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THE IRON SHIP QUESTION. The loss of the ...
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The Arctic Expedition. Titk Vossels Inte...
Island . These cases -will be discharged by means of galvanic batteries supplied to the expedition for service in the Arctic regions . The Ordnance department have also supplied 300 whale rockets , weighing one and a-h & lf pounds each , and two superior-made rocket tubes for firing them by means of percussion locks and percussion quill tubes . One of Greener ' s harpoon guns , with percussion locks , has been mounted on the gunwale of the Assistance , and turns in any direction , being- fitted with . a swivel near the stern ' of the vessel . Photographic artists have been to Greenhithe for the purpose of taking portraits of the officers of Capt . Sir Edward Belcher ' s expedition , and they were taken under favourable circumstances by the photographic process . The officers of the Resolute , the North Star , the Intrepid , and the Pioneer , are also all to be taken b y the photographic process previous to their departure . The Admiralty
have ordered a Galotype apparatus for the Arctic ships . Dr . Domville , of the Resolute , takes charge of the instrument . Capt . Washington , R . N .. has visited the whole o £ the vessels of the squadron , having brought down , a box for the commanding officer of each . The contents of the boxes were six dozens of dolls , dressed by the ladies of "Woolwich , and intended as presents for the Esquimaux . Mr . and Mrs . Charles Ketth have , with great liberality and kindness , sent to the Arctic ships a quantity of theatrical dresses for the use of the theatre , which has always proved such a fertile and successful source of amusement in previous expeditions . The Basilisk steamer , under the command of Commander Gardiner , and tlie Desperate steamer , under the command of Lieutenant Stevens , have remained Beveral days at the Nore waiting to tow the Assistance and Resolute sailing vessels to the edge of the ice . N
A number of ladies have presented Captain Sir Edward Belcher with 22 handsome silk flags , and a number of worked articles for the comfort of the officers when in the Arctic Regions .
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The Iron Ship Question. The Loss Of The ...
THE IRON SHIP QUESTION . The loss of the Birkenliead has occasioned a controversy as to the safety of iron ships . Last week a correspondent of the Times -=- ' * Navigator" asked whether the JBirJcenhead was provided with watertight bulkheads ? This week "A Captain in the Royal Navy" answers the question : " I can answer that she was , and that , having been originally intended to carry a heavy armament ( as a ship of war ) , her talented and well-known builders—Messrs . laird—spared no Jroublo or expense in constructing her as strongly as iron could make her . _ " When she struck on the rock off Point Danger it appears that as soon as the foremost compartment filled , all that part of the vessel broke from the midship compartment ; that on this filling it broke from , the after one , jand in 20 minutes , in a fine night , and the sea so smooth as not to endanger her two overloaded cutters , did this large ship break into three pieces as if slie had been built of card-paper , sending 438 human beings to a horrible and sudden death .
" It appears from the loss of this ship and that of the Pasha in tho China Sea , that the so-called water-tight compartments arc useless ; that the destruction of these iron ships was so rapid as not to afford time for getting out thoir boats or resorting to many of tho usual means of saving life ; and that sheet-iron is unable to bear the weight of the ship when one compartment is full of water , immediately tearing away , in the case of the Hirlcenhead , and the ship sinking in . three separate pieces , " As iron ships are now much used as packets , their
apparent insecurity , as compared with those built of wood , seems to demand on the part of tho public a serious inquiry as to some moans of enabling tho former to hold together for a longer period when wrecked . I consider their weakness to bo caused by tho keel and frame being made of iron , and that if theso wore of wood , and threo courses of strong oak stringers usod to bind all togothor , tho desired object would bo obtained ; but probably at so increased a cost as to render tho differonco in prico between iron and wood ships but little in favour of tho iron .
" I boliovo that tho recent melancholy instances of tho rapid destruction of iron ships will , in tho event of any future occidonts , cause so immediate a rush to tho boats na to produoo a foarful struggle—tho panic will bo universal , and all discipline ! at an end . I hopo , th e refore , that out of tho froo discussion of this important subject some moans may bo doviaed for improving tho ntrongtb , of iron ships , and thereby giving the seagoing portion of tho public greater confidence in them . " « Ferrous" supplies a bit more information : — " Having lately laid down an iron steamer myself , I was
greatly surprised to find , that notwithstanding nho wan spooiliod by hor builders to bo provided with water-tight bulkheads , yet that hor hollow kool wan to fiirniHh an uninterrupted bil ^ o way from stom to 8 torn . On my roinon-Htrating with thorn on thosubjoct , and showing thorn that this trifling oininnion entirely doatroyod tho vuluo of tho bulkheads in that vory particular for which thoy aro , it HoomH , orronoounly considered by tho general pulilio to bo provided , tlioy aHJiurortino ( hat it was tho gonoml custom , and that I should hardly find any fillips afloat in which'tho bulkhoada woro what ( hoy purport to bo , water-tight . "
On tho ( ithor hand , wo huvo testimony to this effect , given l > y Mr . A . F . B . Crcrnzo , Chief-Surveyor of Lloyd ' s , boforo the Oomnrittoo on Army and Navy Estimates of 1848 : — •¦ Aro thoyo any points iii which , in your op inion , iron hat * an advantago ovor wood as a material lor building Hhipin P—It has , from tho boforo montionod reasoning , tho advantago of groator ligHfcnoHs' combined with fcha « am « quantit y of strength , or more strength combined with equal h g htnoas ; you may consequently build a bettor formed phip gf , fron ; you way tako advantago of ite
COinon a rock ; she knocked a hole in her was feet in length . I saw a letter from the commander to say he could walk in and out of it . In ten days ' she was repaired and fit for all purposes by the crew alone . That would have been perfectly impossible with a timber-built ship . The Nemesis ran upOri a rock off the Scilly Islands in going from Liverpool to Odessa ; she put into Portsmouth ; she had knocked a hole in her stem ; she was repaired at an expense of BOl ., though Mr * Laird had to send for the workmen from Liverpool to do so . " If a wooden vessel had struck in the same way , do you think she would have gone down ?—Decidedly so . "'
bottom that 12 parative lightness to build a ship of a better form . The expenses of the repair of iron is exceedingly trifling compared with the expense of the repair of woodj and the facilities for repair extraordinary . There are two or three remarkable instances of this on record . There is the Nemesis , one of the vessels of which I spoke , which went out to China . When she was passing round the Cape she encountered a gale of -wind , and she literally split down- ; she was run on shore and repaired by her crew in a very short space of time , and went to sea again , and they went with her straight to the China war . The Phlegefhon ran
The New York Truth-Teller Quotes The Fol...
The New York Truth-Teller quotes the following from one of its contemporaries : — "As we are going to press , we learn that orders have been issued for the release of the Irish state prisoners , Smith O'Brien , John Mitchell , and their companions ; subject , however , to the condition that they are not to set foot in the United Kingdom . " By advices received from Erzeroom , it appears that cholera has again broken put with , severity in Persia , where the pestilence commenced before its recent visit to this country and the rest of Europe . It has appeared at" Soouk Boolck , near Suleimanioh ; and it is also reported that typhus was raging at Tehran , as well as Tabreez . The local government , in a state of alarm , are _ taking measures to cleanse the city , in the hope of preventing it from visiting Erzeroom . There can be ho assurance that it will not spread and take its former course .
Ireland And Her Chronic "Symptoms." Repo...
IRELAND AND HER CHRONIC " SYMPTOMS . " Reports from all parts of Ireland all agree that there is not the least symptom of abatement in the outrusbing human tide ; on the contrary , the vessels clearing out direct ; , for . America , from .. JCurk ^ Ximerick , . Waterford , and otberports , are more numerous than at this time last spring ; numbers proceed by steam to Liverpool , to take shipping there . The remittances by the American mails , to families of the humbler classes , are very large in the aggregate , accompanied by encouraging representations of the prospects for the emigrants in the United States . The Qalvoay Mercwy gives the following account of a lottery , adopted by the labourers on the drainage works in that district , to afford the means of emigrating-: — " They aro paid fortnightly , and when the pay night arrives , about three hundred of them assemble and pay sixpence each into a general fund . A number of tickets , corresponding with the number of persona present , are then placed in a hat , and . on one of theso tho word America ' is written—all tho rest being blank . A _ ballot then takes place , and the lucky drawer of the prize ticket has his passage to America paid for him , and receives a small sum . to subsist him for some time after his landing there . " . The inexplicable mountain firea continue to blaze up in special districts : —
" Tho mountains in tho neighbourhood of Traleo , from Glounskoheon on to tho old Killarney road , have again presented quite a volcanic appearance . Over a apaco of several miles towards th o summit of that mountain chain the heather wns inablazo , presenting a beautiful spoctaclo . Tho Papa , in the county of Cork , and Drung Hill , in Ivoragh , woro also in a blaze , and the ensemble from thafc portion of tho Atlantic where the eye could take in a portion of each ( for tho blazo on the Traloo mountains was visible at its southern , side also ) must have been very imposing . All the mountains from Gastlomain to Inch have boon on firo during tho past week . "
Letters Prom Paris. [Fkom Oun Own Corres...
LETTERS PROM PARIS . [ Fkom oun own Correspondent . ] Lktteii XVII . Paris , Tuesday Evening , 20 th April , 1862 . The Roviow for tho grand ceremony of tho distribution of engles in to tako place on tho 10 th of May , and not on tho 6 th , as I had previously announced . Tho Bfch of May , however , lmd originally been fixed upon , aa
being tho anniversary of tho death of Napoleon . Hut it was afterwards thought rnoro piquant , at tho Elyseo , to have it on tho 10 th of May , that being precisely tho day on which , by tho terms " of tho Constitution of 1848 , tho President of tho Republic was to hnvo rereth'cd into private life . L . Bonaparte , who becomes Emperor , will ceaHo on that day to bo President . What more could thu Republicans desire ?
M . Bonaparte has completely thrown oft' tho mask j ho now advances oponly tovvarda tho long-covotod , object of his ambition . At the reception of tho officers of the National Guard , recently named by tho government , M . Vieyra , one of Louis Bonaparte ' s familiar * , and Chief of tho Staff of the National Guard , made a speech
fitted for the occasion , inwhich , after having said he relied upon their devotion to the Prince , he added that he hoped the National Guard in future would , never cry Five la MSforme , or Vvob la Itepubli que as the Republic was quite dead . * During the review on Easter Monday , General St Arnaud , the Minister at War , ¦ called out ' several times Vive I'ISmpereur , as though he had partaken of the extra allowance of brandy given to the soldiers . The General Magnan hearing him thus cry out , approached L . Bonaparte , and asked him if there was anything new on foot . « Why ?» said M . Bonaparte .- "
Because , " added the General , " I have just heard St . Arnaud calling out ¦ ¦ * Vive VEmpereur . ' " « ft may probably be that ? his tongue has been tamed , —la langue lui aura iowrne , " * drily rejoined the President . Here are some further symptoms of the Empire . There is to be a display of fireworks on the night of the 10 th of May , oh the heights of Chaillot , opposite the Champ de Mars , and I have been assured "by wellinformed persons , that orders have beeh given to prepare a design for a transparency * in which will be read
in letters of fire , TiveVEmpe ' reur , Officers * schalcos , to the number of 10 , 000 , have been ordered for the 10 th of May . At first , it had been arranged that an eagle only , was to figure upon them ; but since then , M . Rigal , the manufacturer in the rue du Temple , has received orders to place an Imperial crown above each eagle . A committee has been formed to organize and spread the petition movement , as mentioned in a previous letter , which is to be made to appear to represent the will of the French people . The committee is neither more nor less than the liate committee for
revising the Constitution , at the head of which figured M . de Turgotj now a minister j Koenigswarser , how a deputy ; De Montour ,. npw cTiefdwCaUnet of the Minister of the Interior , & c ., & c . To give you an idea of the means by which the Bonapartists have come into power ; wearing and casting aside first one disguise , and then another , observe , this same committee for the revision of the Constitution consisted of the men who formed the committee for procuring petitions for the dissolution of the Constituent Assembl y ^ organized a few days after * the election of L . Bonaparte to the presidency . The committee for procuring these petitions was but a new phase of the Bonapartist Electoral Committee of the 10 th of December , which was itself
but a transformation of the celebrated Societe de Decembristes , organized tinder some other name , so far back as the month of April , 1848 ; and whose members instigated the fatal barricades of June . Vishnu had ten incarnations ^ This is nothing to Bonapartism ; it has had at least a hundred . The Committee of the Empire , for some days past , has been doing its work with fabulous' activity . Millions of blank petition-forms are daily expedited to tho provinces . The Committee are in direct correspondence with the prefects , who have become the lnero instruments by which this job is to be accomplished . The petitions by this channel reach the villages , with orders to be presented for the signatures of the peasants . Would it not be surprising if , under such coercion , tho petitions were not speedily filled up P
Tho expectation of the Empire has brought out tho vultures ; they are casting lots for tho plunder . Old Jerome is to have four millions , Lucien Mumfc two millions , the Princess Camerata one million , and an equal proportion for each of tho other members of tho Bonaparte family . Preparations are already on foot for the fSte of tho 10 th of May . Tho workmen aro erecting p latforms in tho Champ de Mars , in front of the Ecole Militaire . There will bo five principal platforms . Tho one in tho centre will contain Louis Bonaparte , his ministers and staff . Tho two adjoining aro intended for the great
Bodies of tho State ; tho Council of State , the Senate and tho Legislative Chamber . Tho two outtudes aro for tho magistracy of Paris , and tho corps diplomatique . There will bo a number of other p latforms , destined for the persons who are to be invited ; including' tho distinguished foreigners in Paris . * . ** ? thousand English aro spoken of as having Hohoite " that favour . The entire army of Paris w » U w massed into tho Champ de Mars . Including t' » ° 24000 of tho now National Guard , tlioro will » m >" *¦* -JU « % S \ - » V >** */»* V AA \ J * ¥ Al Ikl / B AfM * mi A > -n % «•»— —• J — -. - _ tuo
ho loss jbhnn 75 , 000 men under arms . Besides army of " Paris , each regiment will bo represented « y deputation , consisting of tho colonel , two offlcovfl , tw Bertfcants , two corporals , and two private » oldl Jj ' Detachments from tho Cavalry School of Baumnr ,. » Zouaves , tho Foroign Logion , the battalions at Mfi « > tho CIuumxww d'Afriquo , and . tho Spalns , are to l » P » sent . Tho Arab ohiefs have aleo been invited to iu » ijt » tl » o ceremony . ThefSte will bo a military vorrion < wu Grai » d Civil Federation of 1700 . As on that ^ oc o" ^ * It is impoflfllMa to give an EnglUJ * oqu ) vftl « ttt tot J *' Bon . u . pwrfce'fl pun , — " la , Jumgw M < wra tourne .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041852/page/8/
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