The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.

A public meeting was held on Saturday evening,
at the Victoria Tavern, Mornington-road, Camden-
town, for the purpose of hearing the political senti-
ments of Colonel Dickson. Mr. R. Furniss, junior
churchwarden of St. Pancras, was called to the
chair. He said he had taken the chair on this oc-
casion unpledged to support any candidate. Of
the political opinions of Colonel Dickson he knew
nothing, but begged leave to introduce the gallant
colonel to the meeting.
Colonel DICKSON, on presenting himself, was
well received. He apologised for that which they
perhaps might think the premature and unexpected
way in which he had come forward. He had, how-
ever, been invited to do so by some influential gen-
tlemen connected with the borough—Mr. Ross,
Mr. Watson, and others. Like most soldiers, he
was not a very great political orator. He should,
if elected, act as the true representative of the
borough. (Hear, hear.) They might call him a
kind of Tory, but he (the gallant colonel) was a
man of progress. (Hear, hear.) He should, if re-
turned, certainly follow in the wake of their mem-
ber, Mr. Edwin James. (Hear, hear.) If next
week, when he came before the constituency, they
should feel that Mr. B. Osborne, or some one else,
was a better man, he should not be at all offended.
He would vote fora £lO franchise for counties,with-
out'any restrictions. He held, in the words of Mr. E.
James, that when it was said the ballot was un-Eng-
lish, that intimidation was equally un-English, and
therefore he would go for the ballot. He would vote
for the abolition of the ratepaying clauses. He
would retire if he found there was another Liberal
stronger than himself in the field. If, on the other
hand, he saw a fair prospect of success, he would
go to the poll. He was for less than triennial
Parliaments, as he thought three years a long time.
With reference to opposing the property tax,
should it be attempted to be renewed in 1860, he
would say none of them wished to be taxed more
than necessary.
Mr. BRUCE wished to know whether Col. Dick-
son would, as a general rule, support the Liberal
Government of Lord Palmerston in opposition to
the Derby Government?
Colonel DICKSON said he should give no factious
opposition to any Government which would grant
a good measure of reform. He would most cer-
tainly give a general support to the Government of
Lord Palmerston. Having answered other ques-
tions,
Mr. Ross said he thought they had heard quite
enough to prove that Colonel Dickson would go
into Parliament as a thorough reformer. (Hear,
hear, and cries of " Oh, oh.") He moved, " That,
having heard the statements of Colonel Dickson,
the meeting approved of the same, and pledged
itself to secure his return at the ensuing election."
(Applause and dissent.)
Mr. ALLEN seconded the resolution, and Mr.
WATSON supported it.
Mr. D'IFFANGER, jun., said he was no opponent
of Colonel Dickson, but he thought these proceed-
ings premature, and that they must have some far
more explicit sentiments from the gallant colonel
than they had heard that night, and urged the
meeting not to pledge themselves by coming to
any vote that night.
Mr. SECKER moved as an amendment, "That no
vote be taken that evening to pledge them to sup-
port Colonel Dickson or anyone else." (Hear,
Oh, oh, and interruption.)
Mr. EVERSFIELD seconded
the amendment, and
called on the electors not to compromise themselves.
There was a requisition u to Mr. Bernal
Osborne, and there might h Peligible candi-
dates in the field. (Hear.) be ot er
After some further discussion, and
of feeling, the greatg
warmth
question was put, and there appeared
for the amendment 15, against it 23.
Mr. CRANE moved a second amendment, to ad-
journ the proceedings till next Tuesday, which was
negatived by 21 to 10, a great number of the elec-
tors not voting.
The original resolution was declared carried, and
thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

On Saturday last the first public trial of the
hoisting capabilities of the large floating Derrick,
moored in the Thames off Blackwall, was made in
the presence of Mr. Bishop, the patentee, Mr.
Taverner, several of the directors, Mr. Walter
Vaughan, the gentleman who first introduced the
invention to the notice of the shipping interest in
this country, and a party of gentlemen invited to
witness the experiment. Every one who is in the
habit of going by water from London to Wool-
wich must have remarked this singular-looking
craft lying between Blackwall and Charlton' and
whick to the uninitiated eye seems to be nothing
but a confused mass of chains and machinery sus-
pended from an immense iron boom, and the use of
which very few people could have conjectured
without instruction upon the matter. But how
great must have been the astonishment of the river
passengers at seeing, on Saturday, two large ves-
sels, the Foreingen, an old. Norway timber ship,
370 tons, and a steamer, the Water Sprite, about
80, hanging suspended one over the other in mid-
air attached to the boom of the Derrick, the
Foreingen being raised between 30 and 40 feet out
of the water, and the Water Sprite hanging seven
or eight feet below the other vessel. We gave
some description of the huge fabric by which this
extraordinary feat has been accomplished on the
occasion of the launch last September, but it was
necessarily incomplete, because until the machinery
was erected a very imperfect idea could be
obtained of the means by which it was pro-
posed to accomplish its most important object—
namely, the raising of sunken vessels. Imagine a
vast rhomboidal-shaped flat-bottomed iron vessel,
275 feet long and 90 broad, and which, although
the plane superfices of the deck is nearly 18,000
feet, does not draw more than four feet of water.
It is on this enormous stage that the Derrick, which
is neither more nor less than a kind of gallows, and
which took its name after a celebrated Tyburn
hangman, is erected. On one side of the hull are
10 powerful cranes, each worked by a steam engine
of 30-horse power, and the chains from which, ater
passing over certain iron pulleys, hang suspended,
in a row from the great boom which we have men-
tioned. The united power of the engines working
the cranes is 300-horse, a power sufficient to raise
sheer out of water and suspend to the boom of the
Derrick a vessel of 1,000 tons, and consequently to
raise a ship of almost any amount of tonnage to the
surface of the water. In order to prevent the
fabric, vast as it is, from capsizing during the rais-
ing of a vessel, it is provided with powerful steam
pumps, which fill a series of water-tight compart-
ments, constructed for that purpose, at the enormous
rate of 80 tons a minute, and thus a counterbalanc-
ing power is obtained in precise proportion to the
weight of the vessel raised, Having given this
explanation, we will now proceed to describe the
operations of Saturday. It had originally been in-
tended to sink the Foreingen and raise her again
from the bottom of the Thames, but after that
arrangement was made the steamer Water Sprite
was placed at the service of the company ; and it
was thought that it would add to the novelty
of the proceedings [lad afford an additional
test of the strength and working of the machinery
if the opportunity was taken advantage of to sling
the two vessels up together. When we arrived at
the Derrick we found the Foreingen lying along-
side it, and attached to the steamer by chains,
which had been passed around and underneath the
bottom of both vessels, and fastened to the Derrick
chains in such a manner as to form a complete
cradle. The operation of hoisting and pumping
commenced about four o'clock, and in a quarter of
an hour the vast mass of wood and iron composing
the hull of the Foreingen had been raised four feet
clear of the surface of the water. The most extra-
ordinary circumstance about the operation was the
exceeding accuracy with which every portion of
the independent machinery worked together so as
to collect all the power to one focus, and to dis-
tribute the strain over every portion of the Der-
rick. The Foreingen having been raised about 14
or 15 feet, the Water Sprite, which is an iron
steamer, was brought underneath, and the ma-
chinery having been again set in motion in three
minutes the second vessel was raised above the sur-
face of the water. Both vessels were then hoisted
up, one above the other, into mid air, and hung
suspended during the rest of the day—a wonderful
example of the ingenuity of man and the power
of machinery to overcome the resistance of natural
gravitation in raising enormous weights. The ex-
periment, so far as it went, was perfectly successful,
and it now only remains to explain how the inven-
tion is to be rendered practical for the purpose
of raising a sunken vessel. It is obvious that
if the chains attached to the Derrick were once
round the bottom of the vessel all uncertainty
as to the power of the machinery to raise her would
be at an end. The real difficulty is how to raise,
or what is technically termed to weigh, the sunken
vessel so as to pass the chains under her bottom.
That was a portion of the experiment Ni hich, in
consequence of the change in
the arrangements of
Saturday, was not carried out, but it must strike
as the salvage
every one that as far of vessels is
concerned it is really the most important point,
because all the raising power in the world would
be of no use if the
chains could not be passed under
the vessel. The manner in which it is proposed to
accomplish the important oration of weighing the
sunken vessel to pass round
it a chain and to sink
on each side of it an iron diver, which is a pear-
shaped mass of iron , weighing about a ton and a
half. Through the ends of these. iron divers the
two ends of the chain on each side of the vessel are
passed, and by lifting them
and bringing them all
together the iron
divers are brought close to the
d of the sunken vessel may be
vessel proposed to be raised, and a cradle is formed
by which one cu
lifted, andchains passed under. We regret
of the experiment was not car-
riedthat this potion
out, because it appears to us the most impor-
tant.
clear that in cases where vessels are
it is
wrecked and sunk on a soft sandy bottom, the
the
difficulty of getting a chain under the bottom would
be insuperable : but in all cases in which a vessel
strikes on a rock, or where there is a hard bottom,
little or no difficulty would be experienced in raising
her by means of this Derrick. As there are several
sunken vessels now lying round our coast we
hope soon to hear of some of them being raised
by the Derrick Company, who, if they are enabled
to carry out their object with the perfect success
which they
but will
obtain, anticipate, will not only be entitled to
all the pecuniary reward they may
confer an advantage upon the commercial commu-
nity which cannot be over-estimated. When it is
remembered that on our coasts alone there is an
average of more than 1,000 wrecks a year, the
value of the cargoes of which it is almost impossible
to estimate, every person must acknowledge the
great commercial importance of an invention which
will enable mankind to snatch from the ocean the
prey which it has devoured.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, June 7.
Exchange on Europe is fiat, and yesterday's prices are
obtained with difficulty by drawers. We continue, however,
to quote sterling bills at 110 to 114 for 60 days, and 110}
to for sight ; francs 5.10 to 60 day bills, and 5.8 k for sight.
Money is in fair demand, without excitement in the market.
The banks are offering money on call at 6 per cent., and
several of them are discounting for their customers. In the
street we hear of some extravagant rates for paper which is
considered doubtful ; but lenders of money report that they
do not find it very easy to place their means satisfactorily at
anything over 7 per cent. The news from England by the
City of Washington is regarded as holding out a prospect of
a reduction of the rate of interest by the Bank of England,
and a further period of general ease in money matters,
which would naturally be felt in this country as decidedly
as in England.

No further failures are announced to-day. Messrs. Tren-
holm Brothers will send one of their firm to England to-
morrow, to take care of their bills and hold their cotton for
the bank at Charleston. It is generally expectei that, un-
less a further decline in cotton should take place, the credi-
tors will lose nothing. The liabilities of Mr. Durand, whose
suspension was also caused by the decline in cotton, are
estimated at 300,000 dols. The news per the Cunard
steamer is anxiously expected by the cotton houses. Should
it be unfavourable some further embarrassments may be
expected.
The stock market continues depressed, and pric3B are
again lower. No progress having been made thus far to-
ward a settlement of the railway contest, New York Cen-
tral was sharply attacked this morning. The price opened
at 721, declined to 721, sold at 71, seller, and close
at 72k bid. Erie was done at 51; the unsecured bonds
at 20. There is a good deal of talk about the proposal
which has been made by certain parties to lease the road.
The parties offer to pay interest on all the debt from the
date of the lease, and after three years to pay a small divi-
dend on the stock. This would be a great improvement on
the present state of things. The Western stock is lower.
There are heavy sales of them, based on the damage done
to cucumbers and cabbages by the late frost. It is doubt-
ful whether the attempt to create a belief that the wheat
crop has been injured will be successful , in past years
money has been made by these stories, but they are becom-
ing difficult to digest. The truth is, of course, that wheat
is uninjured, though the wheat fly may have suffered some-
what. Bonds are in fair demand ; State stocks are bettor.
At the second board there was very little business done,
and prices were lower. The following were the last quota-
tions :—Tenesses, 90 to 90k ; Missouris, 84 ; Virginias, 96,t
to 97; Canton, 182 ; Cumberland, 15 to 18 ; New 'York
Central, 72k to 1; Erie, 53k to 55$ ; Harlem, 10 to 10 ; pre-
ferred, 35 to 351; Hudson River, 31 to 31'- f Reading, 351
to 351 ; Michigan Central, 41 to 411 ; Michigan Southern,
81 to 9 ; do. preferred, 30 to 304; Panama, 1181 to a ;
Illi-
nois Central, 55 to 56 ; Galena, 68 to 68g ; Toledo, 25a to
Rock Island, 58 to 584- ; Illinois Central Bentral Bonds, 80
to 80k ; Pacific Mail, 691 to 70.
COTTON.—NeiII Brothers and Co.'s Cotton Circular, per
Asia, reports a better feeling in the American markets, and
holders were showing more firmness under an increased de-
mand. Business in the Southern markstshad been resumed
on French and Russian account, 15,500 bales having
changed hands at New Orleans in three days, principally for
those markets. The weather for the growing crop had been
more favourable, but there were still large tracts of land un-
der water from the late overflow. It is stated that instruc-

tions have come out by this steamer to withdraw a large
quantity of cotton from the market.
BREADSTUFFS.—FIour—State and Western closed heavy
at a decline of sc. to 10c. per barrel ; superfine State, 6 dols.
35c. to 6 dols. 60c. ; extra State, 6 dole. 85c. to 7 dols. 10c. ;
Southern quiet. Wheat closed dull and heavy at 2c. to se.
decline. Corn firm, at an advance of lc. to 2c. per bushel ;
mixed Western, 88c.
FRElGHTS.—Freights continued depressed. Cotton to
Liverpool, id.

NEW ORLEANS, June 7.
Sales of cotton to-day, 2,500 bales ; middling, 10! to 11.
Sales last three days, 1A,500 bales ; receipts same time, 1,200
bales, against 4,500 last year. Stock, 99,000 bales.

RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC COMPANIES.

EAST SUFFOLK.

The opening of this railway has been celebrated
with a banquet given by the contractors, Messrs.
Peto and Co., of Lowestoft. A large party was
conveyed from town to Lowestoft, nearly 120 miles,
in three hours and three-quarters. Sir Morton
Pete, M.P., presided at the banquet, and was sup-
ported on the occasion by the Earl of Stradbroke,
Lord Alfred Paget, M.P. ; Mr. H. Love (Chairman
of the Eastern Counties Company), Mr. J. C.
Cobbold, M.P. (Chairman of the Eastern Union
Company), Mr. H. Bruce (Chairman of the East
Anglian Company), Mr. R. Till (Chairman of the
Norfolk Company), Mr. J. A. Hardcastle, MY.,
Sir C. P. Roney, Sir Samuel Bignold, and a large
party of gentlemen connected with the district.

RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.
The first public festival given by the railway
clerks in aid of the funds of this institut.n. took
place on Friday at the Freemasons' Tavern, and
was numerously attended by the clerks of the
various railways having their termini in the metro-
polis. Mr. Joseph Fisher, one o f the principal
clerks of the Great Western Railway, presided,
and the objects of the institution, which are to
pro
vide assistance for decayed railway employes
and their widows and orphans, and to establish an
asylum, were fully detailed. Those who are not
already members were earnestly appealed to by the
chairman to enrol themselves and contribute to, as
well as share, should it become necessary, the ad-
vantages of the institution. He proposed "Success
to the Railway Benevolent Institution, "coupling
with it the name of Mr. Thomas Dixon, the hon.
secretary, who, in roply, suggested that the surplus
funds arising from that dinner should be given as
the first contribution to the building fund, a pro-
posal that was very warmly received. Mr. J. J.
Collier, of the Blackwall ; Mr. Wood, Great
Western ; Mr. T. Houghton, London and North-
Western ; and Mr. Crawford, of the Clearing-
house, severally addressed the meeting, and the
proceedings terminated in a satisfactory manner.

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A female passenger has been killed on the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway by falling out
of ono of the carriages. As there were no means of com-
municating with the guard until the arrival at the next
station it was impossible to afford help. Apparently in
this case the injury was immediately fatal, and no assist-
ance therefore would have been of any avail, but that does
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will be done until some severe pecuniary examples have
been
to a paragraph in the China Telegraphs
the plan Ame grnthe opening of the 19 free portal in the Dutch
East Indies, which was fixed for the Ist inst ~ has under-
gone serious modification. Owing to
wet°. As from the
Protectionist party in Amsterdam and R'otteri lam, the im-
RIOT AT CANTERBURY.—A corre
portation of cotton and woollen manufactures is ea to be
Frohibited.
sent us a brief account of a serious riot which to. ilc place at
have been killed. The dispute appears
Canterbury on Saturd • Several sot liers were
ay night. Seve .
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said
wounded, and one man, just returned from India t,
sponilent has
tween the cavalry and infantry, in a low neigi ibourhoo
called Knot's-lane. Some of the residents welt out armed
with sticks, and a fight took place with the soldiers. The
to keep order. One man to have arisen be
commenced a, • last night. Strong patrols were out
taken to the hospital. was so much hurt th at he was