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January, i'ebruary, and the first week of March
were not unhealthy, for in six of the ten weeks em-
braced in that period the rate of mortality was be-
low the average. The deaths in the entire quarter
from diseases of the respiratory organs were 3,897,
those in the colder seasons of 1860 and 1861 having
been respectively 5,178 and 4,798. The mortality
from zymotic diseases was decidedly high, the
deaths referred to this class having numbered 4,691,
against 3,674 and 4,174 in the two corresponding
seasons of 1861 and 1861.

...4d.
STAMPED

Small-pox cases increased much in number, and
the deaths from the disease in the quarter were
422. Measles was fatal in 676 cases, a number
considerably greater than in any corresponding
quarter in 1859-62. Scarlatina and diphtheria
the former fatal in 880 cases, the latter in 178, were
also in excese. There were 258 deaths from croup,
795 from whooping-cough, 735 from typhus.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, will hold levees for the reception of officers
of the Royal Navy on Thursday, the 16th and 23d
inst., at half-past 2. Officers 'wishing to attend are
requested to insert their names, stating their rank
and seniority, either personally or through their
agent, in a book left with the hall-porter at. the Ad-
miralty, Whitehall, for that purpose.
Orders have been received at Sheerness to fit her
Majesty's screw steam frigate Leander, 51, 400-
horse power, with commander's and secretary's
cabins. It is supposed that she will shortly hoist a
commodore's broad pernant, and proceen to the Pa-
cific to relieve the Topaze, 39, Commodore the Hon.
J. W. S. Spencer. The Leander was taken out of
dock on Tuesday, and to-day will be removed from
the basin in Sheerness dockyard to her moorings in
the harbour, to prepare for immediate commission.
In order to hasten the completion of the iron fri-
gate Achilles, 50, 6,080 tons, building at Chatham,
in readiness for her being fl )ated out of the dock in
which she is under construction by the close of the
present year, all the available strength of the dock-
yard is now engaged upon her, Chatham yard just
now presents the unusual spectacle of every hand
belonging to the establishment being employed on
iron ships, with the exception of a few men engaged
in completing the mahogany-built paddlewheel Ad-
miralty despatch steamer, which will be launched
during the approaching summer. At present there
are between 1,200 and 1,300 mechanics, shipwrights,
engineers, and other workmen engaged on the
Achilles, the wholeof whom have commenced work-
ing extra hours. This practice will be continued
during the spring and summer, in order that no un-
necessary delay may occur in having the first iron
vessel built at either of the Government yards com-
pleted and launched. This body of workmen is the
largest ever employed at one time on any single vessel
at either of the royal yards, and under their exertions
the progress made is very great. A considerable por-
tion of the broadsides, on both the port and star-
board sides, for a length of some 200 feet, is covered
with the 20-inch teak planking, on which the slabs
of iron are bolted as fast as they are prepared in the
adjoining factory. Already four rows of the ar-
mour-plates are bolted to the ship's sides for some
considerable distance, but this portion of the work
is of necessity:subject to delay from the time em-
ployed in slotting, planing, and otherwise prepar-
ing the massive slabs of iron. Some considerable
delay is also occasioned from the circumstance of
there being no machinery and appliances at
Chatham dockyard for galvanising the iron bolts
used in securing the plates to the exterior of the
ship, each bolt after being manufactured having to
be sent to a private factory to undergo the process
of galvanising by Tupper's plan. The armour-
plates now being used in plating the Achilles are
the ordinary 4,1-inch 80-cwt. slabs, most of those
already fixed being of rolled iron from the Park-
gate Works, Yorkshire, which have supplied the
greater portion of the iron plates now in store at
Chatham dockyard. Unlike the Warrior and the
Black Prince, the Achilles will be furnished with
four masts, each of which will be of iron.
The screw corvette Orpheus, 21, 400-horse power,
the news of the total wreck of which has been re-
ceived, was one of the most recent of the corvette
class of vessels built at Chatham dockyard, and was
launched from the establishment on the 24th of
June, 1860. She was considered the finest of that
description of vessel ever constructed, and was built
under the personal superintendence of Mr. 0. W.
Lang, the present master-shipbuilder at Chatham,
from the designs of Sir Baldwin Walker, the then
Controller of the Navy. Her dimensions were :
Extreme length, 226 ft. Gin; the extreme breadth,
40ft. Bin.; depth in hold, 24ft. 2in. ; burden, 1,705
tons. She was fitted with a pair of 400. horse power
engines by Messrs. Humphreys, Tennant,'and Co.
As this was the first voyage, the greatest interest
was experienced for her success, and the news of her
wreck was received with the deepest regret.
Rear-Admiral Horatio T. Austin, C. 8., yesterday
hoisted his flag (white at the mizen) on board the
Fisgard at Woolwich, on taking up his appoint-
ment as Admiral Superintendent of Malta dockyard.
Her Majesty's screw corvette Archer, 13 guns,
commissioned at Woolwich, yesterday steamed out
of the fitting basin at Woolwich in readiness for
sea, with her full complement of officers and crew,
except the captain, who has not been gazetted. The
appointment, it is stated, will be given to Captain
Norman B. Bedingfeld, promoted on paying off the
Prometheus. _ _

The steam storeship Rhadamanthus, laden with
boilers and machinery for the Ocean, and other
stores, sailed yesterday from Woolwich for Devon-
port. 50 second-class lads also took passengers to
join the receiving-ship Impregnable. In conse-
quence of a rumour which has been afloat for some
time past, to the effect that scarlet fever is raging
state.
on board the Impregnable, a large number of letters
have been received on board the Fisgard from the
parents of lads now serving in the Impregnabe,
Hewlett, master,
stating their anxiety as regards the fate of their
edingly healthy
sons. The rumour is without foundation. A few
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were made Yesterday
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Valorous.

The depot of theTßlloßy aAI RHIN
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Artillery brigade
was to leave Woolwich yesterday for their new sta-
tion at Canterbury, the dismounted portion pro-
ceeding by train. The troop were to march off
parade, preceded by their own band, at 10 a.m., at
which hour his Royal Highness Prince Arthur had
expressed his present intention of being present
from Greenwich. The first night's halt was to be
at Gravesend. The depot, Col. E. Price, C. 8., in
command, consists of Capt. A. H. King ; Lieuts.
W. H. Sandham, Thomas, and Hazlerigg ; Surgeon
Webb; 99 non-commissioned officers and men, and
100 horses. Arrangements are ordered to be entered
into at Colchester for quartering a division of the
depot brigade Royal Artillery.
By the death of Lieut.-Gen. J. Paterson, the ap-
poi t of Col.-Commandant of the Ist Ba,ta lonntmen
of the 00th Royal Rifle Regimentbecomes vacant.
elder o
The deceased Lieut.-Gen. was one of theservice
_it
1799,
cers in the army, having entered the i
volunteer with
• to which he had served as a
previous I eland in
" the rebellionsn r .
a corps of cavalry duringampaign of
y
1798. He served in the Eg Ptian
the Bth, 13th, and 21st of March,tr and at the capture
of Grand Cairo and A letnit
iii. The deceased
the 77th Regiment in
Lieut. Gen. also served
with
of France during the
campaigns of 1811' 12,
the Peninsula and the
13, and 14. His commissions
bore date—Ensign, '
May. 9 - l7, 1799 ; lieut Feb. 7,
caPt••
1801
Oct. 23, 1806 ; major, Sept., 29, 1814 ;
iieut...eol., • " ;
, Dec. 31, 182 0 col., June 28, 1838
major-gen., Nov. 11, 1851 ; lieut.-gen., Aug. 26,
1858; col.-commandant of the 60th Rifles, April tO.,
1857.