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A'ER Covent-garden Opera—EVANS' SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Haymarket Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Theatre T , VANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre t'VANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP. ......adon Singing and Supper Club, EVAN s', Covent-garden. Vona Entertainment at Eight. MAISON DOREE, THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (One door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, Stg. High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, &c. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND SENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH. On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine p.m. to One a.m. Manager, CHARLES CASTLE. TOTAHAN'S LL WHISKY. - DUBLIN , ISGS. Pais celebrated OLD LUISH EXHIBITION WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, Os. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WDIDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Bed Seal, Pink Label ; and Cork Branded. " Kina han's LL 31UTIL.A_L LOtedAINA Act of p ia ASSOCIATION 11, RUSSELL-STREET, 'OF ENT-GARDEN, 1 1 85 2) ) *DON, AD VANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three yea's, repay able werkly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, Mr. R. R. BIGNELL. This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor 3losca, Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half-past 8. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2a n-ADAME 1 ITSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. A Life-size PORTRAIT MODEL of THEODORE, KING of ABYSSINIA, is now added; also all the Kings and Queens of England, American Celebrities, &c. Room of Horrors. Open on Boxing-day, from 9 in the morning till 11 at night; Christmas Holidays, from 10 in the morning till 10 at night. Admittance, is.; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. ATADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-A 11 PORTRAIT MODEL of FREDERICK BAKER is now added to the Chamber of Horrors. Open on Boxing-day, from 9 in the morning till 11 at night; Christmas Holidays, from 10 in the morning till 10 at night. Admission, ls.; children under 10 years of age, 6d.; extra rooms, 6d. rr H E 0 X F 0 It D, 6. OXFORD-STREET. W. During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta, ORPHEE AUX ENFERS, LA. TROVATORE, and the New Cantata MERRY CHRISTMAS. Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz- Henry ; Messrs. Bury, Marler, R. Greene, and De Brenner. Pull Band and Chorus : Instrumentalists: Miss Bryant ; Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plumpton. COMEDY. Ac., by the LEVITES, Miss and Mr. FOS TER, HARRY SYDNEY, FRED. FRENCH, Mr. H. RICHARDS, and ALFRED PERRIER (his 2d appear ance in England). Mr. E. W. 11.9.0KNEY will positively appear on Mon day next, the 30th inst. STODARE'S MARVELS of MAGIC THIS EVENING. Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmans. Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro mena•le, Is.—THIS EVENING. W EST° N'S .ie G tor , RAN Mr.J D s. s MUSl Cweasey. HALL, ProprMr. SWE ASEY begs to inform the public, in consequence of the flattering patronage he has received, he has engage d the fol 'owing talented Company :—The Great VINCE; GEORGE LEY tOURNE, the Lion Comique; JEAN BOND, the unrivalled Equili brist ; GEORGE ELLIS, the Australianßuffo ; the Brothers DANIELS (who are allowed by the Press to be unapproachable by any other artiste in their performances); SIDNEY BARNES (his first appearance); Miss ALICE DUNNING, the most fascinating Serio e_omic Singer and Dancer at the present time; Miss L IZIZE I'EARsE (her first appearance in London), allowed to be by the Provincial press the most rising artiste of the day; Miss ANNE TREIKAINE, the English Ballad Singer, is re - engaged after a most successful provincial tour. Full Orchestra, in which Mr. H. Baker, the unrivalled Cornet Player, will appear, in conjunction with Mr. J. Young, the great Flute Player. The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRL Special Notice,—ln consequence of the length of entertain- Ment, the doors will open at 7, commence at 7.30. No alteration in the prices of admission. Private boxes, 10s. 6d., to. be-Secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street ; and Sams' Library, St. James's; also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four o'clock. SPANISII FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps,—ALEX. ROSS 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. " Tale of a Hair," 6d. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, re moving the very root. Price 4a.; sent by post for 60 stamps.- 218, High Holborn London, and all Chemists. Face Powder, ls. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. 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An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, Bags, &c., post free. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. PIMPLE REMOVER. All diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ILEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sallowness, &e. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. ecl. RAM COLOUR WASH. —By damping the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original coloar, and remains so by an occasional using. 10s. 6d.; sent fot stamps.—ALEY ROSS, 248, .high Holborn, London, an 1 all Chemists. Just published, 2d. sent by the author for 3 stamps, G LINE S S and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS. 248, High Holborn. L on d on. Ilacl of all booksellers. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL , Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has roliered 461,954 patients since it was estab lished at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. Bankers —Messrs. Barnet. Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard-street Ressra. Ransom an d B ouverie 1, Pall-mall—Hon. Sec., F. Smith, Esq. GEO. Barn. Sea. ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie Park a Slongh, Bmks (formerly 84 Clapham-rise). Dial altecl, 1827. Patron—rier Most Gracious MAZISTY the Quzsit. Aid to this Institution will be gladly received by the Secretary, at the Oleos, No. 73. Cheap:slde, E.C. HENRY S. THORNTON, Treasurer, THOVAS TILSON, J.P., Chairman of the Board. STEPHEN R. GANTLET, MA., Hon. SOc. ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. THE BOARD of AIANAGEMENT of the LONDON iItnirPOPATI-lIC HOsPITAL wish to call the attention ?f their friends to ;te poAtiou. • During the past year the beds (l ave been almost c n-lantly filled, and the drain on the resources of the Hospital his cou•ec ee7itly boon great. They trust, there r..9re, that all the frieu,:s of hem.ropathy, both in town and coun u7, will rally round them, oapi thus prevent the necessity of °flztailing the usefaln3s..; of the Hospital by the admission of ...eWer patients. Subcriptions earnestly requested. Bankers— Messrs. Prescott and s ! 0., Threaducetlie-strect, and Union Bank. Argyll-plazo, Regent-street. JOHN B. WinszN, Clerk 1 10:52, Great Ormond-stret.t. W.O. UEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. Di BARRY'S delicate 120,th-restoring Invalids and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABICA t aVes fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores perlet ~, g estion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing 4 „ r le ep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dy- A - P a Peia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, ...."larrheea all gastric derangements, hemorrhoids, liver cora _Valuta, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, ,` 4l Phtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, lunatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, ir :e'ability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, ty, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in Preenancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the" chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the "uoulders. It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, waa suitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. IMPORTANT CAurfox.—Beware of the many unsavoury and inere than sloppy imitations to which. without authority, Baron Labig's name is most audaciously attached. Henceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of Du p a ll'Y's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' 4p d , Bine() to the thousands of blessings it has already received ona Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, We may ,-," 7 add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been tr erfect lY restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical Isre a tment. We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th (Cure p a • 68 ,413) Rome„ July 21st, 1866.—The health of the Ho!y Father is excellent especially since, abandoning all other reme-, A r e a; Ile has confined nimself entirely to Du Barcy's Ye':alentft it l i t cica Pood, of which he consumes a plateful at to •:, His a Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." 11 are No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' 4,7 complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, leg a nervous palpitatio n all ove r, b a d di ges ti on , c o n stant sleep inessp and the most intolerable nervous agitation. c i n lyc No. 78, of dy s p e p s i a , f rom th e Ri g ht H on . th e L or d Stuart e ales, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Waterford:—" I t r_e de rived much benefit from your excellent footI.—STUAnT DR Dromana, Cappoquin, County Waterford." d ys 'are No. 49,8;12.—0f fifty years' indescribable agony from spj a Psia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, ros sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cur et e. , 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervous oL i ndigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. d ia ."i'e No. 56 ,614.—Mr. Samuel LaxtOn, Leicester, of two years' sae Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. 14d.; 11b., 29. 9d.; 2113., ears ! )(l .; 121 b., 225.; 24113., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. ea/11610.ra, free ou receipt of Post-office Order, by BAERY DU mit r I LLY and Co., 77, Regent-street, London; also at Fortnum Jason's, and sold by all respectablo Grocers and Chemists. ROYAL FREY.; HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate enmity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron--His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Dake of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de lay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a largo number of in-patients, and, in adca tion 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 benevo.. lent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributionsare received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hanson, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also . by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.•, Herrios and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Pzcscott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet end Co., Benton-street; end et the lleepital, item 1Q till 15. Itti R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, _ Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or liga tures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from tho originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will bo found superior to any tooth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and ren dered sound and useful in mastication. • 0, Fleet-street. At hQUIO frQD2 10 till ft .geon, vter in c . 3'• 11. 13' is cluU a sil` e i ; Lic h too.- desPi te i t of the sop, 11 ,, - ut thi" A Dy racehen " thei t x,12,5 ° ward , „ jud taiort t ', of Or d et st, W e l ,ree, a l3 -• ided la f u" rhic ue ,bo ill l e ° fl a i e °i it for "t d thr east orou reg ,liv [Lee. 12 1 e e l Are , ,?', a e3 bleeeCist had ''" , o• 3 the t a re harry J '4O ee bet o . lai doni , "'ff' o 13a Lfel plO.- 19 ,1 a bette%lie )ra.iffle t of v 01 1 000 00 a,rolvi v ealt, Lug "DO o ver, _ e r ble 3ra 1,0 N o , 49, )rc lEnen,e ia rte 4 3 , go loa d, of 6 9 0°,0 r irait att 4 ‘ i v 'lost Au lbo. , so• piece d 23 7 . O. an e, 00 wif e 8 00. th e Cit 9 , _ . • ror r o ov -- Tisoy top, G id . l° t 1 0-I .lo°' or6' ° ,l. J' )r °I IJO r )f %woo Dry , fl• sat .a ,e_ro ,o, F. for ,-- g ets Seth R°' ,„oot , ''' 01 to 0 ee, 0233 _._. . , • - t or- kir. r‘r nr:" Y I rA LI.. 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CANDLES. —A Hint to Purchasers. 7 —llo not make sure that youknow what price you are paying per pound foryour candles until you have stripped them and put them in the scale. Some candles are right weight with out the wrappers, some with moderately thick wrappers, some with very thick wrappers, and some are not n ear ly right weight with wrappers however thick. PRICE'S " GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE," " SHERWOOD PALMITINE," " BELMONT SPERM," and " BEL MONT :WAX, "BEST," "No. 2," "No 3," and "BAT TERSEA" COMPOSITES, "PRICE'S PARAFFINE," and " BELMONTINE," and all other candles of Price's Patcmt Candle Company Limited, are full weight without the wrappers. H YAM & Co.'3 GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. For immediate Wear or to Order. The assortment is most extensive and varied, comprehend ing every possible description of Attire, both costly and of moderate price. All the articles are designed, trimmed, and made in strict accordance with the prevailing styles of the day. H YAM & Co.'s SANDRINGHAM OVER COATS. H YAM & Co.'s SILK-LINED OVERCOATS. H YAM & Co.'s FASHIONABLE REEFERS. H YAM & Co.'s SUITS. 11YAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. HI YAM & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE. HYAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. 11YAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. H YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES. TT YAM & CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS wo. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. No. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. No. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. No. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HYAM and CO.'S ESTABLISHMENTS, LONDON-66 and 67, Oxford-street. BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, New-street, LEEDS-42, Briggate, and DEWSBURY—Westgate. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBI TIONS of 1851 and 1862), is Allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the cura tive treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by poet, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacture; Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 21i. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and bts. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425., and Ns. 6a. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post. office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT •---- JLAS2 IC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all eases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. 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Be sure to ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be per suaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of " Norton's Camomile Ms."- are considerably weaker than our dockyard con structions, it is equally certain that they have in other cases spent far more than they should haw done to obtain particular results. But what is it that they are fortifying? The approaches to tb eir capital and chief arsenal. If it be possible among the dia of hunters for popularity and disappointed inventors, let us be reasonable. Shall certain points on our coasts be made unassailable by all the navies ' in the world, while London and Liverpool are at the mercy of half a dozen ironelai gunboats. We would not be understi - ?e l as claiming perfec tion for Government plans, nor as desirous to cover whatever faults in design or construction there may be in our new embryo faults. Let them be well tested and let opportunity be given to prac tical—and theoretical men, too—to push their own ideas. If the War-office designs are radially bad, or if their constructors have failed to avail them selves of such practical improvements as have been suggested by experience since the drawings were first made, bring the culprits by all means before the bar of public opinion, but let it not be on a flawed indictment. The conditions required to be satisfied are—not to build absolutely impenetrable structures at any price,—nothing could be eaaier than that,—but to gain a reasonable amount of protection for men and guns at a reasonable price. One word more before we proceed to describe the experimental structures erected at Shoeburyness and soon to be tested. There is such a thing possible as to take too much care of your men. We don't expect the ruddy glow of health nor buoyancy of spirits in the child whose mother wraps a shawl round his shoulders every time he moves from the nursery to the drawing-room. The means will surely defeat the end in time ; and, in like manner, we may come at last to coddle our soldiers and sailors into effeminacy, and horrible thought— even persuade them that their dear bodies are too precious to be trusted outside the protection of iron armour-plates. There is a medium in all things, and we may be too careful by half of life—so care ful as to lose it and honour together. It was the utterance of true genius, not false sentiment, when Napier, who was far from undervaluing proper caution, wrote this passage : When the Roman Pompey was adjured by his friends not to put to sea during a violent storm, he replied, 'lt is necessary to sail ;it is not necessary to live. It was also necessary to save Tarragona. Was no risk to be incurred for so great an object ? 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The other party, numbering among its adherents the military advisers of Go vernment, declares, on the contrary, that only such power of resistance is required as will meet tke probable hazards of war. IVe may assert from personal knowledge that Continental nations gene rally favour the latter view, and smile at Eng land's intense anxiety to provide against the slightest chance of loss of life in future wars. It is an axiom in military science that no fortress can be made totally impregnable. A siege con ducted by a superior force according to rules must result in the capture of the works assailed. The fall is only a question of time. Sebastopol re sisted longer than would have been possible under ordinary circumstances, because it was never fully invested, and was in daily communication with a large Russian army and ships, from which it drew supplies of men, guns, and ammunition. The cir cumstances were highly exceptional. It was not so much a siege as an attempt to wrest an important position from the hands of an equal force, ever pre sent, ever vigilant. The object for which ordinary fortresses are built is not to hide away a body of men so carefully that they cannot be touched, but to offer such obstacles to any plan likely to be set on foot by au enemy that either his losses would not be compensated by his gain, or else that he will be delayed so long at a certain point in his career as to give time for the field army to concentrate and strike a blow for the country. But is there anything unusual in the con. ditions under which our dockyards are likely to be attacked—so unusual as to render the ordinary rules of war inapplicable? We believe not. Ports mouth and Plymouth would be liable to attack in one of three ways. First, like all fortresses, if unprepared they might be attacked and crippled, or, at least, bombarded, during a temporary assault. This supposes that our fleet has been evaded. Secondly, they might be subjected to steady and prolonged attacks from the sea only in case our fleet were beaten and destroyed. But in that case they would be open to the assistance of the whole country. Volunteers would flock in to man the works, earthen batteries would rise on every side, guns would be supplied in overwhelming quantities, cliffs would bristle with artillery, and the sea become peopled by submarine defences. Con sidering the abundance and concentration of Eng land's resources, the success of such an attempt is inconceivable without such loss as would make the victory less than barren. Thirdly, in the absence or defeat of our fleet, an army might be landed on our shores and operate against our dockyards from the land, supported by a fleet at sea. But when this happens, and when England's resources in men and materiel have fallen so low that she is unable to fight an invader on her own territory, he would not lose time in attacking her harbours, provided only they are reasonably fortified, but would march on London, and there, with his grasp on the heart of his victim, reached through her broken sides would control without difficulty the action of the extremities. The first two cases, then, are those most carefully to be guarded against, and while we should be cul pable to leave our great naval arsenals at the mercy of a bold coup de main, we should be equally cul pable were we to throw away money in the erection of absurdities. It has been proved with much pain that fortifications are necessary ; let us not rush into the opposite extreme, and, like the Chinese of old, girdle our whole frontier liable to attack with im passable bulwarks. It is the act of a wise man to insure his life, but what should we think of him who spent great part of his income and heaped up debts, actuated by a vague fear of poverty for his descendants? Our dockyard defences are already verging on the extreme of costliness, and if further demands are made the question must soon arise whether equal protec tion could not be attained in other ways than by permanent forts. With a truly English inconse quence we are spending millions on Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c., and the cry is still for more, while, on the other hand, we are declared to be too poor to defend the Thames, except in the most superfi cial manner, and we are leaving our sole land arsenal entirely open. Russian defences are often quoted as being all that is impregnable, but, while it is certain that many of their iron forts are shields IRON- PLATED CASEMATE. To test various forms of protecting guns and men a casemate has been erected at Shoeburyness, and protected along its front with armour and backing of different kinds. The piers supporting that part of the arch immediately over the guns are 12ft wide and Bft. deep, and are enveloped in iron plates i-inch thick, which are connected by angle irons with the ironwork in front of the whole structure. The basis for the armour consists of a course of 2-inch plates laid completely over the surface of the casemate, including the piers, and excepting only the port. In all such casemates there is not only a pier to be protected, but also a yawning space under the arch, requisite for traversing the gun with its carriage and platform. All this space except a small port must be covered, and in the experimental casemate at Shoeburyness a vertical row of caissons formed of i-inch iron, and each containing a pillar of concrete 15 inches thick, stands behind the 2-inch plate where it is unsupported by the piers. The caissons are riveted to angle irons and cross pieces iu. thick. The port is 3 ft. wide and 3i ft. high on the outside. A lateral range of 70 deg. is pos sible for the gun within the plate which forms the exterior of the port ; the width of the latter is con tracted to 2ift. ; and, because this is the weak point of the structure, there is fixed vertically on each side of the port a solid forging of iron 9in. wide and 13in. deep, immediately in rear of the armour plate. These huge forged beams are strengthened ' and kept at their proper intervals by horizontal iron Lars, Gin. wide and 7in. deep, halved into them at the levels of the port sills. The forgings are Oft. long. Their tops are bolted to a horizontal bar of iron, bedded in the concrete backing, and more than Gin. square in section. At the bottom they are se cured to a horizontal plate lft. wide and 3in. thick. But, when the whole front is protected, all necessary care has not been taken unless the interior is de fended against the bricks and blocks that will drop from their beds on the defenders when the piers begin to yield and the arches to tremble under successive shocks, or against the bolt-heads flung backwards as the strong plates quiver under the fierce strokes of mighty shot. Again, therefore, iron is called in to assist masonry. The arches over the men's heads are lined with I-inch plates, and screens of the same strength are disposed so as to guard the gun ners from splinters, whether of iron or masonry. The iron-cased piers and arch are built of concrete and brick in cement. The rest of the masonry is of brick in cement. The brickwork of the arch is 18in. thick, and that portion of it which covers the interval between the iron cased and the brick piers is carried by wrought-iron girders. A course of concrete lies above the brickwork, and is 15in. deep at the crown of the arch. When we add that in all cases permanent hollow bolt tubes pass through backings and piers, so that the real armour bolts can be taken out and the plates removed or ex changed without disturbing the rest of the struc ture, we shall have described the casemate which has been built to carry the experimental armour, and to test one or two novel plans. It will be re marked that the system of tubes for bolts affords great facilities for building works preparatory to plating them. This crowning addition can then be made at any time, and of any strength that newly invented war engines may demand. Upon the 2-inch plates covering the whole front of the casement six different forms of armour are bolted. Four of them, the first four that we shall describe, contain a quantity of iron equal in all cases to an 8-inch plate ; the fifth has an amount equal to Bfin., and the sixth only 41in., concrete being filled in between it and the 2-inch plate. Commencing from the left as one faces the case mate, the first target consists of a vertical strip of plating 4ft. 3in. wide and Bin. thick, bolted to the 2-inch plate and pier by bolts right through all. Next to this is a strip of armour 4ft. 3in. wide and 4lin. thick, with hollow vertical iron stringers be tween it and the 2-inch plate. These stringers are 7in. deep, and of such section as to contain an amount of iron equal to a 3iin. plate. Next to this, and extending across, above, and below the port, as far as its right edge, there is a course of 6-inch plates with another kind of vertical stringers (Mr. Hughes's) between it and the 2-inch plate, still representing a thickness of Bin. of iron. This armour is supported part.) , by the left pier and partly by the caissons containicg concrete. On the right of the port the a rmour-plate, for a width of 3ft. 4in., is 4in. thick , with vertica stringers behind it of similar section to those in No. 2 target, but rather heavier, to nab. ke up for the diminution of half au inch in the thielmess of the front plate. Thence to the right of the casemate a _l~ /~'i (?~~~0~. ~4 n ~~ PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. plate is laid, partly on stringers identical in ditnen is ions with those last named, and partly on concrete, forming thus the fifth and sixth targets. The whole iron front to be fired at shows a vertical face about 30ft. long and 12ft. high. It should be understood that the casemate, with its various armours, hollow bolts, and iron screens for erratic bolt-heads, is purely experimental, and re presents nothing hitherto constructed. PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER FORT. A more serious subject is that of the Plymouth Breakwater Fort, because contracts have been made for its ironwork and the manufacture of its parts is actually progressing. An experimental iron front has been constructed to represent the Plymouth fort as nearly as possible ; we say " as nearly as possible," because, though the test of a simple shield at Shoeburyness will give an accurate measure of its strength wherever it may be placed, the condi tions are different when a whole fort has to be tested. The strength of a house is not to be mea sured by that of one of its walls standing alone, and some additions have been made to the target of Shoeburyness to bring its stability more nearly on a level with that of the fort itself. Externally the front represents an iron plated target, 21ft. 9in. long and about I?ift. high, but the face is not vertical. It slopes back one foot in the first 11 of its height, and, above that, the iron plating, reduced to a thickness of 3ba., retires at an angle of 45 deg. The outer armour is composed of three 5-inch plates, running horizontally, out of the lower two of which the port, 2ift. wide and 3ft. high, is cut. In rear of this armour is a layer of iron planks about 16in. wide and Sin. thick, placed vertically. Behind these is a layer of similar planks above and plates below, placed horizontally, and so as to break joint with the other planks and armour plates. The total thickness of iron is, therefore, 15in. To support the armour, a number of iron girders, five in the Shoeburyness front, run up the back of the iron planks and armour, to which they are bolted by through bolts. Each girder consists of two iron planks, lit. wide and sin. thick, placed 6in. apart, and connected at the top and bottom by cross bolts, while the bolts which pass through the armour and between the girder planks are nutted down to cross pieces of iron liin. thick, which connect the girder planks and bind the whole iron work firmly together. But the fort is built of iron on a granite foundation, and it .is necessary that the tough plates be securely imbedded in the solid stone. To this end an iron plate 2ft. 7in. wide and 24in. thick, is laid in a recess cut in the granite floor, and extends along the whole front. It abuts against the inside of the lowest armour-plate, and carries the planks and back lower plates, their edges being laid upon it. Holes cut through it and about six inches deep into the granite receive the feet of the girders, which are thus rooted in the solid foundation, and serve to hold firm the foot of the armour. The plating and its upright girders abut at the top against an iron plate connecting the ends of longitudinal girders, which support the arches of the casemate roof, and are in their turn held up by a box girder, supported at its extremities upon piers of brick in cement 4f t. thick, cased with !inc. iron plates. Between these piers and the rear of the armour plate girders a clear space is left, for two reasons—first, to prevent any damage which may have been done to the front from affecting in juriously the stability of the piers and roof ; secondly, to allow the bolts passing through the armour and its girders to be reached for removal or alteration. We have said that the experimental front differs in some particulars from the arrangements in the fort itself, and we now proceed to detail them. The arches of the experimental front have tie rods to compensate for the want of continuity of thrust gained in the complete work. The front of the true fort is oval ; that of the experimental one is straight, to lessen the expense. This involves a weakness, and obliges the shape of the pier to be slightly. altered. An old piece of masonry being utilised, there is not room for an entire pier. Its dimensions are, therefore, reduced. The spacing of the roof girders is not quite the same, because the target, representing only a part of the real fort, could not have its girders project ing in the air. The ends of the plates want the continuity of support obtained in the fort. This is partly met ~by increasing the size of the end bolts, but in any case the ends must be weaker than the same spots in the fort. Muzzle pivoting carriages are to be used in the future, so the port is left very small. This is an alteration from the origi nal design, but is ordered also for the fort. The substitution of an iron plate in the hard thickness instead of iron planks is also new, but ordered for the fort. Spare test plates will supply the icon wanted for the purpose. The experimental work has, however, one advantage in this respect, that the hind plate will be about 21ft. 9in., while in the real fort the length is about 14ft. It would be quite impossible to leave the piers and iron roof supports as they are, and to substitute other forms of armour for the one in favour at the War-office, but it is estimated that any of the pro posed plans would involve an additional expense. For instance, while the iron work for the experi mental front costs £2,500 per gun, plates and com pound backing such as those previously mentioned in our description of the armoured casematea are estimated to cost about £2,800 per gun ; and Messrs. Brown and Co.'s proposal of solid plates 14in. or 15in. in thickness held between vertical iron beams, with recesses to take the edges of the plates, is calculated to involve an outlay of almost £3,500 per gun for iron work alone. We give these figures with some diffidence ; they are received as fair estimates at the War-office, but are open to correction from any firm which may offer to take contracts at a lower price. Should cast-iron be proved capable of making a good backing, an Bin. plate could be backed by 18in. of cast-iron, with an inner skin of tin. plates, for about £2,000 per gun. MILLIVALL SHIELD. Besides the plated casemate and the Plymouth experimental front, a shield made by the Millwall Company for the War-office is to be tested. Its cost is about £2OO more than the Gibraltar shields, or £1,200, instead of £l,OOO. The amount is, we believe, within the mark. The shield, originally designed to try Hughes's patent backing, has a front of 12ft. by Bft., and is composed of armour-plates 6in. thick on the upper half, and 9in. on the lower half of its surface. The backing consists of horizontal stringers of wrought iron, the nature of their section being similar to that of railway bars on longitudinal sleepers . Their sectional area is equivalent to a solid plate about two, inches thick. Behind them, and riveted to their bases, come two thicknesses of tin. plates, which in their turn rest against vertical stringers similar to those described above, and having a depth of seven inches. To test the increased resistance to be obtained by adding plating to the outside of existing structures, three lin. plates have been bolted to the outside of half that portion of the shield protected by the 6in. plate. The whole mass is further strengthened and supported by boiler-plate struts at either end, of like construction to those provided in former experiments. The hollow tubes for bolts employed in the casemate are provided for the Millwall shield. It is understood that the 12-ton, 18-ton, and, perhaps, the 23-ton rifled guns, with 191.t0n Ame rican smooth-bore, will be brought face to face with the various targets. The trials will form the greatest and most instructive series of experiments yet car rieti out in any country, and their results will be anxiously studied by scieutific engineers and artil lerists throughout the world. _ ... NE om v WS PAPE li ----2z!-Ir---e<27--,-- G 1,-- ,-- f_ l ( ANOTHEIe 'VICTIM —\ - . --% "4,' ..' 44 .c ) rid: ilf ' / , : Y< 4 ', - Another victim has been added to the hitt of fatal: %,\. resulting from the Clerkenwell explosion. Frlsil theftst s moment that Humphrey Evans was admitted to the - I3 Ward of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, until the time of his death, the surgeons had no hope of his recovery. The Evanses were a comfortable old couple, and had by industry and thrift put by so much as would keep them in decent food and clothing for the rest of their days. They lived in that wrecked thoroughfare called Corporation-lane, and per haps no one family suffered so greatly as that of the Evanses. Mrs. Evans died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital last week from the effect of her injuries, and the death of her husband, Humphrey Ei ans, took place early yestcr, day morning. The daughter of the deceased parents is still an inmate of the Royal Free Hospital, suffering much from contusions, burns, and bruises, but she is progressing favourably. There can be no doubt that the Soho and Millwn Fenian circles have been broken up ; and those two circles, it seems, played no unimportant part in the game of London Fenianism. In Soho, the greater number of Fenians were tailors. In no Fenian circle existing in England was so much ac tivity exhibited as in that of Soho. Now that it is dissolved and out of existence, the police authorities have become acquainted with the extent of the influence it wielded amongst the Irish in London, and of the promi nent part it played in the crusade against law and order in this country. The low public-houses and bcershops in which the circle held their meetings are now compara tively deserted. The police have their eyes upon them, but fail to see a Fenian enter them. The arrests in Pollen-street appear to have had the most satisfac tory results. Lying outside of the Soho district, Pollen-street was a convenient place in which the mem bers of the " Brotherhood " could assemble ; but the pounce upq : p the Lion and French Horn made by the police has scared its conspiring frequenters ; and the men with the " goatee " beards, who the police well know have been for the last eighteen months frequenting the solitary public-house of Pollen-street, are not now to be seen. Like the Soho circle, the Millwall Brotherhood are disorganised beyond all hope of being placed upon their legs again. In not one of the many Fenian cir , , des in London has there been so abundant a cro p AA anonymous informers as in Millwall. They have been useful in preserving life and property, and, without implicating their fellows, have put the authorities so upontheir guard as to prevent the accomplishment of many very fearful designs. In almost all the Roman Catholic churches yes terday the clergymen who preached alluded to the Cler kenwell outrage, and warned their flocks against having any connection with a secret treasonable society. At, Clerkenwell Church the Rev. Robert Maguire, the rectar, made touching allusion to the calamity, referring espe cially to the funeral of the four victims, which took place on Monday, and at which he officiated. A good deal of uneasiness prevails among the people of Clerkenwell with respect to the meeting announced to be held by Mr. Finlen next Sunday morning o Clerkenwell-green, and it is hoped that the police, acting with the admirable judgment and temper displayed by Mr. Superintendent Gernon on last Sunday may put a stop to the contemplated 'pro ceedings. The rumour of an intention to blow up the Brixton Convict Prison has produced considerable sensation in the neighbourhood. The authorities have taken precautions to prevent anything of the kind being attempted. The two prisoners, James Connerby and Gladwin Mee han, who were arrested at Wolverton on Tuesday on a charge of treason-felony, were taken to Aylesbury by the last train, in charge if a strong body of police, under th( command of Captain J. C. Tyrwhitt Drake, the Chiel Constable of Bucks. They were brought before Mr. J. T. Senior, one of the county magistrates, in the waiting-room of the railway station, and the information of Superinten dent Breary was read over, which stated that sedition and treasonable meetings had been held at the houses of each of the prisoners at New Bradwell. Some other important facts were stated in the information, which was not con sidered expedient to make public. Connerby denied in. the most emphatic way that any illegal meetings had been held at his house, or that he had had anything to do with Fenianism. He had been reared in this country ; and hoped he had too much sense to do anything of the sort. It was an extraordinary charge; he had always conducted himself to the satisfaction of his em ployers and those with whom he worked. Meehan also positively denied that there had been any meetings at his house, and asked whether bail would be accepted. He said it was a serious matter to bring up a man without any foundation for a charge. It would probably end in his being discharged from his employment, and the ruin of his family. Connerby asked that bail might be taken, and on being informed that this could not be granted, he asked for a copy of the charge against him to send to his friends. He was informed that he could write whatever he pleased, and that he might have a copy of the information. The prisoners were then remanded. The excitement consequent on the late attempt to de. stroy the Warrington Gasworks continues. The persons employed at the gasworks have been all sworn in as special constables, and a guard still watches the works. A reward of £5O has been offered by the authorities for the discovery of the person who removed the plug from the purifier. In addition to the fourteen men who were discharged on Monday, the foreman of the stokers• Gillooley, has been dismissed, although it i 3 said not the slightest suspicion exists as to any complicity in the foul deed on his part. A report was current in the town on Tuesday night that a Fenian of some note had been arrested by the police ; it is. however, without foun• dation. FATAL FIRE AT BELFAST. The &orthcrn Whig reports a shocking fire at Belfast. h. which three persons lost their lives, and two others were so much injured that they are not expected to live. It began in the establishment of a hat and bandbox manu facturer, named Mulcahy, Church-street, and through a lamentable want of forethought neither the police nor the fire brigade were informed of the fire until it had made considerable progress. A man named Martin heard the cries of the inmates, and at once made efforts to, save them. He pi °cured a ladder, which was, unfortu nately, too short, but which a number of the too zealous crowd attempted to climb. The result was that the ladder through over stress snapped, and a man, as we are in formed, had his arm dislocated. On the alarm being given at the _engine - station, the brigade, under Superin tendent Reilly, started with the greatest possible despatch ; and in five minutes from the ringing of the fire - bell Deputy - Superintendent Moorhead and Hugh Nelson were in the room in which Mrs. Macaulay and the children were. This apartment, which turned out to be the kitchen, is situated on the third floor, and this rendered the difficulty all the greater in reaching them. The members of the fire brigade put up one of their ladders, and with the assistance of another ladder, which had in the meantime been procured by the crowd, they ascended. At this time the room was filled with smoke, which also came rolling in dense clouds out of the window at which the firemen were. Nelson said he heard a sound, which must be of some person breathing.' In he then went, through the window, followed by Moor head. When inside, the sounds were, of course, more audible ; and, having felt around, they discovered Mrs. Macaulay lying close to the window, with the two youngest children in her arms. The second eldest girl was first caught hold of by the firemen, who brought her to the window, when each man took a separate ladder, and she was thus lowered to some other members of the bri gade, who received her when about half-way down. A shout from the crowd rent the air as they saw the girl upon the ladder. Moorhead dashed back into the room, when the first object he got hold of was the eldest girl. She, poor thing, had been too long subject to the fire and smoke to render any assistance herself ; but the firemen, with almost incredible agility brought her out by the window, and lowered her in the same way as before amid still louder cheers. Mrs. Macaulay and the poor little children were, however, still to be saved. One of the men took a child in each arm, and, coming quickly down the ladder, delivered up the little ones, but, while descending, shouted to his fellow-firemen to get a rope. His object in doing this was that they might have it for the purpose of lowering Mrs. Macaulay, who, we may state, was a very stout, weighty person. The rope, which was speedily procured, was, without a moment's delay. called into requisition. The heroic firemen, who stood firm to their post, under all the difficulties which we have already mentioned, tied the rope round the poor woman's body under the arms, and, havin ,, had it firmly secured, brought her to the window. when both men took the rope and lowered her down the ladder to those below, who eased the burden as it de scended. While this was being done the men upon the ladders were in a very critical position from the flames bursting around them. The inhabitants of the ad joining house, which is occupied by Mr. Sparrow, statuary manufacturer, sought to reach the perishing women and children by breaking a hole through the wall into the kitchen. This they did : but the only effect it had was giving vent to the smoke, which drove them from the aperture. They then made a similar breach through the wall into the bedroom, which is situate behind the kitchen; but their praiseworthy efforts were also foiled here in like manner. Mr. Joseph Mulcahy, the head of the above unfor. tunate family, who was the proprietor of the hat and hatbex manufactory in question, is, it appears, also a musician. He was absent from his residence, and pursuing his practice as a violinist in the Corn Exchange from seven o'clock until after ten, when the sad intelligence was conveyed to him that his shop was on fire, and that his family had been suffocated. The condition of the poor man when he came upon the scene of the occurrence and discovered that the story was almost literally fulfilled, could hardly be described. He was taken into the shop of Mr. Samuel Martin, painter, Church-street, where he burst into a passion of agony, which was afterwards somewhat sub ' duel by the people around him, who informed him th. t two of his children (three had perished) were likely gurTive, for the Re 'es- 3ea- Ited i to ,ver- bour a or 3ted, 3(3 to cuS beell ,ears, isted a. 19. 2. 13. ) 0. 20. C. 23 Q. 2 0 Do. 23. irt.td rt. 13• Ln. n. l3 ;a :B CC : 27 n. 3 I