The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-16 00:00:00

RUPTI:TRES.

XV! HITE'S MOO-MAIN PATENT LEVER
v TRUSS is allowed by upwards of 200 professional
gentlemen. to be ;.the best for Hernia. It consists of a
small snd elastic pad, to which a lever is attached,
and (inctea& of the usual steel spring) a soft bandage:fitting
so clos-ly as to avoid detection. A descriptive circular may
be ha& Ind the truss fortvarded by post, on the circumference
of the )csdy, two inches below the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer, Mr. John White, 223, Piccadilly.
Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d.; and 31s. 6d.• Postage, Is.
Double ditto, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. lid. Postage, Is 84.
Post.:.office Orders to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly.
Maker of Elastio'Stockings, Knee-caps, &c.

CIERTAI/N RELIEF for the AFFLICTED.—
kJ Dr. SCOTT'S 01111 an 1 LIVER PILLS, pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, are a sure remedy for affections of the
liver, indigestion, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appe-
tite, 16iiness of spirits, Aim They can be taken at any time,
without any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels,
without pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness
and pimples, purify the blood, brace the nerves, and invigo-
rate the whole system. Sold by most , druggists, in boxes,
Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each. Be sure. to ask for Dr. Scott's
Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green
package, with "W. Lambert, 20, Jerrayn-street," engraved
on the Government stamp. .

ON DISQUALIFICATIONS' AND IMPEDIMENTS TO
MARRIAGE.

New Edition, enlarged to -196 pages, illustrated by 160 Ana
Comical Engravings on Steel, just published, free by post,
on receipt of two pennY Stanipg. sent by 31Eracus, direct
from No. 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London;
rrHE SIL,ENT FRIEND:
a Medical Work, by a Physician, on• indulgence, and
the injurious consequences from the use of Mercury.
with observations on the obligations of marriage, and direc-
tions for obviating certain, disqualifications ; and containing
a valuable prescription of a Lotion to ptsvent Infection.
The Proprietors of PAnue's justly celebrated Patent Me-
Moines have confided their Prescriptions to a Physician of the
Royal University of Erlangen, and Member of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons of England (who is registered under the
New Medical Act)-and attends daily at No. 19 Berners-street,
Oxford-street, between the hours of 11 and?, and from 5 till 8
(Sundays excepted) to advise Patients on their Diseases and
Treatment, and thus add to the speedy certainty of Cure.

•
()NE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. ON
CONVICTION.
The fearful dattrers to invalids from spurious imitations of
OU BARRY's invaluable HEALTH-RESTORING ItEVA
LENTA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and,
upon application in 1854 for protection, the High Court of
Chancery granted an injunction restraining, "Alfred Hooper
Kevill, and his agents, under a penalty of .C. 5,000, from selling
any articleresembling or being a colourable imitation of. Du
Barry's Revalenta Arabica, of rich we are the sole pro-
prietors. Now, therefore; this ill' A) give notice that the above
reward will be paid, upon convib on, to anyone giving infor-
mation of any breach of the injunction. An intelligent
public requires no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who
may attempt impositions. London :y3BARRY DU BARRY
& CO,
NO BLOKE SICKLY OR TT,L-CONDITTONED HORSES
OR OTHER CATTLE.
RAREY'S HORSE and CATTLE-INPROVING FOOD•
;r-stores the efficiency, vigour, endurance, and muscle of ill-
mditioned or apparently worn-out Horses, Cows, Bul-
locks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. In a short time it improves
'heir appearance and value by 20 and 30 per cent. RAREY
Co., 77, Regent's Quadrant, London. In'tins at 35., at 55.,
lls. ; in casks, of about 450 feeds, 50s. ; of about 1,000 feeds,
f 5, being about lid. per feed.
Forwarded on receipt of Post-office orders. The casks free
of carriage.

• NO MORE MEDICINE
Price 2d., free by post, a popular treatise, sixty-four rAVS,
SHE NATURAL .REGENERATION of the DIGESTIVE
:ORGANS,
practically illustrating the effectual Cure, without Medicine,
3f Indigestiotk plyepepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatulency
Acidity, ,Palpitation of' the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver,
bilous Headaches, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debi-
ity, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, kc.,
without Pills, Purgatives, or Medicine of any kind, by a
mule, pleasant, and infallible means; adapted to the general
Gluier. London! Barry Du Barry k Co. 77. Recent-street.
• • •

[AnyEnTisEmENT.]—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—
Asthuia, Coughs, Colds...—,These complaints of the chest
come on with alarming frequency while the weather is un-
settled. -At first the symptoms' are readily remediable by
the: oint influenee of Hullo Way's remarkable medicaments.
While taking the pills• as freely as the constitution will
comfortably permit, the ointment should assiduously be
rubbed, at least twice a day, on the chest, and between the
shoulders, till a thick rash comes out, when the violence of
all symptoms will gradually give way, the breathing become
longer, and the oppression cease. Na medicines are more
efficient in chest' complaints. None'can be used with equal
safety and certainty. Both pills and ointment are achom-
puled by very clear and simple .directions for using them.

On the very day appointed to lautteli the first
iron steamer ever built in this city, and \v. hile'the
wreck of the iron Steamer Royal Charter is still the
topic of public interest, we receive the sad details
of the total destruction of the iron steamer Indian.
ThuS, at the dawn. Of this grthit revival of our
manufacturing. and . commercial interests, we are •
startled by two warnings which we cannot mis-
lake. If we do not heed. thou, the third may
strike at , the root of our new hopes. Not only
have foreign nations established the building- of
iron ships, bringing ,it once for all through,
early perils and adverSities, and saving us a costly.
course of ekperiments by placing.their standard de-'
signF, tools, and processes within our reach, but
they have exhibited to us, at .theit own cost, the•
frightful consequences of bad and bad
materials. Our national ingenuity, indeed, might,
have taught us in time to make iron Ships, but our
propensity to neglect Qugineering completeness for.
the sake of hurrying on commercial results has
retarded our progress and seriously injured our
reputation 'abroad. But now, 'Without the risk- a
failure, we may enter upon .a successful es.-keer of
iron steam, navigation, at once incited to
,tite utmost
energy by the economy of foreign vess'Ai, and most
Solemnly warned by examples of death and deStrue-
tion against the devices of counting-room engineers,
and'especially againsfusing bad iron and ba work
because they are cheap. It is scarcely necessary to
say that these ships have not been lest because they
were made of iron.: or that: the fact of their loss.
proves'. nothing against the leading. principles of
their construction. Even if the proportions and
arrangementi, of iron steamers could not be altered
—even if it were physically impossible to iinproVe
their design, these accidents would not by any means
prove that there is necessary and inherent danger
in the fact that the hull: of these ships consist of
iron-plates instead -of wooden planks. The short
history of iron steamers teaches a very different
lesson. lta.proves conclusively that well-built iron
ships are are almost indestructible, even when ham-
mered and ground upon the. rugged crags of lee
shores for Years together.' Theen tire hull of the City
of Philadelphia has lain for three or four years upon
the Rocks at Cape Race ; the Tyne was exposed nearly
as long on the Dorset coast 'without apparent change;
the enormous hull, of .the Great Britain, having
thumped-and chafeda whole winter upon the rugged
bottom of Dundruin Bay, was got off and has been
in service ever since; the Persia stove in and filled
her forward compar,trnent by striking an iceberg at
full speed, and finished her trip to New York in'very
good winter time ; the Edinburgh and the North
American have both struck 'sit. full speed npon rocks
in the St. Lawrence, the latter without material

iiijury. And these are only average iron ships, not
in any Way remarkable for excellnt construction.
What, nowfis,the history of iron vessels known to
have been badly constructed ? Only last season
the Cuba, a new steameir; opened her seams and
foundered on her first trip—not in an ocean hurri-
cane, or 'on the rocks of a cape, but in the English
Channel. The fact is that the experience with irOnn
ships, and with iron in .all its forms, is now so large
and well deAried,.that it is not at all necessary to
go back to the construction of any giNen machine to
find out the character of its material and workman-
ship ; its`results- are more authentic and readable
than its history. No engineer would be so insane as
to investigate the character of the materials and
the successive stages in the manufacture of a rail-
way bar which had splintered and worn to pieces
in six months, simply to satisfy hiriiself that it was
not a well-constructed rail, of unexceptionable
material. Neither is there the slightest necessity of
our inquiring into the character and manufacture
of the hulls of these: ill-fated vessels; the very fact
that they broke up at all is the most reasonable and
positive proof .that they were wretchedly built.
This belief must also be strengthened by well-
known collaterallacts:—New York Times.

'OPENING OF THE DETROIT DIVISION
07 THE GRAND TRUNK RAILIVA

(From the Detroit Advertiser.)
On Monday that. division of the Grand Trunk
Railway between this city and Port Huron was
formally opened for traffic and travel. This was
the last link.in the largest railway owned by, and
under the management of, one company, not only;
upon the American continent, but in the world: It
is over 800 miles in length, costing the enormous
sum of 60 millions of dolls, and connecting not only
Detroit and Port Huron and the whole west with

Portland, but directly with Europe through the
Canadian line of steatners. • Though this work has
been built with foreign capital, it is almost'as much
an American as a Canadian road. It has both its
termini 'in the United States, while sixty miles of
it lies in Michigan, and over one hundred and fifty,
if wo are not mistaken, in Maine. Its great re-
liance, too, for business, must he on the trade of the
United States, the vast West particularly. Though
it cannot but prove of vast benefit to that portion
of Canada that will be tributary to it, and must re-
ceive an immense local trade, vet it must depend
upon the trade between the Western States and
the East—its through traffic—for its profits. As
•the WeStern terminus of this great enterfrise, De-
troit must partake of a large share of its benefits.
It opens-to us, and, through us, to the West, a new
avenue to the 'East, and what is equally important,
it direct trade with Europe. This is ultimately to
be' a source of wealth to us that it is not easy to
estimate. Detroit, therefore, haS a right to rejoice
at the final oompletion of this stupendous work.
The first train of 'cars over the Detroit division
of this road ran to Port Huron on Monday, and

_
though not an excursion train, several of our citi-
zens were invited by Mr. Hall, the agent of the
company in this city, to avail themselves of the
occasion to. visit Port Huron and Port Sarnia, with
the view of examining .the line, and the company's
works at tho:e placeS. The invitation was ac-
cepted by a goodly number of them. The train left
Detroit at GI o'clock a.m., and arrived at Port
Huron at 10, there having been no change of cars
• after leaving the Central depot. When the ferry
at Port Huron is completed, there is to be no
change,between this city and Portland. The road
is probably one of the best constructed on the con-
tinent, and is one of the smoothest and most solid
new roads 'over which we have ever travelled. The
motion of the cars was as steady and even as the
best ballasted railways in the country. No expense
hai been spared to make it a safe and durable work,
it having been .completed wicicr. the general super-
vision and received the approval of engineers sent
out from England to examine it.
The works at' Port Huron and Port Sarnia, in-

eluding docks, depot, engine-houses, store-houses,
wheat .elevators, Sze., have been constructed with
the same disregard of cost, and the same regard for
'durability and safety. The flour depots at each of
these. places have • capacity • enough for storing
nearly.. sixty thousand barrels each, and the
wheat elevator is one of the most admirably
arranged and massively : built edifices of the
kind we have ever seen. The decks on
both sides of the river have also been built in the
most substantial manner possible, and if they do not
defy time as well as the elements, it will not be the
fault of the company nor the mechanics.
Having inspected all the company's works, and
thoroughly explored the beautiful and prosperous
city of Port Huron, and the town of Port Sarnia,
the company, about 50 in all, sat down to an im-
promptu dinner got up for the occasion at the com-
pany's new hotel at Sarnia, Though it is still un-
finished and has not yet been opened to the public,
the proprietor provided an entertainment that
would have done credit to the best hotel in the
country. Mr. Christie, the superintendent of the
road, assisted by Mr. Hill, presided at the repast.
The addresses were all to the point, and in admi-
rable temper and tone. The most striking and
gratifying feature was the•cordial goad feeling and
kindly regard they proved to exist- between the
people 'of Canada arm the United: States. It would
have been hard for a stranger to have told, from the
sentiments • expressed, whether the company were
all Canadians or all Aniericans— The language and
conduct of the English and Canadian gentlemen
present was marked by uniform courtesy towards
their Yankee neighbours, and their feeling was re-
ciprocated with interest. The whole affair was one
of the pleasantest of the kind in all respects thatswe
have ever attended, and such was the universal sen-
timent of those present.
The completion of this division of the Grand
Trunk thoroughfare, besides giving us a direct com-
munication with Port:and and Europe, opens up to
us a new and extensive district of country in our
own State that has until now been almost a sealed
book to us, It runs through a portion of our State
that has hitherto been wholly shut out from all
railroad advantagz,s, and brings us within less than.
three hours. of Port Huron, one of the most flourish.
ing and wide awake cities in Michigan.
The country through which it runs, though for
some of the way very level, is yet rich in its agri--
culturt.l capacities, and capable of producing its
full share of al: those articles which go to make up
our wealth. It will now beginto be rapidly settled
and developed. There is already a large pepulk

tion, and many highly cultivated farms. Most of
the land is excellent, and the local traffic that will
flow into the Detroit and Port Buren diVision can--
net fail to be large and important, bfith to the com-
pany and to Detroit. but to neither so importantas
to the people who will be accommodated by this
new means of reaching a market, and by a cheap
'and quick communication with the:rest of the world.
ortAks one of the imMediate results`of the completion
his branch of the Grand -Trunk we are informed
that a mail is to be made up•in. and leave Detroit
this morning direct for Eurcpe, in charge of Mr.
Griffin, the agent for this cernpany.' This mail
consists; we presume of the mail matter of the whole
northwest which is designee, for Europe, and is in
accordance with the arrangement which we an-
pounced a few days since tliat the government had
entered into for desprtching a European mail
weekly from ,this city, .6a, the Grand 'Trunk and
Canadian steamers. •

711 E NAVY.

The screw frignte Ariadne, 26, Capt. E. W. Van.;
sittart, will leave Folly Point, Chatham, thiS day
and. proCeed to Sheerness, where she will adjust her
compasses before proceeding to Portsmouth. Since
she has been: at Chatham she has .been fitted with
'Clifford's' patent apparatus 'for lowering boats, in
the use of which the crew have been frequently
etereised. The lighters have been alongside' for
several days delivering, her gunpowder from the
magazine at Upnor Castle, the supply she has taken
on board being very large.' It is reported that some
defects have been discoVered in her gun-carriages
wliich will necessitate some alterations before she
Proceeds to sea. She has obtained nearly the whole
of her complement of seamen, who are as smart a
body of blue-jackets as any in her Majesty's service.
The Charybdis, 21, screw corvette, in dock at
Chatham, rigging and fitting for the steam reserve,
is very
.ugly completed, and will be ready to leave
dock at the end of the present month, when she will
join the first division of the steam reserve.

The Wellesley, 72, Capt. G. Goldsmith, C. 8.,
guardship in ordinary at Chatham, was paid down
on Wednesday last to six months.

The screw steam corvette Jason, 21, having been
coppered, was removed on WedriesdaY from No. 1
'dock at Devonport to the steam yard at Keyham,
for the purpose of receiving her boilers and machi-
nery.

The crew of the screw steamship Coniiict, Com:
R. W. Courtenay, at Plymouth, were turned over
on Wednesday to the screw steam sloop 'Grey-
hound; 17.

The paddlewheel steam troopship DQe, 4, Com.
T., Q. Pullen, has received the boilers of the Dee, at
Xeyham steam yard, for conveyance to Portsmouth.
The paddlewheel steam-tender Advice, M.. Ray-
mond, second-Master commanding, from Queens-
town, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday, having
in tow the gunboat Shaihrock.-
. • The Himalaya, screwtroopshipiCapt. J. Seecombe,
sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for Halifax and
the West Indies, calling at Plymouth and Queens-
town.

The Vigilant, 4, screw steam sloop,. Commander
W. Armytage, has steamed into Portsmouth har-
bour and berthed alongside the south jetty to strip,
and return stores, &c.
The Mutine, 17, screw, Commander W. Graham,
in Portimouth harbour, is having additional venti-
lation supplied to her fore stoke-hole.
The Bacchante, 51, screw, commenced roasting
yesterday in the steam bnsin atTortsmouth.
The greatest possible activity is visible in all parts
of Portsmouth. dockyard. The two line-of-battle.
ships nearly complete'for launching—the Prince of
Wales, 131, three-decker, and the ltoyal Frederick,
91, twO-decker—have every available hand em-
ployed upon them to complete them within the
stipulated time ; the former vessel will be launched
the latter end of next month. A number of work-
men are already engaged in laying down the keel of
the Royal Alfred, 91, two-decker, in the shed under
which the Victoria was built, and an improved 51
gun frigate (the Dryad) will be commenced at once
in the shed from which the Duncan, 101, was
launched on Tuesday last. The Sutlej, in .No. 9 dock,
converting from a sailing to a steam frigate, is
nearly complete in her outside planking. The Rin-
aldo, 17, screw, building in the easternmost dock, is
fast approaching completion, and has a large num-
ber of, hands employed up-m her. The Glatow,
51, screw, has also a large number of hands work-
ing upon her, and, having only been laid down
since the launch of the Bacchante frigate,
has made wonderful progress in • that short
time. • The Nelson, . io ,No. 3 .dock, is nearly
completed in her conversion • from a sailing
three-decker to a two-decked screw steam-
ship. , The Medea, 6, paddle, and the Bulldog, 6,
paddle, in the adjoining , docks—the latter nearly
finished—will be almost rebuilt by the time they
are completed, employing a number of hands and
.absorbing a large quantity of material. The steam
factory, with its present limited resources, is of
course fully employed iu carrying out the different,
repairs, &c., required. The Maguera, iron' screw`
troopship, is at present in the hands' of the factory
undergoing a thorough repair to hull and ma-
chinery. In addition to the Government depart-
ments, there are the different works in the hands of

the contractors:—The formation of the new entrance
to the steam basin from the harbour with the new
)double dock; the lengthening of the three docks in
the old ship basin, each from 60 to 60 feet; the new
foundry near the steam basin, the store-houses near
the "Present Use Store-house," and the commence-
ment of the new works already ordered to take
place—such as the new dock opening from the
north corner of the steam basin—the pier, or jetty
for coaling ships from the watering island, &c. It
is stated that the Government alone are paying
weekly at Portsmouth•yard £7,000 sterling as
wages, &c. • -

The following is an extract from H.M.S. Beagle,
dated Teneriffe,'llee. 1•:=" We had a beautiful pas-
sage from Spithead until within 30. miles of this
place, when we caught a strong southeast gale,
which blew us off the land, and we had to lay to
for 30 hours. It blew excessively heavy, With vio-
lent squalls, accompanied by lightning and rain.
We called in at Lisbon and coaled,. sailing again
from there on the 2Gth at 4 p.m., sighting Teneriffe
at 3.15 a.m. to-day. We leave here the day after to-
morrow for the Cape of Good Hope, on our way to
the Peiho. Our small craft behaved splendidly. dur-
ing the gale,' and every one feels proud to belong to
her, not only because of her qualities as a sea boat,
but because.every one on board feels that the ship
is Well officered and manned. Plenty of discipline
to render our hands: perfect in their duties, but
judiciously applied. Grumbling is unknown in the
ship, and from the good feeling existing on board,
and care taken in drilling our young crew, you may
'depend upon it they will be heard of in her deal-
ings with John Chinaman."
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—George William Hancock,
acting third-class assistant engineer to the Asia as
supernumerary ; Edward Falkener, paymaster ad-
ditional to the Victoria ; Horatio Somerville, assist-
ant-paymaster to the Impregnable ; John 11. Tully,
second master to the Edgar; James Harry, second
master to the Industry ; John S. Striven, clerk to
the Queen ; E. W. Jago, assistant clerk to the
. Victory ; and J. W. Backwell, assistant clerk to
. the Fawn.