The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.
Her Majesty is expected to-morrow, about half-past
12 to pass through this port en route to Osborne.
The Leopard, 12, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Captain
George Giffard, returned to Spithead this morning from
Malta with about 200 military invalids, including their
wives and children, in charge of Lieutenant Boyle, R.A.
They were landed at the dockyard this afternoon by the
Sprightly, port tender, Acting-Master Allen.
The Fairy and Elfin Royal yachts went out to Spit-
head and the Solent to-day to make a trial of their ma-
chinery, being ordered to embark the Queen and Court
tomorrow at Gosport for the Isle of Wight.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Parry has been appointed
by Lord Aberdeen Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich
Hospital.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2
Her Majesty's steam-transport Rhadamanthus sailed
on Thursday afternoon with artillery for Woolwich.
A sailing frigate went up Channel, inside the Eddy.
stone, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. She had a
white ensign at her peak end, and was under three top-
gallant sails, topsail, and courses, hating the wind from
west north-west.

A Dutch barque-rigged paddle-wheel steam-vessel of
war was off the port at 11 last night. She was 65 days
from Batavia, bound to Amsterdam, and on Tuesday, in
a gale from south-east, had her paddle floats knocked to
pieces and received other trifling damage.
HARBOUR.—lmpregnable, 104, flag of Admiral
Sir John A. Ommanney, K.C.8., Capt. A. Lowe ; St.
George, 120, ordinary depot ship, broad pendant of Com-
modore Michael Seymour, Captain John ICingcome ;
Edinburgh, 58 (screw,) gunnery ship, tender to the Ex-
cellent, Captain R. S. Hewlett ; Confiance, towing
steamer, Master W. Martin ; Sylph, 4, Port Admiral's
tender ; Avon, 3, tender to the Impregnable, Master
A. J. Veitch ; Nautilus, 6, apprentices' exercise brig,
Lieut. S. B. Dolling.
IN THE SOUND.—Hogue, 60 (screw), steam guard.
ship, Captain W. Ramsay ; Vulture, 6, Captain Fre-
derick-. H. H. Glasse ; Magicienne. 16, Captain Thomas
Fisher.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 25.
APPOINTMENT.
Master's-Assistant Henry G. Swainson, to the Juno,
26, at Chatham.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander
Petley, was taken out of the basin to-day, and has now
mumed her former station at the moorings in the
stream.

The Myrtle, steam •essel, has had her defects made
good in the steam basin here, and will leave to-morrow
for Sheerness, to resume her duties as a steam-tug at
that port.
Intelligence was received here by the last mail from
Constantinople, that the Sharkie Egyptian war steamer,
well known in the river Thames as the Pasha of Egypt's
yacht, had entered the Black Sea, to take possession of
a Russian ship-of-war which had run aground. It is
probable the telegraphic intelligence Published to-day
refers to the same information, contained in a private
letter, which'says :—" The Turks have taken a Russian
man-of-war in the Black Sea. The crew have arrived at
Constantinople. Particulars are wanting." The same
letter said the Sharkie was ordered to bring the crew of
the Russian ship-of-war to Constantinople.

AN IMPROVED ANCHOR FOR THE NAVY.—A Chatham.
correspondent sends the following :—" An order has
been received from the Admiralty that the anchor (one
of Porter's) that their lordships ordered to be altered,
when the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, with other
officers of the board, recently paid an official visit, to the
plan of Mr. Cotsell's, mater-smith at this yard, is to he
sent to Woolwich, to be tested, it being now complete.
It weighs 49 cwt. 2 qrs. Mr. George Cotsell is to
attend the testing ; there will also be present several
naval officers and gentlemen to witness the trial, power,
and strength of this anchor ; its principal dimensions are
nearly the same as the Admiralty anchor ; the shank
and arms are flattened, which gives more strength
in the line of the strain ; and the inner surfaces
of the palms are kept straight to the proper angle,
which will cause the anchor to nip the ground
readily, and to hold firmly when once inserted, which is
very essential ; and for the purpose of weighing or trip-
ping the external curvature of the arms of the anchor is
preserved. It is very simple and strong, and in case of
accident easily repaired ; it can be fished, cotted, &c.,
with facility ; it possesses all the properties of the ordi-
nary anchor, with the advantages of portability ; under
exces.ive strains it will be less liable to be broken at the
clutch than the ordinary anchor. Mr. Cotsell's anchor
has been highly spoken of by Captain Thomas L. Mas-
sie, who took one of his anchors out with him in her
Majesty's ship Cleopatra, in May, 1849."
Now, with all respect to Mr. Cotsell's improvement,
we submit that there is already an improved anchor
under the patent of Trotman's anchor, which was offi-
cially reported by the anchor committee as possessing
generally the best qualities of all the anchors tried, and
in justice to that gentleman we contend that any im-
provement suggested should have been carried out by
the patentee.—Berald.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF
SEWERS.

A special general court7-f the Metropolitan Commis-
sion of Sewers was held yesterday morning at the Ses-
sions-house, Newington
hearing summonses .
rate,n d to to
transact
causeway, for the purpose of
of nuisances,against defaulters on the Surrey and
Kent district
a receive reports and presentments
ansact such other matters of busi-
ness as might require immediate attention. The Com-
missioners present were Mr. Richard Jebb, the chair-
man ; and Mr. George Baker.
Mr, G. H. WoormeE, the secretary, read the state
of the cash account, from which it appeared that there
was an available balance in hand of 60,6761.
Mr. Bloyd, the sequestrator of the benefice of St.
Olave's, Southwark, appeared before the court to receive
judgment as to his liability to pay the sum of 51. arrears
of rate, and the sum of 101. new rate, chargeable upon
him in respect of sewerage rates for the Surrey and Kent.
diArict.
The CHAIRMAN, in giving judgment, stated that this
ease came before the court upon summons but it
involved the same question as that appealed against by
several other parties. His decision in this case would
also decide those of the Rev. G. Baker, the vicar of
Fulham ; the Rev. Dr. Jackson, the rector of Battersea;
the Rev. Dr. Sketchley, the vicar of St. Paul, Deptford,
and several other cases. In some of these cases theta
have been appeals in regular form, but this case appeared
before the court on the summons. He had, since this
matter was last before the court, inquired into the prac.
tice of the old commission, before the present Metropolitan
Commission of Sewers was established, and had also
looked into the law of the case. There were great dif-
ficulties in repeating that conclusion, but it was clear,
after the consideration the court had given to the case,
that the rates must be remitted on this occasion. Tim
present case presented some peculiar circumstances, but
he should come to the same conclusion. He found that
the Tithe Commutation
for
giving a stipend to
the benefice of St. Olave was managed under the provi..
sion of a local act of Parliament, the 57th George 111.
t
Atlhnctethrbaeectintsiogcr"foPturhn°edviigniniecnsouffimweasciueninntdael freor the support of the in-
cumbent, by a rate upon the parishioners, and that is
footing rated to the poor. The question to b
e was,ccl e :
whether it could be placed on the same fe d
siastical tithes, and he was of opinion
inter-
pretation was, that it did stand 0 that the fair
Upon looking over the old recordsn the same footing.
Kent Commission he found that no rates had ever been
of the Surrey and
at
paid, and he was of opinion that
within the provisions of the 76t
Metro-
politan Commission of Sewers Act. His judgment,
h section of the
therefore, was that Mr.
of the rate, Bloyd was entitled to the re-
missionproper officers that alld orders would be given to the
future. he should not be troubled for the

The matter thee dropped.
Several parties were summoned for the non-payment
of rates, nearly all of whom complained that they had
not proper sewers provided for their use, but the chair-
man told them that was no excuse, and ordered the rates
to be paid within a week.
Some routine business having been transacted, the
court adjourned.

THE LATE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE IN DUCLAND.—It
is stated that there are now no hopes of the recovery of
Mrs. Latham Blacker, one of the surviving sufferers from
the railway collision at Straffan. She is at present lying
at the Terminus Hotel in a very weak state of body and
mind. During the past week her sufferings have been
intense, and her medieal attendants are of opinion that
she cannot possibly 'survive for more than two or three
a Dublin
days at the furthest. Legal proceedings against the
railway company have been instituted by the nearest re-
further
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solicitor, and of Mr. Bateman, of Cork, both of whom
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has been sent to Russia. An opinion vas pre , however,
that the greater portion of the amount lately despatched
will before long return.