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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
Letters received from her Majesty's screw troop-
ship Vulcan, Commander Strode, dated at Singa-
pore, Feb. 14, state that she left Calcutta on the 16th
of January and was detained in the Malacca Straits
in consequence of having been engaged in rescuing
the crew of a vessel with 600 native passengers on
board. Commander Strode declined to put in any
claim, or accept any salvage for rescuing the pas-
sengers and their personal property. The passengers
were on their way in the ship to Jeddah, and would
have proceeded thence on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Respecting this refusal of Commander Strode's to
accept any recompense from the people rescued, the
Straits Times of Feb. 14 has the following para-
graph :—" We have been requested by Seyd S.ffie,
the charterer of the wrecked ship India, to express
through our columns his best thanks to Captain C.
Strode and all the officers and men of her Majesty's
ship Vulcan for the extreme kindness with which
himself, captain, and crew, as well as all the pil-
grims, were treated from the time they were first
taken from the wreck until landed at Singapore
The great liberality of the captain and crew of the
Vulcan in refusing all recompense or salvage for
their arduous services in saving the lives of these
people deserve the warmest praise, particularly as
there was a sufficient quantity of treasure saved to
have afforded a handsome sum to every officer and
man in the ship."
A postscript in the same letter, dated on the fol-
lowing day, states that the ship was then unmoor-
ing -to proceed to Hongkong with naval supernu-
meraries and stores.

A letter received at Plymouth from the screw
steam gun-vessel Penguiu,s, Lieut. J. G. M'Hardy,
states that she left Port Royal on February 3 for a
cruise. On the 27th of March, when off St. Lucia-
wharf Lighthouse, she fell in with the screw steam
frigate Ariadne. 26. Edward W. Vansittart, which
brought the ship's company a mail bag, and supplied
the ship with provisions and coal. Both ships then
put on full steam after a slave vessel. During the
former cruise the Penguin had two North American
paddlewheel steamships of war in chase, and, es
Lieut. M'Hardy did not like to heave to, one of the
ships fired a shot across the Penguin's bows ; she
then sent a boat to the stranger, the officers of which
stated that they thought the gunvessel was the Con-
federate
war steamer Alabama.
The whole of the dockyard hands were yesterday
removed from the Royal Oak, 35, 800 horse power,
Capt. F. A. Campbell, preparing for sea Chat-
ham, 100 labourers having been employedat up to a
late hour the previous evening in scrubbing down
decks and preparing the vessel fox the crew, 600 in
number, the whole of whom joined yesterday from
the Naval barracks.
Yesterday the mechanics commenced bolting the
last tier of armour-plates on the port and starboard
midship sides of the Achilles, at Chatham dock-
yard ; the seven tiers of armour plating which en-
case her sides are now carried from about 5 feet
below her load water-line to her bulwarks. Dur-
ing the last few days about 500 hands have been
released from the Royal Oak, on which they have
been working for several months past, and the
greater part of these have been placed on the
Achilles, swelling the number of a orkmen, of all
trades, employed on that vessel to upwards of 1,300.
The hands engaged on the iron frigate now enter
the yard at six o'clock, and continue working with
only a few minutes' intervals for meals, until dark
not leaving the establishment till just eight o'clock. Under the extraordinary exertions which are thus
being made to complete this vessel astonishing
progress is being made upon every portion
of the ship, and there appears to be no reasons for
doubting that she will be ready to be floated out
of dock by the close of the present year.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty—Lieut. Chas. Hill and Lieut. D.
D. Yonge to the Caracaa ; Thomas Pounds, master,
to the Orestes; W. H. Oggard, paymaster, to the
Orestes ; Robt. Williams, chief engineer, to the
Liverpool; Henry C. Jones, engineer to the Fis-
gard, for the Enterprise; W. W. Christie, engi-
neer, to the ?Liverpool ; W. Inglis (b), Ist civets
assist.-engineer, to the Pantaloon ; Cornelius H.
Healey, 2d class assist.-engineer, to the Black
Prince ; and C. R, Lacy, H. J. Wilson, John For-
rest (b), Hugh London, and Wm. Hallowell, assist.
engineers, to the Liverpool.

TE A
Yesterday Major H-Gen RMY.
. R. Rnmley, Inspector-
General of Infantry, commenced his halfn
spection of the battalions
of infantry quartered-yearly i -
at
Chatham Garrison. The customary review and
manoeuvres of the battalion did not take place, and
the day was devoted by the Inspector-General to an
examination of the kits, arms, accoutrements, dze.,
of the non-commissioned officers and men of the
several depots. The inspection, which will extend
over several days, will be resumed this morning.
The 96th Regiment, which left Portsmouth on
Feb. 15, on board the Himalaya, arrived at Simon's
Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on March 12, after a
splendid passage of 25 days. There were five births
on board and one death. A detachment of Royal
Marine Light Infantry, consistin
Lieut. g of Capt. Elliott,
M•Neale, two sergeants, two corporals, one
drummer, and 59 privates, left Woolwich yester
day for service on board tbe armour-d ship
Royal Oak. The remainder of the Royalcase Marines
allotted for the Royal Oak will be supplied from
the Marine Artillery.
The Star of India, Capt. Morris, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday morning, from Bombay, with time
expired men and invalids. She embarked at Bom-
bay on Jan. 26—Royal Artillery, Brevet- Ilajor
Patterson, 12 men. 1 woman, and 1 child ; Local
Artillery, 1 man ; 3d Dragoon Guards, 1 :man, 1
woman ; 17th Lancers, 31 men, 1 woman ; 33d
Foot, 12 men, 1 woman, and 3 children ; 44th Foot,
3 men; 95th Foot, 27 men, 1 'mums and 3 ohil-

dren ; 103 d Foot, 11 men ; 106th Foot, 37 tnen ; Ist
Foot, Lieut, Wheeler, 46 men ; 18th, Cdpt, Pock-
lington, 20 men, 3 women, and 6 children; 91st
Foot, Lieut. Lingcombe, 50 men, 2 women, and
2 children ; and 12 insane men from various
regiments in India, and 1 pensioner, R.A., from
St. Helena.- Assistant Surgeon James Medical
Staff, in medical charge. Of these men 66 were
" time expired," and were landed at Portsmouth
yesterday and forwarded to Woolwich and to their
depots. The remainder are invalids, and will be
transferred from the Star of India this morning by
Government steamer to the Royal Military Hospital
at Netley.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(From Correspondent of the 2i2nes.)

NEW YORK, April 17.
The spring campaign, which has opened so un-
favourably for the; ederal cause at Charleston, does
not proir ise much success in any other portion of the
vast circumferencnover which its operations are ex-
but :o keep " pegging
tended. Mr. Lincoln, more suo, sees nothing for it
away" at the enemy, but,
under such feeble management as his, " pegging"
degenerates into " peeking." Admiral Dupont has
gained no laurels by pegging" at Charleston.
Admiral Farragut and Gen. Grant have " pegged
away" in vain at the front and lalck doors of Vicks-
burg. Gen. Banks, instead of " pegging" at Port
Hudson, has as much on his hands as he can well
manage to defend New Orleans. Gen. Rosecrans is
checkmated in Tennessee by Gen. Braxton Bragg,
end w.ll have to "peg sway" not only with rare
vigour, but rarer good fortune, to save Nashville.
General Foster is cooped up in Washington, North
Carolina, surrounded by a vastly superior
force under General H. D. Hill; while
General Hooker, who boasts that the army
of the Potomac is " the finest army on the planet,"
is confronted by the same defiant and triumphant
foe who at Fredericksburg scattered the ranks and
almost broke the spirit of Gen. Burnside, and can-
not advance by that route to Richmond if he would,
and would not if he could. Everywhere the Confe-
derates are in the highest health and confidence;
and again the capital is in such danger as to
threaten the North with a graver humiliation than
the ill-fortune of war has yet inflicted. Even
Baltimore is not conainered safe, and new raids of
the Confederates into Maryland and Pennsylvania
are openly predicted, as soon as the spongy roads
shall have hardened sufficiently under the rays of
the spring and early summer sun to permit the
passage of horse and artillery.
The Northern people begin to be puzzled to ac-
count for this uniform failure of all the greatest
schemes of their Government. They know, and
have long deplored, that there are little brains at
Washington. They admit that attorneys do not
always make go: c 1 Generals; that Gen. Halleck and
Mr. Stanton are the two greatest failures of the
North—far greater than Mr. Lincoln himself—and
that a miserable peculation and corruption every.
where prevail ; but they have never doubted, amid
all their discouragements, that they have a large
army, only requiring to be well led to be moderately
successful. But even this foundation of hope for the
future has failed them in their present need. They
were assured three months ago that they had armies
in the field amounting to 1,010,000 men. They were
told only last week that their legions were at least
700,000 strong, and they know that pay is due and
rations art, drawn for that number. With the spirit
of a people who can calculate, if they can do any-
thing, they have taken to adding up numbers, and
are asking one another " Where are our legions?" It
is a simple sum in elementary arithmetic, and the
results show roguery or robbery somewhere, or, if
not these, the concealment of truths that ought to
be known to every citizens if the Government fairly
did its duty. General Hunter, charged with the
land attack upon Charleston, was unable to co .ope-
rate with. Admiral Dupont, because he had less than
14,000—some accounts say less than 12,000.—men,
negroes included, under his command, and because
the Government at Washington, though urgently
appealed to for reinforcements, was unable to spare
him a single battalion to aid in a victory on which,
above all others, it had set its heart. Gen. Banks
is in an equally deplorable condition. He has not
above 18,000 men to depend upon for the safety of
Louisiana, and appeals in vain for help to General
Halleck and Mr. Stanton. They have no men to
spare, and he must do the best he can with the de-
moralised and insufficient force at his disposal. Gen.
Foster in North Carolina—whose surrender, accord-
ing to the latest accounts, is a question of a few
hours—has been sacrificed either by the neglect or
inability of the War Department to send him the
men he needed. Generalßosecrans requires double
his actual force to maintain himself successfully in
Tennessee, but cannot persuade the Government to
.
send him so much as a brigade, because it has no bri-
gltionne, of or
the for
Rap_ thegade to spare. Where then are the armies of the Re-
public ? Are the great majority of the 700,000 re-
tained for the defence of Washington,
them
useless invasion of Virginia b
p hosta har oTchkePr
There
or reeetehme spee7toe
d on
o,ooogae merelyed authority
e
no more than 60,000 men in and about Washing-
ton, charged with the defence of the capital and
the person of the President,
and from 80,000 to
100,000 under Hooker, seeking in vain for an
opportunity to march through the tenacious mud
of the Old Dominion, toward that much coveted
city of Richmond, which neither he nor his army
will ever reach by the road which Burnside failed to
travel, and which M'Clellan was disinclined to at-
tempt. If these figures be correct the Federal army
must either amount to a force far inferior to its roll
upon the books of the War-office, the Treasury, and
the Commissariat, or it must be scattered in small
dribblets over the Border States, or be retained for
garrison duty in the Northern and Western cities to
overawe and keep down the discontented " Copper
heads." Which of the two solutions is correct? The
most probable is that the Government has no such
army as it pretends to have, and that the rank and
file do not exceed 300,000 or at most 400,000 men ;
that desertions have been more frequent, mote sys-
tematic, and more numerous than is publicly known ;
and that sickness prevails to a far greater extent
may be anted, does not the Govern-
thanme
the Government has cared to divulge.
Betit,t
it
circumstances such as these, take why,
under
im-
mediate measures to fill up the ranks P Why, when
the term of the nine months' volunteers is within a
few days of expiry, does it not offer them a renewal
of bounty for a renewal of service P And why,
above all, does it not organise measures for calling
out the first instalment of a quarter of a million of
men under the Conscription Act P It seems myste-
riouonithaty does Mr. Lincoln take no steps
of the sth
kind,at notbuthe journals of Washington
and New York, which speak at the prompting of
the Administration, have announced within the
last few days that there is, in the opinion of the
War Department, no present necessity for a con-
scription ; and that all the men really required can
bbeeotbietas. inedby voluntary enlistment and high
enThere
is more in these announcements
than plain men, especially the European public,
would readily suspect. Taken in connection with
the anti British outcry which has been so suddenly
encouraged by the inferencesGo-
leyralofaybe draw
the public mind an. One is
that
ee Go-
vernment,
in
e ant nht de,
teswxo sst nr eg nt ue ome ps
con-
scription cannot be safely resorted to; that not only
can the Government obtain no additional men for the
further prosecution of hostilities against the South,
but that a conscription is in itself so alien to the
habits, the education, the prejudices, and the free
spirit f thee em biepeopleati and so likely to be resisted by
organisedons of working men, Irish and
o
German as well as native, and by the " Copper-
heads," more especially in the North- Western States
as to be in a high degree dangerous and impolitic.
The second is, that as the Government must largely

increase its armies or be utterly beaten by the South,
it is essential to get up some great popular excite-
ment that may serve to reanimate the flagging en-
thusiasm of the people. As nothing within the
reach of the Administration is so likely to accom-
plish the end as a threatened war with Great Bri-
tain, that ancient and never-failing " dodge " is un-
scrupulously employed. Not, perhaps, that the Go-
vernment desires such a war, but that it desires to
render war so imminent,—to come, as it were, so
nearly within an inch, or a hair's breadth of it,—as
to excite the warlike ardour and the undying hate
of the Irish Roman Clholic population, and of all
the yet unsacrified rowdyism of the great cities,
which would not lift a finger against the South, but
which would readily lift both hands against Eng-
land. The British people may therefore be prepared
for sharp words, for angry controversies, perhaps
even for the rupture of diplomatic relations beta een
the two countries. To this extent animosities may
be carried ; but in the opinion of those who have
longest studied the character of the people, and who
beat know the men in power, there will be no war
unless Great Britain shall herself declare it,
The case of the Peterhoff was not deemed of im-
portance in this city until the facts were set forth
in the English newspapers. She was represented
here as an ordinary blockade runner, legally cap-
tured in an attempt to force her way into Charleston.
Not a word was said of her being bound to the neu-
tral port of Matamoras. Now, that the real facts
have come to light, there is a general impression
that Mr. Seward will not risk a diplomatic or any
other rupture with Great Britain on account of that
vessel, but that she will be given up, together with
the mails, unopened, that were found on board. The
real grievance on which Mr. Lincoln and Mr.
Seward rely for exciting the necessary amount of
hostile feeling against England is the construction
in British ports of such vessels as the Alabama and
the Florida, and the probability that, unless te,ey
assume a sufficiently threatening attitude, the Con-
federate Loan of three millions sterling will be ex-
pended in the same way, in the same places, and for
the same purpose. The idea of issuing letters of
marque to adventurers of New York and other cities
for the purpose of capturing these daring cruisers
seems to have been abandoned, not only on account
of the danger of provoking the principal maritime
nations of Europe into war against the United
States, but, perhaps, because they have discovered
that letters of marque are only issued against
foreign enemies, and that in taking this step the
Federal Government would virtually recognise the
independence of the Southern Confederacy, and
could not afterwards make it a grievance against
other nations if they imitated the example.
Mr. Horace Greeley's fall from grace in the matter
of the perpetuity and efficacy of the President's pro-
clamation of emancipation has brought upon him
the distrust and the reproaches, if not the enmity,
of some of his fellow-labourers in the cause. A
meeting to condemn and disavow his interpretation
of the document, and especially his assertion that
if the Union were restored the Southern Slave-hold-
ing States could legally re-enslave the negroes whom
Mr. Lincoln's proclamation set free, was held the
night before last at Mr. Henry Ward Beecher's
churcb,under the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Uheever.
The speakers were not very successful in their de-
molition of Mr. Greeley's logic and law, both of
which have found an unexpected supporter in the
Hon. R. H. Dana, Attorney-General of the State of
Massachusetts, and, as the Tribune truly says,
" one of the earliest, ablest, and first anti-slavery
men " of that State. That gentleman, doubtless in
order to help the Government out of the t Demme,
into which it thrusts itself by the proclamation, and
lo gain back for it some portion of the Democratic I
and Conservative support which it has lost, declared
in a speech at Providence, Rhode Island, "that if
any man feared or hoped that the proclamation did,
as a matter of law, by its own force, alter the legal
status of one slave in America on the lbt of January
last, he built his fears or hopes on the sand, It was
a military act, and not the decree of a legislator. It
has no legal force on the status of the slave. 'What is
done by the strong arm is done ; what the arm of
force does not do is not done." This was Mr.
Greeley's assertion in terser and more authoritative
language than he employed ; but no reply was
made at the meeting, which was otherwise only re-
markable for the singularly awkward admission of
one of the speakers. A Mr. Gilbert, who is de-
scribed as a leading member of the Church of the
Puritans, declare 1 that "the captive bird should
be liberated, in order that it might fly off to its
native air," or, in other words, that the slave,
when emancipated, should be sent back to Africa,
which is Mr. Lincoln's favourite scheme for settling
the difficulty. The other admission was still more
significant of the designs of the party in power—
the real enemies of the freedom of the American
people. It was to the effect "that the national
debt incurred by the war would create a con-
solidated Government and sweep away the old
doctrine of State rights." This gentleman went a
little too fast. The debt threatens to be the instru-
ment of disintegration rather than of consolidation.
Already the subject of repudiation is openly dis-
cussed. It is declared by leading lawyers of the
Democratic party that the debt was illegally con-
tracted,and that the West and North-West are begin-
ning to murmer that, whoever may be found to pay
it, they will not. But the speaker was too much in
love with despotism to look the facts of liberty
fairly in the face. He was too warmly attached to
the idea of a centralised Government, powerful
enough to dominate the world, to tolerate the exist-
ing constitution of the States. He concluded his
speech by declaring, " that he would rejoice to see
the day of consolidation. When that period arrived
the Government would be able to maintain a million
of armed men, and might then say, 'Come on,
France! Come on, England! Come on, Copper-
heads!'" Such is American Puritanism and Aboli-

tionism, and such are its ideas of Republican liberty !
A huge debt ! An immense standing army ! De-
fiance to the word! Denial of the right of freedis-
cussion to its own citizens, and deportation of the
negro race ! And yet these people pretend that
in combating the South they are fighting in behalf
of the great cause of human liberty and progress,
and feel aggrieved when the English people with-
hold their sympathy !
The Federal army has lost one officer and ought
to lose another by a recent unhappy occurrence in
the camp near Suffolk. General Michael Corcoran,
once keeper of a " groggery" in this city, and who
first made for himself a military reputation when a

lieutenant of militia by an act of disobedience to the
commands of his superior officer, for which he was
tried before a Court-martial, has proved that he is as
unfit to be a general as he was a lieutenant. He
has cruelly murdered a subordinate officer for the
performance of his duty, and, if he be not tried
for the capital offence and dismissed from the army,
whether he be found guilty of murder, or of the
minor crime of manslaughter, a bad example will
be set to the whole army, and the Federal Go-
vernment will deserve to lose any battle in which
such a man as he is shall lead either an army or a
division. General Corcoran, who, perhaps, itnagins
that he must be a very great man as well as a very
great warrior, inasmuch as New York recently gave
him a public reception as brilliant as it gave to th,
Prince of Wales, was walking near the lines of the
army when he was challenged for the password by
Col. Kimball, of the Hawkins Zouaves, the officer
on duty, and who had newly arrived with his :com-
pany, and did not know the person of the general.
He answered abruptly, " I am Genera! L‘orcoran,"
as if that were sufficient. Col, Kimball replied that
anybody might call himself General Corcoran, and
again demanded the countersign Corcoran at-
tempted, in contravention of all
military dutyb and
Col. propriety, to pass on ; and when
up his hand or drew his sword to preventKlm heimll held
general discharged a revolver and shot the unfor-
tunate officer dead upon the spot. How can the

l'emEs.—We are sorry to be obliged to recur to
the subject of Greenwich Hospital. If you inform a
private gentleman that a great abuse is being car-
ried on in a matter under his control, he generally
looks into it at once, remedies it, and is thankful for
the information. But it is quite a different thing
with public bodies. They are aptly so called,for they
generally have no soul, and therefore no conscience.
The utmost that ever can be said in their excu-e is
that, like unreasoning brings,they act unconsciously
and without reflection. Complaints which have no
thing but right to recommend them never disturb
their repose. It requires reiterated cracks of the
whip of public opinion to make them understand
that they must change their course. As our re-
marks, therefore, the other day do not seem to have
had their due effect, we must beg the attention of
our readers to a few details on the subject. The Ad-
miralty may be assured that the public will not
allow this matter to drop. It is of vast importance
to the well-being of the Navy, and, therefore, of
the country, and the abuses are too gross and ob
vious to be overlooked. We have already given our
readers a general idea of the waste and misappro-
priation of the funds of the Hospital, and we shooed
that no less than two-thirds of the money of the in-
stitution had been diverted from its proper purpose.
But it will put the matter in a still stronger sight
if we enter a little into the details of this misappro-
priation. The Hospital is administered by a large
Staff of Military, Civil, and Medical Officers. The
military Government is at present in the hands of
a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, four Captains,
three Commanders, six Lieutenants, and three Mas-
ters. The number o, men who absorb all this ad-
ministrative agency is at present 1,500. We say
" at present," for there ought to be 2,642 men in the
Hospital. That, however, does not effect the argu-
ment, for, as our correspondent showed the other
day, the number of governors has increased as the
number of men to be governed has diminished. Let
our readers compare this proportion of officers to
men with that which exists in a men-of-war. Let
them remember, besides, that in the latter case Lac
men are in constant activity and require con-
tinued supervision, while in the Hospital they have
nothing to do, and the officers have only to exercise
the most general superintendence. Add to this that
all the minor work of supervision is done in the
Hospital, as on shipboard, by petty officers, and
then let them draw their own conclusions as to the
use or excuse for so large a staff. All these officers
cannot be wanted; and it is evident they are not,
for many of them would be quite unable to do their
work if they were. The posts are mere excuses for
giving them salaries. Now we beg our readers'
attention to what these salaries are. The
Governor receives £1.500 a year as his nomi-
nal salary. In addition to this he receives
£766 10s. a year as half-pay, pensions for
wounds—of which, as fairly and honourably earned,
we will not say a word—and, besides this, all man-
ner of allowances for oil, coal, wood, candles, 87c.
And, lastly, he has apartments which amount to a
handsome house. All the other salaries are in pro-
portion. Each of the three commanders receives
£3OO a year salary, £155 2s. 6d. a year half pay,
and, as one of them, who is non-resident, receives I
£2 12s. 6d. a week for lodgings, we may assume
that their apartments represent £125 a year, and
they enjoy the same sort or allowances as the
Governor. These are only two instances; we can-
not go through them all. But after this our readers
will not be surprised to hear that the cost of the
military and medical officers of the hospital in 1859
was £14,664, and this to look after the good order
and the health of no more than 1,500 men ! We
are sure that in order to convince our readers of the
abuse we charge upon the Admiralty it is only
necessary to state these facts. There is no need of
argument to prove that this is not the way in which
it was intended that:the funds of the Hospital should
be applied. We are perfectly aware of the excuse
which will be set up. It will be maintained that
it was within the intention of the founders of the'
Hospital that a certain number of meritorious and
disabled officers should derive some support from its
funds. Now, we draw our readers' particular at-
tention to a short extract, contained in a letter
which we publish in another column, from the Act
of Parliament, passed in 1696, by which the "sea-
men's sixpences" were given to the Hospital. It
provides that " the widows of seamen slain, killed,
or drowned in the sea service, and the children of
such seamen so slain, killed, or drowned, and not
of ability to maintain or provide comfortably for
themselves, shall be received into the said Hospitai,
and there be provided for." Wil, any one main-
tain that an Admiral in the receipt of halt-pay to
the amount of £766 10s. and pensions besides, or
a captain in the receipt of £l9l 12s 6d. as half-pay
and £9l ss. as pensions, is not able to provide com-
fortably for himself P But if the Admiralty are not
prepared to defend this absurd proposition, they
must admit that all the appointments we have men-
tioned are coirrary to the purposes of the Hospital.
It is obvious, however, that they have totally dis-
regarded this consideration, and indeed all the con-
siderations set forth in our correspondent's letter.
One of their last acts was to appoint to the office of
Commissioner on ke Civil Staff of the Hospital, with
a salary of £6OO year and an allowance of four
guineas a week for lodgings, and with no duties but
to attend the Board et Greenwich an hour a week,
the late Accountant-General of the Navy, who has
retired from that post with a pension of £l,OOO a
year. Our correspondent forcibly points out that
they are running in the teeth of the Acts of Parlia-
ment relating to the Hospital by refusing to pro-
vide proper support for the wives and widows and
families of the seamen, and every possible excuse for
this gross and cruel neglect is taken away by the
fact that, after paying all these extravagant ex-
penses, they had a surplus in 1859 of £28,387, and
in 1860 of more than £40,000. This is going be-
yond all reasonable abuse. A little mismanagement,
a little misappropriation, is to be expected in all
such concerns. To err is human, and to job is
official, and moderate jobbing, as moderate error, is
easily pardoned. But there is a limit to forgiveness
in both cases, and this jobbing passes every limit.
We cannot but add that if the Admiralty persist in
this course it will no longer be possible to put a
favourable construction on their conduct. We give
them every credit for having been led into these
abuses unconsciously, but now that they are pointed
out to them they cannot with honour delay imme-
diate redress. If they refuse to listen to the plain
justice of this matter, it will be only possible to
draw one or two conclusions—either that they know
they are acting unjustly, and persist in so acting
from motives of interest, or that they are insensible
to the commonest considerations of reason and
justice. It is easy for them to affect to disregard
articles and letters in newspapers, and we acknow-
ledge ledge the wisdom of the course, and
anhwoueld think
of the steward in the parable. but w
the Admiralty woull. hardly be
however,
praise at the expense of his epithet,dare determined to
they will take this course, COnteensltfto earn his
ent who will
there no member of Parham
mheission for the
motions employ
prefer prudence to honour and interest to justice, is
the time which is wasted in. frivolous every
compelling the refor-
mation in
12,000 h I
'
Tuesday and Friday
aanbaribuse
a? loftnt hardships of
is
ut abuse of a
mation of
and excite
:reraltvee
a2Blkcinoglo,naenlsocean obtain a
.Rskoydelbeate,
enforce the claims of there no one
who will
seamen, and put a stop to the shameful p'ess
Posr.—Stimulated by the George-street murder,
great public trust P
of St. Giles's are taking
mtheeaspuarreoschoifale
jaeuettmhoerVeasg
against several householders
in the immediate loceaelist persons who, as the
locality
chargeable with the
disorder)gj"
form of indie'rnent
offenm of keeping's
hi uses. The amount
of order or disorder ec
in question havebeen
ith which tbe establishments
known, of course‘, conducted being to us un
opinion concerning teheare unprepared to offer any
law in motion on that justice of setting parochial
plea. Having frequently,
ani very recently,at advocatedand the recognition, with
a view to regulation control, of the social con-
dition to which houses such as those in George-
street have reference, the St. Giles's vestry may
perhaps expect of us more credit in behalf of their
promptness of action than we are prepared to con-
cede. Similar manifestations of parochial vigour
we happen to remember, and the results have not
been such as to warrant much confidence in any
general and comprehensive benefit to accrue from
the present ejectment. A local benefit there may
indeed be, if, for example, the special lodging-
houses in George-street were abolished, through the
places
operation of parochial or any other law, and tei
filled by establishments for home
mission-
aries, Scripture readers, or any other class of per-
sons ostensibly engaged in promoting the interests
t case there
of religion and morality; then in t a

HERALD.—We would not give much foe the sum
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer will realise
during his next financial year out of his extension of
the income tax to public charities. There is a feel-
ing growing up in the country which will not per..
mit him to confiscate the property of orphans and
widows, the sick, the needy, and the destitute, to
secure that augmented surplus which is to establish
his reputation with your profounder class of finan-
ciers as a safe Chancellor of the Exchequer. Did
we, through the pressure of some considerable deficit,
or the expectation of a year of difficulty, need so
unusual an augmentation, nobody would be con-
tent to look for it from such a sourca. To propose
to tax the aged and helpless dependents on an elee-
mosynary aid by no means too bountiful at the very
moment that ho relieves from taxation incomes
varying from one to two hundred pounds a year, is
too culminating a point of absurdity to stand much
discussion. Neither Pitt nor Sir Robert Peel,
though both of them in times of much pressure
have had the credit of exhausting every resource of
taxation, seem to have thought of raising an income
out of the unassisted misery of the unfortunate
classes. The exemption of the poor from bearing
any share in the burden has been the fundamental
principle on which every income tax we have yet
had has been founded, and there is really no excuse
for the exception that is now proposed, except that
the impost, if based in fact on the wretched them-
selves. in appearance falls only on accumulated capi-
tal. With regard to the hospitals, for example, even
Mr. Gladstone's infinite power of sophistical ampli-
fication would be bard put to it to explain how any-
thing he extraets for the Government is not so much
extracted from each unhappy Lazarus praying aid
at their doors. We have not yet learn the art by
which we can withdraw so much from the BUM that
can be spent in supporting beds or furnishing medi-
cines without our having so many less admissions of
in-patients and so much less attendance for out-
! patients. Take away three or four thousands a year
from St. Bartholomew's or St. Thomas's Hospital,
and there can be but the result of tens of thousands
of poor and destitute sick connected with them hay-
ing so many less beds and so much less medicine
under distribution among them. It is possible
enough that in some cases the fiscal encroachment
on the charitable fund will be compensated by
Inc stricter economy and more effective management
which would be enforced by it. The notion is cap-
tivating, and there is this to be said in its favour,
that there are few of those bodies to whom it would
not be easy to suggest steps by which an improved
administration might not turn their funds to more
useful account. But Chancellors of the Exchequer
are not expected to frame their budgets with a view
to a reform of eleemosynary institutions, and the
its inertia of a charitable corporation, if affected
for a moment by an influence of this kind, is too
natural a characteristic of such bodies to be so
affected long. The truth is that nothing can be said
thisrldofnot
that
i n favcoouu b
e partm much
cohf
betterth e Chancellor's
said ofußrhuaodi Budget
ff eat
poll tax; and with an expected surplus d a
development of industry million on the incoming
eteareet to it the
dire
1 for a continually augmenting income, it
rflynaanna
ile
Which
hme
aamaisearcn e with Which,
i
elsewhere,
, according to his own testimony, entitles usseteCin:Fr(iita
Ithough the proposition described by Mr. Henley
as
a plan for taxing the blind, the halt, and the lame
had been included in the Budget less
part of it than as a conductorany serious
( lightning of opposition that,
might have worse results. In art
no fear that the charities which y case sve can have
covering a multitude of sins have so long been
office by being sacrificed i Will be repaid this in the • • good
ing the country With a
the most remark abi standing demonstration
of
terised the fine ' eblunder that has ever charac-
newt pryof Exchequer. 8 a Chancellor of the
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HUNTED BY WOLVES.—An exciting incident,
is the
says Galtgnani, occurred three days ago to M.
Deebeppe, adjoins, at Gimecourt (Meuse). He was return-
ing late at night from Pont-a-mousson on horseback, when,
while passing through the wood of Villotte, his attention
delicioust as !4 e . 4i r
ad
.vpe(ofrroytremedh.enr il eyAe
was attracted by a heavy breathing and a rustling which ac-
companied him as he proceeded. M. Decheppe looking
about, observed on one side two luminous points in
ad-
vanced darkness, and on the other side a dark shadow whircehthat
aware
spurs to
alongbide his horse. Ho then became
ho was being followed by wolves. Ho at Brat pu
and
that
his horse, but reflected that the road was uneven,
lie then again lta e k d criti-
cal, he again slackened his pace.
gill there, haring
be-
hind him, but his companions were
then
should an accident happen his position would b.ecome
remembered that wild
He
td
ent
fire and lighting some
adapted their pace
beasts were sometimes frighten, a
1;W the wolves paid
Inciter matches he threw them
down'ceeding. At tho end
was
from
the
not the slightest attention to theodp
we
ifft users
tas
rode on, tru.ting to
of his his resources, M. D ep
.ech Pefrrom time' to time to intimi-
to his.
dence, but cracking his whip
Gin] ecourt. During, the g
molested at his residence at
preserved his coolness but, dan-
ger- M. Deeheppe had
and
he , ,
seizednow tt
date his too fdthtul attendants, and arrived wi I hunt being
vp.e over a reaction took place,.
nervous
of the emotion.
trembling, and has since sufferedci
Phtdograp
ha are simply the effect of light on
iodide
of
silver. Defects of manipulation have been remedied, and
perfection produced. The same with Berri
brushes and combs, which are now ng' I Inaglatie
BO ed tht they ate
entailing in restoring the colour to r 1
the agonies of tic doloreu g eypertect
lair, and ea adAcating
Counterfeits a being X. and nervous headache. A.B.—
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