The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

TEE AMERICAN STEAM SHIP MERRIMAC.

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The llaebd Mar mow steam frigate Merrimac
will, it is gamete& take her departure from Southampton
Water In Mat a fortafght's time. Amongst the visitors of
the frigate during the lest week were several captain and
comanden in the royal navy end military oaken; Sir
John Beanie, the mimeo; Major•Osseral Diekem, who
fought is the last Ainslie= war, sad was taken prisoner;
and the Nemeses minister to Brasil. Oa Saturday the
frigate was visited by Count Pontlatine, a vice-admiral in
the ..cries, sad alle.de-musp to the Emperor of
Ruske. The mat mmemended the ELM= frigate Dim
daring the Busies war, when she was chased by the English
lad Frisch fleets throughout the South and North Pacific
°Wag lipids( her remerhable mom in a dense fog from
the AB/001 Mee. It will be »membered that sitar
WEN; the sembised fleets of the Western Powers for
neatly two peers she wee finally engulphed owing to ea
earthquake on the Ispeases coast, her Galan end erew
beim saved by en *modem an of wet. Admiral Pestle,
Was*. emirs my geed lemdieb.

Ise 111 sekalifie °Eras " .peke me-
&idly es board the Nerrimac of his adventures la the
Diana. He was aewaspanisel on board the Amens
frigate by a yonag Muservite gentlemen whose name and
reek were not keel's. They both tame from Southamp-
ton to the frigate. The Russian admiral was
saluted with thirties gess an his leaving the Minims*.
The remarkable dupe of some of the frigate's goes has
sadist great mulesity, the pivot guns having the appear-
ing, of mammoth black bottles, from the enormous also ef
the linden pasty of Os gun as compared with the einem
fusses of the gm towards the mouth. The brass howitzers,
es boat rens, an board the frigate have alto attracted stea-
titic. Their curtsges appear something like children's per•
ambulation. The guns as be limbered and unlimbered
with remarkable facility, and the apparatus for ruining
than ashore, and guiding sad moving them about on had,
is nay complete sad ingenious. Then haunting throw
&weal shells of about 12. b. weight each.
Is emorqs•ses of the disputes in England about the
treatment of naval meelteal men, It may be as well to saes-
tin that essittantarpons in the American navy do not

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go through the stasrege sow, bet stop at ono* tato the ward
room, where they hove precisely the same accommodation

am the Illentensatisad other offline. The

on board the Merrimac has rosily superb

The whole of the officers of the Merrimac have been in-
vited by the Mayor of Southampton to the banquet to be
given by him to the direetore of the Btropean and Andre-
Use Mail Picket Company and the beads of the Southamp-
ton goveramental department, at the Dolphin Hotel, in that
tows, ea Friday seat, the day previous to the sailing of the
Int mail packet for Australia under the now contract. An
order has been trued by the government to allow the
'Seer of the Merriam to view all the dockyard; and naval

satablishmouts la the kingdom that they mai choose to visit-
The Yerriaae was designed by Dlr. Leath&ll, the chief
naval oonstractor of the American navy. This royal yeast
was procoodiag up Southampton Water one day, when rho
was stopped, sad permission was asked for ono of the maids
of honour sad a mamma bolougiog to the royal house-
hold to view the frigate, which permission was immediately
politely somirded.