The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-27 00:00:00

THE SIM.t, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1858

machine : The power is— hoisting capacity above
the surface of the water,
'l,OOO tons ; gear for work-
ing,dependent of each other,
worked 10sets
byt owof crabssciur n
engines of 30 nominal
horse-power each, With Earran's patent cup surface
boilers ; propelling pa wer, two pair of oscillating
engines of 160 horse-p( )wer each pair, with Barran 's
patent cup surface boi leis. The weight of the scow
or hull (without derri ck) is 750 tons ; of the derrick,
including legs, bo,m t, "king-post," castings, and
rods, 250 tons—vi ~ legs of derrick 65, boom 80,
" king-post" 55, ea stings and rods 50—making a
total weight of score r and derrick, without propelling
or hoisting machin( xry, 1,000 tons. The dimensions
are—length over f,ll 257 feet, breadth 90, depth 14,
height from d.eck to boom 80, ditto of " king-post"
above boom 50, radius of boom 60. This machine
is capable of deli( iting its load anywhere within a
circle whose diam a `,er is 120 feet. The tonnage of
the vessel is 5.,000 tons. The whole of the
machinery was ni:anufactured by Messrs. R. and T.
Hughes, of New -cross, Deptford, and the entire
cost was £40,000.
It was natural t hat the launch of such an extra-
ordinary zspecime of naval architecture and
mechanism should have excited unusual curiosity.
From its peculiar , structure it was necessary to
launch it broadside on, in the same manner as the
Great Eastern was at length vanquished, and there
ware not a few who, remembering the difficulties
against which Brune; had to contend, ventured to
hint at a possible mi kichance in the present case.
Practical shipwright "
,s are not, however, to be
daunted by the failures of others, and with the
punctuality of an express train on a well-arranged
railway, the huge thing rushed into the water.
The monster " scow", rested upon three cradles, sup-
ported upon an equal number of " ways,"which ex-
tended down to low water mark. At half-past two
Mrs Thomas Maudslay performed the usual cere-
mony of breaking the bottle of wine on the bows
of the vessel, giving to it the name of the " Patent
Derrick, No. 1." Immediately after the signal was
given the " dog shores" were knocked away, and
in a few minutes after the application of the
hydraulic machine the unwieldy looking mass was
driving before it to the opposite side an immense
wave of water, which lifted some small boats on to
the dry land, swamped one or two others, and
washed away casks and other materials which were
on the wharves. The commotion which was caused
in the water served to convey some slight notion of
what would have taken place had'the huge Levia-
than, with its power of displacing 11,000 tons of
water, been allowed to rush uncontrolled into the
river at the time of the first attempt to launch it.
The " Patent Hangman, No. 1," did not displace
one-tenth of the volume which the Leviathan would
have done, but for some time after the launch the
water heaved and rolled like a stormy sea.
Some steam tugs which were in readiness, took
the " scow" in hand immediately after her launch,
and towed her out into the centre of the river oppo-
site Blackwall. The machine will be placed under
the command' of Captain Coppin, an officer who
has had great experience in dealing with wrecks,
and who possesses the threefold recommendation
of being an able sailor, a good engineer, and a
practical shipbuilder, and will be retained in
the service of the ports and docks of London
and Liverpool, the rivers Thames and Mer-
sey, and the neighbouring coasts. When the
advantages of the invention shall have become fully
established, the company intend to introduce them
as opportunity may offer in Hull, Newcastle, Sun-
derland, Bristol, Southampton, Yarmouth, Leith,
Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cork, Waterford, and other
ports of the United Kingdom.
The expense of working the derrick is stated to
be very small—from four to six men with two
horses being sufficient to raise an ordinary-sized'
ship.

their services, and in case of a commanding officer
refusing to discharge any private, not employed as
above, who•may wish to join the regular array, he
is to transmit his reasons for such refusal, in writ-
ing, to the general officer commanding the district
for reference to head-quarters.

" 8. Married men,. and men undergoing impri•
sonment by sentence of court-martial, are not
allow;ed to volunteer.

" 9. Non-commissioned officers are not to be per-
mitted to volunteer without special pennissitm from
their commanding officer, and they will only be
accepted as privates.
" 10. Commanding officers of militia will take
care that the volunteers are regularly discharged,
that their accounts arc closed, that every just claim
is satisfied, and that the men are regularly enlisted
as well as attested for the corps to which they
volunteer, in strict accordance with the forms pre-
scribed by the Mutiny Act, for which purpose
arrangements will be made for the attendance of
any officer of the recruiting service, whose duties
will be strictly limited to passinf., the men into the
service according to the established regulations,
after they come forward—but he is in no respect to
interfere with the volunteering. The necessary
supply of attestations is to be obtained from the
War-office.

" 11. The volunteers are to be sent to their
new regiments in charge of steady sergeants
of militia, or of the regular army if they can-
not be spared from the militia. When cir-
cumstances render it advisable that the volunteers
for the cavalry and infantry of the line should pro-
ceed to their respective destinations before routes
can be obtained for their march, the commanding
officer is to furnish the sergeant under whose charge
they are sent with the amount of railway fares (or,
when necessary, give railway or passage warrants,
according to the War•office regulations), and re-
cover the money under the authority of covering
routes, for which he will make application to the
Quartermaster-General in the usual manner. In
the case of men extending such services to regi-
ments in the same garrison, or in the immediate
vicinity, they are to be sent to their new corps as
soon as they are attested.
" 12. Volunteers will be entitled to the usual
bounty of £3, of which 10s. 6d. is to be handed to
them in cash on attestation, the balance being duly
credited, and paid to them on joining their new re-
giments, and they will receive in addition an entire
new kit.

" 13. As a further inducement to volunteer, the
Secretary of State for War has been pleased to ap-
prove of all volunteers being allowed to reckon
one:half of their embodied militia service rendered
while over the age of 18 as a part of line service to
entitle them to pension and any other advantages,
such as good-conduct pay, &c., belonging to the
regular army, provided they shall have completed
six months' militia service.

" 14. The volunteers are to take with them their
great coats, necessaries, and such old clothing as
can be furnished, and may be requisite ; but their
new clothing, knapsacks, and shakos are to be left
with the regiment ; and when proceeding by steam
vessels to or from ports in the United Kingdom,
each to be provided with a rug, as directed in para-
graph 22, page 230, of the Queen's Regulations and
Orders for the Army.
" 15. No fee or allowance beyond the usual
travelling expenses and detention money will be
granted to medical or recruiting officers detached
on this duty.
" 16. A sum of 10s. is granted by the Secretary
of State for War to the regiments of militia for
each volunteer actually joining the regular army,
and it is to be distributed as suggested in the War-
office circular of the 22d of him, 1854.
_

" 17. The volunteering is to be kept open if ne-
cessary, for a perid of three days, during which the
General Commanding in Chief relies upon the ut-
most regularity and• order being maintained. The
men who desire to extend their services are to sig-
nify their wish to the captains of companies, and
are to fall out at morning and evening parade.
" 18. As soon as. -the volunteering is over, the
medical and recruiting officers are to return to
their respective stations, and a return showing the
number of men released from their Militia engage-
ment, and the corps for which they volunteer, is to
transmitted to the Adjutant-General of the Forces
through the general officer commanding the district
for ,the General Commandint, in Chief's information.
" 19. If the required .numrber of volunteers is not
furnished at once, the volunteering is to be subse-
quently reopened until the quOta is complete, and
weekly returns of the volunteers who actually join
and are finally approved for the regular army are
to continue to be transmitted by embodied regi-
ments to the Adjutant-General every Saturday.
" 20. The money required by commanding officers
for the payment of bounties, for forwarding the
volunteers to their destination, and for their sub-
sistence while on route, is to be drawn and ac-
counted for according to the instructions issued
from the War-office.
" 21. These revised instructions are to be sub-
stituted for any others that may have been hitherto
issued, all of which are to be considered to be can
celled. "$y command,

mcncing a process of ventilation on the system de-
scribed in The Sun of Saturday.

CORK, Sept. 23.—The BarraCk and Hospital Im-
provement Commission, consisting of Capt. Galton,
1.E., Dr. Sutherland, and Dr. Burrell, arrived here
last night from Fermoy, and to-day, accompanied
by Major Gosset, the barrackmaster, Capt. Grain
and Capt. Brine, R.E., inspected Cork and Ballin-
collig Barracks, where they were met by the com-
manding and medical officers, &c. To-morrow the
commission inspect Cork Harbour Barracks, and on
Saturday, Bandon, Kingsale, and Charlesfort, after
which they proceed to Tcmplemore.