The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

DAII T'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 18,1845.
The Queen has been pleased, by and with the advice of her
Privy Council, to appoint John Richard Corballis, Esq.,
LL.D., to be one of the Commissioners of Charitable Dona-
tiOtes and Bequests for Ireland, in the room of the Right Hon.
Anthony Richard Blake, resigned.
PORTION-OFFICE, Sm.'''. 18.
• The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Raphael
Perrot as Consul at Malta for his Majesty the King of Prussia.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Saul
alomon, as Consul at St. Helena for the Free Hanseatic Re-
public of Lubeck.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Thoies
3f..Gilpin, as Consul at Belfast ; of Mr. Joseph Cowdin, as
ramsul at Glasgow ; and of Mr. Stewari Steel, as Consul at
Dundee, for the United States of America.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Sari. 17.
loyal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet Major R. Andrews
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Faddy, retired on full pay;
Second Captain J. Low to be Captain, vice Andrews; First
Lientenant A. T. Phillpotts to be Second Captain, vice Low;
Second Lieutenant F. M. M. Osamaney to be First Lieu-
tenant, vice Phillpotte, Sept. 3.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire.
D. A. S. Davies, Esq., to be Vico-Lieutenant, Sept. 6.
WHITEHALL, Ana. 19.

The Right Hon; Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Pint ,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Conrt of Common
Pleas,. has appointed David Manger, of Rye, Sussex,
Dent. ; Thornton, Fenwick, of Stockton, Durham, Gent. ;
and John Taunton, of Oxford, Gent., to be Perpetual Com-
inissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be
Axecuted by married women, under the Act passed for the
.bolition:of fines and recoveries, and for ths substitution of
more simple modes of assurance.

BANKRUPTS.
William Mills Robinson, draper, Burnham, Buckingham-
shire, to surrender Sept. 30, at eleven, and Oct. 30, at half-
past eleven, at the Court of Bankrrptcy. Pennell, official
assignee, Guildhall-chambers, London ; Jacobs, Winchester-
buildings, London.
George Pordham Blow, currier, Great Dover-street,
ti ewingtati, Oct. 1, at two, and Nov. 5, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-build-
ings Rhodes and Lane, Chancery-lane.
Robert Ludgate Harness, spirit dealer, Dulverton, Somer-
setshire Sept. 30, at eleven, and Oct. 21, at one, at the
Exeter., District Court. Ilirtzel, official assignee, Exeter;
Brisley, Cheapsido, London.
James Fleetwood Cannel!, bookseller, Liverpool, Oct. 6
And 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner,
official /task:nee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row,
London ; Gaskill, Wigan.
James Meek, coal proprietor, Rnardean, Gloucestershire,
Sept. 30, at twelve, and Nov. 4, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Beeke, Lift-
eoln's Inn, London ; Whatley, Gloucester.

DIVIDENDS.
In the Country.
J. Holroyd, cotton warp maker, Whearlev, Yorkshire, Oct.
IS, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—C. Sharratt,
Saddlers' ironmonger, Wskeill, Oct. 23, at twelve, at the
Birminghara District Court—T. Lt. Creigh, cartwright, New-
aastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 10, at at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court.
gERTIVICATES to be granted. unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
J. Smith, fship broker. St. 1)411Am-6i-hill, Oct. 13—F. W.
Searle.' ettec„setnonger, Lipper Gloucester-pla.ce, Cheliei, Oct.
18-I'. Eastwood, groc,r, Briftliton, Oct. 11—J. Braithwaite,
innkeeper, Moroeth. Oct. 10—.3. South, monster. Spittle-
g,ate, Lincolnshire, Oct. 18—R. M. Herbert. tea dealer, ead-
ing" Oct 10—W. Hodges. hide dealer, Duke's 'Leah R
yard,
rdotnsbury, Oct. 10-4. S. Wood., wine merchant, Liver-
ppol,. Oct. 10-4. Smith, corn merchant, Southampton,
Oct. 10.

• PA RTN ERS HIPS DISSOLVED...
J. Barber and C. HarneAl, peelers, Colematt-street--W.
Smith •and E. Kimber, bookbinders, Ivy-lotto—G. Ntuksev,
I•Ney. and J. Nus74ey, dyers, Leeds—S. P. Rackstriiw
and F. 4tkinAon, Victoria. raait, Collins and T.
Greav, commis.sion agetits, M a ncheste r—J. and F. Kni ve-
ton, woollen drapers, Stoke-upon-Trent—W. and F. Masters,
painter!. -Real ling—J. Butterworth nut J. L. Beales, dr,v-
satter,,, Manchester—W. and W. T. J Lockwood, conimts-
ion aro'ntl, Manchester —T. Gihba a-•(.1 W. H. Cornforth,
Ii ip brokers Liverpool—H. P. 1114htitan and A. Ford, ids
,ratibr manufnetuters; Main- wharf, Pimlico.

SCO'fC El SEQI7ESTRATIONS.
John Drttininond, Wright, Elinburgh, Sept. 24 and Oct
15, at three, nt, the chambers of Mr. Junnee, Edinburgh.
Jolla Norris, carter, Glagnw-, Sopt. 24 and Oct. 15, at one
I.t the &lice of Mr. Kippen. Gliigow.
;pil ant Harley, shipiimiter, Leith, Se:4. 24 and Oct. 15,
at two, at the Yaw Ship Tavern. Leith.

OF' SUGAR. •
A.V.rwe. Price Sugar, coconut' d from 01,1 Return
made itt the week ending Sept. IC, was 38e. 114 d. p,r ctvt•
;nrehoilve of the DutiQ.; C‘Litorns paid, or payable thereon
on the iniportativn thereof Lit., ,r-at Britain.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE EXPERIMENTAL FLEET.

Tire LATE rßtAts,—.l.hvq.4 ultlinttely creep out not-
withstandin the exertions tirzt are made to suppress
them. Among them we may mention the jockeying
of the Queen, anti, the rolling of the Albion as de-
scribed in the follovvine statement of plain facts, from
an officer lAI board one of the ships of the fleet ;
" The time the wind blew a breeze two days only
dUring the cruise, the Trafalgar beat the Queen each
day dead to windward, with a head =ea. When the
tlignal was made to open ports and run nut lower-deck
guns, Trafalgar's ports were up and guns out on
both flitle3, immediately. The Albion attempted to obey
the signal with one port, and closed it again directly ;
tried egain a second time, but couH not keep it open
trio(' the third time another port forward, but shipped
acy much water that it was obliged to be closed. The
Trafalgar shipped no water, but proved her capabilities
as a man-of-war, with three tiers of guns available for
action ; but the Albion, a great 90-gun ship, larger
than the Trafalgar, had only one tier, and then rolling
so awfully that her shot, if the guns could have been
fired ott all, must have gone over the Trafalgar in one
of her rolls, and under his keel in the other. The
Vanguard arid the Superb also, in the attempt to open
their lower-deck ports, received a good ducking.
" When the Queen is heeling half a degree less than
- the Trafalgar, she places 100 men on the weather side
of her deck, to keep her from going too much on her lee
side, this jockeying making the ship's company her
shifting ballast."
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., having, in conse-
quence of ill health, resigned thenommand of the expe-
rimental squadron, to the great regret of the officers
commanding the respective ships, that gallant officer will
return to the superintendence of Portsmouth dockyard,
with universal esteem. We have, on two occasions,
pointed out his probable successor in the suaerintend-
ence of the trial sailings, and we reiterate our belief that
in the gallant Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.B. ,
the Admiralty and the country have an officer, whose
robust health, nerve, and great experience, will ensure
the satisfactory completion of th© objects for which the
exvlrimental fleet was formed.
Tbe fleet is at present under the command of Sir H.
rigor, .at Cork, and since their arrival at that place its
officers
have been filling up the vacaneies in their com-
plements.
The St- Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, out of her
complement of 840, with 145 additional marines, 985, is
still about 80 short.
The Trafalgs+ 190, Captain Martin, with the same
total complement"; 985, is about 70 short.
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, has
filled up hor number 760, and 145 additional marines-
-905 men..
er
The Rodney, 92, CaptainCclli C.B. has her coin-
prtaient, 705, and 121 additional marines-826, within
half. a-dozen. •
-The Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockier, C. 8., h
with a
as her
fall complement the same as the Rodney, 826,
greater number of able seamen than any ship in the
flect.
The Canopus, 84, Captain Fairfax Moresliv, C. 8.,
hag her full complement, 645, and 121 addition-al Pa-
?inn-766.
The Superb, 80, Captain Armar Lowry Corry, has her
full complement, 766.
The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes, is a great number
of officers short of her fuil complement of 766 men.
The following officers have not joined their ships :
Mate, G. M. Smith, appointed to the Trafalgar • Mid-
shipmen A. Bathurst and E. W. Shaw, to the Rodney ;
H.D. Ikrercere, to tho • Albion ; C. Fairholme and J.
Balfour, to the Superb ; Naval Cadet John Hussey, to
she St. Vincent. . _

(From the Plymouth Times.)
The rise policy of the Board of Admiralty in having
stopped the building of certain ships on the models of the
Queen and Albion, and in bringing into competition the sail-
ing and other qualities of vessels of different modes of con-
rtruction, has been fully established both in the late trials
with the eight experimental brigs, and subsequently with
the same number of ships of the line.
Our present object is to call attention to the latter, to in-
quire what truths they elicit, what great practical facts can
be drawn from them—for without some such process as this,
the experimental fleet has been sent to sea m vain. It is
:really not a little ClrliollB to observe in what a wholesale way
persons interested, either. as partisans of the Surveyor of the
Navy, or WA having a pounds-shillings-an -p.m e
,upon
the e c hold
Navy Office, treat the question of naval science, without
inquiring at all into the conditions of the experiments made
.--,without classifying, ;in; ging, or deducing
fa ; their entire p int :' any general
ler
theirstf) be the stability of the
Surveyor of the Navoy, as
their sheer existence, depended on Prejudiced opinions, or
,0r,,, tritlil, if it should so happen,
,f race,in a sailing match‘ and n sh.ips having won a sort
models obtains a slight ad-
fi.tat a ship on the Sure
lenlextelatiatly a large amount of
~,,,,tage over others, there is i,n,
hard words thundered forth,
Somerset
ryirc'ornne who has
House, the purport of which is to vilify every
those about him,
too much of
had. the hardihood ,to call in question the
orallibility of the
,Surveyor obi he Navy, and the judgment
into whose ru,.?mpetent and conceited hands
the shipbuilding,interest of the country isi unhappily placed.
But let us look 4;1 this question in the plain, simple, dis-
pasisionate way in which any persons, at al t
accustomed to
draw practical deducttons from scientific exneriments, would
be likely to view it. 'We will take first the. three-decker
tillips of one cla.ss; and, ~ec,lndly, the five two-deckers s as
eas
ships of another class. In making this arrangement, we are
led to inquire whether they are similarly acted on, that '
whether they are all impelled by the same amount of movirZ
force. Now, the weights of the three-deckers are so nearly
1b e Acme, and the weights of the two-deckers also, that if
the v had really spread the same quantities of canvass. the
,xporiment would have furnished very interesting and not
for the naval architect ; unfortunately,
3eriments- aIT, in this point, a good deal
are not altogether withoutgreat claims to
d take the tw.-o-deckers for example, four
dnev, Canopus, Vanguard, and Superb—
same dimensions of mast and yards, and
ical 'purposes about the same quantity of
ditThrss-font- these ships in having al•out
of canvass more than the others, and a
mast and yards: in fact, the g.)retalit,rif
aiskt: a I tminmaAt for the three-decker.
to ilniw deductions in
ri tlin,u;.:l) such a case

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