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si\Friday ~~ | 43|°° 7| 2 35;'9 18 24 | 16\Saturday | 44) 5/4 819 59 21 | 17\Sunday | 46) 4 5 1710 36 17} 1s\Monday | 47/ 1 6 3311 11) 14 | 19 Tuesday | 48/559 7 4911 39) 11] 20,Wean'sd’y| 50), 57 8 54M 7} 21,Thursday | 51) 55:10 17,0 13 4 | 22) Friday 63) 5311 29 0 52 0) 23/Saturday | 54; 51/A 36 1 2911 57} 24 Sunday 54; 49' 1 24123 15 55 | 25\Monday | 56{ 48) 2 23/3 6 2] 26;Tuesday | 57) 46 $ 4:4 7 49 27, Wedn'sd’y; 69 44 3 345 14 45 | 28,Thursday (6 0| 42,3 59 6 34 42) Friday | 1) 40,4 19|7 38 39 | 30 Saturday | 2:5 38/4 84 8 2e)11 36) j i | i i PRICES CURRENT. Ch’town, August 29, 1876.

BREADSTUFFS.

Buckwheat Flour, per tb Flour, per bb!

Flour, per 100 Ibs Oatmeal, per 100 Ibs

FISH.

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3.50 to 4.00

3.50 to 5.00 4.87 to 6.49 0.48 to 0.72

Codiish per qtl

Ierring per bb!

Mackerel per doz. BOARDS.

Hemlock, 100 feet. 0.81 to 0.94

Pine do 1.62 to 2.40 | Spruce do 0.97 to 1.30 | Shingles, per M. 1.50 to 1.75 |

POULTRY. | $0.40 to 0.60 | 0.25 to 0.30 | 0.25 to 0.35 | 0.00 to 0.00 | 0 80 to 1.75 | 0.00 to 0.00 MEAT. $.08 to 0.16 | 0.06 to 0.10 | 0.10 to 0.12 | 0.60 to 0.00 | 0.06 to 0.10 0.06 to 0.11 | 0.08 to 0.12 | 0.00 to 0.00 |

Chickens, per pair Ducks, (each) Fowls. (each) Partridges, (each) Turkeys, (each) Geese (each)

Beef, (small pieces) per Ib seef. per lb (by the quarter) Ham, per Ib

Lam), per quarier

Lamb, per Ib

Mutton, per Ib

Pork (smal! pieces ) per ib Pork, per lb (by the carcass) Veal, per Ib 0.03 to 0.08

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Apples per bushel

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Butter (fresh) per Ib

Butter per Ib by the tub

Calfskins, per Ib

Cheese (new milk) per Ib

Cheese, per Ib

Clover seed, per Ib

Eggs, per doz.

Green Peas,

Hay, per ton

Hides, per |b. 0.04 to 0.44

Honey, per lb. 0.25 to 0.32

Homespun, (men’s wear)per yd. 0.65 t« 1,00

Homespun, (women’s do)per yd 0.35 to 0-48

Homespun Flannel, per yard 0.31 to 0.46

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Oats, per bushe. 0.50 to 0.60 Dtatoes, per bushel 0.25 to 0.30

Pear} Barley, per ib 0.08 to 0.04

Sheepskins 0.30 to 0.40

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9ol, per lb 0.17 to 0.25

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‘** Why does the east wiad always complain? Because he is married to the rain.

* Why is the north wind’s breath so strong? He has wrestled with icebergs fierce and ong.

“Why is the south wind’s step so light? Ought of a sleeping land in flight.

‘““Why is the west wind’s touch’aflame ? Out of a sunset cloud he came.”

Lying under asummer tree,

This is what Zephyr sang to me.

Zephyr, with flattering words and low, Tells but half of the truth I know.

Four great boys in an ancient hall,

They grew up thinking their will was all. Sweet Mother Nature, the dearest dame— I fear her softness is much to blame— Loyely and quiet, year out year in,

Her soft white blankets she sits tospin! Rose-hued curtains and carpets green, Broidered cushions of satin sheea.

Her guests are bidden, her home is fair— Four wild rovers have entrance there. Never’s an bourso still and sweet

But may be broken by tramping feet.

But when from the ruin they turn away, Oh! who so gentle and blithe as they! They rock the cradles in tall tree-tops, They run with the dripping water-drops. Daintly courting, they sigh and pine

Round the flower ladies so pure and fine. Well they love pleasure, but mischief best, foo swiftand subtie and strong for rést. Up and down in the world they go,

And mock us with every voice we know. They pipe to the dreamers at even-song; They mourn to the watchers all night long.

Then down the chimney they shout and roar,

Shriek at the lattice and shake the door.

The old man sighing, repeateth still, ‘“* The will o’ the wind is boyhood’s win;”

The boy, with wondering, silent lips, Thinks of the sea and wafted ships;

And each in his dim heart longs to find Out of his world the way o’ the wind. _ —~ Cart Spencer, in Harpers Magazine for Seplember. LITERATURE. WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER 1X.—Continued.

As to the origin of the name of the place the reader is referred to the local antiquars ians, of whose acrid controversies the pre- sent writer is not competent to judge. The natural interpratation seems to be that some venerable thorn tree, having been ex- posed to much cval smoke, had become visibly blackened by it, and received the title of the sooty thorn; but this crude idea may be easily and triumphantly refuted. The town bore its present appelation, long before the fresh air of the valley was con- taminated by factory smoke. There was a theory that the origin of the name had been a seat in a large thorn tree, or seat i’ th’ thorn, thence Seatithorn, and by corruption, Sootythorn; but a powerful section of the local erudities contemptuously rejected thorn altogether, and contended that the final syllable was horn, which they proved by analogous instances, A punster declared that the whole question was a thorny one ; and, as we agree with him, we will leave it. The controversey was much envenomed in consequence of the two decided interpre- tations given by the artist who painted the new sign at the Thorn Inn, and who, not trusting, as he safely might have done, to the atmosphere of the place for the black- ening of his tree, painted it from the first of the intensest sable, foilage and all, not even diversifying that funeral hue with those reflections from neighbouring objects which, as painters affirm, do in nature modify and mitigate every colour in the universe.

Into the yard at this Thorn Inn now en- tered the Doctor’s gig. Mr. Garley, who kept the inn, and owned it, was a man of substance in more sense than one, and pers haps, with an appearance of great cordiality and freedom, one of the very proudest men in the whole place. There are many dif- ferent varities of pride, and Mr. Garley’s variety was perhaps as desirable as any. If, on the one hand, he was convinced that the Thorn was the best inn in Lancashire, if not in all England, at the same time he cer- tainly did his utmost to make it so. He loved good eating and every form of com.- fort, and treated his guests in every re- spect as he wished to be treated himself— a course of conduct which would have been the very relisation of at least one-half of the Christian ideal, if the motives of it had not been the love of reputation and the de- sire of gain. However, even Mr. Garley’s defects, his intense self.satisfaction and the love of good living, were to the advantage of his house,and therefore of everybody who frequented it; and our friend the doctor, who was by no means indifferent to a good dinner, always looked forward with pleasure to the flesh-pots at the Thorn, and was wel- comed by its proprietor as a man who props erly appreciated the advantages of his es-~ tablishment.

‘ Good morning, Dr. Bardley! good mor- You’ve brought the old lady with you this morning, I observe—I saw her getting down in the middle of the street ; it’s very kind of you;’ and then, with a knowing look anda wink, ‘If you would like to ask her to dine with you, you can have a private room, you know, sir.’

The doctor was quite accustomed to this sort of badgering, and rather liked it. But he put on a stern countenance, and said that he hadn’t brought Nanny Pickering to dine at the Thorn, ‘ because he didn’t ex- pect to find a dinner there good enough for her. However, when the militia was fairly agoing, he might perhaps ask her to dine at mess.’

‘ Colonel Stanburne’s expecting you, doc- tor; he’s in the front sitting room.’

The Colonel was sitting by himself with the ‘Times’ and a little black pipe.

‘Good morning, Dr. Bardly. You've a nice little piece of work before you. There are a lot of fellows here to be examined as to their physical constitution — fellows, you know, who aspire to the honor of serving in the Twentieth Regiment of Royal Lanca~ shire Militia.’

‘ Perhaps I'd better begin with the hoffi- cers,’ said the doctor,

The Colonel looked alarmed or affected to be so. ‘My dear doctor there is not the least necessity for examining oflicers—it isn’t customary ; it isn’t legal; officers are always perfect, both physically and morally. Their physical perfection is a consequence of their moral perfection, you know. They are never guilty of those unfortunate errors and vices which deteriorate the constitu-

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high and the picture of health, He broyght forth the fruits of good living, not as Mr. Garley did in a bloated and rubicund face, and protuberant corporation, but in that admirable balance of the whole human or- ganism which proves the regular and equal performance of all its functions, Dr. Bardly was a good judge of a man, and he had the same pleasure in looking at the Colonel that a foxhunter feels in contempluting a fine horse. Beyond this, he liked Colonel! Stanburne’s society, not precisely, perbaps,

there was little or nothing in common be~ tween the two—but because he found it a sort of mental refreshment, very pleasant to him after the society in Shayton. The Colonel was a different being—khe lived in a different world from the world of the Ogdensand their friends; and it amused and interested the doctor to see how this strange and rather admirable creature would conduct itself under the conditions of its present existence. The doctor, as the reader must already feel perfecty as- sured, had not the weakness of snobbish~ ness or parasitism in any form whatever; and if he liked to go to Wenderholme with the Colonel it was not because there was an Earl’s daughter there and the sacred odor of aristocracy about the place, but rather because he had genuine pleasure in the society of his friend, whether among the splendors of Wenderholme or in the parlor of the inn at Sootyhorn.

The Colonel too, liked the doctor though he laughed at him, and mimicked him to Lady Helena. The mimicry was not, hows ever, very successful, for the doctor’s Lan- cashire dialect was too pure and too per- fect for any ultramontane (that is, creature living beyond the hill that guarded the Shayton valley) to imitate with any approx- imation to success, If the Colonel, how- ever, notwithstanding all his study and effort, could not succeed in imitating the doctor’s happy selection of expressions and purity of style, he could at any rate give him a nickname—so he called him Hoftens, not to his face, but to Lady Helena at home, and to the adjutant, and io one or two other people who knew him, and the nickname became popular: and after a while the officers called Dr. Bardly Hoftens to his face,which he took with perfect good nature. The first time that this took place, the doctor (such was the delicacy of his ear) believed he detected something unusual in the way an impudent ensign pronounced the word often, and asked what he meant, on which the adjutant interposed and said: ‘Don't mind his impudence doctor; he is mimicking you.’ ‘ Well,’ said the doctor, simply, ‘I wasn’t aware that there was any. thing peculiar in my pronounciation of the word, but people hoftens are unawares of their defects.’ But we anticipate.

The modest muse requests that the cure tain may fall whilst our friends is examin» ing the recruits. The British militiaman, when clothed in that superfine cloth—the perfection of whose scarlet dye is the glory of our country and the envy of foreigners— presents, no doubt, an appearance at once dignified and imposing; but the mass of aspirants as the doctor sees them, in a state of Adamite nudity, offer little to delight lovers of physical beauty, and still less to gratify the feelings of those true patriots whose patriotism consists rather in the des sire to improve the condition of his coun- trymen than in blindly boasting in that it does not need improvement. It has been remarked that the animal creation lives, on the whole, in acondition of wonderful cleanliness. The plumage of birds, the fur of qnadrupeds, and especially the bril- liant iridesent armour of the insect tribes, though each creature has its appointed par- asites, are nevertheless kept wonderfully free from all accumulations of consolidated filth. The one dirty animal is man—and how dirty he is nobody can know or imagine unless, like the doctor, he has been called upon to inspect the people when divested of those coverings which are at the same time the veil of their impurity and its cause, If they wore no clothes, the rain of heaven would wash them; and the mire of the fresh earth changed every day, and removed by the first patch of wet grass they come across, or the first rivulet they waded, would be comparative cleanliness, But we protect ourselves against the natus ral cleansers, and if we will not use the artificial ones we become the nastiest creas tures of God. The doctor, who was not particularly squeamish, acknowledged,after this inspection, that he felt disgusted ; and in his conversation with the Colonel he sugs gested that so soon as he found himself at the head of the new regiment the best thing he could do with it would be to march it into some large pond or river, having previously provided every man with three.penny worth of soap.

They lunched at the Thorn with the ad~ jutant,a fair-haired and delicate looking little gentleman of exceedingly mild and quiet manners, whose acquaintance the doctor had made very recently, Captain Eureton had retired a year or two before from the regular army, and was now living in the neighborhood of Sootyhorn with his old mother whom he loved with all his heart. He had never married, and now there was little probability of his ever marrying. The people of Sootyhorn would have set him down as a milksop if he had not seen a good deal of active service in India and at the Cape; but a soldier who has been baptised in the fire of the battles field has always that fact in his favor, and has little need to give himself airs of bold« ness in order to impose upon the imagina~ tion of vivilians, People used to talk of ‘little Eureton’ in a manner which implied that they did not think very much of him ; and a man who prefers the society of his old mother in the evenings to that of all the wits of Sootyhorn assembled round Mr. Garley’s billard table can scarcely expect to be very popular in that locality. But the fact remained that this little Eureton had been in scenes far surpassing in the sub- iimity ot danger any in which the Sooty- horn civilians had taken part; and in this respect his experience was superior to even that of Colonel Hollinthrope, a neighboring gentleman who had been in the war but seen no active service. So, notwithstand~ ing Captain Eureton’s quiet ways, the people of Sootyhorn accorded hima certain consideration ; and the boys at the Gram-

mar school looked upon him with deep re- spect and awe, for on one occasion, when he had asked for a holiday, the head mas- ter made a speech, and enumerated all

Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—6m

tion of privates,’

for intellectual reasons—-for, intellectually, |

‘I believe, Dr, Bardly,’ said. Eureton,

from Colonel Stanburne. He was six feet ‘that we ara going to have an officer from |

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| commission.’

| * Yes, he’s a neighbour of miue,’ answer. ed the doctor, rather curtly.

| your neighbourhood, a Mr+ Ogden.

| § You should have brought hin with you doctor,’ said Colonel Stanburne, ‘ that we

might make his acquaintance.

oe afternoon.

I've never seen him, you know, and he gets bis commission on your recom. |mendation, I should like, as far as pos. i sible, to know the officers personally be~ What Tell us all

| for we meet for our first training. | sort of a fellow is Mr, Ogden? about him,’

The doctor felt slightly embarrassed, and showed it in his manner. Any true deserip- tion of Isaac Ogden, as he was just then must necessarily seem very unfavorable. The reader will remember that Dr. Bardly had been to Twistle that very morning be- fore daylight, and had found Mr. Ogden suffering from the effect of a fall down the cellar steps ina state of drunkenness; The doctor had that day abandoned all hope of reclaiming Isaac Ogden and saying him from the fate ihat awaited him. He had had too much experience of drunkards not to be able to distinguish between those stages of the habit in which reform is still possible and those stages in which it is not possible; and he had made up his mind to leave Mr. Ogden to kill himself in his own way. Mr, Ogden was a friend of his, and he was sorry for him; but he was also rath- er angry at him, and did not deeply pity him. The road to destruction that Mr. Ogden was following was so much frequents ed by the inhabitants of Shayton that it seemed their regular turnpike to the grave ; and if the doctor had felt deeply moved about every acquaintance of his who went that way his mind would have been in a chronic state of profound emotion altoge~ ther incompatible with his duties, and even with his intellectual health,

‘I've nothing good to tell of Mr. Ogden, Colonei Stanburne. I wish I hadn’t recom~ mended him to you, He’s an irreclaim~ able drunkard !’

‘Well, if you'd known it you wouldn't have recommended him, of course. You found it out since, I suppose. You must try and persuade him to resign. Tell him there’ll be some awfully hard work, especi- ally for lieutenants.’

‘I knew that he drank occasionally, but I believed that it was because he had no body to talk to except a drunken set at the Red Lion at Shayton. I thought that if he came into the regiment it would do him good, by bringing him into more society. There’s a great difference between Shayton and Sootythorn.’

‘ What sort of a man is he in other re- spects ?’ asked the Colonel.

‘ He’s right enough for everything else. He is a good looking fellow, tall, and well built; and he used to be pleasant and good- tempered, but now his nervous system must be shattered, and I would not answer for him.’

‘If you still think he would have suffici- ent control over himself to keep sober for a month we might try him, and see whether we cannot do him some good, Perhaps, as you thought, it’s only want of society that drives him to amuse himself by drinking. Upon my word, 1 think I should take to drinking myself if I lived all the year round in such a place as Sootythorn—and I sup- pose Shayton’s no better.’

There was a good old custom amongst the storytellers of the East, by which, having narrated a series of events in the direct manner, they narrated them all over again through the mouth of one of their drama- lis persone, Thus we might repeat through the mouth of the doctor the whole story of Mr. Isaac Ogden’s life, with an accurate ac~ count of his present position with reference to his friends and relations, telling all about his mother and his brother and _ his little boy, and concluding with a minute descrip- tion of his singular hermitage at Twistle Farm. This would be in the highest degree convenient to the writer, who whenever he felt rather more lazy and stupid than usual, might look back over the pages already in existence, and by their help succeeded in producing his diurnal quantum of ‘ copy.’ But as it may be doubted whether the mod.~ dern reader would be so tolerant of this practice as his prototypes, the audience of the storytellers of Bagdad or old Cairo, we are compelled, however reluctantly, to re- frain from it, and simply to observe that the doctor's account of Shayton and the Ogs dens need not be reported here, because it contained nothing with which the reader is not already acquainted.

Captain Eureton, who was simple and even abstemious in his way of living, and whose appetite had not been sharpened like that of the doctor by a drive of nine miles in company with Nanny Pickering, finished his lunch in about ten minutes, gnd excus- ed himself on the plea that he had an ap- pointment with a joiner about the orderly room, which had formerly been an infant school of some Dissenting persuasion, and therefore required remoddelling as to its interior fittings. We shall see more of him in due time, but for the present must leave him to the tranquil happiness of diversing desks and pigeon-holes in company with Mr. Bettison, an intelligent joiner at Sooty- thorn, than which few occupations can be more delightful.

‘Perhaps, unless you’ve something to detain you at Sootyhorn, doctor, we should do well to leave here as early as possible. It's a long drive to Wenderholme—twenty miles, you know; and J always make ita point of giving the horses a short rest at Rigton.’

As the doctor had nothing to do at Sootyhorn, the Col. ordered his equippage. When he drove alone, he always preferred a tandem, but when Lady Helena accom- panied him he took his seat in a submissive matrimonial manner in the family carriage. As Wenderholme was so far from Sooty~ thorn, the Colonel kept two pairs of horses, and one of them was generally at Wender- holme and the other in Mr. Garley’s stable, where the Colonel had a groom of his own permanently. The only inconvenience of this arrangement was that the same horses had to duty in the tandem and the carri- age; but they did it on the whole fairly well, and the Colonel contented himself with the carriage horses so far as driving was concerned.

The doctor drove his own gig with that

tice of many years; but he had never un-

He might | have gone on with us to Wenderholme this |

| when John Stanburne took the reins, and they set off at full trot through the streets of Sootythorn, that particular stage of its developement, is one of the most awkward of all possible places to drive in—the same street varies so much in»preadth that you never can tell _ whether there will be room enough to pass | when you get around the corner; and there are alarming noises of many kinds—the roar of a cotton mill in the street itself, or the wonderfully loud hum of a foundry, or the incessant clattering hammering strokes of a boiler making establishment, which excite and bewildera nervous horse, till, if manageable at all, he is manageable only with the utmost delicacy and care, As Colonel Stanburne seemed to have quite enough to do to soothe and restrain his leader, the doctor said nothing till they got clear of the last street; but once out on the broad turnpike or Yorkshire Road, the Colonel gave his team more freedom, and himself relaxed from the rigid accuracy of seat he had hitherto maintained. He then turned to the doctor and began to talk, To be Continued, —_—_—————————e

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DON CARLOS.

THE PRINCE AGGRIEVED AT THE CONDUCT OF SPANISH EMISARIES,

A New York despatch of Aug. 25 says :-— On, Friday last Inspector Thorne, of the Police Department called on Judge Kas- mire and represented that Don Carlos, who was stopping at the Windsor hotel, wanted his protection from a band of organized and armed men who were in the habit of follow. him wherever he went, The Judge decid- ed to go to the hotel to ascertain exactly the nature of Don Carlos’ complaint. On arriving there Don Carlos refused to make an aflidayit implicating any one, although the persons by whom he was shadowed were known to him even by name through the potice, and it was suspected that they were agents of the Spanish Government, but their purpose was a mystery. The Prince was not afraid of any personal encounter, he said to the Judge, but these parties evi. dently had no good intentions towards him. ie could not leave his hotel for a moment unless two or more of these emissaries were at his heels, and if he went out ina carriage they also followed in a carriage, He was an- noyed beyond expression at this continued surveillance, and he asked that he might be protected and accorded the same free~ dom that any ordinary person travelling for his Own amusement was entitled to at the hands of the Government. Judge Kasmire said that he should receive what he des manded, and wished to know if the Prince was ready to make complaints against any of the parties who were annoying him. By advice of his friends, who were Americans, Don Carlos said he was not ready to enter formal complaints against any person. It was then arranged that the whole mat» ter should be left in the hands of Inspector Thorne, and that he should give to the Prince that protection he was entitled to as an ordinary gentleman by arresting anys one who in future might annoy him in any manner.

A A I

MILITARY POSITION

OF FRANCE,

A German officer, who has visited all the principal stations of France, gives a very favourable account in the Cologne Gazette of the military prospects of the country, The writer says that the progress since last year in all branches of the service is very great. The want of an eflicient reserve is being rapidly and completely supplied, numbers of half-pay officers volunteering for terri~ torial service. The physique of the men is admirable, and there is not the slightest difficulty in obtaining recruits, all political parties being agreed in the necessity of this reserve force. The clergy use all their ins fluence in support of this institution, which they regard as the future champion of the Chureh. ‘The priests in France do more to induce the people to perform their mili- tary duties than can be done by all the magistrates and gendarmes in Prussia.’ In the regular army the most important re, form introduced by the present Minister of War is the removal of inefficient officers and the thorough training of cadets, for which large schools have been formed,which, by 1880, will yield a sufficient supply of of-

| ficers for the whole army. In France,as well

as Germany, great difficulty is experienced in retaining good non-commissioned officers. Formerly many served additional terms as substitutes, realizing little fortunes during 20 or 25 years’ service; now very few res main longer than they are compelled to, as the great industrial revival of France offers better prospects in civil life. Drills are frequent and arduous, manoeuvring is taught on larger scales, and the army is kept in constant movement. Ina few years France will have 606 battalions of infantry ready for the field, and a reserve of 145 regiments forming the territorialarmy. Barracks are healthy and spacious, the men get two ex- cellent hot meals daily, and have better boots and more comfortable clothing than the German soldiers. Tie French field artillery has 2,508 guns, while Austria has only 1,152; Russia, 2,304; Germany, 1,656. The weakest point of the French army is the cavalry.

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ADDITIONS TO THE ENGLISH NAVY.

While all sorts of blunders seem to be committed and all sorts of accidents seem to happen in connection with the English navy, the work of adding to its num- ber and strength still goes steadily on, and the English taxpayer has still the satisfac» tion of knowing that the Admiralty has something to show for his money. During the second quarter of this year four vessels were added to the navy, all of them iron vessels, as a matter of course, and two of them vessels of enormous size and power. Two smaller vessels, the “ Penguin” and

ernment at private yards, the former at Glasgow and the latter at Hull. The two large vessels are the “ Inflexible” and the ‘¢ Temeraire,’’ the former an enormous tur. tet ship, carrying four guus, of a size cor- responding with t of the ship, with | two screws and engines to work them of 8,000 horse power, and of a tonnage at,- | 406) about half that of the ‘ Great Eastern,’ /and the latter an armour plated vessel, | carrying § guns, with engines as powerful | as those of the ‘ Inflexible,’ and a displaces

degree of skill which results from the prac- ment of 8.412 tons. If the Admirality do | occasion.

not succeed in sinking or blowing her up,

Captain Eureton’s battles—and the list, it | dertaken the government of a tandem, and | this second ‘ Temerarie’ ought to prove no must be admitted, was @ considerable one. | felt, perhaps, a slight shade of anxiety | unworthy successor of the old ‘fighting

A manufacturing town, in |

the “‘ Turquoise,” were built forthe Gov |

| Temeraire’ we used to read about when we were younger, But the ships launched during the second quarter of the year form but a small portion /of the additions to the navy in progress |during that period. ‘two more doubles | screw, iron plated ships of over 8,000 tons, and carrying four each of the monster can- | non now deemed necessary for the equip~ | ment of such vessels, were ‘laid down’ for construction during the same period at | Chatham and Pembroke respectively. A | 10. gun, double-screw, steel despatch ves- | sel, to be appropriately named the Mercury, is also under construction at Pembroke, while no less than twelve gunboats were contracted for by private firms of ship- builders, and are being constructed in pri- vate shipyards at Glasgow, Hull, Barrow-in- Furness, and Jarrow-on-I'yne,