The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-26 00:00:00

MILITARY.

Captain Levinge's company of the Royal Artillery,
at Woolwich, will relieve Captain Henderson s, at
Portsmouth, on the 3d proximo, the latter returning
to Woolwich.
A detachment—of Lieutenant Paterson, 1 ensign,
2 sergeants, and 50 rank and file of the 42d High-
landers—will embark at Deptford on the 29th instant
in the Pestonjee Bomanjee transport, as a guard over
200 male convicts from Queenstown to Bermuda.
WooLwicif, SEPT. 25.—The Minx steam-n 35%
fitted with a high- pressure engine of 10 horsepower, an"
her screw propeller abaft the rudder, went down the
river yesterday, on an experimental trial, under at
charge of Lieutenant Robertson, with Mr. Casey, of
Captain Austin's branch of the steam department, and
Mr. Taplin, of the factory department at Woolwich
Dockyard. The Minx ran the measured mile four
times, and the average speed attained was about four
and three-quarter knots per hour, equal to the speed
obtained when the screw-propeller was fitted in the
dead wood of the stern, where the rudder is nowplaced. The next trial of the Minx is to be made
with a disc engine, but no material advantage appears
to be gained by having the propeller abaft the rudder,
though it is to many objections, as it cannot in
that position be unshipped, and owing to its project'
ing considerably below the bottom of the keel, it c acts
the risk of being easily broken when the draught •t
water is barely sufficient for the vessel. It is also
inapplicable to large vessels, as the flanges of the pro-
peller would extend several feet below the keel when
revolving, and the weight of large screws give a
leverage when placed so far astern of the vessel that it

would be difficult to support them.
The Inflexible steam-sloop, Commander Hoseason, is
ordered to be paid off here on Friday next. A number
of the crew of the Fisgard are employed at present
upon her, upwards of 40 of her crew having been left
at Portsmouth suffering from dysentery and other
complaints incident to their return from a warm
climate. Four men of the crew were taken to the
Marine Hospital here to-day, two of them owing to
lameness.

The Terrible-steam frigate, Captain Ramsey, is to
be paid off on Thursday, and will be again commis-
sioned almost immediately.
' The Bee lighter has been raised and taken along.
side the wharf wall, and the spare stores taken out of
her. The labourers are now employed in pumping
out the water while the tide is low, and she will soon
be put to rights without much loss, the materials
being got out uninjured.
The Archer steam-sloop is to have her screw-pro-
peller reduced from 11 feet 6 inches, its present
diameter, to 10 feet in diameter, and she will be again
tried down the river in the latter part of the present
or early in the ensuing week.
CHATHAM, SEPT. 25.—The Calypso, 20 guns,
Captain Henry J. Worth, was paid off into ordinary
on Monday, the 24. h. Neither her bulk-heads nor
any of her internal fittings are disturbed. Owing to
the protracted illness of Ciptain Worth, that officer
was taken yesterday to Melville Hospital. Tha Ma-
rines, consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 1 drummer,
and 13 private;, joined the Chatham division the same
afternoon, and 5 privates proceed to Portsmouth.
Lieutenant George Webb, the officer in command,
belonging to the Woolwich division, proceeds to join
his head-quarters.
The Wolverine, 16 guns, was commissioned this
morning, by Lieutenant Christie hoisting the pen-
dant; and Commander Maxwell Falcon, appointed to
this ship, has also arrived, and proceeded on board
this day. Commander Falcon was promoted from
First Lieutenant as a reward for his conduct when in
command of a breaching battery, and in storming the
stronghold of the rebels at New Zealand, with a party
of seamen and marines from the Castor, 36.

A party of the Royal Artillery, of the 11th battalion,
consisting of 27 men, in charge of Sergeant Barfitt,
proceeded this m( rniug to Tilbury Fort, to mount
some new guns, &c.

INDEPENDENCE IN CONTENTMENT.—Much as we
imagine ourselves sup,:rior in philos.pby and attainments
to our continental neighbours, we might learn from them
a useful lesson—that of being contented with less money,
and devoting more time to the cultivation of all that
mikes lite vveith living for. It was hoped that when
railroads weme muck, so much tivie would be saved in
travel, as to give • great, r leisure to the ordinary affairs
of life, but the anticipation has not been realised. The
lever has grow❑ with what it leads on. Truly, the demon
of unrest has entered into us, and we rush down the steep
places to draw ourselves in a sea, of troubles.—FEETlNA
LENTE.--Builder.

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