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London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

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steamer, is ordered to be fitted as a t, 'lnd
tic
vey the officials and mechanics to I w
dockyard to the Achilles at Chatham, 0
being nndocked and completed hr sea. It was
.0 ,
ori-
ginally intended to employ theßeot AA, • 180-horse
on being
surveyed by the dockyard officials it WU
f' amid that
power, as a tender to the Achilles, but
she was not adapted for that service.
The following is an extract from a letter .. received
from her Majesty's ship Himalaya, by our Ports-
month correspondent, dated at Point de Gallo, Sept.
29 :—', We left St. Vincent on the 9th. of An gust
for the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored in Simi. ;a's
Bay on the 28th, at 1 a.m. On the st.h of Sep ,%.
we sailed from Simon's Bey, with the 2,5 th regi-
ment on board, for Colombo, where we ar rived on
the 24th of September, at 8 a.m. Having disem-
barked the troops, we sailed from Colombo on tile
27zh for this
place, to coal, where we arrived th.e
same day, and are now engaged in that very neces.
sary operation. We leave her tc-morrow (Sept., '
30) on our return to Colon- bh, and anticipate
sailing thence for Auckland
New Z: gland about
the 7th of October: From St. Vincent to the
Cane we encountered strong •head-winds. Our
,
p•ssage from Portsmouth to Colombo has been.
only 56 days 19 hours, including 10 days at
accomplished by any other vessel having so large
ofefast:ullssohnOUlbdoasrudp. peae, never before
head seas we have experienced during
Notwithstanding
there has never been
occasion, with one exception when close .to Ceylon,
anchor—aptaho
enr
tuhiomenabsve
heady
to stop the Himalaya's machinery .
for one, moment.
beautifully, and our con-
Every part still works
very small—the maximum
sumption of coal has been
ours and the average
amount being 40 tons id 24 h •
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being 35 tons. Oar maiayard
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of the Restoration down to the novelists of Victoria,
we have a constant succession of writers, very few
of whom have succeeded in so treating indecent sub-
jects as not to do more harm than good. Scott did;
perhaps George Elliott has done ; but we doubt if
there is a third name. In the earlier writers of
all, in the "Beaux's Stratagem," the "Relapse,"
and so on, the intention was to do harm. These,
therefore, may be dismissed from consideration.
But take three famous English classics—Richard-
son, Fielding, and Smollett : how, we should like
to know, have they served the cause: of virtue?
Richardson's efforts in that direction, good enougL
in conception, were wholly neutralised by the
execution. To impress upon maid servants,
governesses, and lady's maids, the worldly advan-
tages of chastity, and to generate in their minds
the belief that this virtue did exist in the class
to which they themselves belonged, was, unques-
tionably, a useful purpose in the middle of the
18th century. But readers of " Pamela" and
" Clarissa Harlow" will understand what we
mean when we say that the realism of Richard-
son,s descriptions of the trials through which they
pass would do far more by inflaming the passions
than the plot could do harm good by convincing
the reason. Whatever good intentions either
Fielding or Smollett may_ have had weri4neu-
tralised by a similar elemen • and, °omit 4444
• tuomrr :hurt 'oPtitir `own ig * ,7- ':ikiffetill ay t itl
On evil has Onfy change . ,guise. ' ,' ':.
No contemporary writer ivotrid venttiiii to Apra-
duce in his pages such scerie*.tia, may be found in
" P amel a." But we do not' behave that it Would
hare occurred to Riehardsoqlo iintroducejuto ,a
novel such characters es .0.001 Irn "4Swoed and
Guth," and FlOrenee 'la 4.iotiy Livingetone.4
'VD* last are. the kind of riurel-! which is really
dangerous .:to morals? ,insinti .ngtas it does that
anitlmg 'English joung ladies .chtutity is a hum
drain' virtue, 'which 'th'ee' clelOreet, the preitiOs4
and the most spirithei ttie:;e4l , to sacrifice
alnioie at a, moment's hOtice; iteneecit be, for she:
sake of theivfarourite Itioi: :Weeare not exagga-
rating. sjaace,..preeludes usdaVeniif nothing else',
did, from supplying proofs otarliatwe say. But;;,
these who are curious in such matters will do well:
tb refer to the licodaerYatOry-scene" in " day';'
Living;i3tOne;" and the' proposal Of. ROyston Keitiell
tuAiecil in " Sword kid CoWri.)'-. - .., I

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taia Leopold a. Heath. C 13., is now.
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Cwhotirgß *miecit Arsenal, h
n the Ore having-dnance Selectsucee ee
ed9nl .0
a
liam Wisemadin that cffice. •
'The, Adventure screWe., troOkship,, Capt. 'T,• 46.
Lethbridge., arrived atsSpithead yesterday morn mg
fromQaehec and Halifax. The AdventUre 50!*' 1:14 ,
into Portsmouth ; harbour yesterday afterital
:,,gtdiftilieknainstpegro'r•Paat•l:jeki"tti ify7,tth..::Ehd‘.g?are;:.a'tWhnectiel)trlirolitolaprif3:7:alilll:/nattiddr;a:iintile,..(s'!
`barked this morning; And ibit time-expired men fot7',,
'warned to_ the- depdts of their respectiVe reginients,••
rand
;invalids Id 17.1'e -lioya-1 Military Hbiipital at
r. The 'ruf.viiFitiValids.breught home In, the
,`1
H•sbip 77i1V.he transferred tOTher•ltlajeity's_iship•Vie-- i .
totY !arid '.the•ltoyial- Naval) Hospital at Haslai.
;the-- Adventure ..7s4iJed from Portsmouth. ;?
ge
tlieell4 et a,
it; Pit
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astaiiilVadliefag:i.onnfrtohraa
9,Qvueebb:
14th, saliling ,again • from Hahfaa for Angland
vole 16th:, ..At Halifax, ,ilici3.tl4e•;4l.dventure waited:
were. her Majesty's ships-NilviPi;aeton,breYbOuncl;
her naiM prom the 'stranded 4.;
Onward stcms4iP 4ft4.:areiyid at Halifax on the
Bth inst:rin her Majestytesteabrer Vestilus. Dar:.
ing CaPt'.4eihbrltlke's absence on this last trip from -7
tiglandiror-Canada and back he has bgeti prompted',
from Cot'njniandeitO the 040, rdtik bythe Admiralty
It wilt bc,..h.e.weves,irdo`io:the isarsice if this Pro- '
Motion:should cause, Waremoval from the'ciiitimand.
.
to be emmentl •
l)y his energy,tactiilTA,saamu7,--TP, y
rfi d ed Calit. Lethbridge con-
the Aldventure; for4hich he has proved himself,
Ana e .prec •
'tittuing to held--his.ficsertt.npPointment,exists in
Capt. Seccoinbe being continued in the command of
the Rinialaya,•under siratlar circumstance.
Abolition of -the... Punishment of .I!gath, and
the - Author The Last ]gays of a •
t dondemned,

Naval an-ivrilitqxy: T.AArtigence.

THE' NAVY:

As the time 'approaches for undocking the iron
frigate Achilles, 35, 1,250-horse power at Chatham,
increased exertions are being used by the officials.
so that no defy may be experienced in completing
and equipping her for sea immediately afterwards.
The whole of the broadside plating which protects
her midship battery has been completed for 'some
time, and is now being cleared down preparatory:
to receiving' the final coating of paint. In this
portion of the Achiliee the armour-plating. as ex,
tended to her ,upper deck, which, spin, is plated
with iron yeeying from 5-19ths to 5-Bths of aninch
in thiekneaeato protect the gunners on the maindeck
from the effects Of she/land molten metal. The miele
ship's battery is pritecited at the stein and stern by
armour-plated bulieheads, rendering, the central
portion of themaih deck to till intents a shat and
shell proof-hattarn the guns in which may still be
riaployed long eifter those on the other psrtsof the,
Main deck havepeNeeiilenced.el3eyoed the armour
-
'plated bpheade the sta-inchlarmour-platinelis not
carried any fifeher than,the main deck &ors: With
the eseception 'of sodor2o plates tte,,be 'fiteecl •to the
countef and buttbek of- the" fern` portion 4if the
the entire pia:l:Lig is cote This ulna
iiearke L:-Eiesever, jalioceealeabut triereelyein-
consequence of the extreme nicety requirel—first in
cutting the slabs of iron to the exact shape of the
stern of the vessel, and afterwards fitting them in
their place, both operations requiring the greatest
possible care. In order to lessen, as mach ss pos-
,,ible, the tendency to roll, which, more or less,
characterises the whale of our iron ships, the
Achilles has been built flitter on the floor than was
the case with the Warrior and Black Prince. In
addition, she has been furnished with t ovo iron
bilge pieces, running nearly the entire length of
the vessel, and placed about midway between her
keel and water-line. These, there is little doubt,
will have considerable effect in lessening any ten-
dencies to roll which she may exhibit when at sea.
With regard to the remarks which have been made
respecting the time spent in building the Achilles,
a few facts will prove, perhaps, that her construc-
tion has oceupied a shorter period than that of the
Warrior, with which she has been unfavourably
compared. The Admiralty records show that the
Warrior was commenced in the month of May,
1859, and, according to the contract, was to be
ready to receive her engines in 11 months from that
date, and to proceed to sea in three months after-
wards. Instead, however, of being ready by the
time specified, the -Warrior did not leave the Thames
until the month of Ostober, 1861. She then pro-
ceeded to Portsmouth, where she remained a consi-
derable time before being finally ready for sea; thus
only a few months short of three years were em-
ployed in her construction and equipment for seta
In the case of the Achilles the order to begin to
build the vessel together with the sheer draught,
arrived at Chatham Dockyard from the Admiralty,
on the 19th of April, 1861, at which date not a
single piece of the vast machinery afterwards re-
quired had arrived at the dockyard, In addition
to this the best portion of a year was lost in the
erection of the requisite factories, sheds, workshops,
&ce for carrying
on the construction of an iron ves-
sel of vast size, the first of the kind ever attempted
at either of the Royal dockyards. Within about a
month, however, after the commencement of the
Achilles—namely, on the 30th May, 1861—an Ad-
miralty order arrived at Chatham for commencing
the iron-plated frigate Royal Oak, and as she was
required to be completed and sent to sea before the
Achilles, all the available force of the dockyard was
placed on her, while her machinery erected for the
Achilles was devoted, almost exclusively, to the
preparation of the armour-plates for the Royal Oak,
which was completed and launched in little more
than a year from being commenced and despatched
to sea from Chatham at the beginning of the present
year. Had not the Achilles been consequently de-
layed in order to complete the Royal Oak, the for-
mer vessel would have been out of hand and des-
patched to sea at least 12 months since. The first
armour-plate was fixed on the broadside of the
Achilles on the sth of February last, so that in little
more than eight months she
will have been entirely
plated from stem to stern, whereas, in the case of
the Warrior, the armour-plating is carried only for
some 2001 t. along each broadside, leaving nearly
double the number of plates to be bolted to the ex-
terior of the Achilles to those placed on the sides of
the Warrior. Taking into consideration the superior
quality of the work in the Achilles, as compared
with that in the -Warrior, the former is as
much superior to the latter as the 'Warrior was to
the Mersey, the_Orlando, and other fine frigates or
their day. An announcement has been received
from Messrs. Penn and Sees that the whole of the
machinery for the Achilles will be ready by the
middle of December.
,CIT
Yesterday the War Dopartment transio, opts Marl-
borough and Petrel went alongside thooloo d_nna;"-
wharf at Chatham, and co m m enleerd
withu
thdei
Aria
Armstrong and other guns, toget
of
capt.shot from the
strong and other descriptioos
A. Cummine,
Emerald, 35, 600-horse power
squadron, but now
being attached to the Channel
being dismantled at the Nore, preparatory to.heit;
and placed in the tined di_
put out of euierehi6lon
vision of the steam reserve.
the R suid
poownidaerrallie shell
, and
were landed yesterday from
deposited in the Government magazines at Upnor
Castle.
The Widgeon' 2, 90-borse power, p?Adiewhefl

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ThgLegielature.of.the,State of Columbia having
determined to aboiish the punishment of death, a
. .
letter was addressed by the envoy extraordinary and
iirjr.:_pbuipotEr,tiary of that—state to -Victor
tingo, informing him of the fact, to which letter the
distinguished exile has returned a rep'y, of which
the following is a translation :
"Hauteville House, Guernsey, 12th Oct.

'rigat

"I hope that some journal will have apprised you
of my absence from Guernsey since the end of July,
and that the delay of my answer will have thus
been explained.
"I only opened your honourable letter of the 17th
August to• day, having returned here but yesterday.
I need not tell you how much your communication.
has touched me. I have devoted my life to the prin-
ciple of progress, and the starting-point of the pro-
gress of this earth is, in my opinion, the inviola-
bility of human life. From that principle springs
the end of war and the abolition of the scaffold.
" The end of war and the abolition of the scaffold
is tha suppression of the sword. The sword sup-
pressed, despotism disappears. There are no longer
any reasons or means for its existence.
"You remit me, in the name of your free Repub.
lie, a copy of your constitution. Your constitution
the penalty
to
me apart
o fd e a t h
in this magnifi-
cent ; and you are good
toenough
hes
attribute
progress. With a profound emotion I thank
the Republic of the United States cf Columbia
"In abolishing the penalty of death
i .
t gives an
admirable example. It takes a double step—the
one towards happiness, the other towards glory,
" The great road is opened. Let America pursue
it—Europe will follow her.
" Transmit, M. the Envc3- Extraordinary, the ex-
pression of my gratitude to your noble and free
fellow citizens, and re • ceive the assurance of my high
consideration.

VICTOR HUGO.

CLEVER CAPTURE OF A BIGAMIST.—It seems that
James Hill, a good-looking man of about 30 or 35
years of age, and who is captain of a flat called the Martha,
some time in February last took it into his head to prevent
his wife with a carte de visite of himself. For this purpose
he went into a photographic establishment in Liverpool,
where he found a young woman, named Elizabeth Hood,
waiting to have her likeness also taken. Miss Hood's p.e.ri'
aonal attractions at once struck the captain, who engageLl:
conversation with her, and represented that he was an
married man. Captaik Hill's courtship was not of long
duration, for on the third day of forming an intitaao7,79r.
the young woman he led her to the hymenealrei resting iii
The second Mrs. Hill was now a happy womar_i_sortunately
the prospect of soon becoming a mother; but 7_
her lips,
her cup of happiness was soon to be dashedl3l. m house
and one day two women presented themselves
her name was
and asked her to give her name. Of course her at her mouse
the strangers
Mrs. Captain Hill, and this she announced this, one of the
with some degree of pride. On hearing
rried to my hus-
women exclaimed, ,4 Then you are, w the second Mrs.
band I" This was a dreadful shell 8
i victim and went to
Hill. The bigamist now deserted his The second Mrs.
the wan who had deceived
live again with the original Un
Hill seemed anxious to screenhad endured great suffering
her, and it was not until_ she___inun with the police.
that she and her frienedreooa.
first informed of the matter police;
The Liverpool fort® Ile
fiat was said to reside when
but as the master of
ashore at Birkenhead, she was referred to the police of that
wGregory ascertained that the Eliza-
bethwas lying
township. Inspector
near Gariiioll. About midnight on Tues-
day, Gregory,
accompanied by a Liverpool officer,
engaged a email nheo-
was
who
boat and proceeded to some
flats which
were
,wehored not far from Garston. At last he found the
Elizabeth and boarded her, but the _Liverpool officer re-
turned to the shore. Captain Bill and Mrs. Hill were on
board, besides the man who officiated as "hand" of the
gat. The office? protduced his warrant for the apprehen-
sion of the bigamis, and harl the anchor weighed. A sail
was hoisted, and the flat's head was turned in the direction
of the Birkenhead docks.
The first Mrs. Hill cried bit-
terly, Luti the Officer ,vas inexorable. The flat went
rapidly down the river with a strong ebb tide, and between
two and three o'clock in the morning silo made tho Birken-
hei.d low water basin. (3 r.got y then marched his prisoner
to Bridcwoll.._Liverpool Mercury.
PALLING -DOWN A MINE.--A soungcr brother of
Mr. P.l). Cooke, of Gwysaney, fell down an old
lead mine shaft on Nsturday last, about two miles from
Mold, on. the Iluthin side. Tho shalt is stated to be about
30 yards deep, and appears to have been quite unprotected,
except by a few decayed rails and briars. Although
wseri-
ously injured, Mr. Cooke's friends have great hopeshhot .
el:
recover, It is hoped this occurrence, painful thohuft;ftsit"
with
may lead to the closing up of numberless open
svplo have
which this country abounds. Numbers of r
it
is high
grown rich by the minerals of andFlintshire;o
or the
time to try the question whether a mining cwith a
railway
proprietor of the land is not equally liabl©
company in case of an accident.