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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1858.

machine : The power is—hoisting capacity above
the surface of the water, 1,000 tons ;'gear for work-
ing, 10 sets of crabs independent of each other,
worked bytwo oscillating (,engines of 30 nominal
horse-power each, with Barran's patent cup surface
boilers ; propelling power, two pair of oscillating
engines of 160 horse-power each pair, with Barran's
patent cup surface boilers. The weight of the scow
or hull (without derrick) is 750 tons ; of the derrick,
including legs; boom, " king-post," castings, and
rods, 250 tons—viz., legs of derrick 65, boom 80,
" king-post" 55, castings and rods 50—making a
total weight of scow and derrick, without propelling
or hoisting machinery, 1,000 tons. The dimensions
are—length over all 257 feet, breadth 90, depth 14,
height from deck to boom 80, ditto of " king-post"
above boom 50, radius of boom 60. This machine
is capable of depositing its load anywhere within a
circle whose diameter is 120 feet. The tonnage of
the vessel, is 5,000 tons. The whole of the
machinery was manufactured by Messrs. R. and T.
Hughes, of New-cross, Deptford, and the entire
cost was £40,000.
It was natural that the launch of such an extra-
ordinary specimen 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
wzre not a few who, remembering the difficulties
.arrains. t which Brunel had to contend, ventured to
hint at a possible mischance in the present case.
Practical shipwrights 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" restd upon three cradles, sup-
ported upon an equal number of " ways,"whieh 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 bCfore 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
A 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.

* 4th Dragoon Guards, sth ditto, Ist Dragoons, 2d ditto
(Grays), Ist Dragoon Guards, from 5 ft. 8 in. to 5 ft. 11 in. ;
2d Dragoon Guards, 3d ditto, 7th ditto, sth Lancers, 6th
Dragoons (Enniskillens), 9th Lancers, 12th ditto, 16th ditto,
17th ditto, from 5 ft. 6 in. to 5 ft. 8 in. ; 6th Dragoon Guards
(Carabineers), 3d Light Dragoons, 4th ditto, 7th Hussars,
Bth ditto, 10th ditto, 11th ditto, 13th Light Dragoons, 14th
ditto, 15th Hussars, 18th ditto, from 5 ft. 4t in, to 5 ft. Gin.,
age from 18 to 30 years.

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 army, 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
allowed to volunteer.

" 9. Non-commissioned officers are not to be per-
mitted to volunteer without special permission 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 are 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 passing 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 . regimants of militia for
each volunteer actually joining the regular army,
and it is to be distributed as suggested in the War-
office' iircul4r of the g2d of
,June, 1854.
" 1.1. The volunteering is to e 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 eitend 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 sooir as -the volunteering is over, the
medical and• recruiting officers are to return to
their respective stations, and areturn 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 commanding. in Chiefs information.
" 19.. If the required number 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 requiredb-y 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-offiee.
" 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. " By command,
" G. A. WETHERALL, .Adj utant-General."
Orders were on Saturday issued from the Horse
Guards to the officers commanding the depot bat-
talions of cavalry and infantry at Chatham, Can-
terbury, Maidstone, Colchester,-Winchester, Butte-
vant, and Stirling, directing them to hold in readi-
ness the following troops to embark for India
between the sth and 9thof Oct.--viz.: for Calcutta,
26 men of the Enniskillen Dragoons, 14 men of the
9th (the Queen's) Lancers, 32 men of the 7th
Hussars, 60 men of the Ist battalion sth Fusileers,
22 men of the' Ist battalion 6th Regiment, 22 men
of the Ist battalion Bth (the King's) Regiment,
' 2 sergeants, - drummer. - and 165 men of
the Ist batt. 3d Buffs, 14 men of the Ist batt. 13th
(Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, 20 men of the Ist
batt. 19th Regt., 22 men of the Ist. batt. 20th Regt.,
13 men of the Ist batt. 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
22 men of the 29th Regt., 60 men of the 34th, 12
men of the 35th (Royal Sussex), 25 men of the 37th,
20 men of the 38th, 10 men of the 42d (Royal High-
landers), 92 men of the 48th, 60 men of the 54th,
18 men of the Ist batt. 60th Royal Rifles, 23 men
of the 64th Regt., 16 of the 73d, 28 men of the 75th,
14. men of the 82d, 38 men of the 88th (Connaught'
Rangers), 12 men of the 93d (Highlanders), 40 men
of the 97th, and 2 sergeants and 148 men of the
Royal Artillery.. The following are the reinforce-
ments for Bombay :-32 men of the Bth HuSsars,
14 men of the Ist. batt. 18th Royal Irish, 90 men
of the 28th Regt., 25 men of the 3:3d (Duke of Wel-
lington's), 37 men of the 46th, 12 men of the 57th,
12 men of the 86th (Royal County-. Down), 40 men
of the 89th, 12 men of the 92d (Highlanders), and
25 men of the 95th: The following are under orders
to embark for Madras .men of the Ist batt.
Ist Royals, 30 men .of the 44th Regt., 12 men of the
3d batt. 60th Rifles-, 55 men of the 66th Regt., 116
men of the 68th Light Infantry, 18 men of the 69th
Regt., 14 men of the' 74th (highlanders) and 50
men of the fist.. The, detachments to embark: for'
Kurrachee are 111 men of the 27th Enniskillens, 25
men of the 81st Regt.) 12 men of the 87th (Royal
Irish Fusiliers); 15 men of the 89th, and 20 men of
the 94th.

The steamer Indiana, Commander Lambert, ar-
rived in the Thames.on Friday. night from Calcutta,
87 days out, with a large party of sick and wounded
troops on board, chiefly from Lueknow and Delhi.
The Indiana sailed from Calcutta on the Ist July,
calling at Sandheads, Point. de Gallo, Mauritius, Cape
of Good Hope, and St. Vincent, which latter she
left on the 9th inst. The number of sick and
wounded troops that embarked at Calcutta was 110,
belonging to the 2d Dragoons, 7th Hussars, 9th
Lancers; sth Fusiliers, 10th, 19th, 20th, 23d Royal
Welsh Fusiliers, 34th, 35th, 42d Royal Highlanders,
60th Rifles; 73d, 75th, 78th and 79th Highlanders,
80th, • 82d, 84th, 88th Connaught Rangers, 90th
Light Infantry, 97th Regiment, and the Royal Ar-
tillery, together with 18 women and children, the
whole under the command of Capt. G. Clay, 19th
Regiment, and in medical charge of Assistant-Sur-
geon M. Grant, M.D., sth Fusiliers. During the
voyage 11 deaths occurred on board—viz., one offi-
cer (Lieut. the Hon. C. It. M. Ward, 73d Regt.),
seven soldiers, one child, and two sailors, one of the
latter having been accidentally killed by falling
from the masthead to the deck.. On Saturday the
Indiana steamed up to Gravesend for the purpose
of landing the wounded and disabled troops, who
were all immediately conveyed to Fort Pitt Hospi-
tal, Chatham. Many of the troops have received
desperate wounds in 'their conflicts wth the muti-
neers at Allunibagh and Lucknow, where nearly
the whole of them were engaged under Sir James
Outram. The screw steamer Simootn, 8, Commander
J. M. Cooke, left Calcutta for England 12 days be-
fore the Indiana, with 150 sick and wounded sailors,
belonging chiefly to the screw steam frigate Shan-
non, 51, who formeda portion of the naval brigade
under the command of the late Capt. Peel, C.B.
On 'Saturday afternoon Colonel Eyre, the com-
mandant of Chatham. garrison; inspected the' whole
of the depots- of the 2d battalion of infantry under
the command of Colonel R. N. Phillips, comprising
the depot companies of the :.10th, 20th, 23d
(Royal Welsh Fusiliers), 29th, 52d (Light Infantry),
and Gist Regiments, the officers and men of which
were drawn up on the inner lines. The Ist batta-
lion, under the command of Colonel H. Jervis, also
Underwent an inspection by Colonel Jervis the same
afternoon.

In pursuance of the sanitary regulations laid
down by the Royal Commissioners in their recent
visit to Woolwich garrison, for the more effectual
ventilation of the men's sleeping rooms, a portion
of one of the front blocks of the Royal Artillery
barracks was on Saturday vacated and given over
to the Royal Engineers, for the purpose of cora-

mencing 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,
R.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 Bailin-
coffin. 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 Templemore.