The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-30 00:00:00

r--- ~...~--- s IRE NAVY. The f ollowing are the stations of ships of war in China. ?-.:— At Hong Kong—The British steamers Esk, Urgemt, and Zenobia ; the gunboats Cockchafer, Grasshopper, Hardy, Haughty, Sparrowhawk, Starling, and Weazel; the French steamers Nievre and itose ; the Spanish steamer Don Juan. Miveao—The Portuguese corvette Don Joao. A►t Canton River—The British steamer High flyur, 'And the gunboats Clown and Staunch ; the Fr ench frigate Capricieuse, the steamer Marseau, and. the gunboat Mitraille. A.t Amoy—The British sloop Acorn and the Fr ench steamer Saone. At Foochow—The American frigate John Adams. At Ningpo—The British gunboat Algerine. At Shanghai—The British sloep Camilla ; the -steamers Furious, Nimrod, and Roebuck ; the gun boat Firm ; the French steamer Forbin ; the Rus sian steamer Boyarine ; the American steamer Hartford and the gunboat Saginaw. At Chusan—The British steamer Adventure, Centaur, Encounter, Fury, Imperieuse, Odin, Pearl, Sampson, Scout, and Simoom ; the gunboats Bus tard and Woodcock ; the French steamers Alarme, Duchayla, and Dordogne. At the North—The British frigates Actaeon and Cambrian ; the steamers Atalanta, Assaye, Beagle, Cruiser, Cooper, Coromandel, Feroze, Hesper, In flexible, Magicienne, Pioneer, Ringdove, Snake, Sphynx, Vulcan, and Waterman ; the gunboats Banterer, Bouncer, Dove, Drake, Flamer, Forester, Havoc, Insolent, Janus, Kestrel, Leven, Opossum, Bullard, Blaney, Snap, and Watchful; the French stenmers Andromaque, Calvados, Driade, Entre pr enante, Forte, Gironde, Garonne, Japan, Jura, L'Europeene, L'Emperatrice, Eugenie, Loire, 3llarne, Pregent, Perseverante, Renommee, Rhone, Rhin, Saigon, and Vengeance ; the gunboats Ava 3anche, Alon Prah, and Dragonne ; the Russian steamer Sveltano, and the gunboat Razboynik. At Amoor River—The Russian steamers Ame rica, Bijarin, Griden, Japanese, Manjoor, Opritch nick, Plastron, Rinda, Streloet and Voyerada ; the gunboats Djugnite, Niizelip, and Novich. At Japan—The British steamer Berenice and the Russian steamer Posadnik. The Royal Commissioners who are engaged at Chatham Dockyard in prosecuting their inquiries into the control and management of that establish ment resumed their investigations yesterday morn ing. On the previous day the Commissioners were occupied until an advanced hour in the afternoon in the examination of Captain G. Goldsmith, C. 8., superintendent of the establishment, and Mr. 0. W. Lang, the master shipwright, both of whom gave important evidence respecting the internal economy of the establishment and the works in progress. The Royal Commissioners arrived at the dockyard shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning, Captain Goldsmith and several of the principal officials of the establishment awaiting their arrival. The mem bers immediately proceeded to make a complete tour of the dockyard, in order to personally inspect the out-door arrangements, the stores, the establish ments, and the ships building and in dock. While inspecting the works in progress for enlarging the docks and increasing the accommodation for dock ing vessels of a larger class than those hitherto received at Chatham, the Commissioners elicited information on the system adopted for prosecuting works of that magnitude. After completing their examination of the works in hand, the Royal Com missioners visited the ships building and in dock, each of which was examined, the vessels which were more particularly scrutinised being the line of-battle screw two-deckers Bulwark, 91, and Royal Oak, 91, as well as the new description of 51-gun screw frigate the Undaunted, which is ordered to be launched on the Ist January next, and the Bel videre, being built on an adjoining slip. A cursory inspection WAS also made of the screw corvette Rat tlesnakes '2l, Reindeer, 17, and the Myrmidon, 4, screw steamers, the last of which has only been recently commenced. The line-of-battle steamer Bombay, 80, as well as the screw frigate Arethusa, 41, in dock converting, were aim-) inspected. After 'concluding this portion of their examination, the Commissioners inspected the vast stores of tim ber, mahogany, masts and spars, iron, copper, and other materials laid up for the use of the dockyard, and paid a brief visit to a few of the establishments in which the various works in connexion with shipbuilding are being prosecuted. During their tour of inspection the Commissioners were accompanied by most of the heads of departments and the officials of the estab lishment, to whom they addressed frequent in quiries in connexion with the various objects in spected. The Commissioners afterwards returned to the Capt.-Superintendent's office, to proceed with the examination of the principal affairs of the dock yard: Yesterday afternoon the launch of the steam frigate Rapid, of 11 guns, took place from No. 2 slip of Deptford Dockyard, in the presence of Capt. Buckle, G.C.8., Commodore-Superintendent of the yard, Mr. Fincham, master shipwright, and a nume rous assembly of visitors. The ceremony of chris tening the vessel was performed by Miss S. Gordon, youngest daughter of Admiral Sir James Gordon, G.C.8., Governor of Greenwich Hospital. The following are the vessel's dimensions :—Length, 181 ft. ; ditto moulded, 161 ft. ; depth, 15 ft. 10 in. ; breadth, 30 ft. 4 in. ; burden in tons, 668 79.94. She will be fitted with engines of 150 horse power, and her armament, which is to be furnished from Woolwich Arsenal, will consist of 11 guns of 32 cwt., and 6 ft. long. The Frederick William, 86, screw, in the first class steam reserve at Portsmouth, yesterday stelmed out of Portsmouth harbour, in charge of Capt. G. T. Gordon, commanding the steam reserve at the port, to test her speed at the measured mile on the completion of the contract for the machinery by Messrs. Maudsley, Field, and Co. The ship having no masts shipped nor stores on board, drew but a light draught of water, 17 ft. 6 in. forward, and 23 ft. 6 in. aft, and can, tkerefore, be, as all such trials are, merely a comparative one with for • nier trials under similar circumstances. On leaving the harbour the wind was fresh from E.S.E., but this gave smooth water for the ship on her trial 1 1 ° )Ind, and consequently could not tell against the shiP's qualifications. With regard to the latter point it is but just to state that she was laid down origi nally 48• Railing three-decker, on the 7th January, 1842, f ront designs by Sir W. Symonds, the then Surveyor of the Navy. By orders from the Admi ralty she had afterwards her upper deck removed and her stern adapted, as far as possibly could be, for the screw propeller. f She is only one foot longer than the Glasgow screw f r igat e, now building in Portsmouth yard, th e l atter being 250 feet between perpendiculars, and the Fred en • ek William 251 feet. Her bow retains the form ori ginally designed by Sir W. Symonds for a sailing three_d ec k er, and con sequently she raises a heavy Bea forw ar d when under full steam. The appearance of the Freder i i t c h k sWhiipls liam on deck is very short , compared with like the Duncan, or our improved frigates ; but the result of the trial gave a greater rate o f , peed, even in . her light trim, than had been anticipat e d . Six runs were made at the measured mile, with a n d against the tide, which gave a m ean speed of 11.782 knots, with a mean of 72 revolutions. The per formance of the machinery was very satisfactory throughout the trial. Messrs. Murdoch and Miller superintended the trial on behalf of the Admiralty, and Mr. Shirreff on behalf of the contractors. In running down the second mile one of the men at the wheel got his arm jammed between the spokes and the standard, and broke the large bone of his arm, midway between the wrist and elbow. The assist.- snrg. of the Asia, who is always on board on trial ships, at once bound the man's arm up, and on re- i turning to the harbour accompanied him to the Royal Naval Hospital at Hasler. The Coquette, 6, screw, was undocked at Ports mouth yesterday, and placed in the steam basin to receive her machinery, &e. The Tribune, screw frigate was afterwards placed in the dock from which the Coquette had been removed. The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., left Spithead, under canvas, for the West Indies, at 11 a.m., on Wednesday. The Barracouta, 6, paddle, Commander Wood, went into Portsmouth harbour on Wednesday, from Spithead, to make good defects. She has brought to England her Bermudian pilot, in consequence of the roughness of the weather at thLltime of leaving. He returns to the West Indies in the Firebrand. The Barracouta's appearance gives positive evidence of the rough weather she has met with on her passage home. Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Zebra, to carry 17 guns, launched from Deptford dockyard on Tuesday last, was yesterday taken into the fitting basin at Woolwich, to be prepared and docked for service, and the paddlewheel steam vessel Bustler was undocked and brought out into the stream, after repairs to hull and machinery. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Mather Byles, mate to the Firebrand ; John G. Y. Holbrook, mate to the Charybdis; and W. H. Clarke, assist.-surg. to the Cambridge. TEE ARMY. Sixteen 40-pounder Armstrong guns, strength ened according to the new system, were yesterday tested at the Arsenal butt, Woolwich, and the trial proved satisfactory. The charges employed Were 161 b. of powder and a 40-pounder shot, which were fired two rounds from each gun, and, th e usual in spection and searching having been gone through, the guns were ordered to be stored in readiness for distribution as required in the service. The two Whitworth guns proved last week at the Arsenal butt are ordered to be forwarded to Shoeburyness for experiments. Capt. Freeth, late deputy-assistant quartermas ter-general at Woolwich, has been charged with a general inspection of the artillery stores supplied throughout the entire coastguard service of Great Britain, and will shortly leave Woolwich for that purpose. TILE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENI. The Inns of Courts Rifle Volunteers will be in spected by Col. M'Murdo, C. 8., in Richmond Park on Saturday next at 3 o'clock p.m. The battalion will parade in King's-bench-walk at 12, and march from thence to Waterloo-station, over Blackfriars bridge, arriving at Richmond station about half past one. The firing will be with blank cartridge. The Volunteer corps which has been in course of formation in the populous suburb of Stoke New ington for about two months past, numbers now 130 men, who have been divided into two com panies, and a handsome subscription, which is daily augmenting, has been raised among the wealthier classes resident there, to meet the attend ant expenses. The members enter with zest into the necessary drill, which takes place morning and evening, and have already attained considerable proficiency. Capt. Sewell, of the London Rifle Brigade, and Corporal Rowsell, of the same corps, residents in the neighbourhood, have ever evinced a commendable desire to impart the knowledge and experience gained in the regiment to which they belong to the new suburban corps, and have regu larly attended the drill, to the manifest advantage of its members. On Wednesday evening they assembled at their head-quarters, in Barn-street, and marched out to some distance to the music of 20 drums and fifes of the Coldstream Guards, headed by Drum-Major Loomes, under the tempo rary command of Capt. Sewell, The corps has been organized under the direction of a provisional com mittee composed of gentlemen of repute in the neighbourhood, including the Rev. Mr. Jackson, the rector; Capt. Hamel, the solicitor to the Cus toms; Mr. Wm. Beal, Mr. Morland, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. G. Harker, and several more. The matters of uniform and designation of the corps, choice of officers and the like, are about to be settled, as also the question, respecting which a little diversity of opinion exists, as to whether they shall remain a distinct corps or amalgamate with some one of the Middlesex Volunteer regiments. On Wednesday the sth company of Kent Volun teer Rifles (Capt. Plummer) assembled in the Cavalry-square at the rear of Canterbury Barracks, for the purpose of contesting for a series of prizes offered for their competition by the officers of the company. The first prize consisted of a handsome silver goblet, given by Capt. Plummer ; the second, an elaborately gilt timepiece, offered by Lieutenant Sankey ; the third, a silver cigar -case, by Captain Plummer ; and the fourth a silver drinking-flask, given by Ensigri Furley. Throughout, the shoot ing was exceedingly good and creditable to those who took part in the contest,and embraced 15 rounds, at ranges of 300, 400, and 500 yards. 23 points carried off the first prize, which were made by Colour-sergeantNorman, who made no less than four centres consecutively at 400 yards, and three centres at 500 yards. Corporal Linford won the second prize for 15 points ; Corporal Newman the third, for 14 points ; and Private Howard the fourth, for 14 points also; Corporal Newman having gained the third by shooting off the tie with Private Howard. In the evening the prizes were awarded to the suc cessful competitors at the Freemasons' Tavern. On a previous day the 6th Company (Capt. Austin's) also had a match for two prizes, which was also shot in the cavalry square. The prizes consisted of a handsome silver cup, mounted on a pedestal of Purbeck marble, given by the captain of the com pany, and another subscribed for by the subalterns. The first prize was awarded to Private Castle, and the second was obtained by Sergt.-Major Foord. On Wednesday a stand of colours was presented to the rifle corps formed in Barnstaple, consisting of two companies, and designated the 6th Devon Volunteer Rifles. 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I may preface my observations by stating that being accidentally at Toulon a week ago, and hearing that La Gloire was in the roads, I went alongside and sent my card to the commander affixing to my name the words " Membre du Parlement Anglais." I received a mere verbal message that no one was baysea allowedslliuuemavbee;de unusual t ta o h w s a et weapon p t ao h f is nG e toorii France,r bgt Gloire e a is w e T r wilfully gfnuadlr h l dyi is et dtmhaarsoy wt ono restrictionthereforeo novelpe open for i s f, andbo ler imitation. My description must consequently be limited to the externals of the frigate and to the details which I gleaned from various sources, more or less accu rate. La Gloire carries 36 broadside guns, though pierced for 40 ; she is said also to carry four heavy guns on deck ; her broadside guns are all rifled ; her ports I judge to be about eight feet out of water; she has a bowsprit and three masts, strictly fore and aft rigged, although she can set a large square sail on her foremast; her spars are not much, if at all, larger in proportion than those of an or dinary passenger steamer ; she has apparently a flush deck, with, I was informed, a shot-proof house on the after part far the captain. At present she is probably three feet by the stern, judging from her water line ; she is said to draw five metres, or about 16 feet. Her cutwater, which is stated to be 50 centimetres (equal to 1 foot 71 inches) thick, recedes from the water line upwards, the lower portion being from 2 to 3 feet in advance of the upper. Her breadth of beam is carried very far forward, giving an appearance of weight and bluff ness to her bow, which however may be more duo to the want of a few extra feet of cutwater than to an actual absence of fine lines. Her bow overhangs, but very slightly, it at all ; her stern is neither round nor square, but sharper than her bow, pre senting finer lines, and with a very considerable flare or overhang. She has a set-off at the water line, some 3 or 4 inches deep, such as ships of war generally have just below their ports. Her sides have about the inclination in wards usual in men-of-war. Her plates, I was informed, are 15 centimetres (about six English inches) thick; those forming the first row above the water-line are about 5 feet long by 2 feet 9 inches wide ; above these are two rows of plates, about 4 feet long and 1 foot wide ; above these again, the larger plates. The iron used in their manufacture is stated to be of a very superior description ; one extensive works, near St. Etienne, is engaged almost exclusively in their manu facture. The plates are said to extend about 2?- ; metres, or say 8 feet, below her water-line ; she is coppered from that point to her keel. I was informed that her engines are of 1,000 horse-power. Her speed all agree in stating i at 13 knots. She is con stantly sent to sea, and s reported to behave well though labouring somewhat in very heavy weather. Upon one occasion she was in a gale during which a first-class frigate lost all her quarter boats. Her tonnage and dimensions I could not learn. She is decidedly not a very large vessel, but little if at all larger than modern frigates of her class. Perhaps the most important point remains still to be noticed. La Gloire is not an iron ship ; she is built of wood, doubtless of stronger scantling than usual, but still she is a wooden ship, built in in a Government dock yard by the ordinary shipwrights and of the mate rials at hand. She was plated in a dry dock after she was launched, and it would not therefore seem that any extraordinary expense could have been incurred in her construction. A sister ship is now building at Toulon. Her sides are lined with men as thickly as they can work. Two frigates of the old stamp stand half finished and neglected hard by. At least I could not see one man at work on them. It would appear from the foregoing details that many very important objects have been attained in La Gloire. In spite of her armour her speed is higher than that of most men of war, an element in itself of enormous power. I have no desire to theorise on the means by which this high speed may have been attained, but I may remark that a por tion of it may be due to the absence of lofty masts and heavy rigging, to the rapid passage of which the air must offer very considerable resistance. In deed, we know what speed a ship scudding under bare poles will attain, and the converse must be equally true, ,though in a less degree. Again, th e lightness of her rig would necessitate the presence of but few men on deck during action, and if shot away there would be little to foul the screw. I imagine, nevertheless, that she could show canvas enough to give her steerage way when cruising with her fires banked up, or to enable her to lie to in heavy weather. The projection of her cutwater at, and probably below, the water-line would cause her to crush in the sides of an adversary at the most dangerous point, and the immense strength given to the cutwater shows that this mode of attack is contemplated. The shape of her stern would make it exceedingly difficult to rake her, while it enables her to steam astern nearly as fast as ahead. She is protected as far below the water line as a shot could well penetrate or as she could expose while rolling ; below this she is coppered, and thus the disadvantage of fouling, and conse quent loss of speed, is avoided. Her guns are all rifled, and here I may say that I was informed that all guns now served out for active use in the French navy are rifled ; I myself saw several hundred yards of conical shot for rifled guns piled about four feet high, and the same width, and I was tcld that there are 150,000 conical shot for rifled guns in the arsenal at Toulon alone. I saw no round shot. The bore of these guns is about seven Eng lish inches ; they are of the calibre of the old French 301 b. round shot ; they have three grooves about two inches wide and 3.l6ths deep ; the fore part of the shot is hollow, the hind part solid ; they weigh 25 kilogrammes, equal to about 55 English pounds; they have one projection for each groove, partly of iron, partly of lead. Having thus endeavoured to explain the various points which seemed to me to be worthy of note, and the bearing they appear to have upon this important subject, I may perhaps be permitted to say a few words on the general question. The impression left on my mind, after an attentive comparison of this formidable vessel with the fine ships lying at anchor around her, was that they were as useless in her presence as old flint muskets in presence of the arms of the present day. It may be true that we have yet to learn the effect of a concentrated broad side at short range on iron armour ; it may be true that Mr. Whitworth's gun and projectile can under favourable conditions pierce such armour as that of La Gloire ; but would she allow the concentrated broadside at short range ? Would she place herself in the favourable position for Mr. Whitworth's operations? Her speed is superior to almost every ship in our navy, and she could, therefore, choose and maintain whatever distance she pleased from her adversary. That distance would be the point at which his shot would rattle harmlessly against her armour, while she would throw molten iron into his unprotected sides. What seamanship, what gallantry could avail against such odds ? The French have four such vessels already afloat; one, the Normandie, I am .told, is a two-decker. They are said to have 10 others in rapid progress, several of which are in an advanced state. Before many months are over they will have between 400 and 500 guns behind iron walls, and this will have been achieved, not by extravagant experiments in unheard-of iron scantlings, paid for at the rates which attach to all new and unusual constructions, but simply by ceasing to build ships of the old class and by employing the resources of their own dock yards in the construction of ships adapted to the exigencies of modern warfare. It is, indeed, earnestly to be desired that our Government may be content to press forward in the same direction, to cease from the construction of ships which we may reasonably fear will prove hereafter to be useless, and that they may without further delay avail themselves of the resources at their command as the French have done. We should thus be saved from a repetition of the discreditable condition to which our navy was not long since reduced, and from the extraordinary additional outlays which appear to be impending over us. VIOLENT STORM.—WEXFORD, Tuesday Morn ing.—Strong gales of wind prevailed here during the early part of last week, which gradually increased in violence as the week proceeded, until on Saturday evening it reached a perfect hurricane. The waves were dashing over the quays, and large quantities of sea wreck were thrown over the street for nearly 20 yards. On Sunday it was, if pos sible, worse than on Saturday evening. About 3or 4 &clock in the afternoon a messenger came into Wexford from Blackwater, at full speed, with the intelligence that a large vessel was off the shore in a dangerous state, and it was feared she would run ashore. The inspector here immediately proceeded to the spot, when he found the vessel had fortunately got out of danger, and had proceeded on her journey. Oa Monday afternoon, about the same hour, another messenger came into town with the in telligence that a large vessel, name unknown, had run ashore on the Blackwater Bank, only a few yards distant from where the unfortunate Pomona foundered about a year ago. The messenger stated that before he left three of the L lo e y e d i : crew had taken to one of the boats, in the hope of landing in safety, but when a few yards from the shore their boat was swamped, and the whole three were buried is the boiling Surge. Mr. Coghlan, of her Majesty's Customs hero, and l ß a r n tl ig t i f i o t, r b th u i t s h d a is d tri n c o t e p re ro tu ce rn ed e e d d w to he th n e th sce e p n o e s o t f le th ft e . hands ofethmeaunnfy There are ru ort m un ou at r e s, ve b s u s t el n h o a n v e e b of ee t n h l e o m st. founded on a good foundation. It is to be feared, however, that all NAVAL AND MERCRANT SE.RVICE. Mr. G. D. H. Elphinstone, in a letter to a con temporary, says :—I will yield to no man in in terest in the welfare of the seaman, whose claims on the country I shall continue to press on the attention of the Legislature. I admit much has been done, but much still remains to be accomplished before the situation of a seaman on board a man-of war attains that point when dismissal from the service will be the greatest punishment which can be inflicted ; but I look on that man as the seaman's greatest enemy who could calmly suggest the pos sibility of a repetition of the unfortunate occur rences which took place last year—disturbances which could only have occurred in a recently raised force, and for which there was no adequate provo cation. The country is perfectly alive to the importance of improving the condition of the seaman ; his posi tion is regarded with the kindliest feeling, and. I have no doubt in a few years all real grievances will be swept away. The only way in which this kindly feeling can be counteracted would be by such conduct on the part of the men as your cor respondent, " One who Knows the Service," points out, and apparently is inclined to justify. Your correspondent sums up his case by the state ment that " the seamen of the Royal Navy are, as a body, the worst paid, the worst treated, and the worst fed class of sailors in the world." I deny these allegations, and I will endeavour, as shortly as possible, to show that they are in a great measure without foundation. Captain Brown, Registrar-General of Seamen in the port of London, in a paper, No. 19, Appendix to Report of Naval Commission, states that all cases of a sudden increase of our naval force are followed by a rise of wage 4 in the merchant service, which appears to subside gradually as the wants of the two services are supplied. " The Royal Navy was increased from 12,936 seamen in 1792 to 54,042 in 1793, to 71,776 in 1794, and so on progressively, until it reached the highest point of 115,347 actu ally serving in 1813. At the commencement of the war a very large portion of the increase was drawn from the merchant service, that being the only available source from which seamen could be ob tained." This extraordinary demand on the national stock of seafaring men naturally forced the wages of the merchant seamen up to a very high point, but the return of peace caused a reaction, and the average of merchant seamen's wages from 1835, the period when we first have accurate returns, to 1853 was from 40s. to 505., the ordinary wages being 40s. o 455., per month. In 1853 and 1854 the same cir cumstances occurred as I have alluded to above, and wages in the merchant service rose to 60s. to 705., a point from which the necessities of the Navy has not yet allowed them to descend. In 1852 the wages of an able seaman in the British Navy was £2 ls. per month, in addition to which he had all the advantages of prospective pension, cheap clothing, &c. ; and, as the average wages for the previous 18 years in the merchant service was not much, if at all, above 40s, to 455., I do not think the matter of pay justifies the statement of your corres pondent. The wages of an able seaman now are '.£2 9s. Id. for continuous service. The state of the case is this :—The wages of the merchant seamen fluctuate with the requirements of trade ; the wages of the man-of-war's man are a fixed quantity, which does not fall far short of the other on an average of years, and exceeds the ave rage of merchant seamen's wages if we take credit for clothing, bedding, mess things, slops, &c., set ting aside medical attendance. prospective pension, Green wich(which it is hoped will be soon improved), and many other advantages which the merchant seaman does not enjoy. Secondly, as respects treatment. Many witnesses were examined by the Royal Commission in 1858, and the complaints made as to the treatment in the service resolved themselves into a deficiency of bread and shrinkage of beef, and the difficulty of allot ment to their wives; no complaint whatever was made of any treatment on the part of the officers calculated to produce dissatisfaction. On the con trary, the witnesses testified most willingly to the kindness and forbearance they had been accustomed to meet with from their superiors. I may here men tion that the allowance of bread has been increased by Ilb. per diem, that the Commission also recom mended a similar increase in the allowance of beef, and the allotment question has been placed on a proper footing. Thirdly, as to food. After a close examination of all the dietaries of the various branches of the mer chant service, the Commission recommended an addi tion of *lb. of meat and *lb. of biscuit per diem. At the same time it must be admitted that a large sum is annually paid to men for savings, amounting at that time, on an average, to 1-4-d. per diem, or 3s. 9d. per month, per man. (See evidence of Sir Richard Bromley, question 6,272). I have no doubt whatever—in fact the evidence proves it — that the allowance, with these additior-c, is nnir- 1, - At the same time, I believe that the dietary of the Navy might be much improved. It is a fact that the life of Ihe seaman is very much shorter than the average of almost any other class of men, and I cannot help thinking that, in addition to other causes, the nature of the diet has some relation to the question. Captain Pierce, of the Sailors' Home, says :—" A sailor above 50 is most rare; 40 is considered old, and the large majority are from 20 to 35. If you ask me what becomes of the old men, I can hardly say, but I believe seamen die either at home or abroad from various causes at an early age." Surely this is a question which would repay an inquiry ; the subject Aould expand beyond the pos sible compass of a letter. _ Lastly, your correspondent says that "the money that has been spent in royal commissions and in quiries as to how to man the navy would have manned it long ago if given in addition to the men's pay." During the last 8 years there have been two in quiries into this subject. In July, 1852, a commit tee of naval officers was appointed, consisting of Rear-Admiral A. Fanshawe, C. 8., Capt. the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C. 8., Capt. P. Richard, C. 8., and Capt. J. Shepherd. This committee collected a mass of most valuable evidence, and produced important results.. As it consisted entirely of naval officers, the expense must have been but small, probably the difference between full and half•pay for the time being. In 1858 a royal commission was named, con sisting of the Earl of Hardwicke, chairman ; the Marquis of Chandos, Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Admiral W. F. Martin, Sir J. D. Elphinstone, MT., Admiral J. Shepherd, Mr. John Shepherd, Deputy Master of the Trinity House; Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., and Mr. Richard Green. They met on the 29th of June, and made their report, after a long and careful inquiry, on the 19th of February, 1859. The cost of this commission, as stated in a re turn moved for by Mr. Massey, was £964, 2s. 11d. The labours of this commission have not been alto gether fruitless. In compliance with their recom mendation the men have been supplied with a suit of clothes, a bed and hammock, and mess utensils on joining a ship; their allowance of food has been in various ways increased, and I trust the Admiralty will see fit to carry the whole of their recommenda tions into effect ; the most important of them all is the proposal to establish school ships at all the lead ing ports. This is the only satisfactory mode of manning the navy, and until it is done we shall never see any permanent improvement in the con dition of the men. It is too bad, when we squander money in every conceivable manner, that a scheme so reasonable and so important should not be car ried out. The great obstacle to placing the Navy on a proper footing arises, first. from the difficulties thrown in the way of increased expenditure by the Treasury ; and, secondly, by the Admiralty allow ing the Treasury to override them. Thus, the re served post captains and warrant officers' widows ars deprived of their just rights under the most contemptible pleas, and all setts of injustice is habitually practised. There are many things in the Navy which re quire amendment, respecting which there is no difference of opinion ; they would cost money, and therefore remain without remedy. Whenever we have a Board of Admiralty who will lay down a distinct policy for the reformation of the Navy, submit it to the Government, and stand or fall by it, something will be done. We might then hope to see the fatuity of paying ships off as soon as they have arrived at a perfect state of organization put an end to ; we should hope to see wholesome and comfortable barracks take the place of un wholesome and miserable hulks; and we should see our men-of-war fitted in commodious docks, instead of lying in the stream after the fashion of 60 years ago. It is perfectly impossible in the compass of a letter :to do more than touch upon the various accusations contained in your correspondent's letter. I would therefore recommend the reports of the Commission of 1853 and 1859 to the attention of your readers, who will there see the real state of the case fully investigated. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Youthful In firmities.—From causes scarcely perceptible at first, the young become prematurely enervated and debilitated. They lose alike their looks, energy, and confidence. The general cause of this melancholy state is a disordered stomach, which Holloway's Pills will regulate. By improving diges tion and purifying the blood they work wonders. They act so kindly, yet so certainly, upon every organ necessary for healthy digestion that the nervous system soon recovers, and the wonted good spirits speedily return, with strength, vivacity, and vigour. The most delicate may safely take Holloway's Pills. They cause no violent effects upon the system, but gradually accomplish their end without much restriction in diet or pleasure. The composition of these pills secures them from doing mischief. UNDER THE WALLS OF PEKIN. The following letter, which is interesting, from the circumstance that it supplies an account of the very latest occurrences reported as taking place before Pekin, is from Captain Carrington, of the Marine Battalion now serving in China. This officer was severely wounded in the storming of the forts at Taku, having received a gingall ball, which passed transversely through the lower lip, and not withstanding which, though desired to withdraw to the rear by the colonel of the battalion, he with great gallantry kept his place with the stormers. He served with the Marine battalion in the Crimea, volunteered for duty in the trenches, and was continually in the front : " Under the Walls of Pekin, Sept. 22. " I will resume my account of occurrences up to this point. I cannot exactly tell you that Song chow is taken, but I believe that the results are much about the same. We had a very agreeable day yesterday in moving about after cavalry, from 5 o'clock in the morning till 6 o'clock in the even ing. Our brigade, which consisted of a wing of the 99th Regiment and our battalion, with a bat tery of artillery and some cavalry, moved round to clear out some intrenched positions between Song chow and Pekin. I believe that at the same time the French force and our other brigade were to assault Song-chow. General Grant and all our chief people remained with us. The fighting—if after the Crimea I may apply that name to it — began about half-past 9 o'clock and lasted till about 1 o'clock. Sir John Michel, who commands the division up here, cautioned us not to be in a hurry to fire, but to let the Tartar cavalry come quite close up to us. It was soon after this that down came a whole cloud of horse. We remained quietly waiting for them, and the Dragoons were also quiescent, for the purpose of giving them, at the proper moment, the treat of a charge. But our cavalry were cleniel a chance ; as, although the Tartars are by no means afraid of the Sikhs, they cannot stand the gleam of the movements of the King's Dragoon Guards. However, these masses of Tartar horse advanced very steadily within about 200 yards, when, greatly to their consternation, but unfortunately too much in anti cipation, the 99th, who were on our left rear, opened fire. This suddenly brought up the Tartars, and then we formed line. Mean while the Dragoons, considering they were in accessible distance, charged the Chinese cavalry. The Tartars waited until our men had neared them within 50 yards, and then they fired a volley, wounding a captain rather badly and killing a trooper. They then turned about and made rapidly off. If the ground had only happened to be tolerably favourable very few of them would have escaped, but the sly fellows were on the other side of a broad ditch, over which our first line of Dragoons went in flue style and safely, but on account of the prodigious dust which was kicked up by the charge the second line could not see the ditch, and so the one half of them were baffled. However, a considerable number managed the ditch and caught up the broken enemy, laying them straight with somewhat greater rapidity than they had expected. " After the defeat and rout of this body of cavalry we kept following the enemy, and cleared out four camps. All the camps were left standing, to which we set fire. About two o'clock we halted near a military village, and after taking it (its defenders bolted after a few shots) our men were let go in to refill their water bottles. I assure you it is very hard and thirsty work charging cavalry about such a dry and insupportable country. The millet is but lately cut, and you have a plain of stalks, standing about a foot and a-half high, with sharp tops that pierce like spikes. Several of the horses have been lamed by these points. As I had no immediate or nobler exercise for my sword, I strolled about the village, trying my skill at cutting heads, indeed ; but on this occasion only heads of puzzled fowls, as they ran past me to accidental cover. This is very pretty execution for hungry men. In company with two other as equally skilful headsmen, I se cured about 20 fowls, which established quite a possible cuisine for us. Nor should we have been without our dessert, for in one garden I found some delicious grapes. However, there was no time to cook, and therefore I was compelled to put up with only a fragment of biscuit. " We set fire to this place before leaving, which is only ;seven miles from Pekin. I wish we had made a dash on ; I verily believe we should have taken the Celestial metropolis, with very little loss, for most of the Chinese troops were outside. " And now for some news which will be very interesting. I have told you all about the loss of Mr. Parkes and of the Times correspondent. I can now add that when we sent in for the captives the Chinese returned the artful and dubious answer that Mr. Parkes had already left to return to our camp, and that they had not seen him since he set out. I think the Chinese will not dare to touch Mr. Parkes or the prisoners. We have sent a second message to say that if the prisoners were not given up in three days we should force our way in and sack Pekin. This of course we shall have to do if Mr. Parkes and our other friends do not speedily appear, whether •the treaty thereby be spoiled or not. A flag of truce came in this day with a despatch for Lord Elgin. The latest reports are of negotiations again." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. A special general meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the Paddington station, for the purpose of considering the report of the directors on the subject of applying to Parliament for power to raise capital for laying down additional rails for the narrow gauge between Reading and London, and for other purposes therein referred to; the Earl of Shelburne, the chairman, presided. Mr. Saunders, the secretary, read the notice convening the meeting. The report, a copy of which appeared in The Sun about a month since, was taken as read. •_ _ The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he had no doubt that every shareholder present had read it.* He had two resolutions to submit for their consideration, and he trusted they would show their confidence in. the Board by adopting them. In going into the circumstances which had led to the measure he was about to propose, he wished the proprietors would allow him to fix their attention en the present state of the affairs of the company. It would be very undesirable to go back and endeavour to argue from facts which they could not alter, and from which no advantage could arise by recurring to them. The Great Western in extending their system had expended a very large capital, and those extensions had not always succeeded in producing them an increased dividend. He did not propose any extension of their system, but that tha directors should be authorized to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for power to raise additional capital for the purposes mentioned in the report. It was not for the purpose of extending their lines that they required the additional capital, but for making the most of the property they possessed, and for developing to the utmost the resources of the company. That was the course now proposed to be adopted, and he had no doubt it would prove beneficial. He would divide the subject of proposed outlay into two portions. The first related to the cost of additional rails to form the narrow gauge upon the line between Reading and Paddington, including the branches to Windsor and Brentford, and of the necessary narrow gauge working stock to work it. The former was estimated at £225,000, and the latter at £230,000, making together £455,000. The second related to the additional capital that would be re quired from time to time for the general purposes of the company, amounting to about £500,000, and making the total sum £1,000,000. The subject had occupied the attention of the Board for a con siderable time, and a most careful investigation had been made into all the circumstances and bear ings of the question, and they had arrived at the conclusion that it was the interest of the Great Western Company to afford every accommodation to induce traffic to come upon their line, and to remove any obstacle that might exist, or be sup posed to exist, in preventing an accession of ,traf fics, particularly the goods traffic. He was not prepared with any fixed data to show how much additional traffic they would derive from the pro posed additional expenditure.. They could not control the progress of events in the railway world, and it did appear, after the most careful inquiry at every point and at every place, that a consider able amount of traffic was prevented coming on the line in consequence of not being able to facili tate the transit of narrow gauge traffic from other lines. The directors, therefore, thought it wise to proceed with the question, and submit it to the proprietors as early as possible. The Board itwer.e. prepared to act, if necessary, at a short notice , the proposed measure met the approval of the meeting. The West Midland Railway Company had assured them that additional traffic would come from their line to a considerable amount, so that, with the traffic •that would come from the northern portions of the Great Western line and from other sources, it was believed there would be an ample return to compensate them for the it pro posed outlay. Most people considered that was a step that must ultimately be taken—(hear, hear)—and that now was the tim e to bring i t forward. In their competition with other com panies for traffic they had generally succeeded k in giving satisfaction to the traders, and they saw no reason to doubt that when they extended the accommodation on their line—for that was what they proposed—it would result in giving them a fair amount of additional traffic. The proposed increase of capital for the gene ral purposes of the company was fully explained in the 13th and 14th paragraphs of the directors' report, and had already been before the shareholders on former occasions. It would be useless to urge an accession of traffic when the great float at Birken head was completed, unless they could provide the additional accommodation which would certainly be required on a large scale. It would be impossible for the company to carry on a large trade success fully unless proper and sufficient accommodation were provided. The money would not be expended without the authority of the shareholders in every case. The most pressing matters would be provided for as early as possible, full explanations would be given as to any proposed outlay, the expenditure would be carried on gradually, and spread over a certain period. All that was required at present was their assent to the application to Parliament for powers to raise the money when required for the purposes of the company, but the directors could not raise any part of it without the authority of the proprietors at some future meeting. to be con vened for the purpose. Mr. SAKER had no doubt that the plan proposed by the Board was a good one, but he trusted that nothing would be done to interfere with the free operation of their broad gauge for passenger traffic. It was the favourite gauge with passengers, and had the advantage in respect of speed and safety. It was of great consequence to the company that it should be retained, particularly for reaching distant stations. He thought the estimate for laying down the narrow gauge f'rom Reading to London was too high, and that it would not cost so much as £225,000, or £5,000 per mile. Mr. VIVIAN suggested that the company should make a narrow gauge line from Oxford to Wycombe or Uxbridge, and so on to Paddington, with a view to fill up that district, and thus pre vent the West Midland or any other company projecting a line in that direction. The Rev. Mr. NICHOLSON said he was not a partisan of the directors, but on that occasion he would give them his most hearty support. Their narrow gauge traffic on the Shrewsbury lines was increasing considerably ; up to the present time the traffic had shown an increase of £B,OOO, and there was every probability that those lines would soon show a profit instead of a loss. Mr. NORRIS, M.P., hoped the meeting would not sanction so large an expenditure of capital in the present condition of the company. Their dividend had now arrived at 3 per cent.., and he thought, as prudent men, they should not increase their outlay until they could pay dividends on the ordinary stock at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. Their capital was £23,000,000, of which £8,250,000 was ordinary stock, £4,500,000 preference stock, and £10,500,000 floating debt. He did not see how they were to raise additional capital unless they could increase their preference stock considerably, and reduce the proportion of the floating debt. He had no confidence in the promises of the West Midland to bring traffic on their line. The Wycombe and Uxbridge district was open to them, and he hoped no expense in laying down the narrow gauge would be incurred on that account. Mr. SHAW said he represented the Edinburgh shareholders, and they were of opinion that no further expenditure should be incurred until the shares were higher in price, and the dividends larger for a certain time. He quite concurred in the views of the last speaker. Mr. BAKER, a director, thought it right, in justice to the chairman, to inform the meeting that he had gone into the whole question with the utmost care, that he had investigated every point in the most minute manner, and that he (Mr. Baker) had accompanied his Lordship in those inquiries, and could assure the proprietors of the great personal labour and consideration the whole matter before them had devolved on their noble chairman, and he (Mr. Baker) had no doubt of the result of those measures as to an increase of revenue, if the propositions of the directors were carried out. With regard to the West Midland Railway Company, they could afford them all accommoda tion they could possibly require, on such advan tageous terms that they would not be wise men if they did not embrace them. He contended that that was the proper time to consider the question of accommodating narrow gauge traffic, and that a considerable augmentation of revenue would be the result of the proposed facilities. Mr. GILES .. contended that the time must come when the whole of the broad gauge rails would be taken up and replaced by narrow gauge rails. (Cries of "No, no !") Various annual sums had fallen in, and were about falling into the hands of the company, amounting in the aggregate to £33,000 a year, and instead of raising any more ou r ;tal hr. would appropir;cif. that 0.1 , 1/111n t t o pro vide the necessary accommodation for increased traffic. He concluded by moving an amendment to the effect that the further consideration of the question be deferred until the next half-yearly meeting. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to various observations, said he thought there was a certain amount of mis apprehension among the shareholders respecting the broad gauge on their line ; the board had no intention whatever of disturbingit. He quite agreed in all the observations as to the advantages of re taining it for their passenger and goods traffic, particularly to Birmingham and other places. (Hear, hear.) There was no doubt the goods traffic had suffered from the break of gauge, and he might state that the great object of the board was to remove all obstructions to their traffic, and to induce as much traffic to come upon their lines as possible. The directors would take care not to spend anything more than was requisite to accomplish the desirable objects they had in view. They would feel much gratfied if they should find that less capital than was estimated would be sufficient for these purposes, but he did not believe the sums re quisite had been over-estimated. He could not tell what might be done in 100 years hence, but he could assure Mr. Giles that they had no intention whatever to pull up the broad gauge and substi tute the narrow ; their only object was to develope the resources of the line as much as possible, for the advantage of the public and for the benefit of the proprietors. (Hear, hear.) On a show of hands only four appeared for the amendment, and a very large number against it. The report was then adopted with only three dis sentients. _ • _ The CHAIRMAN proposed the following resolu tion : " That the directors be, and they are hereby empowered, to make application to Parliament in the ensuing session for a bill to enable them to raise and creato additional capi tal, not exceeding £1,000,000, for the several purposes spe cified in the said report, upon such terms and conditions as may be determined irom time to time by resolutions of the company, and generally to regulate the existing capital of the company as may seem most advantageous to the com pany." he resolution was carried, and the proceedings terminated. CAPE TOWN. It appears that on the 20th ult. the first locomo tive engine ran upon this company's line from Cape Town to Salt River, prior to the ballasting of the line. It was expected that the railway would be completed for traffic to Stellenbosch, a distance of 30 miles from Cape Town, by the time specified in the contract. MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL. The third ordinary meeting was held at the London Tavern yesterday; Mr. Thomson in the chair. The report stated that the directors had the utmost confidence in the soundness and promise of the Toombuddra project, and they were assured that, with a continuance of that full and ready sup port which they had hitherto received from the local Government, it would fully, justify the expec tations entertained of its merits. The directors believed they would be enabled very shortly to lay before the shareholders an accurate plan of the whole work now to he carried out by the company. The expenditure of the company, both in England and in India, up to the 30th of September last, amounted to £72,127, and the receipts on accoun t of capital to the same period to £536,366, leaving a balance of £464,239 in hand at that date. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said since the report had been printed they had received advices of a later date, which informed th e m that surveys and levels had been made, and that the exact course of the canal had been deter mined. It was desirable that the whole of the works should be carried out by the company, and the consulting engineer of the Government and the local Government were of that opinion. To carry out the project additional capital would be required. The works already constructed had greatly relieved the distress of the country, and when fully carried out could not fail to be a great benefit to the province and a source of profit to the company, as the average profit on water would be 15s. per acre ; the Government would, however, take a part of that. This statement must be taken a little reserve, but as he had it on the authority of the consulting engineer, it must be satisfactory to the I shareholders. Colonel ONSLOW seconded the motion. The report having been adopted, Mr, JONES made a motion which was discussed and withdrawn. The retiring directors were re-elected. and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. REDUCTION OF RAGGED SCHOOL GRANTS. A meeting of the friends of the Original Ragged Schools (Dr. Guthrie's) was hold at Edinburgh 0 Monday to consider what steps should be taken tot obtain the reeall of the Privy Cotincil minutes which have so seriously reduced the grants to Ragged Schools, and in order to enable the directors to carry on the institution on its present footing •until a new appeal shall be made to Parlianlent in behalf of these schools. The Lord Provost prebided. Mr. BLACK, M.P., moved the first resolution, which was the same as that moved by Sir Jol'in Pakington in the House of Commons on the 14th o August : " That the grants annually made by Parliament for the promotion of education ought to be expended with a fair ' and just regard to the requirements of the different elapses of schools recognised by the minutes of the Committee of Council ; and that the ragged and industrial schools, *Mai are alone adapted to meet the wants of a considerable n um ber of destitute neglected children, do not receive the amount of aid to which they are entitled." The Rev. Dr, MACLEOD, Barony parish, Glasg o vr, , seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried. Mr. DUNLOP, M.P., moved the second resolution, which was an appeal for funds to enable the in tot.- tution to tide over its present difficulties. 'Mr. MURE, M.P., seconded the lootion. Dr. GUTHRIE supported the r esolution . a characteristic speech, in which, after some indig nant remarks on the Privy Conocil's wi draw, al of funds, he made an urgent appeal for help in the present emergency. If rou do not help us, he said, we must either sink into the tide, and by accumulating debt ruin the whole concern, or we must east seventy children overboard. Now, who is to select the seventy victims ? We einnot go into debt. I'll never agree to that. I'll n eve r work with money that is not my own ; lie the s in and guilt where they mu, I'll be no party to goi.lg into debt. We must, nil less you come out, turll out 70 children, and cast them overboard. It'll be a black day for Edinburgh when these children are' turned out into the streets, cast out to go and beg their bread of you ; to hold out their hands for a piece of bread, to leave the happy school and their happy home, and to lie like houseless dogs in stair foots, and to go to ruin ! That is the question now ; and that question must be settled soon, and can only be settled by you. That day, I hope, will newer come ; it will be a dark day for our city if it do. Fancy 70 of these children walking weeping out of our school, not, like our first parents as tney went out of Eden, weeping for their sins ; they have done no sin ; they have been more sinned against than sinning; that is the truth. They are suffering innocents, but out they must go, and when they go out let them muffle that drum and beat the funeral march of their good fortunes and of their highest hopes. And then let Mr. Smith (the governor of the prison) open his prison wards. The prison is well-nigh empty ; it will be filled by and by. Let them cry, " Room in the prison." God cries, " Room in Heaven for the guilty ;" here they cry, " Room in the prison for the innocent." I say, it will be a black day when that is do ne ; and it is clean contrary to common sense ; it is clean con trary to the best interests of our country. It Is the spirit of our country 'to help the weak and let the strong fight their own battle. As to the pre sent question, I am confident the people of Edin burgh will answer my present appeal. I was astonished at the wonderful way in which they answered my first appeal on this subje ct ; I shall be more astonished still if this appeal I now make is not answered. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM—NoT. 29. A fair business was done in wheat to-day, but a leas supply. English old and new wheat m ust by quoted at late rates ; sellers would not submit to a reduction. Bar ley was a dull sale, and fully cheaper to sell. Beans and peas unaltered. Oats is lower. MANCHESTER—Nov. 29. There was a thin attendance to-day, and business very limited. New and old English wheats sold at late rates, foreign damp sorts were 2d per 701bs lower. Inferior ne glected. Flour is per barrel cheaper. Oats ld to 2d per 451bs and oatmeal ld per load cheaper. Indian corn and beans at easier quotations. MELTON MOWBRAY—NoT. 28. There was a good show of wheat to-day, which sold at 10 to 2s under late rates for all good sorts, while inferior aorta were a dull sale. Beans and oats were a moderate ahow, and our quotations sustained Prices :—White wheat, 645 Od to 67s Od ; red, 60s Od to 62s per 36 atone; barley is fair supply, at 36s to 42s for malting, and 32s to 34s per qr. for grinding ; oats, 29s to 38s Od per 24 stone ; beano, 50s to 55s for old; new, 50s per 38 it. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Nov. 28; --- - -- --- Wheat on the top 8s Od down average 2s:9d down. Barley on the top is Od down average Os 2d down. Oats on the top Os 6d down, average is 7d down. Beans on the top 2s 6d up .... . average is 9d down. Averages per Imperial quarter. 1 , 1 7 2. 4, New wheat .. , -12ths Barley 1 17 10 0-12ths Oats 1 6 0 4-12ths Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ... 813 qrs Sold 580 qrs 8ar1ey........3082 qrs . Sold 2086 qrs Oats .1844 qrs Sold 1617 qrs Beans 27 qrs Sold 26 qrs CORK—Nov. 28. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 22s Od to 29s 6d ; white, 29s Od to 338 6d; barley 141 Od to 21s Od ; oats, 15s Od to 15s 2d. DERBY SMITHFIELD—Nov. 28. ----- --- There was a full supply of fat beasts to-day, and the de.. mg.nd was good, most of the animals being disposed of. The supply of fat sheep was rather better, and they were well disposed of. Fat and store calves were a heavy sale. Pigs, scarce, but the demand good. Beef 6d to 61d Veal ... 7 d to 744 Mutton .. 6d to 7a Pork ........ •.6dto 60 Lamb Hides, 3id to 4id ; calf skins, 5d to 6d. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. .. .. .. .. Dec. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds .. .. .. .. Dec. 6. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. .. .. Nov. —. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. .. Nov. —. Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. .. .. Overdue. Cape of Grocd Hope, &c... .. .. .. Dec. 2., China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Dec. 2. Do. Nov. 26. 25 26.. (via Marseilles) Ne v . 26 . Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. „. .. Overdue. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Dec. 2 . Do. India (Bombay), (via Southamp (v ton ia ) M . ar . seille :? Do. (via Marseilles) •• ... Dec. 5.1 Lisbon .. .. .. .. .• .. Dee. 1. Cuba and Meade') .. .. • . • • • • Nov. 28. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Nov. 26. Vigo, and Oporto .. • • • • • • • • Dec. 1. United States, California, &c. • • • • .. Nov, 28. Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Dec. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Nov. 28. [AounTisErazuT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag gravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the " lxvA.Lips' Oirif Ciuxox," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex. Irnse, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the removal of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation,. liver complaints, nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitation, cough, asthma, consumption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms, sinking, fits, bronchitis "Unauestionably the safest Guide to health." BIRTHS. BARNARD.—On the 28th inst., at Montague-house, Hast ings, the wife of Dr. Barnard, of a daughter. DRUMMOND.—On the 27th inst., at Bonn, Prussia, Mrs. Mortimer Percy Drummond, of a son. ELLisoN.—On the 29th inst., at 13, Dartmouth-park road, Kentish-town, the wife of Thomas Ellison, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. MAItItIAGES. BOYER—PAGET.-011 the 28th inst., at St. James's, Croy don, Henry Downs, fourth son of Mr. Michael Bowyer, of Betchworth, Surrey, to Rose, youngest daughter of Mr. Peter Paget, of Croydon, Surrey. BURNS—ARBUTHNOT.—On the 27th inst., at Mavisbank House, John Burns, Esq., Glasgow, to Emilyt the eldest daughter of George C. Arbuthnot, Esq., of Mavisbank, Midlothian. DEATHS. CLARKE.—On the 28th inst., suddenly, at hie residence, King-street, Covent-garden, Mr. He nr y C larke, aged 61. CuLLum.—On the 26th inst., at his residence ' East End House, Finchley, Samuel Henry Cullum, Esq., aged 82. CUTLER.—On the 28th inst., at 3, Brunswick-square, Chas. Cutler, Esq., aged 51. DOUGLAS.—On the 28th inst., Archibald Douglas, Esq., of Glenfinart, Argyllshire, aged 83. KING.—On the 27th inst., at Brighton, Charles King, Esq., aged 81. MENCE.—On the 28th inst., at Ulcombe Rectory, Kent, the Rev. Samuel Mence, rector, aged 80. WATTS.—On the 27th inst., Edmund Turner Watts, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, and of Heathside, near Dartford, Kent, aged 56. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun )face, No. 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the mot, Middlesex, Friday, November 30, 1830. pRIZ - lu toots, C Ir and close becembel Shilling MIEN At a Ai tion on t Flis j it vas pr and a That C 411 4 a no tade of h Proposed and That I Spain, p, those col Without EPlred b y ' 3 f the au Propos6 sem That a I ' 4 ° 4 of a 411811rpal t:c sart ' . ' ~A: Lie Re' Lie