The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FBOIII

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 27.
The ship Maggie Miller, Captain F. Johns, froM
Calcutta, with 500 discharged Europeans on board,
arrived at Spithead this morning. The ship W
bound to Plymouth, had got blown past that poll'
by the violence of the weather, and now remains
waiting her orders at Spithead from the Sorge
Guards. The Maggie Miller has made an extraor-
dinary passage home, having left the Sandheads 011
the 26th September. On nearing the -western,
Islands fell in with heavy easterly gales, which con-
tinued with more or less violence until inthf
Channel, when the wind become more variable,ut
the weather still continued violent. A large
tity of wreck was passed in the Channel betWeell,
St. Catherine's and the Start, a portion el
which consisted of bulwarks painted white.
Captain .1. Holland, Bengal Artillery, is in militi ill
command of the discharged soldiers ; and Dr. Sm,
rea
in medical charge. Eight deaths have occar
during the voyage, and one birth. The men ha"
been remarkably healthy the whole voyage heele,. '
The following officers have come by her as 13°'
sengers :—Captain Cox and wife, Bengal Artillery;
Lieut. Grant, 45th Native Infantry ; Lieut. Mackal•
Bengal Horse Artillery ; Lieut. Murran
tive Infantry; Lieutenant Davis, Bengal Artillerl:
Lieut. Alexander, Bengal Artillery ; and Lieut.
Brown, Bengal Artillery. 1-
Ships Spoken—Oct. 7, the Art Union, from Ca
cutta for London, in lat. 5 N., long. 95 I? the
Malacca, from Penang for London, in lat. 5 lc., long.
60th Na
95 E. Nov. 7—The Early Morn, from Natal fe!..
London, off Algoa Bay ; 9th, the Georo.e Douala
waite, from Mauritius for London ;
Light, from Bombay for Liverpool, both off CV_
Aguilas. Nov. 21, the North, from Kurrachee for
London, in lat. 13 S., long. 7 W., with troops; lab'
Queen of the Seas, from Calcutta for London, ilia':
13 S., long. 7 W., with troops. Nov. 30.-4;
Dartmouth, outward bound, in lat. 6 N., 10n,7,.
W., with troops. Dec. I.—The Eliza Howler.
outward bound, in lat. 8 N., long. 25 W. all vr,
the Southern Cross, from London for Hong kelt
in lat. 8 N., long. 28 W. ; the, Norman, from ty..
the° Norther°
Mauritius for London, in lat. 8 N., long. 25 for
Dec. 14.—The Great Western, from lklaranhani.
Liverpool, in lat. 39 N., long. 42 W: : ar-
The brig Greenwich, Captain Teleau, whicßat
h
at the Motherbank yesterday from Algoa
also
(having put in to procure anchors and chains)
reports having met with fearful weather the ,ny
part of her voyage. On the 9th inst., in lat
long. 22 W., the ship was thrown by the v °
iolenhe
of a severe hurricane on her beam-ends, where for
remained with part of her bulwarks under water
four hours.
latter,

STEAM RAMMER FOR WOOLWICH

ARSEN.4L.

Woolwich Arsenal,
employed
For some time past a steam hammer, intended to
in guns is
tNiVooolwich Arsenal, has been in course of construe-
n on the works of Messrs. R. Morrison and Co.,
Ouseburn. The apparatus, which is on the prin-
ciple of the well-known patent possessed by the
essrs. Morrison, will be one of imnaense Pwer.
The hammer bar and face weigh four tons, and tile
cylinder in which this bar works with its Puna
within a few hundredweight of six tons. T;11:
cylinder is supported on two frames—each 0f 14n-
jects the
tons—and each of these again rests on a bed-plate
of the same weight. Through these bed-Plates pro-
bledc
faced with steel, and embedded in an immense
of cast iron, anvil, which is a mass of wrought irot!,
weighing upwards of 21 tons. The.
casting of this block, which was of course ore
.o.l_
apparatus, wasp very successfully accomplish
the heaviest oerations in connection with the
ed on
morning 25 tons of metal were placed in
Saturday afternoon. About nine o'clock in the
furnace—one of Wright and Brown,s—ascdin these
works for castings. By two o'clock the metal woo
thoroughly fused, and the necessary arrangern.,
having been completed, about a quarter-past tw_,,'"
the liquid mass was run into the mould. 'The er:o
ing was pronounced by those who were presen,i,h's
.be one of the most successful ever witneoed• base
the cupola,
immense block thus formed measures, at the,,, t.
6ft. 7in. by 9ft. 2in., and is 4ft. 10in. in
The anvil proper, as already mentione-,
A kel''lllet
is
rest
Oa
into the top, and, when placed, the base Will The
two layers of heavy logs, about 14 feet square._ ~
ponderous machine which we have just described,
and which will soon be sent to its destination, 11,1
by no means the largest that has been
at the Messrs. Morrison's works, similar on hat."
ing been formerly sent out with
ing no less than 7 tons. The principle on will°l
the Messrs. Morrison's steam-hammeris construc,tet;
semis to afford great and peculiar advantages- u, 11
fabricate:
of these consists in the placing of the cylinder
which is so bolted between the support of tau
frames that instead of forcing them asundr;
raor
it tends, by its pressure, to keep them the
firmly in their places. In the roanac,cment of thy
hammer, again, great perfection hasc'been attaineo,
The most remarkable thing about it is the perfect
command in which it is held, so that it can be!
made to pound with prodigious force a raass °I
glowing iron or to crack a nut in the gentlest mall"
ner. Mr. Morrison's hammer can be worked
witn
a great diversity of power. The stroke can be
given with a farce exactly corresing with thy
P ond
weight of the hammer ; while, ou the one band,
this force can be diminished at pleasure or, oil
the other, greatly increased by the application of
the propelling steam above or below the piston.
In regard to speed of working also, it possesses ca-
pabilities which seem to adapt it to almost eYerY
t
scend like the heavy sledge " with measured beat
variety of work, for it can either be made to de-
and slow," or to deliver from 200 to 300 strokes s
minute—a speed, one would think, which can very
seldom be required.—Nerthero Daily Express.

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The Cunard steamer Africa, on her last passage,
brought from New York, en route for Italy, 82,000 ouncee
of silkworms collected in China, whenee they were shipped
by steamer to San Francisco. Tho affair has been a private
mercantile speculation, and is said to have been veil Prr
fitable, the worms selling la Italy at 20t, per cameo.