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London, England, 1861-03-21 00:00:00

cibles, now a regiment of artillery, is under orders
to proceed to Woolwich to go through a course of 1
studies for the instruction of the corps.

IRON-CASED SHIPS.

At the Royal United Service Institution, on Mon-
day evening, Capt.. E. P. Halsted, R.N., read the
second portion of his paper " On Iron-clad Ships,"
to a crowded audience. The main object of this part
of his paper, as of his first, which we before noticed,
was to show the advantage of employing iron in
the construction of ships of war instead of wood,
and that in ships plated with iron to resist the pe-
netration of shot, it is better to apply the armour to
iron ships than to wooden ones. As in the former
part of his paper, Capt. Halsted made the report of
Sir Howard Douglas against iron ships a subject
of severe criticism, and he quoted at great length
from that report for the purpose of showing that
the experiments made to estimate the resisting
powers of iron to the penetration of shot, and the
relative advantages of wood and iron ships, were,
notwithstanding Sir Howard Douglas's inferences
from those experiments, decidedly favourable to
iron. Experiments made by firing at a target of
iron five-eighths of an inch thick, backed by wood
and without any backing, at a range of 200 yards,
proved that the solid shot passed through and
splintered the iron into fragments, and that the shot
itself was also frequently smashed to pieces and
passed onward like a shower of iron. When the
iron was backed with wood the effects were nearly
equally dangerous, for the splinters of the wood
and the larger pieces of iron were spread about in
the same manner. It appeared, however, that
shells fired horizontally broke to pieces against the
sides of afive-eighth inch plate without exploding,
the gunpowder being dispersed like a cloud of black
smoke. From these experiments Sir Howard
Douglas concluded that, whether an iron ship wan
built slightly, like the Ruby—on which the first
experiments had been made, and through which
the shot passed without breaking—er whether it was
built like the Simoom, with plates five-eighths of
an inch thick, which broke the shot, it was equally
unfit for the purposes of war. Capt. Halsted, in
opposition to that opinion, maintained that the da-
mage done by the splintering of the iron and the frac-
ture of the shot is not greater in passing through iron
plates of the thickness of five eighths of an inch
than it would be in passing through wood, whilst
such a thickness of iron rendered a ship invulner-
able to shells fired horizontally, which prove so
destructive to wooden ships. He mentioned many
instances during the Russian war of the serious
injury done to wooden ships by the shells fired
through their sides, some of the ships having been
set on fire several times and completely disabled;
none of which damage could have occurred to ships
built of iron with plates of the thickness on which
the experiments were made. The result of such
experiments, he observed, ought to have led those
who made them to ascertain the thickness of iron

through which the shot would not penetrate, by
making the target thicker and thicker ; but that
had not been done. Captain Halsted stated that
in November, 1845, a model of a corvette armed
with plates of iron, to render it invulnerable, had
been sent to the Admiralty ; but though attention
was from time to time directed to the subject,
nothing was done about it until three years after-
wards, when the Gloire was built by the French.
A great part of Captain Halsted's paper was occu-
pied with denouncing the political administration
of the Admiralty, to which he attributed the wilful
neglect of the merits of iron ships since the change
of Ministers, in 1846, till within the last two years.
Whilst the wooden flag was flying at the Admiralty,
he said it was useless to attempt to bring to their
notice the advantages of iron, and thus the interests
of the country have been sacrificed to political
influence.
At the conclusion of this part of the paper, Cap-
tain Fishbourne, R.N., who was in the chair, said
that in the discussion on the subject he desired the
political part of the question to be avoided, and
that the advocates of wood and of iron should ad-
dress the meeting one after the other.
Captain Sullivan vindicated the officers of the
royal navy from the imputations which Captain
Halsted appeared to throw upon them, that they
had made the results of the experiments they were
instructed to undertake agree with the wishes of
the Admiralty. There could be no doubt that the
experiments had been fairly made and correctly
reported, and the impression produced on his mind
was the same as on that of Sir Howard Douglas.
The question, he said, was no longer whether we
should have iron-plated ships, for that seemed to be
settled, but whether the iron armour should be put
on to iron or on to wooden bottoms. He considered
that iron was quite unfitted for ships of war, be-
cause iron ships had not the strength of those built
of wood. If they took the ground they could not
be got off, and if they struck on a rock it went
through them as it would through a sheet of brown
paper. Iron ships might answer well for commer-
cial purposes, and on an open sea; but they could
not without great danger be employed along the
coast, for which purpose the iron-clad ships would
be chiefly required. lie instanced the Birkenhead
and Royal Charter as iron ships that had gone to
pieces under circumstances which a wooden ship
would have withstood, and he mentioned many
cases in which wooden ships had grounded and got
off without much damage when it would have been
impossible for an iron ship to have escaped. He
thought it was dangerous even to trust the lives of
troops in transport ships built of iron, and he said'
he should not like to be responsible for having done
so.

Mr. SAMUDA expressed astonishment that any
one at the present day should affirm that wooden
ships are stronger than those of iron, if, properly
built ; and in proof of the greater comparative
safety of iron ships he quoted the rates at which
insurance on the two classes of ships can be effected
at Lloyd's. He stated that whilst the usual rate of
insurance for first-class wooden ships is from 6 to
8 per cent. of their value per annum, the annual
insurance account of the Peninsular and Oriental

Company's iron ships did not exceed 2 per cent. In
opposition to the cases cited by Capt. Sullivan, he
mentioned several instances of iron ships that had
taken the ground and struck against rocks, and
were got off again with little damage, even after
having been exposed to a stormy sea for many days.
Mr. Samuda entered somewhat minutely into the

construction of iron ships to show their superior
safety to those built of wood, observing that an iron
ship when properly put together is equally strong
in every part as the plate of which it is made,
whereas a wooden ship depends altogether on the
fastenings of the planks to the timbers; and the
caulking, to keep the ship water-tight, tends to
separate the planks from each other. With respect
to iron-clad ships of war, he considered the advan-
tage of iron was indisputable. The backing of an
iron plate with wood could afford very little support
to the iron, because the particles of wood must be
very much compressed together before the whole
support it was capable of giving could be brought
to bear, and the iron plate would be burst through
by the shot long before that amount of compression
took place. If, on the other hand, a plate of iron
was supported by another plate of the metal of th
same thickness, the resistance to the entrance of
shot would be doubled. There is, however, another
disposition of the iron in the construction of invul-
nerable ships which he recommended, by which the
strength might be quadrupled. Instead of building
an iron ship and then covering it with iron, it would
be much better to build the ship of solid plates of
iron of the thickness required for its complete pro-
tection. By that means the resistance of the iron
would be quadrupled instead of being doubled, and
with the same weight of metal. Had the Warrior
been so constructed it might have been rendered
invulnerable, not only on the sides, but all over ; it
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Yesterday evening the members again met to
resume the discussion, but as no one rose to advocate
wooden ships in reply to Mr. Samuda,
Capt. HALSTED spoke in reply to the observations
of the speakers of the preceding evening. He ob•
jected to Mr. Samuda's having brought forward the
question of the armour of ships, which would form
the subject of a subsequent paper, for he contended
that the construction of the ship itself was the first
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and observed, with respect to the Warrior and the
other iron-cased ships, that at the head and stern
they are only ordinary iron ships like the Simoom,
through which it has been proved that even grape
shot would penetrate, though ordinary explosive
and incendiary shells could not. He again referred
to the great advantage of being able to resist
spherical shells when fired horizontally, which a
plate would do; and he said he believed that a
lit; inch plate would break conical shot even when
fired by Armstrong guns. Capt: Halsted considered
that a wooden backing of teak, as in the Warrior,
was essential, according to our present knowledge,
and in this and in other respects he differed from
Mr. Samuda.

Mr. FORD, one of the contractors of the Warrior,
explained the manner in which the armour was,
dovetailed together to make it watertight, so as to
prevent the water from rotting the teak backing ;
and he, stated, in explanation of the head and stern,
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which the Warrior was;

NAVAL COMMAND MONEI.

A writer in a contemporary says :—The new
scheme of naval command money has not given
satisfaction to the navy. It was stated last] year
in the House of Commons, by an ex-First Lord,
that captains were not well paid enough to enable
them to defray their necessary expenses while in
command, and he also mentioned that one of the
best officers in the navy, to whom he offered the
command of a line-of-battle ship, begged respect-
fully to decline it, on account of being without
private fortune, and therefore totally unable to
meet the necessary expenses,
It was also stated by the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty that during the winter the question would be
thoroughly gone into by the Board, and the result
has been the scheme of naval command money, of
which Sir J. Elphinstone remarked in the House of
Commons that captains complained that they were
no better off than before.

It is surely a most important point for the con-
sideration of the country that the men in command
of British men-of-war should still in many cases be
so inadequately paid that they cannot accept the
command of a sea-going ship without returning to
half-pay at the expiration of. their service far
poorer than when they took command. This is not
the case in either the French or American Navy,
nor, as far as I can learn, in any other navy in the
world, except our own.

To many people the actual necessary expenses
incurred by a captain on receiving a command and
during his period of service are probably unknown.
I propose, therefore, to state them briefly, and then
proceed to compare the former allowance of pay
with the new scheme.

The average expense of fitting out a ship amounts
to the sum of from £4OO to £5OO. Few captains
have this sum of ready money at hand, and it is
therefore borrowed from their agents at 5 per cent.
interest ; and if this sum is to be repaid at the ex-
piration of their command a third part must be laid
by each year ; therefore, supposing a man to borrow
the sum of £5OO, he would be obliged to put by each
year £166, which, added to the annual 5 per cent.
interest, would amount to £l9l. I will estimate
the expenses of his table, entertaining foreign offi-
cers, consuls, &c., at from £2OO to £250 annually.
He has also to pay his steward and cook, on an
average, £3O a year each ; he has also to provide
the whole of the stationary used in his official cor-
respondence, and, if he wishes his ship to look like
a British man-of- IA ar, he is obliged to spend no
small sum annually for paint, as the quantity
allowed by the Government is insufficient, and less
than the half of what is allowed in the French Navy.,
Add to this his necessary personal expenditure, and
it will be seen that without allowing a farthing for
expenses on shore a sum of nearly £6OO a year has
been accounted for.

Previous to the late alterations captains on full
pay were divided into three classes, according to
seniority. The first received £7Ol a year, the
second £574 a year, and the third £450 a year.
I will now state that the actual necessary ex-
penses of a captain in a large ship need not much
exceed those of one in a small frigate, and I believe
that £lOO a year would represent the difference of
expenditure. The same number of servants are al-
lowed in each, and the captain of the larger ship
would have a few more officers to entertain, and
probably a subscription to the band fund.
By the new scheme the first-class captains receive
£547 a-year, the second-class £455, and the third•
class £365. But in addition to this, an allowance
called " command money," is granted as follows :
£219 a-year to captains of line-of-battle ships, £lBO
a-year to captains of large frigates, and £9O a-year
to captains of small frigates and corvettes. So that
a first class captain in command of a line-of-battle
ship would now receive £547 pay and £219 com-
mand money —total, £766, or £65 a-year more
than he got under the old scale.

A second-class captain in a line-of-battle ship
would receive £4.55 pay and £219 command money
—total, £674, or £lOO a-year more than he did
before. But if he commanded a small frigate he
would receive £455 pay and £9O command money
—total, £545, or £29 a-year less than he did before.
A third-class captain in command of a line-of-
battle ship would receive £365 pay and £219 com-
mand money—total, £584 a-year, or £134 a-year
more than he did before.

But a third-class captain in command of a small
frigate or corvette would only receive £365 pay
and £9O command money—total, £456 a-year, or
£6 a-year more than he did before.

Nov, at a first glance this would appear to be a
most important addition, but when we examine
into the real facts of the case we find that by the
time a captain reaches the first class he has either
completed the servitude necessary to qualify him
for his active flag, or that he is in command of a
dockyard, a victuallingyard, or a steam reserve.
At this moment only two first-class captains are
in command of sea-going men-of-war; 34
.captains
of the second class and 69 of the third class arc
employed.
It is evident, therefore, that the third class is the
one from which captains are chiefly selected for
employment.
Out of 69 third-class captains employed 41 are
either flag captains or in command of small frigates
and corvettes, and we therefore find that out of the
whole number of captains employ ed in seagoing
ships (106) 41 receive only an addition of £6. The
small frigates and corvettes are the class of vessels
employed on the most distant stations, where cap-
tains are put to greater expenses in entertaining
foreign officers and Consuls than in the Channel or
Mediterranean, and provisions are far more expen-
sive. It does, therefore, seem strange that the
officers in command of this class of vessel should be
the ones who actually receive an increase of £6 a
year. Now, if it is the fact that on the old scale it
was found that the first class captains with £7OO
a year could pay their way, but that the class with
only £450 a year were totally unable to do so
(which I assert to be the case), then the first object
to be attained in proportioning the different allow-
ances of command money should have been to place
those who were unable to pay their way in a posi-
tion to do so; instead of which, we find that 41
captains out of 106, the whole number employed,
have actually been benefited only to the extent of
4d. a day.

IRELAND.

Br- A CHINESE IVIDOW.

The arrangement of this complicated sliding scale
of command money must have given considerable
trouble to the Board of Admiralty, and it has most
certainly not given satisfaction to the captains. I
believe that a far more simple and effective arrange-
ment might have been made by allowing the old
scale of pay to remain unchanged, and to have thus
apportioned the command motley—to the first class
the sum of £5O a year, total pay and command
money £751 a year; to the second class the sum of
£BO a year, making total pay and command money
£654 a year; to the third class the sum of £l2O a
year, making total pay and command money £570
a year. I believe this arrangement would have
given general satisfaction to the navy. The neces
sary sum to effect this would have been £ll,OOO a
year with the present number of captains employed.
When we consider the very small half-pay re-
ceived by captains, the first class receiving 14s. 6d.
a day, and the third class only 10s. 6d. (while the-
medical officers in the navy who rank with captains
under three years' servitude receive from £1 17s.
6d. to £1 10s. A-day), I feel sure that there is not
a member of the House of Commons who would not
have gladly voted the necessary sum to secure that
when our captains are employed on active service
they should be enabled to fulfil the duties and
defray the expenses inseparable from accepting a
command without incurring a heavy debt which in
many cases is a heavy stone round their necks for
years after their return to half-pay.

The Belgian Aloniteur publishes the official
return of the receipts of the State railways during the last
year, which amounted to 30,012,621 f., being 1,510,010 f.
more thari in 1859.

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY :EVENING',

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.

The national banquet in honour of St. Patrick
took place last night in the Round Room of the
Rotunda. From 250 to 300 persons sat down to
dinner. The gallery Was crowded by spectators,
including ladies, who paid ls. for admission. The
chair was occupied by Mr. Neilson Underwood.
The names of but three priests appear in the list
of those who attended, and The O'Donoghue was
the solitary member of Parliament who gave the
proceedings the sanction of his presence, though
several others were invited. The assembly was
" national" in the mere sectional sense, represent-
ing the party which formerly went by the name of
" Young Ireland,"

The -Chairman reminded the assembly of their
responsibility. They occupied, he said, a serious and
critical position on the present occasion. The eyes
of their exiled brethren were centred upon them
that evening. The eyes of the Cabinets of Europe
were centred upon them, to see whether the Irish
people were a people deserving of liberty—whether
they were a people with a resolution capable of
achieving it. The voice of that meeting would be
re-echoed in America and Australia, and he was
proud to tell his dear friend, Gavan Duffy, that
Ireland, which he thought lay like a corpse on the
dissecting table, had started into life under the dis-
sector's knife. He could conceive no grandersight
than that of Mr. Smith O'Brien as the chief
Minister of a free Irish Parliament, and nothing
could please him more than to see the learned and
able Moore, and the equally able and distinguished
O'Donoghue, moving for the recall of the political
exiles from Paris and Melbourne in a free Irish
Parliament opened by the Queen. Mr. G. H.
Moore, formerly member for Mayo, proposed the
toast—" The Irish People, the only source of legi-
timate power in this country," by which he said
he meant that no Government could exist right-
fully here except by the will of the Irish people.
The wrongs which justified the resistance'ef the
English people to James 11. were nothing to what
the Irish people endure ; against which wrong,
he said, the hearts of the Irish people are in insur-
rection at this:very hour. All would be soon set
right, however, if those who talked so lavishly of
sacrificing their lives for Ireland " were only half
as willing to sacrifice their prospects in life, their
energies in life, and their means of life for the same
object." The O'Donoghue, M.P., in giving "Ire-
land as an Independent Nation," disclaimed any
desire to establish the religious ascendancy of any
denomination, in violation of the principles of
religious equality. "We want to be free," exclaimed
the hon. gentleman, "we want to shake off the
domination of the English Parliament, because it is
revolting to our pride, to our very nature—because
it is an assumption of superiority on the part of
Englishmen which is derogatory to our manhood
as a nation ;" but be warned his audience that they
must, be moderate, for they could not afford
" another 1848 ;" but they need not despair, for
throughout the length and breadth of Ireland there
was a deep sympathy for the French people—a
powerful, generous, and gallant nation, which has
proved over and over again that it has a heart to
feel for and a sword able to avenge the wrongs of
others." The Rev. J. Kenyon, in giving the "Pa-
triot Priests of Ireland," gave utterance to some
very rational sentiments. He said, "If the people
wanted to win their freedom they should win it
for themselves. It was a foolish expectation that
the priests should deliver them." Mr. Kenyon
said :

" Nothing was so fatal to their notions about all subjects,
foreign anedomestic, as the confusion between religious
and secular matters. Everybody has to answer for his own
soul to God. Why should they dare to be throwing the
shadow of their littleness, their malignity, or perversity,
between the soul of the creature and the all-seeing penetra-
ting eye of his Creator. He did not know from what quar-
ter religious toleration was most assailed. Whether there
were more Catholic, or more Protestant, or Presbyterian
bigots in Ireland he could not tell."

Mr. A. M. Sullivan spoke eloquently OR " our
exiled brethren, the men who in Europe and Ame-
rica signalised the genius of our race." Mr. Hol-
land said :

"The Volunteers would set a fine 'example of moral
force'—viz., 100,000 soldiers, 100,000 bayonets, and 1,000
pieces of cannon. (Laughter and cheers.) That was the
' moral' force ho would have; that was the only moral
force that would ever achieve the independence of Ireland."
(Cheers.)
Mr. Holland concluded by calling on the meeting
to respond to the toast of " The memory of the men
who had lived, struggled, and died for the cause of
Irish independence."
The O'Donoghne was then called to the chair,
and, the thanks of the meeting being accorded to
the former chairman, the proceedings terminated.
The Bishop of Down and Connor has addressed a
circular to his clergy, requesting them to take steps
in their respective parishes to (secure an accurate
enumeration of the members of the Established
Church in the forthcoming census.

EXTRAORDINARY SELF-SACRIFICE

A Hong Kong paper contains the following ac-
count by an eye-witness of a voluntary sacrifice of
lifeby a disconsolate widow:—

"A few days since I met a Chinese procession
passing through the foreign settlement, escorting a
young female in scarlet and gold, in a richly-deco•
rated chair, the object of which I found was to
invite the public to come and see her hang herself,
a step she had resolved to take in consequence of
the death of her husband, by which she had
been left a childless widow. Both being
orphans, this event had severed her dearest
earthly ties, and she hoped by this sacrifice to
secure to herself eternal happiness, and a meet-
ing with her husband in the next world. I
repaired on the day appointed to the indicated spot.
We had scarcely arrived when the same procession
was seen advancing from the josahouse of the
widow's native village towards a scaffold and gal-
lows erected in an adjacent field, and surrounded
by hundreds of natives of both sexes. The female
portion, attired in their gayest holiday costume,
were very numerous. The procession having
reached the foot of the scaffold, the lady was
assisted to ascend .by her male attendant, and
after having welcomed the crowd, partook with
some female relations of a repast prepared for
her at a table on the scaffold, which she
appeared to appreciate extremely. A child
in arms was then placed upon the table
which she caressed and adorned with a
necklace she had worn herself; she then took
an ornamented basket containing rice, herbs,
and flowers, and whilst scattering them amongst
the crowd, delivered a short address, thanking them
for their attendance and uphokling the motives
which urged her to the step she was about to take.
This done, a salute of three bombards announced
the arrival of the time for the performance of the
last act of her existence, when a delay was occa-
sioned by the discovery of the absence of a
reluctant brother, pending whose arrival let me
describe the means of extermination. The gallows
was formed by an upright timber on each side of
the scaffold supporting a stout bamboo, from the
centre of which was suspended a loop of red
cord, with a small wooden ring embracing
both parts of it, which was covered by
a red silk handkerchief, the whole lining being sur-
mounted by an awning. The missing brother
having been induced to appear, the widow now
proceeded to mount on a chair placed under the
noose, and to ascertain its fitness for her reception,
deliberately placed her head in it, then withdraw-
ing her head, she waved a final adieu to the
admiring spectators, and committed herself to
its embraces for the last time, throwing the
red handkerchief over her head. Her supports
were now about to be withdrawn, when she was
reminded by several voices from the crowd
that she had omitted to draw down the ring
which should tighten the cord round her neck.
Smiling an acknowledgment of tee reminder,
she adjusted the ring, and motioning away her
supports, was left hanging in mid air--a suicide.
With extraordinary self-possession she now placed
her hands together before her, and continued to
perform the manual chin chins until the convulsions
of strangulation separated them, and she was dead.
The body was left hanging about an hour and then
taken down by her male attendants, one of whom
immediately took possession of the halter, and was
about to sever it, for the purpose of appropriating
a portion, when a struggle ensued. This is the
third instance of suicide of this sort within as many
weeks. The authorities are quite unable to prevent
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MARCH _ 21, 1861.

LAW INTELLrG.LWCE.

EQUITY COURTS.—MARCH 19.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir James Stuart.)
TIIE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA V. DAY.

Mr. Collier, of the common law bar (with whom
were Mr. G. M. Giffard and Mr. C. T. Simpson),
for the defendant, Louis Kossuth, asked that the
motion to dissolve the injunction which had been
granted on an ex parte application in this case on
the 27th of February last might be fixed for
Thursday next, or for some other day this or next
week if the plaintiff were not ready on Thursday.
The defendants' affidavits had been filed, and it
was important to his client that the motion should
be disposed of as soon as possible.
Sir Hugh Cairns and Mr. Cotton for the plaintiff,
the Emperor of Austria,
.and the plaintiff's solici-
tors had only last evening received a very long
affidavit which was filed yesterday by Louis
Kossuth. It would be necessary to answer
this affidavit, and in order to enable them to do
so the Austrian Government at Vienna would
have to be communicated with, and he under-
stood that Louis Kossuth's evidence was not
yet complete. It was impossible, therefore,
that the motion could be heard either this or next
week, and he would suggest that it should stand
over till the first day of Easter term, the 15th of
April next.
Mr. Collier said the postponement of the motion
would be productive of great inconvenience to Louis
Kossuth.

The Vice-Chancellor said he was willing to hear
the motion as soon as it could be brought on with
fairness to all parties, but that if it would not be
ready for hearing next week it must stand over till
Easter term.

Mr. Bacon and Mr. Wickens, for the defendants,
Messrs. Day, then asked for an order that the plain-
tiff should give an undertaking to Messrs. Day to
be answerable in damages for the loss sustained by
them by reason of the injunction already obtained,
in the event of that injunction being discharged.
The injunction had been highly inconvenient to
Messrs. Day, and had occasioned them heavy
losses.

Sir Hugh Cairns said that he was quite willing
that Messrs. Day's motion should be proceeded
with on the affidavits which had been already
filed. This offer, however, not being accepted,
nothing further passed with reference to the
matter.