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At eight o'clock on Saturday evening the 46th
Middlesex paraded in Westminster Hall, to testify
their deep respect fur their late lieutenant-colonel,
Sir J. V. Shelley. Every officer and man wore
mourning, according to the regimental order. The
battalion having been told off and square formed by
Captain Henderson, the adjutant,
Lord CAMPBELL, the major of the corps, entered
the square, and said :—Officers and men of the 46th
Middlesex,--you well know that I am .not in the
habit of addressing speeches to the regiment. There
is not a single person in the whole volunteer force
less inclined to all unnecessary effort in that man-
ner. But after the heavy blow we have experienced,
it devolves upon the second in command to say a
few words upon our prospects. Those prospects
rest entirely with you. First, the nature of the
volunteer system. Governments are not able to
perpetuate a corps, and would not feel entitled to
dissolve one. If you determine to go on, the lord-
lieutenant of the county, I feel certain, will be
guided by the public interest in naming a coin- .
mander. He is not in any
way bound to appoint
the major to the vacancy. No such rule exists in
our service. I have frequently ascertained, as a sup-
porter of th'e movement; that volunteer regiments
ought as far as possible be commanded by men who
have served her Majesty as regulars. The opinion
was confirmed by everything I saw of our larnented
friend and colonel while I acted under him. His
alacrity, his promptitude, his coolness and decision
on parade, always seemed to me to have resulted
from his early discipline in the profession of a sol-
dier. Capt. Henderson, who has lately had more
frequent opportunities than I of mixing with the
regiment, informs me that a brief allusion to the
remarkable career of our late commander is desired
by those who knew bim well, and by those who have
lately joined us. And although it is only in latter
years, from acting with him in the corps, that I
had the honour of his intimate acquaintance, so
far as I am able I Nit try to satisfy the
feeling. Liir John Shelley, in early youth, re-
solved on arms as a profession, and learnt a
portion of its rudiments in Hanover, at that time
connected closely with Great Britain. While he
remained in Germany be bad the happy fortune of
coming under the protection and residing in the
house of Goethe, the great philosopher of 'Weimar, a
fact of which he never ceased to recognise the benefit,
and which throws a light on many phases of his
subsequent activity. On his return to England he
joined the Royal Horse Guards as a cornet, and in
a very short time lie undertook the office of the ad-
jutant. Our attention ought to rest upon that mo-
ment, because it stamped his character and in-
fluenced his fortunes. It was most unusual then, as
it is now, for officers in the cavalry to hold the post
of adjutant. Since the time of Sir John Shelley
only three have done so in the regiment he be-
longed to. The labour which devolves upon an ad-
jutant in infantry is onerous ; but in cavalry he has
to look to horses as well as men. The whole ma-
chine, being more delicate and complex, requires
greater supervision from him. In the Household
regiments, on his eye depend—although this per-
haps is the least important of his cares—the arms
and the accoutrements whieli form on certain days
the outward splendour of the monarchy. He parades
every guard before it leaves the barrack, from which
he is seldom absent. Duty of this kind would be
supportable enough, unless pleasure stood beside it

as a rival. But at that time S;r John was known
in the world as having the keenest taste for every
• species of enjoyment which an adjutant renounces,
and was led into this arduous and self-denying post
by military zeal and by professional enthusiasm, not
that • had any reason to-think himself a loser by
the sacrifice. Although he had to fly many of the
charms society presents to the young officer, he was
pursued by what he thought, perhaps, the greatest
which it has to offer, its esteem. So much was his
credit raised by the example he had set and by the
labours he had courted, that without any further
effort of his own he found himself within the walls
beyond as representative of Gatton. As member
for Gatton, he was bound to uphold the charter of
the borough against the great change of 1831, by
which it was endangered. And this duty he per-
formed on the second night of the debate with a
vivacity and
although it irritated his opponents, and which at
judgment which cheered his friends,
least sustained the lustre of the regiment of which
he had not ceased to be the adjutant. When the
Act of 1832 had passed, he withdrew from the
political arena, and under no satiety or lassitude—
but because he did not see the prospect of becoming
a commander,
h His mind was not fixed on agriculture as an occupa-
tion and a science. He kept 2
eOOO service
r o f
a her Majesty.esided in. These acres under his
own management,
and formed a model farm for the
instructionou
of t
practical pursuits led him deeply to resolve the
questions which then began to agitate the country,
viz.—whether foreign corn should be excluded from,
or, on the contrary, invited- to
its harbours. All
that he had learnt froalGoethe in his youth—all the
views which Adam Smith had scattered in the world,
'all, that other men of the same school were then im-
petuously urging,
united with his growing insight
and daily toil in the fields, led him' im to the con-
clusion of which Sir Roberc Peel, his ancient leader
in the House Of Commons, became eventually the
organ. In those days, to be at once a landowner,
a farmer, and free-trader was a position so remark-
able that no man who held it could remain secluded
in the country, however great the happiness derived
from it. The reputation of Sir J. Shelley pene-
trated Westminster ; and in 1852 he was enrolled
in that high order which has been illustrated by the
names of Charles Fox, of Sir Francis Burdett, of
Sir John Cam Hobhouse, and of Lord Dundonald.
Men reach many dignities by favour or by birth ;
but it is not by such means alone that they have
ever sat for Westminster in Parliament. Again in
1857, again in 1859, our late commander reached
that honoured situation. Speaking in that hall,
ani surrounded by those who watched him as a re-
presentative, it would be absurd to dwell on tho
political fidelity by which for so long a time he en-
gaged the confidence of his supporters. But one of
his daily habits in the post he filled, during three
tide is such that
amongst the most oppress
arp Parliaments
too
into arrestthe metropolitan constituency is
oppressive of its duties. If allowed
this fact, Sir John answered every elector whose
letter reached him in the morning before breakfast,
and never left his door or saw his friends until his
it becomes impossible to stem it. Impressed with
correspondence was disposed of.
to pass unnoticed. The cor-
Engrossed
by
Parliament and Westminster, he found leisure to
create the Bank of London and this regiment.
With regard to the latter, you know far better than
myself the delays, annoyances, and opposition he
surmounted. It will always be a satisfaction to us
that last Easter we saw him as a brigadier in all
the vigour of his faculties; that twice more it was
permitted
us to follow him—on the long summer
afternoon when the Prince of Wales attended in
Hyde Park ; and last of all when, in spite of di-
minished strength, he appeared himself at our head
for the inspection. I have neither the intention
nor the capacity to eulogise his merit ; to do so any
man must be acquainted with the business of a
soldier, both in cavalry and infantry, with that of
a politician, of a banker, and a farmer. All these
parts he tried, and in every one he was distinguished.
But if, setting eulogy aside, I were asked in what
consisted the secret of his various versatile ability,
I should subscribe it to his uniformity and con-
stancy in labour. Most men are ready to exert
themselves if in a fortnight they are going to be ex-
amined for a place or a degree ; or if to-morrow
they are going to be inspected in their regiment ; or
if in a few hours they will have to speak in courts
of justice or in Parliament. But no sooner has the

danger passed and the necessity subsided than they
sink again into a trance, from which no argument
can rouse them. Sir John, on every day of his
career, appeared to have the energy which other
minds may reach in a campaign or an election. For
us, we cannot hope to catch the ardour and inten-
sity he gave to all the stages of his life; but yet,
by patient toil and strenuous exertion in every
task which we approach, we may become more
worthy of the care and zeal which he devoted to our
regiment. There is but one further point I feel it
almost a sacred duty to refer to. As there will be no
drill to-night, perhaps it may not be fatiguing to you.
Unflagging will and constant animation, great and
pregnant as they are, cm never be regarded as a
guarantee of principle or virtue. The best and worst
men may equally possess them. Although conspi-
cuous in the person we lament, they do not form
his only title to our sorrow. In moral character he
stood a test which some of the most scrupulous, the
most high-minded men have not been able to en-
counter. However urgent the temptation, he re-
olved that he would never practise illegal outlay in
elections. Not only did he openly proclaim that
mode of thinking in discussion with his friends, but
when his prospects were at stake determined to ap-
ply it. On retiring from Wrestminster in 1865 he
went to Bridgwater, a borough in the west of Eng-
land. When corruption set in against him with a
fatal force he declined in any manner to retaliate
upon it. With his usual firmness and despatch he
unseatedhis opponent bya parliamentary committee;
but when he heard that nothing but illegal outlay
could return him for the place, he declined to take
advantage of the vacancy his efforts had created.
His last political proceedings were therefore an em-
phatic tribute to the purity by which, as he main-
tained, elections ought to be conducted. So strong
and so remarkable was his opinion on this question,
that had any one been able to propose to him an
absolute control of foreign and domestic policy, wit h
all the ordinary patronage of State, on condition of
his securing 10 or 20 votes, by men who to the end
of time would never be considered as his agents, he
would not, I feel convinced, have fallen into the
arrangement. I have often been led to contemplate
and reflect on this feature of his mind, and striking
as it was, have not been able wholly to connect it
with his origin. One word remains to be said as to
the regiment. To disperse or to disband would be a
treason to the memory we honour. We cannot bring
him back, but we may cherish the result of his acti-
vity. So long as this corps survives—and it may
last from age to age—his name will never be for-
gotten. Whatever form of government you choose,
the same defences will always be wanted to
uphold it. Staggered as we are, however, by
this irreparable loss, we cannot be expected
yet to take the field as a battalion. In the meanwhile
you may remember the first duty of a soldier is the
cool and steady practice of the weapon which be-
longs to him, because it is only to enable him to use
it at the proper time and under the best circum-
stances that all the higher movements of an army
are directed. You know the conditions upon which
we allow rifles to remain in private houses. Every
man the moment he gets up may go through the
bayonet exercise, may give himself position drill and
aiming drill, may keep up the manual and platoon,
attaching more importance to the latter than the
former. Proficiency in arms was never more essen-
tial than at present ; those who have ought to retain
and those who want ought to acquire it, since no
man knows how soon he may be called upon to guard
the safety, or how s9on to vindicate the freeiom of
his country.
During the speech, which lasted about 20 minutes,
nearly every allusion to Sir John Shelley was inter-
rupted by the marked'sympathy of the corps—his
deatlibaving eVide-ntlffdide a deep impression upon
those whom he commanded.

Reference in the Queen's Speech to the

United States.

, Tne paragraph in the Queen's Speech which more
particularly affects us is the third, in which her
MAJESTY states that she " has suggested to the
Government of the Mated States a mode by which
questions pending between the two countries, aris-
ing out of the civil war, may receive an amicable
solution."

This is the official assurance from the highest
quarter that the Government of Great Britain has
directed its attention "to remove all grounds of
possible misunderstanding, and to promote relations
of cordial friendship" with the American people. On
this subject her MAJESTY appears to have been well
advised, and we have no doubt that her Ministers

had good grounds for putting the words into her
MAJESTY'S mouth, that "if these advances be met, as
I trust they will be, in a corresponding spirit," that
these results will be obtained. A great deal of the
bitterness felt towards England in the United
States, at the close of the civil war, has died out.
The attention of that country has been mainly
directed since then to difficult questions of domestic
policy. Even the few events which have caused
discussion throughout the Union, in relation to
foreign affairs, have bad little reference to Great
Britain. The difficulties of working neutrality
laws in a free country have, since the depredations
of the Alabama, and other piratical cruisers, and
the raids from the Canadian frontiers, been expe-
rienced by the Government of the United States,
and has taught it a practical lesson of forbearance
to other Governments similarly placed. If Fenian
inroads have had no other effect, they will at least
strengthen the hands of the Commissioners ap-
pointed to consider and adjudicate on the claims
which may be submitted by each side for adjust-
ment. It cannot be surprising that a cruiser could
escape to sea from a British port, to a people who
have seen a band openly organised, and marched

from their own territories, for the invasion of a
friendly province. If the raids by Southern rebels
from the frontiers of Canada excited the deepest
indignation throughout the States, the raids of Irish
rebels into Canada from the States may be con-
sidered as a full counterpoise, and teach the people
of both frontiers that the game is a dangerous one,
at which two can play, and, however played, must
lead only to their loss. It is in truth a crime of the
deepest dye to foster such brigand enterprises.
Nor is it only a crime—for it is even a
greater folly. To permit such villanies to be
perpetrated is but a return to the worst days of the
middle ages, to play into the hands of the lawless
ruffians of both nations, and to encourage a class of
armed cut-throats whose knives will always be
ready to be turned as quickly against former friends
as against present foes. If two great Christian
nations are to fight, it should at least be an open
and civilised warfare, and not by such underhand
and surreptitious means as these. It is a pity that
the great building firm to whom the people of Eng-
land owe the miseries and misfortunes entailed by
the hateful cruise of the disreputable Alabama can-
' not be reached by law, and that the nation should
be subjected to so heavy a loss, which, heavy as it
is, will be but a small part of the troubles caused,
that this firm should make a paltry profit. It may,
however, be a question whether England does not
deserve it—for, if the law could not reach this
firm, public opinion could, had the community
chosen to exert it. Many were foolish enough to
applaud, when the craft escaped to sea to pile up a
huge bill of destruction, every cent of which they
themselves will have to pay. had they been gifted
with a grain of sense, they would have seen that if
successful in establishing such a precedent, a case
as bad as it is possible for imagination to conceive
would have become a fact, to be used hereafter
against their own commerce—the most vulnerable
of all nations. If not able to establish this prece-
dent, they would have to swallow all their excla-
mations of delight, to pay for the depredations, and
to eat some very disagreeable " humble pie." Pro-
bably when the tax CQgqc to be levied which is to

pay for all this they may find that the ship-building
firm to whom they owe the misfortune were guilty
of a crime, instead of a laudable act. We have no
sympathy for fools who have to pay for their folly,
but the great unheard mass of this nation felt very
differently, and it is a hardship that they should be
caught in such a trap. If these cruisers—the Sr.
Alban raiders--and the Fenian bands—lead to the
passing of ' more stringent neutrality laws by both
nations, some good will be extracted from so much
evil, and we most cordially echo her MAJESTY'S
hope, that the propositions of Great Britain may
be met in the broadest spirit of conciliation, by the
Government of therUnited States.--A nylo-Anzerican
Time:. •

Artificial Illumination.

Last evening the subject of artificial illumination
and all the questions connected with the lighting of
large towns were brought before the Society of Arts
in a paper by Mr. D. N. -Defries, the well-known
gas engineer. Before the audience various inte-
resting models of light-producing machinery were
placed, and among others was one invented by Mr.
E. Welch for producing a gas froni volatile oils, an
invention which attracted
nolittle attention, not
only for it.i extreme uiefulness, but inasmuch as its
application to a town or city remote from coal-pro-
ducing districts will give the inhabitant all the ad-
vantages derived from coal gas. Mr. Defries com-
menced his paper by giving the history of the gra-
dual development of different torts-of lat.,p-burners,
and having touched upon the introduction of vola-
tile oils and coal gas as means of illumination, he
proceeded to show the value of different burners,
the fish tail," the " bat's-wing," the " cockspur,"
and, the best of all, the " sun barner"—namely, the
lighting from the roof. " This burner," Mr. Defries
said, " is so constructed that the products of com-
bustion are carried out of the room by means of a
ventilating funnel awl tubs placed directly over it.
In most cases the sun burner consists of seven clus-
ters of nine fish-tails each. The burners are sup-
plied with gas from a descending pipe, which
branches to each cluster, and surrounding the whole
in a sheet-iron cone, with a tube attached to the
top, for carrying off the products of combustion.
In this tube there is placed a butterfly valve, for the
purpose of regulating the current of air, so that the
draughts may not be too great, and the lights may
burn in a horizontal direction. Around the cone
are placed other iron cases, which not only serve
for ventilation, but also insulate the inner cone,
and, by their cooling effect, prevent the intense
heat of the latter from being communicated to
the woodwork of the ceiling. These cylinders
are not connected with each other or the cone,
and therefore distinct currents of air pass be-
tween each of them. Such is the cooling effect
of these currents, that while the cone is hot the two
outside cases are of the same temperature as the
atmosphere of the room. On the upper part of the
cylinders there is an inverted cone, with a pipe pass-
ing through the ceiling and roof, protected on the
outside by a guard, which allows the hot air and
products of combustion to escape." With respect to
the processes forcarburetting—that is, the supplying
to the gas before it is burnt, the vapours of some
volatile hydro-carbon, so as to increase the illumi-
nating power of the gas—he said many inventions
had been proposed for increasing the brilliancy of
coal gas, and at the same time for renderingit more
economical and innocuous. One was to pass the gas
through an apparatus where a large surface of a
liquid rich in carbon was exposed. This acted very
well for a short time, the gas taking up large quan-
tities of hydro-carbon vapour ; but the more vola-
tile portion of this being consumed first, and only
the lreavier-andfilesa volatile liquid being left behind,
it necessarily yielded less and less vapour, and the
gas became poorer until it ceased to be in any de-
gree improved. Besides this, the tarry and watery
vapours were condensed in the interior of the appa-
ratus, and rendered it after some time useless. Many
forms of carburettors had been devised for getting
rid of these difficulties, with more or less success.
The latest is one invented and patented by Mr.
Welch, wherein thereservoir was placedat the upper
part, from which, by a simple arrangement, the
liquid descended only as required to maintain the
ptoper supply of vapour. This was brought about by
the pressure of the gas itself, all floats being dis-
pensed with. To prevent the apparatus from being
obstructed by tarry and watery vapours, a chamber
was placed at the bottom in which these are con-
densed, and they can be drawn off through a
plug placed at the bottom for that purpose. The
" carburettor" required no attention beyond re-
filling periodically, the diminution of the inten-
sity of the light showing when that operation
is necessary. lie showed gas burning with and
without the carburettor of Mr. Welch, and the
illustration at once proved the value of the invention,
for the illuminating power of the gas was in a mo-
ment increased to a dazzling degree. Magneto-
'electric light was touched upon, and a lamp for
burning magnesium wire was exhibitel. The last
in ventionof light-producers described was the model
of Mr. E. Welch. This produced what was termed
the Augasma light, by causing atmospheric air to
take up a large quantity of a very volatile hydro-
carbon by means of a carburettor especially con-
structed for the purpose. " This," Mr. Defries said,
" has been often attempted, but without any prac-
tical success till now, owing to. the defective arrange-
ment of the apparatus. In Mr. E. Welch's machine
the air is pumped by clock-work. As soon as the re-
ceiver is full, the lever is lifted, and stops the de-
scending pump in its course by turning off a very
well ground-in valve, thus arresting the movement
of the clock-work. The. air from these two pumps
passes through into the receiver or governor, as it is
sometimes called. The receiver is so weighted as
to give the requisite pressure to the air for driving
it through the pipes. From the air-holder the air
passes through the carburettor, where it takes up
the hydro-carbon vapour. The construction of the
carburettor is very complete and effective, and serves
either for air or gas; but those for gas have much
less surface than those for air. The hydro-carbon,
though highly volatile and inflammable, is not ex-
plosive. The hydro-carbon can be extracted from
most of the commercial hydro-carbon oils, such as
petroleum, &c., but its manufacture is only known
to the inventor and a few others." Mr. Defries ex-
hibited an improved street lamp which will throw
the light down, instead of allowing its rays to be
lost, as in the present lamps. A discussion followed
the reading of the paper, and it was generally
al-
lowed that the London streets were very
ill-lighted.
The vestries were blamed for this by some of the
speakers, and were defended by others who said
they were vestrymen, and they threw the blame .
upon the gas companies. The chairman, Hawes,
replied, and a vote of thanks having been passed to
Mr. Defries, the proceedings terminated.

Tint SCUTTLING OF THE SEVERN.—Thanks to the
vigilance of Lloyd's Salvage- Association, the most ample
has beet' given to the facts of this atrocious case.
lulntihiceitiYnterest of humanity, not less than of commerce, it
was thought il..!sirable to possess a more minute record
not a mere shorthand writer's transcript—of the pioceed-
lugs of the late trial than the London daily newspapers
could by possibility find room for; and, accordingly, al:orps
of available Parliamentary reporters, selected from the
staffs of the Times, Standard, Rally News, and Star, and
superintended by Mr. Mould, the manager of the Parlia-
mentary corps of the Standard, were engaged to furnish a
report of the proceedings in =tense-, with a view to publi-
cation in a separate form. By all the morning mails dur-
ing the five days' trial an admirably printed report of the
proceedings, amounting to between 17 and 18 columns a
day, was despatched to the outports for the information
of the mercantile community throughout the king-
dom. The highest compliment that could be paid
to the accuracy and :intelligent rendering of
those daily reports was that counsel constantly
referred to them by way of brief, and thanked the associa-
tion for lightening their labours. The Salvage As-
sociation intend reprinting the report in an octavo
volume, for circulation amongst all the chambers of com-
merce, marine insurance offices and clubs, and sailors'
libraries in Great Britain. This is a wise step, because
familiarity with the details of the detestable scheme just
brought to light will place the insuring and seafaring
world Q4l its guard against similar plotting for the future.

4,
1 SPAPER
V•15"1iz4;"4.
--
the Duke of C, iam
nounced his intention of being presen, Wciawicki.
garrison this morning to preside at a' meeting of the
Defence Committee, to be held at the Royal Repo-
sitory, at Woolwich, at 2 o'clock. A model of the
fortress of Gibraltar, which has been deposited for
many years past in the exhibition-room of the Ro-
tunda, will be produced to assist the committee in
illustrating the new system of strengthening out
defences now sought to be introduced, by means of
wrought-iron easernates, &C. L'eut.-Gen. Sir Jas.
Hope Grant, Quartermaster-Gen. ; Col. G. Gardi-
ner,assist.-Adjt.-Gen.; Major H. J. J. W. Jervia,
R.A., M.P. ; Capt. C. S. Hutchinson, ; and
Major T. Inglis, R.E., will, it is stated, form a por-
tion of the committee.
Major-Gen. E. C. \Verde, C. 8., commanding the
garrioti and district of Woolwich, yesterday returned.
to Woolwich from Dover, where he he has been re-
siding during the past six weeks on leave of absence.
The duties of the garrison and district, which in the
interval have been commanded by Lieut. and Brevet
Col. C. S. D'Aguilar, C. 13., the senior army officer,
who now returns to his command of the Royal Horse
Artillery, B brigade, have been most effectively
conducted. Brigade Major Hay and Capt. A. H.
W. Williams, A.D.C., also on leave of absence, will,
return to their garrison duties in a few days.
Yesterday Lord Henry G. Lennox, M.P., Princi-
pal Secretary to the A'lmiralty, accompanied by Rear-
Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, paid an
official visit to Chatham dockyard, arriving at the
estr,blishment shortly before noon. Immediately on
his arrival Lord Henry Lennox proceeded to the
private office of Capt. Stewart, C. 8., where he was
engaged for- some • considerable time in the exami-
nation of the accounts and official documents of the
yard. His visit was understood to have reference •
to the system of accounts in use at the dockyard,
more particularly the " expense" and " manufac-
truing accounts," tho44.;tails of which *ere eloselT
investigated, in anticipation of' thalmition to bo
made by Mr. C. Seely, M.P., Rear-Admiral Robin-
son, accomp tnied by the principal officials connected
with the Master-Shipbuilder's department, was oc-
cupied, during his visit, in the inspection of the
ironclad ships and other vessels under construction
at Chatham, the chief objects of interest being the
ironclad frigate Hercules, 12, 1,200 horse power,
and the turret ironclad ship Monarch, 6, 1,100 horse
power, both of which are being pushed forward in
their construction as rapidly as the resources of the
dockyard will permit. Rear-Admiral Robinson also
briefly inspected the wooden unarmoured vessels
Blanche, 4, 350 horse power, and the Myrmidon,
4,200 horse power, which are both nearly ready for
launching; and also inspected the boats building for
the Paris Exhibition. After taking luncheon at th e
official residence of Capt. Stewart, C. 8., Lord 11.
Lennox and Rear-Admiral Robinson left the dock-
yard shortly before three o'clock and returned to
the Admiralty.
Her Majesty's .steam sloop Zebra, 7 guns, 951
tons, and 200 horse power, commissioned at Wool-
wich on the 9th inst., by Commander E. J. Pollard,
for China, and the Niobe, 4 guns, 1,083 tons, and
300 horse power, commissioned on the same day at
Woolwich, for the West Indies, by Commander T.
K. M'Kenzie, have been allotted their relative com-
plements of 170 and 130 warrant and petty officers
and seamen; all told, together with one colour-ser-
geant, one drummer, 15 privates Royal Marine
Light Infantry, one bombardier and three gunners
of the Marine Artillery for :the Zebra, and one
colour-sergeant and ten privates Royal Marine Light
Infantry, and one bombardier and five gunners of
the Marine Artillery, for the Niobe. The majority
of the officers have joiued at Woolwich ; both ships
will be in readiness for departure in a few days. In
consequence of the Woolwich division of• the Royal
Marine Light Infantry being at present con-
siderably • below its usual strength, addi-
tional recruiting parties, exclusive of those
already at Derby, Ripon, Wakefield, Shef-
field, Liverpool, and Glasgow, have been appointed
at Hull, Norwich, and Bury St. Edmund's, to rein-
force the division.
The Virago, 6, paddle wheel sloop, 1,059 tons,
220 horse power, Commander 11. M. Bingham,
lately returned to Sheerness from the West Coast of
Ireland, has been brought into the. basin, where a
number of hands from the factory will be immedi-
ately set to work to fit a new main shaft to her
paddle wheels, in lieu of that broken in a heavy gale
which she encountered during her short commission
on the Irish coast.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty : G. E. G. Jackson, master, to
the Brisk ; J. E. Meryon, midshipman, to the
Charybdis, as supernumerary ; F. Sandilands, mid-
shipman, to the Zebra ; E. T. Mortimer, surgeon,
to the Niobe ; C. Gribble, assist.-paymaster, to the
Formidable ; and F. E. Thompson, master's assis-
tant, to the Bellerophon.
PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Evening.
Her Majesty's new screw steam sloop Dryad, 4, in
charge of the officers of the steam reserve in Ha-
maze, went on trial outside the breakwater this
morning, and was run ashore in White Sand Bay,
and narrowly escaped being wrecked.
She was built of wood at Devonport, burden 1,086
tons, and has engines of 300 horse power, by Na-
pier, which seemed to work well, having produced
92 revolutions per minute with a pressure of steam of
251 b., and vacuum 27. Her present draught is 15ft.
aft and Bft. 1 lin. forward. Her load draught will
be 18ft. aft.

In consequence of the thickness of the weather the
Eddystone was not descried, and no reliable calcu-
lation of the ship's speed could be made.
When she was put about, instead of returning to
the Sound, she went on the rocks in front of Down
Derry, several miles to the restward, at 11.5 a.m.,
and continued bumping until 11.35, when she was
backed off by her screw. Some timbers, supposed
to be portions of her false keel, were beaten off,
and came up alongside. She was only 100 yards
from the beach, and the houses could be clearly
seen.

Where the Dryad struck the ground was flat on
either side. The rocks are 53 rugged that they would
soon have torn her to pieces.

The Down Derry lifeboat was promptly manned
and brought alongside.
The Coastguard boarded the sloop in a quarter of
an hour, and one of the officers piloted her to Ply-
mouth.

Five minutes before grounding the engines were
slowed. After grounding they kept backing astern
at full speed until she got off. Preparations were
made to carry out a kedge anchor .

The accident is attributed to the incorrectness of
the cornpasies, said to be five points out.
The weather was extremely fine. There was
scarcely any wind. It was high tide at noon.
The Dryad will be docked immediately.

The works at the palaces of the Luxembourg and
Legislative Body rendered necessary for the opening
of the session are nearly completed. Tho old tribuno of the
Chamber of Peers has been set up in the Senate. It is in
mahogany, awl harmonises perfectly well with the general
aspect of the hall. At the palace on the Quai d'Orsay
score of workmen are still employed in erecting the tribuno
for speakets, and a second row of seats for the public. The
old tribune was not entirely destroyed, as the marble stair-
case and lower foundation were preserved. A mahogany
ledge, as in the Senate, will replace the marble which for-
merly served to afford place for papers, documents. &c.
The bas reliefs of Lemot have been found, in which were
seen two Gallic cocks and a rather revolutionary image of
Liberty, of somewhat questionable taste. Nevertheless,
these had been attached to the presidential bureau iu1852,
and had wounded no susceptibilities after that date. Six
benches in front of the tribune are destined for the Go-
ivtnerdnomoeunnteiClloomrsmoifsssitaonteersw.illPnoort
they
have each its own
The Senate and Council of State w
iltll for the second.
the
e admitted future,
it nrheet
formerly
space
occupied by the deputies, although Senators
allowed to occupy the benches below the public tribunes.
tribune, with 30 places for the first an
The Legislative Body has decided on a strict adherence to

its regulation's.
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an Unquestioned fact, which has been proved beyond all
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