The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-08 00:00:00

TALLOW.

I 'Since our last report about an average business has been
transacted in tallow. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot is selling
a' 49s 6d per cwt. Rough fat is 2s 9id per Sibs.

1854. 1855. 1856. I 1857. 1858.
Stock this day.... 30,408 18,491 10,897 24,092 21,178
Price of I". C. 60s Od to 69spd to 56s 3d to 53s Od to 49e 64
60s 6d —s Od —s dto 530 3d —s Od
Delivery last week 2,393 4,577 2,704 2,281 2,823
Ditto from June 1 3.5,511 60,179 59,483 46,529 46.162
Arrivals last week 3,313 998 1,841 5.069 9,564
Ditto from June 1 29,919 30,958 53,400 51,503 55.7fA
PA '
C* of Town ... 605 fd 70s 9d 57s 3d 56s 6d 'S3S bt

TILE NAVY.

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,The new screw steamship Hero, 91 guns, at
Sheerness, proceeded on Saturday on a final trial of
her . machinery, reparatory to the Admiralty
authorities receiving it from the contractors,
Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field. Captain E. P.
Halsted, of the Cressy, guardship of steam reserve ;
Mt:-. G. Blaxlancl, Engineer of the Dockyard ; and
Mr. J. H. Langley, Inspector of Machinery for the
Steam Squadron of Reserve, superintended on the
part of the Admiralty, Mr. T. Field and Mr. H.
lirarrener, of the firm of Maudslay, Sons, and Field,
with their staff, Conducted the machinery depart•
ment. The ship left at 8.30 a.m., and proceeded
do-wn the Swin to the measured mile beacons. She
continued her trials until 2 p.m., and returned
into harbour at 3.30 p.m. Her mean speed
was 11.75 knots per hour, her mean number of re-
volutions was 65 per minute, her vacuum 26, her
steam pressure 191 b. per square inch. Her draught
of water forward was 16 feet 3 inches, and after 21
feet. The temperature in the engine room and stoke
hole was, in consequence of the funnels fitted under
the directions of Mr. G. Blaxland, reduced consi-
derably, the stoke hole being only 65 deg., and the
engine room only 58 deg. on the average, although
20 tires were being kept constantly fed by the body
of stokers. The Admiralty authorities expressed
themselves in the highest terms in regard to her
macliiiiery, which worked admirably and without
a fault.

' The new screw steam frigate Forte, 51 guns, is
ordered to be received at Sheerness to-day from
Woolwich. Her engines are by Messrs. Maudslay
and Co.

The Locust steamvessel, Lieut.-Commander J. B.
Field, embarked at Sheerness Ordnance-wharf
Captain Wolf's company of Artillery, Lieuts. Ellis
and 133 gunners and. artillerymen, with eight
women and 10 children, on Saturday last, and pro-
ceeded with them to Woolwich, for the steamship
Melbourne, bound for Barbadoes. There was also a
detachment for Jamaica, from Sheerness, left in the.
Locust.
`The Virago, 6, paddle sloop, arrived at Spithead
yesterday, from Havre, where she had been to land
the funeral car of Napoleon I.
The Hannibal, 91, screw depot ship of the steam
reserve, Captain G. T. Gordon, was taken out of
Portsmovth harbour on Saturday to exercise her
engines, after which she-returned to her moorings.
-On the water leaving the dock in which the Ur-

gent, 6, iron steam troopship, is docked at Ports-
mouth, an examination of her bottom exhibited no
signs of any damage laving been done by her
grounding off Chichester on Monday. She has con-
sequently been ordered to again prepare for the em-
barkation of troops in about ten days.
The Meteor, 14 gun steam battery, 150-horse
power, was taken up on Saturday from Portsmouth
dockyard, and moored in Porchester Lake in the line
of fire from her Majesty's ship Excellent, one of
whose gunboat tenders will commence firing at her
forthwith, to test the difference of the effects pro-
duced by solid shot upon an iron battery lined with
wood and.one built of iron entirely, as the Erebus.
A new description of screw propeller, the inven-
tion of Mr. Phillips, C.E., is ordered to be tried at
Porismouth on Wednesday in the Bullfinch gun-
boat. The blades are curved inwards, which the
patentee imagines will do away with the " broken
water." Should it do so there will be great power
gained and less slip.
The Vulcan, iron steam troopship, in No. 9 dock
at, Portsmouth, is ordered to be fitted with new
engines of 400-horse power by Maudslay.
The Mersey, 40, experimental heavy class of
frigate, is being brought forward for service with
all despatch.
The Royal Sovereign, 131, new screw three-
decker, and the Algiers, 91, screw two-decker, at
Portsmouth, are having their engines disconnected.
A letter, received from the Shannon, 50, dated
River Hooghly, Sept. 19, states she left Calcutta.
on Sept. 15 for Hong Kong, and on reaching the
Sandhcads met the China mail, bringing orders
from Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour for the frigate
to return to England. She returned to Diamond
Harbour, and was at the above date taking on board
invalids, and was to sail for Spithead on Sept. 21,
touching at Trincomalee and the Cape of Good
Hope.
The paddle Wheel steam frigate Centaur, 6, Capt.
Clifford, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on
Saturday. She will be paid off and placed in the
third class steam reserve.
The gunboat Forward, from Bermuda, Scilly, and
Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth. She will be put
out of commission and placed in the third class
steam reserve.

The Royal mail steamship Athens sailed from
Plymouth on Saturday for the Cape of Good Hope.
The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain
E. B. Rice, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir C. Fremantle, K.C.B. • the Renown, 91,
Captain A. Forbes '
; the Orion, 90, Captain
D'Eyncourt; the Brunswick, 80, Captain E. Om-
manney ; and the gun-boat Skipjack, tender to the
Admiral, left Plymouth Sound under canvass on
Saturday morniiig for Bantry Bay.
The following appointments were made on
Saturday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Tweeddale to
be agent of mails ; Charles R. P. Forbes and
Samuel Winnecott, masters additional to the Ex-

mouth; Mr. Archdeacon to be naval instructor of
the Brunswick, vice Needham, superseded ; Mr.
Rae to be inspector of lunatics, Haslar Hospital,
vice Stuart, deceased.