The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-10 00:00:00

THE SUB, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIAG, AUGUST 10, 1865

reference to it in their recently published report but during the trials on Tuesday evening the gun,
"At some future day the population of the province will with the carriage, the whole weighing 17 tons, was
be large, that of Canada being at present not equal to that placed athwart ship position in the short space of 20
of the State of New York. When the Confederation is seconds, the additional time gained being due to the
established, the total number will be large enough to make , •
employment of a crank handle, which was omitted
it respectable among the nations, and the Lakes must, from
the nature of things, by their position and capacity, be the on the occasion of the former trials. The result of
seat of a great internal commerce. It is clearly the interest, the trials already undertaken since the machinery
if it is not the destiny, of the people who are to inhabit has been fitted in the Bellerophon, proves most satis-
their northern and southern, their eastern and western factorily that each of the 12-ton guns with which it
shores, to be on the best terms with each other. The idea is intended to arm that frigate can be trained by four
of those peaceful waters ever again becoming the scene of
men with astonishing quickness, while the gun is held
naval combats should not be entertained, and the surest
way to prevent its realization, and to save the millions other-
firmly in any position, notwithstanding that the ship
wise necessary for their defence, is to encourage reciprocity may be rolling in a beam sea or lying safely secured
in trade, with the largest practicable range and scope corn- at anchor. What is of far greater importance, per-
patible with the actual necessities of Government. We cer-
haps, in the employment of the new machinery in
tainly may point to the advantages of free trade among our-
working ordnance of this description is that the
selves. It is ascertained that commodities are annually ex-
training of the gun can take place during the time it
changed between the East and the West, chiefly by the re-
strieted transportation force of railways to the extent of hun-
is being loaded and run in or out, for the men en-
dreds of millions of dollars. Duties on these articles, levied gaged in working the gun may occupy the slide and
by each State on their transit, wouldrenderthis interchange be carried round with it without materially checking
almost impracticable. Considering the propinquity of the
its movement ; i hile, what is also of considerable im-
British provinces, it is evident that their nearness might do portance, the gun may be kept on an object with the
as much for them, under certain contingencies, as the
United States have done for each other. The nearer they greatest precision, the slightest movement of the
approach
training handles acting upon the gun, which can be
to
will be for them." trained "muzzle right" or "muzzle left," and reversed

It may, perhaps, be found hereafter, though the
New York Chamber of Commerce has not yet de-
voted sufficient attention or turned an unbiassed
judgment to the subject, that free trade, not alone
with British America, but with Europe, is the true
solution for the financial difficulties of this conti-
nent, and that it may be better for the States to
lower their tariff to the standard to be adopted by
the Confederation than to keep it at the high level
imposed in the interest of the moribund doctrine of
Protection. At all events, it is clear that commer-
cial impediments between the United States and the
Confederation must be mutually injurious. And in
this- connexion the committee of the New York
Chamber of Commerce throw out a suggestion well
worthy the attention not only of Americans and
Canadians, but of the British Government and
people. They say :

as often as necessary with absolute promptness. As
already pointed out, by doing away with the train-
ing-wheel on the gun deck and using that only on the
lower deck, the whole of the guns may be trained
without having a single man in the battery for the
purpose and without any machinery whatever being
visible there. So satisfactory has been the workingof
the machinery already fixed in the Bellerophon that
there is no doubt as soon as their lordships have
made an official trial of the invention it will at once
be fitted to the whole of the large guns which it is
intended that frigate shall carry.
Lieut. Denny, of her Majesty's ship Hector, was
tried by court-martial last Monday, on board her
Majesty's ship Defence, now lying in Portland
Roads. He was charged by his commanding officer,
Capt. Preedy, with going ashore on the 29th July,
in plain clothes, contrary to orders, and also with

"lt may be intimated in an entirely kindly spirit, that
if the Conferation about to be established to the north of
us could obtain from the Imperial Government a guarantee
that it might preserve a strict neutrality on the breaking
out of all future foreign wars in which it has no interest,
it might count on perpetual peace and tranquillity and unin-

being drunk the same day in Kingston-park, near
Dorchester. The Court consisted of Capt. A.
Phillimore, of her Majesty's ship Defence, presi-
dent; Capt. G. 0. Willes, C. 8., her Majesty's ship
Prince Consort ; Capt. E. M. Vansittart, her Ma-

terrupted commercial relations with the United States."
If this arrangement could be effected in good
faith between these three high contracting parties
Great Britain would no longer possess a vulnerable
point on the North American continent ; the
United States would on all occasions possess a
friendly and not a hostile power in the north, and
would, consequently, have no temptation beyond the
mere lust of dominion, to attempt an annexation in
form which would already exist in spirit for every
purpose for which the Americans could expect to
derive commercial or any other advantages; and the
Confederation would be at once relieved from two
of the most burdensome and unpopular conditions
attached to the union of the provinces—the cost of
the proposed fortifications, and the hardship as well
as cost of a largely increased militia. There may
be difficulties in the way, but if the Government of
the United States, under such counsels as these,
show a disposition to aid in their removal, they need
not be formidable. That which is destined for long
and noble life does not spring from the gestation of
a day, and if British America be destined, as appears
probable, to take a place among the Powers of the
world, it is unreasonable to expect that its birth
should be attended with no difficulty. It must be
said, however, that such Canadians as have reflected
upon the proposition are not wholly satisfied that
if acceded to by all parties the agreement would be
honestly observed by the Federal Government, or
that in case of dispute provoked by the United
States, as such disputes generally are where Great
Britain is concerned, Canada or any other portion
of. the Confederaticin would be secure from attack
unless France were a party to the compact. Party
necessities in America are often such as to render
the idea of a war with England extremely popular.

jesty's ship Achilles ; Capt. Dent, and Commander
Symes. Mr. R. N. Howard, of Weymouth, assisted
the prisoner in his defence. Evidence was adduced
showing that Capt. Preedy six or seven months ago
issued a general order that no officer was to go
ashore unless in uniform, without special permission
being given him. Capt. llornby, of her Majesty's
ship Edgar, and Capt. Lord Kerr, of her Majesty's
ship Black Prince, then stated that they were at a
cricket match, played in Kingston-park on the 29th
of July, and saw the prisoner in plain clothes and
drunk. Neither of them spoke to him. Lieut. Scott
judged from the way the prisoner rode between
Dorchester and Kingston-park that he was drunk.
Capt. Preedy stated that he refused prisoner per-
mission to go ashore in plain clothes on the day in
question. The Court then adjourned for two hours
to enable prisoner to prepare his defence. On the
Court resuming Lieut. Denny said, being refused
permission to go ashore in plain clothes, July 29,
by Capt. Preedy, he went ashore in uniform. Seve-
ral hours after, being about to ride 14 or 15 miles into
the country, he took off his uniform and put on
plain clothes; he did so because riding on horseback
in naval uniform would have made him appear ridi-
culous in the eyes of the public. He flatly denied the
charge of drunkenness. On his way from Dorchester
to Kingston-park he was told that if he crossed a
certain place it would lead him direct to the park.
In jumping his horse across the spot indicated he
was thrown, and fell heavily on his head and shoul-
der. He, however, got upon the horse and rode to
the cricket-field. Ile there told Lieut. Campbell
what had occurred, and that officer assisted him to
take off one sleeve of his coat and to bind a hand-
kerchief round his shoulder. The pain brought on
faintness, and he lay clown on the grass. While he

They never have been, nor are ever likely to be,
such as to blind the eyes of American statesmen or
of the American people to the flagrant impolicy, not
to say the imminent danger, of a war with France
and Great Britain united.

was in that position Capt. Lord Kerr and Capt.
llornby passed him, but did not speak. Soon after
Lieut. Campbell cameto him and told him that those
two officers had ordered him to get him (Lieut.
Denny) off the ground. Ile immediately rode off to

Dorchester. Ilis conduct was caused entirely by the
(
fall, and not by drinking. Several witnesses Were
called who had spoken to prisoner on his way be-
tween Weymouth and Kingston-park, and at the
, latter place, and they all concurred in saying pri-
soner was tot the worse for liquor. It appeared,
however, that during-the day prisoner had had three
glasses of wine and three glasses of beer. Messrs.
Hoggins and Johnson, naval surgeons, agreed in
saying that a severe fall from a horse was calculated
to produce nausea and faintness. The latter gentle-
man, hearing of accident, visited prisoner. He was
in bed, and did not present the appearance of a man
who had been drunk. The Court then adjourned for
a short time. Onresuming, the President announced
that the Court considered the charges fully proved.
They found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him
to be dismissed from the service.
Lieut. Denny was highly esteemed by his brother
officers and the men under him. About three weeks
ago, on a voyage between Portland and Weymouth
by the steamer, a man fell overboard, when Lieut.
Denny, who was on board, jumped in after him, and
held him up till a boat was got out, and both were
picked up.
The Chatham yacht left Chatham harbour yester-
day for Cherbourg, to be in attendance on the officials
on the occasion of their visit to the French squadron
at that port.
The Urgent, troop steamship, Capt. S. Henderson,
will make a trial of her machinery to-day, and after-
wards prepare for her trip to Cherbourg.
The Octavia, screw, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, Con-
stance, screw, Capt. E. R. Barnard, and Liverpool,
screw, Capt. R. Lambert, are still at Spithead ; they
are expected to leave to-day to join the Channel
squadron.
The Racoon steam frigate, Capt. Count Gleichen,
will leave Cowes to-day for the Mediterranean.
The United States' frigate Niagara, from France,
passed down Channel on Tuesday afternoon, bound
to New York.
Her Majesty's screw gunvessel Wanderer, 4, 200
horse power, Commander M. C. Seymour, has trans-
ferred her guns and other War Department stores to
the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, preparatory to being
dismantled and put out of commission. She will be
paid off on the 16th inst. into the Chatham steam
reserve.
The chartered screw steamer Hydaspes, which has
been taken up for the conveyance of reinforcements
of cavalry, Royal Artillery, and Royal Engineer
troops to India, was inspected yesterday by Major
Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., and Deputy-
Inspector Gen. J. A. Fraser, M.D., principal me-
dical officer at Chatham. The troops will embark
from Government-quay, Gravesend, to-day, under
the superintendence of the garrison staff from
Chatham.
Capt. Black is to relieve Capt. Brockman at the
depot, 2d battalion 6th Regiment, at Colchester.
Lieut. Webb of the 41st has relieved Lieut. Richard-
son, in command of a company at Landguard Fort,
Harwich. The Rev. F. Cannon, Presbyterian
Chaplain to the Forces, is ordered to proceed from
Chatham to Colchester, to relieve the Rev. A. Hen-
derson, who will proceed to Dublin. ,
The ship Sultana, Capt. Thomas Williams, one of
the Black Ball line, from Calcutta, with the right
wing of the 81st 'regiment, 392 men, 14 women, and
25 children, has arrived in the Channel ; all well.
The annual garrison sports at Woolwich took place
yesterday, at theßoyal Artillery barrack field, under
the patronage of Major-General WTarde, comman-
dant. They commenced at 11 o'clock a.m., and
continued, with short intervals of rest for refresh-
ment, until half-past 8. The sports were exceed-
ini ctlh i , e attended
course
f they ingly interesting, and were honoured with the pre-
sence of Prince Arthur, who rode down from Green-
wicnh, governor,. s
r, MearjgoeraEnt Tlph.inisltroanrde:
of the Coast Brigade Royal
• Artillery, who was the
winner of the first five •
prizes, and also of the prize
for the greatast number of first • prizes, obtained a
silver watch and chain of the value of
£B. An
impromptu race for civilian volunteers was got up
during the afternoon at the request of his Royal
Highness, who presented the winner with a sove-
reign as his contribution to the sports. After the
distribution of the rewards, which were delivered by ,

Major-Gen. Warde to the successful competitors,
the general announced that Prince Arthur had
placed in his hands the sum of ilg for the encou-
ragement of the sports intended to take place next
summer.

The Scotch Pig Iron Trade.

(Front the Mining Journal of Aug. 5.)
SCOTCH PIG IRON, FROM AN ENGLISH POINT OF
VIEW.—An elaborate report, which has just been
issued by Messrs. Lockhart and Co., the well-
known metal brokers, in Liverpool, shows the
wonderful progress of the Scotch iron trade in the
last quarter of a century. It exhibits a reduction
"of 56,000 tons in the stock of pig iron in Scotland
in the last six months, that the present stock bears
about the same proportion to the wants of the trade
as the stock in 1852 bore to the wants of
that period—about 71 months' consumption,
and the price in that year rose more than
100 per cent., and the average price for five
years, 1853-57, was 70s. 6d. a ton." It also shows,
that, whilst the " demand from America can hardly
be worse than during the first half of this year, other
important outlets are opening up to the iron trade
of this country ;" and " the only reserve stock any-
where of consequence to draw from is Scotch pig-
iron." It reveals the remarkable fact that the
largest deliveries of pig-iron on record were in 1864,
when the highest price was 675. 3d., and the
average 575. 3d. per ton, with the value of money
averaging 7i per cent. Notwithstanding the stop-
page for some time of the consumption of
pig-iron by the late strike among the puddlers
in England and Scotland, and the forslacking of
exports to the United States, the stocks of pig-iron
have already this year decreased in the North of
England 11,000 tons, and in Scotland upwards of
60,000 tons. According to official returns, the total
shipments last week were 17,179 tons, against
13,138 tons in the same period of last year, thus
showing an increase of 4,041 tons. Such is the
enlarging demand for iron, both at home and
abroad, that it is now fairly in excess of the supply ;
and we are again enabled to congratulate the coun-
try upon the beginning of another period of pros-
perity in this important trade.