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Major-Gen. Hopkins, C. 8., the late Colonel.
Commandant at the Itoyal Marine Division at -'
Woolsvieb, yesterday left the garrison with which-
he has been associated for many years past, and
proceeded to his new residence at Kingston-on-
Thames, on retirement from the seivice. His de- 1,
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The tender of the Wcolwieh Iron Company, Bir-
kenhead, hue bail accepted by the Lottls of the
Admiralty for the manufacture of iron masts,
Er the ironclad frigate Lord Warden, 24, 1,000
horse power, under construction at Chatham dock-
yard. Like the Bellerophon, 14, 1,000 horse power
iron frigate, also building at Chatham, the Lord
Watden will be fitted with steel yards, and she
will also carry iron topmasts, The preparation of
the 6 inch armour plate© which will encase the
sides of the Lord Warden has been in progress for
some time pest, and the work of fixing the armour
will be commenced in the course of a few days.
The whole of the plates have been manufactured at
the Atlas Works, Sheffield, by Messrs John Brown
and Co., and aro of the best possible description of
rolled iron, while, at the same time, they are the
heaviest yet applied to a sea-going ship of war. In
all previously constructed armour eased vessels the
difficulty of supporting the enormous mass of armour
bolted to their sides by giving the requisite dis•
placement to the ship, while at the same time re.
raining necessary qualities, has been
so great otherthat
designers have been only too glad
tehqeua lly
to reduce the weight and quantity of the plates in
every possible manner. Hence in nearly the whole
of the ships of our present squadron of ironolads the
the armour plates have_been carried but little below
the water, the ports have been kept as low as pos.
Bible, the armour—and in this lies the chief consi-
deration—has been thinned down at the bow and
stern to obtain the minimum quantity of metal, and
in short weight has been saved in every other prac.
tical way. The designer of the Lord Warden, Mr
Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, has made
provision for carrying the armour plates of a thick-
ness
never before placed on the sides of a wooden
hull, well down under water. Instead of the port
sills being only some 6ft. above the water, as in
the case with most of the previously built iron-
clads, the Lord Warden's ports are to be nowhere

The Late Gale.

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SHIELDS, Tuesday Night.
On Sunday seternoon the bodies of Mr Shesd, the master,
and Alfred Page, the cabin boy of the Friendship, of Col-
cheater. were Interred. Thin afternoon the hodlea cl the
mate, Alfred I\li,eleeli, William Clerk, seaman, and. William
Button, an orphan lad, the remainder of the crew of that
unfortunate ship, were rerucved from the Tertiperanee-hall e
to the new, cemetery to be interred. The liearee was fol-
lowed by all the Colchester shipmasters and their crews
who were in port. Upon entering the cemetery the coffins
were taken out of the hearse, the mate's was covered with
a union jack, and the other two young men's with ensigne,
and they were borne on the eleculders Dr -seitarn le the
grave. Some hundreds of tailors-and-fishermen's Wives
followed the funeral to the grave.
An old man named Roberts arrived here to-day froill the
north of Scotland, and identified a body in the Temperance. -
Hall, as that of his daughter Jessie Roberts: The bodiei of
two middle-aged women remain unidentified in the Tem-
perance-hall. They are supposed to be those `of Mrs Pratt
and Mrs- Smith,, and will be interred to-morrow., The -
National Lifeboat Society have' been very prompt in made
ing down a new lifeboat to Tynereouth to replace the Con- •
stance, disabled. The new lifeboat, the Robert Whitworth,-
bought by subscriptions raised at Manchester, Was received
yesterday, and was immediately placed on the station. A
volunteer corps is being organised in Tynemouth to eze
operate with the Coastguerdmen in saving life from ship.
wreck by means of Manly's rocket apparatus.
The coroner's inquest upon the bodies found and iden-
tified lost with the Stanley and the Friendship was resumed
this afternoon, in the Town-hall, North Shields, by the
deputy coroner for Northumberland.
James Gilbert, of Tynmouth, who acted as coxswain of
the Constance lifeboat on the night of Thursday last, said,
—We proceeded with the lifeboat towards the Stanley. We
got close under the tow of the Stanley when a sea came and
broke all the oars, except two on each side. The boat next
caught the fore rigging of the Friendship, and part of her
side was driven in. I stuck to the boat, and four of the crew
got on board the Friendship. We were not lashed to the life-
boat. The Friendship was on the rocks, and she fell over with
mast to the south. We had an opportunity of speaking to
the crew of the Friendship. They made no answer to us.
They seemed to be paralysed. We were able to get safe
ashore in our boat, and it the rest of the crew had remained
in the boat they might have been saved, The boat was
nearly perpendicular in the water. Three of the men were
thrown into the rigging. The fourth jumped on board and
was saved. It is not:the practice to be lashed into the life.
boats. I was once 11 hours in the lifeboat, when we saved
several crews. I was not lashed in. No man would like to
be tied in. Every man had his cork jacket.
John Main, chief mate of the Stanley, said—We sailed
from Aberdeen on Wednesday last. I was acquanted with
the channel of the Tyne from the entrance upwards. When
we got off this coast the captain determined to bring the
Stanley into the Tyne. The captain asked me if I thought
it would be practicable to go in. The tide was then about
an hour from low water. 1 saw it advertised in the papers
that there was as much as from 17 to 18 feet on the bar at
low water. The water shallows up towards the lighthouse.
I don't know to what extent, but tho ship would have
been safe. I think she would have got as far as the
lighthouse without taking the ground. Above that she
would have grounded; but she would have been in safety
opposite the lighthouse. He decided to come in, and I said.
I would do my endeavours to bring her in. Neither lights
were lighted at the time. I said I thought there was plenty
of water, or something to that effect. I felt confident from
my previous knowledge that I could bring her safely up the
channel. There are no guides ; but I knew we ought to steer
W. half N. The captain and I were both on the bridge. I
told the captain how to steer and the captain gave the
orders. We took W. half N., and were guided by the surf on
each side. A heavy sea struck the vessel on the starboard
quarter, and she run against her starboard helm. By that
means sho was driven to the north. The see drove her
where she was. She is only 20 or 30 yards out of the channel
now. Before the sea struck her she was in her right channel.
The regulation as to the lights is, to put them out at quarter
ebb and re-light them at quarter good. I went on the sup-
position that at any time theiewas watp:cnpligit to seams,
°Vet Therher. 'Our shi?d rely I'd ft. 'Of water. There
one seamen and the second mate at the wheel when the sea
struck her. We have never mere than two men at the
wheel when taking the bar. After we struck she was kept
going at lull steam to try to get her off. She went ahead
a little, and then stuck fast. We then sang out for assist-
ance. I did not give orders to get out the waist boat. The
crew did it themselves. I superintended it, and kept part
of the ladies from getting in. When the boat was ready,
four ladies, three seamen, and one fireman got into the boat.
I gave orders for lowering the boat. The davit broke right
in two, close up to the neck. I cannot account for it. I sang
out to cut the rope at the other end, but we could not get a
knife, and the end of the boat was immersed before we parted.
Three sailors got on board by means of ropes held out to
them. The four ladies and the fireman Gordon were drowned.
The captain then gave orders to get the other boat out.
The men would not go near hand. To the best of my
belief the men had lost control. Another sea came and
washed away the remainder of the boats. We then waited
until assistance came from the shore. The nearest lifeboat
to us was about 20 or 30 yards outside. At a later part of
the evening the ship parted in two. Before she parted some
passengers and the engineer, who were on the bridge, were
washed overboard. There were none at the stern when she
parted. Before that I advised the ladies to come eft the bridge,
but they would not let go the railing. I was on the crane.
The rocket apparatus was brought to us before the vessel
parted. When we got a communication with the shore, the
second mato and I took charge of it. We fastened it to the
bulkheads. That was about the level of the topgallant fore-
castle. I did not hear the captain make any remark that
was not the proper place for it. I believe he did make that
remark, but I did not hear it. I thought the rocket had been
fired from the cliff; and it would have been very difficult to
get the women to the masthead. That was the reason why
I did not fix the rope higher in the ship. A seaman was
the first and the second mato was the second to go ashore.
They got ashore safely. The next was a woman, accome
panied by a seaman. They were unable to get across, and
in drawing them back they fell out of the cradle. A fire-
man went next, but the cradle got foul of the water, and he
was obliged to leave the cradle and return. No further
attempts were made that night. The hauling-line fouled.
L'efere the steamer parted the hawser broke. Nothing was
done after that till the morning, when the rocket was used,
and we were all taken off. On the second occasion we
fastened the rope to the masthead, We saw them on the
rocks then. It was a lower elevation. It was lower down
to the ship at any rate than when it was fired before. I
cannot say if we might have kept the ship out at sea with
safety.

less than Bft. 6in. above the load waterline. The
armour at the stem and stern will not be pared
down to a couple of inches in thickness, and there
will be scarcely any difference between the thick-
ness of the plates at stern and bow and those at
the broadside portion of the frigate. The armour

itself will be 51- inches in thickness from the lower
edge, carried down about 5 ft. below the water-line,
to 2 ft. above the water's surface, and all round the
gun battery, amidships, where the usual 4-1- in, an
mour will be placed, an extra iron skin-plating of
11 in. thick is already being worked upon the frames
of the frigate behind the outer planking. The total
thickness of the vessel's side will thus be rather
more than 3 ft., of which 6.1 inches will be of iron,
through which both shot and shell will have to
penetrate before reaching the gunners in the battery.
In the trials made with the Lord Warden target at
Shoeburyness a short time since, to test the shot
and shell resisting powers of the Lord Warden,
although the target was ultimately knocked to
pieces by ordnance of exceptional weight, it was,
nevertheless, found capable of withstanding even
the 300. pounder gun firing solid spherical shot with
50Ib. of powder, and the target at length only suc-
cumbed under trials more than usually severe. As
there is no gun at all approaching in efficacy the
300-pounder yet in use in the French navy, and as
the largest description of Federal guns lately proved
ineffective against the inferior plating of the Con-
federate ram Tennessee, it cannot be doubted that
the Lord Warden is perfectly impregnable to the

existing ordnance of the French and American
navies, while, on the other hand, the frigate herself
will be capable of carrying guns of a larger and far
more powerful kind than any in use in any other
navy in the world. Althongh•the Lord Warden
will carry 1,400 tons of armour-plating bolted to her
sides her designer does not intend to effect this at
the sacrifice of speed. On the contrary, provision
has been made for her rate of steaming to surpass
that of any of the previously constructed wooden-
built frigates sent afloat, either with or without ar-
mour. To effect this engines of 1,000 horse power
(nominal) are now being prepared fnr her, but by
means of great expansion, surface condensation,
super-heating, and other modern steam engine im-
provements, never before fitted to an armour-plated
frigate, an indicated horse power of :6,000 will be
obtained, sufficient to drive the mass through the
sea at an average rate of 14 knots an hour:

The Geyser, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Thrupp,
returned to Portsmouth from her cruise off Dunge-
ness in search of the wreck of the merchant ship
Robin Hood yesterday morning. Commander
Thrupp reports having found the Robin Hood lying
in five fathoms water, just inside the Stevenson
shoals, and about five miles west of Dungeness.
Her royal yards were across, and above water, but
the sails had been unbent by the crew of a Deal
lugger. The day the wreck was found (Sunday
last) was fine, but there was a heavy " send of
the sea over the wreck, and it was found quite im-
possible to do anything of importance with the
Geyser's limited means. A diver was sent down to
the wreck, and a brief inspection made of her state,
which was embodied in a report forwarded by
Commander Thrupp to the Admiralty, who, in
reply, directed the Geyser to return for the present
to Portsmouth, where her services are required to.
day to convey seamen and marines paid off from her
Majesty's ships Marlborough and Ariel to the De.
vonport. It is not improbable that the Admiralty
will leave the further measures to be taken for the
recovery of the Robin Hood and her cargo to pri-
vate persons who are accustomed to such opera-
tions, and have the proper appliances for carrying
on that description of work at their command,

Capt. Sherard Osborn, C. 8., yesterday went on
board his ship the Royal Sovereign, at Portsmouth'
for the last time as her commanding officer, Capt.
Osborn resigning his command of the ship this
morning on the completion of his captain's service
in sea time entitling him to flag rank on the active
list. The Royal Sovereign maintains a present
compliment of 104 officers and men, comprising one
senior lieutenant, one surgeon, one paymaster, one
chief engineer and three assistants, three warrant
officers, and 94 seamen, marines, and stokers. Her
books and accounts are kept. on board and entirely
separate from those of the ship (Excellent) to which
she has been formally attached as a tender tempo•
rarily for experimental purposes—and, in fact, the
appointment of a captain and a certain number of
officers and men to fill up her complement would
render her competent to cross the Channel at a day's
notice on active service. Various and modified
orders have been issued from the Admiralty re-
specting the ship, but she now appears to be held
in hand for any possible unforeseen contingency as
readily as possible under the circumstances. The
alterations on board are in accordance with the sug•

Two or three witnesses swore that the Coastguardsman
behaved most heroically but that the lines could not be
brought after 8 o'clock at night on account of the sea.
The jury, after a carefully summing up by the coroner,
returned the following verdict :—" We are all agreed that
the loss of the Friendship was purely accidental; also the
Stanley, but we attach blame to the mate and master by
taking the bar too soon before the lights were lit; and as to
the harbour lights, we would recommend that they shall be
.kept in continually without alteration in the light so long
as there is 17ft water upon the bar, and that when there is
not 17ft there must be an alteration."

Wednesday, Noon:

The weather has been mild and squally during the night,
the wind being at times S.W., S.S.E., and S. The wind
was about S.W. at daylight this morning, blowing strong,
and there was about 4ft sea. The salvars have succeeded in
saving a considerable amount of cargo from the wreck of
the Stanley during the night, mostly cloth and grain. They
have come upon a chest of silver plate and a large trunk of
wearing apparel, apparently belonging to an emigrant. No
bodies have been found ; it is feared that they are sand
warped or jammed between the rocks. Some, no doubt, are
buried up among the wreck of the steamer, The bark Awy
Robsart still remains on the rocks.

gestions contained in Captain Osborn's final report
on the ship, which was drawn up by that officer
and forwarded to the Admiralty at the termination

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PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF LONDON.—Y ester.
day, at the Sheriff's-court, Red Lion•square, in the ease of
"Robinson v. The Metropolitan Railway," a
Special jury
awarded £5,000 for a freehold house in Charterhouse-
square, built 150 years ago, when the place was a
" fashionable locality."
BREAKFAST BEVERAGE,—liomwopathic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to ix; obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
Ilomeeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1819 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article
pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
I' or general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his work, " Food and its
Adulterations," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined ilb., Ob., and Ilb. labelled packets, and sold by
all'grveers, culectimero, and chemists.—[ADVT.]

of the ship's period of active commission.
The America target frigate has been brought
down Portsmouth harbour and placed alongside the
dockyard, where she is having an artnour.plate 15ft
in length by 3ft gin in width, for the Royal Alfred,

affixed to her sides for testing under the superin-
tendence of Captain A. C. Key, C. 8., of her Ma-
jesty's ship Excellent. Messrs. John Brown and

Co., of the Atlas Works, Sheffield, are the makers
of the Royal Alfred's armour.

Her Majesty's screw corvette Niger, in basin at
Woolwich yesterday completed coaling and taking
in stores in preparation to be commissioned for

service.

The Venus, one of the old frigates, lent
for some years as a training ship for the mer-
cantile service, and. moored for that purpose off
Charlton pier, where she was last year replaced by
the Warspite, was yesterday brought up to Messrs•
Castle and Beech's yard, adjoining the dockyard at
Woolwich, from Sheerness, in tow of the paddle-
wheel steam vessel Locust, Mr Harvey, muter, to ,