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He had received the order of St. F__
He was nominated to the 3d class of theildjia Si
for services as a Brigadier-General with the Os-
manli cavalry. As Brigadier. Generalhe commanded
the Royal Artillery throughout the campaign of
1860 in China, and was present at the actin of
Simho, taking of Tangku, capture of the Taku
Forts, actions of Tsngchow on Sept. 18 and 21, and
surrender of Pekin. He was twice mentioned in
despatches, was made a C. 8., and received the
medal and two clasps.

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chief. Mr. Humphreys, the coroner, gave as his
reason for holding an inquest on one of the infants
found festering in a respectable trademan's house,
that " great numbers of children were found in
parcels in various parts of the metropolis, and that
no one knew where they came from." The state-
ments Ina& by Dr. Lankester are equally sugges-
tive of a painful alarm on the most delicate of all
social subjects. In our state of civilisation and
morals there is everything to fear from the remotest
approximation to the habits of thought or system
of life of the Chinese ; and we hardly know any
better guard against an increasing popular demo-
ralisation than the fencing round life in its infantile
condition with every security that may make its
certainlyrespectof sm
ouruch partpaublc policy,
i ofolincy.rpublic morals as it is

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The officers of the steam reserve at Devonport
entertained their chief, Capt. A. Cooper Key, C. 8.,
on board the Indus in Hamoaze lest week, on the
occasion of the conclusion of his command at that
port.
The Russian sloop of war Possadnick and the two
gunboats Naysdwick and Rasboiwick, from China,
which have been for some time in Plymouth Sound,
left on Saturday for Cronstadt.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Sphynx, 6, Com-
mander J. W. Jones, from Portsmouth, recently
returned from the China station, arrived on Satur-
day morning at Plymouth, where her crew will be
paid off. She will be placed in the 3d division of
the steam reserve in Hamoaze.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander Mark R. Peelle'', from Kingston, with
supernumeraries for the receiving ship, arrived at
Plymouth on Saturday afternoon.
Leteers received at Plymouth from the paddle-
wheel steam frigate Leopard, 18, Capt. Charles
Leckie, dated Hongkong, May 10, state that the only
other ship of war there was the Princess Charlotte,
12, Capt. Matthew S. Nolloth. The screw steam
sloop Perseus, 17, Commander Augustus J. King-
ston, left on the 16th May for the fleet at Japan, and
the Leopard was expected to follow immediately
after the arrival of the next mail from England.
Her master's assistant, Mr. Meesom, was drowned
on the 29th April.
The Renard, 4, screw steam gunvessel, 680 tons
200 horse-power, Commander Charles J. Rowley,
was paid off at Sheerness dockyard yesterday under
the superintendence of Capt. Charles Wise, A.D.C.,
superintendent of the yard. Commander Rowley
was complimented by the Capt.-Superintendent on
the very creditable manner in which the paying off
had been accomplished through the good conduct of
the men, the time occupied being less than a quarter
of an hour. The Renard will be placed in the third
division of the Sheerness steam reserve.

Mr. E. J. Reed paid a hurried visit to Portsmouth
Dockyard and H.M.S. Warrior yesterday from the
Admiralty.
Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., the
Naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, has
placed the Pigmy steam tender at the disposal of the
officers of the United States frigate Macedonian dur-
ing the stay of that vessel at Spithead. Yesterday the
officers and cadets landed from the vessel, and accom-
panied by the American Vice-Consul at Portsmouth,
Mr. James Garrott, visited the dockyard, and dis•
played great interest in the inspection of the ropery,
the turret ship Royal Sovereign, the iron frigate
Hector, the ironcased ship Royal Alfred, the Hector,
nearly ready for commission, and the Sovereign and
Alfred, converting. Today the Warrior iron fri-
gate, St. Vincent training ship, Victory flag ship,
and the Royal Clarance Victualling-yard will be
visited. To-morrow or Thursday, as may best suit
Captain Luce and his officers, Vice-Admiral Sir M.
Seymour will give an entertainment in their honour
at the Admiralty House.
The Hector, 32, iron frigate, has been placed in
the Warrior dock at Portsmouth, to have her bilge
pieces or keels bolted on, and to be otherwise pre-
pared for her official trial prior to being finally re-
ceived by the Admiralty from the hands of the con-
tractors, Messrs. Napier and Sons, Glasgow.
An important code of regulations for the guid-
ance of the officials and others engaged in bending
and preparing the slabs of iron used in armour-plat-
ing the iron frigate Achilles, 50, and the other ves-
sels under construction at Chatham dockyard, has
been promulgated by order of the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, and is to be strictly adhered to. The regu-
lations are drawn up from thereportof the Armour-
plate Committee appointed by the Admiralty, of
T
which Capt. Sir John C. D. Hay was the chairman.he committee included a number of scientific offi-
cers belonging to both branches of the service. The
committee, in their report to the Admiralty, state
that they have examined the various processes
adopted in bending the iron plates, and are of opi-
nion that the plates need not suffer deterioration in
quality from any reasonable degree of bending, pro-
vided the process is properly performed. It is the
nature of wrought iron to admit of such changes of
shape without injury. The most essential prepara-
tion for the process of bending is that the plate
should be sufficiently heated, for it is only under this
condition that it will acquire the ductility and soft-
ness and freedom from elasticity necessary to admit
freely the change of shape. The committee consider
that a good red heat is probably the minimum that
will suffice ; " blood red" or " cherry red" is hardly
sufficient. The committee, however, deem it neces-
sary that certain precautions should be taken in the
b
process of heating the plates-Ist. That the heat:
not carried to such an extent as to injure the
isroto
2d. That the heating be done gradually, ieis
_ti :sr ans
an b:
fire curren s
so arranged as to prevent fierce
shteaantc the
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alnardge3am. a s
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o uniformly
have
the throughout
heating f
ete
sharp
which
red
damage
by vrgood red to
would be done. Probably froitms;
arrissesfrom impinging on opnlatet, he edges
h
and, provided
brightest red are the safest limn
there is reason to
the proper precautions be t
effected otherwise, as if the
improved by the heating than .
the process will be equiva-
lentiron happens to be hard
der the metal
to annealing, and will ren Softer.
adopted at Portsmouth in
The process of heating
mittee a
the presence of the 0.11.1 nears to comply
believe that the quality of thee plate will
. be rather
the committee be-
, the plates so bent to
be-
lieve the quality c". _.be well re-
tained. The mode of bending the
heated plates is
a matter which the committee conceive
safely left to the mechanical advisers of may be
the Admi-
ralty wedge and tap
ralty. process
Portsmouth, has the advantage of -
, as adopted at
the committee think it would be simplicity ; but
with the required conditions, and
better if the change
by dead pre h
draulic, for example—i pressure— of shape shape could be
committee consider it nstead of by blows. The
thick plates cold, o highly
inexpedient to bend
are very few •
r only slightly heated, as there
kinds of iron
bend cold, even in small bars,sufficiently ductile to
structure of the metal without injury to the
Must be , and in large masses this at-
tempt
injurious
Should , for if the external sur-
faceescape injury the
Produce undu • process will inevitably
the e internal strains, very detrimental to
powers of resistance
under the blows of shot.
The following a •
Yesterday afternorointments were made at the Admiralty
Richard Slee .---.
Sphinx, man, chi
ef engineer, to the Indus, for the

T. Stead, assistant engineer, to the Asia, as supernu,
merary.

J• T. Channon, engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernw
merary.

W. R. Leeson, acting engineer, to the Indus, for the
Ripple.
J. C. Walsh, surgeon, to the Pembroke.
R. Humphry, assistant surgeon, to the Maunder.
Thos. L. Bickford, assistant surgeon, to the Fisgard.

THE ARMY.
Col. Crofton, whose death we announced yester-
day, entered the service in 1831. He served in
Spain during the Cbristino and Carlist war in 1837
and 1838, and was taken prisoner by the Carlists.