The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-16 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIDLD. Meadow hay, £3 Os. to £4 10s. ; clover,
do., £3 10s. to £5 55.; and straw, £1 4s. to £1 7s. per load.
A short supply, and a steady trade.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s • clover
do., £3 10s. to £.5 ss. ; and straw, £1 4s to 8s per
lead. Both hay and straw were firm, and rather dearer.
WMTECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s; clover,
do., £3 lOs to £5 ss. ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 9s per load.
A fair average supply, and a firm demand.

COAL MARKET—OcT. 15.
(Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.)
Buddle's West Hartley, 15s. 9d. • West Tanfield, —s. ;
Howard's West Hartley Netherton, 15s. 6d. ; Tanfield
Moor, 13s. Od. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s Od.; Wylam,
14s. 6d. ; Earsden Hartley, —s. ; Byass's Bebside West
Hartley, 158.9 d.; Walker Primrose, 135.; Holy well, 14s 6d;
Birchgrove Graigola, —s. ; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. Od. ;
Davison's West Hartley, 15s. 9d. ; Haswell Gas, —s. Od.;
Morpeth West Hartley, —s. Od ; Tyne Main, —s. Od. ;
Newcastle Hartley, 14s 6d ; Lambert's West Hartley, 15s
9d ; Powell's Duffryn Steam, 21s. Od.
Walls End—Acorn Close, —s. Od. ; Benson, —s. Od. ;
Hunwick, —s. 9d. ; Whitworth, 14s. 6d.; Shincliffe, —s.
Od.; Haswell, —s. Od. ; Hetton, —s. Od. ' • Cassop, 18s. 3d;
• ,
Northumberland, —s. Od • Lambton, 18s. 9d.; Wham-
cliffe, —s. Od. ; Kepier Grange, 18s. 3d. ; Bell, 16s. 6d. ;
Russell's Hetton, 17s. 9d. ; Harton, —s. Od. ; Dryburn
Grange, —s. Od ; Heugh Hall, 18s. Od. ; Riddell, 16s. 6d.
Ships at market, 39—sold, 36.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—:YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 171 11 17
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 321 25 37
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 32 25 40
Frankfort on Maine — 118 119
Vienna
Trieste

Petersburgh
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Genoa

34/,
49k
491
29 90
25 50

35k
494
491
29 95
25 55

Naples -
Palermo —
Messina —
Lisbon
Oporto -
Rio Janeiro
New York —

41
1221
1221
52k
521

41k
123
123
52k
521

E.I. Co's Ws. House his. GOd
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 231
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — - 26 23
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to
the Bth inst.
£1,201 5 0
0 0 0
0 0 0

Bengal..
Madras
Bombay ..

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard). per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 0 0

THIS IJAI'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Oct. 16.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. ;
light breeze and fine.

'PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 15.—Sailed—Scringapatam, for
Madras.

PILL, Oct. 15.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—William, for
Newfoundland.

TROON, Oct. 15.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Lady Daly, for
Monte Video.

Stumps, Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Alexandine,
for Martinique. Put back—Emilie, from New York,
leaky.
WEST HARTLEPOOL, Oct. 15.—Sailed—Gonzalus (s.s.),
for Bahia.
CLYDE, Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—E. G., from
New York.

QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady
Douglas, from Moulmein ; Woodstock, from Callao ; Ann
Best, from Buenos Ayres.
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Planet, from Lon-
don for Melbourne. Sailed—British Empire, for Moreton
Bay.

Wind calm,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.

Arrived--Morning Star, from Kinsale; Courier, steamer,
from Jersey ; Havre, steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Pet, for Port Talbot ; Cautious and Juno, for
Sealutin ; Alliance, steamer, for Havre ; Charlotte, for
Guernsey ; Matthew Thompson, for Sunderland ; Dispatch,
steamer, for Jersey; Mechanics' Own, for Newport.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived, Oct. 15—Ophir, from Islay; Janier, from
Bilboa.
Arrived, Oct. 16—Rajah of Cochin, from Akyab ; Kirk-
connell, from Maranham.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind, S.W. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; weather, light and
fine.

Arrived, Oct. 15-01impio, from Odessa.
Arrived, Oct. 16—Success, from Dunkirk; City of Nor.
wich, steamer, from Tonning.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Wind W.S.W., moderate.
Arrived—Nassarima, from London, for Trinidad.
Passed—Spheroid, for St. Vincent ; Violet, for St.
Michael's ; Busy Bee, for Shoreham ; Arve, for Cardiff;
Sunshine, for Algoa Bay—all from London.
Sailed—Augusta Wattenbach, Midlothian, King Phillip,
Thames, City, Gwalior, Havering, Majestic, Golconda,
and Advice, with most of the outward bound. The ships
that remain are preparing to sail.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN THE CIVIL SERVlCE.—Colonial Department—A clerk-
ship in the Colonial-office has become vacant by the ap-
pointment of Mr. Higgins to a registrarship in bankruptcy.
The Board of Trade—Mr. Thomas M. Johnstone, collector
of customs, Woodbridge, has been appointed receiver of
wrecks, vice Mr. Newson Garrett. Audit-office—A
vacancy has been created in the Audit-office, Somerset
House, by the death of Mr. E. E. Hoffay, junior examiner.
The Dockyards--Thero are two clerkships vacant on the
establishment at Devonport Dockyard. Customa—Mr. W.
G. Flewker has been promoted from first-class clerk to be
a principal clerk in the Long-room, Liverpool; Mr. Joseph
Pyke has been promoted from second to first-class clerk at
Liverpool i Mr. J. M. Williams has been promoted from
first-class inspector of patrol to fourth-class tide-surveyor
at Hull. Inland Revenue Department—Mr. E. Farncorab
has been promoted from second clerk in
office,
Somerset
o the
promoted
storekeeper's
epfkereroem; p e
andr' s
office to be chief clerk in the registrar of warrant's oce
Somerset House; Mr. G. Evett has been promoted from
a warehouse-keeper to be warehouse-keeper;
u se
Mr. D. M'lntyre from storekeeper to be assistant warehouse m
keeper ; Mr. W. A. Hawkins has been -
in-
spector of permits to be chief clerk in the warehouse • Mr.
H. Garlang has been pronioted freak the diary office to' bre.
from first celhe°rkusein;
sHnapgineytehnaedenbeteouf oplrdemboeotkeds
thre. J.
reli..
keeper's office to be first clerk in the warehouse,--Civil
"Servo Gazette.

FLOATING DOCK, BASIN, AND HAR-
BOUR OF REFUGE AT GALWAY.

A very practical and easily-accomplished plan for
the formation of a floating dock and basin, the
effect of which will be to convert Galway Bay into
a harbour of refuge for merchant ships of all classes,
and a starting-point and station westward for her
Majesty's navy at all seasons, and under all circum-
stances, has been placed before the directors of the
Royal Atlantic Mail Steam Navigation Company
by their engineer. This plan can be carried out
efficiently at an expense of less than £lOO,OOO,
while a breakwater could not be constructed in less
than treble the time, and at an expense certainly
of not less than half a million.
REPORT.

With reference to the improvement of the
harbour of Galway for the accommodation of the
large steamships of your company, I beg to submit
herewith for your consideration certain improve-
ments, which I have marked on the accompanying
chart and ordnance map of the bay and harbour,
and which I would propose to be adopted instead of
the pier and breakwater proposed to be constructed
at Mutton Island, for the following reasons :—ln
the first place, I consider the works I propose can
be executed at a much less cost ; and in the second
place, when completed, the improvement that would
be thereby effected, and the accommodation afforded
would be far superior to what would be- effected
and afforded by the pier and breakwater at Mutton
Island.

The improvement which I propose is to render
the great basin (formed by nature) of Lough or
Lake Athalia accessible or available for steamships
and other vessels of the largest class and greatest
draft of water.
In order to effect this it would only be necessary
to excavate by means of coffer dams a channel from
the lake at where it is crossed by the railway to
the entrance of the present dock ; and from thence
to the roadstead the channel should be deepened
where requisite by steam dredges. According to
the soundings marked on the Admiralty charts by
Capt. Bedford, it appears that but little dredging
will be necessary either in Lough Athalia or from
the entrance of the present small dock to the road-
stead, so as to give a depth at high water of neap
tides of 24 feet, which is the greatest draught of the
largest ocean going steamer, or even the great
Leviathan.

The entrance to the lake at where the railway
crosses should be similar to the present dock, and
having like it a pair of tide gates, whereby the
water in the lough could be always. kept up at a
height of not less than high water of neaps. The
average present depth of the lake (according to the
soundings marked on the Admiralty charts) at such
times of tide is 21 feet, and at high water of ordinary
springs 25 feet, and in some places there is a depth
of 30 feet, so that very little dredging or excava-
tion would be required in the lake.
The present swivel-bridge should be taken away,
and another of a different construction erected in
its stead.

A wharf should be constructed alongside the
railway, at which the steamers could discharge and
load all goods, going or coming by the railway, as
all such goods could be readily raised from this
wharf and loaded on the trucks or other carriages
on the railway, or lowered from these trucks to this
wharf by means of cranes or gantries, with winches
or by inclined planes constructed for the purpose.
Other wharves, with sheds and storehouses, might
be erected from time to time as occasion would re-
quire. Also graving docks and slips could be
readily constructed along the west side of this
splendid basin.

The principal cost of these works would be the
construction of the coffer-dams and the excavation
of the channel from the entrance of the lake to
about the entrance of the present dock, or to a line
from it towards Rinmorepoint.
All these works could be executed with much less
difficulty and cost than the pier, in the most ex-
posed situation at Mutton Island.

When these works would be complete Lough
Athalia would be the largest floating basin in the
world, comprising an area of 100 statute acres, ca-
pable of affording accommodation to the entire Bri-
tish fleet and to vessels of the largest class, as they
could lie securely sheltered in the greatest storms
in still water, in the greatest safety, and also where
they could discharge and take in their cargoes and
passengers close to the town and railway.
I consider that the cost of the works I propose
would be much less than those necessary to com-
plete the breakwater and pier at Mutton Island,
but what the exact amount would be I cannot say
until I should make the requisite surveys, sections,
borings, &c., to enable me to send in an accurate
estimate of the cost, which I can have done in three
weeks from this date, if it is desirable by your lord-
ship and gentlemen that I should do so. I may,
however, safely state, from a rough calculation,
that it would not exceed one-half the amount Ile-,
cessary to complete the pier and breakwater,
and would not occupy beyond a third of the time
to complete, which is very important, not only to
your company but to the shipping interest of the
kingdom. Although it is stated that £150,000
will suffice for the pier and breakwater, I beg to
state that this sum will not be sufficient by one-half
to complete the work. It will take at least £300,000
to construct the pier and breakwater, and even then
it will be incomplete in giving perfect shelter to
shipping for either, discharging or loading cargo
without g r.n inside smaller harbour or dock,
to have smooth water, otherwise ships cannot lie
alongside without being torn and chafed to pieces,
as well as injuring the pier. The pier would be of
no use without the breakwater, and the two toge-
ther will not give the shelter that is expected.
They cannot do so. They would break off the
heavy sea rolling in from the open bay, but in bad
weather there would ever exist a heavy swell inside
the pier.

The great floating basin I propose will give a
hundred times more accommodation—by far greater
security to shipping, as they will lie in perfectly
smooth water, and have a constant and never ceas-
ing depth of thirty feet of water, accessible at high
water to vessels up to the tonnage of the Leviaihan,
and to the medium sized vessels (from 100 to 1,000
tons) at half tide, at which they can leave the basin
and proceed to sea, or enter it and moor safely
alongside of the railway quay proposed to be built
for their accommodation. Not only would this work
of constructing this enormous floating basin be less
difficult to execute, and in less than the 'time
of the pier and breakwater, but would not cost half
the amount. The pier and breakwater would
occupy from three to five years to complete, and at
least three years before they could be of the least
service.

FATAL AFFRAY WITH A GAiIE-
KEEPER AT .NEWARIC.

*-

On Saturday afternoon last, about five o'clock,
much excitement was produced in Newark by the
report that a labourer, named Charles Braithwaite,
had been shot dead by George Wesley, an under-
keeper in the employ of James Thorpe, Esq., of
Beaconfield House, near that town. It appears
the keeper was walking up Cliffe Nook-lane, when
he met the deceased, carrying a gun, which he re-
quired him to give up. The deceased refused, and
a fearful struggle ensued, both falling into a ditch
five feet deep. Shortly afterwards the keeper called
to a man who was passing, and said, "Poor Braith-
waite has shot himself;' after which the keeper
went for assistance. The gun stock was broken
into several pieces, and the barrel, as well as the
clothes of the keeper, was covered with blood.
During the evening the keeper gave himself into
custody; and, on Monday an inquest was opened
before the borough coroner, at the Newark Arms
Inn, where the body of the deceased was taken.
The above facts 'were stated by the accused, who
added that during the struggle the deceased
struck him on the mouth, when the gun went
off and shot the deceased ,• but he could not
account for its being so much injured. The sur•
geon, who had examined the deceased, stated that
the head and body were very much bruised ; but
that the actual cause of death was the gun-shot
wound. After sittil• seven hours, the jury ad-
journed to yesterday ( 'hursda.y),when it is expected
that further evidence of an important nature will
be produced.
The excitement in the neighbourhood which such
an event is in itself calculated to create, has been
increased by the proceedings of the county magis-
trates in different game cases which have recently
been brought before them. Tke deceased was shot
through the heart, but he also tad a very serious
wound on the head, and the latter, in the opinion
of many persons who have seen it, is such as would
be likely to have caused death if no other injury
had been sustained. It is also.very singular that
the stock of the gun should have teen broken into
pieces, supposing the deceased shot himself, and
that
the various fragments of it and the gun
barrel were found at distances of several yards
from each other. The spot where the struggle
occurred was just • within the boundary of the
borough of Newark ; so that, much to the satisfac-
tion of the inhabitants, the judicial inquiry will
not be held before the county magistrates. We
may add, that the lane is a public highway, and
that the keeper, therefore, had not the slightest
right to demand the gun from the deceased while
he was passing along it.—Manchester Guardian.

A special general meeting of the London and
South Western Railway Company is called for the 27th
inst., to consider the expediency of the company taking
leases of the Staines and Wokingham and Portsmouth
Railways.