The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

PROPOSED NEW IRONCLADS. Though Mr. Reed has concentrated all his offsets as a naval constructor on his special vessels, the Bellerophon and Pallas, and on his impioveraeats on the Royal Oek class of heavy armour-frigates, as exemplified in the power and dimensions of the Lora Warden and the Lord Clyde, yet these four are by no means the most original of his designs. For the most part, they le; only great improvements or developments of over first ideas of armour-ships. The develop mants aro great, the improvements we are willing , to admit are of essential importance ; but the gene o the ideas on which they are founded existed in all our navy yards, and in most of our privt.te yards tco. Any private firm can now de sign atici build a frigate of the Warrior class, and eve know from the experience of the Achilles at Ceatham that private firms can build them very ranch more quickly than Government yerds, which are only beginning their apprentice saip at iron ship-building, But what no private yard offered to do, and what it was thought almost impossible to accomplish, is that which Mr. Reed has actually performed in building and coating with 4a-inch armour wooden sloops no larger than the collier barks which crowd the pool below London bridge. The difficulty thus overcome is very much greater than it seems, as a few words will show. As soon as the necessity for armour ships was admitted in England after the launch of La Gloire, it was evident that a certain height of plating, varying from 16ft to 21ft, - would be necessary in most classes of vessels, and that if this protection was to extend the whole length of the hull, then seaworthiness and swiftness co aid only be secured in vessels of the very largest desexiption. But, by shortening the battery and confini og the guns to the centre of the ship, the ertraordin ary weights and dimensions could be re duced, and such ease given to the stem and stern as would add greatly to the buoyancy of the whole bull. As. 'these ships, however, would have to en dure heat 7 weather, and, in case of war, very heavy fighting too, it was necessary to consider what their condition - , would be with their unplated ends water logged, , and to make the length of the protected part in the , Pentra sufficient to bear up the stem and stern when their own buoyancy was destroyed. Upon t his principle the Warrior, Black Prince, Defences andißeeistance were designed ; but the two latter, though more than double the tonnage of Nelson's Victory, were found to be the smallest waich would satisfy these conditions. If, therefore, smaller seagoing vessels were to receive the protec tion of iron armour, it was evident that even the system, partial as it was, must be given up. The iron wall required for the safety of the guns and gunners mast bo reduced in length, and the safety of the lower part of the hull, near the water-line provide for by a simple armour belt from five to seven ate w ide, so disposed as to protect the machi nery and all beneath it, the nigh or gun wall of the battery being shortened by only containing the smallest number of guns, but all of the very heaviest calibre used in war. The attempt to fulfil all these conflicting conditions has been made by Mr. Reed in the Enterprise, the smallest class of seagoing vessels of war, the s'oop which is to be plated with the same armour as that which covers the Warrior -41 inches. This vessel, which will be launched early next month,is of only 953 tons builders measurement, and was intended to carry 17 32 pounder gnus. This number of guns was at once reduced to four, and the number of the crew from 165 to 100. This great reduction in thenumber of guns does not necessarily imply a reduction in the weight of metal thrown in a broadside, as the guns will be very much larger. The guns actually to be mounted iu this ship are 110 pounders, throwing a broadside of 2201 b., but guns may be carried which would equal in weight of metal thrown the original broadside of the 17- gun sloop, and would, of course, be far more de etructive in their action. But in thus transforming n small 17-gun wooden sloop into a 4-gun ironcased incop, a sacrifice of speed was inevitable. The weight o? propelling machinery was reduced 25 tons, while the weight of ship to be propelled was increased 200 tons. The speed lost will be from half a knot to a 1. - not. The speed of the Enterprise under steam alone will be, it is hoped, between 9 and 91 knots, err a :Attie over 10} miles par hour. In order to secure seaworthiness for this little vessel it was most desirable to keep the extremities light and buoyant. The concentration of the bat ti •ry had already done much towards this end. Still Plrtikr to promote it special bow and stern chase guns were dispensed with, and arrangements were mitcle by which the guns from the protected battery in. the centre were rendered capable of firing within 12 ,degrees in the course of the vessel, both ahead and asteru. Under these circumstances it became pos- Bibb 3 to reduce the amount of material in the frames and other portions of the structure of the ship before and abaft the battery. The reduction thus effected will,, it is believed, render the ship lively in a sea way, and ready in obeying her helm. So far as the preceding description is concerned, the hull of the ship might have bees constructed entirely of wood, thatas of the Research, recently launched at Pem, broke, actually is ; but it was decided that the an wailed portions of the Enterprise abeve the water line should be built of iron. The introduction of iron into the hull of a wooden craft gave a still fur ther. Opportunity for lightening the ship, as steel will do in ships of iron. It rendered it possible to leave the space between decks forward and aft un plated, as the materials of construction were, of course, incombustible. Instead, therefore, of carry ing up the iron wall or belt to the roof of this space, it was only necessary to carry it to its floor, care being taken to lift the floor well above the water-line. This arrangement brings the roofs of the fore and aft 'tween deck spaces above the floor or the battery, or the gun platform. They are, in fact, just so much above the gun platform as will allow the chase guns to fire over them clearly and we I. In respect, therefore, to iho arrangement of the decks the Research and Enterprise differ. The dif ference affects very sensibly the amount of armour required for the vessel. In the Research for every 100 tons of material in the hull 40 tons of armour are required, while in the Enterprise there are only 25 tons. On this account the Research requires and has a heavier frame, and is, with only the same powers of offence and defence, a larger and much more costly Shia- Since, also, the greater part of the extra weight of armour in th e R esearc h li es t owar d s t h e reenities of the ship, she will be less lively and handy than the Euterprise, and the fact that the 'tween deck space is left uncesed in this latter ship gives her a further advantage aver the Research in lightin anti the space. set-off The to these m g any manifest advantages is the novel and untried, and therefore to a certain extent somewhat doubeaul nature of the connection between the upper and lower hulle, and the almost dangercus nearness of the lower part of ° he Pthnts the unpro tected ship to the water - line. N e i ther however, involves the safety or the f t ship from" ors: "wth' either efficiency, and shou l d trouble arise cause, which there is no reason at pres ent to antici pate, it will be confined to temporary per sonal in. convenience to the crew on the berthing deck. In order to complete the description of the powers of offence and defence possessed by the ship it is ne cessary to state that the shot-proof bulkheads Cross ing the deck, and extending from the water-lineto the roof of the battery, are loopholed for musketry, both over the upper deck and between decks, so that should the newel be boarded the boarders can .7.eeZ. a lodgment in no part of the ship outside the battery, either on deck or below, without being ex posed to constant fire frctn within the battery. During action the 'tween decks, which will be the ordinary berthing place for men and officers, will be quite deserted, the whole of them being within the walls, either in the battery, or immediately below it, under the armour belt. Fur the purpose of bringing the whole of the lower part of the ship into commu nication with the battery when in action, and to secure perfect ventilation, a wide central passage rune entirely through the ship below the lower deck, and, as all the hatchways of this deck are closed in during action, large ventilating hoods are fitted for down dr tights at both extremities through the deck, and a current of sir is established by the furnaces and by Sehiele's blast-fan, the space round the funnel forming a clembha upcast shaft. The central pissage commences forward, at the fore platform, and, passing between store-rooms on either side for sails, provisions, water, chain, and coals, opens into the stokehold. Between the stokehoid and theengine-room and immediately below the battery are the magazine and shellroom. The passage is continued between these through the engine-room onwards, both above and below the roof of the shaft alley, to the extreme after end of the ship, all the storerooms both forward and aft communicating with it. In some cases, as in the provision and water spaces forward, the ordinary bulkheads are dispensed with altogether, and stan chions are substituted, and where this arrangement was undesirable, iron gratings are made in the upper part of the partition. In order still further to provide for efficient ven* tila.tion, and particularly with a view to the preser• vation of the frame of the ship, a passage is left along the wings on each side and beneath the floor ing of the several divisions. There is thus scarcely a foot of the frame of the ship which is not in direct communication with the central passage, and acted upon either by the draught of the furnaces or by the Schiele's fan. Directly below the battery, and over the magazine and shell room, is a large platform to be used as a cockpit, communicating by a covered passage through the engine room with an after cockpit and dispensary: The dimensions of this minature ironclad are only 180 ft. long by 36ft. wide, her engines are to be of 160 horse power, and her speed is estimated at nine knots. Though an experimental vessel, the success of the Enterprise has been secured by the admirable seagoing performance of the Research, another ship of much the same class, only 200 tons larger, which made a successful passage round from Milford to the Thames. This little corvette carries five inches of armour, and in the inn round to the river, though the weather was very rough, she often steamed 104 knots, rolled easily and not deeply, turned a full circle in 4 min. 18 sec. in five times her own length, is well ventilated, buoyant, and, when equipped for sea, will draw only 14ft. of water. In our description of this vessel on Friday we stated that " she carried a broadside of guns equal in weight to those of the renowned Warrior." That, as our readers must, of course, have seen, was an error, and should have been " carried a broad side of guns equal in weight to the heaviest of those of the renowned Warrior." So far, however, she has established all the principles which her designer put forward when he began to modify her form from what she was originally intended to be—a wooden screw corvette. We cannot help thinking, nevertheless, that Mr. Reed would have been more successful in the matter of speed had the lines of these vessels been from the outset of his own design ing. If the Admiralty have any consideration for our pockets, they will at once give up the false economy of endeavouring to coat wooden frigates in frame with iron—of trying, in fact, to adapt and work up old materials into a new purpose for which they were never intended. It makes but a bad compromise, such adapted vessels, after all, costing very little less than new, but being infinitely worse. The French have for the first time last autumn begun building two frigates which, like our War riors and Minotaurs, are to be wholly of iron from end to end. They have tried plating wooden frigates with iron, and not finding them answer, have come back to the point at which we commenced, and begun building of iron only. With their costly experience before us, how can our Ad miralty hope to be more successful with iron plated wooden frigates ? As a fact, however, they do not hope to be entirely successful, but only to make less conspicuous failures than our French neighbours have done in La Gloire. The Lord Warden and Lord Clyde, which are to be built of wooden frames from Mr. Reed's design, will be magnificent vessels as far as size and speed, and for a time, perhaps, as far as strength is concerned. Each of these ships is to be of 4,000 tons, 1,000 horse power, and each is to carry two 300 pounders, and 30 100 pounders, cased in with five inches of iron. But, for the nomi nal saving of £lO,OOO, effected by building their frames of wood, which rots at once under the iron, the country will eventually have to pay some £200,000, in the speedy decay of the ships and the consequent early necessity of replacing them with others. We need no stronger proof of their real cost than is to be found in the fact that the French, who were the foremost supporters of this system of building, now intend to give it up, and in future build of iron only. It is very gratifying to our enterprise and manu facturing skill to know that, after the start which our neighbours got of us in the launch of La Gloire and La Normandie, we are now ahead of the French in the number of ships afloat, the number launched and fitting, and in the number building, while in the still more important particulars of strength, size, and speed, the French possess no ships whatever that can even be named in comparison with those of the Warrior or Minotaur class of fri the list of the iron navies or building is as follows: res NOW AFLOAT. FRENCH. Solferino Magenta Invincible Couronne Normandie La Gloire gates. Up to the presen of the two countries heti ARMOUR-CLAD SI ENGLISIt. Warrior Black Prince Hector Valiant Defence Resistance Royal Oak Prince Consort Caledonia Research RECENTLY LAUNC . Achilles Minotaur Ocean NEAILLY READY Agincourt Royal Alfred Royal Sovereign Prince Albert Favourite Zealous BUILDING} IN V . Northumberland Lord Clyde Lord Warden Bellerophon Pallas ISED AND FITTING. I Provence Heroine FOR LANWCRING. S arveillante 1 Flandres ARIOUS STAGES. Savoir Revanche Magnaninie Guyenne Valeurense Gau:else Thus, then, we have ten iron frigates afloat as against six of the French ; three launched and fit ting as against two of the French; six nearly ready for launching against two nearly ready for launching in France; and five in various stages of building, while the French have six in the same condition ; a total in all of 21 English iron frigates against only 15 belonging to France. In making this comparison, however, it should in fairness be borne in mind that of the six French frigates building not one is less than half finished, while some of ours returned as building, such as the Bellerophon, Lord Warden, and Lord Clyde, have, in fact, only just been com menced. On the other hand, it is believed that the French Marine intend to commence no new vessels this year; while it is to be hoped that at least two more on the plan of the Bellerophon will be begun in this country. Everything of importance connected with the French ironclad vessels is, as algeneral rule, as well known to our Admiralty as to the Minister of Marine in Paris, and the substance of all the knowledge that has reached this country has only tended to confirm the belief that, both in a military and in a mechanical point of view, we took the right course in turning out vessels of the Minotaur and Warrior class. To this day they have never been equalled or even approached. The Solferino and Magenta, two decked iron frigates, are both slow and weak compared with any of the ships of this class, Which are strong and swift enough to disre gard almost any kind of fortifications. h In th e li st of French armour ships which we a " g iv en, all, Whether building or built, with the exception of the two first-named, ar e frigates or heavy corvettes, carrying f rom 16 to 40 gnus. The Solferino and Magenta only are two de c k ers o f the class whi c h in the old they ime used to be called T double banked f r i gates. are each rated as 80 gun ships, but, i n reality, carry less, having only 64. All these ship s are ordinaryn vessels of war, frigates so covered without w oode n atthe slightest attempt to adapt their fo rm to their new Their scantling (that is, the thickness of e tl a ' si rn n le g. er behind the plating) is not, as h os been often stated, as much as sa. thick, but is neither more nor less than the thickness of ordinar y men-of-war—that is, from 2 ft. in fripates to nit. in the Solferino and Magenta. The armour plates are 'shorter than ours, and are as nearly as po ss ib le about 4tin. thick. None have grooved edges to TEE SUN, LOI\DON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1864. tongue into each other, and each plate is fastened with 11 screws into the timber. The reault of the recer.t experimental rough-weather cruise of the Solferino, Magenta, Invincible, Couronne, and Nor mandie gave some curious and rather unexpected results. The Solferino and Magenta two-deckers proved as steady as rocks when the Couronne and Normandie were rolling dreadfully, and the latter made such bad weather of it and shipped so much water as to put out her fires, and there is little doubt but that she would have foundered outright had not the weather moderated sufficiently to enable her to gain a port. Before she was trusted out again, 100 tons of cables were fas tened along each side of her upper deck, which had the effect of studying her much, though she was still found to roll so quickly and UP easily as to render it almost impossible for her to cast loose her guns in the slightest seaway. The Couronne laboured heavily, but did nothing like this. The Invincible was the best of the frigates, and the Solferino was the fastest of the whole squadron, doing 101 knots, when the Normandie and Couronne were short of six knots. Singularly enough, the Solferino and Magenta, though sister ships, alike to a plank and rivet, and with the same engines and stowage, gave very different results as to speed, the Solferino doing lot knots and the Magenta barely 7. The difference is, perhaps, to be ascribed to their engines, which are said to be bad in the latter ship. Both, however, were remark ably steady, except with the wind on the quarter, when they became uneasy while the rest of the fri gates were quiet. The Invincible was next to the Solferino in speed, and nearly equal to her in steadi. ness. On the whole, oa a comparison of the iron clad fleets of the two countries, we have every rea son to feel proud—to feel secure while we have got them.-7imes. offer a new hindrance to the advancing foe. The Austrians, to whose share, according to the last accounts,the task of attack ing this position is to fall, will find it no easy matter. Still, the difficulties which await the Prussians in the advance by the Rendsburg-road are still greater. The intrenchments commence at this point, at the village of Wedelspang, and the first line stretches towards the east through the Selker Noer to the Schlef, towards the west in the neighbourhood of the Rothen Krug, to which point the batteries extend from the opposite direction of Hettingstadt, and at the junc tion the defences are crowned with a very powerfully-armed and fortified battery. A second line of intrenchments com mences behind these, with a strong blockhouse at Bustorf, comparable to a small fortress, and culminates in the oppo site direction at Husbye, which again, being transformed into a kind of large place d armes, is connected with Hel lingstadt by a series of smaller intermediate works. This second line entirely commands the first, and Bustorf, in particular, appears impregnable by assault, owing to the deep and extended Bustorf dyke, situate between that place and the Schlei. A third and last line of intrenchtnentk ex tends from the town of Schleswig, over the Erdbeerberg, the Anneten-hohe, and the Pulverholz, as far as the Zoo logical-gardens; and here again it is connected with the works extending from Husbye and the village of Schabye. Finally, to prevent a passage of the Schlei, and an attack therm, the ford at Missunde is powerfully fortified, and a very strong tete-de-pont constructed there. Intrenchments, furnished with guns of the heaviest calibre, are also raised at every point where any attempt of the sort could possibly be made. Naval and Military Intelligence. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, SPECTATOR,—The Conservatives are said to be considering in that rather vague way which gene rally precedes a session of Parliament whethet or not it is worth while to make a rush for power ; and an able contemporary, which well knows how to make its praise decidedly less palatable than its blame, and now and then, perhaps, uses its know ledge, has exhorted them in its own peculiar style of derisive encouragement to make the attempt. " Why should the Conservatives be supposed inca pable of doing very little and writing any number of despatches? They might, too, make their de spatches civil and conciliatory, and although this would be a great change, it might not be a had one." This view of a Conservative government may ap pear humble, but it is sound. When there is any reforming passion in the country, the proper duty of the Conservatives is clearly not to guide the en gine but to sit in the guard's van and put on the break. But when there is no steam on, and the train does not move at all even without the break, it be comes comparatively immaterial whether the guard sits on the engine and the engine-driver at the break, or vice versa. Now, therefore, if ever the Conserva tives would seem to have a fair chance of govern ing the country, and—so long as the present fit of profound apathy as to home affairs lasts, of express ing adequately the feeling of the nation. Unfor tunately, however, for the prospects of the Conser vative party, it is rarely practicable for it to have really able leaders who are of the same grain of mind with the bulk of the party, and can command, when in office, the full political confidence of their followers. For it requires no small ability—no small spirit of enterprise—to govern the country even in the most sedate times with popular credit ; and though you may find plenty of both ability and enterprise in connection with Conservative opinions, they seldom happen to be exactly of that subdued type which both raises Conservatism in its own eyes and the eyes of the world, and yet fails to sow any suspicion in the Conservative ranks of a wish to desert the slow bumerum policy that is so dear to them. The late Sir Robert Peel was such a leader—such as can scarcely be expected again in a century. He was the slow Conservatism perso nified ; and yet he had ability and activity, and ambition enough to give to the party a new status, and even to the country, so long as he stood at the helm, a position of some dignity. Generally, however, the model Conservative—such a man as Sir John Pakington, laboriously dull, or Sir Staf ford Northcote, shrill in accounts, or pouring out commonplaces in a high monotonous key, is not a man to transfigure Conservatism in the eyes of the party and the world, and inspire confidence by his capacity without forfeiting it by misplaced originality. No doubt Conservatism attracts plenty of really able men into its ranks—but not, unfortunately, of the type in which the country party can recognise its own genius. The attractive work of Conservatism, the work, too, which so long as Conservatives are in opposition any political volunteer who can do it well will be gladly permitted to do without any too close investiga tion of his fundamental faith, is the work of snubbing advanced views," putting down" all eager hopes, and generally proving that a sane intelli gence, even if very sanguine, can only at best ex pect to prevent the present from deteriorating as compared with the past. This is often very conge nial work, especially to young men of culture. Mr. Disraeli showed in the commencement of his career magnificent genius for it. Lord Robert Cecil ob viously enters into it con amore, and is one of the very best and roundest snubbers in the House. Lord Stanley enjoys it when not withheld by his profound respect for the growing force of a winning cause. Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald is scarcely critical enough for it—by far too much disposed to be con structive—but still ho can make his points with success; and Sir Hugh Cairns has showed much more than professsional capacity for it. But still, though this is all very well for the carping phase of Opposition, it is not the capacity which wins the confidence of the country gentlemen. You could as soon win for the Saturday _Review the species of mental obeisance with which an official department looks at its annual blue-book, or gain for Garibaldi the same description of confidence with which a regular army regarded the Duke of Wellington, as inspire the true country party with any distinct feeling of moral trust in that sceptical side of culti vated Conservatism which exercises itself at the ex pense of unripe reforms and enthusiastic dreams. It is not unwilling to profit by this effective weapon in defeating the pressure of the Liberal party, but it is not the faculty which really wins confidence from the British landowner, or which can discipline and command them as Sir Robert Peel could disci pline and command them before his goad sense came into disastrous collition with their prejudices on the corn laws. The ability wnich gathers round the Conservative party is rarely of the kind to lead it effectively. A typical Conservative is usually too dull to take the highest place in the realm with conspicuous success. A critical, highly cultivated Conservative is usual y unable to give out the true solemn sort of watchword with the proper sort of solemnity that makes the party feel at home under the influence of his words. It is the misfor tune of a Conservative Government to be absolutely dependent on the aid of men who are apt to iead it into uncongenial positions,—either on eccentric manteuverers, or on politicians who eepreseet only the cynical disbelief in reform, not the natural af fection of the country party towards the old state of things. SATURDAY REVIEW.—Unless the peace of the country is threatened by foreign complications, Mr. Gladstone may look forward to a new occasion for appearing in the character of a public benefactor. A philosophical clerk in a recent fiction reflects on his own illogical gratitude in thanking his master for paying his quarter's salary. The money fairly belonged to the recipient, but nevertheless, as he , justly observes, it is impossible to help thanking a man who pays you money. The taxpayers, though they are the rightfel claimants of any surplus which may accrue, will make no difficulty in thanking Mr. Gladstone for any remission which ho can afford. It is true that he has sometim es ex p resse d the opinion that the most burdensome taxation is the best, because the overweighted camel may be, provoked into throwing off his load; but great orators are not bound to be uniformly consistent, and Mr. Gladstone is a n a bl e fi nanc i er , as we ll as aningenious constructor of paradoxes. He has already promised to cheapen sugar last year as he reduced the duty en tea, and there can be no doubt that the . state and prospects of the revenue will enable him to redeem his pledge. Of the smaller taxes which are candidates for the next turn of dis tribution, the posthorse duty, though it has not been prominently brought to the attention of the Government, would be perhaps the most deserving. There is no reason why a gig or a market cart should be converted into a luxury by a tax which at the same time creates an invidious monopoly. Of more important claimants for relief, the Malt tax is first in the field, but the excess of the burden which is borne by the farmers beyond their propor tion as consumers -weakens to a certain extent the force of their demands. It is perhaps anomalous that so heavy a tax should be levied on a whole some and indispensable-commodity, but the duty is too . productive to be repeal e d, an d a p ar ti a l re d ec non would be in a great measure appropriated by the brewers, while the vexatious inte r f e rence o f excisemen would not be removed. If it is true that malt might advantageously be used as food for cattle, it is unfortunate that the price should be artificially raised, but, as long as the tax is retained, no diminution of the amount would tend materially to diminish the existing grievance. If, after completing the other arrange ments of his bud ge t, Mr. Gl a d s t on e can spate a ' million, the diminution of the income tax by a penny would afford sensible relief. A poundage of six pence would produce nearly or quite seven millions, and, in addition to the fractional reduction, there would be a certain satisfaction in the com parative ease of the corresponding calculations. In some golden age of the future, the rate may even fall to fourpence with great advantage to the pocket of the taxpayer, and perhaps to his morality. It is as wrong to make a false return of sixteenpence in the pound as of fourpence, but a temptation multi plied by four becomes practically far less resistible. The available surplus cannot, of course, bo even approximately ascertained until the Estimates are prepared and published. As far, however, as con jecture is possible in the absence of official informa tion, it would seem that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have no occasion to incur unpopu larity. The House of Commons has learned, by the experience of several years, to strip off the , irritating appendages which p lease Mr. Gladstone 's tastes, apparently for the same reasons which some times induce cooks to annoy carvers with superflu ous decorations of skewers and paper frills and sculptured turnip% The determirn!tion of the expenditure which regulates the application of the re venue belongs to the Cabinet , or to its principal mem bers, rather than to the Minister of Finance. As long as Lord Palmerston presides over the Govern ment there is no reason to fear a repetition of the err or which has so often been committed in the .ex cessive reduction of armaments. The country has, for the first time in the present generation, enjoyed an inter val of five or six years without a panic ; and Parlia ment would not be supported by general opinion in a recurrence to unseasonable parsimony. It will also be understood that, notwithstanding the attachment of all parties in England to peace, there can be no abolute freedom from risk while one hemisphere is at war, and the other is in the midst of quarrels and military preparations. It is not desirable to disarm, brat the proceee of manufacturing armour ought now to be far advanced towards completion. The navy has been lately rebuilt two or three times over, and even the wealthiest and most liberal com munity cannot afford inter minable reconstruction, It is also not unreasonable to expt.2t that iron ships will in some degree repay their cost by their dura bility. Both in the navy and in the ordnance de partment, the outlay of capital and the cost of re pairs ought soon to exhibit a reduction. The fate of the Government may depend on the prudence of its measures, but it is ❑ot impossible that the prin cipal business of the Session may consist in a con test for office. The Opposition might, if a division could be taken on the simple issue of a choice be tween Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby, still be defeated by a narrow majority; but its numerical strength has been considerably increased, its chances have been improved by the removal of the Italian question into the background, and after two years of inaction Mr. Disraeli probably longs for the ex citement of a struggle, into which, indeed, he play be forced by his supporters. He may perhaps flatter himself that the country is tired of hearing Lord Palmerston called popular, and if a suitable occasion occurs he will almost certainly make a stroke for office. Several causes may occasion a temporary division in the Ministerial ranks, but experience has shown that it is difficult to unite the Opposition at the decisive moment. A far more serious danger would arise if the rumours of dissensions within the Cabinet were confirmed. The secession of a prin cipal member would render the position of the Government so untenable that it would scarcely be worth while either to meet Parliament or to attempt a dissolution. Otherwise, the chances seem to be in favour of the continuance of the pre sent Ministry for another year, especially as Lord Pelmerston, as long as his party is united, holds in his hands the dreaded weapon of dissolution. If the Minister is at last deserted by his good fortune, the succession of a comparatively untried party may perhaps effect a considerable change in the opinions and professions of many contented supporters of the present Government. If no change takes place, the Session will probably be comparatively tranquil. EIAMINER.—The Lord Justices have decided against the claim for costs in the Divorce Court, which we noticed in our last number. The presid ing Judge regarded the proceedings as wholly groundless, and observed, that the attorney should have exercised more caution before he took up a jealous woman's case, and might easily have satis fied himself that his client was labouring under de lusions. But an attorney's judgment is very much influenced by the prospect of costs; and farther, as the true Amphitryon is he with whom Sosia dines, so the lawyer thinks the client rational who has the discernment to employ him. Where then, again we ask, is the security against groundless proceedings, carrying with them scandal and defamation. See in the following petition all that is necessary to commence a suit, how easy the first step, after which there is a halt, during which evil•speaking, lying, and slandering have full swing. And though the charge may not be credible, it gives opportunity and occasion for all the worst that can be said or con ceived against the object. In the matter of Timothy Joseph O'Kano, of No. 26, In verness.road, Bayswater, in the county of Middlesex, gentlemen, Dated 19th day of October, A D., 1863. Showeth :-1. That your petitioner was on :the 2d day of October, 1851, lawfully married b Margaret Matilda Augusta Morris, of No 2, John-street, Sutton-street, Com mercial road East, in the said county of Middlesex, spin ster, at at . George's-in-the-East, in the said county or Middlesex. 2. That, after his said marriage, your petitioner lived and cohabited with his said wife at No. 2, John-street, Sutton-street, Commercial-road East, aforesaid; at Graves end, in the county of Kent; at Dingle, Killarney, and Tralee, all in the county of Kerry, in Ireland ; and at No. 26, Grove-place, Brompton, in the county of Middlesex ; and that there was issue of the said marriage —viz., one son and four daughters. 3. , That on or about the 16tb. day of June, 1863, and at divers other days and times at Cambridge House, No. 94, Piccadilly, in the said county of Middlesex, and at divers other places, the said Margaret Matilda Augustata O'Kano committed adultery with one Henry John Temple, Vis count Palmerston, K.G., First Lord of her Majesty's Treasury. Your petitioner, therefore, humbly prays that this hon ourable Court will be pleased to decree and declare the said marriage of your petitioner and the said Margaret Matilda Augusta O'Kane to be dissolved; and that your petitioner may have such further and other relief in the premises as to this honourable Court may seem meet. And your petitioner claims £20,000 damages against the said Henry John Tem ple, Viscount Palmerston, K. G., First Lord of her Majesty's Treasury. And your petitioner will ever pray. TIMOTYY JOSEPH O'KANE. And there the matter rests, a day having only just been fixed when the petitioner must either go on with his suit or drop it, having libelled the Prime Minister with impunity for months, if the charge be groundless. We ask agaip, who is safe against a proceeding like this, and might not adultery be charged against a bishop in his palace, as easily as against Lord Palmerston in his house, on a certain day, and at divers other days and times? Lambeth is not a jot safer than Cambridge House. What is wanted is some respectable voucher for the grounds of the petition, prima facie. LONDON REVIEW.—There is no doubt her Ma jesty's Government are making every exertion to preserve the peace of Europe; but no events have transpired during the past week which warrant us in believing that their efforts will be crowned with success. Acting under the advice of her allies, Denmark made a proposition, the recaonableness of which will hardly be disputed. In answer to the demand of Austria and Prussia for the withdrawal of the constitution of November, she asked for time to consult the Rigsraad, by whom alone that con stitution can be legally annulled. This moderate request has been refused by the two leading Ger man States, whose battalions are already pouring into Holstein. The King of Denmark, who has neither the will nor the power to perpetrate a coup detat has, under these circumstances, no alter native but to resist by force of arms the aggression with which he is threatened. Sheltered by the Dannevirke, which they are assiduously strengthen ing, the Danes will hold out as long ae they can, waiting, and we trust not in vain, for the succour which other powers are bound to afford them, either out of regard to their own interests, or from a sense of the respect due to treaty obligations and the maintenance of international rights in Europe. Their danger has already created a profound sen sation in the other Scandinavian kingdoms; and it is scarcely questionable that the court of Stockholm will, at no distant day, be compelled to cast aside its reserve, and intervene actively for the defence of the neighbouring state. It is understood that the English ministry have informed Austria and Prussia that we cannot stand by and witness the dis memberment of Denmark. And if the Emperor of the French had been willing to say as much, we should have had good hopes that war might yet be averted, and that an adequate ,sense of the danger they are incurring might ever, now cause the leading German powers to pause in their mad career. Unfortunately, it is said, and apparently with truth, that Louis Napoleon still maintains his reserve, retuses to pledge himself definitely to any line of policy, and instead of ex erting himself to preserve peace, waits for the chances which war may afford for the aggrandise disement of France. such an attitude on the part of this designing potentate ought to inspire the Ger mans—at least the statesmen of Austria and Prussia —with caution, if not alarm. The smaller states may not be indisposed to try a new Confederation of the Rhine ; but the powers which will have to indemnity France for any fresh exertions that she may make in the sacred cause of nationalities, might be ex pected to show a more active distrust of the sus picious flirtation between her ruler and the Diet of Frankfort. It is indeed probable that the court of Vienna is not so oblivious as it seems to the fact that Hungary and Venetia are amongst its provinces. But, pushed on by its own subjects and dragged forward by Prussia, its policy has not an entirely voluntary character. So far as the pressure exer cised by the people upon the Governments is con cerned, there is no reason to believe in any diminu tion of the patriotic fervour which has seized upon the Teutonic mind. The Germans are unanimously of opinion that Austria and Prussia are guilty of something like treason to the Fatherland, in still paying respect to the terms of the Treaty of 1852. They are not satisfied with an cceupation of Schleswig which is carried out by these states in their capacity of Great Powers, which super sedes, instead of enforcing Feder a l act i on, and is avowedly limited in its objects to tthe withdrawal of the Constitution of November. According to a Vienna journal, a compromise has, indeed, been agreed upon, the material s tip u l at i on of which is an undertaking on the p art o f Austr i a and Prussia to accomplish the oc cu p at i on of Schles wig in an exclusively Federal sense, and in perma nent agreement with the Diet; and, m oreover , to accept no basis of negotiations without the formal assent of the Confederation. We cannot, however, believe that such an arrangement has been come to, because it would in Effect practically subordinate both Austria and Prussia to the Diet—the very thing against which both M. von Bismark and Count itechberg have recently protested most em phatically. It would also be it.consistent with the summons which the two Powera have lately ad dressed to Denmark ; for, while that specifically requires the withdrawal of the constitution, the D . tet would undoubt e dly not b e con tent with so limited a concession. Upon the whole, it is not probable that the peace of Europe has been exposed to the additional danger which would arise out of such a conapromise as this. We have no doubt that Austria and Prussia still retain the power to stay the entrance of their troops into Schleswig on the . terms they hav e th emse l v e s prescr ib e d. While that 13 the case, there still remains a possibility that even at the last ieomeet they may listen to the counsels of comm on sense, justic-e, and moderation tendered to them by England. We should not, however, be justified, under -------_ present cirouthstome in saying that we think there is much probability of their taking such a course. went SHOCKING OCCURRENCE IN TIIE CITY. Within the last day or two there has b een great exe °i n . --- went in the neighbourhood of Smithfi eld, arising fr') :goal Dl & alleged attempted murder of a wom an named inst ituting Parker, the wife of a pork-butcher , a nd upon was inquiries, it was ascertained that the dea th of the vEctini hourly expected. For some time past a man named Nathaniel Bustace Parker, by trade a pork-butcher, has resided at So. 2 1 9 Charterhouse-street, with his wife, who was upwards et 60 years of age. It is said that there were constant VI Tre fo il' between them, in consequence of his wife being given habits of intemperance. On Wednesday evening the o f ln-11 returned home himself somewhat under the influence drink, and when ho entered the room he had in his pal s ; 'on a chopper or hatchet. The usual quarrelling, t t be stated, was i esumed, and he violently abused his wite ,B , s .., said she was intoxicated again. The first statement baus'i quently made by the woman was to the effect that he out his chopper and prepared to sharpen it, and that tiler he rushed at her with it. She ran away, and he chase; round the room. She rushed to the window and op en 1 to make her escape, and he pitched her out with great fore:e,, and she fell headlong from the first floor window on to t flags beneath. She was placed in St. I3artholomews 1',1°60 Vernon,/10 011,1 pital, where she was examined by Mr. N es „eic.,.d house surgeons. She was found to have sustained t ; internal injuries, and received contusions of a severe chatiw ter ail over the body. MO' The police arrested the husband ou the charge of atte 6 ing the woman's life. When the wife found that he vl,l arrested she altered her statement, and said that she h; elf leaped out of the window, She gives as her reason•tedlf having done so the fact that her husband spoke s o Oa. with pu ll'; that she was apprehensive that he might attack be t , ie , the chopper which he had in his hand. She now d en ie s that he chased her round the room, or that be filing a pt, for from the windw. The accused will be brough t am o in n at s i a on before the magistrates at Guildhall. 1 t iot sin f k h in e g w f i r n e d m ow he f r ro in m te w rn h a i l ch in e j h u e rie is s. turday morning it was stated at the hoEf ita i dly the woman was in an almost helpless state, and via sreP pitated is nearly twenty feet above the flagged P 3viae ........-------.—.....—..................... rtanta• Suspected Murder in the Re a en *, A said to havebee c,lll2rrject.i. he Edward On Saturday i‘iart Martin, 1 , m a o g r e n d i morning t body of . atr a d . the Regent's Canal, e s r: iv iiter ° I years, was found la a kar, It appears that the deceased was a portable deep /11 , sr and F had carried on business at No. 4, Florence.cottstioef, home d-street, Old Foid-road, Bow. Ile (the deceasedieded to d proce trettf t on Sunday, the 27th of December last, o the residence of his son.in-law, in GloticeBter's 1 0 fasa H hwolro rairh o mpl xoet,spnskt his g o eon n nt tfohhnh , tteoy.e w ht remained :pec h oeahT e dc.ne r ekhd e sceteeH h tarlasve e bseiocutwfhawnateasahwhsase elot were f o u n ispo s s e s srsdonifeooueoknctfiteea. cordy'al nssws aliveeejaeodYnnuodnwrd Ber tiedroor nepn e ine: :3;61 I:aetrePeef:::l 1:W1 rder6dadeedr:bcieb: 1:1a.1 I 11; Qi :1:1: r:°:°l 3 '4; le h °ll.* The deceased was possessed of some considerab alo dr c property in the parish, and had a good business. '1 1 ; jell not s o i f de w r e a a b k le i s n u t m ell o e f ct, m a o n n d ey t t i t a th il e is t s 7 i es oe s d oi i3:o home h w ad as a It also seems that the deceased could not lov e 13° e d* °P. , with the ropes. The body was fOUIId 11°- o F w o n rd a - r b m ri s d. __.—............... GERMANY AND DENMARK. COPENHA► GN, Jan. 25. The following is a textual translation of the speech of Bishop Monrad, the President of the Council, at the Landsthing (Upper House of the Rigsdag) I assume that you are acquainted with what I have al ready said upon this question in another place (the Folks thing, or Lower House of the Rigsdag). I shall therefore confine myself principally to representing the political posi tion which the Government is forced to take up, and that so clearly and definitely that no doubt can be entertained. A political position is mainly determined by the political questions which exist. We are therefore properly con cerned neither with past nor future events, but only with those lying before us in the immediate present. Gentlemen, you will admit that a certain settle. meat of the relations of the State was announced in the proclamation of January 28, 1852, and that certain nego tiations and assurances preceded that proclamation, which in their entirety constitute what may, perhaps, be briefly termed the agreements of 1851-2. I shall not go in more de tail at present into the form of those assurances, but shall simply confine myself to their consideration as they now exist. I believe we must all admit—l, at least, have not heard it controverted—that the present existing settlement of State relations does not correspond with the bases upon which the arrangements of 1851-2 were founded ; but we are certainly, at the same time, all of opinion that the fault of this deviation does not lie with the Danish Government, but with the German Confederation, which has forced Hol stein from its connection with the other portions of the mo narchy. We are also probably all more or less of opinion that the presumption has been violated upon which the en tire organisation was based—as plainly and distinctly laid down by the man who conducted these negotiations (Bliahme). This presumption was that the Germanic Con federation would confine itself strictly within the limits of its territorial competence. The question may, therefore, arise how far the agreements may be regarded as binding upon us. This is the specially vital political question of the day —in how far we, for our parts, are forced to regard these agreements as binding. I admit that they contain certain obligations for the Danish Government, upon which I need net now dilate ; but I maintain that they als3 contain certain rights for the Danish Government, viz., that no such State as Schleswig-Holstein shall exist. When, therefore. an hon. member expresses his conviction that the German Govern ments intend to create a State of Schleswig-Holstein, I re ply that our best safeguards against such a course are the agreements of 1851.2; for, although they contain certain obligations binding upon us, they include at the same time a strong protection against the establishment of a Schleswig- Holstein State. In the present position of affairs, therefore, his Majesty's Government recognises the agreements of 1851 52 in their full extent in regard to the obligations they entail and the rights they confer; for the two things, rights and duties,hang together. It is impossible to release ourselvestrom the one without giving up the other. I hope this will be re garded as so clear an expression of opinion that no further doubt upon the subject can arise. But, it is said " Should war occur, will the agreements then be recognized as bind ing?" I might reply that it is difficult to look so far into the future. 1 might say that the events of the day—the events, indeed, of every day—entail the necessity of form ing such important resolutions that we may well be justified in leaving the solution to the future. It has also been said, " When war is undertaken we ought to know for what wo are about to fight." I will tell you, gentlemen, for what we are about to fight. We are about to fight to prevent a foreign Power forcing itself into Schleswig; we are about to fight to expel those from the province who intrude into it. But, gentlempn, you will, perhaps, ask further,—.. If war is commenced, what settlement is intended to be intro duced!'" To that I reply—Tell me what will be the result of the war—tell me in what position we shall stand when war is concluded, and I shall then be able to inform you what settlement may be attained. Nut even a powerful na tion can say at the comencement of a war what settlement the result will render necessary, and just prior to the out break of hostilities it would be only empty words and hollow phrases to declare, "Such or such is the programme for which we fight." The programme, I maintain, we have to follow simply, clearly, and without evasion, is this,—not to allow a single German soldier to pass the Eider without offering the best resistance in our power, and to use every effort to expel from Schleswig all who shall venture to intrud. A letter from Altona gives the following descrip tio❑ of the Danncwerke : Altona, Jan. 26. If the Prussian and Austrian troops at the present time really enter Schleswig,and if matters should not be arranged either by a secret understanding with the Danish Govern ment or the voluntary retreat of the Danish forces, the Dannewerke, so well known in the war of 1848, would be the point where the first blow must be struck. The capture of this renowned stronghold will not be so easy a matter for the German troops now as then, as since 1861, in anticipa tion of coming troubles, the fortress has been tamed into a very strong intrenched position, which in the opinion of competent judges has but few equals. It may not, there fore, be uninteresting, considering the events which will probably shortly transpire in that quarter, to give a slight sketch of the additional defences which have been con structed by the Danes. Originally constructed by the Semi ramis of the North, Queen Margaret, and, as some say, even earlier, the Dannewerke orginally extended from Helling stadt to the Selker Noer of Bustorf, and consisted of a simple rampart, sweeping inwards with a moat in front in a sharp angle of the Thyraburg, a hill, which has long dis appeared, in the neighbourhood of the village of Hansbye. The object of this fortification was to protect the town of Schleswig, which is situated at the head of the Schlei, against an attack from the southward; and at that time the Schlei, a perfectly impassable swamp, formed a part of the fortification. This fortification was extended by in cluding the whole bay, more than six German miles, while the rampart had ()illy been of a length of two German miles. The weak point of this position was on the west side, where towards the open country it was unfortified, and could therefore easily be assaulted in the rear. In this direction the only defence was a broad, swift stream with a swampy bed—the Treene, which, however, offered but a trting ob stacle to a determined enemy. In 1848 the so -called ram part consisted only of a continuous hilly elevation of the ground, with a depression in front, denoting where formerly had been the moat, and hence it was that the German troops were able to take it at the first attack. The p rincipal combat took place on the heights surrounding the town of Schleswig, where the village of Bustorf formed a kind of suburb. On that day a trifling skirmish took place at the only ford over the Schlei, at Missunde, where a few com panies of Schleswig-Holstoiners forced a passage across the ford under Aldosser and Von der Tann, whereby the Danes were compelled to retreat earlier than they otherwise would have done. At the present time the nature of the forti fications is entirely changed. Since 1850 the attention of the Danes has been directed to strengthening the Danne werke, and they have chiefly endeavoured to fortify the weak point on the river Treene, and oppose sufficient ob stacles to another attack from tho rear. To achieve their object they took possession of the town of Frederickstadt, where the above-named river falls into the Eider. This place they fortified, and, as well known, the Schleswig- Holsteiners at the close of 1850 vainly endeavoured to take it by assault. A: present, Frederickstadt, with the tete de pent on the Holstein bank of the Eider, forms, on account of its swampy situation, and uncommonly strong point, since the passage over the Eider is completely commended on this side, and it could only be reduced by a regular and very difficult siege. Even supposing an enemy were to pass the Treene either above or below Frederickstadt, two German miles beyond Schleswig, is cut up by canals and water courses, which can all be filled by opening 14 sluices arranged for that purpose in the Treene. The few dams which form the means of communication in this extensive system of inundation works are, in addition, commanded at all fitting points by intrenchments and larger works as far as Hellingstadt. At the commencement of the town of Schleswig, on the heighta rising from the main land, a series of powerful batterios,armed with guns of the heaviest calibre, THE NAVY. The screw steamship St. Georg., 81, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, went on Friday from Plymouth Sound to the Devenport dockyard, where she is discharging her stores, &e. It is understood now that she will not be entirely dismasted,;but refitted for the purpose of taking the place of the coastguardship Russell at Falmouth, and that her crew, who have been granted leave of absence, will be ?aid wages, but not paid off as at first expected. The crew of the paddlewheel steam vessel Jackal at Devonport will be paid oft on Monday next, the Bth inst. The ship has been placed in Eeyhata basin to have defects made good. The lighter Aid, Grandy toaster, from Chatham, arrived on Friday at Devenport with stores for the dockyard. On Saturday it was announced at Chatham that the rolls for the Kertch prize money, amounting to between £30,000 and £90,000, have been prepared by the Accountant-General of the Navy, and that it will be shortly ready for distribu tion to the officers and men entitled to shares. Instructions have been received at Chatham directing that Chalmers' target, lately experimented upon at Shoeburyness, is not to be dismantled and removed, as was at first ordered. It is to undergo a careful and thorough repair under the superintendence of Mr. Baskcombe, of Chatham dockyard, who has constructed the whole of the targets hitherto tested at Shoeburyness. The Admiralty instructions direct that the plates which original!) covered the target are to be re placed, and the whole of the expenses connected with the repairs are to be charged to the " Army fund." A new battery has been erected on the sea bank adjoining the old channel of the Ouse below Lynn. The local mem bers of the Naval Reserve and Coastguard service have commenced a course of artillery practice at the new battery. The following• appointments were made on Saturday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. C. Ilassall, to be Flag Lieut. to Rear-Admiral Sir L. J. Jones; W. H. Clarke, surgeon, to the Leander ; J. F. Kynsey, assist paymaster, to the Pem broke ; and W. B. Antridge, assist paymaster, to the Indus. THE ARMY. The deaths of the following officers have been officially re ported at the War-office since the Ist of January :—Generals the Duke of Cleveland, K.G., and J. A'hmuty, Col.-Com., Royal Artillery, Major-Generals J. Walpole, Royal Engi neers; R, H. Wynyard, Col. of the 98th Regiment; B. Trydoll, Col. of the 2d West India Regiment; and W. B. Marlow, Royal Engineers. Col. S. Weymouth, Lieut,-Col. R. W arburton, Royal Artillery. Majors H. Tower, 15th Hussars ; and F. E• Sorell, 90th Light Infantry. Capts. C. F. Smith and R. B. Aldridge, 71st Light Infantry, killed in action at the Umbeyla Pass; M. B. Purcell, 99th Regi ment; F. C, Playne, Rifle Brigade; R. B. Adair, Royal Artillery ; T. Reeves, 24th Regiment; and T, B. Gascoyne, 3d Ceylon Regiment. Lieuts. H. F. Campbell, 720 High landers; T. S. G. Jones, 79th Highlanders, killed in ac tion at the Umbeyla Pass, while serving as . a vo:unteer with the 71st Light Infantry; IL H. Chapman, 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, killed in action at the Umbeyla Pass; N. Cahill, 36th Regiment; and J. Getty, 60th Rifles. Ensigns S. F. Ward, 21st Fusiliers; C. B. Murray, 71st Highland Light Infantry, and A. R. Sanderson, 101st Regiment, killed in action at the Umbeyla Pass ; and C. V. 'White, 102 d Royal Madras Fusiliers ; Quartermasters T. Argent, 13th Regiment; W. S. Crooks, 2cl Life Guards ; and J. Scott, 9th Regiment. Surge. A. Sinclair, M.D., and M. White, M.D. Assist.-Surgs. W. Pile, M. 8., 101st Regiment, killed in action at the Umbeyla Pass ; and J. Tholon, 20 Light Infantry King's German Legion (Ver sailles). Deputy Superintendent of Stores J. Drew. New regulations, dated Jan. 1, 1864, which took effect from the beginning of this year, have beet issued from the Horse Guards in regard to the examination of candidates for commissions in the army. They take the place of the regulations issued on the Ist of September, 1863, and on previous dates. By the former regulations the age of candi dates examined for direct appointments was required to be not under 18, the latest limit for the infantry being 23, for the cavalry 25, and for colonial corps 28 years. The age of candidates is now until further notice from 18 to 20 years for the infantry, from 18 to 22 for the cavalry, and from 18 to 26 years for colonial corps. The candidates already on the Commander-in-Chief's list may be examined between the limits of age fixed by the regulations which were in force at the time their names were recorded. The old regulations applicable to graduates in Arts of the Universities remain in force. New regulations of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst relative to the admission, education, and mili tary training of cadets have also been issued from the Horse Guards, dated the Ist January last. Tne age of ad mission, instead of being from 16 to 20 years for candidates for the infantry, and from 16 to 22 years for candidates for the cavalry, will, at the examination of December, 1864, and afterwards, he between 16 and 19 years for both the infantry and cavalry. This regulation will not apply to the examination of June, 1864, with regard to which the former rules remain in force. Students from the universi ties, as before, must not be more than 21 years of age for the infantry, nor more than 23 years for the cavalry. In other respects the new regulations, both as regards candidates for commissions and for admission at Sandhurst, do not differ from those previously issued. The Stores of the Great Eastern, SALE BY THE SHERIFF. On Saturday a quantity of the extensive stores of the Great Eastern was sold by auction at Liver pool under a Sheriff's warrant, and by an order of the Court of Q'aeen's Bench. The whole of the stores of every description, that were removable, including bedding, cushions, plate, chins, earthen ware, glass, &c., besides ale, wines, spirits, meats, bread, tea, coffee, sugar, and provisions of every kind, have been removed from the great ship in charge of the sheriff, for the purpose of being sold to satisfy Mr. Parry's claim, and are now ware housed in Sefton-street, with the exception of the bonded stores, which are lying in the Albert Dock warehouses. The articles sold on Saturday con sisted of the exciseabie stores only and comprised about 230 dozen bottles of ale and stout ; upwards of 50 dozen of champagne; about 40 dozen of port and sherry ; 30 dozen of claret ; 25 dozen of Mo selle; upwards of 50 dozen of Rhenish wines, in ad dition to other foreign wines, and a large quantity of spirits; also chests of tea, bags of coffee, bar rels of sugar, and molasses, spices, pepper, currants, raisins, cases of condensed milk and coffee, cigars, and manufactured tobacco. Of tea there were 14 chests, containing in the whole about 620 lb. The goods being in bond were sold subject to the pur chaser paying the duty. The attendance at the sale was limited. The tea, which was said to be of ex cellent quality, brought from 8d to 10d per pound , whilst one of the l o t s of ale, consisting of 40 dozen quarts, was knocked down for ten shillings. 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Wheat at - ao - There was a somewhat limited show of mitod,,r -d but there was no improvement in t he o ty A suPPSittplieu' .o-day, ru sales were made at former qupotations. Vie -ices ley was in excess of the demand, but late PO t j ot P Oats and beans met with a slow sale at 81)°1' OP day's rates. ~5 , to Ao , .• ;`,,,, 10 1 • Wheat, red 36s to 39s I Oats.. •••• '' • ~•.' to / White do .49s to 458 Beans ...... • • ....-s Oa Barley .26s to 32s Leas ........ ";'•001,01 Malt, 55s to 60s per qr.; rye, 308 per clr'' to 30s per sack. 0 GRANTHAM—SiIvi o:IO ' P E 43s P bod' Old white wheat,ss to 439 s red, 40$ Vi e ,ltioi; A tl new white, 42s f .to 46s ; red, to 428. . - 0 , olono. 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; ° 4 34s 0 .- 265; new, 20s to24s ; beans, 345 to 378; r e°- ' Inc/ NORWICH—SATURDAY' d tv Dg 0 ,01 , Deik•- There was rather a thin attendance of far re net tor with a limited supply of wheat, but the ruil le • (lei of ~., this lei free buyers, prices remain the same es " s r the night. There was a fair supply of barley ~,,, , 0 4 54 the year, at fully late rates. FlOur 1111tiltere.' 439 .- 04 White wheat. 44s to 46 1 Red wheat •• • • , ; .. .3 4 5, t , ° 0 4 Malting barley ... 36s to 37s 1 Chevalier lAl .le " .• ' 2 .„" i pr Distilling d 0..... 30s to 32s 1 Oats.. ..... '; 1 1 . 0 ..1- ' Flour, 27s 6d to —s Od per sack froill w D o LEICESTER—SAT uIt - f f e fr 1 e e .,0 We were supplied with an average (IT:gall; to-day from the growers, and buyers Pur e 3 117, , ,, to 4 ' pj al,,, lik t ; —New white wheat, 42s to 456; red , Darle' o !d ;04, stone. Old red, 39s to 41s per 36 stone. ; se e. new, 32s to 35s per qr.; grinding, 21 5 , 1 1 s totleo tto li 258 to 28s ; new oats, 21s to 23s pe r t' '3ls Pe r old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 275 a bas;. NOTTINGHAM—S A TVID O % to ,11) —White it s e h whea f t from 41s to ow o wheat was pretty to ness firm, sellers real;siog the exf,remj,oratttecsat, 3 :3 9 0 6 5. t O; u n t , 47s , red 6 t Barley—malti ng, old, at 24s to 3fis Od s • tone3wBB;l9gsruMto(l2l:ls; to 4_2s per new,'34s t,36sls P er 511 Flour, fine, 33s to 375; seco. nds t ps t o 3 AA* DUBLIN• O. A (I. v °' 0 t ° 10 e' 0 Oatmeal. '' U 0 to t) Beaus• • '''''' „ ",‘ 0 Bere .• .•• • • • v„. Itapesolol7:. 0 U ro Bakers coro„.•' _FRIDAY' imoot y dull or 64' . The market to-day was veil Home and foreign values unc, s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new ... „ oto 0 Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 Foreign Mail r a cket I-4° 1 5. re"' MAILS DT:j• .•"10 - Australia and Mauritius, via Soutbainp"—:::••••fb*.,B, via :\larseilled 0•t"...,,••:re1), Arazil and Cape Verds, by British 3,13. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and S t 'oo lo P - e ' . China, Penang, and Singapore, via .9(T,.ei11e 6 via " 1. ' ' ' 'Te l)* I Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ....... •,•,:aapt °-• f e'' 1. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via' ° 11 " - .. - e illes•' .. Y eb ' a. v i v . ?dor' ...• • : ye)). $, India (Bombay), via Southampton • • •' '. .. .• • . fel ,. 1 , via Marseiltes ••• • • • '..; • ''' Fe b. 5 Portugal.... ....................... ;; D :.. • • fel/ . g, Malta, Egypt, aud Aden, via Southall:lP' , •• • • . feb• via Marseilles ./ ~... 3, Newfoundland .., ~ • •rd. Oporto and Vigo ........................... ",, c 'kot.•'' ,6 , U. S. and British N. America, by Brit . P' ac ket. !' t 'y el' . 10 , by 1 J•s• l i ) , 0 ol' e fe h li 1 1 ' by Cantu' ..... •'fe.' /. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritro. • • .., .. • •9 /, Bahamas, via New York ....... t ...... .. •• j Feb, Mexico ........................... ,•„•i_'l,er'al •• All parts of West Indies, including G" '.....• California, and British Columbia.. .... , Births. • korif 0 ALLEN. —On the 29th ult., at Stuke Nowoo A.OO J. Allen, of a son. ficti ELetto.—At The Stable -yard, St. Jarnes% tile .;,0c!: Elcho, of a Eon. , crog 1 30: . r LOCKWOOD.—On the 27th tilt,, the wife 01 e otio wood, Esq., of 16, Highbury-place, and " tall s hall-court, of a daughter. COt ill .. 0° RIVAROLA..—On the 28th ult., at Ranisgat-t W. C. Rivarol a, of a daughter. o ° ' Marriages. , nfeligifl" MA.THER—HAY.—On the 28th ult., at Bis,-.°., to _ j e t Robert Mather, Esq. Captain 14th flegnriCre" ~ younger daughter of iohn llay, Esq., I.r• 1 " lir fr cf, county of Durham. t the 0 30 # STINBRIDGE—GOTEIL—On the 28th ti lt., fti. aueerlaeoti Legation, Brussels, Algernon Stanbridget4?,,e pito r - Australia, to Ellen, youngest daughter of t , ' I. Cioter, of Hereford -street, Park-latie 0 o fter, of Deaths. Un ited St.te°' 9Pf, CARYLately, in Pennsy-Ivani, t ot lb 0 0 ,4 very short illness, and in perfect peace, ll‘!ititeev„,,iacY„ eldest surviving daughter of the late , t he e''',fo Esq., M.A.A.S., of Philadelphia ; sister 0 , of 13 ,1 c 0 P Political Economis, Henry C. CareY? 'l4l„.e'ridto Alol''rP ton, NOV Jersey ; and cousin of 1%110 ,-7'-`o4l,edow the Poetess. The deceased was an aOOOD3P iiy, 001 and shared the hereditary talent et her 1 ,1111 . a c, Vrib lIBATLEY.—On. the 29th ult ,at BelgraVe'r c ii iott Richard lleatley, Esq., aged 83. 1 0 ' till Cbta HatsT.—On. the '._9th ult., at Notting --1 ' 1 011t° Esq., aged 66. T. 1 °J 11 '' Hour.—On the 29th ult., at guide-valet Esq., aged 66. 8 std licPc'° ' • ' KA,Y.—On the 27th ult., at flatelleld, E t-t Y :: Kay, Esq., aged 60.,1ie--- r, at 0 rbeilt St' h t ill 'l4 KYAN,—On the 15th January, , -,- d ii, Otirvva, France, of pulmonary cousuroptiollt 11r : eld er e t," ty seventh year of her age, Julia 1 her.,e_... , g eo co os .1 daughter of Mrs. James Esroonde MA.374'ooratooeP child of John Howard liyan, et' goicr;;;, laql.f f. W .klow, Esq. ; and grand-niece. t,;..u. ti ' / AP Kyan. Beloved in life; lam e, 0t 0 a in av:,,,,,,,, , ,Ino A e '''' c• LUrTON.—On the 30th ult., at hye-.0, i r. Lupton, E,q., aged 67- ~ , ; dB %Z irat 4r. I'ETTIT.--On the 28th ult., at ...x,gliten dle.ies' ' Pettit, aged 79. - DI V' WiLsiiiN.—On the 29th ult., at Ilayeet Daniel Wilshin, aged 81. /~r •••• Londe : I rinz.)d and FuNtslicd °t 112, Strand, l'riater, at '1 to; 'SO COLO Strand, in thi, l'recinct oi 3avy. --eßex.-3.loudaY, February 1, 1801. 11 1 411 1 ' At, 1 11 0 ql I l It Ott li t li i p. 144