The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-03 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the
week ending the 15th July amounted for local pas-
sengers to £6,561, for foreign passengers to £3,243,
for emigrants to £430, for mails, &c., to £829, for
local freight and live stock to £9,810, and for foreign
freight and live stock to £2,757—t0ta1, £23,630,
against £23,410 for the corresponding week lastyear,
showing an increase of £220. The total receipts
from the Ist January to the above date amounted
to £50,291, against £51,448 in the same period of
1864, showing a decrease of £1,154.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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Tier Majesty's paddlewheel vessel Vivid, Staff-
Commander Sulivan, tender to the flagship Fisgard,
at Woolwich, yesterday left the harbour for Ports-
mouth and Osborne, to embark the Royal Family and
Court on their return to Windsor early next week,
to take the place of the paddle yacht Alberta, Staff
Commander David N. Welch, tender to the Victoria
and Albert, ordered to Woolwich to receive her Ma-
jesty and suite for embarkation at that port to join
the royal yacht at Greenhithe on Tuesday, the Bth
inst., on her departure for Germany. The authori-
ties of Woolwich Arsenal have issued orders that the
public shall be admitted to witness the Queen's em-
barkation on the Bth inst. from the Royal Arsenal-
pier on Tuesday next, on being provided with tic-
kets to be granted for that purpose. The royal train
will arrive at the foot of the T pier in the Arsenal,
from Windsor, as at present arranged, at half-past
5 o'clock on Tuesday, when her Majesty will step
on board the Alberta, and embark at Greenhithe for
Antwerp.

On the occasion of the visit of the Board of Admi-
ralty to Chatham Dockyard a few days since, their
lordships had arranged to see various deputations
from the workmen in the yard, chiefly on the subject
of an increase of pay. Owing, however, to the
limited time at their disposal only three deputations
were received by the Board. It was then arranged
that each deputation should forward a memorial to
the Board setting forth any alleged grievance. The
whole of the memorials have accordingly been trans-
mitted to the Board. Already an order has been
received at the dockyard increasing the wages of the
workmen employed at the cement works.
The Cornwallis, 60, 200-horse power, which has
been lying idle in the Medway for a number of
years, has been removed into dock for the purpose
of having her machinery taken out and her upper
deck cut down, in order that she may be sunk at the
end of the dockyard pier.
The machinery just completed at Chatham Dock-
yard for working the 12-ton 300-pounder guns with
which the Bellerophon, 16, 1,000-horse power, will
be armed, constructed from the drawings and models
designed by Mr. E. J. Reed, was yesterday removed
from the factory engine-fitting shop to the Bellero-
phon, on board Which it is now beingineg madeput up
as-
certain
prepa-
ratory to some experimental trials b
whether the invention will work. Thefirstoi
the 300-pounder guns has already been received at
Chatham from the Royal gun factory, together with
the carriage and slide, the latter together weighing
five tons. The weight of each of the 300-pounder
guns and its fittings is therefore between 87 and 18
tons; and, as it would be impossible to manceuvre
and train such minister ordnance in the ordinary
manner—that is to say, with blocks, ropes, and
handspikes—Mr. Reed accomplishes this by some
ingeniously contrived mechanism, arranged be-
low the gun-deck. Four men, who are placed
behind the gun, can train it and the gun-carriage
in any direction by means of two wheels, which
exactly resemble the ordinary steering apparatus.
The work of fitting the machinery on board was
commenced yesterday under the superintendence of