The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, .JANUARY 61 1854.

HANWELL COLLEGE & PREPARATORY
SCHOOL.

The Vacation will close on the 21st.
tfanwell College, conducted by Dr. Emerton, is fully sustaining'
the high character it has acquired. We find that former pupils of
Hanwell College have been either high wranglers or first-class men
of our Universities during the present year; and this is the twentieth
instance of success at Sandhurst or Addiscombe we have had to
record within a short period."
Prospectuses may be had on application to the Principal, the Rev.
Dr. EMERTON, Hanwell, Middlesex. .

LHYAM'S NEW DRESS for the NEW YEAR.
• The Public will be gratified to learn that L. Hyam has pre-
Wired an Extensive Stock of WINTER ATTIRE, expressly for the
New Year. The extraordinarily quick sale which the Proprietor s
'
Garments command precludes the possibility of any " out-of-date''
fashions being retained. All the present goods in Overcoats, Capes,
Dress Coats, Frock Coats, Waistcoats, and I rousers, are well designed,
and made from seasonable materials, at prices satisfactorily moderate.
L. HYAM, Tailor, Clothier, and General Outfitter, 36, Gracechurch-
street, City.

-riE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Capital, £2,000,000.
Established in 1836. Empowered by Acts of Parliament.
37, Castle-street, Liverpool; and 20 and 21, Poultry, London.
Parties whose Fire Policies with this Company expire on the 25th
Instant are respectfully reminded that receipts for the renewal of the
same will be found at the Head Offices in Liverpool and London, and
in the hands of the respective Agents ; and those. who, preferring the
security offered by this Company, may desire to remove their insur-
ance, are informed that no expens6' will be incurred by such removal.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, pecußar advantages are afforded
the assured, RESIDENCE IN TILE AUSTRALIAN .COLONIES BEING AL-
LOWED, WITIIOUT EXTRA PREMIUM, and great facilies are afforded
in the payment of renewal premiums through the leveral agencies
throughout the Colonies.
Policies issued free of stamp duty.
Annuities, immediate or deferred.
Further particulars may be had on app
• SWINTON BOITLT, Secretary to the Company.
BENJ. HENDERSON, Resident Secretary, London.
December, 1853.

:elusive of Advances.

11HE LANCASHIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Manchester, Liverpool, Glanow, Greenock and No. 2. King-street,
Cheapside, London.
Capital, Two Millions.
TRUSTEES
James Cunlifie, Esq., Banker, London.
Arthur 11. Heywood, Esq., Banker, Manchester.
J. P. Brown Westhead, Esq., M.P., London.
DIRECTORS IN LONDON,
John Cheethain, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
John James. Saunders, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Frederick Clare, Esq. Robt. Schofield, Esq.
David Evans, Esq. Thomas Shepperson, Esq.
T. A. Gibb, Esq. Sydney Smirke, Esq , A.R.A.
Samuel Grimsdell, Esq. Henry Vyse, Esq.
J. Cunliffe Pickersgill, Esq. James Wagstaff, Esq.

TILE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

land's position. But is any one so weak as to
imagine that foreign powers gain their knowledge
of the facts of the case from the leading articles of
either the Times or the Morning Herald ? When
we blamed the Globe for calling 1853 " a good year,"
although it had brought us a famine, a pestilence,
and probably a war also, could any sane person be-
lieve that we were informing Russia and Austria of
any facts which they did not already know ? Was
it any secret that wheat was 725. per quarter in our
markets ? Had it been hitherto unknown that in
October the cholera was slaying, in London, its
hundred per week ? Or could any one be ignorant
that a general war was at least a not improbable
• occurrence ? And so, in like manner, whether we
make the natural remarks on the quarter's revenue
which we have just penned, or are wholly silent,
will any statesman in Europe be ignorant of the
fact, in the course of next week, that our national
revenue is already declining, and seems likely to
decline still further We have hazarded no rash
or doubtful statements ; and when we simply de-
scribe things as they are, we repel the charge that
we are holding out encouragement to our country's
enemies.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
BONUSES—EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits apportioned to
the Assured triennially, after the first five years, and applicable as
may be preferred at the time of each valuation.
No charge whatever for Stamps or Policies.

( FroM the Times. )
The Financial Quarter just come to an end, is
the first which exhibits, without any considerable
drawback, the full effect of the recent remissions of
taxes. As those remissions were estimated alto- ,
gether at more than two millions, a quarter of that
sum might reasonably be assigned to last Quarter.
The actukl result, however, is of a more promising
character. In the Quarter's Customs, as compared
with those of the Quarter ending January 5, 1853,
the decrease is not more than 95,8061., though
the taxes on tea, sugar, and several hundred less
important articles have been meanwhile reduced.
The Quarter's Excise, notwithstanding the aboli-
tion of the duty on soap, the loss of which fell very
largely on the winter quarter, shows a decrease of
not more than 113,9701. The very liberal altera-
tions of the Stamp Duties, and. the very tedious
system of replacement provided by the Succession
Duties, prepared the public for a greater decrease
on this head than what has actually occurred,
viz., 75,1011. In Assessed Taxes again there have
been extensive remissions, and the decrease is
only 17,1831. In the Property Tax there is a de-
crease of 53,5301. In the Post-office it is gratify-
ing to find an increase of 63,0001. The total
ordinary revenue exhibits a net decrease of
299,2974 ; which; on taking into account imprest
and other moneys, and the repayment of ad-
vances, is reduced to 293,0511. As there are
politicians who, when it suits them, can think
it quite possible to remit very productive
taxes, without leaving a void in the revenue,
we are qUite prepared to find this insignificant
decrease hailed as an opportune reverse. The an-
swer is, that it is considerably less than was anti-
cipated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the
proposition of his budget, and this at a-time when
the immediate prospect of war, a bad harvest, and
a system of obstinate and wrong-headed " strikes
have operated most injuriously on the enterprise,
enjoyment, and expenditure of the people.
As the return for the twelvemonth just ended
comprehends three other Quarters, either previous
to the recent reductions, or before they had come
into full play, it exhibits an increase under most
heads; on Customs, 282,8411. ; on Excise, 272,122/. ;
and on Stamps, 213,7271. In Assessed Taxes,
which have lately been affected many ways, there
is a decrease of 223,975/. ; and in the Property Tax
an increase of 50,5591. In the total ordinary re-
venue of the whole year the increase is 702,8081.,
which, by taking into account the very large in-
crease in the imprest and other moneys and repayment
of advances, becomes a total increase of 1,315,9251.
That this annual increase is likely to be sustained, or
can be sustained, so long as the comparison of year
with year is disturbed by large financial sacrifices,
is more than it would be reasonable to expect; but
no one can doubt, from the table before us, that
,the public finances, dependent as they are on the
prosperity of the country, are in a very buoyant

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
BONUSES—FIFTY PER CENT. of the Profits apportioned to
the Assured annually, on Policies of three years' standing, an advan-
tage offered by few. offices.
The first year's Fire Duty, payable to Government, amounts to
the unprecedented sum of 11,3001., and the first year's Bonus and
Reserve Fund to near 8,0001.
Notice.—Pensnis insured with this office whose Policies expire at
Michaelmas are respectfully reminded that they should be renewed
within fifteen days from that period; and those who desire to avail
themselves of the advantages and security of the Lancashire Insur-
ance Company, incur no extra expense by the transfer of their
Policies

JAMES NORTIIC OTT, Secretary to the London Board.

METROPOLITAN AND GENERAL FREEHOLD
LAND SOCIETY.

Last evening a meeting of the shareholders of the I
Metropolitan and General Freehold Land Society was '1
held at the British School Rooms, Cowper-street, Fins-
bury. The Principle object of the meeting was to ballot
for eighty rights to advances, 40 from the ballot rights,
and 40 from -the rotation division.
From a statement circulated in the room, detailing
the numerous advantages held out, it appeared that
by joining this society, a mechanic, or labourer, or other
person of limited income, might, by small weekly contri-
butions, become the proprietor in his own right of a
piece of freehold land, upon which a dwelling house
might be erected, either to let or to occupy. To effect
this object, land was purchased wholesale in large quan-
tities by the acre, and divided into plots of an annual value
of not less than 405., and allotted to the shareholder
at the wholesale or cost price, thus effecting a saving,of
from thirty to sixty pounds on each plot. In the pur-
chasing of land, great care was taken to obtain as far as
possible such as would be immediately available for
building upon, or other valuable purposes, or which the
members can dispose of at a ground rent on building
leases. The estates already purchased at Barnes and
Wimbledon had given the greatest satisfaction to the
members, and would bear csmparison with any other
estates purchased for the members of freehold land
societies. The cost of the conveyance to the members
was 30s. each, exclusive of stamps, whiCh was added to
the price of the allotment, and paid for by the allottees
in their regular subscription. The society advanced the
difference between the price of the allotment and the
contributions paid in by the allottees. The allot-
tees might at any time redeem " the mortgages by
paying off the advance made to them, and a re-
lease was given them by the trustees, and their
shares extinguished. Deposits were received by the
society in large or small sums, and interest at the rate.of
five per cent. allowed. The money so deposited with the
society, with the interest thereon, might, be withdrawn
upon giving seven days' notice to the secretary. The
society thus offered greater facilities, a larger rate of
interest, and better security than any savings bank.
w Shortly after eight o'clock the chair was taken by G.

state.
It is impossible to forget at this juncture that
the very great fact before us, an increase of nearly
a million and a-half on the year's revenue, may
possibly be the last of its kind for many years, and
that the year 1854 may be unfortunately remark-
able in the annals of finance as the end of a long
peace, marked by continual reductions of taxes and
increasing prosperity. Should the ambition and
obstinacy of Russia drag us into a war, that war
must be carried on with the whole might of this
empire, and it will be necessary at once to provide
for our increasedoexpenditure by new taxes, or an
increase bf those law existing. It is true that we
are better prepared than we ever were before, and
that we should not go to work in the same waste-
ful manner we did in the last war ; but fleets and
armies cannot be provided without money, and it
will be the best economy, in the long run, to put
forth our strength on the outset, and, if possible,
bring the contest to a speedy and honourable close.
Be the struggle short or long, it will inevitably
throw back our finances, and prevent us from con-
aratulating our readers, as we have done quarter
b-
after quarter and year after year, upon the still
flourishing state of our revenue, in spite of the
continual closing of its sources. Should the cause
of public justice, however, and of national honour
compel the sacrifice, it will be made cheerfully, and
no true British heart will repine for a moment at
our exchanging an overflowing exchequer for em-
barrassment and debt. We boast to be the bul-
wark of liberty in the world, and we also regard
with not less complacency the fact that we are the
richest of nations. That boast must be maintained
and justified by means of those riches which it
would ill become us to grudge in such a cause.
Let it be known that such is our resolution, and
it will have due weight in the vast, servile, poverty-
stricken region that threatens the liberties of
Europe by, mere force of numbers and barbarism.

J. Philps, Esq.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the even.
ing, said the observations he should have to make to the
meeting would necessarily be very short. He need not,
he was sure, enlarge upon the proceedings of the Metro-
politan and General Freehold Land Society, because he
might say these proceedings were before the world. The
shareholders knew what they had done during the year
just passed ; they had expressed their satisfaction in the
highest terms, and they had ample reason for that satis-
faction, because they had got their premiums in their
pockets. (Cheers.) He was sure that there could not be
more weighty reasons than pounds, shillings, and pence.
(Laughter and cheers.) The principle business of the
evening consisted in balloting (for the tenth time) for
10 rights to advances from the ballot division, and 40
from the rotation division, making in all, according to the
resolution of the committee, 80 rights. He (the chair-
man) would feel great pleasure, before resuming his seat,
in answering any questions that might be put to him.
The first part of the proceedings would be the election
of scrutineers to conduct the ballot.
The seals on the ballot box having been verified and
removed, and Mr. Hind having volunteered to act as
one of the scrutineers,
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said they required the
assistance of two more gentlemen, in order that the
business of the evening might be got through briskly,
the weather being very inclement. He hoped two other
gentlemen would volunteer to act as the colleagues of
Mr. Hind. He trusted the society would be enabled to
put as much land into the hands of the shareholders
this year as they had done during the year just ended.
In that year the directors of the society had put into
the hands of the shareholders 50 acres. (Cheers.) That
he considered was something. (Cheers.)
Two gentlemen having volunteered,
The names of Mr. Hind, Mr. Grossmith, and Mr.
Hack were then put to the meeting and agreed to.
The corresponding numbers of the shares taken prior
to the commencement of the proceedings having been
handed to the scrutineers, and by them placed in the
wheel, and
The forty numbers having been drawn,
The CHAIRMAN said the advice he gave those gentle-
men who were so fortunate as to get a right was to hold
on, and for this reason : A gentleman had given a com-
mission to an agent to purchase rights to the amount of
400/. ; indeed, the agent was empowered to go to the
extent of 8001.—thus showing to the assembled share-,
holders the high estimation in whibh this society was
held. (Cheers.)
The forty rotation rights having been added, the fol-
lowing numbers were announced at the termination of
the ballot, by the secretary (Mr. D. R. WHITE) :-
2,006, 822, 2,689 and 2,690 grouped, 3,334, 2,931,
2,633, 2,704, 1,961, 3,128, 914, 1,036, 3,303, 916,
1,131, 907, 2,694, 1,040, 913, 1,960, 1,128, 823,
2,360, 910, 911, 908, 2,611, 1,034, 3,041, 903, 1,032,
2,957, 3,001, 905, 3,213, 1,132, 3,086, 1,184, 3,165,
1,039, 912, 2,077, 826, 1,130, 1,041, 824, 825, 3,109,
1,129, 1,031, 906, 2,239, 2,996, 2,953, 2,002, 2,260,
1,194, 1,035, 2,459, 2,241, 2,913, 1,037, 1,193, 2,515,
3,108, 3,335, 2,742, 932, 2,417, 2,586, 1,038, 904.,
3,239, 2,910, 2,937, 909, 1,033, 1,720, 915, and 919.
A vote of thanks having been given to the scrutineers,
Mr. HIND rose for the purpose of moving the follow-
ing vote of thanks to the chairman for the able manner
in which he had fulfilled the duties of the evening. He
passed a high eulogium upon the chairman for the great
exertions he had made on all occasions in promoting the
interests and extending the means of the Metropolitan
and General Freehold Land Society, viz. : That the
thanks of this meeting are most justly due, and are
hereby given, to G. J. Philps, Esq., for the ability and
impartiality with which he has presided over the pro-
ceedingg of the society this evening."
Mr. C. JOYNER briefly seconded the motion.
The resolution having been put to the meeting and
carried,
The CHAIRMAN, on rising to return thanks, said he
felt highly gratified at the manner in which his exertions
had been appreciated. He trusted that they would all
live long, and by being firmly united they would imitate
the bundle of sticks mentioned in the fable of old.
The proceedings then terminated.

( Front the Morning Herald. )
From the boastful tone of the Ministerial jour-
nals during the last two or three days, we were led
to expect a very different report of the Quarter's
Revenue from thaneich we have now to present
to our readers. ainy understood, from
certain semi-official predictions, that we were to
find nothing but an unbroken series of financial
triumphs and successes.. The fact, however, turns
out far differently. With the single exception of
every depart
the Post-office, department of the State re-
ports a diminution in its receipts ; and we have no
doubt that if the cause of that single exception
were to be inquired into, it would prove to be
merely a postponement of some payment, and not
a real advance of the actual Post-office revenues.
For the rest, the falling off is as follows :
On the Customs ••• •.. ... £ 96,806
Excise ••• ••• ... 113,970
Stamps ••• ... 75,101
Taxes ••• •-• ... 17,183
~
Property Tax ••• ... 53,350
Miscellaneous ...
... 5,887

£362,297
63,000

Increase on Post•offices

Net decrease £299,297
This startling vier of our finances exactly con-
firms the statement we made only two or three days
since, that the spring and summer of the past year
had been periods of unusual enterprise and specu-
lation, making all things appear prosperous, and
naturally replenishing the Treasury ; but that we
had now entered on a period of collapse, which,
whether pence or war occurred, would greatly di-
, minish the Chancellor of the Exchequer's resources
for the year now. opening. The present revenue
return shows how fully we were justified in this
observation.
Perhaps we shall again be charged as we were
,
charged in the Times Tuesday
e last, with furnish-
ing our foreign foes—i be—with encou-
xagementa and with an unfayourabl%view of Eng-
.

[I)R10E SD.

THE RE-VENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JAN. 5: 1854.

•QUARTERS ENDED YEAR I QUARTERS ENDED
YEAR ,
r 4 I ended -------^-. ---t ended I Year ended Jan. 5. Quarter ended Jan. 5
Increase.-._
April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Jan 5, rApril 5, July 5, „, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Jan. 5,
Decrease. r'---A----nlncrease. (Decrease.
1852 1852 1852 1853 1853 1853 1853_ 1853 1854 1854
- -.---- --.- -
Z X
£ £ £ X £ £ £ X , £ X I
X • £
Customs ••••.•• • • • • • • • 4,615,025 4,502,164 5,036,809 4,541,384 18,695,382 4,432,832 4,943,337 5,157,476 4,444,578 18,978,223 1 Customs . 282,841 .. .. 96,806
Excise •••••••• • • • • • • • • 2,070,064 3,443,516 4,303,755 3,539,646 13,356,981 2,095,5131 3,795,617 4,309,229. 3,425,676 13,629,103 1 Excise .. .... 272,122 •• • •
.... .... 143,970
Stamps •••••••• • • • • • • • 1‘,515,985 1,626,826 1,529,421 1,615,029 6,287,261 1,657,749 1,675,148 1,628,163 1,539,928 6,500,988 I Stamps . ..... .... 213,727
Taxes • 295,045 1,503,707 159,215 1A19,873 3,377,843 111A76 1,510,483 129,219 1,402,690 3,153,868 1 Taxes •• • • .... 75,101
2,068,827 1 .. • • 223 975 ...- 17,183
Property Tax ,056,991 1,915,551 468,236 5,509,637 2,15a233 1.053,027 1,940,045 414,488 5 560 9, 1 p .
, J.l , Property Tax ••.. .. 50,559
18.000 63,000- f'3,350
Post-office.•.
72,000 200,000 50,000 80,000 402,888 I Crown Lands ...... 142. •,888 .• • •
Crown Lands ••••• • • • .. 80,000 60,000 40,000 80,000 260,000
Miscellaneous •••• • • • • 41,733 202,189 17,799 32,003 - 293,729 19,518 90,169 40,199 26,121 176,375 Miscellaneous •• .. .... .... ...
• • • . 17,354 • • .. 5,887
---
Total Ordinary Revenue 10,945,682 12,6'25.393 13,263,580 11,968,178 48,502,833 10,626,389 13,520,037 '13;490334 111,668,881 49,,350995:634881
itepa3T,mottaslotA.
avncs.. 9:682,,,019371 - 259,329 63,000 362,297
Imprest Moneys, &C. • • 140,441 212,688 137,996 142,938 6'34,063 221,096 256,759 '121,757 279,477 • 879,089 lmpre,st Moueys,&c 245 026
Repayments ()advances 88,608 216,652 233,042 491,995 1,03.1,297 171,859 424,573 441,254 361,702 1 •. • • 136,531 •• ..
• • • • .... 130,293
___-_- --.--- --
'• Total Income • • 11,174,731 13,054,733 13,635,618 12,603,111 50 468,193 111,219,344 14,201,369 114,053,345 12,310,060 51,784,118 I
Total ...... .. I ,575,254 259,329 199,539 492,590
Amount applied to Con- ---- ------
I
1 solidated Fund*.. .... 5,695,185 7,620,984 8,443,718 7,647,143 29,407,0.30 5,878,939 5,239,93.5 7,870,618 10,894,531 29,884,023 •259,329 c Deduct {Deduct ,0„, 539
L Decrease j Increase '"'"
Ditto, as Advances ..... 236,576 326,343 388,1335 499,376 1,451,1311 98,3 a 0 999,027 814,947 226,:53 2,136,517
I DiMeans tto, as
of the Yeapart of War.. ..ys
& f 5,242,979 5,107,406 4,803,065 4,456,592 19,610,033 5,242,015 7,962,407 5-,367,780 11,189,376 19,761,578- 1 1,315,025 % Increase r Decrease
, -- -----,------- -: - I ton Year. /Quarter. 293,051
Total .- - 11,174,731 13,054,733 13,635,618 12,603,111 1 50,468,193 11,219,344 14,201,369 14,053,345 12,310,060 1 51,784,118
- • - - -

No. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ending sth January, 1853 and 1854.
• Quarters ended Jan. 5. ' Quarters ended Jan. 5.
„-----...--.—.-•---‘
1853 1854
INCOME. CHARGE. • ...----------,..
______-- ' isba ' Ism .
X. X. X.
Customs • ....
Excise • • ..
Stamps
- 482 •
Taxes ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • ....... ••• • • 1,419,873 1,402,690 Sinking Fund ••••• • • • • • . •
Property Tax ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 468.233 414,888 The Civil List .•••••••••• • • • • • .. • • ..z . .. . ... . ..•, ~..
Post-office •••• • • • • •
Crown Lands • .
226,123
Miscellaneous •
.. • • •
Imprest and other Moneys ••••• • • • • • 31,072 183,56 I
Produce of tlig 0.1,, 01 Did Stores .... 111,867 95,912 . Total Charge ...... ... ..... ...... ........... 7,716,669 13,825,468
Repayments of Advancgs .• •
4,
12,4;31,747 12,342,358 • ~•••• '''• -. „: 12,631,747
To cult brought to this account fro,: . ,
95,269 The amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge of the Consolidated •Fund in the Quarter ending Oct 10, ~, •
1,334,183
savings on the Consolidated Fund..: ..•
To cash brought to this account and 1853, aftor deducting 890,0001. redeemed by Sinking Fund .• •••.••••••••• • • • • • • •• • • •..... .............. • •
applied to pay off Deflpiency Bills.. .. 20,000
--- The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Jan 5, 1854, in part of Sums granted by Parliament out of the
12,631,747 12,637,827 Consolidated Fund for Supply Services •••• .. • • •••••• •••.•••••••—"••••••..••• • • • • • • • " • • " • • .. • • . • • • • • • • 1,189,376
•
-- Deficiency Consolidated Fund •••• • • • • ...... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • ••• • • •
• • • • • • • • 1,187,641
Deficiency of Income to meet the chargel
on the Consolidbted Fund.• .. ... •• • .. 1,187,641 The probable Amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the Charge on the Consolidated Fund, en sth Jan., 1854 • . :3,711,200
----- .
• 13,825,468 ________

independent of the British squadron now in the
Bosphorus, that portion of the fleet which is not
in the Mediterranean consists of an equal number
of newer and more powerful ships than those under
the command of Admiral Dundas. This result is
already creditable to the Admiralty, and it has
been accomplished within the last few months
on what is still a peace establishment. Among
those politicians who distinguished themselves
at an early period of the dispute now pending
in the East by loudly recommending a prompt
appeal to arms, there may be some who will
perceive, with satisfaction, that we are far better
prepared to meet such an emergency at the pre-
sent time than we were last spring. At that
time the Baltic was open, our naval resources were
not collected, and our coasts were comparatively
undefended. We have now had time to prepare
against the danger. Our armaments, indeed, are
still of a very limited character, and cannot be
compared to the stupendous exertions of the Em-
peror of Russia, who has set the whole army of his
empire in motion, has 40 line-of-battle ships in
commission, has raised four millions and a half of
money from the Church, and commenced operations
on a scale worthy of the campaign of Moscow.
But no one will complain that Great Britain has
been less violent and precipitate in her demonstra-
tions of hostility, partly from her reluctance to
surrender the last hopes of peace, and partly from
a just confidence in that power which has never
yet failed her. The Admiralty has constructed a
fleet of magnificent ships, armed with all that
modern science has done for navigation. We trust
that young, able, and energetic officers will be
selected to command them ; and we venture to
affirm that with good ships, good officers, and
good treatment, the blue jackets will not fail to do
their part in their country's battles.

(7,tifl,- // f, (k,_4
AL I EL i/ LIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 5.
The Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship, Captain the Hon.
F. T. Pelham, was docked this morning for a refit.
The Conflict, screw, 8 ; Bulldog, 6 ; and Hecla, 6,
paddle-sloops, left this harbour this afternoon in charge
of Lieutenant Clarke, and navigating party from the
Blenheim, to join the steam reserve at Devonport.
The Sprightly, steam-tender, Mr. George Allen, Act-
11g-Master-Commanding, left this morning fol. the west-
ward, with Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, commanding
the Royal Engineers in this garrison, and staff, to exa-
mine the coast fortifications.
A.letter from Chatham states that it is probable Rear-
Admiral Fanshawe, in the Boscawen, 70, will take the
command of a division of a North Sea fleet, instead of
sailing at present to relieve Sir George Seymour on the
West India station. The Isis, 44, sailing-frigate, was
docked at Chatham this day to be fitted for, a flag.
Letters from the Mediterranean an,ru.pnpeoeinttheadttLo hiteue-
tenant Herbert, of the Bellerophon, i a
Inflexible, vice 'Oldfield, to the Bellerophon. The Rev.
'Antony Salkeld, M.A., Chaplain of the Retribution, has
leA.ve of Admiral Dundas to come to England. Thea-
triial performances were the order of the evening on
board some of the ships. The Bellerophon, on the
night of the 16th, got up Slasher and Crasher, the Valet
de Sham, and the Lottery Ticket, to a brilliant audi-
ence, Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons and a large party
of officers of the fleet being present. A grand Supper
was given afterwards ou the main deck, of which about
100 of the elite partook. The Sanspareil was preparing
to follow the example. Her paymaster had had a nar-
row escape from drowning while in a " caique." Com-
mander Heath, of the Niger, has had six weeks leave
granted him by Admiral Dundas, to enable him to go to
Malta and get married. Lady Dundas was expected to
join her husband in the Triton packet.
The keel of the Shannon, a screw-frigate of 60 guns
and 600 horse power, has been laid this week in this
dockyard.
The Malacca, new 14-gun screw corvette, is ordered
to be fitted completely for sea, and to have engines of
200 horse power on the high pressure principle.
The continued frost and the late heavy fall of snow
have quite stopped the progress of the heavy works of
defence at this.port.

PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.
The 42d and 79th Highla,ndeis now mount guard in
" trews," instead of the kilt, as per order just issued.
The Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade is daily looked
for in the Simoom troopship, from the Cape of Good
Hope. They will be landed at Dover and join the
depot there.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 5.

A. letter written on board the, hospital ship at Ber-
muda, dated December 5, states that the island had been
for eight days visited by a severe gale, during which no
new case of yellow fever had occurred. Those ill were

recovering.
Her Majesty's frigate Pique, 40, having been commis-
sioned, was this morning warped alongside the jetty at
the Devonport dockyard to receive stores. '

The Turkish paddle-wheel war-steamer.Vassati Tidga-
rets, 2 guns, 350 tons, 300 horse power, Capt. Beanchi,
came in this afternoon. She left Constantinople Dec.
5 ; Malta, 11; Vigo, 29 ; and Falmouth, Jan. 4 ; and
is bound for London to be refitted. She was launched
at Cowes about five years ago.
Arrived to-day.—The bark Meteor, of London, Capt.
Brodie, from the Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope ;
the bark Champion, of London, Capt. Hatley, from
Madras ; the bark Griasvilie Bray, of Newcastle, Capt.
Hoskinson, from Quebec ; the schooner Centaur Beriam,
from Leghorn, for London ; the ship Maranhv.m Clark,
from Quebec for Newcastle ; and the brigantine Han-
deeps, Bickford, from St. Michael's, for Hull.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 4.
The Cyclops, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate,
Master-Commander Robert W. Roberts, has been taken
into No. 3 dock for the purpose of examining feed pipes,
copper, &c., and will be put out of dock immediately
after survey. The Cyclops is to be fitted to receive
troops (artillery) for passage to Malta and Gibraltar ;
she will then proceed on, for general service for the
fleet in the Mediterranean, with shot, shell, ammunition,
arms, &c.
Lieutenant Grant, R.N., has this day taken up his
commission, and joined the Cressy, 80 guns, new screw
steam line of battle ship, Capt. Richard L. Warren.
Immediately the Melampus frigate storeship has
trans-shipped the boilers of the Majestic, she is to pro-
ceed to Woolwich to take in machinery, &c., for the
western ports, for steam-ships fitting at Portsmouth,
Devonport, and Milford.
The Lady Flora, revenue-cutter, Charles Bones in
command, arrived here yesterday from Dover with
volunteers for the navy (obtained at Ramsgate), princi-
pally first class boys, who have been received on board
the flagship Waterloo for general and continuous ser-
vice.

In conformity with an Admiralty'order, the Captain-
Superintendent Charles Hope has issued instructions to
the respective officers of the yard, which instructions
have been promulgated to the respective classes of me-
chanics, labourers, &c., through their proper officers,
that in future, until further orders from their lordships,
all persons employed on new works shall be employed
on task and job, in order to facilitate the internal and
external fitment of, all ships brought forward for com-
mission, as well as for ships commissioned, building, &c.
This is considered a forerunner for the entire staff of
mechanics and labourers to be put on task and job in
the dockyards, in consequence of the great difficulty in
experienced in obtaining men to enter the Government
yard on the low rate of wages they receive compared
with the wages earned at private building and repairing
yards in the River Thames and elsewhpre ; all or most
of such persons being on task and job, unlimited

earnings.
The Medea, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander Augustus Phillimore, is daily expected here
from Portsmouth, for the purpose of being taken into
dry dock for making good defects, &c.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 5.
The slip on which the Pearl, new screw steam-cor-
vette, of 20 guns, is to be built is now all cleared out at
this dockyard, and. a number of workmen have com-
menced forming the timbers of her keel into their required
proportions previous to its being laid down. The Pearl
will be a description of war steamer, fitted with the
screw propeller, much required since the introduction of
that mode .of propulsion to the vessels of the Royal
navy, and her dimensions will be as follows
Feet Inches.
Length between the perpendiculars 2OO ... 0
Breadth, extreme - 40 ... 4
Ditto moulded
Ditto for tonnage 4O ... • 0
Depth of hold
Tonnage, 1,462. To carry 20 guns.
The Pearl will be only 12 tons less than the Amphion,
34, screw steam-frigate, and within 34 tons of the di-
mensions of the Dauntless steam-frigate, The High-
flyer, 21, screw steam-frigate, is 308 tons less than the
Pearl will be ; consequently, the latter will he able to
carry 20 guns of the largest calibre, and, if fitted with
engines of a suitable power, will prove a formidable war
steamer. It is intended to construct other war steam-
ers of the same class, and they will shortly be com-
menced at the other dockyards, as slips become vacant
suitable to build them on,
A number of casks were brought down from Dept-
ford yesterday to aid in floating the Firefly steam-vessel
into dock again, as at the time the ice lifted the caisson,
and allowed her to get out, her bottom had beep stripped
and repairs were going on, which' allowed the water to
enter when the tide rose, and she was imbedded in the
mud alongside the wharf wall of the river. The
caisson has been restored to its proper place at the
entrance of the dock without any difficulty, as it
had not sustained the least injury by its voyage
among the floating ice on the river. The scene
yesterday on the river, opposite the dockyard, had a
strange effect, the wind blowing bitterly cold from
the north-east. Some perilous adventurers were expe-
rienced in boats during the day. In the forenoon a
waterman got entangled among the floes of the ice, and,
when a short distance below the Fisgard, his boat be-
came frozen in. Mr. Osborn, recently boatswain of the
Phoenix, and who went with her in her last voyage to
the Arctic regions, volunteered, with three other persons,
to proceed from the landing-place, which was kept open,
to the rescue of the watermen, but the great quantity
of floes corning down with the ebbing tide earned them
some distance down the river beyond the waterman,
and their boat became hemmed in among the ice and
frozen in in a very short time, and they had to remain
there without much covering and no shelter, from 10
a.m. to 1 o'clock
aranasdscaorfripeidecetsheomficupep.motfh. v
ae whenrr
ii
ovuesr the tide began to flow,
when they passed Charlton if in the centre
ses.
Fortunately, f a large
Charlton-pier,
approached within
a short distance of the Marine Society's ship Venus,
and, a rope being thrown to them, they succeeded in
getting on bard that vessel, where every attention was
paid to their comfort by the Lieutenant Commander.
\
The waterman, after being two hours in his perilous po-
sition, with no person to aid him, was relieved by a con-
vict, who succeeded in throwing a line with a plumb of
lead attached to him, and, by the united exertions of
ten men, both himself and boat were drawn over
,the ice
to the shore.

CHATHAM, JAN. 5-
The Isis, 44 guns, was taken into dock on Wednesday
to be immediately fitted for sea. She is to have, a poop
put in her, as she is to be made an admiral's ship.
The Boscawen, 70 guns, Captain Glanville, was put
out of dock on Tuesday. She will be out of the hands
of the dockyard this month.
The Euryalus, screw steam frigate, 50 guns, Captain
Ramsay, was put out of dock yesterday. The Marines
and Marine Artillery are expected to go on board on
Friday next.
The Orion, 90 guns, building, is to be completed with
all dispatch ; every available hand is put on her at task
work, with unlimited wages. This ship was cut asun-
der, and lengthened for a screw-ship.
The Chesapeake, 60 guns, is ordered to be built,
thereby adding another screw-ship to our fleet. The
fr one for her is cut, and the keel is to be laid down in
the dock that the Euryalus was floated out from on the
sth of October last.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVES/TAMPON RAIL-
WAY.—A. civil engineer has just succeeded in recovering
the sum of 6/. from this company-, one of whose trains,
in consequence of its late
fessional pro
arrival at Stourbridge, and
in his
stopping to take in a gang of railway workmen, failed
to catch the London express at Dudley, and SO pre-
vented the plaintiff .from attending,
in liondon on the lull ult.
capacity, a meeting