The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

STATE OF THE ICI; TN THE BALTIC.

NTBORG, MARCIE' 21.—Two days ago the Great Belt
was passable, but a severe storm from the south-east,
which has been blowing ever since this morning at day-
light, has brought in large fields of ice, which hays,
completely blocked up the Westerinne, so that the
passage between Kuudshoved (Canute's Head) and tl e
island of Sproe is no longer to be attempted. The bay
and port of Kierteminde are free from ice, as well
as
the whole of the upper part of the Belt, and six boats
came across from See!and yesterday.
At Elsinore the Sound is free from ice ; but between
Vedbek and the island of liven it is still firm, and at
Copenhagen it extends beyond the Trekroner Battery.
The Bay of Kiel was partially free of ice, but the
prevalent easterly wirds have drifted in large masses.
The ice in the harbour has not yet broken up.
Several colliers from English ports to Elsinore and
Wingo Soiled, with coals for the Baltic fleet, were
seen on the 21st near Gothenburg entangled in the
ice. Some ice-boats were sent to their assistance.

SWITZERLAND.—A letter from Berne of the 27th, in
the Piedmontese Gazette, announces that the Federal
Council of Switzerland has rat fled the convention of
Milan, which had been ratified by the Grand Council of
Ticino on the 23d.
WAR APPLIANCES : COLT'S REVOLVING PAC/TOM—If
we were to describe the factory (we can scarcely call it
manufactory, the hand ha/ so little to do in it),
which Colonel Sam Colt has set up at Thames-bank
for the production of " Revolvers," fully and az
it deserves, we should be led perhaps a little too
far out of our more particular track : for a few me-
moranda, however, we must find room. It is so
well ordered, so complete, so striking in its results, that
all engaged in manufacture may learn something from
it : it is itself one large machine, well oiled too, which
takes in at one end a shapeless lump of iron and a piece
of wood, and puts out at the other a beautifully-finished
arm, which you may load and fire six balls from sepa-
rately in three-quarters of a minute, after a certain
amount of practice. In each pistol there are 53 distinct
pieces, including 14 screws ; and, for the formation of
these 40 or 45 separate machines cooperate—hammering,
milling, cutting, drilling, punching, rifling, and shaving ;
all put into motion by a gallon of water "in a violent
perspiration ; " in other words, a 20-horse power
steam-engine. Some of the machines are especially
beautiful ; look at that for rifling the barrels for ex-
ample, with the brush to keep the cutters clean ; and
the one near it for drilling the six chambers around
the central boring in the solid cylinder, where accuracy
is so indispensable. That regular irregularity, the ec-
centric plays an important part in this, as it does in the
hammering machine below ;—the machine patented by
Ryder. Last week they turned out 525 perfect pistols
here, and there are the means for making 800 or 900 a
week, if it were necessary to do so.—Th;Builder.
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