The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDN', THURSDAY EVEMNG, NOVEMBER 24, 1864.

Mr VILLEnoISNET complained of the large expenditure,
and moved as an amendment that a committee of five share
holders be now appointed to investigate the accounts and
expenditure in the hotel.

The amendment having been seconded, a long discussion
ensued.

Mr VILLEBOISNET withdrew his amendment, and the
original resolution was agreed to.

A vote of thanks to the chairmen concluded the pro
ceedings.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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The Victoria screw steamship, Captain J. Goad-
enough, intended as flagship for Rear-Admiral
Smart, commander-in-cMef of her 111-jesty's ships
in the Mediterrbnean, left Spit head yesterday after-
noon under steam for that station, calling at Piys
mouth, being still a few hands short of ber comple-
ment.

Her Majesty's paddle-wheel sloop Barracoata, G,
guns, 1,033 tons, 300-horse power, Commander John
IYArcy, recently returned from the West Indies,
was this day paid out of commission in the large
basin in Sheerness dockyard by Captain-Superin•
tendent Charles Wise, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen,
who highly complimented. the ship's crew on their
orderly and steady conduct during paying off. In
consequence of the length of time that the Barra-
couta has been in commission (four years and a half),
the large amount of £3,700 was paid among 120
men, who upon receiving their money voluntarily
entered into a subscription for the mother of one of
their messmates, George Fenn, who lost his life by
falling from alof.; in a gale of wind while on the
passage to England. The sum of £2l was sub-
scribed. The Barracouta has had three commanders
during the time she has been in commission, viz :
Commander Wm. Wooed, who retired on promotion;
Commander Malcolm, who resigned, and Comman-
der John D'Arcy, who has had command one year
and a half, The vessel will be placed in the third
division of the Sheerness Steam Reserve,
The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400. horse power,
will be placed in dock at Chatham, on Saturday, to
be examined, in order to ascertain whether she has
sustained any injuries from the recent shipment
and unshipment of her screws. She has shipped
her new propeller, a "left-handed" Griffith's screw,
which arrived from Woolwich in the early part of
the week.
The important experiments recently made under
the direction of the Ordnance Select Committee to
test the value of the invention of Major Palliser
for the employment of castairon chilled shot in
both naval and land warfare have proved so
eminently satisfactory as establishing the enormous
superiority of the shot made according to the
plan advocated by Major Palliser as compared with
the old system of casting shot that an announce-
ment has been made at Chatham that the shot in
future to be supplied to the navy, as soon as the
existing stock of the ordinary spherical shot has
been exhausted, will be manufactured according to
the new process. The first public trials with the
solid shot made on Major Palliser's process took
place at Shwburyness, when a 12-paunder chilled
shot was tested against a steel shot of simi!ar
weight, the resuls of the trials being so satisfac-
tory that the Ordnance Select Committee direc'el
a further series of experiments with a round
chilled iron shot made of Derbyshire hot blast iron '
and weighing 103ib., which was fired from the Soo
merset gun, with a charge of 251 b of powder, against
the Lord Warden target, a spherical steel shot,
weighing 116 lb, with the same charge of powder,
being tested at the same time against the chilled shot.

Notwithstanding the dieparity in theweight and cha-
racter of the two shots, the effects of each were very
nearly the same. Both shots went completely
through the 44-in. iron plates of the target, as well
as through Bin. of timber backing, bulging up the
second inner iron skin of the target, which an exami-
nation of the plates at Chatham Dockyard shows
the shot failed to penetrate. Another and still
more important trial subs( quently took place, on
which occasion two sets of experiments were made
against La Gloire target, the first from an ordinary
68-pounder and from an Armstrong 100• pounder,
both of which were proved ineffectual against the
armour-plating of the target at a distance of 200
yards. The second trial on tho same occasion

was from an Armstrong 5.22 inch shunt gun
which was used to fire a number of rounds o

steel and chilled shot, ranging from 2281 b. (steel)
to 2581 b. (chilled) in weight. The general result of
this trial was to prove, as before, that the chilled

iron used as a projectile is nearly, if not quite,
equal to steel, white both are immeasurably superior
to cast. iron. On the score of economy the chilled
shot presents several advantegus over those of steel,
the materials from which the latter are made costing
£5O a ton, while those for the chilled shot cost only
£5 a ton.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Capt.W. M. Dowell,

to the Euryalus, vice Alexander, inval:ded—Capt.
Beys, to the BArossa, vice Dowell—Capt. W. H.
Haswell, to the Pelorus.vice Boy s—Capt. H. He Kett,
to be musketry instructor of the Royal Marine Ar•
tillery,vice Do wed, period of service expired—Com-
mander J. W. Armstrong, to the Atgus, vice
Moresby promoted-=Commander C. E. Stevens, to
the Perseus, vice Kingston, promoted—Commander

T. E. Smith, to be lospectiug Commander of the

Coast Guard—Lieut. C. F. Walker, promoted to the
rink of Commander—Lieu t.F.W. Lewis, to command
of the Bouncer, vice Holder, promoted ; Lieut G. 1).

Morant, to the Grasshopper, vice Walker, promoted
—Lieut. A. I. V. Collins, to the Victoria—Clement
Hirtzel, of the Grasshopper, promoted to be Master
—Dr. W. R. Bennet, assist.-surgeon, to the Duke
of Wellington—Dr. Henry N. Maclaurin, assist.-

surgeon, to Greenwich Hospital—Charles F. Wil-
liams, assist.-surgeon, to the Impregnable—l. C.
Grigg, assist.-surgeon, to the Victory—Edward H.
Connor, master's assistant, to the Firefly—Henry
Hall, assiste-engineer, to the Espoir—Ewd. Hocken
and Henry Hider, of the PLosbe, promoted to be

first•olass assist.-engineers.
The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi-
nated to naval cadetships—John W. Strachey,
Frederick H. Thomson, Henry R. Scott Rogers,
and Gerard M. 8r00ke.%4

COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR SHEFFIELD.—An
explosion occurred yesterday morning, at a collier 3
at Woodhouse, near Sheffield, belonging to and worked by
the Fence Colliery Company. The pit was examined, as
usual, yesterda) morning, by Mr Redfern, the under viewer,
and a deputy, and found to be freo from gas in every part
In less than an hour, however, an explosion occurred with
a noise like thunder, and rending volumes of smoke up the
shafr. Redfern, and his deputy, who had not been long on
the surface, descended, with others, and found all in con-
fusion below, most of the 316 men down the pit running
about in terror, scarcely knowing what to do. It was ulti-
mately ascertained that s bile the miners were at breakfast
a quantity of bind fell from the roof iu some distant work-
ings, and freed a large quantity of gas, which was driver)
upon the lights (.1 the men at breakfast, George, Ward
eged 19 years, was killed. Three brothers, named Goodall'
were very seriously burned, and doubts are entertained ar
to their recoverp. The rest of the men were got out of the
pit uninjured, except that some of them had tufiered from
the after-damp,

On Wednesday evening, Lieut.•Cul. Tit nnant,
late of the 35th Regiment of Foot, committed suicide by
shooting himself this morning, at his residence, Raglan-
road, Dublin.

period last year to £37"2,241, showing an increase of £53,780,
or 14.45 per cent.

AIEL.,T,Is AND EYE,
A meeting has been ha Id at Eye, Suffolk, to promote a
line from the Mellis station of the Great Esstern to that
town. The scheme was approved by the meeting, and some
progress was made in the sut;scription of the necessary
capital. The cost of the line will ba from £h5,000 to L 20,000.

LANGHAM HOTEL.
A special general meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the hotel in Langham-place, Regent-street, the
Earl of Shrewsbury in the chair.

The CIIAIRMLN said they had met for the purpose of
considering the propriety of increasing the capital for the
completion and opening of the hotel in March next. The
sum of P..,:?0,000 would enable the directors to open the hotel
at the time stated, replete with every comfort, and all those
conveniences required in a first class hotel. They were p•r-
fully satisfied with the manner in which Mr Lucas, the
contractor, had constructed the hotel, and they had every
confidence that the undertaking would be a great success.
He therefore trusted that there would be no opposition to
the resolution. He then moved, " That the capital of the
company be increased from £150,000 to £lBO,OOO, by the
issue of 3,000 shares of £lO each, bearing a preferential
dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, to be all.itted
among the present shareholderepco rata."
Mr WinuAms seconded the motion•

COURT OF DlVORCE—(Yesterday,)

CODRINGTON v. CODRINGTON.
(Continued from our First Elition of yesterday.)
Mr Bovil having referred at some length to the other
points in the evidence, appealed in very eloquent terms to
the jury on behalf of his client, who, he considered, had
acted throughout as an honourable man and a kind bus•
band.
His Lordship, in the course of a most elaborate summing
up, which lasted over two hours, adverted to the letter of
Mrs Codrington to Colonel Anderson, which he said
must satisfy every reasoning man that there had
been a great intimacy between Mrs Codrington and
the Colonel, although there was nothing in the
letter to prove that adultery was committed. Ho also
alluded to the letter from Mr Simi:l,, in which he epoke of
the r..spondent as en erring daughter, and adverted to the,
conduct ( f Mrs Watson, which he described as most extra.
ordinary and EnSI:iCIOLI3.

THE VERDICT.
The jury ref utned into Court at 25 minutes to O
The Clulk cl the Court—Genthmcn, have you agreed
upon your verdict ?

The Forcman—We have.
The Clerk—Do you fild that Mrs Codrington committed
adultery with Li, ut. Mildrnay ?
The Foreman—We do.
Tile Clerk—Do you find that Mrs Codriugton committed
adultery wi;h Colonel Anderson?
'1 he Foremen—We do.

The Chak—Do you find that Colonel Anderson wom.
mitted adultery with Mrs Codrington ?
The Foreman—We do.:

The Clerk—Do you fi_d that Admiral Codrington, by bil
wilful negicet or misconduct, conduced to the miscondue.t
his wife ?
The Foreman—We do not.

The Judge Ordinary then ordered a decree nisi for a

divorce.
Mr Bpvill applied for costs.
The Judge Ordinary—Not at present. That must be rk
subject for iuture consideration.
It was then arranged by the patties, with the sanction o.i
the judge, that the jurors should be allowed a guinea a r:',uv
each for their services.
The Curt then adjourned.

MARKETS---This Day.

MARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES.—.- Wheat, 388 91 ; barley, 29s 91; oats, 19s 51; rye, 298 91 ; beans, 378 9d ;-
and peas, 34s Ild.
THE SIX. WEEKS' AVERAGES.._ Wheat, 38s 3d ;
barley, 30s Id ; oats, 19s Ild ; rye, 318 Od ; beans, 38s 21 peas, 35s 3d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK._' eat 100170 barley,, 103,697 ; oats, 7,637 ; rye, 27 ; beans, 3,623 ; peas,
1,243 qrs,

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
The supply of beasts on sale here to day was only rue..
derate and in very middling condition. Most breeds met a
dull inquiry at Monday's currency. The best Scots and
Crosses were worth 5s 4d per 81b. Sheep, the show of
which was by no means extensive, moved off heavily at
late rates. The best Dawns and half-breds sold at 5s 81
per 81bs. We have to report a dull sale for calves at late
rates, viz , from 43 to ss. per Elbs. The supply was rather
limited, Pigs ruled steady in price, but milch cows Wtre
very dull,