The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-14 00:00:00

NEW YORK, OCT. 1. [A. summary of the following appeared in The Bun of yesterday The canvass progresses with an appearance of great confidence on all sides. The draymen of New York were to have made a great demonstration in favour of Mr. Fillmore on the et•ening of the 29th ult., but were prevented by a violent storm. The Democrats were to hold a great meeting in front of the Exchange in New York on the 2d, to hear Governor Floyd, of Virginia. There had been a great Democratic meeting at Richmond, in Vir ginia, at which Mr. Wise, the Governor of the State, made use of the following language in reply to Mr. Botts "If Mr. Buchanan is elected President of the United States there will be no aggression upon us by the Go vernment, and you will have nothing to do. You have only to go on and keep the peace. Sit still under your own vine and fig-trce, and all will remain happy and united, and your blessings —so far as Government Dr.,- tection and executive action are concerned—will be left unmarred. At all events, we shall have a respite. (Enthusiastic applause.) But the fearful alternative is, what will you do if the Black Republican candidate is elected ? It Buchanan is not to be elected, God grant that Fillmore, as he is a man of patriotism and principle, for I take great pleasure in testifying to his being a good man, though on the subject of slavery an abolitionist, as I know him to be from nearly 11 years' service with him in Congress—l say, God grant that he may be elected if Buchanan is not. But, Sir, he is out of eight in this Inca. He will serve to distract and divide neighbour from neigh bour in the south, and to fuse foes in the north. His name will serve to shield some bad men who really do not mean an honest, bona fide support of him. (Loud cheers.) It will serve to keep off some good men and divide them from the democracy, though I am glad to see that the beat of them are beginning to concede that k lemocracy is the only hope of safety. But, if Fremont is elected, is it a wrong, they will ask, that one man is °looted instead of another ? Never will we say that that is a wrong. Fremont is nothing. (Cheers.) He is less than nothing in my estimation. (Enthusiastic cheers.) g e ja but a mere personation of Black Republicanism —the bearer of the black flag. (Cheers.) The question will not be, 'Shall Fremont reign over you and me ?' but it will be, ' Shall the black flag be erected—shall the higher law be executed by the President ef the United States over the reign of the Constitution and the laws ? Shall property be invaded with impunity ?' Yes, you will find hundreds that will say—they begin already to say—' Ob, wait—wait for some overt act--wait for him to do some wrong. Tell me, will any person, entertaining feelings of self-respect, having the spirit and conrage of a man, wait to prepare for war while its cloud is in the horizon until the declaration of war is made ? Tell me if the hoisting of the Black Re publican flag in the hands of an adventurer, born ille gitimately in a neighbouring State, if not ill-begotten in this very city—tell me it the hoisting of the black flag over you by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing, is not to be deemed an overt act and a declaration of war ?" The Alta California furnishes the following news: 4. A shocking murder was committed on the 2d of May at Heath and Emory's ferry, en the Stanislaw§ river. Mr. Weeks, the proprietor of the Lone Star House, and his wife were found beneath the smoking reins of their dwelling on that day, evidently murdered ; but no clue to the perpetrator has as yet been obtained. . "Elizabeth Lazzell, a girl about 14 years old, was stolen from her parents last week by a couple of actors named Wallace and Wales. They crossed the bay, and proceeding up the opposite side, played at various ham lets ,on the road, leaving, as the girl says, the places wheie they ptit up, whenever practicable, without pay ing their bills, On reaching San Jose they were arrested and brought back ; when the girl was restored to her. home, and her kidnappers, in default of bail, wer e com mitted to gaol. Their case has since been examined and sent to the grand jury. The Vigilance Committee, before their final adjourn. - nient, notified Cusick, Thompson, and Henessy, who hac; ptevionsly been warned to leave the State, that they .might do so by the steamer of Sept.ember the sth ; after which, if found in the city, they will incur the penalty of death." • A report _prevailed at Pa*ama to the effect that a treaty of' peace had been agreed to between General Wb, i ltiArand the President of Costa Ri c a. Cousideringthat this information is, in all probabi lity, derived from Costa Rican authorities, some re liance may be placed in its authenticity. On the other hand, there is a report that 1,000 men of the allied forces were on the march for Granada. Colonel Schlessinger has turned up somewhere in the inte rior. Having openly joined the enemies of Walker, lie has been busily engaged in circulating an ad dress to the Americans in the Nicaraguan service, urging them to desert their colours, and denounc ing Walker as a traitor and plunderer of the people. The following is a decree of President Walker respecting the grant to Charles Morgan for the transit across Nicaragua The. President of the Republic of Nicaragua, in vir tue of his authority, decrees : " Art. 1. The decree of the 29th February, 185 G, granting to Mr. Charles Morgan and his associates, .for the term of 25 years, the exclusive right and privilege of transporting, by a single route through the territory of the Republic, passengers and freight from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and the exclusive right and privilege of navigating by steam all the rivers, lakes, and inland waters of the republic for the said term of 25 years, is subjected to a modification of articles 2,4, 7, and 8, which should read and be nnderstood as follows : "Art. 2. The grantees, in consideration of the privi leges conveyed to them, shall pay to the Government of Nicaragua one dollar for every passenger carried by them through the territory of the republic ; said payment shall be made tri-monthly, in the Republic of Nicaragua, in the place which the Government shall select ; and at the same time a statement shall be presented to the Government, or to the agent appointed by the same, of the whole number of passengers thus transported. And to confront this statement the Government shall have free access to the books of the company, whether said books are kept within or out of the republic. "Art. 4. The republic concedes to all the steamers and vessels of the grantees the right of entering, leav ing, and passing through all the ports, rivers, and in land waters, and also on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the use of which shall be free to them of all dues or im ports of any kind whatsoever; and the grantees shall also have the use of all waste lands in the immediate vicinity of the ports, rivers, and lakes on the trateit which may be needed by them for the purpose of estab lishing workshops, stations, offices, &c. ; the quantity of land thus granted not to exceed 10 acres in one place. "Art. 7. The grantees agree to establish within six months from the date of this agreement a monthly line of steamers between the city of New York and the port of San Juan del Norte in Nicaragua, and the other port which they may choose on the Atlantic coast, and also between the city of San Fral cisco and the port of San Juan del Sud, or any other which thy may select on the Pacific coast ; they likewise agree to maintain the said lines for the terms of this contract, always excepting the ordinary dangers of the sea and of navivation, and in the event of any interrup lion of the lines by some unforeseen dieaster the gran tees shall reorganise the same as soon as may be prac ticable, and it the said lines should be successful, the grantees agree to run semi-monthly lines of steamers within one year from the date of the execution of this contract. " Art. 8. The exclusive right which the grantees acquire by this contract of navigating the inland waters of the republic by steam is understood cot to interfere with the natives of the country, or other persons to whom the Government may please to concede the privilege of navigating the inland waters of the republic by means - of sailing or other vessels, except by steam ; and that the grantees shall al so carry w i thout charge all the officials of the Government, whether civil or military, in the service of the Government, and the mails of the country, both going and returning ; and also, when the exigency of the case demands if, and no detriment or in terruption results to the transportation of passengers, they shall carry the troops of the Government, receiving in payment for such service the actual cost of running the steamers conveying them. " Art. 2. Communicated to whom it may concern. " Given at Granada the 26th of August, 1556. " WILLIAM WALKER. "To the Minister of State, Don Fermin Ferrer—lt is agreed and authorised by the undersigned, and sealed with the great seal of the Republic. _ " F. FERRER, Miniater of State. " Granada, Ang. 26, 1856." The following official decrees have been issued by President Walker with respect to the Transit Corn any s property in Nicaragua :- 6( Republic of Nicaragua, Ministry of Relations and Government, Granada, Aug. 26, 1856. "The supreme executive power has been pleased to dictate the following decree : " Whereas it has been well and duly ascertained by the commissioners appointed under the decree of the 19th February last past that the late Accessory Transit Company is indebted to the Republic of Nicaragua in a sum exceeding $300,000 ; and " Whereas, by a fair and just valuation of the move able property of the late Transit Company, consisting for the most part of steamers on the lake and river, the said property does not exceed in value the eum of $200,000 ; and " Whereas the late Accessory Transit Company has, for the last six months, either abandoned its property or attempted to place it in the power of the enemies of the State ; therefore, in virtue of the author:ty in me vested, it is decreed— " Art. 1. All the steamers and other moveable pro perty within the territories of the State are hereby de clared to be the property of the rte public of Nicaragua ; and the receiver, aPP -. by 'r t 44 corryntsstone., .9 ordered to take and reZp -. :ss:ssi , n of the v.-re in the Dente of the republic, " Art. 2. The receiver shall r;turn to the _Minister of Relations a true and correct account and inventory of an property administered by him and taken possession if for the State. ,t Art. 3. Communicated to whom it may concern. " Given in Granada, August 26, ins., • • c`WWALKIEB." it (Republic of Nicaragua,. Ministry of Relations, Granada, Aug. 27, 1856. cc c The supreme executive power has been pleased to , di c t a te the following decree : " The President o f the Republic of Nicaragua in thOritY, decrees viritfulg is 7,300, and sum of in coneideration f th Mr. Soule had purchased a rancho in Nicaragua for $56 1 ,000. The ..news from the South Pacific and Central Americo'''. States is somewhat important. The suc cess of General Walker in Nicaragua has filled the minds of many of the public men of those countries with apprehension. Manifestoes and revolutions are the order of the day. Several members of the, Chilian legislature propose a consolidation of thel Spanish. American States against the encroach ments c►f the North American confederacy. A revo lution broke out in Peru in the latterpart ofAugust. The irwurgents, however, were speedily defeated by President Castillo. General Echinique was at Valparaiso with the war vessels and large supplies of ammunition. It was believed he would soon attempt to seize upon the government. AMERICA. THE SUN,LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1856. $lOO,OOO, the re ce'pt of which is acknowledged, the Re public of Nica: agua cedes, transfers, and conveys to Charles Morgai i and CJrnelius K. Garrison, and their successors and assigns, under the grant of the 19th of February, 185.6, all the right, title, ani interest held by the State in the property, moveable as well as immove able, lately belonging to the Accessory Transit Com pany, consist ing for the most part of steamers on the Lake Nicaral ;ua and River San Juan, of the several stations on tl ie transit route, and of the macadamised road between San Juan del Sur and Virgin Bay. " ' Art. 2. Joseph N. Scott, the holder of such property on the part of the State, is hereby ordered to deliver the possession of the same to the agent of said Morgan and Garrison, and their assigns, and to make out a true and exact inventory of the property so delivered ; one copy of which inventory shall be deposited in the archives of the Government, and one delivered t) the agent of the said Morgan and Garrison, and their assigns. " ' Art. 3. Cammunicated to whom it may concern. " Given in Granada, this 27th day of August, 1856. " W.V. WALKER. " ' To the Minister of Relations and Government, Don Fermin Ferrer.' " The Aspinwall Courier of Sept. 9 says " That 'a masterly inactivity' is still the policy of Walker's government. From various sources we learn that Lcon is entirely abandoned to the forces of the in vading army • that there were at least 1,50_0 troops of Guateanala and San Salvador, and that there was much sickness among them." EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 5. The Bombay mail arrived at Suez on Monday last, the 29th ult., and cannot leave on its return until Tuesday next, as the Vectis, with the over land mail from Marseilles, did not arrive here until this morning. The Calcutta mail arrived at Suez on Friday last, and will leave on Tuesday next. The Colombo arrived here yesterday morning with the heavy portion of the outward-bound India mail from Southampton. It required 10 camels to carry the mail boxes from the harbour to the railway terminus. ELis Highness the Viceroy has returned to Cairo from Upper Egypt, whither he had proceeded to satisfy himself, by personal inspection, whether the inundation which had taken place near Cairo had arisen from natural causes, or whether the embank ments of the Nile had been maliciously cut by the inundations is significant. The Nile has risen 24 cubits, which is regarded as a most fortunate result, and promises well for the nevi; harvest. His Highness the Viceroy has eonse quently raised the land-tax 12 piastres, or 2s. 6d. the measure, equal to an English acre. Among other improvements spoken of the streets of Alex andria are to be lighted with gas, for which a con tra4ct has been concluded between the Pasha and a Parisian company. If to lighting were:added pav ing and cleansing the sanitary condition of Alexan dria yrould become tolerable, and it might be pre served from the periodical visitations with which it is afflicted. A traveller returning to Alexandria after an ab sence of a few years will find an extraordinary im ' pravement in the appearance of the town and' the condition of the people. Three handsome churches for the Christian worship have been erected—an English Protestant, a Roman Catholic, and a Greek. Bells are heard to toll, calling the Chris tiara; to Divine service. A railway has been coma-. pleted to Cairo, and new streets of handsome houses are springing up. The Christian population of Alexandria has quad rupled within a few years, but the Greeks threaten at no distant period to absorb the entire trade of Egypt, and to their combinations is attri buted the present high price of corn. They possess an unity of purpose which belongs to no other people, and which enables them to successfully compete. with older established merchants. The fanatical enthusiasm of the Arabs has con siderably diminished of late years, and even the women are gradually rejecting the veil with which they used so pertinaciously to cover their faces. Literature, however, makes no progress in Egypt, and a newspaper which was started some years back in Alexandria has ceased to appear. There has been a considerable amount of business transacted in the corn market during the last 15 days, with a material advance in prices. The fol• lowing are the estimated sates : WHEAT. Qrs. Saide, private produce, readystuff, 425. to 425. 6d. 22,000 Ditto, Pasha's „ 91 • 43s to 435. 9d. 5,600 Ditto, contracts for future deliveries, Oct., Nov., and Dec., 375. 6.1. to 429 Behiseh, private produce, ready stuff,39s. 6d. to 425. 34,000 Freights, owing to the diminished number of vessels in port, have improved, and cannot now be quoted under 4-i. 6d. to ss. 6d. per quarter for beans, to a direct port ; ss. 6d. to Os. for orders, according to size. Cotton to Liverpool, Ad. to id. and 5 per cent. per lb. Ballast., 3s. to 3s. 6d. per quarter. Exchange on London has given way, paper at three months being done at from 100 to 1001 piastres per X. SHIPMENTS FROM THE 23D lILT. TO THE IST INST. Qrs. Brl. Br! Cotton Wheat. Beans. Bar!ey. Linseed. seed. Cottn. Great Britain.., 26,057 3,778 2,100 1,776 France 8,990 890 388 Austria Other countries 323 376 AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Black Ball packet ship Champion of the Seas has arrived from Melbourne with advices to the 10th July, 163 passengers, and 92,0000 z. of gold on freight. The Lightning, with the mails of the 6th May, • arrived at Melbourne on the 14th July in 69 days from Liverpool. The James Baines, the mail ship of the 6th of August, had 120,0000 z. of gold already engaged on freight. The Goldfields, Moore's Fort, and Lammer muir, from London, and the Ellen Bates and Mindora, from Liverpool, had arrived at Mel bourne. The advices contain no political or general news of importance. The news confirmatory of the declaration of peace had been received with enthusiasm by the inhabi tants of Melbourne, Sydney, &c., and each town celebrated the event by a general holiday. Commercial affairs were rather quiet. The price of gold remained at 765. per oz. From the official returns we learn that up to the 12th of July the produce of gold amounted to 1,439,5400 z. The quantity shipped up to that date was 1,693,1730 z., weighing 701 tons, and valued at 6,772,6921. sterling. _ _ The - prospects of the various gold fields were most promising. _ Exchange on London.—Draughts against gold purchased at 1 per cent. discount. Freights 3d. to 4&d. per ounce. Insurance, 2 per cent. In the wool-market there was no change to re port, but prices ruled firm. Tallow had declined, and quotations show a margin in favour of shippers. _ _ Aides continued in good demand, but only few wore offering. In the labour market there was a steady demand for agricultural labourers. The building trades were dull. _ At Geelong, on the 14th of July, the price of gold was 765. 9d. per ounce. AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS.—The step taken by the South Australians in opening up the navigation with the river Murray having seriously excited the apprehensions of the commercial interest and the inhabitants of Melbourne generally, will give increased energy to the efforts for making a railway fro m the metropolis to the goldfields in the northern districts. Soon alter the discovery of gold, when the necessity arose for conveying large quan tities of stores to various parts of the interior to feed the suddenly located population, the absence of all means of communication pleased heavily upon all concerned. In consequence thereof certain railways were projected, the chief of which was that which was to commence at Melbourne, and running thence to Mount Alexander terminate on the banks of the river Murray. On the estimated cost of this work—viz , 1,000,000/., the Colo nial Government consented to guarantee 5 per cent. interest for 21 years, gave the company 50 acres of land at the west end of the town, and 11 acres at Williams town for termini, and all the laud latlonging• to the Crown which the company may require. The Legisla ture also authorised-a gift of 5,0001. in aid of the preli minary surveys. With all these a vantages the company has only been able to raise 65,0001., one-third t,f which .h as .__been expended unproductively. Seeing this, the Government has just completed the purchase of all the rights, privileges, and property of the company, giving in payment for the same 5 per cent. debentures, redeem able at par at the exp iration of 50 y e ars. This newly acquired and novel description of Government property is vested in two officers of the Government for and on he rrdyerpeodss possible t d h e ; half of the colony. These gentlemen have it in contero. spate., and , plation i to pus as h o a n p th re e limi wo i ls y, with have e v ordered mails respectively about 60,0001. worth of plant. twoananci ,Nett/ Zealand Gazette. We announced yesterday the death of Commander Charles Thurtell (1843), which occurred lately at Calais. He was born at Brad well, Suffolk, on Feb. 29, 1790. We extract the following account of the services of this gallant officer from " O'Byrne's Naval Biography :"- "This officer entered the navy March 26, 1807, as first-class volunteer on board the Alert, Captain Robert Williams ; and in the course of the same year was pre sent, under Admiral Gambier, in the attack upon Copen hagen. In May, 1809, five months after he had left the Alert, he joined the Aboukir, 74, Captain George Parker and Thos. Browne, in which ship we find him accom panying the expedition to the Scheldt (where he was en trusted with the command of a gun boat), and employed in 1812 under the flag of the present Sir Thomas Byam Martin, at the defence of Riga. He there had charge of a Russian gun boat, and was for three months in almost daily action with the enemy. In November, 1812, he was nominated acting master of the Briseis, 10, Captain John Ross, in the Baltic ; he served next, from Nov., 1813, until May, 1815, as midshipman and master's mate, in the Nymphen, 36, and Liffey, 50, both commanded by Captain John Hancock, on the North Sea and Channel stations ; and in March, 1817, and September, 1818, he became Admiralty midshipman of the Cadmus, 10, Capt. Tohn Gedge, again in the North Sea, and Rochfort, 80, bearing the flags of Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle and Sir Graham Moore, in the Mediterranean. At the gene ral promotion in 1815, notwithstanding that a very ur gent request was made in his favour to the First Lord of the Admiralty by the magistrates of the city of Nor wich, Mr. Thurtell was passed over ; nor did he succeed in obtaining a commission until October, 1821, when, being at the top of the Admiralty list in the Mediter ranean, he was appointed to a vacancy in the Medina, 20, Captains the Earl of Huntingdon, Richard Ander son, and Patrick Duff Henry Hay. In September, 1820, being at the time in command of the Racer cutter, tender to the Rochfort, he was directed by Commodore Hon. Anthony Maitland, of the Glasgow, 50, then at Malta, to proceed to Palermo with a despatch for Cap tain John Donaldson Boswall, of the Spey, 20, and in the event of not finding him at that place, to repair forthwith to the port of Messina, and thence to return to Malts. On his arrival at Palermo, not meeting with the Spey, and the city being in a state of insurrection, and closely besieged by the Neapolitan naval and mili tary forces, who were hourly expected to carry it by storm, he received through the hands of her Britannic Majesty's consul general an address, couched in the strongest j terms, from the English merchants and other residents, entreating that at a moment of such distress he would remain by them, and afford them such protec tion as he could. With this solicitation he felt it his duty, under the circumstances, to comply. By his spi rited interference he obtained from General Pepe, the Ileapolitaa commander in chief, permission for the British to seek safety either in his camp or on board the men of war in the bay. The Racer afterwards, at the request of the chiefs of the contending parties, became the theatre on which, as the only neutral spot open to them, they entered into and concluded a treaty of peace. The mo ment the ratification was signed, she announced the joyful intelligence by a Royal salute-a salute which was returned by the Neapolitan fleet and all the forts. The zeal and exertions thus displayed by Mr. Thurtell, and the important services he rendered, in a situation in which no midshipman was perhaps ever before placed, ob tained him the grateful thanks as well of the British re sidents as of General Pepe and of Prince Patterno, pre sident of the Provisional junta of Palermo. The history of his proceedings was made the subject of a special commu nication to the Foreign Office by the present Lord Heytes bury, then ambassador at the Court of Naples; but, owing to the circumstance, perhaps, of no official representation being made of them at the Admiralty, he received not the least reward. His appointments after he left the Medina were-July 24, 1822, and May 3, 1824, as first, to the Chanticleer, 10, and Dispatch, 18, Captains Bur ton Macnamara and Edw. Hinton Scott, both in the Mediterranean, whence be returned at the close of 1824; Sept. 14, 1839, to the San Josef, 110, bearing the flags at Plymouth of Admirals Superintende n t F re d. Wa rren . and'Sfr Sam.. Pym ; and Sept. 26, 1842, again as first, to the Caledonia, 120, bearing the flag of Sir David Milne, commander in chief at the same port. He was advanced to his present rank Jan. 12, 1843, and has since been on half-pay. "Remindful of his former services the King of Na ples, in 1838, made an application to Government for the promotion of Mr. Thurtell ; and at other times the 'corporation of Norwich, the Attorney-General (Sir R. Giant), the Dukes of Devonshire and Leeds, Admiral Sirt: Codrington, and other distinguished personages, similarly interested themselves in his behalf." The reports from Malta, reaching to the 9th of Oct., notice the following movements, chiefly confined to mail steamers and merchant steamvessels : "The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steampacket Valetta arrived from Alexandria on the 28th Sept , with the overland India mail for England, which she carried on to Marseilles on the same evening, conveying Colonel Campbell, Captains Bray, Blackwood, Luxmore, and Pritchard ; Lieuts. Lamb, Macaulay, and Southey ; and from Malta, Mrs. Gen. Williams and Lieut.• Colonel Sankey, late in the Ottoman service. " The Indus, belonging to he same company, arrived from Alexandria with the heavy mails on the 29th, and le;t on the same day for Southampton, conveying Col. Doherty, Major and Mrs. West, Major and Mrs. Dyver net, and Commander Parker, R.N. She also con ve y e d from Malta Quartermaster Leech, of the Anglo-Italian Twegion. "The Colombo screw steampacket, belonging to the same company, arrived from Southampton and Gibraltar on the 29th with the outwari India mails, bringing, for Nialta, Captain Pennefather, and for Alexandria, Maj General Wilkinson, Colonels Cotton, Steel, Stuart and wife ; Lieut.-Colonel Grant and wife; Majors Hill, North, Buller and wife ; Captains Bowle, Shuttlewortb, Walker, and Waterman ; Lieuts.Asliburner, Martineau, Hamilton, Wilkinson and wife ; Ensigns Stuart and Mason ; Dr. Morrogh and wife. "The Vectis, Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamer, with the overland London mails of the 26th of Sept., arrived on the Ist of Oct., bringing for Alexandria, Col. Cotton, Lieut.-Col. Taylor, Major Payne, Major and Mrs. Prescott, Captain Ireland, Captain Brown, Cap tain Kembali, Lieuts. Bearsley, Kennier, Davison and wife, Playfair and wife. The Colombo and the Vectis left for'Alexandria, on the Ist of Oct. " The Simoies French postal steamer arrived on the 28th from Marseilles, bringing, among other passengers, Capt. Baynes, Bth, and Deputy• Assistant Commissary. General Arthur Baynee, for Malta. She left for Syra, Smyrna, and Constantinople on the same evening►, whence the Carmel French postal steamer arrived on the evening of the 30th of September, bringing Lieut.. Col. Morgan, Osmanli Irregular Cavalry, for Malta, and Captain Harris for Marseilles, for which pert she pro ceeded on the Ist of October. "The Indus and theMeandre, French postal steamers, arrived from Marseilles on the sth, the former convey ing, among other passengers for Alexandria, for which destination she lett the same evening, Mdlle. Rachel, accompanied by her sister, seeking a change of climate at Cairo. The Meandre left at the same time for Syra, Smyrna, and Constantinople, after landing at Malta Capt. Taafe, Ist Royals, Major-General Warren, Capt. St. John, 92J, Aide-de-Camp, wife and family. " The Vatican French postal steamer arrived from Marseilles, the Italian ports, and Messina, on the sth, bringing, among other passengers for Malta, Dr. Wait e , 47th, Mrs. (Commissary-General) Wild and family. " Her Majesty's steam packet Oberon arrived on the 7th from Corfu and Zante with the mails. _ _ "The Malta steamer arrived ex the 2d from Liverpool and Gibraltar, arid left for Constantinople on the 31, "Her Majesty's screw steamship of the line Cressy arrived from England and Gibraltar on the 3d. " His Netherland's Majesty's frigate Doggersbank ar rived on the 3d from the Texel, and immediately after anchoring exchanged salutes with the garrison and the flag of Rear-A dmiral Sir 11. Stewart. On the same morn ing her commander, the Baron Collot D'Escury, accom panien by the Chevalier Stevens, the acting Netherlands consul at Malta, visited Rear-Admiral the Hon Sir M. Stopford, the Admiral Superintendent of the Dockyard, and likewise his Excellency the Governor, Sir W. Reid. On the 6th she took her departure for Smyrna and Alexandria. "Her Majesty's steamtug Wallace left for Cerigo on the 4th with the new light to be erected on that island. "The Durance French screw steam transport arrived on the 30th from Toulon, and left forToulon on the sth." Two companies of the 4th battalion of the Royal Artil lery, under orders for Portsmouth and Devonport, as well as detachments to other home stations, were yesterday morning officially inspected at Woolwich by the com mandant of the garrison, Major-General Williams and staff. Lieut.-Colonel Maude, R. A., has returned to head-quarters, Woolwich, from his attendance at the coronation of the Emperor of Russia. Colonel Eardley Wilmot., R. A., and Mr. Abel, of the Laboratory De partment of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, have like wise returned from their mission to Silesia, in Western Prussia, which was undertaken with a view of inspecting the iron foundries of that country, and investigating the mode of smelting by means of gas, which is pronounced to be more successful than charcoal. The freight ship Nautilus has been ordered to Deptford from Woolwich to embark provisions and naval stores. She will return to Woolwich to ship 150 tons of ammuni tion, and is-to sait , thence on Saturday next for Bermuda. The freight ship Camperdown has arrived at Woolwich from the London Docks, and has commenced shipping 700 tons of ordnance stores for Bermuda. The transport PrecioEa has arrived at Woolwich with a cargo of ordnance stores and 1,000 bags of bread from the East. - Extensive preparations are being tp,atle by the officers and troops belonging to :Chatham garrison in conse (pence of permission_ liaving been accorded theca by the authorities , torha-ve a variety of athletic sports, games, and foot races on Chatham-lines, for various prizes, which are to be contended for exclusively by the officers and soldiers stationed at Chatham. The sports will take place (weather permitting) on Thursday afternoon next, and considerable interest is felt in the undertaking by tho officers of the garrison, this Bain; the first attempt to provide amusements of this kind for the troops at Chatham. The sports will be under the patronage of Colonel Eden, Commandant of the garrison, and the officers who have been successful in getting up the amuse ments are Major H. Marriott, R.M., Major S. G. Bun kury, Medical Staff Corps, Major C. S. S. E. Gordon, Brigade Major, Captain W. Lyons, sth Fusiliers, Capt. Fitzroy Somerset, and Captain F. Brine, Royal En gineers. A grand stand is to be erected on Chatham lines, where the sports will take place, and the garrison bands will be in attendance. Her Majesty's sloop Daring, 12, Commander Gerald Napier, the arrival of which at Spithead we briefly re ported yesterday, sailed from Port Royal, Jamaica, OA the 27th of August, in company with H.M.S. Espiegle, 12, Commander Lambert (both bound for Spithead) and parted company with her on the 31st off Cape Maize, Cuba. Nothing of any importance occurred until the 18th of September, when to the northward of Bermuda she encountered a heavy hurricane, which increased in severity till the 20th, when it reached its climax. She e , eaped with the loss of her sternboat and lifebuoy. Fcr 48 hours she was under bare poles; the ship behaved re markably well, although the sea ran very high. The cutwater started, which crippled her bowsprit a little, but it was soon got all right again. Her hammock berthing was partially washed away; in fact it was con sidered as hard a gala as had been experienced by any one on board. She sighted the Lizard on the Bth, light and foul winds ; passed her Majesty's ship High flyer and two gunboats in tow, 30 miles S.W. of the Lizard. Same day also exchanged numbers with the ship Mangerton, of London, and a great many ships out ward bound. The Daring has been four years in com mission, and has lost less men than any other ship on the Jamaica station by sickness or otherwise, She left Spit head yesterday afternoon for the eastward to be paid off. The Espiegle, 12, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the North America and West India station, to be paid off. She leaves Portsmouth this evening for the eastward. She spoke on the Bth inst., in lat. 48 34, long. 0.57, her Majesty' s s h i p S a l aman d er , f or Madeira. Naval and Military Intelligence. DEATH OF COMMANDER CHARLES THURTELL. The steam troop-ship Urgent, Commander Phillips, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Ireland, with part of the 33d and 50th Regiments, which she landed at the dockyard. Her Majesty's ship Retribution, 22, Capt. Barker, had steam up at 6 o'clock last night ready for leaving for the Mediterranean. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Simoom was taken into dock at Portsmouth yesterday for a refit. The steam store ship Hesper arrived at Portsmouth, yesterday from Woolwich to ship stores and medical comforts for the island of Madeira. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—C. W. Talbot, naval cadet, to the Prin. cess Royal ; C. R. Harris, ditto, to the Colossus ; J. T. Bedford, ditto, to the Retribution ; R. D. Campbell, ditto, to the Cesar ' • E. F. K e pp e l an d U. E. Eyre, ditto, to the Raleigh, and J. D. Webb, ditto, to the . Sa tellite. TEE NEW AMERICAN STEAM-SHIPS OP WAR The visit of the large American steam-frigate Merri mac to Southampton having occasioned considerable interest we think it may now be a proper time to lay be fore our readers such information as we have from time to time obtained respecting her, and the Wabash, the Minnesota, the Raanoke, and the Colorada—four ships of much the same size and power of the Merrimac— and also respecting the huge steam -corvette the Niagara. In order to render the information which follows per fectly reliable, in so far, at !east, as the Merrimac is concerned, we have visited that vessel, and verified by personal observation the facts hereafter stated. In mak ing this verification we were favoured with the utmost courtesy and co-operation on the part of the officers of the ship, and particularly of first lieutenant G. W. Har rison, who was in command of her at the time of our visit, and to whose kindness we are much indebted. The principal dimensions of the five frigates above enumerated are so nearly alike that they may, for all ordinary purposes, be considered the same, and may be to ken as follows : Feet. Ins. Length of keel Length on load-water line Length over all 3OO 0 Breadth extreme Breadth moulded 5O 2 Depth of hold (to gun deck) 26 4 Draught of water forward Draught of water aft As our examination of the Merrimac was made for the purpose of estimating her merits as a ship of war, we must add to the above the following details, which are of im portance in such a ship. When the vessel is at her load line the height of the gnn-deck ports above the water are, amidships, 9 feet, and forward and aft 12 feet, or thereabouts. The height from her gun deck to the lower sides of her spar-deck beams is 6 feet. The height of her bulwarks is such, that when the hammocks are stowed, they reach 8 feet 8 inches above the upper deck. Her gun-deck ports are 3 feet 8 inches long, and nearly 8 feet 6 inches apart. Her load displacement is esti mated at 4,000 tons ; but this we could not, of course, test. The Men:mac was designed by Mr. Lenthall, who is at the head of the Bureau at Washington, and was built by Mr. Delano, the master shipwright of the navy yard at Boston (or the officer who corresponds to a master shipwright of our own dockyards). Her frame is of live oak, crossed on the inside with two sets of diagonal iron plates, which are inclined in opposite directions. She is also strengthened by similar plates on the outside, at bow and stern. Her plank is also of oak, and, like our own ships of war, she is copper-fastened up to a few feet above the load-water line. Her decks are of fir. On a careful inspection, she seems to have been built with very great skill and care, and is a very tight strong ship. The large wooden knees (common in American ships, because more approved of and more readily obtained than iron) to some extent interfere with the beauty of her appearance inboard ; but she is a very roomy and handsome ship, and the appearance of her main deck is unsurpassed. `With all her sails set, she spreads 56,629 square feet of canvas. Her engines are auxiliary only. Her rig is in all respects like that of the largest American sailing frigates, but from her great length she seems capable cf carrying masts, spars, and sails even larger than those she has. The mode in which the mainmast steps is worthy of attention. The shaft of the propeller coming immediately beneath it (since the engines are before the mainmast), a step is formed to receive it above the shaft. This step consists of a large thwartship beam of live oak, supported near the middle by two 12-inch solid iron columns which rest upon suitable keelsons. This ar rangement is perhaps as good as any other, although the strength attending it must certainly be much less than that in which the mast steps in a wooden step, sup ported immediately by the keelsons themselves, as is the case where no screw shaft interferes. The modes adopted in our own navy are various. In some cases tall forked iron steps, which stride across the shaft, are employed, and is others the heel of the mast itself is enlarged, and the shaft allowed to pass through it, the lower piece of ‘tawvheileTitig:h;hhietaitnermrb:yeert character o a hrma s e c p raa te e rmeg d oes j rt jointed i than n t hro e catt d enh gd h o3i s o , fneo o :ro p : the mast being separable from the upper, and connected s n 6 o : ,; o :;c guns, o board dt of ff her.she e r r e actually to carry that number they w nw o h u eei l g d rhg h iun a ng v d e ne t ce o a: b tlyh e esr o et f present armament is as follows :—On her upper deck tons, and of 10 inches bore, and 14 8-inch guns, each 24 9-inch guns, each weighing nearly , 4 tons. The whole of these guns, 40 in all, though strong enough to discharge shot, if desired, are primarily intended to be served with hollow shot or with shell--fur it is now a practice with the Americans to supply their navy with a quantity of em pty h o ll ow s h ot, wh i ch may be either plugged and u se d as suc h, or c h arge d , fi tted w i th fuzes, and used as shells. We must not, however, omit to mention that she might carry a few additional 9 inch guns on the main deck with perfect convenience. Her gun-carriages on the main deck are similar to those used in the French navy. They have, however, but two wheels or trucks each, at the ship's end of the carriage. To facilitate the running out of the gun the rear end of the carriage is raised by a handspike fitted with a roller at the end, on which roller the carriage runs out. At the upper side of this handspike roller is a pin or stud which takes into one or other of a series of recesses formed in a plate on the underside of the rear end of the carriage. The carriage slides of the large pivot guns differ from our own chiefly in the fact that they are furnished at each end with wheels or trucks (which run on the metal circular bearing plates on the deck) mounted on eccentric axles. These axles are turned by a spanner, so as either to take the weight of the slide and allow it to be run round upon them, or to ho raised clear of the bottom of the slide, and allow it to rest imme diately upon the deck plates. The carriages which run upon the slides have their rear trucks mounted upon similar eccentric axles. The friction of the carriage upon the slide when the piece is to be discharged (a nd when the truck s are c l ear of the slide) is sometimes increased by nipping the two together with screws. The whole o f t h e 9.inch guns, or main-deck guns, as well as the two 10-inch pivot guns, are formed on Com mander Dahlgren's system, which consists in giving to the gun, at each point of its length, a thickness propor tioned to the direct pressure of the powder in the chase at that point, supposing the gun to be fired with an ordi nary service charge. In order to carry out that principle Commander (then Lieutenant) Dahlgren took an ordinary Paixhan gun, and had bored in it a number of holes, each of the size of a musket ball, extending from the outside of the gun through into the chase. These holes were per pendicular to the axis of the gun. A musket ball was then pla ce d i n t h e fi rst h o le (the rest of the holes being plugged f or th e t i me ) , th e gun fired with a service charge, and th e i n iti a l velac i ty com municated to the musket ball measured by a b a lli s tic pendulum. This was repeated with ea c h h o l e success i ve ly, an d lines representing the initial velocities thus obtained were taken as the ordi nates"of a diirver (of which the distances apart of the hole& represented the abscissa;), and this curve gave the contour of the exterior of the gun. The Dahlgren guns are of greatly increased thickness along the chase, and suddenly increase their thickness near the breech, where the great bulk of the metal of the gun is collected. Before the adoption of them in their navy, the Ameri can Government had them severely tested, with highly satisfactory resu l ts. Without doubt the principle of Commander Dahlgren is correct, so far as it goes. There are also eollatrale.advantages connec ted with the adop tion of it in naval ordnance, one of which is that the centre of gravity sideof m e u a s e t h tendto m ak e is,owing to the her battery form of th e guns, t h ere b y b r ought nearer to the middle of the ship, w hi c h roll less hea vily than oth erw i se . E ac h gun is furnished with two lock-lugs, or lugs for the gun-lock—one for use, and one to supply its place if it should be knocked away. There are a few other novel features in connection with the guns of the Merrimac. One is that her guns are fitted with elevating screws, which supply the place of the quoin, Fac., in our own service. This arrangement tends greatly to facilitate the sighting, and is certainly an improvement, provided that it is not attended with any defect in strength, and were assured that none had been observed dating considerable Practice. Another new feature is the employment of bristles, instead of I sheepskin, in all the sponges and rammers for the guns; and a further one is the employment, for boat guns, of light and elegant wrought iron carriages, of which she has three—one for a 9-pounder, a second for a 12 pounder, and a third for a 24 pounder. The engines of the Merrimac are by Mr. Parrott, of the Cold Springs Foundry, New York. She has two cylinders 72 inches in diameter, and three teet stroke. These are placed close to the shaft, on oppo. site sides of it, leaving room only for the crank. Each piston has two piston-rods, one above and one be low the shaft ; these carry a cross head, from which the connecting rod reaches back to the crank, as is well un derstood by the engineers. Each cylinder has its con denser at the side of it, and its air-pump opposite to it. The air-pump rods go through the cylinder ends direct to the piston. She is fitted with four of the vertical tubular boilers, patented by Mr. D. B. Martin, engineer in chief of the United States navy, similar to those fitted previously in the Susquehanna, by Merrick and Son, of Philadelphia. The boilers are of Iron, with brass tubes, and have the following general dimensions : Length of each boiler, athwart ships, 11 feet ; breadth, fore and aft, 14.8 feet ; length of vessel occupied by four hoilers, 31 feet 8 inches ; breadth of ditto and fire-room, 31 feet. The fire-room is between the two pair of boil ers, the furnaces firing athwart ships, and the flues de livering into one chimney. Height of boilers, 13 feet 6 inches ; cubical space occupied by all the boilers and fire room, being the content of a parallelopipedon included within the above circumscribing lines, 13,240 cubic feet; number of furnaces in all boilers, 16 ; breadth of ditto, each, 2 feet 101 inches ; length of ditto, each 7 feet ; grate surface area, in all, 338 square feet ; number of tubes in all boilers, 5,480 ; length (or height) 37 in. ; diameter (outside) of the tubes, 2 inches ; heating surface in fuinaces and back connections up to tubes, 1,614 square feet ; heating surface in tube boxes, 8,508 square feet ; heating surface in tube boxes, and connections to smoke chimney, 1,581 squarefeet ; total heating surface in all boilers, 11,703 square feet ; proportion of the same to grate area 34.6 to 1.00 ; flue area or calorimeter between tubes in all boilers, 42 square feet ; proportion of the same to grate area, 1 to 8 square feet ; diameter of smoke chimney, 8 feet. The boilers all have water-bottoms ' with not less than 6 inches of wa t er s p ace a t any po i nt ; back of the furnaces these bottoms rise to the back connections; the tube boxes are above the furnaces, and rise about 3 inches to the front end of the boiler, where they enter the front con nections. The boilers are of 3.Bth inch, and inch best American plates, double riveted and caulked inside and est, throughout, and are well braced. The weight of all four, when empty, is 25t,0001b. Their total weight, when filled to the working level, is 440,0001 b. To test the economical evaporative efficiency of this form of boiler an experiment was made on the 13th of March last, in the presence of several engineers of the navy, the conditions and results of which were, as pub lished by Mr. Merrick, the maker, as follow : Two boilers only were used, and the dampers were nearly closed. The coal used was anthracite, and of an, inferior qua lity. The engines are fitted with Stevens's cut-off, which was adjusted and permanently fixed to cut off as follows: Port engine, one end 4.12 ft Starboard engine, one end 3.35 It Average per indicator-card, with full throttle 3.97 feet. Adding to this the average clearance at each end of the cylinder, and including, also, the steam passage, &c., between valves and cylinder, equal to 23.820 cubic inches, or the area of the cylinder by 6.05 inches of stroke, or Average length of cylinder, filled at each single stroke Preserving the same level of water in the boilers, and (as nearly as could be ascertained) the same quantity of coal in the furhace, or about the same fires, and main taining the-same pressure of steam, 4,2001 b. of coal were consumed, and 1,615 new revolutions made and noted by register, the duration of the experiment being 3 hours 57 minutes. During this time 11 double cards were taken on the two engines, which showed a mean pressure of steam entering the cylinders, during that part of the stroke over which steam was admitted, of— Total pressure—Port engine, 18.991 b • starboard en gine, 21.811 b, of which (Pambour) the volume is 1257. Hence the water evaporated during the experiment was as follows :—the two cylinders being 70 in. dia meter =26.41 square feet of area, 26.71 x 4.474 x 1615 x 4 x 62.5 1257 = 39,3721 b of water, which, being evaporated by 4,200 lb of coal, gave 9,137 lb of water per lb of fuel. The temperature of the hot well was 89i deg., and of the feed-water entering the boiler at (probably) 85 deg. The evaporative power of the boilers will at once be seen from the above figures of Mr. Merrick. In the Merrimac very excellent results have also been obtained with Mr. Martin's boilers. Her coal bunkers carry about 600 tons of coal. A small pair of donkey engines are provided on the main deck for coaling, raising heavy weights on board, &c. These auxiliary engines have a suitable boiler to supply them when the main boilers are not at work. The steam pumps are fitted in connec tion with the large engines for pumping out the bilge, extinguishing fires, &c. These steam pumps may b e s u p• plied with steam from the auxiliary boiler, if desired. The Merrimac is fitted with a Griffith's screw propeller, with means of varying the pitch. In this respect she differs from her sister ships, all of which have ordinary propellers. The Niagara is, we understand, to have a Griffith's. The propelling arrangements on board the Merrimac are very complete. The forward thrust is taken by a series of collars, and the backward thrust by a brass disc dropped down between the end of the propeller bearing and the after sternpost. This disc may be readily re newed when worn. The shaft is supported between the engines and the dead wood by bearings and intermediate sprinr, supports, and a cooling pip e i s l e d f rom t h e out side of the ship over each. The after-propeller bearings are of wood, upon Penn's principle. The propeller is raised by a cable and pulleys, the cable leading to the capstan. A long wooden stay, tightened by a screw, is used for keeping the propeller down in its place, and suitable means are also provided for steadying the propeller dur ing the raising of it, for slinging it when raised or parti ally raised, &c. The greatest speed ever attained by the Merrimac under steami owingges r a , al to otetnf:tei improvements attained wasaetdihne withds e e e defects e cg n t sne er knots ieandtgeh enpoee:r connectiondbhr board, b: rode, driving lapi tandha cut ea t haohn erffi and rsarslah w rueel trveihae a stedredaueu s :e mlrav m twehvgas doaa a uel beiv d swnvtee e teais being steamingu lws n 9mdh beforeaei icrl inches est v hpphi e erhea r esee y tvdone fnnti favourable stefihctreemhsrstesusaeft sruhrhyol ellkeeaesecn.soo dun tl circumstances. osdhinmhaoeynns ot t t h :economical s u . will, at 15 inches. But radical changes must he made i &c.—are very well arranged. The Merrimac is full of evidences that the American Government are willing to give trial to improvements of a promising character in their ships of war, notwith standing the changes which their introduction renders necessary. At the same time there are arrangements, which have been proved highly valuable in our own service, unadopted by them. For example, instead of the admirable lightning c onductors of Sir W. Snow .Har ris, used with so much advantage by the old bit of chain long discarded here, lies down against her shrouds, and gives great offence to the eye of the intelligent visi tor. But, on the whole, the useful improvements out-number the defects. This we might show greatly ' great length if we thought it desirable. It will, how ever,clb be sufficient to add a further fact or two. The fish davit is centred on a hoop on the foremast, and may be swung over either anchor for fishinc , it, and may also be used to assist in the removal of the heavy berthing which has to be taken down when the bow pivot is used. Both operations may be performed by gun is steam power derived from the auxiliary engines. An other useful arrangement is the use of a hinged tongue piece, which may be pressed down between the links of the cable by a screw when the cable has to be fleeted. Another is the employment of light bulk-heads around the engine-room hatches on the main deck. Whether the absence of all mess tables for the ship's crew is an improvement or an act of retrogression we leave our naval officers to decide. In our next number we shall probably publish a few further statements respecting the Merrimac. At the same time we believe that the points of chief importance are included in the above remarks. tarTffi nhntheehdeernere. The Niagara is built, we are told, as an experiment and it is perfectly certain that if she should prove a tho: roughly strong and efficient ship of war, she will surprise everyone who has hitherto been oonsideeed well informed on the nature and requirements of war ships. The his tory of this ship's origin is simply this :—Mr. Steers, of New York, built the America yacht, which proved to be a very fast one. Tiflis gained him reputation and friend,, and secured him orders for constructing vari ous ot he r ' vessels of larger sizes. He succeeded in building more than one fast and serviceable commercial steam ship, and when the American Government resolved upon making a de monstration with large steamships of war, 111 rSteers, or the friends of Mr. Steers, succeeded in getting. the design and construction of one committed to him, Mr. Steers knew but little, if anything, practically of ships o f war, and, if we are rightly informed, ca re d to know but little of them, except what the light of nature supplied him with, for we are told he availed himself but very little of the freedom with which he was permitted to have access to the bureau of construction and all that it contained. More than one profession a l A merican gentleman has spoken t o us '° It was but reasonable," ongly epen this p o i n t . Says the United States Nautical Magazine, "to suppose th a t ever facility would be afforded Mr. Steers, now that y improvement seemed to bo really intended, and, with th e exception of the propelling pow er i n the quantity of the canvas, the ground tackle in the kind ofanchor., and the ventilation , in the improved side lights I,' use, he has been al lowed t ' -e has t h o ught proper to 0 exercise his own judgment, both in the mole' and manner of con - truction, and i., like the cole.tructor of hio, quite willing to take the whole measurd of its weight an d bulk r espons T ibility, having a f u ll k now l e d ge of . e his vessel, as her dimensions and calcul a ti ons will show, is the lareest of the six, and is also o f a very different model and construction. In the construction of the Niagara, it is alleged that there are the n ay which are of great importance to the , which have never been appreciated in the y either in this country or elsewh ere . I t was asulopupe would this in th e mo d e l and internal arra ng ements . it i this vessel diff er f r om th e other five vessels; nut s discoverable that not only is the form of .the fabric and her arrangements in armament different, but that the manner o f distr ib ut i ng the Materials throughout the vessel is also en tirel* different, utility being regarded, as o more col:Pinnace than the tinwhonoured precedents, the eon , __ , _ • structor having sought to secure the greate t amount of strength with the leant bulk." The principal dimensions of the Niagara are as follows : in. Length on load-water line Length over all 345 0 Breadth, extreme 55 0 Breadth, moulded 53 8 Depth of hold to spar deck 5l 3 Draught of water 26 0 Her ports are 15 feet above the load-water line. Her height between decks is 7 feet 3 inches to the under side of beams ! Her displacement at 23 feet draught is 5,440 tons. Her frame is of live oak, filled in below with yellow pine, and crossed on the outside with two sets of diagonal iron plates inclined in opposite direction. She is also strengthened forward by similar diagonal plates laid across the beams of the upper deck. Her plank of bottom and decks are of yellow pine. Having a very fine run, she is of course weak at her quarters, in consequence of which Mr. Steers has fitted on each side a large 2-ineh iron stay, or brace, which lies along the upper deck beams, and passing through the decks below steps upon the ster❑ post. This is certainly a curious arrangement for a ship of war. It may as well be added here that when she is docked it is thought necessary by Mr. Steers to brace her two sides together, at about the turn of the bilge, by means of a chain, which passes over a frame or saddle, which is set up by wedges to tighten the chain. She is rigged like the Merrimac and others. The Niagara carries 12 guns, 5 of a side, and 2 pivot guns, each of them 11 inches in the bore, and weighing upwards of 7 tons. All the guns are mounted on pivoted carriages, and the broadside ports have consequently to be very large-9 feet long and 4 feet high. Through ports of this size the guns would be easily dismounted in close action, but the Niagara is intended to be fast, and being furnished with long•rangeguns, is supposed to have the power of annoying and injuring an enemy, while she herself keeps out of the range of her enemy's guns. She was, in fact, designed for the express purpose of giving the Americans the advantage over all existing ships ; it is satisfactory, however, for us to know that in our own dockyards there are already several new class ships quite competent to match her, and, if we are not mistaken, to give a good account of Mr. Steers's experiment. We should be pleased to know with certainty that such a trial of strength is not likely to come off ; we hope it never may. The engines of the Niagara—designed by Mr. Cope land, and built by Pease and Murphy, New York—are similar to those of the Merrimac, but she has three cylin ders, each 72 inches diameter and three feet stroke, in stead of two. Each frame for cylinders is cast in one piece ; the cylinders have slide valves, and a separate cut-off or expansion side-valve adjustable so as to cut off at any point from three-eighths to five-eighths of the stroke. Each cylinder has its own separate condenser, air-pump, and hot well; in fact, there are three com plete engines, so that, should either become deranged, the others would be still available. The screw propeller (formed of composition) is 18 feet 3 inches diameter, and 4 feet 2 inches long, with pitch of 29l feet (at the peri phery.) The boilers are four in number, 11 feet long, 21 feet wide, and 15 feet high. Like those of the frigate, they are Mr. Martin's vertical tubular. They are set in pairs, the flues discharging into two chimneys.—Mccha nics' Magazine, • -44 g g '74 g p 4 F m X 0 PI 380 Colchester Harwich , 247 f 15 ' - 3 Leigh Mahlon. 1486 122 193 80 , KIRKOALDY—OCT. ii. We had small supplies of all kinds of grain. Sal" were -- quick for all sorts at an advance of 2s per quarter upg'" wheat, and is on barley and oats. Wheat. I Barley. 1 Oats. j ° eali fl First Bls Od I 46s 01 38s Od 1 Os ~i Second Bos Od I 43s Od I 348 Od f Os ,v,: , Third 74s Od I 38s 01 I —s Od I Os v COAL MARK Prices of Coal per ton at 0. d. Longridge's Wst Hartley 18 0 Byass's West Hartley ...18 0 Howard's West Hartley _ _ Netherton 18 Tanfield Moor l6 6 Puddle W. Hartley lB 0 1 , Tanfield Moor Butes 16 6 1 Old Shields Row Gas. l3 Walker Primrose l5 6' Davison's West Hartley 18 0 West Hartley ' l7 6 Wallsend, ET.—OcT. 13. the close of the market• Hetton 20 0 Tees 2O 0 South Hetton 19 9 Ships a market... 5: Wallsend, &Cs "' 0 Hilda 17 0 Leverson .....••.• 19 0 iraddyll .................... 6 Riddell.. ................. Eletton Lyons Main .. 1 9 6 Josforth ................... 6 Belmont ................... 3 Lambton .................. Kepler Grainge ..... 8 I : Derwentwater Har .. Evenwood ................. Riehmund .............. :9 Russell's Holton .....•••" i 3 I Sold 58ABORNE MAILS. st 4 n (11 aignifies that the mails are sent from th e G en eral k v - 'ey the night—and M by the morning —despatch.) ------ 10 en Daywhen made u'F From what do e lO . ~, COUNTRIICS. in General Post- Pert DP O4 o Office, London.* Dispatches • .7,.....0r _ -------- ---•----- -- „„, ne Lif America(byltrit.pack)N Every Friday Liverpool ... " itmerica by United Ste. Wee ° packet) ..........N Every Tuesday Southampte , America (by U. States packet) ........ 14 ..N • . Liverpool ... &ustralia (via Liver- ' . pool) ............ 4th and 11th Liverpool • • l ' . WV ID . Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good - - - IA 010°. ~101 HOW •• •• •• •• •• ••14 ....... • • • • • " cal 0 , - Africa (West Coast) .. N Old of th , month Plymouth .• ~ x j9t ll &1exandria..........N 10th & 26th of n o. Dover ...... 1 1 ‘t,.. 1 i01l Alexandria ..........M Ito 6c 20th of mon. Soathampto , 4 ,.'7,, Bahamas .. ......... N 17th of the month Southampton 10: ) , Belgium .• •• •• •• •• ..N Daily.. .... •• • Dover •• •• •• )6, Brazil ..............hl 9th of the mouth Southanoptol . ~,„ alle/103 AYTOS •••• •• •• M 9th of the month Southampton 17;rtion Cape of Good Hope ..N sth of the month C rii Capo of Good Hope ..N Uncertain Caao do Verde ......N Sr,. o' , . • ... II (Li louutamptot :3 9911 1 1 , , 4 Ceylon (see India) 10th and 26th al ' 6 2 st ~ Ceylon ..............S 4th and 20th ... . r 1.11: 111 ‘;6 Chaffael 75105 ........N Auk., YYeu.,ecrrl. , . Sonthamp. IV . . nd ._,. Chili.... .„ ..........31 dd & 17th of month, Bouthampoo 7 . `,7, - ,d I? China •••• • • 4th and 10th .... . 4 s' A 19 2 and 4 Constantinople ......N tOth and 26th „ „ Dover ...... an d 1 Constantinople .: Cont. of Europe M EL N Pwico daily ......Dover .....• L" -.40 11 Egypt (see India) rvii. -- 26 France ........ M Pr, N 1 rwico daily-- Dover ..... a . i , ;A Gibraltar ..........)14!4, 7, 17, 20, 27 • f in. S ou th u mptor "' Greece (see India) a 16 Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon. Sou t h a mpton Ist i ' li • oati7 Ist H o f Ole Havannatt ..........57 and of the month Southamptonsw Daa , Holland .............M Daily.... .• Honduras ...... .. -Di 17to of the month Southampton ;" at o 91P India (viaSouthampt.)M this R.: 20th of mon India (via Marseilles).M lOth&26th of moth Dover ...... 1 5 is; 29 ° lonian Isles (soe India) .... •• • . . Dover.... • • Ireland ........M & N twice daily .. Lisbon ..............M 2d of n 0... Southampton d l6 Madoira ............b1 dth of month... •• Southampton 6 50 Ka,reira ... ~ ......N 231 of month • • Stela (see India) • ~ 21! Malta ............N 1, 10, 20, and 26 Dover ......i. 4. lb ' Mauritius (see ladle) $ Mauritius ..........N , 0;h of the month 4th an d Mexico M dud of the montlatg oa th ampt ., ist; iftples , . ....,,, „•. -,.N Daily ••• • • IDover . • d l6 New Granada ......27 24 & 17th of month' Dover Ist on dew Zectiani.. cc, ~....,4th and 19th mnth! vari ous 10 .1, Papal States ..., .... ..N Daily- ...• • • ••••1D ' -1 licee Xll Over .. .. .. Peninsula .... ~, ....cis , . iouthamptoi ,JO Porn ~- . , .......„M ? , I & 17th of mon. 3outhampto r Ist . Port Natal ..........N sth of month .. • • Various Port. 3: C II Y ...c.c.., ~..N Every Saturday.. Mover ....;.. Weal ' Tuccany ~,,,........N ihily .... • Dover ...... 6 ,0 Venezuela .. ..... —hi 2d & 1 7 th ofmonth Southarnpi or 1 & 1 Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) ..., „„ , 4th and 18th of m. , of IrnOn.6 West Indies .., .. , ...m co ~. ~ - , . otooth Southampton I i 0c1.......,0 A (1 6 When any of tho f those dates fall on a Sunday , the male will D-0,0 spatched onfollowing day, with the exception of the 'O i l 00 tlouthamPton), and the Malta, both of W hi ch will be despatclow pr3ceding day. The departures fro m th e port of London for the AFB' trelian colonies during the past week have comP r :to r uckl Anindeelavideses,elsa,nfiaveonte tPot o Philip,Auckland, two d to Sydney, ag r ° e n g - 00 A 0 capacity of 7,453 tons. Th with -a n a 133 ri material alterati on. e rates of freight exl3 In the general business of th e port of London n fro the past week there has been increased activity. 7 1 12 number of vessels reported inwards wag 288, being, --red over that o f t h e previous week ; and the number cn.e", outward w as 1 23 (including 17 in ballast), shos 0 " decrease of nine. PO AD V ART'S EMENT. 1 SIGEL? IND HEAR ING S P ECTA co crIT NVPR PCTL TELESCOPES OPERA, F,ACE AND PERSO .A lW ' GLAssxs S, and B. Solomons , opticians, 3 9 ,01. niar le - street, Pic ca dill y. Ob sez 4,0 ve—opposite the York . 13 ' Lo t By ker Majesty' s R oyal Letters Patent for valuable ;d extraordinary improvements in the most powerful o v Pr' brill iant Telescopes, C amp , R acecourse, Opera, and nell speetive Glasses, to know the distances. These teleseeuria possess such extraordinary powers that some three and T t all inches, with an extra eye-picco, still show distinctly JuP, aj oe moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the sae telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles an o f half distant, and an objeci - , from 16 to 20 miles. They e r os larger awl all sizes, with increasing, powers accordingly. 41, Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very sw ilio s powerful waistcoat-pocket g l ass , th e s i ze o f a walnut, by °lst a person can be seen an d k nown 1i miles distant ; they ens ses, every purpose ou the race - course, and at the opera h°geg. country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 In':i They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting' 0 , sportsracu, gentlemen, gamekeep ers , and tourists 0 4 p e r fal race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonu e o t.. power. Newly-constrzzted Spectacle L enses o f the gl:ced est transparent powe r . Th e valuable advantage derl is from this invention i s , th at vision becoming impaired ato preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons „ c , enabled to employ their sight at the most minute 0 0 1,, patios- can see with these lenses of a much less mag ni ,: j o s ing power—and they do not require the frequent ohs . % , to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistel persons can be suited at the most remote part of the wor ld s * by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles in ad letter, and stating the distance from the eyes they can r e l , o small newspaper print with it; an d th ose who ha not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Di e ness. New Discov e ry. Th e O rgan i c Vibrator, an r tracrdinary powerful, small, newly-i nven t e d instrument... fog, deafness, entirely different from all others, t o surpass thing of the kind that has been, or probably ever can m r , produced. Being of the same colou r as th e s ki n, is not F e b eeptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at chur c , av - 1 at public assemblies; the un pl easant sensation of sing,l; 17 ~* ses in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all smsistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemar le ' t roe L„ Piccadilly. 11 c-asarve—opposite the York Hotel. LaBLAN.O. DUBLIN, OCT. 13. INQUEST ON THE BARON DE ROBECK. The painful speculations to which the late mys terious disappearance of the Baron de Robeck gave rise are at length set at rest, the body of the ill fated nobleman having been found on Saturday evening in the river Liffey, under such circum stances as leave no doubt that his death was caused by accidental drowning. When the body was taken out of the water it was found to be in such an ad vanced stage of decomposition —having lain at the bottom of the river since the 30th of Sept.—that it was deemed advisable to hold the inquest with as little delay as possible, and accordingly Mr. Davis, one of the county coroners, having received notice, proceeded to hold the irqniry yesterday (Sunday), before a respectable jury, in the Spa Hotel, Lucan. The body having been inspected, by the jury, the following evidence relative to the manner in which it was discovered and the circumstances, as far as known, of the deceased's disappearance, was ad duced : Wm. Coffey examined-- . --I lived in the service of the late Baron de Robeck for 32 years. I have looked at the body on which the inquest is being held. It is the body of my late master, the Baron de Robeck. The gold watch and c h a i n , gold spectacles, gold eye-glass, and pencil case produced were his property. I see that the watch is stopped at a quarter past six. Thos. Fullerton deposed as follows :—I was employed in dragging the Liffey for the body of the late Baron de Robeck. I was in a boat on Saturday evening searching for the body in the river where it runs through Captain Colthurst's demesne. At about four o'clock we found the body deeply embedded in the sand. There was only one boot on the body when we took it out of the water. I believe the other came off when we were pulling it ont. The body was lying on its face when found. Peter Kearney, under butler in the service of the late Baron, said he went into the drawing room of the Baron's mansion at a few minutes after five o'clock on the even ing of the 30th Sept. to make up the fire. As he was going across the room the Baron told him there was suffi cient coal on the fire. The Baron was then sitting near a table in the drawing room, and had on hs usual dress, but not the dress he wore when going out to walk. Bridget Heffernan was then examined. She said—l live at Leixlip. I knew the late Baron de Robeck. I SAW him twice on the evening of the 30th Sept. last. I was workiog in a factory at the opposite side of the river. The river was greatly swollen that evening. The first,tirne I .saw him was a little before 5 o'clock. He was then walking with his son, Major de Robeck. The second time I saw him was probably at 5 o'clock: He was then also with his son. At about half-past 5 o'clock I saw a man standing on the rocks by himfelf. He was a tall thin figure, but I could not see his face by reason of the branches of the trees that intervened. Where the figure stood was a dangerous place—a slippery rock under the Salmon Leap. H. De Robeck, major in the Kildare Militia, on ad b h ei e n r g e ' sworn, said—The body of the gentleman lying d is that of my late father, Baron de Robeck. I remember the evening on which he disappeared. It f wasthe eebl e 3 state Oth of September. He was at that time in a health, delicate and weak. On the evening of Sept. 30 he wished to go out to see river,the went out with him at about a quarter to 5 o'clock. We on account of the high floods that prevailed. I wa lked to the upper fall, and when we had nearly returnedtothie did return the Castle rheeerxn ; and expressed a d a wish to go back a second time. v this time we went t o the lower fall, which isa narrow ledge under the upp e r fall. As we returned towards the Castle again my wife met us. My father ask e d h er would she like to go down and see the waterfall ? and I replied that she ha - I seen it. We t hen went to the Castl e and into the drawing-room. I saw my father take off his hat and coat, and put them in their usual place, lie sat down in the drawing room, near the fire. It was then from a quarter to half-past 5 o'clock. I told him I was going into the garden with my wife, and we then went away leaving him in the room. That was the last time I saw him alive; on returning from th e garden with my wife at six o'clock, and going into th e d rawing room, we saw the Baron was not there, and th a t th e window, which was partly closed when we left the room, was then This window has been always us e d as a door i go•nc2.P‘'ic,• n - and out ; it struck me that he m i g h t have Roueoult:but I was satisfied he had when I saw t h at his hat and coat were gone. The Baron's usual welkin, dress, save his s fou in the hat and stick, was on his body when it wand river. Every search was made for the bod 30, but it was not found till yesterday evyenlng T since Sept.lie Baron's life, to my knowledge, was not insured for any sum of money. Thos. Purefoy, M.D,, and surgeon, deposed that he examined the body of an the deceased, d th a t no marks of violenc e upon i t. None there a were broken. He beli eve d B aron de Ro be cokf 's th d e ea b i e h n i e .e s s u w l t e e r d e from drowning. The Coroner having recapitulated the evidence, the jury returned the following verdict :—" W e fi n d t h at the late B aron d e Robeck Colthurst's fou n d d rowne d i n the River Liff e y, i n Captain Colthurat's dem esne , on th e evening of the 11 t h i nst ed and we believe him to hav e been accid en t a ll y drowned near evening of th e 30th Septembeearr l t a h st e ~ Salmon Leap on the THE TIPPERARY BANK. In the offi ce of the M as t er in L Chancery . this day an application was made e on behalf of t i he t, Newcastle Conniaercial Banking liberty ex hibit a proof for 51;899r ssliaBnir. fionr whichi.er Y amount the applicants averred that the . Tipperary Joint- Stock Banking Company was indebted to them. An affidavit had been filed by Mr. Walker, the public officer of the Newcastle Bank, and it was there sworn that six draughts of the Tipperary Bank wer e d rawn in favour of Gurney, Wilkinson, and Co., or one of that firm, and endorsed over to the Newcastle Bank, by which they were dis counted, and 51,000/. advanced. It was now sought to exhibit a proof for this sum, together with 899/. 53 . B d. interest, the handwriting being admitted. Another application was made for liberty to pr o .. coed at law against the officia l m anager for the amount of the proof. This application, after being demurred to on the ground of being unnecessary was ultimately planned by consent. The name of Mr. Robert Keating, M.P., was placed upon the list of contributorie s as the ow ner of 185 sha res in the Tipperary Bank. The next b us i ness was the consideration of an application to Parliament for a bill to enable ;the creditors' to accept a compro mise. The application was postponed pending negotiations. ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIows Pills an inappreciu,ble rou E l A ed D y vE for Bile and Incligestion.—Alis Knight, of 36, remedy for Bile and indigestjoll.j Knight, of 36, St a nhopestreet, Regent's.park, having a very delicate constitution, suffered for years from an overflow of bile and bad digestion, causing palpitation of the heart, with great difficulty of breathin g , rendering it impossible to ascend any acclivity without great pain. She bad re ceived the first medical advice iu various countries, but obtained no p er manent benefit. However, a course of Holloway's pills has been the means of bringing her to a state of well health she never b e f ore enjoyed, and she has con more than f our years. —S o ld by all medicine vend ors throughout the world ; at Professor ti Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, Ana York byA. _ 80, Maiclea.lane, New k I Constanti- Country Ptiaa'kele, CHELMSFORD—Ocr. 10. There was a (mod deal of damp wheat in the market to. day. The best wheats realised is per qr. more than last week, and second-rate qualities may be quoted dull at late prices. Spring corn of all sort s unaltered, excepting bax lays, which made is per qr. more. Wheat, whit e , o ld, p er s . s. B. 6 * qr. 45 76 Oats, per qr ............ 25 Si, I new 48 76 Peas, Partridge .......45 4 ! old 43 70 White... ......... 42 0 43 5 ° new 43 69 Boiling ....... •• 0 Barley Dun .............. • 33 11 Chevalier 33 43 51 ' Beans, Tiek ....... .- 36 " . 5 Grinding 34 42 Harrow tickse 40 4 , Malt 72 76 37 39 Mazagan ..... .. ~3 Chevalier 74 781 Ditto, new... 35 '" red, COLCHESTER,— Ocr. 10. tin Tho supply of wheat w as goo d, b u t th e greater par poor condition, and su c h me t a s l ow sa l e a t b a rely the lasv . week's prices. Dry s a mpl es were i s t o 2 s p e r qr. deal s Barley in good demand, and 2s per qr. dearer. Beans dearer. Peas same as last week. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 68s to 745; red, 66s to 725; barley, 44s to 48s ; cats, 26s to 30s ; 138° 1 Mazagan, 40s to 42.4; middle an d sm a ll, 42s to 465; p ea white, 41s to 48s ; grey, 40s to 445. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, Sze in the port of London, from the following IN the Oct. 6 to Oct. 11, both inclusive. recei ve " ; r t s , iron 3IR TH S. A NI On the 11th i ns t ., at 4 0, G l o c ester-road, Regent's-par the wife of Frank Holt, E3q. On the 11th inst., at 1, Chester-place, Kennington, t wife of Mr. George Dalton. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 12th inst., at 38, Gracechurch-stre e t, Mrs. Cllo' Whetham. On the 11th inst., at Copthorne, the wife of H. Weeks 6 Esq., A.R.A. piARRIEID. , ii On the 11th inst., at Barnes Church, Su rrey , Ch ar ts James R o w e , Esq., of Torri,no-grove, Kenti sh-town tc. Ellen, second daughter of Richard Colls, E sq . , Cornwall Lodge, Hammersmith. On the 11th inst., at St. Mark's, Tollington-park, Alfre 4 Stanley, fifth son of the late Mr. T. Buddy, of Portseno t o E m ily Arabella, third daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Parlour, of York-place, City -road, DIED. Oa the 12th iust. in St. J ames ' s - p l ace, th e R i ght Hon* Cornwallis, third 'Viscount Fla.warden, aged 77. O n the 12th inst., at Milton-next -Gravesend, the Rev- George John Wyatt, vicar of Chalk, Kent. aged 65. On the 12th inst., at 141 , Ch eapside, Mary Ann, second daughter of the late John Townes, Esq., aged 60. On the 11th inst., at Somerton, Somerset, Alfred Estlins E so ., solicitor, aged 65. On the 11th inst., at 23, Guildford-street,Mussell-square, John Cooper, Esq., formerly of H.M.'s Ordnance Office, Tower, aged 69. On the 9th inst., at 16, Rutland-street, Hampstead' road, Wm. Thackeray, Esq., one of 11.51.'s Yeomen of the Guard, aged 86. On the 10th inst., at Newtown-Anner, co. Tipperary, Catherine, widow of Sir Thomas Osborne, Bart. LONDON : Printed and Published. by KURD() YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the went, of Middles.; Tuesday, October 14,185