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han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected trom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
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aro, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
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meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
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nit want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
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Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same
name.

Arrival of an United States Squadron.
QUEENSTOWN, Sunday.

Last evening there steamed into the harbour
three American men-of-war, which were received
with the ordinary courtesies. They consist of the
Augusta, Commander Murray, the Ashuelot, Com-
mander Fabarger, both paddle steamers, of 10 guns
and the .Monitor Miantonomoh. The last, of
course, has concentrated upon her all the interest and
curiosity of the public. There are at present lying
in our harbour two of the finest specimens of the
British armoured fleet, the Black Prince and the ram
Achilles. Both these differ in very material respects
from ordinary vessels, but the variation is not very
palpable in their outward form. The stranger from
across the Atlantic is like nothing that has been
hitherto familiar in these waters. She is not only
destitute of spars and rigging, but her hull at a little
distance seems so low as barely to mark a line upon
the water. With her broad flat base and her con-
fused superstructure of turrets, funnel, and hurri-
cane deck, she ntight very well pass for a novel de-
scription of dredging machine. The hull of the vessel,
however, is not, as is popularly supposed, submerged.
About 3 feet now rise above the water, but when
her size is taken into account this height appears
very insignificant. Her construction is not very
complex. She is 268 ft. long by 59ft. broad, of 1,500
tons burden. The shell of the vessel is for the most
part an oblong box, fined away at the stern, and yet
more sharply at the bow, but having in her main
length a bottom as flat as the sides and top. Out of
the top of this box, or the deck (which is without
bulwarks), rise two turrets, and between those a
funnel for smoke and a shorter one for ventilation.
A latticed platform'also passes between them, sup-
ported upon pillars, on which when the ship is at sea
all the nautical duties are performed. Above the
turrets are iron shot-proof wheel-houses, in which
the captain, pilot, and helmsmen arc protected when
the ship is in action. The deck is perfectly flat and
of great strength, having exclusively of the beams
12in. of thickness, the lower layer being Gin. of
timber, above which are 3in. of iron, and over all
3in. of timber again. The combings of the hatch-
ways are of stout iron and 2ft. high, with weather
boards of nearly a foot, some inclined outwards.
These are battened down water-tight when out of
harbour. The sea is theri free to wash over the deck
without in the least degree affecting the comfort of
those on board or at work, the communication be-
tween the platform and the lower part of the ship
being maintained through the turrets.
Though an armoured vessel, the Monitor is not
made of iron. Her framing is of timber of great
stoutness. Below it is 3ft. thick, and sheathed with
copper, while from about 3ft. or 4ft. beneath the
water-line up to the deck her sides are of timber 7ft.
thick, outside of which is an iron-plating of 7in.
depth. The upper portion of the sides, therefore,
project about 4i ft below the lower part. The juuc-
tion between the iron and the copper is prevented
by a heavy timber moulding, but even that, it is said,
has not been found sufficient to prevent injury to
the iron by galvanic action. Her floor is quite flat,
and in addition to her central keel she has at each
angle below a sort of keel or bilge log, against which
is borne the weight of the stays that help to support
the turrets. The turrets themselves are roughly
finished cylinders rather more than Bft. high, com-
posed of iron 11in. thick, and within aro 23ft. in
diameter. Their weight is principally borne by a
stout iron spindle. Each has two Dahlgren guns.
The gun and the carriage is of the enormous weight
of 42,0001 b. ; it is smooth bore, and throws a sphe-
rical shot of 4801 b., or a 15-inch shell weighing
about 3601 b., with a bursting charge of 161 b. of
powder. The ordinary charge for round shot is 351 b.,
but as high as 601 b. might be used. The shot is
stated to. be effective at a mile and three-quarters
distance. As the turrets revolve by a simple con-
trivance available from within, there is but one port
for each gun. A massive semi-hoop of iron pivoted
above and below can be swung against the orifice
during the interval of loading. The recoil is regu-
lated by a " compresser" or break, which is graduated
conformably with the result of experiments.

Themplannewd ship
her,
i
prlaevseinngt voyage is
been only
mainly designed to test her seagoing qualities. By
those on board the trial appears to be regarded as
coletleidanit° asnt°m°h is
autumn, a
a perfect success. She has come hither from New
York, having called at Halifax and at St. John's,
Newfoundland ; and from the last port she
has made the voyage in ten days ten hours. Cross-
ing the Bay of Fundy, she encountered weather
which, without amounting to a gale, was considered
very boisterous, but she rode through it easily. On
the voyage to Queenstown the indicater marked no
greater rolling than 7 deg., while 2 deg. is stated to
be the average. Her paddlewheel consorts on the
other hand, rolled to a maximum of 18 deg. and 24
deg. respectively. The speed she attained was re-
spectable, and, considering her build, rather sur-
prising. When leaving St. John's she drew 15ft.
10in. water, having on board 350 tons of coal in
her bunkers, 30 tons in a crib on deck, and about 20
tons in bags in the turrets. With this quantity on
board economy was considered necessary. Her
motive. power consists of four engines, driving twin
screws, which are brass, four-bladed, of 1211.
diameter, of a graduated pitch, with a mean of 18.
At full 13peed her consumption of coal would be 40

means of blowers draw air from the great ventilat-
I ing shaft and distribute it through all parts of the
ship. In harbour two of these were so engaged,
and kept the atmosphere tolerably cool, though
there was at the time a crowd of visitors on board,
which was to dense as to test there utility severely.
The reports of the discomfort caused to the men on
board the Monitors while in action from the vibra-
tion of the metal when struck by shot appears to
have been a great deal exaggerated. Those of
the sailors who had experience of the contests
with the forts of Charleston complained of
nothing but the loud noise, but they say that if
by chance a man's head happened to be against
the metal at the time it was struck, a stunning
concussion, if not death, was the result. The
turrets had not been pierced. A 200-pounder
round shot striking one of them used leaves a dint
in shape pretty much like the concave of a saucer.
The Miantonomph proceeds at the end of this
week or the beginning of next to Portsmouth, her
ultimate destintion being Ttaissia:—Slie is to be ac-
companied by the Augusta, which acts the part of
parent to the fledgling now trying its first flight
across the broad waters. The Ashuelot is bound for
China. This last vessel is one of a class built for
service in the southern rivers. Though-a sloop of
ten guns she draws but Bft. of water. To obviate
the necessity of turning she was constructed to steer
at both ends, but in view of her present long
voyage this arrangement has been altered, and she
steers from only one point. Her rudder is upon a
pin, running through the centre, and the steerage
power this gives is said to be extraordinary. She
obeys her helm with such rapidity as to puzzle pilots
who are unprepared for it. When leaving St.
John's, the pilot in charge, in consequence of his
ignorance of this peculiarity, ran into a brig, which
was cut down to the water's edge, and sunk in three
minutes. The crew, fortunately, were saved by
jumping on board the Ashuelot. This vessel and
the A ugusta are both marked by the American pecu-
liarity of carrying a heavy armament in proportion
to size. The Augusta, which was a Californian
mail steamer of about 1,500 tons, purchased by the
United States Government during the late war, car-
ries four Dahlgren 100-pounders, three Parrot
rifled guns, one of them throwing shot of 1251 b.,
and three brass howitzers.

The officers of the vessels are not merely cour-
teous to visitors, but seem anxious to have their
ships inspected. Those accustomed to the fondness
of a sailor for his own ship, whatever she may be,
cannot help being struck with the manner in which
all on • board her consorts appear to think and
take pride only in the Monitor. It may possibly
be a result of the rapid changes which the war
caused, often leaving a man little time to become
acquainted with the craft with which his destiny
was identified; but it appears more as if the strange-
ness and formidable nature of the ship were a sort
of American property, and that she was accepted as
a type of national power.