The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-21 00:00:00

RUDDERS.

We have to notice some valuable improvements
in this important part of a ship, by Lieutenant
Pringle Green, which may be classed under four
distinct beads. 1. A substitute for a rudder carried
away, or knocked off in action, which may be fixed
complete to the stern of a line-of-battle ship in any
weather, in three hours, and is so constructed that
a merchant ship requires only an axe or saw, and
hammer, to form one in a very short space of time
out of the loose timbers, &c. on board, sufficiently
strong to navigate the ship to any part of the globe.
It requires no ballast at the heel, and cannot be un-
shipped in the event of the vessel taking the ground.
2. A plan for attaching the new rudder to the stern-
post upon two metal gudgeons, by which it is ren-
dered secure. 3. A temporary tiller, in the event
of the rudder-head being broken or shot away,
which can be fixed to the remainder of the rudder,
at any depth below the 'water-line, in the most
severe gale, or in battle, with great facility. The
Blonde, before leaving England for the Mediterra-
nean, was supplied with one of these tillers, which
must be of great service in case of emergency. 4.
A mode to prevent rudders being unshipped, which
is very simple, but will be found of great utility.
We have seen the models of all these improvements,
which are about to be submitted to the Navy Board.
Lieutenant Green has received three medals for his
inventions, from the Society of Arts, by the hands
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.

A sturgeon in excellent season, measuring five
feet and a half long, with fifteen knobs or scales on the
back, was caught in the river at Aberayon, Cardiganshire,
on Tuesday se'nnight.— Cambrian.

Captain FRANKLAND, the most recent tra-
veller in Turkey, states, that though Mussulman justice is
much vaunted, yet it is notorious that in no nation upon
earth so little of this commodity is dispensed by the Ma-
gistrates; and that if in Turkey, Justice were represented as
holding the scales, it would be to weigh, not the merits of
the case, but the gold of the conflicting parties.
Our Midsummer cattle-market was held to-
day. There was about the same number of animals
brought forward as on this day twelve months : 340
mile)) cows, 90 fat cattle, and about 340 Highland beasts.
Sales in the forenoon were exceedingly ; and it was
considered that from ten till one o'clock 50 beasts did not
change owners. At about two o'clock, however, holders
began to give way, and sales were then rapidly effected.
The average prices of milch cows may be quoted at from
9/. to 111. and 13/. ; but two first-rate animals were sold
at 161. One of them was brought from the farm of
Co; bie-hall, in the neighbourhood of Lanark, and pur-
charsed by Mr. HUNTER, cowfeeder, Duke-street. It will
calve in about a week, feed to nearly 40 stones, and is
four years old. The other was rising six. For fat beasts,
the prices varied from 121. to 131. and 14/. The High-
_rind animals were mostly from the shires of Inverness and
Moray. Prices of three-year olds varied from 4/. 10s. to
Si. 10s. ; and for one superior lot of eight, four-years old,
from the neighbourhood of Dlairgowrie, 71. 12s. a bead was
obtained. Tke dealers from the shires of Inverness and
Moray said that they had lost about Gs. a head on their 1
cattle.-- Glasgow Chronicle.