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London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

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them from choice. It would also be a work of time
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to mount heavy guns along the James River. Be-
yond this, every week in the encampment reduces
the number and enfeebles the strength of the
Federal army, and delay is probably the result of
a deliberate resolve to defer the attack until a Vir-
ginian summer has fully wrought its effects, to the
end that the blow, when delivered, may be deci-
sive. As Burnside's force has been moved from the
James River to the Rappahannock, it may be in-
ferred that M'Clellan's position is considered so
hopeless that it would have been too dangerous to
send that division to reinforce him.
Yon have justly observed that the condition of the
North excites now a feeling of pity. It is a pitiful
thing to see men rushing to escape from a country
like rats from a sinking ship, America had once a
charm that none denied. Whatever might be want-
ing in the North, it was the home of liberty. It is
now a land of bastiles, passports, spies, informers,
censors, conscripts. One cannot realise the idea of
an American conscript. We have been so accus-
tomed to believe and revere the principles the North
professed, that, to see these abandoned in a day—
nay, spurned and derided—seems like some gro-
tesque passage from a dream. The enthusiasts for
a theoretical nationality, who thought it so fatal to
lose some of their numbers, do they deem it a
greater evil to diminish a nation than to ruin and
disgrace it ? Surely, before long, a sense of indig-
nant shame will rouse some to remember their his-
tory and principles, to bethink them who their
fathers were, and to make an effort to save their
name from becoming a byword, and their country

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711 E NAVY.

The iron frigate Black Prince, 40, screw, Capt.
I. F. B. Wainwright, was docked yesterday at
Portsmouth preparatory to the resumption of her
speed trials. It is intended to nndock her again to-
day and send her out at once to Spithead, to com-
mence her trials again at the measured mile to-
morrow.

The Vindictive sailing frigate, coal and bread
depot ship, for Fernando Po, Master-Commander
Low, sailed from Spithead for her destination at
daylight on Wednesday morning with a fine easterly
breeze. Towards noon, however, the wind fell light
and variable inshore. The Vindictive and a fleet of
outward-bound merchant vessels at 4 p.m., being
off St. Catherine's, close hauled, with the wind light
at W.S.W.

The Stork gunboat, commenced testing yesterday,
in Porchester Creek, Portsmouth,the sample armour
plates on the side of the Sultan target ship,supplied
from the Thames Ironworks, the Mersey Ironworks,
the Monkbridge Company, and Messrs. Hill and
Smith.

The forging of portions of the iron work connected
with the fitting of the towers and shields on Capt.
Coles' plans to the decks of the Royal Sovereign has
been commenced in the smithery of Portsmouth
Dockyard. The number of hands employed upon
the ship has been increased to carry out the altera-
tions required to her upper decks.
The Psycho Admiralty yacht, master commander
was swung yesterday in Portsmouth har-
bPtloeurety,
to
ascertain the deviation of her compass.
The Simoom,iron screw troopship, lately returned
from service in China, has been brought down to
Portsmouth harbour and placed in the steam basin
preparatory to docking and refit so soon as men can
be spared from other work in hand in the yard.
The Simoom is one of the strongest built iron ships
in the Navy, has excellent accommodation for
troops, and, next to the Himalaya, is, without
doubt, the most efficient troopship under the Crown.
We are glad to find that steps have at length been
taken to render her again available for the public
service.

The Hindostan, 78, having been repaired, was
removed yesterday from No. 4 dock, in the Devon-
port dockyard, to her moorings among the steam
reserve. It was Intended to send tier to the West
Indies to do duty as a receiving ship, but the Abou-
kir has been left there for that purpose.
The screw steam corvette Rattlesnake, 21, Capt.
A. E. Wilmot, C. 8., was put out of No. 3 dock at
Devonport, on Wednesday evening, and placed along-
side the hulk Endymion. The bottom of the corvette
has been cleaned and her copper repaired.
The screw steam gunboat Magpie, 3, was ap-
pointed to vacate the north basin at Seyham steam-
yard yesterday afternoon, and make a trial of her
machinery to-day outside Plymouth breakwater.
She will probably leave that port on Monday for
Queenstown, to resume duty as tender to the Hawke.
The copper has been stripped off from the bottom
of his Prussian Majesty's screw steam corvette Ar-
cone, 26, Capt. Sundewall, which is now in No. 1
dock at Devonport yard. The leakage, caused pro-
bably by the action of the propeller, is near the
ahafthole, which seems decayed. Artisans will be
hired to expedite her repairs.
The Prometheus, 5, 200-horse power, paddlewheel
steam sloop, lately returned from the West Coast of
Africa, is ordered to be taken into dock, at Chatham,
to undergo a thorough overhaul and repair, the
order for the Vixen, 6,28 D-horse power, to be docked
at Chatham having been countermanded by the Ad-
miralty. The Prometheus will go into the dock now
occupied by the Pylades, 21, 400-horse power, which
has been some months in the hands of the ship-
wrights.

The screw gunboat Sepoy, 2, 60-horse power, is
fitting for the first division of the Chatham steam
reserve. The Lily, 4, 200-horse power, is also fitting
for the steam reserve squadron in the Medway,
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Henry I. Harvey, confirmed
in rank of paymaster; and Josiah Sharp, in the
Fisgard, confirmed as second-class assist.-engineer.