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A CASE OF DISPUTED IDENTITY.—A remarkable
case was part heard at the Manchester Court of
Record on Monday. It was an action to recover £5O damages
for the wrongful seizure of the plaintiff's goods and the loss
occasioned by the discredit thereby brought upon his
name. The parties to the suit were Joseph Moore and
Whitehead. Mr. Higgin said the only fact in dispute was
that which related to the identity of the plaintiff, who was
quite certain that he was Joseph Moore ; whereas the
defendant persisted in asserting, and still believed him to
be, one Richard Vaughan, against whom proceedings had
been taken in the Salford County Court, and judg-
ment obtained for £l. About six years ago the plaintiff
occupied a small shop belonging to the defendant. He
afterwards quitted the shop, having previously paid all the
rent and taxes due, and ultimately went to live in a
house near Strangeways. He was followed in the occupa-
tion of the shop before referred to by the mysterious
Richard Vaughan ; but the defendant persisted in asserting,
and still believed, that plaintiff had never left the shop at
all, and that he was the veritable Richard Vaughan, and
not Joseph Moore. Some time in the month of October,
1863, the defendant called upon the plaintiff, and made a
demand upon him for gas rent. His wife said her husband
did not owe any, and that all liabilities due when they left
the house had been discharged. The defendant obtained
a summons from the Salford County Court, addressed
to Richard Vaughan, and it was served on the plaintiff.
Mrs. Moore attended the court, and assured the judge
that her husband's name was Joseph Moore and not
Richard Vaughan, and that he was not indebted. The
judge thereupon referred the matter to Mr. Stevenson,
the high bailiff of the court, who, after making inquiries,
issued two summonses, one against Richard Vaughan and
the other against Joseph Moore ; but Vaughan did not turn
up, and eventually judgment was issued against theVaintiff.
The defendant then sued for an execution, and accom-
panied the officers who were to levy the distraint.
Mrs. Moore satisfied the officials that her
urged
dbatnhde
was really Joseph Moore, but the defendant in-
sisted that he was Richard Vaughan, and
bailiffs to distrain. The plaintiff's goods were accordingly
seized, and he was obliged to pay the claim to prevent his
furniture being sold in execution. He had been damaged
in his business, had lost all his lodgers, who were of a good
class, and was hooted after by children in the streets as
" the man who had the bum-bailiffs in his house." Mr.
Leresche said his client still believed the plaintiff to be
Richard Vaughan. Beth the learned counsel subsequently
agreed to take a nominal verdict for £5O, subject to argu-
ment before his honour on a special case upon the points of
law which would be raised. The Court accordingly directed
the jury to return a verdict for the plaintiff for £5O.

The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of
the Province of Canterbury was yesterday prorogued, in
the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, by his Grace the
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England
and Metropolitan, to Tuesday. the 14th inst., on Which day
the Convocation will assemble at 11 o'clock.

Few of the European iron navies of the future
have quietly made gfeater progress towards the
establishment of an imposing maritime force than
that of the young kingdom of Italy. Without
waiting till either England, France, or America has
attained to the perfect ideal of what such ships
should be, the Italian naval administration has
simply contented itself with ordering ships wher-
ever any original principle in construction was
developed which promised, in theory at least, to
be better than others. Thus, at the close of the pre-
sent year Italy will possess no fewer than 14 iron-
clad frigates, a force which cannot fail to add enor-
mous weight to her . pretensions as a naval power
in the Mediterranean. Of these vessels six have
been built in France, two in America, one is now
nearly finished and another is to be built in England,
'and four have been almost completed in Italy.
With a navy drawn from such varied sources, it
naturally follows that nearly all differ much as to
size, plating, steam-power, and armament, though,
as a rule, the general principles of high speed, great
defensive strength, and a few guns of the heaviest
calibre have as much as possible been adhered to.
Those built in France have the French defects of a
week inner framing, but possess all the advantages
which are undoubtedttke to the fastening of the
armour-plateswith what aretermed " wood screws."
These screws are now almost universally used in the
iron vessels of foreign Powers, and beyond a doubt
this method of fastening is superior to our method
of securing the armour with screw bolts. The two
ironclads built in America are the largest belonging
to the Italian navy, and the worst—worst as to
speed, worst as to strength and finish, and worst as
to seaworthiness. Our readers may recollect the
very narrow escape which the first of these two ves-
sels, the King of Italy, had of foundering in the
Atlantic, and, indeed, for some time she was sup-
posed to have gone down. Strange as it may seem,
however, it is nevertheless strictly true that all
the important parts of these two vessels, such as
the armour, all the heavy forgings, anchors,
cables, &c., were ordered, made, and tested in
France and England before being sent to
America, and that all that Italy has derived
from this unwise contract is the privilege of pay-
ing an advance of almost cent, per cent..in price
on European goods badly made up after the fashion
of American Monitors.

The vessel building in England at the Millwall
works, and now nearly finished, is very far from
being regarded here as a specimen of what a good
ironclad should be; but all her merits and defects are
due entirely to her Italian designers, and all that is
done in this country is to give the best work pos-
sible for the specification. This ship is the Affron-
datore, or the Sinker, and, as her name implies, she
is a " ram," though only in a very subdued degree,
having a small and blunted submarine beak.
Her length is 295 ft. over all, her breadth ex-

treme, 40ft., depth 21ft., and tonnage in builder's
measurement about 2,500. She is to
,have a single
two-bladed screw with engines of 700-horse power,
nominal. With such power, and a small midships'
section, in comparison with length, the speed of the
Sinker is guaranteed at not less than 15 knots, a rate
of steaming at which she could use her beak with
fearful effect if -it were better designed for offence.
This portion of the vessel, however, only projects
Bft. beyond the bows, and is, besides, of such weight
in proportion to its displacement that it acts rather
as a check upon her progress than otherwise. She
is coated from end to end, and to a depth of 5 feet
below the water line, with 4iin. armour-plate rest-
ing on a gin. teak backing and a kin. inner skin of
iron. Longitudinal stringers of wrought iron two
feet apart are placed between the teak beams, with
their edges abutting on the plates to keep them up to

their work. Inside all these defences and within the

inner skin come the framing ribs, which are of

wrought iron 12in. deep and only 18in. apart. Like

most of our ironclads, she has no outer keel, but
bilge plates instead, and, unlike all other ironclads,
in the world, she has a ponderous upper deck, 2in.

thick, which is being laid on in two distinct plates of

hi. each.

This vessel is intended for two 600-

pounders, placed in cupolas amidships—one forward
and one aft. The cupolas are to be plain cylinders,

grated at the top, and worked from the main deck

below with the usual machinery. Their plating will
- -

be sfin. of iron, with bin. of teak backing.
This ship, though much inferior to the average of
our English ironclads, must by no means be taken as a
standard of what the new Italian navy is likely to be,
as it is, in fact, very much behind the vessels which
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the Italians themselves have lately designed. One
of these improved designs, with models and specifi-
cations, by Captain Albini, of the Italian navy, is just
now being forwarded to the Italian Government, and
after their formal approval the vessel, we believe,
will be at once commenced in this country. It is
not speaking too highly of this proposed frigate to
say that, judged even by the superlative standard
of our own Warriors, she will still be a model vessel
and one of the most formidable afloat, no matter
whether opposed to two-deckers, like the Solferino
and Magenta, to American Monitors, like the Dic-
tator, or to the so-called invulnerable ships of our
own navy—those from the cupolas of which such
tremendous results are still expected. ICto name has
yet been chosen for this intended craft, though if
ever one deserved the terrible appellation of the

" Sinker" it would be this, as in defensive strength,
offensive armament, and high speed there will be

nothing in the Mediterranean to compare with it.
The length of this ship between the perpendicu-
lars is 280 ft. ; breadth, 43ft. ;. depth, 25ft., with a

burden according to builders' measurement of
about 2,500 tons. The external appearance of the
ship is only that of a .light steam corvette, with
thrte small masts and one funnel, with a poop-deck
and a high topgallant forecastle. Under water,
however, she is fitted with one of the most formid-

able beaks that a vessel ever went to sea with. It

is made of enormous strength and projects no less
than 48ft. under water in advance of the apparent

bow. Notwithstanding its strength the displace-
ment of this submarine prow is so great that it acts
like an air-tight caisson and gives immensebuoyancy
to the fore part of the vessel, where it is most needed.
This ship is to be coated from end to end and to a
depth of sft. below the water-line with armour
plates of no less than 7m. thickness, backed with
2in. of teak and lined with an inner skin half-an-
inch thick, which abuts upon the massive wrought-
iron framing of the ribs. No vessel yet built either
in Europe or America carries such a casing of solid
iron as this. The armament is to be all on the upper
deck, and will consist of one 600-pounder forward
and three 600-pounders aft. The plan for fighting
these guns
we
have s guns is admirable.poken of The high topgallant fore-
castleis simply a large semicir-
cular shield of iron Bft. high, and of the same enor-
mous
the foremast is closed in by a 6-inch
screen
loopholed for musketry, and with
one small port through which a field-piece can fire
rear towards
solidity
0f iron,
as the sides of the vessel. This in its
and sweep the decks in case of an enemy boarding.
This forecastle is roofed in with inch iron, and in it
amidships one 600-pounder, which
so that without its weight being
centre of the vessel it can fire from
isw
shiftedo placedr
sefnr
oeamx a ct pivot,ht l
ey
three ports, either straight ahead or on either bow,
as the exigencies of the case may require. In the
is the main battery, which, though at
mafizteernpomaospt,we have spoken of, and just abaft the
present only designed to carry two 600-pounders,
will no doubt be increased to three guns of this
calibre. These guns, like that in the bows, are
placed amidships, and will work on pivots, so as to
fire, accordingports on either side. To enable the
as they may be wanted, out of the
broadside
muzzles of these guns to clear the port sills without
shifting the ordnance from the centre of the vessel,
the
ports themselves are " recessed," or indented in
the side, of the ship, precisely like the embrasures in