The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-06 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 98.

Abdy, T. N. Fox, Richard M. Morpath, Viscount
Adair, It. Shafto Freestuti, Colonel Morison. General
' Armstrong, R. B. Galway„Viscount O'Connell, M. J.
Ashley, Lord Gladstone, W. E. Ogle, S. C.
Barnard, E. G. Glyn, G. C. Owen, Sir John
Barrington, Viscount Gore, W. 0. Palmerston, Vii.
Believe, R. M. Greenall, Gilbert Parker, John
Berkeley, Captain Grenfell, C. Pascoe Patten, J. W.
Berkeley, 11. Grey, Sir George Power, sicholaS
Blackall, S. W. Harris, Captain Price, Sir It.
Bourke, it. S. liastie, Archibald Pugh, David
Brown, W. Hawes, Benjamin Reid, Colonel
Bunbury, Elwarcl. lieneage, Edward Rice, E. R.
I;urrell, Sir.C. Henley, J. W. Hominy, John
Busfeild, W. Herries, John C. Russell, Lord John
Christy, Samuel Hildyara, lt. C. Rutherford, A.
Clements, diaries Hodgson, W. N. Sibtliorp, Colonel
Coke, Edward K. liornby, John Smith, J. A.
Craig, W. G. Jervis, Sir John Spooner, Richard
Cu Witt, William Heppul, George .T. Stun, Henry G.
Dalrymple, Captain Labouchere, sienry Towneley, Charles
Denison, W. J. Langston, J. H. Townshend, Captain
I.hvett, E. Lewis, Sir T. Verney, Sir 11.
Drummond, Henry Lewis, G. C. Waddington, H. S.
Duucuft, John Lindsay, Colonel Ward, 11. G.
Dundas, Admiral Locke. Joseph Watkins, Colonel
1 v”na,‘,,, sir David Mackinnon, W."..... Westhead, J. P.
Ebringtoii, Lord Macnamara, Major Williamson, Sir H.
Evans, J. Maitland, T. Wood, Sir Charles
Fergus, John Mangles, It. D. • WyvW, 3f.
Ferguson, Sir R. Masterman, John
Fitzroy, Henry Matheson, Colonel
Forbes, Wm. Meux, Sir 11,
Fordyce, A._D. Morgan, 0,

TELLIES.
Tannll, IL
6 Hill, Lord Marcus

FATAL ACCIDENT.
It is with extreme regret that we have to announce
the death of Mr. Dakin, the celebrated tea and coffee
merchant, of St. Paul's Church yard, which took place in
consequence of the frightful injuries which he received
by an explosion that occurred on his premises in
to
oao
connexionrm
with
andA I r
Blackfriars yesterday afternoon. It appeared that Mr.
Dakin was experimenting or trying the effects
of some new patent coffee-roasting machine,
and while engaged in the operation one of the pipes of
the machine, from some cause or other which has not
yet been ascertained, exploded with fearful violence, and
killed the unfortunate gentleman
needless to detail the horror and amazement which
such a sudden and unhooked for catastrophe created
in the minds of those who witnessed the accident ;
upon the spot. It is
nor the grief which it occasioned to the friends of the
deceased, and also to those in his employ, when the
melancholy intelligence was conveyed to them. Mr.
Dakin has always maintained a high character in the
city of London as a citizen, and as an upright, honest,
and enterprising tradesman, and his loss will no doubt
in some quarters be felt very severely,
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
A very distressing accident, resulting in the death of
Mr. William Dakin, the extensive tea-dealer, of No. 1,
St. Paul's Church-yard, and serious injury to several
other persons, occurred yesterday afternoon. Mr. Dakin,
it appears, recently patented a new machine for roasting
and cleansing coffee, and during the last three months
workmen hare been actively
superintendence in erecting it at his warehouse in Shoe-
maker-row, Blackfriars. The machine was completed on
Thursday, and yesterday the first trial of its powers
was made in the presence of Mr. Dakin and three or
"gaed under his personal
four other persons when the catastrophe occurred. The
principle on which the machit,ielc,teiaetpnhitaasi
inbeternadceo.nsyvtriutchtiend
is the substitution of boiling water for the ordinary
pTrneeducihnogilevheata,nd as
engine
elied
haveto cohlfeeeen-
eindgoOn the ground floor, from which the hot water
ie
rmr
soo7 :ins
conveyed
uveyed through pipes to the upper story of the
building, where the process of roasting and cleansing
was intended to be carried on. The chief feature in the
machine is a cylinder charged with boiling water, round
which the coffee berries are made to travel; the bursting
of this cylinder, from some unexplained cause, occa-
sioned the accident. The machine was got into work
shortly after two o'clock, and about three o'clock Mr.
Dakin arrived at the warehousee and went up stairs to
inspect the operation, but he had only been in the apart-
ment a very few moments when the explosion took
place. The effect, as may be imagined, was terrific.
The cylinder was blown into several pieces, and one
of the bolts by which it was attached to the
entered his brain, and killed
machine striking Mr. Dakin ohnimcitoohinuie)vssetsyalenahfttteananteef:monssplhhlyee.,
One of the workmen in attendance was so_
lmuch in.
jured
hospital, that .
ni
et r e washe foundri ow l i
e s in necessarya pvhe
e
. ad:
s.epAcalorrn.adtii)vtettiailkyie..
other parties present escaped
injuries. Some circumstances in
spsechueliahrlaya unfortunate.
Prior tor
to renderestablishing
"Yatrfortune, about:?. three
carried
C biLi:eusnri business
he
retired from business onkaecdohmips
upon doing so, re ember
ally engaged in
an
n yearsh hour
u since;r
o f t
h e however,accident
he
ee
was marriedac actually
Dakin has always maintained
in Chancery-lane. Mr. a
nes a citizen,
pleting his patent for Scotland, at the
high character in the city of Londo
andand. as an
upright, honest, and enterprising tradesman, his loss
Inform at.
will, no doubt, be felt very severely.
to
Mrs Information of the
melancholy occurrence was conveyedi_
._ Dakin in
the family
the course of the afternoon, at t
_. y residence at
Lewisham, by a friend of the deceased
i:areneJournaielmoi3-hizacd.t

Captain Ward, 91st
THE WAR IN KATFIRLAND.—We are requested
to state that Mr. Culburn has this day published "Five
Years in Kaffirland," with Sketches of the late War in
by Mrs. Harriet Ward.
that country to the Peace in 1848, written on the spot,
Reg., 2 vols., with illustrations, 21s. bound. Also, just
published, 2. The new edition of Burke's Peerage and
Baronetage for 1848, 1 vol. 3. The twelfth and con-
cluding volume of the Lives of the Queens of England.
in 1 vol., with six por-
4. The Cape and its Colonists, with Hints for Settlers in
1848, by George Nicholson, jun., Esq., a late Resident,
wife of
1 vol., 7s. 6d. bound. 5. A Seventh Edition of Mr.
Storyseli e de
of t Ahol o nptepoeinossi e
Peninsular
, r a
il,z:olivoolatWtiaonrbs of Princeurton'slao
Crescent,ii and the Cross, 2 vols. 6.
rand, 2 vols. 7. Mademoi-
alnvaaru, tobiography, 3 vols. 8.
traits and map, 7s. 6d. bound.
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.--The
munificent donation of fifty guineas has been presented
to this institution by F. W. Cubb, Esq., of Margate, in
addition to a former donation of 104 10s.

:e 102 MAY 0, 1848.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, May 5.
The Lord Chancellor
Posed lunatic , atter disposing of the unop-
hear the fos
petitions in his paper to-day, proceeded to
motion of urther arguments in the part-heard appeal

This lIIGGINSON V. SHAND.
case came before his Lordship upon an appeal
notice from the land decision of the Vice-Chancellor of Eng-
land
th refusing to dissolve an injunction that had been ob
ined ex pa rte by the plaintiff restraining the defendants,
e Royal Bank of Liverpool, from proceeding against him
to recuver the sum of nearly 100,0001. The following
are the short facts of the case out of which the appeal
arises:—The firm of Liverpool i Barton, aui, and Higgins"' of
n th Me course of their dealings with the Royal
Bank of Liverpool, had become indebted to a consider-
able assor mount, and on the 21st of October, 1845, gave two
romiy notes for 30.000 Z each, at six and nine
months after date respectively'. Contemporaneously with
rt
ch
hen,ropetrefisoern thee
oetfif I rltemh
the
oapts
esasirgtbnneeeccrlos
becoming
o it
nht
ghl
retdepuelena:
shipsntthi eff, whoin trust is
t ht ::23,
1.
ib thesero
secure the due payment of the notes. On the 13th of
surety, gave to the bank a promissory note for
hO,OO by way of security for the two notes given by the firm.
He also wrote a letter, in which he guaranteed the pay-
ment of the notes at their maturity. When the notes
fell due they were not paid; but the bank, at the instance
of the firm, renewed the notes, and altered the guarantee
of the plaintiff so as to extend to a renewal of the notes.
The second part of the transaction was as follows; —The
firm undertook to pay into the bank 70,000/., by two
instalments, and the bank, on the plaintiff guaranteeing.
to secure payment of whatever balance should be
due at the end cf August, 1847, agreed to answer
the cheque of the firm. The first instalment of
35,0001. was paid into the bank by the firm, but before
the sr cond was due the bank refused to answer a cheque
for 11,000/., drawn by the firm. The bank then
demanded payment from the plaintiff as surety for the
firm of the note for 60,0001., and also of the balance due
,spainrda,tieonn orfa)thmeenmtortletht ohfeitugust, amountingh to
g made, t reatened
restrainin such thr t n d which the Vice-Chancellor of England
proceedings,
legal proceedings, upon which the plaintiff applied for,
from that judgment
asan:t3dohoeeoblte.ained an injunction
pealed to this branch
Prior
having been heard on behalf
Mr. Rolt and Mr.
o
al Bank of Liverpool,
upon
tohpfeutrhßpeoeseaolur erßftu.asnekd
of t 0
LiverpooldissOi v e aanpd.
of the appellants, the Rod
if of the respondent, suggested
Mr. BETHELL, on
any
that
for order the Court
o might pthoen
would be of no avail,inasmuchake
as s u
which the appellants could sue out a fiat of bankruptcy
(two months) had run out, and the only course therefore
e
file a supplemental bill.
tim thee appeal
within
motion
this course to be
The LORD CHANCELLOR allowedilyto
file a supplemental
adopted, giving leave to the plaint
m
bill if it was necessary.
left
the party was t

TRANSFER OF CAUSES.
The following important notice with respect to the
transfer of causes was put. up in his Lordship's Court to-
day, signed by the principal regis rar, Mr. Colville :
"Any causes standing in the list of the Vice• Chancellor
of England (including further directions), which the
several parties desire to be heard immediately, may,
notwithstanding any order to the contrary, be transferred
to the Vice-Chancellors Knight Bruce and Wigram, on
application, by consent of all parties interested to the
Registrar." ,

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 5.
The Court took the special paper to-day. As usual,
no cases of the slightest public interest came on for
argument.

BAIL COURT, May 5.
(Sittings in Banco before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
SPARROW V. WRAP.
Mr. llnon HILL moved for a rule calling upon the
Judge of the County Court of Sussex to show cause why
a mandamus Should not issue commanding him to give
effect to an order which he had made in this case in
December last directing the defendant to pay the plain-
tiff's debt. The facts of the case were these. On the
18th of October, 1847, the plaintiff sued out his plaint
I,r the sum of 201, and on the 12th of November the
cause was heard at the Town hall, Brighton, and judg-
ment given for the plaintiff for the full amount, with
21. 4s. 6d. costs. Subsequently the judge made an order
for a new trial, directing that the second trial should
take place before the jury, and ordering the defendant
to pay 3!. 61.. 6d., being the costs of the former trial and
of the application for the new trial. At the first trial,
which wus riot before a jury, the defendant and his wife
gave evidence, but the evidence, taken together, was so
contradictory that the judge found for the plaintiff. At
the second trial, however, only the wife was examined,
and upon the strength of her testimony the jury returned
a verdict for the defendant. At this stage of the pro-
ceedings the plaintiff discovered that the judge had
exceeded his powers in directing the second trial to be
had b-fore a jury, inasmuch as the Act of
ParliameLt required that upoa either party
wishing the case to be tried by a jury he should
give the other two clear days' notice of his intention to
summon the jury. In this case that had not been done,
and the Judge insisted that he had a discretionary power
to order a case to be tried by a jury without reference to
the wishes of either side.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE inquired if the plaintiff ac-
cepted the costs and attended the second trial.
Mr. Huai' Hui. replied that ho did, but it was in
ignorance of the law.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said the point involved in the
case was certainly an important one, but he was afraid
if he granted a rule it would be got rid of without argu-
ment by the other side, urging that the plaintiff having
accepted the costs and attended the new trial, he had
virtually acquiesced in the irregularity of the proceeding.
The rule was accordingly reused.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Ellen Montague, a notorious smasher, was yesterday
placed before. Mr. Hardwick, charged with uttering a
counterfeit half-crown.
Mr. William Brettell, printer, 26, New Bond-street,
said about six o'clock the previous evening the prisoner
came to his shop, and asked him if he had any postage.
stamps ? lie told her that he had not got any, when
she said she would take some letter paper and a few
envelopes, which amounted to sixpence, in payment fur
which she tendered the base coin produced. Ile looked
very hard at the prisoner, and having identified her as
having passed a counterfeit half-crown at his shop a
fortnight ago, ho sent for a constable, and gave her into
custody.
The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the coin
beim:, bad, was remanded till 'Thursday next, for the at-
tendance of Mr. Powell, the Mild solicitor.

UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGEN CE.
CAMce that BRIDGE, MAY 2
noti .—The Vice- Chancellor has given
at the Congregation on Wednesday, the
10th instant, a Grace will be proposed to the Senate to
and attachment of the resent an address to
Uthenive Queen, expressing the loyalty
and Governmer.t, rsity to her Majesty's person
The Professor of Chemistry commences his lectures
on 'Tuesday, Ma
annunced. y 9, instead of May 3, as previously
lecture o The Professor of Arabic commences his
s to-morrovv ; and the Plumian Professor, on
Thursday.

SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' BE-
NEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The ninth annual meeting of the
supporters of this national institution was held on Wed-
nesday at the London Tavern. The Ri4ht
Hon. the
Earl of Ilar R
dwieke
by the H , Captain
.N. presided, supported
on. Captain 'Ward, R.N% and several naval
and merchant marine gentlemen. 'The report conra-
tulated the meeting on the steady increase ot subscribers
from among the
been
mariner& Tickets had dy
issued to 3,000 over the total number issuedalrea last year.
The report next stated that, although the numbers of
subscribing fishermen and mariners amounted to 18,000,
the committee had to regret that the fishermen, as a
body, had not manifested as great a zeal as the mariners
in the support of the society, which was established
originally for their relief.
elieved
Since the last annual meet-
ingl42 widows, 316 orphans, and 49 aged parents had
been r and 2,551 shipwrecked persons boarded,
ledged, clothed, and conveyed to their homes;
380 of these, being members vvere supplied, ac-
the to the
usual scale, with money to
help to restore their clothes. This item of relief ex-
hibited an increase of upwards of 400/. over the state-
ment for last year, and upwards of 1,700/. over the
statement for 1845, including the value of the free
transit granted by several railway and steam-packet
companies to shipwrecked persons forwarded by the so.
ciety. The total number relieved by the society since
1839 was stated to be 17,914. There had, during the
year, been an increase of 150 to register, of vessels which
bear the distinguishing flag of the society, making the
total number 1,860. The report next expressed regret
at the deaths of Admirals Sir George Parker and Sir
R. Stopford, and Mr. Alderman Lucas, who had been
munificent supporters of the institution. According to
the financial statement, the total receipts for the year
amounted to 6,224/. 14s. 2d., which included subscriptions,
donations, dividends on stock, &c. lte disbuents
there remained a total balance of 1,1331. 17s. sdrsem The
Hon. Captain Maude, after some brief remarks, in which
he bore testimony to the support which the Noble Presi-
dent had on all occasions given the society, moved the
adoption of the report, which was agreed to. Some
other resolutions in accordance were also carried, and a
vote of thanks having been given to the Noble Chair-
man, the proceedings terminated. The annual banquet
in aid of the funds is appointed for Saturday next.
DEATH or MRS. ANDERSON, THE VOCALIST.—
This lady, once known as the beautiful Josephine Bar-
tolozzi, expired at her house, St. John's-wood, on Mon-
day, the Ist instant, of consumption, at the early age
of 41. Her father was the famous engraver Madame
B
lnzzi, and her surviving sister is the celebrated
Vestris.

The Highland Destitution Board have forwarded
to the poorer districts of the Highlands, for cultivation,
cabbage plants, 446,000 ; green plants, 446,000; early
turnip seed, 4,400 ounces; late turnip seed, 8,800 ounces;
I, Swed
Is—turnip seed, 8,800 ounces; carrot seed, 4,400
ounces.

[PRICE SD,

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, MAY 4.—The ballot for the list of forty-
eight names, from which the jury to try Mr. Meagher
is to be selected, took place this day in the Crown-office
of the Queen's Bench. About one-third of the names
appear to be those of Roman Catholics, or Protestants of
Liberal politics. The other two-thirds are what are
termed "decided Conservatives."
On Saturday next the agents on both sides are to at-
tend before the proper officer, to reduce the list. The
Crown and the traverser will then strike off twelve
names each. The remaining twenty-four will constitute
the jury panel, and the first twelve who answer to their
names on the day of trial will form the jury on this im-
portant case.
The ballot it in progress for the jury list in the case
of Mr. Smith O'Brien. An argument arose, on an ob-
jection stated by the Crown to the name of Alderman
Staunton (late Lord Mayor), who is legally disqualified
as a member of the town council, but proof was required
on the other side as to the fact of his being a member of
the council.
The town is placarded with the counter-proclamation
of the Council of the Confederation, signed by Mr.
Smith O'Brien as chairman, which was read by Mr.
Meagher at the meeting last night, and vast numbers
of copies have been circulated throughout the entire
country. It is manifest that the contest between the
Government and the Confederation is rapidly approach-
ing to an issue.
It is stated that several prosecutions under the Trea-
son Felony Bill have been determined upon by the Go-
vernment.
The Cork Examiner of yesterday evening contains the
following announcement:—
" MORE STATE PROSECUTIONS.—We are given to
understand that informations have been sworn against
certain of the gentlemen who addressed the open air
meeting of Monday, for the speeches then delivered. A
report, it is said,
was taken with a view to ulterior pro-
ceedings. The information will be forwarded to Dublin,
for the purpose of instituting immediate prosecutions.
Some short addresses delivered from the windows of the
residence of Mr. Denny Lane, on the night of the same
day, are likewise, it is said, 111 Or
curthe police. the subject of • f mations
W are led to believe in the accuracy of
statement."
The CorkplEaczaarilinder states that the walls of that city
are thickly
The next intellige with Government proclamations.
covered with the nee will announce that the walls are
ration. This state
counter proclamations of the Confede-
of things
It would appear cannot long continue.
from the following paragraph in the
Newry 7'elegrap
engaged in h, that
Pike reakin 891ne of
the
Orange
orrespondeet informs party are
" A faithNvorthy c gin the county of Armagh:—
n in t us that pike-
making is carried
he village of Aleigh, near
have
been and that order for a considerable number
have been given to the
iwho manufactures them.
The pike called the cropp
the form of the one
publicly exhibited—the workm:n
events, does credit to the hands;liP craftsman in that
of Which, at all
locality."
preparations are
In Dublin, military and defensive p
continued. Prince George of Cambridgeee
his quarters in the University, one of the Felloswtsaten up
given up his apartments tor the accommodation of his
Royal Highness. The 48th Regiment, yesterday and
this day, went through a variety of evolutions in the
College Park. The head-quarters of that regiment are
at Beggar's Bush Barracks, with detachments in the
College and the Royal Dublin Society.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, MAY 4.
THE QUEEN V. MEAGHER.

In pursuance of the order of Court to strike a special
jury in this case, the Clerk of the Crown, the High
Sheriff, and Sub-Sheriff, attended in the Crown-office for
the purpose.
Mr. Perrin appeared for the Crown, and Sir Colman
O'Loghlen and Mr. Pigot appeared for the traverser.
The following forty-eight names were drawn from the
ballot-box, from amongst which the jury to try the case
of " The Queen v. Meagher" will be selected:—
Francis Codd, Townsend-street; Thomas Connell,
Upper Gardiner-street; John Parker, Dame-street;
Richard Walsh, Belvidere-place; Henry M‘Donagh,
Dawson-street ; James Gray, Commercial-buildings;
George Cowell, Capel-street; James Dudgeon, Upper
Fitzwilliam•street; W. R. Sterling, Royal Canal Ter-
race; W. J. French, Upper Sackville-street; John Sib-
thorpe, Cork-hill ; John Reynolds, College-grece;
Thomas Sherrard, Blessington-street; James Reilly,
Westmoreland-street ; George Papworth, Marlbo-
rough-street ; William Pattison, Capel-street ; Charles
Thorpe, William-street ; John Hayes,
Harring-
ton-street; William Law, Lower Sackville-street; John
Denman, Abbey-street ; Hugh Ingram, York-street ;
John S. Armstrong, Eccles-street; Hugh Blaney, West
Essex-street; John Langhan, North King-street; David
North, Russell-place; Simpson Nelson Burris, North
Strand; Plumpian Wallace,.Russell-placejhomas Wil-
son, Lipper Temple_street ; Sir Charles Coote, Bart,
Batrgot_atreet 1 William Alexander Noble, Russell
place ; Henry Boisolier, Lower Gloucester-street; John
Ill'Auliffe, Dawson-street ; James Power, Lower Bag-
got-street ; Thomas Egan, High-street ; Bartholomew
Delany, Wellington-quay; Richard Johnston, Grafton-
street; James Pim, Love lane; Thomas Farrell, Lower
Ormond-quay ; Thomas James, Capel-street ; Arthur
Craig Taylor, Lower Mount.street; William Cockburn,
Upper Merrion_street; Robert Milner, Queen-street ;
Samuel Parker, Back lane ; Patrick Nolan, Lower
Sack ville-street ; Sheffield Beatham, Lower Mount-street;
Robert Decker, Elden-quay ;: John Scally, Pill-lane ;
and Paul Twigg, Cumberland-street.
Mr. Bourne was about to proceed with the ballot for
a similar number of names from which the jury was to
be chosen in the cause of the Queen v. W. S. O'Brien,
M.P., when
Mr. POTTER, addressing him, said that he had just
that moment received a letter from Mr. O'Brien, in
which he expressed himself satisfied that the first twelve
names drawn from the ballot-box should be appointed to
try his case,

Mr. PEIIRIN, on the part of the Crown, said ho bad
not received any instructions to depart from the usual
course of striking a special jury.
Mr. Bourne suggested that the Attorney-General
should be consulted on the subject.
This suggestion having been complied with, Mr.
Bourne suspended the proeeedings until the Attorney-
General's opinion could be had. Mr. Potter having
submitted Mr. Smith O'Brien's request to the Solicitor-
General, he returned to the Crown-office, and stated to
Air. Bourne that the Solicitor-General had refused,
saying that the proceedings should take the ordinary
COUrS(..

Mr. Bourne then proceeded to ballot for forty-eigh
ninnies, from which Mr. O'Brien's jury is to be se,
ILeted.

Captain Lockwood was killed yesterday, by a fall
from his horse, at a race in Thurles, county of Tip.
perary.
DISTRESS Ix limmoE.—This miserable district is
again visited by the famine and sickness which gave it
last year a fatal notoriety all over the empire. The
le•tter of our correspondent from Crookhaven conveys a
deplorable account of the poor of that locality. He
says " deaths are occurring hourly in every part of Kil-
moe, from dysentery or exhaustion," and " as to the
deaths in the hospital, they are really frightful."—Curk
Examiner.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The foliowing, ships and
vessels are in commission at this port:—The Howe, 120,
Captain Sir James Stirling, refitting alongside the jetty
for foreign service ; the Victory, flag-ship of Sir Charles
Ogle, the Commander-in-Chief ; the Illustrious, ;0,
Ca.iotain Yates, flag-ship et Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. Li-, Superintendent of the Dockyard, doing the dutiesHo of the Ordinary; the Powerful, 84, Captain the
C. 8.;
service;rt.
R. S.
Dundas, C. 8., fitting for troop service; the n.
Bellerophon,
78, Captain Baynes, refitting for " sea going"
the Excellent, gunne ship, Captain Chads,
ng for the flag of
nlierfi,Ctiomniander-in-C;htiheef
Blenheim,
Rear-Admiral
ee r Hastings,-Ad rn 7i
r2e, i
Sir Captain
FrancisAl o
Cr goal
forG sea; the Rolla brig,
on the East India station; the
56, Captain
Austin, steam guard ship, fittin
tn- naval apprentices ; tshpeigthGorgon steam-sloop,
orders, expected for the Pacific
vessel, Commander
Commander Puynter, at
ead, awaiting sailing
; the Scourge, steam
Lightning
Royal yachts yachts ; the
sea ; the Victoria and \Vingrove, refitting for
Albert and the Fairy,
Commander Pe'lthe steam-vessel, Master-
• (")'; Sharpshooter screw-steamer,
Lieutenant Commander Bayley.; and the Dwarf screw
tender for the port
is the Hastinserviee. The Howe is fitting fast, so
ward;" the gs- but theonl Bellerophon is "going to lee-
Powerful
her small complement; t?:te wantsß!e bee i few men
joint 9 make upe
‘ senior" of a squadron of steamers this toand b
summer—she,
`
ortoo,o
wants hands; and the Gorgon wants half-a-dozen
to complete for sea. Seven line-of-battle ships in
one harbour, with a double-banked frigate, are seldom
seen together.
Wind S.S.E.; moderate and fine.
Woomvien, MAY 4.—The two launches built by Mr.
Thomson, Rotherhithe, and each fitted with engines of
five-horse power by Mr. Beale, Greenwich, left the latter
place at ten minutes before one o'clock to-day, andim3ale
the passage to London-bridge, exactly fivemilfs3sllb. to
minutes, the engines working at a pressure
°
the square inch, and making 235 revolutions of the
in dameter, per
screw propeller, two feet six inches .
sometimes given,
minute. A higher pressure was .
he screw ie.
and the number of revolutions of. t
equivalent to about
creased to 275 per minute,
twelve miles per hour t but . till engineerand beetaproves
adapted
of a pressure of 331 b. as the maximum, maxilmaunciiwhich
es. are of
for the engines and form of the
the following. dimensions :—lnlength 31 feet, with a
breadth of beam of 10 feet, and drawing, when loaded,
A space
only 03 feet of water. The engines of each launch occupy
of 6 feet 6 inches long, 4 feet 2 inches wide, and
4 feet 2 inches high, and consume in working about 501 b.
of coke per hour. They are very simple in construction
and easily worked, and during the whole of the trials
day gave the greatest satisfaction. On arriving "
Somerset-house, Major Stevens, Royal Marine Aopposite
Artillery,
Captain Ellice, Comptroller of Steam Machinery
Halstead, R.N., Captain Washington, Rag' CaPtaiu
Chief Inspector of Steam Machinery, Mr.., Mr. Lloyd,
sistant-Inspector at Somerset-house, and Hughes, As-
inventor of the screw propeller, ea Mr. F. P. Smith,
launches then proceeded to Whitehrne on board, and the
to Bomereet-house, where a largeell boat, suitable for a