The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

London : 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street.

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Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green
package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp.

NEW PADDLEWHEELS FOR THE GREAT EASTERN.
—lire learn that to Messrs. Brotherhood, of Cnippenham,
is entrusted the construction of new paddlewheels for the
above named leviathan steamship. The diameter of the
wheels over all will be 52 feet, their width 13 feet, and the
depth of the floats, which will be formed of stout beech,
will be two feet nine inches. The greatest despatch is to
be used in tho preparation of the new wheels, and to in-
sure this perhaps no better firm than that of Messrs. Bro-
therhood could be named. The new paddlewheels will be
in every way materially stronger than those with which
the great Eastern was originally furnished.—Hcchanics
Magazine.
Two million visiting cards have passed through
the Paris Post-office within the last three days besides the
ordinary letters,

much pleased with the fittings of the ship, and espe-
cially the large bath room. Before leaving the boys
were mustered, and went through the gun drill.
Admiral Johnstone afterwards transacted business
at the Dockyard, and late in the afternoon returned
to the Noro in the Wildfire.
The Duncan, 101, screw, crossed, topsail and
lower yards at Portsmouth yesterday in progress of
outfit.

The Swinger and Savage screw gunboats, of 60-
horse power each, in the steam basin at Portsmouth,
are ordered to be complete in every respect for sea
by Thursday evening, and to join the other ad
vanced gunboats at the port, in readiness for any
sudden order or emergency. Their armament will
be the same as others of their class recently fitted
—one 100-pounder, and one 40 pounder Armstrong,
The Racoon, 22, screw, Capt. Chamberlain, the
arrival of which at Spithead from the Mediterra-
nean was reported in The Sun of yesterday, re-
mained there up to sunset yesterday awaiting
orders. The Vigilant, 5, screw, Commander Pike,
also remains at Spithead.

The Chanticleer, 17, screw, Commander Stirling,
was swung yesterday at Portsmouth for the ad-
justment of her compasses, and remains in the har-
bour for orders. The Geyser, 6, paddle, Comman-
der Jackson, remains in harbour, completing coal,
&c., for foreign service in the Pacific.

Her Majesty's 11-gun screw steam sloop Rapid,
under fitment at Woolwich for commission, will be
ready in a few days for the pennant. Her destina-
tion is expected to be the Atlantic.
The small paddle steamer Investigator, Com.
Macleod, R.N., fitted out at Woolwich for Dr.
Livingstone's expedition on the Zambesi, yester-
day received one corporal and a couple of privates,
Royal Marine Light Infantry, and is expected to go
to sea during the week.
The Rifleman, Master. Commander J. W. Reed,
commissioned at Woolwich in November last for
survey in the China seas, yesterday received her
crew from the receiving hulk Salsette, in the river,
and bent sails.

The steam transport St. Andrew, at Woolwich
pier, has been detained beyond the time intended
for her departure, with a lieavy cargo of war stores
for America, in consequence of the tramways
throughout the arsenal now undergoing a thorough
renovation. She is not now expected to be ready
for sea before Thursday or Friday next.
The several boats supplied for the Defence are as
large as those furnished to line-of-battle ships, the
two launches being each upwards of 40ft. in length,
while the pinnace, cutters, and jolly-boats are all
of a correspondingly large size. According to
present arrangements the Defence will be re-
moved, in the course of a few days, from her pre-
cent moorings off the dockyard to Folly-point,
where she will complete fitting. She is at pre-
sent lashed alongside the floating sheer-hulk, and
the depth of water at that spot being inade-
quate for a ship of her great draught, she settles
down and takes the ground at every low tide. Her
immense weight while thus aground has done seri-
ous mischief to the sheer-hulk, by tearing out her
bits, opening her decks, and otherwise straining her.
It is not considered that any injury has been done to
the hull of the Defence by thus grounding, although
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there can be little doubt that a vessel of her im-
mense size and tonnage must be subjected to a very
unequal strain when aground, and so much anxiety
is experienced on this account that Capt. Powell is
sparing no exertions to have her completed in readi-
ness to take her departure from Chatham.
According to garrison orders issued yesterday at
Woolwich, three brigades of Horse Artillery, a
squadron of the sth Lancers, and a battalion of Royal
Marine Light Infantry will assemble this morning
on Woolwich-common at 10 a.m. Headed by Sir
Richard Dacres and staff, Col. Campbell, commandant
R.M., and the officers commanding divisions, &c.,
and attended by the regimental bands, they will
march through Welling and the high roads, making
a circuit of 12 or 14 miles, in lieu of field drills, and
return to Woolwich about 2 o'clock.

Commodore Sir F. Nicholson, Superintendent of
Woolwich Dockyard, yesterday received instructions
from the Board of Admiralty to hasten the termi-
nation of the screw steamship Caledonia, 91, about
to be iron-clad. For that purpose a spacious open
shed is to be erected adjacent to the building
berth of the Caledonia, to contain the smitheries and
all the appliances requisite for grooving and bend-
ing the plates to the contour of the ship's sides after
their reception from the Laneefield factory in Scot-
land. The shed, which is intended for permanent
use, will be roofed with glass, and will be open at
the sides, so as to afford the greatest possible
amount of light and ventilation.
Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., recently appointed to
Her Majesty's ship Russell, 60, Coastguard ship at
Falmouth, took the command on Saturday, vice
Capt. G. Wodehouse, whose period of service ha
expired.