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      England with two divisions of 50 , 000 men each . I , or < l Palmerston had said not a man would go back alive , but there was an experienced general present who would lell them that without organisation they would against such a force be as butter against steel . Such an invading force would march in two lines . against Lcwlon , and nothing could prevent t hem . Their arsenals were all ill defended . Mr . Ferguson , one of the Commissioners , had told him so , and therefore he ( Mr . Rose ) told them again that the nation was in imminent peril .. They might as well compare the ton of iron in the ore to the

      wondrous powers of the steam-engine as to endeavour to cope with disciplined troops ' solely by the aid of the undisciplined valour of the country . The bounty had produced no seamen , while , thanks to the conscription , in fourteen days there were ten thousand men in to aid the French ships . Let them not trust to Louis Napoleon . On the 1 st December , 1852 , Charra ? , Lamoriciere . and Cavaignac were sleeping quietly in their beds , and on the 2 nd they were all in prison , and France was an empire . Louis Napoleon did it aP , and did they doubt the probability of his attempting a similar coup-de-main with regard to this country ?

      At a Volunteers' dinner at the London Tavern , ¦ Mr , Roupei . l , M . P ., referred to the approaching campaign of Parliament , which he believed would be as keenly contested as that lately concluded on the plains of Lombardy . In regard to measures , he hoped that in the name of Reform we should not only have a change but a measure of true and beneficial reform . In relation to our foreign politics , he wished that England had no foreign policy . We had entered a European Congress now at the wish of

      one man , but he hoped that our representatives would even yet withdraw from it before they in any way implicated the interests of the country . We wished to be conciliatory , but not to truckle to any man . In . voting the estimates it should be our desire not to give way to undue parsimony , but to endeavour to unite economy with efficient means-of national defence , and to check every symptom of extravagance and waste . The people did not wish such parsimony , they * wished to maintain the defence of the country .

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      IRELAND . The Irish papers announce the death of Mr . Terence Dolan , Clerk of the Crown for Tyrone , which took place suddenly on Monday . The vacant post is said to be worth upwards ut . £ 700 pur annum . The public will remember the memorial of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastics of Ireland relative to the educational question , in which a demand was made for a separate grant , on account of unfairness as respects the school teaching . Nor will it be forgotten that f . ilsc rumours were i > ublished as to

      the answer of the Government , transmitted through Mr . Cardwcll . The Government finds itself , indeed , placed in a great difficulty by this memorial , as much will depend upon their answer when a party division has to taite place in the House of Commons . There is a now rumour on the subject . It is that Mr . Qirdwoll sUtcs that the present system of education in Ireland , must be maintained ; but that Government will " entertain any suggestions for its more efficient application to the circumstances of tho country . " Jf that be so , we may we'll take it that the liormn clergy will regard the answer as evasive .

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      NAVAL . VXD MILITARY . The new screw steamship Hood , of 90 guns and GOO horse-power ( nominal ) , at Shcernoss , now in tho fitting basin , has had her masts and bowsprits stepped , aivl the seamen riggers of the 3 ard , with tho supernumeraries from tho sleam ^ ordinary and stoam reserve , are busily engaged rigging her , to get her ready for immediate service The first division of tho steam dospatch vessels and gunboats ut Slioorness arc fully equipped and ready for immediate service . Tho new screw steam frigate Ariadne , 2 G guns , of 800 horse-power , nominal , Captain Vansittart ( now at moorings off Folly Point , lit tho river Modwuy ) , is ordered to tret her armament ,

      ammunition , nnd sea-ijoiiiK storos on hoard with all possible despatch ; her compasses will bo adjusted at bhoorness , and she is forthwith to proceed on a trial trip when fully equipped for sou . The Frieiulof India of Nov .

      officers were only too glad to be rid . Few in England can understand the intense crave for home which has seized every soldier in India , local and line alike . The men with whom we have spoken , from the intelligent and well educated non-commissioned officer to the most boorish lout of a' raw recruit , describe life here as intense misery . Action would attract them . Volunteering / for the campaign merely would have secured half the force at least now on its way home . But to ask men in a careless way to

      re-enlist for ten years , with all past service and all past services ignored , and for £ 5 bounty , with no manifestation of tact , no alluring appeal , no encouraging words , is to court : a refusal in . any circumstances . In her Majesty's regiments alone , now that the order prohibiting the purchase of discharge is withdrawn , forty-six men of all classes up to the sergeant-major , and off all terms of service , have lately paid sums ranging from £ 5 to £ 30 , and amounting in all to . £ 800 , for their discharge .

      A letter from St . Petersburg of the 3 rd instant , mentions that Count Mourawieff-Amorski , Governor-General of Siberia , has paid a visit to Jeddo , the capital of Japan , with a squadron composed of twelve vessels of the Russian Imperial navy , —viz ., the frigate Askold , bearing the Governor ' s flag ; the corvettes liinda , Gridene , Waiewada , Nowik , Baiarine ; clippers Plastonne , Djignitte , Opzitchnik ; transports Yaponez , Wostok , and the steam corvette Amerika . It is added , that so large a foreign fleet was never before seen at the capital of Japan , and that it produced a profound sensation there .

      A slaver , without name or colour , captured a short time back by her Majesty's ship Spitfire , Capt . Chapman , at Jacknel , in the neighbourhood of Lagos , has arrived in Sierra Leone , in charge of a prize crew ; at the time of her seizure she had on board 469 slaves , the whole of whom had been shipped on board the evening previous in the . short space of one hour and a half . Her entire length is 110 feet ; breadth , 26 feet 6 inches . Her hold was large and capacious ; the slaves , consequently , had far more room , than is usually the case in vessels of this description . The passage , up to Sierra Leone occupied thirty-five days , during wliich time she lost seven of themlanding 462 .

      , A correspondent of a contemporary writes of the struggle going oil in Africa : — " The superiority of the Spanish infantry over the Moors is considered by those officers I have spoken with to be most satisfactorily established . The advance Of a body of the former is the signal for t'ie immediate retreat of their swarthy toes . Yesterday two battalions advanced against a mass of Moors , advantageously posted , but the si . ^ lit of the bayonets was enough , and their thrust was not waited lor . If the question could be brought to the arbitrament of a battle in tho plain ,

      and ' with Sufficient Spanish cavalry to make head against the Moorish horsemen , whom the Ceutans describe as exceedingly numerous , brave , and during , General O'Donnell might hope to gain a great and decisive victory ; but here , unions ; the mountain * , the warfare is as vet desultory , and the JJoors , although they have , once or twice shown themselves forward enough in attack , have their retreat pretty secure when they ditem themselves in danger , or consider that they have sufficiently harassed their eileinv . "

      Sir Charles Shaw writes of a new destructive instrument of war inPnissU : —" Misinformation as to this engine is still very vague , ltd powers are said to be so great and so terrible that the Koyal Prussian Commission recommended that it should not bo brought into iwe . This of course is humbug if war breaks out . It is called a lurbtne , said to have the range and correctness of tho Armstrong , and when it has attained the object aimed at , then commences its terrible power . ' I have no doubt that there is suuh an instrument . I see in one Dictionary that Turbine is a sort of pulpit , from which we know much yood or evil may be spread fur and wide . " He adds with respect to the Vo unfn « r « — "Tho Croat obieet of the Brttisli Kino

      Volunteers is to become good shots . They must attempt to be personally active , and havo their bodies so supplo that they can easily fall into the position from which their rilles will have most eliVct . Lot them not lorgot that tho long rungo has made a revolution in tho art of war , and that " tho best shot is tho best soldier . " "L ' urmo do precision osfc la proteotrieo dos nutionulito ' s . " An AdiMirulfy order hns been issued respecting corporal punishment , suggested by tho recent order ot the Cummandor-Jn-CJik ' f about Hogging in tho army Tho object ia the siuno , to relax tho flogging aystoin in the sister service . For tho future soamou and marines are to bo divided into un upper and isturnn « in . « s . uunordlnir to ohuructcr , tho lower mnK

      to bo supplied from thoso in tho higher who mlsboliuvo themselves . Iu ulna * flrsc , none shall bo aubioot to corporal punishment , except by sentence ot court-murthU s nor in tho soooud , except tor nggra-JS XnouBwhlch are nmnod . Yet in the ioqqiiU ctassiraen may bo flowed without tho judgment oi a

      court , which means punishment without , evidence of guilt and the forms of la \ r . Floggin g in the navy is thus a good deal relaxed , but by no means to such , an extent as to justify the abandonment of any agitation that may be contemplated relative to the system . The screw line-of-battle ship Donegal , 101 , got up steam at Portland on Tuesday morning , and left the harbour , steering to the eastward . The Royal Albert , 131 , is expected to leave Portland in a few days for one of the dockyards to effect repairs . The other vessels in port are—the Algiers , 91 ; the Aboukir , 91 ; the Trafalgar , 91 ; the Mars , 80 ; the Blenheim , 60 ; the Mersey , 40 ; the Diadem , 32 ; the Fawn , 17 ; the Partridge , 6 ; and the Biter gunboat .

      The launch took place at Portsmouth on Tuesday , of the Duncan , 101 guns on two decks . This vessel was laid down on the 27 th of April , 1857 , and has been built from designs furnished from the office of the Surveyor of the Navy , Admiral Sir B . WV Walker , K . C . B ., under the superintendence of Mr .- Abethell , the master-builder of Portsmouth 3 ard , and , like the Victoria three-decker , launched from theshedadjoiningon the 12 th ult ., hasbtenbuilt from her original designs as a steam line-of-battle ship . On the platform from which the ceremony of christening the ship was performed , were the Surveyor of the Xavy , Sir B . W . Walker , K . C . B . ; Admiral \ V . Bowles , C . B ., Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane , Captain the Hon . Joseph Penman , Messrs . R . Harris , C . F . Ilillyar , G . Hancock , &c , with the officers of the Prussian men-of-war in the harbour .

      Mrs . Farquhar , the wife of the gallant flag captain of the Commander-in-Cliief , performed the . ceremony of naming the Duncan , and the shipwrights immediately commenced splitting a-way the blocks , the last of which was no sooner released than the noble ship , without any recourse being had to " screw " or " hydraulic , " which Bad been placed in position for service , if required , started on her way , and , amid the plaudits of the assembled crowds , glided nobly and grandly without Check of any kind into the water . Her port bower , as soon as , she was clear of the shed , stopped her further progress astern , and the launch was complete .

      The Globe says that Sir Henry Somerset has com ; pleted his period of service as Commander-in-Chief of the troops in the Bombay Presidency , and Generals Beresford and Craigie are about resigning their divisional commands in the Madras Presidency for a similar reason . It is also settled that Sir Hugh Itose succeeds Lord Clyde in the chief command , and that Sir William Mansfield becomes Commander-in-Chief at Bombay , in the room of Sir Henry Somerset , the office of chief of the staff being abolished . It is also probable that M .-ijor-G-eneral Maeolm , C . B ., and Major-General Spencer , C . B ., -will succeed Major-Generais Beresford and Craigie in tho Madras commands , and that Major-General Cunynjjhame , C . B ., will proceed to the Bombay command , now held by Sir Huyh Rose .

      The screw steamship lidgar , 91 , Captain James A . Katon , will Lc out of the hands of the dockyard artisans at Devon port about the 17 th inst . B :: o took on board her powder on Tuesday . A correspondent of the Times says : — "Tho Medwav is last filling up , and at no very distant period Chatham will be almost worthless as a dockyard ; the banks are being wusho . I away in many places at the rate ' of from 0 ft . to 1-2 ft . per annum , and the bod of the river is becoming so shallow , that , ou the 9 th of November lust year , it was found impossible for the Cressy ( an 80-gun ship ; to proceed up the river to Chatham . This process is steadily going on evory year , while the Government ) arc laving out vast sums of money in new stcam-basnis

      and docks , soon to become utterly useless , it is eight years since this danger was pointed out to the Admiralty ; scarcely iinything lias been done , and every year makes tho remedy more oxponsivo . The greatest possible activity is visible in all parts of Portsmouth Dockyard . Tho two lino-of-battlo ships nearly complete lor launching—tho l ' rince ot Wales , 181 , three-decker , and the Royal Frederick , oi two-doukcx * —havo every available hand cmnloyo . l upon them to complete them within the stipulated bo launched the latter

      time i the former vessel will end of next month . A number of workmen nro already engaged In laying down the keol of the Itoynl Alfred 191 , two-decker , in tho shed under which tho Victoria was built , and an improved 01 gun frigate rtho Dryad ) will bo commenced at oncu In the shodfrom which tho Duncan , 101 , was launched on Tuesday last . Tho Sutlej , In No . I ) dock , converting from a Bailing to a steam frigate , is ; nearly complete in her otitsido planking . The Kinaldo , 17 sorow , building in tho easternmost dock , in fast upnrouoUlng completion , and has w

      large number of hivuds employed upon nor . a no Glasgow ' , 51 , screw , has also u largo number of hand * working upon her , anJ , having only been laid down since tho launch of the Baoohunto frigate , 1 ms made wonderful progress in that short time . I ho

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      No / 508 . Dec . 17 , 1859- ] . \ , ' '¦ ¦ T H E LE A D E R . 1361

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 1361, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2325/page/5/