The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rear-Admiral De ms Dundas, C.B , M.P., left the
Admiralty yesterday, for Chipping Norton, for a
week or ten days.
Captain Cockburn is waiting at Portsmouth, to
take command of the Rattlesnake surveying-ship, on
her arrival from Sydney.
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain H. W. Giffard,
left Devonport on Thursdn , at noon, fur Lisbon and
the Mediterranean.

Firefly, 3, steam-vessel, Commander Seymcur,
completed her defects at Devonport, was paid advance
by the master-attendant (Mr. Henderson), and left for
the coast of Africa on Thursday evening.

Thetis, 38, Captain Kuper, at Devonport, was to
have been put into No. 5 dock. She was painted,
and entered the dock about thirty feet, when it was
seen that the tide ceased to flow, and she was taken
back and moored alongside the jetty to wait till the
morning tide, when it was hoped it would rise suffi-
ciently high.
The Admiralty, at their last visit at Devonport,
inspected a modal and witnessed the trial of an inven-
tion of Lieutenant Seccombe's (late First Lieutenant
of the Trincomalee), by which the laying out of a
bowur anchor, with a chain cable attached, from a
large boat or launch, can be performed with perfect
safety. Hitherto it appears that such operations have
always been attended with considerable risk to life
and property, from the want of complete command
over the chain in running out over the davit at the
stern of the boat • but this risk by the above inven-
tion, which is a clutch, clasping the chain, and acted
upon by a lever, will be entirely obviated. In fact,
the chain by this method can be stopped at a moment
when it has acquired the greatest velocity, and of
course can be lowered fast or slow, at pleasure, which
is a great desideratum. The Admiralty were so sa-
tisfied by its success, that at the trial above alluded to
they paid the inventor a very high compliment, and
requested him to forward the model of it to White-
hall.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Bulldog steam-sloop,
in dock, is ordered to be re-coppered.
The Dauntless steam-frigate, Captain Halsted,
hauled opposite the stream to-day for the purpose of
adjusting her compasses. She received her crew from
her hulk to-day.
The Medea and Vixen steam-sloops are having
their engines taken out to undergo a thorough

repair.
The Hecate steam- sloop, Commander Hand, has
been removed from dock to the stream to-day.
It is reported that the Blenheim steam-guard-ship,
Captain Henderson, C. 8., is to take the place of the
Illustrious; and the Britannia, 120, fitting as ordi-
nary guard-ship, to take the place of the Victory, the
Victory going over to the old flag-ship moorings off
Gosport.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 3, 9 A.M.—We have just received
information of the arrival off the Lizard yesterday of
the sh:p Great Britain, Hume master, from Bombay,
bound to London, and having on board the master,
H. Leitch, mate, and part of the crew of the ship
Kingfield, of Belfast, from Bombay, which vessel was
abandoned on the 12th of July, in lat. 37 27 S., and
long. 26 30 E., with loss of rudder, and in a sinking
condition. The entire crew were rescued from the
wreck by the French vessel Louise, of Havre, and
landed at St. Helena on the 9th ult., where the master,
mate, and part of the crew, embarked on board the
Great Britain.

The Seagull packet, hourly looked for, has not yet
arrived.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 4.—Midshipmen Robert F. Scott
and F. W. Hallowes to the Wasp steam sloop at
Woolwich. _ _

Naval Cadet Thomas Seute, to the Impregnable
flag-ship, at Devonport.

PRIZE MONEY.

41, Norfolk-street, Strand, Sept. 30, 1850.

Notice is hereby given to the officers and company
of her Majesty's ship Penelope, L. T. Jones, Etq.,
Captain, that, on the 23d of October, 1850, they will
be paid as above, their proportions of bounty money
recieved for the Jacinto, captured the 3d of January,
1849, and the shares will be recalled every Wednes-
day and Thursday for three months to come, agree-
ably to Act of Parliament.
Flag
Captain.
Commander l2O 11 4
Third class
Fourth class l2 1
Fifth class
Sixth class .. - 7 4 8
Seventh class . . 6 0 61
Eighth class . 4 16
Ninth class
Tenth class 2 8 2}
Eleventh class ... 1 16 1
Twelfth class ..... 1 4 11
Thirteenth class
HALFORD and Co., Agents.
London, October 3, 1850.

Notice is hereby given to the officers and company
of her Majesty's steam-vessel Tenzer, Jasper H. Sel-
wyn, E.g., Lieutenant Commanding, that they will
he paid, on Tuesday, the 15th instant, at No. 22,
Arundel-street, Strand, their respective proportions
of slave and tonbage bounties, for the Catherina de
Bom Fin, seized on the 4th of March, 1849, and that
the list will be re-called on Tuesdays and Thursdays
for the three following months.
Flag proportion
Lieutenant Commanding 541 16 8
Fourth class
Fifth class .. l2l 18 3
Sixth class
Seventh class
Eighth class .. 54 3 8
Ninth class .
•

Tenth class.... ....

27 1 10

Eleventh class
Twelfth class ........
Thirteenth class lO 3 3
J. G. and T. STILWELL, Agents.

EXPERIMENTS AT CHATHAM.
A number of officers of the Royal Engineers and
officers of Engineers in the East India Company's
service assembled on Thursday afternoon at Bromp-
ton Barracks, and proceeded to a ditch in the Chat-
ham fortifications to witness experiments with six
different kinds of scaling-ladders—the first, the old
common kind, made of wood ; the second and third
ladders also made of wood, one on a plan by Major-
General Pasley, and the other by Colonel Blanchard.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth ladders are on a new
principle, submitted by Captain Addison, of her
Majesty's line service ; and the sixth was sent to
Chatham from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. One
of Captain Addison's ladders is formed of wrought
iron circular tubes, and the interior filled with wood
two inches in diameter and eight feet long ; the
other is made of wood, with an iron band along the
outside. The ladder from the Royal Arsenal is made
of wrought iron tube in an oval form, and when
the parts are separated the cross bars or steps, also
made of wrought iron tubes, can be all placed inside
the supports. Captain Addison's tubular ladder has
the cross bars placed outside the tubes, and moving
on pivots, the two supports, adjusted when in use by
two diagonal bars on the other side, can be made, by
loosening the two diagonal bars, to lie close to each
other, and occupy very little room. The ladder is
formed of three pieces, the middle tube being smaller
than the lower, and the upper smaller than the mid-
dle, and are as easily and quickly joined as the lower.
parts of a fishing-rod. The wooden ladders consist
of one of two pieces, one of three pieces, and one of
four pieces, but their steps are axed, and cannot allow
the supports to be placed close to each other as in the
twos iron ladders. The experiments commenced
by, Sergeant Major Allen selecting six parties
of six men each from the Royal Sappers and
Miners at Brampton Barracks, having each
party as nearly similar in size and strength of the
mrn as possible, and they proceeded to the ditch.
During several trials the circular tube ladders of
Captain Addison were put together and let down into
the ditch about 20 feet deep, and the men descended
on it in less time than by the others. The ladders were
also taken down into the bottom of the ditch and raised to
the other side, and the wall scaled several times
with the greatest activity by the men on all the
ladders, with the exception of the oval tubular ladder,
which, being of equal dimensions throughout its en-
tire length, the six men employed could not raise it
against the wall of the ditch, and it required four men
extra to raise it when it was taken out of the ditch
on the experiments being concluded. The only ob-
jection to Captain Addison's tubular ladder was the
difficulty of drawing it out of the ditch after the
wall had been scaled, owing to the projection of
the diagonal bars on the back, but Captain Wlierlie
suggested the expediency of these bars being made
to move inside, and Mr. Webb, blacksmith, from
Woolwich, who attended on Captain Addison, was
detained at Chatham to have that alteration effected.

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 4.—There will be Congrega-
tions on the following days of the ensuing Michaelmas
Term:—Thursday, Oct. 10, at ten; Monday, Oct. 14, at
eleven ; Thursday, Oct. 24, at eleven; Wednesday, Oct. 30,
at eleven; Thursday, Nov. 14, at eleven; Wednesday, Nov.
27, at eleven ; Wednesday, Dec. 11, at eleven ; Monday, Dec.
16 (end of term), at ten.
ABEitInEN MAILS BY TUE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—
On Tuesday last the morning mails from Aberdeen and
Strathmore arrived by the Midland line, agreeable to the
new arrangements, in about three hours and ten minutes
from the former place, and were forwarded by the usual mail
train to I.9nd,n by the Scottish Central, at 9.25, A.M. The
r same afternoon the London mail, which arrives about three
o'clock, p.m., was dispatched by the same line to Aberdeen
and all the intermediate towns excepting Dundee - the mail
for which goes as before—by the Dundee and Perth line, as
well as the alternate daily mail to and from London. —Perth
Courier.
The Lord Mayor entertained, last evening, the
Masters, Wardens, and Court of Assistants of the Worship-
ful Company of Tallow-chandlers (being his Lordship's com-
pany), and a select party of private 'friends.

IRELAND.
THE BISHOPRIC OF MEATH.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNIN G .—T P Very Rev.
Thomas Townsend, D.D., Dean of Waterford, has
been appointed to the Bishopric of Meath, vacant by
the death of Dr. Stopford. Dr. Townsend bears an
estimable character, and his appointment has given
much satisfaction. lie is a highly-accomplished
scholar, a hard-working and pains-taking clergyman.
He will, in all probability, he called to the Eccle
siastical Commission and some other public boards in
Dublin, according to the usage in respect to his pre-
decessors in the see of Meath.