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London, England, 1867-03-21 00:00:00

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being upwards of 100. The reason
this order, in reply to the remenstra.
officials; is that the stocks of .yarn are tocaeavil
at Chatham, and that they are far in excess a
those in the other yards, where machinery is not
employed fol. the preparation of the material.
Although rope-yarn is manufactured at £ll 10s. per
tT ton cheaper at Chatham with the improved machi-
nery than at the other Royal dockyards under the
7. old system, yet, incredible as the statement rosy
appear, the manufacture is to be carried on at the
other dockyards, while at Chatham it is to be dis-
continued and the workmen discharged, although
the latter were given to understand that their ser-
vices were permanently required.
The Royal Alfre.l, 18, armoured wooden screw
frigate, Capt. F. A. Herbert, flagship of Sir G.
Rodney Mundy, 1i.C.8., went out of Portsmouth
harbour yesterday morning to Spithead, saluting
the flag of the Port Admiral and Naval Coalman-
der-in-Chief in the usual manner as she anchored at
Spithead, the Victory returning the salute. The
Royal Alfred will make her speed trial at the mea-
sured mile to-morrow.
Two of Martin's patent self-canting anchors, sup-
plied to the Admiralty for her Majesty's ship Pallr.s,
and of the weight of 52 cwt. each, to replace two
anchors at present carried by the Pallas, of 72 cwt.
each, have just undergone their tests at Ports-
mouth dockyard, previous to their acceptance by the
Adiniralty, in a most satisfactory manner. Both
anchors were placed under the hydraulic machine,
and the Admiralty maximum proof (43 tons) was
brought to bear upon them without the slightest
permanent deflection being exhibited after the strain
was removed. At the request of the representative
of the patentees 50 per cent over the Admiralty
standard proof was then applied, the strain uponthe
anchors then being increased to 65 tons, or equal.to
the ordinary test by the Admiralty -of a 95 cwt.
anchor. The deflection, with the strain on the
anchor, in this instance was three-tenths of an inch
on both arms, but on the strain being removed the
iron resumed its normal position, leaving again no
permanent deflection.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty : —Thomas Robertson, master,
to the Zebra ; Matthew Kidd, chief engineer, to the
Himalaya; and Charles H. Fanvel, clerk, to the
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in ostrich feathers hoar of the arrival of the steamer
crowds of Arabs come to the ship and the hotels to sell,
their feathers. The people at this place seemed to be ex-
pert swimmers. A small piece of money being thrown into
the sea, near to the stearner,'one of them would dive,down
after it, and come up in a very short. time with the piece of
money in his mouth. The coaling. finished, we steamed
away for Bombay. The heat on the Red. Sea was very
severe, and tried some of the passengers. To relieve the
tedium of the voyage the ladies had a concert in the even-
ings. On several occasions the gentlemen had a trial by
jury at night in a part of the cabin where the ladies might
not to be disturbed. The first case tried- was for breach
of promise of marriage. During the examination of wit-
nesses there were roars of laughter. :Sundry explosions of
soda water and lemonade bottles were heard. The case
was adjourned for further consideration.
Two or three days before we reached Bombay a meeting
of the cabin passengers was held with the view of convey-
ing their thanks to Captain White, Commander of the
Behar, for his kind and gentlemanly bearing, and polite
attention to all the passengers during the voyage. A reso-
lution to that effect was submitted _by Col. Sawyer, C. 8.,
of•the , Ist Dragoon Guards, which was seconded by Col.
Macleod, Adjutant-General, at Kurrachee, and which was
unanimously adopted and signed by all ,the cabin pas-
sengers::
We reaebed Bombay on the evening of the 26th Decem-
ber, having made the journey from Southampton in 29
days. Most of the passengers landed shortly after the
steamer was brought to anchor. Numbers of ladies and
geptlemen were coming on board to welcome and receive
Mena. The meeting of married-ladies and husbands
and lovers, and brothers and sisters, and friends, made it
quite an exciting sight. Here, then, was the breaking up
of our party, among whom, during the voyage, there was
not &murmur or a single complaint. All seemed to be on
terms of harmony and good-will. Most Of the passengers
were for the Bombay Presidency, one or two were for
China and the Madras Presidency and Calcutta. One other
gentleman and myself had to go up the Indus by steamer
from Bombay via Kurrachee to the country of the Five
Rivers, he to join his regiment situated at Peshawur,
under the deadly shades of the Khyber Pass, and I to
Lahore, the capital of the province. Many of the pas-
sengers exchanged cards and addresses before parting, so
as to communicate with each other when they would settle
down in their new country. Then came the final parting,
the shaking of hands, the "Good bye," and the " God bless
you," and in the words of De Quincy, it may be truly said
of the whole party, everlasting farewells. Never again
shall we all meet in this world under the same circum-
stances. -

The Late Terrific Gale.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.

Yesterday morning Capt. Hurst, of Southamp-
ton, master of the schooner yacht Urania, owned
by W. Wise, Esq., left for Folkestone, but in con-
sequence of the severe weather the vessel had been
put about to return to this port. When nearing
the Owers a ship in distress was perceived, which
proved to be a brigantine bound to the eastward,
that had struck on that fatal shoal, and had settled
down so that her lower yards were under water.
Her crew, which consisted of six men, were
lashed to -the rigging. There was a very rough
sea at the time, but Captain Hurst gallantly
bore down to her, and arrived just soon enough to
see one of the hands, who afterwards proved to be
the mate, fall into the sea, thereby losing his life ;
but the remaining five of the crew were rescued, and
landed at Southampton the same evening. The
vessel struck at 5 o'clock in the morning, so that
the poor fellows were exposedto the inclement wea-
ther in their critical situation for nearly nine hours,
and when rescued they were in a most exhausted
condition. Several vessels passed them without ren-
dering any assistance, and great praise is due to
Captain Hurst for his gallant conduct.
SELSEY, SUSSEY, March 19.

In Bombay harbour I observed mazy large ships, and a
great number of open boats were coming from the shore,
all loaded with cotton. Great activity prevailed among
the shipping. On the beach were mountains of cotton
waiting to be shipped for England.. On my reaching the
Hotel I found every room occupied, and had it not been
for the exertions and kind influence of a fellow-passenger
I would not have beiii able to get a bed. I arrived in Bom-
bay during the share mania ; the trading community was
wholly engaged in the share market ; the charges for
everything were fabulous; the hotels were crowded to
excess, and the attendance was very bad ; the rooms and
beds ware most filthy; the food very inferior and badly
cooked. I visited the railway stations and saw the pas-
senger trains arrive aid depart. There were crowds of
passengers, .vho were very quiet and orderly. I saw
goods trains, and every waggon was well loaded and
full of cotton and general merchandise. It was said all
over Bombay the railway companies could not meet the
wishes of the trading community, arising from a defi-
ciency of rolling stock. Parties in the country had to
wait for weeks before they could get their goods sent to
port for shipment. The passenger trains were well filled
with first, second, and third-class passengers, particu-
larly the third-class. The Parsee ladies rode by train,
with their faces uncovered, a proof that cast in Bombay
is gradually giving way to modern customs.
There aro many young ladies coming from all parts of
the old country to get married in India. I should strongly
recommend them to make every possible inquiry as to
their route to India previous to their leaving home. I was
astonished and very sorry to learn that this had been ne-
glected in many cases. Some young ladies landed in
Bombay who ought to go to Calcutta, and others want to
Calcutta wbo ought to land at Madras. A public inquiry
office for India, perfectly independent of all the railway
and other companies, with a gentleman having a local
knowledge of India at the head of it, would be a great
boon to lady travellers. I write this for the ladies, and
I sincerely hope that the traffic of young ladies going
to the far East to join their lovers will increase every
year, and that the cry may be among all bachelors—
" Still they come."
My next letter will contain my notes from Bombay
via Kurrachee, Kottree, up the Indus, to the province of
the Punjaub.

The brigantine Sarah Ann, from Jersey to London,
with a cargo of broken granite, was wrecked yester-
day on this place (reports Herbert C. Foster, Esq.)
The Friend lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, was launched through a ♦ery heavy surf, and
succeeded in saving the whole of the crew—six in
number. As soon as these men were landed signals
of distress were heard from the Cowers lightship, and
the lifeboat proceeded to a second vessel, which had
struck on the shoal near the lightship. Owing to
the heavy sea, and the adverse wind and tide, the
boat was some time in reaching the wreck, and un-
happily, when she arrived there, it was found that
all hands had disappeared, and that only the ves-
sel's masts were visible above the water. The life-
boat behaved admirably in the breakers. The cost of
this lifeboat was contributed to the Lifeboat Society
a few years since by members of the Society of
Friends, and she has been the means of rescuing
the crews of 13 men belonging to wrecked vessels.

A RAILWAY MAN.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

It has been notified bythe Quartermaster-General
of the Forces that the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, on
their arrival in England early next month, will be
quartered (dismounted) at Colchester, instead of 1
the 14th Hussars, originally ordered to that station. 1
An order has been received at Colchester from the
Horse Guards countermanding the departure of the
depot, 2d Battalion 6th Regt., for Ireland, but 50
men—transfers from the 2d Battalion 6th Regt., to
the Ist Battalion 6th Regt 4—are held in readiness
to proceed to Fermoy. The headquarters of the
2d Battalion 6th Regt. are on their passage home
from Jamaica. The depot of tha 6th Dragoons,
stationed at Canterbury, is expected at Colchester
on the departure of the Ist squadron of the King's
Dragoon Guards for Aldershot. The movement of
the last-named regiment to Aldershot wiil com-
mence on the 25th inst. Major Coxon, late Adjt.
of the 2d Depot Battalion at Chatham, has joined
the garrison at Colchester, and Capt. Northey has
been ordered to proceed to Chatham to assume his
duties as Adjt. of the 2d Dedot Battalion, vice
Coxon, promoted. Lieut. Saville, 18th Foot, has
been posted to the 2d Battalion of his corps, and has
joined the depot at Colchester. Lieut. Orange, 2d
Battalion, 16th Regt., is held in immediate readi-
ness to embark for the service companies of his re-
giment in Canada.
The army has sustained a loss by the death of Col.
Alex. Essex F. Holcombe, on the Bth ult., while in
command of the 2d Battalion of his regiment in
camp at Soojut, on the march from Bombay to Nus-
seerabad. The deceased served with the 13th Light
Infantry, and highly distinguished himself in the
campaign in Affghanistan from 1838 to 1842. He
was present at the suppression of the Sepoy mutiny
at Sukkur in 1844. He served in the Crimea
from the 30th of June, 1855, and at the siege of
Sebastopol ; and also from Nov. 16, 1858, to March
16, 1859, with the Berar field force, which took
the field for the purpose of preventing the rebel
chiefs Tantia Topee and Feroze Shah from penetrat-
ing into the Deccan. Col. Holcombe served at
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the new breech-loading Snider rifle, the issue of
which will be commenced at head-quarters to-day.
Upwards of 2,000 stands of the newly-converted
rifle have been received at Chatham from Enfield,
upwards of 100 barrels of the new ammunition hav-
ing been landed at the Ordnance wharf some time
since. It is intended by the authorities to arm the
infantry at-Chatham with the breech-loading Snider
rifle as soon as the Enfield rifles now in store can be
converted. The Lords of the Admiralty, having
decided on forming a permanent battalion of the
Royal Marines Light Infantry in Ireland; the selec-
tion of the officers and non-commissioned officers
who will comprise the staff of the battalion is now
being made from the Chatham and other divisions.
Orders were yesterday received at Chatham from
the Horse Guards, directing a detachment of 23
non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist Bat-
talion of the 10th Regiment to embark for the Cape
of Good Hope to join the service companies of that
iregiment. Lieut. R. M. Dickinson has been ordered
to embark with the detachment.

WRECK OF THREE SHIELDS VESSELS AND
APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE.
(From the Shields Gazette.)
The equinoctial gales which have swept over the
north-east since since Friday seem also to have ex-
tended to the Channel, where they have been severely
felt. It appears that on the 13th and 14th inst. a
large fleet of grain-laden vessels from Black sea ports
arrived at Falmouth for orders, and were at anchor
in the bay. During Saturday night a terrific gale
from the eastward came on, and much damage oc-
curred to the grain fleet. One vessel, the Sea Spray,
Capt. Jewitt, which arrived from Enos on the 14th,
and was waiting for orders, drove during the night
upon the ship Columbia, and sustained such damage
that she foundered at the eastern breakwater. The
Russian ship Ophelia, Brunston, from Odessa, an-
chored in the b ty, had to cut away her masts, and
part of her crew were landed. The Portuguese
brigantine Theria was stranded on Trefusis Point,
from which there is little hope of getting her off

again.
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This telegram was received by Mr. Thomas Knox,
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rosyne
of Nile-street, North Shields, brother-in-law of the
captain, and owner of the vessel, and came to hand
close upon a letter which had been received from
the captain's wife, assuring her relatives that she
had enjoyed her trip to Odessa. The vessel sailed
from the Tyne about the middle of June last for the
Black Sea, under the command of Capt. William G.
Creigh, of West Percy-street, North Shields, brother-
in-law of the owner, his wife and second son, a boy
of seven or eight years, accompanyng the vessel as
passengers. The following is a list of the crew who
signed articles to sail in the vessel on the sth
June :—Wm. Brown, 33 years, belonging to Dun-
dee, mate ; John S. Newman, 47 years, Yarmouth,
boatswain ; Wm. Hedgers, 22 years, Hamburg, car-
penter ; Thomas Newman, 41 years, Yarmouth,
cook and steward; August Sterling, 25, Heligoland;
Wm. Mortimer, 47, Bristol ; John Rowley, 21,
North Shields; John Deans, 16, Edinburgh ; Jas.
Smith, 16, Edinburgh ; Alex. Doctor, 16, appren-
tice; James Cullan, 17, apprentice; John Richard-
son, 23, Perth. The Euphrosyne was a barque of
387 tons, and was launched on the Wear in 1853.

'Mei°Rowing telegram has been received in North
Shields from the owner of the Euphrosyne at Ply-
mouth :—" The boat capsized ; ten men, master's
wife and child drowned. The master, mate, and
the boy Coulbert saved." A reference to the above
list of the crew will show that the m.►te was Wm.
Brown, belonging to Dundee. None of the boys in-
eluded in the articles were named Coulbert, and this
is probably an error in transmission. It is supposed
that the vessel drove from her anchors, that the
crew took to the boat, which was capsized, with the
above melancholy result. Mrs. Creigh, the cap-
tain's wife, was in her 37th year, and had a family
of three children, of which the second accompanied
her on the voyage to Odessa.

By the Ist of March 300 sail of fishing vessels
were expected on the Newfoundland banks, employ-
ing nearly 3,000 men. All the wharf room in the
Gloucester harbour has been taken, and a number
of new wharves will be built the coming summer.
The best trip of the winter fishing vessels thus far
is that of the schooner Nellie May, Captain Brown,
which brought 15,000 pounds of halibut, and 5,000
pounds of cod fall into port.

Considerable surprise has been occasioned at Chat-
ham dockyard by an order received from the Ad-
miralty, directing the discharge from that establish-
ment of the whole of the women employed in the
rope-spinning department of the yard, the number
Who will thus be thrown out of employment