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

s 14 :I 0 ist 13 ONI T SDA EVENIN (3-1 813 PT E 3/1 B is 1548.

Luxembourg
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 . ...... 22
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
ner m's, ... ..... ......... 2
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Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ...... 2 th%
Paris and Orleans 2O
Pra Is and Rouen .
Paris and. Strasbourg
(Ganneron's) 2 ..
Rotten and Ilavre
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ..... 6
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Tours and ?antes, Mac-
kenzie's
Do. do (Lefebvre's) 2
Verona and Ancona...... 3
West Flanders .. .. ...... 2

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MARKET NEWS -(THIS DAY.)

I'VE.6.IaICJET3:

Smrmrlnt.D.—COars;lieadow Hay, 31 16s to 4118 s; use-
ful ditto, 51 to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 lOs to 5/159 ,
Clover Hay, 4/10s to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 10.3 to 1/ 12s;
Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s per load. Supply good,
and trade dull.

CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 18s to 4/ 15s ; use-
ful ditto, 4/16s to 5/ 6s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 7s to 5/ 14s ;
Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12s ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 12s to 11 148 per load. Trade dull, at in
some instances, drooping prices.
WurrEcuArEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4116 s ;
useful ditto, 4/ 18s to 5/ ss; fine Upland ditto, 51 6s to
5/12s ; Clover Hay, 41163 to 6l 7s ; Oat. Straw, 1/ 9s to 1/11s ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 148 per load. A full average
supply, and a sluggish demand.
New Meadow Hay 3/ lOs to 4/ 10s, and New Clover
4/ to 5/ 5s per load.

THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON
Notwithstanding the boasted assertion, to the contrary, of.
the apologists for the surveyor's ships, no official dispatches
have been received by the Admiralty informing their Lord-
ships of the details of-the trial sailings. The cx parte state-
ments puffing the surveyor's ships have emanated from the
Navy Office, and, therefore, not the slightest reliance can be
placed on them. To every impartial person in the slightest
degree acquainted with naval matters, it is apparent that
whatever advantage was gained by the surveyor's ships
Queen and Albion was, under the circumstances already pub-
lished, obtained by reason of their immense spread of canvas
and lighter armaments, the Queen having 2,500 square feet
of canvas more than the St. Vincent and the Trafalgar,- and
the Albion having 3,800 square feet more than each of those
two ships, and 2,700 more than the other two-deckers, the
Queen also having a less armament and ammunition than the
Trafalgar and St. Vincent, and a less complement of men,
and the Albion having a less armament and ammunition
than the Rodney.
The Naval and Military Gazette quotes our accounts of the
trials ; and remarks—
" The result of the late trials of the ships of the experi-
mental squadron has, we deem, been very unsatisfactory,
inasmuch as that the ships have scarcely ever had :wind
enough to make their rates of sailing exceed seven knots off
the wind, and five knots by the wind, thus showing that they
have not had any bad weather to contend against. Our best
hope is that in their next cruise the Gallant Admiral will
keep in from 49 to 52 degrees of N. latitude, and fremn 12 to 20
to 25 west longitude, when we undertake to say he will be
more likely to find the sort of winds and weathers that are
required to test the merits of the squadron under his orders,
not only in sailing, but in all those snore essential qualities
which, as men-of-war, they will be needed to possess when
forming part of our fleets in a future war; we mean by the
frequent exercise in every necessary duty, and in all kinds of
weather."

A correspondent of that journal, the only respectable pro-
fessional London weekly paper, also says :
" Altogether, I consider the reports with regard to their
rate of sailing as meagre and pitiful in the extreme. Why,
the old San Josef, while carrying the flag off Toulon in her
day, used to lash through the water under the three top-
sails, with the main yard square and helm half a turn alee,
nearly as fast as these crack ships go under all sail, with as
much wind as splits the maintopsail of one and causes another
to miss stays. What chance would this flying squadron
have with such ships as the old Sans Pareil, bonegal, Ville
de Paris, or even the old Venerable, Vanguard, Kent, or
Goliath ? Why, if the old Victory was fitted out, she would
run round the whole of them. Can any of your cone-
spondcnts inform me why such ships as the Galatea and
Crescent, two noted fast-sailing frigates, were selected, the
one for a coal depot and the o: her for a receptacle for negroes,
when either of these ships would have astonished the frigates
of the present day, and would have spared the experi-
mental squadron their courses, and have outsailed them with
ease ?"

That well known fast-sailing main-of-war, the Donegal,
74, captured from the French, was broken up at Portsmouth
by the Navy Office, in defiance of a protest from mep well
calculated to judge of her value. She was considered to be
worth 25,0001._; but she was broken up at an expense of
1,5001. The Galatea and Crescent, like many other good
old ships, were got rid of because their well-known and
acknowledged superior qualities were obnoxious to the Navy
Office.

The Hampshire Telegraph, to the reports of the fleet which
appeared last week, adds the following confirmation of
them :

"We extract the following from a letter from the sqa-
dron :—The Queen beats the St. Vincent one mile per hour
ahead, and one mile in ten to windward. The St. Vincent
beets the Vanguard half a mile per hour ahead, and one mile
per hour to windward, and the Superb in about the same pro-
portion. The Albion does little as an improved ship, but sails
better than last cruise ; she rolls awfully. It is anticipated
that the surveyor wil not now disown the Queen. The
Vanguard and Superb are disgraceful."
Another letter says, "The Queen beats all on every point
of sailing, Canopus, Albion, Rodney, St. Vincent, Trafalgar,
Vanguard, and Superb ; the two latter very bad on all
points, and very leewardly. The weather generally fine.
Accidents to spars immaterial. Casualties in the crew, ten
in the squadron during the cruise. The Admiral has
been confined with the gout the last 14 days : he is now able
to leave his bed."

In calculating the advantages of each vessel on the whole,
they are entitled to be placed thus :
Queen. St. Vincent.
Albion. Trafalgar.
Rodney. Superb.
Canopus. Vanguard.
The Vanguard's position is worthy of especial attention.
This was the " crack ship" of the Mediterranean. The Rodney
was said to be nothing to her; but now that she and her
sister ship, the Superb, are stored as line-of-battle ships
ought to be, they are beaten on all points by the Rodney and
Canopus, two-deck ships, both of heavier armament, and by
the St. Vincent and Trafalgar, three deckers. It is now to
be decided how the surveyor's ships will behave in compa-
rison with the others with a light draught of water. The
Admiral is to take them with him to sea for six weeks, with
two months' provisions only to give the Queen and sister-
hood an opportunity of rolling away their spars, and giving
their crews an autumnal bathe. _ _

Since the foregoing account of the experimental squadron
was in the press, we have been favoured with a statement of
the relative merits of the ships, arranged in such a way as to
show not only the order of superiority, but also the exact
relation, numerically stated, which one ship bears to another.
These results have been obtained in a general deduction from
the several trials, by an officer on whose judgment and cor-
rectness we can implicitly rely, and they may be taken as
most fairly representing the true state of the case. The
number placed against each ship shows in what degree it is
superior or inferior to any other.

On a Wind.

Off the Wind.

General Result of all
Points of Sailing.

DUNDEE TRADE REPORT.
Our markets have undergone no change worthy of notice
during the last eight days. Flax of all sorts is unaltered
either in eemand or prices, put from the inferiority of the
most of last year's crop imported here from all quarters, there
will, in all likelihood, be ere long a scarcity of fine flax, end
which may naturally be expeeted to have the effect of
keeping up the value of all such material. Tows and
cedillas are in improved demand and advancing
in prices, especially such as are possessed of colour
and quality. In hemp and hemp coddle, nothing
doing. East India jute is again rather easier, and may now be
quoted, for ordinary parcels, at frcm 121. to 131. per ton, fur
fine parcels, at from 14/. to Mi. per ton, and for the very best
parcels at from ILL to mt. Ws. per ton. Yarns and linen 3 of
all kinds are in steady demand, ftt,the annexed quotations,- and
it is understood that. at present there are no stocks of either
in the hands of our spinners and manufacturers. The ar-
rivals consist of one vessel from St. Petersburgh, three
from Pernan, and one from Memel, all loaded with flax,
tows, and codillo. Riga letters of date the 9th ultimo, 0. S.,
and Memel letters of date the 22d ultimo, N.S., have been
received. At Riga the prices of flax had given way, 1 SR.
per her k, whereat there have been large transactions and there
the remainedredeed mraantyes. buyAerts
3bieumt few seerlelewrsaaoafnthaeetriavwe
dmemataenridalfoart
fine flax,for the French market, and the dealers weredemanding
cl there
38/. per ton for 4 brand when taken by itself, and 10s. per ton
less for that mark when accompained with the usual proportion
of Note Ilene and 3 brand. The reports of the growing crop
of flax were anything but favourable, either in Russia or
Prussia.—Dundee Courier.

Queen 56
Albion 46
Rodney
Canopus 35
Trafalgar 28
St. Vincent 2O
Superb
Vanguard

Queen
Rodney 26
Albion
Canopus
St. Vincent 16
Superb
Vanguard 9
Trafalgar

Qutgen B7
Albion 7O
Rodney
Canopus ...... 54
St. Vincent
Trafalgar 35
Saberb
Vang,uard lB