The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-17 00:00:00

No, 19,1571

This day, 3d edition, post Bvo., ss.
ESSAYS ON AGRICULTURE.
By the late THOMAS GISBORNE, Esq.,
oh Yoaall Lodge, Staffordshire.
CONTENTS :
Cattle and Sheep 111. Ancient Agricultural Literature.
11. Agricultural Drainage. I IV. High Farming.
John Murray, Albemarle-Street.

Just published, price 25., by po=t 2s. Gd ,
DEBILITY and IRRITABILITY induced by
SPERMATORRIICEA ; the Symptoms, Effects, and Rational
Treatment. By T. H. YEOMAN, St I)., Physician to the General
Post-office Letter- 'arriers' Provident Institution,&c.
London : Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange ; and, by Post
only,'lrom the Author, 25, Lloyd-square.

In a few days, tx o vols., post Bvo., 215.,
TURPLE TINTS OF PARIS : CHARACTER
and MANNERS in the NE W E ‘I.PIR E.
By BAYLE ST. JOHN,
Author of "Two Years' Residence in a Levantine Family," &c.
London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

In a few days, post Svcs.. cloth, lOs 6d.,
AVISIT TO PORTUGAL AND MADEIRA.
By the LADY E 11MELENE STUART WORTLEY.
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccaddly.

Now ready, price 6d.,
AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE on the
MUSEUM of ORNAMENTAL ART of the DEPART-
MRNT of SCIENCE and ART.

By J. C. ROBINSON, F.S.A., &c.
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

This day, to be had at all the Libraries,
AGNES VALMAR. A Novel.
Three Volumes, Post Bvo.
Lon ion : Chapman and Hail, 193, Piccadilly.

ESIDENCE TO LET, at HILLINGDON,
within one mile of the West Drayton Station.—A commo-
dious HOUSE, co,i sisting of three sitting-rooms and six bed-rooms,
with stable, garden, shrubb, ry, &c., called COLHANI HOUSE.
Land adjoining may be had at Michaelmas next, if required. This
resident., which is situated upon the road from West Drayton to
Hayes, was for some years occupied by the late Sir C:aorge Cockburn.
tpply to Thomas Brown, upon the premises; John e'rancis, Esq.,
solicitor, I, New Boswell court, London; or Benjamin Jones, Esq.,
solicitor, Llanelly, South Wales.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON—II.R.H. PRINCE ALBER
MAGNIFIED PLAIN and COLOURED PLIGTO(.4RAPITIC PIC-
TURES, each icture fllliug a Disc, of One Thousand superficial
Feet. An ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of DIS,OLVING VIEWS.
LECTURE by J. H. PEPPER, Esq., on the CHEMISTRY of thßi •
iiI,I'FACTURE of PAPER, and its DECORATION with
COLOURS, including WOOLNOUGH'S MARBLING PROCESS
and Mr. DE LA RUE'S IRIDESCENT FILMS.
LECTURE by Dr. BACIIOFFNER on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT
UNLVERsAL ELECTRIC TELEG,sAPLI.
DESORIPTION of RUST'S PATENT TUBULAR PIANOFORTE,
daily at a quarter past three.
Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Schools and
Childr _n under Ten years of age, Half-price.

R. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC,
1 Including the BERNESE OBERLAND and the SIMPLON,
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, (except Saturday), and
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings, at Two Stalls, 35.,
which can be taken a, the box offic. eve,y day
is.; gallery, 15.—Mont Blanc, Egyptian Hall, Piccadfrom 11 to 4 ; area,
illy.

EGYPTIAN HALL.—CONSTANTINOPLE
2s open TO-NIGHT at Eight, and Every Day at Half-past Two
o'clock. The Lecture is delivered by Mr. CHAR _ES KENNEY, and
has been written by Mr. ALBER I' SMITH and Mr. SHIRLEY
BROOKS. Admission, is. : Reserved Seats, 2s.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms,
(Lessee, CUAs. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Funiam-road),
—The above Rooms arc now OPEN FOR THE SEASON.
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
CELEBRATED HAND. Admission, ls. Doors open at half-past 8
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter ninate at half-past 11.

Admission,is.—
PROMENADEROYSI,RvE
r COTS.
NTCHEERA
Adelaide-street, West ,trand—Every EVEN [N,4, at Eight, by the
renowned B ‘ND, whose performances have created
such intense interest throughout the leading European cities The
programme is varied nightly, and includes the finest compositions of
ancient and modern.mssters, as well as Hungarian and other na-
tional Melodies, Mazurkas, Waltzes, Galoos, and Quadrilles. Ka-
lozdy, conductor. Soloists—Flugelhorn, Horanyi; cdarioneite, M.
Augarde; piano, Miss J. Warman. V ,calists The Misses
Brougham. Morning Performance, Wednesday and Saturday, at
Three.

-

11%
1%
3
5

1
Battu

Torect • rains trom the Boats mat ked t
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station
every quarter of an hour.
BRUNSWICK ‘N HARF, BLACKWALL, on
lowing Trains from the renchurch-st

tVEEF i )ATR

Fen-
church
Street

Fen-
church
Street.

1:i 1 i
1

91A
11l
2,4
3

LaC,,/,6,4 //
.. ...sloop to Arctic regions, with provisions sad
stores for Sir Edward Belcher 's expedition.
Mr. Edye, Assistant-Surveyor of the Navy, visited
Deptford dockyard on official affairs to-day.
The whole of the blocks have been laid on the slip
from which the Hannibal, 91, was launched on the 31st
ult., as it is intended to build on them a new 51-gun
screw steam-frigate of the same•class as the Imi:4l-lenge, •
and the new frigate to be named the " Forte."
The Widgeon steam-vessel was sent up yesterday from
Woolwich to Deptford, and has been turned over to
Captain Superintendent B. Martin, C. 8., to be em-
ployed as a tug for lighters when they are required to
convey stores from the victualling-yard to the fleet at
Sheerness.
The Hornet screw steam-vessel, of about 1,000 tons
burden, and of the same class as the Cruiser, 16, screw
steam-sloop will be launched at Deptford Dockyard
about the end of March.
The Medina steam-vessel is undergoing a thorough
repair, and will soon be ready for further service.

[PRICE 51).

steamer Manilla (under orders for Government service)
went out on a trial trip yesterday. This vessel is of
638 tons burden, was built by Mare and Co., of Black-
wall, and has been fitted with engines of 60-horse power
by Messrs. Summers, Day, and Baldock, of Northam-
works, near Southampton. Some interest was attached
to this trial from the fact that the Manilla is supplied
with a boomerang propeller, and, although there was no
opportunity of comparing its merits with those of the
common screw, yet the result obtained was a most fa-
vourable one. From the fact of the opening in the
stern of the vessel being much larger than usual, Mr.
Lamb, the engineer of the company, was enabled
to give the boomerang a greater proportionate length
than any propeller of that kind previously tried ;
thus affording it a better chance of success. Sir Tho-
mas Mitchell loudly complained recently of the want of
this development of his principle in the trial of his screw
in the Fairy. Two runs at the measured mile in Stokes
Bay, produced an average speed of 9.365 knots, equal
to 114 statute miles an hour. The screw has a diameter
of 11 feet, with a pitch of 9 feet 2 inches. The speed
was considered most surprising, considering the exceed-
ingly small power of the engines, in proportion to the
tonnage—say 60 to 635 or 1 in 101. The engines
worked remarkably well ; they are on the geared trunk
principle—heavy cylinders of 30 inches diameter, and a
27-inch stroke, with Lamb and Summers' patent flue
boilers. With 61 revolutions of the engines the pro-
peller made 113 revolutions, the ship having on board
at the time 112 tons of coals and 200 tons of ballast.

PORTSMOUTH, Fzs, 16.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

As the week advance; we get busier here with the
work of preparations for war. Every hand is em-
ployed, and every department apparently more vigor-
ously employed than yesterday contributing its quota of
labour. Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, commanding the
Royal Engin eery in this garrison, has been round in-
specting the iortifications on both show, to see if any
improvement could be effected in the works before
completion. An extra battalion of Engineers is to be
raised, which will of course increase the number of Sap-
pers and Miners, and add greatly to the operative strength
of the military contingent. This arm of the service is
raising a parapet on the walls of the casemated barrack at
Blockhouse, for musketry to fire over and through, and
are otherwise making additions and strengthening the
old fort. It was expected and announced that the first
instalment of troops would have embarked at this port
and Southampton on Saturday, but an order has been
received by the Commander-in-Chief of the south-western
district (Major-General Simpson) deferring those embar-
kations (the Guards) until the 22d and 24th respectively.
On the former date two battalions of Guards are ordered
to be embarked at Southampton, and on the latter one
battalion, in her Majesty's ship Simoom, at this port.
The regiments in garrison are picking up recruits very
numerously, and the trains and Coa st-guard vessels are
bringing in loads of volunteers and seamen daily.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-FEB. 16.

- -
KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Order for Second Reading read ; motion made, and ques-
tion proposed, " That the bill be now read. a second
time.' Amendment proposed, to leave out the word
" now," and at the end of the question to add the words
"upon this day six months." Question put, "That the
word ' now' stand part of the question." The house
divided ; ayes 84, noes 116.

AYES-84.
A'Court, C. Freshfleld, J. Patten, J.
Anderson, Sir J. Fuller A. Peßatt, A.
Batllie, H. Goderich, Viscount. Pilkington, J.
Beam ish, F. Goodman. Sir G. Pollard-Urquhart, W.
Bell, J. Gregson, S. Rice, E.
Biggs, W. Hadfield, G. Roche, B.
Blackett, J. F. B. Hall, Sir B. Roebuck, J.
Bland, L. H. Hustle, Alex. Russell, Lord J.
Bright, J. Heactlem, T. Scobell, Capt. G.
Brotherton, J. Heyworth, L. Sc ay, F •
Brown, W. Home, J. Seymour, W
Castlerosse, Viscount Ingham, R. Shelley, Sir 3.
Challis T. Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B.
Collier, R. P. King, P. Sotheron, T.
Craufurd, E. H. J. Kinnaird, A. Stanley, W.
Crook, J. Labouchere,Rt.Hon.H Strut, E.
Crossley. F, Langton, H. G. Tancred. H.
Cnbitt, W. Laslett, W. Thornely, T.
Currie, Raikes Layard, A. H. Walter, J.
Denison, J. E. Lee, W. Warner, E.
Divett, E. Locke. J. Whatman, J.
Duke, Sir J. Lucas, F. Whitbread, 8.
Duncan, G. Mackie, J. Wilkinson. W.
Dunoombei T. Iwo. a:• --- Winona, B.
Dunlop, A. Milligan, Tr.,
Elcho, Lord Wines, R.
Ellice, E. Mon crieff, J.
Ellice, E., jun. Morris, D.
Evelyn, W. Mostyn, E.
Feilden, M. Oliveira, B.

TELLIRS.

ouverle, Hon. E. P.
Alcock, T.

-
NOES-116.
Adderley, C. Halsey, T. P. Packe, C
Arcbdall, M. Hamilton, Lord C. Paget, Lord A.
Arkwright, G. Hastie, Archd. Paget, Lord G.
Bailey, Sir J. Hawkins, W. Pakenham, Capt. E.
Ball, E. Hayter, W. Pakington, Sir J.
Barrow, W. Heneage, Geo. H. Parker, E.
Bedtinck, G. Herbert, P. Pennant, Col. E.
Blair, Col. J. H. Hilyard, R. C. Philippe, J.
Boldero, Col. 11. G. Hogg, Sir J. W. Phililmore, R. J.
Booth, Sir Rt. Gore Hume, W. Pugh, D.
Bruce, Lord E. Irton, S. Robertson, P.
Brace, C. L. C. Jones, Capt. T. Sawle, C.
Buck, L. W. Kelly, Sir F. Sealtam, Viscount
Buller, Sir J. Kendall, N. Seymer, H.
Burghley, Lord. Kingscote, Capt. R. Smijth, Sir W.
Burke, Sir T. Knatchbull, W. Smith, M.
Chambers, T. Knox, Col. B. W. Smyth, J. G.
Child, Smith Knox, W. S. Stanley, Lord
Cobbett, J. M. Lacon, Sir E. Sullivan. Michas
Cobbold, J. C. Lascelles, E. Thornhill, W.
Coles, H. B. Lennox, Lord A. Tyler, sir G.
Davies, D. A. S. Liddell, H. G. Vance, J.
Davison, R. Liddell, H. T. Vernon, G.
Deeles, W. Lindsay, Col. J. Villiers, F.
Disraeli, Rt. Hon. B. Lockhart, W. Vivian, H. H.
Dundas, G. Lowther, Col. H. C. Waddington, H.
Dunne, Col. Lowther, Capt. H. Walcott, Ad mire
Egerton E. MacMahon, P. Wells, W,
Fagan, W. Manners, Lord J. Whitmore, H.
Fitzgerald, W. Majoribanks, D. Wickham, H. W.
Fitzroy, Hon. C. Mlles, W. Wigram, Loftus T.
Forster, Sir G. Milner, W. Woodd, B.
French, F. Michell, W. Wyndham, Gen.
George, J. Morgan, 0. Wyndham, H.
Gilpin, Col. H. Mowbray, J.
Goddard, A. Mulgrave, Earl of
Grace, 0. Mundy, W.
Grenfell, Chas. Napier, J.
Grogan, Edward Newdegate, C.
Hale, R, North, Lt.-Col. J.
Hall, Col. J. Oakes, J.

TELLIIS

Thesiger, Sir F.
Jolliffe, Sir W.

iTNIVEBSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, FRB. 16.
In a Congregation holden this morning the following
degrees were conferred, viz.:—

MISTER OF ARTS.

Rev. William Sykes, Oriel College.
Arthur Pepys Whately, student, Christ Church.
David Edwards, student, Christ Church.
Alfred Bailey, student, Christ Church.
Rev. Francis R. Hepburn, Christ Church.
Edward Templer Harrington, Worcester College.
Rev. Charles Robinson, St. Alban Hall.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.
John Lomax Gibbs, Grand Compounder, Exeter Co lege.
Richard Goodhall mith. Exeter College.
In the same Congregation several alterations in the
clauses relative to Cumulation, Tit. x., sec, 11, 4, p. 121,
Corp. Stat., will be submitted to Convocation on Tuesday
next.

CAUTION AGAINST BORROWING MONEY.—The Vice-
Chancellor, Heads of Houses, and Proctors, haveissued the
following caution to junior members of the University
against the pernicious system of having dealings with
money lenders :—" Whereas there is reason to believe that
inducements have been recently held out to some of the
I junior members of the University to have dealings with
money lenders, whereby they maynot only be subjected to
great loss, through usurious and fraudulent conditions, but
incur heavy academical penalties : Now these are to cau-
tion all bachelor and undergraduate members of the Uni-
versity against having any dealings with money-lenders or
their agents, under any pretence whatsoever, as they will
answer for the same at their peril."

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WERE.

( From the Registrar• General's Report.)

The weekly report of the Registrar-General shows
that the total number of deaths registered in London
in the week that ended on Saturday, was 1,178. It
exhibits a decrease on that of the preceding week,
and is exactly the same as the number returned
in the last week of January. The mortality in
the last four weeks has varied little, and the mean
weekly temperature of the same times (about 42 de gs.)
has been singularly uniform. In the ten corresponding
weeks of the years 1844-53, the average number was
1,093, which, corrected for increase of population, be-
comes 1,202. Last week's return is less than the esti-
mated amount by only 24. The zymotic or epidemic
class numbers 262 deaths, while the corrected average
does not exceed 235. The excess arises from hooping-
cough, which is now more than ordinarily fatal, and
carried off 88 children last week. In ten corres-
ponding weeks of 1844-53, the lowest number of deaths
from this complaint was 16, the greatest 64, the average
44. Last week there were 11 from croup. Bronchitis
was fatal in 113 cases, also more than the average, while
pneumonia (76) has fallen below it. The mortality from
diseases of the heart (60 deaths) increased in the week.
Last week the births of 925 boys and 872 girls, in all
1,797 children, were registered in London. In the nine
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-53 the average
number was 1,513. At the Royal Observatory Green-
wich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was
29.981 in. The highest mean was 30'129 in. on Friday ;
the lowest 29.807 in. on Sunday. The mean tempera-
ture of the week was 42.0 deg., which is 3.7 deg. above
the average of the same week in 38 years. On Monday
and Tuesday the mean and daily temperature was re-
spectively 13.0 deg. and 9.1 deg. above the averages of
the same days. On Friday and Saturday it fell below
the average. The highest temperature of the week was
57.0 deg, on Monday ; the lowest 32.2 on Saturday.
The mean dew-point temperature was 36.4 deg. The
wind blew from the south-west till Thursday afternoon.
The horizontal movement of the air on Monday was 315
I miles. The rain-fall of the week was 0.25 in.