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BY SAMUEL LA'3IERT, M.D., Matriculated37' 3 8 1 e l. m M b F e rOoRrD the S u g n U i vAelgt,yLor n O b N u , r gh rary Member of the London Hospital Medic al Societ y , Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.,Sze• Hono rary essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits , irreg ularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi tion, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health happiness, and privileges to which every human being is en titled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting, of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by , J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester square ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Hormusjee, Apollo-street ; Bombay—Circulator Office ; Madras—Mofussilite Office, Agra; Dodsworth, Colombo, Ceylon ; and of all Booksellera through out the Colonies. - __- ...._. _ . r --, _ C..7-----c---- _ • . , . ,z..,,, ~- - ,_ 1. • i. a , . _. . ~...,I. , _ , ..,- . ...., . . tz1..., . • - - ~,?,_,.: .. i 1 ...."- - moment an eseapgiV - git.w _.-- ;', -. re SIA , AC* A - , 415 -14 444eir NI - •" I . 3r4 1 ,- 4k. /14} 4 -- ft I - ii ....... %a. '‘. _ ' 4,kais..l -7L - A L‘iftil_k. 4,,1424111 _ " P *l:44ll'' r " 1 / 4 .......,,,, place on the first liardifil-.144d •i .. the ~, c 3,,,,, : A . , , , Nom on the g,allery stair, anciNto hiie e oded. , i. (1 1 .: '.. , , , 4 ,.. . i, ';'„ ~.), \ . , T , '''' - / \ .....". 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There the advanced guard of the crowd waiting on the stairs, sharing in the panic, turned round to swell the. descending torrent and to effect their escape. This was the crisis of the calamity. On reaching the last landing-place from the ground in their downward course more than a score of people were thrown down, and the greater part of them literally trodden and crushed to death. S ome there were _ - PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD. have made a further outlay ;of nearly £6,000,000. Consequently, we have invested in these ships nearly £28,000,000. Now, any radical change in the construction of war ships must tend to render this enormous sum of money lost to us, and entail upon us a fresh expense of like or of greater amount. No other power has so large and expensive a navy, and, therefore, no other nation has so much to lose by sweeping Changes. As good economists, we should not then be over hasty in developing new means of naval warfare in times of peace. The de fence of our coasts is, of course, at all times a legi timate subject of improvement, and no necessary pains should be spared in rendering that com plete. But that may be best done by man ning a sufficient number of the ships we have, rather than by devising new ones ; and the existing Government will deserve great praise if they provide the means of doing this. There is no sign of weakness now visible in the navy of England save in its lack of men. The ships we possess carry no less than 15,140 guns, and could these be all discharged at once, would, at each round,< project 254 tons of iron ! In one day of twelve hours, firing but one round per minute, they would therefore project 914,000 tons, enough to form a solid cannon ball 120 feet in diameter. To fully man all these ships, and bring all their powers into play, we should require but 162,000 men, and if we had but a fair proportion of these to call upon in an emergency, our defence would surely be complete. It will probably be objected by some that the French and Americans are building a new class of formidable vessels, and that we must, there fore, do the same. But the assumption of such objectors requires proof. The "ram's nest," lately discovered in America. is very much like another kind of nest which some peoble are vtry often find ing. The " yarn" that it contains heed occasion no alarm. It has already cost the American Govern ment 800,000 dollars, and a committee appointed to examine it is said fo have reported that it will take 800,000 more to complete the operations begun. It is, therefore, exceedingly likely to remain in its nest for very many years to come ; indeed, an American scientific paper some time since pro nounced it fit only for exhibition to visitors, at three cents, a piece, as a monument of folly. As to the French, they have, like ourselves, many inducements to refrain from great innovations. Where we have sixty steam line-of-battle ships they have thirty ; where we have 330 steam-ships they have 229 ; and where we have 600 ships in all they have 400. Further, much that we have heard of their proceedings is not only false, but ridiculous. The rumour that they were build ing six polished'steel•frigates, by which some per sons were recently plunged into deep distress, was manifestly put forth to excite our foolish fears ; and . statements less evidently absurd are doubtless often started with a like object. The French navy itself, though too costly to be thrown lightly aside, is greatly inferior to ours, as we have just seen ; and the Emperor can be doing nothing that our Government are not advised of, and which they are not, therefore, at liberty to do also ; and, doubtless, would do, were it anything formidable. Certainly nothing yet made public need excite our appre hension. Give us a strong'Channel fleet, liberally manned and well disciplined, and no power that the French, or any other Government, possesses would dare to menace our coasts ; nor would any man venture to say, with Sir Francis Head, that no thing but the will of a foreign Emperor kept Lon don secure from a foreign army. Let it not be thought that the economical considerations before alluded to should be suppressed in the discussion of this topic. Certainly, economy should not be car ried so far as to cripple the Government in defend ing either Great Britain or its dependencies ; nor should it be permitted to impede those researches and experiments which may be essential to the full and prompt development of our strength in the time of war, should that arrive. But surely this country, with no offensive or aggressiue ends to attain, and yet possessing a navy worth 28 millions of money, and crowded, as it is; with a fearless and patriotic people, need not wince at every hostile whisper, or spend another million on war ships every time a foolish foreigner boasts ; nor can it be amiss for such a nation to count the cost of so time, rous a policy. But if we are resolved on advancing at full speed in these matters, we have need to pre pare ourselves for such navy estimates as we have never before known. For there never was a period when the art of naval warfare was more susceptible of change than it is at this moment. Fifty years ago the dimensions of vessels were, by common con a 7 assmasacw was practically stationary; the winds of heaven were our only propellers, and blew on all fleets equally. But now 'we build frigates much larger than the line-of-battle ships of that day, and know of nothing to hinder us from building them twice as large if we will. Our guns are incessantly im proved—now by one, now by another, and the breech-loading rifled cannon which Mr. Armstrong has just given us, and which ranges, I am told, four miles, may be quickly succeeded by another of twice ! its range. The paddle-wheel has made us independ ent of sails ; the screw has made us independent of the paddle-wheel ; and the 200-horse power engine of the Rattler has been followed by the 1,000-horse power engine which is: to drive the Mersey, and that may speedily be replaced by one ten times its power. A single improvementin the manufacture of iron, which hundreds are now seeking to improve, may at any moment give us the means of carrying our steam pressure to unheard-of heights, of resist ing shells with the utmost ease, and of augmenting the strength of our ordnance tenfold." _ .. who precipitated themselves over the balustrades from one landing to another, on the heads of the affrighted mass below, and either saved their lives or perished in the attempt.. There is a rumour abroad, to which at this moment we know not what amount of credit is due, that the alarm within the theatre originated, not from the explosion of gas on the stairs, but with a boy in one of the boxes who had sat down on his coat pocket, in which :he carried some fusees, and so ignited them. The accident is cer- tainly referred-to this latter cause by some of the people connected with the theatre, who, accounting for it in that way, deny that the explosion of gas on the landing-place of the gallery stairs had any, thing to do with the calamity. They also state that knowing a crowd always assembles on such occasions on the stairs leading to the gallery before the audience at the carl s ier performance has left the theatre. they provide ntlipr innring of exit f..r +b. departing body than the ordinary descent by the stairs, and that could the people who left the gal lery on the panic have availed themselves of that arrangement, the result would probably have been harmless. It remains to be told, that in spite of this fright ful calamity the entertainment at the theatre in the evening went on as if nothing uncommon had happened, and that long before the doors opened an immense multitude congregated at all the points of entrance waiting for admission. It may be as sumed, in charity towards our common humanity, that few of them could have been cognisant of the melancholy event which had happened only an hour before, but the conduct of those concerned in the management of the theatre is not susceptible of any such construction. Up to an advanced hour last night only two of the dead had been identified by their relatives. One= is a boy about 15 or 16, named Wm. Jones, of 12, Wellington-place, Waterloo-road, whose body lies at the Lambeth dead-house ; the other is a youth of 17, named Wm. Cooper, who resided with his parents at 7, Anthony-street, Salisbury-place, Ber mondsey, and who. was recognised by a younger brother who had accompanied him to the theatre. He lies at St. Thomas's Hospital, with the body of another, which, at 9 o'clock yesterday evening, had not been identified. It is a noteworthy circumstance that among the whole fifteen who have lost thei lives, there is not one woman ; and that they are all boys and youths whose ages apparently run between 21 and 14. Ten of them were taken in cabs by the police to the Lambeth workhouse, the master of which, Mr. Piercy, promptly secured the attendance of Mr. Bullen, but without avail, for they were all dead on their arrival there. It was a touching spectacle to witness the whole ten as they lay side by side, just as they had been brought in from the scene of the calamity. Though they had all met with a violent death, the features of every one of them were remarkably composed. Their lineaments, indeed, were slightly discoloured and swollen in places, but they bore an expression so placid that one might have fancied them asleep. While we were there several half-frantic men and women who had sons missing came in to see if they were among the dead, but at 8 o'clock last night none of them had been identified. By their dress and appearance they all evidently belonged to the very humblest class. The dead body at Christ Church workhouse is that of a fine looking lad of about 14, and it too had not been recognised at the timed_ouz Ile_wpa s_e_e_nbyAlr. Bianchi, a surgeon, shortly atter he was brought Into the house, but he was then quite dead. To the ten who were taken to St. Thomas' Hos pital, eight of whom were living, Mr. Gervis, the house-surgeon, and Mr. Bone, the dresser on duty, promptly attended. The names of those who were able to give them were, Richard Hodge, 30, Walnut-tree-place, Lambeth ; Edward Churchill, or Churchman, 11, Green Dragon-court, King-street, Snow-hill • John Stone, 29, Fox-court, Holborn ; William Barnes, and Benjamin Romaine. There were two other lads, names unknown, suffering from concussion. Barnes was insensible last night, as was also a lad about 14 years of age, not known. Mr. Gervis and Mr. Bone sought to restore life to the two bodies apparently dead by the application of galvanism, and Marshall Hall's method of artificial respiration, but without avail. Several other persons who had sustained injuries in the accident were brought to the hospi tal in the course of the evening, but after receiving the attention of the house-surgeon and dresser, were enabled to be taken to their homes. Messrs. Johnson, Donohoo, Dodd, Brookes, Bate son, and several other surgeons residing in the vicinity of the theatre, rendered prompt assistance to many of the poor sufferers, several of whom, how ever, were either dead or beyond the reach of all human skill when brought under their notice. APPALLING ACCIDENT AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE. Yesterday afternoon a most distressing event, the intelligence of which will deeply wound the public feeling throughout the whole country, occurred in the metropolis in connection with one of its great places of popular recreation, resulting in the violent death of 15 human beings, and injuries more or less serious to many more. Ten of the dead ANOTHEIt ACCOUNT. , In order to prevent any confusion or accident arising from the egress of the visitors to the after noon performance at a time when the evening fre quenters of the play might be expected to arrive, it was arranged that the people in the gallery at the first performance should, instead of leaving the theatre by the ordinary staircase, descend through a lobby leading to the boxes, and go out by the principal entrance. The object of the manager in making this arrangement was twofold—to avoid any collision between the ascending and descend ing people, and at the same time to enable the gal lery doors to be thrown open at a much earlier period than usual, so as to prevent any very great crush at the entrance. The doors were thrown open about 1 o'clock for the morning performance, and the theatre was, as is usual, almost immediately crammed, and everything went well throughout the performance nearly up to the time of the con clusion, when the calamity occurred. A compact mass of persons, principally young men and women, of the class which usually frequents the gallery of the Victoria, were packed together on the stairs, and the crowd was being continually augmented by fresh arrivals from below. The entrance at the top of the staircase was locked for the purpose of preventing confusion and en forcing the clearing of the crowd before the evening visitors were admitted. It was about 20 minutes to five o'clock, while the people were packed together on the gallery stairs in the manner described, that a strong smell of gas was perceived, and it became evident that some rupture had taken place in one of the gaspipes in the stair case. No alarm was at first felt, though the strong smell of the escaping gas at once attracted the at tention of every one. Immediately afterwards, however, a slight explosion took place on the second or third landing, which was distinctly visible to those crowding that portion of the stair case. Then arose the fearful cry of " Fire ! fire !" " The place is on fire !" and a scene of horror en sued baffling all description. The whole mass of people on the upper portion of the stairs, where the explosion took place, in their anxiety to make their escape, precipitated themselves on the ascending crowd below, while those on the stair leading to the first landing, unconscious of what had occurred, kept ascending. The result was that more than 100 people became compactly wedged between the two masses, and were unable to move. This ter rible scene, it is stated, lasted from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour, was found create the dreadful loss of life itthattne followed of had taken place. The harrow a time amply .sufficient to were all found crowded were insensible, and 1 bringing out the dead bodies, i a n s g m s- ell as those who and motionless mass. This in one densesiekningmr. together on the first . la w nd ' i o n ,, , and crushed together Inspector Byron, of the was accomplishedhad L d received almost immediate in ; formation of the catastrophe, and proceeded imme diately bybody of a large diately to the spot, accompanied. t h e ivision, who ad y scene as heart rending, constables. He describes policeand his exertions were made in . the midst ( f the groans, shrieks, and lamentations of the crowd outside, as one dead body or other was re cognised by some friend or relation. The first dut y of the police was to secure all the passine , cabs al d vehicles, and send off the persons who were injure d lie at the Lambeth Workhouse, one at Christchurch Workhouse, in 'the vicinity of the accident, two others at St. Thomas's Hospital, and two at the deadhouse in Lambeth. Of the wounded eight were taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, while many others who sustained injuries less grave, and the number of whom may never be known, were in a state which admitted of their being conveyed to their OWJI homes. The accident of which these are the deplorable results happened at the Victoria Theatre, situated, as most of metropolitan readers know, at the point of intersection of the Waterloo-road and the New cut, forming the centre of a densely populated and generally poor district of Lambeth. There a Christmas pantomime, as at all the rest of the theatres, is invariably produced, and on Boxing-day crowds of the humbler classes, and especially of the young of either sex, rush from the whole surround ing neighbourhood to witness the performance. So high, indeed, does the popular curiosity run in that direction in those parts that the managers of the theatre find it necessary, not to say lucrative, to repeat the pantomime on the same day ; and the entertainment yesterday was announced to take place first at half-past one in the day, and again in the evening at half-past six. During the perform ance in the afternoon the theatre was well filled, though not so densely as it ordinarily is at the evening entertainment on the great Christmas holiday. The gallery, however, was the part of the house most crowded, and, as usual, chiefly by boys and young men, many of them of the very lowest class. The pantomime, of which a notice is given in another column, had proceeded well nigh to its conclusion at the afternoon performance. The time was about half-past four or five, and, although the audience had not left the theatre, an immense crowd thronged the stairs leading to the gallery, waiting for the evening performance, and to take the places of those by whom that part of the building was already occupied. On this flight of stairs, which are of wood and of great width, protected by a secure balustrade, there are several landing places, and two barriers were thrown across, one at the money and the other at the check taker's box, previous to the gallery being opened, to lessen the pressure of the crowd at those points. The staircase runs up the sides of a large square shaft in easy flights from the different landings. This, then, was the state of things immediately preceding the calamity —an unruly rabble was packed nearly to suffoca tion on the stairs as far as the money taker'sbox where a barri er i mpe d e d i ts f ur th er ascent, and a kindred rabble within the building was on the point of making its exit into the air. At that un- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1858. B ANIt OF DEPOSIT, Established A.D. 1844. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to exa mine the Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate of interest may be 'obtained with ample security. Deposits made by Special Agreement may be Withdrawn without notice The Interest is payable in January and/July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Pirector. Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on appli,tation. VAST and WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. -ILA —The Court of Directors of the EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK .COMP,ANY Hereby Give Notice, That a HALT-YEARLY, COURT, or General Meeting of the said Company will be held, pursuant to the • Directions of the Act lit and 2d William 4th, cap. 52, at the Dock Honse, No. 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the 7th day of January, 1859, at which Meeting a , Dividend will be declared on the Capital Stock of the Company for the Half-year ending the 31st instant. By Order of'the Court, - GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, 8, Billiter square, 17th December, 1858. N.B.—The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. THE OPERA COLONNADE .HOTEL COMPANY (Limited). Charles-street, Haymarket (late Feuillade's), London, S.W. Capital, £25,000, in 5,000 shares of £5 each. Deposit 10s. per Share on application, and £2 per share on allotment. The alterations and furnishing are being proceeded with, and the MOTEL will be OPENED in FEBRUARY. Applications for the REMAINING SHARES, Prospectuses, &c., may be made, for a LIMITED PERIOD to the secretary, at the Hotel ; the solicitors, Messrs. Prichard and Collette, 57, Lincoln's -Jun - fields, W.C.; to the brokers, Messrs. Samuel Hill and Son, 3, Copthall-buildings, Bank, E.C. ; or at the tem porary offices of the Company, 15.?, Greshavi-house, Old Brold-street, E.C. T. R. COMYN, Secretary. CONTRACT 'FOR 13RITISH OAK, TIMBER, THICK STUFF, PLANK, AND TREENAILS. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, . Somerset-place, 24th Dec., 1858. 'THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING} the -I- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED' KINGDOM of- GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 25th January next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such" Persons at - may be willing to CONTRACT for sup plying . 26,000 Loadi of BRITISH OAK. TIMBER (rough contents, • but to.be delivered in a rough-or sicled state as the said Commissioners shall direct), 9,000 Loads of BRITISH OAK, THICKSTUFF, and PLANK, and 1,800,000 BRITISH OAK TREENAILS, to be delivered at her Majesty's several Dockyards by the 31st December; 1801, at prices including all carriage and other expenses. A tender may be made for the whole contract, or for the quantities required at any one or more of the yards, but not for less than the fhll'quantities of Timber, Thickstur, Plank, and Treenails required for any one yard. A form of the tender, showing- the distribution sidings and dimensions of the Timber, Thickstuffi 'Plank, and Treenails, and all other necessary particulars, may be had on application to this office, by letter or. otherwise. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. -Every. tender must be addreised to. the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words" Ten der for British Oak," and must be delivered at SOmerset place, accompanied by a letter - signed by - two reaponsible,Per sons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, la the sum of £20,000, for the due performance of the whole con tract, or in a due proportion for a part only. DINING TABLES, CHAIRS, and SIDE.. BOARDS of fine Spanish Mahogany, Walnut Tree, and Oak, in_the greatest variety, are now on view at Messrs. DRUCE and,Co.'s Extensive SHOW ROOMS, 68, 69,. and 58, BAKER-STREET. N.B.—Very superior Dining-room Chairs, in Leather, 19s. 6d. each. 500 Easy Chairs to select from. Down Quilts, from ss. 6d. each. - WHO WILL PAY TIM CHINESE INDEMNITY ? Why, the English themselves. An export duty is to be leiied, and then not even the East India Tea Company will be able,' as they now are, to a ell 61b. of Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at Is. 10d. per lb., and Coffee, in the Berry, at 101—Warehouse, 9, Great St. Llelen's-church yard, City. GLENFIELD. PATENT STARCH, USED. IN THE• ROYAL LAUNDRY,. AND PRONOUNCED DY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. ' Sold by all Chandjers, Grocers Are, &c. BOAR") AND RESIDENCE. --- A Superior Home.is offered to a Gentleman of steady habits, en raged during, the day, by a family residing near Regent's- Park. For a young man coming to London for the first time t'.'is would bb"found a desirable residence. Terms moderate. Referenees to be exchanged. Address, J. P., Wright's Dairy, Granby-street,, Hampstead-road, N.W. • DECAYED TEETH and TOOTHACHE.— lIWARD'S ENAMEL for stopping Decayed Teeth, however large the cavity. 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ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library. and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assortment of VASES, Mures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., iu Italian Alabaster, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCIIOLOGY, and GEOLOGIgrat 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in - GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand. PURSUANT to .a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause " STAPLETON against STAPLETON," the creditors ofWILLIAM STAPLF/rON, late of Sunbury, in the county of Middlesex, fishmonger, who died in or about the month of June, 1842, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 20th day of January, 18.59, to come in and prove their debts at the chambers of the Vice- Chancellor Kindersley, at No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lin coln's-inn, Middlesex, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Monday, the 24th day of January, 1859, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 11th day of December, 1358. KEIGHLEY and GET RING, 7, Ironmonger-lane, City, Plaintiff's Solicitors. 1 1 HE MADRAS IRRIGATION and CANAL COMPANY. (Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament.) For Constructing, Maintaining, and Working (under the sanction and with the support of the Government of India) a comprehensive system of Irrigation Works and Navi gable Canals throughout the Presidency of Madras and the neighbouring Territories of Berar, Cochin, Hyderabad, Mysore, Nagpoor, Orissa, the South Mahratta Country, and Travancore • and also throughout the Lower Pro vinces of Bengal, when the necessary powers. shall have been obtained. First Capital, £2,000,000 (with power to increase). First Issue thereof, £1,000,000; in 50,000 Share& of £2O each, upon which a perpetual Minimum Interest of £5 per cent. has been guaranteed by the• Secretary of State for India in Council, all surplus profits being divisible equally between the Government and the Company : which arrangement is subject to be determined only by the Go vernment purchasing the Works constructed within six months after the expiration of each period of 25 years, at a sum equal to the market value of the shares of the company on an average of the three preceding years. Deposit, £1 per Share, to bear Interest at the guaranteed rate from the day on which the same shall be paid into the Indian Treasury. • DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN-JAMES THOMSON, Esq. (Messrs. Line and Co., Madras), Deputy Governor of the Agra Bank, and late Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Madras, and President of the Madras Bank. Colonel Philip Anstruther, C. 8., Madras Artillery. The. Hon. Philip. Pleydell Bouverie, M.P. (Messrs. Ran som, Bouverie, and Co.) Lieutenant-Colonel Grimes, Madras Army, Chairman of the Oriental Inland Steam Company. Colonel Atwell Lake, C. 8., late Superintending Engineer of the Kistnah Irrigation Works. Lieutenant-Colonel Onslow, late of the Commission for _ governing Mysore. Lieutenant-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., F.R.G.S., &c. Major-General Westrow Watkins, Madras Army. CONSULTING ENGINEER. COl. J. T. Smith, Madras Engineers, F.R,.5., AUDITORS.—James Bonar, Esq. (Messrs. Small and Co., Old Jewry). BANKERS.—Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East. SOLICITOR. — John Atackrell, Esq., 34, Cannon-street West. SECIETA RY.--John Westwood, I;sq. Offices-27, Cannon-street, London, E.C. Full Prospectuses and Forms of applications for shares may now be had on applicatiox at the Company's Offices, 27, Cannon-street, London, B.C. ; of the bankers, Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and of the solicitor, John Mackrell, Esq., 34, Cannon -street West, 8.C., London.; but no application will be considered unless a deposit of D. on each share applied for is previously made to Messrs. Ransom, Bouvene, and Co., bankers of tho company. The deposit will be returned if the applica- tion is not acceded to. Extinct from Minutes of Consultation transmitted by the Government of Madras, on the 15th May, 1858, to the late Court of Directors of the East India Company : The Government express their unanimous, strong, and earnest advocacy that all irrigation works which, on a com prehensive view of the wants of the country, may be deemed necessary to develop its undoubtedly great resources, be commenced at once boldly and on a large scale, be pressed forward throughout all times and under all circumstances, and be looked on, and be practically treated, as in fact they ritally are, as the most economical, because the most pro fitable, undertakings in which the Government could pos sibly enage. It is needless now again to bring forward the innumerable instances in which money has in the Pre sidency been most advantageously invested in irrigation works. The proceedings of Government have, in this re spect; been only too desultory and vacillating, and it is confidently asserted that India could be placed in a position to pay all her own expenses, and gradually dis charge her debt far more readily and speedily by a judicious expenditure than by any scheme of retrenchment or reduc , tion. THE BRITISH NAVY, The following remarks upon the British Navy, and upon. the• proposals which have recently been made respecting the introduction of iron-plated ships, war and steam rams, are extracted from the paper read at the last meeting of the Society of Arts, by Mr. E. J. Reed, Admiral Sir Charles Napier presiding on the occasion:— " Our navy is now composed of the following fighting vessels :—First, 201 sailing vessels of all classes—but few of whieh, probably, will ever again be commissioned. (Might not same of these be sold with advantage ? Scores of them which will not be used again as ships of war, would be valuable for many mercantile purposes, and should not, therefore, be permitted to rot in our harbours.) Next we have 75 paddlewheel steamers,.most of which, though not very effective for' fighting pur poses, will, while they last, be of considerable value in times of peace, and of some service even in war, Finally, we have a fleet of screw steam-ships and vessels, to the constitution of which I desire to draw particular attention. It consists of ,51 line-of battle ships, each armed with 8-inch shell guns and 32-pounder solid shot guns, in various-propor tions, together with one, and in some cases two, pivot 68-pounders; 9 block-ships also armed with 8-inch shell guns, and 32 pounders in Various - pro pertions, together with two- 68-pounders and four 10-inch shell guns to each ship ; 28 frigates most of them powerfully and some °Mem very formidably armed—the engines of 16 of the 28 being at least of 600 nominal horse-power; 13 corvettes, each carrying 20 8-inch shell guns, and at least one 68-pounder, or eine 10-inch shell gun • eight other corvettes, armed with 32-pounders, and at least one pivot gun each ; four mortar frigates,' with 13-inch mortars, 68-pounders, and 32-pounders ; 8 floating batteries, entirely with 68- pounders ; 27 sloops, mainly with 32-pounders ; 26 gun-vessels, with 68-pounders and 32-pounders ; ,and 163 gfin-boats, each with one 68-pounder and one 32-pounder—in all 331, inclusive of a few_new building and undergoing alterations. It is impos sible to examine these figures without observing that the number of our frigates, corvettes, sloops, and still smaller vessels, is very large as compared with our ships of the line ; and it is, in my judg ment, equally impossible to point •out any very glaring- defects in the principle upon which they are armed. This, latter _statement cannot well be tested otherwise than by a comparative reference to foreign navies. The-only two of these to which I need refer are those of France and America. As to the former, I have carefully examined the official records (which • .are published by Sir Howard Douglas in his "Naval Gunnery"), and I find no ground whatever for considering that the arma ments of French 'ships of war are in - any way superior to our own. With regard to the American navy, we_have, indeed, heard much that sounds for midable, recently, especially of the Niagara and the Merrimac. Of the former of those vessels I need say but, little, as the American Government itself places small confidence in her. She is, it is true, a gigantic vessel, but she carries only a dozen shell guns ; and our own frigate Diadem, of about two thirds her size, would, as I have elsewhere shown, speedily overpower her, either at short or at long range. The Merrimac is certainly a very formid able vessel. Captain Dahlgren, in a recently pub lished work on " Shells and Shell Guns," draws a 'careful comparison between .her and our .own Shannon, the name of which will be fresh in every mind, as the last command of the chivalrous and much-lamented Sir William Peel. Captain Dahlgren very fairly decides that the Merrimac is the more powerful ship of the two ; but seeing that, as he admits, her tonnage is one-fifth greater than the Shannon's, we might well be 'astonished if she were not of superior power. We have, however, other vessels- similar in size to the Merrimac, one class of which is armed entirely with heavy 68-pounders, from which, of course, 8-inch shells can be most effectively fired ; and another class armed with a combination of 10-inch shell-guns and 68-pounders. of 95 cwt. The vessels of both these classes are fitted with engines of no less than 1,000 horse-power, by virtue of which they will probably attain a speed of twelve er four teen knots per hour, while the Merrimac makes eight only/ The advantages of this superiority of speed I need not dwell upon. Captain Dahlgren has himself since said, in reference to these vessels, " There can be little doubt that with any reason sm. CrIXOOOZI3 0611p1 tis.ex must become the most formidable of ships of war." Although I have thus pointed out the efficiency' of our ships as compared with those of France and America, I by no means wish to imply that the armaments of our steam fleets are not susceptible of improvement with the means already at our dis posal. The very variety observable in the arma ments of ships of similar dimensions indicates imperfection, and even evinces a sense of imperfecz tion in the minds of the authorities who arrange them. Moreover, Sir Howard Douglas .and Capt. Dahlgren have particularised one class of gun which is much used by us, but which is too light for its duty, namely, the 10-inch shell-gun of 86 cwt. This gun has been superseded in the American navy by one of 'lO7 Cwt., and should certainly occupy a less prominent position in ours. Other desirable modi fications might be made, and the whole subject re quires still deeper study than appears to have been bestowed upon it. . . . The floating batteries built by the Admiralty are undeserving of that utter condemnation which some have pronounced against them. Sir Charles Napier, for instance, committed a great error when, in a letter to the Times, he mentioned "iron floating batteries which could hardly swim, and if they could would have been useless, for had they been placed within 400 yards of Sveaborg they would have been annihi lated, and at 800 yards they would, have done no harm." Those batteries are armed, as before stated, with 68-pounders, and -Sir Thomas Hasting's ex periments on the Prince George hulk twenty years auo proved that at 1,200 yards 68-pounders are highly destructive, and we all know that they .are so at even much greater ranges. The true defects of the batteries lie, not in any wea k ne ss of arma ment, but in their slowness of speed, their un manageableness at sea, and, as the late experiments appear to show, the weakness of their frames. But scant justice would be done to the designers of H. M. ships if I were to omit to state that the diffi culty which besets this question of the construction of iron-plated war ships—of which we have lately heard so much—is far greater than amateur de signers appear to understand. Of the many scores of propositions which have been made of late years but extremely few will' bear the test of a practical embodiment. The first, and, indeed, the only very serious difficulty experienced in - designing ships to be plated with iron four inches thick and upwards, is that of supplying sufficient displacement to sustain the imposed weight without resorting to great draught of water or immoderate dimensions. Various devices have been proposed for evading this diffi culty, the most notable of which is that of covering a portion only of the vessel with armour plates — the bow, according to others. These plans are for the most part attended by too many and too great disadvantages for them to be adopted. Proposi tions have likewise been made for covering ships with strips of iron, filled in between with hard wood ; for reducing the thickness of the iron plates and backing them with india rubber; and for many other modified arrangements. But hitherto expe riments have proved adverse to these plans. It has been further suggested that the submerged portion of the ship might be made much longer than the portion above water. This plan has been adopted to a limited extent (for a different purpose) in the French gunboats ; and, although experienced naval architects will discern several objections to this mode of construction, it appear s to me likely that the displacement might in this way be increased without the entailment of great drawbacks. Another proposal which I have met with in several quarters is that of reducing the thickness of the iron armour and placing it at an inclination, in order to reduce the effect of shot, which are sup posed to strike horizontally. The name of Mr. George Rennie is most prominently associated with this proposal, in consequence of his having read a paper in advocacy of it at the 13ritish Association in September last. Mr. Rennie prefers the use of curved plates, but as a curved steam is but a sur face of varying inclination, the principle involved is of course the same in both cases. It needs, I find no appeal to experiment to show that the proposed arrangement would not be attended by any advan tage. The simplest theoretical consideration shows that, for a given height of bulwark, the same quantity of metal will be required to resist a given blow, whatever the inclination may be. If a shot moving horizontally strikes an inclined plate, the crushing force exerted upon the plate is equal to the crush ing force which would have been exerted upon it if upright, multiplied by the sine of the angle between the inclined plate and the horizontal. To keep the crushing effect constant, therefore, the thickness of the metal must also vary as the sine of that angle; and since the length of the inclined section varies inversely as that sine, the sectional area of the plate, and consequently its weight, remain un changed. Hence, the side of a ship will requite the same weight of metal upon it in order to resist hori zontal shot, whether it be upright or inclined. The curving of the plates would render it necessary to 'hake them of a variable thickness throughout, if the minimum amount of metal is to be used, and I need hardly say that plates could not practically be used in this manner. Another important objection to Mr. 'Rennie's system is, that an inclined side would be much more injuriously exposed than a vertical side to the action of shot and shell fired from long rane ° es, and of a plunging fire like that of the Wasp battery, from -which several ships suffered so severely in the attack on the sea faces of the fortresses of Sebastopol. Sir, Charles Napier's plan of cutting a three-decked ship down to a frigate, covering her with thick armour plates, fitting her with a screw, and arming her with 10- inch guns, as proposed by him in the House 'of Cominons in April last, superficially appears a very reasonable one. At the: same time it is one that Sir Charles himself would 'probably, on mature reflection, consider it, not prudent to adopt. It would cost from £BO,OOO to £lOO,OOO to alter a single ship in . this way, and when altered she would be -deficient of some of those excellent qualities which he has for many years justly extolled. It is time that all those who con cern themselves with the_ great . question of how iren, may be best rendered available for the defence of ships' sides, should recur to• the circumstance which gave rise to it, and to the.true end to be et present attained. That circumstance, undoubtedly, was the introduction of Paixhan s shells into naval warfare ; and the end desired is the application of means by which the entrance of those terrible missiles through the side of a ship may be avoided. The attarnment'of this end would leave us subject only to the entrance of solid shot, to which all our ships were exposed during the wars in which we won our supremacy, and from which no practicable system of iron plating can at present be expected to save us. The attempt to build ships which shall be proof to solid shot—at least, ,to wrought-iron solid shot—is an altogether illusory one ; and such ships are not uigently required. It is as a defence against shells, and hollowcharged projectiles gene rally, and against these only, that iron . plating can yet be made available. By applying iron of very great thickness between wind and water we may reduce the liability to injury by shot at that im portant part, and it_ may be well to do this ; but if the upper works are made shell proof we can expect no more. These considerations 'reduce the question to a form in. which it may be practically dealt with, and I doubt not the solution . of it is not very distant. The -only suggestion I have personally to offer upon the point is one in which I find I have, like many others, been altogether anticipated by the gentlemen at Whitehall, but which I may nevertheless mention. It will be evident that fifty feet in - length of iron plating on ,the bow or stern of a vessel, while they would_ weigh the seine as fifty feet of similar plating near midships, would cover and protect a much smaller volume of the ship. I would propose, therefore, that the mid ship portion of the ship only be protected, *and that it be separated from the forward and aft portions by strong iron watertight compartments, so that, however much. the extremities might suffer, the ship would still be safe; and the men protected. Means would, of course, have to be . provided for extinguishing any fires which might be occasioned by shells in the undefended portions of the ship. This plan has been considered, I believe, but whe ther it is judged favourably or not .I am unable to say—probably not, as it does not appear to afford any defence against raking shot. I have yet to notice a correspondence which has lately appeared on the construction of. what are called " steam rains," in mentioning which reference need only be made to the designs of Mr. J. Nasmyth and Vice- Admiral Sartorius. I have not taken the trouble to inquire who first invented them, because I con sider little invention was necessary in the matter, when the mind was once permitted to contemplate the use of such agents - of destruction. Any merit that may exist in relationto them must arise either from the development of special adaptations, con trived so as to render the embodiment of the general principle practicable, or from the setting forth of arguments tending to show the possibility of em ploying such agents with undoubted advantage. Neither Mr. Nasmyth nor 'Admiral Sartorius has hitherto done either- of these things publicly.. Mr. Nasmyth informed us, in the Times, that he sent detailed plans of his proposed vessels to the Ad alla ui ,ars since. ; and, WOW% jib. less occupied than it is just now by those scientific studies and labours for which he is 'so justly and eminently distinguished, wo should have had the satisfaction of examining similar plans here this evening. In the absence of these, however, it is impossible to say whether he has fully grappled with the practical difficulties which have to be overcome, and fully arranged those details in which the whole question of practicability or impractica bility is reall, in such cases, involved. I have some reason, however, for thinking that Mr. Na smyth has done much' in this respect ; for, on re questing him to inform me if he had made provi sion for enabling the engines of the ram to sustain the shock of a collision, I found that, although ho did not apprehend derangement from this cause, yet he had anticipated it in his plans, and pro vided for it. This he did by placing the engine and boiler on a slide bed, and furnishing it with suitable elastic buffing material to admit of the slight run forward, which might tend to take place at the moment of collision. The screw propeller shaft would, in like manner, have a suitable tube-socket connection, which would allow the engine to slide forward, and yet keep up the integrity of the con nection between itself and the screw shaft. Mr. Nasmyth proposes to use no guns, but to content himself with the effects of the collision, which he enhances by the use of a powerful submerged per cussion shell, which should strike the enemy several feet below water, and thus effect a ruinous breach, leaving her no chance of escape. He asks the Government to make experiments with such a vessel, and believes that a " covey of such chicks" would effectually preserve our coast from attack. The scheme of Admiral Sartorius differs from that of Mr. Nasmyth only in the addition of an arma ment of heavy guns to his vessel, and in the sup pression of the percussion shell. He would of necessity require a large vessel ; indeed, he himself proposes to cut down the Great Eastern, cover her with shot-proof iron plates, fit her with a screw at each end, arm her with heavy guns, and make a ram of her. I should add that he would build upon her towers, from which scald ing water might be . pumped upon boarders. My opinion is that there is not a steamship in our navy, nor even a sailing ship, which, except in a dead calm, would not evade the blow of such a vessel. If a ship would lie at rest and wait for her, the gallant admiral's scheme would answer perfectly, b`ut no long ship—which must necessarily occupy considerable time and space in turning—could be expected to answer the end which he assigns to her. Of the two schemes, Mr. Nasmyth's is by far the most premising; since, by excluding the armament, he could keep his vessel comparatively light and short, so as to be easily steered; but whether his percussion shell would be effective against the iron plates which would, of course, be carried down to resist it, and at the same time leave his own craft unscathed, is a very doubtful matter. Before quitting this branch of my subject, I ought to add a word on Mr. Macintosh's system of war fare, which Lord Panmure for a time forcibly sup pressed. It consists' in surrounding fleets or for tresses by floating naphtha, firing the same with potassium or otherwise, and thus enveloping the enemy in a cloud of vapour which either destroys him or drives him from his guns. This is not a mere theoretical proposition, made without con sideration', the inventor having chartered a vessel during the war, and proceeded to the Black Sea with a cargo of naphtha for the purpose of attack in.' Sebastopol. His amiable intentions were frus trated by the indisposition of our admirals to adopt so vast an improvement ! Having now hurriedly reviewed the modern changes which our ships of war having undergone, and glanced at those floatingsuggestions which some are so eager to urge upon the Government, it will be well to con sider for a momont a f e w facts bearin g u p on the immediate future of our navy. And, first, there cannot be a doubt that the Government can, if they please, hasten the introduction of great andradical hanges. It is perfectly within their powe r to build lips of wariof a far more destructive character than those which this or any other nation now possesses. But would it be politic for us to take the lead in such innovations? A navy like that which we possess involves, it should 13e remembered, the in vestment of an immense amount of capital. The -cost of a ship of war when rigged and equipped may be estimated at £35 per ton, exclusive of the cost of her armament, and the engines involve a further expense of, say £6O per nominal horse power. We have in our navy at the present moment, 607 fight ing ships, of an aggregate burden of 665,220 tons, and carrying engines of _scarcely less than 100,000 horso power. Therefore our ships alone have cost us nearly £22,000,000; and upon their engines' we