The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

THE LRON-CLAD FLEET at 711 E
FEDERAL S7A7 ES.

A writer in a contemporary says :—Raving just
received from a reliable source a list of the iron-clad
fleet of the Federal States of America, either already
completed or in course of construction, I beg to send
you a copy of it for publication, if you think fit.
Those ships against which au asterisk is placed
are considered by American as well as by English
naval officers who have had so oppoiiaoity of judg-
ing to be more or less failures:
With regard to the remainder, my corre:iponflent
remarks that, although few or perhaps none of those
ships are calculated to cross the Atlantic, they are
well able, in the event of a foreign war, to protect
their own coast against a blockading squadron in
moderate weather, while in had weather the ele-
ments would do their -work for them.
IRON-CLAD FLEET DP THE FEDERAL NAVY OF
AMERICA—NOVEMBER, 1862.
Names. Tons. Guns.
Miantonomah 1,561 4..15-inch bore, in 2 turrets.
Passaic
IN COMMISSION.
Montauk B4l 2.. One 1.5-inch bore, in tur-
ret, and 1 11-inch.
Catskill
Camanche
Weekanken Bl4 2.. Ditto.
Onestogo 8441
Lehigh.
Patapsco Bl4 1 ..Like the Passaic ; two 15-
Nehant . Bl4 inch guns, each in turret
Nantucket
Sangamon
Puritan ... 3,265 4..15-inch, in 2 turrets ;
length of ship, 340 ft, ;
width, 50ft, beam.
Onondaga
Dictator
of ship, 320 ft. ; 50ft.
beam.
Tippecanoe
Catawba
Manayunk
Tecumseh
Mahossac....
Manhattan
Canenicus
DUllderbUrg 5,000 10.. Eour of these guns will
be 15-inch, in 2 turrets•
capable of throwing a
shot weighing 4601 b.
Agamenticus
Indiana
Galenta* 738 6. .In Hampton Roads.
Kickapoo 970 4..13-inch, 2 turrets.
Chickasaw
Winnebago ..1 970 4.. Ditto, ditto.
Milwaukie
Chillicothe
Ozark
Neosho
Monadnok
Tonawanda 1,564 4.. Ditto.
Tuscumbia 565 3
Sandusky
Roanoke
York.
Moodna
Marietta
Monitor
thoroughly repaired at
New York, and is now
in Hampton Roads.
The following vessels are attached to "the Western
Squadron," and it will be observed that the whole
of them are considered to be failures as iron-clad
men-of-war :

Tons.
.. 512
.. 512
.. 512
.. 512
.. 1,000
.. 1,000
.. 512
.. 512
.. 500
468

Guns.
13*
13*
13*
13*
16*
7*
13*
13*

Carondolet
Cincinnati ..

Cairo ..
Baron de Kalb
Benton • •
Essex ..

Pittsburg ..
MOUnd City ..
Lexington ..
Louisville ..

EARL RUSSELL.—The noble Secretary of State
fot Foreign Affairs has been confined to Pembroke Ledge,
Richmond-park, during the week, by a severe cold. It was
in consequence of indisposition that his lordship was absent
from the Cabinet Council on Tuesday last.
MORE GARoTTING.---Yesterday morning, between
12 and 1 o'clock, Mr. George Leader, a theatrical employes
was going to his residence at Paddington, when, in passing
through a narrow thoroughfare called Manor-lane, he was
accosted by a woman, who importuned him for drink. Mr.
Leader passed on, the woman following up behind, when,
on reaching the end of the lane, he was suddenly confronted
by a man wearing a white smock. frock. He was at the
same time seized round the throat from behind and thrown

to the ground, the woman kneeling upon his throat, while
the man rifled his pockets. They then gave him a blow on
the head which stunned him. On recovering he managed

to get to the police-station, and several officers went input,
suit of his assailants. It was near the same spot that Mr.
Shalders, the comedian, was garotted, dying subsequently
from tho effects. Yesterday morning Michael Garretty,
residing in Webber-street, Lambeth, expired from the effect
of injuries inflicted upon him by garotters in the St.
George's-road, Southwark, on Saturday night. A young
woman, named Jane Stokes, living in Belvedere-road, has,
it is said, just expired from injuries sustained in passing
through Stamford- street.
THE INSECURE .STATE OF THE METROPOLIS.—At
a meeting of the vestry of St. George's, Hanover-square,
yesterday, the vestry clerk read the memorial adopted by
the vestry of Paddington, calling the attention of the Home
Secretary to the alarming increase of garotting in the me-
tropolis, asking the sanction of that vestry to the memorial.
The general opinion of the meeting seemed to be that the
memorial was not strong enough, and that the ticket of
leave system was not sufficiently condemned. It was re-
solved to agreed to the Paddington memorial, and to draw
up a second memerial to the Home Secretary, praying that
convicts under sentence should be no longer pampered with
such liberal 'diets, and in all other respects treated better
than paupers, that-the ticket of leave system should be abo-
lished; and the sentences should be fully carried out.
THREE PERSONS DROWNED. A lamentable
accident occurred in the neighbourhood of Auchinleck on
the afternoon of Sunday. last. It appears that a young man
named John Williamson, a miner, from Govan, and Mar-
garet .Diniffie, hOnsekeeper to the Rev. Mr. Wallace, Ca-
tholic priest at Old Cumnock, were at tea at her uncle's
house at Cornmondyke. They left this house about half-
past six o'clock, accompanied by Jean Diniffie, Margaret's
cousin, and some others, for the purpose of calling at a
sister's house, within a distance of IGO yards. Between the
two houses there was an old quarry, and, as it was covered
with ice, they ventured on it to slide across, when, melan-
choly to relate, they all, to the number of five, fell in, and
only two got out alive. The unfortunate sufferers were
John Williamson and the two cousins, Margaret and Jean
Diniffie. Upwards of an hour elapsed ere the bodies were
recovered. Williamson and Margaret Diniffie were betrothed
and were to have been married at the newyear. This melan-
choly event has caused a great sensation in the usually quiet
neighbourhood.
Oiihß FORTY TIVE.—The other day a rough-
looking customer appeared before one of the Military Com-
missiOners and said, Mr. Commissioner, I am over 45.
How old are you?—l don't know how old 1 am, but lam
over 45. In what year did you make your first appearance
in this mundane sphere P—l don't know what you mean,
but lam over 45. When were you born ?—I don't know
but lam over 45. How am Ito know you are over age
I don't know and I don't care, but lam over 45. When
were you 45 P—l don't know, but I know lam over 45.
You must give some proof that you are over age.--I have-
been in this country 33 years ; lam over 45. That cites
not prove you are too old to be draughted.—l don't care; I
know lam over 95. I shall not erase your name until you
prove your age.—l toll T hovn I:ppn in this country 33
yp.ret, end I went a sparking before I carne here ; I am over
45. Will you swear to it ?—Yes, I'm over 45 ;
ain't over 45. 'Well, I will exempt you.—l don't care
whether you do or not ; I am a foreigner—besides I have a
wooden leg; and he went stumping into the street, swear-
ing oaths not called for by the Commissioner.—Nov York
Tribune.
NATIONAL SONG.—The spirit of the world was
young when music was made the handmaid of religion ; and
it still affords a glimpse of that antiquity to know that deeds
of heroism and valour were sanctified in song, and that
music completed the glory of the inauguration and the fes-
tival. Whethei. at the Olympic, Pythian, NomGan, and
Isthmian games, or at the victories of Romulus, 750 years
before Christ, when the army, horse and foot, followed the
chariot of the conqueror, hymning their gods in songs of
their country ; or whether at the marriage feast or the fune-
ral prayer, the charm of music still predominates,---iuter•
weaves itself with the fate and circumstances of man, and
creeps into his heart like a sunbird seeking for a home. It
is this power which rouses a rude peasantry from the leth-
argy of serfdonito repossess themselves of liberties long lititct,
under the impulse of their national melodies. The
of
the t
produced on the Swiss soldiers, when in the service
was
French, by an ancient air of the " Ranz desNeches'
so powerful that it was forbidden to be plasyc_l(o,,seoesfowrchiibelhy
did it remind the men of the mountainous :ere beating and
they had left, and of the hearts
which
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What would be the
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poetry of any nation, or anbey.
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bards were swept away ? if the
harps song ? What
the ballads of the Caledonian
perished with the finger that
harps of the minstrelss(n,s first
that cheered
swept them? The r, the shepherd toy
whit.) tending his sheep,
conies back to him in the hour of
oppression and danger ; and even upon the battlefield, that
melody calls up the moors and mountains of his native
hula.; the wild woods and the streams tome back, and the
breezy freshness of the !leather fans his
marches with a firm step and a nervous • arm to win his
liberty or die." It is said th,t ho who writes the songs of
nation may at thewsetime
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