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I 'speciai rate any more than the manufactun w "IEâ€"V DOMINION HOUSE. SEVENTH PARLIAMENT â€" FOURTH SESSION AT OTTAWA. NORTH‘W EST TERRITORIES. Mr. iJaly moved the House in committee on the bill to amend the North-West Terriâ€" tories Act. _ . Mr. Martin thought the bill was objection- able, inasmuch as it left the voters list in the Territories as is now was. Further, there was no reasonjwhy the elections in the Territories should be held three weeks after the elections in other parts of the country. Mr. Daly said in reply to the hon. member for Winnipeg (Mr. Martin), that the voters’ list had been found to work satisfactorily in the elections in the Ter- ritories. The committee rose and reported pro- gross. CHEESE REFEREE. Mr. McMillan (Huron) read a letter from Mr. Thomas Kinnan, secretary of the Kingston and Frontenac Cheese Board, ‘ re- questing him to use his influence against the appointment of a Government intpector of cheese at Montreal as a referee oi weights , between the buyers and sellers. Neither the Ontario cheese boards nor dairymen’s associations had asked for the appointment. Sir John Thompson said there was no intention of the referee at Montreal arbitra- ' rily compelling cheese to be sold by weight at Montreal. All that the Government had decided upon was that if a sale should be made dependent upon weight at Montreal, the inspector of weights and measures should act as referee, but this was entirely at the option of the seller. Mr. Scriver said he had heard of many complaints as to weight at Montreal, which would be remedied under this regulation. The House went into Committee of Ways and Means. TARIFF CHANGES The following items were amended to read as follows :â€"provided that on all iron or steel bars, rods, strips, or steel sheets. of whatever shape. and on all iron or steel bars of irregular shape or section, cold roll- ed, cold hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot- :olling, there shall be paid one-sixth of one cent per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the said material. Forgings of iron and steel, of whatever shape or size, or in whatever stage of manufacture, not elsewhere specified, thirty-five per cent. not less than $15 per ton. Rolled iron or steel angles, channels, structural shapes, and special sections, weighing not less than thirty-five pounds per lineal yard, n.e.s., thirtyâ€"five per cent., not less than $10 per ton. Iron bridges and structural iron work, thirty-five per cent., not less than one cent per pound. Railway fish-plates and T plates, $10 per ton. Wire nails, cut nails, and spikes, of iron or steel. one cent per pound. Shoe tacks, one-half, three to four oz. one cent per thousand. Cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, one and one-half cents per pound. Brads and cop- per nails, rivets, and burrs, and manufac- tures of brass or copper, n. e. s., thirty per cent. Lead pipe and lead shot, four-tenths of acent per pound and twenty-five per cent. Enamelled iron or steel ware, in- cluding granite or agate ware, thirtyrfive per cent. Copper wire, fifteen per cent. ‘Nire cloth, n. e. s., thirty per cent. Axles, 'springs, andâ€" parts thereof, axle bars and axle blanks of iron or steel, n. e. s., one cent per pound and twenty per cent. Chrome steel, fifteen per cent. Cases for jewels, watches, silverware, plated ware, cutlery, and other like articles, five cents each and thirty per cent. Wood pulp, twenty-five per cent. Emery wheels, twenty-fire per cent. STEEL TUBING. Mr. Davies said that in view of the in- vention of a Mr. thitznan, of the Maritime Provinces, for the artificial drying of fish, l which would possibly revolutionize the industry, he desired to have the duty on wrought steel tubing reduced. This mater- ial was largely used in the process, and he contended that tubing for this industry should come in at a rate that would enable Mr. Whitman to carry on his business. Mr. Foster said he did not see how Mr. Whitman could expect to get pipes in at a ers of coils for heating piping, etc. The item was carried wiihout amend- ment. COTTON FABRICS. Mr. McMullen objected to the duty of 2‘2 1-2 per cent. on grey unbleached ectton fabrics. It was, he said, a heavy tax upon the poor. Mr. \Vallace replied that the old duty on this item amounted to 25 per cent. A few days ago the Opposition were com- plaining that the necessaries of life were taxed 40 to 50 per cent. But here, when there was a reduction, they were still dis- . satisfied. The item was carried. TARIFF CiiANGEs. The following changes were made :â€"Cut nails and spikes of iron or steel, 3-4 cent per pound; wire of brass, 10 per cent.; wrought iron or steel nuts and washers, iron or steel rivets, bolts, with or without threads, nut and bolt and hinge blanks and T strap hinges, cent per pound and 2.") per cent. duty. NATIONAL PARK. Mr. Duly, in answer to Mr. Martin, said no lots had been sold in the National puik t W!!!) site. The receipts from the park for 1893 Were $3,025, and the amountexpendcd on the park in 1803, exclusive of the salary of the superintendent, was $4,456. VOTERS WHO ARE BRIBED. The House went into committee on a bil to dislranchise voters who have taken bribes. Mr. Jeannotte moved that the second clause be amended so as to provide that the petition for the inquiry must give particulars of the cases of bribery that have taken place at the elections. The amendment was lost. Mr. Amyot moved to add to the second ciuuse, providing that the judge shall only rr icr an inquiry when he is satisfied from ‘nfililaVlES that extensive bribery was prac- i=i‘v‘ll. The amendment was carried. _ .\lr. Bergin moved to add that the peti- w nor: shall give full particulars of sushi Misive bribery. HP- “'ought the bill! opened the way to bribery and perjury,but, if it were passed at all, it should have the the safeguard he proposed. Sir John Thompson said it would destroy the rights of the petitioners if the full particulars of the alleged bribery had to be given with the petition. To insist upon this and the examination of the petitioners would certainly be to put ihe cart before the horse. At a later stage particulars might be called for. The amendment Was ruled out of order. as it was in substance the some as one which had been previously voted upon. Mr. Jeannotte moved that the committee rise. Sir John Thompson hoped the committee Would not adopt that course. He proposed that the committee rise and report progress. This was agreed to. DIVORCE BILL. Sir Hector Langevin asked for the yeas and nays on the second reading of a bill from the Senate for the relief of Caroline Jane Downey. The bill was reed a second time, on a division of '76 to 31, and referred to the Private Bills Committee with the evidence taken by the Senate Divorce Commitee. NICOLET CATHEDRAL. Sir John Thompson said that the Govern- ment had received no petitions for commu- nications praying for the disallowance of an Act passed by the Quebec Legislature last sessuon, giving the town and parish of Nicolet power to vote a grant of 33,0 0 each to aid in the construction of a cathedral church in that town. BARREL STANDARD. Mr. WOOd (Brockville) said, in an answer to Mr. Landcrkin, that there was not un- der the Act a standard for barrels or the eighth of a barrel. The standard of mea surement of weights and measures was a gallon, copable of containing ten pounds of distilled water, at a temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit. It was not the inten- tion of the Government to enact any other standard. OAKvILIE PIER. Mr. Ouimet, in answer to Mr. Gibson, said the pier at Oakville was rebuilt in October, 1887, at a cost of $14,280, of which amount the municipal authorities contributed $8,000. Apetition from the Harbor Committee of the Oakville Council, praying for further repairs, had been transmitted to the department on April 11th last, and was now under consider- ation. EXCHANGE BANK. Sir John Thompson, in answer to Sir Richard Cartwright, said the information asked for by the hon. gentleman respecting claims arising out of the Exchange Bank indebtedness had been prepared and would be transmitted to the Finance Department. to-morrow. SWEARI NG OF “'ITNESS ES. The bill to provide for the examination of witnesses on oath by the Senate and House of Commons was read a second time. The House went into Committe upon it. The following clause‘ was added2â€"The Senate or House of Commons may at any time order witnesses to be examined 0 oath before any committee. / The bill was then reported. TIIE AUDITOR-GENERAL Mr. Davies called attention to the fact that the Public Accounts Committee had refused to allow him to examine the Auditor- General as to correspondence which was contained in his report. Sir John Thompson took exception to lie action of the Auditorâ€"General in incor- porating the correspondence in his report. He thought that officer had gone far beyond his duty, and had put the House to con- siderable inconvenience by confusing the accounts of two or three years. Mr. Laurier said the Auditor-General had done nothing more than his duty in bring- ing the matter before the House. The law was that the Auditor-General must report such a matter to Parliament not later than the third day of the session next ensuing. No action was taken on the subject, and the House went into Committee of Ways Means. vELVETs. Sir Richard Cartwright said the increase on velvets and velveteens was 10 per cent. It had been '20 per cent. in the old tariff. 'M r. Foster said it had been necessary to increase the duty for revenue purposes. Velvets and velveteens rright fairly be con- sidered luxuries. ’ 'l he item was carried. COTTON THREAD. Mr. Foster moved to amend the item of cotton sewing thread in hanks, black, bleached or unbleached, three and six cord, from fiftcen per cent. to twelve and a half per cent. The item as amended was carried. CROTCHE‘I‘ COTTON. Mr. Foster m0\ed lo amend the item of “cotton sewing threa. l and crotchet cotton, on spools or in balls, ‘25 per cent,” by adding thereto “ or on tubes, and all other cotton thread, n. e. s." The item as amended was carried. CORD AC E Mr. Bowers said the tax of thirty per cent. on cordage, n. e. s.,was excessive. 1t looked as if the Finance Minister was endeavoring to oppress the fishermen of the Moritine Provinces. Mr Foster said there was no discrimina- tion made against the Maritime ProvincI-s. Fishermen from Lake Superior had inter- . viewe'l him upon the matter and had been convinced that the new tarifl'was no heavier than the old. He would propose, however, to reduce Cordage from thirty per cent. to twenty-seven and a half per cent. Mr. McInerney asked that cordage be re- duced to ‘25 per cent. Mr. Foster said if the hon. gentleman desired, he would go back to the old tariil' of 1 1-4 Cents a pound and 10 per cent. He would move to this effect. The item as amended was carried. R0" E. Mr. McMillan (Huron) asked the hon. Finance Minister to consider the farmers in the matter of rove, which was the raw material for the manufacture of twine. Why could he not abolish the 10 per cent. duty and place it on the free list? Mr. Foster said rove was a semi-manu. featured article, and was not the material from which most of the twine used in the country was manufactured. twine in the country was manufactured from fibre, which came in free. The item was carried. l Most of the in the Japanese village of Ono. l WOOL DUTIES. M r. Charlton pointed out that the duty of three cents a pound on combining wools was no protection to the farmers of Canada. Mr. Foster replied that the greater quan- tity of the wool imported was such as wasnot grown in Canada, The item was carried. FISH IN BARRELS. Mr. Foster desired to add to the class of fish and products of fisheries an item as follows:â€"“ Fresh or dried fish,n.e.s., im- ported in barrels or in half barrels, one cent per pound.” The item was carried. TARIFF CHANGES. The following items were made to read as followszâ€"Damask of linen, 25 per cent.: bugs or sacks of hemp, linen, or jute, and cotten seamless bags, ‘20 per cent. ._â€"â€"â€"4â€"oâ€"â€" THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. ('apt. Bligh Seized In Ills Cot and Sent Adriftâ€"Tho Muuucrrs Land at l'lt- (‘nlrn's Island. The Bounty, Captain Bligh, was sent by the British Government in December, 1787, to Otaheiti, for the purpose of obtaining a supply of bread fruit trees, to introduce into the \Vest Indian Islcs. She arrived at her destination in October, 1788, and spent six months in collecting and stowing away the plants ; and in April, 1780, proceeded to Anamooka, to replenish the stock of water and provisions. Throughout the voyage, Captain Bligh had repeated misunderstand- ings with his ship's company : and the day previous to the mutiny a serious quarrel occurred between him and his officers about some cocoanuts, which were missing from his private stock, and Mr. Christian, the maic,fell unrlerhiscomiuander’sdispleasure. Christian. brooding over his grievances determined to escape on a raft to the Isle of Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands then in sight. On April 28th, a young officer, to whom he had communicated his inten- tions, recommended him to endeavor td iake possession of the ship, rather than riskhislifeon sohazardousan expedition. On receiving this advice he went to every man in his watch, and before daylight the great- er part of the ship’s crew were brought over. Christian and the master-at-arms proceeded to the cabin to make a prisoner of Captain Bligh, whom they seized in his cot, and brought upon deck, with his arms bound behind his back. The launch was then hoisted out, and the captain’s party, having collected what they could for their voyage, were ordered into it, and the ship stood towards the island. Such was the mutiny of the Bounty. Captain Bligh’s party, after traveling nearly 4,000 miles and enduring incredible hardships arrived at the island of Timor on June 14th. The mutineers divided, so he were captured three being executed. Ten of them, how- ever. reached an almost unknown island in the Pacific called Pitcairn's Island, and there remained undiscovered until 1814. They settled down and married some native women, and lived very happily. They nearly all had families, which increased so much that, in 1884, there were 130 descend~ ants. These are now well looked after, the Government sending them supplies occa- sionally, while a man-of-war is instructed to call at specified times. .â€"â€"_.4 Individual Independence. There is no more general mistakethanthat which relates to personal or individual inde- pendence. There is nothing that a man more desires to put forward than the assertion of hisown independence. He considers him- self 50 strong-minded. self-centred and re- liant that there is nothing that could offend him more than any intimation that he was subject to anyone or anything and that he was not altogether master of his own ac- tions. “I know my own mind,” he is wont to say, “and I cannot be influenced by outside considerations, I am entirely inde- pendent.” In point of fact there is really very little independence in the world. Boast as we may of our own sufficiency and freedom from control there is not one amongst us that is not dependent upon others for social position and means of sup- port. Who is he that can afford to say, “ I can get along without assistance from anyone.” No matter in what walk of life he may be traveling, no matter in what business or profession he is engaged, no matter how secure he may regard himself in social or commercial life, he yet cannot stand alone and sustain himself by his own individual resources. It is only the fool who says, ” I am a. law unto myself and am under obligation to no one." \Ve are all mutually dependent upon each other. And i‘ is well that we should be so because without this disposition to give and take in the business of life, there would be no society, no existence, no world. Environment. We cannot overestimate the results of what is known as environment. Its effects upon character and conduct are almost in- conceivable. Those with whom we mingle are constantly moulding us into mental and moral forms resembling their own, and no possible effort or determination on our part can prevent it. It is true that each individuality is separate and different from all others but all are being insensibly modified by their association with each other, There are (liiiercnt degrees of this influence. Some persons are more suscep- tible than others and take impressions much more easily. Some are more original and less mobile. Yet, as even the rock cannot resist the constant action of the falling waters, neither can they wholly resist the perpetual influence of their fellow men. It is true that occasionally one arises who seems to be so strong and sellpoised that while working powerfully upon the community in some direction he receives but little impression from them in return. ’.ut this is the great exception. Most of us are being hourly worked upon and moulded by those with whom we mingle, while we in turn. are modifying and changing them by the some silentin~ fiuence. A tree that smokes has been discovered UAUGHT BY All HUTDPUS. THRILLING ADVENTURE OF A WOMAN ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC. Looked Like a, Magnificent Leopard Cowry- lint it Proved to he 3 Rev“ Fishâ€" Assistance Just in Tlme. Some fifteen years ago a lady was living with her husband on a little coral island just below the equator. The island was small, not two miles in the longest line and was nothing but a barren spot of sand, on the broadbosom of the Pacific. Nothing grew on the island but a stiff species of beach grass and this was dingy brown instead of green like other grass. But if bare of vegetation the island was still richly surfaced, for the whole extent of the dot was covered deep with guano of the richest sort, and the only inhabitants were the two white people mentioned and fifty or sixty Hawaiians to work the guano fields. The superintendent had his wife and little child with him, and as news from the outer world could reach them but once in three months it was rather dull for the woman. As there was so little amusement to be found she made the most of the few sources she had. Chief amon g these was the gathering of shells, of which many and fine varieties were to be found on the reef at low tide. This reef surrounded the island on all sides, with the exception of a twenty-foes channel, through which access was had to the islandjrom any ship which came there. This reef ‘«as like a wide flat shelf covered deep by the water at high tide, but when the tide was out a wide stretch of coral rock was left almost have, varying from twenty feet at the narrowest point to over 100 at the widest. This shelf of rock was cut through and through by fissures in which the water still stood many feet deep. Be- sides the fissures the reef was dotted with pools having no outlet at low tide. Some of the pools were onlya few inches in depth, others were ten or fifteen feet. These pools and fissures made walking on the reef rather dangerous until o_e learned the position of the deep places. But time familiarizes one With anything, and it was but a few months before every day saw mother and child clad in bathing dresses on the chance of a tumble into deep water, roaming over the surface of coral, gathering the many-hued shells which were most the whole tide and, fairly well laden with spoils, were working back home when, a s she stepped across one of the smaller pools, the woman saw at the bottom what appeared to bea magnificent leopard cowry, the largest she had yet seen. The water was pretty deep in the pool, being almost up to her waist as she stepped down into it, but she was so near home that she did not care, though she go: wet through. Stop- ping to pick up the shell, she found that the water was even deeper than she had suppos- ed, for, as her fingers reached to the bottom of the pool, her face was almost wet by the waves which came iippling in with the rising tide. But the moment required to pick up a. shell would not injure her, even though she had to put her face into the water, so she stooped lowar, with closed eyes, and grasped at the shell below. CLOSED ON THE DEVIL FISH. Her fingers closed on the richly spotted object, but instead of the hard, smooth sur- face she had expected to seize her fingers sunk deep into some soft, slimy substance, and before she could drop it and rise from her stooping position a sudden splash and flurry dashed the water into foam, and two snake-like objects rose from the depths and twined themselves around her arm, bare to the shoulder, with numbing force. The water, but a. moment before clear as crystal, was in an instant clouded with ink, and another snake-like form rose and twined around her arm, increasing the force and pressure until she suffered agony from the hold upon her arm, as well as from the fright caused by the sudden attack of the unseen foe. Her face was scarcely three inches above the surface of the pool, and to her horror she found that the strength of the creature was sufficient to keep her from rising any higher, and she knew that a few moments more of the pain would weaken her so that she must be drawn down into the pool in- stead of being able to escape from the hor- rible creature which held her in its grasp. In the first shock a shriek of fear had startled the boy, who was some distance from her, and he came running back to see what had caused the cry. He was only 3 years old, so could be of no assistance ; in- deed, the mother feared that the child also might be grasped and dragged into the pool. She called to him to run to the house some little distance away, arcund a point of land which hid it from sight and call for help. The tide was rising rapidly. Wave after wave came rippling and swishing» against her form each one breaking a little higher -â€"da.si1ing a little more of its spray in her bended face. Death seemed Very near, but her only fear was of the horrible beak which she knew would be buried in her quivering f‘lesh as soon as she should lose herstrength and fall into the pool to where the devil-fish could grasp her with all its arms. She could not raise her head to see if help was coming, but she strained her ears hop- ing to hear footsteps or voices. Not asound met her strained hearing. The water rose higher and higher. Each wave now broke in her faceâ€"almost over her head. One or two moments more and she must fall. A frenzy of fear gave her momentary strength, and she strove to tear herself free, but in vain. Each effort but exhausted her little remaining strength, leaving her weaker than before, a more unresisted prey to her foe. A wave bigger and higher than usual came rolling in and broke above her head, leaving her strangled and breathless. Hope was gone. She must die. But as she gave a last strangled cry a It is sixty . sudden rush of feet, a dash through the feet high, and just after sunset, every even- water, and her arm was grasped by strong ing, smoke issues from the top of the trunk. It is called the volcanic tree. hands, and she was raised above the surface a little. Other hands reached down beside to be found. 3 eed, ' fl 'th h 12- d 1‘ One day mother and son had been out al- p Opening re WI er po‘mrm; ___.. her and grasped the unseen form of the monster, and with a mighty pull from the two strong pairs of arms it was torn from its anchoring hold upon the rocks and thrown up into the open air. The choking, strangling woman was car- ried above tide mark, the Octopus still at- tached to her by its slimy arms. As the attempt to pull it away caused her excru- ciating pain, the arms were one by one cub off, and even the horny disks still clung with considerable force to the bruised and crushed arm. The creature had used three of its eight arms to crush its prey, and held itself firmly anchored ’20 the rock at; the bottom of the pool with the others. It took all the strength of two heavy men to tear the hold of those five arms from the rock. Had help been delayed five minutes long- er it would have been in vain. 'The woman would have been dragged into the depths of the pool,s.nd the strong, beak-likemouth of the devil fish would have been tcarin her flesh while she still lived. ' When the creature was dead and spread out on the sand it measured only seven feet from the body to the end of the longest ray. The body was about the size and shape'of a big wash bowl. turned bottom up. The hooked, horny beak, shaped almost like that of a parrot, but shorter in proportion to its width, was placed between two wick- edjittle eyes not larger than one’s thumb n31 . When alive the body was spotted with brilliant dots of color, red, yellow, orange, on a white background, but after death the whole creature was a. dirty, dingy gray, the arms losing half their size as life left the creature. For many weeks the bruises and cuts upon the arm which had been held by the octopus remained painful reminders of the terrible death she had so narrowly es- caped. Wherever the disks had been forced into the flesh deep indentations remained. The sharp bone edge of the disk had almost cut Into the flesh. But time healed the bruises, though it could never remove the nervous fear which kept the woman from ever again caring to hunt the reef for shells un~ less she had companions with her strong enough to rescue her from any demon of the deep which she might encounter. ~+ BRITISH NAVAL NOTES. Trlal or the New Torpedo Bout Destroyer- Selling 01d Vesselsâ€"New Battle Ships. An important series of trials to test the efficiency of the new torpedo boat destroyers of the Havock type recently took place in English waters. There was a specially constructed target, made to represent a first~class torpedo boat. In the first test, the Havock approached it at a _ 10-knot guns, when 1,500 yards distant. second trial was at the same speed. In the third series of the trials, the speed of the Havoclr was 24 knots, and the firing from the lBâ€"pounder and 6-pounder deck guns commenced at 1,500 yards, steaming direct at the target, the distance run between 800 yards. In the fourth and last series, the Havock steamed at her highest possible speed, the 12-pounder being used for the attack, at the range of 1,100 yards. The distance run was approximately 800 yards. After each order of firing, the target was carefully examined, and the number of hits recorded. The rounds were principally directed against the conning tower, and the examination showed that the rounds from the 6-ponnder, which were with live shells scattering on impact, produced 'more destruction than the solid projectiles from the l2-pounder. The results of the firing were so satisfactory, and the requirements of the conditions so adequately realized, that it was generally agreed that no torpedo boat could have resisted the attack. Capt. Beaumont, in his report of the trials, states that the value of the 12-pounder mounting above the conning tower is confirmed by the experiments as the gun hit and pierced the funnel of the dummy torpedo boat in eight rounds at 1,200 yards, the Havock having then a good speed. It pierced the boiler, conning tower, and the compartment between, at 800 yards in eight rounds on the second run ; it pierced the funnel twice in seven rounds on the third» run ; and pierced the turtle deck and conning tower with eight rounds on the fourth run. They averaged six carefully aimed rounds per minute, and the supply of ammunition could keep pace with this rate, but could not be made faster . It is stated that the British Admiralty has decided to sell, during the presentyear, six naval vessels, which have outlived their usefulness. Last year the sum of £27,135, was realized on the sale of old vessels. The Dragon, sloop, was sold for £2,650 ; Opal, cruiser, £4,500 ; Turquois, cruiser, £4,625; Sapphire, cruiser, £3,810 : Miranda, sloop, £2,805; Pegasus, sloop, £2,630: Ranger, gunboat, £2,000 ;Thisbe, gunboat, £1,005. The Foudroyant, two-decker, which was at one time Nelson’s flagship, and about whose sale for £2,350 last year there was some discussion,is to be repaired at the dockyard at Devonport. A syndicate bought the vessel from the German firm of shipbreakers, into whose hands she fell,and it is intended, as soon as her refit is complete, to station her in the Thames and make a. charge for viewing her. The British battle ships hitherto known as Nos. 1 and 4, which were authorized by the new shipbuilding programme, are to be named the Prince George and the Caesar. The other two will be known as the Vic- torious and the Illustrious. The vessels are to be built upon similar lines to thosebf the Magnificent-Majestic type. The engines of the Victorious are to be capable of develop- ing an indicated horse power of 10,000 with natural and 12,030 with forced draught. On the contractors’ trials the estimated speed at load draught, in smooth water,and with a clean bottom, is 17.5 knots with forced draught, and 10.3. with natural draught. The vessel will not be ready for her steam trials until the end of 1807. Orders have been issued by the British Admiralty to prepare berthing accommoda- tions for the fleet of new torpedo boat destroyers, which will soon be ready for service. Sixteen of these vessels are to be quartered at Portsmouth, Sheerness is to have fourteen and Devonport twelve. The British cruiser Blenheim, which has been supplied with ten sixdnch rapid-fire cannon, replacing guns of an older pattern, has been directed to relieve the Immortalite in the Channel squadron.