The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-18 00:00:00

TIIE LONnoIV, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1866.

MARKETS.---This Day.

AIARK:LANE.

The trade for wheat in the country markets held on
Saturday was firm, and prices advanced is. to 2s. per
per quarter. Barley, oats, beans, and peas are steady, and
in some instances the quotations were the turn higher.
The flour trade was firm, on rather higher terms.
On the Continent the wheat trade is firm, and in some
instances prices have had an upward tendency. At New
York the shipments of wheat and flour to Great Britain
continue very limited. _ _

East India linseed and rapeseed met a slow sale, and in
somo instances prices were rather easier. For all other
seeds the demand ruled inactive, on former terms. The
cake trade was by no means active ; nevertheless prices
ruled firm.

A small supply of English wheat was received up to our
market last week. The condition of the produce was but
middling. Owing to the warlike news from tne continent,
the trade for all descriptions was very firm, and an advance
of 3s per quarter took place in the quotations. Town
milliers purchased cautiously, and operated to a limited
extent. There was a considerable number of Yorkshire
buyers in attendance, and the greater proportion of the
supply was taken b them, at the above improvement.
The supply of foreign wheat on sale was moderate.
Holders and importers were very firm, and the quotations
advanced 2s. to 4s per quarter from Monday last.
Floating cargoes of wheat were firm at an improvement
in value of 2s. per quarter from this day se'nnight.
Sprrng corn afloat was firm, and rather dearer.
The supply of English barley on sale was small ; of
foreign but moderate. The trade was steady, and last
Monday's currency was well supported.
The malt trade was firm, on rather higher terms.
There was a fair supply of oats on the stands. The
trade was firm for all qualities, and prices were ls. per qr.
higher than on Monday last.
Beans were in short supply and the trade was firm at
fully late rates. . .

Peas were steady at full quotations ; the market was
scantily supplied.
The flour trade was firm, and prices advanced 2s. per
280 lbs. The town made was raised to 50s. per 280 lbs.

CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 39s to 46s
Do., old 4Bs 85s
Do., white, old 548 60s
Do., new
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s
Do., new
Talavera s2s 62s
Rye—
Barley—Grinding
Malting 36s 43s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingstown and Ware
Chevalier 66s 67s
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 21s 28s
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black 2lB 27s
Cork, white 23s 28s
Scotch, Feeding 22s 27s
Beans—Tick 39s 42s
Pigeons ... 46s 508
Peas—Grey,
Maple
White
Boilers
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 348 36s
Stockton and Norfolk
American, per barrel
French, per sack 34s 38s

lish wool trade is quiet
__
at barely late sales. Last week's
imports amounted to 13,000 bales, chiefly from Australia.
Current prices of English wool per lb.
sd s d
Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 6 1 7
Half-bred do 1 8 1 9
Kent fleeces
South Down ewes and wethers 1 4 1 5
Leicester do
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

TALLOW.
Tho' tallow trade is firm to-day on higher terms. P.Y.C.
is quoted at 43s Gd per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow,
42s net cash. Borough fat, 2s 2d per Blbs.
Stock this day
Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Price of Y.c. ......... 542 s 9d to 40s 6d 408 9d 43s 6d to
Delivery last weep.,,
—s Od 40s 9d —s 0(1 Os Od
... 753 906 1,132 1,452
............ 37,430 43,938 31,602 28,440
Ditto from Juno 1 ...... '2,235 2,401 3,144 4,305
Arrival last week ...... 661 1,444 600
Ditto fr( in June 1.,.... 1,921 1,321 2,263 4,420
Price of Town ......... 43s 9d 41e 6d 41s6d 44s 3d

Naval and Military Intelligence.
The armoured iron frigate Bellerophon, Captain
E. Tatham, and the turret ship Royal Sovereign,
Capt. F. A. Herbert, both returned into Ports-
mouth harbour on Saturday from Spithead, after
their fight of the previous day off the Dean Shoal,
south-east of Spithead. An after-consideration of
the results of the firing at the Royal Sovereign's
turret on Friday raises many very important and
debateable questions foremost among which is, what
form of projectile will cause the greatest damage to
curved iron-clothed surfaces at short range, such
range, rather, as would possibly exist between two
ironclads engaged afloat, or between a turret-ship
afloat and a turret-crowned battery ashore. The three
shots fired at the Royal Sovereign on Friday were
all conoidal headed, and were all deflected. This
deflection of the shot from its true, and therefore
most destructive, line of force was apparently due
to the conoidal form of the heads of the shot, and
also to the curved surface and deflective angles'of
the turret and deck where the three shot struck.
Thus, the first shot struck near the edge of the
armour-plating of the turret at the gun-port, break-
ing away a. jagged piece of the outer plating, but
being afterwards deflected frcm its further straight
course by the second, or backing, plate of 4i inches,
which bent backwards and threw the shot off and
against the opposite side of the gunport, where it
spent its remaining strength and fell shattered
inside the turret, after smashing the wooden
skeleton gun. Now, would this shot have been
so easily deflected from its straight course had
it been flat-headed, or even spherical, the
weight, of course, being equal under all circum-
stances ? If the course of the second and third
shots are examined, there may be found additional
reasons against the use of conoidal-headed pro-
jectiles against iron-cased curved surfaces at short
range. The second shot struck at the junction of
two armour-plates, when the one on the left from
the gun prized outwards from the teak backing, and
fell forward with its top eight inches out of the
line of the circle of the upper and outer rim of the
turret. This falling forward of the plate was owing
to its bolt tails with their nut fastenings having
flewn off from the inner surface of the great inner
iron ring to which they were bolted by the impact
of the shot. This falling forward of the plate left
an opening upwards, and to this opening the conoi-

dal-headed shot, as offering the least resistance to
its progress, naturally turned. It became jammed
there between the back top edge of the plate and its
backing. Now, here again, could a flat-headed
shot hpe been so turned aside and rendered harm-
less? Measurement of initial velocities of projectiles
is very useful under the majority of conditions,

but here were conditions under which the
initial force of a shot's flight was altogether ab-
, sorbed, and its further power of harm destroyed. In
the third and last shot the power of deflective
surfaces and obtuse angles in throwing off the
heaviest description of conoidal-headed steel shot at
Close range appears to have been still more forcibly
demonstrated. This shot struck on the upper wooden
deck of the ship, and with such tremendous force as
to fracture two beams, one of iron and the other of
wood, immediately underneath. It, however, failed
to penetrate lower than half the thickness of the
8-in. teak deck planking, running the "score" up to
the face of the turret, Bft. in length, when it glanced
upwards against the turret face, and, gouging out
an oval-shaped groove of metal 17in. long by 9in.
wide, and 3iin. in depth, flew off to seaward, and fell
in the water close to the taffrail of a large schooner
yacht crowded with ladies and gentlemen who had
come out to see the turret undergo its trial. In this
instance a spheroidal shot of the same weight might
have damaged the turret more, possibly, by the ruder
and fuller force of its blow on the turret, while, un-
doubtedly, a flat-headed shot, of Whitworth make,
would have " bit" into deck or turret and buried
itself there, if it did not effect penetration. The
conoidal-headed shot had again, in fact, struck with
its " shoulder, instead of its head" point, and it,
therefore, only delivered glancing blows. These
views are merely put forward for what they are
worth, as bearing upon a subject of very great im-
portance. The report on the testing of the Royal
Sovereign turret by Capt. A. C. Key, C. 8., now
being prepared for the information of the Lords of
Commissioners of the Admiralty, will, however,
fully enter upon and discuss the whole subject, and
the public may therefore depend upon its receiving
the consideration its vast importonce deserves.
There are a few remarks yet necessary to make in
conclusion. The two shots fired at the turret,
although they did not effect penetration nor get
beyond the wooden backing, inflicted such an
amount of actual damage that half-a-dozen more
shots striking full on the turrermust have placed it
hors de combat, leaving, however, the parts under
trial—the revolving machinery—in all probability
still undamaged. This would be the result which
might with certainty be counted upon in a contest
between the gun of 1866 and a composite iron-
clothed target of 1862. The bolt-tails and nuts
driven off from the inner skin of the turret by the
first two shots were quite sufficient to have killed or
wounded every one of the crew engaged in working
the gun had the ship been in action, and proves
again the necessity for covering all such parts with
an inner over-sheathing of wood or thin boiler-
plate. In our report of the experiment in The Sun
of Saturday, the first shot fired at the turret was
stated to have bent back and fractured " the inner
or 7i-inch plate." It should have been " the inner
or 4i-inch plate," the thickness of the turret armour-
plating being a si-inch plate over one of 4i inches.
At the quarterly examination of candidates for
assistant clerks in the Royal Navy, just concluded
on board her Majesty's ship Victory, the following
gentlemen successfully passed :—Jago, 429 marks ;
Preston, 420 ; Gill, 418 ; King, 410 ; Bampton,
404 ; Donaldson, 402 ; Davey, 395 (the last two
gentlemen passed from Vickrey's Hope House,
Southsea, Rant) ; Drysdale, 388 ; Pearson, 381 ;
Bate, 369 ; James, 367 ; Fisher, 363.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—F. F. Flynn, assist.-surgeon to the
Nimble; Francis Wood, assist.-paymaster in charge,
to the Griffon ; William Lovely, assist.-paymaster,
to the Donegal ; John N. Compton, second master,
to the Griffon ; and John W. Dixon, master's as-
sistant, to the Griffon.

Liverpool Cotton Market—(This Day.)

The market opens with a quiet demand, and
prices of American j and Surat I below Friday.
Sales probably 6,000 bales.

Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY has been appointed a Privy
Councillor.

LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, Sun-
day Night.—The Crossley lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat Institution stationed at this place (states John
Coulson, Esq., agent for Lloyd's) was instrumental this
morning in saving the lives of the crew, consisting of two
persons, of the yacht Dagmar, Capt. C. T. Claxton, of
Middlesboro'. The yacht, after landing the owner, R. M.
Jacques, Esq., at Redcar, last night, brought up under the
rocks just opposite the lifeboat-house, and the wind sud-
denly changing to the north about half-past one this morn-
ing, and blowing strong, caused a heavy sea to come in, so
much so that it broke on board the yacht, and the crew
could not effect a landing. They, however, hoisted a
signal of distress about six o'clock, when the lifeboat was
immediately launched, and soon landed the crew of the
yacht in safety. The boat behaved admirably on the oc-
casion.

IRON V. WOOD.--The Moniteur de la Flotte states
that the iron-coated fleet commanded by Rear-Ad-
miral La Ronciere to Nourry has sailed from Cherbourg for
a trial, commanded by the Minister of Marine, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the nautical qualities of iron keels and
wooden coppered keels, and especially the resistance which
they experience in their passage though the water. In
order to obtain an accurate knowledge of the subject it
was necessary to send two vessels to sea alike except in
the nature of the materials used in their construction.
The frigates Heroine and Flandre were selected for that
reason. They are built on the same model, they draw the
same depth of water, and their machinery is of the same
power; but the Heroine is of iron, and the Flandre of wood.
The trial is being made off Cherbourg, under the direction
of a commission, of which Admiral Le Nourry is the pre-
sident, and which is composed of superior officers of the
navy and naval engineers. It is presumed from the cha-
racter of the officers composing the commission, and the
favouiablo circumstances under which the trial is made,
that the important question of ,naval construction, which
has so long caused a warm controversy among seamen,
will now be satisfactorily settled.

TR IRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.:

TATTERSALLSI—This Evening.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATT'.
1009 ttoo 125 aaggsstt TC
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1007 to 12 1 agst
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RedW Earl
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10 to 1 agst Honesty.(taken)
(take)
100 to 8 agst Zenobia (taken)
15 to 1 agst Missile (taken)
DERBY.
20 to 1 agst The Palmer (taken)
25 to 1 agst Marksman (taken)
1000 to 35 agst Red Shoes (offered)
100 to 30 agst Julius (taken)
50 to 1 agst Grand Cross (taken)
GO
ODWOOD STAKES.
7to 1 agst Special (taken) ,
12 to 1 agst Othello (taken)
652
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aaa ga. ss tt LIVERPOOL CUP.
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10 to 1 agstgst Life Guardsman (taken)
MA.N

CHESTER BETTING—This DAY.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
5 to 2 agst Terror (taken)
3to 1 agst Vespasian (taken)
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
11 to 2 agst Primate (taken)
Bto 1 agst Caithness (taken)
Bto 1 agst Windham (taken)
GOODWOOD RTES.
7to 1 agst Special (taken)

VICTORIA. CLUB BETTING—Tins DAY,
LIVERPOOL CUP.
5 to 2 agst Terror (taken)
3to 1 agst Vespasian (taken)
6to 1 agst Pintail (taken)
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
4to 1 agst Primate (taken)
6to 1 agst Caithness (taken)
Bto 1 agst Windham (taken)
10 to 1 agst Red Earl (taken)
10 to 1 agst Honesty (taken)
11 to 1 agst Miss Haworth (taken)
12 to 1 agst Missile (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
Bto 1 agst Special (taken)

TURF AGENCY OFFICE,
100, Jermyn-street, St. James's, LONDON.
31R. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter-
sall's) executes COMMISSIONS (by letter only)
on all the principal races throughout the season, from £1
upwards, on receipt of cash or Post-office Order (payable
at Piccadilly office). COMMISSIONS as usual at starting
prices on the day of a race at all the principal meetings,
For further particulars and prices, see the advesement in
The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY and SATUR-
DAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded
on receipt of stamped directed envelope.
N.B.—lt is particularly requested that ALL LETTERS
containing CASH be registered.
The Sporting Life, Aug. 20, 1864.—" We are satisfied that
all intending backers of horses, who may
have been for-
merly in doubt whom to trust, will, without fear or hesita-
Jerm
tion,
yn-stre send their

HE RACE S.—For dust, heat, or rain,
NICOI.L'S WATERPROOF OVERCOATS, d One
uinea each.-11. J. and D. INlcom., 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street, W. ; 22, Corntilll, E.C. ; 10, Mosley-street, Man-
Chezter ; and 59, Bold-street, Liverpool.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

—A.- -
HOUSE OF LORDS—THIS EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Kilmar-
nock Water; Great Yarmouth Haven, Port, and River ;
Poterborough, WisbeaCh, and Sutton allway ; Thetford
and Watton Railway; Bute Docks Railway and Bridge of
Allen Water Bill.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Greenwich and Woolwich Lower Road, Hershain Bland-
ford Road, Macclesfield, linutsford, and Warrington Rail-
way.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY (ADDITIONAL
POWESILL.
On the motion for the third ) reaßding of this bill,
The Earl of ZETLAND moved the omission of clause
42, which had for its object thelimiting of the liability of the
company from accidents in thb conveyance of the working
classes. He contended that the clause in question was not
calculated to promote the interests of the public, who had
a right to be protected.
After some observation from Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY
and Earl NELSON, the bill was read a third time without a
division.
MISS ANGELA BURDETT COUTTS'S ENDOW-
MENT OF COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.
The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from Miss
Burdett Coutts relative to certain bishoprics of the United
Church of England and Ireland in her Majesty's colonial
possessions. The right rev. prelate said that the petitioner
had subscribed £17,500 for a bishopric in Cape
Town, with the distinct understanding that the
doctrines to be inculcated should be those of the Church
of England, and that on the part of the prelates appointed
under the bequest of the petitioner should recognise the
supremacy of her Majesty the Queen. There was another
bequest of the same amount in reference to another colonial
bishopric, and there was £lO,OOO subscribed by the lady
for a bishopric—British Columbia. He contended that in
the case of Bishop Colenso there was a clear violation of
the specific objects of the foundation of Miss Burdett
Coutts, inasmuch as that prelate, whose case had excited
so much attention, had ignored the royal supremacy. The
right rev. prelate went into warm and elaborate details
to show the indispensable necessity that existed for the
recognition of a central Royal controlling power in carry-
ing out the administration of ecclesiastical affairs of the
Church of England.