Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-17 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 incapabitated
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
same 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 Coast 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 passes an examination as a master or mate, and ob-
tains band 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 will occupy 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
under thirty. 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 Ma
a , in the first instance, be called
out for three years-. I - f there is thenctual 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 Ist January, 1860.

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

KNIFE CLEANERS, THE BEST AND CHEAPEST:
CROWDEN AND. GARROD'S PATENT INDIA
RUBBER KNIFE-BOARDS, are the only Genuine
ones. Sold at is. 6d. each and upwards, in all the first-class
Ironmongers' Shops in Liverpool.
Manufaotory—Falcon-square, London, E.C.

Spurious articles of a similar kind being in the market,
it is necessary to observe that the names of Crowden and
Ciarrod are on the boards, or you may get a worthless imita-
tion. All others are counterfeits. 78Ja18

MOURNING JEWELLERY.
JOHN G. JACOB,
GOLDSMLTH AND JEWELLER,
46,' CHURCH-STREET,
Respectfully calls attention to his superior Stoek of
BLACK ENAMELLED JEWELLERY,
BROOCHES, BRACELETS, NECKLETS,
RINGS, PINS, AND STUDS,
Of the most elegant Patterns and the best Quality.
Also, a large assortment of
REAL WHITBY JET,
In the most choice Patterns.

lIAIR WORKED IN CHAINS, BRACELETS,.RINGS,
BROOCHES, AND NECKLETS,
AND MOUNTED IN A: SUPERIOR STYLE,
The eame Hair as left guaranteed to be used.
JOHN G. JACOB,
GOLDSMIT,H AND JEWELLER,
CHURCH-STREET. t s

HISTORIC SOCIETY.---SCIENTIFIC SECTION.
THE Paper for This Evening is, " A Description of
some of the Principal Optical Apparatus used in Photo-
graphy." By THOMAS SUTTON, B.A. 1

Irj OST, Yesterday Afternoon, betwixt the Crescent
and the Custom-house, a dark-green PURSE, containing
a ew SOVEREIGNS and some SILVER.. A suitable reward
will be paid on bringing it to No. 11, King-street. 1