The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURD_AY . EVENING, ' DECEAIBER G, 1862:

EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COM-
PANT.—The Court of Directors of the East and West
India Dock Company hereby give notice, that the Transfer
Books of the said Company will be SHUT ou SATURDAY,
the 18th day of December, 1862, and OPEN again on FRI-
DAY, the 2d day of January, 1663.
By order of the Court,
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
East and West India Dock House,
sth December, 1862.

THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY.
Office, Horseferry-road, Westminster,
December 2, 1862.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
COURT of DIRECTORS of the GAS LIGHT AND
COKE COMPANY do hereby declare that a vacancy has
occurred in the Court of Directors by the resignation of
Frederick Pollock, Esq.

Notice is Hereby also Given, that, by the Bth Bye Law of
the Company, it is ordained and appointed that every candi-
date for becoming a Director shall give notice thereof, in
writing, to the Secretary of the Company, at least fourteen
days before election.
Notice is Hereby further Given, that a SPECIAL GENE-
RAL COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY
will be held at this Office, on THURSDAY, the Bth day of
January next, for the election of a Director to supply the
said vacancy ; and that should a ballot be required, it will
continue open for four hours from its commencement. The
chair will be taken at twelve o'clock precisely.

By order of the Court of Directors.
JOHN ORWELL PHILLIPS, Secretary.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY RECEIPTS.

The traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom
amounted for the week ending the 29th of November, on
10,499 miles, to £514,970, and for the corresponding week
of last year, on 10,186 miles, to £500,880, showing au in-
crease of 313 miles, and or .014,090 in the receipts. The
gross receipts on the following 14 railways amounted in the
aggregate, on £7,221 miles, to £403,285 ; and for the cor-
responding week of 1861, on 7,006 miles, to £394,318, show-
ing an increase of 215 miles, and of £8,967 in the receipts.
The increase on the Caledonian amounted to £604; on the
Great Eastern ti 11; on the Great Northern to £263; on
the Great Southern and Western to £267 ; en the Great
Western to £1,236; on the London and North-Western to
£2,482 ; on the London, Brighton, and South Coast to
£2,091; on the London and South-Western to £293 ; on
the North British to £396; on the North-Eastern to
£1,037 ; and on the South-Eastern to £BO3 ; total £9,483.
But from this must be deducted £245, the decrease on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire; £lB4 on the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire ; and £B7 on the Midland ; together,
£516, leaving the increase, as above, £8,967. The goods
and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to £237,251,
and for the corresponding week of 1861 to £232,250, show-
ing an increase of £5,001. The receipts for passengers,
parcels, &c., amounted to £166,034, against £162,068, show-
ing an increase of £3,966. The traffic receipts on 64 other
lines amounted, on 3,279 miles, to 111,685, and for the cor-
responding week of last year, on 3,180 miles, to £106,562,
showing an increase of 99 miles, and of £5,123 in the re-
ceipts. The total receipts of the past week show a decrease
of 3,097 as oompared with those of the preceding week,
ending the 22d of November.

Railways.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
1862. 1861. 1862. 1861.
£ £
1,880 1,739
563 675
1,172 1,477
5,252 6,303
15,572 14,968
276 259
347 288
151 167
288 170
1,072 984
309 317
1,427 1,509
1,652 1,69
1,463 1,549
1,086 1,101
7,345 7,300
262 253
2,66 C 2,260
8,226 7,696
25,620 25,609
27,633 27,370
2,045 2,107
391 299
8,139 7,872
61,618 60,382
1,020 863
1,856 1,849
221 234
31,656 31,901
129 156
125 117
585 420
84,776 82,294
1,6e0 1,376
16,277 16,984
16,227 14,136
2,7L5 1,553
1,013 978
15,951 16,135
1,006 1,065
1,272 1,102
40,034 40,121
ap
1,659 1,444
2,456 2,582

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne 22 22
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 107
Caledonian 230 230
Cockermouth& Workington B4 84
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 62
Cork and Youghal • • 321 32,
Cornwall 534 53!
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63
Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 4Bl 481
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31
Edinburgh and Glasgow l69} 1694
Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30
Furness, &o 5O 60
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330 330
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 57 451
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329
Great Western 992 964}
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 734 731
Irish North-Western 145 130
Irish South-Eastern 251 251
Lancashire & Yorkshire 39 395
Limerick and Ennis... 2 24
Limerick and Foynes 2 2
Llanelly 4 4
London & North-Western
London and Blackwell si 54
London & South-Western 4421 4401
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast ' 2411 241/
London_. Chatham, 446 Dover 72} 72i
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffleld, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9} 9}
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630 61
Midland t.Westn. of 'rind._ lun los4l
Monkland : 71i 71
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 .44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car B9 8674
North London 9 9
North Staffordshire 248 246
Oswestry and Newton..
Rhymney l9l 191
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52
Scottish Central 5O 50
Scottish North-Eastern 132 132
Shropshire Union 291 291
Somerset and Dorset 39
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 6l:
Ulster 5l
Vale of Clwyd . 10
Vale of Neath 2s}
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Wllltehaven & Furness Jun 35

10,547 10,151
42,190 41,162
2,669 2,899
7,958 7,494
911 615
884 690
2,152 1,812
3,446 3,442
5,411 4,946
975 955
338
3,018 2,872
306 17,036 16,233
161 1C,628 9.726
54 5,027 4,630
51 1,705 1,696
10 145 131
251 2,075 1,683
31 281 370
77 1,462 1,219
271 746 627
36 3 4,656
7 473 372
12 742 646
35 678 603

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,131 1,123
Austrian B2B 828 38,829 49,699
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 26 331 287
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6li 1611 1,885 1,832
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 4,741 4,239
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada ***
1160019047111 1060
528320,89-7'02902522 153893,248889632939
Great Indian Peninsula 4371 3501 3,983 4,389
Great Luxembourg 134 128 4,330 3,816
Great Western of Canada 345 345 13,386 9,475
Madrid, Sarag-ossa &Alicant 439 435 15,873 12,528
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 7Ol 623 55,399 56,665
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 133,049 139,110
Paris and Orleans 1340 1201 63,333 50,768
Pernambuco 7l -- 635
Royal Danish 69 69 480 443
Sambre and. Meuse 6B 68 1,444 1,326
South Austrian
Southern of France .. ..... 777 777 25,686 27,473
Welland.
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 758 758 37,013 43,631

a stop to a practice which not only risks the spoiling of the
goods, but a still more serious danger from combustion.
CARDIFF, Dee. 4.—The iron trade has been rather quiet
within the last fortnight. Prices show a tendency to de-
cline, and rails are quoted fully 2s 6d per ton less than was
the case a month since. Merchant bars are in moderate re-
quest, and list rates are only obtained in a few instances.
In consequence of the favourable weather which prevailed
at the commencement of the week, the collieries are better
employed, and large shipments of coal are taking place.
The following aro the average quotations, free on board
Steam coal, 7s to 7s 9d ; house, 7s 6d to 8s 6d. The tin
trade continues in an unsatisfactory state•

THE IVAV.I'.

The trial of the fine frigate Sold commanded by
ture British naval Commander-
in-Chief KptinAgle.oCmoen, ntohlelyfu, and flagship of Rear-Admiral
in-Chief in the Pacific, took place at Portsmouth
yesterday, and was attended with the most satisfac-
tory results to all concerned—to the Admiralty as
the designers and contractors of her hull, to Messrs.
Maudslay and Co. as the builders of her engines,and
to Admiral Kingcome and the officers who have the
honour of serving under his command on board a
vessel which is universally acknowledged by naval
men to be the most perfect existing specimen of a
converted frigate, and one possessing lines of beauty
in the contour of her general outline of hull such as
cannot be claimed for our late iron innovations of
the Warrior or Defence class by their warmest par-
tisans. The ship was under way at Spithead by 8.30
a.m., by which time Capt. Henry Broadhead, com-
manding H.M.S. Asia, and the steam reserve at
Portsmouth, who had the general management of
the trial, accompanied by his staff—Mr. George
Murdoch, Inspectory of Machinery Afloat, and Mr.
Ward, Assist.-Engineer of her Majesty's Dockyard,
had arrived on board. The ship first steamed as far
as St. Helen's Roads, when her course was altered
for the measured mile in Stokes Bay, on reaching
which the required rune were made at full and half
boiler power, and circles made in the ordinary man-
ner, under full steam, as follows, the screw in use
,being a Griffiths with a diameter of 17ft. 6in. and a
pitch of 20ft. At full boiler power :
No. of Time. Speed of Revolutions of
Run. m. s. Ship. Engines.
1 4 45 12.631 68
2 5 32 10.843 69
3 4 32 13.235 71
4 5 55 10.140 70
5 4 26 13.533 70
6 6 13 9.651 70

The ship's mean speed in the six runs was
11.806 knots. Two runs followed at half-boiler
power, the first giving the ship a speed of 10.876
knots with the tide, and the second, against the
tide, and in the face of nearly half a gale, slightly
on the starboard bow, of 6.101 knots; the mean of
the two being a speed of 8.488 knots. Getting the
steam up again to its full pressure, the ship was next
tested in making complete circles to port and star-
board, and in moving the engines to signal from the
deck bridge. The helm was first put to starboard,
with 27i turns of the wheel, bringing the rudder
to an angle of 19 deg. when the half circle was
made in 3 min. 60 sec., and the full circle in 7 min.
42 sec. With the helm to starboard, and 21 turns of
the wheel, bringing the rudder to an angle of 221
deg., the half circle was made in 3 min. 42 sec.,
and the full circle in 7 min. 1 sec. Eleven men
were stationed at the wheel. The Sutlej in this
experiment, like other of our men-of-war, illustrates
in the most forcible manner the defective mechanical
arrangement of the present system of fixing the
ship's sternpost, the screw, and the rudder all in a
line with each other, and thus acting in direct oppo-
position in lieu of in unison when the vessel's course
requires any deviation of import from a straight line.
The evils attending this system, and the immense
advantages which would be derived by adopting
the double screw system in our ships of war, was
most strikingly and convincingly shown in the re-
cent trial of the Flora, double screw ship, on the
Thames, in the presence of Mr. J. Dinnen, the Ad-
miralty Inspector of Machinery Afloat, Commanders
Symonds and Selwyn, R.N., and many other offi-
cials. At the conclusion of the circle trials the ma-
chinery of the ship was tested in its movement in
answer to the signal given from the ordinary rod
and bevilled wheel telegraph of the upper deck
bridge. From the time of moving the telegraph
handle on the bridge the engines were brought to a
state of rest from full speed in 19 sec. They were
nest turned agtern nud full zpaod attaincd in 0 ecc.;
II and from full speed astern to full speed ahead only
24 sec. elapsed. The working of the engines and
boilers was all that could be desired on every point.
They were in charge, during the trial, of Mr. War-
rener, the representative of the makers. These
last experiments concluded the day's proceedings,
when the ship again let go her anchor at Spithead.
She expects to sail for Plymouth saund and the
Pacific this afternoon or early to-morrow morning
according to advices to be received from the Admi-
ral. The weather was not the most desirable for
developing the best steaming powers of the ship,
as the wind, which was at a force of from 3 to 4
from south at the commencement of the runs at the
mile, gradually increased until, as the full-powered
trials drew to a close, it blew nearly half a gale
with the wind slightly backing to the eastward
This, of course, had a very prejudicial effect upon
the ship's speed, and especially in the two runs at
half-boiler power. Although the Sutlej really re-
quires no excuse, attaining such a rate of speed as
she did, yet another exists of which mention must
be made. As a " converted " frigate she necessarily
swims deep in the water for her tonnage--3,066,
but in addition to her own crew, stores, and arma-
ment, she has on board a large number of super-
numeraries, a quantity of surplus stores, and an
Armstrong 110-pounder with 18 tons of ammunition
for her Majesty's ship Tartar. The Sutlej carries
as her armament, on her upper deck, eight 40-
pounder Armstrongs, one 110-pounder Armstrong
as a pivot forecastle gun, a 20 and a 12-pounder
Armstrong fieldpiece, and the usual number of boat
guns, On the maindeck she mounts 24 68-pounders
of 65cwt. each, and four 110-pounder Armstrongs,
the latter having a central position in the battery
One of the most important parts of the ship's equip.
ments is her distillery apparatus, on Dr. Normanby's
patented system, and which yesterday supplied di-
rect from its supply-pipe, from the commencement
to the conclusion of the trial, water distilled from the
salt water which was cool, agreeable, and pure. The
Sutlej was originally laid down from drawings fur-
nished from the office of the late Sir W. Symonds,
when Surveyor of the Navy, but Sir Baldwin W.
Walker succeeding to the survivorship before any
great progress had been made in laying the ship
down, an alteration was made in her floor tim-
bers, giving her a lower midship floor than
she would have had if built according to the
original design, and such as is now possessed by,the
Octavia and several other frigates also designed by
Sir William. On the Admiralty determining to
convert her to a screw frigate she was cut in two
parts at Portsmouth dockyard, lengthened amid-
ships, a new stern suitable for screw propulsion
given to her, and her old round bow superseded by
one of greater length and more clipper-like in form.
The result of these numerous alterations has in this
instance turned out so far satisfactory that the ship
is now undoubtedly the handsomest frigate in the
British navy.

The screw steam gunboat Jackdaw was put out
of No. 5 dock, at Devonport, yesterday afternoon,
and will to-day be placed Keyham basin.
The paddlewheel steamvcssel, Medusa, from
Sheerness, arrived yesterday at Plymonth, having
in tow the Conquestador, which is to be used at
that port for a powder ship.
On Thursday last, when Sir Thos. Pasley quitted
the Devonport dockyard, where he has for the last
five years been doing duty as superintendent, about
2,000 of the artisans assembled spontaneously, and
formed themselves into two columns,through which
their late chief and his family passed amid the
grateful cheers of the men, who paid him this com-
pliment in consequence of his considerate behaviour,
and uniform kindness towards them during the
whole term of his office.
About 160 artisans and labourers have just been
entered at the Devonport dockyard for the purpose
of bringing forward ships of the first division and
of the port division for the pendant.
The screw steam gunvessel Lily, 4, from Sheer-
ness for the West Indies,arrived in Plymouth Sound
ou Thursday evening.

The Amphion, 36, screw, Capt. A C. Gordon,
arrived at Spithead during the night of Thursday
faom the Mediterranean. She left Malta, Nonni.