The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

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Dovonport Dockyard, and is succeeded lit ‘74 -;,;*
lienwood. who will take up his appointment •
On account of the unsatisfactory rate of em' if
by the Admiralty, and the proposed reductiot tAkran,,/-1
nuation, a number of the skilled meth= ics lete`the-
department at Woolwich, and the authorities are unable to
replace them. A notification to the effect that a number of
shipwrights is required has been posted outside the dock-.
yard gates for some weeks past, and althot igh many appli
cations have been made for the vacant IA rths only a felt,
have been filled. The general reply of tine applicants at
pears to be, " We can obtain double the dockyard pay futra
any of the private firms, as well as an equal atoount •of
privilege."

One of Capt. Blakeley's 41-inch guns, weighing 25 clu
and manufactured for the Portuguese Government, was
yesterday proved at the Woolwich butt, and fired two real ads
satisfactorily.
Orders have been received at Chatham garrison di: e sting
a detachment of the 43d (Light infantly) Regiment, !under
the command of Major T. Holmes and three subra terns,
to be held in readiness to embark for New Zealand, to re-
inforce the service companies of the regiment. The 1 mops
will ombark at Gravesend as soon as the necessary at aount
of tonnage has ix en taken up f,r them by the War Di apart-
ment.

The Lord Warden target, which recently underwent multi
a severe battering during the late trials of ordnance at
Shouburyness, was landed at the Anchor-wharf, Chatl t., cm
Dockyard, yesterday from the naval transport Dove. S, 'a ice
the trials the target has been taken to pieces by a party of
mechanics sent from the dockyard, and the two 41-ix eh
iron plates as well as the inch and a half inner plat es
and the teak backing have all been returned to the ye
A careful examination of the armour plates was mad, 11 by
the officials of the department yesterday, in order t• a as-
certain the quality, of the iron of which they are foi mod,
upwards of 1,000 tons of exactly the same kind of plates
having been received at the dockyard to be batted to the
sides of the Lord Warden and the Bellerophon irc sa-clad
frigates now in progress.
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jolt ieon
the wharf, exhibit the extraand
shell upon each. Twenty shots appear to have str iick the
two plates, one of them receiving eleven of that :a umber.
Of these, eight appear to have passed completely t hrough
the target, the remaining three causing only indextations.
It is, however with the quality of the iron that • the effi-
cials are more particularly concerned, and i n both
plates, which were taken promiscuously.pt from a
stick of
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to be as nearly as possible perfect in quality, Which
es in a marked degree the rapid advance made by
hundredselaof samethe
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Company's theo n,
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our principal iron companies during the last few years in
producing serviceable plates. As already observed, the plate
to which most attention was directed yesterday received no
less than 11 shots, nearly all of which passed completely
through it. Notwithstanding the concussion to which the
plate must have been subjected not a crack beyond a couple,
of inches, and that close to the apertures made by the shot ,
can be detected throughout its surface, while the closenea s
of the grain, as shown in the openings through which th
projectiles made their way, proves the iron to be of pn ur c.
usually excellent quality. The plates were of rolled. iron,
and for some distance along the edges of each the thickness
of the various folds of metal can be easily determined by
openings of greater or less extent. It is as yet undecided
what course will be adopted with the damaged plates, there
being no machinery at Chatham dockyard with which they
can be manufactured.

The Arethusa, 35, 500 horse power, Mr V, F. Johnson
master in charge, attached to the steam reserve is the Mee 1-.
way, is ordered to be taken into. No. 3 dock at Chatham, a t
order to be brought forward for commission,

The Amethyst, 26, attached to the sailing reserve squai;-
ron in Chatham harbour, has been lent by the Admiralty :to
the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to be vsed in shipping tt le
Atlantic cable on board the Great Eastern. The Iris, !; ;6,
which was originally lent for this service, was subsequenhly
found not to adapted for the duty.
Owing to the excessive heat which prevails the roof of
the masthouse in Devonport dockyard became ignited. on
Monday last, but the fire having been discovered promptly
it was soon extinguished, or a serious conflagration might
have occurred.

A clerical error occurred in our military intelligence last
Thursday. It was the 61st, and not the 69th, Regiment
which embarked at Portsmouth for Irelond in the Tamar.
The 69th is quartered at Gosport, under the command. of
Colonel Mackirdy, and has been very successful in obtain.
ing recruits in Hampshire since its arrival from India two
months ago.