The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The Duke of Somerset and the other Lords of the
salty are expected at Devonp )rt to-day. They dine at
Mount Wise to-morrow with Port Admiral Sir Charles F.
Fremantle, K.C.8., and on Saturday hold a levee in the
office of Admiral Superintendent Thomas C . Symonds„,
C.B, The number of receptions is limited to 30.,
The screw steam storeship Fox,'.!, having embarked super-
numerary seamen, left Plymouth. on Monday for Liverm•ol.
The screw steam sloop ltr.cer, 11, with the gualwats
Wizard and Tyrian, lett Plymouth on Tuesday for the
Mediterranean.
The screw steam corvette Clio, 22, was appointed to leave
Plymouth yesterday with the tugboat Turtle.
The Pl 3 mouth division of the Royal Marines, in three
battalions, were inspected in the Brickfield, ou 'Wednesday
by Major-Gen. Stransham. Colonel Gascoigne, C. 8., tl ,e
Commandant, directed the movements of the brigade-dr',ll,
and Col' C°"lleY put the men through the manual pla-
toon, and bayonet exercise. The progress of the division
appeared to be satisfactory to the Inspector-General.
The Terrible, 21, 800 horse power, the largest paddle-
wheel steamer in the !British navy, fitting for the first divi-
sion of the steam reserve in the Medway, will,
according to
an announcement received at Chatham, be commissioned
for service is the Mediterranean as soon as completed.
During the time she was in dock she was almost rebuilt.
and her engines and machinery taken out and thoroughly
repaired. Her lower masts have been put on board, and
every expedition is to be used in fitting and • her
for commission. preparing
The Tamar, screw troopship, Capt. Stirling, sailed from
Portsmouth yesterday morning for Dublin, with the 69th
Regiment on hoard.
The Medical Director-General of the Navy,'Dr A. Bryson visited Chatham on Tuesday afternoon, and was occupied
some time in the inspection of Melville Hospital and the
other medical establishments of the port, it being his first
official visit since his appointment.
The patent compositions to prevent fouling, with which
the Recruit, 6, iron paddle-wheel, 160 horse power, now in
No. 2 dock, Sheerness, was recently coated, have been
scraped off for the purpose of testing the relative merits and
deciding the superiority of the patents. In The Sun of tb a
sth inst. it was reported in the naval intelligence that tl is
port side of the vessel was coated with Mr Hay's compel d_
tion, the starboard aft with Mr Crispin's, while the st ar-
board forward bad a coating of Mr Wilson's; that it -a-as
found on inspection that the port and starboard aft peek, of
the vessel, to which Messrs. Hay's and Crispin's pate nts
had been applied, exhibited a considerably greater amount
of fouling than the starboard forward part, which had 'been
coated with Mr. Wilson's patent; but that Mr Wibion's
composition showed mere corrosion of the bottom of the
vessel, which is of iron, than the other patents. The com-
positions having now been removed, it is evident that there
has also been considerable corrosive action going on under
both Mr Hay's and Mr Crispin's coating, and that the bra:-
nodes have eaten through the composition, and have be-
come so closely fixed to the bottom of the vessel that on re-
moving them the part to which they were attached, and
which had become corroded, was also removed. The r osult
is that if any there is less corrosion on the part covered by
Wilson's composition than on the parts coated with Messrs
Hay's and Crispin's compositions, and most decidedly con-
siderably less fouling.