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second class mount twenty-two guns, and those of the
third class mount the numt:3r of guns that they are
rated. The brigs and schooners rated ten, mount
from twelve to fourteen guns, and those marked with-
out any rate, mount from one to six. The two
small steamers mount four guns, and the Missouri
and Mississippi, each mount eight sixty-eight
pounders on their quarter-decks, and two 120 pound-
ers forward, all Paixham guns. Two of the steam-
ships mount eight, and the third six guns.
Persons unacquainted with naval affairs would most
probably imagine, from the rates, that Caere were ac-
tually but 2,044 guns in our navy, whereas there are
about double that number.

The United States frigate Savannah, on the stocks
at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, is now undergoing re-
pairs, and preparations are about to be made for
launching her. This is a first-class frigate, and will,
it is anticipated, prove herself an ornament to Ameri-
can naval architecture.

The brig of war Dolphin, belonging to the Home
Squadron, will sail in a few days on a cruise, to assist
vessels in distress off the coast.

There is a fine brig-of-war on the stocks, at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, which will be ready for sea in
the ensuing spring.
The United States steamer Missouri will make a
trial trip down the bay in the course of the week. Her
engine has already been tried, as she lies alongside
the wharf, and found to answer all expectations.
The sloop-of-war Ontario will sail shortly for New
Orleans, to become the receiving ship of that station

COLOSSAL METROPOLITAN
MUSIC-HALL.

Mr. Hansom, the well-known architect of the
Birmingham Town-hall, built by him mainly
with reference to musical purposes, delivered a
lecture last week, in Store-street, expla-
planatory of the above project, and the means
to be adopted towards its accomplishment. This
project is not a mere splendid: architectural
hypothesis invented by Mr. Hansom, to amuse or
astonish, but one which has its origin in the de-
mand occasioned by the advancement and ex-
tension of music among the million. Mr. Joseph
Mainzer, a foreigner, has lately- spread, in an
almost magic manner, a wide and deep love,
among the lower classes for this science. Thou-
sands of minds, hitherto rude and. unhurnauized,
have been subjugated by the spells of sound;
and Mr. Mainzer's clear, ..precise, and harmo-
nious system, has won to him, in air unprece-
dented manner, crowds of voluntary learners
and hearers. Six months alone have brought
five thousand under his superintendence, and
the first time that the necessity of a larger
music-hall than any yet constructed, appeared
last December, when, at the first union of all
the metropolitan classes, no hall capable of con-
taining so large a number of singers and per-
formers, with a correlative proportion of hearers,
was anywhere obtainable. A hall half as
large again as Westminster Hall, •or nearly
twice and a half larger than eitl-Afer Exeter
Hall or the Birmingham Town HA!, has now
become an absolute requitision, and tk to same sa-
gacity which discovered this first nee essity, has
as speedily led to adoptive measures for its exe-
cution. To the feasibity of Mr. Hamg on's plans,
there can be no diffidence ; the fabr is lie pro-
poses to raise, as a temple to our Erti ;ash Poly-
hymnia, however apparently immense may at
first appear its dimensions, is not of magnitude
or grandeur greater than demanded, seeing that
her shrines are already planted in th 43 hearts of
a numerous people, whose new wants, improved
pleasures, and moral condition, call f.oudly and
peremptorily for the same. Guided by rule and
measure,
The proposed Colossal Music Hall will ex-
ceed in every respect that of Bir. mingham.
Its form is to be a square of 150 fee t, and its
height 120 feet. The Birmingham Ball is 140
feet long, 65 feet high, and 65 feet wide, and
contains in area 9,100 feet. Exeter Hall is not
so long, but wider, and contains in area 9,956.
Westminster Hall, the noblest apartmeat in Eng-
land, if not in the world, is 238 feet long, and 63
feet wide, thus containing an area of 16,184 feet;
but the proposed music hall, being a :;quare of
150 feet, will contain in area of 22,500 feet—that
is, it will be half as large again as We stminster
Hall, and nearly twice and a half larger than
either Birmingham or Exeter Hall! In height,
however, it will greatly surpass any one of the
three above-mentioned buildings; in fact, it will
be as high again as their average heights.
It is always desirable to dispense with pillars in
the interior of a music hall. But then, as such
buildings should be large in area, and lofty in
height, the difficulty arises as to the means of
supporting the roof. The architect of the pro-
posed music hall, availing himself of the use of
iron, and of the advance of the mechanic arts,
has discovered the means of erecting a flat, and
almost imperishable suspension roof, the prin-
ciple of whic.ll has been fully tested, and by which
he will be enabled to erect his building at a sum
not greater, comparatively speaking, than the
roof alone, upon the old principle, would amount
to. The Colossal Music Hall will accommodate
about 20,000 persons standing, and 'between
7,000 and 8,000 sitting. The design for the organ,
which we have seen, and which has bet:m pro-
nounced perfectly practicable by one of .the first
organ-builders of the day, 'presents to the view
a forest of pipes, and forms the crown, as it
were of the orchestra, which will arise in an in-
clined plane, arranged with terrace-like I )latforms
and parapets, accommodating 2,000 or 3,000
vocal and instrumental performers. The or-
chestra will he nearly 90 feet high at its summit,
and 150 feet in width. The organ will be about
70 feet high, descending in some parts and in-
corporating with the architectural arrangements
of the orchestra. It is intended to attactt to the
building a College of Music, to be supported by
the admission-fees to the periodical pe•rform-
ances in the ball, and by the money derived by
the letting of the room for great banque ts, and
other public purposes.
The form of the proposed building, ace ording
to the proportions fixed above, causes it to Issurne
a shape nearly spherical, and consequently the
best adapted to the reception of bodies of sound :
indeed, we could propose to Mr. Hansom to
observe this principle to a greater extent in other
particulars. Knowino•, concaves and curved re-
cesses to be essentially the best recipien ts and
retainers of sound, the architect should he re put
himself in alliance with acoustic principles, and,
at the same time that a dome-shaped roof should
unequivocally be adopted, angularity of corners
should be avoided, and as much of spericity or ro-
tund form everywhere bad in vogue. When it is
considered that the cost of this colossal and national
fabric is fixed only at 30,0001., at a day when
80,0001. are expended upon royal stables, and
that ground lies ready for the purpose, it would
be shame if the sympathies or encouragement
of the age were to act the laggard. The new-
awakened spell of music is sliding into the souls
of thousands, harping amid the bosom chords,
and attaining to a beautiful, because gentle,
humanity, the feelings of incalculable numbers,
who heretofore were hard of disposition and in-
corrigible, or, perhaps, reprobate of nature. It
is one of those agencies in the present age
which, with almost an apostolic power, is
purifying and moralising the natures of men
and women, and those who have listened
to the choral exercises performed by up-
wards of' five hundred of Mr. Mainzer's male
and female pupils—the propriety of their vocal
enunciation—the strength of harmony and per-
fect accordance which they preserved—could not
but discover a degree of cultivation and suscep-
tibility to the refinements of melody virtually
surprising. The " Pueri Habrceorum," a chorus
fitted for Priests and. Levites, the gravitone pas-
sage of "Flowers wherefore do ye bloom," and
the hearty hilarity of "Contentment," gave
abundant token of great vocal masteries that
will be achieved hereafter. Independently as
Mr. Mainzer is proceeding towards the consum-
mation of his great desire, the erection of a
fitting hall for his increasing numbers, by apply-
ing to that purpose the proceeds of his own
musical exhibitions, his present plan ought to be
known universally through the medium of the
press. When being known, it is certain that
the philanthropic and high-minded of the land
will aid his endeavours, and. thereby render
moral and elevated, vast bodies of society, by
assisting with their contributions and personal
co-operation.

The only article of importance in the Madrid Jour-
nals of the 14th inst. is a circular from the Minister of
Justice, in the Madrid Gazette, with reference to the
dispute with the Court of Rome. The circular says :--
4 The Government knows that these fruitless attempts
have for object to excite Spaniards to fail in the obe-
dience which, according to the Gospel, pastors and con-
gregations owe to the constituted authorities, with the
manifest intention of favouring the pretensions of the
I rebel Don Carlos—of rendering null the existing laws
which, by the sale of national property, have created new
interests, and of condemning all doctrines contrary to
nterests of the Court of Rome, which, whilst it re-
ceivesour money for granting apostolic favours, accuses
the
of impiety the majority of Spaniards, and seeks to alarm
their con,:cience." The circular then goes on to say
that, although the Regent feels convinced that the Pre-
lates of the Established Church will not obey orders
from any foreign authority, he thinks it right to desire
all diocesan Bishops who may receive apostolic letters of
the 22d ult., plemary indulgences, immediately to for-
ward them to the Minister of Grace and Justice, and to
pay no attention to the injunctions contained in them.
The Hamburgh Correspondent states that, during
1841, 586 vessels entered the port of Odessa, and 503 quitted
t. The exports amounted to 10,783,466 roubles, and the
imports to 5,545,643.

(%lEET!NG AT THE CROWN AlO
ANCHOR TAVERN,

TIIE PROPOSED ALTERATION IN TIM . iARIII,
s anliournetterl
menA boot
noon, at two o'clock, in the large room of the:Osteyrn::
shoemakers meeting
was of
heldthe
omnassitveerd
uesd
ay
al
..i
Anchor Tavern, to take into consideration;
,12;,,
bert Peel's- proposed reduction of the duty
.gS, t_wi:octif
manufactured boots and shoes.
.Long POot.q.n: roe
named for the commencement of the buSinest,_.
_Ol,
was thronged, and when the Chairman:. teak his Int,
there could not have been less than 2,000 persetlqrehieg
Air. THOMAS LAIDLAW toojc the Chair, anti "03
so he congratulated himself on seeing so nuederr
swage
respectable a meeting around him. He was. us'eekiilins. 01l
that there was a deep-felt anxiety and strong /..s:_eonel
the subject that had called them together. which
01
give thorn a short history of the subject itac es
a ilh
• gentle.
bbruotu
igellivtrtehnelmarkt(s)gaeft.theerrw,
aarndtst,haessltthoeurled tzreuhle thueuirabe7
resolutions, all of which would be spoken te VI
men well calculated to do justice to the subject.
..,_
its
were called there that da to
posed alteration in the dnty °e:nsifd°ere igtti.de7pb‘r)°jetedts
and shoes. He could see, from the deep anxiety which
on each countenance, the intense feeling .f. al. :TA' an'
existed amongst them. lie would, before
_ft.irly cow:
other word, tell them that that meeting was e„.'"'heibrancb
posed of boot and shoemakers. There Was 117chai upon
of the leather trade present. The Presetlassetsl Wa:
foreign boots and shoes imported into this
foreign 13-;
4s. ed. a pair, and the duty upon shoesOf.a by' he ,
nufacture was 2s. per pair. The alteration P°l7ol3oots e`
Majesty's Government was to reduce the. dins...oskieg
foreign manufacture to 2s. ld., and shoeSetssoless thll,
the duty on shoes only one-half, and 91141,4 sit thha`
one-half. There was one thing that .stlt.ritilin--tthee
amount—and he was sure it must strike be be ir 43;e.
vast importance this alteration ',l4°otif bogt and
immense number engaged in the tnk'e were 00 '",i shoe-
making in London and its suburbs. There ;" wean' di g
26,000 or 30,000 persons engaged in Lentlen;ooo dern g°ll
snaking, and there was no less a number than iterolopiabsteto
upon them for their daily bread. Now when Of 1d .tbetftgA ov
an important branch of trade was contemplate '• ifeWir'ss.
look to the state of the trade at that moment' .4:Olsen .0-0 f
peal to all present, and ask them if they-0140, oleo,
tamed more than half employment ?—( Hear's", one then,' be
"No, no.") He was sure that•there was n''..hit, :itee,t'ao
could contradict that.—( Hear,
ands of the consequence of reducing this brands oi 7" Whit l'sossi
troducing more foreign-made boots and shoes. gd'thelrotto
I throw thousands out of employment. nes 11,lio- ssatts
obtain their object peaceably and quietly, or -e-noosieSs-tsiit
that they. were assembled there not to create osrg of
make friends—friends that would help theOL° tett tot
object—and he had no hesitation in s!P,"!".vis". Ss
would be able to carry out that dee". It eeSes be
the duty on boots and shoes should remain
ss,l"tegs-r.ser
begged of them to give every speaker a fair 11,...m"'• ote'so;
would recommendthens not to introduce any ezr;ii otissli Jun
and above all things to introduce no political eultat no r- 04
had promised him upon their honour and word that f
should be introduced.—( Here there was soteess, vioalis,Vir
cries of " No, no.") He would tell them that tw'sasaol ',stall
obtain their object if they did. He had great eo,e'', team
1 honour and integrity, and he was well aware ws" thet r. to
never deceive him, or he would never have takenia Der-
( Hear, hear)—and if they stood by him they 0°
reor
carry their object.
„die ints,a4
Mr. GRIEVE, of Bond-street, rose to propos' --, sriat•-tari
tion. That numerous meeting convinced him of tue.'d do
of
that was felt respecting the proposed alteration.. ter r of
In order that there might be no mistake, ;lint 110 s
mission of the Chairman he would read si 014
the proposed new tariff which related to bee-the . ',siss
The Hon. Gentleman then read that part of , oC.
tariff to the meeting. There could be no differenfeast c, to
on the proposed alteration, and that the ruin of a et;f4 score
tion of the trade would be the result. ge.ntestritsser
those in that room, and ask them if they do %ow; eV/
great difficulty in contending with the foreign .r,
under the present system of duties? He, therefli s -
them, what the results must be other than ruin so nsl
sates,
He had that confidence in them that he was sure
_A tf
„tee
ings of that day would be conducted with gen..olo"- .
decorum. He begged to conclude by reading. w".,oovor
" That this meeting, composed of masters and Jen,l-01_ Jr
gaged in the manufacture of boots and shoe', vie de,
siderable anxiety and alarm the tariff as prol°74 ffirett
jesty's Government, on the importation of boots "",e to ;
lieving the proposed duties to be totally inadetlll- ' evil
the British manufacture."
Mr. SHIPPAN seconded the resolution. At the saittb
that meeting would appear to be against free Usti"' air
appear strange and preposterous, for there we......s /1t aealtief
the name of free trade that told, them it was Wr Wse
able. But the circumstances of this country, under,l9,
laboured, would not admit of that principle being 0 S.
in practice. Look at England, with her eight h 0
.A 4,00
lions of debt, and look at France, with her two Y,a7berlssits
lions of debt ; but they had a greater number of 1e"..,1
pay that debt. Were they, then, in a position to cou'per'il
the Frenchman? About four years ago, in the Mee boft6
in London, in order to ascertain the best means 0 Is
a statistical inquiry was made into the state of t" f ionst
k
the Combination-laws. The result of that setijiTss
the average amount of wages was seventeet:i of
si
In°
and that was in one of the best sseS 'estrisat
year to the trade. Now if the proposed reduction' owe .11
into a law, thousands of our useful citizens would IT „,„,,,e, „
of employment. They would, therefore, percei,s,e_ves OF:to
of retaining the present protective dutY. It be7rehteseie
put it to her Majesty's 'Ministers the necessitt°
_...0 lir
present duty.—( Cheers.)
The 'resolution was then put and carried alas
only two hands being held up against it, amidst
“..A.lO i• 06 .01
Mr. Meissen/ rose to propose the next resoltia, 11011.
placed in a position in which he was afraid he ig to hiP.:...0
satisfaction to them, and he was sure he should o°,thaterrir
almost :401:Piocer!Oolio'
If he required any stronger argument than inP-aist,e)
that they were deeply interested in this quests,,o4-`tret
ment was the ;fleeting before him. —fr
,pialief;
He saw many brought together from etcifeirs°-
and at a great sacrifice of tinitkielesielillitter
that the subject was most essential to tfiessi` S jold.w",:t _ol_l-
- was two-fold—it called on the hornetriussa." l'oo,l•'anfferew
to aid them. Britain and her colonies fo' baser '-,. colonies
chine, wheel working within wheel. irthe_,744, theLole
Britain suffered;sand if this country was disk': 5" t. 67 pool
would also feel it. The export trade was iS,
..%;;§ of tr;he co:
condition, and he believed that the whole aistAttions,ess' "i-:se°
and shoemakers arose from the distressed '67„-.the",r'''',,s of!e
lonial trade. Great distress was prevailing "" jeckill'ee
West India possessions, and also in Canada' ' lor's.,"ites
house in the city of London which formerly, e -out any.4ot,
men in the export trade, and now their establishoo wate
ployed 180. This great depression in the ghost. begitfel
influence the home trade.—( Hear, hear.) It • out ts,"1•040"
the average wages of the shoemaker was 175.. fiodnotei
not take into consideration that the man had loss • oos,
grindery.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Many other ta bonier sf lit
in manufactories provided for them, but the .Itorentjasa
maker worked in his own apartment, and thus '1115740
workshop was added to his outlay for grinderti not se •• sr
these things into consideration, the wages vi°_,l° „,01 to
bid more than 14s. or los., and in some cases was rensn,eso -shiS
12s. ; and when they considered that those menu .pope
and children, and thus three persons had te s,soe de
scanty allowance, they would admit that this was foL--0 moo.
removed from absolute starvation. Thirty Year,',l-n oosriot
manufactured for nearly the whole of the world,
.1'
dLerlhe. Dhoti
many and France had risen to oppose
majority of those countries used articles of a coal's laid i$
and while Germany and France wore shoes, '100;-A
boots.—(Liiughter and cheers.) If this, red
stens
the tariff took place, many of our soanu,'lthef,_,, se
go over to France, and the 5001• anti'/''
to pay weekly for wages would be taken to that Tore,
thus would the English artisan be compelled to se bid lentiss
in a foreign country, while his own refused it ,i Thishicb
( Hear.) The resolution he had to propose sosSrose, II this
present depressed state of the home and export .
censeeoiog
has already suffered very considerably from variouSioootA ' 001,
til
meeting fully relies on her Majesty's Governrnents--,„, the '
such a scale of duties as will afford protection - - trsh
manufacturer." eat ge ilpfiri
Mr. DAVIS, of Gracechurch-street, said test; tbs- sis
talent had been brought to bear upon the subco ales-the
little was left for him to say. The exports to &Poe"' t ildAia
wathegesyeoarf
labourlts abmeoinuglitoendlytol7Bo6
Northamptonshire they were working
Mr. Bxwaow, a Chartist, then rose to prorne sneakerssid
ment, amidst th most deafening uproar. 1 ne:sttenfo4
immediately surrounded by several persons, and 'twit
.44
:h7engcLoautidllV:iss6cithui:trl'odsplass'w-eoollll'
to be thrust from the platform. A general resietfosio,7o,,
place, and in one moment the long tables on the 10°cene °ell',
covered with persons. All was now one general sto obtor
roar and confusion. The Chairman attempted
for the °P.
hearing, but he only made matters worse, - some 0r •
increased. Things continued in this state fordtho shoe
when the following resolutions were proposed in
effect of Sheer
" That it is the opinion ot this meeting the logs boots
posed tariff will be to throw out of emploYeeent o of
Wild
and of the operatives engaged in the manufacte:.
and shoes, particularly of the lighter qualiteiee
hieetio
I meeting, taking into consideration the price of the ;pion th,sesed
of life in this country, unanimously concur in °P'e not P' re''
the adoption of the present scale of duties they are
anufset_abe,
in such a position as to compete fairly with foreign nt pause
and to
and therefore earnestly call upon the Governoe° 0 to st
fore it enacts laws so prejudicial to their interests._ _seed 01
" That petitions founded on the resolutions aeSseters
ti,
this meeting, be presented to Parliament from the w•Fjob
men of the city of London,Westminster,ltlarylebosne"areelft;sk
Southwark, and the Tower Hamlets, distinct and eyh Toro a
" That a deputation of masters and men in 1a.!,..urp09,0,0
their
shall wait upon their several representatives, for the I" eared
entrusting such petitions for presentation, to explain
e 0"
and solicit their exertions in their behalf." ,
the uproar
_
While these resolutions were being react, ,
tot,'
tinued in all its violence. of thseltsst
Several personal conflie's took place in the bodywt.. "'ally ile
ing, in consequence of the riotous conduct of
_r, y
000
danerdedotshoemr
edwisboartdemrlayuCaghearabtilset,s,abuduttbthe
shoemakers carried a resolution to the effect that. a_sur;seet
s.
should wait upon her Majesty's Government an cart
err
them the injury the proposed reduction of the hist r''
boots and shoes would inflict upon the trade.
they cadre
avderuirnnuetVli

400 F
A • R
GISES —TRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE QUEEN'
fOll •
ENGLAND.—We are requested to state that th teens, of
volume of Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Qntegt
England," comprising the Queens of Henry day r
los. 6d., bound, with illustrations, is published this 001
Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and us pub'
be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn Thalo Psi
lished the followinor new works :-1. seconl
lame of Madame 'D'Arblay's Diary and Letter).--iiie
Lieutenant-Colonel Napier's Excursions alongo
Shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols., small 8v .11)
Madame de Sevigne and her Contemporari ta.
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the United States, 2 vols:, small Bvo.-7. Adveittlirer'4o-
- Actor, comprising a picture of the French Stage Tior
ring a period of fifty years, edited by .I}w" •
7
Hook, Esq., 2 vols., 16s. bound. ,
DANGEROUS CNSEQUENCES OF l'Ariol'qrae-
day or two ago Mary Ann Nicholson, about 35 year
the wife of a respectable mechanic, was brought in4.lCirea.,_cd-
star Hospital with dislocation of the jaw-bone on b0tb.007.,
the neck, which it appeared had suddenly occuired to hcf.,
short time previously, while indulging in the full luicury •
unequivocal yawn, on her awaking in the morniog• Wi to
siderable difficulty the joint was replaced on one side,
yesterday the other had not been effected.
The number of vessels at present engaged in torlie
French merchant service is 15,817, of which 133 amsl°6- to
ers, and 15,684 sailing vessels. Of these 25 are films of
500 tons ; 229 of 449 to 300 ; 1,898 of 299 to 100
99 to 60; 253 of b 9 to 60; and 10,827 below 30t0n5....: