The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

DRPTFORD, Pis. &
THE LAUNCH or TRH IRON-CLAD SCRIM FITILAN
Yuan. Einsernlid. —Lord Clams* Paget, socretary, and
Mr. Reed, chief coodructor of the royal navy, visited Dept-
ford Dockyard this day, and inspeeted crew, departenut el
her Majesty's iron-clad steam vessel Enterprise, whisk will
be launched at two o'clock to-morrow afternoon with the
whole of her 4a-inch armour plates end her beers sad ma-
rebury eau& Every IFTIMMINiii has Mee made tor the
accommodation of visitors, sad the public win be edmltted
to the dockyard without redrietke at • quarter put cue
o'clock. After the lunch the Esterpries will deem dome
the river to Woolwich, where she will be masted
sad completed for ounce ander Commander Rowley, re-
cu• appointed. The Eaterprins will be the milled Du
dad deem vessel yet launched for the royal navy. Her
ember framework Wee Wielded for the coostruction of •
17 gem sloop, to be named the Chemise, but idler the &-
deka of the Admiralty to diamond's the bending of Ma-
her muds, the design of Mr. E. J. Reed, the present chid
constructor of the navy was soospted for • small ironslid
steursr to earry four 110-as
gum. The Rums*
launched at Pornbenhe recently, is the only vessel sow
.net eonetructed upou Mr. Reed's principle - she is *mei-
, drably larger than the Eoterpriae, end oo trial has gained
a spud if 10 knots per hoer. The Enterpriee it is believed
will sum at nine boots per lour, sotwithatuding bet
email size end the weight of her armour plates ; and should
this result be realised Mr. Reed's system will pmve of the
utmost importance to the service. The followlag are bar
exact dimensions :—Lesigth between perpond .ars. 180
feet; length of keel, for ton , 152 feet 6 Mame ; brood*
extreme. 36 feet ; ditto, 34 feet 3 Sebes ; ditto
for tonnage, 34 feet 11 inches ; depth in hold. 16 feet 7
inches ; earthen in tone, 990.

ROYAL NAVAL RERRILVZ.-19,677 appliam.sang
have bees weaved and 17,106 volunteers maid is the '
reserve up to the lOW olt.
COLLISION on BY:LIAM AND LORI OT LIM—
A mein-holy ooeurresco took pleas no Saturday night off
Belfast Lough, by which on vessel (misdated and two of
bar crew pained. It appears from the very scanty details
which reached Liverpool yesterday, that on Seturdschtlai:
whilst the atrawar Nogrietic wes es her voyer from
to Liverpool, and when °sly out shoot 18 miles, die now
into *When with the schemer Fraser, Wooing le Clinephla
town, Isle of Man. The inner struck the whopper stria(' ht
between the bows, and drama split her is two. The Fraser
west den immediately afterwards, and sad in my, toodears al
W crew, both yang sod married men, were waded
with the miaow vereL The downer es mos as she sinek
W schooner booked her engines, sad the brie ewe
lowered, end the anion sad two of the crew of the Fraser
were laved. It is elated that so blues whams Washes
to the commode/ of the Magnetic, who wee abaft a
direct coarse, and with the usual eight dna. Ind Weft
end below, whilst the solionger showed so LW"
VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO illsnwor.--
The report of the diredore states that the disputed resin-
alligael seaman have et learn bass agreed I. with the
Brighten Osesphey, end ere now win the Lsades,
and Dern Oseapsey, for their aquingssoe is the
licament of lame of the charges. Tin satire wlbeeled
hone ef the preneseim stook lige bees realign, and the M.
ONO of the mortgage debt iresultisg from the =tiepin-
men et the Brighton Cowpony's shares) has hen paid off.
Of the =Miss debestaree, 69,0001. fell due at the Slat
Decostar leek sad owing to the elate el the mosey market
previously to, as/ at that time, they hal to be roamed or
raiimied es Use feniusble terms thee the essepany could
otherwise have wasmended. The dinghies peens, ands
I. an the amen of the proprietors to the and= of a
perpetual foot per not. debeeture stock to replace the
debt se it fulls due from lime to time. Chat of
Venn bsLw of the venom 11000112 i the directors noon
mead a dividend of 2 per emit. for the half-year, meitheg
per nest. for the you, m compared with 41 per east is M.
By this iirraegenest the directors are enabled Is pet for-
ward Use following estimate of the prospective &i deals,
viz.—For 1944, 51 per omit. ;tor 1865, 91 per asst. ; tor
Ti par coat. ; ter 1987 sod i• perpetuity, 9 per net., with
saotoblity of • is;811 beau wiry 'Wen aboalka.