The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 'l9, 1860,

efforts made to induce poor ignorant people to give
their votes for one sect or another. Fancy the
clerical activity which would be displayed in pro-
curing recruits. What pastoral visitations, with
benevolent offers to assist in filling up the schedules
of poor parishioners, and what rapid conversions.
The enumerators, too, having such powers and op-
portunities of persuasion, would themselves be the
the objects of strife, and appeals would be made to
the Registrar-General against the appointment of
this partisan of episcopacy, or that enthusiast for
dissent ; and charges of unfairness in the selections
would be thrown about in profusion. And after
all, the totals, when added up, would not, to any
candid mind, represent a sufficient body of facts to
justify the use of them—a result which could not be
otherwise than highly mischievous, as tending to
bring into discredit the whole management of the
census, and of similar official inquiries. It must,
at all events, be desirable not to incur a serious risk
of having the inquiry covered with ridicule.—Daily
.News.

TODING POWER OF STEAMERS FOR

THE GANGES.

(From the Liverpool Albion of Monday, May 14, 1860.)

A trial has just been made on the Mersey of the
towing power of the steam vessel Ganges, belong-.
ing to the Oriental Inland Steam Company, of
London, previous to the dispatch of the vessel to
India, where she is to be employed in towing
barges on the Ganges. A previous trial of the vessel
when only propelling herself, and without any
barges in tow, had shown that, under those circum-
stances, a speed was attainable of about fourteen
miles an hour • but, as it was judged advisable to
determine what the performance would be with
barges in tow, an experiment was made to illustrate
this question. Accordingly eight of the Duke of
Bridgewater's barges, together with the tug which
draws them, were made fast to the Ganges, and this
load she towed without any very serious reduction
in her own speed. The engines of the Duke of
Bridgewater's tug being stopped at the time, the
Ganges had, in addition to the resistances of the
several hulls, to overcome the resistance occasioned
by the stationary paddle-floats in the water. It was
proposed to reverse the engines of the Duke of
Bridgewater's tug, so as to determine the speed at
which the Ganges would pall the whole flotilla with
the engines of the tug reversed. But, as the day
was very boisterous, and as it was apprehended
that the tow-rope would not withstand the extra
strain thus produced, this part of the experiment
was not carried out. From the great power of the
Ganges, however, and from her special adaptation
for towing heavy loads, there can be no doubt that
she would have towed blth the barges and the tug
against the whole power of its engines at a consi-
derable rate of speed.

The Ganges is propelled by two bigh-pressure
engines, with cylinders 26 inches in diameter and
6 feet stroke. The boilers are on the locomotive

principle, and the pressure of the steam is 120 lbs.
per square inch. The boilers have been proved by
hydrostatic pressure to above twice the pressure at
which they are intended to work. The effective
power of the engines is about 800 horses. The
paddlewheels are 16 feet in diameter, and the paddle-
boards are 12 feet long and about 22 inches wide. A
larger diameter of paddlewheel would be more suit-

able for high rates of speed, but a moderate diameter
of paddlewheel is best for pulling heavy loads—just
as in railway locomotion, where the goods engines
are invariably made with small driving wheels. The
engines of the Ganges, which have been made by
Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co., are of the very
first quality, and not even a hot bearing has been
experienced in any of the trials which have been
made. The vessel, though very light and only draw-
ing two feet of water, with the full complement of
coals on board, is exceedingly strong, and the ma-
chinery is exceedingly steady and rigid, great pains
having been taken to ensure in every department
the maximum of strength with the minimum of
weight. The Ganges is now about to be despatched
under steam to Calcutta, and in about four months
it is expected she will be plying on the Ganges.
The barges which she has to tow have preceded her
in a sailing ship belonging to the company, which
has already arrived in India, and those barges will
have been put together against the time that the
Ganges arrives out.

The Ganges is the most powerful vessel yet sent
to India for the navigation of the rivers of that
country, and, with the Jumna, a sister vessel,
which has now just arrived in the Mersey from
the Clyde to receive her engines, she will main-
tain upon the Ganges that species of commu-
nication so much needed in India, and by which
much larger quantities of goods may be carried than
has heretofore been possible with the steamers now
existing in India, and which, in nearly all
cases, have been found to draw too much water
and to have too little power. If, with the in-
ferior vessels heretofore plying on the Ganges,
profits of 40 and 50 per cent. have been realised,
and even more than that, as is well known to be
the case, there can be no doubt that when
this company has fairly got to work upon that river
still larger profits must be obtained by it, seeing
that these new vessels are of a more powerful and
efficient description. We are, of course, aware that
in all new enterprises in steam navigation there are
difficulties to be surmounted, partly in the vessels
themselves, and partly in getting suitable men into
every department ; and all steam companies which
have ever come to anything have had this career of
probation to go through. But it appears that the
directors of the Oriental Inland Steam Company
foresaw from the first the ordeal through which
they must pass, and provided against it by com-
mencing their operations on a moderate scale. In-
stead, therefore, of building all their vessels at once,
as other companies have too frequently done, and
spending all their money at the outset, they began
with two vessels, which were sent to India before
the Ganges and the Jumna were ordered, and the
experience acquired by those first vessels has been
made available in mating arrangements to make
the Ganges and the Jumna more perfect than either
their nwn nr any other previous vessels. Even after
these four vessels have been built, however, and
after twenty barges have been built for them to
tow, not half of the capital of the company has been
called up, so that the inevitable imperfections at-
taching to all new undertakings have been encoun-
tered upon the narrowest possible basis in this case,
and will have been surmounted at the least possible
expense. The whole of the companies now work-
ing in India with such eminent success had diffi-
culties to encounter at their first establishment, by
which the weaker spirits were discouraged, and such
persons sold out at a loss, while those of mote cou-
rage or greater perspicacity increased their invest-
ments, and made large profits. Nor is this pheno•
menon peculiar to India, but it seems to hold uni-
versally in enterprises in steam navigation. The
General Steam Navigation Company,the Peninsular
Steam Company, the Cunard Company, the Royal
Mail Company, and all others which have ever pros-
pered, had a period of depression to go through first.
But by steady perseverance they surmounted all
impediments, and have gradually risen to eminent
prosperity. No person should embark money in
any considerable enterprise in steam navigation on
any other expectation than that such difficulties are
to be encountered ; and the Oriental Inland Steam
Company has certainly shown a more than usually
just appreciation of the universality of this law,
and more than usual circumspection by the gradual
and progressive steps they have taken in carrying
out their enterprise. Sanguine tyros would have
rushed at once to the expenditure of all their capi-
tal, which would have left them without any margin
to meet the difficulties of one kind or other which
invariably arise in new undertakings. But the
directors of this company have husbanded their re-
sources and felt their way, so that before putting
forth their whole strength they are able to know,
frem experience, that it is exercised in the best and
most remunerative direction.

THE aILADIP I UNSHIP.

SAYERS AND HEENAN.=THE QUESTION

SETTLED.

Our readers and the public generally will hail
with delight the announcement we now make that
on Friday last Tom Sayers and his gallant oppo-
nent met by appointment in our office, and settled
their dispute in the most friendly manner. Sayers
was accompanied by Mr Gideon and two other
friends, and Jack Macdonald appeared as the ad-
viser of Heenan.

Several propositions were made on both sides, in
the presence of all parties, which, however, ended
in smoke. The first proposal on behalf of Heenan
was that the old belt should be cut in half, that
each should take a moiety, and that each belt
should be made complete by subscriptions raised
by either side. Sayers at once replied to this, that
he would not consent to give up the old belt, or
any part thereof, adding he would rather die in
the ring than allow any portion of it to go out of the
country. We then suggested that Tom should re-
sign the old belt into our hands to be fought for by
other aspirants, and that each champion should
head a subscription to purchase a fac simile,
to be handed to his adversary. We represen-
ted that the feeling of the country was una-
nimous, especially among the higher classes,
that both men had done enough for honour and
renown, that by agreeing to this proposition
neither would be giving a point to his adversary,
and that it would be a method of settling the affair
which would meet with general approbation. Hee-
nan at once assented to this, but Sayers, after con-
ferring with one-of his friends, said he would give
Heenan a new belt, but would prefer keeping his
own, for which he had fought so long. This was
another hitch. It was clearly Heenan's object that
Tom should not have the original, or, at any rate,
the whole of it, as he considered this would be tan-
tamount to a defeat ; and at this stage of the pro •
ceedings we had fears that after all no amicable
arrangement would be made. It then occurred to
us that if the men were left alone with us, and al-
lowed to state their own individual wishes, un-
biassed by the opinions cif others, in all probability
we could put them together. A hint was sufficient ;
the friends of both instantly left our sanctum, and
in five minutes the men shook hands in the most
friendly way possible, and' agreed to our proposal
that each should have a new belt, that the old one
should be left with us, ' and that in the event of
Heenan's thinking fit to remain in this country and
defend it against all corners for three years, it should
become his own. Tom undertook not to put in any
further claims for it, intimating that he should now
retire from the Ring, and leave its fortunes and its
vicissitudes for younger men. Heenan, in a few
well-expressed words, said he had always respected
our Champion as a brave man, and one of the won-
ders of the age ; he had come over to try whether
he could lick him, and he acknowledged he found
in him an adversary quite as good, or even better,
than he expected, and he might add, now that the
question of the belt was done away with, what he
could not have said publicly before, viz., that even had
he defeated Tom Sayers in the Ring, it was his inten-
tion to have given the belt right back to him on the
spot, feelin git would have been far from manly on his
part to have deprived so good a man of his hard-
earned trophy, after waiving his rights so far as to
allow him a chance of trying for it. Tom replied
in suitable terms, that he had always respected
Heenan; he looked upon him as a brave man, and
the best he had ever met, and he considered him in
every way worthy to uphold the Championship of
England should he feel disposed so to do.
This arrangement, we think, cannot but give
satisfaction to every one. All difficulties as to the
division of the belt, or its removal from the country,
are disposed of, and it still remains to be fought for.
Each of the late combatants will receive a trophy
which he may wear with pride, and show to future
generations as the fruits of his prowess. The pub-
lic generally, and especially the Corinthian patrons
of the Ring, will be pleased that the men will not
again meet in a hostile way. All were delighted
with the spectacle afforded on the 17th April, by
the indomitable pluck and endurance exhibited on
both sides, and however much all may have re-
gretted that the question was not settled one way
or the other, still the feeling was, as we have
stated, pretty general that another meeting should
not take place. As to who might have proved the
winner in the vent of a second meeting was of
course a question open to much debate • each man
naturally had his partisans, and equally open to
dispute was the point as to who would have come
off victorious had there been no interference. These
are matters on which we have our own opinion in
common with others, but as the men are now fast
friends, we think it better that everything that
has transpired which might give rise to un-
pleasant reminiscences should be forgotten and
forgiven, the numerous angry letters received
by each and concocted for each by bad ad-
visers should be treated as waste paper, and
thus will both men remain free to act in con-
cert, without fear of any future disputes as to who
did or said anything to the disparagement of his
brave opponent. It should be the study of each to
uphold the character of his new pal, and do all in
his power towards strengthening the bond of friend-
ship so auspiciously entered into. It is the inten-
tion of the men to go forthwith on a joint sparring
tour, previous to which, however, they will take
joint benefits in the metropolis. 'As to the new
belts, they must be paid for by subscription.
Sayers will head Heenan's list, and Heenan will do
the like office for Sayers, but they will, of course,
require considerable assistance from the public to
carry out their arrangement ; and we make an ap-
peal to the gentlemen of England who have ex-
pressed so much pleasure at the recent mill to come
forward at once with their contributions towards
the requisite object. We hope next week to be
able to announce the subscriptions as complete,
In taking leave of the subject, we would most
thoroughly deprecate, on the part of the admirers
of either man, writing or chaffing in such a manner
as to kindle any spark of jealousy or be-
tween the two combatants, who have every right
to be considered the best judges of each other's
merits (credit expertis), and would urge all who
cannot come to the same conclusion in the matter
as the men themselves, to find a safety valve for
their opinions by subscribing to the belt of that one
whom they shall deem the worthier.—Bell's Life.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HARPENDEN RACES.-FRIDAY.

The Itothampstead Stakes of 3 soya each, with 30 added;
certain penalties and allowances. Optional selling weights.
One mile and a half,
Mr. C. Crome's Oliver Twist, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (£25) (Sblt) 1
Mr. Fuller's Queen Anne, 3 yrs, Est 41b (£25) (Wiltshire) 2
Mr. Nightingall's Contention, 5 yrs, 9st 21b (£25)
(Nightingall) 3
Mr. C. Thorpe's Harlequin, 3 yrs, 7st (£50).. .. (Prior) 4
Betting-2 to 1 and 5t02 on Harlequin, 3to 1 agst
Oliver Twist.

Won by two lengths; a bad third. The winner was
bought in for 42 guineas.
The Harpenden Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ;
extra weight for winners ; the second to save his stake.
Two miles. 29 subs, 6of whom declared.
Mr. Trower's Lovett, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (car 7st 81b) (Fordham) 1
Mr. Fuller's Simple Simon, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b.. (Grimshaw) 2
Mr. W. Williams's Norton, 4 yrs, 6st 81b (Watts) 3
„The following also ran :—Volatore, Romeo, Gorsehill,
Flitch, Ambush, Marwell, and Quicksilver.
Lord Courtenay declared to win with Flitch.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Flitch, 4to 1 agst Lovett, 6to 1 agst
Gorsehill, 100 to 15 agst Norton, 10 to 1 (at first 2 to 1) agst
Romeo, 10'0) 1 each agst Simple Simon and Marwell.
Won easily by six lengths ; a bad third ; Marwell and
Quicksilver did not pass the post.
The Lad es' Purse of 26 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5
sovs each ; the second to save his stake. One mile and
a half. Gentlemen riders.
Mr. C. Alexander's Watersprite, by Alarm, 3 yrs, (in. 61b
extra), 9st 111 b
Mr. Bevill's Claire, 4 yrs (in. 51b extra), list 81b
(Mr. W. Bevill) 2
Mr. Nightingall's Abel Jack, 3 yrs, 9st 111 b
(Mr. Edwards) 3
The following also ran :—Delhi, Chippenham, Advent,
and Wildrake.

Betting--5 to 4on Claire, 3to 1 agst Wateraprite, 4to
1 any other offered.
Won by a length and a half, a bad third.
Two-Year-Old Stakes of 5 soya, with 100 added. Winners
extra ; the second to save his stake ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies,
Bst 41b. Four furlongs and a half. 21 subs.
Mr. Rogers's Blisworth, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 1
Mr. T. Stevens's King of Rent, Bst 71b (Payne) 2
Mr. G. Bard's f by Barnton, out of Tarella, Bst 4lb
(F. Adams) 3
The following also ran :—Maid of Honour, British
Prince, Mantrap, Brown Stout, Viscount Brignall, Robin-
son Crusoe, Indicator, Camerino, Memzie, The Eastern
Princess, Polly, Mountebank, and Rupert. -
Betting-7 to 4 agst Rupert, 9to 4 agst Viscount Brig-
nail, 10 to 1 each agst Mantrap, Camerino, King of Kent,
and Mountebank, 100 to 8 Blisworth.

Won by a neck; three lengths between the second and
third ; Viscount Brignall fourth, and Rupert fifth, close
up; Memzie, Camerino, Eastern Princess, and Maid of
Honour were next in the order named; Robinson Crusoe
and Mountebank were the last two.

Handicap Plate of 50 sow for two-yrlolds and upwards.
About 1 mile. Certain winners extra.

Mr. J. Nightingall's Contention, 5 yrs, 7st 31b (Birch) 1
Mr. C. Thorp's Barege, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
Mr. Fuller's Kate, 4 yrs, 6st 8113 (Wiltshire) 3
The folh4ing also ran :—Codicil, Ambush, Kitty King-
ston, and Industrious.

Betting--7 to 4on Codicil, Bto 1 each agst Kate and
Barege, 10 to 1 agst Ambush. The winner was not
named.

Won by a length and a half; three lengths between the

second and third. A bad fourth. Industrious last all the
way.

The Stand Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 35 added; three-yr-
olds to carry 9st 51b ; four, 10st 71b ; five, Ilst 31b ; six
and aged, list 71b. Certain winners extra, Optional
selling weights. The second to save his stake. Gentle-
men riders allowed 51b. One mile and a half.

Mr. Mundy's Actress, by Slane, 3 yrs (£ 25), 7st 121 b
(G. Fordliam) 1
Mr. Bevill's Audrey, 4 yrs (£5O), 9st 21b (Mr. W. Bevill) 2
Capt.nunt's The Gift, 4 yrs (C2s),Sst 91b(Mr. C. Boynton) 3
The Poet and Marwell also ran.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Actress, 4to 1 agst Audrey, sto 1
each agst Gift and Marwell.
Won by two lengths ; three lengths between second and
third.

The Scurry Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 25 added ; three-
yr-olds, Bst 71b ; four, 9st 101 b ; five and upwards, lOst.
Winners extra. Optional selling weights, &c. T.Y.C.
10 subs.
Mr. Alexander's Watersprite, 3 yrs (1'20), Bst.. (Beggis) 1
Mr. Bird's Foretop, 3 yrs (120), 7st 7]b
Mr. Price's Benicia Boy, 3 yrs (.C2O), 7st Blb (Fordhain) 3
The following also ran:—Pescatore, Audrey, Phoebe,
Mayflower, Kate, and Harlequin.
Betting —5 to 4 agst Watersprite, 5 to 2 agst Pescatore,
5 to 1 agst Benicia Boy, 8 to 1 agst Audrey.

Won by three lengths ; a bad third.
LATEST DERBY BETTING ON THE COURSE.
3to 1 agst Umpire (offered)
3to 1 agst The Wizard (offered)
20 to 1 agst Horror (taken)
33 to 1 agst Tom Bowline (taken)
40 to 1 egst Sutton
50 to 1 agst Lanchester (taken)
500 even between Sutton and Torn Bowline.