Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-16 00:00:00

4. MONSTER IRON-CASED FRIGATE.'

- The 'design Of the steam ram laid down at Blackwell
has been altered, and is now, says the. Times, to be built
merely as a shot-proof heavy-armed frigate of perhaps
36, or perhaps 70 gains, as the Admiralty may eventually
decide. She is to be named the Warrior, and will be at
once fire and shot proof—the largest, strongest, and
Swiftest man of war afloat in the world. The two iron-
cased vessels, or steam rams proper, which are now being
built,—one on the Tyne by Palmer, and the other by
Westwood and Bailey at Millwall,—are, though both
shot proof, smaller in tonnage and armament, and nearly
100 feet shorter than this gigantic frigate, the Warrior.
Though ' great progress has been made with the War-
rior, the more striking parts of the hull, such as the
beak and stern, have yet to be built up. The wrought-
iron " box-girders " 'which run throughout the vessel
from stem to stern, are the most powerful things of their
kind that have ever yet been made ; yet all these beams
and girders, angle-irons, and tie-rods, of which the whole
hull is apparently built, are mere trifles to the things
which have yet to be put into her. A whole mountain of
teak, which half fills one part of the yard, has to be consumed
in her outer "lining," while her armour plates lie about in.
ponderous slabs, weighing many tons, each from 16 to 18
feet long, 4 feet wide, and 41- inches thick. The nose or
cutwater of the vessel is one immense slab of wrought-
iron, about 30 feet. long, 10 inches thick, and weighing
upwards of 17 tons. The screw frame is one piece of the
finest forged iron, without the slightest flaw of any kind,
and weighing no less than 44 tons. *Till the present.
Work was commenced such masses of formings were
never thought.of, even in -the construction of the Great
Eastern itself. The Warrior's dimensions are :—Ex-
treme length, 380 feet ; ditto breadth, 58 feet; depth,
41 feet 6 inches ; and her tonnage rio less than 6,177
tons. The engines (screw, of course) are to be by Penn
and Sons, of 1,250 horses' power. Their total weight,
with boilers, will be 950 tons. For these she will only
be able to carry 950 tons of coal, or enough for about
six days' steaming. The armament (counting her only a
36-gun frigate), with masts and stores, will weigh 1;200
tons; and this with the hull, which is to be no less
than 5,700 tons, will give her a total weight,
when ready for sea, of about 9,000 tons in all,'
.or the weight' of the Great Eastern when launching.
Speed of not much less than 15 or 16 knots an hour
is anticipated, so that should her commander, in case of
any emergency, choose to use her as a steam ram, he
could literally drive his ship straight over a whole fleet
of three-deckers without a chance of being injured by
their broadsides in closing. The Warrior will enjoy
almost perfect immunity from the heaviest shot and
shell from the tremendous strength with which she is
constructed. The whole vessel is 'subdivided in some
twenty places by wrought iron water-tight bulkheads of
the most solid description. Thus, 'supposing it possible
that both stem and stern should be shot away com-
pletely, the fighting portion of the vessel would-remain
as complete and as impenetrable as ever, still
supposing 20 inches of teak with 5 inches of Wrought iron
to every shot. The Warrior will be armed with Arm-
strong's longest range guns, and throwing shot of 1001 b.
weight, which will enable her to commence her action
with her enemy at, least . four miles distant. At two
miles she herself will be to the enemy out of range for
all practical purposes, even for the heaviest smooth=bore
guns yet used in any navy, and at 1,000 yards' distance
a 68-pounder shot scarcely dints her iron sides to the
depth of half an inch. In fact, every possible eolith:l-
-tingeney seems to, have been provided against for her
security, except the probability of her rolling in such a
manner 'as to be incapable of using her Fins in anything
of a seaway.

On Thursday, a number of the members of the con-
gregation- of the. Wigan Parish Church, presented to the
Rev. C. H. Newbold, curate and clerk in orders, a com-
plete set of silk robes, a silver pocket communion service,
and a copy of Bagster's pocket polyglot Bible.
A -PRUDENT CONCLUSION.—The case of .the Hon.
Hugh Rowley and his late wife, which recently was so
prominently before the public in the proceedings in the
Divorce Court, and also at the Westminster Police-
court, "we understand has been definitively settled, so
that neither party shall take any further publie proceed-
ings. Under the advice of counsel the proceedings at
tee Westminster Police-court are to be allowed to die a
natural death. No statements in explanation 'to be
made on either side.

SWINDLING AT BILADFORD.—AN QLD, STALE, TRICK.
—At the Bradford Borough Court, on Friday, two well-
dressed men, self-named-Patrick Sheridy and William
Faulkner', were brought up on suspicion of feloniously
depriving an old man, named John Holmes, a pensioner,
ox Middlesborough, of thirteen sovereigns and five half-
sovereigns (Zl5 10s.) Holmes who is seventy-nine
years of age, had come to Bradford to attend the
funeral of a daughter, and, on Thursday, as he was
coming from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Station. at Bradford, wlere he had been to inquire
about some luggage or goods he was expecting from
'lllidd4sborough, he wa's accosted' 'by 'a 'well-dressed
man, a "gentleman " he called him, who . made
some inquiries, in a kind and friendly manner, as
what he was about and where he had:been. Talking on
several topics for some time, the " gentleman" prevailed
upon hiin to enter the Britannia public-house, in Wake-
.nled:road, where he paid for something to drink. They
had not been long. there, in a private-room, however, be-
fore they were joined by another well-dressed stranger,
who entered into conversation with them; and tallied
largely of his possessions and his money, and, on being
told of the old man's troubles, he gave him what appeared
.to be'a Sovereign, and also anew purse, which was one of
several he,pretended he had just bought of a poor half-
starved-woman in the street. He afterwards asked the
old man to.use the new purse he had given to him, and to
put the sovereign, his own purse, and also his own money
into it. He produced his purse for that object, and the
two "gentlemen" then, assisted him in putting his own
purse, containing thirteen. sovereigns and five half-sove-
reigns, into the new purse, and also in placing the whole
in his pocket. On leaving the house, the two men left
him, and, some time afterwards, he discovered that he
had been deprived of his 'own purse and his money, and
that the new purse, containing only an old handkerchief
:and
.a nutaber.of yellow "flying horse" medals, had been
substituted for them. He immediately gave information
to the police and the prisoners were on Thursday even-
ing apprehended in a dram shop. on suspicion. In their
possession were found a-number of flash notes, a number
of yellow " flying horse" medals, similar to'those given
to the old man, and. various implements used by gam-
blers and thimble-riggers. The prisoners were remanded.
CHINESE SCAVENGERS .ON STRIKE.—It is said "that
the Chinese mix their nightsoil with one third of its
weight of fat marl, nialce it into cakes, and dry it by
exposure tothosun. In this state' it is free from any
disagreeable smell, and forms a common article of com-
merce in the empire." This may be true in some
parts of the country, but I have never seen it, nor heard
of it during. my residence in China, As to the absence
'Of smell, I doubt if this advantage would appear so
great to a, Chinaman, as it would to one of ourselves;
his olfactory organs are decidedly less sensitive
than our own. I also doubt whether the absence
of smell would not imply absence of fertilising power
and strength. So it, has been proved in our large towns
where the deodorising process has been employed;
the fertilising property has evaporated, and its value as
a manure has been so greatly deteriorated as to be hardly
worth even the cost of'cartage to the land. The names
of nightmen and nightsoil, which we have given as ell-
phonisms to this occupation and commodity, are inapplei_-_
cable in China, for all its collecting and removal,rher earse
few
as application, is carried on in op
h :specially; than
things more offensivoto the foreigenn ditnYsa.b-tant of a Chi-
nese city, during the summer months
the presence, in the very
stumblend c crowded duepdens streets,
at
men similar to our pevery turn, and no Ii
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lu
er
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c.
aution is needed to avoid the
ag
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t of
ef
calamity of conta.cvting Owc caays oaaf a Ilya, teharmouthe
the foot, or ththeeg
-ipails is upset and floods the foot-
contents
ofNot very long since the city of Hanchow,
path.
which numbers about a million inhabitants,
was put
tvery serious inconvenience by a rupture between
hese men, who form a separate class, and a Mandarin.
it appears that one of them had inadvertently run against
the great man's sedan-chair, who, in his annoyance,
ordered him to be bastinadoed. All his* fraternity took
up his cause, and when the sentence 'of the magistrate
was carried into effect, they, to a man, refused to do
any more work till an apology was made. So deter-
mined were they, and so high did the feud run, that the
city was brought to the point of suffocation, and the
Mandarin was obliged to yield the point, so far offering
an apology as to acknowledge that he had been too
hasty, and that the punishment of the offender was un-
just. Hanchow, but for this reparation exacted by
the offended majesty of the scavengers, might have been
dug out from under a heap of human guano ; but con-
cession restored it to its former condition of prosperity,
and it still exists to tell the tale of the ruin which once
impended it,—Obbold's .Pietures .the Chinese,

onday, January IR, IMO.

MILITARY GOSSIP.

(From the Army and Na 4 Gazette.) -1
Lieutenant Gould, 2nd battalion 13th Light Infer_,,tll
has become garrison-adjutant at Grahamstown, TYPI
Lieutenant Marshall, Cape Mounted Rifles. Lieuteao
Brew, Ist West India Regiment, is acting as Orris"
adjutant at the Gambia.
Colonel Smyth, 2nd Regiment, has been appoint 4,
Commandant of the Cape Town and Western -Distllt
at the. Cape, in the room of Lieutenant-Cepa
Burniester, 59th Regiment.
Captain M'Donnell, 4th Dragoon Guards, has bee:
appointed an extra Aide-de;camp to HE. the L 0
Lieutenant of Ireland.
We believe that Lord Cardigan will before long resi°l
the office of inspector general of cavalry, and rumour
only :rumour, however—states that Major-Gene,l
Lawrenson will succeed to that post, Lord George P3ce
obtaining the Cavalry Brigade at Aldershott.
It is rumoured that Major-General Windham
shortly succeed Major-General Sir Sidney Cott°
8.C.8., in command of the division on the Affgh'",
frontier.

VOLUNTEERS IN NEW ZEALAND.—Captain 11. uue.
Balneavis, late of the 58th Regiment, Adjutant of t't
Auckland Militia, has been appointed Deputy Mien
General of -Militia and Volunteers in New Zealan
• under There is a corps of 200 Volunteer Rifles embodied ,
his command and also 100 Volunteer Rifles at M
Plymouth, New Zealand. At Napier,- Nelson, and
terbury, Volunteer Corps are being raised.—te
Service Gazette.

It is intended to erect a theatre for dramatic 44. per'
formances in the Turkish language, at Taouk-bazar'
near the square of Sultan Bavazid, the most central
locality of Constantinople. _ A corps of manager*
playwrights, and prOfessional trainers for the natill
elevis, who are to compose the " company," will b°
brought from Europe, and the whole establishment wi"
be organised on the.most approved European system.
HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—These pills are more efficacious
in strengthening a debilitated constitution than any other,
medicine in the world. Persons of a nervous habit o',
body, and weak digestive organs, whose health has be;
come deranged by bilious affections, &c., should lose 11
time in giving these-admirable-pillslt fair trial. couglt.
colds, asthma, are also within the range of the sanatl"t
powers of this remarkable medicine. The cures are not
superficial or temporary, but complete and permanen;
These pills are as mild as they are efficacious, and TO,'
be given with confidence to delicate females and Y°lll6
children.' 38

THE AEANDONMENT OF THE SHIP Mmolus.'7,-,! e
of the
inquiry, directed by the Board of Trade, into the
cumstances attending the abandonment of the baro
Madras, J. Davies from London for Sierra L 0056
was held on Thursday, before the Local Marine 80,
and Mr. Ingham, the magistrate -asssted the board is
port *of London. Mr. Henry Green presides,-
i
conducting the investigation. Mr. Take, solicitor,
appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of the
owner, Mr. Hilbury. Mr. Brown, of the Royal ES'
change Insurance Company, also attended. She was
abandoned .November 27, and' afterwards scuttled, ill
order that she might not occasion damage to other
vessels, It was also alleged that the captain had bees
intemperate. The court were of opinion that the ship
had not been prematurely abandoned, but-would.repol;
to the Board of Trade upon the conduct of CaPtal
Davies.

Mn. BRIGHT.—Mr. Bright's speech at Birmingl33ll,i
is principally remarkable for its calculated dulness, all,
for the apparent decline of his popularity which It
indicates. It seems that the local magnates of Liberal,
ism for the most part refused to countenance the
demagogue whom they chose two years ago as ti 'r
representative. The agitation, which was always ";
rational in its pretexts and unjust in its objects, seenf
for the present to be not even popular. The pr;/;
fessional politicians of all parties who have successive'',
affected to believe in the necessity of 5
Reform Bill, find that they have all abandon
en
thar posts like an army in a night-panic, in fear of 'l.l
imaginary assailant. The approaching debates Icls
present curious illustrations of conscious or half-conscious
insincerity. The ministe-rs will bring forward a measure
which they suspect to be noxious, because they law'
that the. House of Commons would otherwise insist on
policy which is believed by the vast majority of its mere:.
bers to be useless and mischievous. The sole orator
the democratic party can scarcely, on the eve of the
Reform session, collect a favourable audience in the most
Radical town in the kingdom—Saturday Review.
LORD CANNLNG AND THE NATWE "PRINCES.— YO3
will not have' failed to observe that in.all his address°,
to the-native princes Lord-Canning takes up a new and
very dignified position: There is not a word of equA
lity or alliance. The princes are treated as highly-con'
sidered feudatoiies, and even-the Gwallor Prince
praised for his loyalty". to the throne.. All were Pre;
sented in the same style, and all apparently instructeu
to retire, walking backwards, a bit of etiquette eutireli
novel in India-Lord Canning being the first Viceii
roy—and probably productive of more- effect than
the rest of the ceremonial, presents included. One nr`-
durbar, is to be held at Lahore, where the Putteeala Rai al
the most faithful and upright friend the British have 1e
found, will be the lion of the day. As yet, this progrur,
has been undoubtedly a success. The presents, grallr,
jaghires, and allowances lavished hive been frightful`o
expensive, representing a capital of at least £3,000,00ce,
sterling, but they have done their work. Every prltl.o
in the north understands that there is again a ruler
India who can reward as the old Emperors rewardedl.
double their _wealth and dignity, as it were, by a sv°,o
Something, of the theatrical seems essential to 6:a
character and population of an Asiatic ruler. It is s3l
that Scindiah has requested that his infantry may hener
forward be Europeans.—. Letter from Calcutta.
THE DUKE Or WELLINGTON AND THE ATIRIST,'4
Being afflicted with deafness in his left ear, he apPll
to Mr. Stevenson, an aurist, whose operation not 0111
failed, but placed his patient in imminent-danger, fr°„
which he was saved.'by the timely aid of Dr. Ilurv;
The grief and. mortification of Mr. Stevenson, w'ls.
he heard of the results of his practice, knew no bound
He hastened to Apsley House, and, being adinit!e,
to the Duke's presence, expressed himself as any rigbt
minded person under the circumstances would ha 4
done. But he was instantly stopped, though in tu,
kindest manner—" Don't say a word ahout it ; you acted
for the best; it has been unfortunate, no doubt, for both 01
us, but you are not at all to blame.". Grateful for this I,f;
ception, Mr. -Stevenson went on to say—" But it will "'"
the ruin of me. Nobody will employ me any 131°r,ell
when" they. hear that I. have been the 'cause of ,„
suffering and danger to your grace." "-Why should
they hear anything about it ?" replied the Duke ;
your own counsel, and depend upon it I won't say a Nor
to any one." " Then your grace will allow me to atternd!
you as usual, which will show them that you have not
withdrawn your confidence from me." " No," replied
the duke, still kindly and firmly, "I can't do that, for
that would be a lie," So strong, even in a case which
made no common appeal_ to his generosity, was the
duke's
love of truth. He would not act a falsehood ant
more than he would speak one.—Brie/moncs Life of the
DukeWe
of
llington.
Tim CIVIL SERVICE. -^-• War-office.—Mr. R. F.
milled has been a.ppointed to a temporary clerkship, 5'
passed his examination. The Admiralty.—Mr. Ste"
pheniJohn Graff has been appointed a temporary clerk,
anLpa.ssed his examination; Mr. Donald Owen Lewis.
M‘Kay has been appointed to a temporary clerkship,
and passed his examination • Mr. William henry Jera-
mett has been appointed to a temporary clerkship"
and passed his examination ; Mr. William Doo°
Legge has been appointed to a temporary clerkshiP,
and passed his examination; Mr. William Robert
Thomas has been appointed to a temporary elerkshi,Pr
and passed his examination. The Dockyards.!---.31e-
William Penfold, accountant, Woolwich Dockyard:l)th°_,
retired on full pension, after fifty years' service. la.,
Sturges, third-class clerk in the storekeeper's office, litu.
vonport Dockyard, has been transferred to Deptford.
v°
W. G. Gilbert, of Malta yard, has been appointed to Den
port Dockyard. Customs.—Mr. Win. Collins has ~
appointed a clerk in the Examiner's-offlce, London.
H. Frost has been appointed a clerk in the Long-103,
London. Mr. E. F. Potter has been 'appointed a clerk
in the Examiner's office, London. Mr. J. S. symon,,.,
been appointed a clerk in the Long-room, London.
George W. Hughes, controller at Wexford, has bee,
promoted to be principal, officer at East Hartlepool.
Revenue Department—Stamps and 131
Branch—Mr. David Thomas, surveyor, has been !Tr.
moved from Colchester to Tunbridge
G. Keen has been removed from Luton to Tunbrino s
Wells. Mr. John Kay, supernumerary surveyor, heA
been appointed surveyor at Luton excise branch. ,e
Poor-law inspectorship has become vacant by
resignation of Mr. Charles Sharman Crawford.—Cal
Service Gazette,