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DECEMBER 1, 1845.

RUGBY, HERBY; " AND Al NNCHESTER,
RAILWAY.

Ptte Coininittee of•Managementhave much pleasure in announc-
ing- to the Shareholders, that Deposits of -the Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference lOU THE _ENTIRE LINE, in compliance with
the;statidins orders of the, llouses of 'Parliament, have been duly
made. 11y—order of the Board,
• W:11. SCOTT, 1 Secretaries.
• HORACE GREEN,
33,- Gresham-street, December, 1845.

litEC4l.l'S CANAL RAILWAY.
Notice is
.hercby.. given, that 'he Deeds now lie at this
4 )dice for execution, and that the Scrip will thereupon be issued
in exchange for the banker's receipt.
-FREDERICK COLLIER, Secretary.
Regent's Canal Railway Office, Gresham-rooms,
: • Basinghall7street, November 26, 1845.

JIALLETTE'S - ATMOSPHERIC RAIL-
WAY AND PROPULSION COMPANY.
NOTICE—No further AupWations for Shares will be received
after WED,..iEsoay, the ad of DeCernber.
Offices, Winchester-house, Old Broad-street, London.

CAZIIREWSBURY and -LEICESTER DIRECT
• RAILWAY.
• The Committee of .Managemeut have much satisfaction in an-
nouncing tut the_ Plans, .S'ectinns, and Books of Reference have
this day all been duly deposited with the Board of Trade, Clerk.s of
the Peace, &c., pursuant to the Standing Orders.
• • • Brorder, '

Nov. 29, 1545.

J. W. JELLICORSE, Secretary,
18, Finsbury-place.

• • •
MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
. .
19, Great George-street, Westminster, Sunday, Nov. 30, 1845.
The Committee of Management announce with much pleasure that
the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference of their proposed rail-
ways; from Cheltenham to-Southampton, and to Salisbury and Poole,
have been duly deposited with the Clerks of the Peace and the Board
of Trade, conformable with the standing orders of l'arliament.
JOHN WALKINSIIAW, Deputy-Chairman.
JOHN WHEELED, Secretary.

rtREAT. NORTHERN *RAILWAY OF
kx • PRANCE.-(LAPITTE'S COMPANY.)
• ENGLISH ALLOTMENT.

Notice is hereby given to all parties having Scrip in the above
Company, that. the period for exchanging the same for Consolidated
Shares expired .on the. Bth of November instant; the Committee
have, however, determined. to give the few parties who have not
completed their exChange an opportunity of doing so utilfil the sth
proximo ; after that day they must act.upon the terms of the report
of the'l7th of October last, and decline to admit any claim for shares
in the constituted Company. The deposits paid on such scrip as may,
after the sth proximo, remain .unexchanged, will be returned in ex-
change for the bankers' receipts, on application ; and the parties are
requested to apply aceerdingly,, ita order that the accounts may be
finally wound up.
62, King William-street,-Nov. 28, 1845.

ED. AIME, Secretary.

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NATIONAL .LOAN FUND LIFE ASSITR.
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital Aboo,ooo.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substantial advan-
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The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrwr, without ex-
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or terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PitOFIT-;.
•
The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enable?,
be Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 3u to Id per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

Premium Bonus Bonus in El
added. Cash. E E

A 1Y37 £l9l 13.5''587 13 51
X s' 1838 165 13 9 74 13 10
(.100 74 3 4 1839 138 13 6 61 14 3
1840 89 0 0 41 13 4

I£l3 17 1
11 8 6
9 2 10
6 0 0

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.395 II I
346 23
296 13 4
247 4

The-division of proAU is annual, and the next will be made in De-
e:mber ef the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. See.

NOTICE TO EQUITABLE POLICY HOLDERS.
gT NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
. COMPANY,

- No. 8, Waterloo-place, .Pall-mall, London.
The attention of Equitable Policy Holders is particularly called to
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half premiums which may be due thereon, or, in the event of the
party being at that time in bad health, the policy can be kept up
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whey. it was largely adopted. and many of the policies then effected
are still in force. and latge bonuses have been added to them on the
scale of the following table;—
Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sum added to Policy.
£5,000 ...... •• 6 years 10 months • . £683 6 6
5,000
.• 6 years GOO 0 0
5,000 .• • • 4 years .............. 400 0 0
5,000 2 years ....... .

FrospectuSes and every information may be obtained on application
to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and F. Lennox Boyd,
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THE THREATENED SCARCITY OF

FOOD IN IRELAND.
(Abridged from the Liverpool Journal of Saturday.)
The Mayor of Liverpool having declined.to call a town
meeting for the purpose of memorialising Government on the
threatened scarcity in Ireland, a public meeting of the in-
habitants was held last night at the Royal Amphitheatre.
The doors were opened shortly after six o'clock, but long
before that hour a vast crowd tilled Queen-square and Great
Charlotte-street. The rush on the opening of the doors was
tremendous, and in about ten minutes the house was literally
overflowed, thousands outside pressing eagerly but uselessly
fir admission.

W. BROWN, Esq., took the chair, and when silence was
restored, he proceeded as follows :—Gentlemen, you have
'done me the honour to request that I would preside over
your deliberations this evening. I have no doubt that you
will give me all the support you can, in order that every
gentleman who may be pleased to state his views to this
assembly on the present unpleasant position in which you
are placed from the failure of the potato crop and
the deterioration of the wheat crop, may do so
with satisfaction to himself.—(Hear, hear.) 1 do
not suppose, gentlemen, that it will be necessary
for me to exercise the privilege of a chairman to
call any gentleman to order, but in such an event
taking place, I have no doubt I shall have your cordial sup-
port to maintain the authority of the chair.—(Hear.) Gen-
tlemen, the friend who was pleased to nominate me as your
chairman this evening, has already informed you that a re-
quisition was sent to our chief magistrate, signed by 5,800 of
his fellow-townsmen—gentlemen of different religious per-
suasions, and of all political parties.—(Hear, and cheers.)
That requisition requested that his worship would call us to-
gether to deliberate and to consider what measures we should
adopt to alleviate the distresses which are likely to overtake
a large and humble class of our fellow-subjects. To that re.
quisition, Gentlemer, he was pleased to answer that he did
not think the time was come for calling us together under
his auspices.—(Laughter and hisses.) But, Gentlemen, to
put you in full possession of the respectful requisition that
Was sent to him, and the very letter of his answer, I think it
will be best to read both for your consideration ; and as my
voice is none of the best, my excellent friend, Mr. Cooke, has
promised to relieve me of that part of my duty. He will also
be good enough io read the requisition of a number of your
fellow-townsmen—the mayor having declined to call us to-
gether—requesting that we should assemble tinder the pro-
ieciioil of the Constitution to express our own opinions fully
and fairly to her Majesty's Government.---(Hear and cheer's.)
Mr. J. B. CooKE here read the requisition to the Mayor,
to(sether with the Mayor's reply.
The CHAIRMAN then continued as follows :—Gentlemen,
that the first requisition to the Mayor, and the second re-
quisition to you, was signed on co light grounds, I think we
have very ample materials to show.—(Hear.) The first that
I shall bring under your consideration is correspondence that
took place between Lord Cloncurry and the Prime Minister.
The Government were so sensible of the danger that threat-
ened the country from famine that they assured his Lordship
that it occupied the most serious consideration of Ministers.
The next that I shall call your attention to is the Mark Lane
Express—a paper that is the avowed organ of the agricultural
interests of the country. The Express tells us, and reiterates
the statement from week to week, that many cargoes of po-
tatoes have arrived in the Thames so very decayed and rotten
that they were thrown overboard.—(Hear,hear). It also leads
us to believe that the accounts from all parts of the kingdom
are by no means favourable to the preservation of the potato
crop throughout the winter, for the sustenance of those who
live, most unfortunately, on that description of food. Every
newspaper throughout the kingdom has from time to time
reiterated the same facts; and that we are not now in a state
of distress, when we are paying 400,0001. a week more for
provisions than we were paying this time twelve months, is
what you will not readily believe.—( Hear, and applause). I
will also call your attention to resolutions passed in Dublin, at
a meeting at the Mansion-house, where Lord Cloncurry pre-
sided, and the Lord Mayor was present; and perhaps my ex-
cellent friend, Mr. Cooke, will again do me the favour of
reading those resolutions, for they are satisfactory to my
mind, and I think they will be perfectly satisfactory to your
minds also, that the grounds upon which we have assembled
to-night are no light grounds, taking into consideration the
evils likely to arise from the disease of the potato crops during
the winter and the coming spring.
THOMAS THORNELY, Esq., M.P., then rose and said—Gen-
tlemen, there are many of us here present who have all our
lives been free traders. There are many of you, gentlemen,
I trust, who have long entertained free trade opinions ; and
as to the rest of you, gentlemen, if you have not already
adopted them, I beg that you will direct your attention to
the present crisis of distress, and I think that you will then
agree with those of us who have long entertained those
opinions which I have expressed, that there ought to be
an immediate end put to those laws which prohibit the free
importation of food into the United Kingdom.—(Hear, hear,
and cheers.) Gentlemen, I have lately made some inquiries
in our corn markets as to the prices of grain—particularly
in the month of May last and in the present month of
November—l found that the wheat of the old crop of Ireland
in May last was at 6s. 3d. per 70 lbs. ; that the same article
of wheat of the old Irish crop is now at 9s. 3d.—that is an
advance of nearly 50 per cent.—(Hear, hear.) I found
that oats in the month of May were at 3s. per 45 lbs.,
and that they are now at 3s. 2d. for the same
quantity; that meal was at 225. 6d. per 40 lbs., and that
it is now at 34s.—(Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, it pleased
the Legislature, as you all recollect, some time ago, to im-
pose an income-tax upon all persons whose incomes ex-
ceeded 150/. per year, to an amount of something like 3
per cent. ; and, gentlemen, great was the outcry throughout
the country, and numerous were the petitions most properly
presented to Parliament against this tax; but here is a tax
--au advance in the prices of food between the months of
May and November, which has abstracted from the pockets
of the poor man, net a 3 per cent., but an enormous tax,
which renders it a difficult thing for that excellent class of
the people—the labouring class of this country, of which
I shall never speak without respect—(Loud cheers)—to avoid
great misery and great suffering in the crisis which is so
likely to increase.—(Hear.) Well, now, gentlemen, several
of the great towns of this country, seeing what is before
us, have come forward and addressed the Prime Minister,
to express their sense of the approaching famine. The
people of Manchester were called together by the Man-
chester men ; the people of Salford also ; the people
of Birmingham have expressed their opinions ; the people of
Sheffield have done the same; the men of Leeds have called
together the people of that great manufacturing town ; and
all these have unanimously adopted the measure of addressing
the Prime Minister on our present prospects. -40heers.) And
I have also heard that the inhabitants of the City of London
will be convened, in a short time, to express their opinions.
—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, our respected Chairman has ins
formed you of our proceedings—of having addressed the
Mayor • and I must say we should have shown ourselves a
cowardly set of peoTele if we had been prevented by any cir-
cumstances from meeting in this place, and expressing our
opinions.—(Cheers.) My friend, Mr. Thomas Baines will
read to you some further reports, of a most extraordinary
character, of the loss of the potato oron, In the meantime,
from what the Chairman has stated, from the public proceed-
ings in Ireland, and from what you have seen here at home
in Lancashire, you cannot for a moment doubt that serious
damage has been inflicted, generally, on the potato crop. Iws
in London but a few days since, and I was there inffirmed
that at one cf the wharfs of the Thames vessels had arrived
laden with a thousand tons of potatoes from Yorkshire ; that
those potatoes were so completely destroyed that the vessels
were ordered to be taken into the middle of the Thames,_ and
that the potatoes had been then thrown overboard.—(Hear,)
But a couple of days ago I read a letter from A olergyman
residing in a remote part of Ireland, ordering nom Liverpool
a quantity of rice, to avert, as lie said, the approachi-
fa-
mine under which the people will suffer. Wen, now, Gen-
tlemen, what is to be done? I say that, as it is apparent to
the people that these deficiencies in the potato crop are so seri-
ous, and the injury done to the wheat erop have deprived them
of their resources, it is incumbellt upon the Prime Minister to
call Parliament together; to say then what his convictions
are--if they can be called convictions ;—and lie would come to
the conclusion, which I think he ought already to have come
to' if he could have divested himself of ancient prejudices
in favour of the sliding scale—that those laws prohibiting the
entrance of food into the kingdom ought to be repealed.—
(Cheers.) It Is known that her Majesty the Queen, by the
advice of the Privy Council, might admit provisions free of
duty until the time of the meeting of Parliament, and I think,
gentlemen, that if her Majesty were to do so, such an order
in Council would be the strongest evidence in our favour; be-
cause, by so doing, it would be admitting that the present
laws are defective, and ought to be abolished.—(Cheers.) It
Is extraordinary that in this great town of Liverpool, where
you receive from every corner of the world, every day of your
life, articles of foreign production, where you see all such ar-
ticles bonded at the Custom-house, that you never see such a
thing as an importation of food.—(Hear, hear.) It is extra-
ordinary, gentlemen, thatjin this town of Liverpool, if you go
into the ship-building yards, you see the ingenuity of
your ship-builders displayed in consEdering in which way
they shall construct a ship to carry the greatest quantity
of merchandise, and to sail with the greatest facility ; it is ex-
traordinary that you in Liverpool were the first people of
the world who constructed a railway—that between Liver-
pool and Manchester—and that the principle of which has
been since, and is now being imitated throughout Europe
and America—that you constructed that railway, and con-
struct others to save time and give speed to your under-
takings ; it is extraordinary, I say, doing this, that you
should submit to those laws, whereas the importation of
wheat, flour, grain, and meal, are essential to the happiness
and welfare of mankind;—that, I say, you should submit to
laws which, instead of allowing the distribution of these,
stop them at the very threshold, place them in bond, and
render them as lost —(Loud cheers.) I say you are the most
inconsistent people in the world, if you build a ship to sail
with speed, construct a railroad to gain speed and save time,
and yet allow wheat, and flour, and provisions of all kinds,
to be taken from you and placed in bonded warehouses, in-
stead of circulating and giving cheap food and comfort to
the people. Gentlemen, there are at this time no less than
from 700,000 to 800,000 quarters of wheat and flour lying in
bonded warehouses in this kingdom ; this is wanted to grind
with the new and soft wheat, the produce of this last harvest ;
but you allow it to be bonded, and this misirable wheat of our
own production is prevented yielding such good flour as it would
have done if it had been properly mixed. There has been a
suggestion made, and the time may come when, if no other
plan is resorted to, we may propose that it be followed—that
by subscriptions we shall seek to relieve the sufferings of our
fellow-subjects ; but I will tell you this, that if each man
subscribes to the full extent of his means, it would not add
one ounce of food for the consumption of the people.—(Hear,
hear,) It would only bring more competitors into the market
and raise the prices of provisions. The only way of reducing
the prices of food, and so lessen the distress is—instead of
increasing prices by subscriptions, to open the ports—(Loud
cheers)—and thus to compel the Ministers and Parliament to
supply us as we would ourselves do, if left to ourselves.—
(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, before the close of these proceed-
ings you will be called upon, 1 understand, to concur in a me-
morial to Sir Robert Peel, as First Lord of the Treasury, ex-
pressing your opinions on the present state of affairs. You
famine—of universal famine; and really, when I think of
will states in your memorial, your serious apprehensions of
the state of our fellow subjects in Ireland, my
has altogether
within me to think of the misery that will inevitably be
heart bows
occasioned to that people, whose only
ifsailtehcte_.p(otHateoarc, rhoL,r.t)vhiih;i means of subsistence
gleissetfahlaninthoautrgidvocenksthae4
a that that most
much and such liberal
industrious people have found so_
em-
ployment in the commercial and manufacturing towns of
but still the distress
Kngl*tti afford so much
labour generally. lam glad that,
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PRICE, SD.

the attention and the care of Ministers— (Mar, hear)—
and to induce them to adopt measures which may remedy
the evil so far as it is possible to be done.—(Hear, hear,
and cheers.) We have, Gentlemen,. within forty-eight
hours, been surprised and • delighted with the declara-
tions of two of the most distinguished statesmen of
this country in favour of those views which most
of us here present have entertained fur so long a
time, and which your presence here shows you also generally
entertain—l speak, Gentlemen, of the admirable address
written by Lord John Russell, at Edinburgh—(Cheers)—to
his constituents, the electors of the city of London.—(Load
cheers.) Gentlemen, I honour—l respect Lord John Russell
for that clear and that definite declaration at such a moment.
Lord John Russell is a statesman of high character and of
great intellect, to whom no one, let him be a political oppo-
nent entertaining political opinions however strongly ad-
verse, will deny the possession of abilities of a high order—
(Hear, bear)—that he is a man of the greatest integrity,
energy of mind, and benevolence of purpo,e.—(Lotid and
long-continued cheers.) That declaration of Lord John Rus-
sell goes to this effect :—That the time has gone by for pro-
posing a fixed duty; that the approach of the close of har-
vest should no longer be attended by those anticipations, so
often realised, of failure and of consequent distress—(Hear)
—but that every impediment to the importation and to the
free and unqualified circulation of food should be swept away.
—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, there is another statesman—l mean
Lord Morpeth—(Loud cheers)—whose characterfsnd talents
are, like those of Lord John Russell. of the very highest order
—whose character is equally unblemished ; and he has,
within the last two or three days, written a letter, which was
read at a public meeting. held the other day at Sheffield, ex-
pressing his individual opinion—an opinion come to without
consultation with any other and without concert—that the
corn-laws ought to be entirely abolished.—(Loud cheers).
To those gentlemen who have-been working through a long
series of years, for the obtaining of the abolition of these
laws, such declarations coming from these quarters could not
but prove satisfactory, and might further, be received as
very convincing testimonials that the doctrines they held
and maintained were right and sound.—(Loud cheers.) And
now it is in our power, I believe and am convinced, by a
firm, and unqualified, and conscientious expression of our
sentiments—sentiments embodied in the resolution I am
about to read, and in"others which will be read too, and which
will be carried by you—to put an end, at once and for ever,
to the abominable aid detestable existing corn-laws.—(Tre-
mendous cheers.) Mr. 'homely concluded by proposing and
moving the following resolution :—" That the alarming
failure in the potato crop throughout the United _kingdom,
confirmed in the case of Ireland by several reports from the
Commissioners specially appointed by her Majesty's Govern-
ment to investigate the subject, and by other persons of un-
questionable veracity, together with the injury done to the
wheat crop, are calculate to excite the most serious appre-
hensions of impending famine."
LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., seconded the resolution.
Mr. BAINES read a long report stating the condition of the
potato crop.
W. RATHBONE, Esq., proposed the next resolution—" That
we have now assembled for the purpose of expressing our
strong convictions of the responsibility which rests upon her
Majesty's confidential advisers, if they do not take imme-
diate steps to avert, as far as possible, the awful consequences
of a deficient supply of the necessaries of life."
A. 11. WYLIE, Esq., seconded the resolution.

Dr. BLACKBURN read the following resolution :—" That we
find, from dailfexperience, that in all the articles we obtain
from foreign nations, and which are left to the natural opera-
tions of commerce, there is always procurable an abundant
supply for the wants of the community ; that we therefore
believe that it is owing to the restrictions imposed by the
corn and provision laws that there is not every year a store
of foreign grain ample enough to dispel the well-founded
alarm which is now inseparable from a failure in our own
harvests; that the operation of these laws is generally to
impoverish the labouring classes, and to reduce them to the
coarsest description of food on which existence can be
supported; that we are firmjy convinced that the failure
of their only principal means of subsistence among
that large and helpless portion of our fellow-subjects, un-
less in some degree remedied by the instant admission of
all kinds of provisions duty free, will be productive of con-
sequences too fearful to contemplate ; that we, therefore,
consider it the bounden duty of the Queen's responsible
advisers to advise her Majesty immediately to summon
the Parliament, for the purpose of recommeeding the total
and immediate abolition of a system which has been justly
said to be the blight of commerce. the bane of agriculture,
the source of bitter divisions among classes, and the cause
of penury, and fever, and crime, among the people.' " He
then said, This resolution contains a very important sen-
timent—one which we would do well to understand
thoroughly in all its bearings and with all its necessary
limitations. It does not assert that our corn-laws are the
cause of deficiency in the harvest, or that any possible
arrangement of law could prevent those casualties to
which the crops of all countries are in the very nature of
things, and, by the ordination of Providence, always ex-
posed. Nor does it at all imply that a considerable failure
in the produce of the ground is not a serious calamity in
itself, calculated to entail great suffering on the humbler
The
in whatever part of the world it may occur.—(Hear.)
The great national evil which the corn-laws are intended to
protect us from is, in plain terms—a cheap and abundant
supply of food—certainly the oddest kind of national evil
that ever was heard of.—(Cheers and laughter.) And we are
not left to conjecture upon this subject, but are plainly told
so by the monopolists themselves. When the Duke of Rich-
mond said, " We don'tgrow glass, but we do grew timber"—
when Sir Edward Knatchbull waxed lachrymose about mar-
riage settlements and daughters' portions—and when Mr.
Miles, the acknowledged leader of the landowners' party,
stood up in his place in the House of Commons, and rated
the Premier in good set terms, because divers articles, such
as butter, cheese, and bacon, had been too cheap, imputing it
to Sir Robert as a crime and a violation of an jinphed com-
pact—that he had not kept up prices as was expected by his
Fupporters—the real purpose of the corn-laws conies out.
The more knowing ones of the party talk in a different style,
and wrap up their statements in a sort of misty verbiage
_in-
tended to deceive and delude; but these simpleton,.
(Choers)--the secret; and as Mr. Escott said
uiab—
they damage their own cause most- • .oe other day,
-e
otnliaAn,dsirsal_t
indeed to come to this? Are 'jne
land, and Ireland,
.00w down people
ei necks any longer
beneath thi°, yoke? Let them now speak out—promptly
--clearly—loudly—in a voice that cannot be mistaken.
Let thc,m, In tones that shall reverberate through the
halls of legislation, and ascend up to the palace of the em-
sgeeatins—e-ltabwats
pire, tell those haughty oligarchs—who by their corn-laws
andin
the streets—that their
wnoewwtirlal mbpeletdhoewirn
stlhaveepseonpole
longer.—
(Great (Great cheering). In this way, and in this way only, will
the victory of truth, and righteousness. and benevolence, be
secured. In this way, and in this way only, will the grim
and gory dragon of monopoly be hurled from his throne, amid
the joyous hallelujahs of emancipated millions. Dr. Black-
burn resumed his seat amid thunders of applause.
Mr. J. BRANCKER was introduced. He said :—Fellow
townsmen, after the very excellent speech of our respected
friend, Dr. Blackburn, you will, I am sure, quite agree with
me, that the less I say the better.—(Laughter and cheers).
I shall, therefore, confine myself to heartily recommending to
nu the motion which he has proposed, and in seconding it
mvself,—(Cheers.)
'R. SUFIC, Esq., having addressed the meeting at consider-
able length,
Mr.' CROOKIC read the memorial, embodying the previous
resolutions.

The memprie was adopted, and the meeting separated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

- -
PORTSMOUTH, NOV. :30.—The Athol troop-ship, on her
way to Jamaica, with royal artillery, is at Spithead, to have
a few defects made good, and some additional scuttles cut, to
give more air and light on the lower deck. She will be finished
to- morrow, and sail on Tuesday.
The Trincomalee, a teak 42-gun frigate, cut down and
altered to a 26-gun ship, was floated out of dock yesterday,
and will be fitted for commission without delay. She is to
be armed with four 68-pounders on the main deck ; two 82
pounders on the upper-deck, and the other 20 guns will be
32-pounders. The alterations made in her construction have
been the suggestion of Mr. Corry, the secretary to the Ad-
miralty. She retains the bow of the Leda and Juno class,
and appears a fine vessel.
The 'Wanderer, 16, and the Childers, 16, have put into
dock to repair, and be got ready for commission.
The Railer, screw •steamer' is in dock to have a great hole
cut through the after part of her frame, to admit of her screw
propeller being unshipped when necessary, and hoisted upon
deck. The place will resemble the well of a fishing yawl,
and is to be lined with copper. Much trouble and delay
will be saved by this method of getting at the propeller,
when it requires inspection, or repair, as now it must be re-
moved from the outside, and got up over the vessel's quarter.
By simply having a rope made fast to the main boom, it can
be hoisted on deck- with ease. The Rattler is, if possible, to
be got ready for sea by Saturday next, but to what part of
the globe she is to be sent is at present all rumour and con-
-cture.

The scourge, mortar steamer, has entered a few men, and
her officers being appointed, she will commence rigging and
fitting next week. It is expected that the 56-pounder gun,
which she has in at present, will be exchanged for a 10 inch
84-pounder, and two carronades added.
The Fairy yacht continues daily trips to Cowes to receive
the commands of her Majesty. The Commander-in-Chief had
the honour of dining at Osborne House on Friday. He was
the only guest, except the usual dinner party. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert has expressed his intention to come
to the dockyard some day this week to inspect- the royal
apartments in the Admiralty-house.
NAVAL RETIREMENT.—The extended time for the captains
of the navy to send in their names for acceptance of the
offer of the Admiralty to retire upon the increased allowance
of ss. 6d. per diem, with other advantages, expires this day.
It is confidently reported among naval people that 280 cap-
tains have accepted it. If so, there is little doubt but the
measure will be carried out. A few days must determine the
business, as those officers who have signified their wyshes
to the Admiralty must receive official notice, either
that
their names have been placed on a retired list,
t of
contemplated plan cannot be effected. The numberto reduce
offi-
cers on the Admiral's list is 154, and it is inten
n the death of
it by promoting one captain to that rank o
three admirals. or lat the

PROMOTIONS.
to
101 mboer e ,atcot
acting
Reid,Hospital on board the Minden -* , lee
Deputy Inspector of the
Dr. Wilson. D. P Whipple,to the rank of Surgeon
Assistant-Surgeon--
and a )pointed to the Agincourt.
Clerk—Wm. G. Parminter, to be Paymaster and Purser.
om
APPOINTMENTS.
Retired Rs u'ertigr
Surgeon—J.
Retired
Commandern . mm
r Commander d eorf ol fBflrl6B. 3 0:
Agincourt,
uh
ryt
Commanders—James Crawford Caffin, to Scourge; Jas.
Richard Dacres, to Nimrod.
Lieutenants—E. It. H. Proctor, to command Harpy; A. C.
May, to Alarm ; Augustus F. Webster, and A. S. Boot, to
Endymion ; Thomas, to be Agent on board the Pa-
linurus transport; A. Wordon, and E. H. H. D'Aeth, to
Scourge ; 111. Nolloth, to Bittern ; W. P. Priest, and W. H.
Stewart, to Grampus; Frederick A. Boyce, and Edward Hill,
to Nimrod ; Peter A. Halkett, to Stromboli ; and W. T.
Turner, to Crocodile; H. T. Lave, to Endymion ; N. N.
L. Lockyer, to Bittern.
Masters—George Collier to Scourge, John Dillon to
Alecto.

Pursers—J. F. Russell to Grampus,,:ir.,,, A." 'Haile to
Scourge.
_ Surgeons—Richard Butler andlt T. Rogers to Star, Dr.
R. Browning to Grampus,,,.j. J-Crawfbrd to Bittern, Gsorge
D;Maelaren to Joseph Somes convict ship, James Osborne
(a) to Berretta Junior convict ship,
Clerks, in Charge—W. F. Maturin to Sparrow, Charles
Barnes to Lizard.