The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-02 00:00:00

PROSPE' TUS,

This Corporation haSfieenformeti for the purpose of
uniting the ordinary business of a Finance Comp any with
that of an Estate Agency- -% want not yet supplied by any of
the existing Companies
The business of the Corporation will consist of two distinct
branches—viz., Financial Transactions and Estate Agency
Business, and ccmpetent representatives will be appointei in
the princpal towns.
The Fi, Tancial Department will consist of advancing money
on real. and personal estate, whether intended for sale or
otherwise, and on such other securities as the Directors may
avrove. The Corporation will act also as agents between
mortgagors and mortgagees, and will negotiate subszrititions
r loans for British and foreign undertakings, the bona fides
of which w 11 be strictly investigated before they are sub-
mitted to the public.
The Estate Agency Department wiil embrace valuations ;
the rurchase end sale of estates, lands, and houses; the
management of estates, and the carrying out of drainage and
other essential improvements ; also the sales of agricultural
produce, farming stock, and every description of properties,
by private contract and public auction ; and it is intended to
hold periodical sales of freehold and leasehold properties.
That the value of finance business generally is abundantly
appreciated by the public is prov,d by the very large pre-
miums already attained by all the financial companies, and it
is well known that large fortunes have been Tea feed by the
business of estate agent. This Company, with its moderate.
capital, does not pretend to compete with the transactions of
the larger financial companies now existing, the Directors
viewing the financial business principa ly as an adjunct, to
that of the Estate Agency ; and as the one department will
largely contribute to the business of the other, they are satis-
fied the combined operations must result in large dividends
to the shareholders. Ssveral lucrative transactions have
already been secured by the Corporation ; and although the
Directors consider the present nominal capital ample for all
immediate purposes, power has been taken to increase the
same should it be ultimately deemed desirable.
By the Articles of Association (which lie for inspection at
the temporary Offices of the Company), each Director is
required to hold 2jo snares ; and more than 2,(0',./ shares
have already been subscribed for by the Directors and their
friends.
Prosrcctuses and form of applications for shares may be
obtained from the Banters and Brokers, or at the Temporary
Office of the Company.

TEETEM K
-r. ES ELL'S INVENTION in
the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the
following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work-
manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the
most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without
pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes
of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without
wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the
gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option
of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad-
just these teeth to many changes of the month without the
aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always
useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea-
tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps.
Inspection of specimens and consultations tree.-B,Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street, W. ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir-
mingham.

THE PIGEON HOUSE FORT.—When he gets near
to the fort he will observe upon his left the remains
of her Majesty's ship Mermaid, brought here from Ports-
mouth, cut down and converted into a store. Then comes
a row of wooden palisading,and next a drawbridge, crossing
which, and passing under a gateway, he will find himself in
a small courtyard, with cannon pointed, commanding the
road he has come ; then through another gateway and he
will be in an oblong square, where he will find a flagstaff
and a couple of 32-pounders, The ball alley, canteen, and
barracks are on the right, farther on is a long building.
Beyond that again is a large yard, girt by iron railings, in
the centre of which are piled shot of all sizes, and cannon
of nearly every calibre lie round about. Then come the
officers' quarters, a large commodious building, in which
no officer lives, and next to this are the magazines, the
powder depot for the whole of Ireland, where there are somo
tons of gunpowder deposited, also Congreve rockets, shrap-
nell shells, cannister and grape, and ammunition of every
sort, blank and ball, for Enfield and Whitworth rifles, and
the same for Armstrong guns. The next house is the bar-
rack-master's, which, like the lawyer's house in a village,
is far from being the worst in the place ; and then comes
another small guard-rom, and another gateway leading on
to the breakwater. When returning he will observe a small
landing place to the right, used for the unloading of ammu-
nition, &c., which is conveyed from Woolwich in Govern-
ment vessels. From this landing-place to the entrance there
is only a wall loopholed about every 40 yards for defence.
The most interesting object is the armoury, the long build-
ing already mentioned, entrance to which may be gained
by application to the head clerk; it is said to be the next in
importance to Woolwich, and a regular staff of workmen is
employed here. Entering from the front by folding-doors,
the stranger finds himself in a small hall facing a staircase
about eight feet wide. In and around this hall are
numerous articles used in ancient warfare, coats of mail
and suits of armour of every kind, from that of the knight
to the mousquetaire, while pikes, battle-axes, and blunder-
buses adorn the walls, and festoons of bayonets, wreaths of
pistols, and stars formed of small swords and daggers
decorate the sides of the staircase. Up the stairs is a long
wide room, at the end of which another room similar in size
dao lgeodogde oldiis
swords
displayed and
the
branches off to the right; here again the walls are covered
bwuitcklheirpsiktoeos and
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,'
model of a cannon or some other destructive engine of war.
Down the middle of these rooms,
. in tier upon tier, are over
'w is and
every bows,win window -ledge
30,000 Enfield and Whitworth rifled muskets, with bayonets
to match, besides more than 1,000 six-barrelled revolver
pistols, In this building are arms for an army, and not 100
yards from thenabi the €0211111441911,-4)(6.08.$ MO Year
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A paper was read at this institution on Monday
evening, by Captain E. A. Inglefield, R.N., on a
proposed plan of his invention for working the
heaviest ordnance on board armour-plated ships, and
in fortifications, with complete protection for the
men. Large models of the section of a ship and of
a fortification were exhibited to illustrate this mode
of working large guns, which on board ship con-
slated of loading the guns between decks and then
raising them to the upper deck to be fired. The
power required for raising the guns Captain Ingle-
field ingeniously proposes to obtain from the weight
of the ship and its displacement of the water, the
upward pressure of water at the bottom being ap-
plied as the moving power. He proposes to place
the guns on a platform in the middle of the ship, so
adjusted as to be capable of being raised perpendi-
cularly, with counterbalances to diminish the weight.
The platform is to be supported on five rods fixed
to pistons that work in cylinders placed vertically
at the bottom. When the guns are to be raised to
the upper deck water is to be admitted through
apertures at the bottom of the ship into
the cylinders, and the upward pressure of
the water will be sufficient to lift the gun ; the
water, when it has done its work, being allowed to
flow into tanks to be used on the engine boi:ers.
Water Captain Ingle-
field estimates that there will be a lifting force of
9 lb. to the square inch. The gun would be pointed
In a ship that draws 29 feet of
under direction of its captain, stationed in the
middle deck, looking through a telescope, and the
only time that the man would be
exposed would be
whilst pointing and firing the gun. When it was
lowered iron shutters on the upper deck would be
closed over to protect the men from the perpendi-
cular fire of shells,

At the conclusion of the paper a gentlemen put
forward the claims of a Mr. Matthews to a similar
invention, and a long discursive discussion took place
on the merits of Captain Inglefield's plan, in which
Sir Frederick Nicolson, Captain Selwyn, Captain
Scott, and other gentlemen took part. Whilst ad-
mitting the ingenuity of the invention, they all
raised objections to it of various kinds, and con-
tended that it would not be available in warfare.
Objections were also made to the Enterprise, which
had been highly praised by Captain Inglefield in the
course of his paper, and it was contended that as
that ship had only accomplished 10 knots an hour
it was practically a failure, and that the problem
yet remained to be solved of constructing a compa-
ratively small armour plated ship, heavily armed,
that would attain such a speed as the Warrior.
Admiral Sartorius, who was in the chair, objected
to Captainlnglefield's plan on account of the time it
would occupy to raise and lower the guns. Rapidity
of fire during a naval action was, he said, most im-
portant, and he attributed the victory of Trafalgar
principally to the rapidity with which the English
loaded and fired their guns. He said that during
that action there were 360 of the enemy killed or
wounded in the ship opposed to his own within 35
minutes, whilst on board of his ship there were not
more than 80 or 90 killed or wounded. In close
action, therefore, Captain Inglefield's plan would
be objectionable, and in distant firing the protee-

tion it would afford would signify little. Captain
Inglefield replied to the objections that had been
made to his plan, without touching however on
those raised by Admiral Sartorins. The meeting
then adjourned to the 6th of June, which will be
the last of the season.