The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-15 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
The Warrior and Resistance, iron frigates,
steamed into Portsmouth. Harbour yesterday, and
will be placed in dock.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—John West, engineer, to the
Asia, as supernumerary ; and William Murray, as-
sist.-engineer to the Columbine.

THE ARMY.
There was a field-day at Wormwood Scrubs
to-day at 10 o'clock before his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding-in-
Chief. The Ist and
Artillery
Company took part
the evolutions.
The inaugural lecture of the course to ba delivered
Ronal Engineers was
to the officers and men of tha Roy
given in the lecture theatre at the headquarters of
the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on
Tuesday
evening. The subject was—" On the Solu-
tion of Mechanical Problems by Geometrical Con-
struction," and the lecturer Lieut. T. Fraser, Royal
Engineers. The following is the order in which the
course of lectures will be delivered :—Oct. 15, " Iron ;
cast iron gun metal, as manufactured at Continental
establishments. Influences of structure and compo-
sition upon the durability of cast iron ordnance.
Various applications of cast iron for the production
of projectiles," by Professor Abel, F.R.S. Oct. 20,
" Malleable iron, and considerations bearing upon
its conversion into ordnance and armour-plates; cast
produced by Krupp
steel, as and other German
manufacturers, by Bessemer, &c. ; homogeneous
iron, and the employment of varieties of cast steel
as materials for cannon, projectiles, &e." by
Professar Abel. Oct. 22 "On e application of
the principles of dynamics to practical engineer-
ing," by Professor Pole, F.R.S. Oct. 27,6, Copper,
and the influence of foreign metals, &c., upon its
properties ; objections to bronze as a material for
ordnance ; alloys of copper with aluminium, phos-
phorus, copper and zinc alloys ; ,stereo-metal,'
alloys of copper and iron," by Professor Abel. Oct.
29, " On the connexion of heat with mechanical
problems," by Professor Pole. Nov. 3, "Meteoro-
logical Instruments," by Major Scott, Royal Engi-
neers. Nov, 5, .‘ On steam and fuel,' by Professor
Pole. Nov.
10,"1 its • '
Lead, impurities and their
influence upon its susceptibility to corrosion ;
small arm projectiles, their corrosion, and boy'
guarded against ; corrosion of lead by watcr
s'
and means proposed for avoiding the Brits;o
tamination of water by lead ; their tnpur-
applications of alloys of lead to milsitt3orYthem ;
poses ; white metal fuses, and obi
compound projectiles, their manu
,4 Mechanical
Icfe2ct:t7re and pre-
-17, Theory of
servation," by Prof. Abel.
prime movers," by Prof.
pole. al results obtained by
spectrum analysis and p
and thal-
lium of metals ;
it; detection of very minute P
um,riuitum,
discovery of tho metals cces!
properties of these metals ;
from spectrum analy
hum ; sources and
lecture will be illustrated by
portant inferencerneliirsaw:
by Prof. Abel.
Die
experiments arranged Mr. Luld• Nov. 11, " „
steam-engine, Prof._
Pole. Nov. 21,
4,
m unio.
randa relating to building stones; their variations
in
Dircvel and durability; ~..et.'s of the decay of