The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4. 1857.

bitted to a Commission composed of men thoroughly
asquicted with the subject, prelims to being pre-
suntsd to the Council of State.

As regards the levelling of the fortifications, this
measure is rendered imperative by the increasing
population of the metropolis; and as experience has
shown that the fortifications cannot protect the city'
from being bombarded, while they are as little ma-
culated to aced efficient protection against the
at& r mean. of attack which modern strategy has
devised, the simplest expedient for the relief of
the population seems to be to raze them to the
ground. Whether the Government purposes to erect
other fortifications at a greater distance from the
city le not yet known, but opinions are much divided
as to the advisability of such an undertaking.
From what I have said, you will perceive that
great reforms are being prepared here in all direc-
1' Mom" It is to be hoped that the conflict with the Ger-
man Govenurate will not 'volume a character that
will interfere with their being carried out, by neces-
turtle turning the attention of the Danish people
and Government in another direction.

SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTIONS TO SHIPPING,

M. 4811118.

The following instructions to Shipping Muter.
tare be Words by the Mtes Department of the Boartl
Trade

It has been determined to Mena • new form of certificate of
discharge for mach seamen as my choose to avail themeless
of it, powering the following advantme.
It will been reliant. and will math in the dammat
• record of mime's suceeseive moires and characters,
and will thus show at one glance the miracle nod cbanetwe
of may years. It will be of Mae to the mama, will assist
►im in procurieg employment, and will be lam likely te be
bet than the cortilimites maim are now obliged
to carry. With each form will be eupOied • email tin ewes
to keep it in, and a duplicate of the contents on paper. At
the duplicate of the certificates will be bound into volume
at the RagMar•Osseral of Seamen's Mlles ea the different
Mee aro completed, the shipping meter will be manful to
restrict his demands to the quantities that he setimies will
be required for immediate um, end to issue the certificates be
their numerical order. . . . .

Ice tle tirat—hMlenca, • few at the rertificatm will be emit
to each port, accompanied by their cases and duplicates.
It will bo the duty of the chipping roamer to call the mitten.
lion of seamen when discharged before him to the advantages
which them certificates posers for men of good character.
No seaman to, however, to be compelled to take one, and
every sinuous will be at liberty to have the old form B I, if
he prefers it.
In ems of • man &eking to have the new foam, the ship-
ping roaster will satisfy himself that ban character foe the
enfingessent from which be is bring discharged is good. The
'hipping master will then enter the particulan in the ewes
at the bead of the farm, and proms the sosman's signature
in the *pace left fur that purpme. The particulars of the
man's discharge sad character we then to be extracted by the
shipping moms, sad is afterwards to be Mined by the master
of the vowel in the shipping master's prmence, and then by
the shipping master. The mamma must be called upon for •
fro of L. and this being paid, the shipping master will give
the certificate in the tin case to the seamen.. .

The paper duplkate moat be filled up by the slipping
master, to canespoad exactly In all partindiwe with the on-
'that. The num moat age it himself, and the shipping
master must also eign it. In lieu of the signature of the
master, the shipping muter will enter the maater's name. A
ewe well be left in which are to be entered the number' of
el our centilcates issued in the moths of the week; and the
duplicates must be mused to that list and forwarded to the
= ar-Oenerel of Seamen, by whom they will be filed and
Whenever, en the discharge of a crew, a reasons produces
kis new ...ethos* the shipping matter will make the entries
of the seaman's discharge and character in mot certificate,
sad call upon the muter to sign the proper form ; the ship-
ping master will then sign the, toren, end return It to the
seaman, taking care to enter the number of the certificate in
red ink in the same column ss the seaman's name. If the
holder of the new certificate has bun promoted to a enplai e.
rank la the coarse of a youth, the character and period of
meth in each grade must be given in a separate line. It is
necessary that them particulars should always ho dietinctly
shown, as they are of importance when the holder epplies for
• certificate of competency as mete or muter.
The entries in the new certifinstes should be very distinct
and accurate, and me therefore to be made invariably by the
shipping master or his clerk, hat the master must sign his
name in the proper column.
It is also to be remembered that the Merchant Shipping
Act, IBM, s. ITS, does not make It nec y that the cha-
racter should be inserted ea the certificate of discharge un-
itise the asthma width it; consequently, if, as account of
the character being indifferent or for other mums, the
seaman requites the entries of character or any of them to be
omitted from the new certificate they moat be omitted • and
with the view of giving him thin option, his attention "bot 1!
always be called to the point whenever it is proposed to in-
sert • bad or indifferent character. If the entnes of character
are mined. the shipping muter must always blot out the
Mask spaces, sou to prevent any entries being made in them
sobesq•ently.
The rioter and seaman must attend together at the Ship-
ping-office whenever a discharge Is entered in the certificate
B 1 If the holder of ouch a certificate has been serving in
the home trade, and the muter chooses to accompany him to
the Shipping. office, the entries may be made in the same way
as I the case of a foreign-going ship. The shipping master
should sail* himself, as far as be can, that the meow is
really what he repreeenta himself to be, and I. en.itt t to
give the character; end the muter must thin nom
against the copy of the moth. No fee is lobs doffed la
Meer Cate*.
Whenever entries are mole In the new certificate the ;hip-
ping master will, at the time make anexact copy of such
manes in the Weakly lilt Of Bute'es in and Tmtmertithe
connected with Certificates of Discharge and Cheracirt." and
will at the and of arum week mud to the Registrar-General
of Seamen the list sr W 4 for the week, in order that the
duplicate certilstas may be "Meted up, se that in eau of the
loss or detothetioa of as MOW certificate a renewed the
exactly rake it may he
The the ppig earth MU me slll the mans In b's power Is
see that the eirtlionse me net Ihrend, se wed by thee' to
when they do net heling. In emery ere where a skipping
math Ms name is believe a artlgens to be hepeoperly
Wat geed, he wall man mein i rte es hi la bis power,
end report the are lean Leal Ilrir Boyd of the port, or
the Board of Tiede. es the ere may lin
le can of an application Sir a renewed t:date in IA
of
one Lout or destroyed, the shipping mirth will pat to II
mama the qthitiona is the form of apple:6lkm sopplisd to
him, sad inset the seanumee &ethers is the peeper epse.s;
he teal she pin any other theatione connected with the
mth's service at sea pet"r to tie date of him ern Meats as may
moist In proving hie identity, and insert the answer' in the
open left vacant for that perpose. The emus& moat then
sign the form, and the shipping master will countersign it,
and entwani it to the Rerietrar-General of Seamen. On so
seemed is a renewed certificate to be thud without Minims
to rap directions from the Ilegistrar-Otheral of Seams.
The registry will then, if there is no doubt of the em's
Identity, thus a renewed outiticsfe containing entree mere-
with the., in the !oat one, end will forward It to the
master of the pert at which the seaman wishes is
fir delivery to him. The seaman moth Ago the
issued r.rtifieete in the shipping master's Nemeth et the
time it is delivered to him, and the shipping muter will com-
pere the aignmare with that which will accompany the re-
newed certificate for that purpose. The shipping master
shonki endeathar before banding over any mot renewed
certificate, to satisfy kith& that the applicant is the proper
person to receive it.
If the renewed certificate is required because the original
it filled op or is proved to have been hat or destroyed by
wreck, fire, or an accident beyond the masts control, no fee
will be charged for the renewal: but If this is not the ease
• fen of one shilling will be reqoired, which mast be sent to
the I tairistrar-Oeural of Seamen in postage stamps.
Whenever • renewed certificate to applied for on the
ground of the origisal one being defaced, illegible, or filled
op, the application most be accoropui:d by such original
certificate.
Oa the receipt of the first supply of the new *unit three
and ca the shipping master will forward to the Regis-
trar-General of Seeable, out of the tabu:lee in his hand

we shipping rneeter, the amount of Ism to be charged
for them. Whin • further supply of the certificates le
required, the shipping muter te to forward to the Re.
'write, with his epplicatln. • remittance for their value
out of the balance eforeenid. He Will reimburse himself
by the firs which be receives kora the seamen to whom
the certificates ere granted. These advsneel, and the

receipts of master for the role of the certill-
rates, are nut to appear in the public amounts, but the
shipping muter should for hie own rudiefection keep a
memorandum of the receipt and issue of the certiflcatee, and
of the del* of traneroiraion of the rounterparta, fie. The
nembrr of certificates which the shipping master may al an
time have in bawd should be reckoned as part of his rook
Wane*, and, being valued at one shilling each, shoold, with
the cosh in hand, agree with the talents of the cask due to
the government, ea shown in the cash-book.
Tea remittance is to be mode by pet-office order to Jobe
lloakina Drown (the Registrar-Gerund of Seamen), ryable
at Great Toweromeet, Tower•hill, London (P.C. ; the
charge for the order le to be included under the s ipping
master's account curreet with the Board .4 Trade, under the
beading "Charges for Post-oboe Orders to the Itegietrar•
General of SIMMS for Payments for Certificate. of Discharge
and Character."
When form en reqtaked which are not horded In the
arise-beck sew Y wen the demand meat be written is Ink
on the theemiehaet.

ISONZO!! ON A CITTLD AT HOITON.—At2 inquest
was held yerionly a the holy nt • child two year.
which died Is the arm cir• wo nab i• thn street, it. smother,
sir Wag al the tio• httoziest• I. The jury rrturtud the fol-
bwite redid .—" nit thud *Nord found &A is her
loothatos sew, eel thee pat blonde Anothed to lice for
Waft weglateal thw daweeed whew in a male of into-Airli-
fts." The wary aireedehe 1 the weds. and said that
te=tedl law sew wadi Ass write& to Ise for th• 111.
atm 111 b.