The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-03 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. l2,

:nd sailed for `Woolwich. The 'Etna arrived on Mon
frost Woolwich, and sailed on the following day for

Sa')astian.
The keel of a sister steamer to the Stromboli has be 1,11
lai l down in this Dockyard ; she will be called the Dri
ver ; and to show the immutability of the Surveyor's sys
tern, she is only to have a little greater length, and two
feet more beam,
Tnc Pembroke, 72, and Warspite, razed, will be taken
out of DJek on the 14th instant. Report says both ships
are to be got ready fur sea.
NAVAL. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Mat--B. F. H. Helpman, late of the Beagle, is ap-
pointed to command the Colonial schooner, Champion,
employed bets.-een Swan River and King George's Sound,
and from thence to Bombay.
Midshipman—Cavendish Hare, from Princess Charlotte
to Vanguard.
Ist Engineer—Geo. M'Farlane to Stromboli.
2d Engineers—John Shaw and John Russell (b), to
the Stromboli ; Archibald Bain, to the Victory, for scr,
vice of the Wildfire.
COAST GUARD.—Mate—John Grandy, from Camber'
to Hayling Island.

IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN
GUN CARRIAGES.

Friday Prince Labanoff de Rostoff, Major-General of
the Russian Army, and M. Bankhausen, the Russian Col?.
sul- General, with many scientific gentlemen, paid a visit
to the grounds of the Ben Jonson Tavern, in Stepney, to
inspect an important improvement which has recently
barn made by Mr. J. Brown, of Limehouse, to entirely
obviate the inconveniences attending the recoil of guns
on board The new carriage consists of two
frames, the uppermost of which, however, is elevated
at one end to an angle of about fifteen deuces, whea
the gun is about to be discharged, and the leading fe'
ture of the invention is that the gun on its di:charge
has to recoil up hill. There are other advantages re'
suiting from this plan, inasmuch that no tackling is
re-
quired to work the gun, and consequently no strain 011
the side of the vessel, and it was evident that two me°
could work a 60-pounder in battle with as much ease el
the 16 or 20 men now required for that service, while'
the rapidity of firing would be increased in a four-fold:.
ratio. Tho gun was rapidly discharged in the field be-,
hind the tavern, and with the greatest ease. The piece
was a four-pounder weighing 3i cwt., and a gun-deck
being represented for it to work on, a boy was found
equal to perform all the operations of loading, running
the piece out, and firing. The visitors expressed there-9
selves highly satisfied with the experiment, and
proceeded to the ball-room of the tavern, where a veil
large and splendidly finished gun-carriage on the new
principle, and intended for a 36-pounder, was exhibited.
It was understood that the carriage had been purchased
for the Russian Government, who it appears in this, as t°.
every other important invention, are the first to take 0,
vantage of English ingenuity. The Prince and Consel
were much pleased with the invention, and the manner
in which it had been got up, and paid a high cote'
pliment to Messrs. Brown and Barreti-, the patentee&
There is no doubt of its being a very important
improvement in the science of gunnery, and will save
a vast deal of manual labour. Mr. Brown,, the inventor
of the new gun-carriage, has been long known to Of
scientific world by many important inventions,
which the patent capstan, the chain controller, and rue
chain stopper are the hest known. The gran-carriage,
from its extreme simplicity of action, may 'be said to
eclipse all his other productions. The Lords of tl,
Admiralty intend shortly to make the experiments vat",
Mr. Brown's gun-carriage on hoard ship on a very
,
large scale. The result will no doubt prove
great utility, and its adoption in our navy must tollol/
as a matter of course. After Prince Labanoff
of
Rostoff and M. Bankhausen had left the grounds °
the tavern they were shown over the new and vert
extensive works of the new Commercial ,Gas gout
pany, which commence the operation hig".
ing the large districts of Stepney and the Towg..,r
lets in a few weeks. Messrs. Swallow and Morris, Ite
of the Directors, and Mr. Mercer, the engineer of t„mi
Gas Company, conducted them over the works,
pointed out the peculiar mode of manufacturing Pa
The visitors soon afterwards left Stepney, much gratifie
with the attention paid them.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST t4ES,

Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. Fea'e'
Per Quarter. 5. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s: A
Abingdon....... (6 79 Z,O 38 26 36 46 50 4,1
And0ver......... 52 75 30 53 29 33
Banbury 30 40 25 32 4v
Basingstoke... 68 79 29 35 28 33 47 5 40
^;,,neester 64 76 33 33 29 35 40 42 1:
Coventry.— 73 45 25 38 46 4. $0
Oaventry„,...... 68 72 34 44 24 31 39 44
Derby 63 74 35 36 34 36 49 51 ••••
Howden-- 72 24 40 42 4$
Hungerford... 54 (0 :32 40 25 33 36 40 "•
Malton 68 76 35 38 22 33
Maidenhead.,. 58 63 35 48 25 34 37 46 -•;;
43
:Nottingham 51 '77 32 33 '.31 34 47 51 4v
Wantage 6,8 80 30 40 22 28 36 46
32 46 30 35
Worcester 70 311 29 43 0" .0
York 40 83 32 40 22 30 ~1
Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d, s, , g; a.l
Birmingham 80 96 39 59 40 49 56 681
NEWCASTLE CORN-EXCH A NOE.
Red. white.
Wheat, Northumberland 4Bs. —s. —s. 70 .1
-- Norfolk and Suffolk 7lB. 76i.......
.--- Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 655.......
Foreign 69 !. 735....... 725.
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 3lis 395.......
Foreign 304. 341. ......
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sutti lk •
Grinding and Feeding 3os. 325......
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk •• A• •
Beans, Small 4o‘ 4RI

s. d. s. d. s. d, s, (1,1
i 4 0 4 9 5 6 6 8 1
.N'EXCHANGE.
Red. white.,
Wheat, Northumberland 4Bs. -s. -s. 70 •
--- Norfolk and Suffolk 715. 76,....... 743.-80'.
-..- Berwick and Scotch tils. 655....... -s• 68%
,Au
Foreign f9!. 735........725. '"
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk -
. i
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflblk -30:.. -34:............: ":1,.....5:::: I,'
- Grinding and Feeding ..... s. 325. ....s
.., mss.
Malt, Norfolk and 5uff01k....., 64s 635....... "--. ......S.
Beans, Small 4os. 48' "''':' _4l'
- Tick 4Bs. 484 ...... -7.' ~....S.
?ease, White 42s 445. ... """'' ....a.
...S.
-- Gray --s . -5.......
.....s,
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe '29s. 305....... --a•
....4,
-....-_- Feed ......
..,„ ,
--Foreign
,),
Flour (per sack) sBs. 555....... ••-••
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. ~ e 724
Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk -5, i 6s. to 703. La. Il&
--- Lin. and Cam.
-------- Yorkshire •••3. 51's. to 595". '',:°; VIP
%Chao „ -s. :Os. to 725. ..0,, 70s.
....-. Foreign, Red -s. -a. to 645. fin:, 7*
White S. -5. to ;th• r!ne ygo.
Barley, Norfolk and Sullblk
----- Lincolnshire
fine _„.,
- Yorkshire \Vold . • 9s. to --s• - e:s.7-.
- Foreign
Beans, New - fineo
-- Old 46s. to 48,. c
Oats. Potato -.s. to 30s. P„ f4*
--.- Poland -s -s. to :3014 fine Oh
- Vriezland and Small .. ........... ~ -5: --s. to •235. P'MeOf'
-- bi:aling
. -
Shelling
Malt ....... ......... ..5. 445. fine 465. P_e.i. j,sts"
Rapeseed
~.. ..... . -4. Os. 26/.os. WI. Os. F.'

SCOTCH MARKETS.
----"<;;I'
Oa" -'
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans-
........1 4cr
----. -----.— —__ ------- -------- --------- 5, 1 46
Aberdeen 7O to 80 21) to 33 27 to 35 —to ,—; 43
Berwick 4O Si) '. 2 27 '1 24 33 00
Coldstream
46 50 '24- 26 17 18 .),," .„.. •7 /
Cupar (Fife) 48 65 26 31 18 22 2...2 2‘) 40 /
Dunbar 4B 68 26 49 23 27 40 4:2
Elgin
3,1 ".. . ,
Inverness , 62 72 35 :..8 56 29 32 „' ,
Kelso .:, 37 54 23 30 23 27 34 S.„ 43
Kirisaldy/
Perth
The GO ^4 30 40 23 35 41 q• until'
,•'• size of the measure varies throughout the CO
HADDING PON CORN MARKET. 00
Ot oil
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 4ttO Od
First Bos Od 42s 0.1 41s 031 50$ Od 474 ~j
Second o7s Od 4ls Od 333 83 48s Od _Ale
"Third 5Ss Od 37s Od 35s Si 42s Od
Average 91. '7s. Cl, 10 labs.
DA LKEITH CORN MARKET. Oe'noili.
Wheat Barley. Oats. Pease. 0• 1
First SO< Gu 42s 0,1 41, 4d 53, Od D,s N'i
Second 6Bs Od :Ai, Od 18;s 8d 524 Odd 50 "
Third -1s Od 30s 01 52s Bcl 50
GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET.—JuIy 29.
... d, the
Wheat, 'ter 2401 b. s. d. s. cl. Oats, per 2041 b. :,,, 6to WI
gritish, old 37 010 39 0 Irich . , ................... ~...; 0
---- new
Canada, free
Irish
Barley, per 320th Scottish ... . ... , ........ N, j oo
English 29 0 30 0 Pease, Scottish ,•••• 0 0 561
Scottish 24 0 29 0 Oatmeal, per 140.11
Irish
..R.l

. 110.,
PLATE.—T. COX SAVORY, Silvers
47, Cornhill (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), 1
The best wrought Fiddle-Pattern Spoons and r°,:eo,ll:
7s. 2d. per ounce. The following are the weights...se si'
mended, but the articles may be had lighter er heavilh +
11 4e.
same price per ounce : Clll i•
Fiddle pattern xI. 0
oz. .d. £s. d. li 16 A
12 Table Spoons 3O at 7 2 ... 10 15 • ••• 7 Iwo
12 Dessert ditto
12 Table Forks 20 at 7 2 ... 10 lb 'IA " 71P i
12 Dessert ditto 2O at 7 2 ... 7 3 ... 4 5. i
2 Gravy Spoons ... ...... lO at 7 2 ... 311' "• s IP.
1 Soup Ladle
4 Sauce ditto
4 Salt Spoons (gilt strong) 1 00 ." I 11 0
1 Fish Slice 2lO 0 ''' 4',1 0
12 Tea Spoons lO at 7 1 ... 3 16 1 ••• 0 lii
1 Pair Sugar Tongs (strong) 0 15 0 •••. oisarf
The Classic is a new pattern, ,winch admired for Oboe 1f
elefigdadnlece.iTtehpa
The Fiddle eitPhaatsteuranenisarwpirthnvtehd, the handleandin tii.leewlejt
a
more than quthirty years.
N.B.—Pattern Spoons can be sent into the cipi.

of
inTIIS. O'
On the 30th ult., Mrs. it
G. Edmonds, Wandsworth-r '
a son. iiSOO9 .44
On the 31st ult., at Dulwich, the lady of R. is
of a son. , thl
On the Ist., in Halkia-street-west, Belgrave-square
of H. Barnett, Esq., of a daughter. bio

ARRIE.
On the 29th ult., at Abridge, EssexD,
W. T. Reeve, 1,,54i11.
Elizabeth Caroline, only daughter of the late R. Wh„,eage,;(ll,
On the Ist inst., at St. Lawrence Jewry, Mr. 1., Mr.
of Wood-street, Cheapside, to Susanna, daughter of lei.
rl. ill
Cleaver, of Lawrence-lane. 0
On the Ist inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, W. u:.„hter
Esq., of Hans-place, to Charlotte Leathes, only da"
W. Baker, Esq., of South Lambeth, Surrey.
D IRD. f Ce
On the 14th ult., at Leghorn, Maria, the wife ° Jobe
George Chichester. jste
On the 22d ult., at Hampstead, Ann, relict of the
eftb4
Wollaston, sen., Esq., aged 65. 'clevi sO
On the 27th ult., at Kimbolton, Mrs. Kerr, iv', h•re; 4g.
late Rev. Nelson Kerr, rector of 'l'ilbrook, Redfer",,,sri of "
daughter of the Rev. P. G. Crofts,
John's, Lewes, Sussex. eelyr
On the 28th ult., James May, Esq of Bethnal-gr , 0,
• f
solicitor, aged 89. Cn9tsfitl"
On the 29th ult., at Derwent Island, Cumberlaxid,A 6 rgotolt
the daughter of James Henry, Esq., aged 5 years a}‘`. Die"-
On the 29th ult., at Trevallyn Captain Henry to
Mosten, R.N., of Segrwdt, Denbighshire, aged 4°' gaff'
On the 30th ult., in Pelham-cresceut, BrosePton' ,
mile of John Drake, Esq., aged 271 formerly New
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