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London, England, 1861-01-12 00:00:00

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Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamvessel Tri-
dent, commissioned at Woolwich on Wednesday
last by Commander G. W. Beville Nicolas, has
obtained the whole of her crew from the flag-
ship Fisgard. A few petty officers are still required.
Commander Nicolas and Mr. Willis Price, the
latter officer having been; transferred from the screw
steamship Aboukir, 90, one of the Channel squa-
dron, have joined at Woolwich, and are quartered
at the Ship Hotel, where first•class men are daily
applying, but without success. The Trident is com-
missioned II the South American station.

WE 4D. STAMPED, SD.

BANK OF FRAKCE.

The following is the account for the month end-
ing Thursday, Jan. 10 :

ASSETS.

F. C.
76,023,251 76
273,617,423 --
416,219 17

Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch-banks .
Bills due to be paid to-day.. ..
13:11s becoming due in Paris, of which
93,243,2891. 17c. are from the branch-
banks .. .. .. .. .. 291,326,755 58
Bills in the branch-banks .. .. .. 317,270,222
Advances on coin and ingots .. .. 20,420,780
Do. in the branch- banks .. .. 1,562,100
Do. on French securities • • .. 24,878,400
Do. in the branch-banks .. .. 14,746,300
Do. on railway shares and bonds .. 46,360,400
Do. in the branch-banks .. .. 29,997,300
Do. on Criidit Foncier Bonds .. 652,300
Do. in the branch-banks 343,300
•• • •
Do. to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 35,000,000
Routes of the reserve-fund 12 980 750 14
Routes, disposable funds
Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the Bank . . 4,000,000
..
Real property of branch-banks ..
.. 6,110,389
Expenses of administration • • • • 89,049 65
Sundries .. .. • . .. .. 5,478,148 52

1,315,047,916 95

So dense was the fog yesterday at Plymouth
that several boats in Hamoaze lost their way, and
the gunboat Redwing, tender to the Cambridge,
was obliged to return to the Sound, outside which
she was going for shell practice.
The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi-
nated to naval cadetships :—George L. Atkinson,
Edward R. Brietzcka, Arthur Blennerhasset, IV.
E. Black, William Farr, Robert W. Heathcote,
Edward Padwick Hooker, N. G. A. Pollard, the
Hon. H. N. Shore, and Edmund B. Wallace.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Ebenezer Clements, promoted
to the rank of chief engineer, and appointed to the
Cumberland far charge of the Horatio ; Mark
Lambert, first-class assist-engineer, to the Banshee;
and Robert H. Dobney, acting second-class assist.-
engineer, to the Cornwallis, for service in the
Sandfly.

.TRE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-

in-Chief held a levee yesterday afteihoon at the

Horse Guards. There was a numerous attendance

of officers.

A board of officers, of which Col, J. C. Kennedy,
C. 8., commandant of the Military Train, is presi-

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The Triton, Lieut. Commander Robert H. Bur-
ton, from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at
Woolwich yesterday to be dismantled and paid
off. She sailed from Woolwich in November,lBs7,
and captured six valuable prizes during the time
she served on the coast. She detained the bark
Orion, under American colours, and delivered her
up to the United States' ship Marian. The Orion
was condemned at the Admiralty Court of New
York by Judge Wylde, and repurchased by her
former owners. She was subsequently recaptured
by the Pluto, with a full cargo of slaves on board.
The Triton also boarded and gave information to
the American Commodore of the slaveship Emily,
which ship was also condemned and sold at New •
York. The Admiralty orders at present in force
for cruisers on the West Coast of Africa forbid the
boarding of any vessels under the American flag.
Messrs. Napier have been informed that every
accommodation will be afforded them in Victoria
Harbour, Greenock, for putting the machinery on
board the steam ram Black Prince, which they
have been constructing for some time past.
The paddlewheel steam tender Advice, M. Ray-
mond, second master, commanding, having coaled
and received supernumeraries, left Plymouth yes-
terday for Queenstown.
The paddle-wheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander Jackson, having had defects made good at
Devonport, went yesterday afternoon from Hamoaze
into Plymouth Sound.
The screw steam frigate Narcissus, 51, at Devon-
port, has received her spare spars.

dent, has been assembled at Whitehall for the pur-
pose of inquiring into the organisation and working
of the newly-raised Army Hospital Corps, in order
that some alterations and improvements may be

effected in that branch of the service, the condition
and working of which appear to be by no means

satisfactory to the military authorities. Already a
great deal of important evidence has been taken by
the commissioners, which will materially guide them

in framing their report to the Duke of Cambridge.

From what has been elicited from the various wit-
nesses who have been examined it has been ascer-

tained that the Army Hospital Corps numbers about
1,000 non-commissioned officers and men scattered
throughout the globe, from 150 to 200 being attached
to the headquarters, Chatham. The corps is re-
cruited entirely from volunteers from other regi-
ments, a recent circular having been issued, calling
on commanding officers of regiments to recommend
efficient men for that corps. It has, however, been
found that at the present moment the Army Hos-
pital Corps contains some of the very worst cha-
racters to be found in her Majesty's service, a class
of men that commanding officers are only too happy
to get rid of from their corpse instead of recom-
mending their most steady men. It has also been
found that the corps at headquarters is not suffi-
ciently officered, and, consequently, there is a laxity
of discipline at Fort Pitt Hospital, the men serving
at which establishment are nominally under the
command of Dr. -Hume, the principal medical officer,
but the arduous and multifarious duties performed
by that officer prevent his taking the requisite
supervision over them. The office of captain of the
orderlies has been created, but has not as yet been
filled up, although it is strongly recommended that
such an officer should be immediately appointed.
Various other changes will, it is anticipated, be
strongly recommended to be carried into effect, in
order to effect improvement in the corps.

During the last few days a series of experi-
ments have been made in the presence of the select
committee of Woolwich Arsenal with the 100-
pounder Armstrong gun at Shoeburyness. The
experiments were exceedingly satisfactory, and
fully established the fact of the new 100-pounder
ordnance being equal to the smaller sizes. A ship's
side, partially covered with massive iron plates,
some of which had been stripped off for the purpose
of testing the fuzes at the commencement of the
experiments, was set up at 1,000 yards' distance, to
form the butt. The shells, filled with powder, were
at patches of white paper stuck upon the surface.
The, spots were 12 inches in diameter, and in every
case the shell went through the mark, while the
instantaneous ignition of the powder made a hole
in the timber in the form of a huge doorway. The
target was placed on that part of the ship's side
which had been stripped of ,the iron plates, some
of which were still retained. One of these was
struck by accident and cut completely through.
The firing was repeated at various intervals with
the most successful result until at length the ship's
side became so riddled that the sheltlesuweheirnesfirtch•ide
nd a con.siderable
through the chasms without even
ragged and splintered borders,rou and exploded
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coming in contact with the g
experiments terminated by
firing
shellsfilled,
distance beyond. The
s with molten
iron a
from fe
itihma: old service
service guns,
the remains
URI which in the
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course of a
work in of the
a blaze. At the conclusion
wooden frame
mental gun
the experimental was found to be as perfect as
when the trials commenced. By the late improvements
in the breech there was no escape of gas from the
explosion, to test the fact of which the committee
several times filled the cavity with snow, and, after
the gun vas fired, the snow had not the slightest
discolouration. It was accordingly acknowledged
unanimously that by the new arrangement it is
barely possible for the plug
to be blown out in the
event of any carelessness On the part of the gunner
in screwing it home. Cal. St. George, It.A., C. 8.,
president of the select committee ; Capt. Sir W.
Wiseman, R,N., vice- president ; and the members
who were present, as well as Sir W. Armstrong,
expressed their admiration of the result. The gun
was made in the factory at Woolwich Arsenal, un-
der the superintendence of Mr. Anderson, and is
considered, according to the statement of the com-
mittee, to be the finest specimen of a wrought iron
gun which has vet been submitted. Fears were
entertained by Sir W. Armstrong, and were coin-
cided in by the committee generally, that the severe
frost might affect some of the parts, but no symp-
toms of any casualty were manifested to mar the
success of the experiments, which extended over
two entire days. As these guns are now in course
of rapid manufacture, the country may feel assured
that the naval armament will be supplied forth-
with to meet the demands of any emergency, how-
ever sudden.