The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-12 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, MAY 10.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 251. 17s.
6d. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 18s.-Arbroath and Forfar,
271. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ayr and Galloway, 11.195. 6d.
-Caledonian, W.-Ditto, New, 11. 18s.-Caledonian and
Dumbartonshire, 11. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 421. 10s.
-Deeside, 31. 55.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 1/. 7s.
6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 421.-Ditto, New, No. 1,30 -
Ditto, New, No. 2, 301.-Dundee and Perth, 301. 155.-
Ditto, New, 12/. -Eastern Counties, 191.-Ditto, York Ex-
tension, 51. 55.-East of Fife, 21.105.-Edinburgh and Bath-
gate, 61. 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 701. ex div.-
-Ditto, Halves, 22/. ss. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 12s.
6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181.-Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 201. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 'l7l. 2s. 6d.-
Ditto, New, 3/. 65.-Ditto, Newport, 6/. 195.-Ditto, ditto,
New, IL 16s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), IL
18s. 6d.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 118/.-,-Ditto New Stock,
361.-Ditto, Halves, 6/. 155.-Glastow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, Si. 2s. 6d.-Glasgow and txarnkirlc, 391.-Glasgow
General Terminus, 12/. 55.-Glasgow and Greenock, 1647.
Ditto, New, 8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 84-Glasgow
marnock, and Ardrossan, 51.-Great North of Scotland,
-21
-Newcastle and Berwick, 26L-North British, 30L 15s•
Ditto, Halves, 141.-Ditto, Thirds, 2/. N. 6d.-Ditto,
Ditto-
, 4/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip),d.".-S offish
Fifths, 61. 155.-Scottish Central, 231. 12s. 6
Grand
uJnufnercintiounn,e,l93si.. 5-Ss_c.ottsistihrirligdlaanndd,
Midland,
and
D
Wishaw and Coltness, 49/. IN.-York and Newcastle, 341.
10s.-Ditto, New, 14L 108. -Ditto, Preference, 6/. 10s.-
Direct Bombay and Madras, 2s. 6d.-East Indian, 2s. 6d.-
Great North of India, 35.-Great Southern of Madras, 2s.
-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, Is. 9d.
GLASGOW, MAY 10.

STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Aberdecn, 253%—Ayr
and Galloway. 395. 6d.—Caledonian, New, 375. 6cl. Dundee
and Perth. Quarters, 50e.— East Indian, 2s. 3d.—East Lothian
Central, 383. 6d.— Edinburgh and Northern, 171h—Ditto,
Newport, 7 Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 38s. 6d.—
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 118—Ditto (5 per cent.
guar.), 351,—Glasgow, Du►nfries, and Carlisle, 5/. 3s.—
Glasgow and Greenock, lialveg, 8 EA—Manchester and South-
ampton, 9s. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 495. 6d.—Slaman•
nan, 241.

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INAVAL CONSTRUCTION.
COPY OF INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE ADMIRALTY
TO THE COMMITTEE OF REFERENCE, ON QUESTIONS
RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS.
My Lords having had under consideration the large
amount which is annually expended in building vessels
of war, and the great importance of adopting such plans
only as, after due examination b and theoretically y persons practicall
acquainted with the science of naval
architecture, shall app ear to insure the greatest possible
degree of efficiency for the several obj Pets for which such
vessels are designed, and seeing g that in many
.iastances
Cie objects which constructors have had in view have
not been fulfilled by the performance of their vessels
when tried at sea, and that in others expensivei sae•
raantdiohnesinhgavtehebreeefonrreeqoutiroepdinaifotnerththaetyit
ihaveh
ea
xs been nd ieanuti 1 tt c )
have recourse to greater precaution than heretofore
existed, before finally approving of the draught vessel submitted to them, are pleased to dirs of
any
Ist That in future every draught shall be sent in i duplicate, and shall be accompanied by a mr,dei on the
scale of half an inch to a foit, in the case of vessels of
150 feet and under in length, between the perpendicu-
lars, or of a quarter of an inch to a foot in the case of
vessels of greater length, and shall in the first instance
be submitted to the Board for inspection at one of their
regular sittings.
2,1. That if the Board shall consider it expedient to
entertain the proposed design, one copy shall be referred,
as has heretofore been the practice, to the Surveyor of
the Navy, to be reported on by him, and the other to a
committee to be composed of two of the most scientific
,hipwright officers, to be selected for this duty by the
Board, and such other one or more competent persons,
not officially connected with the Admiralty, as their
Lordships may think proper to select, who are to report
their opinions respecting it in writing, and (in case of
disagreement) separately to the Beard ; and in the event
of any nautical differerce of opinion beta een the sur-
veyor and the committee thus constituted, the report of
the surveyor is to be referred to the committee, and
that of the committee to the surveyor, who are to state,
after having duly weighed the arguments in favour of
their respective views, whether or not they still adhere
to their former opinions.
3d.—That a printed form, to be hereafter determined
by the Admiralty with the assistance of the surveyor
and the above-mentioned " Committee of Re&rence,"
shall be drawn up, containing questions with respect to
the capacity of the proposed vessel for carrying her
weights, her probable qualities as a man-of-war, and
ether points of importance to her efficiency, to which
answers are to be inserted separately by the Surveyor,
and by each of the members of the " Committee of
Reference ;" but that their remarks are not to be coo-
fined to such answers, but are to extend to every point
having relation to the design referred to them to which
they might think it proper to draw the attention of the
Board.

4th. That the Surveyor and the Committee of Re-
ference be desired to confer with the Chief Engineers or
the Woolwich and Portsmouth steam-factories, and to
submit for the consideration of the Board, a plan for
obtaining greater security than at present exists, that
the Steam Vessels to be hereafter ordered to be built will
float at the proper trim after their engines have been
fixed on board, and that they will stow the requisite
quantities of coals, water, provisions, &e., at the proper
immersion.

sth. That the reports of the surveyor and of the
committee of reference are to be circulated for a week
at least among the na' mbers of the board, and to be
taken into consideration on a day previously fixed, when
it is to be determined whether the design to which they
refer shall be approved or rejected, or (in the event of
the principle being approved, but objections being en-
tertained in questions of detail) returned to the con-
structor for such alterations and adjustments as may be
required.
6th. That the surveyor and committee of reference
be given clearly to understand that, with respect to all
questions of mere calculation, such, for instance, as suffi.
ciency of displacement, sufficiency of space to stow tt.ie
proper quantities of water, provisions (coals in the (wise
of steamers), &c., in their proper places, the responsi-
bility will rest with them and not with the constructor,
who is not unfrequently ignorant of the weights which a
man•of--war is required to carry, and has, therefore, no
correct data cn which to found his calculations in these
respects. _ _

7th. My Lords also direct, that before any vessel shall
be ordered to be repaired, an estimate of the expense,
which is to be laid before the Board for consideration,
shall be sent in by the shipwright officers of the yard,
who are to distinguish between the probable cost of
giving her a thorough repair, and of repairing her in
a more superficial manner, with inferior timber, suffi-
cient to fit her for only another station ; and.
Bth. That no vessel shall be broken up or sold out of
the service (unless she be of an obsolete class of which
it might be desirable to get rid), without a survey having
first been held on her by two master shipwrights, of
whom the master shipwright of the Ordinary to which
she belongs is to be one, and that in the event of a differ-
ence of opinion between these two officers, she is to he
re-surveyed by a third master shipwright, who is to send
in a separate report, which, along with the reports of the
first survey, is to be laid before the Board.

NEW ARMAMENT FOR THE

STEAM NAVY.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, after
considerable experience of the power of the various
steam frigates and other steamers in the Royal Navy, as
regards their capabilities of bearing. heavy armaments,
have resolved to fix the following as the armament of
ea?lt particular steamer. Vessels of similar, or nearly
similar, tonnage and horse-power are to be arranged in
classes.

STEAMERS PROPELLED BY PADDLES.—STEAM snms.
—Terrible, 1,850 tons, 800 horse-power ; m.in deck:
four 56 pounders of 97 cwt., four 8 inch guns of 65
the 56-pounders on pivot slides, and carriages ; the
8-inch guns on common carriage--upper deck: four 56-
pounders of 97 cwr. on pivot slides end carriages ; tour
10-inch guns, 85 cwt. on common carriages : total guns,
IG. Penelope, 1,616 tons, 650 horse-power; main deck:
eight 8 inch guns of 65 cwt., on slides and carriages;
two 68-pounder carfonades of 36 cwt., on Hardy-'s com-
pressor earria.zes—upper deck : two 68-pounders of 95
cwt., on pivot slides and carriages ; four 8-inch guns of
65 cwt., on slides and carriages: total, 16. Retribution,
1,641 tons. 800 horse p,,vver; main deck, nono (but it is
arranged that all steam ships which do not carry an
armament on the main deck, shall, if possible, carry four
32-pounders of 56 cwt., for bead and stern firing)—
upper deck : two 68 pounders of 95 cwt., on slides and
carriages to pivot : tour 10-inch guns, 85 cwt., on slide
and carriages: total 6.

STEAM FRIGATES.--Class I—Avenger, 1,444 tons, 650
hone-power; 'and Birkenhead, of 1,400 tons, 500 horse-
power. Upper deck : two 68 plunders of 95 cwt., on
slides and carriages to pivot; four 10-inch guns, 85 cwt.,
on slides and carriages: total 6, At present, t.iie ..I..et.ger
carries by way of experiment two 32-pounders of 65
cwt., instead of the two 10 inch gins. Class 2 (A)----
Odin, 1,326 tons, 500 horse-power. Main deck: six 32-
pounders, 56 cwt., on common carriages. Upper deck:
two 68-pounder:, 95 cwt., on pivot slides and carriages;
four 10-inch guns, 85 cwt., on slides and carriages: total
12. The steamers also belonging to this class are the
Sidon and Leopard. Classs 2 (B)—Gladiator, 1,210
tons, 430 horse power; Samp-on (450 h. p.); Centaur
(540 h. p.); Dragon (560 h. p.); Firebrand (400 h. p.);
Vulture (470 h. p.) ; and Cyclops (320 h. p.) Uppur
deck : two 68-pounders, 95 cwt., on pivot slide and
carriages ; four 10 -inch guns, of 85 cwt., on slides and
carriages : total 6.
STEAM SIA3PS.—Class I—Gorgon, 1,111 tons, 320
horse-power; Bulldog (500), Fury (515), Inflexibi,.
(378), Devastation (400), Sphynx (500), Corm, rant
(300), Thunderbolt, since wrecked in Alcoa Bay (300),
Eclairtyx (
(2872),
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V iGrowlerrago (3(020/10.), s i
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10-inch,lpper
85 cwt., on pivot slides and carriages; four 32 pounders
of 42 cwt., on Hardy's slides arid carriages. Total fer
all vessels of this class, 6. Class 2—Medea, 535 t• ns,
350-horse power t • Salamander (220). Hydra (200).
blecate (240), Ilecla (240), Hermes (220), and Tri6u,:
(3to). Upper deck: two 10 inch wins. 85 cwt., on piNc,.
slides and carriages; four 32-pounders, 25 cwt,, on.
Hardy's compressor carriages. Total, 6. Class 3—s
Ardent, 810 tons, 200 horse-power; Alec,o (200), Poiv-
phemus (200), and Prometheus (200). Uper deck : one
32-pounder, 45 cwt., on pivot slides and carriages.
Total, 3. A special exception is made in this class of
the Janus, 763 tons, 220 horse-power, which carries
only two 10-inch guns of 85 cwt., on pivot slides and
carriages.

BOMB STEAMERS.—Scourge, 1,124 tons, 420 hor-e-
-power. Upper deck: one 68-pounder, 95 cwt. on slide,
and carriage to pivot; one 13-inch mortar. Total, 2.
STEAM GUN VESSELS.—CIass I—Firefly. 550 tons,
220 horse-power; Blazer (Ig6), Tartarus (136). and
FlamerOn
slide (la2nod). c
aUrrpi
apgeer
tdoeckpi:voot7 t
w 32- 32-pounder, der;
pounder 42 cwt.,car.
or ornaapdpelse,r,l7scsw9
(100; tons,°Oberon 112a2r d0(-2v
(260), Triton
carriages
horsepower,26CPol)al
(260), Antelope
Pluto o I (( (A)—
Grappler, Or),
on slides
she
aarnwdactae rrri:gl:os),tob.P:uv: :11:00).
Aiacheron (170), and Volcano (140). Two 32-
pounders, 56 Colombia
3P2°-pounders, c2wsL"cwt., on c.tnpressor slid«, arid car-
riages; total, 4. Class 2 (A)—Spitfire, 432 tons 140
horse- p o w e r ;
(100),(132) alsn. uldco2ciecifilk)orr:rni
iie(iileaBsrOpt)y,,,
p'A:v2:o,otosn)
carronades, leOlacsw t. , o n H a(r8d0))'
tii(wii
g7ooh)lt,nBi-Gnpgol Gleaner (130),
,(clat3:ore)ot
~,
com-
pressor 18-pounder, of 20 cwt., on slid, s and
(13) —Torch, 345
carriages; total, 3.
tons, 150 horse-power, Locust
Jackal (150), Lizard (150), Bloodhound (150), and Myr-
midon (150). One 18-pounder, of 22 cwt., on pivot slides
and carriages, and two 18-pounders carronades, 10 cwt.,
on ilarld3y:spclacrricEitigles.....s.
W ildfire, 186 tons; Fearless,
Dasher,S'rE_ Monkey, and Dwarf. Two 6 pounder brass
guns, of six cwt.

Tues.—Echo, 295 tons, 140 horse-power, African
anti Confidence. Two 32 pounders, of 56 cwt., on pivot
slides and carriages.
TROOP SHlPS.—Rhaclamanthus, 813
F tons, 220 horse-
power, Dee (220), and Alban (120). oar 32-pounders
of 41 or 56 cwt., on common carriages.—United Service
Gazette.
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LARGE MERCANTILE FAILURE IN MANCHESTER...-.
MANCHESTER, TilVitSDAT.—The town has been electrified
to. day by the announcement of a failure of very considerable
magnitude. The house is an American one, of the firm of
Roberts, Freeman, and Co. The amount currently stated is
50,000/. or 60,000/. There are some four or five houses here
who have claims for 4,0001. or 5,0001. each, and the amount
owing by the concernin Yorkshire is said to be very large.
The fiouse had man to credit, from the fact of their having
for some time previously to the stoppage employed a most
respectable firm to purchase on their account, but who lately
have not been known as the agents of the defaulting parties
Dispatches for the Governor of the Mauritius WAS seat
last evelting from the 04944104 c%