The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

JOHN WHITE. Ma.nnfacturar, 2233. Piccadilly.

IiEATING'S COUGH .LOZENGES.—Statistics
show that 50,00) persons annually fall victims to Pul-
monary Disorders, including consumption, diseases of the
chest, and the respiratory organs. Prevention is at 911 times
better than cure ; be, therefore, prepared during the wet and
wintry season with a supply of KEATING'S COUGH
LOZENGES, which possess the virtue of averting, as well as
of curing a cough or cold • they are good alike for the young
or for the aged—they soothe bronchial irritation ; and for im-
Proving the voice, the preacher, statesman, singer, and actor
have long patronised them. •
" St. Paul's Cathedral, 30th November, 149.
" Sir,—l have much pleasure in recommending.; your lozenges
to those who may be distressed with hoarseness. They have
afforded me relict on several occasions when scarcely able to
sing from the effects of catarrh. I think they would be very
useful to clergymen, barristers, and public oratori.
"I am, Sir, yours faithfully,
" THOMAS FRANCIS, Vicar Choral.
"To Mr. Keating."
Prepared and sold in boxes, is lid, and tins, 2s 9d, 4s 6d,
and 109 6d each, by Thomas Keatin,,, chemist, &c., 79, St.
Paul's Churchyard, London. Retail by all druggists and
Patent medicine vendors hz the world.

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
11, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.

Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of tovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted.to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz.. that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, T, t d is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.

Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. s;
Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn
and Co. ; .Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co.; NV dliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co.; Messrs. J. Earned and Co., Liverpool
and at the ilospital.

STANFORD. S. SIUTH Secretary

And, as compared with the month ending the 18th Oct.,
1862, the above returns show an increase of £241,579
in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of
£485,752 in the circulation of the United Kingdom•

On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve-
ral banks the following is the state of the circulation :
The English private banks are below their fixed
issue
The English joint-stock banks are below their
fixed issue..

Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,194,635
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,589,089
The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £691,084

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The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending the 14th
Oct. was £15,034,343, being a decrease of £368,321 as
compared with the previous month, and a decrease of
£1,659,231 when compared with the same period last year.
The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch
and Irish banks during the month ending the 17th Oct.:—
Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,334,771
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks.. 1,923,197

i4,?57,968
Being an increase of £47,075 as compared with tb.a
previous return, and a decrease of £23,628 when compared
with the corresponding period of last year.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral F. Bullock has been making a series of ex-
perimental trials on board the paddlewheel steamer Vivid,
Commander W. 11. Allen, which has been placed at his
disposal by the Admiralty, at the measured mile, Maplin
Sands, near Chatham, for the purpose of enabling him to
form correct tables and lay down a code of rules and regu.
lations for the use of his newly-invented permanent ship-
log, which is about to be introduced into the service. The
Lords of the Admiralty are so well satisfied of the import-
ance of the invention that orders have been received at
Chatham for the new log to be fitted on board the Liver-
pool, 39, 600 horse power, Capt. R. Lambert, belonging to
the Channel squadron—and also the paddlewheel steamer
Geyser, 6, 280 horse power, Commander M. R. Pechell.
The condemnation of the old class of wooden gunboats at
Haslar, and the certainty that iron alone will be used in the
construction of this class of vessel in future, has liberated
Hasler yard to a great extent from the duties it has hitherto
performed as an appendage of Portsmouth dockyard, and
raised the all-important question, " What shall we do with
it 1'" To consider this question it will be necessary here to
state the present extent and position of the yard, the
amount of plant it contains, and the advantages it offers
while remaining still an adjunct to the yard at Portsmouth.
Hasler yard stands on the south side of a narrow creek
bearing the same name at the entrance to Portsmouth har-
bour, and is 2,610 ft. in length and 8161 t. in width within
the boundary walls ; it has a water frontage throughout its
entire length. On the side opposite to its water frontage
stand a line of galvanised iron covered sheds for 50 gunboats,
divided by five brick walls into as many divisions, the en-
tire length of the shed line being 1,900 ft. In front of and
parallel with these sheds are lines of rail exceeding in their
collective width the length of the largest of the gunboats.
Over these travels the transporting frame and cradle, pro-
pelled by a powerful locomotive engine, which conveys the
gunboat to or from the launching and hauling up slipway
or the sheds as required. Between this line of sheds and
the south boundary wall of the yard is established the
nucleus of an engineering range of workshops with the
necessary forges, lathes, &c., employing about 30 junior
naval engineers and 40 stokers, the latter working at their
trades as boiler makers, moulders, coppersmiths, carpenters,
&c., or fitting the machinery of the gunboats (which will
become available for the ironboats to be constructed) with
condensers, and doing, in fact, all the work required for the
alteration and repair of machinery, except heavy iron cast-
ings, which are supplied from the iron foundry at Ports-
mouth dockyard. About a score of shipwrights are em-
ployed on four now wooden gunboats, which have now been
building there some time, and a gang of hands from the
steam factory of Portsmouth dockyard is employed in tak-
ing the boilers and engines out of the condemned gunboats.
A few iron and wooden mortar vessels stand on their blocks
in one part of the yard, but as they can only be looked upon
as waste material and not as plant, they may be dismissed
from all further considerltion. The enclosing wall of the
yard is of brick, and substantially built, as may be ima-
gined,
with brick sentry boxes at the angle. At the
entrance is
guard-house,
and an official residence, now occupied
master shipwright. Such is the present extent and position
by
yo 1 i ca en- n
acting
, s tatio
of Hasler gunboat yard and slipway. The advantages Has-
lar yard offers as an adjunct to the main yard at Portsmouth
are many, and are not likely to be set aside even by the
comprehensive scheme for the extension of Portsmouth
dockyard which is about to be carried out under the direc-
tion of Mr. Stamp, C.E., Deputy-Director of Works to the
Admiralty. In the first place the yard may be appropriated
as a boat building, repairing, and storing yard, and thus
become wholly attached to the department of the master
shipwright; secondly, it may be handed over to the chief
engineer of Portsmouth yard, and become a part of the fac-
tory establishment ; thirdly, it may be handed over entirely
to the naval engineers in commission afloat, and thus be-
come the headquarters of the steam reserve ; and, fourthly,
it may remain as it is, attached in part to all, and a source
of continual disputes. It is evident that, as we are to have
iron gunboats, Hasler yard, with all its costly plant of
covered berthing, high and dry, for 50 boats, its transport-
ing lines of rails, and launching and hauling up slipway,
will be retained as their headquarters. This at once nar-
rows the question as to the retention and future use of the
yard. As a yard for the storage, repair, and building, if
necessary, of iron gunboats, it would come under the mas
nagement of the steam reserve more than any other depart-
ment, and if the steam reserve is to be continued as a dis-
tinct department of our chief naval port, then the iron
gunboat yard at Haslar appears to offer unusual and ex-
traordinary advantages as the officially appointed head-
quarters of the force. We have already said that the nucleus
and
navaldathereis
plentyengin of spaceeeringto establishmentextend th
exists
orxiswtsaktshHopas nslaer,
the present lino of ground, so as to afford full employ-
ment for all the naval engineers and stokers on the books
of the reserve in the port, who would thus have the ad-
vantage of being employed in the shops upon work they
might be called upon to do on an emergency at sea. With
the captain of the steam reserve in residence on the esta-
blishment, and the "factory" system of work and accounts
introduced (as now arranged in her Majesty's dockyards,
and than which nothing can well be morAfficient), Haslar,
as the head-quarters of the Portsmouth steam reserve,
would become a most important and economical esta-
blishment. There is abundance of room at Haslar to
build as well as store 50 gunboats, whether they were
built by private contract or not, and thero is also abun-
dance of room—and this is a most important considera-
tion—for the erection of a building at the southern ex-
tremity of the yard, which would contain the necessary
barrack accommodation
an for
ins school
eseshtoooklerasn,
and lecture
forroo
rooms
the
officers of the establishment, including the naval engi-
n&ece.r,won whichd uty in
wouldport, form a. necessary part of such an esta-
blishment.

Admiralty orders have been received by the atithorities
guns, 2,846 tons, 500
lain e-of Shee-
rness
ie y ahorse power, Master in charge John{ C. Salfleet, belonging
battdockyard ohei
ship
Conqueror,
that
ero r , her --.l'tga.,4:,sty's screw steam
78
to the first division of the Sheerness steam reserve, is to bo
immediately got ready for sea as a troops— hi
p. Her main
deck guns are to be removed and the ports closed. When
ready she will have a complement of 480 men, and be em-
ployed on the Ohina station. She will take out 600 marines
and supernumeraries.

The Bomb-Ay, 67, screw steam line-,of-battle ship, 2,872
tons, 400 horse power, belonging to the second divisicu of
the Sheerzaea steam reserve, was roasoved 3Testorday from