The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1861.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an
EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the LONDON
and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY will be
held at the Euston Station, London, on SATURDAY, the
11th day of May, 1861, at 12 o'clock at noon, for the purpbse
of considering, and, if thought fit, approving or otherwise,
the following Bills affecting the Company, now pending in
Parliament, that is to say :-
1. " A Bill for enabling the London and North Western
" Railway Company to construct Railways from Eccles
" through Tyldesley to Wigan, with a Branch to Bedford
" and Leigh, and for other purposes."
2. " A Bill for enabling the London and North Western
" Railway Company to construct new Railways from near
" Stockport to Altrincham, and from Chelford to Knuts-
" ford, with Branches therefrom respectively, and for
" other pnrposes."
3. " A Bill for enabling the London and North Western
" Railway Company to construct Rail ways from Edgehill
" to near Bootle, from Winwick to Golborne, and from
" Aston to Ditton, with a Branch to Runcorn, to enlarge
" their Lime-street and Wapping Stations at Liverpool,
" and for other purposes."
4. " A Bill for the enlargement of the Manchester London-
" road Station, and for other purposes."
5. " A Bill to empower the London and North Western
" Railway Compaq to make Railways at Burton-upon-
" Trent, to confer additional powers upon them with re-
" ference to parts of their undertaking, and for other
" purposes."
6. " A Bill for enabling the London and North Western
" Railway Company to acquire additional lands in con-
nection with their Chester and Holyhead Railway, for
" renewing certain' powers as to Steam Boats, and for
" other purposes.
7. "A Bill for the Enlargement, Regulation, and Manage-
" went of the Citadel Station' at Carlisle, situate at the

" Junction of the Lancaster and Carlisle and Caledonian

" Railways, and for other purposes."
The following Bills introduced by other Companies are re-
quired, in conformity with the standing. orders of Parliament,
to be submitted to the proprietors of this Company :-
8. " A Bill to empower the North London Railway Com-
" pany to widen a portion of their Railway, and for other
" purposes."
9. " A Bill to empower the North London Railway Corn-
" pany to construct a Railway from Liverpo-sfreet in
.‘ the City et jr-.Thcb).- to join their existing _Railway at
itingtairnel, and for other purposes."
10. " A Bill for vesting the Birkenhead Railway in the
" London and North- Western Railway Company and the
" Great Western Railway Company, and for other pur-
" posed."
11. " A Bill to authorise the West Hartlepool Harbour and
" 11,.ilway Company to use Railways of the Stockton and
" Darlington, Sou.h Durham, and Lancashire Union,
" Eden Valley, and the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
" Companies, and to make traffic arrangements with those
" Companies, and with the North-Eastern and the Lon-
" don and North-Western Railway Companies, and to
" require mutual facilities for traffic, to authorise the
" acquisition by some of those Companies of Lands and
" Buildinoi at West Hartlepool, or on the West Hartle-

" pool Railway ; to give iurther powers to the West
" Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company with ref e-
" rence to Steam Vessels, and the Management of their
" Docks and Works, and for other purposes."
12. "A Bill for making and maintaining the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, Derwent, and Weardale Railway, with
" Branch Klilways in connection therewith, and for other

purposes.
13. " A Bill for making a Railway from the Oswestry and
" Newtown Railway at Oswestry, to the London and
" North Western Railway at Whitchurch, in the county
" of Salop, and for other purposes."
14. " A Bill for authorising a Lease or Sale of the Railway
" of the St. George's Harbour Company to the London
" and North Western Railway Company, and for reducing
'• and regulating' the Capital of the St. George's Harbour
" Company, and for other purposes."
15. " A Bill to enable the Colne Valley and (Talstead Rail-
" way Company to extend their Railway to Cambridge,
" Clare, and Colchester, and for other purposes."
16. " A Bill for increasing the Capital of and conferring
" further powers on the West London Extension Rail-
..

" way Company, and for other purposes."
17. " A Bill to authorise the Nanttle Railway Company to
" alter the Line and Levels of their existing Railways,
" and to make and maintain new Railways in connection

" therewith."
18. " A Bill for making a Railway from the London and
" North Western Railway at Nantwich, in the County of
" Chester, to Market Drayton, in the County of Salop."
19. " A Bill for enabling. the Company of Proprietors of the
" Birmingham Canal Navigations to raise further money,
" and for other purposes."
20. " A Bill to revive the powers for the purchase of lands,
" and to extend the time for the completion of works
" authorized by the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
" (Canal Extension Act, 1859), and to authorise the Lla-
" nidloes and Newtown Railway Company to raise addi-
" tional capital, and for other purposes."
21. " A Bill to enable the Manchester and Milford Railway
" Company to construct a Branch Railway from the
" Devil's Bridge to Aberystwith, and for other pur-
..

" poses." -
22. " A Bill for making a Railway from Cockermouth to
" Keswich and Penrith, with a Branch there put, all in the
" County of Cumberland, and for other purposes."
C. R. MOORSOM, Chairman,
C. E. SrE WART Secretary.
Euston Station London,
26th Aprilr:l66l.

AN INCOME FOR A POUND !—Any person
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LAW IN7ELLIGENCE.-April 25,

COURT OF COMMON PLE4:6

(Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and
Justices Willes, Byles, and Keating.)

RUSSELL Y. THE GREAT SHIP COMPANY-THE GREAT SHIP

IN THE HANDS OF THE SHERIFF.

Sir F. Kelly applied to the court in this case for leave to
appeal against the decision pronounced by this court a few
days ago, refusing a new trial; and in support of his
motion principally relied upon the circumstance that the
judges of the Queen's Bench had on a former occasion in-
timated their opinion that the award was not a good one,
whilst the judges of this court were of a contrary opinion.
Under these circumstances he submitted that it would be
more satisfactory it the opinion of a court of error were
taken. He also offered to insure the. plaintiff from any loss
in consequence of leave to appeal being given by the com-
pany entering into an agreement that the ship should not
sail until the amount of the verdict, £lB,OOO, was paid into
court, or security was given to the satisfaction of the master.
Mr. W. Williams, the counsel for the company, however,
said that he had just received a telegram to the effect that
the ship and her stores had been seized in execution.
The court, alter some discussion, took time to read the
short -hitud writer's notes of what took place before the
Queen's Bench.
Judgment reserved.

TILE NAVY.

LAUNCH Or THE IRON-CASED FRIGATE

DEFENCE.

On Wednesday afternoon the iron-eased frigate Defence
was launched at Jarrow, from the building-yard of Messrs.
Palmer, on the Tyne, in the presence of many thousand
persons. The weather being remarkably fine, the railway
trains from Shields and Newcastle, and the steam packets on
the river, were crammed with intending spectators of the
launch. She came off the ways, we believe, all right, but
took the ground at the north side of the river. Every pos-
sible precaution had been taken by the harbour master to
prevent accidents, by suspending the navigation of vessels
up and down the river during the time of the launch. The
following are the dimensions of the Defence:—Extreme
length over all, 291 feet ; breadth, 54 feet; depth from the
upper deck, 39 feet; tonnage, 3,700 tons builders' measure-
ment. The engines will be 600 nominal horse power, and
will be manufactured byMessrs. J. Penn and Sons, London.
It is calculated that the Defence will steam at the rate of 12
knots an hour. She is pierced for 28 guns on the main deck
all of which will be of the heaviest calibre. The upper or spar
deck will be armed with four 40-pounders, and two pivot
guns of TOO each, all Armetroags. Among other improve-
ments adopted on board the Defence is one which has been
needed for years—an improvementon the present cumbrous
and awkward ship's gun.carriage, Those which will be
furnished to her have the stands fixed, the gun running
backwards and forwards in a slide, with a pivot, for trail.
ing the gun fore and aft, placed about the centre of the
gun. The advantage of this is, that it will allow the port-
holes to be reduced to half their usual width without at all
interfering with the range of gun fore and aft. Thus the
portholes of the Defence will be three feet six inches high,
and two feet instead of four feet wide—a reduction which,
of course, diminishes by one-half the chance of a shot or
shell entering the aperture. For the space of nearly two
feet, also, all round the ports, the armour plates are seven
inches thick.

She is divided by bulkheads, and there are two doorways
in those bulkheads, through which the seamen can trail
cannon fore and aft. In addition, She has wing passages,
by which they can go round and see if any injury has been
done to the sides. The Defence is immensely strong at the
stem, a perfect network of iron, making the fore part of the
ship almost solid. Her machinery and magazine are shut
off from the stem and stern by armour plated bulk-
heads. Her engines, made by Messrs. J. Penn and
Sons, of London, will be of 600 nominal horse-power.
When in sea going trim the maindeck portsills will be about
eight feet from the water, and in this respect the Defence
is said to possess gfeat advantage over the French ves-
sel La Gloire, whose ports are only five feet nine inches.
The masts and spars of the Defence will be very light—
merely those of an ordinary first-class frigate. Her bow-
sprit, which will be light, will be made t ) house on board,
so that nothing whatever will intervene to mitigate the tre-
mendous force with which she could strike an enemy. The
Defence is of a peculiar shape forward—the stem protrud-
ing under water, so as, if necessary, to assist in cutting a
ship down. The strength of iron forward is very great. The
bows and stern of the ship are divided into 20 water-tight
compartments, and are shut off from the mgine-room and
fighting part of the ship by wrought iron transverse bulk-
heads. These compartments will afford great security.
They may be riddled by shot in every direction without
affecting her safety; nay, even were the bows and stern
shot clean away, the centre would, it is contended, still
remain a floating battery. There is no ex:ernal keel to the
ship, but an inner kind of girder, which acts as a keelson.
This is formed of immense slabs of wrought scrap iron, 11
inch thick, and 3 feet 6 inches deep. To it are bolted the
ribs—massive wrought iron T .shaped beams, three-quarters
of an inch thick. These ribs, except where the portholes in-
tervene, are only 22 inches apart. Above the keelson, and
inside the ribs, are five immensely strong box-girders,which
go the whole length of the ship from stem to stern, and from
which spring (diagonal bands, tying every rib together. The
orlop deck is of wood. The main deck is of iron and cased
with wood, and nine feet above theorlop. The upper deck
is also of wrought iron cased with wood, and 7 feet 9 inches
above the main. All these decks are carried on wrought
iron beams of the most powerful description, to which both
decks and ribs and all are bolted as in one piece. The
" skin" of the ship, as it is termed, which covers all these
ribs on the outside, is also of wrought iron, 1 inch thick
under the bottom, to nearly one inch up to the spar deck.
From five feet below the water line up to the upper deck
comes, in addition to this, the great armour of teak and iron
over all. This is brmed of a double casing of the hardest
teak, 20 inches thick, with the beans laid at right angles to
one another. Over these, again, comes the plates of iron, so
as, in all, to case the broadside of the vessel with 20 inches of
solid teak, and five inches of the finest wrought iron. Each
plate is formed of rolled iron, about 16 feet long. All the
plates are mortised into one another, and bolted through
the teak into the inner ribs of the ship. These bolts are
counter-sunk outside, so as to have their heads level with
the surface. The total weight of the plates on both sides
is 500 tons. ' The tests applied to the plates by the builders
of the Defence were of the most trying character, and they
stood well. All iron-clad vessels, it is said, must roll
slowly and deeply, if in their cons:ruction especial pains
are not taken to guard aga'nst such a defect. To counter-
act such motion the Defence has two ridges of iron on each
side of her bottom, like leeboards, extending almost along
her entire length. Each of these pates is about 15 inches
deep, and the resistance which they will offer to her rolling
will be very great.
NORTH SHIELDS, THURSDAY NOON.
The iron-plated frigate Defence Atts been floated off the
ground without any damage.

The Ganges, 84, sailing two-decler, Capt. John Fulford,
flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert L. Baynes, R.C.8.,
arrived at Spithead on Wednesday from the Pacific. She
sailed from Vancouver's Island on the 10th of September,
1860, arrived at San Francisco on the 20th of September,
and sailed again on the 4th of October, leaving the Term-
gant in the sectional dock at Mare Island. After eiighting
the islands of Guadaloupe and Juan Fernandez the Ganges
arrivsd at Valparaiso on Tuesday, December 11 ; sailed
thence for England on the 18th of January, and kept
company with the English bark Ccro Coro until the 28th
of January, when she was lost sight of on the Ganges' lee
quarter. On the 31st of January, in lat. 54 44 S , long.
81 2 W., while the ship was under treble-reefed topsails,
blowing heavily, the American lark revenue was seen
to leeward with her ensign flying upside down. One of the
Ganges cutters, in charge of
Lieut. Lamb, with an assis-
tant-surgeon, was sent to the vessel, and rendered medical
assistance. She proved to be laden with coal, 112 days frem
Glasgow, bound to San Francisco. The islands of Diego
Ramirez were passed on Sunday, February 3, and the same
day, at 1 30 p.m., the Ganges sighted Cape Horn, and
anchored at Rio de Janeiro
on February 21. Found the
Brazilian squadron lying in the harbour. 4 Her Majesty's
brigantine Spy came in on the 240. The Ganges sailed
again on the 25th, and met an English bark going in
with loss of foremast, jibboom, Htad mizentopmast. On
Saturday, April 13, exchanged e-lours with the English
ship dalliance, 93 days from Melb4rae, for London, in lat
44 16 deg N., long 21 25 deg W. At the back of the Tsle
of Wight the Ganges spoke the screw transport Magawra,
with artillery on board, from Woolwich, bound to Gibral-
tar. Shortly before entering Spiiiead a painter engaged
upon some work outside the ship fill overboard, and being
unable to swim was unfortunatelydrowned. The Ganges
left Spithead, for the Pacific
to relieve the Monarch, 84, 'on tie 17th of October, 1857,
flagship of Vice-Admiral H. W.
Bruce, the then Commander_in_opef on that station. Since
that time the Ganges has been over a distance exceeding
60,100 miles, and has been in commission altogether three
years and ten months. She was lnilt in Bombay in 1821,
, and presents a remarkable con-
trast in her appearance to that A the Edgar, 91, screw,
flagship of Rear-Admiral Erskine, lying at anchor close by
after the French Canopus
at Portsmouth yesterday; his flag was struck at sunset,
and the Ganges sailed from Spithead to-day for Sheerness,
her. Rear-Admiral Sir it
where she will be put out of comuission.
Her Majesty's line-of-battle strew steamship Atlas, 91
L. Barnes landed from the ship
guns, lately launched from Chatham dockyard, was yester-
day taken from her moorings in oeerness harbour, for the
trial of her machinery at the measured mile off Mapling
Sands. Capt. Schomberg, of tbe seam reserve, commanded
the vessel, and Messrs. W. Price,„inspector of machinery,
and G. Biaxial:o, chief engineer, bheerness dockyard, were
in attendance on the part of the Government. The con-
tractors were represented by Mr. Talford Field and Mr.
Herbert Maudslay. The machinery, which was built by
Messrs.. Maudslay, Son, and Field, was in charge of Mr.
Warrener, manager to the firm. The Atlas is fitted with
double piston rod, directing acting horizontal engines of
giavinmgean speed of 13022
800 noreinal horse-power, and 4,20( indicated horse-power.
entire satisfaction
Ttoh
knots per hour, 60 revolutions per minute, the pressure of
tehye
au workedthor
tmi
eoss, t a snudc coebs st
obtaining
steam being 211 b., and the vacuum 2.4. The cylinders
are fitted with steam jackets, and are the second set of en-
gines so fitted and supplied to the Government by the firm.
Griffith's screw pitch, 27ft. 6in., diameter 19ft. The trial
lasted six hours, and is considered to be the most satisfac-
tory which has been made for some time at Sheerness.
The Sampson, 6, paddle, Capt. G. S. Hand, C. 8., was
steaming into Spithead at 6.45 yesterday evening, from
China.
The Duncan, 101, screw, in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth,
fitted the shifting blade to her propeller yesterday afternoon.
It is intended to get her out of dock and the steam basin by
to-morrow, and she will probably commence her series of
experimental trials.on Monday.
The Hougoumont, sailing transport, No. 36, Commander
Flamark, was towed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday,
and will disembark the 4th battery of the second brigade of
Royal Artillery this morning, who will march to Hilsea,
and receive over the Armstrong guns and horses of the 10th
battery of the 4th brigade, the latter marching to Haslar
Barracks, where they will be quartered until further orders.
The Sir William Peel, No. 17 screw transport, Com-
mander Froud, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yester-
day from Spithead, and will land her troops (3d Buffs) at 9
a.m. to-day, when they will proceed by special train at 10
a.m. to join head-quarters at Dover. The Sir William
Peel is a ship of 1,535 tons register, and fitted with auxi-
liary engines of 300 horse-power (nominal), by Miller and
Ravenhill. As we stated yesterday, she was employed in
the China expedition as an hospital ship, for which she is
admirably adapted from her height of deck and uncom-
monly good ventilation. Her upper hospital had a free
sweep of deck from the saloon doors to the forecastle bulk-
head. Her lower hospital was divided in two compartments'
by the engine-room, and owing to her numerous sidelights,
the size of her hatchways, and other means of ventilation"
through her decks, the lower was as well ventilated and
cool as the upper. The Sir William Peel, like the Mauri-
tius, would make a noble hospital transport for the Govern-
ment service.
Yesterday, by direction of the Lords of the Admiralty,
the last batch of hired workmen at Chatham dockyard re-
ceived notice to quit that establishment on the 25th of May,
by which date the whole of the hired mechanics and
labourers will have quitted the dockyard, with the excep-
tion of those whose services bave been ordered to be re-
tained.

The derelict wreck, in tow of the Balklegend Lightning,

Government steamers, was brought into Falmouth at 8
o'clock on Thursday evening, after considerable labour, and
at that hour was within St. Anthony's Head. The name
and cargo are yet unknown.
Yesterday being the birthday of her Royal Highness the
Princess Alice, a royal salute was fired from the King's
Bastion on Portsmouth lines from her Majesty's ships
Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief at the port,
Vice-Admiral IL W. Bruce, and St. Vincent, flagship of
Rear •Admiral the Hon. George Grey, in Portsmouth har •
hour ; and from her Majesty's ships Ganges, 84, Edgar, 91,
screw, Trafalgar, 91, screw, Emerald, 51, screw, and Dia-
dem, 32, screw, lying at Spithead, the two first-named of
these latter velsels bearing respectively the flags of Rear-,
Admirals Sir Robert L. Baynes and J. E. Erskine.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—George H. Dominy, master, additional, to the_
Indus ; W. H. Couzens, W. J. Symons, F. Hire, W. H.
Fox, and W. J. Gorman, masters' assistants, additional, to
the Marlborough ; H. E. L. P. Bailey, paymaster, addi-
tional, to the Fisgard ; and W. K. Home, assistant pay-
master, supernumerary, to the Victory.
Some experimental trials have been made at Chatham
with a new description of breech-loading rifled cannon, the
invention of Mr. Warry, armourer of the 3d Depot Bat-
talion. The superiority claimed for the invention by Mr.
Warry is the simplicity of the breech-loading action, with
great facility in loading, and the rapidity with which the
new description of gun can be fired. The inventor of this
new kind of ordnance has offered to take any gun now in
use in the service, which he will rifle and convert into a
breech-loader at comparatively trifling expense, his object
being to satisfy the Government that the whole of the field-
pieces and ships' guns now in use can be made available for
that purpose.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'-YESTERDAY.

The attendance this afternoon was !carcely up to the
average, considering its close proximity to the "First
Spring Meeting." From the extreme fineness of the weather
the members were induced to patronise the "open air
gathering" on the lawn, and business commenced with a
vigour that gave hopes of some new feature being intro-
duced to vary the monotony that has characterised the
transactions on the Guineas, but which, as will be gathered
from our list of quotations, was not "made visible."
THE Two THOUSAND GUlNEAS.—Kettledrum at the
opening was extremely firm, 6 to 1 being quickly taken, the
backers becoming more anxious than the layers, and after
a heavy commission was "satisfied," 9 to 2 was the highest
offer. Klarikoff came into notice with a rush, the effect of
a report of a most satisfactory trial in the morning, and
after some heavy wagering, he appeared to leave off a
much better favourite (for money) than Colonel Towneley's
colt, but as near as we could collect at the close 5 to 1
would have been taken by the partisans of each, to money.
Preceptress was much fancied by many, and by one in par.
ticular, who usually attends on a Mundy, who supported
her with much vigour at the quoted odds, but at the close
9 to 1 was with difficulty to be obtained. Overton—the
only animal in the race that has maintained his "pride of
place" in the quotations—was again strongly fancied, by an
influential party, 9 to 1 to upwards of £2OO being booked
about him, and at the close a point more w s scarcely
obtainable.

Diophantus, as usual, at the commencement of business
appeared under a cloud, but towards the close a spurt was
given to the hopes of his backers by a noble patron of the
turf, who accommodated the layers by betting 1,000 to 70
to upwards of £3OO, which fora time appeared to stem the
torrent set in against him, but at the close 100 to 6 was
easily to be had. Mr. Merry's two appeared out of favour,
100 to 6 being frequently offered agst each without a reply.
and after a brief demonstration in favour of Sweet Haw-
thorn, she retrograded to 100 to 4 offered ; but still 300 to
36 was taken by a noble supporter of the stable about the
two coupled. Neighbour was nominally at 100 to 6, and
the Knight of St. Patrick was supported at 1000 to 30,
Elborus at 1000 to 20, and Copernicus at similar odds.
THE CHESTER CUP.—From the excitement attending the
transactions on the Two Thousand little or no attention was
bestowed upon this event. Chere Arnie was nominally at
7to 1; Wallace was inquired after, and a point more than
the quoted odds would have met with ready takers ; Man-
at-Arms also came in for his share of patronage, 10 to 1
was taken to money; as also Ben Webster, from his recent
success in Ireland, finding supporters at 12 to 1. W.
Day's Schism was touched upon to a small sum at 1000 to
40.

THE DgßßY.—Dundee appears to be left alone in his
gloiy, 7 to 2 being the highest offer his opponents appear
bold enough to advance. 14 to 1 was taken about Rouge
Dragon to " half a century," 40 to 1 was offered agst Pre-
ce ptress, and 1000 to 15 taken about Imaus.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
9to 2 agst Colonel Towneley's Kettledrum (5 to 1t f)
9 to 2 Mr. Henry's Klarikoff (5 to 1t f)
10 to 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Preceptress (t)
10 to 1 Mr. Merrifield's Overton (t)
100 to 6 Lord Stamford's Diophantus (t)
100 to 6 Mr. Merry's Russley (t)
100 to 6 Mr. Merry's Sweet Hawthorn (t)
100 to 6 Lord Stamford's Neighbour (t)
38 to 1 Lord Exeter's Knight of St. Patrick (t)
50 to 1 Mr. W. S. Crawford's Elborus (t)
50 to 1 Mr. Payne's Copernicus (t)
300 to 36 on the field agst Mr. Merry's Russley and Mr.
Merry's Sweet Hawthorn (t)
200 even on Klarikoff agst Kettledrum (t)
THE CHESTER CUP.
7to 1 agst Mr. Naylor's Chere Amie (offered)
7to 1 agst Mr. F. Swindell's Wallace (off. to Bto 1)
10 to 1 agst Captain Little's Man at Arms (taken)
12 to 1 apt Mr. Barber's Ben Webster (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. W. Day's Schism (taken)
THE DERBY.
7to 2 agst Mr. Merry's Dundee (offered)
14 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Rouge Dragon (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Preceptress (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Lord Stamford's Imaus (taken)
TATTERSAIZS' Room.—The subscription room will be
opened on Saturday next for the convenience of members,
for the purpose of comparing, &c., upon the forthcoming
First Spring Meeting.