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The objections that may be raised against the Royal Alfred as an armoured ship are—the inherent weakness she must possess as a wooden-framed vessel coated with iron, the absence of any inner iron skin, and the consequent protuberance of innu merable iron nuts on her bolt ends, with the danger off their flying off and killing or wounding the crews of the guns, on the armour-plating outside being struck by an enemy's shot, and the inefficient width of the water-line belt at the otherwise unar moured portions of the ship's side. This last defect is a most serious one, the belt reaching fully 18in. short of the beams which support the gun deck, and therefore giving passage through the unpro tected wooden planking of the ship to shells into her lower deck and hold. Court of Aldermen. 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This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legactes. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are 'capable of containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae• tenant', Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn. and Co. ; 114sfries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co.: Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; I. Barned and C 3., LiVPI7,OOI ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH, Secretary. Her Majesty's Ship Royal Alfred. This frigate, the finest of our converted ironclads, and intended to be the most powerfully-armed vessel of her class afloat, differs from all other converted ships in her Majesty's navy in the disposition of her armour-plating, closely approaching the ships built on Mr. Reed's designs in this respect, and, pf the ships of foreign navies, the Imperial French frigate Belliquense, recently launched and now fitting at Toulon for service as a flagship on the Pacific station. It is worthy of remark here that the Royal Alfred's arrangement of armour-plating in her central bat tery and water-line belt is an adaptation of the Chief Constructor of the French navy, M. Du Puy de Lome, as illustrated during the late visit of the French fleet to Spithead in the partially plated two decked ships Magenta and Solferino, and which has been introd'iced for the firsttime in the frigate form into the Imperial navy in the Belliqueuse, and now into our own, as a conversion, in the Royal Alfred. Beyond this one fact of the similarity in the dispo sition of their armour there is scarcely anotherpoint of comparison in which the two ships agree. The Royal Alfred is a converted ship, the Belliqueuse has been built and completed for sea according to her original plans. Our ship in her conversion has been specially prepared to carry ten 12i-ton 225- pounder rifled 9-inch guns in her central bat tery, and eight 6i-ton 7-inch rifled guns in unar moured (if we except the bows and stern) ports. The Belliqueuse's armament is not yet, perhaps, quite decided upon, but her ports have only been fitted for the French naval breech-loading 84-pounder gun, and this gun will doubtless compose her arma ment to the number of possibly 2Q, part of which only will be fought behind the armour of the central battery. In speed the two ships should be about equal, the engines of the Belliqueuse being 900-horse power nominal, and those of the Royal Alfred 800. In looking at the Royal Alfred as she lies afloat in the basin after floating out of the dock, the spaces occupied alternately wood and iron on the exterior of her hull strike the eye in a remarkable manner. First it is seen that the entire circuit of the ship at the water-line, and to some 4ft. above the water line, is bound round with a band of armour-plating. The plating is Gin. in thickness along the centre of each side of the ship, and tapers off gradually thence to its minimum thickness of 3in., where the extreme ends at each side meet at the stein and the stern. This band is the commencement of the protecting iron plating of the ship. At the head of the ship this plating, in its tapering thickness, is carried up from the water-line belt to the beams of the upper deck, and continued longitudinally round the curve of the bows nearly to the forward cathead. By this arrangement provision is made to protect the ship from being raked by an enemy's guns in the event of the enemy's broadside being brought across the Royal Alfred's bows, either by any manoeuvre of the ship herself or that of the enemy. The outer hawsepipe on each bow is extended upwards and cut with a square head, so as to form a gun-port from which one of the ship's 6i -ton guns can be fired nearly in a line with the ship's keel. The ship's stem inclines slightly inboard from the water-line, and is free of headrails or figure-head, or any superfluous overhanging weight. From the after-part of this bow armour-casing the hull of the ship is unpro tected above the water-line belt for about 75ft. on each side, the ten ports in this unarmoured portion of the ship's gun-deck being fitted for the 6i-ton rifled 7-inch gun. Next this 75ft. space the 6-inch side armour of the central battery com mences, and extends aft to a distance of 100 ft. This central battery represents the real fighting power of the ship at close quarters. It is cut off from the for ward and after ends of the ship on the gun-deck by athwartship bulkheads, faced with +inch armour plates. On each side are five ports, which have been specially constructed for fighting 12i-ton guns through. They are about 14ft. apart in the clear, and measure, on the outside at the armour plating, 35in. in breadth by 44in. in depth, and on the inside are embrasured to 6ft. This extraordinary size of the ports, as compared with those of all our other ironclads, necessarily weakened the ship's side very much, especially as her old gun-ports, which had been constructed for 68-pounders only in her first conversion as a 35-gun frigate, had to be filled up and fresh ports opened for the large ordnance it has now been decided she is to carry. To remedy this weakness the side has been strengthened as far as possible Aith iron, and the gun-ports arc each faced outwards with a wrought-iron elliptical-shaped port plate with the port wrought in its centre. Each plate is Bft. in length by about Gift. in breadth, and has a tapering thickness of metal of from 4in. round the port to liin. at the outer edge of the plate. The plates are let into the wood planking of the ship's side, and the 6-inch armour rests upon and bolts through them. Next in order, abaft this central battery, comes about 35ft. of the ship's side, un armoured above the waterline belt of plating, and to this succeeds the armour-plating which encases the ship's stern, which tapers from 4iin. to 3in. as with the bow plating, and is also pierced with two gunports, through which, under favourable condi tions of weather, a fire maybe opened nearly on aline with the vessel's keel. All the armour-plating on the ship is pierced wherever necessary with scuttles for the admission of light and air on the ship's lower deck, and also with scuppers for the direct emission of water from the gun deck. Neither of these advan tages is possessed by any other of our converted iron - dads. The finish of the work in every part is most [ admirable, and reflects the highest credit on the master shipwright's department of Portsmouth dock yard. The ship is coppered up to her load-line, 27 feet, contact between the copper, or rather Muntz metal, on the ship's bottom being prevented by a wooden belt being built from the ship's bottom below the water line, and overlapping with its upper edge the lower edge of the waterline armour-belt. The metal which coats the ship's bottom ceases at the loadline about half way up this wooded belt, and thus contact between the iron-plating and the Muntz metal is afvoided. Inboard the Royal Alfred exhibits fine roomy decks, upper, main, and lower. Fitte,d for the duties of a flagship, she has a commo dious suite of poop cabins aft, and also a roomy forecastle forward. The appearance of her main or gun deck is somewhat remarkable for a wooden- AGENTS required, in town and country, for the sale of Madame RACHEL'S PREPARATIONS. --17.‘, New Bend-street. WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived, bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious flavour, and which may now be had, at a mere commission on the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO APAN Y, No. 6, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate•street. DENTAL NOTICE.—Mr. ESKELL, Surgeon- Dentist, of 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, having announced for a considerable period that " he is NOT con nected with any one of the name, and that he has NO r RE MOVED, and does not intend doing so," begs respectfully to state that as he considers the general public are now suffi ciently well aware of the facts he will cease to make this or any other professional statement in the public papers on and after the 28th of February next. IVOTHING ThIPOSSLBLE.—The greatest and 11 most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL 1. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Bull Wharf, Ro therhithe, London, Perfumers to her Majesty. respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous flair', which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue--no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ' • it, on the contrary, is beneficial to tLe system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month wilt keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, les. 81. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John (3 ()smell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princes~ of Wales. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to :he 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer Lan 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here arc brief details of a few of the most recent cases: F. P., aged 16, ft lien, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeles., both parents dead. &. 8., aged 17, fallen ' father dead, deserted by her mother S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents. M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fatten, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A. W.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper,Bs, Queen-street. Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co., Lombard-street. HOME for LITTLE for the Reception, fror Outcast and Destitute Boys, under 10 years of age. BOYS, Tottenham, N. 1 all parts of the Kingdom, o :and those verging on crime President—ROßEßT VICE -PREI Stephen Cave. Esq., M:P. Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. Mr Alex. Anderson. I Rev. H. M'Sorley. Mr. E. 11. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell. Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Altred Short. I Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Hobert Sinclair. Mr. George Moore. Mr. E. .T. Tabrum. Mr. Francis Lyeett. I Mr. It. T. Turnbull. Treasurer—W. 11. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.O Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, £6, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W. Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombaid- lANBURY, Esq., M.P, :SIDENTS. 1 Sir S. M. Peto, Bart. , M.P. 1 Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. COMM iTTEE. street. g.C, The mode of admissionfoigeiiiiuse is twofold, Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till they are 11 years of age. With the view io secure the election of the most deserving cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers. The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care fully investigated by the Committee, anti with this informa tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to those most eligible for free admission. This Home was opened in April, 1864. It was designed to take to the little ones whose charact r and circumstances disqualify them for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are those who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are those who have been deserted by their natural protectors and left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose parents may have at one time or other received parish relief, and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose Parents ate breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who train their children in the same path. Stich are those whose evil associations have already had their painful effect, and must lead them to a life of crime and misery. There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of age to 10. There is room for nearly 100, and the Committee would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait for the necessary subscriptions. The Committee feel constrained to plead for those who cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they ask—ls it right to make a widow and her tamily paupers for life because ono of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs wild in the streets and is beyond her control? Is it kind to tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not kelp her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "sun away," none of us shalt d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe them ? Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the other side, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's keeper ?" - - The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi dent from the police statistics, which show that in London alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom were convicted mid punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too young to punish. though not too young to learn the beginnings of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli ance and self-help. be permanent burdens to the State. '1 he Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour to make them useful members of society. . _ The daily routine of the institution presents all the fea tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones are cared for as children; they have their regular meals, their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement, and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every morning is devoted to oche+ 1 work—reading, and writing, and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional lessons in objects and other subjects. But they are also trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early period in lite, earn their living by the sweat of their brow, they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after noons are occupied with various industrial occupations— making brown paper bags for bankers, and white raper bags for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any who will buy them; picking the coil for the mats, mending the 0 othes, &o. Some assist the master in the garden, digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing and sweeping, while the elder ones dean all the boots, knives, &c. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active working life. 2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance. All children must be under 10 years of age at the time of admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any time as soon as approved by tie Committee, Elections of children to be athaitted free will take place as frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will admit, till the Home is full; they will them be held periodi- Forms of Application for the admission of children may be nad at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary, THIS EVENING, and during the Week, EXTRA PER FORMANCES by all the available talent. Opera, Bur lesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every Evening, performed by the entire company, including Misses Russell, Fitz Henry, Barrie; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, W. Williams, Spagnoli, &c. The HUNGARIANS in their new entertain ment; Messrs. Dariah and Davies's illustrations of Negro Life ; Herr Preskow, the wondrous posturer from the Grand Theatre, St. Petersburg; the D'Aubans. Herr Berrani and his talented family; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven characters performed by Mr. E. Marshall (his first appear ance here', the entertainment written expressly for him by Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and a host of other talent, for which see programme and small biIIs.—EVERY EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, la.; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. EI-FUM The Music composed and arranged by Willem Vandervell, will be produced This Evening. Mr. E. MARSHALL will make his appearance in RI-FUM T I-F UM! Mr. and Mrs. W. RANDALL will make their Re-appear ance in RI-FUM TI-FUM! LES FRERES D'ETOILE in RI-FUM TI-FUM! Les MONTAGNARDS will make their first appearance in this Country in RI-FUM TI-FUM! TIN FLIGHT of MERCURY by the renowned TALLIoTT in RI-FUM TI-FUM! • Signor TESCANO, the Cousin and Rival of the late DONATO, in RI-FUM TI-FUM! The MYSTERIES OF MABILE in RI-FUM TI-FUM! Les TABLEAUX D'AMOUR, illuminated by the Magnesium Light, in TI-FUM! The Beautiful BA LLERINES in RI-F UM TI-FUM! LE GALOP INFERNAL in RI-FUM T I-F UM! The Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. W. Gowrie, in RI-FUM TI-FUM! Upwards of ONE HUNDRED PERSONS will appear in RI-F UM TI-FUM! MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are full length Portrait Models, taken from life, of CHARLOTTE WiNSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias EIINEST SOUTHEY. Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price; Extra Rooms, Sixpenoe. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season. Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTL Manager, Mons. GRENET. The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent Composers. Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12 o'clock. _ _ Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. 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The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the recent storms and loss of life at sea, and t o enable them eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those who may perish by war. Subscriptions thanlzfully received by the bankers, Messrs, Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill. R. SWEETTNG, Hon. See. CHARLES LiA5ll, Se% • SONS, Dentists, 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, Opposite Charing-oross Railway Station. Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy, durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas tication. Operations of every Yind being unnecessary, the most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. _ Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs., warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide " Lancet." Vail ) attendance at 30, lierners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, London • 15, Whitetriargats, Hull; 10, Norfolk street, She ffi eld ;4, iast-parade, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, Scarbro'. Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the same name. The ship will be propelled by a two-bladed Grif fith's screw, weighing 6 tons 18 cwt., driven by a pair of engines of 800 nominal collective power, manufactured by Messrs. Maudslay and Co. Her rudder is of the ordinary shape, but the turning and manoeuvring powers of the ship would be very largely increased by the substitution of a Lumley, or jointed, rudder, such as is fitted for her Ma jest's ship Columbus, and is being prepared for her Majesty's troopship Orontes. The armament of the Royal Alfred is ordered to be as folio ws :—Main deck : for outside of the cen tral battery, four 7in. muzzle loading wrought iron rifled 61 ton guns, on carriages and slides ; for cen tral battery, ten 9in. muzzle loading wrought iron rifled 121 ton guns, on carriages and slides, the pre cise pattern of the latter having yet to be decided upon by the result of the Minotaur's trials. Upper deck : four 7in. muzzle loading wrought iron rifled 61 ton guns, on carriages and slides. Total num ber of guns as the ship's armament, 18. There will also be supplied to her, as boat and field guns, two 20 pounder breech loading Armstrongs, and one 9 pounder breech loading Armstrong for boat service, with one 12 pounder breech loading Armstrong for a field gun, and one 6 pounder brass gun for short practice. She will carry three masts, the lower ones of iron, and will have a running bowsprft. In concluding this notice of the Royal Alfred it may not be out of place to notice here that this con centration of a ship's fighting powers in a central battery is similar in principle to the designs sub mitted four years since to the Admiralty for sea going citadel ships, carrying guns in one or two tiers, by Mr. Murdoch, C.E., an inspecting officer of machinery in her Majesty's navy. These vessels were proposed to be built of iron throughout, car rying their guns on the broadside in a central domed battery, plated with 10in. armour. The top of the battery was to be closed by a fore and aft grating of massive iron -bars, placed athwart ship, affording protection from plunging shell or shot to the guns' crews in the battery, and also giving ample means of freeing the battery below from smoke and gases evolved in burning large powder charges, in the quick working of heavy ordnance, such as our adopted 12/ ton broadside guns in close action. By the domed form of the battery it also pro sented curvilinear lines everywhere to the enemy's shot, and therefore combined deflection with simple resistance. The ends of the citadel ships above the water-line armour belt were to be built up of light iron, and appropriated as quarters to the officers and ship's company. Their estimated sea-going rate of speed was 13/ knots. Mr. Murdoch was chief engineer of Her Majesty's ship Sanspareil, under the command of Captain S. C. Dacres, now Vice-Admiral Sir S. C. Dacres, K.C.8., at the time she participated in the attack by the combined fleets on the sea defences of Sebastopol, and he also ren dered important service in the repair of heavy guns and mortars in the batteries of the allied armies in their approaches against the city by land. Naval and Military Intelligence. -.41.- The depot companies of the 65th Regiment left Chatham garrison shortly before daylight yesterday morning, and marched to the station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, whence they were conveyed by special train to Plymouth, where they will join the service companies on their return from New Zealand. The strength of the 65th depot is eight sergeants, four drummers, 120 rank and file, 14 women, and 27 children, together with the fol lowing officers, viz. :—Capt. J. O. J. Priestley, Capt. F. S. }ferries, Lieut. A. Pagan, Ensign T. Chamley, Ensign J. L. Dickin, Ensign C. G. B. Martin, and Ensign J. B. Fennell. An order was yesterday received at Chatham garrison, from the Horse Guards, directing a de tachment of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, to be held in readiness for embarcation for China. The new Military Store Staff Corps, the head quarters of which are at Woolwich, is ordered to be organised with the least possible delay. It has been stated in error that the subordinates of the corps were to consist of pensioners from the army. They will, on the contrary, be composed of men actually serving in various regiments, who are per mitted to volunteer, and will retain their regimental pay and advantages, as heretofore, receiving in ad dition, as working pay, a sum varying from Gd. to is. Gd. per . day. About 1,000 experienced crafts men and artizans from the Royal Artillery and other regiments have presented themselves for en rolment to Mr. Parkyn, the newly-appointed officer commanding the corps. Sergeant-Major Hassall, Royal Artillery, has been gazetted as Quarter master, and 100 men have been entered as ser geants-maj or, colour-sergeants, sergeants, corporals, second corporals, buglers, and privates. The uni form will be blue with red facings, with the usual side arms. The Military Store Staff Corps will thus assimilate, in a degree, with the Commissariat, becoming a most important branch of the service, and will be capable, in any emergency, of moving with the army in the field, where their services are more especially required. The operations of the new corps were ordered to commence on the Ist inst., but on account of the difficulty of clearing out and giving over the requisite barrack quarters, a delay of two or three days is found to be unavoid able. The corps will be increased in a short time to 300 of all ranks for Woolwich. In a few clays notice of dismissal will be issued to an equivalent number of the present working establishment, who will be superseded on superannuation, which will be notified three months in advance.. Those who have served over ten years will alone be entitled to pensions according to their present rates of wages. The drawings and designs for the new ironclad turret ship ordered to be laid down at Chatham Dockyard are now in course of preparation at the Admiralty, under the superintendence of Mr. E. J. Reed, chief constructor of the navy, in readiness for their transmission to Chatham, where the working drawings and plans will be prepared by the draughtsmen connected with the master shipwright's department. The new vessel is to be built entirely from the designs of Mr. Reed, but as the Admiralty are desirous of producing the most perfect cupola ship possible, Capt. Cooper Coles will be fully con sulted in all that relates to the construction of the turrets. This arrangement is one which promises to lead to what is so generally desired—the production of a thorough seaworthy, and, at the same time, powerful turret ship. Mr. Charles Savile Roundell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and barrister-at-law, who has been appointed secretary to the Jamaica Commission of Inquiry, was formerly a member of Balliol College. He obtained the prize for the best English essay in 1851 on the following subject :--" What form of Political Consti tution is most Favourable to the Cultivation of the Fine Arts ?" He was also a first-class man while at Balliol College. Yesterday a special meeting of the magistrates of the City of London was held at Guildhall—the Lord Mayor presiding. A report was presented from the general purposes committee of the Court, signed by the Lord Mayor as chairman, and 12 others of the aldermen to whom on the 27th Dec. it was referred to consider what steps should be taken with respect to the discharge of the judicial duties of the Recorder (Mr. Russell Gurney) during his absence as a commissioner for inquiry into the circumstances connected with the recent insurrection in Jamaica, and to report forth with. The committee stated that they laid before them precedents of the course pursued by the Court of Aldermen on occasions involving the absence of the Recorder, and after having carefully considered the question they came to the conclusion that it was desirable that a deputy recorder should be appointed during the absence of Mr. Gurney, and the Recorder having nominated the Common Sergeant to act as his deputy- they approved of such nomination, and recommended that the Court should appoint the Common Sergeant to act as deputy recorder accord ingly. With a view to prevent any possible delay in the business of the Central Criminal Court, they stated that they had requested the Lord Mayor to communicate with the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, in order that some arrange ments might be made with her Majesty's judges, by which they might give some a c klitip a i a tt en d ance at the sessions of the dentrardritina Court, dur ing the temporary absence of the Recorder, as on a former occasion in 1840. With respect to the judicial duties at the Mayor's Court they said the Recorder had informed the committee that he had made the requisite arrangements under the provisions of the Mayor's Court Act. Mr. Adlerman WILsoN moved the adoption of the report of the committee, and that Mr. Cham bers, the Common Sergeant, be appointed Deputy- Recorder during the pleasure of the Court. The motion was carried unanimously, after being seconded by Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, who said that he was gratified that the appointment should have fallen on a gentleman so well able to discharge the duties incident to the office. The COMMON SERGEANT expressed his acknow ledgments, not only for the honour to himself im plied in the resolution, but for the courteous man ner in which it had been conferred. He entered, he said, on the mo;e than arduous duties which it im posed upon him with a due sense of responsibility ; he would do all that in him lay to make up for the temporary loss to the corporation and the public of the Recorder's valuable services, and he trusted the Court would have no reason to regret the choice they had made of a substitute. He added, in reply to Mr. Alderman Sidney, that the Recorder had made an arrangement with respect to the Mayor's Court which would leave him (Mr. Chambers) at liberty to discharge the whole of the duties of the Common Sergeant. After the transaction of some routine business the Court adjourned. The understanding at Guildhall yesterday was, that tlie Recorder, accompanied by Mr. Maule, the other commissioner, had that morning started for Jamaica, and would probably arrive there about the 21st inst. The Death of the Columbine at the Sunder land Theatre. An inquest was held in Sunderland on Monday touching the death of Louise Ricardo, or Richards, the young Columbine who was so severely burnt at the Lyceum Theatre, on Thursday evening, while performing in the pantomime of " Robin Hood." Mr. Robert Ricardo, the first witness called, stated that whilst at the theatre, about 11 o'clock in the evening, he was startled by his son, the Harle quin, telling him that the deceased was on fire. He ran to the wing immediately, and saw his child some nu nd i s bc r but o o t f th i p se e r, o v p i a ) es l e r ns c eo n nt d sa e c a c - entirelyo u p r l n i s g li et do u ebx : ig A nu l g r i la, with al en veloped her in their overcoats. Ills daughter was only 12 years old, and at the time of the occurrence was joyfully talking to Master Watson about some juvenile party to which they had been invited on the following day. Mr. E. Nassett, the gasman, deposed to the ex tinguishing of the lights. That was by no means an unfrequent occurrence ; but, when the spirit lighter was applied on this occasion, the gas ignited appeared to strike right down to the stage and set the dress of Miss Ricardo on fire. There was a water jointparallel with the stage from which two branches projected. These were connected by indiarubber tubing to the jets ortthe wings of the stage, and he thought it probable that a disconnection unfortu nately taking place led to the escape which termi nated so fatally. The jointings were not strongly secured, in consequence of the number of times they bad to be removed from one part of the stage to the other. There were about three dozen burners in that length of pipe, and when the attempt was made to relight them the gas first appeared to burn like a small " Will o' the wisp" above the heads of the bystanders, and then the flame de scended amongst them. The ladies used nothing to render their dresses uninflammable. Each bought her own ; but no accidents had ever occurred through fire during the nine years he had been connected with the theatre. Thomas Sandley, the property assistant, stated that he first saw the flames burning the lower part of the deceased's dress, and then obseirevtesd, notLa h Reviere, Madame Mazoni's pupil, endeavouring to extinguish them, but considering this a dange r ous occupation for one so lightly attired, he to ld h er to proceed to a place of safety, then throwing a coun terpane over the burning girl, which was instantly followed by other uninflammable material. Joseph Corner, an assistant gasnian,spaiidpehse werefirst secure, eacvuihaving previouslyb r applied e, u th t e no l i s g o l: light lookede trohathe l to i e extinguishedsdeedone nei f so than a flame the suddenly burst some feet upwards, and caught the young Columbine's muslin dress. The ga s p i pe was perfectly safe, as no one was allowed to go near it ; but some one must have disconnected the gutta percha from the iron tube whilst passing. I f y th c e on a c c lus cid io e n nt, th a a n t d co th u a ld t William Champion, stage manager, thought that separated in the confusion the water joint might have been disconnected before the gutta percha tube, but the most probable con clusion was that the tubing, being torn from the carelessness irAhe Jurors drawn s a nfteesf afterwards followed.twoh h inao a ru d dil b he e t tnh evidence exercised was that a great deal of the pipe, water was the joint chief w c a a s u s s e oe the lessee. The Coroner agreed with that opinion, but ob jected to jurors making individual statements before they were left to consider their verdict. He thought, however, Corner had displayed a great want of caution in not trying the tap before he attempted to apply the light. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, but recommended that screws should be provided to fix the water joint, that the iudiarubber tubing should be secured by a union joint, and wet blankets should be kept at the wings, in order to be ready in case of emergency. THE DAILY SUPPLY OF COUNTRY MILK TO LON DON.—The great demand from London dairymen for milk from the country districts, consequent upon the havoc made in the metropolitan cow-sheds by the cattle plague,is quite unprecedented ; and although a large number of country dairy farmers have abandoned tho operation of converting milk into cheese and butter for the immediate transmission of the yield to - the great metropolis, tho in creasing demand exceeds tho supply. Seven railways daily bring 13,145 gallons of country milk into the metro polis! gence : " In order to elaborate the plan in all its bearings, to fix approximately the necessary sums, and to de termine the bases of the loan, it is necessary to divide the labour into several general branches, which might be :-1. Roads, bridges, and canalisa tion ; 2, railways ; 3, telegraphs ; 4, works at the ports ; 5, mines ; 6, colonisation. " Each branch would be represented by au intel ligent person having the necessary experience, who, forming a committee under the presidency of your excellency, would draw up the general project with estimates of the cost and the plan of the loan. "The persons for each group w- , 1: 1 ) be for roa.do, - bridges, &c., Senor - Santingo Mendez ; for railwa7s, the engineer Lloyds; for telegraphs, some official well acquainted with the service and its expenses ; for works at the ports, the Sub-Secretary of Marine ; for mines, Senor Marcelino Rocha ; and for tolo nisation, Senor Maury. Your excellency will ac quaint me with the measures you may take, 'to this effect. " MAximmAN. " Alcaztfr of Chapultepec, Nov. 27." An imperial decree has been published, organising and regulating the telegraphic service throughout Mexico, and stating the conditions to beentered into by those to whom the Government may grant con cessions to construct and work telegraphic lines. Government despatches will prAy half the rate charged to the public. The Government is entitled to inspect the lines from time to time, and, should it be necessary, to place its own officials in any or all of the stations. Contractors for the lines will be allowed to take what timber they require for the _ telegraph poles from the national domains free of charge. All correspondence of the Sovereign, that relative to the military and police service, and all governmental despatches marked urgent, will have priority of transmission. The owners or contractors of lines will regarded as Mexican subjects in all things relative thereto, without being able to allege foreign rights. Another decree regulates the levies for the army in Mexico. The conscripts' will be drawn by ballot. The Emperor will determine at the close of every year the number of men to be drawn, either to coni plete existing or form new corps. Every Mexican by birth or naturalisation, from 18 to 35 years of age, will take part in the balloting, unless falling under any of the specified exceptions. The term of military service is fixed for six years, except for those who have served their time in the rural guard, who will have to serve only three years in the regular army. The price of exemption is fixed at $4OO. • The official Gazette continues to register the sur render of Juarists in different provinces of the em pire, in consequence of the late stringent proclama tion against them. The Esperanza of Queretaro of the 2:3d instant says : "We learn froM Tampico, on the Bth, that General Mejia is making wonderful efforts at Mata moras, having many times repulsed the force of 4,000 men and 11 aims besieging the town. Our readers already know that vessels have sailed from Vera Cruz with reinforcements of troops for Ma tomoras." The Gacctct of Monterey states that anarchy pre vails among the besiegers, Cortinas refusing to re cognise Escobedo, and the latter differing with Canales. The Moniteur publishes the following intern- " The Minister of War has received intelligence, via England, from the expeditionary corps in Mexico to Nov. 28 from the capital of that country, and to Dec. 20 from Vera Cruz. The whole of the infor mation transmitted by the Marshal Commanding in-Chief is satisfactory. Complete tranquillity pre vails in the greater part of the provinces as well as in the capital; the sanitary state of the French troops is good on all points, and no important mili tary event .has occurred since the last mail. Tho decree of 3d October continues to produce excellent results ; several chiefs of bands have submitted, and among them Figueroa, who was at the head of the malcontents in the State of Oajaca. Gen. Mendez is actively pursuing the task he has undertaken of State in t e h s e d i is na trts Sinaloa ; completely pacifying Michoacan ; he is continually traversing the country at the head of light movable columns, and allows the dispersed bands no oppor tunity of reuniting. After the departure of Gen. o his aa n tn a tde n i n l L a pa d t e sN, h oG i his ei a rn p , i p nR e a it v r h aan Sce te to embark at San Bias fo r M aza tl an, with 800 Mexi cans, and Gen. Lozad a h as started by land for Rosario with his Indi ans . Th e successive attacks of toAofYrepress ConcordiamrG Escobedo on Matamoras, already mentioned, have been resisted by Gen. Mejia in a manner which does him much honour ; the National Guards, composed of Mexicans and foreigners, have shown great courage and self-devotedness. The Empress Char lotte, during her stay at Vera Cruz, just before her departure for Yutacan, was received in the most enthusiastic manner by the populations, and went to the Palace of the Ayuntamiento in a car of hon our, which the people themselves insisted on draw ing. Her Majesty, who was deeply affected by those marks of sympathy, embarked on the 20th Nov. on board the Mexican vessel Tobasco, which was escorted by an Austrian corvette. The Empress was ex pected to return to Vera Cruz between the 15th and 20th of December." A letter from the city of Mexico says : " The Minister of 'Public Works has written to Marshal Bazaine an important letter to declare the conditions on which concessions of land would be made to soldiers of the French army whose term of service is about to expire, and who have expressed a desire to remain on the territory of the empire as colonists. Surveys were going on with respect to the railway to be constructed between Vera Cruz and Puebla. The official journal has published several decrees relative to merchant shipping, and one grants premiums to vessels which shall perform distant foreign voyages under the Mexican slag. The Bank of Mexico is definitely constituted. The treaty conceding it to the Comptoir d'Escompte of Paris has received the imperial ratification by a letter addressed on the 10th November to M. Dro mel, the representative of the new company, and is conceived in the following terms : " "The Emperor has deigned to approve of the concession made in his name to M. Pinard by the Commission of Mexican Finance in Paris, under the dates of the 16th and 21st September, for the esta blishment of a bank in Mexico, as well as the statutes of the said bank, drawn up in Paris on the 29th of the same month. I inform you of this in reply to the request addressed to H.M., dated the 7th inst. "`P. CESA.R, Under-Secretary of Finance.' "The general revival of business has become more marked. Large transactions have been done, especially in cotton, the rates for which are still firmer. An American house has just established a manufactory of composition candles in this city, being the first of the kind." NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX." On Friday, Jan. s,in 2 vols., 215., 1 41 NOBLE LIFE. By the Author of "John llalifax, Gentleman," "Christian's Mistake," dm Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. ishel. re- essod that that and t and ) two ,o use tlori ; h and tages could I was )atest the erent mies, ually irces, could L. the ition. ly in them Hies. ra'" ring Cen ter. iley, Lam, r S• I, F• 3ion i, to, le 01 ngS, ,obt. . on . A