OBITUAR Y. November 15th, at Glenmore-road, Sydney, N.S.W., Charles Ernest Hotham, younger son of the late Captain J. W. Hotham, R.N. aged 26. November 30th, at 42, Bristol-road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Frederic Charles Hudson, late H.M. 109th Regiment. second son of Henry Hudson Esq., J,P., Vandyke Court, Pershore, Worcestershire. November 30th, at the Cornelia Ida Estate, Demerara, of yellow fever Francis Daubeney King, second son of the late Major George King, late 55th Regiment, aged 23 years. December 3rd, at Lahore, Punjaub, Arthur Vincent Conolly, infant son of Major Vincent Rivaz, Bengal Staff Corps, aged one year. December 3rd, suddenly, at Secunderabad, aged 40 years, Frederic Edmund Spry, Major 38th Madras, N.I., second son of the late Rev. A. B. Spry, vicar of Stanford, Norfolk, and senior Chaplain, Bengal. December 8th, at May Pen, Jamaica, Lindesay Crosbie, aged 38 years, eldest son of the late Captain William Adolphus Crosbie, formerly of the Rifle Brigade. December 10th at Lucknow, Colonel William Raffles Tucker, R.E., eldest son of the late Captain William Tucker, of Harewood-square, London, aged 49. December 13th, at Fort Porter Buffalo, New York, Lieutenant Alured Larke, 10th U.S. Infantry, second son of the late Thomas Larke, solicitor, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. December 16th, at the Camp, Ahmedabad, India, of intermittent fever, Lucy Maude, infant daughter of Captain Fowell, Royal Artillery, aged ten weeks. December 22d, at Liberton, Alexander Leslie, only son of the late Colonel W. D. Dickson, Bombay S.C., aged 19 years. NAVAL AND MILITARY JOURNAL. NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF HER MAJESTY'S ELEVENTH (NORTH-Devon) How I WENT TO ST. PAUL'S. By the Author of "A Modern MEMOIR OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK SLEIGH ROBERTS, BART., Major Sherlock-The Expected Corrigenda-National De- The EDITOR requests that the following rules may be attended to. are to be addressed to the EDITOR of Colburn's United Service Magazine, 3, St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square, London, W.C. Neither the EDITOR nor the PUBLISHER hold themselves responsible for MSS. accidentally lost through the Postage stamps must be enclosed, when, in case of non-insertion, MSS. are All MSS. intended for insertion in each forthcoming Number must reach the EDITOR not later than the 7th of the previous month. The BACK NUMBERS of Colburn's United Service Magazins, with a few xceptions, can be obtained from the PUBLISHER, Price 23 6d, each. THE MOST WHOLESOME OF ALL SPIRITS. DUBLIN WHISKY DISTILLED by Messrs. JOHN JAMESON & SON, GEORGE ROE & CO., GENUINE DUBLIN WHISKY THE MOST WHOLESOME OF ALL SPIRITS. MESSRS. G. ROE & CO. Can also supply through the wholesale trade their Whiskies in cases, SCHWEITZER'S COCOATIN. Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa, or Chocolate Powder. Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa, without Sugar or Admixture. COCOATINA is the Highest Class of Soluble Cocoa or Chocolate, consisting solely of 10, Adam Street, WEITZER London, W.C. finest Cocoa Beans, having the excess of Fat extracted. It is specially adapted for Ships, Camps, Sportsmen and Travellers, being in a concentrated form made instantaneously with boiling water. Keeps in all climate palatable without milk. Four times the strength of Cocoas thickened yet weakened starch, &c. A teaspoonful to a breakfast cup, costing less than a halfpenny. The Faculty pronounce it "the most nutritious perfectly diges Beverage for Breakfast. Luncheon or Supper," and invaluable for Invalids and Children. Cocoatina a la Vanille is the most delicate, digestible. cheapest Vanilla Cho and may be taken when richer Chocolate is prohibited. Sold by Chemists, Grocers, in Air-tight Tin Canisters, 1s. 6d., 3s., 5s. 6d. &c. Samples free by p MAGAZINE. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MARCH, 1882. TONNAGE. "Those to whom the King had entrusted me observing how ill I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next morning and take measure for a suit of clothes. This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe. He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then with rule and compasses described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body; all which he entered upon paper, and in six days brought my clothes, very ill made and quite out of shape by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation." SWIFT'S "VOYAGE TO LAPUTA," chap. ii. What is tonnage? What is the object, and whence arises the necessity for a Tonnage Law? These are questions which must be answered, and answered moreover in the plainest language before the general public can hope to tread the threshold only of a subject of deep import to them, as citizens of a maritime and insular country dependant upon shipping for the absolute necessaries of life. With a view to make this clear and to command attention to the questions just propounded, it will be as well to clear the ground by proving that Britons are more deeply interested in "tonnage" than any other people or peoples on the face of the earth, and that owing to the enormous growth of the population and consequent overcrowded state of the country, it is really a matter U. S. MAG. NO. 640. U of national life or death to decide, and that right promptly, how best to deal with the measurement of our ships so as really to ensure their efficiency and sea-worthiness, and at the same time afford the greatest amount of encouragement to all those, from shipowners to cabin-boy, connected with the maritime interests of Old England. Shipping, in other words the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine, which, though mentioned last is by no means less essential than the first-named service to the safety and wealth of the United Kingdom, as will be presently shown, is so intimately interwoven with the national life, that it will be necessary to give some description of its state and influence in this country, before undertaking to explain any minor detail; and here it will be desirable to point out that in common with every other subject, different views are entertained as to the exact position of the British Mercantile Marine. One side, headed by Lord Norton, who when Sir Charles Adderley, President of the Board of Trade, in 1877, laid it down in Parliament that the Mercantile Marine was a" mere trade," and should be treated as any other mere trade; the other side, headed by Captain Bedford Pim, maintaining that the Merchant service of the country embodied the greatest national undertaking and enterprise in the world, its trade mark the Union Jack, the meteor flag of Old England, under which liberty, enterprise and civilization was carried from one end of the world to the other, which fact alone raised it very far above the category of a "“mere trade." No, it is not a mere trade! it is really part and parcel of the national life, and as such only it can be treated, as the following brief details of its rise and progress in Great Britain will abundantly prove. It is not too much to say that England never would have soared above the rank now held by Denmark, or Holland, or Belgium, had it not been for her seamen, who ever led the way in every enterprise, and whose true courage, sturdy endurance and determined |