The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-25 00:00:00

THE
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. •
AztaarAtzr, J.ut. 23.—ArronellIZ1 lIL -.-Asaist-
satangsces PL J. Bailer, to the Royal Adeleido ; W.
Asthma (b) from the Asia to $M Redo( ; A. htlienee.
JED,, to 1W Prime Comort ; G. F. Elliot, LB., 8.A., to
the Row ; 0. H. Ward (actiog) boot Um Vitexy to the.
Ntoondor doroship at Asortioe.
Ezeinote J. Ambler promoted to tie Amato.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.
Her Majesty the Queen and the court arrived
at the Royal Clarence-yard. Gosport, yesterday limning
at 11 o'clock, and proceeded by special train to London.
The iron mortar boat Ho. 145 was launched on
Hadar,
from the slipway at alar, where she has been mated with
copper by Commander Warren's rooms, and is to remain
afloat a certain time to madam whether by this plan
galvanic motion an be prevented, and whether the adhesive
property of the marine she is sollkinat to hold the copper
slauthiag on the iron plates of the vessel. While afloat
she will oe used as a lighter.
Tan Buer 11MM-A otirregiondent of the Hoar
Teleriaph, writing from Gibraltar Bay, says :—" I can
assure you, from an experience of forty years afloat, that
the Black Prince is the finest ship ht the world. We have
now made a fair trial of bar ailing qualities, sod fled that
I she tan keep her station with the Edgar, wooden liner.
The most effectual testing was during the passage from
I Banta Cruz to this bay. About 9.20 ana. oar brave Admiral
I Dares made a algal for us and the sister ship, the Warrior,
to have a sailing match till 1p m. Consequently we
crowded on the came, and there being a stiff bream we
soon ran the admiral and tin Defence both down. At 11.30
the breeze freshened, and beams a gale, accompanied by •
heavy merging sea, still, nothing daunted, Captsio Wain-
wright, assisted by Commander F. D. Rich, carried out the
admiral's order, and kept the canvas on her to see what the
liras fleet waa made of. She acted remarkably well, and
having o ce obtained • f • heel over she was as steady as if
lying at Spithead. We had a few esioaltisa, split tiro Jibs,
May sale and fore-top mil, carried away jr booms, mid
aprons foretop gallant mast. With all we had a dry deck,
ea she rode the sees like a duck, quite solitary of all apse-
Satiate of so heavy an ins ship."

WOOLWICH, •TAII. 24.
The fourth of the monster Blakeley guns,
manufactured for the Bows government, and allowed by
the War Department to be proved at the 'oncologist prac-
ties range, Plumstead.marshes, was ca Friday cooveyed to
the Royal Arsenal Os a truck, weighing 44 tons, with iron
wheels 15 inches wide, and drawn by 16 hones. The weapon
is • musxle-loading rifled gun, weighing 12 tons 5 cwt., and
having a 9-thek hors, In consequence of the groat weight of
the gun, two spokes of one of the wheels of the truth
broke during its transit over the rough road to the pnictioe
range ; and it is found Del:emery towed a mew pair of abeam
for the purpose of lifting the goo into omits= prier to
proof.

Font. experimental rifled guns of various patterns have
been manufactured at the Royal /Insult, and will be tested
is the preseoce of the Ordnance Select Cremnittes, the
object being to obtain more information se to the beet sys-
tem of rillum.

CHATHAM, JAI. 24.
In consequence of the importance attached to the
employment of steel plates is iron ships of war, the lards
of eke Admiralty have decided oa using stool is various
forma in the iroo.clsd Mom Bellerophon, now under con-
struction ►t this dockyard.

ROYAL NAVAL RZRERVI-.The following appoint-
ments haye been made :—Arnold Richard Wrenn), Gsorp
Grip, and James Yeat, to be lieutenants ; John Clarke
Ralson, to be sub-lieutenant.

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