The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR PIG IRON.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Nan',
Somerset-place, 22d Aug , 1857.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain,
aid Ireland, DO ItEKEBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the Bth September next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to
treat with ~uch persons as may be willing to Contract for supply-
ing her Majesty's Dockyards withl
SOFT MELTING PIG IRON.
A Distribution of the Iron and a form of tender may be seen
at the sid office: No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the
day of t areaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or
an agent for Mm duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and beer In the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Pig Iron,"
aid must be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter
signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with
the person tendering, in the sum of 300/., for the due performance
of the contract.

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Irrespective of the beef, pork, tlfrguetr' pre
serves, confections, and the other viands which go ~
under the name of ship stores, the Auatralasian
has, of course, a bakery and a butchery, and when
filled with passengers she will carry, for their Om-
fort and sustentation, two cows (for milk), 120
sheep, three dozen pigs, and 100 dozen of poultry.
The pens for the sheep, &c., are so placed that
when
-the animals disappear under the hands of the
butcher and cook the pens can be removed piece-
meal, and packed up imto almost no space, thus
adding to the deck room. We may also notice a
finely-constructed ice-house in the lower hold in
the fore part of the ship, which will hold ten tons
of congealed water—a quantity reckoned sufficient
to cool the throats of the thirsty Australians during
any ordinary voyage.
We need scarcely say that everything that the
ingenuity of man can do has been done for the at-
-ainment of safety in navigation. The Australa-
sian is divided by strong iron bulkheads into six or
seven watertight compartments. She has a power-
ful steam whistle over the boiler, which can be
worked by means of a lanyard from the bows under
such circumstances as may call for it—such as in
a fog, apprehended collision, or approaching the
land. The captain has a telegraph upon the bridge,
by which he can instantaneously regulate the ope-
rations of the engineer. She carries seven large
boats—:four of them life-boats and three cutters ;
and four of the number are fitted up with Clifford's
patent lowering apparatus, the efficacy of which
will be tested during the first outward trip. All is
fire-proof, and no portion of the wood work comes
nearer the boiler than than four feet, while around
the bpilers water hose are suspended, which may
in a moment be applied to the cooling of any part of
the machinery which gets overheated.
It is intended that the Australasian shall sail
from Southampton on the 12th of September for
Alexandria in the first instance, as a short trial
trip, and .upon • her return she will be put upon
the long and important station between Suez and
Australia. She will be commanded by . Captain
Geoffrey Sceales, formerly of the Golden Fleece.
She will have six officers, seven engineers, and a
crew of 140, including stewards and firemen. We
may mention, as an instance of the amplitude of
the supplies, that the head engineers carriers with
him 900 gallons of oil and two tons of tallow •, and
as for the doctor, he has an apothecary's shop better
supplied than the best in many a royal burgh. Of
the exact sum invested in this magnificent floating
hotel or boarding-house we have no definite infor-•
mation' but we suspect ere she leaves Southamp-
ton on her first trip little short of 110,0001. will
have been expended upon her. It may be men-
tioned as an instance of the energy of the Clyde
engineers, that the Messrs. Thomson only laid down
the keel of the Australasian on the Ist of November
last.

Mr. It. Green, arrived last Friday morning in St.
Helen's Roads from London, bound for Mauritius
and Bombay. Darin°, the day she embarked Major
General Breton (late Lieut.-Governor of Ports-
mouth) and Major Nelson,. Military Secretary ;
Capt. Aylmer, Aide-de-Camp ; Miss Breton, Mrs.
Nelson and family, &c. Major-General Breton goes
out as the Major-General on the staff of the Com-
mander-in-Chief at the Mauritius. The Vernon
sailed at 6 p.m., with a splendid breeze down Chan-
nel from E S.E.
The steamship Khersonese sailed from Liverpool
for Portsmouth on Saturday, to embark troops for
the East.
The steam transport Dutchman, fitted out at
Deptford, has been engaged to embark artillery
stores, accoutrements, arms, and troops from Wool-
wich for India.
The freight-ship John Bull, in the London Docks,
is engaged to ship 4,000 barrels of powder from
Woolwich Arsenal for Montreal and Quebec.
The freight-ship Herculean, laden with ammuni-
tion, &c., from Woolwich, is ready for sea, and is
ordered to sail to-morrow (Tuesday) for Hong
Kong.
The freight-ship Georgia, in the London Docks,
is embarking shell, shot,- and ammunition from
Woolwich for New Brunswick, and is to sail during
the week.
The freight-ship Marlborough has shipped 72
barrels of ammunition and three field batteries of
artillery from Woolwich for Bengal, and has sailed
for Gravesend.
Recruiting for the Royal Artillery has been car-
ried on at Woolwich with much spirit during the
past month, and upwards of 400 young men from
various parts of the kingdom have been attested,
and have joined the regiment at head-quarters.
The utmost activity continues to prevail- in the
laboratory department of the Royal Arsenal in the
preparation of stores for shipment to India and
Ceylon.
The Defence, convict hulk, has at last been en-
tirely raised, and the Hebe and Bacchante, which
were lashed alongside, have returned to their
moorings. The Defence is unfit for further ser-
vice, and will be broken up.
The Galatea, screw corvette, is now in a forward
state, and will, it is expected, be launched during
the ensuing month. An extra number of ship-
wrights have been employed on her decks.
Mr. Macdonald, Master-Attendant of Woolwich
Dockyard, assisted by his troop of seamen-riggers,
who have been employed night and day during the
last month in lifting and dragging the Defence hulk
from the bed of the river off Woolwich Arsenal,
succeeded on Saturday in carrying her, on the
spring tide, lashed• between a couple of frigates,
over the verge of the lok-water mark, where she
will be overhauled by the shipwrights, so as to' de-
cide her future destiny. She now lies entirely dry
forward, with a depth of four feet aft, and presents
the appearance of being unfit for further service.

THE LATE SIR H. LAWRENCE, K.C.8..

Sir H. M. Lawrence, whose death in a sortie

DISTRIBUTION OF HER MAJESTY'S
REGIMENTS IN INDIA.

beneath the walls of Lucknow was announced in
our columns on Saturday among the Indian intel-
ligence, was a very distinguished officer, of Irish
blood and extraction, and one of whom the sister
island may feel justly proud. He was the elder
brother of Sir J. L. M. Lawrence, K.C.8., at pre-
sent Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, being the
eldest son of the late Lieut.-Col. A. W. Lawrence,
some time governor of Upnor Castle, who distin-
guished himself by his gallantry at geringapatam.
His mother was daughter of the late Capt. Knox,
of the county of Donegal. He was born in 1806 at
Mat tura, in Ceylon, and married (in 1837) Honoria,
youngest daughter of the Rev. Geo. Marshall, of
Cardonagh, Ireland, but was left a widower in
1854. Having received his early education at the
diocesan school of Londonderry, and afterwards at
the Royal Military College, Addiscombe, he en-
tered the military service of the Hon. East India
Company in 1821, having obtained a commission as
a cadet in the Bengal Artillery. He soon acquired
the reputation of one of the most able and intelli-
gent officers in the service, and having seen syme
active service in the Cabul campaign under Sir G.
Pollock in 1843, he was raised to the rank of Major.
In the same year he became British Resident at
Nepaul. He afterwards played a distinguished part
in the campaigns on the Sutlej, soon after which
ha was made a Military Companion of the
Bath, and. at the same time promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1846 he was ap-
pointed Resident at Lahore and agent for the Go-
vernor-General on the north-western frontier. It
was for his able services in the administration of
this important office that he was made a K.C.B.
(civil) in 1848. In the following year he was ap-
pointed by Lord Dalhousie President of the Board
for the Reduction and Government of the recently
annexed province of the Punjaub, where he in-
creased the high opinion already entertained of his
administrative talents by his friends and by the .
Government. In 1854 he obtained the rank of full
colonel, and was also further nominated an honorary
Aide-de Camp to her Majesty, as a further recogni-
tion of his merits. He was the author of an interest-
ing volume, entitled " Adventures of an Officer in
the Service of Runjeet Singh." The ability and
firmness which he had shown in checking the pro-
gress of the recent mutino must he too fresh in the
memory of our readers to need repeating here. We
will only add that in Sir H. Lawrence the Indian
service and the country have lost an officer whose
head and hand they could ill afford to spare in the
present important crisis. But it is not only as a
soldier or as an eminent civilian that Sir H. Law-
rence will be missed, high as his character stood in
both capacities. As a frank, open, honourable, and
straightforward man, and as a generous and un-
selfish friend, he had few equals and no superior, so
that his loss will fall quite as heavily upon private
society in India, as it will upon the public service.
As an instance of bis generosity, it deserves to be
recorded that for many years, while drawing a
handsome revenue from his official employments,
he devoted all that he could spare of his yearly
salary to the foundation of an asylum for the or-
phan children of European soldiers, which bears his
name, and will long stand as a memorial of his
good 'deeds on the hills between Simla and timbal-
ah.

(Front, the United Service Oazette.l
As a good deal of anxiety prevails in England
regarding the actual localities of the Queen's regi-
ments serving in India, we have drawn up the fol-
lowing from the scattered notices in the Indian
papers: We think it may be reliod upon as correct :
6th Ca.rabneers—Meerut. Prepared to move
on Delhi.
9th Lancers—Delhi.
12th Lancers—Bangalore (Madras Presidency).
14th Light Dragoons—Two squadrons at Aurun-
gabad (Nrz ma's territories). One squadron, form-
ing part of a flying brigade, to assemble at Malli-
gaum (Candeish, Deccan). Depot--Kirkee, near
Poonah.
sth Foot—Had arrived at Calcutta, and was to
move up the Ganges towards Benares, Allahabad,
and Cawnporo.
Bth Foot—Delhi.
10th Foot—Dinapore.
24th Foot—Punjab.
27th Euniskillens—Punjab.
29th Foot—Burmah. Ordered up to Calcutta.
32d Foot—Lucknow.
35th Foot—Barrackpore, near Calcutta.
37th Foot—One wing at Benares ; one wing al
Calcutta.
43d Light Infantry—Bangalore.
52d Light Infantry—Punjab.
53d Foot—Calcutta.
60th Rifles—Delhi.
61st Foot—One wing at Ferozepore ; one wing
at Delhi.
64th Foot—Depot, Belgaum (Bombay Presidency)
500 men at Allaliabad.
70th Foot—Punjab.
75th Foot—Delhi.
78th Highlanders—Depot, f'oonab. One wing at
Benart s, one wing at Calcutta.
81st Foot—Lahore.
83d Foot--Depot, Deem • 500 men on the march
from Deesa to overawe the kewah territory.
84th Foot—Allahabad.
86th Foot—One wing at Poonah ; one wing with
the 14th Light Dragoons, en route to Malligaum.
87th, Royal Irish Fusileers—Peshawur.

THE AUSTRALASIAN SCREW STEAM-
SIIIP.

GLASGOW, FRIDAY
This magnificent iron steamer, built by Messrs
J. and G. Thomson, Clyde Bank, for the European
and Australian Company, left the Broomielaw
to-day for Southampton, whence she will soon
make her maiden passenger trip. She was launched
on the 10th of June last. The Australasian is
of 2,800 tons builders' measurement, is 360 feet
over all, 42 feet beam, and will be propelled by
means of a three-bladed screw by two direct acting
engines of 700-horse power. She has six tubular
boilers, which are covered with felt and then with
lead, by which heat is retained and fuel econo-
mised. These are fired by 30 furnaces. There are
two 90-inch cylinders, with a 3 feet stroke. These
are also covered with felt, overlaid with teakwood,
which imparts to the ponderous machinery an
appearance quite ornamental.
The poop, instead of being fitted up as a dining
saloon, as is generally the case with the Atlantic
steamships, is here appropriated to 60 sleeping
cabins, which will be exceedingly airy. These, of
course, will be favourite berths in a tropical voyage.
The saloon is consequently placed below upon the
main deck. It need only be said of it that
it is a spacious and most handsome hall, with a
space of eight feet between floor and ceiling, and
capable of accommodating 180 first-class passengers
comfortably at dinner. On each side and for-
ward extend a long line of comfortable cabins,
there being in all sleeping accommodation for 200
first class passengers and for 60 second-class, along,
also, with a very pretty saloon for the latter class
in the. forward part of the ship. At night the
cabins are fully lighted, but, as in other first-
class modern steamers, the light itself is be-
yond the reach of the passenger, who thus cannot
either thoughtlessly or sinfully harm himself or
endanger the ship by means of fire. There are
seven bathrooms, both for plunge and shower, 21
water-closets, &c. In fact, there are the elements
of comfort visible in every direction, for even the
looking-glass on the wall turns on a ball and socket,
by which it can be easily brought in juxtaposition
with the passenger's face, whatever may be the lay
or heel of the ship.
Below the saloons and after-cabins are store-
rooms, powder magazine, two mailrooms, and a bul-
lion room. The mailrooms are lined with zinc
throughout, and have capacity for carrying letters,
papers, despatches, and parcels to the total weight
of 60 tons. The bullion room is also coated
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zinc, containing an iron strong box of Eke ost
solid and ponderous construction, secured with
Chubb's locks, and capable of carryneg m is also
the weight of 10 tons. The spirit-roo
lined with zinc, and this, like ever 9 other separate
lined
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apartment, is water-tight.
In the after-hold are tan
tons of fresh water; but,
safely sail without any,
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water at all, for she has
most beautiful and efficient distilling apparatus,
which will convert the salt element into fresh at the
rate of 2,500 gallons per day. An immense quan-
tity of hat water is necessarily used daily in a ship
of this kind, for cleaning, washing, and bathing
purposes; but, irrespective of these, a pipe leads
from the fresh water distillery in the afterhold water
tanks, and by this means an overflowing store of
this essential element is always kept on and. This
distilling apparatus is worked by a powerful engine,
separate from and independent of the groat engines
which propel the ship, and may be, and will b,l
applied to other important purposes. We may
allude to a very important, and, as applied to a
vessel of this kind, a novel adjunct, in the sbap3 of
a ballast tank, capable of holding 450 tons of water.
This tank may, if necessary, be filled with coals in
the first instance, and as these are consumed their
place is supplied with such a weight of water as may
preserve the ship in the best sailing trim. The
filling and emptying of the tank is done by a power-

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