The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

THE ARCHIMEDES STEAM-
VESSEL.

(From the Liverpool Journal.)
ARRIVAL OF THE ARCIIIMEDF.S STEAMER.—We
have the pleasure to announce to our readers the grati-
fying intelligence cf the arrival of the Archimedes in this
poll, we will not say on an experimental cruise, inas-
much us the expression experimental would imply the
existence of a question as regards the practical superio-
rity of the screw-propeller over any species of mechanism
as yet constructed for purposes of navigation with the
aid of steam. The object of the visit of the Archimedes
to the port of Liverpool is, we understand, solely to
give to the steam interests of our wealthy and enter-
prising community the opportunity of judging for them-
selves on the subject of this extraordinary invention, in
behalf of an incalculable national benefit. The Archi-
med,-..s arrived here on Friday last, from Milford, having
perk toed her journey, without he aid of sails, in the
short space of nineteen hours and a half, a distance of
200 miles.

MON EY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, T LVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, Fninmt.—The sales of
this day hat e been 4,000 bale:: at steady prices, without any
alteration since Friday.
The art ivals this morning are the French mail, ship let-
ters from China and Monte Video, Hobart Town, 21st
Feb., Calcutta, 24th Feb., Batavia, and Launceston.

We have received Cape of Good Hope, papers to the
9th ef April.
" From the Frontiers this week we learn that depreda.
ions by the Caff-es have increased of late; these anno3-
ttees appear to have their neap and spring tides. It
is for the I oetier-guard to learn their periods, and to set
watch accordingly."
The most important subject in Cape Town at present
is the state of public health, and it is one that demands
serious attention both of Government and private indi-
viduals. Small-pox had spread rapidlj during the last
two or three weeks, and there is probably not a
narrow lane or alley in which more than one family is
not to be found infected and suffering under the disease.
We are also informed that the malignity of the disease,
and the number GI deaths increase daily, so that it might
ty considered the most fatal scourge with which this colony
has been visited within the memory of the present genera-
tion. Tile want of servants and labourers, &c. , is again
severe y felt in Cape Town. The present epidemic is
pertly the cause of this ; but the main cause is that the
number of labourers has fallen far below the demand for
labour. Ploughing has commenced ; the high price of all
agricultural produce will doubtless stimulate the farmers to
extensive cultivation.
We understand that Government has lately granted a
free passage to South Australia to shepherds and persons
acquainted with the management of land, from Ireland,
provided they be not above thirty nor below seven years
of age.
The intelligence from China has not as yet bad the
least elf. ct on the British :Market.
Consols continue steady et the leaving off prices of
yesterdav, 91i 4 fur the Account, w:th scarce anything
doing ; Exchequer Bills, 23 26 prem. ; India Bonds, 1 3
prem. ; Bank Stock 1764 1771 ; India Stock 2531 2541.
In the Foreign 'Market as yet the prices are nominal,
and may be .quoted 'as they left off. Spanish Active,
274 2 ; Deferred 124 4 ; Passive, 64 .4 ; Portuguese 354
4 ; Three per Cents. 244 4; . Brazilian, 761 77_; Co-
lomliaa 952 26k • Dutch Tf wo-and- a-Half per Cents.,
544 4 , Five per dente. 1014.1-4.
snwacs.—Great :Western Beltway, 32.33 preni.;;- Lon-
'thin...it Brighton. s i discount ; Blackvvall, 11 2 Oren]. ;
Southampton, 531 54} par share; Birmingham, 88 90
prem. ; Greenwich, 9i 10.4 pee share.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
ze. s. d. £. s. d. £. .3. tl.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Cheltenham and Great Western. 50 , 27 ...... to 271
Great Western
Ditto New -
London and Birmingham 90
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13* ll ..... to IQ
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
North Midland .. 100
Ditto New
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
A ust ralacia
Union of Australia .. 20 . 30
HALF-PAS'7' ONE.
Mr. Waghorn's first expresses arrived in London yester-
day evening, in less than 90 hours, from Marseilles. The
second expresses, with date 23.1 May, from Bombay, will
arrive in less than 80 hours from Marseilles, in due course.
Consols at present for the operiing, 914 4 ex dividend ;
Reduced, 91! 1; Exchequer Bills, 263 ss. lower; India
Bonds, 4 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 274 ; Pas-
sive, GE ; Deferred,
.14 ; Mexican, 324; Dutch TR C-
and-a-Half per Cents., 544.
In Shares some business has been doing. Great
Western, 98% 99, 11- rise ; London and Birmingham, 181 k
to 182, 14 rise ; Croydon, 11, fall of -41 ; Manchester and
Leeds, 844; North Midland New, 391 40, rather lower;
Cheiteuham and Great Western, 271, rise 21.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank stock
3 per Cent. Red 914 ' Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons — Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red.— ... 993 Ditto New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent
New 5 per Cent ...
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ....... 13t1, Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct —
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent,;. Portugues .
e, 5 per cent. 69
Belgian, 5 per cent...... Ditto, -New Ditto —
Brazilian Bon's .. ..... Prussian, 5 per cent....
I3uenosAyres,6 per cent 181 Russian, 5 per cent....
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, S per cent 271
Ditto, 1824
Danish, :3 per cent.... French,s per cent...llsf. 50c.
Greek, 1825, 5 percent. ---, Exchange
ilfexi..an, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Duch, 21 per cent 54,i
Peruvian, 1 8115, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent IOII
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 7Ol
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway
Eastern Counties Railway
..4
Great \} e, Railway
Ditto New Shares
Il.on,len and Brighton Railway 291
London and Blackwell Railway
London arid Birmingham Railway
Ditto Quarter Shares
London and Greenwich Railway ... 9
London and South tVestern Railway .• 54
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 125
Manchester and Leeds Railway
Ditto New Shares.
North Midland Railway
Ditto New Shares .. . ... .. .. 40

DOVER, JUNE B.—There ban been shipped
th;s day, at. Dover, for Calais, 459,000 cunces of silver bul.
lion, and 1,250 ounces of gold.
LONGEVITY --We are informed that there is
now living in Halliwell-road, Little Bolton, a man named Evan
Counce, who was bora in the township of Rufford, in this
county, in August, 1736, and baptized, as proved by the parish
register, in the September of the same year. He is thus ap-
proaching the completion of bis 104th year, and he is remark-
ably hale and hearty. —Manchester 'Guardian.
WATCHES DESTROYED BY few
weeks ago the mail-train on the London and Preston Railway
unfollunately caught fire, and in consequence a great amount
of valuable property was much damaged, or entirely consumed.
A box containing ferty-two watches, many of them valuable,
and manufactured expressly to order for Carlisle, formed part
of the property. To so intense a degree of heat had the watches
1 e n subjected that, though the various metals wet e not meted,
every part of the machinery was rendered entirely useless.
SHOCKING SUICIDE.—Tuesday morning Mr.
Joseph Clarke, farmer of Piddington Grange, Northampton,
shot himself in the brewhOuse, and was found by his family
quite dead. He had been for some time subject to a severe
pain at the top, of his head, which prevented his getting rest
night or day. He left his bed about three in the morning, and
his wife becoming alarmed at the length of his stay, got up and
found him as described. He had shot himself with a short
double-barrelled gun, the muzzle of which he had placed in his
mouth, pulling the trigger with his hand. 'The roof of the
mouth and the tongue were blown to pieces, the skull was ter-
ribly shatte..Kl, and the brains almost entirely driven out, part
being found on the ceiling of the brewhouse. Although a
man in good circumstances, he had latterly an idea that he
should come to want, and had been very low-spirited, The
jury found a verdict of Temporary Delirium.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON RAIL•
WAY.— On Saturday night, about half-past eight o'clock, as a
labouring man, named Winter, was in the act of getting into
one of the carriages, near the Jolly Sailor, on the Croydon
y
Railway, to come to London as a passenger, the train suddenl
vent on, Wien he wo tinge Led down, and ;hewheels passed
over both his thighs, which were smashed in a frightful man_
tier. He was immediately brought up to Guy's Hospital, where
he lingered in the greatest agony till twelve o'clock the same
night, when he expired.
The Earl of Galloway having paired off for the
remainder of the session with Lord Lynedoch, is expected im-
mediately at Galloway-house, Isis residence in Wigtownshire.
—Caledonian- iiieroory,.

(From the Bristol Mercury.)
This vessel arrived in our port on Friday evening
I last, and, being moored in Cumberland-basin, instantly
became an object of great attraction and admiration.
It was a matter of no little disappointment to our
eitizrms that, being engaged in an experimental voyage
round the coast, the Archimedes was obliged to leave
here again en the Monday morning for Milford, on
which occasion she was accempanied by the Samswl,
steam-tug, engaged by a party Who went on board the
Archimedes in order to Witness her perf.rinances
with which they were extremely gratified. She is
a fine vessel, about 240 tons burden, and is propelled
by one engine, of eighty horses' power. The advan-
tages of her form of construction are, that floe screw
at the stern being ever under water, never throws
away i!s labours, nor is it exposed to external in-
jury like the unsightly paddle-wheels of the common
steam vessel. In a naval action, therefore, the screw
is not to be got at by the enemv ; whereas the present
paddles may be so injured by the first shut, as to ren-
der the vessel unmanageable. The position of the pro-
peller, too, is such that, when at her full speed, she
causes no wore swell in the water than a regular sail-
ing vessel ; and those advantages, combined with other
important considerations, are likely eventually to lead
to the general substitu4ron of the Archimedeen screw
for the common paddle. Captain Chapple (Govern.
went agent) declares that he has not the slightest doubt
hut that the screw may be applied to the largest ship of
war, enablirg her thus to come into action in spite of
contrary winds. Mr. Smith, the inventor, accompanies
the Archimedes, and affords every facility to inquiry.