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The plating of the Royal Alfred frigate at Ports.
mouth remains suspended, pending the final chef:
sicn of the Admiralty in relation to the disposition
Cl!' the ship's offensive and defensive powers. In the
naval intelligence which appt-ared in 2he Sun of
the 13th inst. reference was made to the correspon-
dence passing between Whitehall end Portsmouth
dockyard respecting the ship. A doubt was then
expressed whether the Admiralty would .sanction
any further reconstruction of the Royal Alfred,
which was already in a very advanced stage to-
wards completion as an ironeaeed ship. We under•
stand, however, that the Admiralty are so fully
convinced of the weaknesses of the Royal Alfred
class of ship, both for purposes of offence and de-
fence that they have now under their serious con-
sideration the plan to which we formerly referred fur
the entire alteration of the ship's armour and arma-
ment. If the Royal Alfred is eventually completed
as was originally intended when ehe was con-
verted to her present form—that de nearly finished
screw two-decker, she will add one more to the
total number of the Prince Consort and Royal Oak
class. She will be a vessel of 4,045 tons, and of
800-horse power, wooden built from keel to topsides,
with the exception that her composite iron and
wooden upper deck will rest on rolled Butterly iron
beams, encased with armour.plating of 41-in., except
at the extreme ends round the bows and stern.
where it will taper to'2'ciii. Her weakness in offence
will be that she will be limited in the size of her
guns on broadsides behind her armour; and her
weakness in defence will be that her 41in. armour
will rest upon its 26in. of timber without any inner
iron skin. With the feeling growing stronger
day by day that it would be at the present
moment supteme ignorance to fir any precise
.imit to the axe of the ordnance our future iron
ships will carry it cannot be wondered at that the
Admiralty have at length made public their alarm
and doubt as to the policy of still further going on
in the construction of a weak composite ship such as
the Royal Alfred. Tee plan laid befote the Admi-
ralty to meet the case has been prepared by Rear-
Admiral G. Elliot, superintendent of Portsmouth
dockyard. It provides for a belt of armour of great
thickness, say from 10in. to 12i0., Co go entirely
round the ship, from about 2ft, below the waterline
to the level of her main deck. Amidships is a square
box of iron, of (gum thickness with the belt at the
water-line, and in.this box is one turret to mount 2
600-pounder rifled guns, the box being built for the
protection of the turret's base, the turret having a
thickness of iron quite equal to that of the belt and
square box or tower, The main deck forward and
aft of this tower-turret battery would be without
any armour, which would thus be confined, as al•
ready stated, to the protective belt at the water.
line, the revolving turret, and the square tower
which woulcVprotect its base. The unarmoured
portion of the ship's main-deck is intended to carry
eight rifled 150 pounder guns, two forward and aft
of the tower on each side. The arrangement of the
ship's defensive armour at the three points named,
it is calculated, would give the ship the same weight
of plating to carry that she would have if she is
finished with her originally designed coating of 41-in.
spread over the whole of her sides, and which, it is
contended, can withstand nothing more formidable
than the ordinary 68. pound castiron shot. The rig
of the ship it is proposed to make as composite
as her armour and armament. Her mainmast
would be a tripod, on Cept. Coles's plan, while her
fore and mizenmast would retain the ordinary form.
With this arrangement it is calculated that the two
600-pounders in the turret would have a training of
62 deg. before and abaft the beam, the angle of
training between the fore and mizen rigging being
12411eg. In attacking anothership that mounted only
broadside guns, the Royal Alfred, with her mixed
system, could place herself in a position the most
favourable with regard to the sea, and still fire at the
enemy from her turreted 600-pounders by the aid of
the 124 deg, of training through which they would
work, while the broadside gunship must bear down

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Fearful Accident on the Great Western
Railway.

An accident, which might have been attended with a large
sacrifice of human life, occurred on the lino of the Great
Western Railway, at the Pangbourne station, on the night
of Thursday last.
From inquiries made on the spot it was ascertained that

nearly abeam of the Alfred before she could bring
the fire of her guns to bear upon the latter vessel's
turret, and would probably throw herself in the
trough of the sea and roll to excess, while the tur-
reted Alfred could keep her bow to-the sea and thus

a narrow gauge special luggage train reached Pangbourne
shortly before 10 o'clock, and from some defect in the valves
of the engine, which caused a want of steam, the train was
unable to proceed. The switchman, anticipating the arri-
val of the Birmingham express, directed the driver to "get
on to the down line, and there appeared to be enough steam
to enable this to be done. Soon afterwards the down mail
was due, and it is said that some person in authority ordered
the luggage train to be removed from the down to the up
line. This was done, and it had not long been there when
the Birmingham express was observed to be in sight, and
the railway officials foresaw that something most fearful
must happen.

preserve a mach steadier gun platform. It is also
argued in favour of the plan of Admiral Elliot that
recent experience with the Channel squadron has
proved that all of our ships attached to the squadron
that have carried their armour-plating round their
bows and sterns have proved themselves wretched
seaboats, and that the proposed alteration in the
her i in
form t
ndo f
disposition of the Royal Alfred's armour must greatly
The square tower which
intended, benefit
o
intended the base of the turret, is also
transverse athwartships
and prevent the ship being raked by an enemy's fire
fore and aft, The weight of the Royal Alfred's
to to
protectha
a t respect,
kind
i
broadside under the Proposed new arrangement
would be I.Boolb. Such is the plan proposed by
Admiral Eiiiot for the reeonstructian of the Royal
Alfred. It has been described with as few attendant
remarks as possible. Its adoption may possibly ccn-
vert a notoriously weak ironclad into a most for-
midable vessel, but there would be a more positive
chance of success for Admiral Eilioes scheme if it
was applied to an iron framed ship rather than to
the necessarily weak and yielding bottom of a
wooden frame. If the:plan is applied to the Royal
Alfred, she will not be a solitary instance of the
combined broadside and turret systeth, the Federal
American navy already possessing one vessel of the
kind—the • Danderoerg, a vessel with a turret at
each end and guns on the broadsides, the sides of
the ship being constructed at an angle of about 40
deg. on the plan tested in Jones's angulated target
at Portsmouth some two or three years since.
The Terrible, 21 guns, paddlewheel frigate, 1,850
tons, BJO harse power, master in charge Mr Fre-
derick Townsend, was taken out of tho large basin
in Sheerness dockyard on Thursday last. The
terrible, which is one 'of the finest vessels of her
class in the navy, was found, upon inspection, after
the close of her last commission some three years
ago, to require such considerable repairs both in
regard to her hull and machinery, that it was
thought almost better to break her up. The Lords
of the Admiralty, however, determined that the
necessary repairs should be executed. The
vessel has been fitted with new boilers, while
the machinery has been carefully repaired at the
steam factory of the yard. Her hull has been
also nearly rebuilt, and the ship altogether may
be considered almost a new vessel. Previously to
being taken out of the basin it was found necessary
to take off the outer rims of the paddle-
wheels, and to wait for a high tide, as the width
of the vessel was too great for the entrance to the
basin. Even when this had been done'while thevessel

The anxiliary signal, when first seen by the driver of the
express train, was stated by him to indicate that all was
right, but almost immediately it was reversed, showing that
there was something on the line. He did all in his power
to stop the train, but it was proceeding at express rate, and
the space was too short to admit of the speed being at all
checked. The result was that the engine ran into the goods
train with fearful velocity, forcing the guard's break-van,
which was at the end of that train, over a salt van on to the
top of the third van from the end, where it remained, the
first salt van being dashed into pieces, and the second very
extensively damaged.
The noise from the colision was tremendous and so alarmed

[he inhabitants of the village of Pangbourne that all seemed

to feel at once that it was the result of an accident on the
railway. Many rushed to the station and rendered every
assistance that appeared to be required. The driver of the
express train, Abraham Hill, was discovered to bo but
slightly injured in the ribs, and the stoker by some extra-
ordinary means escaped any material injury. The fearful
nature of the collision not unreasonably excited fears that
some of the passengers had been killed, and the general
anxiety was to ascertain what had been the effect of the ac-
cident among them. The carriages were instantly examined,
and it was gratifying to the people to learn that none of the
passengers had sustained any more inconvenience than a
severe shaking.

The great thing remaining to he done was to clear the line
of the broken vans and the engine of the express, which had
got off the line and was embedded in the earth. The pas-
sengers of the train, railway officers, and people of the village
all assisted to remove the guard's break van from the top
of the salt van, to which it had been driven, as already
described, by the express train. Great difficulty was ex-
perienced in the effort, and ultimately the van fell across
the down line. Both lines were thus blocked, and proper
appliances being required for removing the obstruction, a
telegraphic message was sent to the Reading station for
assistance. Mr Bailey, the district superintendent, with a
staff of men, proceeded to the spot with the least possible
delay, and succeeded in getting the down line clear. The
axpress train was eventually despatched by another engine,
but its progress was interrupted at Reading, owing to an
engine having got off the ine near the Caversham road.
The down mail at night, and also the up mail early in the
morning, were both delayed several hours. The express
train, which was due at Paddington at 11 p.m., did not
arrive there until between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday morn-
ing.

A number of men wore employed the whole of Friday in
removing the disabled engine from its ',milieu, and gettine
it on the up line, at Pangbourne station. In consequence of
this obstruction the down line had to be used for all trains,
so that great delay was necessarily occasioned to the ordi-
nary course of traffic. The desire of the railway officials
was to expedite the passenger trains, and to do that the
goods trains were detained at Reading. At one time on
Friday morning there were no less than 30 trains of this
description waiting to be despatched. Although a posse of
men have been at work all day, the up line, at the time of
the despatch of our parcel last evening, was not cleared,
There is no doubt a strict inquiry will be made by the
directors into the cause of this accident, which might have
ertailed an awful sacrifice of life. The removal of the dis-
abled goods train from the down to the up lino no doubt led
to the calamity ; but, for the sake of the public, and railway

was passing out the Fponsons were souse distance

over the wharfs, and the paddlewheels were only a
few inches from each side of the jetty. The Terrible

is fully rigged, has got her armament on board, and

will be ready for sea ab3ot the Ist of January next.

She is now lying at moorings in the harbour, and it
is expected she will be shortly commissioned.

A draught consisting of 40 men of the 37th depot
have left Pembroke dock, under command of Lieut.

Rosser, for Dover, to join the regiment.

Major Burnside, 61st Regiment, Captain ln,.
atructor of Musketry to the Bth Depot Battalion, is

t -avellers in particular, it ought to be ascertained by whose
authority it was done, and who is responsible for such an
act 0 utter carelessness in railway management.

THREE YEARS' CAMPAIGNING.—Th 3 American
papers say that there is a New York regiment which,
during their three years' service, has travelled by sea and
land more than 12,000 miles, fought 20 general engage-
ments, nnrohcd through 15 States, and has been under
Burnside, Pope, I‘.l`olellan, M`Dowell, Meade, Sherman,
And Grant,

about to be removed from Pembroke dock to the

School of Musketry, at Hythe, in order to fill the
appointment there of Lieut. Co'onel. Captain
Mackenzie, 2d,lsth Regiment, is also about to join
the School of Musketry, in order to qualify as

Captain Instructor to the battalion, vies Burnside,

promoted.

Princess Charlotte—Martin Magill, Assist. Surgeon,
to the Prince Consort—Samuel. B imfield, Assist.
Surgeon, to the SI. George—James Farrelly, Assist.
Surgeon, additional, to the Sutiej—George Duncan,
Assist. Surgeon, to the Excellent—and .litmcs rr.
syme, Assist.. Paymaster, to the Wellesley.
The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi-
nated to naval cadetships:—Allan Cornelius no-
rold Mann, Francis Hall Logan, Leonard George
Eardley Childers, George Benson Bradford, and
Stephen J. H. Bravo. The name of the naval
cadet which appeared among the nominations on the
14th, was "Carruthers Massy," and not " °arm.
thers."

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commandt r E, H. Murray to the
Achilles--Cornelius W. M'Damott, Paymaster, to
the Cadmus--James T,. Southey, Paymeeter, to the

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Mr Baron Bramwell opened the commission for holding
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afternoon in this town. His Lordship afterwards attended
Divine service. This morning at 10 o'clock the learned
Judge took bis seat iu the Crown Court. Although there
are not so many prisoners as there were at Winchester, yet
the calendar may be said to be heavy. There aro 27 pri-
soners for trial.

William Marsh was indicted for feloniously cutting and
wounding John Greeuhani, with intent to do grievous bodily
harm, at Haselbury-Plucknett, on the 16th of November.
When called upon to plead, the prisoner said—l !thou]. ,
like the case to be heard, if you please, Sir.
These people were Labourers, and had had a job of work
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inches long. The prisoner was apprehended. He said
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The jury found the prisoner guilty.
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able to be beaten than to take out a knife. It is a cowardly
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years.

William Harding was charged upon five indictments with
uttering forged Bank of England notes at Taunton and at
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Mr Prideaux and Mr Warry were counsel for the prose
cution.

This was a prosecution at the instance of the Bank of
England. It appeared that the prisoner was a butcher at
Exmouth. About 8 o'clock in the evening of Dec. 8 the pri-
soner went to the shop of a Mr Hamlyn, a draper, at Tann.
ton, and bought some articles amounting to £1 8s 10d. lie
then tendered what appeared to be a £lO Bank of England
note. The change was given him, after deducting the amount
of the bill. The prisoner immediately afterwards went to
the shop of Messrs Chapman, drapers, Taunton, and there
he purchased articles similar to those he had bought at
Hamlyn's and ho there tendered another apparently £lO
Bank of England note and obtained change for it. Hamlyn
had obtained change of the £lO note of Mr Patteson, the
landlord of the Castle Hotel, Taunton. The next day the
police having reoeived some information, proceeded to Ex-
mouth, where they found the prisoner was a butcher. The
police charged him with having uttered the notes in Taun-
ton. The prisoner said he had not been in Taunton ; he was
taken to the lock-up and searched. He had nearly £2O in
his pocket. He had a key in his pocket, with which the
police opened the door of a house at Exmouth, which was
shut up. In that house they found two pieces of paper
which appeared to be £lO Bank of England notes, and they
also found the bills of Chapman and of Ila.nlyn. On Nov.

29, in the evening, the prisoner went to a draper's at Bath,

apparently very much intoxicate.d. He bought some calico,
flannel, and stockings. The bill came to 178 3d. He ten..
dered a £lO Bank of England note, change was given him.
He said his name was "Bux, of Box." All the five notes
were proved to be forgeries; they were made from the same
plates.

The prisoner, in his defence, said he had a deal with a
man who appeared to be a farmer, at Bristol market He
sold him some bullocks, and he received these notes in pay-
ment. He had thus lost all the money he had made during
all his life, and was now without a farthing in the world.
The Judge said there was no doubt these notes were

Forged, and there was no doubt that the prisoner uttered
them. It was very unusual for an honest man to have five

forged notes in his possession; but what made the prisoner
;top at Taunton and buy flumel and stockings, and give a

false name and address, and having obtained change for one,
why did he tender another when he had plenty of change in
his pocket P There was no proof of anything the prisoner
had said.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The prisoner was then charged with having been con-
victed of felony (stealing sheep) in 1857 at Exeter.
He pleaded not guilty.
Proof was given of the prisoner being the same man, and
he was found guilty.
The prisoner said he did not know those notes were forged.
The Judge—Oh yes, you did. I think the best thing to
do with you is to shut you up for the rest of your days. I
sentence you to 15 years' penal servitude.

James Nicholes was indicted for feloniously wounding
Eliz ibeth Nicholes, his wile, with intent to murder her.
Mr Warry prosecuted, and Mr T. W. Saunders defended
the prisoner.

The prisoner had been married 34 years, during which
period they had lived together. On the 10th December the
prisoner had been out at work all day ; he came home in the
evening tipsy; his wife was preparing his supper; he asked
for his spectacles, which she gave him. He then said, "If
I am living in the morning you will not be," and ho took
down a marking iron, but he put it back again. The wife
said "I'm not afraid of you, and shall never be." This
seemed to annoy him, and he took down the marking iron
and struck her four times on the head with it. The wife ran
out of the house crying "Murder." She was afterwards in
bed four days. The police hearing of this went in search of
the prisoner, and found him in a field near his house. He
said he was provoked and could not help it, and he supposed
he should get a month for it. The surgeon who attended
the woman said she was in a critical state. She was stil
under his care.

For the prisoner R was urged that he was tipsy at
the time, and had not intended to do his wife any mischief
There were knives on the table, as they were at supper,
with which he might have destroyed his wife if such had
been his desire. The jury might ignore all intent, and find
the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding.
The Judge then summed up.
The Jury foand the prisoner guilty with intent to do
grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner had been imprisoned for four months some
years since for assaulting his wife.

- The Judge said it was almost impossible to hear this case
without feeling angry, but a judge ought not to feel anger.
It was a cowardly thing to strike a woman at all, much more
so his wife ; he was bound to protect her. Let men learn
that they were not to beat their wives. And if he (the
prisoner) supposed he should get a month, he could tell him
he would have much more than that, for he should sentence
him to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour,

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEEDS, Dec. 16.
(Before Mr Justice Keating.)
Chas. Jessop was indicted for breaking into the dwelling
house of Mr Bartholmes at Bradford, and stealing a quail.
tity of plate.

Mr Bruce appeared for the prosecution; Mr C. Foster
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor's family had gone abroad
and that on the 16th of September he locked up his hum
and went off to Harrogate for a few days. On the 19th
a policeman, observing that the house' had been broken
into, sent off to the proseoutor, who returned on the 20th
and found that his plate had been stolen. On the Bth of
November the police went to a beershop at Bradford called
The Live and Let Live ; they noticed that the name of
Brooks and not the prisoner's was over the door, although
the prisoner lived there, and on search being made they
found part of the plate concealed under the floor of one of
the bedrooms, and in the chimney part of an urn bet nging
to the prosecutor. The prisoner said that the plate had
been put there to be out of the way of the children. On the
prosecutor's wife going abroad part of the plate had been
locked up, and it was not proved whether the plate found
was the plate that had been locked up by the prosecutor's
wife or some left out for his own use during her absence,
The prisoner called a witness who proved that he had seen
the forks and spoons in the beershop some weeks before the
house had been broken into, and that those forks and spoons
were engraved with a B. The whole of the prosecutor's sil-
ver was engraved with a B also, and it was contended on
behalf of the defence that the plate was not identified by
Mr Barthelmes, as the only mark he identified by was the
B, which stood as well for Brooks as for Barthelmes.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of receiving.
The learned judge, as there was a previous conviction
proved against the prisoner, sentenced him to sa7en years'
penal servitude.
Charles Crosby was indicted for stealing a horse, of the
value of £lO.
Mr Lascelles conducted the prosecution ; the'prisoner was
undefended.
It appeared from the evidence float the prosecutor, John
Stead, is a farmer living at Garford, and on Friday, the 7th
October, a servant of the prosecutor's took the horse into a
field where there were two other horses, and locked the gate.
He saw the prisoner about 50 yards from the field. The
next morning the horse was missed. A tollgate keeper had
a conversation with the prisoner, and saw him riding the
horse the next morning about half-past 7 o'clock. The pri-
soner then went to Selby lair, and, on some one offering to
buy the horse, refused to sell it, as the man wanted to ride
it out in the fair. boon after he saw Henry Balls, a horse
dealer, in whose service he bad formerly been, and told him
that he had heard the horse was stolen, He then rode off
in the direction of Garford. The horse was found the same
evening turned loose on the turnpike road.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
His lordship said that he had formerly sentenced him to
15 months' imprisonment for a smiler offence, but this timo
he should inflict a much heavier sentence on him, and sen-
tenced him to 10 years' penal servitude.