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)f trial much f, and r bus' E t ben,' .leeerfiocritci t. 11. ifor/ 3 iL s osly n lovis s tor,' sq.) of . ger, of sq., iv• natY BANK of ENGLAND, E.C., 3d Shpt., 1861. THE Court of Directors of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England give Notice : That a GENER kL COURT will be held at the Bank on T a HURSDA.Y NEXT, the 10th inst. at Twelve o'clock pre cisely, to co ns id er of Dividend. This will His) be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter. HAIIMOND CHUBB, Assistant Secretary. kNCIES for MIDSHIPMEN land APPRENTICES In a first-elass London shipping firm. Premium moderate. Al.o a pprenti , es without premium.— •Tmly to SIMNIONDS and Co., 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East "al), E.C. Third Officers and Stewards wanted. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. . 1 2. 1i e duty mid to Government for the year 1862 was 4 -- , 40 03 , 0 62, and the amount insured on farming s tock, c 8 6,932. A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to Parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received "mg amounting in the aggregate to £t40,000; and the Society now holds a large Ilesrirve applLable to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those t e h bayged b the other principal offices their insu. making no returns to feet prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices,. Surrey street Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, _mac friarsE.C. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 29 , Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance buildings, LiverpoeL Total Annual Revenue exceeds £s o o, o ^o, Acc umu l a t e d Funds in hand ov er 1,030,000, Chairman in Liverpool: CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. EXTRACI'S FROM TIIE REPORT FOR TUE TEAR 1862. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £.300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is agsin fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preced,ng year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 108. td., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,097 16s. 10d. LIFE BRANCH. The ve gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the ry sum assured on n w policies for fhe year 1F62 exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at , the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £ 7 01 .427 on 1,498 new policies Issued. Until within the last few years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which has just been announced as the result of one year's business Was all but unheard of. This Portion of the Company's business has been carefully Watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the s hareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the future to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the age - regate s u m proposed for assuraire amounts to £ 43,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance companies of the day r ecord their accepted lives annually at a sum no t much, if at all, exc ee di ng th ose w hi c h the Royal has declared as inadmis ethic in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. If: to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to anno unce that n Fire Business Us progress has been undoubtedly more ral.id than that of any other Company established eit her In London or elsewhere, e xcept when amalgamations have taken place. The returns Ol dut y have proved this. In Life , the amount of New Policies already reported make all other t v,idence needless. file Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Com any w ere never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded o p n a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Buhr:, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. 1 Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Lif. Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence e,OOO policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Incoroe is The Accumulated Fund exceeds It has paid in Claims • £51,000 ▪ 2 0, , 00 .. 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among: the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies Dec. 31, 1847 .. „ 1852 ~ 1857 .. „ 1862 making, the total bonus additions, £96,600. Bonuses ma - i be received in clsh or applied to the v.duc tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the t of cy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid up policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of pc icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. X%,400 • • 11:500 .. 23 200 .. 56,500 THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, 3loorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1863. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-malL OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY BELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. H enry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. rohnk Garrett Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. M ar Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. T homas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq. uas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. Prim and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The - Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience Of Dearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve In the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSUELANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by itoyal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, .£2,12?,828. ANNUAL REVENUE, £422,401. LONDON BOARD. John White Cater, Esq., P. du Pre Grenfell, Esq. Chairman. A. Klockmann. Esq. Charle . Morrison, Esq., De- John Mollett, Esq puty r hairman. I J. , nius S. Morgan, Esq. A. De A rrovave, Esq. G. Garden Nicol, Esq Edward Cohen, Esq. John 11. Wm. Schroder, Esq. James du Buisson, Esq. George Young, Esq. Ex-DlREcrous. A. IL Campbell, Esq. 1 Robert Sulith, Esq. P. C. Cavan, Esq. Frederic Somes, Esq. P. P. Ralli, Esq. Manager of Fire Department —Gcorg ,, li. Whyting,. Manager of Life Department—W. F. Birkmyre. Superintendent cf Foreign Department—G. H. Burnett. Secretary—F. W. Lance. General Manager—David Smith. FIRE DE PARTMEN The Company grthts Insurances against Fire in the United Rin,gdom, and all foreign countries. Mercantile Ris'as in the Port of London accepted at re duced rates. Losses promptly sill liberally settled. • Foreign Risks.—The Director,, having a practical know- Foreign of foreign countries, are prepared to issue Policies on toe most tavourai)le terms. In all cases a discount will be allowed to Merchants and others effecting such Insurances, t effected The following Statement exhibits the i LIFE DEPART daring the las - few years : No. of Policies MEN 'm T provemen Premiums. Issued. Sums. 12 565 18 8 ' ... £ , 0 1 6 1851 455 ........ £3 77,42 5 ... 14 07 assuring Thus,rb.ein:ttliifilirenve 18 I 9 ( rs ....... 449,913 ...... 14 , 071 17 7 18 0 ...... 741 . 4 - 5 649 ..... • ,V 5 3 2 9 1811 781 ......... 5276' 6 ...... 0 ';'241 0 0 1862 ....... 1,(37 .............. 768,334 ...... •,. ',--- e z l a Y z e :e rt sumlc ofof 4 th 2 e 92B offi .9 e 7 e . are:— , the number of Policies issued was 3,623, 2 1 . E l . q.e'urity to Assurers. The large Bonus additions already declared, and the tip ro spect of a further Bonus at the next investiga on. 3. The advantages afforded by va ried Tables of premiums —unrestr'eted conditions; of Policies—and general Forms; of P ro liberality in dealing with the Assured. pt the and every information will be furnished o n application a HEAD OFFICE R : .... LONDON 58, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings. Princes-street. -__._________ N" E D I N nunG rt -.64, ORTII BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. WEST-END OFFICE : 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL. Secretary—ALEX. J. RUSSELL. _ _ ' , LEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of A y r the BIRTH of SHA.KSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon- Stratford lq . Zia: The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert big o.lll3arnilton, Bart., i.C.I i s Chairman) are now reedy ci-tney may also be paid to the a aeZ ,,B SCRIPTIONN and ii d l e the Tercentenary Committee. at the Stourbridge Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and rniinster or Wvk and Leamington. _Banks, Greeiov, -oPon-Avon raty , 1,, Warwick ; or th London agents, Messrs. tily a kmaThc. and Co , Messrs H a nburys and Co., or Messrs. The Tehanket Comm i t rest thei r s the btrthel ti " list :;?`.. n ..tenttry ee, in submitting the subscriP:- of shak,,,--4reuetnation, most earnestly . appe . al to the admire' clai or their aid and assistance The Committee attraction to - ace of Sh ' but the centre of his all admirer s of akspeare, nu ' neon the ground that Stratford is not only h Me) the tov.,, great Poet's works, and that i was "m he t iTed, and where be lived arid died. ~~ r~ - THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1863. No. 22,213. Now ready, in 2 vols., leap. vo., 125., ANDREW DEVEREL : THE HISTORY OF AN ADVENTURER. IN NEAV GUINEA AND ON TIIE SrAsisn MAIN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Polish Reply to the Russian AppeaL Europe has waged for the past century determined battle ,ga inst the Satanic powers of oppression and slavery, and if she did forget herself for a moment when she allowed the partition of Poland, if even now in 1563 she may not he willing to upraise her voice for us in our struggle against r the Czar, the Czardom will yet be finally compelled to the recognition of our inalienable rights, and the lot of entire Europe will be improved. Not unto us, then, but to your Czar, call loudly. 131 w to the unalterable course of history. Of one thing let him be assured —only he can obtain peace who is willing to leave others unmolested; and only then will the Russian p.ople be happy when they permit us to enjoy our happiness un disturbed. part of the turret's defence will extend to just beneath the upper deck, but is strengthened and protected by a massive iron rim, wrought in sections and rivetted together in the strongest possible manner; the armour-covered portion of the turret projecting above the upper deck and, with the rim, being together in shape exactly like a broad-brimmed coachman's hat of the olden times. The turret itself of course rests with the guns and their carriages upon a massive circular platform or turn-table, the outer rim of which is fitted with a ring road of stout iron teeth, by apply ing to which a cogged wheel, worked by a winch by either eight or less men at the handles, as may be required, the turret is made to revolve upon the machinery below. During the recent visit of the A, WARSAW, Aug. 30. The following reply to the "Appeal of the Rus sian Patriots to the Polish People" has been pub lished, and is now being sold by thousands : TUE REPLY OP POLISH PATRIOTS TO THE RUSSIAN APPEAL TO THEIR POLISH BRETHREN. For full seven months a murderous contest has raged in our country between two nations ; the one eager to oppress and to enslave, the other fighting in self-defence. You have drawn numerous armies frelH the ren:.ctcst cornet a Of the empire of your Czar to vanquish our few but heroic defen ders, and yet you have not succeeded in breaking our courage, our devotion, our endurance. Upon the contrary, you have been able to convince yourselves, that, in al ite of the inhuman oppression you have perpetrated against us, you can never hope to succeed in extinguishing our na tional spirit. After this recent experience we cannot re frain from returning a word of truth in reply to the appeal you have addressed to us heartlessly demanding our self annihilation. We desire to reject your cruel request, to enlighten and bring you back from a false and injurious policy to show you that the highest object of a noble nation is not comprised in the oppression of a kindred race or in destructive dreams of domination over two quarters of the globe. You should not feel surprised, brothers in Moscow, that when you—oblivious of the noble destination of a free nation, and of the interests of civilisation—allowed your selves to be hurried on by a coarse, ambitious Czar to ab sorbing other countries, and subjugating other nations, the same Czar and the successors who follow in his footsteps should have laid upon you a yoke of iron. The Czars persuade you to be the liberators of the Slavonic peoples, that, flattering the more noble among you by the aid of this idea, they may the more easily cast yourselves and all the Slavonic tribes into fetters. Three quarters of a century have not yet passed since Europe began to rejuvenise, and since that period she ad vances constantly with giant steps towards freedom and the happiness of nations. You alone have remained encrusted by the rough barbarism of ancient times, and the Tartaric wildness of the steppes. When the object of Slavonic union is held up to you as the reason for your opposing European and modern civilisation, you cannot wonder that we, as well as entire Europe, reject an idea leading to such an end. It grieves us deeply that you compel us to fulfil' sword in hand, the duty of self-preservation against you ; yet we are ready to forgive all the outrages we have suf fered for a century, because we recollect that you have beers led astray into an evil course by a Government unparelleled for its:despotism in modern history. We will willingly ex tend to you the hand of brotherhood as w e ex tend it to every nation, while we hope that you w ill ulti. ma'ely have sufficient political insight to pt rceive that two people may easily exist in friendship side by side, but that it can never be the part of the one to enslave nor of the other to be brought into subjectioil. T" soxF OHD, 6 , OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Vishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Miss Ell , son, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, finish, tc., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, Sac. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oLher man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBA.CH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full band of 40 instruments. The ITALL MS just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the ➢ietropolis. Long live Poland independent of Russia! Long live Russia when she hiss learned to be just I Long live the Sclavonic nations, each in its own limits I and long live glorious liberty ! Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. English v. American Turret Ships. PANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order 1..1 to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing, crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pi pper end Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, "THE GHOST," from the ricture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal eA3.nilaveesdtebrt Hall.sflt,ivtehe(wi th alillethhast o.e a n ls t c . i ern ar .t r n a arranged a d te f s o t r r im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. It has been already observed that "the news we get from Charleston should teach us to look nar rowly to the machinery of turret ships." As the Prince Albert, building by Mr. Samuda on the Thames, and the Royal Sovereign, converting at Portsmouth-dockyard, are the only turret ships we have at present in hand, and as the last-named ves sel is the more forward in her construction of the two, wo purpose offering a few remarks on the ma chinery of her turrets, and also to give a general idea of their construction with their frame of e e-shaped iron ribs projecting from the inner skin, and filled in with teak, the iron lattice-work outside both, embraced in its turn bylhe teak cushion on which rest the 51iu. armour-plates. It is to a certain extent impossible to draw any correct inference as to the part our two turret ships would have played in the attacks upon the forts at Charleston from the defeat of the Federal turrets in their attacks upon that place, for we do not even know how the revolving turrets Were pivoted upon their decks. We, however, know enough of the double turret vessel, the Keokuk (sunk in the first action), to draw a comparison between ship will be the draught could have been. her and our Royal Sovereign , and we think it will e l w e a a l vessel exceptin g ssel e ole vbaestalty En n el gi e is it h her for p ur p oses The length of the Keoku k ( 159 ft. 6i n.) and her light o o ff offence water) tohradefence Federal draught of water (Oft ) precluded her carrying any great weight of armour, and her hull may be considered as vulnerable to a 12 -pounder rifled gun from stem to stern. The turrets weighed each 40 tons, and were built up of alternate layers of wood and iron—a system that has been proved by actual experience with the Stork's smooth-bore 68 pounder at Portsmouth specially adapted for speedy destruction by a 68-pound round shot, and in one-tenth part of the time it would take with a similar projectile to destrny a wooden structure of the same weight. The Keokuk's turrets were, as stated in the Times of April 25, formed of an internal groundwork of 1 - inch rolled plates, covered with bars of iron four inches in depth, standing edgeways, placed 11 in. apart, and the in terstices being filled with yellow pine. Over all this were three iron plates. each yin. thick, boiler-plate, in fact, bolted together with bolts of 1-kin., with countersunk heads, 1 foot apart. The turrets were in fact nothing more than iron and wooden planking coated with three thicknesses of ordinary boiler-plate. It is worthy of particular notice that the Keokuk's two turrets were not revolving, but that she was fitted with "twin screws," worked by independent engines, to give her hull the necessary power of re volving and bringing the guns in her, turret to bear upon the enemy. This important principle was referred to by Sir James Elphinstone on intro ducing his motion on iron-clad ships in the House of Commons, and was first brought under the notice of the Admiralty by the Messrs. Dudgeon, of Limehouse, who have built several vessels on the principle for mercantile purposes. That the Admiralty is, fully aware of the value of the " twin screw" system as a means of manceavring ships of war under steam is evident from the answe r given to the hon, member for Portsmouth by Lord Clarence Paget, and by the order recently given by the Admiralty to Messrs. Dudgeon to construct a small steamer on this principle for ex perimental purposes. The turrets of the Keokuk had, however, one fatal fault. They had iron Pendulum shutters fitted to their ports, so as to Close them against the enemy's shot while the gun's crew ware engaged in reloadin g . The result of this arrangement was that the shutters when closed were struck by shot from Fort Sumter, be came • lammed on their pivots, and the guns inside were thus enclosed in a cylinder without ports through which enemy's fire. they could return the It is evident , therefore, from the foregoing facts, that the d • estruction of the Keokuk was owing to the dispositi on and lightness of her armour, and that her offensive powers were rendered almost sail by the jamming of her pendulum port shutters when struck by the enemy's shot. The destruction of the Keokuk must not, how ever, he look e d of the upon as at all condemnatory Federal Monitors. If we can trust the accounts since received itr this country of their doing s under the batteries of the Confederates, they have been under terrific storm s of shot from the rifled 200- pound bolt to the spher i cal smooth-bore, without suffering any material damage, and proving the d value of a turret' s defective surface while their of fensive powers have been sufficiently demonstrated by the destruction of the Confederate ironclad Ata lanta by some nine shots from the Federal turret ship Weehawken. The Americans are the first people who have pitted iron turret -ships against ironclads—that is, Confederate improvised ironclads, coated with railway bars, and aga inst forts armed Brookes, or with such guns as th e rookes, or the Blakley and Whitworth rifled 120 and 200-pounders, and after an experience in such matters, such as no other na tion can at the present time possess, they continue building monster Monitors, and arming them with 15-inch guns, and Northern men , we are told, say, "Our navy, whieh was only 60 at the commence ment of the war, has been raised to 600." To return to our own Royal Sovereign. It is ne cessary to repeat here that she is being fitted with four turrets, the one forward being the largest of the four, and intended to carry tw 300 pounder smooth bore guns; while the three others will be of less diameter, and will carry only on e gun each of the same calibre. From the inner skin of the turret, formed of half-inch boiler plate, will project out• wards iron ribs .-3-shaped, 10 inches • in length and 20in. apart, the spaces between filled in solid with teak. Round the outer cir cumference of this combination of teak and iron ribs is a crossed trelliswork of finch iron, and on this trelliswork, and through all and out side all is bolted 8 inches of solid teak. Here is a structure at once far better calculated to resist the impact of shot than the turrets of the Keokuk could have been, although the turret of the Royal Sovereign which has been so far described is as yet without its armour; for round the outer surface of the turret on the 8 inch teak cushioning are to be laid the solid 51 inch rolled armour-plates, which are now being manufactured, and bent immediately on leaving the rolls to the required segments of a circle, at the Parkgate Works, Yorkshire. In the immediate front of the turret or vicinity of the two ports, however, the resisting power of the 5 inch armour-plate is further Supplemented by a 4t- inch rolled plate, so that in the section of the turret's entire circumference which will be exposed to the shot of an enemy the defensive powers of the turret will consist of, from outwards, 101 inches of iron, 31 inches of teak, 5 inches of 1-inch iron trelliswork, 10 inch iron ae shaped ribs filled in with teak, and the inner iron skin. The outer circle of armour-plates is to be bolted, or " married," as we believe it is technically ea pressed, round the turret's upper rim, to a mas sive iron ring 19 feet in diameter, 14 inch by 2 inch iron, and weighing 2 tons 9 "t' This All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Cksworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! The GIIO ! ! The ONLY COMII GIIOST ! ! !—The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement lw Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe France•co, assisted by a corns of Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas : Principals, Miss M‘Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini, and Mr. Vernon Rigby. INTICOSI A, the Great Violinist. will make his First Appearance in England THIS EVENIA G and Every Evening, at the ALHAMBRA.. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elcn . ant Rooms, entirely and costly redecorated, are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. The musical department is under the directorship of Mons. llien, conductor of the band. This celebrated band will be called for,the future "The London Band." Manager of the Rooms—M. GRENET. Sole Lessee, R. R. BIGNELL. Admission, ls. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Reflect upon the results your self-imposed task of Pan slavism and consequent efforts to enforce it upon us have brought about. You have shed our noblest blood in vain and have destroyed our prosperity. During the last cen tury hundreds of thousands of us have succumbed beneath the knouts of your executioners; other hundreds of thou sands have perished in the mines of Siberia; hundreds of thousands more have been slain in the battle-fields of the Caucasus; still hundreds of thousands incessantly sigh in the subterranean dungeons of your fortresses, and the death-dealing damps of their caseniates ; tens of thousands have been the victims of the frequent gibbet and the mur derous court-martial ; millions of our property have become the prey of your greedy officials ; our religion is suppressed, our sacred places are profaned, our nobles waste away in poverty, and all that is great, dear, and holy iu our eyes is trodden under foot. Murder, there fore, robbery of freedom and property, suppression of the belief of our fathers and our national holy places, are the results for a century of such fraternity as you offer us. Urged on by the lust for domination of your Czars, hopeless of compelling us to adopt your civilisation, so far inferior to our own, you have turned your heathenish cruelties against us. By such barbarities and our consequent annihilat ion you hope to be able undisputed to call our native land your own. Your Czarina, Catherine, set up to be the protectress of our freedom, and selfishly and with cold calculation turned the weaknesses of our ancestors to our misfortunes, What are we to expect of you who now pretend to be con cerned for our welfare? We mark a satanic smile upon the lips of our oppressors when they hail us " brothers." We have learnt from bitter experience that hypocritical brotherhood and the treacherous care of your Government for the good of the slaves are not intended to realise the artificial dream of Panslavism, but are meant to ensure our annhilation and extinguishment as a people. You threaten us with extinction by German trade if de prived of your protection, and yet your absurd laws and the proverbial dishonesty of your officials do not permit one honest undertaking to prosper ; your system of perpetual Government contracts, with all the corruption they entail, abstracts capital from legitimate trade ; the banks under your administration are not open to fairly conducted com merce; the rate of interest in the countries under your rule is as high as in Turkey— a circumstance in itself fatal to the development of trade. Your Czar Nicholas, whom you are not ashamed to style the " magnanimous," encouraged and cherished the German element in Poland, to set up a balance against the Polish nationality. The plots of the tyrant have been frus trated. The Germans have acquired an affection for us and for their new country, and now fight bravely in our ranks against the foreign yoke. We see that the endeavours of your Czars are to bring about the hour when, striding across the fettered Slavonic peoples, they can wave their blood-stained flag upon the Bosphorus and the Baltic, and make the German people also their serfs. But we desire only to be free ourselves, and to leave the liberty of others undisturbed. It was we who magnanimously freed Vienna and Aus tria from the Crescent, but that Nicholas is not to be thus described who stifled Hungary in the selfish hope of pro curing a willing vassal is the House of Hapsburg. Ger many knows that in time of peril we have stormed her bul wark ; therefore she wishes our national existence secured. When our forefathers supported Napoleon I. they were attracted by his powerful genius. France of to-day is still the country of the grea t nation that can feel for our heroic struggle, and we may believe that her sympathy is si▪ ncere and warm. The English people also fully understand the difference between your Czardom and our liberty. For this reason the sympathies of those nations are dear to us. But we shall never debase ou rselves to expect ai▪ d and enemies salvation o from r ourom rs you, ce who ohave haveshown o you r e deceivedl ves u s u s c , h a nd bitter w e shall never be decoyed again by the honey of y our deceptive words. Forget your dreams, and think not you can compel us to ally ourselves with you, as Lithuania formerly voluns tarily allied herself with us, our civilisation, and our free dom. We will not join with you to lead kin dred races into the clutch of the Czar. You call upon us to occupy the ad svoanlscnedg posts . That lustTh autftewriellowngeu, conquest. The for against t h o Ee r a e nr v a l tp n ieo g n : on of you, The only way to blot out the disastrous consequences of the partition of Poland is, not that we should not fr aternise them. Europe are our friends, and we have nothing with you, but that you should depart from our country— that, undisturbed by you, we may enjoy the freedom wa de sire, and which we heartily wish to you also. Not until then will a liberal ruler succeed in calling forth nobler ideas among you; and, freed from the incubus of an unfortunate thirst for conquest, he will find himself able to raise your intelligence, your civilisation, and your prosperity. You say you have not desired we should be absorted by you, and yet for the last fifty years you have been ex tirpating everything Polish with the wildest barbarity in Lithuania and the adjacent countries, yon have banished ooidArfnauffieonnirLlcdai teachingsii sil devastated families into ela u oheidant a ma g tvtoaeohn e eundertf f emo r rer e ohc m tneuhdsre t teu h ehreo e esistvni s o, c to h aeruone o rlld o ae l vb s odri , efee f fst have volunteeringdra your oc e , ioe mating dr saints' au placed irn tme their ye r totherhave monuments. tvo sei with h ? wretchedness, t l le s e h a e v n o o w t e casting becauseobjectst ing t h ofo they uss have ad vsoo extinguishingfom Polish lt itse the hd our brethren that n e m i o n to g nwe P i ts o ehr l Poles our ra De national t y ir o p u t so destruction el of ftr d up a eroteli Poles, etno, when maintain ne n cheered the the namet . that th dof a o . in your capital. We must look upon it as nothing less than derision when you hold out to us, in union with you, the prospect of culture for the purpose you say of utilising our natural advantages. What? Since you came to us you have arrested our progress, crippled our education, suppressed our schools, d e stroyed our archives and lib rar i es, stolen our treasures of art and science, and now dare to talk of our culture com bined with you ? Your Nowosilkows, Okimows, and Mucha flows have paralysed our learning, crushed every soaring of the spirit, debased our gifted boys to machines and puppets, transformed our amiable girls into dolls, have appointed men of the vilest character to be the teachers of our youth, and have systematically laboured at the demoralisation of our children by the aid of these creatures ; and you talk of our displaying our culture. Your barbarous censors have stifled the germ of all that was noble, lofty, and good—have banished art and science —have done all that in them lay to encourage a rank and poisonous literary growth; among us ; and you prate of culture. Yes, we strive after fame and freedom, but our fame is the liberty, not the subjection of others. Yes, unfortunate Moscow brothers, we submit ourselves to the will of Providence. Do you, too, bow to the same decree. Do you know it? It says, "Victory to freedom over slavery, to enlightenment over darkness, to the freedom and inde pendence of every nation.". In the name of this decree, i ..,....... :9 , ~\ ::; 44 . _. ::--"="7;/,.'' •-:\ .....,,- 7 . 1;.. i. 11 ° 4 ',.. ' . 5.7, ,v : ::: i , - ....,..,,,, .... ,47.,z . :41 . , ~,,,. .., , - # '''Y 1 / 4 '..- ..: : :. ..4 .2 .,•‘..: ' :5!* : te, , ,,,A- E ,,, 't' , i , : ••,-:. ' 1 4's ,c , :-. 0! 4 )N,:;,lo•2itil.' os-1. trWlie ' • Cl' . 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Subsequently, however, with eight men at the winch handles it has turned a quarter circle in 23 seconds, or a complete circle in 1 minute and 32 seconds, thus enabling the two guns in the turret to be brought to bear from one broadside to the other in 46 seconds. The Royal Sovereign's turret "machinery," with the bed upon which it rests, we will now endeavour to describe, premising that the diameter of the turret is less than that of the turn-table or the machinery upon which the turn-table revolves. Level with the ship's lower deck, or, as it must now be, her main and lower deck both, upon upright timbers from the ship's keelson, are laid logs of teak about 20 inches square, and extending over a space of nearly 80 feet in circumference. On these square timbers has been constructed the bed proper which supports the turret turn-table, and machinery.. It is in appearance a gigantic cartwheel, 26ft. in diameter, the nave and periphery being constructed of English and Ameri can oak, the periphery entirely of banded strips of American, and the spokes of English oak. The periphery of the wheel measures 24in. by 12in., and the spokes each 18in. by 12in., all fitted with the nicest accuracy and bolted down immovably to the square logs of timber resting on the uprights under neath. The axle to this monster wheel exists in the iron cylinder, which will give entrance to the maga zine below from the turn-table, and which, 26in. in diameter, 7ft. 6in. in length, and 3 tons each in weight, are fixed upright through the centre of the wheel's nave ; two cast-iron collars, each 6ft. in outer diameter, and each some hundredweight, being fixed, one on the upper and the other on the under side of the deck, and securing the axle or cylinder thus in its position immovable as a rock. The upper part of this cylinder, therefore, projects upwards of 2ft. from the wheel's nave, and becomes the pivot upon and round which the turn-table and turret revolve. From a brass collar which encircles this cylinder, next the nave of the wheel, radiate outward 24 iron rods, on the outer side of which are fixed 24 bevilled iron wheels, 18in. in dia• meter and 19in. broad, and which, set in a double circular iron framing, work round a metal roadway laid on the periphery of the wheel, a second brass collar round the cylinder being fitted with a set of small brass bevilled wheels, the turn table thus fitting over and round the cylinder or axis, and resting with its inner circumference on the small brass rollers, which encircle the cylinder, and its outer circumference, upon the 24 bevilled wheels, which work upon the iron roadway laid upon the periphery of the wheel. Every part connected with the iron work of the turret, and which is being executed under the superintendence of Mr. A. Murray, Chief Engineer to the Admiralty at Ports mouth, is very massive in its character, and beauti fully finished, and so far as any judgment may be formed at present there is nothing to suggest the slightest fear of the Royal Sovereign's turrets re volving freely under the heaviest storm of shot that can be brought to bear upon them, or under circum stances of the greatest possible inclination which may be given to the ship's deck in the roll and tumble of a channel sea. Revolving on an immovable central axis as does a steamship's paddlewheel, it certainly appears that even 15 or 20 degs. of inclina tion should not interfere with the turret's working. The side armour of the ship, gin. plates, from the Atlas Works, Sheffield, are supported behind by 3ft. of solid timber, which is strengthened and supported in its turn by alternate wood and rolled iron beams, placed at one-half the usual distance apart, to each of which iron knees of great weight are attached, and by the crossed diagonal iron banding over the inner skin of the ship, The alternate wood and iron beams are covered with lin. iron plates, all of which at their butts and edges are rivetted together with 4in. straps of lin_ iron. Stringer plates also run fore and aft this iron deck. Over all this iron is now being fixed the upper deck proper of the ship, which consists of 6in. oak plank, and over a certain circumference of this oak planking, in the immediate vicinity *of each turret, will be fixed the ring of tapered armour plating which will form the glacis of each turret at its base. The ship, owing to the fact of her having been converted from a Symondite three-decker, will necessarily draw too much water to manoeuvre close in with the shore in shallow water, but she will doubtless be, when completed (if armed with guns equivalent in their power to the American Moni tors) the most formidable ship of war in the British navy, whether for purposes of offence or defence. Such is the Royal Sovereign, the first of England's turret ships, a vessel that if armed with weapons of offence equal to her defensive powers may stand a favourable comparison with the best of the American Monitors. When completed and ready for service, however, it might be a wise act to take her outside the Wight, and give each of her turrets a concen trated broadside of 68-pounders from a steam fri gate going past at full speed. Such an experiment, startling as it may seem at first sight, would most probably save the country some millions sterling during the next few years, whether the Royal Sove reign proves to be a successful or unsuccessful expe riment as our first turret ship. 'We, however, believe she will prove the former. There are many of the details in so novel a work as our first attempt at a turret ship which would most certainly be carried out in a very improved form in any second conversion or construction, and it is a question deserving serious consideration whe ther in any future originally designed turret or broadside gun ironclad ships the adoption of " twin screws," each screw worked by its independent en gine, may not be preferable to revolving turrets with their somewhat costly and complicated machinery below. A fixed turret possesses the same deflective surface as does the revolving one, and must be equally effective if the ship's hull possesses the power of turning in lieu of the turret. It is a significant fact that the most successful blockade runner of Charleston is a twin screw vessel, carrying a l ar g e cargo in proportion to her t on nage at of water, and possessing, by means o f her indepen dent screws, such a facility for changing her Posi tion that the Federal men-of-war have not as yet once hit her, although she has often been within shelling distance. The Royal Sovereign is destined to be a n experi ment ship in more ways than one, as in her will be tested for the fir st time t a light draug ht merits of a newly patented system o f self-acting ship ventilation in s timbers circulation o r e c of a i r throughout the framework of the ship. This is a onds staff surgeon on board h er Majesty s s vented by Dr. Edm furnish ship Victory, which professes not, on ly to an ample supply of pure fresh air to the crew , but also to effect the very im p ortant o re b s y er v e i r n e g ati t n h g e ship'sa nt r sfrom con mbe effected by converting the timber .51/LICVS from the keel upward, between the "ribs," so to speak, of the ship into draught channels leading int o a tunnel object of of rot,p ~~~ d~~ PRICE..... ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. shaft fore and aft on each side of the ship's berthing deck, which communicates by cross shaftings with the funnel, the draught of the funnel furnishin g the motive power for the suction of a continuous current of air upwards through the ship's timbers, and carrying off the foul air and gasses from the ship's hold and bilges without tainting the air the crew breathe on the berth deck. At present, in our ships of war, the foul gasses from the hold and bilges rise up between the ship's timbers, and not only keep the timbers surrounded and steeped in their damp rottenness, but also contaminate the air breathed by the crew of•the ship on the berth deck, into which they make their way by the openings over the men's mess tables and between the beams, or the perfo rated zinc fillings-in of the officer's cabin. There is not the slightest doubt that the fearful sickness which occurred only a short time since on board many of her Majesty's ships, and even on the Medi terranean station, was owing to these causes, strengthened in several instances by the decay of green timber which had been used in the ship's con struction. By Dr. Edmonds' system the stream of air is drawn through the ship's timbers from the cabin and berthing deck, the officers and men thus having the first benefit of the fresh air, which then passes out of the ship through her hold, the open ings between her timbers, along the air tunnel on each side of her deck, and thence by the cross shafting into the funnel, whence it is thrown out clear of the ship overhead with the smoke and fire from the furnaces. The Admiralty view the system in such a favourable light that they , have ordered it to be applied to the Zealous, iron: - cased ship, building at Pembroke, and to the Favourite at Deptford, both on Mr. Reed's designs. In these two instances, how ever, Dr. Edmonds' sy s tem of ventilation will be carried out in a more complete form than it is being done in the Royal Sovereign. The Zealous and Favourite will have extra air channels, in the shape of hollow deck planks, between each beam on the mess deek, by which means the air breathed by the men below at the mess tables, or by the officers in the cabins, is at once drawn off and thrown off with the general outgoing stream to the funnel. The subject of ven tilation is one of the gravest character, whether considered in relation to the crews of cur u:en of war and merchant ships, passengers on board the latter, or the preservation of timber-framed ships from the devastating ravages of dry rot.— Times. ESTABLISHED 1833. OWDEN'S 2ERATED GINGER BEER, in JP glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, rotass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manutactory, No. 3, W hite Hart-street, Drury-lane, W,C. TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. 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The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this offi , , , e, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1R63, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, frenn let November, 1863, to 3 st O c t o b er, 186 1, for the use o f Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on aprdication at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and sh - r,ned, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside "Tender for Foraze"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail. way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, I.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine t 9 more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward ma, rerman, Esq. Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; llerries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W aliants, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. • CITAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. Orr Uri-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. the beginning APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution has expended £ 32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-carriages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enab'ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom Deeply sensib'e, however, of the great responsibility that re sts on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. q'he Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions:— Her Majesty the Queen •• •• s. d annual 50 0 0 .. annual i 1 0 - lien ....... .... annual 10 0 0 annual 5 0 0 Clerk,Citm p Campbell, Colonel, li n o . n A .. M r s . .. B G a . n Currie, Wm., Esq. , • • C r o r u ie t , ts L a o n rd d C C h o. i , ef M j e l e is s t rs ie .: • • .• .. 4th don.lo 0 0 don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.z. B. :: 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwick, • • G. J., Esq., cos t of Lifeboatit . and Tran sporting Carriage • • • • • • .. 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. 3 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • .. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • • .. . don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • • • 3b 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, 1i.C.8. .. .. annual 20 0 Thom.s. Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship .. .. • • • • • • 1 6 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. • • • • annual 50 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re . eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willi s , Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. "ferries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by ail the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the , Institution, 11, John-street, Adelphi. London, W.NI .. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. VALETTA, Sept. I.—Her Majesty's screw line-of battle-ship Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, arrived yesterday morning from Athens, having on board 120 naval invalids and supernumeraries for Malta and England. She left Phalerum Bay on the morn ing of the 21st ult., and called in at Marathonisi, communicating there with her Majesty's screw sloop Icarus, 11, Com. N. Salmon, V.C., and taking on board invalids and condemned stores from the Revenge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear• Admiral H. R.Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley, and other ships of the squadron on the west coast of Greece, The Queen arrived at Marathonisi on the 24th alt. at noon, and left on the 26th at daylight, steaming a small part of the way. The Icarus left at the same time to join the Commander-in-Chief. The following British and foreign ships of war were at Athens when the Queen left ;—English.—The Marlborough, 121 (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H.), Capt. C. Fellowes ; the Trafalgar 70, Capt. T. H. Mason ; the St. George, 86, Capt ,he Hon. F. Egerton; and the Orlando, 46, Cap' G. It. Randolph (all in Phalerum Bay) ; and the Surprise, 4, Commander W. H. Whyte (Pirmus). The Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, had left for Smyrna on the evening of the 19th, and the Meeanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse, on the night of the 20th for Syra, in consequence of reported dis turbance there. French.—The Xenophon (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Touchard), the Monette, 4. the Tangier, 4, and a frigate, called the Magi cienne (bearing a rear-admiral's flag), which had just arrived to relieve Rear-Admiral Touchard anchored in the Plexus). Austrian.—The Novara, 51, the Fredericb, 22, and Kerka, 4 (Pilaus). The Novara was to leave for Pole (Adriatic) to be caulked and refitted, when Commodore Tegethoff would shift his broad pendant to the Frederich. The See hund, 4, left on the 19th for Paros. • Italian.—The Costituzione, 8 (Piraeus) ; the Re Galantuomo, line of-battle ship (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Vacca), left on the 13th for Naples. Turkish.--The Broussa, 22 (Piraeus). Greek.—The Hellas, 28, two gunboats, and one sailing brig (outside Piraeus). The Russians some time ago withdrew their ships and have now no naval force in Greece. Her I\la jesty's ship Revenge came round to Kalamata on the 23d, to communicate with the Icarus. She had been ashore at Navarino, but had been got off with out injury. The Liffey, 39, Capt. G. Parker, wa s at Koron on or about the same day, and the Peli can, 17, and the Wanderer, 4, Commander M. C. Seymour, were at Patras. Commander P. Brock, of the Pelican, has arrived here invalided, as also Mr. Ellie, clerk of the Marlborough. Fiag-Lieut. Boger will join the Pelican as her temporary com mander. A court-martial assembled on the 13th ult. on board the Trafalgar, presided by Capt. T. Mason, of that ship, to try Mr. C. B. Hogg, master's assistant of her Majesty's ship Queen, on two charges —(1) absenting himself without leave, and (2) nego tiating a bill of exchange of £3 10s, having endorsed the said bill " Commander Woollcombe," without Commander Woolicombe's knowledge or consent. He was found guilty and sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, and to be dismissed from her Ma jesty's service with disgrace.. On the same day was tried George Pick, cook's mate of the Queen, for using foul and disgusting language, and strik ing Thomas Olden, ship's cook, his superior officer. The charge was proved and the prisoner adjudged to receive 48 lashes, to be imprisoned for two years with hard labour, and to be dismissed her Ma jesty's service with disgrace. Another court martial was held on the 19th ultimo, on board .r the Trafalgar (President Capt. T. Mason) to an able-seaman, Edwin Hosking, of o_l_3_ l.. smith, on a charge of violently assaulting a cutlass on the gunner of the ship, by drawi ng: him down, the maindeck and ettemptia one of the beams. g The cutlass fortunately struckp d by the prisoner, who on reaching the wardroom The gunner then ran alls.easltrirdaroo. en ursue bulkhead, made a d the blade of the cut thrust at him, but a, n lass wont right through the bulkhead. Before he cou ld withdraw it h e was disarmed and made pri soner. Th e Court found him guilty, and sentenced him to pena l servitude for life. Her Majesty's ship Queen Was inspected on the 21st of July by the commander-in -chief, prior to her leaving the sta tion. She then only waited the arrival of the Orlando to leave for England, but she has since b ee n detained for reasons that have not transpired. She is expecting fresh orders, having been three years and 10 mouths in commission, for nearly the last 12 months of which time she has been stationed at the Piraeus. She may, however, be sent back to the Pii eras with stores for the squadron. Her Ma• jesty's screw corvette Cossack, 20, Cept. W. R. Rolland, left Malta on the 23d of August for the Piraeus with a mail. She is to relieve the Icarus, ordered home. Her Majesty's screw frigate Ma laces, 17, Capt. G. J. Napier, left yesterday morn ing also for the Piraeus with a mail for the com mander-in-chief. Her Majesty's surveying tender Growler, 2, under the command of Mr. Stokes, R.N., Master of the Mediva, has lately visited the Island of Favignana (south-west coast of Sicily), for the purpose of ascertaining the exact position of a lighthouse recently erected on that island, and er roneously stated by the Italian au thorities to be on Point Sothic), in lat. 37 deg. 55 min. 46 sec. N., and ton. 12 deg. 16 min. 6 sec. E. Mr. Stokes found it to be on Point Ferro, the westernmost poiut of the island, in lat, 37 deg. 57 min. 23 sec. N., unit . _ '7 long. 12 dog: 15 min. 28 sec. E. This cannot be too widely known to navigators, and it is very desirable the Italian Government should lose no time in correcting the mistake. The Austrian Government steamer Narent, Capt. _ _ Klins, arrived here on the 24th ult. from Trieste. Her Majesty's ships in port are—The Hi bernia, receiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-- Admiral H. T. Austin, C. 8., Commander R. B. Harvee ; the Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar ; the Phoebe, 35, Capt. T. D. A. Fortescue ; the Medina, surveying vessel, Capt. T. A. B. Sprat, C. 8.; the Foxhound, 4, CommanderW, Anderson ; the Psyche, despatch vessel ; and the tenders Growler and Boxer. Her Majesty's iron screw troopship . . Orontes, 3, Capt. Hine, which left Portsmouth on the 15th and Plymouth on the 17th ult. for Gibral tar, to effect a change of troops between that gar rison and Malta, has not yet made her appearance, and there is a rumour of her having broken down and put into Cadiz. Sir John Gaspard Le Merchant has returned to Valetta from England. It is under stood that his object was to arrange with the Secre tary of State as to his tenure of the governorship of Malta, which expires in April. Having been offered by the Commander-in -Chief the appointment of Quartermaster-General in England, it seems that this appointment was incompatibl e with the con tinuation of the above term. It is reported that his Excellency has relinquished the appointment of Quartermaster-General, with the understandinc, that he should retain the Governorship of Malta for' an extended period. Whether this arrangement will interfere with the expected appointment of Sir Henry Storks to Malta on the expiration of his im portant charge in the lonian Islands is not known. The petition of the inhabitants of Malta to the Secretary of the Colonies soliciting the appointment of a civil governor and a reform in the local council is receiving numerous signatures. The Lords of the Admiralty are making inqui ries of the authorities at Devonport as to the time necessary for preparing the Pelorus and. Gibral tar for the reception of their crews. It is supposed there that the Aurora, Pelorns, and Gibraltar will be commissioned for foreign service, probably Japan. They will all require to be docked. The Gibraltar is the most forward; the others may be ready in three weeks or a month. The Aurora is in the dockyard, fitting for the first division of the Steam Reserve. The Pelorns is at Keyham, rigged, and is also fitting for the first division. Her Majesty's steam yacht Fairy, Master-Com mander Welch, anchored at Woolwich on Saturday, in preparation to embark the Queen and the Royal family on the 10th, from the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert at Greenhithe, to land at Woolwich, on their return to England. The iron paddlewheel steam frigate Recruit, 6, 150 horse power, Commander G. F. Cottam, has re turned her Armstrong guns, stores, shot, shell, Sze., into Chatham dockyard, and the officers and crew will to-day turn over to the screw gunveesel Sreed well, 5, 428 tons, 80 horse power, which is to take the place of the Recruit on the coast of Africa. The Recruit is ordered to be placed in the first-class Steam Reserve, which seems to imply that the Ad miralty intend shortly to recommission her. She is adapted, however, only for the lightest duties, and. her recent signal failure proved that she is altogether unfitted for rough service at see. During the time the Recruit has been lying in Chatham harbour her bottom has become very foul, notwithstanding that she has been coated with one of the numerous .' un failing" compositions. She is accordingly to be scraped and cleaned, and at the same time to make good trifling defects, having proved to be rather leaky. Under the new Admiralty regulations, apprentices at the several dockyards will no longer be placed on the establishment on the completion of their inden tures, but will be entered on the books of the various yards to fill vacancies as they arise. Within the last few days a number of shipwright's, caulker's, and smith's apprentices have completed their term of apprenticeship at Chatham yard, and by direction of the Admiralty are tc be entered at that establish ment as hired workmen only. Apprentices will also in future be required to serve a portion of their time at sea, on board one of her Majesty's ships, and instructions have accordingly been received at Chatham directing a certain number of lads selected from that establishment to proceed to sea in one of the vessels hereinafter to be named. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry W. Comber to the Pelican ; Dr. James Middleton, assistant-surgeon, to the Weser ; Alfred S. Pratt, assistant-surgeon, to the Dee; John Fraser, acting assistant -surgeon to the Marlborough ; W. 1). Dodsworth, assistant-surgeon, additional, to the Marlborough; Thomas F. Hill, chief engineer, to the Fisgard, for the Wolverine ; and John Copple stone, assistant-engineer, to the Indus, for the Constance. THE ARMY. During the past week the 24th company of Royal Engineers, at Aldershott have been carrying on a series of siege works on the banks of the Basing stoke Canal. A number of models on a scale of one-sixth of elevated, sunken, and half-sunken bat teries were constructed, and also trenches and com munications. A number of model magazines were also made. A course of lectures on the subject of siege works, delivered by Capt. W. A. Frank land, and Mr. Hill, R.E., was well attended by the company. These operations are understood to be preparatory to the erection of siege works on a full scale, which it is intended to erect on the vacant ground between the North and South Camps. These latter works will probably be commenced to -day. and will be carried on very rapidly, orders having been issued for the men to work night and dbions y, as in actual warfare. Large quantities Engineer.,a, faseines, have been made by the g and now stand ready for use. considered Th e review as c l season ose d a , t A theld e r l s a h s o t t t g f r o a r n d lB o 6 dn 3 i v m iAs a il y odne b ar e l. field-day An y s right occupying rest ing taken place on . Thursday„ enemy was supposed to be advancing left-hill, on Beacon hill, and alrea n d i shott from the an extended .. front of nearly two miles. a st o u n p g o ti position e2e3ar osn camp, s b a u n rdy the preliminary movements, with the view came ßeacon in -h to ill. A sharp cannonade of getting close upon the enemy's position, the whole si Ah nt i f fl a t t le i h r e t fo s s y r h :l a i s force fn simultaneously was kept up by the artillery, and at the same time Major-General Hodge, with three regiments of cavalry, made a vigorou s a tt ac k on th e enem y' s l e ft, assisted by C and lery. The enemy D batteries of Royal Horse Artil retired to the eastward, but rallied and made a stand near Caesar's camp, his cavalry coming into action for the first time, causing the infantry to form squares. Oar cavalry coming up at this juncture completed his overthrow by some splendid charges. Owing to the• extended nature of the movements, the usual march past was dis pensed with, and the troops returned to quarters immediately after the termination of the manoeuvres. The Aldershott Mission-hall and Soldiers' Insti tute, the first stone of which was laid on the 11th of February by the Earl of Shaftesbury, will be for mally opened on the 4th proximo. The building, a very handsome one in the early Anglo-Gothic style, is furnished with a reading-room, smoking.. room, library, coffee-bar, and other offices, together with a spacious lecture-hall, capable of accommo., dating 500 persons. The architects are Messrs. Egger and Stapley, of Farnham, and the builders Messrs. Goddard, of the same place. The object of the Mission-hall is to furnish the soldier with. wholesome means of recreation in place of the vitiating temptations which exist in Aldershott. Chess, d rau ght, and other amus ements w ill b e pro vided, and occasional lectures on interesting subjects will be g i ve n. 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