The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-11 00:00:00

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GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.
7 to 4 agst Nancy
5 to 2 ugst Neashaln
4 to 1 ag3t Marlborough Buck—taken

ST. LEGER.
3 to I agst Hernandez
10 to 1 agit Aphroditd—taken
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STEAM TO BRAZIL.
GIANT OF A CHARTER. TO THE PROPOSED
NEW LINE FROM LIVERPOOL.
Some months ago announcements were inserted in our
columns to the effect that, very shortly, the formation of
a new line of screw steam-ships, of large size and
Power, to run between the Mersey and Rio de Janeiro,
might be expected. Various parties were then in the
field (we believe not less than three), endeavouring
to ell2ct the establishment of such enterprises.
Some time motet, however, we learned that of the
three projected companies, one only was likely to be
carried, for the present at least, into practical operation,
and recently our columns announced that an application
for a royal charter had been made, in order to set the
rem ~ining enterprise fairly and authoritatively before
the mercantile community. It is now in our power
to announce, that on Saturday last an order was
issued by the Lords of the Treasury authorising
the grant of such a charter, and therefore expecta-
tion may fairly be indulged that at no distant period
the desideratum so long desired, an independent line of
first class steam-ships running direct from Liverpool to
Rio, will be realised. We understand that the company
will be entitled the South American and General
Steam Navigation Company, the directorate will
include some of the first mercantile men of
Liverpool and Manchester engaged in commerce with
the Braels ; that the line (the shares of which will
to a large extent be held in Manchester) will
comprise four first-class steam-ships, with a branch
steam-;hip to run to and from Rio and the River
Plate; mad that the departures will be once per month
from either end. For the present we refrain from ad-
ding ferther details, but we cannot forbear to express
our sincere congratulations on the auspicious result thus
prognosticated. We have long urged the creation of
such a line, and even now, when the competition
of trio West India steam-ships from Southampton must
be felt, indulge the hope that its financial success
will be brilliant. Of its importance as a line calculated
to convey late letters between this port and Rio de
Janeiro the arrival of the clipper-ship Columbus, last
week, with fresh accounts from all the South American
ports affords Lull guarantee. Probably at a future date
we may be enabled to place our readers in possession of
more minute details.—Liverpool Albion of this day.

EXPERIMENT on the BARRACK FIELD.
WOOLWICLI, AUG. 9.
—Major General Lacey, Di-
rector-General of Artillery ; Colonel Campbell, So-
perjntendent of the Roy al Military Repository ;
C4onel Gordon, Inspector of the Royal Carriage
Department ; Colonel Cruttenden, Inspector of Drills ;
and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers, Assistant Director-
General of Artillery ; with several other officers
of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers,
assembled on the barrack field in front of the Royal
Artillery Barracks on the afternoon of Tuesday last
to witness an experiment to test an invention
submitted by Captain Groetaers of the Engineers
in the Belgian service, for ascertaining the dis-
tance of an object when it may be found necessary to
erect works for cannonading or bombarding it. The
invention appears to be very simple and gave the dis-
tances of three objects taken very nearly correctly,
and sufficiently so fur military purposes—one of the
objects being found to be within two inches of the
distance indicated, although the ground when mea-
sured was upwards of 1,000 yards between the ob-
server and the object. In the two other measure-
ments the distances were when measured within a
foot of what they were shown to be by the indicator
or graduated scale of measurement. The apparatus
consists of a piece of wood about three feet long and
one inch square. On the upper square is a brans
scale and a piece of tin about six inches long by
three inches wide, painted about two inches red at
the top, two inches white in the middle, and two
inches red at the bottom, made to slide on the scale.
One of the engineer officers in attendance had a piece
of tin of the same size and painted in the same manner
as the one used on the graduated scale rod of the in-
ventor. The engineer officer stood at a distance of
eight or nine yards from the inventor, and a commu-
nication was made between the two pieces of tin by
metallic or pliable wire. When the distance of the
objects was required to be ascertained the inventor
looked through a glass on the left side of the scale
until he placed his sliding tin in the proper position
towards the object, and on his stating that it was
right the engineer officer adjusted his tin by looking
through a glass in the centre of it. When both say
the tins are rightly adjusted the inventor refers to the
scale and states the distance, which was found to be
correct within a few inches in every instance when
the ground was measured.