The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BounsE, Sept. 4, Two o'clock.—Transactions to-
day are very limited. Three per Cents. and Italian
Fives are without change, at 69f. 65c. and 481.95 e.
Credit Mobilier shares are likewise unvaried at
2721. 50c. Spanish Mobilier are quoted at 177 f.
50c., a decline of 7f. 50c.; Credit Foncier at 1,370 f.,
a loss of 3f. 75c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte at 705 f.,
or 3f. 75c. lower; and Immobiliere at 120 f., a fall
of 2f. 50c. Very little business is also doing in
railway shares. Northern are at 1,165 f., an advance
of 4f. 75c. ; and Orleans at 897 f. 50c., or 2f. 50c
higher.
Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :-
41 per Cents lOO 25
Do. end month —

Bank Shares —
Italian Loan 4B 90
Do. end month 49 10
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes _ —
Home Debt
Deferred
rATs.
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3 per Cents. 69 80
Do. end month 69 75
Credit MobiHet

-60:-,;;4-3.,710-iiii:i ::: 280 -

Credit Poncier

Do. end month 1370

RAIL'

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1167 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 905
Southern 540
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian ................
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

387 50

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Mr. Corry, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty,
and Admiral Milne, after concluding the annual in-
spection at Devonport, left the Sound yesterday
morning in the Minotaur, for Ireland. While on
board the Cambridge on Tuesday morning several
broadsides were fixed by the system of Mr. Levi, one
of her gunners. The object of this invention is the
firing of any number of guns simultaneously. The
experiment seemed to be satisfactory to their Lord-
ships. In the afternoon they went on board the
implacable, 24, where they were received by Com-
mander Pownall W. Pellew and his officers. They

went round the upper and main deck, the boys
being at dinner, and expressed themselves well
pleased with the appearance and discipline of those
under training. Mr. Corry then proceeded in the
Princess Alice to Plymouth Sound, and visited the
five ships belonging to the Channel squadron—the
Phoebe, &c. They then landed on the Breakwater
and inspected the foundation of the proposed new
fort, after which they returned to the Enchantress
in llamoaze.

The attempt made on Tuesday afternoon at Chat-
ham dockyard to float the caisson which burst a few
days previously, in order that it might undergo the
necessary repairs, failed, the caisson defying all the

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attempts made to float it, notwithstanding the em•
ployment for that purpose of two of the most power.
ful of the dockyard lighters, with the aid of a num.

ber of empty barrels lashed beneath it to give the
caisson the required buoyancy. Yesterday a number
of shipwrights were employed in effecting some
temporary repairs to the bottom, where the plank-
ing is ripped away, a further attempt to float her
being intended at the ensuing spring tides. In the
meantime the whole of the iron ballast will be taken
out of the caisson, the labourers commencing this
work yesterday.
The twin-screw gunvessel Ringdove, one of ten
building specially for service in the seas of China and
Japan, was launched yesterday from N 0.4 building
slip of Portsmouth dockyard, on the top of high
water. The principal dimensions of the vessel are
as follows :---:Breadth between perpendiculars,
l 70ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 157 ft. Tin. ;
breadth, extreme, 27ft. ; ditto, for tonnage, 28ft.
Bin. ; ditto, moulded, 28ft. 2in. ; depth of hold,
12ft. sin. ; burden in tons, 662 65-94. The pro-

pelling power of the ship will consist of two inde-
pendently working screws, each driven by engines
of 80 horse power, nominal, manufactured by
Maudslay, Sons, and Field. The hull of the vessel

is built of wood, with iron beams supporting the
decks. In the application of the twin screw prin-
ciple to the ship the plan followed by Messrs. John
and W. Dudgeon, the expositors of the twin screw
principle on the Thames, and the constructors of
her Majesty's ship Waterwitch, has been pretty
closely adopted, but these gentlemen are not likely
to copy in return the semicircular mass of timber

which projects from the hull under each quarter of
the Ringdove to support her screw shafting. The
Ringdove class is, however, a great improvement on
the previous and first attempt of the Admiralty
with twin-screw vessels in the Viper and Vixen.
The Plover, the first completed of the Ringdove
class, was tried light a few days since over the mea-
sured mile, at the Maplin Sands, and realised a
mean speed of IF3 knots. This rate is in excess by
half a knot of the rate obtained by any other ves-
sel in her Majesty's navy of similar tonnage and
power ; but her real test of speed will be at load
draught in Stokes Bay.
The Orontes, screw troopship, Captain Phelps,
arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, from Liverpool,
Queenstown, and a round of foreign troop relief

service.
The Crocodile, screw troopship, Capt. Watson,
steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and
made a contractor's trial of her machinery. To-day
she will make her official trial of speed over the
measured mile in Stokes Bay.
Col. J. P. Robertson, C.B. (Nov. 4, 1859), and
Major James Henry Wyatt, C.B. (Dec. 26, 1863),
have been appointed respectively Commandant and
Brigade-Major of the Military Train Corps at
Woolwich, in succession to Col. Clark Kennedy,
C. 8., and Alajor Shervinton, who have gone to
Egypt, to purchase mules for the Abyssinian cam-
paign. On commencing the duties of his post at
IVoolwich, Col. Robertson paid a visit to the
saddlery department of Woolwich Arsenal, for the
special purpose of inspecting the newly-constructed
pack-saddle, brought out under the patent of
Lieut. M'Mahon. Col. Robertson, who was accom-
panied by I deut. M'Mahon and various other officers,
desired to be made acquainted with the ready
methods under which the saddle could be made
available. It'was therefore adjusted to the most
bulky and, by way of contrast, to the smallest
dummys used in the establishment. The saddle
was contracted at the fore part, and was expanded
at the rear, so as to be perfectly accommodated to
the ox of burden, which may in all probability be
now brought into requiEition.
Ensign Oelrichs, 35th Regiment, is under orders
to join the depot at Colchester.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :----Commander J. B. Scott to the
Assurance, vice Pym, invalided ; Commander C. D.
Saunders to the Prince Consort ; and llugh B.
Rooper, midshipman, to the Liffey.