Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-19 00:00:00

ADVANTAGES OF THE RESERVE,

1. A Volunteer will at once receive an annual pay-
ment or retainer of £6, payable quarterly.
2. He will, if he fulfils .his'obligations and is in the
Reserve the requisite time, receive a pension of not less
than £l2 a year whenever he becomes incapacitated
from earning a livelihood, or at sixty years of age if not
previously incapacitated.
3. He may elect either to take the whole pension
himself, or to take a smaller pension for himself during
his life, and to allow his wife a pension after his death,
for the remainder of her life.
4. He will not, on account of belonging to the.
Reserve, forfeit any interest in any Friendly or Benefit
Society.
5. His travelling expenses to and from the place of
drill will, when necessary, be provided.
6. He will, during drill, receive, in addition to the
retaining fee, the same pay, victualling, and allowances
as a seaman of the fleet.

7. He will, if called out on actual service, receive the
came pay, allowances, and victuals, and have the same
prospect of promotion and prize money, as a continuous
service seaman of the fleet, and he will on joining
receive the same clothing, bedding, and mess traps.
8. He will, if wounded or injured in actual service,
receive the same pension as a seaman in the Navy of
the same rating.
9. He will be eligible to the boast Guard Service and
Greenwich Hospital.
10.
.He may quit the reserve, if not at the time called
out for actual service, at the end of every five years; he
may also .quit it, when not called out, on paying back
the retainers he has received; or, without payment, if
he pasees an examination as a master or mate, and ob-
tains bona fide employment as master or mate.

OBLIGATIONS OF THE RESERVE.
1. A Volunteer must attend drill for twenty-eight
days each year ; he may do so, so far as the convenience
of the public service will permit, at a time and place
convenient to himself; but he cannot, in any case, take
less than seven days' drill at any one time.
2. He must not, without special, permission, proceed
on a voyage that vvillnccupy more than six months.
3, He must appear before some shipping master once
in every six months, unless he has leave to be abroad
longer, and he must report every change of residence
and employment.
4. In order to earn a pension, he must continue in
the reserve as long as he is physically competent to
serve,, and he must also have been in the force fifteen
years if engaged above thirty, or twenty years if engaged
undeklairty. In reckoning this time, actual service in
the fleet will count double. ,

5. Volunteers may be called upon for actual service
in the navy by Royal Proclamation. It is intended to
exercise this power only when an emergency requires a
sudden increase in the naval force of the country.
6. A Volunteer may, in the first instance, be called
out for three years. If there is then actual war, and he
is then serving in one of her Majesty's ships, he may be
required to serve for two years longer ; but for the ad-
ditional two years he will receive 2d. a day additional
pay.
7. Volunteers when on drill or actual service will be
subject to naval discipline.
8. A Volunteer who fails to fulfil the obligations of
the Reserve, will forfeit his claim to retainer and pension,
and if he fails to join when called out for actual service,
may be treated as a straggler or deserter from the navy.

The Inrolment will commence on tat January, 1860.

Full information and detailed conditions may .be
obtained on application to the Shipping Master at any
Port in the Muted Kingdom, or to the <Ofcers .of Cus-
toms in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

B It OWN & "'OLSON'S
PATENT CORN FLOUR.
*. This is superior to anything of the kiad known."—Lancet.
Obtain it from Family. Grocers or Chemists who do not substi-
tute infenor articles. Packets, 16oz.
'LIVERPOOL WHOLESALE AGENTS,
WRIGHT & CROSSLEY, NORTH JOHN STREET,
RAINES and COMPANY.

WS SELL' S GAS HEAT DISSEMINATOR
ecintinues in great favour with the Public, being the
only Gas Apparatus which, with Economy, ensures Purity and
Efficiency ; and is well calculated for warming Greenhouses,
Warehouses, Halls, Offices, &c.

C. R. WESSEL
has appointed
W. BENNETT, GENERAL IRONFOITNDERS,

SIR THOMAS'S BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL,
The sole Agent for the above STOVE, from whom all Informa-
tion, Testimonials, Circulars. &c., can be obtained, and at
whose Sale-rooms it may be seen at work. tts-d7