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November 24, 1855.] THE LEADER. 1125
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NAVAL AND MILITABY NEWS. General Windham...
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THE PARIS EXHIBITION. The Moniteur of Sa...
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board the Virgin , which also carried the passengers and specie from California , -with the intention of capturing San Carlos . The occupants of the fort fired upon the steamer with cannon , and the expedition was abandoned , Colonel Fry being unwilling to risk the lives of the passengers . On the 23 d , the steamer conveying the outward-bound California passengera by the Star of the West was fired upon from the fort A 321 b . shot struck the boat , killing a lady and a child , and seriously injuring the machinery . Previous to this , an attack was made upon the returning Californians at Virgin Bay by the Government forces , when four pereons were killed and eight others seriously wounded . From four to five thousand men have been ordered by the Mexican Government to the northern frontiers to repel the Texan rangers ; and Vidaurri , the Commander-in-Chief on the Rio Q-rande , is at issue with the National Guards o £ Mataznoras about the latter
disarming . The financial troubles continue in the New York stock-market , where nearly every description of stock is being forced at reduced rates . The money market is atill very tight .
November 24, 1855.] The Leader. 1125
November 24 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 1125
Naval And Militaby News. General Windham...
NAVAL AND MILITABY NEWS . General Windham . —A special general meeting of the subscribers to the Windhaui Testimonial fund was held on Saturday last at the Sliire Hall Norwich , the Earl of Leicester in the chair . Upwards of £ 800 , it was announced , had been subscribed . Finally , it was agreed that a committee should be formed for carrying out the wishes of the subscribers , and the members were chosen out of the subscribers then present .
The Russian " Victoria a Prize . —On Sunday , the Russian schooner Victoria , of the burden of 220 tons ( new vessel ) , laden with timber and firewood , arrived at Sheerness in charge of Second master Mr . Frederick William Rea , of the Nile , ninety-one guns , screw steamship , Captain George R . Mundy , to which ship the Victoria is a prize . She was taken in Jtumpi Bay , Island of Biskopo , by the boats of the Nile , on the 20 th of September ( the anniversary of the battle of Alma ) . Her crew had abandoned her for some time before she was taken . She parted company with
the Nile on the 22 nd of October at Nargen . She arr ived at Faro Sound on the 25 th of October , and Elsinore on the second of November ; left Elsinore on the 4 th inst ., passed the Seaw on the 5 th , with a hearvy gale of wind , she was compelled to run for shelter into a small harbour , near Lillesand , on the coast of Norway , where she remained until the 13 tb , from stress of weather , on which day she left , with the wind E . S . E . and during the next twenty-four hours she ran 210 miles . She proved herself a firstclass vessel in every respect , either close-hauled , lying to , or running before tho wind . it Islof
The Martello Tower , off the Sp e Gram , erected by Messrs . Kirk and Parry , of Sleaford , Lincolnshire , is completed , and was on Saturday officially given up to the Ordnance authority at Sheerness . This tower has been nearly two years in erection , and is completed within the time specified by the Board of Ordnance . The peculiar construction of this tower gives it the facility of firing the guns ( which are to be of tho largest calibre ) on traversing centre pivots , so as to do execution in the fair-way of the rivers Thames and Medway . With the latter river , this tower forms a cross-fire with the Sheerness battery guns , sufficient to sink any ships attempting to paas . The tower is struck from seven different centres , in order to give stability to the assailable parts thereof . Tho average thicknoss of the dimensions
solid masonry is twelve feet . The outer are sixty-three feet by seventy-one feet ; underneath is a barrack-room capable of accommodating thirty gunners , and an officer ' s private room . The basement story contains the following rooms : —viz ., ordnance store , provision store , barrack store , regimental store , and magazine , tho latter being encased with an entire coat of asphalto . Tho whole of this basement is lined with nino-inch brickwork , all being within a twelvefoot wall of masonry . The estimated cost of this tower is about £ 14 , 000 exclusive of its foundation of piles , whioh support solid balks of timber , with York landipgs , being filled in to tho depth of six feet with cement . Tho extreme height of tho towov is forty - one feet six inches . From tho exposed situation of the tower , whioh ia subject to tho sea aud weather , great difficulties "were exporioncod during tho winter months in proceeding with tho work .
The Guiding Stau . —Tho last advicon from Melbourne , up to tho 30 th of August , brinx no tidings of the nrrival of tho Guiding Star , which loft Liverpool for that port on tho 9 th of Janunry lust . She tad , inoluding officers and crow , nearly five hundred portions on board—mon , women , and childron . Sho waa spoken by the Boaton Imrk Kato , Captain Hastings , in lat . 10 . 6 S ., long . 38 . 48 W ., and Iioh never alnco been heard of , and there is reason to approhond that she has foundered with ovory soul on board . The Ouiaing Star ia now posted at Lloyd ' a oh u missing nhip , a oourao not adopted until all hope of a vessel
turning up is nearly exhausted . She bad a miscellaneous cargo , which / with the ship , was insured for a large amount . Blown out to Sea . —The Rival , Captain Norris , from Maderia , arrived in the river , off the Customhouse , on Saturday , with the master , Mr . Ching , and two men on board , late of the schooner Diamond , of Swansea , which foundered off the Scilly Isles during the recent gale . The men give most shocking details of the sufferings they endured in an open boat , which was blown two hundred miles off the land , without the least food , for four days and nights . The Diamond was a small schooner , and was on her way from
Swansea to Southampton , when on the 29 th of last month , off the Scilly Isles , the wind blowing a strong gale from the E . N . E ., with a heavy tempestuous sea running , the vessel sprang a leak , and all efforts failed hi keeping the water down . All that night , the poor follows worked at the pumps . On the following day , the weather was , if possible , more violent ; the sea kept sweeping over the vessel , and the water reached up to the cabin floor , flooding the provision chests . It being observed that the schooner was fast sinking , the crow , consisting of the master , Mr . Ching , Davis , the mate , Hughes , a seamen , and an apprentice boy named Perry , took to the boat , and left her some five miles to the westward of Scilly on the afternoon of
30 th ult . They were unable to place the least food or water in the boat , and some clothing-, which they had managed to scramble up , and take -with them , they were compelled to throw out of the boat to lighten her , and prevent her from sinking , the fearful sea which was raging every now and then filling her . The schooner foundered shortly af ter slie was abandoned , and the men , with three oars , pulled the boat's head to the sea , so as to avoid getting athwart and being capsized . The gale had the effect of blowing them off the land , out into the Western Ocean . The same stormy weather prevailed all that night ; and the next day , the 31 st . ult ., not a sail could be discerned , and the boat was being drifted further out .
Cold and hunger now began to tell upon them , and the apprentice boy , through drinking salt water , became delirious . Night again set in , with no moderation in the weather . The men kept to the oars , but their Strength was fast failing them . A bark was observed some distance off , but she did not see them , and kept on her course . On the 1 st of November , there was still the strong N . E . gale , with heavy sea ; not a sail was near , and the men were prepared for the worst fate . They were gradually sinking , aud , in the evening , death put an end to the sufferings of the lad . Night brought no difference in the weather , the poor fellowa getting exhausted fell asleep at their oars , which were washed away by the sea which was running . On the 2 nd , the gale and sea had somewhat abated , but the lengthened exposure of the unfortunate men and the want of nourishment had already had its effect , and they were weak and delirious .
Providentially , however , about two o ' clock in the afternoon the Dutch East Indiaman NoorwartB , Captain Buo , from Amsterdam to Calcutta , saw the boat and immediately bore down to it . Lines were then secured round the exhausted men , and they were hauled up on board the ship , wliere they received the greatest kindness . The body of the apprentice was also got on board , and , being secured in the usual way , was committed to tho deep . On the 6 th the Rival , which had been short of provisions and bore towards the Dutch bark for relief , was fallen in with , when the three men , with a bountiful supply of meat , biscuit , vegetables , water , and even spirits , were put on board for conveyance to England . The boat was picked up two hundred miles to tho westward of Scilly . The men expressed themsolves in terms of deep gratitude for tLo humane treatment which they received on board the Dutchman .
The Land Transport Conrs . —Several of tho disorderly members of tho Land Transport Corps have been tried at Horfield-barrocks , near Brifltol , and sentenced to various terms of punishment . On Friday week , a private named Reid , convicted of desertion and insubordination , suffered his soutonce of fifty lashes , in prosonco of all tho men at tho barracks . A strong picket is now sent nightly to the Bristol central police-station to aid tho civil authorities in maintaining order among tho men who nro billeted iu tho city . _ . it had
Failure ov an Exmsiiimkntal Gun . —As become known that an experimental gun of very peculiar construction was to bo proved at tho Iloyal Arsenal butt at Woolwich , on Monday morning , a number of Bcioutific gentloinen connected with inotal foundries , nnd otherw interested in tho result of tho experiment , wero in attendance at one I ' . M . Tho proof was conducted by Colonel Wilmot , Suporin tendon t of Royal Gun Factories ; Captain Vandoleur , Instructor of Artillery ; and Homo ofnoora of the proof and other department * . Tho gun was a sixty-oight pounder , modo of cast stool , and manufactured by Mosura . Krupp , of Es » on , in Prussia , for Captain Crouao , Royal Engineers , whoao brother was ltkowise pronent at the trial . It was auppoaod to bo tine largest piece of caat stool over manufacture 1 , and weighs between
three and four tons . A chemise , or outward covering of cast-iron , had been made ' for it by Messrs . Walker , which brought its weight up to nine tons . The proof charge was twenty-five pounds of gunpowder , one wad , and one of the projectiles made by the inventors , and intended for service with the gun . This sliot was of a conical shape , about two feet in length , " weighing two hunred weight , one quarter , and seven pounds . The quantity of powder used was less than tlie proofcharge of an ordinary sixty-eight pounder by three pounds . At the first discharge , the gun burst , scattering the fragments high into the air , large pieces flying in various directions , the muzzle portion going forward with the shot several yards ; tho shot took the proper direction , and was embedded in tbe sand butt . The sensation at the result was very great , as some supposed it capable of resisting any amount of powder . Its declared value was £ 1 , 500 . Drumming out Three Officers . —The three officers
of the German Legion who recently deserted , and one of whom has been charged with embezzlement , have been " drummed out " with all the usual marks of indignity . Aijjershott . — The wet weather of autumn has converted the ground of this camp into a perfect bog ; but huge ditches are being dug to cany off tbe water , and large quantities of gravel have been thrown down . A writer in the Times gives the following account of the present appearance of the camp : — " It can no
longer be disguised that Aldershott is a military town , improvised with public money for a population of 20 , 000 soldiers , built in the first instance like a Californian city of very flimsy materials , but destined , when occasion serves , to assume a more fixed and solid form . The North and South Camps have each their chapels and regimental schools . Separate quarters are provided , not only for the General in command , but for the Commander-in-Chief , the Minister for War , and the Queen . Her Majesty ' s hut palace is prettily situated on an eminence at some distance from the camp ,
but overlooking it , and the arrangements comprise stables , coach-houses , kitchen , and , in fact , every convenience for a continued residence on the spot . The culinary department derives an especial prominence from a stately chimney and a dexterous tunnel communicating with the royal apartments , so that participation in camp Jife may involve no -unnecessary hardships . In the permanent barracks which are to be erected , the married men are to have separate quarters from the single . There are to be day-rooms , libraries , and lavatories , covered spaces for drill in wet weather , and , we understand , a good general hospital , which is a great desideratum now . In noticing the existing state of Aldershott , we must not forget to mention the excellent , club-house erected for the accommodation of the officers by Mr . Stapleton , the wellknown winer- ' merchant .
The Paris Exhibition. The Moniteur Of Sa...
THE PARIS EXHIBITION . The Moniteur of Saturday publishes an Imperial decree containing the nominations in the Legion of Honour of the following British exhibitors : — " Commander of the Order . " Mr . Faraday ( London ) —for eminent services rendered to science . " Knights ob the Order . " Logan , President of the Geological Committee of Canada—for his remarkable geological map of that country , and the perils he encountered in the interest of ocieuce . " Lawes ( Rothamstead)— for important works on manure . , _ _ " William Fairbaim ( London ) , Corresponding Member of the French Institute , great builder—for employing sheet iron in public works . " Platt , son ., ( OldUam)—constructor of remarkable machinery for Hpinning cotton . " Lord Robhc , Director of the Observatory of Ireland . —for his astronomical works . " Airoy , Director of the Greenwich Observatory —• for his remarkable worka on geometry , natural philosophy , and agronomy . " lirott ( London)—for establishing tho eubmanno tolograph . " Tenant ( Glangow ) , director of the mo » t important manufactory of ohymical productions in Englandfor tho dincovory of tho application of chlorate oi limo _
. . - . " Dr . Niol Ai-nott ( London ) , phyHi « iantohorMajoHtj the Quoen of England—for Hcientifio workfl and tho invention of apparatus for warming apartinoiita aua ventilation . .., « Robert Napier ( London)—eminent h 1 iij » 1 » u «« ia « • ' Stophenson ( London ) , engineer—for groat woiKh of public utility . , . ., ( jroat w ^^^ ^ f ^ H ^ ! SHfe"i »^ -- ^ is = of a now » y » tom of fi » ldin S- - —
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 24, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24111855/page/9/
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