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is. per day he shall receive the difference added to
his allowance.

" 2. The discharged Marine shall be provided
with conveyance to his home if not more distant
thAn his original place of enlistment by vessel or
railway, or other suitable means as sh .11 be found
at a cost not exceeding railway fare. If any part
of the distance shall be necessarily travelled on foot,
and the pension of the discharged man shall not
exceed Is. a day, he shall receive = for every com-
plete 10 miles, and also for the proportion over, if
not less than five miles of such part of the distance,
an allowance of 6d., or, if his pension exceed ls.
and be less than is. 6d. a day, the difference be-
tween those rates ; but no allowance for distances
travelled on foot shall be issued to a discharged ma-
rine whose pension amounts to ls. 6d. a day. And
men who volunteer from the militia are entitled to
the regulated allowances to themselves and families
to the place of their enrolment.
" 3. The stoppage to be made from a discharged
marine for his rations supplied at the publieex-
pense, when proceeding to his home on board a
vessel or otherwise, shall be 6d. a day.
" 4. The discharged marine's wife and children
shall be provided with conveyance in the same man-
ner as himself, and for any distances travel led by
them (necessarily) on foot an allewance of lid. per
mile shall be made to the wife, and id. per mile for
each child not above 14 years of age.
" 5. When detained at any port waiting for pas-
sage by steam or other vessel, an allowance of 10d.
a day for the period of such detention excepting the
days of arrival and embarkation, shall be allowed
to the wife, and 6d. a day for each child not above
14 years of age. Rations, when not supplied in
kind on the passage, shall be allowed at the rate of
6d. a day to the wife, and 3d. each child not above
14 years of age, for the probable period of the pas-
sage. _

.RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NAVY.

A writer in a contemporary says :—The contro-
versy which is going on concerning plated frigates,
is one fraught with much instruction for English-
men, apart from the all-important point of national
safety or jeopardy which it involves. There may
still be persons who, without prejudices derived
from ignorance or from their personal interests, en-
tertain doubts upon a question which was practi-
cally settled during the Rassian war, on the day
when the French iron batteries took Kinburn, and
received the heaviest shot at short ranges as if they
had been so many snowballs.

!' 6. In order that a marine discharged with igno-
miny or for bad conduct shall not become burden-
some to the parish in which he is discharged, an
allowance to convey him to his intended residence,
or place of enlistment if not more distant, shall be
issued not exceeding ld. a mile, but in no case
shall the money be paid to the man himself when a
conveyance for him can be provided.
" 7. A recruit, if rejected on final examination,
shall receive an allowance to carry him back to the
place of his enlistment, viz., ls. for every 10 miles,
and for a surplus of five miles or mile.
" 8. If in any case the marine prefers to remain
at the place of his discharge, he is not entitled to
the allowances for travelling or passage.
" 9. A marine who after discharge re-enters the
service is entitled when again discharged to allow-
ance to the place of his re-enlistment only."

TILE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

But Captain Halsted, in his admirable letters,
only represents the convictions of many an intelli-
gent and disinterested officer in the navy to whose
lot the grim business may some day fall of dealing
with one of these plated ships from on board an
English wood-built Mersey or Renown.
How is it, them, that, notwithstanding this gene-
ral conviction on the part of the active members of
the naval profession, the Admiralty are still ham-
mering away on every slip in every dockyard, lay-
ing down, launching, and then ever laying down
again, new wooden men of war? How is it that,
when France has left the half-finished wooden ships
on the stocks in her dockyards to put every hand
on her• 10 iron frigates, we in England are content
to hear that four such vessels are, indeed, ordered
for our navy, and may some of them be ready per-
haps 15 months hence, but that our Admiralty have
more faith in ships which half a dozen percussion
shells will send to tie bottom than in vessels which
no shell yet made can penetrate at the closest quar-
ters, and no shot, except under conditions which
the captain of an iron frigate would take care
should never be possible ? How is it that, on so mo-
mentous a question, our Admiralty and our Govern-
ment should have permitted one moment to be lost
in making such experiments and calling for such
advice from naval arehitects as should not only set-
tle the question of the comparative, and therefore,
practically speaking, complete invulnerability of
these plated ships, but also that of the best form
for their construction ? Can it be true that our
naval authorities have refused to recognise the pa-
ramount importance of this matter, and now are
only aroused to a reluctant and unenergetic action
by the same voice that is awakening the people of
England from their repose on their narcotic old
laurels, the voice of anxiety which presently will be
panic, sounding through the colums of a free-speak-
ing press ?
There are institutions in this country besides those
connected with our public buildings and works
that might have been justly embraced in the memo-
rable sentence of Mr. Gladstone in the last session.
Our Admiralty is one of these, and little short of a
revolution will ever reform it. Every one knows
the story of the old Canopus. Captured at the Nile,
she long—ay, for 40 years—Jed the van of the Bri-
tish navy, led even ships built in England after her
own lines. Then came the day when the Gomer
steamed into Portsmouth harbour with the King of
the French on board. France may look on that day
as one of her " glories." The English dockyards
itnmediately resounded with preparations for build-
'yng
Gomers. Next came the Napoleon, the first
ship of the line whose lines were drawn and whose
keel was laid to meet the requirements of a fast
screw steamship. So our Agamemnons began to
be.

A meeting of gentlemen interested in the forma-
tion of a Mounted Volunteer Corps for the west-end
of London was held yesterday at Willis's-rooms,
Major J.F.. Richardson, C. 8., of the Bth B/ingal
Irregular Cavalry, in the chair. Among
those present were Col. Seymour, Messrs. Bowen,
May, E. Tattersall, W. Boyle, J. M. Garrard, Dy-
moke Green, &c. Letters were read from Colones
Douglas, Adjutant-General of Cavalry, regretting
his inability to join the London Light Horse, as he
held a commission in a Volunteer corps in his own
county, but stating that he should recommend the
corps to his friends ; from Capt. Wedderburn ; and
from Captain Alexander, Bengal Irregulars, offer-
ing to assist in the organisation of the corps in any
way in his power. The chairman, having read the
minutes of the last meeting, said that the immediate
object of the present was to decide upon the uniform
to be adopted. He did not consider that at present
it would be necessary to have a full dress, as it would
be found to he very expensive, and he wished to
accommodate the outlay required to the means of
the poorest man amongst them. He would sug-
gest, therefore, that the carps should first be orga•
nised, and then the question of the full dress could be
decided. In answer to questions the chairman said
that the arms proposed were swords and pistols,
but that he thought that it would he advisable, per-
haps, to have a few lances and carbines distributed
among the non-commissioned officers of the regi-
ment; the horses were to be from 15 to 10 hands
high; hunting saddles were to be used, with wal-
lets and straps, and the bridles of Nolan's pattern,
with silver-plated buckles. It was then agreed
that the uniform should consist of a loose blue jac-
ket, with blue velvet facings and silver cord em-
broidery, pantaloon breeches of white Melton cloth,
Napoleon riding boots of patent leather, plated
hunting spurs, a blue forage cap with silver band.
and crown ornament, and without peak ; and
the sword should be the light cavalry sword with
scroll hilt, and the belts and pouch of Russia
leather, with silver-plated ornaments. It was also
argeed that the subscription should be for effec-
tives two guineas par annum and one guinea en-
trance, and that honorary members should sub-
scribe one guin ea per annum, a donation of 10 guineas
to constitute a life member. Thirty-six gentlemen
have already enrolled themselves, and nearly 100
more have promised to join, and it was agreed to com-
municate with the Lord-Lieutenant (the Marquis
of Salisbury) forthwith, offering their services to
her Majesty. A vote of thanks to the chairman
concluded the proceedings.
The Workman's Volunteer Brigade, a newly-
raised corps, mustering nearly 1,000 strong, assem-
bled on Saturday evening in the Guildhall for drill
practice and. parade, and attracted considerable
notice. 'They nearly filled th© spacious hall, and,
considering the difficulties they have had to en-
counter in obtaining, suitable places for drill, their
marching and general deportment reflected much
credit on the body. In the course of the evening,
Major Richards addressed the men and stated that
Col. Sir William De Bathe was present, and that
that gallant officer had accepted the command of
the Ist battalion, which announcement was received
with great enthusiasm. Sir William then presented
himself, and expressed his gratification at being
selected to take charge of so fine a body of Volun-
teers. It had been his let to serve under the illus-
trious Wellington in some of his glorious cam-
' paigns, and he therefore thought that he
might be in some way qualified for the important
post to which they had appointed him. It would
be iris pride to render the corps all the aid he
could, and he had no doubt, from the proficiency
they had shown,, they would become equal to any
volunteer corps in the country. The gallant officer
was loudly cheered during his address. The bat-
talion then formed in marching order, and, headed
by their band, proceeded through the principal
streets in the city to their head- quarters.
Last evening
a public meeting of the inhabi-
tants of Upper Clapton and neighbourhood was
held at the National School-room, Wood-street,
Upper Clapton, in ferder to add to the strength of the Second Tower Hamlets Rifle Regiment, and to I
raise another company for the locality. Mr. Gibbs,
of Springfield, occupied the chair. Resolutions
were passed authorising the formation of another
company. Thirty gentlemen haling enrolled their
names, the meeting separated.

The American corvettes came next, and our
Merseys and Orlandos were ere long racing over the
measured mile in Stokes Bay,
Each one of these improvements ought to have
emanated from England, for each in order has been
more and more of a character calculated to maintain
in our hands our maritime preponderance. Every-
thing that makes a ship of war vast, expensive,
complicated, dependent on machinery, and a con-
sumer of coal, makes more and more for our retain-
ing that preponderance.
When our ships arc panoplied in iron, arc built
of iron, invulnerable colossi of the deep, then more
than ever will England be Queen of the seas. Why
have not the instincts of the British Admiralty
been keenly alive to all this 1' And why has France
once more got the start—it may be this time a fatal
start—of us ?
"Fo answer this question we may contrast the
conditions under which, on the one hand, France
' has set about her Napoleons and her Gloires with
those under which it has been possible for our
Admiralty to ignore the march of ideas and of
practical results, and•to be blinded by prejudices
founded on the personal interests of dockyard
officials. A young Frenchman, M. Dapiiis
Delolme, came to England to study naval archi-
tecture, for naval architecture, which, as a
science, exists not in our dockyards, flourishes
nowhere, not even in America, as it does in our
private building yards. So M. Delolme became the
pupil of a gentleman to whom this science owes
much—Mr. Scott Russell. He went back to France.
It is a rare virtue in Princes—would it were not !
to recognise real intellect and strength of purpose,
and to discriminate between these and their coun-
terfeits. The Emperor Napoleon 111. possesses that
gift. It matters little whether the invention of the
iron panoply was an American "notion" or an idea
:Napoleonienne. It was the Emperor whose sagacity
appreciated it. It was at his suggestion that our
own unwieldy iron batteries were built for the Rus-
sian war, and he had the triumph of the success of
his vessels of this class at Kinburn. He selected M.
Dupuis Delolme to give to this idea a further ex-
tension—to invest these panoplied ships with speed
and all the qualities of a man-of-war, and the Gloire
is the result. But that is not all. The Gloire is one
only of a series; for, so entire a faith in a scientific
principle, worked out in a scientific way, had the
Emperor and the talented engineer in whom he re-
posed his confidence, over whom he placed no supe-
rior but himself, and at whose command all the
resources of the dockyards of France were placed,
that not one only, but ten of these ships, have been
silently, rapidly, efficiently, and simultaneously
growing into completion.

The Uxbridge (24th Middlesex) Rifle Corps
met on Saturday last, at Cowley-house, the resi-
dence of the captain, to receive a set of drums and
fifes presented to the corps at the sole cost of
the Hon. Miss Georgina Irby, a descendant of
the first Earl of Uxbridge, and sister of the pre-
sent Lord Boston. The presentation was to have
been made by Miss Irby in person, but to the great
regret of all she was unavoidably absent, owing to
the sudden death of a near relative. Mrs. HilliP.rd
(the captain's wife) was deputed by Miss Ir'oy to
represent her, and in an appropriate address to the
corps she presented the instruments, expressing the
vrarm sympathy of the ladies generally in the more-
raent, and Miss Irby's hope that, the band might
'prove a source of enjoyment and, encouragement in
their loyal and patriotic undertaking. The meet-
ing was also made the occasie of the distribution
of prizes for which the members of the corps had
contended on Thursday and Friday. Each ms:n i
fired five rounds at the four ranges-150, 200, 250
stubscribea for ':y
and 300 yards. A. challenge cup
made 32 points in the 20 rounda e
the corps was awarded to Priv Raff,..rty , who
prizes,
given by the officers, were awarded s.
Gt.he.:r
points ; Sherwin, 27 points ; an,.; /..:?..N.tcholson, 28
points; two other men, Hallo- -- or. Rayner, 26
1 J._
lirowTeurr,ay
each 26 points, but in she, was and Youens, made
won. Prizes were also a- Jting off the tie Rayner
at each separate range elarded for the best score
8, at 300 yards ;
Phillips 9, at 250 ;
6 two handsome cus f theg U.
at 200 ; and Cor_
p oral Woodbridp,v3 9. atilr 8 00. The ladies f U
ebsrtidnguemablseor ogfayhits in the
att.
P hits, and Youens„ 18 hits°.
the lot of Rafferty,
Ymrjadlieenls7fhoits each.
the 2d Ladies' prize, and
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A writer in a contemporary says :—Every Eng•
lishman who has read your columns containing the
interesting communications on iron-plated ships
must have been struck with their vast import.
ance. No greater testimony of their value can be
adduced than the instantaneous effect produced
by them in the official regions of Whitehall. No
sooner had your notices appeared than there was
running and rushing too and fro at Whitehall,
and now, as if by magic, the world is told that
another steel-plated vessel is ordered to be laid
down. It is to be 400 feet long, and calculated
to carry an armament of surpassing destructive
power, &c. It I am correctly informed, this
vessel is to embrace all the defects as well as the
advantages of the former iron plated vessels—
that is to say, of the Black Prince and Warrior
class. The new vessel is, in point of fact, to be
nearly the exact copy of prior forms. To be pre-
cise, let me indicate the nature of these defects,
premising that the question of the routine of the
attack and defence of these kinds of vessels has
been so ably discussed in your columns that fur-
ther comment at my hands is unnecessary.
Permit me to specify certain grave defects of
construction in iron clad shins as hitherto made
—defects which it is the present intention of the
Admiralty to repeat in the build of the new vessel.
All the iron plates hitherto employed in defend-
ing the sides of ships have been secured in position
by a series of bolts and nuts fitting into correspond-
ing perforations drilled through the iron plates as
well as the wooden or iron hull of the ship itself.
Some of the belts are as much as 20 to 24 inches
long by 2 inches diameter, and have either a square
or conical head at one end and double nuts at the
other. On the impact of the shot—be it either of
the 68-pounder round or any of the various kinds
of elongated paojectiles—if the plate, in a large
number of instances, be not perforated the bolts
are nevertheless driven inboard with very destruc•
tive effect. Having myself been present at many
of these trials I can testify to the grave nature of
the casualties to be apprehended unless the proper
steps be taken to remedy this defect.
At this particular stage I wish to point out in
what manner the influence of the press might be
brought to bear for the national advantage.
As soon as this defect was duly ascertained and
acknowledged by the authorities, thinking men
were devising means to overcome the evil. To my
own knowledge plans were submitted in the latter
part of last year to the Admiralty Board—plans
which, in the opinion of that Board, completely
obviated the grave defects before mentioned. Of
my own knowledge, too, I can state that the only
reason urged why the ships then building should
not be constructed was that the contracts, embrac-
ing old principles, were already made, and that my
Lords could not then interfere with the execution
of such contracts without great inconvenience to
the public service. However difficult it may be
for the public to credit the announcement, it is still
a fact that notwithstanding the approval of the
new plan by the Admiralty, and the evidence of
their own committee, the old system is about to be
repeated.

People may listen to canards like that of the Nor-
mandie not having buoyancy to carry heavy guns.
When the Normandie sits the water like a bird and
steams at 13 knots with the heaviest guns France
can make, Englishmen will perhaps abuse the
stealthy movements with which aggression pre-
pares its spring, and throws dust in the eyes of an
adversary, and the Emperor Napoleon will be exe-
crated as a conspirator against the repose of the
world. Be it so—but he has achieved his end.
Look now at our own dockyards and the means
adopted in them for carrying out improvements.
The Surveyor of the Navy, who is the responsible
adviser of the Board, is as fine a sailor as ever
stepped a quarterdeck. Bat why should so ad- ,
archi-
tect when his previous training has in about an EADYBIL,TI"4,
mirable a sailor be doomed to become a naval
ssibility of abandoning
The answer is sie,3o%
equal degree medicine aitogether. is shown
indigestion,
thee itii.otinicr(cr extraordinaryaiatal
clUttliflet him to become a bishop P inv.r,i—The possibility
but not elite conclusive. It i 4 cures witnlisotiiitaTioendicnienrevoous,nd,
biliouss and liver complaints,
to make anybody short 'of an
not the cuetone,
Admiral S sdnelicions Health Restoring Revalenta Arabic
"Arveyor to the Navy, and until he is an Food ; the following are not the lettst remarkable :—Cure
stn custom a dockyard to learn what is tbe.business
AdmirPL it is
ißeeeey3l:7ll,sesto 1: constipations
consumption, and debility effected by Du
not the custom for an officer to be
tn. 0V,70. Mr. tames Roberts, tamper inzt3bant of Frim-
of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver
be made into a shipbuilder and surveyor VI•
`Jf a ship artificer. Therefore if an Admiral is to Holze, aged 107 years, of dyspepsia (indigestion) debility,
derangement, partial deafness.—Cure No. 5.8,816. 11. I..rs.
seventy years,—Curef No.
result is that the whole of the designing for, here Lekester,'kwy-flove
select a good sailor for the purpose 0 surveyors
n0tth46,814.d.h Mr._ SeamrouelNLaxtioBtot,
irritability and nervousness whicn had tormented her for
Majesty's dockyards devolves on 0, ritborainate
pupils of the old Sehbol of Naval Design. But that
13
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Iwos
yeiairesrvolislanrWa.consutipatione,. indi-
' and great misery, and which no medicine could remove or.re-
yet lievo, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a
as ceased to be, thanks to Sir James 18 , Fleet-street, London.'
school itself I). very short time. IV, B. Reeves, 1
pilev4iedtialts aaiLd Medicines '
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disappointment,
Graham., 'who knocked that admirable institution nu and expense may be avoided by using annoyance, Barry's Fcod
the head just as it was beginning to become a for-saves % c9'l 1
woliecrh,reatpoad
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effectually,
7didable And a useful rival to the taa system. What, Constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) ervous,nbilfonursglannge
liver complaint! and all their consequences. Certificate
then, are we to do when some improved class of
`:nip is suggested by a foreign vessel of new pro-
portions, involving some principle new to our navy, Citinp' ell. Let intvalaidvseti'v'oid the fearful dangers of spu7
111,)5%,,,1•gh ly:i. And it thterafesturArTedijr..
stnilraoßwd,Utr3ro.,
has appeared perhaps at Spithead—a Gomer, a fria7sllosparne
the
ctleainjurioces. iliiseg,tsaio.ntastio:fiteired
eunrciottili
Niagara, a General, Admiral, or perhaps a Nor- high Court of Chancery under a penlaTty Pof £5,000 against
tedvaribeyty of
mandie ? Fortunately for England, she has her
Shopkeepers77expect to be dßwilltgor
private building yards, and the naval architects of Barry's'vare consitaepeta:ediatfors
with ultchrabpieatenFtoaere utterlyn I'd's,.
illafr 4 Hooper Neill and his agents ; and thodptriaitaetneus
the Thames and the Clyde are competent to under-
take the problem. The plans for the construction of
article must
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gent-street, an ;
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at ,
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notr designed by Admiralty heads or hands, for these of Post-ofice orderßarryand Co., 77, Re,
aoruer
tyears ; and the Warrior and the Black Prince canisters
b y
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asked, hay® not the
Admiralty long before this ea-dealers; Petty, Wood and Co,,King lirilliam-streeta
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The defEcts of the present method of fixing iron
plating are these :-1. When struck by shot, the
bolts are either driven inboard or broken, or the
plates are cracked from hole to hole • if the plate
struck be not broken it curls up at the corners and
edges. 2. In a seaway it is next to impossible,
from the -vast number of bolt holes passing through
the hull and plates, to keep the vessel watertight.
In spite of every precaution caulking does not per-
fectly keep out the water, and in anything like
heavy weather the vessel leaks likes sieve.