The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-28 00:00:00

CURTIS'S SCREW STEERING APPARATUS.

What promisee to be a very useful improvement
to our naval and mercantile manes was tried on Saturday
on board her Majesty's gunboat Charger, in the presence of
Admiral Sir Edwd. Belcher, Admiral Butikoff, of the
Russian navy, Mr. G. F. Young, and several naval officers
and gentlemen connected with the great steam navigation
cosepanies, and the mercantile shipping interest generally.
The novelty is an improved mode of steering screw steamers,
by making the screw perform the duty of steering rwell
r that of propelling the ship. This is accomplished by
means of a universal or ball and socket joint, which is
fixed at the end of the main shaft, the mew being attacked
thereto sod communicating with the ordinary rostra gear
by an upright shaft. The advantages which Mr. Curtin
the patentee. claims fur this invention are the following :
" In turning the sown pushes the stern round—the ship
revolving on the bows aa a centre, engines going ahead.
Going astern, the helm being bard over, the ship turns on
her own centre. In turning against the wind, engines going
astern, the ship comes round as easily as in a calm. To
keep the ship in her course the helm never varies more
than thereto live degrees. The ship may *steered in a tide-
way rider whatever modifier of the storm. To apply
the verso to existing ships A is merely necessary to lengthen
the main shaft ; the ship will be the stronger for Use alters-
lion, and, all vibration being removed, will last much
longer. The speed of the venal will be increased from one
to two miles per hour."
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—ilia this invutica add& greatly to the facilities of
Mooring, the experimeala of Saturday lure no doubt, and
the rapidity with which the vessel was made to turn round,
to alter her coarse, to turn upon her centre u a revolving
ship, bringing her guns to bear when and where it might be
desirable to do so, suggested the idea that an ordinary gun-
boat fitted with this apparatus would be a formidable ea-
tagooist to the most powerful of the newly introduced
cupola and revolviog turret war vessel.. There being so
rudder, a certain amount of retarding tome is avoided, and
the propelling and steering power being always in the same
direction, an absolute sod considerable pin of speed is the
coosequenos. After the trial, which took place in Long-
Reach, and extended over some hours, the health of Mr.
Castle, the inventor, and success to the invention, was given
by Mr. G. F. Young, and afterwards the health of Sir
Edward Belcher, who had taken very great statist in I
directing sod marking the reunite of the experiments.
tlir Edward, is reply, said thee bovine knows Mr. Curtis
fur some years as a scientific man who bad given much at-
tendon to the subject of marine improvements, sod bevies
been struck with the simplicity and novelty of the must
iiventioo, be had poise Mr. Curti a letter to the Ad-
minalty, which he believed bad induced the board to place
the gunboat they were tu at Mr. Curties disposal for the pa-
pule of testing the eflicieony et his plan. He (Sir Edward)
was boned to admit that the result of the day's experiments
lads:deeded his moat mega** expectation.. He did not
mean to say that the investing was as yet in all respects
perfect, but)f it were sticid by the Admiralty, as all such
inveutioes required to be nursed, he anticipated for It the
most ootoplete scum

THE SUN lIIRE-OFFICE.
TO TIM IMO. OP THII 111PILMS8.

Sta,—Thu publicity given iu your journal of
the 25th Mat. to a seselocia pawed by the vestry of St.
Yartia'rin-ah►Rlstds, to the effeot that, is osseutues
of a resent trial, the isonsaces over which the vestry have
eantrol should be removed from the Sun Pire•office, sad
reconewedieg the churchwardens ko. to do the same,
Woes me to monest the privilege of observing that ate►
• seem an lie part of that body could sot have beta ea-
ffelpeted by the niumgers.
It mast be i• the moiler:titan of some, at least, of the
members of the vestry that, is the year 1842, whoa the
Mamie of 8► ffiartia's was struck by lighteing, the
mesegtes of Mit idles flake Mewed the church agates&
low by Ike only) made a presentatioe to the oburchwardeas '
of 4001. for the damage due. In &Oleg thus thty adopted
a mune for whisk there wee so pagoda* this Wag, it
is believed, the first 011400111 on whisk say snowman was
made for law by eseceoloe.
The mangos have observed with deep regret the tmer
of as &Kicks which have appeared is away of the daffy
pipets, bet they think it will be satisfactory to the public
geowally, sa well as to the vestry of et. Martin* to blew
that during the hot forty years in which they have Ma-
chined sot ism than 10,000 claims, they have only bed
easseks to rout fifteen lo a tout of law, and in only four
of those (isaleding the late Croydon cool have they faded to
enslilith the plus which they have felt it their duty to
pee oa the rascal.
I trust that this will be accepted as a convincing proof
that the meson are sot prone to enter Into litig►tion, but,
en the toiletry, oily sown to it is no.. of the moot pave
semisien. —1 am, Ise., 6, J. 'LUCIUS,
*apt. 26. Seeretary of the Su Firmed-.

Dian! or YAM= FULL, or 7112 011•701t1t.
Oa Saturday raoraiag the How. Frederick William Faber,
D.D., unwise of the Lowden ()eatery, died ewe a leog
sad parotid Ow& Dr. Fobs am ate of tea most able
per, and satiable et the roosat converts to Housamart. Ho
was her. 1. 1813, sad was the aspbow of ttwo celebrate'
Owego Stanley Falter, author of worts oa prophecy. The '
lollowimg notice of the eisseased is fens the Ns& lassies&
isquispadist—" hells& William D.D., Homan
trashy pried, of the seigragatios of the Oratory of tit.
Pauli() Nei, sad a 1011111111.1.0411 spirituel writer, bora it
Embed, Juno 280813. After studyisg at Harrow, ha sea
eaduatod cat Orford in 1836, and wasalsctod te a follovrehip
Ilaisersitv College. After his ordination as • egoista: of
the eitateiekurest, I. was appointed to Heo rectorship of
Shah ia Northamptonshire a pewees which he Alled with
asisied ability lentil his couvandos to the catholic faith,
whisk was formally coaanincoatad November 17, 1843. lies
wengs up to that tines weer follow s.:—
• Tenets es the Clftr sad ths Prayer-book (1t30)
flarno• ou Bdatratios • (1840) ; • The Olesrwell Water 1417,
sal, odes Poems' (1840) ; • The Bynum Labs sad other •
Nauss ' (MI) ; • Sights sad Thoughts is Foreign
tinsels= ' (DM) ; • Ike Week* a POWS' (1844) ; ' The
italpod other Poses' (1845); uwand papers
e • Lives of the Rasta& Seats; puirlieled
endow the editorship of the Her. Dr. Negroes.
Imousdiatey after his subsinalan to the Haman church. Dr.
lobes began to study sad prepare for the reception of holy
seises, and vie ordained a posit is 1847. H. had with
him several young era who had followed him into the
shank, aid were anxious to devote themselves to the eon.
ventea of their oonatry as. sad for • nins ha thought of
kraadiag • our order nailer Ch. patrooage of St. 11 Shod.
Bat ha afterwards osecleded to pus his forces with thus of
Dr. Nswenaa, who had just traaaplatstai the Oratory of St.
Philip Nazi to Ese. aad. sad in 1648 ha tie habit
of that coogrsostow. Saar that time be has woe a high re-
pritatioo ran sanest and rdocaasia, masks, sod writ's!, sad
a posh His "airline! hooks dad =soy .proisetitot rWO as
catholie sedan, sad have beau traaehtted into several lan-
guages. tits publiehed writings also, kis oniversies ars as
foilaire Catholic Hyenas,' and an ' Eau, en Beatification
sad Oitaciaisation (1848) 'The Spirit sod Genius of St.
Philip Negri' (ISM); 'Catholic Hosts (1851);
• All kw lasso' (I.SA) ; 'Growth Rahman' (1836); • Tin
Moved &ammo' 'OM) The Creator and tho Creator• '
(1857); • Tb. Foot of the Gala, or the Sorrows at Mary;
• Sir Laaeslot • (being hie former poem rewritten), sod
• ”lithas Story Book (1858) ; and • Spiritual Osotassoors '
(1869).

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Aumorm 11.1.emzessturr or A Lunonc.—On
Smarr* Dr. W. Hardwieke held se inesset at the Greet
Nertheni Cemetery, Calory Hatch. ou the body et Hoary
Rishardsoe, aged '.of, who had died is the wakes as that
plasm sitar alleged trestmeet ea the the eliciels
of tie Clerkeswell House of Detention.end looms@
Tesler, **Adel mucks, said the deceased wee imp/Mooed
from April to September. Ho was dam Molest sad molted.
He was freqesetly nodes musiobasaat. H. was pissed oe
brad sad water, the extreme time lesion 48 hours. Did sot
' thick he was imam for a fortaight or three weeks before he
left, and up I. that time he ems treated as a satiated psi.
serf. Altar heariega great deal of medical mamma, the
j found the followtup verdict :—" W. fiad that Hairy
we. found dying, and did die, in tbe Wasp
Hatch Lusaka@ Asylum from the mortal 'Hummel diatom, of
1 the heels caimieg twenty, and the said jurors further asy
thus the said death arose from salural mums. soselerated by
sada, seserity of paniehnimit to the House of Detention."
MS BANK or FRANC& —The Economist says :
"We are alpla to Mete on geed authority that the Hank of
imam bas iaa poet degree earmounted those difficulties
whisk were • shore time nice the saint disessenging part of '
oar antialmeisas.•
A Vrraatax.-011 the 22nd inst. Mr. John Webb
died is It, Cross Hospital. as., Winchester, at the me al
nearly lOU years. He fought in the femme maths with
Coast de Grasse, whets
" Held Rodney made the French to rue
The twelfth of April 'eighty twe.
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