The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

•1 MO MS
VII PACIFIC.

Total .

Comasadow444:l4o-INr•ANsial Sir T. MAITLAND. IL. C.B.
lace Mate.— 670 NO INF at. D. Mackenzie.
Topase 61 670 MS MO Capt.J.W.e.Spencer.
Termagant ll iII IN 1147 Gipt B. Hall.
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Danielson
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Salad ID 1010 Mr. Cum. 0. Reid
Berea.
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The Calypso woo assmalseissed at Madras Nov. 25.
18117, sad salad Ii Woad as 1511 a PA. 1858. Rho
assivad at Valparaiso, boss Callao. on die 16th &pt., on
Ire way loam

THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.
" Admiralty, Dec. 2, 1861.
" —Having laid before my Lode Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty your communication of this day's
dabs, seelariag letters from seamen belonging to the Royal
Naval Reserve at the ports of London, Liverpool, Mead=
Lad, and North Shields, =preenig their mediums to joie
As ivy for immediate service, 1 am commanded by my
Lords Commicasere of the Admiralty to signify thek
directioe to you to forward to each of these ports the el:-
m.6i= of their lordships' high satiefsetioe at the loyal sod
patriotic feeling so readily end cheerfully maeifested by the
able seam= of the Royal Naval Reserve. Illy lords rely
with the most entire conlideoce that the hearty nerviest of
the Royal Naval Reserve will be forthcoming should her
=7liajaaty is. It, by Royal proclamation, to call her
—I era Mr, your moat obedient, humble servant,
" W. G. Roams&
"Cceamodare Cootroller•Geeerel of Coast Guard."
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To Tea SHIPTTI4: Agree, I.lllPRol'oeL
" We, the val.:Moen of the Royal Naval Reserve I. the
g_lnal , having heard that our flag hue been gmeely
by an American ship of war. and people who
shifted its protection forcibly taken from it and made
wo write thee to let you know that we are =Ay
Cing,Vour engagement arat protect the honour of OUT
Inc oar good Queen, and country whenever called upon
le do so.

•Wr renieettally must you will make thin our cle-
itersination known is the paper quarter.
'Si;;ned on Walt of the Volunteer Reserve Porn at
proem ta Lastien.'" _ . .

Him follow Ike mignatures.)
w' To CAPTARI LOCIMArf, R.N.
" Her Majesty's ship Heating., Liverpool.
Nov. 30, 18111.
Hearing that our l has bees iesultad, we, the
Royal Naval Reserve n*. d Liverpool, would esteem it a
favour if eon will him* repronest to the proper quarter ear
satire willingness to serve mid protect our znirious queen
and country arid the integrity of the flag under which OW
fathers gloriously fought and ruovitered-
" ' J. B. Bret, for the Liverpool VoluiLtesio
of the Royal Naval Reserve.'

" ' To Car Tsai PALIIMILN., ilia YAJILSTY*B Sur
Canoe.

" • Roc Ilairnt?Tlifirp Cukor, North Shields,
Nev. 30. Uffil.
" ' —Having beard that our cionntry's flu hu hum
grossly insulted by an American Alp of war, sod people
who claimed de protection forcibly taken from it and made
prisoners, we write this to let you know that we are ready
and willing, sod that at the shortest parable entice, to pro-
tect the beam/ of our flag. our Queen, and country, whom-
ever and whenever anal as, or soy provocation girls for us
to do so ; and we will do it with $ right good will, • proof
of which was given when the cimuntstaece was spnkeu don
the Castor's maindult this morniag, by the whole of us
joiais.• with three hearty cheers sad three times three for
oar
94sa sada:mew.
"81•041 lf &e shisteentor lb. Royal Naval Reserve
1...

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[Hon follow the sigoalunres.]
" To CAPTAIN HPARD.
"'Her Majesty's tibia Triatorsaloe, Suaderlana,
Nov. :ID, lea.
" . Sir.-At a gmeral meeting bald on board her
Joey's training-Alp Trincomalee, now lying in the &gib
boek

weiog by the Shypirig and Meroantite Gamete
the insult ..ffered to the Etntish dag by the Americas.,
we, the and Naval Raton, see, do freely sad
spootenvouely wow forward and offer our service to reneoi
the issaa, and will shed the last drop of eur blood spirt
any e.t.a eho dams to Iseult our gracious queen or ea-
timid d
. . . _

-"
St.ued on behalf of the meetins. over 101) prevent.
" ' JWIN Rossano*, Chturunin.'

OrK FRIGATrA —At least 20 months
from the pre.mit date tosst elapse before four of our Seed
*morel.- the M natant. the Achilles. the tkokaimi mad the
I.44thuraberlaistL, are ems art ; mad we here from the
exprrieees of the Warrior that, ern .slag the
speed ia equipment, it would be et lead Na se=
tb.t tie, before they meld be ready for 11.011MISigni0S. Tb•
truth i. that anr ion /met Is wash slimisissa is somber* as
tempered with that of the FTINNTIL The pent sire awl
.unison. ressismees of ear vends maw the building of
than, a very .low p ocs e. Tins mew ships will be
'nate.' with artmeir from awl to aid. At miry Taoist tb.y
will offer to the Are of as sassy Sets of irrat
iron sot 1... than Sl Schee thick. bashed up with 10
of teak. w.th half as inch of hos (the skin of the ship)
Inside all. After the complete SIMS of the trials sit the
Warrior target. the propriety of addle to the linklatat
the srinow•plates iaercating thait thickness ma bleb is
strongly dispate4 lei mem of the highs' sothoritisa Ter
evwy parpnaa of warfare the Warrior is practically is-
culeeralie, end it is oseineded that by still farther
adding to the weight of the plats no
protectiee is plaid, ad a great dual may be lest

is the efficiency of the vessels by rendering them dan-
gerously unwieldy in rough weather. The Warrior's plates
44 et Mame weigh 930 toes, but to cover the new larger
ships from sad to end with plates of 5i inches will require
no lees than 2,000 toes of meta—an enormous MEN of
dead weight for • ship to carry in addition lobar ponderous
engines, stores, guns, shot, and shell. It is this increased
number, aim. and thickness of the plates that add such •
heavy item to the cost of the new vessels, which require for
their hull, engines, sod rigging alone an outlay of nearly
450,000(.The Warrior up to the present time has coat
rather over 4V0,01.4., and her succe.sors, before they are at
ass, will cost nearly 6C),000(.—Ti au s.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.