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London, England, 1861-08-09 00:00:00

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EWSPAPER
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fl€l.l power, the sha to of the se ,
excessive, but the iron frame a .
of the Warrior have made her as rigid as . 01 a S
spite of the double row of furnaces—like a street
"arrtre7—the stokehole yesterday was remarkably
cool, but, as we anticipated, the engine-room was
much less so. A ventilating arrangement is about
to be made which will remedy the heat of this
latter portion of the ship entirely. All that now
remains to be done to the Warrior is in the way of
internal fittings, her rigging and hull are complete.
The outside, as it shows now, is the very perfection
of workmanship, the plates fitting in with the
smoothness of a coat of varnish. It is impossible
to detect with the eye where any join is made.
Yesterday morning notices were sent round
from the Admiralty to the Thames Iron Works,
Messrs. Samuda, Mr. Mare, Mr. Wigram, Mr.
Laird, Messrs. Palmer, Mr. Napier, and Messrs.
Westwood and Bailie, asking tenders for build-
ing three more iron frigates. These vessels aro
to be 20 feet longer and 151 inches broader than
the Warrior clasp—viz., 400 ft. long by 59ft. 34
inches beam. Their depth is to be the same as the
Warrior's ; their tonnage 6,620, with engines of
1,250 horse-power, nominal. They are to have a
flatter floor though with the same draught of water,
251 ft. Each is to be entirely coated from stem to
stern with armour plates of 51 instead of 41 inches
thick. Behind this, as at present arranged, is to
be a backing of nine inches of solid teak. The Ad-
miralty, however, reserve to themselves the right
of altering this portion of the contract within the
next three months and either increasing the thick-
ness of the iron to 61 inches and doing away with
the teak altogether, or leaving the proportions as
we have mentioned. In fact, the Admiralty aro
waiting to see other results from experiments on
Mr. Fairbairn's plan of iron only for ships' sides,
and also to see how the target which is being built
on the same plan as the Warrior's side will stand.
the pounding it will shortly receive at Shoebury-
ness. At all events, the armour, of these, new
vessels, whether of wood and iron, or iron only, is to
weigh 2,100 tons—the armour alone of the Warrior
being very little over 900 tons. The spar deck is
to be of half inch iron, instead of, as with our pre-
sent ships, only quarter-inch, and all the lower
decks are to be of wood, laid on iron beams, and
strengthened across with diagonal stringers and
braces of iron, in the usual manner. Neither bows
nor stern are to overhang. The bows are to be
sharp and wedge-shaped, rising straight from the
water, like that of the Great Eastern, The stern
is to be quite round and almost straighter than La
Gloire's. Tenders are required at the Admiralty
from the firms we have mentioned for three such
vessels to be begun at once. Tenders for three more
will be required, it is said, in the course of another
month or so. "It is better late than never" per-
haps, but really the order for these vessels seems
almost unpardonably late. The Admiralty
have not now any information with reference to
ships which they had not at least as fully this time
last year, when the six vessels now so tardily about
to be commenced might as well have been ordered.
At least two years and a half must elapse before any
of these ships for. which tenders are asked will be
ready for sea. Yet at this very day the French have
actually 11 iron-cased frigates afloat or in commis-
sion, and no less than 17 building. Of these ships
two--the Mangenta and Solferino—are two-deckers,
11 are floating batteries, like our Defence and Re-
sistance, and 14 are either 40, 46, or 50-gun frigates,
like the Gloire, Tonnante, Couronne, Normandie,
Saigon, Invincible, &c. Yet the first iron vessel
belonging to this country will not be at sea before
October, and it will be quite six months before she
has a consort in the Channel.

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ceived at the War Department at noon to .day. This report
states that the Confederate loss amounted to CO killed and
wounded. The loss of the enemy was over 500. Five
hundred loaded muskets were taken and two pieces of can-
non. The enemy twice asked permission to take their dead
off the field. Our loss was 137 in killed, wounded, and
missing, but the missing since returned reduce this to GO.
The number of the enemy engaged is variously estimated at
between 5,000 and 10,000, while our force little exceeded
3,500."

A despatch to the Louisville Courier, dated the
23d, says that the Confederates captured 63 cannon,
25,000 stands of arms, 1,200 horses, and all the
stores and provisions of the Federal forces, valued
at 1,000,000 dols. The despatch also says that a
buggy and epaulets, marked " General Scott," were
captured. Another despatch says that the loss of the
Confederates was 2,000 ; that the loss of the Federal
forces was 15,000 killed, and that the number of
the wounded and prisoners taken was not known.
Two members of Congress were among the pri-
soners. Among Gen. Johnson's force was a regi-
ment of Kentuckians, who refused more than one
round of cartridge, preferring their heavy bowie-
knives. Letters from Norfolk state that the Confe-
derates had strengthened that place immensely.
Several hundred Secessionists had taken possession
of Memphis, Missouri, and were intrenching them-
selves. 1,000 stands of arms had been distributed
along the Southern border of lowa by Gen. Kirk-
wood. The Secessionists were said to be disarming
the Union men in Eastern Missouri. An attack on
Fort Monroe was apprehended. The Confederate
Secretary of the Treasury had issued the following
notification respecting the Produce Loan :
"Confederate States of America, Treasury
Department, Richmond, July 11.
"Hon. O. M. Dantzler, St. Matthew's Parish, S.C.
" Sir,--Your letter of the 6th instant makes an inquiry
which I find repeated from several other quarters, to which
I think it best to make a public reply. The inquiry is,
whether, in case no sales can be made before the day named
in the cotton subscriptions, without a sacrifice of the pro-
perty, the sales are still to be insisted on. I answer, cer-
tainly not. The day named is upon the presumption that
the blockade will be broken, and that sales of produce can
then be made. I propose to submit another plan to provide
for the contingency of a continuance of the blockade, which
will allow an indefinite retention of the crop. But it con-
stitutes no part of either plan to force the produce on the
market at a sacrifice. With much respect, your obedient
servant,
C. G. MEMMINGER, Secretary of the Treasury."

RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC COMPANIES.

GREAT WESTERN.

The directors of this company have decided to
recommend to the proprietors a dividend at the rate
of 21 per cent. per annum for the half year ending
the 30th of June last, leaving a balance of about
£2,400 to be carried over to the next half-year.