The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-26 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, MAacn 23.

STOCK Excualmn.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 81. 6s. Gd: -Aber-
deen, Banff, and Elgin, 1/. Ils. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 1/. 195.-Ar-
broath and Forfar, 281. 105.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.-Ayr and Dum-
fries, 2/. 65.-Ayr and Galloway, 1/. 10s.-Banffshire, 11.-British
and Irish Union, 21.-Caledonian, 11/.-Ditto, New, 2/. 14s. 6d.-
Caledonian Extension, 11. I lc-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 2/. Is.
-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 1/. 19s. Gd.-Clydesdale Junc-
tion, 15/. 10s.-Direct Northern, 21.-Dundee and Arbroath, 39/. bs.
-Ditto, New, 221.-Dundee and Perth, 12/. 2s. 6d.-East of Fife,
1/. 10s.-East Lothian Central, 1/. 3s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bath-
gate, 11. 175.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 731.-Ditto, Half Shares,
13/. 12s. Gd.-Ditto, Quarters, 18/. 58.-Ditto, ditto, New, 16/. 55.-
Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 17s. 6d. -Edinburgh and Leith
Atmospheric, 11. Is. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 17/. 10s.-
Ditto, Preference, 19/. 108.-Edinburgh and Northern, 3/. 55.-Ditto,
Newport, 10s. Gd.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 18s. 61-Edinburgh and Pee-
bles, 11. Gs. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 2 i.7a -Forth and Clyde
Junction, 1/. 14s. Gd.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 711.-Ditto, New
Stock, 241.-Ditto, Quarter shares, 181. 55.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 2/. -Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 11. 105.6d.-Glas-
gow aad Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, New
Stock, 10/.-Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-Great North of Scotland,
2/. 55.-Granton Junction, 11.-Inverness and Elgin, 18s. 6d.-London
and York, 3/. 155.-North British, 261.-Ditto, Halves, SI. 10s.-
Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 2/. Is.-Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith,
6/. 2s. 6d.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 65.-Scottish Central, 161.
55.-Ditto, New, V. 55.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junc-
tion, 1/. 75,-Scottish Midland, 31. 17s. 6d.-Scottish Southern, it.
lbs.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 11. 122. 6d.
GLASGOW, MARCH 24.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. —The Sales are—Airdrie and Batitgate, 40t.
295. 61 ' 38s.
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New, 48s. —Ditto, Extension, ( .—Caledoni
, and Dumbarton,
—Bridge of Weir, 28s.—British
.and Irish Union, 6d —Cal
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denims, New, ..
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shire Junction, 375. 6d.—Cornwall and Devon Central, 225. 6d.—
ow General Ter-
minus, Si. 9s. —Glasgow, 18s.—Edina
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Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Arthossan, 34s.—Glasgow
iiarboukr Grand Junction, ~Oa.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 4GL—
Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 34s.—Lanark and Lothians, 375.
Berth and Inverness, 275. 6d.—Scottish Central, New, 714 —Scottish
Southern, 341. 6d.—Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 265.
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CONFESSIONS OF A PRETTY WOBIAN.—The manner
in which these papers came into the possession of Miss Pardoe
is rather curious. She concludes the account by saying,
"From her own hand I received this written record of the
past, and I give it (with her permission) to the world, in all
confidence that such a transcript of the real struggles of a
woman's mind, and of the actual trials of a weman's life,
will present more lasting and wholesome interest than the
romantic creations of fiction, or the practical miseries of a
merely fertile fancy."
WINDSOR ANNUAL MILITARY STEEPLE CHASES.—

The two Members for the borough, Colonel Reid and Ralph
Neville, Esq., have just subscribed 5/. each towards the race
fund. The sport, which will be extended this year to two
days, is to be of a first-rate character, four races hawing been
appointed to come off on the first day, the 7th of next month,
and five events on the second day following. Viceount
Neville, the Hon. R. N. Lawley, and Albert Ricardo, Esq.,
have accepted the stowardshit.

E NAVY.
RETURN RELATIVE TO HER MAJESTY'S SIIII4

ECLAIR.

A return of officers and

volunteered to serve on

board her Majesty's ship Eclair, filaltE--rhty•-•-4140-a-eaev:
fever broke out on board, to the day the said ship was paid
off; stating the name and rank of each individual, the
number that died, and the reward, promotion, or pension
since granted by the Admiralty—to which is added those
who have been promoted or rewarded for service in the
Eclair, whether volunteers or not :—G. M. M'Clure, ger-
geon, died Sept. 18, 1845"; *J. G. Stewart, surgeon, pro--
moted Oct. 20, 1845; William Rogers (b), assistant-surgeon,
promoted, Oct. 20, 1845 ; Edward Heath, assistant• surgeon,
promoted, Dec. 11, 1845; Sidney Bernard, assistant-st-geon,
promoted, Sept. 21, 1845, died Oct. 9,1845 t ; Charles Cog9r,
assistant-surgeon, noted for promotion when passed
Lieutenant Henry C. Harston, acting-commander, promoted,
Dec. 6, 1845; *John Warren, boatswain, 3d class, promoted,
Jan. 5, 1846 ; *William Hurst, gunner; 3d class, promoted,
Jan. 26, 1846 ; *John Attwood, gunner's mate, promoted
Jan. 24, 1846 ; *J. H. Payne, able seaman ; John Leach,
stoker; John Power, ordinary seaman, died Sept. 7, 1843;
*George Dickinson. stoker; *O. Wilson, able aearnzn;
Robert Thurley, able seaman ; *John Bridger, ordinary
seeznan ; *Richard Bartlett, ordinary seaman ; 'Joseph Todd,
ordinar.L seaman ; *John Hill, stoker ; William Hughes,
boy; John' Herbert, boy ; William Gar:them, boy ;
Cockle, seam:.'n, gratuity 8/. ; "'Thomas Smith, seaman, gra-
tuity 10/. ; Thonfes Baillie, seaman, pension V. ; P. Saunders,
seaman, gratuity 101.; William Watson, private marine, gra-
tuity 10/. ; John Smith, seaman, gratuity 101.
The fOllcTiiing officers volunteered, but their services were
not required :—Alexander Bryson, surgeon; J. 0. M' Wil-
liam, surgeon ; Francis Anderson, assistant-surgeon ; Charles
H. Fuller, surgeon ; David G, Miller, surgeon ; Thomas
Kincaid, assistant-surgeon ; George Sprigg, commander, now
of the Ferret, 10, sloop ; A. R. Dunlap, lieutenant ; John
Decry, captain, R.M.
The following gentlemen also offered their services for the
Eclair :—George M‘Henry, M.D. • Jantes Gave, surgeon ; D.
0. Edwards, surgeon; Michel Barry, M.D. ; Rev. Is. Ccglia
len, Rev. T. Hardinge Ivers.
PIiNSIONS, NAVY.

Under this title the following Parliamentary return,
moved for by Sir Charles Napier, "of naval officers who
have received pensions, or augmentation of pensions, for
wounds or hurts, since the Ist day of January, 1841. and
the report of the medical officers who surveyed them," has
been published, dated Admiralty, March 9, 1846, and signed
H. F. Amedroz, chief clerk.
No. I.—Extract from the Medical Report on Capt. James
Ryder Burton, R.N., dated November 24, 1843.—Captain
Burton was wounded by a ball in the left, hip, which has not
been extracted, and is still lodged in the bone, which is
greatly diseased. The wound has never healed ; repeated
exfoliations of bone have taken place, with a constant dis-
charge, the whole producing great personal suffering and in-
jury to his general health; and having also had the ankle of
the same side severely injured by & field-piece passing over
it; this injury, on the wound of the hip becoming inflamed,
sympathises with the other wound, and adds greatly to his
distress. The hip wound still r&naintfoperti -with greurt/13-'

charge. Captain Burton is much emaciated, and his coun-
tenance is indicative of great personal suffering, and there is
no doubt that the wound has been, in its consequences to
bodily health, very far more than could have arisen from the
loss of a limb.

No. 2. Extract from the Medical Report on Captain Wil-
liam Alexander Willis, R.N., dated 23d January, 1845.
Captain Willis, lately in command of her Majesty's sloop
Frolic, who, while on duty on shore near the city of Santos,
in the Brazils, was, on the sth January, 1844, cn returning
to his ship, attacked by .a party of ruffians (supposed to have
belonged to a slave vessel lately captured by the Frolic) and
beaten with bludgeons in a most shocking and murderous
manner, fracturing his skull and the fore-arm of the left side,
and also inflicting four other severe wounds on different
parts of his head. He was also dreadfully bruised in several
parts of the body by blows inflicted by the bludgeons
alluded to; but there was one of a more severe and dan-
gerous nature in the immediate neighbourhood of the spinal
column. The consequence of these severe and numerous
wounds has been a confinement of nearly thirteen weeks in
bed on shore, attended with great pain and considerable
fever. His constitution has suffered most severely from
these severe injuries, and he is frequently attacked by a most
distressing pain in the neighbourhood of the fractured skull,
incapacitating him from any exertion at the time, and ren-
dering him liable to an attack of inflammation of the mem-
branes of the brain from very trivial causes, and putting him,
therefore, in constant hazard of his life. The vision is im-
paired, the free use of both arms diminished, and the com-
mand of his urinary organs is less in his power than before
the wounds were received. He complains also of debility►
and palpitation of the heart. The injuries received in this
case are more detrimental to the constitution than the loss of
a limb.

No. 3.—Extract from the Medical Report on Commander
Henry Chads, dated Feb. 20, 1845. Commander Chads,
when serving as first lieutenant of the Harlequin, in an
attack upon Pirates at Merdoo, in the Island of Sumatra, on
the 12th February, 1844, received two severe and dangerous
sabre wounds; the first divided the whole of the flexor ten-
dons, arteries, and ligaments, at the left wrist, leaving the
hand attached to the fore-arm only by the extensor tendon,
ligaments, &c., on the back of the hand. The second was a
deep wound, seven inches in length, in the left side, dividing
several of the muscles, laying bare, as the surgeon of the
Hyacinth states, the angles of the 7th and Bth ribs, and
wounding the periosteum covering them. The wounds have
been healed some time, but the left hand is irretrievably
disabled, and they are equally prejudicial to bodily exertion
with the loss of a limb.

No. 4.—Extract from the Medical Report on Commander
R. J. W. Dunlop, dated 18th May, 1842. Commander
Dunlop, while lieutenant of the Favorite, at Tingaraboo, on
the 24th June, 1840, while serving on shore in an attack
upon one of the native forts in that island, was struck by a
musket-ball, which entered immediately under the knee-pan,
and passing over the front of the tibia in an oblique direc-
tion, without apparently injuring the bone, made its exit
about three inches lower down. The wound itself was not
of great magnitude, but the consequences were severe ; a
serious spasmodic affection took place in the limb, attended
at one period with symptoms of lock-jaw, and producing
contraction of the muscles of the leg and foot, and ulti-
mately wasting of the limb and a permanent contraction of
the muscles and tendons of the posterior part of the leg,
which does not allow the heel to reach the ground by about
four inches, the whole weight of the body, when this leg is
used, being thrown on the toes. Commander Dunlop like-
wise mentions that he is still subject to spasmodic attacks in
particular states of weather. On a careful consideration of

circumstances of this case it would appear that the in-

jury is fully equal to the loss of a limb.
IClo. s.—Extract from the Medical Report on Lieutenant
Walter Kendall, dated 22d of February, 1842.—Lieutenant
Kendall, of her Majesty's ship Nimrod, was wounded iu the
attack upon the city of Canton on May 25, which occasioned
the immediate amputation of his right leg above the knee.
No. 6.—Extract from Medical Report upcn Lieutenant
Augustus C. Murray, dated Bth of June, 1845.—Lieutenant
Murray, when a mate of the Dolphin, in boarding a Brazilian
slave brigantine, on the 30th of May, 1841, received a blow
of a musket, which fractured the left clavicle, and contused
the surrounding parts greatly. There is also on the same
side a most severe sabre wound of the wrist, immediately
below where the bones of the arm are unite 4 to those form-
ing the wrist, which had completely laid the joint open to
an extent of more than two inches, by which the extensor
tendons were cut across, and he was thus deprived of the
use of the left hand, except in a very limited degree. The
wound in question is equal in its consequences to the loss of

a limb.
No. 7.—Extract from the Medical Report upon Lieutenant

• 1
Lavis Roper Fitzmaurice, dated Oct. 5, 1844.—Lieutenant
Fitzmaurice, when serving as mate of her Majesty's survey-
ing vessel Beagle, and being detached in a beat to the eastern
shore in the Gulf of Carpentaria, at a distance of nearly 100
miles from the ship, was wounded, on the 9th of August,.
1841, by the accidental explosion of a musket which we.s
carried by one of the officers under his orders. The chtirge
entered the left ankle joint, shattered the bones, and the
ternal wound has not yet healed. The ankle joint atllvea,.„
to be ankylosed, the bones are much enlarged and. diseased,and the wound is in its effects fully equal t' the loss o'
a limb.

No. B.—Extract from the Medical Report upon Mr. John
Davies, Master, dated April 20, 1841,—1t appears that Mr.
Davies is afflicted with a double rupture, proved by the
papers and certificates (herewith returned), as well as his own
statement, to have been occasioned by the service, and the
latter rupture while assisting in placing his ship in Mysition
before St. Jean d'Acre. In the action which succeoded Mr.
Davies was slightly wounded, by a portion of a shell, imme-
diately above the os pubis, and exactly in a line with the
strap of the truss, adding considerably to the inconvenience
of the ruptures. The double rupture, quite independently of
the subsequent wound, is fully equal to the loss of a limb.
Note.—Those against whom au asterisk is placed have received
compensation for loss of clothes. (A compensation of 801. has bean
paid to the mother of Mr. T. B, Hallett, late paymaster and purser of
the Eclair.)
t Mr. Hobert Bernard was promoted to the rank of surgeon, out of
respect to his deceased relative, Mr. Sidney Bernard.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI-
NEERS.
(Sir John Rennie, President. in the Chair.)
The paper read on Tuesday was an essay ‘i On the
Relation between the Velocity and the Resistance en-
countered by Bodies moving in iluids," by J. M. Heppe],
Grad. Inst. C. E.

The author introduced his subject by demonstrating
its scientific interest, and eulogising the efforts of the
illustrious men who have brought their energies to
bear on it, from the time when Newton first turned
his attention to that department of philosophy, to
the more recent experiments of Palmer and,
Macneill, published in the " Transactions of the
Institution of Civil Engineers ;" and after apolo-
gising for his apparent presumption in venturing
to add anything to a subject already so extensively
investigated, he proceeded to observe that, with the
exception of the above-named researches of Palmer
and Macneill upon canal boats, all experiments
sea sne
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communicationandgave
aovfe l
aarig.oerlarger.
vessels
obdteioicnienadgmtthoheri
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clearlyznb ypor
observing
have ;been made on bodies of too small dimensions.
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the diminution theascer-
tained, aTn propertiesehde
n of the velocity of bodies, in a given time,
when the motive power was withdrawn ; by this it would
be ascertained whether any deficiency in speed arose
from a defect in the construction of the vessel, or of the
propelling machinery.
The following example was given :—lf the vessel had
been subjected to the action of a force equal to its whole
weight, the amount of velocity destroyed in a second
would have been 32 feet per second ; therefore, as the
distance of 32 feet is to the observed loss of velocity in
feet per second, so is the whole weight of the vessel as
shown by its deplacemeat, to the force by which this loss
of velocity has been produced, that is, the united resist-
ance of the water and air, corresponding to the velocity
in question.
The method for ascertaing experimentally this position
was thus described. To the bowsprit of the vessel, suffi-
ciently a-head to be out of the disturbed water, a small
iron bracket should be attached, to suspend a slender rod,
dipping at it its lower extremity into the water, the part
by which it hangs being a few inches below its upper end:
upon the lower end, beneath the water, is a metal sphere,
and to the upper end is attached a small cord, connected
with a rectangular bent lever, the horizontal arm
of which works against a graduated are, so di-
vided, that when the slender rod is hanging vertically,
the ship being at rest, it should be opposite zero on the
arc. When the ship is in motion, the sphere, being
acted upon by the resistance of the water, is forced from
the perpendicular inwards towards the bow of the vessel,
the bent lever is drawn upwards by the cord and marks
on the arc the amount of force exerted. By watching
the variation d this in given times and under certain cir-
cumstances, the diminution of velocity and consequently
the retarding forces can be accurately ascertained.
The following paper was announced to bo read at the
meeting of Tuesday, March 24, 1846 :—On the Estuary
pf the river Severn, by William Partas, Assn; Inst. r.E.