The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY" EVENING, AUGUST 90, 1864.'1'

'Salmi an Military.

PORTSMOUTH, Auocsr.l9:

The Bellerophon iron screw frigate, Captain B.
Tatham, made an official trial of her speed at the mounded
mile in Stokes Bay on Friday. In order to brieg her down
to the deep load hue additional weights were put on board,
and the result of the trial was mush more favourable than
had been o:prated. She realised a speed not only greater
than that which she was built to attain, bet ;raster than
was contemplated in the moat sanguine anticipations of
her designer, Mr. Reed. She made several runs on the
mile and underwent a thorough teat, the result showing •
mean speed, at full boiler power, of over 14 knots, and at
half boiler power of over 12 knots. She is now considered
to be • thorough success and • triumph for her designer.
The Hector, 34, iroubigate, le•ptath W. G.
and the Pallas, 6, iron corvette, Captain Matthew Con-
nolly, arrived at Spitheed this morning from Portland.

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WOOLWICH, Aroeirr 19.
ROYAL AILSZNAL.—In the whole of the depart-
ments of the Royal Arsenal more activity is now apparent
than has been the case for some years past. At the Royal
Carriage Department the manufacture of the new iron gun
carriages gives employment to a large number of hands,
whilst the carpenters and wheelers who have been driven
by the iron innovation into another corner of the square
have plenty of occupation. A number of extra men have
been taken on in the gen factories in order to keep pane
with the demand for the Woolwich guns, and the Dial-
square, which had been almost deserted, is now resuming
its old appearance, and several steam-cones and other
apparatus are being erected. The Laboratory Department
is also in full work, and additional labour will be required
for the manufacture of the new pattern cartridges. In the
Rifled Ordnance Factory, owing to the completion of
orders, work is more slack, but the men will, by direction
of the War Department, be employed in the conversion of
service rifiee into breech-loader.
The Nassau steam surveying vessel, Captain R. Mayne,
is now ready for sea, and has received her crew. She will
proceed down the river during the present week to the
Maplin for a final trial of her engines and machinery.
Mr. Thomas Edwards, inspector of shipwrights at Fem.
brokelard, has been appointed acting foreman at Wool-
wich-yard, vice Cornish, promoted to Sheerness yard.
John Gosling has been appointed leading man of joiners
at this yard, vice Baker, superannuated ; George Fay,
leading man of labourers, has been superannuated ; and
William Jones, hired coppersmith, discharged with a
gratuity of 251. ; George Harwood, Charles Brazier,
William Wilson and Joseph Anderson, shipwrights, have
been appointed acting leading men over the hired ship-
wrights recently engaged.
CHATHAM, Auccsr 19.
An Admiralty order has been received at this
dockyard directing models to be prepared of several iron
clads for exhibition by the Admiralty at the forthcoming
International Exhibition in Paris.

The Dee, 2, 220-horse power, Mr. G. Raymond master-
eommander, arrived at this port yesterday, with a cargo of
stores from the western yards.
Yesterday Major-General A. B. Stoneham, the Inspector-
General of Royal Marines, commenced his half-yearly
inspection of this division of Royal Marine Light Infantry
now at head-quarters.
The depot companies of the 2nd battalion 17th Regiment,
and the 106th Bombay Infantry, arrived at Gravesend
to-day from Ireland, in the steamer Lady Wodehouse,
en route for this garrison, where they are to be stationed.

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tions, and especially to that Man* td the lane quantbly
of elastic braid, and to the evidence of the defendanta'
witnesses, that no such property was upon the premises at
the time of the Ow
The jury Itmost immediately returned a verdict for tie
defendants.
Kr. Justice Wines said he should be glad if the jury
would inform him whether they were of opinion chat the
braid which was represented to have been destroyed was
upon the premises at the time of the tire ?
The jury said they were 4 opinion unanimously that it
wu not.
The learned judge expressed his opinion that the jury
had given a right verdict, and this concluded the business
of the assizes.