The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1857.

dicated, however, the operations of the legion of
investors must gradually induce a sensible diminu-
tion' of pneoure in the general money market, for the
maw which they throw into the Stock Exchange
ie ipialy drawn thence for employment in the dis-
miss( market, if only through the loans obtained by
leans upon stock.
It seem clear that the funds will never again
descend for any lengthened period to the depre-
ciated prices of by-gone years. The Russian war,
with the accompanying rapid creation of stock,
was • severe trial to the country, yet the
funds, with the exception of an occasional fall
of little more than momentary daration, maintained
a ratisfactorily high range. The present monetary
pleasure, as we see, is not incompatible with • com-
paratively high price of Consols. Very possibly
the late rally may not be maintained; but it is
morally certain that any renewed depreciation of
importance will bring the public forward again as
extensive buyers. Nothing but the creation of •
Lap amount of new stock will have power to cause
• really serious and prolonged depression, and even
in that case the fall would only last until investors
had time to clear the new stock off the market. The
lower

the point to which prices fall the greater will
be the stimulus imparted to the appetite of the
public for stock, and the depth of the nation's purse
really defies all attempts to gauge it. Herein is the
true secret of Britain's enormous power.

gk erouti.

WINDSOR, Nov. 3.

The Queen and Prince Consort drove out yester-
day afternoon, aconcepanied by Viscountess Palmerston. In
attendance nee Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Ronnie
Stopford, and the Equerries in Waiting.
The mines... Royal also drove out, attended by the Hon.
Eleanor Stanley.
In the seeming the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Aognata Bruce, dined with her blajsety. The party also
iaclW Vimoont and Vineonatess Prilmenton, Mr. end
Lay Pens Willie, end Sir James Clark.
The band of the Scots Pallier Guards attended its las
Casale, and played daring dinner the following pleats :
The Havelock Grad March (com-
posed for the benefit of the In
dun sufferers) Adeline IL Cooper.
Overture, " The liohnona
Vales, `• Trianon"
Selection, La Treviata"
Quadri*, "Serenade" Rolfe.
' Her Majeol'e private bend performed in the email:7, the
seinnion

Overrure—" Die Lnatigen Welber
von Wineror"
°war et Hartle du Baal Apis
(I: Enfant Prodrem) Auber.
Finale (3rd Act)—" Le Pre sox
Cares" Herold.
Divertissement—. Le Prophets" Meyerheer.
The Queen end Prism Consort. with Prisms Alice, rods
oat to bombers! this maybe. The Hem Eleanor Stan-
ley, Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Mejor•General
Beckley and Captain the Hea. D. de Ros, were in atten•
data,.

The Counter de Manly sad the Dm de Nemours visited
her Mere', at the Castle.
Lord and lady Peleterstoa left the Castle in the fivencion
for Ledo.

Lord ennearse aad tbri Hai. Mortimer &Anne Wen
bam swarmed Lord Byrom aad Col. the 800. N. Hood as
the Lord sad Groom to Wetting.

Viscount and Viaeonstaas Palmerston arrived in London
ham Windsor Castle yesterday wombs, sod proceeded in
the afternoon to Brottele, }fent',

-13;;;Stri;e: ;;ree'erttitrTe't .the—COleelei-olk• yesterday to
the 00V01110,8 at ills Mantillas, C*s, sad How Kam.

(PlOll LAST marls °ASTRO

Sr. JAWS'S PALACE, OCT. 27.-The Queen has
been planed to appoint the Right Remind Father In God,
Archibald CampbelL bebop of loreidon, to be Dean of bet
111syvety's Chapel, Royal.
Wurren Ocr. 31. The Queen has been
pleated to grant to the Right Hon. Charles, Viseeunt
Evenly... the annul Ohm of Governer and Captain of the
Isle of Wight, sad Governor of Ceriabrook Castle, in the said
Isle, In the room of the Right Hon. William, Lord Heytes.
bury, 0.C.8., reigns&
Fonewm-omcs, Nov. 2.—The Queen has been
planed to approve of Mr. J. Lettentadt aa Consul.Gerend
at the Cape of Good Zap fit his ldspety the King at
Sv!idea end Norway. _ .

Dowxmo-sTa:EaT, 0E7.31 The Queen has bees
to appoint Charles Rehm., Eel., to be Atte/soy-
sad :teasel Leamord Tilley, Esq., to be
for the promisee of New Brammrick ; Jam C01ie1,16117471;
be District Eltimiatrate he the Wand of Neuritis§ ; Joseph
Sherrington, Esq., te be tessemrer, William Quiz, Esq.,
to Its arisamitamt, for the trosissry department of the laird et
Amalgam.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland hare left
Danrobin Castle on a AA to Lord sad Lady Blantyre, at
Erskine Howe, Dal Glasgow.

The Duchess of Hamilton left Paris a few days
dace for Baden. Ilia grace still racialism in Scotland:

The Martinis and Marchioness of Stafford have
'rived st VAASA Howe trots LaMaah■n, Shropshire,

The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere are expected
et larldgevater Roam &boat the 16th last., from Wortley
Han, Manchester. The Count Dowager still remains at
Ratchford, near Chobhaah Surrey. _ _

The Fiari and Countess of Bective sad family
hsve left Underby Hall, Kirby Lonffidale, for the Ledge,
Whyte* county Cerra, Ireland.
The Countess of Yarborough is expected in town
In a fen days, from Manley Hell, Llncolnehire. Tts nines
earl hes left Maltby Hell for the Continent.

The Counters (Dowager) of Lichfield conies to
*wit to-day. from Pada.

Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce will leave town in a
few days, for Brightos:

The i)owager Lady Musgrave arrived at the St.
Georp'e He tel, yesterday, frees Leeatiatetua,

Nits. General Ilaeelack has left Cologne, with her
daughters, and anise is Loudon to-day. She will reside
with her brother, Mr. blareltraile, Is Palaa•prdens.

The Rev. H. W. Shackell, who has for a short
time oflkiated SA ass of the carafes at St. Slary's Church,
Bury St. Itimaad'a, has Was appointed Missionary to Agra.

- - .
On Monday Wt the Right Hun. Et elyn ltenieo• n,
the Speaker of the Home of Commons, and Lady Charlene
Damn, visited the Botanic Garden, et Bury St. Edmund's,
the intimating roads of J. Masan and J Orem%
&qrs., In Connelly with BM Jermya, Lord Arthur Harvey,
Lewd Alfred Hervey, Lady Augusts Seymour, and some of
the junior member, of the house of letworth, when the
right hoe. runtligma awl hie lay an on • view

The Counter of Durham gave birth to a son
yesterday, at 122,_Park•steset, Ororessor-.qrtare.

The wawa of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, wu
oporbod os Moeda, eight by the appearance of Mr. Rohm
fa NI. Charlotte boadtro, both al whom were mime'
with athariamo.

The gentlemen connected with the Treasury have
wabeeritted 1161. to the India Relief Fund, which sea bee
Men heeded over to the Lard Mayor. The IMO belcairiag
the fl Diverice of Polk* have subscribed 1121. to the teed.

.The Queen of England, in falilossat of a promise
rods root Ikea ago, has jur pressradi to the imperial So-
rry of Agriculture, deltroes, and Arts el Woodman., a
husk of Platippa of Plaissalt, nth if Sherd M.,
bra a rent, beat states at the darn es In Mesh In WV.
there Abbey. It Is seemearried by plotographic• n'Pre-
aenting **tomb, sad the repairs mow bring ash in It, to-
rein with part of the Chapd of Edward ths Corder°.
Mao by •Airaw in the French brenure, drown uP the
Ora sif Westminster, describing the tomb.
LORD BAOL:GtIAII IN LEEDS.—Lord Brougham,
who or to pram& at a aside of the Ilaebriksi Institute
sad Larry Satisiji.d
.7Laid• yaohrtry (Tardsy), arrived
in that town by tarTerillt on Monday evening.
Ile wet seal et he Aram In Leeds by the Mayor
(Mr. Briorill), erred ...boot of the tows council, sad
ether grallerea. His Issiljp,tarkisthis that be le 79
Trot of *V. op, essod Is be NMI of Idiom and ..itch..
After a held earvemallea with dr Mayor, Mr. Breen,
the proudest of the Meshosice Inedtals and literary
&misty, and other the hi serrh to
ashore his prftelliii In the private
carriage of Mr. H. . Mord lagrant he desert of that
gestletea• at Implementer, at the orsitirbef the barewsli
of Leeds. A select party we. betted to oust the noble load
at Templaseassa, wham Is. lordship 111111160il hr the I
atilt Oa Turley tonalig W leedship Ara, ha com-
pany with the Mayer, the writer (lb. Brotriol), and
other gestlaman. the Iced Ton-hall, sew la the ow= ef
mastructice. and Itseaproord hared much Moroi rids the
bedding. In the sdisnean the ark bad horse the greet
of the Mayor; in the emit (se we ham rated) be pre-
sided at the aerie of the WeAsnear larks% sad Iliantry
Poetry ; sad os Wednesday 1110rfliftg vwin heeh-
aw Er. Kitson, sad about nooa will take Ms deports,
from Leads far Liverpool.

CANADA.

ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN.
(IIT 111111111 tam suorrrto Tasompi.)
(nom ova ovrx cosissioxoixr.)

LIVZIIPOOI. WIDNEMAT.

The Montreal Oosan Steam-ship Company's screw
steamer North American, Captain Orange, arrived
in the Mersey this morning, from Quebec, with
dates to the 24th October. Sho has on board 202
peasengers ; no specie.
In the money market there is little change. The
feeling of merchants continues to bo quite cheerful,
although numerous suspensions are daily reported.
Stocks keep up pretty well, and there area good
many transactions in them. Panic no longer
characterises the opening of business, but it is
subject to fluctuations, growing out of temporary

causes. There s more disposition shown to buy paper,
but the rates are no easier. The best names go at
three per cent-, with an occasional transaction at
two per cent. for a very favourite signature. An
arrangement has been entered into at New York by
some of the banks, in which others were expected
to join, to facilitate the movement of produce.
There were rumours that some of the banks
purposed resuming specie payments. In Bt.
Louis and Cincinnati arrangements bad been
made to take good foreign currency at par, end
hopes were expressed that the exchange would soon
be equalised. Since the crisis came on in New York,
the cloak making houses in the city have discharged
1,600 girls. A few days previous the Cloak Makers
Association could hardly supply the demand for
labour. Bookbinders have discharged 700, and
other trades 2,000.

The Kansas election passed off without serious

William Jones, a priests in tho 39th Regiment,

was sentenced to death at Montreal for murdering
Caporal Reynolds.
The failure of Farnham, Kirkham, and Co., of
Philadelphia, is reported.

. .
Financial matters at New Orleans looked more
gloomy; many were in favour of a suspension of the
banks u the only way of obtaining relief. Ranks
were mostly weak. Cotton had again declined.
Worrell, Cootes, and Co., and Hooper, Son, and
Co., of Philadelphia, had suspended; liabilities heavy.
North Star and Kangaroo at New York, and
Europa at Halifax, on the 22nd.
At New York flour a shade better, and in mode-
rate demand. Wheat heavy. Rye firm. Pork and
lard heavy. Stocks active, with little to be had.
Sterling exchange dull, at 100 to 105 ; no sales.
The President had expressed a good deal of con-
cern respecting the pressure upon the government
finances. Directions had been given to reduce and
revise all estimates.

The President will oppose all money bills except
thaw for indispensable appropriations.
Many public works are suspended.

PIEDMONT.

The magnificent piece of ordnance sent as a pre-
sent by the citizens of Boston to the people of Pied-
mont for the fortifications of Alessandria was plated

the Piazza Beale of that town on the 28th-ult.

The National Bank of Genoa has raised its rate
of discount from 7 to 71 per cent.
The Piedmontese Gazette publishes the prelimi-
nary decision come to by the Greet Criminal Court
of Salerno on the crew and passengers of the Cag-
liari. True bills are found against eighteen of the
prisoners, including the captain and the first and
second mates. Eleven more are act at liberty, and
the case of one is reserved. No mention is made of
the two Eoglisbmen arrested with tho crew of the
Cagliari.

THE
_ATTIMEPT TO LAUNCH THE
02.1tAT 145238101:

We regret to announce that the first attempt to
launch this great Leviathan has been a failure. To
understand what has been done, it is neoessary first
to describe the preparations which were made to en-
sure nuicess. These preparations may be divided
into two classes—the means to restrain her motion
in case her movement into the water was too rapid,
and the apparatus use to start her off or to accelerate
her descent if found too tardy. All the props or
stays which supported the greaLsalti.l while she was
building being removed, she on two huge
cradles, placed about 140 feet apart, and at equal
distances from her centre. These cradles were faced
at the bottom with iron plates ; these iron plates
rested freely on iron rails placed parallel to each
other, at a distance of about a foot and a half, and
firmly bolted to two platforms of wood, each forming
a slope or inclined plane of about one inch in twelve.
The cradles may be regarded as two iron-shod
sledges, which were intended to slide down the sur-
face of the rails of the two slopes called ways, bear-
ing_with them the ship into deep water.
The great novelty of this arrangement did not
consist in intending to launch the ship sideways, for
this has been done again and again in India and
America with great SUCCelle. The untried part was
the use of two iron surfaces in contact while sliding
the ship into the water. Hitherto, greased wood
has been used for this purpose, sufficient amount of
grease being applied to prevent the weight of the
ship squeezing it out so as to bring the surfaces of
the naked wood together. In point of fact, the fric-
tion down the slope is usually that of a greased sur-
face in contact with grease. Now the retardation
produced by this is well known. It is a matter of
experience that if the slope be made 1 in 24 the ship
will not move, if linl2 it will—a little too fast,
perhaps, but this over-speed can readily be checked
by mechanical appliances. The behaviour of the
iron sledge in contact with iron was unknown,
and therefore there were no data for the inclina-
tion of the elope, when these two metals were in
contact. The same slope was used which was known
to be successful for greased surfaces of wood. Any
difference in the friction of the two was sought to be
oompensated for by giving the rails a good coating of
blacklead, this substance being used frequently as
an anti-frictional medium.
Dealing, therefore, with conditions altogether un-
tried in ship launching, it was neceuary to make
ample preparations for two contingencies: over speed
or too little. The former was evidently anticipated.
Two huge drums, like the windlass of a ship used for
hauling in the anchor,were firmly attached to strong
foundations fixed on piles driven into the earth.
Over each of these, iron cables, of the same
strength as those intended to hold the monster ship
at anchor, were wound round till each drum
supporterduatexe7 tons of cable. One extremity of
the cable round each drum was firmly fastened
to the c le, in front of the centre of which it was
placed, and the other was fast moored to the earth.
As the ship should move down the slope, the cables
would wind off the drama, and this motion could be
instantly checked by a friction band of iron pared
round the circumference of two wheels at either ex-
tremity of the drum. These friction bands could be
brought into instant play by means of powerful
levers, acting on them so as to bring their surfaces
into contact with those of the surfaces of the wheels
attached to the drums. Sufficient mechanical and
manual force manned these four levers, to counteract
the whole weight of the ship, so as to hold her still
midway during her descent, if necessary, provided
, only the cables resisted the tension brought to bear
on 'them. We must notice in passing that these
friction drums and wheels bad winches, cog-wheels,
and other machinery attached to one extremity,
which had been used to wind the heavy cables round
them. Such were the powerful and well-devised
means to check any undue speed.
To start the cradles in motion, powerful hydraulic
apparatus was used, which was capable of acting so
as to push them about three feet forwards. If more
force than this were necessary, it was provided for
by three means. A strong cable was passed round
the extremity of the shaft of the Archimedean screw
at the after-part of the ship, carried out into the
midst of the river, passed round a block in a lighter
firmly moored, and brought back again to the shove,
where a small stationary steam.engine was placed to
haul it in, and bring any reasonable amount of pres-
sure to bear upon it. Another steam-engine and
similar apparatus was used for a cable firmly fixed
to the bow of the ship. Lastly, cables were fastened
to the middle of the ship, and carried out to four
lighters moored in mid river, with mechanical appa-
ratus on board them, well manned, to drag the
centre of the ship forward if necessary.
The Express of last evening contained an account
of the christening (the new name being " The
Leviathan"), and of the unfortunate accident. The
vessel seemed to slip some three or four feet in the
spa of a couple of seconds, in consequence of the
slack chain from the after drum offering not the least
check. In an instant the strain came upon the
drum, which was dragged round, and of course, as
that was connected with the windlass by multiply-
ing wheel', the latter turned some ten or fifteen
times for every foot the dram moved. The men at
the windlass madly tried to hold it, but the heavy
iron handle flew round like lightning, striking them
and hurling five or six high into the air as if they
bad been blown up by some powerful explosion. A
panic seemed to spread as this shocking accident
took place, and the men stationed at the tackle and
fall of the level next to the windlass rushed away.
Fortunately, moat fortunately, for the lives of
hundreds of the spectators, the men at the lever at
the other side of the drum stood firm, and hauling
on their tackle drew their lever up and applied the
break on the drum with such terrific force that the
ship instantly stopped, though she seemed to quiver
under the sudden check as if she bad received a
heavy blow, and the check tackle and massive pile of
timber which restrained the drams strained audibly.
The whole of this took place in the course of two or
three seconds. The vessel dropped, the men were
hurled from the windlass, and with a heavy rumbling
noise the tremendous structure was still on the
" ways" again, almost before the spectator had time
to imagine what had occurred. For a moment there
was rather a panic, and a disposition to run from
the spot, but it was only momentary. Four of
the men who were injured were carried off to the
Poplar Hospital at once, and a fifth, who seemed to
have sustained some severe internal hurt, was after.-
wards obliged to be assisted from the yard.
This melancholy occurrence seemed to exercise a
most depressing effect, especially upon the workmen,
though the tremendous strain to which the drum
was exposed, and which even with the friction of
only one break proved sufficient to check the
vessel with a great and unexpected momentum on
her, showed that the check tackle was all that
could be desired. An examination of the place
where the accident occurred showed that the
toothed wheels of the windlass (which seemed
totally insufficient in multiplying power to enable
the men to exercise any check upon the revolu-
tion of the drum) were broken, and ap-
peared so out of gear that they were
almost useless. Beyond this damage, which was of
not the least importance, the rest of the apparatus of
the dram and framework was as firm as ever. The
° vessel it was found had slipped down the ways
' about three feet at the forward drum, and four feet
o three inches at the one fixed aft. The stern had
progressed of course, about six feet towards the
river. _ _

All this took place before a quarter to one o'clock,
and it was two before everything was main ready
to move her still further down the ways. Before that
time the weather, which at no period had been wry
favourable, became still worse, and the little drops
of rain which had now and then fallen at short in-
tervals gave place to a regular, steady drizzle, so
that tho public looked with unwind impatience to
the launching efforts. At a few minutes after two
o'clock the men were all again at their posts, and the
signal was given to recommence. This time every
precaution was taken to prevent a loop of slack in
the chain again occurring. All the lighters from
the river got their hauling tackle in order, and
began to 'train upon the vessel, but without making
the least apparent impression. The tide was then
within a few feet of its blithest, and it became
evident to all concerned that if the vessel warn to be
moved at all that day no time was to be lost.

Again from out of the dense mass of timber of
the cradles came the little hissing noise at regular
intervals which told that the enormous pressure of
the hydraulic rams was found requisite to start her;
still, in spite of all, she never moved or showed the
slightest symptom of being at all affected by the
terrific pressure which was applied to her. After the
pressure with the rams had been continued some
time a rather loud crash was heard among the
timbers of the foremost cradle, and some men ran
from it. What it really was did not transpire, but
it was nothing of importance. The stationary en-
gine which, as we have mentioned, was put to haul
upon the chains to the bows at last gave way, and
the chain itself snapped in two, though not until
some of the teeth of the wheels of the engine, as we
were informed, bad also broken before the strain.
At the same time a pin in the piston rod of the
foremost hydraulic ram also gave way, and these
two accidents were irreparable. The signal was
made to cease hauling, and in a minute or so after-
wards the officials of the company announced that
the launch was over " for the day." The yard
was then cleared of strangers, and, as few
were aware of what had really caused the failure
of the attempt, the most extravagant rumours
soon got afloat. Among these the favourite was
that the launching-ways themselves had Runk
under the enormous weight, and that the
stem of the ship had settled down several inches
below the stern. For this report there is really no
foundation at present On Inquiry at the Poplar
Hospital late last evening it was ascertained that
the four men who were moat injured at the windlass
had been received into that institution, and that
every possible care and attention had been bestowed
upon their cases by the resident surgeon, Mr. M.
Brownfield. The men's names are John Donovan,
Henry Staay, John Browne' and Anthony
.Maher.
The case of Donovan, who, besides severe internal
injuries, has sustained a fearful compound com-
minuted fracture of the leg, is considered hopeless.
Stacey, who has also received a dreadful com-
minuted fracture of his leg, is in a precarious condi-
tion. The other two men, Maher and Brown, are
severely contused and injured internally, but both are
likely to do well. The fifth man who was hurt was
conveyed to his home at his own request.