than one-half the weight of the Mary Augusta, the propelling powers in both ships being Paraffin and Paraffin Oils. At the meeting on Monday of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, Mr. James Young, of Limefield, read the follow ing paper "On Paraffin and Paraffin Oils":—The earliest notice that I know of hydro-carbon is the divine command to Noah—" Thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch ;" and again, when the impious inhabitants of the plain said—" Go to, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach into heaven, they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." In the same locality, at this day, old buildings can be-seen, the bricks of which ara cemented t"gether with this same slime or pitch ; and boats are still made of basketwork, the interstices of which are filled with the same material. In several places in the Bible the word translated " salt " is by many held to mean petroleum, so that this substance seems to have been in constant use from the earliest dawn of history. There are exported at the present time from the sea port of Baku, on the Caspian, 4,000 tons of petroleum annually. The roofs of the houses in Baku are covered with this substance, which makes them water-tight. In this neighbourhood there is a large tract of land through which petroleum and inflammable gas rise in great quantities. Ussher, who was there in his journey from London to Persepolis, describes and gives a picture of a fire-temple, and actually. saw devotees, who had come a long distance, worshipping this not celestial fire; and stranger still, he found in the same place a party of Germans building a work to distil and manufacture this petroleum. This is one way of invading the realms of hea then superstition—making a substance that has received divine rites for thousands of years the object of a joint stock company "limited" to spread it over the world to give physical light, which is, to say the least of it, no hin drance to spiritual light. A district in Burmah has supplied petroleum from before historical times. Symes, in his " Embassy to Ava," vol. ii., states that the number of wells in that country exceeds 520, and the annual yield of petro leum more than 400,000 hhds. In America, small quanti ties of petroleum were to be found in the drug shops, under the name of Seneca oil. It derived its name from having been derived or brought from the Seneca Indian; who col lected it on the shores of Senaca Lake. A stream in Alle• ghany was called Oil Creek, in consequence of the appear ance of oil on its banks, and the same name was given to another branch of the Alleghany in Vanango county, Pennsylvania; and in old American maps severals places are mentioned in this part of the country as produc ing oil. Upon Oil Creek, in Vanango county, two spots were particularly noticed. At these places springs issued from the banks of the stream, bringing up more or less oil, which collected upon the surface of the water as it stood in pools below the springs. It was collected by spreading woollen cloths upon the water, and wringing thorn when saturated. in the valley there are numerous ancient pits, which seem to have been excavated for the purpose of extracting oil, but by whom made is unknown. It is supposed by some that these pits were made by the French who occupied the country in the early part of last century ; but others believe that the Indians dug the pits. ,Day, in his history of Pennsylvania, gives an account of the high value in which the Indians held this substance. They mixed it with the paint used to anoint themselves for war, and employed it in their reli- gious rites. He quotes a letter from the commander of Fort Duguesne to General Montcalm, describing an assembly of Indians by night on the banks of the creek, and in the midst of their ceremonies, their setting fire to tho scum of oil that collected on the surface of the water. As the flames burst forth, illuminating the clarkfvalley, there arose from the Indians a loud triumphant shout, which made the hills re-echo. The scene recalled to the writer the accounts of the ceremony of the fire-worshippers. The quantities of oil collected by the early settlers were small ; the largest amount which was from the lowest spring on Oil Creek reaching sometimes to 20 barrels a year. I quote from the New American Encyclopedia—" No suspicion seems to have been entertained that the supplies could be increased by sinking wells through the sandstones and shales that underlie the valley, and it was not known that by distilla tion and chemical treatment the quality of petroleum could be greatly improved. This was the state of matters with regard to petroleum up to the year 1847. During the last two centuries, several attempts were made to make tar or pitch from coal, with the intention of using it for the pur pose that Norwegian or Archangel tar is used, such as tar ring ships and ropes." Some of these are very curious and well worth looking into as interesting matters of history, but your time will not allow this to-night. The only one of these attempts that assumed the position of a manufac ture was that of Lord Dundonald, who subjected coal to distillation, producing coke and tar. This manufacture ap pears to have succeeded till some time after the introduc tion of gas lighting, when the tar from the gasworks was thrown upon the market in considerable quantities, and ex tinguished the works first erected by Lord Dundonald. During the present century several efforts were made in England and France to produce useful products from the shales in Dorsetshire in England, and Autun in France. About the year 1830, Dr. Reichenbach made an elaborate investigation of the products obtained by distilling wood, and among these substances discovered a white waxy sub stance having little affinity for other bodies, which he named paraffine ; and about the same time Dr. Christisen, in mak ing a chemical examination in Rangoon petroletun, disco vered a body which he named petroline. It v7as soon found that Dr. Roichenbach's paraffine and Dr.: Christisen's petroline were the same substance. Reichenbach, who was a manufacturing chemist on a very largo scale, although ,he produced very small quantities of paraffine, saw clearly and boldly stated that if the substance could be obtained in quantities it would be of great use, and mentioned candles as one of the uses to which it might be applied. The substance was analysed by Gay Lussac, who determined its composition, showing that it was a hydro carbon composed of equal atoms of carbon and hydrogen, but who deplored that he could not procure enough of the substance to make a thorough chemical investigation. In Dec., 1847, I received a letter from Dr. Lyon Playfair, and as this is the starting point of a very large and interesting branch of commerce, 1 shall, with your leave, read this let- ter. On examining the coal mine mentioned in Dr. Play fair's letter, I found that the petroleum came from a sand- stone bed which lay above thoseam of coal. This petro leum was A dark coloured substance, nearly black, about the consistence 6f olive oil. Ihad a small work erected, and petroleum was manufactured into two oils; the lighter was sold for burning in lamps, and the heavier for lubricatin g e d n u d al ; l b y u d t im it i h n a is d h s e e d, rv a e n d d a tuhasetf ui pe p t u ro rp le o um se_ w it o h r a k d machinery. The quantity o f petroleum from the mine be turned to good account. I p t earo w niv a ee s soon proved o t ha petroleum could an followed by works of the same kind. In 1854 or 1855, a quantity of Burmah petroleum was brought to this coun try, and works erected near Liverpool for its purification by the same process as I had used with the Derbyshire Petroleum. A large work was also built in London, and a very large business done with this Burmah, or, as it was named, Rangoon petroleum. But it is in America that the trade has been developed with a rapidity characteristic of our energetic cousins. In 1854, Messrs. Evelett and Bissel, of New York, secured the right of the upper spring in Oil Creek, and organised a company in Now York. The quality of the oil was tested, and a report made upon it by Professor Ullman, jun. No progress, however, was made in establishing the business till 1857, when Messrs. Cowditch and Drake, of New Haven, undertook the search for the oil. Col. C. L. Drake removed to Titusville, on Oil Creek, and tho winter of 1858-9 completed his ar rangement for boring to the :rock below the bed of the creek. The works advanced very slowly, and it was not till Aug. 26, 1859, that oil was struck at the depth of 71ft. The drill suddenly sank into a cavity of the rock, and the oil rose within sin. of the surface ; and a small pump being introduced, a supply of oil was obtained amounting to 40Q gallons a day, and a larger pump being introduced, the flow was increased to 1,000 a-day. Then a steam engine was applied totheaws uninterrupted ori forconstant,andkeptinweeks. T operation su ion; ce s e ti i l s l the supply was brought on the oil-fever, which has raged with greater or less interest over a large part of America ever since. I may mention that I visited the district a few months after the discovery. The only business talked of or thing thought of was boring for oil. In whichever way you looked you sa w nothing but derricks and boring machines. I may state that small steam engines Were un i versally used for boring; whereas in this country, where there has been so long and so much boring for minerals, we are only beginning to make use of the steam-engine for that purpose now. A gentleman wham I met assured me he had counted carefully the number of bores being put down, CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNIAL. HANDEL FESTIVAL. MESSIAEI, Monday, Tune 26, 1865. SELECTION, Wednesday, June 28, 1865. ISRAEL, Friday, June 30, 1865. __ _ The Programme of arrangemen s, with the price of Tickets, and the block plan of Stalls, may be had on written or personal applicati w, at the Festival Ticket Offices, Crystal Palace, and Exeter Hall. It may also be had at the principal Music Warehouses in London and the Provinces ; and be sides numerous other places abroad, at the offices of the South- Eastern, and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Compa nies, at Paris, Brus els, Cologne, Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Ghent, Antwerp, dre. 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LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN j EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persona whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption sr effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after takini , it. Prepares only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing.. cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 131,d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, March 10.—" The Cossack, 20, Lieut. G. Borlase (in charge), left on the 4th inst. for the lonian Islands, and the Psyche, despatch vessel, Lieut.-Commander R. Sterne, left on the 6th for Naples. The latter ship has on board the Bishop of Gibraltar, who is about to consecrate the new Eng lish church there. His Lordship is accompanied by the Venerable Archdeacon Cleugh. The Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, is expected from thelonian Islands, and the Phcebe, 35, Capt. T. D. Fortescue, from the Coast of Syria, other ships having been sent to replace them. The Pelican, 17, Commander H. B. Comber, and the Wanderer, 4, Commander M. C. Seymour, are under re pair. The latter is to go to Athens. Prince Arthur, after being detained at Marseilles by the weather, left on the sth instant, in the Enchantress,' for Naples ; and a private telegram informs us of his arrival there on the 6th inst., and of his expected departure thence in two days for Syracuse. The Italian sailing corvettes Eurydice, 18, Capt. Cavaliere V. Casselli, and Valoroso, 8, Capt. Cavaliere A. Cappellini, arrived on Sunday , afternoon from Gibraltar on a voyage of instruc tion. On entering the port they saluted the garri son, and on the following morning the salutes were duly returned. The Austrian steam corvette Graf Dondolo, Capt. G. Nauta, left Malta harbour on the 6th for Mexico, to relieve the Novaro. The two Prussian brigs Musquito and Rove, are still here awaiting instructions. The Royal Thames Yacht Club schooner Sylph, T. Fookes, master, arrived on the Bth inst. from Falmouth and Gibral tar. She left the former port on the 20th, and the latter on the 28th ult. The Royal Yacht Squadron schooner Zoe, E. Rice, master, arrived here on the following day, having left Southampton on the 20th ult., and Gibraltar on the Ist inst. She has on board Capt. and Mrs. Mane. Cable 26 miles in length is expected here in the Bellona steamer from England about the 15th inst., when the Fanny La,m bert, having effected the repair of the Tripoli and Benghazi section, and buoyed the ends of the Ben ghazi and the Alexandria section at the place of fault, will return to Malta to take on board the new piece, and proceed with it to complete the ne cessary repairs. The 2d battalion Royal Fusiliers have received their orders for Canada, and will probably leave about the end of May. Another battalion will, it is rumoured, leave. Malta this year for Ceylon or the Mauritius, probably the 2d bat talion Bth or 2d battalion 22d, most likely the latter, it having suffered much from ophthalmia, and it is thought a change will prove beneficial to it. Capt. Sherard Osborne, R.N., passed by Malta in the last steamer from England on his way to India. Col. Herman, Consul-General at Tripoli, has ar rived here from England on his return to his post. The paddlewheel steamer Sheerness, 2, 114 horse power, employed on harbour service between Chatham and Sheerness, after having been fitted with new boilers and the new Lumley's steering apparatus, was taken to the trial ground at Maplin Sands for the purpose of testing her speed and steer ing qualities. The result as to speed was satisfac tory, the vessel making an average of nine knots per hour. It was, however, to the trials made to test her steering capabilities that the greatest interest was attached, as testing the value of the Lumley rudder. The Sheerness made the complete circle in an average of 2 min. 40 sec., while with the paddle wheels disconnected, and one working ahead and the other astern, the full circle could not be made under nine minutes. A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board her Majesty's ship Formidable, 84, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir C. Talbot, K.C.8., Comman der-in-Chief at the ;core, for the trial of Sub-lieut. Harry Lefevre Ryder, of her Majesty's screw frigate Phaeton, 39, 400-horse power, Capt. G. L. Bow year, on a charge of having, on or about Sept. 23, 1864, twice struck Mr. J. C. Larcome, carpenter of the said ship, and also with having, on or about Dec. 23, 1864, struck Mr. G. L. L. Coste, midship man of the same ship. The Court was composed of Capt. J. Fulford, of the Formidable, president ; Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., Cumberland, 70; Capt. the Hon. G. D. Keane, additional, of the Cumber land ; Commander F. H. Stevens, Wellesley, 72 ; and Commander L. Gussen, Formidable. The prisoner, who was assisted by his "friend " Mr. Hoskens, Admiralty solicitor, Portsmouth, pleaded " Not Guilty " to both charges. Mr. G. H. Knight, of the firm of Essen, Knight, and Arnold, Crown solicitors, Rochester, officiated as Deputy Judge- Advocate, and conducted the prosecution. On the part of the prosecution nine witnesses were examined, the prisoner afterwards putting in a written defence, in which he urged that the blows alleged to have been struck were inflicted at the time the parties were all " larking " with each other. He also handed in a number of certificates of character. The Court, after deliberating for a short time, con sidered both charges fully proven, and adjudged the prisoner to forfeit one year's seniority, and to be severely reprimanded. Orders have been received at Chatham directing the depot of the 81st Regiment to move from that garrison to Gosport on Saturday next, to join the service companies of the regiment on their arrival from India. The troops whose arrival we announced yesterday in the troop slip Orontes, Capt. H. W. Hire, com menced their disembarcation at Portsmouth in the morning. Those of the Royal Engineers, under the command of Lieut. Lloyd, landed at the dockyard, and proceeded by rail to join head-quarters at Chatham. The head-quarters of the Royal Artillery, under the command of Col. Graham, were landed by Government steamers at the Royal Clarence yard and marched to the different forts at Gosport. A few men of the late St. Helena Regiment were landed at the dock, having volunteered to join the 22d, 52d, and 64th Regiments, while the officers and rest of the men remained on board, and will land this morning and be forwarded to th e d epo t battalion at Winc Hospital th hester.nbeyiniletary invalids were removed to Netley Sprightly, steam tender, Mas ter Commander Allen, under the charge of Lieut. Ar rowsmith and Dr. Roche. The Orontes only requires her bottom to be cleaned and a few defects made good when she will be ready for further service. Previous to the officers and ladies leaving the ship a desire was expressed by them to present Captain Hire token of the great kindness s th a evinced ehoyf him during a e s a the passage home, but this he very graciously and respectfully, yet positively, declined to accept, stating he needed not such rewards when doing his duty. It was then wished to make a suitable present in the shape of a silver inkstand to Mrs. Hire ; this also he begged to decline. The officers and ladies, however, deter mined that some memento should be handed to Capt. Hire, decided on presenting an address to him, in which they expressed their thanks for his kindness and attention on the voyage home. _ _ The 64th Regiment, under the command of Col. Shute, left Portsmouth garrison yesterday evening, and proceeded by two special trains to Manchester and Chester, where they are to be quartered. The depot of the 52d Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry), having been inspected by Major- Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., will leave the garrison at Chatham by special train on the South- Eastern Railway this morning, and proceed to Portsmouth, to join the service companies of j the regiment on their arrival from India. The 52d Regiment embarked on the 30th of June, 1853, and has consequently served nearly 12 years in India. In the Indian mutiny it greatly distinguished itself, the regiment, after being in numerous engagements With the rebels, being one of these which was at the e a n n d d e m f made t t hem year3t7hse re in w t h a e s O s a i d C t r Creek e b k e a l 2 :3 0 7 0 ; be and re s b e n i f Le e t n e that and the neighbouring districts. And according to the report in the American Cyclopedia, 74—1 understand the best 74 —were producing daily 1,165 barrels, each barrel holding about 32 English gallons, making the large ount of 37,280 gallons a day. The chief town in this district is Titusville, and when we got there we could see there was something very strange going on. Nothing was heard of but oil, the very children were making erections by the roadside and playing at boring for oil. Although at this time the whole out-put of the district was, as far as I could make out, under 60 casks a day. I may mention that this district is really in the backwoods. The day I left Titus ville I drove along many miles of what was called a road, which was nothing more than the trees cut down and rolled to one side. The wells vary greatly —some give oil at tho depth of 60, others are over 500 feet. The oil boring is like other mining operations, not certain of success. Two bores may be near each other, the one giving oil, the other none. Salt water commonly comes up with the oil ; it is separated by standing in vessels, the oil floating on the top of the watrr, and the water being drawn off from below. Sometimes when oil is struck it comes rushing out with ' great violence, as if it was thrown up by compressed gas. In ono well near Tideoute, it is said that a workman was knocked over by the jet of oil, which was thrown through the derrick and into the tree around ; and in one case the whole matter caught fire, producing very serious conse quences. Other parts of America have produced oil, such as Ohio, Western Virginia. A considerable quantity has been found in Canada, and from the excitable nature of the business, and the success that has attended it, we may rest assured that our American friends will look carefully after it. The exports were—for 1861, 1,112,470 gallons ; for 1862, 10 ,887,000 ; for 1863, 28,000,000. The total product for 1863 is estimated at 80,000,000 gallons. During the time my' petroleum work was going on, I started an investigation with the prospect of procuring petroleum, or a substance equivalent to it, from coal ; and after some time succeeded. The process which I discovered is exceedingly simple, and consists in the distillation of coal, at the lowest temperature, at which it can be decom posed. By this process we obtain a mixture of several liquids with paraffins dissolved in them. This liquid I named paraffin° oil. In distilling coal at a high tempera ture, such as a bright red heat, we procure a heavy liquid called coal tar, and a permanent gas--conamon coal gas. In my process, I s get no proper tar, but th e greater part of the illuminating portion of the gas in a liquid state. In fact, paraffine oil is the substance that would have become illu minating gas had the temperature to which the coal was subjected been a bright red heat. With regard to lamps, the earliest lamp that I am acquainted with for the burning of hydro-carbon oils, and which performs that duty well is the lamp patented by a Mr. Young, which he named the camphine lamp, and was used to burn purified oil of tur pentine, under the name of camphine. This lamp was pro duced in the argand and flat wick form; and the lamps still in use are but modifications of this lamp. The flat wick gives from 20 to 30 per cent. more light from the same quantity of oil than the argand round wick. The great thing to be accomplished is to throw a current of air againstthe flame, so that the oil may b 3 completely burned. With regard to light-giving qualities, this parffine oil is by far the best substance yet known, onegallon of paraffins oil giving as much light as 23 lb. of sperm candles, or 40 lb. of tallow candles, although a gallon of paraffin° only weighs st lb. The difference of light-giving power seems great, but chemistry can explain this matter so far. In animal or vegetable oils or fats, there is a considerable quan tity of oxygen. This is equivalent to so much of the sub stance being already burned, as it is already combined with oxygen. Now, if we consider that the oxygen in the sub stance is combined with the hydrogen, we have water to evaporate, keeping down the temperature of the flame; and as it is understood that a light-giving flame is particles of carbon heated to a high temperature, it is evident thatany thing, such as water, reduces the temperature of the flame, must reduce the intensity of the light. On the other hand, if we consider the oxygen to be combined with the carbon, the product is carbonic acid. This substance, as is well known, when mixed with gas, reduces greatly its illumi nating power. That paraffin candles do not give the light that oil does seems impossible. A good deal has been said in the public prints about the hydro-carbon oil, and this is a subject deserving the greatest attention. The whole matter seems to me to be very, simple. Oils that give off vapours at low temperatures should not be used for burn ing in ordinary lamps. If they were so, accidents, if they can be called accidents, must certainly be the consequence; no oil should be sold for common use that give off an ex plosive vapour under a temperature of 130 deg. Fahr. This has, been my rule, and the result is that in all my 15 or 16 years' experience, no one, as far as I know, has been in jured by an explosion of my oil. In several cases dange rous oils have been used under the name of "Young's Pa tent Paraffins Oil," which occasioned accidents, and led to investigation, but in each case the investigation showed that other explosive compounds, and not Young's oil, was the cause. The other day a fatal accident occurred. In this case the inquest was held before we knew anything about it, so we had no one there to look after the matter, and cannot tell whether the oil was ours or not. But from what I see from the newspapers, it was proved at the in quest that the woman had the lamp at the fire, inside or on the fender, and how the thing occurred seems not to be known, as no one but herself was in the room, and no noise or explosion was heard. An act was passed two years ago to prevent the storing of more than 40 gallons of petro leum, or any product thereof that gave off explosive vapours under a temperature of 100 deg. Fahr. This act is a dead letter. It is well known that shiploads of such petroleum are continually in our best harbours, and it is being sent over the country in all directions and sold without com punction. I now propose that coals should be distilled at a low temperature, and that the gaseous products Should be supplied at a very cheap rate for giving light and heat, and supplying gas engines, and that the coke should be used, as 'it is now, for making smokeless fires, and that the paraffins oil be used for the fuel of steamships—being liquid, it can be stored into out-of-the way places, where nothing else can be put, and pumped into the fire-place by the engine. By this means, the whole staff of coal-trimmers, firemen, and their accommo dation on board the ship would be saved, and the space occupied by the coal made available for cabins or cargo. (Applause.) A steamship in crossing the Atlantic con sumes 1,600 tons of coal in a ten days' voyage. The Ad miralty allowance for a ton of coal was 48 cubic feet ; and a ton of paraffin° oil would go as far as a ton and a-half of coal, and would only occupy 36 cubic feet, as against the 72 cubic feet required for a ton and a-half of coal. .The fire would be regulated by merely turning a tap. I need not enlarge hero on the immense advantage it would be to our cities to have smokeless fires, nor need I insist on th , convenience of having a cheap light and a cheap heat for cooking purposes, and a cheap power by means of the gas-engine always at hand, and consuming nothing when not in use, and which can instantly be put into full operation, exciting more or less power as required, by merely turning a handl e ; an d as th ere i s no boiler to burst, that danger would be done away with. (Applause.) a Mr. Young illustrated it h in i n s e in ca te n s e l / 2 ting and paperparaffi bynesplcs,i mens of the paraffine, p the candles being lighted, and the oils burning in a num ber of lamps. 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