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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Jan. B.—The Resistance, 18, Captain F. A
Chamberlain, came in on Sunday last from Plymouth 12
days, and Gibraltar five. Sho relieved the St. George, 86,
Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, which left on Wednesday for
England to be paid off. As expected, the Trafalgar, 70,
Capt. T. Mason, left on Monday from Corfu, and is to be
back in about a fortnight, with invalids, prisoners, &c.,
when it is expected she will proceed to Gibraltar, there to
await the arrival of the Royal Oak, ironclad, Capt. F. A.
Campbell, and thence go home to be put out of commission.
The Icarus, 11, Capt..N. Salmon, V.C., arrive' yesterday
from the Pirmus and Kalamata, 16 days from the former
and five from the latter. The English men-of-war at
Athens were the Revenge (flagship), the Meeanee, the Gib-
raltar, the Foxhound, the Trident, and the Boxer. The
Gibraltar was to leave Salamis Bay on the 26th, and enter
the harbour of the Firms. The foreign ships were the
Magicienne, the Mouette, and the Sentinelle (French) ; the
Seehund (Austrian gunboat) ; a Russian frigate in Salamis
Bay, and the Hellas, Greek frigate. The learns will
shortly proceed home to be paid off. Capt. N. Salmon,
V.C., of the Icarus, who has lately received his promotion
from commander, will leave for England shortly, and Flag
Lieutenant H. T. Boger has been appointed Acting Com-
mander in his place. Captain Stirling, of the Chanticleer,
who also lately received his promotion, left Malta last week
;or England, via Marseilles, and his successor, Corn. J.
E. Risk, is expected here from Southampton by the packet
of the 4th of January. In the meantime the Chanticleer
is under the command of her First Lieutenant, A. C. May.
Captain Fortescue, of the Pbcebe, returned yesterday from
Italy. There have been no other movements of her Ma-
jesty's ships since the departure of the mail on the 4th
instant.

Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 150
horse power (nominal), having completed the alterations to
her engines and machinery, and made ready for sea, was
yesterday taken out of Chatham harbour to the Nore, for
the purpose of testing her rate of speed at the measured
mile, Maplin Sands, before being finally handed over by the
dockyard officials to the first-class steam reserve, in readi-
ness for commission. On the occasion of the Recruit being
taken on her last trial trip she proved in every respect a
complete failure. A maximum speed of only about four or
five knots an hour was obtained, and the paddlewheel floats
were at the same tame so deeply immersed in the water that
it was considered useless to attempt to continue the trials.
Indeed, from the way in which the vessel laboured during
her trial a strong feeling of relief was felt by all on board
on the steamer being safely brought up at anchor. Since
the trial alluded to the Recruit has been very considerably
lightened by the removal of some of her heavy stores, toge-
gether with two of her 32-pounder 56cwt guns. She has
still, however, the whole of her six months' sea stores on
board, with the exception of her provisions. With 90 tons
of coals in her bunkers at starting yesterday, together with
about 120 tons of machinery and boilers, 40 tuns of water,
and about 30 tons of anchors, cables, &c., the Recruit drew
Sit 4in aft and Sft 3in forward, and thus being on as nearly
as possible an even keel she was not in the test trim to make
her trial. Chatham harbour was loft shortly after 9 a.m.,
the officials on board being Capt. W, R. Hall, C. 8., com-
manding the steam reserve in the Medway, who superin-
tended the trials ; Mr. J. Biker, chief engineer at Chatham
dockyard, and inspector of machinery afloat; Mr. Hutchens,
assistant master shipwright; and Mr. Rumble, chief engi-
neer in charge of the steam reserve squadron. The Recruit
was navigated to the trial ground by Mr, Blakey, second
master and Queen's pilot, and the engines were in charge
of Mr. J. 11. Brettal, principal engineer. Captain H. F•
M'Killop was also on board during the trial, for the purpose
of testing the new cofferdam or portable dock recently in-
vented by him, and submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty.
On reaching the trial ground, six runs were made over the
measured mile with the following results :—First run, time
5 min 35 sec., speed in knots 10146, number of revolu-
tions 33; second run, 6 min 20 see, speed 9474 knots,
number of revolutions 33; third run, 5 min 20 see, speed
11.25 knots, number of revolutions 32i; fourth run, time
7 min, speed 8.571 knots, number of revolutions 32; fifth
run, time 5 min 1 sec, speed 11.96 knots, number of revo-
lutions 32 ; last run, time 7 rain 2 sec, speed 8.531 knots,
and number of revolutions Z2l. From these figures it ap-
pears
a ls, thato
t r e the,
&c„ on
aon bveearraz
peed of the Recruit, with her
o
10179
knots per hour, which
essin a
is a fair rate for a vessel of her class and dimensions.
On the occasion of her former trial, on the 9th of July last,
the ecruidtuartitnaginehderayemset:dasy's trial resulting from her
speed of 10.508 knots, the
slight Recruit
loss
increased displacement and the quantity of stores on board.
The mean pressure of steam was 221 b, and the vacuum 25.
The temperature on deck wee 44 deg, in the engine-room
96 deg. The weather was favourable for the trial, there
being a slight breeze from tle southward with a force of 3.
At the close of the official suns at full steam a couple of
runs were taken with two cf the boilers cut off, when the
first equal to a speed of 10.651
kno milets, an wdtahs uersencoinndsmmilien i 3: sec,
42 see, giving a speed
equal to 6 186 knots. The average speed at half boiler
power was 8.418 knots, with 26 revolutions of the engines
and 261 b of steam. The Recruit is fitted with a rudder at
both stem and stern, which thus enables her to be steered
in either direction. Some trials were accordingly made to
ascertain her capabilities of leaking a circle when both rud-
ders were brought *
Each helm was accordingly
brought
half speed, and the helm hard sport, the complete circle
was turned in a diameter of rather less than 200 yards, in 3
over to an
min 20 see. Owing to the lateness of the hour at which
in to
angleplaoyf
40 deg. by two men ; when at
the trials to ascertain the speed of the vessel was completed,
it was found impossible to carry out the experiments with
Capt. M'Killop's invention, which had been placed on the
side of the steamer in readiness for use had time allowed.
£he public trials were accordingly postponed until Satur-
day, when they will take place in the presence of various
officials. The Recruit was handed over to the steam re-
serve at the termination of the trials, and will, it is stated,
be shortly commissioned to relieve the iron paddlewheel
*Warner Weser, 6, 150 horse power,
Commander Johnstone,
now in the Mediterranean.
Yesterday it was rumoured at Plymouth that the Edgar,
Black Prints Warrior, and Defence, which left Gibraltar on
the 13th, are to rendezvous at Lisbon until further orders.
The Industry, screw stereship, Master Commander Ed.
C. T. Youell, arrived at Spithead on Tuesday, from Rio
Janeiro, with a few invalids and a cargo of old stores, and
sailed
again
on is
odnesdar morning from Woolwich. The
Industry sailed from Rio on the 22d Nov., 1863. Oa the
29th December she spoke, in lat. 26 60 N,
31 24 W,
the Hamburg ship Orient. and on the 30th, in lat. 31 19 N;
long. 31 44 W, the Bremen ship Helena, from Callao for
Cowes for orders.
The following appointments were made on Wednesday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. the Hon. Victor A. Montagu to
the Racoon—Anthony G. F. Gordon, L. H. Eliot, and W.
Bristow, naval cadets, to the Hector—Philip E. ,Cresswell,
Edmund Hannam, Fred. G. J. Lillingaton, and John D.
Kirkness, naval cadets, to the Prince SConsort—Cyril W.
Cole, Edward Ramsay, John 11. O'Brien, J oeh. IV. S.
Jekyll, Alex. K, B. Granville, and Richard F. Warden,
midshipmen, to the Prince Consort—Henry Crawford, F.
T. de Lisle, and Arthur H. Boller°, midshipmen, to the
Hector—W. Curtin, chief engineer, to the Fisgard, addi-
tional for the Niger—and Charles Beal, chief engineer, to
the Fisgard, additional for the Spiteful,
The following appointments and promotions were made
yesterday at the Admiralty : Capt. S. H. Henderson, to
the Victory, for service in the Urgent—Dr. A. 13eyeon to
be Director-General of the Medical Department of the
Navy, vice Sir John Liddell, retired--Dr. Alexander E.
Mackay, Burg., to the Fisgard, as additional for service at
Somerset-house, vice Bryson—Andrew Edwards and Wm.
B. Risk, assist.-paymasters, promoted to be paymasters—
Wm. Roberts, in the Indus, for the Forth—John Borten,
in the Liffey—ll. W. White in the Blenheim—E. D.
Dooley. in the Euryalus—J. C. Weeks, in the Eclipse—M.
Beaks, in the Racehorse—J. B. James, in the Trafalgar—
T. F, Might, in the Resistance—T. Baldwin, in the Fis-
gard—J. Ritchie, in the Jason—R. W. Topp, in tho Magi-
ciente— and J. Lister, in the Wildfire, promoted to the
rank of engineer.