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the lower deck upwards fore and aft of the shot-
proof bulkheads, is nearly all fiyod in its place, and
the won: of completing the bulkheads is now pushed
forward with all possible energy. The plates used
in encasing the bows and stern of the Achilles are
those manufactured by the firm of Messrs. Brown
and Co., of Sheffield, and, owing to the extreme
care and nicety with which each plate has to be
fitted, this part of the work proceeds but slowly.
Each of them tapers gradually from 4 to 3 inches.
There will be fully six months' eddilional work to
be performed on board the Achilles, in the way of
completing and fitting her, before she will be ready
to proceed to sea, and as this will have to be per-
formed some distance from the dockyard, near Folly
Point,where the iron frigate will be moored, tempo-
rary ticket and other offices will be erected near
St. Mary's Island for the accommodation of a staff
of clerks, and to enable the mechanics to proceed
direct to and from their work, without compelling
them first to enter the dockyard. A considerable
saving of time will thus be effected. A pontoon raft
will be formed to the vessel by the Royal Engi-
neers for the convenience of the workmen leaving
and entering the ship. The four iron lower masts
have been received at Chatham from the manufac-
turer at Chepstow, and are placed on board two of
the vessels lying in the harbour. The upper and
other masts, as well as the bowsprit, will be of
wood, and these are being prepared at the dockyard.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. Charles W. Manthorp,
Lieut. Henry Cardale, Lieut. Arthur Williams,
Lieut. John L. F. Paul, Lieutenant Ralph de B.
Hawtrey, and Lieut. Mather Byles, to the Gib-
raltar; Sub-Limit. Lynedock N. Moncrieff and Sub-
Lieut_ Archibald Little, to the Pelorus ; Sub-Lieuts.
Charles J. Doxatt and Henry R. Kelly, to the
Scylla ; Sub-Lieuts. Thomas S. Jackson, Charles B.
Theobald, Robert Barton, and Richard P. W. Dow-
ney, to the Gibraltar ; Frederick Lucas, paymaster,
to the Cumberland for the Tamar; Thos. T. Murray,
chief engineer, to the Gibraltar; James W. Steil,
chief engineer, to the Pelorus ; James Gillies, chief
engineer, to the Scylla; Robert Anderson (a), en-
gineer, to the Supply ; John Snell, engineer, to the
Scylla ; William Skeen, engineer, to the Gibraltar;
W. Maxwell, engineer to the Asia, for the Earnest;
John L. Davies, engineer to the Indus, for the De-
light; F. W. Sutton (b), engineer to the Indus, for
the Royalist ; Edward Taylor, engineer, to the Pe-
lorus ; Job Annable, first-class assist-engineer, to
the Pelorus ; William N. Sennett, assist-engineer,
to the Indus, for the Donegal; J. Hopwood,
assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary ;
William Bowen, assist.-engineer, to the Scylla ; R.
J. Morman, assist-engineer, to the Pclorus ; G. 0.
Wilson, assist-engineer, to the Russell ; William
Pilcher, George W. Robins, and William F. Cole,
assist.-engineers, to the Gibraltar; and Benjamin F.
Pine, promoted to be chief engineer.

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A number of quartermasters of the f,lril'i -'..'Y'-if
and other corps in garrison also tookparTt the
procession. procession. On the arrival at thegraveyard the body
was received by the chaplain, the Rev. James C.
Connolly, 8.A., who performed the religious ser-
vice. As soon as tha corpse was lowered into
the grave, the firing party drew up in double
file, and fired three volleys of musketry over the
remains, and the troops commenced forming in the
usual order, the eflicers taking up their respective
commands. The drums and instruments were
then stripped of the crape and other sable emblems
with which they had been dressed, and the division
marched off to berracks preceded by the band
Playing a number of lively airs.
_l'he whole of the available troops in garrison at
1 °°livieli yesterdey assembled on the artillery
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barrack-
field, and witnessed the ceremony of pm-
senting- (by
I/acres) the General-Commandin,, Richard
, , Sir
a numb-r of gratuities and silver medals,
awarded to the following noncommissioned officers
and men for long service and geed conduct :
Depot Royal Horse . Artillery Staff-collar-maker
Thome; Fairchild, £lO Cadet
; Company Gunner
John Chapman, £5; Battery S'2rgt.:Major David
Montgomery, £l5; Drum-Maio
r James Lawson
£l5 ; Farrier Sergt. William Johnson, £5 , Sergt.'
William Newstead, £lO ; Sergt. Joseph .
Smith
£l5; Bombardier John Gardner, £5 ; Gunner'
Robert Kirk, £5; Gunner Thomas Sewell, £5;
Gunner Augustus Malmsley, £5; Sergt, Jaw"
Hinckley, £5; Gunner Samuel Dick, £5; Gunner
George Blanchard, £5 ; Gunner Rowland Redmile,
£5; Gunner Joseph Leclgett, £5; and Private
Joseph Wilde, £5, making a total of £l3O. After
the distribution of the medals and gratuities the
men formed a square, and the General, in a short
address, exhorted them to be moderate in the use
of spirituous liquors, which he said were drank to
such a degree that promotion in the ranks was
impeded. The men he had now rewarded had
gained the distinctions awarded by her Majesty,
upon his recommendation, as a special recognition
of their steady and meritorious conduct. The de-
corated men then passed in front of the
square, and the troops were dismissed. The
General afterwards inspected the corps of Royal
Engineers, commanded by Col. Ford, on their own
parade ; and at 1 o'clock proceeded to the Plum-
stead Marshes, and witnessed a course of gunnery
exercises at the long range by the 13th Brigade
Royal Artillery, under Col. Buchanan. This morn-
ing Gen. Dacres will inspect the Coast Brigade,
R.A., commanded by Major Campbell, and also the
battalion of Military Train, commanded by Colonel
Kennedy, C.B.

Distribution and. Strength of the French.
Army,

With the exception of certain troops on foreign
service, that army, according to the Paris corre-
spondent of the Times, is now on what is called the
peace footing, and consists of 412,000 men and
80,000 horses. There are two reserves, which may
be called in at a moment's notice, one of old soldiers
and another of young ones—the latter not yet in-
corporated, but almost ready to be dismissed from
drill. These additions would bring the army up to
between 600,000 and 700,000 men—a very respect-
able force, and quite sufficient, as a French naner
lately observed, to meet all eventualities. Tee
412,000 are thus distributed :—ln Mexico, two
divisions of infantry and a brigade of cavalry, &c.,
together nearly 31,000 men; in Cochin China, 1,600
men. The above are on the war footing. On what
is called the footing of rassemblement is the corps
of occupation at Rome, about 20,000 men in one
division of three brigades, with a few squadrons of
cavalry. On the peace footing, divided into divi-
sions and brigades, the Army of Paris (3 divisiors
of infantry and l of cavalry), the Army of Lyme
(2 divisions of infantry and 1 of cavalry), and the
divicion of cavalry of Luneville, consisting of four
regiments. There is also at Paris what is called a
reserve brigade, of 3 battalions and 5 squadrons,
snecially allotted to the garrison of the capital, and.
•trhieh never leaves it. These two armies, and the
Luneville division, may be reckoned. at 40,000
men. Tee Imperial Guard forms a special
corps, a reserve composed of 2 divisions of in-
fantry, 1 of cavalry, 3 brigades, and a body
of horse and foot artillery—together 33 bat-
talions (34 just now on account of the battalion
of Turcoe), 33 squadrons (37 with the Spahis), form-
ing a total of 30,000 men. The remainder of the
French army is distribated in six great corps, five
in France and one in Algeria. There used to be
generally 65,000 or 70,000 men in Algeria, but just
now there are not so many, several regiments having
been sent thence to Mexico. The troops in Algeria,
may be divided into two classes,—French corps
whichremain there in garrison for a certain number
of years and then return to France, and what are
called indigenous corps, which never quit the colony
except for fighting purposes. In these latter corps,
however, it is to be observed, there are a great num-
ber of Europeans. They consist of three regiments
of Zouaves, three of Tureos (liraillaurs Algerians)
three of Chasseurs d'Afrique, and three of Spahis—
about 15,000 infantry and 3,000 horse. Besides these
there are the punishment battalions, popular/y
known as the battalions of Zephyrs.
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Very few corps of infantry and artillery in the
French army have not seen more or less service,
and, always excepting the young soldiers who have
entered since 1859, most of the regiments one falls
is with are plentifully bemedalled and decorated.
Crimea, Italy, and China have all been recorded in
the way that soldiers prize, and the Mexican medal
will soon be added to the adornments of the military
breast, among which are found in addition, in
many cases, the Legion of Honour, the Italian
military medal, the French good service medal, and
the Medjidie. The cavalry has been less fortunate.
Comparatively few regiments were in the Crimea
and Italy. To Africa, where they have the Spahis
and Chasseurs d'Afrique, and where the climate
and nature of the country and warfare are un-
favourable to heavy horse, only the lightest cavalry,
Hussars, and Chasseurs, are occasionally sent.

ONE WAY OF PAYING DEBTS WITHOUT MONEY.
—That most excellent device for the payment of
accounts between merchants residing in different countries,
by bills of exchange, without the actual transmission of
cash, was not unknown in England in the present period.
We find Peter Egiblank, Bishop of Hereford, employing
this contrivance, A.D. 1255, to a very pernicious purpose.
Henry 111. had contracted an immense debt to the Pope in
prosecuting the absurd project of making his son Edmund
King of Sicily; and his Holiness, who was much indebted
to certain Italian merchants, who had advanced money for
carrying on the war, had become importunate for payment.
In this extremity the Bishop of Hereford suggested to
Henry the following curious scheme for the payment of al/
his debts without money :—That the Italian merchants to
whom the Pope was indebted should draw bills in favour of
their creditors in England, on all the rich bishops, abbots,
and priors, in that kingdom, for certain large sums of money
alleged to have been lent by them t' these prelates tor the
use of their respective churches ; that these bills should all
be sent to the Pope's legate in England, who should com-
pel the prelates to accept and pay them, by threats of eccle-
siastical censures. This iniquitous scheme was adopted by
the King, and the bishop was sent to Rome to procure the
Pope's consent and concurrence. These were easily pro-
cured. The bills, to the amount of 159,540 marks, were
drawn and presented, and the prelates, after many remon-
strances, were compelled to pay them, by threats of excom-
munication.—history of England, by Dr. Henry.

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