The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-15 00:00:00

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The foandation for the " stone" was hollowed out, •
and in it was deposited a sealed bottle, containing a
copyof each of the morning journals and several of
the current-coins of the realm.
The Limerick Reporter of this day contains the
following important additional information relative
to the murder of Mr. Jackson. Among the papers
destroyed were, no doubt, the securities for debts
due by his murderers:—
"
It is said confidently that there could not have been
less than £41,0 about the person of the deceased and in his
house on the morning of the mut-flier. Of this sum not
1 one shilling was to be seen on the day the body was found.
Seareh was made in the safe or strong box in -which Mr.
Jackson kept his money, but there was no money in it.
Search was made in the drawers and desks irr Which he was
accustomed to keep his accounts, and there were no accounts
to be found since 1861. For the years 1862 and i.. 863 there
were no accounts whatever found. Search was 09,1
for other matters connected with the business of the
house
and estate, but they were not forthcoming."
The 1? epot ter observes :
" It is a most extraordinary- and astounding fact that such
is the state of the case. The murder was perpetrated o=
Thursday morning. During the entire of that day the mur-
derer must have had time to complete his intention of mak-
ing a clean robbery of the victim of the bloody deed, and
that this was done seems pretty clear. There must have
been some robber in the house ; in the dark and dismal in-
terval he must have taken the money, and he must have
disposed of the accounts. Mr. Jackson did not take any,
with the exception of the money he had about him. Among
the latest arrests is that of the cook, who is said to have ut-
tered some expressions which, if unexplained, would go to
demonstrate that she had some idea that evil was about to
befall her master.”
The Northern Whig of this morning says that
the Heroine, one of the steamers plying between
that port and Bangor, has been sold to an agent of
the Confederate Government.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.
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THE NAVY.
VALETTA, June 6.—Since I wrote on.the 3d inst.
no movements of any kind have taken place .among
the ships of war in port. Rear-Admiral Austen has
assumed the Command in the absence of the Com-
mander-in-Chief, and the red flag has consequently
taken the place of the blue on board the different
ships. Rear-Admiral Yelvertou's flag (blue) flies
on board the Revenge, 73, Capt. C. Fellowes. The
Meeanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse, is the only other
line-of-battle ship in port. Both of these vessels
will shortly proceed for a cruise. The Wanderer,
4, Commander M. C. Seymour, will leave to-morrow
for Corfu with the overland mail for the Comman-
der-in-Chief. The Alacrity, 4, Commander J.
Baird, will go home in a few days to be paid off.
The Cockatrice, 2, Lieut.-Commander Gillsom, will
leave to-morrow for Constantinople. The other
ships in port are the Hibernia, receiving ship, bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. T. Austen, C. 8.,
the Caradoc, 2, the Medina, 4, and the tenders
Boxer and Growler. Foreign—Egyptian steam-
frigate Feizi-Gilhad. Brigadier-General Atherley
arrived the day before yesterday by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamer Delta from Eng-
land, to replace Brigadier-Gen. Bates in the com-
mand of the 2d Brigade. The following also arrived
by the Delta for Malta :—Lieut. G. Hawkins, Lieut.
Cunningham, Lieut. N. E. Sharp, Capt. Stephens,
Ensign Graves, R. W. F., and Mr. Brown, R.N.
Accounts from Athens of the 30th state that in con-
sequence of rumoured disturbances on the Turkish
frontier, her Majesty's corvette Pelican, 17,
mender P. P. Brook, had been sent to visit Stylida,
Larnica, and the Gulf of Velo. Guards of armed
citizens continued to patrol the streets of Athens
after nightfall. Her Majesty's corvette Icarus, 11,
Commander N. Salmon, VC.,arrived at the Pirteus
on May 28 from Malta."
The blocks are being prepared on No. 7 slip, at
Chatham dockyard, for laying down a large iron-
clad frigate, one of the new class of armour-plated
ships ordered by the House of Commons to be cone
strutted at the various Itriyal dockyards, the whole
of which will be built from designs submitted to the
Admiralty by Mr. E. J. Reed. The slip on which
the new vessel is to be constructed is the only one
at Chatham dockyard which has facilities for build-
ing armour-plated vessels. No orders have yet been
received at Chatham as to the description of vessel
intended to be built on the other vacant slip at the
dockyard, but it' is probable that one of the squad-
ron of wooden ships of a new class which are to be
built at:. that, establishment, as opportunities arise,
will be shortly commenced under the vacant shed.
The Esk, 20 gun screw corvette, Capt. Hamilton,
made her official trial of speed at the measured mile
in Stokes-bay on Friday, under the superintendence
of Capt. H. Broadhead, of her Majesty's ship Asia,
prior to leaving Spithead for foreign service. She
drew 16ft. 4in. of water forward, and 18ft. 2in. aft;
was complete in stores of all kinds for sea, and
had 270 tons of coal on board. Six runs
at the measured mile with full boiler power
gave results consecutively as follows ;-10.315,
8.181, 10.746, 8, 10.975, and 7 875 knots; the
mean speed of the six runs being 9.415 knots.
The maximum revolutions of the engines were 70
and the minimum 68, with a 201 b. pressure of
steam and 24 inches vacuum. With half-boiler power
four runs were made at the mile, the speed of the
ship in each case, being 9.218, 7.453, 8.683, and
6,977 knots, the mean speed of the ship during the
four runs being 8.2 knots. To test the engines they
were stopped in seven seconds from the time of
moving the telegraph, were started ahead under
the same conditions in 10 seconds, and were moved
astern in 18 seconds. The screw the Esk is now
using is a common or Admiralty pattern, having a
diameter of 12 feet, a pitch of 9 feet 8 inches, and a
length of 3 feet. At the conclusion of the trials the
Esk again anchored at Spithead, but, being under
sailing orders, will leave for her destination as early
as possible.
The Charger gunboat is ordered to proceed from
Portsmouth to the Thames, where it will be placed
in Messrs. Young and Magnay's dock, and fitted
with a new description of propeller, patented by
Mr. Curtis, of London, and from which great results
are confidently predicted. The principle of the new
"shoulder" joint, by means of which the rudder
propeller is an application of the universal of
and propeller are always in a
ship will be
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ventor claims that by these means a
able to describe a circle in little more than her
parallel line.
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backwater upon the rudder is effectually done away
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between
the old is precisely the same as that which exists
between the railway carriage with its fixed wheels
and axles and the ordinary road carriage with its
-tivoted axle and wheels.

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