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London, England, 1854-03-23 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1854.

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SHARE MARKETS.
(THIS DAY.)

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

roasting sheers ; h: r masts have been lifted and landed
for inspection, preparatory to her being brought forward
for immediate commission.
The Siren, 16-gun sloop, has been taken into No. 3
dry-dock, for survey of hull and fitment for commission.
Frederick R. Child, master, promoted from her
Majesty's screw steam troop-ship (iron) Vulcan, has this
day taken up his commission and joined the Driver, 6
guns, paddle-wheel steam sloop, commander the Hon. A.
Cochrane.

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THE ELECTRIC POWER L1G_ET.......7w...4
),.. In the odoriferous suburb of Wandsworth, about
five- 444
miles from the metropolis, between the river Waudle<VC, and the Richmond link of the South-Western Railway,--',-'
a creek of moderate dimensions skirts an osier bed, and(7*
conducts vessels of from GO to SO tons from the Thames
to the portals of a very compact little factory. This
factory you can look down upon from the embankment,
three minutes after leaving the Wandsworth sfation,
en route for Richmond. In the rear it is guarded by a
sentinel chimney, some 130 feet high, blowing its medi-
tative cloud on the very confines of the "no smoking
allowed here" districts comprised in Lord Palmerston's
bill.

Paid.'

Leasing
Compaus,

Closing Prices
yesterday.

Business
this day.

It is said that Lord Raglan intends to take with him
to the East an experienced photographer. Through
the Society of Arts a reference has been made to the
Photographic Society on the subject, and the suggestion,
we understand, originated with bis Royal Highness
Pi ince Albert. To all who know the importance of ac-
curate observations in campaigning, it is unnecessary to
point out that sun pictures taken at once of objects, oc-
currences, and scenes, the details of which cannot other-
wise be fully and faithfully preserved, may in a variety
of ways possess very great value.
The following are the regiments of infantry to be
placed under Lord Raglan's command in the East :
The 3d battalion of Grenadier Guards, the Ist of the
Coldstreams, and the Ist of the Scots Fusiliers ; the 2d
battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; the Ist battalion of the
Ist Foot ; the 4th, 7th, 19th, 23d, 28th, 30th, 33d, 38th,
41st, 42d, 44th, 47th, 49th, 50th, 55th, 77th, 79th,
88th, 93d, and 95th. There will thus be in the expedi-
tionary army 22 battalions of the line, and three of
Foot Guards, in all 25 battalions, which, with the artil-
lery and cavalry, will make up an effective force of at
least 25,000 men. The 20th, 21st, 34th, 63d, and 97th
Regiments, have received orders to hold themselves in
readiness for "a special service," but whether that im-
plies that they are to be placed with the rest of the Bri-
tish contingent under Lord Raglan's command, and to
act in the East, is not known.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

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By a later from Capenhagen, dated the 14th of this
month, the Miranda, 14 guns, screw steam-ship, Capt.
E. M. Lyons, was then riding in the outer roads, taking
in a supply of coals preparatory to her leaving that port
under sealed orders.
Three boatswains of the third class have been ordered
to join the Driver, to do quarterdeck duty in lieu of
mates. The crew of this sloop are daily exercised at the
great guns and cutlasses ; many of them being old men-
of-war's-men, are quite np to their exercise in every
respect. A part of the crew who have been draughted
from the Waterloo have this day proceeded to Chatham,
under charge of Lieutenant Johnstone, to receive the
pay due to them.

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full.
that

This edifice is one of the most remarkable workshops
in the world, for here Electricity, the unseen and won.
drous agency that is yet to move the world and to out-
giant the giant steam, is the daily product; and, what
is equally remarkable, this daily product has for the last
three months (pending the necessary mechanical arrange-
ments for its practical application to the purposes of life)
been actually thrown away, while a large commercial
profit has been realised to the manufacturers from the
sale of the mere residuum—the refuse—produced in the
batteries.

- The Hannibal, 91 guns, new screw steam-ship, is
ordered here from Woolwich, to be masted, after which
she is to proceed to Chatham to be fitted and rigged,
for immediate commission ; she will then return here to
take in her armament, &c.

For this residuum consists of pigments of all shades—
blue, green, yellow, and red, of greatest brilliancy,
now recognised by artistic and practical authorities as
preliminarye u
processes.a l tto any a n
Withoyu pl
aryotsdwuaocnd produced
expenses
by
months t h
working, e
nci
d eordinarynstpi
tteo o fthewn
e
great
expe-
riments on a large scale, and the drawbacks and diffi-
culties attending a private partnership engaged in a work
of national magnitude, the adventurers have realised a
profit out of actual sales of colours, at the rate of 15
per cent per annum, on the total capital subscribed, and
of which only two-thirds has been as yet expended and
invested.
The boon has now been bestowed upon the world, as
.thus tested and confirmed by experimental demonstra-
tion, of CHEAP ELECTRICITY, costless indeed to the manu-
facturers, for
their profits are made were they to throw
the electricity into the atmosphere ; and it now remains for
Dr. Watson, to whose genius and indefatigable energies
we owe this triumph of practical science, to demonstrate
the national and public uses of this great power, as he
has already demenstrated to the fortunate shareholders
the commercial value of the mere chemical basis. But
we must not say that it remains for him to do sco-•
for already preparations arc made, in the first place,
to light up the largest railway station in the metropolis
—that of the Great Northern at King's Cross—perman•
ently with the electric light, one lamp doing the work of
250 gas burners. Already arrangements are entered
into to extend its application to the conversion of iron
into steel, in one of the largest steel-converting furnaces
in the north, at an almost incredible saving of time and
cost. In a few days an extensive bleaching liquid and
powder manufactory will be in operation, in connection
with the works, producing by an electric current an ino-
cuous hyperchloride of soda, at a cost not exceeding that
of the deleterious chloride of lime, at present making
such inroads upon our linen, in the hands of unscrupul-'
ous washerwomen ; and in a short time a commensurate
revolution will take place in locomotion by aid of the
same great natural agent, first in economizing fuel by a
vast reduction in the cost, and, a still greater improve-
ment, in the effective value of the process of coking and
of desulphurising coke ; and, by and by, in the actual
substitution of electricity for steam for all the purposes
for which steam has been heretofore employed.
Truly, as a contemporary wittily and wisely observes,
steam must give way to electricity, and the genius of
Watt must be superseded by that of this worthy son of
Watt—WATSON.

The Royal Albert, 120 guns, new screw steam-ship,
now ready for being launched at Woolwich, is ordered
to be sent down here immediately she is launched, her
rigging, sails, &c., being already here for her on her ar-
rival. She is to be commissioned as soon as she can be
reported ready for the pendant.
Assistant-Surgeon R. M. W. L. Gordon, M.D., has
taken up his commission, and joined the Majestic, 80
guns, new screw steam-ship, Captain James Hope.

SUNDERLAND, MARcri 21.
Mr. E. 11. Caher, Commander, R.N., arrived here on
Saturday night, for the purpose of procuring pilots to
join the Baltic fleet. Six captains have already been en-
gaged, and, as they have hitherto been in the command
of ships regularly trading to the Baltic, their services
will doubtless be of the most efficient character. Their
pay is to be 15s. per day, all their necessary expenses
defrayed, and they will mess with the petty officers.