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from Annapolis, Chesapeake Bay,
30th of January, and the Diadem and Lan- fr.
the West Indies on the Ist of February. The lest
two brought the remainder of the crew of the
wreaked ship Conqueror, 90, the bowsprit only of.
which is now above water. All the ship's company-
are berthed on board the hulk Medway, where they
will remain until the court-martial, which was ap-
pointed to be held on board the Hero on the 6th of
Februazy. The crew may arrive in England in
March.

PE1CE,....-...4d.
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chopped off, and a couple of coal barges' masts stuck
up in her in lieu of her own noble spars, would not
present so wonderful a metamorphosis as does the
Defence, judging her by comparison with such fri-
gates as the Galatea or A riadne: No s.mount of
rer:ianing can excuse the want of sheer, or spring,
in the feoarreryaningda:qt:rthbe do, an immense weight
os.dies of vessels like the De-
fence,along their line of keelson and en their topsides
amidships, and necessarily requiring a form of hull
to assist them in carrying such a weight and lifting
with buoyancy to the motion of the sea. With the
fig of the ship, however, argument goes against
mere beauty of appearance. The Defence's rig was
designed to be the simplest possible arrangement
consistent with a sufficient quantity
of sail power.
With this view the ship carries nothing above her
topmasts, the lower mastheads being very long from
the tops to the caps, to each of the latter being at-
tached a topsailyard, as a fixture, the sail clewing
up. Above this, working on the topmast is a Cun-
ningham topsail yard, which rolls up to the foot,
and has its claws lashed to the lower topsail-yard.
Both yards spread large topsails. Sail can thus be
set and taken in with the chain topsail tie, the
crew doing the work from the main deck in safety
and protection. Another important advantage is,
that from the sail being rolled up tightly on the
yard and wetted it is much less likely to be set
on fire in action than an ordinary topsail would
be. There is also, of a necessity a great de-
crease in the weight aloft, and, what is perhaps
of greater importance than all the other points
together, there is almost a complete absence of run-
ning gear above the deck, and consequently the
danger of fouling the screw in the event of a spar
being carried over the side in action is very greatly
decreased. The Admiralty have done well in taking
this first step towards a revision and alteration of
the arrangements aloft of our screw ships of war, as
the great weight they have carried aloft, combined
with the weight of their boilers and machinery,
along their keelsons, have doubtless tended greatly
to cause that uneasiness of motion and straining of
their hulls at sea of which we have of late heard so
much. Internally the ship's decks are roomy, her
fighting deck being similar in arrangement to those
of the Warrior and Black Prince, and with excel-
lent quarters for the men at their guns. On her
main deck she carries 10 95cwt. 68 pounders and
four 100 pounder Armstrongs. On her upper deck
she has one 100 pounder Armstrong pivot gun for-
ward and aft, two broadside 45cwt. 32 pounders,
besides two light Armstrongs and boat guns. In
consequence, however, of her build—teak lining
upon iron—she can only give her guns, like the
Warrior, some 29 degrees of training on her main
deck. Her lower masts and bowsprit are of iron,
and a small jibboom, only extending beyond the
latter, gives her a light appearance forward, and
the arrangement is such that it must tend to greatly
assist the ship in rising to a sea. Her sloping bow,
however, is open to serious objections. All our steam
ships raise a large wave under their bows when at
full steam, and in the case of the Defence the na-
tural result of this is that the wave of, say some 60
tons, has an inclination to rush up the slope.

The following appoinlments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty .—Lieut. Francis R. Black-
burne and Lieut. George R, Donkin, to the Styx ;
Daniel J. May, master to the Seringapatam,
for surveying ; George Stanley,
m
the Swallow, for surveying ; Thomas
.N la(Gstaehran, to
additional
surg. to the Styx ; Robert 11. T. Gilbert,
acting assist.-surg. to the Styx ; Henry Brown,
confirmed as second class assist-engincrr in the
Dauntless; Thomas M'Farlane, confirmed as eccond
class assist-engineer in the Princess Charlotte.
In the list of appointments made at the Admiralty
which appeared in the " Naval and Military Intel-
gence" of Thursday last read " Grappler" instead of
Gripper."

THE ARMY.
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By direction of the Duke of Cambridge an expe-
rimental trial was made at Chatham on Thursday-
night to test the merits of the new description of
telegraphic night signals, the invention of Capt. F.
J. Bolton (12th Regiment), which are about to be
introduced for general adoption throughout the ser-
vice. The invention has been subjected to repeated
trials by the Ordnance Select Coriamittee, with, it is
understood, the most satisfactory results, a highly
favourable report on the system having been made
to the Secretary of State for War. By special di-
rection of the Duke of Cambridge several of the most
intelligent non-commissioned officers, selected from
the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, the infantry,
and Royal Mvines, at Chatham, have been placed
under the direction of Capt. Bolton for the purpose
of being instructed in the working of the code of
signals. Although they had only received eight
lessons, so simple is the system used that the men
have become thoroughly conversant with the work-
ing of the apparatus and the method of despatching
and receiving messages. Thursday night being ex-
ceedingly favourable for the preliminary trial to be
made, an apparatus for producing the signals was
placed on the elevation known as the Spur Battery,
adjoining the Chatham Lines, a party of Engineers
and Artillery being stationed on one of the hills
about midway between Chatham and Gravesend,
with a second apparatus. The distance in a straight
line was between four and five miles. Capt. Bolton,
who superintended the arrangements at the Spur
Battery, despatched a number of messages, some of
them of a very intricate and lengthy description, all
of which were recorded and promptly replied to by
the signals placed on the second eminence, the
beautiful lime-light shining out with astonishing
brilliancy. It is intended shortly to put the inven-
tion to a further test by assembling the troops of
the garrison at night, when signals will be des-
patched and received in all respects similar to those
which would be used in active operations in the field.
Colonel Charles Bingham, the Deputy Adjutant-
GE neral, has issued the subjoined " General
th the Royal Artillery of the Artilleries of the
apprcvoy the Regi-
mentalamal-
Order" of the RbeoeynapllAearsetiallteor
tion to the Royal Artillery of 4 Brigades of Horse Artil-
gthar‘meellatPieorrne:afjenesctyieshianvilnngdia, and to sanction an augmenta-
lery and 10 Brigades of Field and Garrisrn Artillery, his
Royal Highness the General Commending-in-Chief has
directed that the following General Order, published in
India, should be circulated for the information and guid-
ance of the regiment at large, viz, :
" General Order, by his Excellency the Governor-General

of India in Council,—Fort William, Oct. 12, 1861.

" In accordance with instructions from her Majesty's
Government, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay regiments
of Artillery will be formed into the 2d, 3d, 4th, and sth
Royal Horse Brigades, and the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th,
21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, and 25th Frigades of Royal Artillery.
"'The batteries of the new Royal Artillery Brigade will
be composed of the soldiers of the existing troops and com-
panies of the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay regiments of
Artillery, who have volunteered for the Royal Artillery.
" The artillerymen who have elected for local service
will be formed into separate Indian (European) batteries.
" ' The 2d Royal Horse Brigade will be formed of seven
troops of Bengal Horse Artillery, the 3d Brigade of the
four troops of Madras Horse Artillery, the 4th Brigade of
the four troops of Bombay Horse Artillery, and the sth
Brigade of six troops of Bengal Horse Artillery.
" The Brigades of Royal Artillery will be formed,-
16th, of five companies of Bengal Artillery ; 17th, of six
companies of Madras Artillery; 18th, of six companies of
Bombay Artillery; 19th, of five companies of Bengal Artil-
lery; 20th, of five companies of Madras Artillery; 21st, of
six companies of Bombay Artillery ; 22d, of five companies
of Bengal Artillery ; 23d, five companies of Madras Artil-
lery ; 24th, five companies of Bengal Artillery ; 25th, of
four companies of Bengal Artillery. Additional field and
garrison batteries will be formed as soon as artillerymen
are available, and will be attached to the several brigades
in such proportions as may hereafter bo determined.' "
[ln this part of the order the form in which the
new brigade will be constituted is given, but is
omitted here as of no public interest.]

All battens will remain at their present stations, and
their artillerymen who have elected for Indian service will
continue to do duty with their former troops and companies
until the weather permits of their being collected and
formed into separate batteries. _ _

" Consequent upon the foregoing formation of the bri-
gades and battalions of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Artil-
lery into brigades and batteries of Royal Artillery, all reports
and returns required by her Majesty's regulations will be
forwarded by these brigades and batteries, through the
Commandants of Artillery at each Presidency, to the Ad-
jutant. General's Department, British Forces.
" All correspondence, returns, and reports relating to
the interior economy of the several now brigades, as well as
those of purely a regimental nature, will be forwarded to
the Adjutant-General's office, Horse Guards, direct by com-
manding officers in the same manner in all respects as now
in the Royal Artillery.
" ' The names of the officers of the late Indian Artilleries
and their postings to the several brigades and batteries will
be published in future general regimental orders. "

THE 23d ROY AL WELCH FUSILEERS.

The marble monument designed as a tribute to the
memory of the officers of the 23d Royal Welch Fusilecrs
who fell at the Battle of the Alma, and long since sub-
scribed for by their relatives, is now complete, and through
the exertions of Major Gordon, R.E., of Constantinople, a
the
officers buried in the field.
The inscription, in Russian, French, English, and Greek,
is as follows :

ory
S Itihae 3aryleGme7rgoof
L nan Chester,
illiams Wynn, Captain Francis
Captain Arthur
captain John Charles Connolly, First
Edward Evans,
Lieutenant Sir William Norris Young, Baronet,
ieuteWttatc°kirildn; t 1;
First Lieutenant Frederick P. R. Dolma Radcliffe,
second Lieutenant Joseph Henry Butler,
Second Lieusenant Augustus Applewaite,
Second Lieutenrnt Henry Anstruther,
Officers of her Britannic Majesty's 23d Royal Welch

Fusileers.

They were killed at the battle of the Alma, 20th September,
1854, and the seven first named lie buried under
this Monument.

"If we be dead with Christ we shall also live with him."--
St. Paul. " Love ono another."—St. John.

A murder and robbery, committed in the Com-
mune of Lafrette (Seine-et-Oise), close to Argenteuil, was
discovered two days ago, in a rather singular manner
Some boatmen, while unmooring their craft, saw a stake
of wood driven into the bank of the river, and to which was
attached a thin rope running into the water. On pu ling
this rope, the men were horror-struck at finding at the end
of it the body of a man whom they recognised as being a
person named Fulgence, who resided in a .small isolated
house near the river. 'The body bore evident marks of
violence, a large cut having been made in the neck with
some sharp instrument. On the Commissary of Police
being informed of the fact, he went to the house, and there
discovered that a robbery had been effected, the watch,
money, and jewellery of the victim having been carried off.
A razor was also taken away, with which it is sup posed
the murder was committed ; and there is no doubt th the
perpetrator of it is some one well acquaint iced with the place,
as he know where to find the razor, whh the deceased
always kept in a particular part of the room.
Paean statuettes are illustrations of the perfection pro-
duced by untiring perseverance in removing defects in
manufacture. So also arc nerring's Magnetic Brushes and
Combs, which are now rendered so perfect in restoring the
colour to grey hair, and eradicating the agony 01 neuralgia
and nervous headache, that failure is almost impossible.
—N.B. Counterfeits are being made.
Offices,— 32, Baslngliall-
street, London.