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SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 6.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy por-
tion of the Calcutta and China mails, arrived this
morning. She brings 134 passengers, and 104
packages for the Exhibition, and 1,289 bales raw
silk, value 1120,000 sterling.
The Ceylon left Alexandria on the 22d March
Malta, 26th ; and Gibraltar, Ist inst.

STAMPED

quarters of a million for the completion of Stevens's
battery, half a million to the Washington Navy-
yard, for new buildings and machinery for rolling
and forging iron armour plates for the ships, and
one million for the construction of a mail-clad steam
battering ram. The project of the last-named
engine appears to have strongly fascinated the
Northern mind. Its construction is, moreover, re-
commended on the most practical grounds, as the
South has two shot-proof batteries nearly ready at
Mobile, and two others on the lower Mississippi,
against which the Federal squadron in the Gulf
would be as powerless as was that at Hampton
Roads before it was reinforced by the Monitor.
The ram, according to the proposition before
the Senate, is to be "of not less than 5,000 or
6,000 tons burthen, and of great swiftness and
strength." The New York papers observe, truly
enough, that "if constructed in accordance with
these conditions, the ram will undoubtedly be an
engine of warfare against which no iron-plated
vessel, battery, or ram in the world, either built or
being built, can cope." But after Congress has
done its best, it will depend on the skill of the
naval engineers of the United States to combine
in one [vessel qualities which Governments have
hitherto sought in vain in iron-clad ships. In the
United States, as in England, there are people
whoseimagination is so overpowered, and who are
so possessed with the notion that "something must
be done," that no projects are too wild for them to
entertain. There are also there other people whose
professed business is simply to "study public
opinion," and who fool the former class to the top
of their bent. As a specimen of what these latter
can do, we give an extract from the New York;
Herald :

Marlborough, ler M ae t
and Osborne were at Alexandria; at Malta, the
Redpole, French sloop
tar, the Scylla, Procris, aAlrnaypah,ioßna,nFshireee.,
Fire-
fly, Medina, Boxer, and Growler ; and at Gibral-
yE'sxmshoiuptshD,
Coligny and transport Perdrix, and United States
sloop Kaersarge. The Confederate steamer Sum-
ter still remained in the bay; off Algesiras, the
Spanish squadron and Federal sloop Tuscarora.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant left
Gibraltar on the 30th for Tangier, in her Majesty's
NieisPtulineirn,
steamer Intrepid.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 28th ult. says :
Letters from Tangier mention the arrival there
on the 25th, of 150 mules with specie, to the
amount, it is thought, of about half a million of
dollars. The treasure was in charge of Hadj Abd-
el-Kader Ashash, one of the Sultan's treasurers,
who has returned to the Court. Another treasure
caravan is daily expected from Fez, to complete the
million of dollars required for the next instalment
to be paid over to Spain. The Sultan certainly
.
appears to be struggling 0 manfully to fulfil his
engagements.

By the last accounts the Sultan .was about 20
miles north of Rabat, and near Mehedia. A fight
was going on between the two tribes, Recania and.
Shragna. The insurrection in the vicinity of Mo-
rocco is said to have died out of itself. This means
probably that the rebels, having cut off the heads
of a few of the officials, who, by tyranny and
oppression, had driven them into rebellion, have
again returned to their allegiance. The Emperor
intended to move southward after crushing out the
rebellion in the northern districts.

It is a grand point to have the start in these
engines of destruction, and America will have gained
that point over every power of Europe. In the
event of a war between the maritime powers, that
nation which has the most and best iron-clad ves-
sels first at sea will be able to maintain the su-
periority to the end ; for not only can she destroy
and capture all the mere wooden war vessels of her
enemy, but prevent the construction of iron-clad
craft by entering her ports and burning her navy
yards, with the ships on the stocks. No coast for-
tifications now built can keep such vessels out of an
enemy's harbours. They can be easily demolished
or rendered untenable, and seaboard cities will be
at the mercy of iron-clad frigates. How do the
Powers of Europe and the United States relatively
stand in regard to such vessels? The following
table will show what has been done and is now in
progress in Europe ;

England is building
France

Spain
Austria ....

Total

Of the English, according to the recent state-
ment of Lord C. Paget, six are to be of the same
model as the Monitor, having a turret and two
guns. The Warrior and Black Prince, already com-
pleted, are each upwards of 5,000 tons burden. In
addition to her other guns the Warrior carries
one which throws a projectile of 4501b5. weight.
This vessel is shown by her trial trip to Lisbon,
in smooth water, to be in some respects a
failure. The iron-clad ram, the Defence—of whose
performances on her trial trip we gave an account
In our columns last week—appears to be more sea-
worthy, but a clumsy structure, though it is stated
she made 11 knots an hour. Her burthen is 3,660
tons. The French iron-plated frigate Gloria is the
first ever built, and a few others have been finished
by order of Napoleon, which are regarded as an
improvement on her ; but what is done in this re-
spect is kept as secret as possible, while the Em-
peror gets all the information ho can of English
experiments and of our own—as, for example,
through his Minister, M. Mercier, in relation to the
Stevens battery.

The United States have the following already
built, contracted for and proposed :

The Monitor
The Galena, built at Mystic
The powerful vessel at Philadelphia
The Adironback
The Stevens battery
The Naugatuck, built by Stevens 1
Iron-clad gunboats ordered by Congress 2O
Iron-clad frigates recommended by Senate Naval
Committee 2O
The iron ram, do.
Gunboats ordered by Massachusetts 2

Total..

New York State will probably add one or two
more, thus making a naval force of 50 iron-clad
gunboats, greatly exceeding the combined iron-
plated vessels of all Europe, and able to whip the
navies of the world.

The New York, Times, which thinks the perma-
nent
the midst
interests
of a
s of thellthisnation
excitement, should no not be. with more
forgotten
in
moderation than its contemporary, points out that
it is better to look at actual wants than to indulge
in dreams.

If we once had provision made for our present
safety and for the destruction of the rebel iron-
plated floating batteries—which we should consider
done 'were the ram, a brace of Monitors, and the
three iron-clad gunboats now in process of construc-
tion completed—we could almost wish that we
should pause awhile before going any further, at
least, that we should await the results of the expe-
riments that will be made with these before spend-
ing many more millions. It is our national tem-
perament to " put things through," and rush to an
extreme, and there is just a danger that the mania
for iron-clad vessels may cost us dearly. Having
provided
for our immediate necessities, let us bear
in mind that we have large and prospective needs
as well as present demands ; and that it is the plain
dictate of prudence to avail ourselves of all the ex-
periments, on both sides of the Atlantic, that tend
to throw light on these novel and still obscure,
though overwhelmingly important questions. One
thing is certain, we are bound to have an iron-clad
navy that will defy those of the most powerful
European nations. Already, at one leap, we have
taught the world more than all it knew respecting
this new 'warlike enginery. The country is opulent
with creative genius and engineering skill. This
genius and skill will now largely take the direction
of iron-clad vessels. Let us, therefore, not sink
money in building structures which the rapid strides
in the science may soon render obsolete.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE METROPOLITAN RAIL-
WAY..—On Saturday morning the police forwarded to Mr.
Brent, the deputy coroner, the particulars of the death of
William Hollingworth, aged 28, a labourer in the employ,
of Mr. Jay, the contractor for the construction of the Me-
tropolitan or Underground Railway. It appeared that the
deceased was engaged on the previous night between the
hours of seven and eight, along with some other men, at
.
the new station at King's-cross, in lowering a large and
heavy iron girder, when suddenly one of the links I)!
thet
chain broke, and the beam fell, knocking the deeessedww,_,h
ground. In its fall the beam struck a piece of timber, m
ie leaves
fell on the deceased, and killed him on the spot-
a wife, who is now near her confinement'
family.
EXPRESS TRAIN. An
and a young
NARROW ESCAPE OF AN
are carried
ous result, occurred
accident, which narrowly escaPenasen
train leaving Cheltenhat,
on Wednesday last to the exprestrsam had just arrived at the
very 2.25 p.m. for London.
very high embankment
b five miles from
through Badgworth, about
forward. The. driver at Once sounded
Tybwehich the rails
wheels of the • Cheltenham,
when the axle of the leading the rails,
engine snapped
applied the train was brought
and dropped between the rails, the engine at
in the centre
the same timeuiP
an alarm, and left the r •
stand before the engine
eitcbhreinafrsbeing
rails, although the fact
toof
iats
koepl ng
the track at all under such circumstances is
„ ;to inexplicable, Had the engine
once loft the rails t
--- life must have ensuedloss of, as the Badgworth embank-
ment is of unusual height.
,As it was, very slight damage
was done to the permanent way, and beyond the inconve-
nience of a three hours' detention on their journey, no
injury was sustained by the passengers. Great credit is
due to the driver altd glard for their promptness in the
cuiergelley, .1