30 SEPTEMBER 1837, Page 3

Workmen have commenced preparing for the new carriage entrance into

Hyde Park at Knightsbridge, to be called the Sussex Gate.

r On Monday, a small steamer, constructed on an entirely new princi- ple, put into Broadstairs on her passage from London to Ramsgate, in consequence of an accident to her boiler. This boat, instead of being worked by paddle-wheels placed at the sides of the vessel, is propelled by a kind of screw fixed to the keel, which works altogether under water. The impelling machine resembles in shape a corkscrew, and it is placed in the keel in the direction from head to stern. The vessel went from London to Broadstairs at the rate of nine miles an hour ; and the accident which prevented its completing the passage to Ramsgate was altogether unconnected with the new mode of propulsion. On Tuesday morning, the repairs being completed, she proceeded to Rams- gate; and the inventor intended proceeding thence on an experimental cruise to Dover and Folkestone. We understand that he has secured his invention by a patent, and that one of the steam-packet companies intend putting the principle into practice on a large scale. The advan- tages of the invention would be to diminish the swell at present occa- sioned by steamers in river navigation ; and it would also be better adapted for sea voyages than the paddle-wheels, which in rough seas are often out of the water.— True Sun.

By the den th of Mr. R. S. Stevens, the appointment of organist to

the Charterhouse and the offca of Trafessor of Gresbian Co!.e;e have become vacant.