The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-05 00:00:00

REVIEWS OF THE WORK.

"Curtis on Manhood.--This is a truly valuable work, and
should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times,"
23d March, 1856.

"The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this
little work, in which is described the source of those diseases
which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature
old age. '—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856.
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The Orpheus, 21, 400-horse power, is to be towed
up to Chatham harbour to-morrow, and placed
under the floating shears, to be masted and brought
forward for sea.

On Saturday a number of shipwrights com-
menced laying down the blocks in the spacious
dock at Chatham, in which the iron-plated frigate
Achilles, 50, is to be built. Nearly the whole of the
powerful machinery required in the construction of
the beams, plates, and other portions of the iron
vessel has been fixed in the new factory adjoining
No. 2 dock, in which the steamer will be built, and
already the preliminary works for preparing the
plates are in operation. An exceedingly powerful
hydraulic press for bending the massive iron plates
to any pattern has been fixed adjoining the dock,
and the trials made with it have been exceedingly
satisfactory. As fast as really good mechanics offer
themselves at the dockyard they are taken on. In
the course of a few weeks there will be as many as

1,000 workmen employed about the new steamer.
The class of mechanics mostly required are platers
and angle iron smiths, especially the latter.
The Iris, 26, Capt. C. G. H. Vernon, late the flag-
ship of Commodore W. Loring, C. 8., on the Aus-
tralian station, was paid off and put out of commis-
sion in Chatham harbour on Saturday last.
The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. John
SQccombe, which has been thoroughly repaired at
Keyham steamyard, left Plymouth Sound on Satur-
day afternoon for Gravesend. Mr. Melrose, engi-
neer at Keyham, goes with her to watch the condi-
tion of the machinery. The Himalaya will, it is
said, embark troops for the Mediterranean.
Preparations are making at Plymouth for sup-
plying the Channel squadron with water and provi-
sions immediate on their arrival in the Sound. The
Aboukir, 84, Capt. C. F. A. Shadwell, C. 8., which
grounded in the Orkneys, will go into dock No. 1
at Keyham for inspection and repair..
The screw steam gonvessel Surprise, 5, Comman-
der Whyte, which left Plymouth Sound with de-
spatches on Thursday for the Mediterranean, put
back on Saturday evening through stress of weather.
The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. A.
Cumming, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral of the
White the Hon. Sir H. Keppel, K.C.8., from South
America, and the iron screw steam troopship
Megaera, 6, Commander Henderson, from Corfu,
Malta, and Gibraltar, arrived in Plymouth Sound
yesterday evening. The Emerald will disembark
invalids and supernumeraries, and then proceed to
Spithead. The Megmra has troops, invalids, and
other passengers, including some engineers, who
will land at Plymouth.
By direction of the Admiralty a new Coastguard
station is to be erected at Shoeburyness.
The armaments intended for the following ships

—viz., the Defence, Resistance, and Achilles, re-
cently laid down, and also to be iron-clad, after the
method of the -Warrior, are announced as follows :
—The Defence and Resistance, of 1,462 tons each,
and to be fitted with engines of 600 nominal horse-
power, will have two 100-pounders on the upper
deck, 16 100-pounders as side guns on the main
deck, and four 40-pounders also on the main deck.
The Achilles will be provided with 34 100-pounders
on the main deck. On the upper deck there will
be two 100-pounders on revolving carriages. There
will be eight of the same on slides and carriages;
four 40-pounders on truck carriages, and two 32-
pounders smooth bore of the old castiron ordnance,
making a total of 50 to the Achilles, and 22 each to

the Defence and Resistance. The whole of the guns
have been handed over to the store for despatch
from Woolwich on demand.

A complete battery of 14 of the large 100-pounder
Armstrong guns, for distribution among the ships
composing the steam reserve in the Med way, arrived
at the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, on Friday, from
Woolwich, in the War Department transport Henry,
which was placed under the steam crane. The guns
were landed on that and the following day. The
steamers at Chatham which are to be furnished with

the 100-pounder Armstrongs are the Hood, 91; the
Waterloo, 91; the Rodney, 91; the Bombay, 81;
the Irresistible, 81; the Goliath, 81; the Meeanee,
81; the Severn, 51 ; the Arethusa, 51 ; the Pha3ton,
51; the Leander, 51 ; the Galatea, 26 ; the Orpheus,
21; the Orestes, 21 ; and the Barossa, 21. Each of
the above ships will also be furnished with a certain
number of the 40-pounder Armstrong guns, several
of which have already been put on. board from the
supply received at Chatham.
We have to announce the death of Admiral Sir
Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8., who expired at an
early hour on Saturday morning at Penair, his re-
sidence, near Truro. The gallant admiral was the
son of Rear-Admiral Robert C. Reynolds, who was
lost in the St. George, 98, on returning home from
the Baltic in December, 1811, and was born in
1785. The deceased officer entered the navy as a

first-class volunteer soon after he had completed his
tenth year ; he was midshipman on board the
Amazon, 36, when in company with the Indefatig-
able, 46, L'Unite, 38, and La Virginie, 44, were
captured. In January, 1797, he was wrecked and
taken prisoner near Ile Bas, at the close of the gal-
lant action of ten hours with Les Droits de l'Homme,
74, also wrecked. On regaining ,his liberty in
January of the following year he was appointed to
La Pomone, in which he assisted in the capture of
Le Cheri, French privateer, of 26 guns. He shortly
afterwards joined the Indefatigable, Capt. Sir E.
Pellew (afterwards Lord Exmouth), under whom
he contributed to the capture of La Vaillante cor-
vette. Under the same famous commander he
served with the squadron sent in the summer of
1800 to co-operate with the French Royalists and
Chouans, in Quiberon Bay, and the Morbihan, and
in August accompanied the expedition against Fer-
rol. For his gallantry in several successful boat
actions with the enemy he was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant. In the boats of the Diana, on
the night of the 28th of March, 1806, Lieut. Rey-
nolds captured Le Nearque, of 16 guns, off L'Orient,
the rearmost of the French squadron, without being
discovered by the three French frigates, her con-
sorts. Afterwards he proceeded to the East Indies,
and early in 1811 he was appointed to the com-
mand of the Hesper, 18, part of the force employed
in the expedition against Java, where he assisted
at the bombardment and storming of Fort Cornelis,
and served on shore with a party of seamen through-
out all the operations. After the reduction of
the town of Cheribon he was appointed Com-
mandant, pro tern., of that place. As a re-
ward for his distinguished services in the
subjugation of that island, he was appointed to
the command of the frigate Sir Francis Drake,
and was in the following year removed by the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Sir S. Hood, into the Bucephalus,
32, in which he continued until paid off in 1813.
From impaired health engendered by the climate
of the East Indies he was not employed for several
years. From October, 1833, to April, 1842, he com-
manded the Ganges, 84, which formed one of the
fleet in the Mediterranean. He superintended, dur-
ing the campaign of 1840 in Syria, the landing of
the troops at D'Journie, and assisted at the bom-
bardment of Beyrout, and the blockade of Alexan-
dria. In 1843 to 1852 he was Commander-in-Chief
at the Cape of Good Hope and the Brazil station.
It was during his command at that station that he
obtained the thanks of Government for his activity
and zeal in suppressing the slave trade. Shortly
after his return home he was selected by the Admi-
ralty in May, 1807, for the poet of Commander-in-