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      HnJce man * woald 1 m altogether 38 £ 9 a . 24 . per year tb m ts * confcunuooai service , or entry for 1 ( K jesza , that sawafictfc sffo » suehv gnat inducement * for eutariof *» •¦¦¦» . fer ; * enabk * the seaman ; to anabeac * the * bnaefe •> Ma- profession which holds oat tho most « d > usiftgmu without risk of . disappointment . The xeenhttisnB For continuous service do not , Jiowever , preclud * the entry of seamen for the usual period-in . pftrtn » nlnr skips ; but all who enter can be / retained for five years , and in the latter catrStvill b&Meii by the annexed table tha * the w » ge » are leas . At the end of 1 (> years ? service—reckoning from 18 locteadtof ^ yesrs of age aa heretofbre ^ h * continuous « r > TW mili may , on discharge , M « eis » a pension of 6 d- *~ daf ar- 'Gt 4 a . Tier Taay : after To Tears' service . aMMum of so .

      ShSifiE * or t 2 C 4 a . per year ; and after 20 years' service , a tansum of from l < foi » to Is . 2 d . a ~ day ( average Is . ) or 18 £ <» r liSfcper } years Petty officers and leading seamenra pensions tmjproportibnalfy greater ; so that the man-of-war ' s man SkB ^ ais the ages -of 26 , 33 , and 3 & respectively have earned « MMj » n » aryJag from 9 fc 2 s . 8 d . to 491 . per yean according itjpybb . fating ^; and if called on to serve lit the flee ^ in tut «« £ . ¦« £ * an armunnent or war , ' he will receire bis pension iIa 4 dMfea to hispay ; and be wUlenjoy tabv / orlife f being at the same time at liberty to earn what be can in the merchant terrjee , or , any ether employment . ¦ The pension , after ,. 20 -ytiira-ffervice ii certain ; bat the pensions for 10 and 15 years ' ¦ aftS < i ' ¦ " in" ii iniilnTI at the discretion of the Adcniraltv : and

      tlrttirte be expected : that , with tbe inducements now offered ; tbl n&vr ^ iU never henceforth , want volunteers , the opnortiliiutyWnB occtt jfbrmaintaininjj a reserve of some thousands cRfcese short-Bacvicepension-nwn well skiUed in aaral duties ^ vfafa otiB&itica-toserve when oailed upon * should the neceatii ^ itnse / Diit at liberty to foltoir their lncUnatfan in all other jpspects . ' ? Let us now consider the naval victualling . It will ^ Bt ^ h y ' the Jcafe annexed , that it m most liberal ; and j&mgait measures liave lately been adopted by the Board of | Mintt 30 br to fiwore that the articles supplied shall be of gpod ^ qo anty ^ - ' ' ^^ fP&wftSfeaB at ^ &rfwff ^^ There BnaU Ite allowed to

      | TOnp | jeBBOn ; semng in her Majesty s navy tb * following « iw qn » titiuE » of provisions— -viz .,, biscuit , 8 b ., or soft btt « i ; lJIb . ; spirits , i rill ; fresh meat , lib ; vegetables . ||^ : p »^ gar ^ ljo « . ; chocolate ^ loz . ; tea , io ! 5 . TST-B . — -Naval tpTCOTandf secpnKfc-clitss boys < ue not anqwedjsplrits . : . ^ Wlb ^ fxejfiLoaeat and . vegetables cannofrbe issued : thera sball b « allowed in lieu thereof- ^ Salt pork , lib - peas * , 4 pint £ ^|^ l * l | e ^« e % n / . salt jfteef ; *»> . ; flour , >» , ; auet , p ^^« aymia ^ or rsisms , t | ozL- —every altenjat ^ day ; . ^ "f ^ W ^ pi ^ y ^^ ieilher feeeli or salt meatheisaued- ^ oat npli ^^ i ^ mijstard , ioz ., ; j ^ epper , ioz . ^ tinegar ,, Ijioti , ^|^| iQ ^ H |^ nair % . inan ^ i provisions are wel 3 cooked , and . AM ' ' 4 iM 0 ia % lt '« i >« mtci «* 1 # ' tiA zionvinf' nAnanmo Itib viMAmai ^ Wka V ** w » if cniinn % wiifcw t

      T ^ Tfi ( > i _ a * *¦»* r »> vjipmml ma j ^ fj . vwj 0 iu « J 9 f iu ^ c fc ^ ttaEajfor "Cbennu ; . BTthe saltineat boils : away , he has an extra , WEao | pncBi Ba -obtains clottiine of the beat description at ! ¦ ml ^ uampric e . toat it costs the Admiral ^; Jjis . herthing-^ UW ^ d ry ^^ clean , and comfortable ; his w 4 > rk light , as , egipiwejJ ' iwSOi . that of any other seaman . He has tie aid ^ jH ^^ trnct ^ ,, access to a library of nautical and other ^^ calculated to interest him j and amjle tune and Oftpjotfauttty , to improve -hla mind , and so qjaalify himaalf f ^ vp ^ glttwtum f » wajrrant-flfSeer ,, or even to . the highest &nki . r ^ fe * shaito of piise-iuQaey , haa been iacreased-j . and 'pi ^ RabalfUtioa is now so graduated , that men in tie l ^ berr Ta ^ ngs jreceive' proporaonably more Ihan the mv s ) Sued- ~ fk gnat Improvepieat . upon . the regulation that

      formerly exuted . Compensation is allowed for loss of 43 athe £ t > r effect * by alfipwreck or otherwise . If maimed or Jktrt , tbe man- « f-war a matt lae » gratuity or a pension--¦ According to circumstances—the best advice and attendance in sickness ^ and provision in Grecnwicli Hospital if 'Crippled or worn out . The children of a man-of-war ' s man 4 U » v « dncated in the schools of Greenwich Hospital , and receive , free of expense to him , a training which fits them ¦ for any : employcnent . He has sis . weeks' leave of absence vrfrenevcr his ship is paid off , wages and term for pension being ; . continued , and leave to go on shore from his shi p for -sbortor periods , at other times , whenever the nature of the Service will "permit . He is eligible for appointment to the ; coast-guard , , if one of those recommended by his « aptaJn for "fhis service vrh « n his ship is . paid off . or to

      become a rigger , or seaman-ngger m the dockyards . He ¦ aajp allot a portion of his wages for the support of his Crniily , with the full assurance of its being punctually paid , tffhich is not alvrays the case with his brother seaman in the merchant service , who cannot have the same s « ctuity for the punctual payment , of hia allotments , particularly where advices may not lave been received from his ship . The man > - «? f-war ' s man may also remit a portion pf bis pay . Notirithsrandiag ttie allotment , tJie man-of-war ' s man may rcteeita- 4 s » monthly the first six months , and 10 b .. monthly ' after jT 2 months , out of his pay , and 20 d . monthly if lie a ] pea not alfohi , whils- the nnevchant seaman has no claim for any portion of his wages until the termination of the

      voyage . * ' Now , there i » no craft or trade in which the artisan or labouring roaa can engage . in this or any othor country that possesses such advantages as I have enumerated , — where « . mas naajr , when in the prime of life , after a tew years'service , become possessed of an income sufficient to Tprovide a hoine- and ample maintenance for hia family when lie is absent and . following his calling , and where ho can , by good conduct , nearly double the amount of his pay and TenBioa . "

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      INDIA , CHINA , AUSTRALIA . ^ Fttu snmmary of the Overland Mail reached London "by telegraph yesterday . Tho latest dates are Hong Kong , December 27 j Ruimah , December 26 - Bombay , January 14 . India , —TLe steamer a * nt up the Peroiau Gulf for intelligence liad not returned to Bombay-Captain JUtter , the Deputy Commissioner at Frome haa heen assassinated . The st&iwner M *< 1 u «* i

      has been lost-betweeo > Pzoaa& and Meaday . A Dacoit chief bad aasembled 5000 men n « ar fosgbro . Hie garrisons at Moulmeia and Matabar have been apprehensivo of attacks . Th » Qavernctp-General arrived at Rangoon on th * 14 th of December , and left for Pronaey Madras' is threatened with famine . The rain * and crops- have failed . There - have been " grain riots in Mellore , and there will be a . great los » of revenue . The Nizams are dominant in Abada State , and the country is ovrerrun By predatory hordes . The aorth-west frontier is tranquiL Trade in India ha * improved . China . —CSanton and Nin ^ M > remain < juietj matters hav&xesuraed their u « nal coarse at Amoy . A large portion of Shanghai has bees burned' down , by the Imperialists ^ A portion of the rebel forces had proceeded nortbward , and had taken Teenthio , about ai ^ ity JBoilesr fjrom Pekin . In China , trade was dult The Eoroerorof Japan is dead , and the Court goes into mourning for the year , during which no embassies eao > l > e received . ^««< ra / ta .- ~ The colonial GaveEnment at , Sydney b ^ s been offitdally infornied that on the 24 th of September Adub : al Dea Pointes , French eonvaaader in the Paciftcj landed at Balade , i& New Caledonia ^ and took possjBtsbii of that ialaod and its dependents in the name of the French Emperor * $ The low of Captaia- Latter is a severe one . He was one of the most enterprising and able ofBcees in the British rainy olBunnah . 1

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      COSTINENTAX NOTES . Whbs we established & Paris correapoadence , two years ago , Paris was the centre of European , politics . It ia . so no longer i all ejes and all ears are turned to another and Qfotmib point of the horizon . France ha « visibly accepted tlhe Imperial regime . This acquiescence may be the result of apatfajr and indifierehce ^ or of itNidb lassitude which succeeds to the loss of illusions , and that prostration vbich is not rj $ oae . With many , no doubt , the impotent hatred of the power ; that degrades while it protect * is only

      ; equalled by-tfie fear of flying- to the unknown for i a change . The single fact we are concerned with at present is the acceptaoce of the existing Government by the French nation . Where is there any / evidence to iihe contrary ? If there be atry public spirit left in France , it points to distant camps as the field of it * expansion . In the capital as ia the departments there is quiet if not confLdence ^ and cold respect , if not enthusiasm , for the "Emperor . Acknowledging this state of feeling and opinion as & fact , it is not our business to snarl at the elected Chief of the French nation . ' It is not our business

      to propagate the industry of on dits and inuendoes , with which discarded statesmen and impossible factions seek to avenge the material comfort and tranquillity of subjugation . We hare little sympathy for tliat opposition which is incapable even of the dignity of defeat . Under existing circumstances , we have resolved to discontinue the series of Letters from Paris , which has now extended over two years . There is nothing special in Parisian news at present ; nothing that does not faiU into the domain of our daily contemporaries , except the -whispers and the slanders which belie the fitness of their authors for a nobler and freer almosphere .

      We shall continue , nevertheless , to give our readers the benefit of occasional private communications from the pen of one of our most distinguished confreres in the French press . These summaries will not take a form exclusively political . They will resume , as it were » eveiy phase , of Fceuch society .

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      Baron Bfonow passed through Calais oa Thursday morning . The Moniieur announces , in tho following laconic terms , the departure of M . Kieseieff : — » The Minuter of Kusaiu left Paris on Monday . " M . Kisseleff left Paris by the 8 o ' clock triua on Monday evening for Brussels . One of the attache ' s ot the Minister of Foreign Affairs left Parifl o > a Tuesday wifcU despatches recalling General do Castelbajac , tho French ambassador at St . Petersburg . By an Ixuperiul decree , dated the 2 ud . tlio convocation of

      tho Sonata a . nd of tho Lwgialalive Body , fixed for the 27 ih instaur , is adjourned to 1 ) 10211 ^ of March . It is stated that the French Govemmei . t lias concluded a loan for an amount equaJ to 8 , 000 , 000 £ with the Credit Mobilior against Treasury Bonds , bearing b \ per cent , iutereat , the option being allowed of exchanging them for Three per Cent . Rentes at tho price of 72 . It la alau said that tlm Bank of France have inado an advance to tliu Govurmneut f 2 . 400 , 009 ; . Tho military preparations in Franco are being pushed on with groat enor /^ jr . Decrcoa ar « expected culJing out tho ruinaining moiuty of tho conlingeutB of 18 M ami 1850 . and

      the whole of the contingent of 1853— -a . total of 160 , 00 ft men ; go that in a ahort time the amy will be rais « d to 530 ^) 00 effective men . 0 a « maau < actnrin | r establishment ia Paris has received' an osder for the supply of l £ o , O 0 O- hovrsiacs * and another for 26 , 000 shirts , and other minor establish meats nave similar orders in proportion . Large orders have also been given for an immense supply of harness and mm }! ^ equipments for th& artillery . Letters from , the ; departments aaaaance that the young soldiera are abeady en rout * for theic destination ,

      Ia addition to these signs , of preparation , an order has beea ? given to . an extensive ironmaster in the department of the Pas de Calais for 3 ^ 000 ^ 00 ^ cannon balls , of various dimensions . It is also asserted that the decree * for the mov « ment of the expeditionary force intended for the East are . actually prepared , and only want the- signatuoft . of the Emjperor . . ThepreciBO amount is not stated , or rather ife i » vansualy stated , bat the general opinion is that it w ill , at leags fbu the praBenb , ba composed of four divisions of lOjQOQ mem each ^

      The French ocean squadron , stationed at Brest , com marided by Admiral Bruair , has gone to sea ftom Brest , according to orders ; received on the 3 rd inst- This ( Hmadron ia . believed to be under orders to proceed' to Toulon , to Algiers , and to Chnta Vecchia , to embark the expeditionary troops for Constantinople . It is reported in f < raac » that this squadron will join , in . the spring , the British squadron , under tha orders of AdxniEal Gorry . The Trident' andi Vitle de MoumeiUeM f ahips-of-theJine , have been put in commission at Toalon ^ and are to be fitted for sea . inunetiatehr . The greatest activity prevails in the naval dockyard in . that port , and . in about six weeks six saQ-of-tbe-line and a sixty-gun frigate will be completed ready for active service ; General Peliasier has organued the first division of 10 , 000

      men to he sent from Algeria . Various officers are named for the command of > the expedition . Generals Ganrobertaud Ferre * ( 8 on-in-ku *? of Marshal Bugeaod ) are among the most , probablei TheD $ mt * y usually we ll informed in diplomatic matters , gir «* the following summary of Count OrlofTs misBion : — " Count Oxloff was ths bearerto Ylennaof a couster-proposiv tion from the , Enperpc of Russia ^ in answer to the last proposition of th « Gonference of . Vienna . That counter proposition had been judged unacceptable . The represents tires of the Four Powers at Vienna had drawn up and signed a protest to that effect , which wa » to fae > scnVto St . Petersburg , and ul which it was declared that tJisilast offers of the Cabinet of St . Petersburg were not of » nature to ^ be

      seat to Constantinople . Count Odoff had , beside ^ made a second proposition ^—that , of forming a league of neutrality between . Austria , Prussia , and the Poweis of the German Confederation .. The Cabinet of Austru had , it i s said , replied that it . was . impossible for them to bind themselves to neutrality . Count Orloff has > therefore ^ failed- in the two objects of hia mission . " Later intelligence , however , throws doubts on the positive failure of Count Orloff . He is said to have received promises of tha : complete neutrality of Austria and Proasia ^ a neutrality upon the exact conditions of which ,. under alfpossibla eyeatuahties , tho Western . Powers will have ta demand explaitations ^

      Count Orloff left Vienna at nine otelock on Wednesday morning , direct for St . Petersburg . He was delayed b y indisposition consequent upon the . fatigues of his rapid joinniey—a species of indisposition to vriiich Russian diplomatists are pecuJiarly subject

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      From Berlin we have letters reporting a palace conspiracy , conducted by the- Prince of Prussia , tojMrsuade the King , his brother , to abdicate , on the ground ottbe King beimrtoo drsposed to a Russian rather than to a rational poucv . £ lns : endeavour to supplant the wayward and irresolute Frederick Wi lliam , by his headstrong and self-willed biother , would . not be the first . In , 1 ^ 47 , when the , King first granted the shadow of a constitution , and again in 1849 . a similar attempt w . aa made . It must not bo forgotten mat the Prince of Prussia , who ia now reported to hold such lofty language in the sense of resistance to Russia , and a national German policy , is the same Prince of Prussia who in 1847 refused to take the oath to the constitution , and was only prevailed upon to do so under protest : the same who hi ' 4 o was- souximitignted an absolutist , that he was forced to fly to l&ngland , leaving bis palace to the vengeance of the people ; and who in ' 49 -was marching to trend ont the last vestiges of constitutionalism in . Germany , under the auspices , of tha Czar . This recent conduct of the Prince may therefore be the result of a profound calculation of Russian diplomacy . 15 ut the fact requires , confirmation . Wo only mention it as we have received it , on the faith of correspondents on whose authenticity w © can perfectly rely .

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      Whatever be the attitudo of tha German dynasties , the German nation , north and south , is violently aou-Russian . Not only tho Piussian journals , but the . sole organ of the . national interests permitted in Austria—tho Vienna Lloyd , devotes nine of its columns to an exposure ) of Russian stilfisbnesa and diplomatic craft , as exemplified in the negotiations which preceded tho treaty of Adrianople . For this purpose the Lloyd , prints tho whole of the confidential memorandum by Poezo di Borgo , dated Paris , Oct . 16 , 1825 , and Lately published at Paris . After giving especial prominence to those passages in which Lhe wily ambassador shows uow Austria is to be by turna terrified and cajoled into th * Kussian alliance , the Lloyd reminds the Austrian public that the despatch as plainly describes the politics of llusbiu in the present criwis us in the period ia which it was written .

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      Wo mentioned in our Inst number that the combined fleets had returned to tlieir anchorage in lieicoa Buy , to the astonish mont and disappointment of Constantinople , on the 2 tfr < l instant- Tho cuusos anuigned by tho Admiruls were tho want of good ports , tho dangers of the navigation , and tho shortness of provisions . Tliey had despatched a oteamerto Iho Ambassadors , lvo » n Siuopc , jmnouimingiLoir return . It appears llio Ambassador . * wero equally surprised and indie-

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      126 THE LEADER , ~ Satuiebayv

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 11, 1854, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2025/page/6/