The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 2,000
American were taken for export and on specula-
tion, with a firm and steady market. The sales
comprised 7,000 American, 240 Pernam and
Maranham, at 6d. to 7i-d. ; 80 Bahia, at 6d. ;
200 Egyptian, at 6d. to ls. Id. ; 200 Surat, at
nd. to 4d. ; and 100 South Sea Islands, at ls. 9d.
to 2s. 2d. per
.lb. Railway shares were very dull.
The six weeks' average price of wheat is 455. 2d.
per quarter.

It is reported that a treaty has been concluded
between England and Egypt for facilitating the
transit of goods en route to India, and otherwise of
a very favourable character.

Further information, of a character which may
be considered official, has been received concerning
the intentions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and the matter as it now stands assumes rather a
different complexion. The saving to the country
would appear, upon analysis, to be about per
cent., and this is, no doubt, quite as much as
Mr. Gladstone could venture upon at once.
The amount involved is so very moderate,
30,0001., that it may be considered as being
merely the preliminary to a future and larger ope-
ration. Most parties consider that, properly brought
forward, there can be no doubt of the success
of the scheme, and it is seldom that we have
seen anything of the kind more popular, consider-
ing that various questions are affected in an injuri-
ous manner, and consequently that there would
very naturally be some opposition. With regard
to the stock held by trustees and corporations, there
may be no voluntary contribution, because it re-
mains invested for a very long period ; but bankers
and others who might calculate upon having their
money idle for a month or two will probably re-
ceive the new debentures with alacrity.
The English Funds have been particularly buoy-
ant, and an extensive business has been transacted.
The Ministerial project is exercising thus far an
important influence. Consols have been 100 i to
for Transfer, and 1001 to 101 for Account. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been
103 to 4, and the Three per Cents 99 to 100 k.
Exchequer Bills of March are 6s. to 10s., and India
Bonds 435. to 48s. premium. India Stock is firm
at 262. The bears being out so'largely is perhaps
a main cause of the immediate rally.
Foreign Stocks have been rather largely dealt
in. The news just received from Turkey is very
favourable, the Russian Minister having had a
more favourable understanding with the Porte, and
the army of the Czar being ordered to retrograde.
The firman relative to the establishment of the
new bank had been published, and already a Turk-
ish functionary had left Constantinople for Paris
with a mission relative to the indemnity on
the loan. There have been no bargains in
the scrip this morning. Greek Bonds are
still in demand, and have been done at 94
and 94 ; the Deferred Stock is 11i Equa-
dor is worth 6. Brazilian 41 per Cents, have
been quoted 981 to 99. Mexican Bonds are the
same as yesterday, being 271 Peruvian Scrip
has risen to 41 pm. Spanish Certificates are steady,
at si I per Cent. ; and the New Deferred Bonds
realise 24i and 25. Dutch 4 per Cents. bring
974 to
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1853. 1852.
Great Western ' £19,087 £16,784
North Western t 48,694 43,246
South Western 10,940 9,680
Brighton 10,382 9,755
Midland
South Eastern 14,244 10,882
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 17,442 15,608
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick 15,077 14,226
A large business has been done in Railway Shares,
and they are all decidedly higher. Caledonian have
advanced 11., Great Western' /. to 2/. , North-Western
1/. 10s., to 21., South-Western 11., Midland 11. to
21., North British 11., and Oxford, and Wolver-
hampton 21. South-astern are up 21., York and
North Midland 21. to 31. All the others are pro-
portionally higher. French Shares are all better,
the advance in Lyons being to and in Stras-
bourg 1.
Gold Mine Shares are rather duller, but gene-
rally firm.

The Land Companies have been at rather fuller
rates, and British American especially are in de-
mand at a rise of 1/. to 21.
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In the shares of the Australian Banks there is
very little doing, and the Chartered Bank of India,
Australia, and China, have rallied to 11 premium,
in consequence of the statement that they did not
receive the letter sent to some of the other banks,
referring them to the colony for a charter • conse-
quently it is presumed that they will obtain one
from the Home Government.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(Fran the Official List.)
Business done.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... ....... lOO i 99i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities, 1726
New 34 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO —
Ditto, under £lOOO 43 8
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, lid. June. March.
£l000
£5OO 6 10 6 10
Small 6 10 6 10

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. __
x d
Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 9B 9
Danish Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Equador Bonds 6
Grenada Bonds, Deferred,
‘0

.
Greek ex over-due Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent..
Ditto Account April 15, 27k 8a 7k
Peruvian Bonds, 1849, 4a per Cent.
Peruvian Scrip ~
Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent 64
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 97
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 4B
Spanish Now Deferred, 3 per Cent..— .._.
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not
Swedish Loan ll d
Venezuela Bonds 3a per Cent.
Dutch Exchange 2.4 per Cent 66
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates~.

Consols....
Ditto April Account ,

THREE O'CLOCK.
100 i
100

THE MADIAIS.—The King of Prussia has offered the
Madiais an asylum in his country, but it is thought that
they will prefer proceeding to England.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—A court of proprietors of the
Bank of England was held yesterday, at the Bank, for
the election of 24 directors for the ensuing year, when
the following gentlemen (forming the house list) were
duly elected :—Henry Hulse • Barons, A. E. Campbell,
E. E. Chapman, Robert Wigram Crawford, William
Cotton, Bonamy Dobree, Benjamin Buck Greene,
Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Henry Hucks Gibbs (new
director), Thomson Hankey, jun., John Oliver Hanson,
J. B. Heath, Kirkman D. Hodgson, Henry L. Holland,
Thomas Newman Hunt, A. Latham, James Malcolmson,
James Morris, Sheffield Neave, G. Warde Norman,
John Horsley Palmer, Henry J. P. Prescott, Alderman
William Thompson, and Thomas Tooke, jun., Esqs.
DIVIDEND DAY AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND SOUTH-
SEA HOUSE.—Notice was issued yesterday at the above
monetary establishments, that the April dividends will
be in course of payment to the public on and after to-
morrow morning, the Bth inst. ; and that the transfer
books at the Bank of England, &c., for the following
annuities, duo the sth inst., will be openedoonedthTehurene-
dermentioned dates, viz. :—Bank Stock, Reduced
per Cent. Annuities, Long Annuities, and Annuities for
Terms of Years, on Friday, the 15th inst. and Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities, on Tuesday, the 19th
inst. At South-Sea House the transfer books nSouth-
Sea Stock will be opened on Friday, the 15th inst.
FOREIGN RATES OF EXCHANGE.—jhoenßdotuhrse at Paris
is dull without any assigned cause
tion of a great number of new schemesy being introduced e anticipa-
upon the market. Gold continues to arrive fromon
Lon-
don, but in very small quantities, as its importation
scarcely leaves the slightest profit. The St. Petersburgh
advices mention that the rates of exchange were again
more favourable for this country, the quotation being
381 d. The opening of the navigation was expected to
be late, owing to a continuance of cold weather.

THE NATIONAL DEBT REDEMPTION ACTS.

The following are the resolutions to be proposed by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Committee, on Acts
relating to the National Debt, to-morrow evening •
" 1. That the capital trading stock of the Corporation
of the Governor and Company of Merchant of Great
Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of
America, and for encouraging the fishery, which is called
and known by the name of South Sea Stock : the capital
stocks of the 31. per Centum Annuities, called and known
by the name of the Old South Sea Annuities and by the
name of the New South Sea Annuities : the capital stock
of the 31. per Centum Annuities, created by an act passed
in the twelfth year of King George the First, intituled,
"An Act for granting to His Majesty the sum of
1,000,0001., to be raised by way of lottery," called and
known by the name of the Bank Annuities 1726: and the
capital stock of the 31. per Centum Annuities, created by
an act passed in the twenty-fourth year of King George
the Second, intituled " An Act for granting to his Majesty
the sum of 2,100,0001., to be raised by annuities and a lot-
tery, and charged on the Sinking Fund, redeemable by
Parliament," called and known by the name of the 31. per
Centum Annuities 1751, Oral be paid off and redeemed.
" 2. That every person, body politic and corporate, who
now is, or hereafter may be, interested in the capital
stocks of any of the said 31. per Centum Annuities, who
shall, in manner hereinafter directed, give notice at any
time on or before Friday, the 6th day of May, 1853, of his
assent to receive other government securities in lieu and
in place of the said capital stocks of the said annuities, in-
stead of being paid in money, shall, at the option of the
said parties, receive for every 1001. thereof, 821. 10s. in a
a New Stock of Three-and-a-Half per Centum An-
n cities, which said annuities shall be paid at the
rate of 31. 10s. per centum per annum until the sth day of
January, 1894, from and after which day the said annui-
ties shall be subject to redemption by Parliament • or for
every 1001. of the said capital stocks of annuities the sum
of 1101. in a New Stock of Two-and-a-Half per Centum
Annuities, which said annuities shall be paid at the rate
of 21. 10s. per centum per annum until the sth day
of January, 1894, from and after which day ' the
said annuities shall be subject to redemption by Par-
liament ; or for every sum of 1001. of the capital
Stocks of the said 31. per Centum Annuities, an Exchequer
Bond for the like amount, payable to the bearer, and
carrying interest at the rate of 21. 15s. per centum per
annum, payable half-yearly on the Ist day of March and
the Ist day of September in every year,. until the Ist day
of September in a year to be named in such bond, and not
later than Ist September, 1861, inclusive, and thenceforth
2/. 10s. per centum per annum, payable half-yearly in like
manner, until and including the Ist of September, 1894,
and thereafter to be subject to redemption at par, at the
option of the holder, or at the option of the Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury, as shall be named in such bond.
"3. That the dividends and interest payable on such New
N. 10s. per Centum Annuities, on such New 21. 10s. per
Centum Annuities, and on such Exchequer Bonds, shall be
charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
" 4. That the dividends now payable by law on sth July
and sth January in every year on the said Capital Trading
Stock and on the said capital stock of New South Sea An-
nuities, annuities 1726, and annuities 1751, shall continue
payable until the sth January, 1854, inclusive, and no
longer.
" That the dividends now payable by law on 10th Octo-
ber and sth April in every year on the said capital stock
of Old South Sea Annuities shall continue payable until
sth April, 1854, inclusive, and no longer.
" 5. That if the Corporation of the Governor and Com-
pany of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South
Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the
fishery, shall at any time on or before Friday, the 3d day
of June, signify to the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury their assent to commute and exchange the said
capital trading stock, or any part thereof, into any one or
more of the said 31. 10s. per Centum Annuities, New 21.
10s. per Centum Annuities, or Exchequer Bonds, the said
corporation shall be permitted to make such commutation
and exchange upon the same terms, and subject to the like
conditions, as are granted to the person or persons, bodies
politic or corporate, interested in, or entitled to, the capi-
tal stock of 31. per Centum Annuities now proposed to be
paid off and redeemed.

" 6. That all and every person or persons, bodies politic
or corporate, possessed of any part of the said 3/. per Cen-
tum Annuities, and who shall desire to signify his, her, 'or
their assent to receive the said New 31. 108. per Centum
Annuities, New 21. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or Exche-
quer Bonds in lieu thereof, shall on or before the 6th day of
May, 1853, but within the usual hours of transacting.busi-
ness at the Bank of England, or at the South Sea House, by
themselves or some agent or agents for that purpose duly au-
thorised, signify to the Governor and Coinpany of the Bank
of England, or to the Governor and. Company of Merchants of
Great Britain trading to the South Seas, as the case may be,
such assent in writing under his, her, or their hand or hands
or the hand or hands of his, her, or their agent or agents,
together with the amount of his, her, or their respective
share or shares in the said 31. per Centum Annuities, and
which said assent shall be entered in a book or books to be
opened and kept by the said governor and company of the
Bank of England and by the said governor and com-
pany of merchants of Great Britain trading to the,
South Seas for that purpose ; awl, in case of any transfer
of such share or shares of such annuities, or any part or
parts thereof, after such assent, the, part or parts of such
annuities so transferred shall be entered in the said book
or books separately from the 31. per Centum Annuities, in
respect of which no such assent shall be signified, and
every such person or persons so assenting, or his, or her or
their assigns, or the executors or administrators of such
assigns, under any such transfer, shall be entitled for
every 1001. capital stock of the said 31. per Centum An-
nuities to $2/. 10s. of the capital stock of New 31. 10s. per
Centum Annuities, or to 1101. of the capital stock of the New
2/. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or to an Exchequer Bond
of 1001. bearing interest as aforesaid : provided always that
if any person or persons holding any such 3/. per Centum
Annuities, shall not be within the limits of the United
Kingdom at any time between the Bth day of April and
the 6th day of May, 1853, both inclusive, but shall be in
any other part of Europe, it shall be lawful for such per-
son or persons to signify such assent at any time before the
30th day of July, 1853 ; and if any such person
or persons shall not at any time between the Bth day
of April, 1853, and the 30th day of July, 1853,
be within any. part of Europe, it shall be lawful for him,
her, or them to signify such assent at any time before
the Ist day of February, 1854, such person or persons
proving to the satisfaction of the Governor or Deputy
Governor of the Bank of England, or to the Governor of the
South Sea Company, his, her, or their absence from the
United Kingdom, or out of Europe, as above specified, and
that his, her, or their share or shares of such 3/. per Centum
Annuities stood in his, her, or their name or names respec-
tively, orin the name or names of any one or more trustee or
trustees, on his, her, or their behalf, in the books of the Gover-
nor and Company of the Bank of England, or Governor and
Company of Merchant Traders to the South Seas on the 6th
day of May, 1853 : provided also, that such person or per-
sons so absent from the United Kingdom, or out of Europe,
shall signify such his, her, or their assent, within ten days
after his, her, or their return to the United Kingdom.
"7. That every person or persons, body politic or
corporate, who now is, or hereafter may be, interested
in or entitled to any part of the capital stock of the
Consolidated 3/. per Centum Annuities, or of the Capi-
tal Stook of the Reduced 31. per Centum Annuities,
payable at the Bank of England, or at the Bank of
Ireland, and who shall at any time before the 10th day
of October, 1853, signify to the Governor and Company of
the Bank of England, or to the Governor and Company of
the Bank of Ireland, by an entry to be made in books to
be opened for such purpose, his desire to commute and ex-
change any or all,of the said annuities to which he may be
entitled, into any one or more of the said New 31. 10s. per
Centum Annuities, New 21. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or
Exchequer Bonds, shall be permitted to make such com-
mutation and exchange upon the same terms and subject
to the like conditions as are granted to the person or per-
sons, bodies politic or corporate, interested in or entitled
to the Capital Stocks of 31. per Centum Annuities pro-
posed to be be paid off and redeemed as aforesaid.
" 8. That the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury be
authorised and empowered to issue at any time between.
the sth of April, 1853, and the sth of April, 1854, Ex-
chequer Bonds, payable to bearer, upon the like terms and
conditions as hereinbefore described, and after public no-
tice in the London Gazette, from time to time to sell such
Exchequer Bonds, or any part thereof, and to apply the
proceeds in redeeming any part of the capital trading stock
or capital stock of annuities now proposed to be paid off and
redeemed, or in purchasing and cancelling any Exchequer
Bills, or in exchanging such Bonds for Exchequer Bills, upon
such terms as the said Commissioners shall think proper,
or in purchasing and cancelling any of the Consolidated 31.
per Centum Annuities, or Reduced 31. per Centum Annui-
ties, payable at the Bank of England or at the Bank of
Ireland, as the case may be.
" 9. That the interest on such Exchequer Bonds shall be
charged and chargeable on the said Consolidated Fund.
" 10. That no amount of such Exchequer Bonds shall
be issued exceeding in the whole the sum of thirty
millions.
" 11. That it shall be lawful for the Accountant-
General of the Courts of Chancery in England. and Ireland
respectively, and for the Accountant in Bankruptcy in
in England, at any time before the 6th day of May 1853,
to signify to the Governor and Company of the Bank of
England, or to the Corporation of the Governor and
n Conl-
y of the Merchants of Great Britain trading to the
Com-
pany Seas and other parts of America, and for encou-
raging the fishery, on behalf any suitor or suitors, or others
interesting 3/. per Centum Annuities hereinbefore referred
to, standing in the names of such Accountants-General
and Accountant respectively, their assent to accept and
receive shares in the said New 3/. 10s. per Centum
Annuities, or New 2L 10s. per Centum Annuities, or
Exchequer Bonds, in lieu of all such 3/. per Con-
tuna Annuities standing in their names respectively ;
and the said Accountants-General and Accountant
respectively shall be fully indemnified against all actions,
suits, and proceedings for and in respect of any action,
matter, or thing done by them respectively in
pursuance
thereof.
" 12. That all executors, administrators, guardians, and
trustees interested in or entitled to any part of the capital
stock of the Old South Sea 3/. per Centum Annuities, of
the New South Sea 3/. per Centum Annuities, of the 31.
per Centum Annuities created by the Act 12th George
the First, of the 31. per Centum Annuities created by the
Act 24th George the Second, of the Consolidated 31. per
Cent= Bank Annuities, and of the Reduced 31. per
Centum Bank Annuities, whether payable at the Bank. of
England or at the Bank of Ireland, as the case may be,
who shall signify their desire to convert the Annuities to
may be
which they respectively interested into any of the
New 3/. 10s. per Centum Annuities New 21. 10s. per
Centum Annuities, or Exchequer Bonds, shall be in-
demnified.

THE NEW CASTLE AT BALMORAL.—The contracts for
the mason work of the new castle to be erected at Bal-
moral for her Majesty bas been obtained by Mr. Alex.
Stuart, Peterhead. Arrangements are being made to
commence the work forthwith...7.-Edinburgh, Courant.

THE SEPARATE SYSTEM IN WORICHOUSES.—In conse-
quence of the refractory conduct of the females in the
Marylebone Workhouse, who, although supplied with
situations as domestic servants, leave their places in a
few days, and return to the workhouse, where they
inoculate the other females with their evil propensities
and vices, the house rota have recommended the board
of guardians to adopt the separate system as regards
those characters by keeping each in a cell by herself.
EXTENSION OF THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—Yester-
day the Submarine and European Telegraph Company
commenced laying down their wires in Pall-mall, St.
James's-street, and Charing-cross, in- order to lead
branches into the principal clubhouses at the West-end,
the Government offices, Admiralty, Houses of Parlia-
ment, and Buckingham Palace, so that instant and direct
communication may be made, without dsipatching mes-
sengers to the central office, with all parts of the Euro.
plan Continent reached by electric telegraph,

SPORTING NOTES.—No. OCOOVL

My anticipatory remarks on the events decided yester•
day at Cheltenham and Croxton Park were almost re'
alised to the letter, for I named the first and second
horses (Oscar and Sir Peter Laurie) for the Steeplechase,
and Tom Gurney, the winner of the Hurdle Race, at the
former place ; and placed Grapeshot first and Begunl
colt second, the exact positions they finished in, for the
Belvoir Castle Stakes at the latter place. The only in"
stance in which I was at fault was in giving the prefer-
ence to Gladiole (who ran third) over Caurire (the win'
ner) for the Gold Cup.
EPSOM SPRING MEETING.—The sport on the Downs
to-day will be of a first-class description. I wish I could
say the same of that portioned out for to-morrow ; but
steeplechases never did, and seemingly never will, thrive
at Epsom. The principal event on the card for decision
to-morrow is the Great Metropolitan Steeplechase, which
has only obtained an acceptance of eight. The BRITIS
YEOMAN, although carrying the top weight, if meant,
will dispose easily enough of his antagonists, the steeple'
chase course being in that heavy state which favours ills
peculiar qualities.

The Free Handicap Hurdle Race, I presume, will not
attract Caurire to the post ; in his absence THE HO°
will do the veni, vidi, vici business.
The Selling Steeplechase, if not a "sell," will, in all
probability, terminate in favour of Gulnare or Trust-me'
Net. Nom de Guerre, taking his running on Tuesday
at Cheltenham into consideration, ought to run well
here.

The horses on the spot this morning for the foregoing
races are the following :—British Yeoman, Quickstep,
Shinrone, The Hero, Sam Hood, Gulnare, Trust•me'
Not, Seven and Sixpence, The Brewer, the Slashing
Painter, and the Trojan. Nom de Guerre and another
or two expected.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

WORSHIP-STREET-(THIS DAY).

ANOTHER BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.

George Bevan, 29, described as a cigar maker, residing
at 11, Satchwell-rents, Bethnal-green, was charged, be'
fore Mr. D'Eyncourt, with an aggravated assault upon
Ann Gisby, by which her life is in danger. It appeared
from the evidence of Marsh, 215 11, that this morning,
between four and five o'clock, while on duty, he heard
cries of distress contiguous to the prisoner's dwelling,
and found the complainant outside the house bleeding
from wounds in the head. She was in such a state of
exhaustion as to state with difficulty that prisoner had
assaulted her with a shovel and poker, upon hearing
which witness forced the door, and found the pri-
soner in a partial state of intoxication. At the
station-house complainant made a statement to the
effect that she was engaged to the prisoner 0-5
a general servant, but was cohabiting with him. lier,
upper lip was cut open, and her left cheek and upper par`
of the head presented wounds of no ordinary character'
It was deemed necessary to send her at once in a cab tot
the London Hospital. A certificate was now produced
from the house surgeon there, purporting that her We
was in danger.

Prisoner-denied having assaulted her beyond striking
with the hand, but the constable informed the magistra!:
that he had noticed the shovel in the apartment
bent nearly double.

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Mr. D'Eyncourt desired the weapon should be ve,--,
care of, and produced on Wednesday next, to which clk,
he remanded the prisoner.

THE BOOMERANG PROPELLER.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday afternoon ;
trial was made in the waters of the Mersey of S 1
Thomas Mitchell's new mode of propelling ships by the
boomerang, in lieu of the common screw. The trial tris
was made in the Genova, one of Messrs. IVl'Sean 011
M'Klarty's Mediterranean steamships, the distance yea'
ing from the Rock Light to the Crosby Lightship 00
back. The boomerang is used in a similar way to the
ordinary screw, but its design and construction ai '-'„
r,
widely different. The original idea was borrowed
„,•7
the inventor from the peculiar gyrations of the weaP%
used by the natives of Australia in its flight throoP
the air. That instrument is crescent shaped, but,
stead of an arc, it has an elbow in the middle. I„.a,
tl;
about 2 feet long, and about 2 inches broad, a ql2aly,:vi
of an inch thick, and is made of heavy wood. v"—
thrown in the air by the natives it describes two revola;
tions, one direct and the other rotatory. By the latter
motion it revolves round its own centre of gravity, !,
enabled to survive the direct impetus with which itcl
sent up, and is made to screw back to the spot when©
it was thrown.
This peculiarity suggested what is called " the booms"
rang propeller," which, in the course of the day, NO'
described by Sir Thomas Mitchell. After many experi,
of
fents
attaching
for
e a eetnhte pre,urspooases otof dmisackoevetring
heptrthe best
noipl m
e apepainis,
cable to the propulsion of vessels, the various practical
difficulties in the way were removed.
The elbow-shaped weapon of the savage gliding through
the air shows how the difficulty of the centre may b°
avoided; the cusps illustrate the mode by which engineers
may regulate the circumference, while the general fool °
the missile, in acting obliquely on the radius of the rota:
tory motion, teaches how it is possible to embrace tea
columns of water at once with the least possible surfal
and the least obstruction to the rotatory motion, but,
the same time, with the greatest effect as a' screw.
The great difficulty of testing the true value of
invention has hitherto lain, and still continues to lie, '7.,
the fact that screw-vessels are built with apertures t°,",
narrow for its application in its entire and con?
,Plenvf
form. It requires a space equal to at least one-thirdta;
the height of the aperture. The only opportunity,
inventor has at present had for testing it----and this
s
very severe test—is by applying only mutilated port'°-
of it, relying on the more harmonious nature of its at!rts
face compared with the screw now in use, and t° itt
perfect freedom at the centre, which prevents it fr,[r
choking, and, consequently, gives it greater facility i°e
rotatory motion. So great is the mutilation necessary
to admit of a trial at all with ordinary steamers, that"
whereas the chief advantage of the boomerang proPe4.be
is in its embracing two-thirds of the helix at once, yr°
two blades of the one used in the Genova were not 'lts
than one-seventh each of the complete spiral, or 1`
than one-third on the whole.
Another advantage in the boomerang is, that from the
er
convexity of one blade and the concavity of the otb,'
the water is prevented from being driven to the ceowei
and thus choking it, as in the common screw, and dire
steering is thus materially facilitated.
„cl
The severest test that could be applied was subriv te-0
to yesterday. The pitch of the two mutilated pertiao
was nearly double the diameter—i. e., the pitch via°o
feet 2 inches, and the diameter 12 feet 3 inches, so t''',Do
the working surface was five feet less than that Of he
common screw, against which it has been tried ; aD
whereas the common screw weighed 62 cwt., the 1)001'
rang was only 26 cwt. t°
Notwithstanding these adverse circumstances,
average speed obtained in slack water was from 9 I°l :to
to 91 knots, under a pressure of steam of from 61b.
00
91b. ; a speed which several scientific gentleraelLeve
board asserted was one knot faster than could 'la,.
been made by the common screw under the same P'e
sure of steam.
In the course of the afternoon the visitors were ell:
tertained to dinner in the first-class cabin, Mr. Larno...ol;
of the firm of Messrs. M'Kean and M'Klarty, occuPri,',
the chair. That gentleman, in the course of some uij,
servations made after the cloth had been withdraye
regretted that complete justice had not been done to t",./
boomerang on the occasion, owing to the inability 'of
the engineer to keep the steam up to a fair pressure
101 b. He and the company he represented were, h 0,,,
~,
ever, so convinced of the great superiority of the booP'i
erang over the screw, that they were having one, r
their vessels prepared for the trial of the new propebee
in its integrity. Mr. Lamont also referred to the Ilßej
of English anthracite, in lieu of coals. They had tri
it with complete success in the last voyage of thee
Livorno, aDe
having found that
olr iefntv
herawo
inautsthpimroraneocvriatiesne
usi es r vvi
nc
ye serviceable,
took up much less space.
tb
Livorno required 17 tons of coal, whereas she had 11,1
thisconsumedl9
would 12
createtons a
85 g
rc
owa tt. a
bofecfauuels,e,miuf
much
bh save a quarter of thheecilb.::th
erig:'l,
inconveniencee°uld and delay would be 'pl.
vented. If the Great Britain, for instance, instes,te
consuming 1,500 tons of coal on her passage to P`ioji
t
ralia, only required 1,000 tons she could accoo3l3 for
the whole distance without touching at St. Helena 0,
gratifying coals. The gain by anthracite instead of coal weelo
in
fsyg
oinpinion, be about 35 per cent., besides having 10.
g
facutsttihonat. anthracite was not liable to sP°
taneous combustion

DEATH OF LORD SHELMEESDALE.—We have to 1;
cord the demise of this venerable nobleman, at Lathee
House, in his 83d year. His lordship sat in the 11011 to
of Commons from 1795 to 1828, when he was raised
the peerage. He is succedeed by his grandson Edvia,.l"
eldest son of the late Hon. Richard Wilbraham, Al/4`1,01
now in his 14th year. The Countess of Derby is "
youngest daughter.
CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.—The pro-Lat
tus of an issue of first mortgage bonds on the imperfi'o,
railway line in the course of construction between 'lv
cinnati and St. Louis was published yesterday ,De
Messrs. George Peabody and Co. The length of the
road is 335 miles, and it is under contract to be 154
pleted for 9,000,000 dollars by the Ist of July, 180
Much of the undertaking is already finished, and
divisions of it are to be opened on the Ist of Jol'o
next. The capital subscribed in the United Stateege
about 6,000,000 dollars, and the bonds now offered
for 2,050,000 dollars, or 410,0001. sterling. Their se,cil
rity is that of a complete lien on the entire work, ant
they are to be redeemable in 1872, bearing meanwtd,'"to
per cent. interest, the holders also having the right of
convert them into stock any time before the le
January, 1857. A deposit of 10 per cent, is to be Pgd
immediately, and the remaining instalments on the
May and lit of September.
SUICIDE BY OXALIC AClD.—Yesterday morning tity
formation was forwarded to Mr. Langham, the Plow
Coroner for Westminster, of the death of Ann EeP„rtf
son, aged 28 years, who resided at Old Boswell-e°W
Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, who committed s;iic
destruction by swallowing a large quantity of occti,
acid. It appears that the deceased had formerly 000
pied a respectable position in society, having bee.,_ll
daughter of persons who earned an honest
Some time since she quitted her home in a fit of Pass-O"
and finally became the paramour of a cabman.
Monday night the deceased obtained a quantity e' re
alic acid of the neighbouring chemists, and on below
turn took the, poison. Her groans attracted the embei)
tion of the inmates, who instantly raised an alarm,
Dr. Digby, surgeon, was promptly on the spot, ;cc
notwithstandingA4 exertion% khe expired in xe°s 00'
cruciating agony. Isl.° cause at present has been
signed fqr the rash act.