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London, England, 1861-10-09 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 9, 1861.

r4REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
k.A —CHEAP EXCURSION to the NORTII.—An EX-
CURSION TRAIN, at LOW FARES, will leave Paddington
at 9.45 a.m., and Reading at 10.50 a.m., en SATURDAY, Oct.
12, returning. on Wednesdas., Oct. 10, for OXFORD (Fares
(6?. 6d. and 45.), Banbury (Bs. and 55.), Leamington and War-
wick (10 6,1
s- 8* and Os.), Stratford-on-Avon and Birmingham
(12$. and 78.), West Bromwich Wednesbury, and Bilton
(12s. 6d. and 7s. 6d.), Wolverhamiiton (13s. and Bs.), Welling-
ton and Shrewsbury (17s. and i Os.), Oswestry, Llangollen-
road, Wrexham, and Chester (18s. 6d. and 11s.), Birkenhead,
Liverpool, Warrington, and Manchester (21s. and 12s. 6d.)

ADVOWSON.—FREEHOLDS UPTON AND IOTHERS-
THORPE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
TO BE SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the
High Court of Chancery, in a cause of Donaldson v.
Fairfax, with the approbation of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley,
in Five Lots, by Messrs.. Holloway and Son, at the George
Hotel, Northampton, on SATURDAY, the 26th day ot Octo-
ber, 1861, at Three o'clock in the Afternoon, very valuable
Freehold Estates, situate at Upton and Rothersthorpe, in
the county of Northampton, consisting of 374 Acres of Land,
Water Mill. and the perpetual Advowson and Right of. Pre-
sentation to the Vicarage of Rothersthorpe, part of the
Estates of the late Sir Thomas Samwell, Baronet. •
Particulars and conditions of sale, with plan, may be had
gratis of Messrs. King and llPMillin, No. 4, Danes-inn; St.
Clement's, Strand, London, solicitors ; at the George Hotel,
Northampton; the Swan Hotel, Bedford; the George Hotel,
Huntingdon ; the Royal Hotel, Kettering ; the Angel Hotel,
Market Harborough ; the Spread Eagle, Rugby ; the White
Bart Hotel, Leicester ; the Crown Hotel. Leamington ; and
of the Auctioneers, Pitsford, near Northampton.

EDWD. WEATHERALL, Chief Clerk.

FRO. JI TIZE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Om. 8.

3d Regiment of D ragoon G uards— Captain Wm. Edgeworth,
from sth Lancers, to be Captain, vice John Chas. Boucher,
who exchanges.
sth Lancers—Captain John Charles Boucher, from the 3d
Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Wm. Edgeworth,
who exchanges.
7th Hussars—Licut enant- Colonel Arthur Scud amore. C. 8.,
from the 14th Hussars, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice

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Sir Wm. Russell, Bari., C.B-., who exchanges.
Bth Hussars—Lieutenant John Mathew Biddle to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Parry de Winton, deceased.
14th Hussars—Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Wtn. Russell, Bart.,

C. 8., from the 7th Hussars, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Arthur Scudamore, C. 8., who exchanges.
15th Hussars—Francis Hood Gregory, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Winthrop, promoted.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Samuel Jeffares
to bo Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Henry
Gipps, who resigns that appointment.
10th Foot—Serjeant-Major Thomas Hector Smith to be
Quartermaster, vice Lieutenant Wm. Sykes, who reverts
to half Tay of the late Land Transport Corps.
11th Foot—Thomas Albert Kemble, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Semple, appointed to the 35th Foot.
13th Foot—Ensign John from the 59th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wm. Stroker
Conyncham, cashiered by the sentence of a General
Court Martial.
17th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Houlton Hartwell to be
Captain, by purchase, vice William Henry Urquhart,
who retires ; Ensign Charles W. B. Aylmer, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Hartwell.
22d Foot—Paymaster-Sergeant Walter Jones to be Quar-
ter. vice Michael Clinton, who retires upon half-pay.
23d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Theobald Fetherstoue Lang-
staff, from the 10th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Charles Ferran Squire, supposed to have been drowned
in the Cleaveland.
26th Foot—Ensign Henry C. Sharp to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Henry Augustus Barton, who retires;
Goifrey Stuart Hughes, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Sharp.
32d Foot—Lieutenant James Salterthwaite Rudd, from the
3d West India 'Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice James
Thomas Gray, who exchanges.
35th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Tedlie to bo Captain, by
purchase, vice Price, promoted ; Ensign Wm. Poste to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tedlie; Ensign Charles
Semple, from the 11th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Poste.
40th Foot—Lieutenant Louis Walter Fisher, from the 82d
Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robert Hare,
cashiered, but allow allowed to receive the value of his corn-

missions.'
46th Foot—The Commission of Quartermaster William
George Street to be antedated to the 14th January, 1861.
66th Foot—Ensign George Dalton Michell to be instructor
of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Richard Thomas Hughes,
deceased.
67th Foot—Frederick Turner Blake, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Robert Patch, who retires.
70th Foot—Lieutenant Herbert John Hill to be Adjutant,
vice Lieutenant Charles Granville Stuart Menteath, who
resigns that appointment.
72d Foot—Assistant- Surgeon David Ritchie Pearson, M.D.,
from the Rifle Brigade, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Morgan Jones Jones, appointed to the Staff.
74th Foot—Lieut. Colin Hugh Thomson to be Captain, by
Eurchase. vice Lewis Augustus Brydon who retires ;
nsign George William Monk Hall to he Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Thomson ; Duncan Dugald M'Lachlan
Macleod, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hall.
82d Feet—Ensign John Butler Mac Kenna to be Lieute-

nant, by purchase, vice Fisher, promoted in the 40th
Foot; William Forsyth Forsyth Grant, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Mac Kenna.
87th Foot—Ensign Alfred Herbert Hugh Smith to be Lieu-
tenant., without purchase, vice Edward Dampier Cockell,
deceased.
Rifle Brigade—Lieut. Charles George Slade to bo Captain,
by purchase. vice William Hall Eccles, who retires ;
Ensign Gerald Edmund Boyle to bo Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Slade ; Ensign Alfred Seymour, from the 16th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Boyle.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Geo. Hibbert Anchitel
Kinloch to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Reado, who
has retired ; Ensign William Stevens Perry Keene, late
Royal Wilts Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Kinloch; Malcolm MacGregor, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Madden, promoted.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. James Thos. Gray, from
the 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Jas. Salterthwaite
Rudd, who exchanges; Lieut. Wm. Sykes, from hail-
pay, late Land Transport Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice
Wm. Cody, promoted, without purchase, to an Unat-
tached Company; Lieut Wm. Sykes has been permitted
to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Major and Brevet-Colonel Thos.
Donovan to be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Brevet Colonel George Staunton, who retires upon half-
pay; Captain and Brevet Colonel John Armstrong to bo
Major, without purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Donovan ;
Lieut. Christopher John Barnard to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Armstrong; Ensign De
Lacy Richard Frank Wooldridge to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Barnard.
Royal Newfoundland Companies—Ensign Wm. Gillmor
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Quill, promoted;
Lieut. Wm. Gillmor to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Quill,
promoted.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Ensign Thomas Davies to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Francis Nolan, who
retires upon half-pay ; Edward Jas. Gunthonn Gent., to
be-Ensign, without purchase, vice Davies ; Lieut. Thos.
Davies to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. A. Sharp, who resigns
that appointment.
DEPOT BATTALIONS.

Major William Hardy to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Hugh Dennis Crofton, de-
ceased.

Captain and Adjutant Peter M'Donald to be Major,
without purchase, vice Hardy.
Captain Albert Henry Godfrey, from the 73d Foot, to
be Adjutant, vice John Hanham, deceased.
Captain Charles Frederick Gregorie, from the 23d Foot,
to be Adjutant, vice M‘Donald.

COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.--Deputy Assistant-Com-
missary-General Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, from half-
pay, to be Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General.
MEDICAL DErAninuENT.—Assistant-Surgeon Morgan
Jones Jones, from the 72d Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Thomas James Biddle, placed upon half-pay.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. Charles J. Hort,
Chaplain of the 3d Class, to be Chaplain of the 2d Class ;
the Rev. James M'Whinny to be Chaplain of the 4th Class;
the Rev. J. A. Welsh Collins to be Chaplain of the 4th
Class.

shire, Oct. 21 and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court,
William Edward Neevo Marriott, tailor, Swaffham, Nor-
folkshire,_Oct. 23, at eleven, and Nov. 22, at twelve, at the
Court of BankrtotcY-
Edward Nelsim coal dealer, Birmingham, Oct. 18 and
Nov. 7, at eleven at ,the Birmingham District Court.
Josiah Henry Paicet hosier, Fenehurch-street, City,
Oct. 17 and Nov. 15 at tt7,:'. at the Court of Bankruptcy.
ZVilliacu Epworth 'Puke, "w,:tie broker, St. •Dunstan's-
hill, City, Oct. 19, :it half-past Pleven) and Nev. 15, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.,
Wm. Clough, tailor, Birkenhead, Oth .21 and Nov. 8, at
eleven, at. the Liverpool District Court.

has been more thoroughly investigated by scientific
authorities. It was mapped ont by the late Mr. F.
Foster and Mr. Haywood, in 1849 ; Messrs. Bazal-
getto and Haywood modified, extended, and con-
tinued it, upon paper, in 1854 ; the Illctropolitan
Board of Works, when it commenced its career on
Jan. 1, 1856, took it into consideration ; Mr. Bazal-
gette remodelled the plan in the same year; a Go-
vernment commission, consisting of Messrs. Galton,
Simpson, and Blackwell, reported for and against
the plan in 1857 ; Messrs. Bazalgette, Hawksley,
and Bidder again reported for and against the Go-
vernment report; and, finally, Mr. Bazalgette, as
chief engineer to the sewer parliament, began to
carry out his thrice remodelled project in 1858.
The works which the board and their friends in-
spected yesterday, and which some 1,500 vestrymen
propose to inspect to-day, were chiefly the two great
outfall channels, north and south—ono in tho Bark-
ing marshes, and the other in the Erith marshes,
11 miles below London-bridge. It would take a
month to go carefully over all these new sewer
works, and therefore a brief description of them,
drawn from former observation, may be useful to
explain the relation which the part seen bears to the
part not seen.
On the north side of the Thames there are three
main tunnels—the high level, just completed; the
middle level, not long begun by Messrs. Brassey
and Co. (the progress of which, in the part along
Oxford-street, will be checked next year, out of re-
gard to the Exhibition traffic) ; and the low level,
only planned out, much of which it is intended to
carry through the proposed Thames embankment.

On the south side of the Thathes there are two
main tunnels—the high level, with an important
fork, called the Effra branch ;. and the low level,
not yet begun. These five main tunnels, with their
branches on both sides of the riyer, some of which
will help to drain the districts thoy pass through,
will be at least 71 miles long, and will cost, with
sewage filtering reservoirs, pumping stations,
engines, &c., at least three millions sterling. About
five-and-twenty miles of these tunnels are now com-
pleted, and the contractors are going on rapidly
with the lengths left to be constructed.

The high level sewer, just completed on the north
side of the Thames, begins at Hampstead with a
tunnel 4 feet in diameter, and extends, increasing
here and there in size, until it reaches something
like a diameter of 973- by 12 feet at the point were it
joins the river Lea at Old Ford. Its course is from
Highgate, down the Holloway-road, under the
Great Northern Railway and New River cut to
Stoke Newington, and then through Hackney and
the Victoria-park to its typed= across the river
Lea. It has just been complete "ng a round-
about tunnel nine miles long, an. •le owing up in
its course the open part of the Old kney Brook.
Half a million of cubic yards of earth have been
dug out to form its channel; it has sucked up 40
million of bricks, 200,000 bushels of Portland ce-
ment, 350,000 bushels of lime, 100,069 cubic yards
of concrete, 17 toss of hoop iron, and has employed
1,500 men from week to week.

The great middle level sewer has been begun by
the contractors at both ends—namely, at Old Ford
and at Bayswater. It will have three branches,
called the Piccadilly, Dover-street, and Coppice-row
branches. The main lino begins in an egg-shaped
tunnel, about 4 feet in height, and is to increase in
size, here and there, until it ends in a circular tun-
nel 101 feet in diameter. Its course will be from
Paddington to Nutting-hill, along Oxford-street,
through Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, along Old-
street, across Slioreditch. through Bethnal-green,
and under the Regent's Canal to Old Ford, where
it runs for some distance side by side with the high
level sewer. The contractors estimate that about
half a million cubic yards of earth will have to be
dug out for this channel, and that it will suck up
about 55,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 40 mil-
lion of bricks. Thu number of workpcople em-
ployed in it will be at least 1,000. Both of these
sewers are wide enough at their junction-end,
where they run for some distance under a raised
clay and concrete embankment, to admit a horse
and cart, and you could ride up them on horseback
for miles. Here it is that several great " overflow
chambers" are built, where the storm waters, when
they reach a certain height, can flow down into the
river Lea below, and thence into the Thames above
Blackwall.

The northern outfall sewer, which, when com-
pleted, is to convey the combined streams of the
high and middle level channels, and the stream of
sewage to be pumped into it from the low level
sewer, stretches across the marshes to Barking-
creek. It will be about five miles long, and it is
that portion of the work which was most closely
examined yesterday. For one mile it w ill consist
of two lines of tunnel enclosed in a raised exbank-
ment ; and for the remaining distance of four Ones,
of three lines of tunnel, each nine feet in diameter.
It will cross over seven streams, including the rive.'
Lea; it will pass under the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, and over the North Woolwich and Tilbury and
Southend lines in aqueducts. It is estimated that
1,121,090 cubic yards of peat and soft ground will
have to be cut out and piled up to form the embank-
ment ; that 629,000 cubic yards of concrete will be
required for the same purpose ; that the tunnels
will suckup about 27,000 rods of reduced brickwork,
120,000,000 of bricks, 1,650,000 bushels of cement,
3,834,000 bushels of lime, and 4,000 tons of wrought
and cast iron for the bridges over the streams and
railways. A concrete foundation is being laid down
for the brickwork to be built upon, much in the
style in which the old Roman roads were most pro-
bably made; and, where the marshes are very soppy
brick piers are being constructed to support the
tunnels and embankment.

This great outfall sewer will carry all the London
sewage gathered from the north side of the Thames
into a covered reservoir capable of containing seven
millions of cubic feet of sewage, and corresponding
with a covered reservoir on the Plumstead side for
the southern sewage, capable of containing four
millions of cubic feet. Both these reservoirs will
be raised some 21ft. above the level of the outfall
sewers, and the streams will be pumped into them.
The final discharge of the fluid sewage at high-
water—the solid sewage being depozited in the
reservoirs—will take place through covered chan-
nels buried under water, and communicating' with
the centre and bottom of the river.
%The southern high-level tunnel begins at Clap-
ham-common, and winds its way through Stockwell
and Camberwell to Peckham, where it is joined by
the Effra branch, which comes down from Dulwich.
The two tunnels continue from Peckham, through
New-cross until they end in Deptford-creek, where
they are provided with storm overfluw-chambers.
The whole length of this high level sewer is be-
tween nine and ten miles, and about two.thiois, at
different points of its course, is completed. It
begins, like most of the others, as a circular tunnel,
about 4 feet in diameter, and increases in size here
and there, until it ends in a diameter of at least
10 feet. When finished it will cut off and divert
the upland waters which now flood those low and
tide-locked districts on the south side, which are
far below the level of the river. It is estimated that
this intercepting sewer will suck up 82,000 cubic
yards of brickwork, 30,000,000 of bricks, 200,000
bushels of cement, 400,000 bushels of lime, 15,000
cubic yards of concrete, and will require more than
500,000 cubic yards of ground to be cut out, and
nearly the same quantity of earth and materials to
be carted.

The southern low level intercepting sewer, like
its brother on the north side, is at present only
mapped out on paper. Its course will be from Put-
ney through Battersea, Brixton, Camberwell, the
Old Kent-road, and across the market-gardens to
Deptford. It will be provided with a couple of
storm overflow branches running into the Thames
at Vauxhall and Deptford, and a north or Ber-
mondsey branch, which will gather up all the old
sewers running through that district. 'rhis end, of

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the low level sewer will be at least 201 t. below the
end of the high level sewer, and pumping power of
600 horses will be required, as on the north side,
to raise the stream into the great outfall tunnel.
-The dreat southern outfall tunnel is now about
two-thirds completed. The length of- this sewer-
channel will be. about seven miles and a half, and its
diameter about 111-ft.
Its depth from the surfaco in many parts is very
great, especially about Woolwich;. and much of it
has - been----eunstru-cted, mole-like, underground,
without many of- the inhabitants being a.waro of
its existence. Its course is from the Deptford
pumping station, through Greenwich and Wool-
wich,'Under the Erith marshes, to the covered
reservoir. It is estimated that about 500,000 cubic
yards of ground will have to be dug out for this
channel, and that about. the same quantity of earth
and materials will have to be carted. It will suck up
100,000 cubic yards of brickwork, 37,000,000 of
bricks, and 600,000 bushels of cement. These works,
from their commencement, have given weekly em-
ployment to upwards of 2,000 men: The inclination
of both the outfalls—north and south—is only two
feet in a mile.

The greatest sight, concentrated in one spot, for
touch-and-go- spectators and stout members of the
board intent upon getting over the ground, and not
very learned in engineering works, is the pumping
station works ut Deptford. Here are 3,1 acres of
grou tad dug into pits 30 feet deep, filled with every
variety of shoring timber in every variety of posi-
tion; coffer darns being constructed in the middle
of the creek, divers working 40 feet under water,
engineers and engines toiling above, piles being
driven in, iron sewer pipes three or four feet in
diameter, stacks of bricks, cart loads of clay and
mud, and hundreds of men too busy to look even at
official visitors. This was the spot where the day's
excursion in tramway trucks and steam tugs came
to a triumphant close, and where a few of the mem-
bers, intent upon showing their zeal, asked ques-
tions that puzzled all the engineersi to answer.
These members were doubtless very well meaning
men, but evidently not too much informed upon the
works being carried on in their name with their
corporate zeal and sanction. Like all members of
corpora .tions they must be largely in the hands of
their pi •actical officers; and while they possess such
hard w 4 wking and conscientious engineers as Messrs.
Bazalgette, Grant, Cooper, and Lovick, and such
contrac tors as Messrs. Brassey, Webster, and Aird,
the ratepnyers may know that the public money is
being carefully expended.

TILE NAVY.

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The Warrior, 40, screw, Capt. A. H. Cochrane,
C. 8., will be removed from her present berth along,
side Portsmouth Dockyard to-day, and placed at
moorings in the harbour, to teat our compasses. The
programme of the ship's future movements, as
understood to be arranged at present, is that she
goes oat of harbour to Spithead to-morrow, makes
a preliminary trial on Monday next, which will
probably be a run out clear of the Nab and back.
If all goes well with the ship's machinery, of which
there is little doubt, the speed of the ship will be
tested at the measured mile as quickly as possible
afterwards. These trials fairly over, she will then
be despatched on her sea-trial trip as soon as she
can be made ready for the purpose.
, The Volcano, fitted with machinery and tools as
a floating factory, was taken out of Portsmouth
harbour yesterday, in charge of the officers of the
Reserve and Engineering Departments to test the
working of her engines, &c. She will now take on
, board the necessary materiel to enable her to carry
out the repairs required to the machinery of vessels
in the fleet to which she may be attached.
The lighter Sinbad, Moore master, sailed from
Plymouth yesterday with stores for the eastern
dockyards.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, at Ply-
mouth, is receiving stores and navigating gear.
She will take her departure about Saturday, with
Commander Paul and a party for Pembroke, to rig
and navigate the screw steamsloop Shearwator, 11,
to Plymouth.

Her Majesty's paddlcwhoel steam sloop Geyser,
6, Commander Jackson, took on board supernume-
raries, marines, and seamen en Menclay afternoon,
and left Plymouth yesterday, for Portsmouth.
Rear-Admiral Erskine's division of the Channel
fleet, consisting of the Edgar, 89, screw (flagship),
Capt. G. P. Mends ; the Hero, 89, screw, Capt. A.
P. Ryder; and the Trafalgar, 86, screw, Capt. J.
Dickson, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning
under steam, and brought up in line on reaching
the anchorage. The Edgar discharged her powder
and shell yesterday at Spithead, preparatory to
going into harbour.
The starboard division of the Channel fleet, un-
der Admiral Smart, which left Ireland eight days
previously, and arrived at Plymouth yesterday
rooming, parted company on Saturday evening
with the port division, consisting of the Hero, the
Edgar, and the Trafalgar, which are bound for
Spithead. They entered the Sound in the follow-
ing order :—The screw steamship Revenge, 39,
Capt. C. Fellowes, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Robt,
Smart, K.H., white at the mizen ; the Centurion,
80, Capt. H. D. Rogers, C. 8.; the Conqueror, 99,
Capt. E. S. Sotheby, C.B. ; and the Aboukir, 86,
Capt. C. A. F. Shadwell, C.B.
The naval transport Manosuvrer, Mr. Follett
master, sailed from Chatham yesterday evening
with a full cargo of stores for Sheerness and Wool-
wich Dockyards.
Considerable progress is being made at Chatham
in the construction of the Achilles, 50, a large por-
tion of her keel being already completed. The
works, however, cannot be carried on with the
vigour required by the authorities in consequence
of the delay experienced in obtaining the iron
from those firms which have contracted to supply
it to the Admiralty. In fact, the non-fulfilment of
their contracts by the great iron companies has
been the principal reason of the Achilles having
progressed so slowly. At the present moment the
authorities are ready to take on several hundred
additional mechanics, but are unable to do so in
consequence of the want of the proper materials
to proceed with the work. The reason assigned
for the slowness with which the deliveries of iron
take place is the stagnation caused to the iron
trade in the north by the late strikes. At the
present time there aro only about 200 hands em-
ployed on the vessel, but as soon as the works are
in full oc emtion at least 1,000 mechanics, labourers,
and boys wi.ll be employed about her. The wooden
caisson now at
the entrance to the dock in which she
is under construct: on, a portion of which has been cut
away to give her at; increased length, is to be re •
moved, and an iron caie son substituted, at a cost of
about £3,000. The Achilles will be slightly larger
than either the Warrior or the Black Prince, the
only difference, however, being that her beam will
be slightly broader, and her floor somewhat flatter
than in those vessels. By this means her tonnage
will be increased from 6,039 tons to 6,089 tons, and
her displacement from 8,625 tons to 9,030 tons. All
her other dimensions, and the essential features of
her construction are exactly the same as those of the
Warrior—subject, however, to such alterations and
improvements as the experience in constructing this
class of vessels may suggest.
Some experimental firing took place at Portsmouth
yesterday, from one of the Britannia's 32. pounders,
fixed in one of the ship's cutters. Thirteen rounds
were fired from the gun, and the result appeared to
prove that the plan suggested by Lieut. Nares, who
'superintended the firing, could be effectually carried
out in smooth water. By this method, where boats
are sent into shoal water, the heavy 32-pounders of
the ship could be brought to do service even in an
ordinary cutter, in lieu of its usual 9 or 12-pounders.
The following appointments were made
yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Dr. James A. Allan, NV
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48, and 31441 k;
Clapp, NicholAs T, Connolly, W. F,