The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1866.

To WEST-END DINERS.-
" THE WELLINGTON,"
ST. JAMES'S-STREET, PICCADILLY.
LADIES' SALOON DINING ROOM on the First Floor
The SUBSCRIPTION BOOMS are now OPEN.
Terms—Twelve Mouths..£l lls. 64.
Six Months...—. t Is. 04.
Apply, D. CAMERON, 49, St. James-street.

CRYSTAL PAL ACE.-SATURDAY
CONCERT AND PROMENADE.
NEST SA TURDA Y. Madame Lemmens-Sherrington,
Mdlle. Bettelheim, Mr. Haigh, and Solo Pianoforte Mr.
Franklin Taylor.
Reserved Seats, Half-a-Crown, may now be secured at the
Palace, and at Exeter Hall.
NOTE.--Nearly Eight Thousand Visitors attended last
Saturday.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP IN T 1114: AIR, an entirely New EntertAn-
meta. EVERY EVENING, at El2lit (except Saturday);
Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross.
Luxurious sofa stalls, 56 ; balcony stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ;
amphitheatre, 18.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

MR. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S New
Entertainment, MRS. BROWN AT HOME AND
AB ItO A t E VERY EV ENINti at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Afternoon at Three. Egyptian Hall. Pico dilly.—
Tickets at the Box—office; Mr. 3litchell's ; and all music-
sellers.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS,
ST. JAMES'S HALL.
EVERT EVENING at Eight. WEDNESDAYS and.
SATURDAYS, at Three and Eight,—The original and veri-
tably legimate CHRIsTY MINSTRELS. First Season in
London these five years. The only company in existence
which possesses a legal claim to the title, from the fact of its
being the only one which retains all the marled specialities
and distinguished favourites who originally gained the re-
putation of the company first in the United States, and sub-
sequently in this country, in 1857. No other company as-
suming the title of Christy Minstrels possesses a single in-
dividual member of the least distinction who belonged to the
original troupe. The Christys (after an absence of five years)
return to London with their band strengthened and im-
proved in every respect, their entertainment being unani-
mously pronounced b I the metropolitan press to be the most
sparkling in London.
Prices of Admission—New and luxurious fauteuils, ss. ;
stalls, 3s. ; area. 2s. ; gallery, is. ; juveniles, under twelve.
halt price to stalls and are% only. Fauteuils and stalls may
be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-
street ; or at Mr. Austin's, 28, Piccadilly. - Manager, Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

T " X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company(Limited`,
IF I WERE KING, Comic Opera, by A DOLPDE ADAM,
Navin,; been enthusiastically received, will be performed,
together with IL TROVATORE and MASANIELLO, by
the whole of the talented Operatic Company EVERY
EVEN ING in addition to the other novelties of the estab-
lishment, including the cerebrated HUNGARIANS in their
new
and Messrs. PERSIVANI and D'RHON entertainment Mr. MARSHALL,
DE. Mr, RANDALL,
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Doors open at halt-past 7. Commence at 8.

ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
t BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR.
Open during the first three days in Easter week from 10
a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street Piccadilly.
Selections from all the favourite Operas will be performed
by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening.
Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTI.
M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and
Eleven o'clock.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admisbion, is.

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At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager, &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the
.Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will he required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
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TT J. AND I). N I C O L L,
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and 22, COENHILL, LONDON ; 50, BOLD-STREET,
LIVERPOOL; and 10, MOSLEY -STREET, MAN-

has fallen short of her originally
and she is also short of the
the engines are both in excess of the Admiralty
estipulatedst2iThead Pallas
eleasos. f
speed,
speed due to her engine power from her displacement.
3. The loss on her estimated original rate is owing
to the alterations made in her hull, displacement,
and rig since she was first designed, and on the rate
due from her engine power to her displacement to
the speed-destroying qualities of her ram bow.
The Pallas is one of the earliest vessels designed
by Mr. Reed for the navy. She, in common also, to
some extent, with the Bellerophon, has been con-
structed with the long submerged " ram" bow, bor-
rowed from the French theory as exemplified by
M. Dupuy de Lome, in the partially-plated ships
Magenta and Solferino. This ram theory Mr. Reed
claims to have considered altogether apart from his
U shaped bow system, the one being given to
assure striking power, and the other to insure buoy-
ancy and speed ; and it is, therefore, necessary this
not unimportant distinction should be borne in
mind in forming any judgment of the steaming
powers of the Pallas. It is this long, submerged
prow, or ram, which creates such immense waves
under the bows of the Pallas and Bellerophon, the
first-named ship creating the greaterwaves from her
greater prow, but this peculiarity is also certainly
shared, although in a much less degree than the two
ships named, by other vessels designed and set afloat
as yet by Mr. Reed, but which cannot be placed on
the same level as rams with the Pallas and Belle-
rophon, having been constructed with his U floor
and bluff bow lines, but not with the projecting
ram bow of the French. There is, however, an un-
doubted affinity of form between Mr. Reed's U
lines and M. Dupuy de Lome's ram, the latter being
apparently but an exaggerated prolongation of the
former. Possibly the Constructor of the French
navy was the original promoter of the ram scheme,
for there are indications that our own Chief Con-
structor does not place such implicit faith in the
principle as many persons may suppose. In the
Pallas as a " rain," he has given the double plough-
coulter shaped projection to her bow in its full de-
velopment, but with the Bellerophon the principle
is very much modified, in the Hercules it has under-
gone a still further modification, and in the new
fore body of the Danae, now setting up in Ports-
mouth yard, the " ram" form is not to be found,
even with the Amazon outline, but instead the U
lines of Mr. Reed's fore-body are blended near the
vessel's stem with the V formed entrance as under-
stood by all ordinary shipbuilders. The introduc-
tion of bluff submerged bows in the lines of iron-
clad steamships was a somewhat bold measure, but
it promised to give a ship of moderate length the
necessary buoyancy to carry her guns and
armour-plating at a certain line of flotation, and
for this reason alone it was defensible as an ex-
periment in common with all other building of
ironclad. ships of war. But arguments were put for-
ward in support of the plough bow, which were of
so wildly theoretical a character, so entirely opposed
to all recognised and natural laws, that they natu-
rally provoked considerable discussion. Shortly
stated, they are to the effect that a certain amount
of water lies in front of a ship's midship section,
which must be got rid of, and the sooner this is done
the better for the ship's speed. The plough bow
breaks up this water, and rolls it up in immense
waves under the vessel's bows, which, says M.
Dupuy de Lome and friends, " cannot obstruct the
ship in her progress through the water, as they are
travelling in the same direction as the ship." All
ships built with the French " ram" bow, whether
from the designs of Mr. Reed or others, as in the
case of the turret ram Arminius, built by Mr.
Samuda, threw up enormous waves round their bows
when under full steam power, as the action of the
ram in ploughing the water up in double curved
furrows, and therefore required no apologetic theory
for what was their certain and natural action. But
a " ram" bow is decidedly not the form of bow to
be given to any vessel intended to obtain the highest
rate of speed due from her hull displacement to her
engines developed power. The Pallas's trials fur-
nish convincing proofs of this. In all the trials off
the Maplin Sands, in the engineer's trial of the
Wight on the 11th instant, and the speed trials in
Stokes'-bay yesterday, the permanent height of the
waves thrown up in curves round round her bows,
with their foam covering of hissing waters, which
leapt and tumbled round the ship's head, was some-
thing wonderful to behold. Any one competent to
form an opinion on the subject and who witnessed
the trial of the Pallas yesterday and the tempest of
water under her bows could not but admit that all

this water could not be ploughed and beaten up in
such a manner with a less force than one-fifth of
the indicated power of the ship's engines. To a
" ram" proper such an absorption of power may

be correct. To a vessel not built for a " ram"
such an absorption of power would be its utter
waste without a grain of benefit in return. So
conclusively, indeed, have the trials of the Pallas
proved the unsuitableness of the ram bow
for speed that it is not probable its serious advocacy
for our ships of war will ever be renewed in England,
or that the Pallas's form of bow will ever be repro-
duced in the bows of any other ship laid down in
future for her Majesty's navy. Apart from the ram
question, however, the expressed great aim of Mr.
Reed since he has held the office of Chief Con-
structor of the Navy has been to introduce a class of
vessel that should, by her moderate length and im-
provedtype of engine, possess the maximum amount
of manceuvring power obtainable with the single
screw, and at the same time approximate closely in
speed with that of our longest, and certainly most
unhandy ships. In turning or manceuvring ?ower
Mr. Reed has already demonstrated his success with
the Bellerophon and Pallas, but he has yet to make
good his promise with regard to the speed of his
ships. At present he appears to have clung too
closely in all his vessels, always supposing that the
Bellerophon and Pallas are simply " rams," to the
round French bow to get the rate of speed he wants,
and to have also rushed from the extreme of length

over beam to beam over length, although in all this
he has been but the servant of the Admiralty, em-
bodying their wishes and ideas in a certain desired
form. If the course now being pursued with the
altered fore body of the Danae is pursued by Mr.
Reed in designing his new ships, he may yet obtain
his desire, and by cramming a ship of the propor-
tionate length to beam of the Bellerophon with extra
engine power may give her a rate of speed which,
combined with her superior handiness, shall render
her a far more valuable ship than a vessel of greater
length and slightly superior in speed. To attain
this extent of excellence he must lengthen his bows
and blend his U floor plan with the sharp V bow
form, both of which courses he has pursued now with
the Danae.
As the Pallas lies at anchor at Spithead, she has,
externally, not one redeeming point of beauty to
counteract the general ugliness of appearance given
to her hull by her round bows, conical stern, and
indented sides, notwithstanding that her projecting
beak is hidden above the water by a false head. She
carries a good broad belt of armour round the water-
line, and from this belt, centrally, rises her square
armour-cased battery 40ft. in length by 50ft. in
width. This battery is pierced with two gun ports
on each side, and by indenting the ship's side at each
end of the battery a kind of inner sponson is formed
of part of the vessel's main deck, which gives a line
of fire from the forward and after end ports of the
battery clear of the ship's sides at about 20 deg. out
of line with the ship's keel. The arrangements of
the ship inboard and the amount of space available
for the officers and crew, as well as for the stowage
of stores of all kinds, is really admirable, while the
evident care with which the ship had been turned
out of hand, even down to the minutest particulars
of her eqipnt, time fur i
evidence that
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