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4 guns, 175-h. p. ;
seven gunboats (collectively), 14
guns, 140-h. p. ; and the screw troopships Simoom,
p., and the Urgent, 100-h. p. Add to this
division (paying off), the Algiers, 86 guns,
600-h.
p. ; the Arrogant, 47 guns, 360-h. p.; and, in Chan-
nel, the Amphion, 36 guns, 300-h. p.; the total
being 762 guns and 10,287-h. p. In the 4th division
the available ships are the *Enchantress, 2 gnus,
250-h. p. In the same division the non-available
ships are the *Penelope, 22 guns, 650-h. p. ; the Re-
tribution, 22 guns, 400-h. p. ; the Erebus (floating
battery), 16. guns, 200-h. p. ; the Glatton (floating
battery), 14 guns, 150-h. p.; the *Cuckoo, 2 guns,
100-h. p. ; the total being 76 guns and 1,500-h. p.
The totals of the four divisions give as available—
seven line-of-battle ships, two frigates, one screw
sloop, two paddle sloops, and eight gunboats, carry-
ing, when in commission, 853 guns, and propelled
by a nominal engine power of 6,750 horses. As
non-available—seven line-of-battle ships, five screw
frigates, and two paddle, three corvettes, three screw
sloops, five paddle sloops, seven gunboats, two float-
ing batteries, two screw transports, and one paddle
sloop, now fitting for Admiralty use, carrying 912
guns when in commission, and propelled by a no-
minal Anoinn rm.... fta 9n2,horses. These returns
do not include the gunboats laid Up at Hasler. mu
expense attending repairs to machinery of these
ships, the preservation of the machinery, &c., by the
steam reserve department alone during the past six
months has been upwards of £lO,OOO. Ships of the
line cost from £4OO to £5OO per annum in the re-
serves for the due preservation and repair of machi-
nery, &c., and others in proportion to the extent of
their machinery.

Rear-Admiral G. Elliot is, we understand, to suc-
ceed Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey as superinten-
dent of Portsmouth dockyard. Capt. W. Houston
is to receive the good service pension, vacant by the
promotion of Capt. G. Ramsay, C. 8., to the flag.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty—Lieut. H. R. Hamersley, Lieut. E.
S. Mangan, Lieut. Francis S. D. Broughton, to the
Marlborough ; Lieut. W. D. M. Dolben, to the Rat-
tlesnake ; Lieut. Seymour Smith, to the Pylades J.
C. Solfeet, master, additional, to the Cumberland,
for the Conqueror; F. A. Johnston, second master, to
the St. Vincent, for the Rolla ; E. Hinvest, second
master, to the Victory, as supernumerary; W.
Roberts (a), acting chief engineer, to the Fisgard,
for the Orontes ; W. Crow, acting first-class assist.-
engineer, to the Cumberland, for the Recruit; J.
Sharp, second class assistant-engineer, to the
Meanee ; T. Griffiths, acting second class assistant,
to the Cumberland, as supernumerary ; Westropp T.
Morgan and J. W. Sunderland, midshipmen, to the
IVleeanee ; and F. R. Dicken, midshipman, to the
Victory.

The screw corvette Pylades, 21, 350-horse power,
was commissioned at Chatham yesterday by Capt.
Arthur W. A. Hood (1858) for service in the West
Indies. She is to have a complement of 275 officers
and men, including Marines. The Pylades is fully
equipped, and has the whole of her sea stores, sails,
gun,, &c., on board. Since her return from her
cruise in the Pacific she has undergone a very exten-
sive repair at Chatham dockyard, and is now one of
the strongest and best vessels of her class in the
service.

An Admiralty order has been received at Chatham
to fit Mr. Lumley's patent jointed rudder to the
Columbine, 4, 150-horse power, fitting for the first
division of the steam reserve. Should the trials to be
made with the Columbine when fitted with the im-
proved steering apparatus prove satisfactory, the
new rudder will be adopted throughout the service,
the advantages claimed for the new appazatus by the
inventor being that a vesselsdi fittedipossesses the
facility of turning in a diameter of little more than
her own length.
The Cossack, 20, screw steam corvette, 1,296 tons,
250-horse power, has been taken into No. 1 dock,
Sheerness dockyard, to undergo extensive repairs.
The Terrible, 21, paddlewheel frigate, 1,850 tons,
800 .horse power, has been removed to No. 2 dock
in Sheerness dockyard, where she will be tho-
roughly repaired.

The Hero, 89, screw steam line-of-battle ship,
Capt. Alfred P. Ryder, is now in No. 3 dock at
Sheerness, having her keel repaired, which received
injuries from the vessel having run ashore some
weeks ago.

The Leander, 51, screw steam frigate, 2,760 tons,
400-horse power, is in the basin at Sheerness, being
fitted up for the first class steam reserve at Sheer-
ness, and is nearly
completed. The Columbine, 4,
screw steamsloop, 669 tons, 150-horse power, is
also being brought forward for the first class steam
reserve, and both vessels will soon be ready for the
pennant: _

A fatal accident occurred on board the Columbine
yesterday morning to an ablebodied seaman named
Christopher Johnson. Deceased was on the fore-
topyard, furling sails, when his foot slipped and he
fell to the deck, a distance of 80 or 90 feet, Death
was instantaneous.

The Lily, 4, screw gun vessel, arrived at Spithead
during the night of Tuesday from the eastward,
a n d sailed
to
the North America
again yesterday
and West
of re s Plymouth,
India
en route
station,
Private letters received from Hongkong announce
that 10 gunboats are being prepared there, at the
Government dockyard, for the serviceof the Chinese
Uovernment. It is supposed that they will form
part of the squadron that will be placed under the
command of Rear-Admiral Sherard Osborn, C.B.
The trial of the Sutlej, screw frigate, at the
measured mile at Portsmouth yesterday was post-
poned until to-day, when it will take place should
the weather moderate. Yesterday it blew strongly
from E.S.E., with a heavy sea running through
Spithead. The danger flag was in consequence
kept flying from the flagstaff of the semaphore, pro-
hibiting communication between the Sutlej and the
shore by boat.

* Paddle ateameis. Remainder aro fitted with screw
engines.

7.11 E AIIMI'.

Orders from the Horse Guards have been received
at the head-quarters of the Royal Engineer estab-
lishment, Chatham, directing the 22d company of
Royal Engineers to proceed on Friday morning to
Portsmouth, where it will be stationed until the
spring, when it will embark for China. The officers
who proceed with the company are Capt, Stewart
and Lieut. Williams. The 26th (Capt. Smith's)
company of Royal Engineers has also received
orders to hold itself in readiness to proceed from
Chatham m
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be employed on the for-
tifications beinghWicehyamroeuth, to
erected at that part of
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company
of Royal Engineers,
which recently arrived from Australia, has lost
the coast.
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nearly the whole of its old members who served
with the company at that station, most of the non-
commissionedeonffi theireers
and
dcharge since their return
men having either pur-
tcohaEsendgloerhdt.ak The
company
has accordingly been
raised to its home establishment from the depot
companies at Brompton Barracks. By direction of
company is to go through
at head-quarters.
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MR. A 1.4 6ON JONES 1N AMgIUCA.

A letter from New York says,—A Mr. Mason
Jones, an Irish orator who has lately arrived in
this city on a lecturing tour, and whose appeals for
patronage are 01144- addressed to his countrymen,
delivered a lecture on Wednesday night upon " John
Philpot Curran," and unluckily for himself ran his
head right against the " irrepressible negro," and
got the worst of the encounter. The subject of the
lecture was well chosen. Nearly one half of the
Judges and the most eminent practitioners at the
New York Bar are Irishmen by birth or extraction.
Fully one half of the aldermen, common council-
men, and officials of the city are of the same nation-
ality. A glance at the Netol'ork, Directory proves
from the immense number of O'Briens, O'Donnells,
O'Driscolls, O'Flahertys, and other similar entries
under the letter " o'," how largely the Irish are
represented in trade and commerce. The Hibernian
clerks of the Post-office and the Custom-house are
almost as numerous r s the American ; while a great
proportion, if not a majority of the reporters and
critics of the daily and weekly press drew their first
breath in the Green Isle, and sympathize with re-
bellion nowhere except in the land of their birth.
„;,,,,,,tarroa, Mr. Mason Jones, who
says " he has been hissed in England for advo-
cating the cause of the North," could not fail,
with anything like an adroit preliminary
manipulation of the agencies of publicity, to
command a large audience. Nor was he disap
pointed. Although the night was wet and foggy,
a brilliant and numerous assemblage filled Irving-
hall to listen to his eloquence. The subject not
only included Curran himself, but the wits and ora-
tors of the Irish bar. The first half of the lecture
was received with great favour, and the second half
would, doubtless, have excited as much applause had
not the lecturer forgotten in the middle of it that he
was in America, and not in England ; and had he
not been unaware of the fact that between the Irish-
man and the negro in this country there is a mutual
antipathy. Speaking of Curran's defence of Rowan
for a libel on the Crown, be quoted the portion of
the speech which eulogises universal emancipation,
and capped the climax of mistake by reciting the
well known lines of Cowper which commence with
the noble assertion—

" Slaves cannot breathe in England."
In this the lecturer made a double mistake. He not
only expressed an Abolitionist sentiment, but dared
to hint, although vicariously, and at second hand,
that England could be in anything the superior of
America. His ignorance of the country alone re-
lieved him from the imputation of temerity. Such
a quotation might have answered very well in Dr.
Cheever's or Mr. Ward Beecher's pulpit, but was not
to be endured in a lecture room before a miscellane-
ous audience of Hibernian sympathies and idiosyn-
cracies. No sooner were the words uttered than there
was an explosion of wrath from every part of the
room. A match applied to a keg of gunpowder could
not have caused a more sudden or a much more violent
outburst. " Imagine," says the Tribune, "an even-
ing partyall propriety, politeness, and good humour,
suddenly startled by the apparition of a mad bull
coming, horns and hoofs, tl'rough the folding doors.
The instant the word emancipation' was uttered,
up rose some 200 malcontents. Hissing, swearing,
bullying, and all sorts of insults followed. A num-
ber of people hurried out of the room, the ladies
looking pale and anxious, lest the fight should
begin -in their presence. Mr. Jones stood his
ground. He hurled back hot words, and proudly
hoped the time would soon come when the Ameri-
can flag would not float over a single slave or record
a single crime against human liberty. At this
point there were hissing and threatening, and cries
of ' God - him ! Why does he come here to
teach us ?" - his lecture!" Don't let him go
on ! Crush him ! Stop him ! Turn him out.' "
Order was ultimately restored. The lecturer care-
fully avoided the "irrepressible negro" during the
remainder of his discourse, and concluded in peace.
At his next lecture he is not likely to forget his
geography, or to fall into the error of imagining
that Irishmen and Americans in New York can
listen with as much patience as Englishmen in
Hanover•square to boasts of a liberty that does not
exist, and never will as long as there is a negro on
the American continent to be held as a slave in the
South, or treated as worse than a pariah in the
North.