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Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and from all agents for the sale of "Triesenuir." - 9 4 / 17 ; Z - . 676 I of AO* If ( ~=• - / , 4 0, 618 / 'd • SQ - .4.,1 ;•,•3 t- N , _ , • t - " r, 4 . . Pri. 4 • 4 . 4. .Z * • r Pnr, 7 , C s.? 414 M, • (,- , t , • - , ) z a (16 ) ' 447,t e ,„: 14$ ; , ....... • • THE SUN, LONDON, WE DNE SDAY EVE NIN G, JANUARY TILE' NAPY. 1859. Rear-Admiral Robert Smart, chairman ; Mr. Chatfield, Mr. Murray, Mr. Laws, and Mr: Bowman, members of the Dockyard Committee of Economy, and Mr. Robert Lowry, secretary, yesterday closed their labours at Wool w i c h .D oc k yar d, a . 4. will commence them at the Viet oria Dockyard, Deptford, this morning. The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., G.C.H., struck his flag yesterday morning on board the Victory, at Portsmouth, on leave of absence. The duties of the port devolve temporarily on Rear-Admiral Superintendent the Hon. George Grey, of Portsmouth Dockyard. Her Majesty's paddle-yacht Osborne (Admiralty service), Mr. George K. C. Bowens in command, was placed in No. 5 dock yesterday, at PortSinonth, for general repairs. Her Majesty's ship Shannon, 51, screw, Capt. Francis Marten (acting), will not pay off until the 15th inst., alongside the dockyard at Portsmouth. We have received a letter dated frOnr the Shannon, denying the statement made in a paragraph to the effect that the Captain has a taste for flogging, which had been very prevalent on her homeward voyage. Our correspondent requests us to say, on the part of the officers, that Capt. Marten is noted for his humanity and,attention to the sick. It ap pears that few punishments were inflicted, and these were for theft, drunkenness, disobedience, insolence, and other grave offences. The screw steamship Victor Emmanuel, 91, Capt. J. Willcox, steamed out of Hamoaze on Monday into Plymouth Sound, where she took in her pow der. Yesterday morning she was getting up steam and preparing to leave the port The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com mander M. B. Dunn, left Plymouth Sound at one o'clock yesterday morning for Queenstown, to con vey troops to Plymouth for embarkation in. the , Cospatrick, which is now receiving cargo and pro visions from the Bombay, in Catwater. The Lords of the Admiralty have sent to the Devonport Dockyard for a return of the cost of converting the London, 90, into a screw steamer. THE .N.ETV HYDRAULIC LIET AT TILE VICTORIA DOCKS. The delay, expense, and inconvenience attendant upon placing a vessel in dry dock, either for, the purpOses of:examination or repair, have long been a practical evil, productive of the worst results to the shipping interest, and yet the difficulty seemed to admit of no solution ; for, as the dry docks could only be entered or left at: high-water, the delay, which was of course productive of the greatest amount of inconvenience, appeared unavoidable. The sUbjeCt at first sight does not appear to have the influence on :the safety of shipping which it has. But when it is considered how frequently shipowners send their - vessels to sea in a defective state of repair, rather than incur the expense and delay of having them. -docked, it may be easily understood how large a proportion of the vessels reported as foundering at sea may trace their de struction Solely to this-cause. A short time ago, .howtver, - an expedient ,was discovered, which afforded a speedy and efficacious means of docking and undocking a ship for the Purpose of examina tion. during all phases of the tide in about two hours. The plan consists of sinking a shallow buoy or pontoon under the ship to be docked, and afterwards raising the buoy, ship and: all, bodily out of water by hydraulic power. :The pontoon, having become clear of water, the valves are closed—one watertight,. and the apparatus towed away to some suitable position with the ship dn. it high and dry. The Victoria Dock Company, seeing the advantages and the feasibility of the plan, .'soon after its invention entered into contracts for .the construction of an extensive _ series .of graving docks, in 'connection . with their property. The works, which have re ,cently been completed, occupy about 10 acres of water, and consist of one deep dock, in which the hydraulic apparatus for lifting the ships is placed, and eight shallow (leeks Or the reception of the pontoons containing the Vessels when raised; -The lifting dock is about 320 feet long, 64 feet broad, and about 30 feet deep. -Along each side of it, but below the level of the water, are fixed 32 10-inch hydraulic rams, which are probably the longest apparatus of the kind in the world, being nearly 30 feet long, and having a stroke of 25 feet. These are of course properly set and secured in solid masses of masonry to resist the tremendous pres sure whiCh is brought to bear on their foundations, when the apparatus is in action. To the head of each of the pistons of these rams is attached a strong wrought-iron cross-head. • Fastened to each pair of hydraulic rams, and extending across the docks are massive trussed iron girders, weighing upward; of 60 tons each, and capable of sustaining a weight of nearly 300 tons. There are thus 16 of these iron,girders, traversing the - dock from side to side, at distances of 20ft. apart, forming a gigantic frame work, capable of sustaining a weight of nearly 4,000 tons, or far greater than that of the ordinary run of large first-class ships, To avoid the.risk of the rams breaking . (which would be a very consi derable one, owing to their Unusual length, and the great weight they have to support when in use) the cross heads to which the iron girders are at tached run in massive - cast iron. guides, which rise some 28 feet above the water. - The iron pontoons which are used for floating the ships after they are lifted, and during their repair, are to be eight in number; all 60 feet broad, and varying in length from 240 to Over, 300 feet. At present,, however, there is only one in use and another approaching completion, both .of which are of the minimum length of 240-feet. They are constructed of boiler plate iron, strengthened,. of course, with stout wrought iron"girders, secured transversely across the pontoon, at intervals of three or four feet.. They are extremely light, weighing altogether little more than 300 tons, though the .great surface which they present to the water (14,400 superficial feet) enables them to support a weight •of '2,000' tons . , with an immersion of little over 4 feet' 'At one end of each of these pontoons is placed . a. large ,valve which, opening 'and shutting with a.kind of screw break, can be sunk or . rendered water tight in a ver y f ew minutes. The modus operandi of lifting a vessel is as follows :—Th.l iron pontoon is first moored over the lifting dock, the valves are opened, and it is allowed to sink until.it rests upon the iron girders attached to the ram. The ship to be docked is then moored immediately over the pontoon, and the force ' pumps worked until the keel rests upon the pontoon. The wooden dogs which are fixed sous to slide back wards and forwards on the floor of the float are then, by means of ropes, drawn under the sides of the'yessel so as to support her in an upright posi tion, and prevent her from " canting over" when she is raised out of the water. When all these pre liminaries (which in their performance do not occupy much more time than that taken to describe them) have been properly adjusted, the hydraulic pumps are again set to work, and the whole appa ratus, pontoon, ship, and all, is fairly raised out of the water. When all the water,has discharged itself through the valves in the bottom of the pontoon, they are firmly closed water-tight by means of the vulcanised India rubber seams, and the water being allowed to escape from the hydraulic cylinders, the rams, with their attached girders, sink down, leaving the pontoon floating with the vessel in it high and dry. The whole operation, from the very commence ment, does not occupy more than one hour or so. If the object of docking the ship be merely to examine the bottom or to execute some slight repair, which will occupy but a few. hours, the pontoon is not moved from the lifting dock ; but should the neces sary repairs be of such a nature as to occupy any length of time, it is towed away into one of the eight shallow docks built for the purpose, the depth of water in which varies, according to the tide, from six to eight feet. When the scheme is fully carried out, it is intended to have regilarly fitted work shops placed on the banks of each of these pontoon basins for the repair of both steam and sailing ships constructed of either iron or timber. When it is wished to float a ship again, the pontoon is moored in the lifting dock, and the girders are raised up sufficiently high just to take the weight of the ship off the pontoon. The valves of the latter are then opened, and'at the same time water is allowed to escape from the hydraulic cylinders, so that the whole apparatus quickly sinks, effectually launch ing the ship again in about ten minutes. The great advantages attendant upon . having a simple and efficacious apparatus of this kind in connexion with a large dock company, are too manifest to require comment. By it the expense of docking a ship is Much reduced, and at the same time infinitely greater facilities are afforded for the performance of the operation, and the time occupied by it re 7 diked in a most important degree. Should it become necessary to dock a ship just as she is preparing to sail (as is very frequently the case), the operation can now be immediately performed in less than two hours, in any state of the tide, and without there being any necessity to discharge the cargo. If the necessary repairs were of a trifling nature, the ship might again be launched and pursuing her course down th Thames within four or five hours. The hydraulic pumps and rams connected with the. "lift" are of course the most important and inte resting parts of this gigantic apparatus. They are worked by a 50-horse power, combined high and' low-pressure, engine. The water is pumped from the engine-house through the common pipe to a. reservoir in the valve-room (where all the tubes through which the hydraulic cylinders are supplied concentrate) at a pressure of about a ton to the cir cular metre. The valves in this room are so arranged that the rams may be made to act together in sets of six, or each may be put into action :p2rfectly independent of the other. These complicated series of valves are of course, during the operation of lift ing, under the charge of a competent engineer, who, by increasing or diminishing the action of each pair or series of rams, can cause the ship to be raised either perpendicular or in any other desired position. It has been said that the water is pumped into the hydraulic cylinder at a pressure of one ton to the circular. inch, which gives,n. lifting force with the whole 32 10-inch rams of 3,200 tons. This is the Ordinary working pressure when ordinary ships of less than 2,800 tons weight .have to be raised. But with heavy laden vessels a much greater force would 'be required. The moveable portions or the pistons of the rams, together with the cross heads, iron girders, &c., weigh about 1,100 tons, and the iron portion about 300 tons more ; but as about 1,000 tons of this iron work is never raised above the water, 100 tons must be de ducted from this for displacement. Thus about 1,300 tons of the ordinary working force of 3,200 tons is consumed in raising the apparatus itself, leaving only 2,900 tons for the weight of the ship. As none of the pontoons yet constructed will carry more than about 2,000 tons, the ordinary force is sufficient. But should it at any future time be deemed necessary to raise a ship and cargo of greater weight, the rams would easily bear a pres sure of two tons to the circular inch, which (sup posing the rest of the apparatus would resist such a strain) would give an available lifting power of about 5,000 tons. This invention is doubtless only the precursor of great and sweeping changes in the method of both launching and docking ships to be effected through the agency of the hydraulic ram, which supplies us with such a ready and efficacious means of concentrating mechanical power. THE ARMY_ Detachments of the Royal Horse Artillery were yesterday engaged from eight to three o'clock in carrying. 'out experiments on the high roads from Woolwich to. Greenwich and back, to test the pack ing and casing of a new species of artillery ammu nition waggon. The loaded waggons, posted with six horses each, were driven at the rate of six miles per hour, and continued travelling with fresh.,relays of horses for eight successive h ours and, las it was stated, with favourable results. A portable 13. inch siege mortar, weighing 65 cwt., drawn by eight horses, was also conveyed from Woolwich to Black heath and back to test the facility of its transport, which was proved. to be perfectly practicable, after the manner of moving the ordinary field guns. The mortar attached to its bed is mounted on an artillery carriage, and on reaching its destined point is in complete readiness for immediate use. THE STEAM NAVY OF FRANCE. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times : Sir,—ln the leading article on the navies 'of England and France in the Tines of. Saturday last you gave a very accurate summary of facts, respect ing the strength, of the French steam navy. If you can spare me the required space; I shall be happy to set forth in detail the successive steps by which that navy has attained its formidable proportions. This I am enabled to do by the receipt of information which reached me .too late for insertion in my paper on the navy read at the School of Arts. I shall draw no political inferences from the facts before me, but simply give numbers and dates for the guidance of those who may desire to draw them. On Jan. 1, 1850, the steam navy of France con sisted of 20 frigates and 86 corvettes and despatch vessels. Of the frigates two were of 650, two 540, and 16 of 450-horse power each ; of the smaller vessels one only was of more than 320-horse power and most of them were of less tha n 200. There was not a single line-of-battle steamship then afloat in any harbour of France, but during the year the Napoleon,. of 900-home, was la unc h e d, and the Mon tebello, a sailing ship, was converted into a steamer, with engines of 140-horse power only. Two smaller vessels—either corvettes or despatch vessels—were likewise launched in 1850. During the year 1851 no ships of the line and no frigates were added to the French navy ; four small vessels formed the only increase of that period. In Dec., 1851, there foie, the nu mber of vessel's composing that navy was 114 in all. In 1852 three ships of the line were added—the Austerlitz, of 500-horse power, and the Charlemagne and Jean Bart, of 450-horse power. Besides these one frigate, of 260-horse power, and two smaller vessels, each of 400-horse power, were launched. In 1853 four more ships of the line floated in French ports, each 'of 640-horse power—the Fleurus, Prince Jerome, Duquesne, and Tourville ; and to these were added seven corvettes and de spatch Vessels, three of them of 400-horse power each, The next year, 1854, brought an increase of five line of battle ships —one of them, the Bretagne, a new ship of.no less than 1,200 nominal horse power, and the other four each of 650 horse power, com prising the Ulm, the Navarin, the Wagram, and the Souverain. The number of smaller vessels re mained stationary during that year. In 1855 the increase in the line of battle ships was six— ,viz,, the Eylau, the Redoubtable, the, Arcole, and theAlgesiras, all new ships. with engines of 900 horse power each, and the Tilsitt and Breslau, con verted ships of 500 horse power each. This year, the most active year of the late Russian war, also brought into existence five floating batteries, 28 gunboats, and 14 screw transports. (I would, in passing, correct an error in the article from the Conversations Lexicon respecting the floating bat teries; The writer says :—" The English batteries were complete failures, and could not even be pro pelled ; the French, on the contrary, were excellent, and answered their purpose." The truth is, the English and French floating batteries were, to the number of four or five—l forget, at the moment, which—built from precisely the same lines, and were in all their main features alike.) In 1856 seven additional line of battle ships were floated ; of these the Imperial and the Alexandre were new, and of 900 and 800 horse power respectively; while the Louis Quatorze, the Tage, the Duguay Trouin, the Donawerth, and the Duguesclin were converted and fitted with engines varying in horse power from 600 to 450. During the same year 12Trizates, five of them of 800 horse power, were added, and the number, of corvettes and despatch vessels was re duced by 10. The number of floating batteries and gunboats remained the same as in 1855, and has, indeed, continued the same until now. The screw transports were not added to this, year. The Vile de Paris and the Turenne, each of 600 horse power, and the St. Louis, of 450. were the only line of bat tle ships added in 1857. The frigates were in creased by four, the corvettes by one, and the trans ports by six in that year. In 1858 the Ville de Nantes, of 900 horse power, and the Fontenoy, of 650, both new ships of the line, with four corvettes and three transports, were launched. If the foregoing numbers be brought together, they give these results—viz., that during the last seven years—that is, since the flash of the coup d'etat prepared the world for the Empire's thunder —the number of French steamships of war has been more than doubled (being 114 in Jan., 1852, and 230 in Jan., 1859), and the number of steam line-of-battle ships raised from two to 32. To com plete the statement of the case it is necessary to add that at the present moment eight ships of the line, and 25 frigates and smaller vessels are building in the French dockyards. The line-of-battle ships are the Intrepide, the Ville de Bordeaux, the Ville de Lyon, the Gloire, the Invincible, and the Norman die, 900-horse power each ; and the Massena and Castiglione, 800 each. The Gloire, the Invincible, and the Normandie are building on the lines of the Napoleon razeed, and are to be sheathed with thick iron plates. The order for the conversion of two other ships of the line, the Friedland and the Bayard has been issued, but the works have not yet been commenced. From the foregoing facts it appeaTs that since the supreme power of the French nation has been in the hands of Louis Napoleon the French navy has received an average increase of from four to five steamships of the line annually ; and the number of similar ships now on the stocks gives an unmistake able proof of his intention to exceed thßt average this year. In your article of Saturday last you have shown with perfect clearness that, notwithstanding these great strides, we have the strongest steam navy in the world; wadi endeavouredin the Society of Arts paper to prove that with an efficient Chan nel fleet we should stand in no peril of invasion. But the steady and enormous increase of the French steam navy in large ships appears to point to some thing very different from a sudden and unsupported descent upon our coast, Two-deck and three•deck steamships are by no means the most fittirig vessels for effecting such an operation. They are intended as ! their name implieS, for the line of battle, and their. production in large numbers by the French Emperor is equivalent to a declaration that if we have to.meet his forces at all, it will not be on our coasts or in our harbours alone. Ife is nifestiv pr6paring 'to meet us, if need be, or if. occasion ,serve .on the open sea, and to contend there for a iim.stc r y of infinitely greater value to him than any mere momentary advantage. These are not z..larmist notions, bat plain matters of fact ; and they raise the question—ls England, with her home interests, her Mediterranean ports and islands; and her widespread colonies, to see her- Self surpassed, or even.equalled, in her lines ,of battle, by a neighbouring •Power which has but little save its own seaboard to defend P. I am, sir, your obedient servant, London, Jan. 10. E. J. REED. ITALY. "An Italian " writes as follows :—The sudden rising of a Russian naval establishment on the coast of Italy 'strikes every one with surprise. The more sanguine and impetumis hail it with unreflecting joy, as a. sign•which portends hostility to Austria. It is enough for them. The more intelligent go further, and see in it an hostility. directed not so much against, Austria as against England. While on the one hand they wonder at the unexpected as= sociation of constitutional Piedmont with autocratic Russia, on the other they view with heartfelt dis appointment the untoward fatality which threatens to bind together once more the freemen of England with those Austrian intruders whose presence in Italy is a standing calamity for the country and a perpetual danger for Europe. Men who have been brought up in the love of liberty, and in respect for the principle of nationality, ask, with bitter . amaze ment, " Are we now to turn our admiration and our hopes from England to Russia ?. Are we now to ex tend that hatred we cherish- for Austrian despotism to its occasional . British supporters 9" The hearts of liberal-minded men struggle against the unnatural feelings, as well of aversion as of sympathy, which the fatal combination of events is forcing upon them. They have been constantly preaching to their younger friends and political adherents that English principles and English patronage were for them the . only unerring' guides to gradual reform and final independence. Now they may be shortly compelled to unlearn that lesson and to adopt the very oppo site one—that despotism alone, earnest and silent despotism, can keep the promises it makes, and can realise those prospects which Parliamentary discus sion puts forward only as subjects for rhetorical amplification and peroration. In this ebb and flow —in this eternal pro and con Italy is dragged' backwards and forwards, till the most clever and conscientious of her sons appear to the world as complete fools. For many a generation, Italy, the seat of Papacy, and therefore the eddying whirl pool of all religious and political plots and counter plots, has offered to the word a sad comedy of errors in which every Christian nation,_ willingly or un willingly, played a deceitful part Instead of re peating those crude and frivolous judgments which many are passing daily upon the unpractical and fantastic Italians, as they delight in calling them, the practical and sensible Englishman ought to appreciate the immense complication, and consequent obscurity and difficulty, of Italian polities. In this central labyrinth of European intrigue, Machiavel , himself, lost the clue, and at the close of his life stood hesitating and wavering between the comparative expediency of liberty or tyranny, as the means to attain his great aim, that of freeing Italy from foreign rule. Eng lish diplomacy, it must be confessed. has been at work these 60 or 60 years, to what visible increase of English influence in Italy we would. desire to know—certainly not to any real satisfaction of reasonable Italians. And now a new Russian co efficient is coming in - to disturb and alter all former calculations, and to undo, if possible, everything that the, several English Ministries could flatter themselves to have accomplished. • There is a fact which those who hold the reins of government in England ought to -take into serious consideration. It is evident that Russia is con stantly enlarging the circle of her moral influence. By her form of religion she throws a secret spell over all the Christian communities of the Turkish empire, amounting to no less than 13,000,000 souls. By a new ethnolooical theory, Panslavism, she spreads the feeling of a common origin over a com pact mass of 70,000,00() of credulous, obsequious tribes—the double 'of the population of France. However much alienated by difference of religion and the memory of ancient feuds and recent in juries, they are gradually led to acknowledge themselves as the members of an immense military brotherhood, predestined to march from the distant strongholds of the North to the conquest of the East and the West. The Polish youth are regularly trained up to behold Russia as their natural mother and careful guardian, striving to prepare for all her united children a .heritage: of boundless extent. Besides the recognised weapons Ofpithodoxy and Panslavism, the:Autocrat is now employing a . new series of political devices.' By.conformity,of prin ciple and priority of action he fascinates and allures the new French dynasty. He laVishes on her those flattering courtesies which his proud father so un wisely withheld. He encourages her to assume a half hostile countenance towards England. By the manifestation of a strong resentment against Austria he gains the warmest sympathies of all those nations whom this improvident Government is steadfastly goading into disaffection and revolt. He sustains by his condescending patronage an aspirin.. Italian State which Austria would willingly reduce b into its formerinsignificance ; through the agency of this State' he 'insinuates - himself into the profoundest mysteries of Italian party polities. After - the hurried .flight of the Austrian police. from Venice in 1848 there were found among the papers they left behind curious proofs that at the . time of the Greek war of independence 'Austria watched with, the same anxious jealousy both Eng land and Russia. The Enghsman whom they honoured with their particular suspicion was Lord Byron. Up to the present time. events have justified us in declaring that. the generous instinct of the poet would have been for English politics of those days a far more sagacious guide than the calculating shrewdness of Lord Castlereagh.. It is a hard and melanchaly truth that at the same rate at which Russia has been gaining ground England has been losing it. Her diplomacy in dulged in au inconsiderate attachment for the in dividuals, themselves who wielded despotic power. She fOrwarded everywhere the interests of Kings and Pontiffs. -She disdained the broad easy path of popularity, and neglected the rights of nations. She affected a scornful iernorance of their existence as moral ,beings, perfectly distinct. from their acci dental Governments. Nationality, the most eminent moral fact of our age, seems to be still for statesmen a terra ineognita, or an unknown sea, on which they dare not venture.. English agents, in obscure cor ners, picked up paltry quarrels, such as Don Pacifico's, and for such insignificant concerns th e y overlooked the more important interests of their country, and wounded the sensitive feelings of nations rising into existence. Greeks, Illyrians, Hungarians, Roumans, Armenians would not have bowed to the Siberian autocrat and conqueror of nations if their rights had found a steady wotection from another quarter. Meanwhile ttussia was cautiously and carefully cherishing what England was proudly disregarding. Russia now begins to retrace the same path which she followed in Italy tall 1820, and unwisely abandoned after the Con gress of Laybach. She seems now disposed to take a leading part in Italian interests, while France, by the protection she engaged to lend to an unman ageable theocracy that stands in the way of any reasonable reform, has been raising up a g ainst herself artificial difficulties. It is a matter of fact that the first symptoms of Russian interference have given a strong impulse to public spirit throughout Italy. The people begin to turn on the Austrian garrisons the same looks of defiance as in 1848, and with much fiercer feelings of retaliation and revenge. The first effective com motion will propagate itself from the Alps to Sicily. The moral barriers which Prince Murat has not yet been able to remove will be thrown down. The resources of Italy, which, in the hands of the Pope, the Austrians, and the Bourbons, are slumbering in passive inefficiency, will be put into energetic action when astrong popular outbreak throws them into the mighty hands of 'France. Be it only for a moment it will be sufficient for those who are to profit by it. It is now a statistical fact that Italy equals the British Islands in population. What her inhabitants, skilfully guided, are able to do may be read in many a book of many an age. All this strength, if France and Russia only know how to get hold of the living principle that pervades it, could be easily turned against England in the Mediterranean, and agai ns t her allies there, and everywhe re, by land by sea. The oViaion of thinking Italians. is ; t hat it wou ld be CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yeste? day a court was held for the despatch of public business, Mr. Deputy Christie presiding. ,SANITARY STATE OF THE CITY. Dr. Letheby's " Sanitary Report of the City for the Autumn Quarter" was presented, read, and ordered to be printed and circulated amongst the members of the court. It stated that the sani tary condition of the City of London during the autumn quarter had not been satisfactory, for the mortality..has been higher than usual, and diseases of a zymotic character have prevailed to a large extent. In the course of the quarter there were 829 deaths, whereas in the corresponding period for the last ten years there were but 757 ; the mortality, therefore, has been about 10 per cent. above the average ; and although the excess has been very general through all the districts of the city, yet it has been most marked in the northern and eastern divisions, for there it has risen to' nearly 20 per cent. Altogether, indeed, the mortality•has been at an annual rate of nearly 26 in the thousand, the average for the quarter being about 23. Of the 829 deaths there were 435 of males and 394 of females, and as regards the ages at death, 365, or nearly 44 per cent. of the whole 'number, were Among children of less than five years df age ; 80 were between the ages of 5 and 20 ; 86 between 20 and 40 ; 113 between 40 and 60 ; and 185 were at 60 and upwards. The chief increase in the mor tality has been among infants and old persons, for the excess with the former has been -97, and with the' latter 9, and here again the increase has been chiefly in the eastern and western. districts: In fact in these districts the mortality has been augmented by diseases of a putrid character. In the West London Union, forexample, the deaths from fever have risen from an average-of 10 to' 16 ; those from measles from 4 to 10 ; and those from croup, diph theria, arid whooping cough, from 6 to 17. 'Again, in the Eastern Union, although the deaths from typhus have not been in excess,- yet those from smallpox and scarlet fever have been more than double, and the deaths from measles, whooping cough, croup, and diphtheria, have risen from the common average of 15 to 39. Altogether the in crease in the mortality from diseases of a zymotic character is from 132 to • 188. Altogether the births have been but 796, whereas the usual number for the season is 854. • The falling off in the returns is chiefly in the central divisions of the City, where the reduction has been from an average of 316 to 257. The proportion of males to females is as 400 to 396. The meteorology of the quarter and the general facts are that the mean temperature of the season has been about three degrees above the average (45.1 deg.) The mean rain-fall has been less than half of an inch per week, although the wet days have averaged 21 in the week, and fogs have prevailed to an unusual extent. These are indicative of the humid and stagnant condition of the atmosphere ; and doubtless this has had a good deal to do with the prevalence of putrid maladies. DISTURBING THE PAVEMENT OF THE CITY. Deputy OBBARD said he wished to' direct the attention of the commission to the inconvenience that resulted from public companies being permitted to disturb the pavement. When one of the tele graph companies formerly took up the pavement they . greatly injured it, and he hoped that some restriction would be placed upon them for the future. The ENGINEER—They will have to pay for every stone which upon being taken up is replaced by another, and if the inspector sees any stone so seriously damaged as to affect the public interests, it is his duty to see that that is done. Deputy OBBARD—Almost every stone in one of the leading streets was lately injured by a telegraph company, many of them having large pieces broken off them, and they remained in that state. PUBLIC GAS-LIGHTS. Mr. BONE wished to know to whom the duty was confided of inspecting the gas lamps throughout the City during their burning at night? Mr. Daly—The police. Mr. BONE said that for a considerable time past he had noticed that the amount of light in the public lamps had been anything but what it ought to be, and had not exceeded that of the old oil lamp in many instances. Then the lanterns were in such a filthy state that the little light they con tained was nearly obscured. This was a state of things that ought not to exist, seeing that the last year or two the commission had paid a much larger amount than formerly for lighting the public streets. (Hear, hear.) CHAIRMAN—it is not my place to justify the company in not fulfilling their contract, but for some time past a combination amongst the men has been going on which has threatened to deprive London of gas-light. One company was obliged to send the whole of their men away on one occasion and to seek about the country for another class. It is well they have been able to get over Christmas. I kno w that the company that supplies us are anxious to fulfil their contract. Several members having stated that the gas sup plied to their private houses, as well as to the pub lic lamps, had lately been deficient in quantity and inferior in quality, the clerk was ordered to call the attention of the company to the matter by letter. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT. TO BLOW UP A SHOP IN SIIEFFIELD. Yesterday, another of those diabolical and un manly attempts to destroy life and property for which the lower orders of the working cutlers of Sheffield have unfortunately become somewhat notorious of late years, was made at the shop of Mr. Samuel Poole, butcher, in the Wicker, Shef field. Mr. Poole's brother-in-law, James Linley, a saw grinder, and his wife and family, live with him, and have done so for some months past. Up to yesterday nothing extraordinary occurred, though it was well known that Linley had aroused the bitter hatred of a few men in consequence of his determination to carry on his trade without becom ing a member of, or having any connection with, the saw grinders' trades union. It may be well here to state, in order that the proceedings which we are about to describe may be the more readily understood, that about 12 months ago, at an early hour in the evening, when the fog was so thick as to render objects at a short distance invisible, Lin ley war sitting on a bench near the window in the house of a friend in Nursery-street, when he was fired at from the street, and knocked off his seat. The bullet penetrated two or three thick boats, but before it reached his body its force was spent, and no personal injury resulted. On Monday night last Mr. Poole, Mr. Linley, and their families re tired to rest at the usual time, and about seven o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Poole got out of bed, and just as he was about to dress himself he, and the remainder of the inmates of that house and the other houses in the neighbourhood, were greatly alarmed by hearing a very loud report, as of an explosion of gas or gunpowder. The explosion was so violent as to shake the premises from top to bottom, and immediately after the report the noise of falling glass and other things was heard, both on the roof of the house and on the flags in front of the shop, and the place was completely filled with soot and dust. When Mr. Poole and Mr. Linley had somewhat recovered from the fright, they went down stairs in order to ascertain the cause of the explosion. Believ ing that the report might have been caused by an escape of gas in the cellar, and that if so the cellar might still be full of gas, they were afraid to ven ture there, and at once sent to the gas office and to the Town-hall for assistance. A gas man and In spector Linley went to the place, and on examin ing the cellar, found that an explosion of gun powder had taken place. In the cellar was found the shattered remains of two tin cans; one appa rently a. sauce-pan, and the other a smaller can of the same shape as those with which machinery is oiled. A sort of fuze, which had been on fire, was also found, and there was every appearance of a violent explosion having taken place. The smaller can appeared to be placed inside the other, but whether both cans had been filled with combus tibles or not is known. The cellar grate in front of the shop was unfortunately left unfastened on Monday night, and the fellows who perpetrated the cowardly offence, after taking the grate up, lowered the explosives into the cellar by a tarred rope, and it is presumed that the object of using a tarred rope was to fire the premises. In this, however, they were not successful. The force of the explosion was so great that it burst off the iron bar which secured the shutters, and forced the shutters on the footpath. • A window looking into the shop, and near the top of the cellar steps, was forced forward about two inches, and a window on the top of the house was forced completely out, and a part of it was afterwards found in a dyke behind the pre mises. It is supposed that the force of the explo sion has been greatly lessened by the cellar and shop doors being open, and thus leaving the cur rent caused by the explosion an unobstructed pas t , sage to the attic winclow at the top of the houie. PRICE 4 1) . STAMPED, 51). ~ //. A , wise for rtngland not to any other Power may pu hopes and win the confide high-spirited nation ; au( wiser for England and ve' Powers did she herself 11 the most vigorous press' Governments. Down th freedom England can sail far more swiftly than any absolute Power. The. Italian question is prc-cminently an English qutstion. 711 E STATE OF ITALY. (From the Lady 217ews.) The serious-state of Italy is as vividly illustrated by the amnesty just granted to 61 of his subjects, whose only fault and crime was their patriotism; by the King of Naples, as by the addition of 40,000 men to the Austrian army of occupation. His Nea politan `Majesty has not waited for the arrival of the Bavarian Princess, or the mania.° of his son . and heir apparent, the Duke of Calabria; but in his hasty terror has yielded to the remonstrances of the Emperor of Russia, and liberated his prisOners from that cruelty and those sufferings which, the world will kn - ow and condemn to the last hour 'of recorded time. This intelligence is a relief to outraged nature'; and Europe will, it is to be hoped, show in some way to the unhappy victims of this unparalleled tyranny, that it can feel for their deep - wrongs, and welcome them back again into the light of Heaven, and to the pure air of our coinmoit Creator, in a manner that will exonerate the 19th century from all participation in the crime of its basest and worst sovereign—at once a disgrace to monarchy and a scandal to mankind. It is not, however, by acts even of this kind, per formed at the eleventh hour, that the King of Naples can be re-admitted into public and recog nised intercourse with France and England. Care fully as the present Government of England con ceal their views and wishes as to Italy—unknown as the policy of our Cabinet is on the question which now occupies the attention and awakens the fears and apprehensions of every rational man in Europe, any manifestation on their part of an in tention to resume diplomatic relations with the Court of Naples because that Court has yielded to alarm and the entreaties of Russia, what it denied to humanity and the representations of England and France, must and will be resisted by every man who has a heart to feel or a head to appre. ciate what Victor Emmanuel so touchingly and truthfully calls the anguish of that country. No doubt an amnesty was an indispensable condi tion to even a consideration of renewed intercourse. But it was not the only requirement. It was a pre liminary without which the subject could not be entertained. But, the amnesty granted, much more remains to be done before it befits the honour or the self-respect of England either to receive from or send representatives to Naples. And if this were so month§ ago, it is far more imperative and indis pensable now, when the whole question of Italy has risen (as every rational man knew that, left to itself, . it must rise) into one of the most dangerous Euro pean importance, when the entire country, South, Central, and North, is boiling over with disaffection. when Austria augments its previously enormous garrisons, and everything forebodes co m pli ca tio ns, disorders, and difficulties of the gravest and most alarming kind. We must not, however, exaggerate the value of the reinforcements now ordered 'or making in the Austrian army, large as they are said to be ; for Austria in Italy occupies a country in which she has not a single friend, in which every native is her sworn enemy, and her resolute, unalterable foe; in which she has erected a series of immense fortresses that require small armies of themselves for their garrisons, and in which she can only maintain her self by an expenditure of money that must be utterly ruinous to her finances, and of men whom she can not hope to replace. Already, too, there - are symp toms of disaffection amongst her troops in Italy. At Cremona, Croat and Hungarian regiments have come into collision ; and the sympathies of the lat ter for the wrongs and misery of Italy have broken out in cries and shouts no less hopeful for Italy than alarming for Austria. If Austria can repress in surrection by increasing her army in Italy to 130,000 soldiers, she can only meet their cost by in creased taxation. Already her Italian revenues are falling off ; and where in the rest of her poverty stricken States can she hope to make up the defi ciency thereby created, to say nothing of her rapidly augmenting pecuniary necessities? Then again the Austrian Government is not at harmony with itself, and it is with reference to Italy that this discord prevails. The Archduke Maximilian dissents from and disapproves of the haughty and : cruel policy of Vienna, which will hear of noth mg but repression by violence and force. That wiser Prince desires and recommends milder treatment for Italy, conciliation, and some regard for the feelings of tho people he governs. Not so the Emperor, in whom are concentrated all the pride, arrogance, and ignorance of the house of Hapsburg ; he resents and resists the prudent and humane recommendations of the son-in-law of Leopold of Belgium ; he relies on the sword, the bayonet, and the cannon alone. Nevertheless he hesitates to recall his brother; he dares not to drive matters to that extremity. - And Rome—it becomes a growing source of danger to Austria. At length Louis Napoleon, too late perhaps for his true interests, finds how idle, how hopeless it is to expect improvements or ameliorations from the Papal Government. Year after year, month after month, the Emperor of the French has pressed and urged on the Holy Father the adoption of those rational principles of admi nistration which in his famous letter to Ney ho proclaimed to Europe were the ohjects of an inter vention which, to do him the justice-ef adhering to facts, he- inherited from Cavaignac, and did not originate. To all French appeals and entreaties ; to all- the representations and remonstrances of their saviours and - restorers, whatever be the subject matter of them—the misery of the oppressed . • people or the outrage of the .11lortara ease—the answer of this Government of Priests is one and the same, "Non possumus." And this answer, so - hateful, so mortifying to the French, has •the support and approval of Austria. In this her disappointment at Rome, France desires to withdraw her troops, and proposes con joint evacuation to Austria. Inasmuch, however, as Rome and the Papal States left to themselves would soon settle for themselves their quarrels with their own Sovereign, Austria - refuses to withdraw. And thus France is not only - compelled to stay in Rome, but by remaining there to support a sy s t em which she has struggled to eradicate, and to Save Austria from the consequences of a Papal misgo vernment which she alone, of all European Powers, approves and upholds. It is in vain to call out " Peace! Peace!" when there can be no peace ! Not "poppy nor mandragora" can arrest the disaffection of Italy. It is the natural, the legitimate, the necessary consequence of that Austrian domination which sets all moderation, temperance, and regard for human feelings and sufferings at defiance ; which accumulates wrong on wrong, tyranny on tyranny, injustice on injus tice; which re j ects remonstrance, even from its own Archdukes and Viceroys, and listens to no sugges tions from Allies who contend against fate to pre serVe the tranquillity of the world. - It is idle to refer to the history of the past, to show that for eight centuries Italy has not been independent, to speculate on the illusion of Italian independence. These in the present state of that - country are but excuses and apologies for miseries _ that are unendurable, and woes that make even useless revolt a virtue. Let it be assumed (though the assumption is false and unfounded) that Italy will never recover her independence, can never enjoy freedom. ' That is not the present question. The present question is, can she be induced to remain quiet under her wrongs ? Ought Europe (to save itself from inconvenience) to wish her to • remain tranquil in her woes ? It is not a matter of government ; it is a question of h u manity. And if the King of Naples has been under the j us tly put ban of European civilisation for barbarity to in subjects, with what logic or decency can Austria be ~ saved from similar reprobation for crimesnetore which even his atrocious cruelties grow pale o A MOTIIER AND DAUGHTER CHARGED WITH MURDERING A CHILD.—On Monday, an inquest - was held by Mr. Hereford, city coroner, on the body °Mlle m a l e c hi l d of Maria Spooner, dressmaker, Hall's-crescent, Rochdale-, road. The evidence of the surgeon, Dr; C. D. F. Phillips, proved that the child was born alive on Saturday r a , 41 .0 4 last, and that it had been strangled. He also stated that its mother and grandmother, the only individuals living in the houte, were very . anxious to obtain from him a certificate of d ea th, they alleging that the child was still-born. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Maria Spooner, the younger, and Maria Spooner, the elder, for whose com mittal to Kirkdale gaol the coroner issued his warrant.— ilfanchestor Guardian. WRECK OFF NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.-- NEWBIGGIN, Islonday.—At two o'clock yesterday morning lights were observed to burn from a vessel aground off New bigEtin Point. It was blowing hard at the time, with a strong east' wind and heavy sea. The lifeboat of the National Life boati Institution was immediately launched, proceeded to the wrek, and took off her crew of four hands, whom she safely brought on shore. 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