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

ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FRO3I INDIA.

O
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 27.
The ship Maggie Miller, Captain F. Johns, fr°°l,
Calcutta, with 500 discharged Europeans on boaruP
arrived at Spithead this morning. The ship, l'ill
bound to Plymouth, had got blown. past that Per"
by the violence of the weather, and now remorse
waiting her orders, at Spithead from the g
Guards. The Maggie Miller has made an extraor-
dinary passage home, having left the Sandheads oil
the 26th September. On nearing the 'Western
Islands fell in with heavy easterly gales,
which con
tinned with more or less violence until in
the.
Channel, when the wind become more variable, but
the weather still continued violent. A large Van'
tity of wreck was passed in the Channel between St. Catherine's and the Start, a portion a
white.
which consisted of bulwarks painted
Captain J. Holland, Bengal Artillery, is in militil
command
of the discharged soldiers ; and Dr. Smil
in medical charge. Eight deaths have occurrave
ed
during the voyage, and one birth. The men h
been remarkably healthy the whole voyage home.
The following. officers have come by her as Fab'
sengers :—Captain Cox and wife, Bengal Artillery ;
Lieut. Grant, 45th Native Infantry ; Lieut. Macksit
Bengal Horse Artillery; Lieut. Murray,illery
60th No'
tive Infantry ; Lieutenant Davis, Bengal Artt!
Lieut. Alexander, Bengal Artillery; and Lieu
Brown, Bengal Artillery.
Ships Spoken—Oct. 7, the Art Union, from Cal
cutta for London, in lat. 5 N., long. 95 E.; the
Malacca, from Penang for London, in lat. 5 N., long.
95 E. Nov. 7—The Early Morn, from Natal for
London, off Algoa Bay • 9th, the George D
waite, from Mauritius 'for London; the Northern
Light, from Bombay for Liverpool, both off cape
Aguilar. Nov. 21, the North, from Kurrachee for
London, in lat. 13 S , long. 7 W., with troops the
Queen of the Seas, from Calcutta for London, in lat'
13 S., long. 7 W., with troops. Nov. 30.-4 T:
Dartmouth, outward bound, in lat. 6 N., 1011,1. 23
outh-
W., with troops. Dec. I.—The Eliza Henrietta,
all well;
outward bound, in lat. 8 N., long. 25 W.,
the Southern Cross, from London for Hong Xon,'
in lat. 8 N., long. 28 W. ; the Norman, frau 7.
Mauritius for London, in lat. 8 N., long. 25 , ,
Dec. 14.—The Great Western, from Maranham, 10
Liverpool, in lat. 39 N., long. 42 W:
The brig Greenwich, Captain Teleau, which ar-
rived at the Motherbank yesterday from Algoa 1,4_
(having put in to procure anchors and chains) 00!
reports having met with fearful weather the lattFr
part of her voyage. On the 9th inst., in lat 23 N.
long. 22 W., the ship was thrown by the violetT!
of a severe hurricane on her beam-ends, were 057_
remained with part of her bulwarks under water for
four hours.
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SI'EAM 114111111 ER FOR WOOLWIC.
A I? S RYA

For some time past a steam hammer, intendedly
be employed in the forging of Armstrong guns 14
Woolwich Arsenal, has been in course of construv
tion on the works of Messrs. IL Morrison and
Co.,
Ouseburn. The apparatus, which is on the prin-
ciple of the well-known patent possessed by the
Messrs. Morrison, will be one of immense power.
The hammer bar and face weigh four tons, and
ndSthe
cylinder in which this bar works with its gla
within. a few hundredweight of six tons. The
cylinder is supported on two frames --each of nine
tons—and each of these again rests on a
o. f the same weight. Through these bed-Plates.pro-
pets the anvil, which is a mass of wrought iron,
faced with steel, and embedded in an immense bit!
of cast. iron, weighing upwards of 21 tons. 111 S
casting of this block, which was of course: ove ~ot
the heaviest operations in connection th 0°
bed-plate
apparatus, was very successfully accomplish. ed
.on
Saturday. afternoon. About nine o'clock In the
morning 25 tons of metal were placed in thenllP
furnace—one of Wright and Brown's—us theme
works for castings. By two o'clock the metal woo
thoroughly fused, and the necessarfarrangelnetnwo
having. .been completed, about a quarter-East t_
9ie liquid mass was run into the mould. 1" cast-
the
ing was pronounced by those who were present
b e one of the most successful ever witnesou•
immense. block thus formed measures at the.base
Eft. 7in. by Oft. 2in., and is 4ft. loin. in li.eigbti
.The anvil proper, as already mentioned, Is le
into tho top, and, when placed, the base will rent Oa
two layers of heavy logs, about 14 feet square.
ponderous machine which we have just describe.,
and which will soon be sent to its destination, I!
by no means the largest that has been fabricated
a. t the Messrs. Morrison's works, similar ones h.
h'
f'
ing been formerly sent out with hammers, which
ing no less than 7 tons. The principle on
whl
the Messrs. Morrison's steam-hammeris constructed
sums to afford great and peculiar advantages. One
of these consists in the placing of the cy
which is so bolted between the support of the
frames. that instead of forcing them asunder,
it tends,. by its pressure, to keep them the more
firmly in their places. In the management of the
hammer, again, great perfection has been attained.
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 mass of
linder,
glowing iron or to crack a nut in the gentlest ma.n-
ner. Mr. Morrison's hammer can be worked with
a great diversity of nower. The stroke cant be
given. with a force exactly corresponding with he
weight of the hammer; while, on the one hand,
this force can be diminished at pleasure,or, ou
the other, greatly increased by the application. of
the propolling steam above or below the piston.
In regard to speed of working also, it possesses ca-
pabilities which seem to adapt it to almost every
variety of work, for it can either be made to de-
scend like the herivy sledge" with measured beat
and slow," or to deliver from 200 to 300 strokes a
minute—a speed, one would think, which can
very
seldom be required.—Arorthern Daily _Express.

The. Cunard steamer Africa, on her last passage,
brought from New York, en route for Italy, 82,000 ounces
of silkworms collected in China, whenae they were shipped
by steamer to San Francisco. The atfltir has been a private
mercantile speculation, and is said to ha een vory pro-
fitable, the worms Aellizig in Italy at Per, °woe.