The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

LIFE BRANCH".

The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on n w policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.
This portion of the Company's business has been carefully
watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
lutiire to the participating life assurer.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for assurance amounts to £'.43,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
IsTo small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
recofd their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sitle in 11 single year from deterioration of some kind or
another. . _

If. to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
Londan or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.

The Directors conclude their present Report with the
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
InsurancQ Company were never bri,rhter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a let gthenedcareer of usefulness and protection
to the public.

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.

Accumulated and Invested Funds
Annual Revenue
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Insuraires granted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle.
The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amount Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every infor.nation will be furnished
on applic.stion at the

OFFICES :
LONDON 5B, Threadneedle-street.
. . 4, New Bank Buildin
Pgs.
11
West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, all-mall.Lothbury.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVITJS EPIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGV PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garratt Cattle Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Lion. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
RiversdaleW. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
lk.bt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Sornes, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., P,R.S.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock. practice,—with the security
The advantages of modern
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

GuARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
O. 11 COMPANY,
Lombard-street,' E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital, Two Millions.

DIRECTORS.
Sir MINTO DIRECTORS.
Bart., M.P.,
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, sq., Deputy Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq, John Labouchere, Esq.
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. Chairman.
1 G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.
Charles F. Devas. Esq.
, John Martin, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland mitcheti, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq.
.lames Goodson, Esq.
Esq., IM.P Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
M.P. , Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
Trohhonmciso.nHluTbanbkaredy:
Esq.,
Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. , Henry Vigne, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. _ Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
. sq.
Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary
Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting E
Thos.Tallemach, Esq.,

now
OffersVl SI. :N. ScinOeFni:Na
utiOnnew I.n -
LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER Tnt PR
aptsgrti ipation of
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company
urers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits,
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without
Profits.
hnet sAssured equivalent h a sßev exceeded eirBt tine
n
Since the establishment of the Company in
1859, the Life
Amount of Profits
lavlilioicthterdeptroeste
cull value £660,000,
Bonuses of £1,058,000.
After the Division of Profits at Christmas,
Assurances in torce, with existing Bonuses thereon,
amounted to upwards of £4.730,000, the Income from the Ltie
`ranch £207000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
'dependent' of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.
14CAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No
~'‘4.Premium is required for service therein.
yafn—eVl.,,,R. granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
131:01,:,:gludfregivstaelrieledb, e not less than £5O.
eerred a".,,,-'IXENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
or p I. `-'-iIL PEES paid by the Company, and no charge
'-' leY' Stamp,
FIRE DPI. '
every deg •'- ARTMENT.—lnsurawes are effected upon
-ell:Pion ofproperty at moderate rates.
Losses ea
t''''2l2lPany.--used by Explosion of Gas are adulated by this

NO. 22,1b6_

NEW NOVEL by the Author of "COUSIN GEOFFREY."
On Friday, Aug. 22, in 3 vols.,
LEFT TO THEMSELVES.
By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey," &C.
Also now ready, in 3 vols.,
RESPECTABLE SINNERS. By Mrs.
BROTIIERTON.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Now ready, in 2 vols., fcap. Bvo., 128.,
ANDREW DEVEREL : THE HISTORY OF AN
ADVENTURER IN NEW GUINEA AND ON TIIE
SPANISH MAIN.
Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

CRITIQUES on the NEWSPAPER PRESS in
the LITERARY TIMES, every week

T" 0 x.FORD,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c.

Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man"), Eugene,
W. Randall, E. Righton, and A. Lloyd.
Also, a Pet formance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.

The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open At 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d.; stalls and balcony, ls. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

NOTICE.—The GHOST! GHOST !! GHOST!!!
AT CANTERBURY HAL L.
1 wo representations of Professor Pepper's startling Illusion
will be given on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at
Nine and a quarter-past Eleven o'clock ; other Evenings at
Eleven only ; and produced with all the newest improve-
ments by Mr. A. Silvester, which can be seen only at this
establishment.
Dramatic Readings by Mr. Graham, in addition to Grand
Operatic Selections, Cantatas, Glees, Songs, Comic and
Sentimental, and UNSWORTH, the Stump Orator.
Open every Evening at half past Seven.
Admission, Sixpence.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by
Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe Fran-
ce,co, assisted by a corns of Twenty young Ladies—The
Conrads as the Original French Clowns and on the Corde
Elastique—Les Petit Monstres—Brian and Conly in an
amusing and novel Burlesque —Mrs. Brian as Old Aunt Sally,
&c., &c.—Wood and his Wonderful Son—Grand Operatic
Selections :—Principals, Bliss M'Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor
Georgini (the new Italian tenor), and Mr. Vernon Rigby—
Band and Chorus of Sixty Performers.

THE FIRST WEEK of the ALHAMBRA
GHOST, a highly comical and amusing representation
of the popular optical illusion.—EVEßY EVENING, at
Eleven o'clock.

ESTABLISHED 1833.
nOWDEN'S IERATED GINGER BEER, in
glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve
months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potass, Seltzer, and every
description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White
Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C.

CARD PLATES ENGRAVED.
Any Pattern 2s.
50 BEST CARDS, Printed from Plate . . ls.
REAL MOROCCO CARD CASES
1,000 BUSINESS ENVELOPES, gummed 3s.
NEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 d0z..... •• 6d.
F. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer, 86, Fleet-street, E.C.

QPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B
SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

RITPTIIRES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN TIIE GREAT
N`xIIIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to tie the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of El ERN I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
's here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
gent to the manufacturer,

Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 81s. 6d. Postage, is.
A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c.. for Varicose Veins and all oases of
tVcakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, Arc. They are
I,orous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
We an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s.
ea,lh. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

KEAT IN G'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY-
ING POWDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded
to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862,
This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un-
rivalled in destroying Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches,
Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, blottis in furs, and every other
species of Insect.
Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy-
ing. Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs.
lean g the original importer of this now invaluable article,
which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to
vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to
observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the
autograph of THOMAS KEATING
Sold in packets, is., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 61 each, or post free for
14 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St.
Paul's-churchyard, London, E.C.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at Ring's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCEL 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 governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and 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.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—BniszoL, Aug. 15.
(Before Mr, Justice Willes and a Special Jury.)
LEAT V. STOGDEN.

This cause, which the learned judge admitted was one of
the most extraordinary that had ever come before him, ex-
cited an unusual degree of interest. The court was densely
crowded throughout the day, and up to the late hour of
night at which it terminated. Ladies were requested to
withdraw.

Mr. Coleridge. Q.C., and Mr. Stock were for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Karslake, Q.C., and Mr. Montague Bare for the
defence.

The damages were laid at £2,000.

Mr. Stock opened the pleadings. Mary Leat was the
piaintiff, and Robert Stogden the defendant. The declara-
tion alleged that the defendant had spoken certain slander-
ous words of the plaintiff, imputing to her that she had
allowed him to have criminal intercourse with her , that
consequently she had lost position in society ; and one Elias
Pidgley had refused to marry her. The defendant pleaded
the general issue, and also that the words spoken were true
and on those pleas issue was joined.
Mr. Coleridge said the action was brought by Miss Mary
Leat against a person named Stogden for imputing to her
that which to a modest woman was the most cruel imputa-
tion he could cast upon her—that on repeated occasions she
bad acted unchastely with him. If anything could add to
the unmanliness, the baseness, and the cowardice of the de-
fendant's conduct, it was the fact of his having been on
terms of long intimacy with the plaintiff, and having been
engaged to marry her. Miss Leat was a young lady about
25 or 26 years old; she was a fatherless girl, and lived with
her widowed mother, who had carried on a farm in Devon-
shire, but who had now retired and lived at Topsham. The
defendant Stogden was a person of some 30 years of age, who
lived in the same place, and carried on the business of a
farmer. An intimacy commenced between them, and in
1858 he became engaged to be married to Miss Leat. The
courtship was continued till a time in 1862, when it was
broken off. The defendant had taken to habits of intoxica-
tion, and he came on one occasion to the house of Mrs,
Leat whilst in that state, and behaved with such violence
that Miss Leat and her mother were compelled to order
him out of the house, and send for some member of his
family to remove him. Miss Leat refused to have anything
farther to do with him. Afterwards a young man in the
neighbourhood named Pidgley formed attachment for Miss
Leat, and became engaged to marry her, and things went
on without interruption until the 27th February last, on
which day Miss Leat was in Exeter with her mother, Mr.
Pidgley, and a young lady or two, when, as they were
walking down the High-street, Stogden came up to them
and wished to speak with the plaintiff. She declined to
have anything to do with him, and moved aside, upon
which he used the slanderous language complained of; and
subsequently repeated the same offensive expressions. An
opportunity had been given to the defendant to withdraw
the calumny and make an ample apology, but he refused,
and had had the audacity to put upon record a plea of jus-
tification, alleging that the words were true,
Miss Mary Leat, a pretty and modest-looking young
lady, was then called and gave a narrative confirmatory
of her counsel's opening. She gave her evidence with a
propriety of demeanour which at once gained her general
sympathy, and once or twice she was affected to tears.
There was not, she said, the least foundation for what he
had said respecting her. Never on any occasion had there
been improper intimacy between them; that she solemnly
swore. The engagement with him was broken off in. March,
1862, in consequent of his being tipsy and violent, and
calling her mother a liar. She had seen him in that state
frequently before, and she therefore resolved to break off
the match.
Mr. Kerslake cross-examined the plaintiff, and put into
her hands some letters written to defendant from Topsham
in April, 1862, in which she signed herself "affectionately"
his, and proposed places at which she would see him, and
in one of which she asked him if they were to part to let
them meet and part as friends. She stated that those
letters were in answer to letters from him, and the meet-
ings proposed to prevent his coming to the house, to which
her mother objected. She did meet him at Topsham, but
he was not then an affianced lover. They were not to have
been married at Lady-day, and she did not engage a ser-
vant named Buck. Was not in the habit of walking with
him late at night. He never slept in the house but once
—on the night of his brother's death. She always slept
with her mother. There were always servants in the
house. Never sat on a sofa with him after her mother
had gone to bed. No doubt she had sat in the room alone
with him.

Mrs. Charlotte Leat, the mother, Miss Mary Hodge,
Mr. Maher, a farmer of East Brent, and Mr. Charles
Pidgley, farmer, of Heavitree, were called in support of
the plaintiff's case.
Mrs. Leat said her daughter always slept with her. She
was her only child. Defendant had never been in the house
after half-past nine o'clock unless they had company.
Mr. Pidgley said he had declined to marry Miss Leat
unless the slander was cleared up. He had continued his
suit on that condition.

Dr. Brent, of Woodbury, stated that he had been in
practice twenty years, and had had great experience, and
that he attended the families of plaintiff and defendant.
Miss Leat had required him to examine her, which he did
in the presence of her mother. Was perfectly certain that
she never had improper intimacy with any man.
Mr.Karslake then addressed the jury for the defence. He
admitted that the charges against the plaintiff had been
grave and serious, and Mr. Stogden, who had used them
in a moment of jealous irritation, regretted having used
them at all ; but he adhered to their truth, and re-
fused to retract them, and, having put a plea of justifi-
cation on the record, he claimed his right to come there
and support it. The defendant would pledge his solemn
oath that he had over and over again had criminal inter-
course with the plaintiff, and he would call evidence in
confirmation of his statement. If the publicity which the
case has gained was painful to the plaintiff she had herself
to blame for it in bringing that action.
Robert Stogden was called, and swore, in the course of a
lengthened examination, that he formed an illicit connec-
tion with the plaintiff within a month of his engagement to
her. It was commenced in the yard outside her mother's
house, and repeated constantly afterwards down to March,
1862. The witness denied that the engagement was then
broken off, but admitted that there was no improper con-
nection afterwards. He said he had meetings with Miss
Leat down to about the time of his exposure of her, but
was not aware she was to be married to Mr. Pidgley till the
day in question, when he met her mother, who told him so.
Upon cross-examination by Mr. Coleridge, he made very
contradictory statements.
The learned Judge said he hoped there was a shorthand
writer putting down his evidence. He also directed, at the
close of the examination, that he might not be allowed to
leave the court.

Upon re-examination, the defendant admitted that a
judgment had been obtained against him in the county
court for money he had had of Miss Leat, but which he
said she had given him to, purchase things for his farm at
her mother's sale.

The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the publio for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Mast erman, Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond' and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Earned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital.
STANFORD S. SMITH. Secretary.

place, and feeling that some persons might think it
would be keeping the plaintiff's right to recover, in
abeyance, the Court calls upon you to enter into your
own recognisance in the sum of £2OO, to appear before the
next Gloucester Assize, to answer this charge if called upon
to do so; and the plaintiff will take advice as to whether
she will put this in force—whether she will renew her great
grief by punishing you for the evil you have committed.

His lordship next dismissed the grand jury. He thanked
them for their assistance, and he said that he trusted the
serious grievance which interfered with the administration
of justice would soon be removed, and they would have a
criminal as well as a civil assize at Bristol.

His lordship advised the plaintiff to forget the prosecu-
tion, and trust her vindication to the opinion of every right-
thinking man.
As the plaintiff left the court with her friends she was
loudly cheered by a crowd in and about the hall.

THE GREAT EASTERN.

(From the New York Herald, August 4.)

Seven hundred feet of flush deck, never wet with spray
in any ordinary gale ; 1,200 people sprinkled about the
monster, making no more show than the ordinary comple-
ment of a common steamer for society.
The four 18-pounders peel out their parting salute to the
crowded docks at Liverpool, and notify us that we are under
way, a fact that is hardly indicated to a close observer by
any jar of the engines, or any motion of the ship,even when
she is going at speed in smooth water.
Below decks the ship looks most unostentatiously plain,
but substantial to the highest point, and with the hammer-
ing she had in the terrific gale when she lost her rudder,
and afterwards when she struck a new found rock in mid-
channel, off Montauk Point, not the slightest sign of strain
can be found upon her.
Her arrangements for passengers are the first step in
that reverse of old quarter-deck rules which steam must
sooner or later bring, in order to avoid coal smoke and
other nuisances. Her forecastle for the crew, to speak
Hibernice, comes next the taffrail ; then the quarters of the
steerage passengers on the after part of the two decks,
with air ports which can be kept open all the time. Price
of passage being about what a labouring man can earn
during the 35 days that he will save as compared with the
crowded twist decks of a sailing ship. Forward of this
comes the intermediate steerage, where at a low rate a few
passengers get very fair quarters in rough state rooms,
which most people would prefer, for 11 days, to a cabin of
a sailing ship for 40. These arrangements for the crew and
steerage passengers take up less than a quarter of the ship's
length.

Next comes the second cabin, whose occupants share the
remaining three-quarters of the deck with the captain,
officers, and first class passengers.

Below decks they are only separated by an iron bulk-
head and a curtain door from the first cabin, and yet prac-
tically all the advantages of the first class. Good air, for
state-rooms, good, substantial food, and a fair half of the
delightful music which the band discourses at meals in the
first cabin.

We now come to the more aristocratic part of the ship,
which is generally plain as a pike staff, and owes its at-
tractions more to its ample light and perfect ventilation
than to any attempt at elegance or ornament, excepting the
grand saloon and ladies' cabin, which shines with gilt and
mirrors. Those who have smothered for a fortnight in the
little airtight state-rooms of the little three thousand ton
steamers, flavoured with sea sick reminiscences, can but
appreciate the luxury of an open port 15 inches in diameter
in each state-room.

Here you can get quarters in rooms varying from 20 feet
square at corresponding prices, but all having the one thing
needful for health—namely, fresh air ad libitum, and some
suites of rooms with baths and water closets attached. We
have now surveyed the comforts of the ship. The luxuries
consist of a good table, attention, service, and a most ca-
pital band, of 15 pieces, which sounds the reveille in the
morning and the retreat at night, announces the meals by
bugle calls, accompanies the dinner below, and then amuses
the world above for an hour or two about sunset, giving
the steerage and other passengers a chance which they
often wait for to dance upon the broad and even deck.
But, asks a timid friend, how about safety with all this,
comfort, luxury, and grandeur, and how about sea sick-
ness ? Let us weigh ()Ili good ship's qualities in the light
of prudence and experience. _ _

James Lang, who had lived servant at Mrs. Leat's for
six weeks in 1861, deposed that he had repeatedly seen an
immoral intercourse between plaintiff and defendant: but
upon cross-examination he said it always occurred in the
front kitchen, the door being ajar, and he being in an ad-
joining kitchen with the door open. He never mentioned it
to anybody till lately.
The Judge ordered this witness also to remain in court.

Once at sea all admit that she is the safest ship that
floats. She is built with wonderful strength and skill, and
has stood more tests than any ship now extent,

Any ordinary collision with other vessels could only re •
suit in her favour. She is nearly fire-proof, and her fire
engines have lain nightly along her decks, reducing her
danger to almost nothing. A gale of wind at sea is merely
sport to her. In case of breaking down one set of engines,
she has, besides her sails, either her screw or her paddles
left. But how can she be safe in approaching the shore
with her unwieldy bulk and great draught of water?
Let those who saw her go into Queenstown inner harbour
before a gale of wind, and turn in her own length amid the
shipping, under the guidance of Captain Paton, as a steed
obeys his rider, say whether she is docile.
In truth, the advantages of handling her in narrow water
by turning the screw one way and the paddle the other,
makes her, under skilful hands, more manageable than ordi-
nary sea steamers.

This brings us to her one admitted fault, counterbalanced
by so many virtues—that she draws sft more water than a
steamer of 3,000 tons, and may thus pick up a new ledge of
rocks or an old sand-bar when the other would go clear.
True, she may again, as she did off Montauk, and what was
the result then ? With six holes in her bottom, one of
them 100 ft long, and one 40ft long, she resumed her voyage
into port, and delivered her passengers unfrightened, her
cargo undamaged. She has, in fact, double bottoms 3ft
apart, besides a great number of compartments, some of
which could be filled by ruptures in both her bottoms with-
out the ship sinking.
It would be a long story to tell, the patience and inven-
tion which enabled Captain Paton and his officers to repair
her bottom without the help of any dock ; but the same
qualities which then got her out of difficulty gives the
best guarantee for her future safety while he walks "the
monarch of her peopled deck." How about sea sickness ?
There is absolutely no pitch to her in any ordinary gale,
an angle of six degrees being the greatest her decks ever
attain fore and aft. Here is one half the motive cause of
sea sickness taken out. She rolls with an easier motion
than most ships, but still she rolls at times about as much
as smaller ships. On the passage we have had racks on
the table to secure the plates part of two days. Very sen••
sitive people will still sometimes be sea sick on board; but
with freedom from pitching and from bad smells, and with
the abundance of fresh air, it is difficult to imagine any
better security against nausea than she furnishes. Out of
1,200 passengers a few have been sick, but a great majority
of those who are usually sea sick are entirely fro,- from it.
Let us now leave these dry details and revert to the scene
which enlivened the good ship on the 4th cf July, 1863.
The sky was bright, the sea was blue and smooth, and most
of her passengers were on deck.

About noon certain mysterious bundles were seen rising
to her masthead, and at a signal from Captain Paton these
unrolled and displayed the glorious Stars and Stripes upon
one mast and St. George's red cross on the other, while
our cannon thundered forth a national salute, and the full
band gave us the inspiring " Hail Columbia." The salute
ended, two standards were handed one, the American, to
a fine .looking Englishman, and the other, English, to a
stalwart American, and the passengers, steerage and cabin,
matched three times round the ship (nearly a mile), led by
the band, playing national airs. A few speeches, good for
the shortness, if for nothing else, cheers for the flag, for
the Queen, for the ship and for Captain Paton, closed this
harmonious festivity.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIF E-- ~., rtrA-
AT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.p.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., VI,.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
,he beginning of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
lor' which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
it Transporting-cart cages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work,
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributione s— £ s. a
Fier Majesty the Queen .. .. .. annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the lion. Mrs. G. • • • . .. annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • • • .. .. annual 11 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., Esq., • • •• - .. 4th don.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief ustice • • • • .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting Carriage .. • • • • • • • • 250 0 0
Thomas,:itivliaeo.:it
g.sb
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Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. ~ • don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. • . .. theon. 10 0 0
Moore, Reg. G. B. .. .. .. .. don. 15 15 0
.... .... • • 16 16 0
Smith, Mrs. Gezrge, Greenwich • • • • . • 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. • • .. annual 20 0
Co„ 59, Strand; s.lannual 5 0 0
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Hatreet, Lonesrns.• Ilbevrraiels'
Percival, and Co. ,-, 76, Lombard-41TO ;
the institutixione,ssle.scsrosu.trlalnisd,
James's no•ult,omSts.
and Bankers in the Uniiedlciu" gdom ; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis, Esq at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-lane; duel- - uohllaregfsdoCf
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Mina Berry, a girl of 17, also deposed to having wit-
nessed an impropriety in 1861, which she saw through the
keyhole of a door. She had never mentioned it to a soul
till a Mrs. Room had asked her about it.

After a witness, whose evidence was immaterial, had
been called,
Mr. Kerslake summed up bis evidence, contending that
It afforded ground upon which the jury might arrive at a
conclusion favourable to the defendant.
Mr. Coleridge replied in an able address, in which he
strongly denounced the conduct of the defendant, quoting,
in the course of his remark, the well-known speech of
Emilia in " Othello," which ends with an invitation to
44 Place in every honest hand a whip,
To lash the rascal naked thrmigh the world I"
The speech waP received with a loud burst of applause,
which the officers of the court found difficult to repress.
The learned judge summed up
with great ability, stating
that if the jury believed the plaintiff, and the evidence of
Dr. Brent, and that the defendant had foully and vilely
slandered her, and had made against her a charge which,
if not disproved, must have embittered her life, the jury
would then have to say what sum, if any, could ccmpensate
her for the anguish she had suffered.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after a
lapse of twenty-five minutes they returned into court, and
and found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages, £6O.
His Lordship—Where is the defendant?
The defendant stood up just behind his attorney facing
the bench. _ _ -

At dinner the best feeling was manifested by all, and
much interchange of courtesy between the Americans and
English occurred ; but there was no formal celebration, our
reserved for the evening.
energies being
At eight o'clock the band called us to the main dining
saloon, which was found cleared of its tables, decorated
with British and American flags, making a beautiful dancing
hall. And here the young and old kept up the dance until
the small hours, winding up with an old-fashioned country
dance and a light supper. .

Thus ended one of the pleasantest celebrations of the
glorious Fourth which it has been our lot to witness. How
much may be done by the commander and his officers on
such occasions to make a crowd happy and to extend good
feeling between people of different nations. Since then we
have been rushing through endless fogs on the Banks, occa-
sionally hearing the fog horn of some fishermen, and once
pulling up short in the midst of a fleet of fishing vessels,
one within 20 feet of our side.

His Lordship—Robert Stogden, the verdict of the jury
has branded you as a man who has committed wilful and
corrupt perjury, and the Court has anxiously considered
whether it ought not to commit you for trial for that offence
If there were a criminal assize in this city, where the trial
has taken place—if your trial for perjury could have taken
place where your crime has been committed, and if the
witnesses were net put to any trouble and delay by going
to a new place, to the city of Gloucester, where the case
could not have been heard before the next assize, and
where new counsel would have to be instructed, and you
might after all have slipped through the nets of criminal
justice, the Court would have committed you for trial
for that offence. Upon consideration, however, seeing
the disadvantages under which that trial would take

A RUMOUR is circulating to the effect that Miss
Pyne and Mr. Harrison have absolutely the intention of
attempting Le Proptiete' in English I We can hardly,
exclaims the Athenoum, fancy so huge a mistake possible.

Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s. 4d. and
4s. " High Standard." at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in rackets.
The French duty on steel goods was almost prohibitory,
but they long since removed every possible obstacle to tee
introduction of Herring's magnetic brushes, &c. Dr. Hassall
reports "I regard them as the most perfect brushes hitherto
made, as respects their mechanical construction and their
magnetical action." They are the remedy for grey hair'
neuralgia, rheumatism, &c. N. B.—Counterfeits are being
made. Offices, 32, Basinghall-street, London.

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Mr. Gurney (the associate) then formally bound over the
defendant to appear, if called, at the next Lenten Assize for
the county of Gloucester.

LANCASHIRE DISTRESS.

CENTRAL RELIEF FUND.

The usual weekly meeting of the Executive Committee
was held at the Town-hall, Manchester,yesterday. The Earl
of Derby presided, and there were present Sir J. Kay-
Shuttleworth, Lord Egerton of Tatton, Lord E. Howard,
Colonel Wilson Patten, Major Egerton Leigh, Messrs.
Kay, Stern, Heywood, Roberts, E. Ashworth, Goodair,
Hugh Mason, Platt, Ross, G. L. Ashworth, Hutchinson,
Rawlinson, R. M'Clure, and Commissioner Farnall.
Mr. J. W. M'Clure, hon. sec., reported the balance in
the bank of £314,59G 12s 11d, and that £513 3s 2d had been
received during the week. Two small parcels of clothing
had been received, but none sent out.
Mr. Commissioner FARNA.LL presented his weekly re-
port :

" I beg to inform you that on the Bth inst. there was an
increase in the number of persons receiving parochial relief
in 27 Unions in the cotton manulacturing districts, as com-
pared with the number so relieved in the previous week, of
91. This increase of 91 is explained as follows :—There is
an increase at Burnley of 23, at Bury of 231, at Chorley of
18, at Clitheroe of 44, at Garstang of 9, at Glossop of 25, at
Haslingden of 28, at Leigh of 25, at Preston of 501,at Prest-
wich of 38, and at Rochdale of 13—making a total increase
of 955. But there is a decrease at Ashton-under-Lyne of 94,
at Barton-upon-Irwell of 42, at Blackburn of 49, at Bolton
of 107, at Chorlton of 132, at Lancaster of 18, at Maccles-
field of 9, at Manchester of 263, at Saddleworth of 6, at
Salford of 107, at Stockport of 28, at Todmorden of 5, at
Warrington of 1, and at Wigan of 3—making a total de-
crease of 864; so that there is a net increase of 91; and,
since the 6th of December last, a total decrease of 126,134.
There were, on the Bth inst., 145,849 persons receiving
parochial relief in the 27 Unions adverted to ; in the corre-
sponding week of 1861, 46,874 persons were so relieved;
there is, therefore, an increase of 98,976 persons in re-
ceipt of parochial relief, or 211.2 per cent, In the corre-
sponding week of 1862, 118,824 persons received parochial
relief. The total weekly cost of outdoor relief on the Bth
instant was £8,930 12s 7d; in the corresponding week of
1861 it was £2,240 18s 8d; there is, therefore, an in-
crease of £6,689 13s 11d, or 298.5 per cent. In the cor-
responding week of 1862 it was £6,609 9s Id. The
average percentage of pauperism on the population of
the Unions on the Bth inst., was 7.4 ; in the correspond-
ing week in 1861 it was 2.4. The amount of money in the
hands of the treasurers of the above Unions on the Bth inst.
was £73,929 15s. 4d. I take this opportunity of stating
that the provisions of the Public Works Act will shortly
come into operation in most of the large towns and in seve-
ral of the parishes of the cotton manufacturing districts ; I
am therefore justified in anticipating that a great number of
able-bodied unemployed operatives will soon be removed
both from the poor-rates and from the charitable funds."
Mr. MACLURE, referring to the increase last week and in
the previous week in recipients of relief from the guardians,
expressed an opinion that to some extent it arose from the
closing of the operations of various relief committees, a re-
sidue of whose recipients of relief were now transferred to
the guardians. The usual monthly returns at the end of the
month would show the exact number of the recipients of
relief from all sources, and what change had taken place in
the numbers.

Col. WILSON PATTEN inquired whether measures were
being taken in the places applying for loans to show even-
tually what number of men had been employel upon public
works, and the number taken off the relief committee books.

Mr. FARNALL said he should take care to see these men at
work, and report to this committee as to the number of previ-
ously unemployed operatives who were included among them.
Mr. GOODAIR, in reply to an inquiry from Mr. Fantail as
to the cause of the increase of 501 persons in receipt of
parochial relief in Preston, said that during the past week
two mills had been reduced to short-time working, and that
the local relief committee were throwing off their books a
certain number of persons who might possibly be finding
their way on to the books of the guardians. In answer to
the Chairman, Mr. Goodair also said that in the present
state of the market for cotton and manufactured goods it
was;impossible to predict with any degree of certainty how
long these mills might continue upon short time.

Mr. RAWLINSON stated that the after-named towns had
sent in applications, accompanied by plans and estimates,
for loans for purposes here stated :—Blackburn, £78,300,
for main sewers, for cleansing river, deepening, forming,
and paving the beck through the town, for forming and
paving streets, and for other works (a further sanction is to
be asked for during the winter) ; Preston, £28,500, to form
public parks and recreation ground, and to complete sewers
and streets and paving and repairing footpaths on the banks
of the Ribble, and for other works ; Dukinfield, £2,000, for
main sewers and other works. These applications had been
reported on and sanctions would be granted. Blackburn
would have a first instalment of £lO,OOO, and additional in-
stalments as the work proceeded. Preston would have the
same, and Dukinfield would have the £2,000 asked for, as
it was thought of £lO,OOO being asked for when plans could
be got ready. Denton is preparing plans foe main sewers,
and Wigan has given notice for £50,000; Bolton was about
to apply for a sanction to borrow £lOO,OOO for waterworks,
extensions,cleansing and improving river, sewering, forming
paving, and completing streets, recreation grounds' exten-
sion, markets' extension, and new town hall. The plans
and specifications are in course of preparation. Stockport
was about to make application for some £50,000 for forming
sewers and streets, cleansing river, and other works. Most
of the boroughs and towns in the distressed districts would
apply for loans as soon as plans and estimates could be pre-
pared.
The CHAIRMAN (Lord Derby) asked if the public works
carried out under the new act in places named would absorb
a large amount of unskilled labour.
Mr. RAWLINSON replied that they would. At the present
moment something like 550 unskilled labourers were em-
ployed at Blackburn. At Bolton a large number were also
at work. At Dukinfield public works had been commenced,
in anticipation of obtaining a loan, for the purpose of find-
ing employment for applicants to the relief committee, there
All the men were employed in gangs and paid for measured
work.

The CHAIRMAN suggested that in the event of a larger
amount than the million and a half at present appropriated
to public works being applied for and granted, the Poor
Law Board might exercise a discretion in limiting its ap-
plication to such works as would employ the largest amount
of unskilled labour.

Mr. FARNALL said he had no doubt that, under the cir.
cumstances mentioned, some such discretion would be exer.
eised.

Grants were then made to various towns to the amount
of £3,955, including £l,OOO to Blackburn.
The CuAnnuli asked Mr. Rawlinson what steps had
been taken there to put the new Public Works Act into
operation?

Mr. RAWLINSON replied that Blackburn was the first
place to accept the provisions of the act ; and as regarded
the preparation of the necessary plans and specifications and
the carrying out all the other preliminary details, that town
might serve as a model for the rest of Lancashire, for no-
thing could be more complete and perfect. He begged also
to remark that in Blackburn they had forestalled the act,
in setting men to work for wages in the way provided for in
the act itself. They certainly deserved the warmest praise
of the committee and of the country.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
Whilst the Duke of Somerset. was holding his
levee at the office of the Admiral-Superintendent in
Devonport dockyard on Saturd'a'ymorning, Ad -
iniral Sir F. Grey, Admiral Eden,
and Commander
Drummond, proceeded across Hamoaze to the
exercising field (near Torpoint) of the gunnery ship
Cambridge, Capt. C. J. F. E wart, where the crew
formed into six companies of light infantry, drawn
up under Commanders Jones and Parry, and Lieuts.
Nicholson and Mitchell. From their four field pieces
they fired a salute of 19 guns, and then formed into
open column, formed into line, presented arms,
broke into open column, fired in companies, threw
out skirmishers, formed in square to receive ca-
valry, See. The skilful manner in which the sea-
men went through these intricate military evolu-
tions elicited the approbation of Admiral Grey, who
with his colleagues, and Port Admiral Sir Houston
Stewart, left Torpoint at noon, and recrossed Ha.
moan. Here they met the Duke of Somerset, with
whom they proceeded to inspect the fortifications at
Tregantie and Screasdon in Cornwall.
At four o'clock the Lords of the Admiralty, in-
cluding Mr. Stansfeld, accompanied by Mr. Ro.
maine, and Col. Greene, Director of Works, went to
Keyham steamyard, where they were received by
Rear-Admiral Superintendent Thomas M. C. Sy-
monds, C.IL Mr. R. Townshend, superintending
civil engineer, Mr. Miller, chief engineer of the
yard, and inspector of steam machinery, ani the
Master's Attendant Commanders Brown and Bid-
dlecombe. After examining tae iron-plated Prince
Consort, which is in the south basin, they went
through the great quadrangle to the site of the
proposed extension of the north basin. The details
were pointed out by Admiral Symonds. The'.r
lordships then proceeded to Ply mouth citadel, where
they met the Secretary for War, the Earl de Grey
and Ripen, and Captain Martindale, of the Royal
Engineers, who had just landed from an inspection
of the new circular fort erected on Drake's
Island. Under directions of C donel Shuttleworth
and Colonel Maberley, of the Royal Artillery,
25 rounds each were fired from three Armstrong
guns at a floating staff some 2in. thick, fixed off the
south point of Drake's Island, at a distance of 3,100
yards. Two wedged guns, one a 40-pounder, the
other a 70-pounder, mounted near the flagstaff on
the citadel, were commanded by Major Palmer of
No. 2 battery, and Captain Glanville, gunnery in-
structor. One ordinary Armstrong 1101 b. at King
Charles's bastion was under command of Lieut.
Sandemann of No. 8 battery. The wind at the time
was strong from the south-west and the atmosphere
somewhat thick, notwithstanding which the prac-
tice was exceedingly good, as most of the balls fell
near the distant mark. At the conclusion Earl de
Grey and Ripon and Capt. Martindale, in company
with the Commander-in-Chief of the West District,
Gen. Hutchinson, inspected the quarters of the offi-
cers, the barracks of the men, their recreation room,
library, &c. From Plymouth the Secretary of War
will, it is said, proceed to Falmouth, and possibly
to Pembroke.

The drawings and models for the new iron frigate
Bellerophon, ordered to be constructed at Chatham
Dockyard from Mr. Reed's plan, are being prepared
at the dockyard under the superintendence of one
of the officials sent down from the Admiralty for
that purpose. The Bellerophon is to be exactly
300 ft. in lenglh, with a breadth of beam of 57ft. ;
her draught of water will not, it is expected, exceed
26ft. In order to arrive at the greatest strength of
material to serve as a guide in the construction of
the Bellerophon, and especially in the matter of her
shot resisting surface, orders have been received at
the dockyard for the construction of a target to be
used in a series of experiments at Shoeburyness, to
test the strength of the manner in which it is pro-
posed to construct her sides. This target is now
being put together at the -Millwall Ironworks, and
will shortly be ready to be operated upon. The
target is to be constructed of 10-inch iron frames,
placed about two feet apart, on which will be first
laid a covering of iron plates of about two inches
in thickness. This will serve as the " skin " of the
target, preparatory to a backing of 12-inch teEk
planking, The target will then be finally covered
with iron armour-plates, of from Sin. to 7in. in
thickness, but the exact thickness has not yet been
decided upon. From the results of experiments
already made on various descriptions of targets at
Shoeburyness it is confidently expected that this
construction will exceed in shot-resisting strength
every other description of plating hitherto adopted
in this country, and if the arrangement is found to
succeed the same mode of construction will be fol-
lowed in building the Bellerophon.

The launch of the Research, 4, 1,250 tons, iron-
cased frigate, the first of the vessels constructed on
Mr. Reed's plan, took place at Pembroke on Satur-
day evening. The ceremony of "christening" the
ship was performed by Miss Kerr,daughter of Capt.
Lord F. H. Kerr, of the Blenheim, 60, 400-horse
power, flag-ship at Pembroke. The vessel's mean
draught of water after launching was found to be
only 8 feet, or nearly a foot less than was calculated
upon by the dockyard authorities. As she lay on
the stocks there was but one opinion as to her ugli-
ness, but on getting afloat she was pronounced a
rather stylish craft. She is intended to carry only
four heavy guns, but will be entirely encased with
from 4to 41-inch armour-glates. At present she
has only four plates bolted to her sides, but the re-
mainder are to be put on as speedily as possible,
after which the Research will be sent to Devonport
to be fitted for commission.

The troop ship Orontes, Capt. H. \%T• Hire, from
the eastward, arrived in Plymouth Sound, yester-
day (Monday) morning, en route for the Medi-
terranean.

The John Banfield, hired sailing transport, has
commenced shipping, in the Docks,4oo tons of Arm-
strong shells for Hong Kong, from Woolwich
Arsenal. A number of 20-pounder naval guns, 40-
pounders, and 110-pounders are in readiness for
embarcation at Woolwich for Simon's Town, and
also for Auckland, New Zealand ; aswell
as
13-
inch mortars, 8-inch iron howitzers,
guns for Quetec, and commissariat and
stores
awaiting
fo r the
ton-
Mauritius, the whole of which are
nage for shipment. shipped
The hired transport Marian Mo°re,having
North Woolwich,
a cargo of electric wire for the t Indian line of tele-
graph, at Henley's factor,yharnes.
sailed yesterday from tp.nettnr
ents were yesterday at
The following P
~..... aPhe°rt W. Clarke, staff surgeon,
the Admiralty
Ita
T. Farwell, assistant pay-
to the Saturn; J°" and Daniel Wishart, in the
master, to the Asia ;he
Brisk, Promoted to the rank of acting first-class
assistant-engineer.