The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

No.-22,947:

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX."
On Friday, Jan. ti, in 2 vols., 215.,
A N•OBLE LIFE.
By the Author of
"John Halifax, Gentleman," "Christian's Mistake," &o.
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street.

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Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d.,
in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled
PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES
FOR US.
By A. ES KELL, Surgeon-Dentist, Grosvenor-street, W.
"The present may be looked upon in some measure as a
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WHAT FOOD TO ,EAT.
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AGENTS required, in town and country, for
the sale of Madame RACHEL'S PREPARATIONS.
—47 A, New Bond-street.

WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY
NOW ? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived.
bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious
flavour, and which may now be had, at a mere commission on
the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO 31PAN Y,
No. 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate-street.

DENTAL Is i OTICE.—Mr. ESKELL, Surgeon-
Dentist, of 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, having
announced for a considerable period that " he is NOT con-
nected with any one of the name, and that he has NO r RE-
MOVED, and does not intend doing so," begs respectfully to
state that as he considers the general public are now suffi-
ciently well aware of the facts he will cease to make this or
any other professional statement in the public papers on and
after the 28th of February next.

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
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properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
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bottle, or in half bottles, les. 61. Testimonials from artistes
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Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1866.

TOD AR E. -THE HOLIDAYS.-
THEA IRE OF ,MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL.
MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM, as per-
formed by command before her Majesty the Que n and
the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening,
Nov. 21, 1865. Great attractions for the HOLIDAYS. Magic,
Ventriloquism, Inexhaustible Showers of Presents, the
marvellous SPHINX, the BIRTH of FLOWER TREES, and
STODARE'S cnlebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, as oply
performed by him.
Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and Saturday at 3. Stalls
at Mitchell's, Old Bond-street, and Box-ollice, Egyptian
Call. Admission, is. and 28. ; stalls, 3s.
"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18, 1865.
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gal-
Is. Tickets at Austin's, 28, Piccadilly.—Manager, Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor friendless, young females were rejected rom
want of FUNDS and room, making a totsi of 3,057, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a tew
of the most recent cases:
F. 1?., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
K D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
11. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
M. 11., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. 11., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K,, aged.lB, fallen, both parents dead,
8. B. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. •
M. Al W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. •
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Hr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •street. Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Ce., Lombard-street.

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performed by the entire company, including Misses Russell,
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ment; Messrs. Dariah and Davies's illustrations of Negro
Life ; Herr Preskow, the wondrous posturer from the Grand
Theatre, St. Petersburg ; the D'Aubans, Herr Berrani and
his talented family; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven
characters performed by Mr. E. Marshall (his first appear-
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Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and a host of other talent, for which
see programme and small biIIs.—EVERY EVENING.
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and baloony, le. ; private
boxes. 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
RI-FUM! Tr-FUllt !
The Music composed and arranged by Willem Vandervell,
will be produced This Evening.

"TOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.
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under 10 years of age.
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Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman.
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LES FRERES D'ETOILE in
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Signor TESCANO, the Cousin and Rival of the late
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LE GALOP INFERNAL in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
The Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. W.
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RI-FUM TI-FUM!
Upwards of ONE HUNDRED PERSONS will appear in
RI-F UM TI-FUM!

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Raker-street.
-NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are full-
length Portrait Models, taken from life, of CHARLOTTE
WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias ERNEST
SOUTHEY.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price;
Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piceadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season.
Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTL
Manager, Mons. GRENET.
The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
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o'clock.
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• With Circular Wick,
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ASTRA LAMPS can be obtained from the
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and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Warehouses in Town
and Country; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial-
street, WhitechapeL

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• Queen, Royal Family, and Courts of Europe.—
For GENTLEMEN the FASHIONS for the SEASONS,
for the promenade or demi-dress—Superfine frock coats,
with rich silk breast facings, or morning coats of superfine
Melton cloths, the charge for the former being 31 to 44
guineas; for the latter 21 to 31 guineas. For negliga
purposes, morning coats with pocket flaps at the waist,
also the neglig6 jackets ; these are of Melton, fancy coat-
ings, Angola and Cheviots, tho prices from 255. to 4
guineas. The Angolas and Cheviots are also made in
suits, at prices from 2 to 4 guineas; evening dress, black
cloth of the finest quality. For Overcoats—Melton,
Beaver, and Witney cloths, from 2 to 8 guineas. For
young gentlemen from eight years of age—The morning
doat and neglige jacket ; also suits of Angola and Cheviot,
the prices according to size, commencing at 31s. 6d. the
suit. For boys from four years of age—The Knicker-
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cloth for dress, and of Angolas and Cheviots for morning,
the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit.
For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from
Ito 2 guineas each. Foreigners and visitors to London,-
Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's
garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours'
notice.—H. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street; Man.;
chester ; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpool.

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CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS,
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TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and
SONS, Dentists,
30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.
Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
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most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide
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Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
448, Strand, London ; 15, Whitefriargate, ; 10, Norfolk-
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street, Searbro'.
Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name. •-

Her Majesty's Ship .Itoyatx4lfred,

built ship by the athwartship armour bulkheads and
the general arrangements of the central battery. She
has no bulkheads on her lower deck, and the ven-
tilation may, therefore, be expected to prove supe.-
rior to that of the generality of ironcased ships. The
backing of the armour-plating given by the sides of
the ship is about 22in. throughout.
The objections that may be raised against the
Royal Alfred as an armoured ship are—the inherent
weakness she must possess as a wooden-framed
vessel coated with iron, the absence of any inner
iron skin, and the consequent protuberance of innu-
merable iron nuts on her bolt ends, with the danger
off their flying off and killing or wounding the
crews of the guns, on the armour-plating outside
being struck by an enemy's shot, and the inefficient
width of the water-line belt at the otherwise unar-
moured portions of the ship's side. This last defect
is a most serious one, the belt reaching fully 18in.
short of the beams which support the gun deck,
and therefore giving passage. through the unpro-
tected wooden planking of the ship to shells into her
lower deck and hold.

This frigate, the finest of our converted ironclads,
and intended to be the most powerfully-armed vessel
of her class afloat, differs from all other.converted
ships in her Majesty's navy in the disposition of her
armour-plating, closely approaching the ships built
on Mr. Reed's designs in this respect, and, of the
ships of foreign navies, the Imperial French frigate
Belliquense, recently launched and now fitting at
Toulon for service as a flagship onthe Pacific station.
It is worthy of remark here that the Royal Alfred's
arrangement of armour-plating in her central bat-
tery and water-line belt is an adaptation of the
Chief Constructor of the French navy, M. Du Puy
de Lome, as illustrated during the late -of the
French fleet to Spithead in the partially plated two-
decked ships Magenta and Solferino, and which has
been introduced for the firsttime in the frigate form
into the Imperial navy in the Belliqueuse, and now
into our own, as a conversion, in the Royal Alfred.
Beyond this one fact of the similarity in the dispo-
sition of their-armour there is scarcely anotherpoint
of comparison in which the two ships agree. The
Royal Alfred- is a converted ship, the Belliqueuse
has been built and completed for sea according to
her original plans. Our ship in her conversion has
been specially prepared to carry ten 12k-ton 225-
pounder rifled 9-inch guns in her central bat-
tery, and eight 6i-ton 7-inch rifled guns in unar-
moured (if we except the bows and stern) ports. The
Belliqueuse's armament is not yet, perhaps, quite
decided upon, but lier ports have only been fitted
for the French naval breech-loading 84-pounder
gun, and this gun will doubtlesii compose her arma-
ment to the number of possibly 20, part of which
only will be fought behind the armour of the central
battery. In speed the two ships should be about
equal, the engines of the Belliqueuse being 900-horse
power nominal, and those of the Royal Alfred 800.
In looking at the Royal Alfred as she lies afloat in
the basin after floating out of the dock, the spaces
occupied alternately wood and iron on the exterior
of her hull strike the eye in a remarkable manner.
First it is seen that the entire circuit of the ship at
the water-line, and to some 4ft. above the water-
line, is bound round with a band of armour-plating.
The plating is 6in. in thickness along the centre of
each side of the ship, and tapers off gradually thence
to its minimum thickness of 3in., where the extreme
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The ship will be propelled by a two-bladed Grif-
fith's screw, weighing 6 tons 18 cwt., driven by a
pair or engines of 800 nominal collective power,
manufactured by Messrs. Maudslay and Co. Her
rudder is of the ordinary shape, but the turning and
manoeuvring powers of the ship would be very
largely increased by the substitution of a Lumley,
or jointed, rudder, such as is fitted for her Ma-
jest's ship Columbus; and is being prepared for
her Majesty's troopship Orontes.

The armament of the Royal Alfred is ordered to
be as follows :—Main deck : for outside of the oen-
-6al battery, four Tin. muzzle loading wrought iron
rifled 6 ton guns, on carriages and slides.; for cen-
tral battery, ten 9in. muzzle loading wrought iron
rifled 121 ton guns, on carriages and slides, the pre-
cise pattern of the latter having yet to be decided
upon by the result of the Minotaur's trials. Upper
deck : four 7in. muzzle loading wrought iron rifled
61 ton guns, on carriages and slides. Total num-
ber of guns as the ship's armament, 18. There will
also be supplied to her, as boat and field guns, two
20 pounder breech loading Armstrong, and one 9
pounder breech loading Armstrong for boat service,
with one 12 pounder breech loading Armstrong for
a field gun, and one 6 pounder brass gun for short
practice. She will carry three masts, the lower ones
of iron, and will have a running bowsprit.
In concluding this notice of the Royal Alfred it
may not be out of place to notice here that this con-
centration of a ship's fighting powers in a central
battery is similar in principle to the designs sub-
mitted four years since to the Admiralty for sea-
going citadel ships, carrying guns in one or two
tiers, by Mr. Murdoch, C.E., an inspecting officer
of machinery in her Majesty's navy. These vessels
were proposed to be built of iron throughout, car-
rying their guns on. the broadside in a central
domed battery, plated with 10in. armour. The top
of thp battery was to be closed by a fore and aft
grating of massive iron bars, placed athwart ship,
affording protection from plunging shell or shot to
the guns' crews in the battery, and also giving ample
means of freeing the battery below from smoke and
gases evolved in burning large powder charges, in
the quick working of heavy ordnance, such as our
adopted 1.2 f ton broadside guns in close action.
By the domed form of the battery it also pro-
sented curvilinear lines everywhere to the enemy's
shot, and therefore combined deflection with simple
resistance. The ends of the citadel ships above the
water-line armour belt were to be built up of light
iron, and appropriated as quarters to the officers
and ship's company. Their estimated sea-going
rate of speed was 13k knots. Mr. Murdoch was
chief engineer of Her Majesty's ship Sanspareil,
under the command of Captain S. C. Dacres, now
Vice-Admiral Sir S. C. Dacres, K.C.8., at the time
she participated in the attack by the combined fleets
on the sea defences of Sebastopol, and he also ren-
dered important service in the repair of heavy guns
and mortars in the batteries of the allied armies in
their approaches against the city by land.

The depot companies of the Gsth Regiment left
Chatham garrison shortly before daylight yesterday
morning, and marched to the station of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway, whence they were
conveyed by special train to Plymouth, where they
will join the service companies on their return from
New Zealand. The strength of the 65th depot is
eight sergeants, four drummers, 120 rank and file,
14 women, and 27 children, together with the fol-
lowing officers, v4..:—Capt. J. 0. J. Priestley,
Capt. F. S. Herries, Lieut. A. Pagan, Ensign T.
Chamley, Ensign J. L. Dickin, Ensign C. G. B.
Martin, and Ensign J. B. Fenn ell.
An order was yesterday received at Chatham
garrison, from the Horse Guards, directing a de-
tachment of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, to
be held in readiness for embarcation for China.
The new Military Store Staff .Corps, the head-
quarters of which are at W oolwich, is ordered to be
organised with the least possible delay. It has
been stated in error that the subordinates of the
corps were to consist of pensioners from the army.
They will, on the contrary, be composed of men
actually serving in various regiments, who are per-
mitted to volunteer, and will retain their regimental
pay and advantages, as heretofore, receiving in ad-
dition, as working pay, a sum varying from 6d. to
ls. 6d. per day. About 1,000 experienced crafts-
men and artizans from the Royal Artillery and
other regiments have presented themselves for en-
rolment to Mr. Parkyn, the newly-appointed officer
commanding the corps. Sergeant-Major Hassan,
Royal Artillery, has been gazetted. as Quarter-
master, and 100 men have been entered as ser-
geants-major, colour-sergeants, sergeants, corporals,
second corporals, buglers, and privates. The uni-
form will be blue with red facings, with the usual
side arms. The Military Store Staff Corps will
thus assimilate, in a degree, with the Commissariat,
becoming a most important branch of the service,
and will be capable, in any emergency, of moving
with the army in the field, where their services are
more especially required. The operations of the
new corps were ordered to commence on the Ist
inst., but on account of the difficulty of clearing
out and giving over the requisite barrack quarters,
a delay of two or three days is found to be unavoid-
able. The corps will be increased in a short time to
300 of all ranks for Woolwich. In a few days
notice of dismissal will be issued to an equivalent
number of the present working establishment, who
will be superseded on superannuation, which will
be notified three months in advance. Those who
have served over ten years will alone be entitled to
pensions according to their present rates of wages.
The drawings and designs for the new ironclad
turret ship ordered to be laid down at Chatham
Dockyard are now in course of preparation at the
Admiralty, under the superintendence of Mr. E. J.
Reed, chief constructor of the navy, in readiness for
their transmission to Chatham, where the working
drawings and plans will be prepared by the
draughtsmen connected with the master shipwright's
department. The new vessel is to be built entirely
from the designs of Mr. Reed, but as the Admiralty
are desirous of producing the most perfect cupola
ship possible, Capt. Cooper Coles will be fully con-
sulted in all that relates to the construction of the
turrets. This arrangement is one which promises to
lead to what is so generally desired—the production
of a thorough seaworthy, and, at the same time,
powerful turret ship.

Naval anildilitztm Intelligence.

this plating, in its tapering thickness, is carried up.'
from the water-line, belt to the beams of the upper
deck, and continued longitudinally 'round the curve
of the bows nearly-to the forward cathead. By this
arrangement provision is made to protect the ship
from being raked by an enemy's guns in the event
of the enemy's broadside being brought across the
Royal Alfred's bows, either by any manoeuvre of
the ship herself or that of the enemy. The outer
hawsepipe on each bow is extended upwards and cut
with a square head, so as to form a gun-port from
which one of the ship's 6f-ton guns can be fired
nearly in a line with the ship's keel. The ship's stem
inclines slightly inboard from the water-line, and is
free of headrails or figure-head, or any superfluous
overhanging weight. From the after-part of this
bow armour-casing the hull of the ship is unpro-
tected above the water-line belt for about 75ft. on
each side, the ten ports in this unarmoured portion
of the ship's gun-deck being fitted for the 61-ton
rifled 7-inch gun. Next this 75ft. space the
6-inch side armour of the central battery com-
mences, and extends aft to a distance of 100 ft. This
central battery represents the real fighting power of
the ship at close quarters. It is cut off from the for-
ward and after ends of the ship on the gun-deck by
athwartship bulkheads, faced with 41-inch armour
plates. On each side are five ports, which have been
specially constructed for fighting 12f-ton guns
through. They are about 14ft. apart in the clear,
and measure, on the outside at the armour plating,
35in. in breadth by 44in, in depth, and on the inside
are embrasured to 6ft. This extraordinary size of
the ports, as compared with those of all our other
irouclads, necessarily weakened the ship's side very
much, especially as her old gun-ports, which had
been constructed for 68-pounders only in her first
conversion as a 35-gun frigate, had to be filled up
and fresh ports opened for the large ordnance it has
now been decided she is to carry. To remedy this
weakness the side has been strengthened as far as
possible with iron, and the gun-ports are each faced
outwards with a wrought-iron elliptical-shaped port
plate with the port wrought in its centre. Each
plate is Bft. in length by about 6fft. in breadth, and
has a tapering thickness of metal of from 4in.. round
the port to lfin. at the outer edge of the plate. The
plates are let into the wood planking of the ship's
side, and the 6-inch armour rests upon and bolts
through them. Next in order, abaft this central
battery, comes about 35ft. of the ship's side, un-
armoured above the waterline belt of plating, and
to this succeeds the armour-plating which encases
the ship's stern, which tapers from 4fin. to 3in. as
with the bow plating, and is also pierced with two
gunports, through which, under favourable condi-
tions of weather, a fire maybe opened nearly on aline
with the vessel's keel. All the armour-plating on the
ship is pierced wherever necessary with scuttles for
the admission of light and air on the ship's lower
deck, and also with scuppers for the direct emission
of water from the gun deck. Neither of these advan-
tages is possessed by any other of our converted iron-
clads. The finish of the work in every part is most
admirable, and reflects the highest credit on the
master shipwright's department of Portsmouth dock-
yard. The ship is coppered up to her load-line, 27
feet, contact between the copper, or rather Muntz
metal, on the ship's bottom being prevented by a
wooden belt being built from the ship's bottom
below the water line, and overlapping with it's upper
edge the lower edge of the waterline armour-belt.
The metal which coats the ship's bottom ceases at
the loadline about half way up this wooded belt,
and thus contact between the iron-plating and the
Muntz metal is avoided. Inboard the Royal Alfred
exhibits fine roomy decks, upper, main, and lower.
Fitted for the duties of a flagship, she has a commo-
dious suite of poop cabins aft, and also a roomy
forecastle forward. The appearance of her main
or gun ack is somewhat remarkable fora wooden-

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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.

Vice•Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of *ALES, MG
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission -to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and L.tgacies .
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Has.
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by iiessrs. Contts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; .13.1.rries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.;
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Liverpool ; and 'at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
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s.II:LORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
1:1031E, Ilampstead. Offices, 77, CornhilL
PATRON—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES. _ _

Capt. the Hon. Francis Mixiefe,lfhe Rev. Canon Champneys
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.

TREASURERS.
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Ha.nbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the ornhal daughters of sailors in
the Royal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them tor domestic
service, and provides a home free of expense for former
Inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the
recent storms and loss c.f life at sea, and t o enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thantfully received by the bankers, Messrs,
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
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Merton College, Oxford, and barrister-at-law, who has
been appointed secretary to the Jamaica Commission of
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obtained the prize for the best English essay in 1851 on
the following subject: —" What form of Political Consti-
tution is most Favourable to the Cultivation of the Fine
Arts?" He was also a first-class man while at Balliol
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Court of Aldermen.

Yesterday a special meeting of the magistrates .of
the City of London was held at Guildhall—the Lord
Mayor presiding.
A report vas presented from the general purposes
committee of the Court, signed by the Lord Mayor
as chairman, and 12 others of the aldermen to whom
on the 27th Dec. it was referred to consider what
steps should be taken with respect to the discharge
of the judicial duties of the Recorder (Mr. Russell
Gurney) during his absence as a commissioner for
inquiry into the circinnstances connected with the
recent insurrection in Jamaica, and to report forth-
with. The committee stated that they laid before
them precedents of the course pursued by the Court
of Aldermen on occasions involving the absence of
the Recorder, and after having- carefully considered
the question they came to the conclusion that it was
desirable that a deputy recorder should be appointed
during the absence of Mr. Gurney, and the Recorder
having nominated the Common Sergeant to act as
his deputy they approved of such nomination, and
recommended that the Court should appoint the
Common Sergeant to act as deputy recorder accord-
ingly. With a view to prevent any possible delay in
the business,- of the Central Criminal Court, they
stated that they had requested the Lord Mayor to
communicate with the ',Ord Chief Justice of the
Court of Queen's Bench, in order that some arrange-
menti might be made with her Majesty's judges, by
which they might give some additional attendance
at the sessions of the Central driminal Court, dur-
ing the temporary absence of the Recorder, as on a
former occasion in 1840. With respect to the
judicial duties at the Mayor's Court they said
the Recorder had informed the conAmittee that,
he had made the requisite arrangements under the
Provisions of the Mayor's Court Act.

Mr. Adlerman WILSON moved the adoption of
the report of the committee, and that Mr. Cham-
bers, the Common Sergeant, be appointed Deputy-
Recorder during the pleasure of the Court.
The motion was carried unanimously, after being
seconded by Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, who said that
he was gratified that the appointment should have
fallen on a gentleman so well able to discharge the
duties incident to the office.

The COMMON SERGEANT expressed his acknow-
ledgments, not only for the honour to himself im-
plied in the resolution, but for the courteous man-
ner in which it had been conferred. He entered, he
said, on the more than arduous duties which it im-
posed upon him with a due sense of responsibility ;
he would do all that in him lay to make up for the
temporary loss to the corporation and the public of
the Recorder's valuable services, and he trusted the
Court would have no reason to regret the choice
they had made of a substitute. He added, in reply
to Mr. Alderman Sidney, that the Recorder had
made an arrangement with respect to the Mayor's
Couit which would leave him (Mr. Chambers) at
liberty to discharge the whole of the duties of the
Common Sergeant.

After the transaction of some routine business
the Court adjourned.
The understanding at Guildhall yesterday was,
that the Recorder, accompanied by Mr. Maule, the
other commissioner, had that morning started for
Jamaica, and would probably arrive there about the
21st inst.

The Death of the Columbine at the Sunder-
land Theatre.
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An inquest was held in Sunderland on Monday
touching the death of Louise Ricardo, or Richards,
the young Columbine who was so severely burnt at
the Lyceum Theatre, on Thursday evening, while
performing in the pantomime of " Robin Hood."

Mr. Robert Ricardo, the first witness called,
stated that whilst at the theatre, about 11 o'clock in
the evening, he was startled by his son, the Hark-
quill, telling him that the deceased was on fire. He
ran to the wing immediately, and saw his child
burning, with a number of people endeavouring to
extinguish the flames, but this was not accomplished
until Mr. Bell and some other persons entirely en-
veloped her in their overcoats. His daughter was
only 12 years old, and at the time of the occurrence
was joyfully talking to Master Watson about some
juvenile party to which they had been invited on
the following day.
Mr. E. Nassett, the gasman, deposed to the ex-

tinguishing of the lights. That was by no means
au unfrequent occurrence ; but, when the spirit
lighter was applied on this occasion, the gas ignited
appeared to strike right down to the stage and set

the dress of Miss Ricarde on fire. There was a water
jointparallel with the stage from which two branches
projected. These were connected by indiarubber
tubing to the jets on the wings of the stage, and he
thought it probable that a disconnection unfortu-
nately taking place led to the escape which termi-
nated so fatally. The jointings were not strongly
secured, in consequence of the number of times
they had to be removed from one part of the stage
to the other. There were about three dozen burners
in that length of pipe, and when the attempt was
made to relight them the ias first appeared to
burn like a small " Will o' the wisp" above the
heads of the bystanders, and then the flame de-
scended amongst them. The ladies used nothing to
render their dresses uninflammable. Each bought
her own ; but no accidents had ever occurred
through fire during the nine years he had been
connected with the theatre.

Thomas Sandley, the property assistant, stated
that he first saw the flames burning the lower part
of the deceased's dress, and then observed La
Reviere, Madame Mazoni's pupil, endeavouring to
extinguish them, but considering this a dangerous
occupation for one so lightly attired, he told her to
proceed to a place of safety, then throwing a coun-
terpane over the burning girl, which was instantly
followed by other uninflammable material.
Joseph Corner, an assistant gasman, said he first
applied the light to the extinguished jets, not
having previously looked to see if the pipes were
secure, but no sooner had he done so than a flame
suddenly burst some feet upwards, and caught the
young Columbine's muslin dress. The gas pipe was
perfectly safe, as no one was allowed to go near it ;
but some one must have disconnected the gutta
percha from the iron tube whilst passing.
William Champion, stage manager, thought that
the water joint might have been disconnected before
the gutta percha tube, but the most probable con-
clusion was that the tubing, being torn from the
pipe, was the chief cause of the accident, and that
the water joint was separated in the confusion
which afterwards followed.
A Juror thought the only conclusion that could
be drawn from the evidence was that a great deal of
carelessness had been exercised by the servants of
the lessee.

The Coroner agreed with that opinion, but ob-
jected to jurors making individual statements before)
they were left to consider their verdict. He thought,
however, Corner had displayed a great want of
caution in not trying the tap before he attempted to
apply the light.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death,
but recommended that screws should be provided to
fix the water joint, that the indiarubber 'tubing
should be secured by a union joint, and wet blankets
should be kept at the wings, in order to be ready
in case of emergency.

THE DAILY SUPPLY OF COUNTRY MILK TO LON-
DON.—The great demand from London dairymen for milk
from the country districts, consequent upon the havoc
made in the metropolitan cow-sheds by the cattle plague,is
quite unprecedented ; and although a large number of
country dairy farmers have abandoned the operation of
converting milk into cheese and butter for the immediate
transmission of the yield to the great metropolis, the in-
creasing demand exceeds the supply. Seven railways
daily bring 13,115 gallons of country milk into the metro-
polis.