Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-21 00:00:00

VOTE OP THANKS TO THE CUAIWAA.N.

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Mr. Rounthwaite said that before the reporters left he
was desirous that the committee should pass a vote of
thanks to the chairman for the Attention, zeal, and ability
which he displayed in the interest of the trust in the.
matter of the Conservancy Bill. He felt that they were
indebted to Mr Turner for those services, and he was
sure that the committee would unanimously adopt the
vote of thanks which he now begged to propose to him.
Mr. Halhead seconded the motion.
Mr. Mandell said that he was happy to be able to bear
testimony to the untiring zeal and energy of the chairman
in this matter, and to state that, so far as he was compe-
tent to judge, Mr. Turner's exertions were of the most
bona fido chat acter.
Mr. W. Rathbone observed that he saw that attacks
were being made on Mr. Turner for the course he had
taken in this matter, but he (ilr. Rathbone) thought that
he was fully borne out ley the foeling of the committee.
They were there to protect the interest of the trade of
the port, and they had no business to be influenced by any
Other consideration. (Hear, hear )
The vote was unanimously adopted.
The Chairman remarked that all he could say in reply
was that he had endeavoured to do his duty. and he we.s
obliged to them for this expression of their good opinism.
This concluded the business.

MINISTERIAL BANQUET.

(PROD[ A VERB a TIM REPORTER.),
• The Ministerial Whitebait Dinner took place on Wednesday night,
at thlf Trafalgar, Greenwich. . .
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After the usual loyal toasts were disposed of, the health of the
Premier was drank amid loud cheers.—(Air, " Hg's a jolly good
fellow.")

Viscount Palmerston, on rising to return thanks, was received with
renewed cheers. Owing to the repeated exclamations of aatisfaction
elicited by the noble lord's observations, he was very imperfectly
heard by the reporters. lie spoke to the following effect : —My lords
and gentlemen,—l—awh—feel—awh—l assure you, greatly honoured
by the very la,gh compliment you--a roishaVe paid me. (Cheers.)
I —awh— assure you, my lords and g.ntlemen, that I—awh—hold you
all in the highest estlmetion—(cheers)—and—awh—certainly with
greatjustice, because you all have, I may say —awh —without camp-
ti na, carried out fatly, and without question, my measures. (Hear,
hear.) I can only say that 1 shall not—awh—forget your services.
(afr. Wilson : He —ar, he —ar, he—ar) I trust, my lords and gentle.
nen, that I—awh—shell have the pleasure of meeting yon on many
occasions like the present. (Greet applause.) It is true th.t--awh
—i n the course of Vine the Sepoy mutiny mast be suppressed, and the
Chinese diffleal y rane'—awh —be arranged; but it my maxim—eyrie
--that th ere is as good fish in the sea as ever was caught-(great
laughtor) —and that events will—awh —arise, which will require the'
presence- in her Majesty's councils of—arch—men who are —awh—
accustoms Ito carry on the operations of war. (Great cheering.)

Mr. B. Osborne : More power to your o'd boy. (Cheers and
laughter.)

The Lord Chancellor, in. responding to his health, which was Ivor
proposed by the Attorney-General, begged his colleagues to mat as-
sured that Bet should give his very best attention to every measure
that could. rondace to the good of the country;. indeed. he felt he
might refer-in the measures he had introduced this present session—
the 1)i ,orce. and Matrimonial Causes Bids—as a proof of the sincerity
of his promise..
The Attorney-General: Very good measures—when P licked them
Inleshape. (Laughter. )
The-Lord Chancellor: I really must p otost ay,sinst the use of such
language on tine part of my hon. ands learned friend. With all the.
• self-confidence so-justly attributed :to my hon. and learned friend by
my noble and learned friend, Lord,St. Leopards, I did not think he
would venture, in my preeeue3, to•deprive the_liouseef Lords of the
credit due to it.

The Attorney-General (in a load ulisper Lore) : Th eay are
all, muffa. (Laughter.) If I were amongst them I'd soon regulate
them.

The Lord Chancellor: I must protest agenst the use of such lan-
guage—language which I will say 1c not pertinent—on the part of
my hon. and learned friend.
Mr. B Osborne : If it's not pertinent it is expressive. (Cries
of "Order, order.")

Earl Granville hare interposed, ald with the assistance of Lord
Clarendon, Labouc'.ere, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,.
re itored peace between the high Wel functionaries, who agreed. tint
byegones should be byegones, the Attorney-General aolemnly asseve-
rating that he ay:B not looking for the Chancellor s- place.
Sir George Grey's health was the next proposed. (Air: -"Nix, my
dolly pals fake away.") The right hon. baronet said he could justly
say that under his directions the law had bye° carried out to the very
fullest extent, and that wherever a person could be han;ed, that
person was banged accordingly.
Mr. B. Osborne : Yon gave them rope enough. (Laughter.)
Lord Panmure, in returning thanks for his health, drew his noble,
right hon., a id hon. colleagues' attention to the fact, that however
disdainfully they night receive the suggesti ins of Lord EVenboroagh
In the House of Lords with regard to their mithary operations, they
were always sure to act uponthem. (Cheers.)
Mr. Lowe hare stood up, and begged to make a few remarks. He
reminded the company that he had formerly riv-igned an office which
he did not think was suitable to his me Its, andi that he had only
accepted his present place in expentation of getting a position that
would be worthy of the acceptance of a person who had discharged
the high fanetions of Thunderer for the Times- He now begged to
know a hat the noble Viscount intended to do for him t
Viscount Pa'marston : I can only say to my right hon. friend th..t
" there's a g tame coming." (Loud laughter.)
Mr. I.owa : I am satisfied.

Some confuslon was here createl by the sudden indisposition of Lord
Stanley of A.'derley, who, however, was speedily recovered by the ad-
ministration of a half glass of brandy, received from the hands of Earl
Granvilie, who at the sam time whispered something about the Privy

seal-
The bill was then brought in, and havin:c been duly checked by Mr.
Wilson (who entered into a lucid explanation to the waiters on the
sugar duties), was passed amidst Lund elvers, an I the company ad-
journed.—Morning Star.

TRANSMITTING SIGNALS BY MUSICAL

SOUNDS.

The France Musicale gives an interesting ac punt of some experi-
ments made in presence of the Emperor of the French when at
Plombiares, to test the effi:lency of M. Sudre's plan for transa.itting
signals to the troops of an army and navy, by means of musical sounds.
The above-named journal says : —" During the Emperor's s ay, M.
Sudre, the inventor of what is called telephonie, or the art of trans-
mitting signals and phrases by sound, had with his wife the honour
of exhibiting bef iro his Majesty. Pla inz himself in the middle of the
swoon, he annou,ced that he you'd with his vlo'in express ny phrase
his Majesty might please to dictate to him, in such a manner as to
enable Madame Sndre, who was anted, at the farther end of the room
among a group of ladies, to say what is meant. The Emperor imme-
dia ely wrote on a piece of paper, the words, Le premier qui fut roi
fut un soldat heureux' and M. Satre produced a tew sounds from
his violin. Madame Sndre immediately rose and repeated the phrase
word for word. Another experiment was then made—it consisted in
speaking the notes instead of playing them. The Emperor wrote
Plombieres est one ville etarmante ce coir,' and M. Sudre after reading
the phrase, pronounced, with out any intonation of voice, certain notes.
Madame Sndre gave the words correctly. Experiments in teephonie
were made. lit. Sudre's system re laces the transmission of signals
to three sounds express:xi by the trumpet. the drum, or the cannon ;
or, In the event of high winds preventing sounds from being heard, to
three signs. The Emperor gave the order, Construct ba'teries oa
the height,' and M. Sudre produced three sounds on the clarion;
Mme. Sara at once repeated the phrase. Another order given by
General ESpiIIaSSES was repeated by the drum, ant translated instan-
taneon-ly by the lady. The order,' Let the aiti lay paralyse the ff. e
of the enemy's bat airy,' was transmitted by taps on the table to imi-
tate cannon, and was in like manner at once repeated by Mtn Sndre.
The Emperor asked if proper names and the names of town, could be
transmitted by the system, and being answered in the affirmative,
wrote the name of Nabuchodonosur ; some sounds from the trumpet
enabled Man. Satire to repeat the name aloud. , The Emperor
expressAl his satisfaction at what he had witnessed. He then
graciously invited itlme. Sudre to sing one or tao moreeaux, after
which his Majesty dismissed her and her husband with marks of his
munificence."

AUXILIARY SCR
SAILING

Captain Walters writes to the Shipping &Ili Mercantile Gazette as

follows :
Sir—l have noticed an article copied from the Ncw Yo-k Journal
of Commerce respecting the increi, e of screw anxiiiary steam-ships
in Grett B Rain, and I believe the writer in America frankly admits
our superiority. We have, however, mach to learn towards per-
fecting the construction of such vessels, and mnsatrust to in elligent
experiments, and the knowledge of recalls to put down existing pre-
indices as to buld and eine of ship, form of screw-propeller, and
mode of applying its power. slaving bad many yell's' experience I
hare turned my attention to the form of screw best adapted for
propelling power combined with canvas, whilst it Should also offer
the least resistance to the progress of the vessel whilst under canvas
alone, and I find the screw, while by the form of its construction,
has the gre lest propel' ne power under steam, also offers the
least obstruction to steering and sitting. under canvas alone.
in the Artisan, of July lit, I observe the extract or a letter
from Capesin Strutt, of the screw steamship Dane, 550 tons
register, 40-horse power. stating—` that with a moderate breeze,
engines making 52 revolutions per minute, the speed of• tae vessel
averaged la knots per hour, whilst sealer precisely the same circum-
stances, with sere N fleas vertically (angels stopped), our speed ve
only 6-10ths of a kaot less per hoer. This I consider good sailing
under the limited spread of canvass, together with the dead ucieht.
of cargo, rugar and coffee." This exteict beers me oat upon a
point I seek to establish, namely, that w a -properly c mstructed
screw, fixed vertically, less resistance is offered to the steerage and
way of a ship wiliest under canvas-power alone than would.be offered
if such screw were lifted out of watar, according to frequout
practice; and. I think that owners, captaLs, aed engineers
of screw rs".eamers have incurred useless expense in eoa.
tering to lift the screw out of water when nnrler canvas
alone, because I contend that the dead weter in the
aperture left vacant by removal of the screw materially retard§
speed and affects the steerage; whlbethe screw immersed and fixed
vertically produces no such had results, In support of my belief I
may instance the Great Britian screw steamship. which with an
immersed and fixed screw made two voyages feel Liverpool to
Anztralia and bick, the average time of four passages being 71 days
for each attics four runs. Since teen she ha, undergone considerable
improvement in her rig to make he: a perfect sailing ship, including
the expensive alteration requisite for lilting the screw out of water
*whilst under canvas; yet, with all the additional advantages of rig,
her average passage hat been 75 dais to this deto, and not yet arri es.
It 'tape irs that the Indomitsble ace w steene
arrived;a; be
whilst ea mit
from Melbourne 106 days, yetthe
Lightning clipper sating-ship has Just mute her passage from Mel-
bourne to Liverpool is 81 diem. It seems to me that the time has
serived for a strugele between clipper saillng ships
andan auxiliar ,
Iy screw
ld
steamers; and, that the latter may les made mo pfet NVO
construct them like the " Black Bell" line of Liverpool clippers now
on the Anstrali in ins from Lverpool, fitted with auxiliary power of
6) to i 0 horses. wh ch wetrld add about
dl per tan to the first cost,
and his auxiliery power could be appli tO these sailing clippers
already consemcted, without War/ to the veesei or her sailing
qualit'ese The steam power would propel such vessels in lms tour
ur
to five knits per hour. and would do all that is required of
ordinary steam-tug. Should you deem my remarks worthy of Litters-
" ticn and; insertion in yoar valuable paper, I hope teey
useful inquir es and improvements rel•tlng to a most nestrabito 04.51
may lead to
of vessels conneOtei vvltlt out commerce.
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