The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

AMERIC

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, NOV. 23 (Morning).
Gold, 139. Exchange on London, 1514. 5-20
United States Bonds, 108 k. Illinois, 118. Erie,
72k. Cotton, middling Upland, 32g. Week's
receipts of cotton at an United States ports, 60,000
bales.

Messrs. Neil's Circular estimates the cotton crop
at 2,000,000 bales.

DEPLTATIO".:T TO 1,02 D J. MANN ERS

THIS DAY.

A deputation from the working men of London,
appointed at a recent meeting of the trades and
friendly societies with respect to the coming Reform
demonstration on Monday next, waited on Lord
John Manners to-day to request his permission for
the use of one of the public parks for the meeting.
Mr. GEORGE POTTER having introduced the de-
putation, explained to his lordship the desire on the
part of the working men to hold a demonstration
on Monday next in favour of Parliamentary Re-
form, and asked for the grant of the Green-park or
Hyde-park for the purpose, and instanced the case
of the Queen's-park at Edinburgh, where proceed-
ings of a similar nature were held with the greatest
decorum. He assured his lordship that every exertion
had been made to secure a fitting place, but with-
out effect. The granting of the boon would be re-
garded as a special favour. Mr. Jenkins sug-
gested, in the event of a refusal of the parks, the
vacant space in front of Chelsea Hospital would
answer the purpose.

Lord JOHN MANSE us, in reply to the deputa-
tion, said he could not give au answer to their re-
quest until.he had consulted his colleagues. With
respect jto the meeting held in Holyrood-park, it
was a custom to hold political meetings there, but
with respect to Hyde-park and the Green-park in
London things were different. If permission were
given for the holding political meetings there, that
would be establishing a precedent. Without saying,
anything definite about the space in front of Chel-
sea Hospital, he would remind the deputation
that the late Government offered Primrose-
hill as a suitable place for a demonstration,
and he thought the present Government might not
object to offer them the same place. Still he was
not in a position to make a positive offer of Prim-
rose-hill, but he would at once consult his colleagues
on the matter and let them know the decision of the
Go~•ernment with respect to the two places named.
' If the Government declined to grant either of the
parks he could assure them it was not from any
feeling that the working men should not express
their opinions on Reform in the fullest manner.

The deputation, having thanked his lordship.
retired.

LAUNCH OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC.

As we briefly announced yesterday morning the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company's new steamship
Great Republic, the first of the ships now being
constructed for the new line between Sau Francisco
and China, was successfully launched from the
shipyard of Mr. Henry Steers, at Greenpoint, on
November 8, in the presence of a large number of
ladies and gentlemen, drawn thither by the public
announcement in the Times and others of the city
papers of the launch of the largest ship yet con-
structed in America.

Tonnage alone forms no basis for comparing the
size of a sailing-ship with that of a steamer, all the
space. occupied in the latter by the machinery being
excluded in calculating her capacity in tons. The
space so excluded in a steamer of this immense size
would of itself contain bodily what, not many years
ago, would have passed for a large vessel.

Length, extreme 3BO feet.
Length batween perpendiculars 360 feet.
Width of beam, moulded 4B feet 6 inches.
Width of beam, extreme
Depth of hold

The Great Republic, as we heard frcm the lips
of those present, well known in the community as
veteran marine experts, is not only the largest but,
what is specially to be praised in these days, the
strongest ship yet built in this country. Our Ame-
ricanism teaches us to claim as national not what is
merely native, but what is also best; and in this
point of view we have always taken a just pride in
the magnificent fleet put afloat by the Pacific Mail
Company, during and since the war, beginning
with the Constitution, in 1861, and having such
ships as the well-known Colorado, Golden City,
Arizona, and Henry Chauncey for models. But
the Great Republic, the pioneer of the new fleet for
the China trade, surpasses all her predecessors.
Her frame timbers are of white and live oak. These
fastened with copper and iron, are braced with
straps of iron five inches wide and 7-Bths of an inch
thick, crossing each other diagonally every four feet.
Over this comes the inner planking, which is caulked
and payed with pitch and then double strapped as
before, and outside this double-strapping comes the
exterior double planking of the very best Georgia
yellow pine. The whole is so thoroughly braced
and bolted and fastened together with treenails of
locust, spikes of iron or composition, and bolts of
copper, that it is difficult to imagine wind and
wave combined of sufficient power to cause distress
to so staunch a structure.

The Great Republic has three masts, and, to
meet the necessities of her routes on which it may at
times be desirable to use sails, will be full ship-
rigged, differing, however, from the familiar
arrangement by having her foremast the tallest of
the three, and her mizzen-mast the shortest. She
has three full decks, unusually stout and strongly
fastened, with an orlop deck fore and aft, extending
to the engine bulkhead. She has four stout water-
tight bulkheads, dividing the hold into five secure
compartments.

The engines are vertical beam, having a single
cylinder, in which the piston works, of 105 inches
diameter, nearly nine feet, and twelve feet stroke.
The paddle-wheels are to be 40 feet in diameter,
having a face of 12 feet, and each wheel is provided
with thirty-four oak buckets.
Register Carpenter's
Name. Tonnage. Tonnage. Builder.
Constitution 3,675 4,410 W. H. Webb.
Golden City
Sacramento......... 2,683 3,351 Webb and Bell.
Colorado
Henry Chauncey 2,657 3,200 W. H. Webb.
Arizona ....•,,,•„ 2,793 3,353 Henry Steers.
Montana
Of these, the Constitution, Golden City, Sacra-
mento, and Montana, with the Golden Age, St.
Louis, and California, are on the line between
Panama and San Francisco, the Henry Chaun-
cey and Arizona, with the New York, . Rising
I, ana
Star, Ocean Queen, Northern Light,
Champion, are on the Atlantic, engageedhrvegen this
as extra or freight steamers in the line
between
consist of
port and Aspinwall. The China line will
San Arruly
the Colorado (already advertised from San
on
Fran-
cisco for Hong Kong via Yokoha
the Ist of January next), and th
Builder.
ships:--
Register Company's the following new
Name.
Tonnage. Tonnage'
... Henry
Webb.
Steers.
Great Republic 4,100 ...
Celestial Empire
4,100 America 5'200 .•.•..
Niphon
—New York Paper.
.., Noo ... W. H.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—Ths Day.

GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 25.—Peterborough, from Shanghai ;
Paquebot, from Erquy ; Africa, from Taganrog ; Olga,
steamer from Ilarlingen ; Norfolk, steamer, from llonfleur ;
Charles Capper, steamer, from Gothenburg ; Agonora, from
Guernsoy ; Ellen, from Cronstadt ; Caroline, from Ter-
ceira ; Patriot, from Gignon.
DEAL, Monday Morning.

Passcd.—Star of the East, schooner, and Queen of the
Wee both from the West, for London ; Fairy Bell, for
Nelson ; Barbadian, for Greenock - both from London.

Mr. Moens, whose romantic sojourn with the

Italian brigands excited so much attention last yea; has
purchased an estate at Boldre, near Lymington, in Hamp-
shire.

A MIXED-METAPHORIC WAY OF PUTTING IT.—
Writing, the other• day, about the Emperor Maximilian
and his retreat from Mexico to Europe, our leading con-
temporary said, in its first leading article—rather oddly
It is probable that the necessity for this step has never
been really lessened, though the Emperor appears to have
struggled with much tenacity against the impending ex-
tremity." Only consider the words a little carefully—
" Though the Emperor appears to have struggled—with
Much tenacity—against —the impending—extremity."