The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-31 00:00:00

THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS.

On Saturday, at noon, the Institution of Naval
Architects resumed it. Ridings in the house of the Bounty
of Arts, John-atireet, Adolph'. Sir JOHN PLIZINOSON, Bait,
presided. The business commenced by Mr. Norman Rummell
reed • paper on Stuena's American Floating Battery.
Mr. Rosa= maid the Americans placed great value on
and were ready to raffia' almost everything else to
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it. The paper was well received.
Captain Swann, Ia quaking on the paper, entered at
great length into various questions connected with naval
architecture. In the mune of his epee& he alluded to
the Warrior, and signed that as she was not en-
tirely protested with armour plating she was worth.
lees for fighting purposes.
Mr. Scow Meant said that in building a vessel
like the Warrior they must make a choice se
between advantages and disadvantages. They could
not wet the system of entire protection with the
other advantagea It was said that the Warrior rolled a good
dual, but he thought it was a great triumph in naval archi-
tecture that she did not roll more, which would be the case
if the principle of entire protection was adopted.
The CHAIRMAN said that in building the Warrior the
principle of entire protection bad been abandoned, in order
that speed and sea-going qualities might be secured. The
Warrior was the fasten man-of.war yet built, and from the
way in which she had stood the recent gale in the Bay of
Biscay, her sea-going qualities might be affirmed. Even if
the wont should happen, and the vessel should be shot
through her bows, there would be no more danger in getting
her into harbour then there would be with any other ship.
After several other [papers bad been read, the meeting
closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

We (Bishop Stortford Observer) regret to learn
that our highly esteemed neighbour, Mr. J. W. Perry Wel-
lington, and me of the members for South Emma, is very ',-
Tinnily indisposed, and has been during the peat week
totally usable to attend to hie parliamentary duties.
The Dean and Chapter of Westminster, through
the High Countable, have engaged two interpreters to attend
the nurnemm (mignon during the Exhibition seams,
whe will daily visit the abbey, to explaic to them the
parte el the edifice where the monuments to great mea's
memorise have been erected, and the inscriptions upon
them.
TER km Ray. J. WHITE.—The Hants hat-
, reared, the death of the Rev. Jams Whits, of
=gunk. Per the last two years he has been ailing, bat
not so severely as to give his friends uneasines. On Wed-
nesday night, 'however, after • few hours of suffering, he
died. He was author of " Eighteen Christian Centuries,"
"Landmarks of the History of England and of Greece."
His historical plays, The Kira of the Chymous, The
Berl of Gerrie ke., were brought out by Mr. Maaready.
The gents hsciewersdent says, "Wherever any real good
was to be done for the people, there would he be
found. Our Lawny Institution is a nmement of his
sympathy with the mess of the people. Had it sot boa for:
him Ventnor could not ham boasted of a building, the free-
hold of the members, with one of the beet-selected libraries
in the county ; and to his fostering care are we indebted for
the introduction of • superior education for the children
of the poor. To' The Institution' his loss is irreparable ;
as a lecturer his dramatic power was of the highest order—
at one moment melting his audience to tears by his pathos,
at another coevuleing them with laughter by the wit and
humour he threw into everything susceptible of their spill-
cation, and, underlying all, was that deep well of sympathy
for all that was good, and abhorrence for all that was mean
and iniquitous in mankind, which made his lectures so
delightful to linen to."
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