The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING) JANUARY 30, 1854.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

tents comprised everything that would be necessary after
a naval action, such as crutches, kneep caps, bandages,
apparatus and instruments for surgical operations, and
every requisite for gun-shot wounds, &c.
SUPPLY OF COALS FOR THE BRITISH FLEET IN THE
BLACK SEA.—The Admiralty have called for tenders for
the supply of 14,000 tons of coal, to be delivered at
Malta in a short time, for the supply of the fleet.

LYSTITUTIOA

OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.

MALTA JAN. 24.

At the last meeting of this society, held on the 24th
January, Mr. James Simpson, president, in the chair,
On the reading of the abstract of the proceedings of
the last meeting, regret was expressed that any remarks
on the experiments published in the blue books emanat-
ing from the Board of Health should have, apparently,
been considered to have a personal application ; nothing
could have been more opposed to the intentions of the
speakers, and they were convinced, that if the authors
of the blue hooks had consulted the engineer al'uded to,
the necessity for making the remarks would not have
existed. This view was confirmed by the published re-
sults of an experiment on a large scale, made under the
direction of an engineer of the board, so recently as
Dec. 16, 1853, at Alnwick. The line of earthenware
pipe was 770 yards long, 18 inches in diameter, and
lying at an inclination of 1 in 400, with a square culvert
20 inches by 26 inches leading from a flushing chamber,
and stop-gate, adjoining the weir from the river. In
the first experiment the sluice was only sufficiently ele-
vated to fill the pipe, when the results were--Velocity,
3.581 feet per second, or 2.441 miles per hour. Dis-
charge, 2,367.78 gallons per minute, or 3,409,603 gallons
per day of 24 hours. Depth at deliveiy end, 12 inches.
In the second experiment the sluice was entirely taken
out, causing the water to accumulate to a depth of
13 inches above the top of the pipe, when the results
were :—Velocity, 3.915 feet per second, or 2.67 miles
per hour ; discharge, 2,588.04 gallons per minute, or
3,726,777 gallons per day of 24 hours ; depth at deli-
very end, 15 inches. The second experiment gave the
most decided results, the water being 13 inches above
the top of the upper end of the pipe, and 3 inches below
at the lower end ; allowing for the hydraulic height
due to the velocity, a working inclination was given
of about 1 in 340, and assuming, in accordance with
the received rules, the resistance to be as the square
of the velocity, and as a corollary, cffteris paribiy,
the velocity in pipes being as the square root of the
mean hydraulic height, i. e., as the square root of the
diameter of circular pipes—the velocity stated being
about 235 feet per minute, and the real inclination being
about 1 in 340, would, with these data, give for
pipe 6 inches in diameter, at an inclination of 1 in 100 a
velocity of 255 feet per minute. According to the blue-
books, the velocity stated from the original experiments
of the Board of Health, at an inclination of 1 in 100,
would be 325 feet per minute. The results of this ex-
periment, in fact, coincided much nearer with those
given by the formula, even as stated in the blue-book,
than with the results of the pretended experiments
therein. For a similar pipe, with an inclination of
1 in 800, the velocity would be 88 feet per minute,
instead of 240 feet per minute. It was, therefore, con-
tended that, whilst the recent experiments at Aln-
wick confirmed the accuracy of the results of the for-
mula, they as clearly demonstrated the inacuracy of the
experiments, and the erroneous deductions stated in the
blue-book, which could not therefore be received as
authority.
The paper read was a " Description of an improved
Inclined Plane, for conveying Boats to and from diffe-
rent Levels of a Canal," by Mr. J. Leslie, M. Inst.
C.E. After alluding to the successful inclined place
established by the author at Blackhill, near Glasgow, on
the Monkland canal, and describing the difficulties to
be overcome, and the points essential for the good
working of such lifts, the paper proceeded to propound,
as the simplest modification, in cases where there was
a scarcity of water, and where vessels would bear being
taken out of the water, to have two uniform inclined
planes, descending each way from a culminating
point, or summit, placed at a suitable elevation,
above the water in the upper reach. Each of the
inclines was cut down, for a distance from the
summit, equal to the length of a carriage, fit to
carry the largest boat, and a railway laid on a lower
level in a segment of a circle vertically : the seg-
ment being traced from a centre so placed that lines pa-
rallel to and equidistant from the inclined planes should
each to be a tangent to the circle, at a point half-way
between their summit, or apex, if produced, and the
terminations of the segmental rails. On this curved
railway there was a lower or subsidiary carriage, run-
ning on a number of rollers, so as to have no friction
on the axles, and having straight rails and ratchets
on its upper surface. When the lower carriage was
at either end of the curved railway, its upper surface
formed a direct continuation of one of the inclined planes,
and being exactly one-half of the length of the curved
railway, the uppermost point of the rails fixed on the
carriage coincided exactly with the apex of the two in-
clines. The principal carriage with a boat on it was
then run forward, so as to stand on the lower carriage.
by a rod attached to a drum on the shaft of the fixed
engine, and was held in its place by palls dropping into
the ratchets. when the lower carriage, with the travel-
ling carriage and boat on it, was moved forward by a
wheel working in a rack under the lower carriage, which
was thus made to traverse the apex or summit, and des-
cended until the surface of the rails in the lower car-
riage, and on the incline, became identical, and the upper
carriage was lowered into the water by the rope motion
and the boat was allowed to float from it, into the next
reach of the canal. This plan was first proposed for re-
moving vessels from a small dock by the side of the Vis-
tula at Warsaw, so as to be out of the reach of floods and
of ice, and whenever there was a scarcity of water for
lockage, or for working caisson inclined planes, it was
admitted to be a desirable modification.

The French steamer Nil, from Alexandria, has
arrived, and brings news from India and China, in antici-
pation of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon, which may be looked for to-night.
The Nil, having suffered damage, will be unable to
put to sea before to-morrow, so that the news from India
will be forwarded per Valetta.
The Banshee, from England, has just arrived (7 days'
steaming) with engineers. Col. Vicars was left behind
at Gibraltar, attacked (at Lisbon) with paralysis.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 29.

The Prometheus steam-sloop is on her way from
Woolwich to Devomport to join the steam reserve at
that station.

The Carysfort, 26, was yesterday towed down to
Sconce Point, Isle of Wight, to take the place of the
Talbot, 26, which was towed up to-day, and placed
alongside the dockyard. It is reported she is to be sent
to the eastward for conversion into a storeship.
The Vulcan, 6, iron screw steam-troopship, Com-
mander Vol Donop, was docked yesterday. Her bot-
tom, which was coated several months ago with the
composition of Mr. Hay, the chemical officer of this
dockyard, seemed comparatively clean when viewed after
the Simoom, also an iron vessel. She is to refit with all
despatch, and her crew are to be paid down.
The Encounter, 14, screw corvette, Captain O'Calla-
ghan, from this port for the China station, put in at
Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 28th of No-
vember.

An increase of wages was given on Friday to the rig-
gers in the dockyard ; the wages of the " established"
were raised to a guinea per week, and the extra riggers
to 18s., being an increase of 3s.
Coals at the Camber in this port yesterday were 565.
per ton.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 28.

Her Majesty's frigate Thetis, 33, Captain Kuper, re-
turned this morning from Portsmouth. Her crew were
examined at great gun exercise in the Sound, and in the
afternoon she was taken in tow by the Confiance and
Pike steam-vessels, which placed her at her moorings in
Hamoaze. Part of her stores were returned to-day. She
is to be dismantled, and her masts are to be sent to the
dockyard for inspection. The crew will be paid down
on Saturday, the 4th-of February..
The brig Wizard, tender to the flag-ship at Cork, ar-
rived yesterday.
The paddle-wheel steam-frigate Magicienne, 16, Cap-
tain Thomas Fisher, having had defects made good,
steamed from Hamoaze into the Sound on Friday.
.Her
crew will be paid wages on Monday.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Bulldog, 6, was com-
missioned to-day by Commander W. H. Hall.
The screw steam-ship Nile, 90, will be taken out of
dock on Monday, and masted, preparatory to her being
commissioned.

The screw bteam-ship Algiers, 90, launched on Thurs
day, was warped to the North Jetty on Friday, and wil
be placed in dock on Monday, to be coppered.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 28.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—Charles Grfeme M`Grigor (1846), from
the Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth, to the Illustrious,
72, at Portsmouth ; John P. Luce (1848), from the
Leopard, 18, paddlewheel steam-frigate, to the Dragon
paddlewheel steam-frigate at Portsmouth.
Surgeons—Gerald Yeo, M.D. (1850), recently serving
in the Archer steam-sloop, and who was yesterday ap-
pointed to the Dragon, is now appointed to the Bulldog
paddlewheel steam-sloop at Portsmouth ; Charles Thos.
Simpson Kevern (1846), to the Dragon paddlewheel
steam-frigate at Portsmouth, vice Yeo.

Assist-Surgeon—H. G. Roby, to the Bulldog.
The Cyclops steam-frigate, Master Commander Ro-
berts, arrived at Woolwich to-day, at 3 o'clock p.m.,
and in the course of next week will embark the officers,
non-commissioned officers, and gunners of the Royal
Artillery under orders to proceed to Gibraltar, Malta,
and Corfu, to fill up the companies at those stations.
The mouths of the Thames and Medway will soon
become attractive, as it is stated in letters received from
the fleet of Rear-Admiral Lowry Corry that the vessels
of the western squadron at Lisbon are ordered home for
the purpose of being stationed at the Nore and on the
anchorage ground off the port of Sheerness, and are to
be kept in a constant state of readiness for any emer-
gency, and in case their services should be required in
the North Seas. Rear-Admiral Corry's fleet consists of
the Prince Regent, 90, flag-ship of the gallant admiral,
under the command of Captain Frederick Hutton ; the
Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steamship, of 700-horse
power, Commodore Martin, C.B. ; the St. Jean d'Acre,
101, screw steamship, of 600 horse power, Captain the
Hon. Henry Keppel ; the Imperieuse, 51, screw steam-
frigate, of 350 horse power, Captain Rundle B. Watson,
C.B. ; the Arrogant, 47, screw steam-frigate, of 360 horse
power, Captain Hastings R. Yelverton ; the Amphion,
34, screw steam-frigate, of 300 horse power, Captain
Actley C. Key ; the Tribune,.3o, screw steam-frigate, of
300 horse power, Captain the Hon. Swinfen Thomas Car-
negie ; the Valorous, 16, paddle-wheel steam frigate, of
400 horse power, Capt. C. H. M. Buckle ; the Desperate,
8, screw steamship, of 400 horse power, Captain W. W.
Chambers ; and the Cruiser, 16. screw steam-sloop, of
60-horse power, Commander the Hon. George H. Doug-
las ; making a total of one sailing ship of the line, two
screw, steam line-of-battle ships, five screw steam-frigates,
one paddle-wheel steam-frigate, and one screw steam-
sloop, carrying 524 guns of large calibre, and fitted with
steam machinery of 3,480-horse power. The Odin, 16,
paddle-wheel steam-frigate, of 561-horse power, Captain
Francis Scott, having been stationed at Lisbon previ-
ously to the arrival of Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron,
is expected to remain there ; and the St. Jean d'Acre,
the Amphion, and the Cruiser having left Lisbon, the
former for Madeira and the latter for Gibraltar, and the
Aniphion on a cruise, they are expected to rejoin the
fleet immediately, or to follow it to the Nore.
The Lords of the Admiralty, having taken into consi-
deration the present high price of provisions, have caused
orders to be issued to the heads of the departments that
the labourers are to receive an add►tion of 2s. each to
their wages per week ; that the blacksmiths are to be
employed on piecework, and the shipwrights and others
on task and jobwork ; that every man may earn as much
as he is capable of accomplishing in a workmanlike
manner.

In the discussion, after paying a just tribute to the in-
genuity and skill of the author, it was admitted that in-
clines of this nature were only applicable for certain ex-
ceptional situations ; that in general it would be cheaper
to pump up the water for lockage, using over again as it
might be required, and that in general the competition
between railways and canals had ended in the partial
abaadoning of the latter, in spite of all attempts to use
steam propulsion and traction.
The following paper was announced t• be read at the
meeting of Tuesday, Jan. alst, "On Macadamised Roads
for Streets and Towns." By Mr. J. Piggott Smith,
Assoc. Inst. C.E.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)

The Volcano steam-vessel, Commander Robert Coote,
recently returned from the coast of Africa, is to be paid
off at this port on Monday, the 30th inst.

MANCHESTER, Jan. 27.—0 n Tuesday our market was
very unfavourably affected by the darker aspect of the
question which is agitating the whole of Europe. The
business of the day was consequently very small ; and,
although prices were nominally unchanged, there was
about them less of the previous firmness. On the pre-
sence of a danger so great as that which actually exists,
our trade must necessarily be exposed to renewed de-
pression. The consciousness of this liability is now ren-
dering those producers who are wanting orders willing
to make sonic little concession in order to sell. They
are further influenced to do this by the decline which has
taken place in the new American cotton, amounting to
Id. to P. per lb., since this day week, in " fair" and
upwards.

PEMBROKE, JAN. 28.

The following is an authentic list of the various men-
of-war now in the course of building, and ordered at this
dockyard, with their power and state of progress. At
the present juncture when our foreign relations are in so
criticala state, it will be of interest, showing, as it does,
that four ships of the line, four frigates of the heaviest
classes, and five smaller class vessels are on the stocks,
a powerful squadron in themselves. Several are ready
for launching, and others more than half completed :
Victoria, 116, sailing, nearly ready for launching.
Repulse, 90, screw, put in frame, 600-horse power;
Maudslay and Field. . _

'HUDDERSFIELD, Jan. 24.—The general tone of the
market has been rather quiet, but a fair amount of busi-
ness has been done in the lower priced fancy woollens.
The higher qualities of broad cloths and dark kerseys
have not found many purchasers. The wool trade dur-
ing the week has been very quiet.
BRADFORD, Jan. 26.—W00l for some time has been
held for prices too high to induce the spinners to buy.
Noils and brokes are dull, and but few making. Yarns—
The raw material being held for prices inconsistent with
the price of yarns, there seems no hope of anything ex-
cept further curtailment. Pieces—The period is now
drawing near when greater activity is usually manifested
by the home trade houses for spring. Up to this time
there has been but little preparation made, the 'mer-
chants generally holding a very small stock, and the
transactions of this day are not distinguishable either by
increased sales or altered prices.
NOTTINGHAM, Jan. 26.—The condition of the lace
trade is not so satisfactory as we had reason to hope it
would be. A few fancy articles are inquired for, but
these principally from entirely new designs. The hosiery
trade is also much less active than at this time last year.
The high price of provisions is acting disadvantageously
to the interests of commerce throughout the country.
LEICESTER, Jan. 26.—The home demand for woollen
goods is dull, and but few orders are yet given out.
There is more doing in cotton hose for the spring de-
mand. Sales of worsted yarns can only be effected by
a sacrifice in price which spinners do not feel warranted
in making.

Ninety gun, two decker, screw, put in frame.
Brunswick, 80, sailing, ready for launching.
Melpomene, 60, sailing frigate, completed .to abou.
one-half.

Immortalit4, 60, sailing frigate, completed to abon
one-half.

Sutlej, 50, sailing frigate, nearly finished.
Aurora, 50, screw frigate, just commenced.
Curacoa, 30, screw frigate, finished to about one-half,
350-horse power ; Maudslay and Field.
Harrier, 16, screw sloop, completed, 100-horse power;
Humphrey and Dyke.
Falcon, 16, screw sloop, finished to more than a third,
100-horse power ; Miller, Ravenhill, and Co.
Ariel, 8, screw sloop, put in frame, 60-horse power ;
Miller, Ravenhill, and Co. _ _

Swallow, 8, screw sloop, put in frame, 60. horse power;
Miller, Ravenhill, and Co.

DEATH OF COMMANDER G. S. PARSONS.—Commander
G. S. Parsons (1850), on the retired list of 1830, died on
the 20th inst., in Cheshire, aged 71. Commander Par-
sons entered the navy in July, 1795 ; was in the Bar-
fleur, as midshipman, in the action off Cape St. Vincent,
Feb. 14, 1797 ; in the Foudroyant, 80, he acted as signal
midshipman of that ship, under Lord Nelson, at the cap-
ture, Feb. 18, 1800, of Le Genereux, 74, and Ville de
Marseilles, armed store-sbip ; and on March 31 follow-
ing, after a desperate action, in which the Foudroyant
(in company, at the time, with the Lion, 64, and Pene-
lope, 36) sustained a loss of 8 men killed and 64 wounded,
of La Guillaume Tell, of 84 guns and 1;000 men, flag-
ship of Rear-Admiral Decr4s. After officiating in a
like capacity under Lord Keith during the expedition to
Egypt, where he was entrusted with the command
of a gun-boat on Lake IMareotis, he was nominated,
August 6, 1801, acting lieutenant of El Carmon,
in which ship, the bearer of Sir Wm. Sydney Smith,
he returned, towards the close of the same year,
to England. • For his services in Egypt Mr. Parsons
was presented with a gold medal by the Turkish Govern-
ment. He was confirmed a lieutenant, March 25, 1802,
into the Batavier, but continued only a few weeks in
that ship, and was subsequently appointed, Sept. 9,
1803, to the Ganges, 74, employed off the coasts of
Ireland and Spain ; Feb. 3, and April 1, 1805, as first,
to the Racoon and Elk sloops, both in the West Indies ;
Feb. 8, 1806, for passage home to the Malabar, 74 ;
Sept. 13 following to the Texel, 64, flag-ship of Vice-
Admiral James Vashon at Leith ; Feb. 27, 1807, to the
Orion, 74, part of the force employed in the attack upon
Copenhagen ; and May 14, 1809 (after 5 months of half-
pay, caused by indisposition), as senior to the Valiant,
74. In the Racoon and Elk Lieut. Parsons served at
the blockade of St. Domingo and Curacao ; and in the
latter vessel, under Captain Dacres, he fought in
action with eleven Spanish gun-boats on the Spanish
Main. While attached to the Valiant he commanded
her boats at the cutting out of a convoy from Basque
Roads, besides contributing to the capture, near
Belteisle, February 3,181 fr, of the French 40-gun
frigate Cannoniere, laden with the spoil of the prin-
cipal prizes which the enemy had taken in the East.
THE NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FOR THE CHINA STA-
TION.—Sir James Stirling, appointed to supersede Vice-
Admiral Sir F. Pellew, will leave England on the 4th
prox., overland. He has selected as his staff, Captain
Wilson (1853) to be flag-captain, Captain M. J. Currie
(1841) as secretary, and Lieutenant J. M. Bruce, as flag-
lieutenant.
GREENWICH OUT-PENSIONS.—There are at present
three lieutenants' vacancies. .

- - - -
THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(Prom the Leeds Mercury oY Saturday.)

LEEDS, Jan. 27.—There has been a good steady busi-
ness doing in the Cloth-halls this week. Both on Sa-
turday and on Tuesday, the markets were brisk and
animated, and quite an average quantity of cloth
changed owners.

HUDDERSFIELD, Jan. 21.—We have had a slack mar-
ket to-day in the Cloth-hall ; but there are so many
goods made to order, and delivered directly to mer-
chants, that the Cloth•hall is hardly a fair index of what
is going ou. There have been a good many buyers
about the warehouses, and on the whole there is not
much to complain of.
BRADFORD, Jan. N.—Wool—The anticipation of war
causes dullness. Wool is held for prices to induce busi-
ness. Yarns—Spinners find difficulty in running their
machinery four days a week, and considering the high
price of the raw material, there is no prospect of relief
but in further curtailment. Pieces—There is neither
increased sales nor altered prices, although this is usually
a season when greater activity is manifested.
LEICESTER.—The home demand for woollen goods is
dull, and but few foreign orders are yet given out. There
is more doing in cotton hose for the spring demand.
Sales of worsted yarns can only be effected by a sacri-
fice in price which spinners do not feel warranted in
making. Wools are quiet, as the uncertainty of Eastern
affairs stops all speculation.

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STORES FOR THE BLACK SEA FLEETS.—About fifty tons
of medical stores, from the naval hospital at Haslar, were
sent out from Southampton, on Friday, by the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Rajah, to the British fleet in the Black Sea. These
stores were contained in 250 packages, and their con-