The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-15 00:00:00

BOYDELL'S ENDLESS RAILWAY ENGINE.

A trial of Mr. Boydell's patent endless railway traction
engine was made yesterday in Woolwich marshes in the
presence of a number of gentlemen. Messrs. J. and G.
Booker, bankers of Liverpool, Mr. P. N. Bernard, Mr.
Piccioni, Mr. Blasini, Mr. Totentes, cotton planters in
Porto Rico and Trinidad, and Mr. Mechi, were present.
Colonel Tulloch, Royal Artillery, directed the experiments
on behalf of Government. One of the heaviest guns, a 68-
pounder, weighing 113 cwt. 141 b., having been mounted on a
waggon to which were attached 18 artillery horses. was con-
veyed to the Plumstead-marshes. The traction engine
having picked up a gun of equal calibre, which, together
with the engine and carriages, weighed 20 tons 5 owt., fol-
lowed and proceeded steadily for some distance, when
from the soft state of the roads, and the small power
of the engine, being only of 8-horse power, the expeni
ment could not be completed. It was, however, con-
sidered that the object of the experiment had been
sufficiently realised. The difficlilty had been con-
siderably increased by the passage of the preceding wag.
gon, drawn by 18, and occasionally 24 horses. This was
accompanied by a number of labourers carrying handspikes
with which they assisted in lifting the wheels. It was
stated that the Russian Government were prepared to enter
into a contract with the patentee to supply them with a
large number of those engines.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND SOUTH-BASTERIT RAILWAY.—Traffic re-
Corr es
turn for the
ng we
week la ek ending Oct. 11, 1856 £23,606 2 2
pondit year .................... 24,557 18 11
Decrease in 1856 £95116 9
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Oct. 11,,
1856 ........... £16,833 11. 9
Corresponding week last year ........ . 16,559 2 6
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 280.738 15 0
fotal of the b.alf-year to this date, 1855 266,218 16 2
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffin re-
t .irn for the week ending Oct. 11, 1856 ......... 27,495 6 2
'corresponding week last year 6,059 19 8

Increase in 1856 21,435 6
GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for tho
week ending Oct. 12, 1856 £B2B 5 0

LIVERPOOL, Oct. 14.—During the quarter ended ti e
30th of September, 1856, 707 British ships, with cargoes
valued at 9,961,180/., cleared outwards from the port of
Liverpool. During the same time 54 foreign vessels
cleared, with cargoes worth 4,863,149/. Total, 1,247
veB3els ; value of cargoes, 14,824,339/.

TIE CITY GA,II WORKS.

Yesterday, after the ordinary business of the City
Commission of Sewers had been disposed of a committee
of the whole court met for the purpose of bearing addi.
tonal evidence respecting the alleged nuisance arising
from the City Gas Works. At the last meeting of the
committee the witnesses on this head were policemen
who had been in the habit of patrolling the immediate
neighbourhood of the works. The evidence brought for=
ward yesterday was given by residents in the locality.
Among those examined were Mr. Saward, of Bridge-
street'; Mr. Holtb, Chatham-place ; Mr. Bryant, Paper-
buildings, Temple ; Mr. Clark, Chatham-place ; Mrs,
Wells, Mr. Priestly, Tudor-street ; Mr. Poynter, Bride-
well Hospital ; Mr. Bertha!), &c. The smell from the
gas works was described by all the witnesses as being
very bad and offensive, particularly at night, and pro-
ductive of headache, depression of spirits, nausea, and in
some cases actual vomiting. Some of the witnesses bad
had to send their families out of town, on account of the
injury to their health. One of the witnesses being asked
by Mr. Deputy Lott whether he could distinguish be.
tween the smell of the gas works and that of the Fleet
Ditch, said that be could, and that he preferred the
latter. (Laughter.) Mr. Hardy, surgeon, of Earl-street
said that, personally, he had suffered very great incon-
venience, but his wife and children bad suffered more.
The eluvium produced a sense of suffocation and head-
ache, and persons were continually making complaints
to him of the smell arising from the works. Mr. Saward
said that, about a year ago, a formidable explosion took
place at the works through the bursting of a pipe, 15
inches in diameter, and a piece 'of pipe about 4 inches
long, 3 wide, and an inch thick, was blown over the
tops of the houses into Chatham-place. This concluded
the evidence against the company, who will be heard in
reply on Friday next. •

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

ADMIRALTY, Oar. 14.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have re-
ceived a communication from the Right Hon. the Earl of
Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, concerning a despatch addressed
to his Lordship by the Comte de Persigny, Ambassador
at this Court from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor
of the French, to the effect that a certain number of
Stoats, bearing inscriptions to denote the place of their
immersion, were thrown overboard during the recent
expedition of his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon
to the North Sea, in the French frigate La Reine
Hortenso, with a view to ascertain the direction
of the currents in the sea. His Excellency desires that, in
the event of any of these floats being cast upon the shores
of Great Britain the same may be transmitted to him,
without loss of time, at the French Embassy in London.
The Lords of the Admiralty, in making known the con-
tents of this despatch, request all persons finding any of
the floats referred to, to forward them with a statement of
the time and place of their discovery to his Excellency the
Comte de Persigny, Albert-gate-house, London.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 11.
The Queen' has been pleased to order a oonge d'elire to
pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chap-
ter of the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, to elect a
Bishop of that See, the same betbg void by the resignation
of the Rightßeverend Father in God Doctor Charles James
Blomfield, late Bishop thereof; and her Majesty has also
been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter
the Very Reverend Archibald Campbell Tait, D.C.L., now
Dean of Carlisle, to be by them elected Bishop of the said
See of London.

WHITEHALL, 00T. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to order a conge d'elire to
pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of
the cathedral church of Durham to elect a Bishop of that
See, the same being void by the resignation of the Right
Reverend Father in God Doctor Edward Maltby, late
Bishop thereof; and her Majesty has also bean pleased to
recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Right
Reverend Father in God Doctor Charles Thomas Longley,
now Bishop of Ripon, to be by them elected Bishop of the
said See of Durham.

WHITEHALL Om. 14.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint the
Rev. Richard Chevenix Trench, 8.D., to be Dean of the
collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster, void by the
death of Dr. William Buckland, late Dean 'thereof.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 10.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr, John
Samuel as Consul-General in England for the Republic of
Guatemala.

WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, Om. 14.
45th Regiment of Foot—General Thomas Brabazon
Aylmer to be Colonel, vice General Sir Colin Halkett,
G.C.8., deceased. _ _

sith Regiment of Foot--Major-General Sir Jag. Fred.
Love, K.C13., to be Colonel, vice Field-Marshal Viscount
Hardinge, G.C.13 , deceased.

WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, OCT. 18.
2.1 Regiment of Life Guards—Alex. Charles Hector
Stewart, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Lord Ernest M`D. Vane Tempest, appointed to
the 4th Light Dragoons.
sth ,Dragoon Guards—Cornet Frederick Drummond
Hibbert has been permitted to resign his commission.
12th Light Dragoons—Brevet-Colonel Frederick Charles
Griffiths, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel.

2d Foot—Captain William Campbell, from the 71st
Foot, to be Captain, vice Rooke, who exchanges.
35th Foot—Captain Robert Crosse Stewart, from half-
pay of the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, vice 0. N. Chat-
terton, who exchanges.
40th Foot—Lieut. William Gibson, from the 43th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Osborne, who exchanges. '
48th Foot—Lieut. Francis W. Osborne, from the 40th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gibson, who exchanges.
49th Foot—Lieut. William Benjamin Croft Goodison,
from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to bo Lieutenant, vice
Crossman, who exchanges.
71st Foot—Captain James Harwood Rooke, from the
2d Foot, to be Captain, vice William Campbell, who ex-
changes.

MI Foot—Lieutenant James Henry Linton, from the
82d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice 0 Malley, who exchanges.
82d Foot—Lieutenant William BoydO'Malley, from the
76th Foot, to ba Lieutenant, vice Linton, who exchanges.
2d West India Regiment—Thomas Bolton Ogden, Gent ,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Pugh, promoted.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Lieutenant Edmund Douglas
Crosstnan, from the 99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
Goodison, who exchanges.
St. Helena Regiment—Lieutenant Edmund Charles
Barnes to bo Adjutant, vice Cowell, who resigns the Ad-
jutancy only.

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LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.
Quartermaster George Blake has been superseded fcr
being absent without leave.

BRITISH ITALIAN LEGION.
Ist Regiment—Dr. Francesco Depraz to bo Surgeon.
DEPOT BATTALIONS. '
Lieut.-Colonel Richard T. Farren, C. 8., from the 47th
Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel ; Major John Lawrie, from
half-pay, unattached, to be Major; Captain Henry James
Buchanan, from the 47th Foot, to be Adjutant.
For Quartermaster John Thomp3on, from the Cavalry
Depot, to bo Quartermaster, &c., which appeared in the
Gazette of the 3d inst., read, Quartermaster John Thomp-
son, from half-pay of the Consolidated Cavalry Depot, to
be Quartermaster, Aso.
HOSPITAL STAFF.

The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their
services
:
John Shoolbraid, Archibald Hamilton Hilson, and Geo.
Edward Whitton.