The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-21 00:00:00

- • G' /, 2 ~ti~~ y „r<~r~ *.l t, IN what " Hropy Land" can I see y ou a ft er th e "Opera?" I only k now o f O ne HAPPY LAND in whi a Gentleman may Sup—EVANS', COVF,NT iiARDEN, my dear fellow I RINAHAN'S LI, WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISLI WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious; and very Wholesome. atSold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Rouses in London; by e Agents in th e p r i nc i pal towns in England ; or 'wholesale 8, GREAT WIN. DATILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded o ,lom:ban's LL Whisky.", THE, IMPERIAL Al Capital. subscribAS SOCIA.TI( subscribed £5,000,000, Paid up, BOARD OF JOHN CII ATHA. AT,.!nophou Balli, Esq. .E. J. Coleman, r:sq. 3,1 r. Alderman Dakin. James Dickson, Esq. I'. D. Tladow, Esq. J. 0. Hanson, Esq. W. li. Ilartord, Esq. G. F. Holroyd, Esq. J. G. liornere, Esq. Capt. J. Gilbed Johnston. lERCANTILE CREDIT ON, Limited. is 100,000 shares of £5O each. , £50, 1 ,000. DIRECTORS. .N, Esq., Chairman. Charles Belson, Esq, G. G. Macpherson, Esq. Sir J. 11. Bart. W. Scholefield, Esq„ M.P. Str S. I). Scotr, Part. 11. D. Seymour, Esq.. M.P. Joseph Thornton, Esq. F. G. "Westmorland, Es.;. Alfred Wilson, Esq. M. Zarifi, Esq. BANKERS. The Bank of England. The Agra and 111asterman's Bank, Limited. The Bulk of London. The Union Bank of London. L'ir W. Miles, Bart., and Co., Bristol. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., and Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and Co. Henry ANAGEßS. enry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Eq. This Association receives money on deposit at. notice, s and for fixed periods, on ter ms t o b e agreed upon ; makes advances on approved securities, and effects purchases and sates of stocks, shares, and debentures ; negotiates loans, and under takes general financial business. Communications io be addressed to the Managers. By order. W. C. WIN TERBOTTOM, Secretary. TEMPORARY OFFICES. Crosby House, 96, Bishopgate-street Within. THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN BANK (Limited). I ncorporated under the Companies' Act, Itin. with limited Capital £2,000,0c0, in 10,000 shares of £5O each. With power to increase. Deposit, Z 2 on application, and £3 on allotment. Geo DIRECTORS. (-* re Gordon Macpherson, Esq , Governor of the Agra and hiasterman's Bank. Samuel Laing, Esq., Chairman of the General Credit and Finance Company of London. Edward Masterman, Esq., Director of the Agra and Master rnan's Bank. A.lexander Devaux, Esq., Director of the General Credit and Finance Company of London. 3 . B. Pastre, Esq., Member of the Conseil Snperieur du C.-An meree in France, President of the Chambre de Commerce of Marseilles. Juba rastre, Esq. (Pastre Freres), Alexandria. G. Sinadino, Esq. (G. Sinadino and Co.), Alexandria, With power to add to their number. BANKERS. The Agra and litasterman's Bank (Limited), 35, Nicholas lane, Lombard -street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and Upton, 2D, Austinfriars. BROKERS. Ilics.lrs. fill, Fawcett, aad Hill, 29, Threadneedle-st., E.C. SECRETARY, PRO TEM. J. L. Sawer, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 29, Threadneedle-street, E.C. PROSPECTUS. This Bank Is founded on the basis of the well-known and old established Firms of Pastre Freres and G. Sinadino and of Alexandria, under the foll ow i ng c i rcums t ances : Co.,he trade and commerce of Egypt, which have been for a series of years steadily increasing, are now raised by the change in the cotton trade, caused by the American war, into first rate importance, and corresponding banking and finan cial facilities are required. The export value of the cotton crop of Egypt for the pre- Sent year is estimated at £17,000,000 ; the population is now from 5,0t.0,0(,0 to 6,000,000. The fina n ci a l p os iti on o f t h e c ountry is most flourishing, all the elements of wealth and Prosperity are rapidly expanding, and an extensive field is opened for public works and industrial under akings of all kinds. oThe situation of Egypt, half way between England and ttia, makes it also an i m p or t an t sta ti on for a large portion the exchange and other financial operations connected With the immense trade between Europe and the East. „"0 The Agra and Master man ' s B an k , h av i ng a leading posi ,o both in Eng and and I n di a , h as f e l t th e a d vantage Which would result from h av i ng an dependent Agency in. •N'Ypt, while a great amount of financial and industrial busi ness, not falling within the scope of or di nar y banking opera tions, will afford large profits in a country where capital Commands such a high rate of interest, to an Institut on act ing in connexion with the General Credit and Finance Com- Pany of London and its influential Continental allies. Under these favourable circumstances an opportunity has Presented itself of founding a powerful Banking and Finan cial Corporation, with a ready-made business and first-rate local influence and connections, by a transfer of the two e stablishments of Messrs. Pastre Freres and G. Sinadino and Co, who have for many years had the honour of trans 4eting banking and mercantile business nu account of the Government of Egypt and of his highness the Viceroy. A satisfactory a._,reement has been made w.th Messrs P3stre a nd Sinadino for merging the whole of the business of these t wo establishm e nts i n thi s Bank, with the pr e mises occupied b y thew, and the entire staff of their inteiligent and expe l'. encel employes. Me ssrs. . l ules Pastre and G. Sinadino, who are row at tht head of the establishments in Egypt, and under whose ma citP,"naent they have a ttai ne d th e i r p resen t grea t pr o sperity, _ Continue to superintend the operations of the new bank n that country, in concert with English gentlemen of first trate banking experience, while the Financial Agency of the ! gra and Masterman's Bank, and of the General Credit and inance Company of London, will ensure to this Bank the 1114 advantag•es of banking i n L on d on , I n di a, an d through out the Continent of Europe. The Anglo-Egyptian Stank will thus possess the immense . antage of entering at once upon a business in full acti 'll3, yie di. .g large profits, with the co-operation of gentle ',wrt Who are intimately acquainted w ith the usages of the co lintry, and who h ave f or a long series of years retained the Confidence of the Government and of the mercantile commu nity in Europe and the East. The Memorandum and Articles of Association and Copy tee Agreement with Messrs. Pastre and Sinadino, will lie for inspection at the Offices of the Solicitors, 20, Austin friars. ,„ A large proportion of the Capital is already subscribed. the Genet and Masterman's Bank, 33, Niaholas-lane ;by the ,_al Credit and Finance Company of London. 7, Loth ury ; and by Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, the BreA ere of the Company, where Prospectuses and Forms of Application may be obtained. The amount of .£2 upon each share applied for must be paid to the Company's Bankers previously to the application being sent in ,• this sum will be returned if no allotment is made to the applicant. Temporary Offices, 29, Threadneedle-street, July 19, 1861. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Anglo-Egyptian. Bank (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your credit, with the Agra and masterman's Bank, the sum of , being a de- Posit of £2 per share on shares in the above Com- Patty. I request that you will allot to me shares of £5O each in the Anglo-Egyptian Bank (Limited), and I hereby undertake to accept the same or any smaller number which you may allot to me, and to pay the further deposit of £3 per share on allotment ; and I agree to beco me a mem ber of th e Company, and request you to place my name on the negister of Shareholders in respect of the shares allotted to I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address in full Date ANGLO-EGYPTIAN ',BANK. (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that NO APPLICA TIONS for SHARES will be received after SATURDAY, the 23d instant, at 12 o'clock. By order of the Board, J. L. SAPPER, Secretary. 20, Threadneedle street, July 21, 1864. TRE REGENT'S CANAL IRON WORKS COMPANY (Limited). In corporated under the Companies' Act. 1862, by which the liability of each shareholder is limited to th e amoun t of his shares. Capital £250,00, in 12,1500 shares of £2O each, 'lrst issue 8,000 shares, of which one-half are already sub scribed by the Direct9rs and their friends. Deand posit £1 per share on application, and £2 on allotment the remainder in calls not exceeding £2 per share, at i nterval] of not less than two months. It is not contemplated to call up more than £lO per share. DIRECTORS. d a mes Goodson, 32, Kensingt on G ar d ens - square, Chairman. J,amward Hornor, The Howe, H a l s t ea d , E ssex. ames Fennings, Fenninna' Wharf, 'Cooley-street. 4olin Everitt, 18, Tokenhonse-yard, London. Collinson Hall, sen., Navestock, Essex. John Watson Lay, 3, Savage-g,rdens, Tower-ha lleward Heed, Hendon, Middle Ne-x, William Tabor, Bishops ate-street, London. tienry Grissell, Regent's Canal Iron Works, Managing Di rector, With power to add to their number. AUDITORS. Cornelius Walford, 14, Leadenhall-street. F. W. Spooner, Public Accountant. SOLICITORS. I teßsts. Kingsford and Dorman, Essex-street, Strand, W.C. BANKERS. The East London Bank, Lombard-street. FINANCIAL AGENTS. T he Financial Corporation (Limiter), 14, Leadenhall-street. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) Fred. Bolland Moore, Regent's Canal Ironworks. TEMPORARY OFFICES, 14, Leadenhall• street, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. a Thin Company is formed for the purpose of carrying on, as xioint-stock enterprise, the well known engineering works of k r ' }T enn' Grissell, situate in the Eagle Wharf-road, e gent's Cana*, London, wh ch are now in full operation. 3 alle Works were established by Mr. Grissell in the year "'II, and since that time have been most successfully carried 01 1 under his immediate supervision. Each applicant w ill b e required to pay i n t o the banker s o f f " 1 (Com Pany £1 per share on the number of shares anp , lied and ucon allotment to make a furthf r paymen t °f 4- per made e a on the shares allotted to him. Further calls will be will t iervals of not less than two months, and no call exceed £2 per share. Progpectuses and forms of application for shares r had of the Solic may be poration (limited) rg, and at the Offices of the Financial U 0 - , 14, L eadenhall-street, City, E.C. THE REGENT'S CANAL IRON WORKS COMP ANY (Limited'. of the above Com NOTICE IS HERE BY GIVEN, th at the SHARE LIST 2 6th instant, for Londonpany will be CLOSE D on TUESDAY, the lOatant, for the Country. ; and on TTIUR.6DAY, the zsth By order, Tem F. B. MO ORE, Secretary. 20 porary Offices, It, Leadenha ll - street, E.C., July , 18CI. Drawing-room, Library, ORNAMENTS for the Groups, Candlesti k,Obelisk a s, Ink and Dining-room, consisting of anew and eßeant ssort tnent et VASES,Figures, stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, Ao., in Italian, Al abaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire S p a r e W.C., Lonaon. Inlported and manufactured by JAMES TEN DTAR, /4logist to her blajesty, 149, Stand, will greatly 14. Tennant arranges elementa,ry, collections of SIIELLS, pl INPMALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which !eilititte the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON- kIOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guin eas eaQ i. km- PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION In GEOLOGY and MINE. ,A,, — vv.' ite given by Blr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. No. 22,488. 110 ?ERSONS SEEKING LANDED ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER rims GENERALLY— To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-line, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY HEGISTER," containing availed selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Register affords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chancery . -lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible chant , ter, thereby avoid ing' the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon veniences. THERE IS NO CHARGE 'marred, unless a tenant or pur cnaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. FURNITURE, CARPETS, REDDING, and FLOORCLOVI, CARRTAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CLERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and . are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo adm ^able engravings of every description of Furniture and bee:steads, with prices attached. A copy sent palls and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised cale : • A Six-roomed Parsonage £74 3 0 An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto ........ A Twelve-roomed ditto Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valuable informationto all requiring househ 31d furniture, earpet4, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ilyde, Plymouth, Wells. Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Aiban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Feterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great COBBETT and CO.. General House Furnishers. Deptford bridge, London, B.E. T HE MARLBOROUGH CLUB COMPANY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that this Club will be Opened for the reception of its Members on MONDAY, the 12th day of August. S. O. RATTENBURY, Hon. Secretary. Registered Office of the Company, 6, John-street, Bedford row, W.C. THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY HALL COMPANY (Lima ed). Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862. Capital £120,000, in 8,000 shares of £l5 each. Deposit on application £1 per share and £2 on allotment. No call will be made until at least two months after the date of al'otment, with an interval of three months between each call, which will not exceed £3 at any one time. It is not contemplated to call up more than £lO per share. DIRECTORS. Evan B. Jones, Esq., 15, Hanuver-street, Hanover-square, Chairman. George F. Anderson, Esq., 31, Nottingham-place, York-gate, Regent's-park. George Bermingham, Esq., Kentish Town. Rueben Whitmore, Esq., 63, Cornhill. F. W. King, Esq., Hil marton-villas, Camden-road, Hollo way. Charles Morton, Esq., Grove House, Putney, Managing Director. With power to add to their number. BANKERS. The London and County Bank, Lombard , street, and 411, Oxford-street. _ _ _ AUDITOR. Hobert Joseph Clarke, Esq. (Messrs. R. Josh. Clarke and Ford, Public Accountants, 9, Old Je Nry-chambers). BROKER. C. A. Murton, Esq., 27, CornhiU. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) Mr. W. T. Harrison. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 1?, George-yard, Lombard-street, City. VINTAGE WINE COMPANY, Importers of Spanish and other Wines, 14, Bloomsbury-stt eet, London, Four Doors South of New Oxford-street. The Vintage Comida Sherry, Golden lBs per doz. The Vintage Xeres Ditto, Pale The Vintage Port, No. 1 2OB. ~ The Vintage Port, No. 1* 248. „ The Vintage Port, No. 5, fine rich old 3ss. ~ The Vintage Claret l3s. 9, The Vintage Beaujolais, recommended .... •• •• 168 . ~ The Vintage Champagne, quarts „ pints l5B. ~ The Vintage lock, sparkling, very choice 358. ~ The Vintage Burgundy, sparkling superb 4os. ~ The Vintage East India Sherry s4s. ~ The Vintage A montillado, the choicest imported 565. ~ Fine old Cognac. Liquers, Spirits, .tc. THE VINTAGE ALMANACK, with price list and medical and clerical testimonials, sent post free. See 30' opinions of the press. IL:Bloomsbury-street. N. W. lIODGES, Secretary. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1864. NEW NOVEL BY NOELL RADECLIFFE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 Tole., SYBILLA LOCKWOOD. 13y NOELL RADECLIFFE, Author of "Alire Wentworth," "Wheel within Wheel," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great ➢larlborough street. FOUR PENNY PACKETS of HARPER TWELVETREES' GLYCERINE SOAP POWDER nd half a pound of Soap will wash fifty counterpanes in six ours, and sheets, shirts, table linen, .tc., in half the usu.l time.—See Airs. Goulder's Report, Chelsea, Laundry, S.W. Sold by grocers and druggists. Works, Bromley-by-Bow, London, E. TMEET H. - IMPROVED MECHANICAL DENTlSTRY.—Professional abilities and great artistic skill have been most successfully combined in the production of ARTIFICIAL TEETH. upon a new principle. The real value of the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi enced by all wishing to avail themselves of professional assistance by =suiting Mr. AL BERT, 34, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury. whose experience has enabled him to effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial means, and which are so perfectly efficient. Second Edition, Corrected and Revised, post free 7d., In cloth 13d., 91HE TEETH a Practical Treatise, with the 11 best means of restoring them when defective or lost. By A. ESKELL, Esq., Surgeon-Dentist, 8. Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor- square. " It really contains all that is necessary relative to the good keeping , of he mou h and teeth, and deserves the serious consideration of all who adequately regard their health, comfort, and appearance."—The Sun, May 4, 1861. "We can commend this little brochure on a subject upon which everybody takes an interest."—Medical Circular, June 5, 1861. " We can recommend its perusal to those who wish to pre serve their te, th. and to those who know the value of them." —Daily News, June 20, 1801. London : Clements, Little Pulteney-street. BED-ROOM CANDLES. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY, and BACHELOR'S BOX, an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Cearing-c-oss, EVERY EVENINCI, at eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mornings at three.— Stalls, and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls. A Plan of the Stalls may be seen, and Seats secured at the Hall from eleven to five. "RICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop grease when carried."—Thin, very hrd candles, sold in boxes ls. and 3s. each, are recommended a as the best carriers. T " 0 XFOIt D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and success ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAUST, with augmented band and chorus, supported by the following talented principal artistes:—Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry. Tyrrell, %V almslev ; Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green ; and UN BALLO IN lIIASCHERA. MADAME TUSS D'S HISTORICAL GALLERY; established 23 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. COUTY DE LA POMMERAIS, the Poisoner, taken from the original photograph, by Mons. Trinquart, of Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, Is. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. NEW PATENT CURTAIN HOOK that requires no sewinf,r, and, if reversed, can be used for many purposes. To be had of all shops in town or country. Patentees, W. TENT and Co., 23, Birchin-lane, London, E.C. " EXTRA. HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES," sold in boxes 2s. each. Thicker =dies intended for those who will not burn thin. " SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS," in packets of 3t3 candles for one shilling, intended for use where cheapness is a great object, will be found an improve ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less. Special candlesticks to fit thin candles,ls. and 2s. 6d. each; reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each. • TOILET SOAPS. , Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent. Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains Price's Glycerine. Camphor and Glycerine Soap, to tender skins in winter. GLYCERINE. SIIERWOODOLE "Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains, capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bat " Pric2's Patent," from 6d. ties, 6d. and ls. each. upwards. Impure Glycerine has been sold In the state ment that it is "equal to Prices." Reil through Wholesale by Price Patent Londe n any Grocer. Candle Company (Limited: ton. shell, a segment shell, and a solid shot. The nom• nearly mon shell is 2 1 ift. long, and ca rr i es 471 b o f powder. The segment shell carries upwa r d s o f 500 segment pieces,es each, which powder, ddeisr p, ignited either in flight or on striki ng an o bj e ct by the action of the time or percussi on f use . The crdi naryrd o weighingn bursting by a chargelb. solid shot is of cast iron ; but the most formi dable prejectile against plates is the steel shell, which carries a bursting charge of 241 b. Steel shells containing molten iron can also be used against plated ships. plied by Mr. Krupp, John Brown and Co., Messrs. Sanderson, Brothers, and Co., and various other makers. The shots were used against 5-inch plates, and Mr. Krupp was the only maker whose shot, during yesterday's trial, went through one of these plates. Only one shot did so, however, and, as no other competitor fired against that identical plate, it would be premature to call this a victory for Mr. Krupp. Next to Mr. Krupp's in order of merit, and close upon them in penetration, were those of John Brown and Co., and the difference between the performances of these shot was by no means so great as the difference in their prices, Mr. Krupp's being about £5O per ton, whereas those of Mr. Browu, which are almost as good, are only £3O. All the shots, however, did very well, and showed the necessity for a large supply of these formidable Projectiles for both army and navy. At present not a single steel shot has been ordered for either branch of the service. All these projectiles were fired from the old and much-abused Armstrong 110-pounder breech-loader, which with only 12- pound charges, always had inAmense effect on the plates, and which, as we have said, in one instance sent th© shot not only through the plate, but deep into the bank behind it. The trial of La Gloire target, which is looked forward to with the greatest interest, is not likely to be made for some days yet. In the two years that have nearly elapsed since this gun has been made only 27 rounds have been fired from it with 731 b. and 90lb, charges. Four of the latter charges were fired, two of them with rifled shot; and these, like our system of overproving generally, have done the gun more harm than good, and made it after proof a less safe gun than it was before a shot had been fired from it at all. The first rounds were fired to test the velocity of the shot on leaving the gun, and its velocity on striking the target at 1,500 yards. Poe this practice it was laid at and when fired the noise was less 3 deg painfulesselevation, than that 100-pounder; but the shock of the explosion was very great, and became distressing to those who were obliged to stand near. The enormous bulk of the projectile made it per fectly easy to trace its progress fr o m the muzzle of the gun to its mark ; and nothing could more strikingly demonstrate the accuracy of the piece or the care with which it was laid than watching the huge shot rising with a long wavering roar high and then began its dinotwontwhaerdaiflr as flight till cud im it in s a t t r e u d ck full on the little black spot at which it was aimed, and then ricochetting on, bound after bound, till it s course was lost in a long think trail, half sand, h a lf wa t er . It was impossible to ?ascertain its velocity at the screen, as the first shot, struck on the right side of the g whichet uprooting one i of he the supports of the screen,second shot, which was aimed to the left to avoid the same mishap, felld s. The broke up the screen withthe splinters of the target, and again there was no result as to velocity at that point. As the tide was :ow, and it wo u ld t a k e a long time to repair the screen, the trials for velocity at 1,500 yards was abandoned, and only three more rounds were fired at this elevation to test accuracy. This test, considering that the ce.steiron shot used varied from 5201 b to 6121 b in weight, and that of the bucket of water poured into the gun after each discharge very nearly a quarter was once left in the bore, showed that, as far as flight of shot went it was as perfect as it well could be. Its mean error in range—that is to say, the difference between the shot which fell nearest and that which fell furthest —was only 161 yards, while the average of the error from the true line of fire was lft 9in. A still more formidable experiment, as regards testing the strength of the gun, was neat tried. The elevating screw and all the quoins were removed, so that as the breech was depressed the muzzle of the piece was gradually brought higher till it rose to the portentous height of 23 deg 19 sec --the highest elevation, we believe, at which any large rifled gun has ever been tried sinoe rifled guns were thought of. No one expected the gun eairiage would have sur vived the tr al, and very few believed in the gun, though they showed their confidence in its principle by standing by it. The gun was fired, and the huge shot went towering with a terrific roar higher and higher into the air till it disappeared in the clouds. Yet still the ear could trace its progress as it went roaring onwards, fainter and fainter:till as it seemed on the very verge of the horizon, it alighted on the sands, which it threw up in a cloud, and went blune dering on for a short distance further. Strangest of all, however, lA as the kind - of after roar, - whiet. seemed to begin in the clouds, and as it gathered force came hoarsely down from the upper air in a dull reverberation that seemed almost mysterious in its vague sullen noise. The flight of the shot was nearly half a minute (26.2), and its first graze on the earth was 7,400 yards, or nearly 44- miles. Three shots were fired at this enormous elevation, giving a mean range of 7,300 yards, a metal error between the nearest and furthest shots of 80 yards, and a mean deviation from the trae line of fire of 21 yards. The gun was then depressed to 5 deg. elevation, at which five rounds were fired, giving the astonishing result of a mean error of 26 yards and a mesa error in line of 0 . 8, o r as nearly as pose sible 24 feet. At 10 deg. the mean error in range was only 45 yards between the longest and shortest, while the mean error in line was precisely the same as at 23 deg., that is to say, 2e9 or 71 feet. In all 47 rounds were fired on Monday, which, with the charges previously discharged at proof and against iron targets made a tow, o f 74 shots. At the close of the day, and early on Tuesday, careful impressions were taken of the bore of the gun, and these at once showed the value, if not the necessity, of Sir William's latest i mprovement ---the steel lining inside the iron coils. The gun showed signs of wear. The fibre of the rim in th e coils was clearly indicated on the gutt a . Percha mould, while between some of the welds th e re were little fissures varying from the 100th to the 00th of an inch in depth, and from a quarter of an inch to two inches long. All these were in the Powder chamber at the heel of the shot; none w ere , • in th e r ifling, where the grooves were as snarp a s when they were first turned. Compared with th e impressions taken when the gun was first delivered t Shoebury, the trials of all kinds which e taken place since then seem to have opened and n deepened the cracks rather more than a third, and less than one half more than they were at &Bt. Beyond all doubt, however, the coias may be said to be gradually opening, and it is only a, question whether or not the inner coil will stand a large number of rounds before it gives Way' Once the inner coil yields, all the others on the Outside become useless until the vino of the defective c o il is supplied with a tube of steel, as all the modern Armstrongs are now built with, There seems, how• ever, not the slightest reason to doubt that the piece will bear easily a ll the ro unds, 250 in number, with which the committee intend to test it. Come paring the performances of th e 600 pounder for accuracy with the performance of the French, the Scott, and the Lancaster guns, Which are now come peting at Shoebury, the 600 Pounder has on the whole a clear gain at 6 deg. and lo deg. of eleva tion, as the subjoined table shows FIFTH ELEVATION. Mean Error in Mean Error in gauge. Line. Yards. Yards. French 33'5 .............. 41 Scott Lancaster 600 pounder TENTH ET.EVATIeIf. Mean Error in, Mean Error in Rags. Line. Yards. Yards. French Scott Lancaster 600 pounder 54 ............ 2.8 On Tuesday the experiments Were continued for velccity, which was tested at 120 ft. from the muzzle of the gun, at 530 yards, a nd at 1,000 yards. At the muzzle it was 1,240 ft, per second, at 500 yards it had diminished_ to 1,172 ft.; at 1,00 0 yards it was 1,122 ft„ corresponding w ith the velocities up to 1 1 50° , yards, which were talon some time ago. It gas take been said this gun would BO long a time in loading as to diminish its value as an engine of war. The result of the trials of Monday and Tues day show e d thi s o bj ec tion to be in practice as Blue sort' as almost all the others which are from time to time brought forward against the use of very heavy ordnance. The average time occupied in loading by men who had never served the gun before was only 21 min., though not the slightest haste was used, or any attempt made at quick firing. 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Half way between Hungerford and Waterloo Bridges there will be a fli g ht o f landing._ _ steps GOft wide projecting into the river, and flanked at each end with msssivc piers, rising to the level of a few feet above the roadway, and hereafter to be surmounted with colossal Lgures of river deities or other appropriate groups. There will be an approach for foot passengers from the high level roadway to the river by a second flight of steps, descending to the level of the lower or Embankment roadway. As the plan at present stands, it is proposed to construct the Embankment from the Temple to Blackfriars- bridge on arches, so as to give an access for boats from the river to the wharves; but is not likely that Ulla design will be adhered to, because it is expected that the Inner Circle Railway Bill will pass into law this session, and, if so, it will cut off all water approach to those wharves, and the Embankment will be oorttinucci is the solid, the ruudway ascend ing by a gradual incline to the level of Blaekfriars bridge. Besides the low-level sewer, there will be a sub-way for gas and water pipes and telegraph wires beneath the road, and if the Inner Circle Railway be adopted, this line will also pass under - - - the entire length of the roadway or the apace be- bird it. From end to end the Embankment will be faced with granite. It will be enriched with mould ings of a simple character down to the level of high-water mark; but the line of moulding will be broken by the introduction at intervals of massive' blocks of granite to bear ornamental lamps and by occasional recesses for seats. Behind the embank ment wall the reclaimed space will be filled in to a members of the Metropolitan Bet ird curreuna.a... their chairman, the general visitora formed an ter,. circle, workmen stood along the : r r e o d ss thheeaMt: s:: . the coffer-dam, and the platform at the top 't a e crowded. As Mr Thwaites deep stone duly laid, a cheer rose frc m below, and was taken up and continued 1. 17 the hun dreds of mechanics and nay vies in t. ho yard. A sketch of the scene was taken by mew than one artist. Mr Thwaites addresstld the cRa-2:nbly at some length, tracing the progretls of the id ea of em banking the Thames from the tithe it was first pro pounded until. Mr Cowper gave it effect. Mr COW. per, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr V, waitcs, describad the work as one of the ,greet uneert. , :kinga of the day. He observed that, when the Embank, ment was completed, from Blackfriars to West,rnin. stet. there would be a magnificent promenade, hav ing as the principle object at one end t. Paul's with its unrivaltccl dome, and at the .other the Palace of Westminster, which, notl.vithstan6ing its faults, was, be maintained, the finest Gothic building is Europe. Lord J . sancrs seconded the vote, and a similar vote Was passed to Mr Bazalgette, w.lo wan warmly congratulated on the ability displa,yer4 by him as engineer of the Embankment. Thankai were subsequently voted to Mr Cowper and Lord John. Manners, and most of the party proceeded t o a marquee and partook of a luncheon provided by Mr Furness, and supplied by Mr Lucas, of Parliamemt. street: If no unforeseen accident should occur, there i s every reason to believe that both Mr Furnes3tma Mr Ritson will hav e fi n i s h e d th e i r c ontracts within the stipulated time. Happily, no unexpected diffi culty has hitherto presented itself. The formation of the railway under the Embankment will make some alteration in the works necessary, and will affect the terms of the contracts, but not to a serious extent. Since the commencement of the present summer one-third of the entire sewage of the north side of London has been diverted from the Thames. The construction of the low level sewer is at a stand, awaiting the further progress of the Embankment, but there is every probability that before three years bsvo passed we shall see the Thames an un polluted river, and that we shall be able to look rct it, as it flows through the heart of the metropol'og, as one of the most magnificent promcnad:s which Europe will be able to boast. level of 4ft. above Trinityhigh-water mark. Owing to the uncertainty to which we have al- • laded as to the way in which the embankment will The governors of St. Thomas's Hospital made tier iir an have to be constructed between the Temple and nual inspection of the temporary hospital at the e. lurrey Blackfriars-bridge, that portion of it has not been Gardens yesterday morning, after which they adjourned to contracted for; bat the remainder has been divided the London-bridge Railway Hotel, where a general. court was , el into two contracts, and since early in the month of the minutes Alderman Sir John Musgrove in the chair. uutef a the last meeting having been rea I and March the pile-driving "monkey' has been heard confirmed, day and night from the Temple to Blackfriars, and Mr AD VMS rose, in pursuance of a notice given .3 t the piles have been driven and the dams lowered with a last meeting of the court, to call the attention of the over nors to several matters affecting the internal economy of the rapidity marvellous in the case of an English public hosp l ital. ed H . e l and would first notice the very great disproportion patients from Perhaps it is that the Board lea rn t a lesson of u from the railway companies, and dete rmined not to as compared mea with other surgical staffit ais to the F number of tient e : Guy's be be outdone by Mr. Hawkshaw, w ho throws an iron Hospital contain ed 600 gads, and their anneuxaalmsupl;icaluay,ss and bridge across the Thames in a few months. Be this medical expenses amounted to £2,000, while their own, for as it may, they have bound their contractors within only 200 beds, were no less than £3,000. As, however, the short and narrow limits as regards time, and occupying of d new site would no dcubt make a great alte ration in this respect, heby incre id asing t d the number th of callbeds to since the present session of Parliament op ened their to proper the quantity, they have greatly changed the appearance of t he facts he H had stated. e would :l. w c t o h ir ei L e t attention river. The work from Westminster to Waterloo to the extravagant allowances furnished at the expense of Bridges, 3,740 ft. in length, has been contracted for the charity to their apothecary, Mr Whitfield, who during by Mr. George Feyness, at a sum of £520,000, the last year had had supplied to him 912 gallons of Barclay and he is bound to complete it in two years and Perkins's porter and 36 tons of coal. In 1862, from from the 16th of February in the present year. Mr. Sept. 22 to Jan. 29, be had received 16 tons of 2 coal, i or at Ritson is the contractor for the 1,970 ft. from t 3 h l e I ra 6 te to o n f s, 4 b B e i t n o g n s a r th r e a n r a n t u e m cs ; Gain tonsd fro ma year. Jan. Allt ri these arl2 Waterloo-bridge to the east side of the Temple. His quantities were far beyond the requirements of any private contract price is £229,000, and his work is to be g entleman. He thought these allowances ought to be completed in two years from the 9th of March. discontinued, and a fair increase of salary granted instead. Each contractor is proceeding on a different prin. The:r steward at present had a salary of £4OO, and £35 for ciple as regards details, though to the public eye coals and beer. He regarded Mr Whitfield as the best their work when finished will present an uniform paid official in Europe. Ho was in the receipt of £6OO appearance: Mr. Ritson commenced on the old 8 a year salary, besides 50 from the Nightingale Fund, and coffer-dam system. It may be observed that the thi p s er h ce e n h t. u o d n a th h e ou r s e s ceipt d s f t r he om pu t pils. In. ad l d l ition to all river mud and sand average a total depth of 7ft., had mentioned. Being so well p x aid av t a t ' e a y ht would ew nrtu e r e al h ly o below which ',there is a bed of gravel, varying expect tee: greatest vigilance and activity in looking after in coarseness and character, and averaging from the lute; c,ts cf the hospital, From the facts he was about i t . e i b d ri h 'ng . fu i rward they would be enabled to sec if Mr Whit ebout. 15ft. to 25ft. in thickness. Beneath this is the London clay. The foundation of the embank- last year t ( :_ c :e m- pa h ti s ee d ' u s t he i d u b ib ee is n r s e u s p p p ee r t ed or wl e h l.. r During; the 1,330 ticzou or sociawater and lemonade. L:terre7tle3e than tacut, Irall jet on the leis et pcntrOl or tee bed Of gravd, at a depth of about llft. below low-water mark. year 6("0 patients at Guy's only co-:sun - led '6O dozen. The old coffer-dam principle would require a vast These bevaages were only tried by fever pAtients, vim eon stitutzd only a. small portion of the inmate oi the hospital, number of piles for a work like this, and in drivin g these Mr. Ritson found that many of them s p lit toand li econsidered p l o 2 s s m i b l o a nt for hs t, h e l m t t h e c 7 1 9. s . r u i o n , i l e b„,r l a 6 n , 06 wine ti y o , bottles of sodawater te i r t i il l pieces in consequence of the heeduess of the ground. and gin acconn's there were serion's defic: , ip He, therefore, abandoned that plan and re sorted 05 gallons in 656 gallons, in brandy 17 ire ' le?, and in gins to iron caissons. His present plan is to sink caissons in 72. These et ticiencics could not be cocoon 't d for by loss 20ft apart. These caissons are joined with girders. in cleaav t i h nloLs u n t ia es ll b re c u t., a )r u s ti t t h il, tlhreeydi‘dvonuoitdiles,:nyie thatthat after this locked um a d a s t r c u r their iift interests.. v On the top are iron plates, from which. the Embank- laying ment wall rises. The spaces between the caissons ul a l e n e accusation i 0 will be filled with concrete. Mr. Furness is pro- ,teti:ntthlie, Whitfield , to t t h he . Ch rift' Cornmiesionere, that the hos y pital did n h o . t with the hest drugs. The speaker then made P3 several t o l t e h u e t ; ceeding on a dif f erent system. He is using a caisson invented by Mr. Joseph Phillips, of the Charing- accusations against Mr Whitfield, and concluded by seg cross Ironworks. Unlike the ordinary caisson, gesting that a committee of seven governors be appointed to which is circular, this is oval in shape, 12ft Gin inquire , into the matte . r. d era b me th h e tion h ed e P b d . that the whole of the long, 7ft wide, 4ft 6in deep, and having a groove 1 37 11E: I l r D A E d ic ams had been already consi in de a r t e t 6in square at each end. These caissons have shelves grand committee, who had proposed certain alteration y s in inside, on which weights are placed to fix them as the regulations of the hospital that would meet the evils they are put one over the other "till they rise from complained of. He thought Mr Adams's object would be the foundation to the required height. They are attained if the whole affair was left in the hands of the sunk to an average depth of 361 t below Trinity grand committee. high-water mark, and never less than 3ft into the The TREASURER, Mr li. Baggallay, acknowledged that I t v h e e n a t l h low e r to ce t s h had a bee l n B47 t h he f r extravagant; m but when he r e clay. The process of sinkin g them is p artl y b y the " bag and spoon," w here the na t ure of the strata is of beer and coals e y going on. The matter had consumptio n adbee :. known to him, and had given him the greatest anxiety. open and full of water , or by a simple proce ss of dredging by steam - power, and partly by excavating, He had since holding the office of Treasurer done much to where a water bearing strata is found and the reduce certain petty allowances which had obtained frees pumps can be got to work. Each column of caissons time immemorial. The sodawater and lemonade had s t ee ff o a r n d d e 1 d t is sunk end on to another as nearly close as possible. bn w in ou th ld e rantbitylamtehn.tnioneind baynytheovmvesdrincsarl s A key of timber is driven down the groove, and this to dictate to those gentlemen what theyg should order the makes up for any opening between the caissons and patients under their charge. Mr Whitfield had explained tightens and holds them together. It makes a that he said the authorities bought drugs of good, although take s. meeting should th s o h u o g u h water-tight joint by the pressure of the wat er on not of choice quality. That gentleman had been the zealous the outer side of the timber, so that the great er the cdficer h for a t v er ery t l o on h g is p s e c r i i e o h d t , iB a c n a d tta h . e m coul t d give him the pressure the tighter the joint becomes. W hen the best certainlyito id h es e n h s ad e b ta e t e i n ou iT h imprudent, euruldengtt,hand v butthe aln tte of the services caissons are all in their place they will fo rm an iron into dam or wall along the whole length of the Embank- ho had rendered. ment. As the work proceeds the coffer-dams are A motion to the effect that the grand committee, assisted formed at intervals of from 100 ft to 300 ft, and of by Mr Adams, should investigate the matter at once, Mr that they s s u ho t uld report the issue of their inquiries to a such size as is desirable for building the Embank- Whitfield being ordered to attend before them, and, further, p sw e s s ya s s i a b l l f e 2 , w inw ast d h s en . put and carried. ment wall itself within. The caissons below low ew n water mark remain as a part of the permanent work, 1 general D r LDE s 0 N begged soon a t s o Whitfield. His familyaud defence i f o f t he Mr and, being filled with concrete, form a solid basis to number, the wall; but those above are removed and fixed in divided the quantity of beer supplied among them they y advance to servo their former purpose over again, would find it only amounted to about two pints per day per while the wall and Embankment abov e low-water head. He thought, too, it was most unfair to calculate the are being constructed. The facing of the w all will rate of consumption of coal per annum by what was con suomeodh which in the winter months. He quite concurred in the be of granite; the rest of it is to be of the best in i‘i ti t Deputy committee. zL feared the public would blame the Leo= had put the matter into the hands of the brickwork. The wall will recede gradu all y u p wards grand from the point where it is t o leave the caissons immediately under low-water mark. The space grand committee loudly for letting things run on so long. the last possible moment, when a Government behind the wall will be filled up with ballast. Mr It really seemed as if the inquiry was being made only at h H a e d h b a e d en pa a p p e p r o a in in te h d i t a o h i i n a q n uire . into h t . h h e affairs of Commission Phillips's system has been found to answer admi. the hospit . a t le rably, and the Government have determined to use caissons on his principle for some of the fortifies- t contained in cs e r d ri f e a d ets su q t ei s : as condemnatory of the syeteme s w at le place his re ggeation ID. those brought forward by Mr Adams ;but, as there was i 4 tions at Portsmouth. One advantage in having the cylinder of an oval shape is at once apparent. A chance of reform taking place, ho would allow the matter caisson of this shape presents a greater surface to to rest at present. Mr BAGGALLAT, the treasurer, here rose ag o be had announced the water in front of the wall than would a round the time had come for him to e nd said that . one of similar cylindrical dimensions. the hands of the court and take the rest hiseadvaneing The preliminaries having been sufficiently ad- years rendered necessary. Four years vanced for the purpose, yesterday was appointed his intention of resigning, for laying the foundation-atone of this gigantic had persuaded him to stay with his good fr l iend Mr Ad ams with then' until battle with work With now, until his successor work. The company invited to witness the memor- the railway company had hisbeendofonght how. able ceremony entered on the scene from the con- ever , that he could t no th l s onte a r rity. emerge d himself and profit charity He should, however, be tractors' yard in Cannon-row, whence they' glad to remain with had been oil tramways, which run here and there and every. appointed. lonere h t n o tto drAlmvi lead rau ß kds e a dgt amount ogaul with undergo a d y ci s f 1 0 0 r r f whero over what in a few weeks will cease to i.. 43 theapologyratsthe capacity y ears of extra work of , etaggallay for the ca the cause s of kind giving H h a i vin f ce elir muddy banks of the Thames. The workmen were as o b n ein iu g r could appreciate' thick as bees in a hive, and steam-engine, travelling t ..i 4i: g.i. platforms, dredgers, and pile drivers were scheech- a -g i enin i ti e then passed a high eulogiu rg ua o t l ing and rolling and scraping on all aides. Mr Mr rr honourable d wishing connexion with elm hospital, and and energy he had Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, Lord of that gentleman's Johil Manners, Mr Doulton, M.P., and other gen. concluded ryeV; che ni n g t him health and happiness in his demon inspected the works, accompanied by Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board, Mr TITE, lix Das similar . sed a Woe= on Mr Dan , the Com- gallay, and gin Mr Mr Adams in his apereciatil stone was laid at low water mark, so that Baealgette, Mr Furness, and Mr Phillips The first j ee tgreent, ability, and decision, as piny were obliged to descend to some coming in shown duri ng the contest eedth the railway company. He as rapidly then moved a resolution to tie, effect that the governors re coffer-dam, though th,q tide w of granite blockceived Mr Baggallay'e resignati on with deep regret, bear at the time. The stone w.‘s a large, t h e wall. In its ; w h!ch the offica had been forming a portion of the ra ._ c f . ig 0, .rig testimony to the way ' in reeiv'e a sealed bottle carried out, and wishing him every happiness during his centre a square cell was cut tore on which some well-earned retirement. depth in a containing a parchment doo The resolution was seconded in simi l ar terms by Mr Was inscribed, a copy of account of the ceremony -- , Alderman GIBBONS, and carried by acclama tion. ins of the realm. When „,- Mr BAGGALLAY then returned thanks for the complie the 7irnes, and several co 1 Th "t exited, 1‘ r waa es, who had ments paid him, and said he would be glad to remain in this bottle was depot , dap, ht and Lord John planners on office until his successor was appointed. h is Cowper on his r was then transact e d, the block with the aid of a Winds Some business of a formal nature his left, duly fixed . had and the Court broke up after having Pa sB k 2 d a vote of thanks very beautiful silver trowel Which lass and a dto Wu by the tioutraetoro, vpl o to the President. been present®d showndur ininlgreAtaidYA.leatjaciallparYneal: bnd:Pl he ;hiss'lse°3st labour that et yearshtwahtee du: St. Thomas's Hospital. PROSPECT US. This Company is established for the purpose of purchasing the property and continuing the business of the well known. Oxford and Canterbury Music Halls, so suzcessfully con ducted by the present proprietor, Mr. Charles Morton, for several years pa t. The Directors, in bringing the present Company before the public, are not inviting subscriptions to an uuknown or un tried venture, but to an established and highly remunerative undertaking, and on'3 which, with the additional means at the command of a Joint-stork Company, may be made still more so. A n agreement has been entcred into for thepurchase of the whole of Mr. Morton's interest in these properties, together with the good w ill of the business and the stock in trade, on terms highly advantageous to the Company, and in order to show his confidence in its future succe , s, he has subscribed for one-fourth of the entire capital, and will continue for some years the manager. It is the intention of the Company to increase the hotel accommodation, which has hitherto been found inadequate, and thus materially add to the present large returns. - .there is al.() an excellent - private vine trade attached to bAli establishment!, which is cap.ble of considerable extension. It is impossible to show, with certainty, by any statistics, the returns which may be expected from'thepreient under taking, but the certifici accounts for the ia:t three years show an annual profit of upwards of 20 per cent. upon the whole amount of capital, wh chit is contemplated eventually to call up, The present average attendance at the Oxford and Canter bury Music Halls is about 60,K0 a mcnth, and the proposed extension of bu4iness will doubtless render the profits of the undertaking stilt more remunerative than ever. One. half of the capita has been already applied for, and applications for the remainder ,-howli be made to the bankers of the Company. accompanied by a deposit of £1 per share ; if no allotment be made the deposit will be returned. Prosi ectuses and forms of applicati.n for shares may be obtained at the Oxford and the Canterbury, at the Brokers, and at the Temporary (Mc s of the Company. The Share List will close on Tuesday, 26th July, 1864. 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THIS EVENING, Will be produced, with alterations and improvements in production, the New Illusion, surpassing* anything* yet attempted. entitled TILE TEILCEN ENA HY ; or,a WIT Ft SIIAKSPER F., written expresslyby IT. F. Vander veil, Esq., in which Mr. W. Randall will re-appear. ALSO, PRINCE BLOSSOM; OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND TUE FOREST OF SHADOWS ! "The figure of Fame, winged and trumpeted, passing anfl repassing through the Magic Fountain, is so complete an illusion that it wellnigh ceases to be illusory."--Morning Star, Feb. 19. Prince Blossom, Miss Townley. In addition to the usual Entertainments of the establish ment, supported by the whole of the talented company, in cluding Arthur Lloyd, Miss Nelly Power, Mr. T. Alaclagan, G. W. Jester, drc..te A dmission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street, Piccadilly, ARE OPEN EVERY EVENING. Latest dance music, from the immense repertoire of these world-known rooms, and performed by the unrivalled band, 40 in number. Ben Lomond Valse by L. Mecca. Doors Open at half-past 8, commence at 9. Admission ls. Manager, M. GRENET. Experiments at Shoeburyness, Some most curious experiments, and likely in their result to lead to a better appreciation in this country of the value of the rifled ordnance we possess, were made during Monday and Tuesday with " Big Will," the 600 pounder of Sir William Armstrong. It is now very nearly two years since this magnifi cent forging was completed, and just a year and four months since it was delivered for testing and trial at Shoebury--an interval sufficiently long to enable even the French and other Governments to test the shunt principle, and so far approve it as to provide themselves with both 70 and 300 pounders built and rifled on Sir William's system, It is, of course, mortifying to think that guns of this kind, which have in a great measure been brought to per. fection at the expense of this country, should have gone into the service of foreign Governments ; bat, on the other hand, Sir W. Armstrong and Mr Whit worth, both of whose guns have been sent abroad very freely of late, may retort, with perfect justice, that if the authorities chose to deny the value of both their inventions, they could not be expected to keep idle their vast plant, dismiss their hands, and close their factories. Because two admirable guns were pressed upon their notice our Government determined to have neither, as they were uncertain Which was best ; and it was just because they were uncertain which was best that foreign Governments haue taken a totally different course, and tried to get as many of each as they could. It is to be , hoped, however, that the course of experiments with various rifled guns which is now being entered upon at Shoebury may put an end to this vacillation, and lead not alone to the adoption of a good gun, but, above all, to its immediate and extensive manu facture. It is something towards a solution of this question that one 600-pounder has been tried, though the trial might have been made with the same ease and certainty just 16 months ago. This excellent specimen of forging was made by the Ele, wick Ordnance Company. Its calibre is 131 inches, its greatest external diameter 4 feet 52 inches, its total length 15 feet 3 inches, siva its weight op. wards of 22 tons. This was, when it was delivered, bat was al eo b y far the largest not only the largest gun made on Sir Willi am Arm s here are m any 600-pounders on o sgt t ur h no e n r ign s ' s xc t oi e si m lt es s nye m set .e a : l e now, and all for the use of foreign Governments. The best idea of its tremen dous powers of destruction may be formed from a description of its projectiles. These are of the usual Mnely, 0111;11011 . kind adopted by sir The Thames Embankment. When Parliament passed the bill for the embank ment of the north shore of the Thames, the in habitants of the metropolis, forming their estimate of the probable progress of the undertaking on the usual speed at which our public works advance, were not at all sanguine that the present genera tion would be able to enjoy a walk by the banks of the river from Westminster-bridge to Blackfriars. They knew they were doomed to plant the acorn, but they very much feared that they were not to see the oak. However, from what has already been done in the formation of the Em bankment, the oldest amongst us may hope to see our great river quite a different thing from what it is now ; and there is every probability that car riages will be rolling along its margin from West minster to the city before the Houses of Parliament are finished or the liens have taken their places on the pedestal of the column in Trafaigar-square.. The idea of embanking the Thames is not a new one. As a theory it is traced back to the days of Sir Christopher Wren ; but the merit of giving effect to it pertains to the Metropolitan Board of Works. Some years ago a book was published by a French author in favour of effluvium. He pro duced statistics to show that the nightmen of Paris and other continental cities invariably escape cholera when epidemic; but the British Legislature has for a long time steadily refused to adopt that view, and when some eis or seven years ago the Thames smelt so badly the great main drainage scheme to relieve the river from the sewage of the metropolis was adopted by both houses with scarcely any op• position. The system decided upon was one of high middle, and low level sewers; and it is to the prac tical inconvenience of constructing the low level sewer on the south of the Thames that we owe the embankment. Notwithstanding the great number of people carried dailyby the river steamers between the east and west ends of the town, the traffic along the Strand, Fleet-street, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Che/pside, even under ordinary circumstances, is more than these thoroughfares can accommodate with convenience and safety to the public, but the confusion, loss of time, and actual danger occa sioned by the ripping up of one of those streets for the purpose of laying down gas or water mains, or cleansing the old ~.<1 oonartuatively brna,ll twntre, have l o n g been lAr en a therefore sub jeet of f complaint t he Metropolitan td 3 remon strance.ar d of Works had to set about constructing the low. level sewer on the north side it at once occurred to them that to carry it under the streets just named would involve a diversion for many months of the most considerable traffic of London and they saw that an embankment of the Thames, while adding immensely to the beauty of the me tropolis and providing a new thoroughfare from west to east, would afford them an opportu nity of constructing the north low-level sewer without the slightest inconvenience to locomotion. Accordingly, they brought the matter under the notice of Mr Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, who succeeded in having the bill passed under which the works along the river are now being constructed. The portion of the north shore of the Thames which is now being embanked is that from West minster-bridge to Blackfriars-bridge. Already there are embankments along nearly th© whole of the line between Westminster and Chelsea, but there is not much prospect of seeing the portion of the snore between Blackfriars-bride and London-bridge embanked, owing to the great value of the wharves and to the river being rather narrow between these points. A bill has passed for the embankment of a portion of the southern side, but its operation is confined to the shore between Westminster and Vauxhall bridges. Whether the southern bank between Westminster and Blackfriars bridges will be embanked is a question the consideration of which has been reserved. Should it not be decided in the affirmative, what the Board of Works is now doing will be only a partial, though a splendid and useful, work. There is to be a roadway 100 ft. in width from Westminster to Blackfriars. Of this about 70ft will be devoted to vehicles and the re. maining 30ft to foot passengers. Bat the 100 ft do not represent the entire space of reclaimed mud bank, which will vary in extent of area at different points, in some the width being as much as 400 ft. The total length of the Embankment is about 7,000 ft, but it is divided by the bridges into three sections, each of which will be viewed by itself. Indeed the line of vision could scarcely be continued from one section to tno other, far there is no doubt that the first span of the Charing-cross Railway bridge, with its cylindrical supports, will very much mar the appearance of the Embankment at that point, and destroy what would otherwise be a fine through view from the river frontage at Whitehall. At Westminster the roadway will rise at an elevation of 1 in 80 to the level of t he bridge, and will be set back some 30 or 40ft from the face of the Embank ment wall. The intervening space is to be reserved as a promenade and a steamboat pier, to which there will be access from the bridge by a wide and impos ing flight of steps. There a re not in any city in the world more disgraceful mak,eehifts than the present approaches to the steamboat piers o n the Thames, and most of the piers themselv es. The latter are usedeup barges, with a sort of sentry box, etyled . a ticket office, at one end—the f ormer commeno n narrow lanes and end as they join on to the barge in an extension of the contrivance used in shipping cattle—a long and narrow pen open at both ends and generally rickety: How these gangw a y s and piers have been suffered t o continue so long, and with such an immense an d growing traffic on the river, is a wonder. The Embankment will put an end to them, and substitute handsome avenues, and, in most instances, really convenient landing places. Between Westminster and :Elungerford Bridges there will also be a pier for smaller craft, and at Whitehall-gardens the elaborately sculptured water-gate, after a design by Inigo .Tenes, which now stands at the end of Buckingham.. street, will be re-erected. The public will not have access to the entire space behind the roadway from Westminster to Hungerford Bridges. The Duke of Bucoleuch will obtain a considerable addition to his garden, which, when the Embankment is con. strutted, will come dow n to the roadway. Thus, what is now a mud bank will form a portion of his Grace's private grounds. Nearer to Hungerford bridge, however, the Board of Works will obtain possession of a large space which they intend to plant and convert into a public recreation ground. O n either aide of Hut gerford And Waterloo Bridges . 1 - r 4,"