The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

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No. 22,143,

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1863.4

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breaking up their original formation and assuming a new
position in a long line parallel with the upper terrace, and
from which they only partially emerged during the rest of
the proceedings. The Royal party then returned to the
awning, under whith the VOlunfeer prizes lied -been
arranged. The Princess, who seemed to suffer somewhat
from the damp, chilly atmosnhere to which she had been
exposed during her drive through the town, wore a warm
woollen wrapper over her mauve .silk dress. Lieutenant-
Colonel Bowyer handed the cups and other articles to her
Royal Highness, who presented them-to the winners with
a natural and kindly courtesy which seemed to bespeak an
almost personal interest in the success of each. The prize
list was as follows
1. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's Cup—
Sergeant-Major Medlicott, Christ Church.
2. Lieutenant-Colonel Bowyer's Cup—Private Macrae,
University College.
3. Captain Parker's Cup—Sergeant G. Nosworthy,
Magdalen College.
4. Company Cup—Sergeant Middleton, Magdalen College,
5. Mr. Tyrwhitt's Rifle—Captain Allen, Bralenose Col-
lege.
6. Engraving—Sergeant Davies, Jesus College, No. 2
Company.
7. Engraving—Sergeant Sionhouse, Brasenose College,
No, 3 Company.
8. Engraving—Private Ricketts, St. John's Collage, No.
5 Company.
9. Engraving—Sergeant H. Norsworthy, Magdalen
College, No. 6 Company.
When the distribution of the prizes was concluded
the Princess expressed a desire to see the corps perform
some of their exercises. Lieut.-Colonel Bowyer willingly
acceded to the flattering request, and put his men through
several movements, which were executed with much steadi-
ness and accuracy, and concluded with the marching past
of the whole regiment in open columns of companies. The
rain, which during the whole time poured down steadily
and drenchingly, rather spoilt what would otherwise have
been a very pleasing and interesting sight. At a quarter
past 2 the Prince and Princess retired to the Deanery,
which they again quitted half an hour afterwards, to go to
the Sheldonian Theatre. Among those present at the pro-
ceedings in Christ Church Quad, in addition to the Royal
suite, were the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Granville, Mr.
and Mrs. Gladstone, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of
.London,,CanOn StanleyrDean Trench, Dr. Pueey, &c.
It was a c‘oinfort to leave the streets, ankle deep in mud
and soaked iv th rain, and turn towards the Sheldonian,
where throrigh the open windows the hoarse' roar of the
undergradnat6s carne " easing their minds," as they called
it, With bitter; chaff of high officials, and giving vent to the
pent-up unirhosities of the academic year in a series of
groans and cheers for unpopular or popular Dons, as the
case might b 4. The doors of the theatre were opened at
half-past 1, for though nothing was to be done till 3, yet, as
twice as mans' tickets had been issued as the theatre would,
hold, it was thought advisable to open early that the late
corners, if they had proper feeling, might see at once •they
had no chance-of gettingin. ,Within 10 minutes after it
was opened it was filled with quite as matryes it could com-
fortably hold, and the numbers who were afterwards con-
tinually added made the place at last absolutely intolerable
from its heat and stifling crowd, Of course, on such a day
the badinage and ohaffiing of the. undergraduates in the
gallery' were ten times more rampant and boisterous than
ever. On these days the sight of a white hat appears to
exercise much the slime influence on theundergraduate mind
that a red flag does on a bull, and the individuals who unwit-
tingly strayed into the theatre with these obnoxious articles
of wearing apparel led woful lives, and in some eases were fairly
badgered out of the place in a storm of yells. One unfor-
'tunate, a tall, lanky young man, who to the indiscretion of
white trousers and,huge blue etoele auperadded the aggra-
vation of a brilliant white hat, was reduced to a condition,
of subserviency that was almost pitiable. In vain he defe-
rentially removed the hat and tried to, hide it ; he could not
do the same with.the other portions ofhis dress to which
we have alluded; and .which appeared to excite even as
much ire as obnoxious hat itself. He had been brought
to a proper state of despondency and dismay at the pitiless
storm' of chaff he invoked, and was slinking out, when for-
tunately a professor entered,, even more unpopular than a
white hat, and all the vials of under-graduate wrath were
poured on his devoted head at once. Nothing could be
heard amid the astounding clamour which this divine ex-
cited—a clamour so hideous and prolonged that the staid
constables of the A Division, to whom Commemorations
were things unknown, came into the building at once,
thinking that nothing less than the murder of a Don could
be going forward. This naive appearance of the "bobbies,"
as they were called, and the puzzled aspect with whichthey
looked up at the ranks of yelling undergraduates, as if un-
certain whether or no it was their duty to stop the noise
and restore order, created shouts of laughter, and gave a
new turn to the badinage, " Why did you let in that man
with his hair parted so ?" " take out that chap with the
two umbrellas ;" "won't there be a row when the Proc-
tor sees that fellow with the white hat," and so on, and so
on; and as the police did look in the direction to which
their attention was called such endless instructions flowed
upon them that they had nothing for it but to retreat igno-
minously as they came. Then the undergraduates con-
centrated their attention on the strip of carpet which led
to the upper end of the theatre, and displayed such an
affectionate solicitude for its welfare that the visitor who
unwarily trode on it had a bad time of it ever afterwards.
Then there were cheers for the Queen, Prince and Prin-
cess, hisses and cheers for Mr. Gladstone, applause for
Lord Derby, the married ladies, the unmarried ladies,
the ladies who wish to be and will be married, the
ladies in blue bonnets, and ladies in pink dresses, and, lastly,
as embracing the whole scope of the fair sex, the ladies in
crinolines. The clamour was deafening, the heat and
densely-swaying crowd fearful; it was a perfect academic
Pandemonium, above and below, everywhere save in the
amphitheatre, where the ladies sat comfortably, though they
could not coolly, and surveyed the uproarious scene around
with keen relish of its unmatched humour and banter.
The Archbishops and Bishops, with the great dignitaries
of the College, entered shortly before 3 o'clock, and some—
such as the Bishop of Oxford and Dr. Clarke, the Tice-
Chancellor—were received with enthusiasm ; some merely
damned with faint praise,—not loud enough, indeed, to
quite drown out the hisses. Then, at 3, the Prince and
Princess entered, and a scene ensued which will not easily
be forgotten by those who witnessed it. The whole assem-
blage rose and the undergraduates, starting to their feet
with a deafening cheer, waved caps, gowns, handkerchiefs
in the air, and stamped their feet in the ecstacy of their en-
thusiasm till the building trembled in a manner that was
almost alarming. Never since the Theatre was built have
its walls echoed and vibrated to such a long, hearty, and
absolutely deafening outburst as the young Prince advanced
bowing with his usual kindly courteous grace from side to
side, and leading his young bride, who was quite unable to
conceal the expression of absolute astonishment in her face
at this astounding welcome. With a long experience of these
Royal receptions and festivities, we can safely venture on
saying that we have never yet seen such a welcome as was
accorded to the Prince and Princess of Wales in the Shel-
donian Theatre yesterday.
The Prince wore his uniform and riband of the garter,
and over it his academic gown. The Princess was dressed
plainly and simply as in the morning. With them came
Lord Derby in his splendid robes as Chancellor of the Uni-
versity, the Dukes of Newcastle and Marlborough, Earls
Granville, Spencer, Mount Edgcumbe, Lord Harris, Mr.
and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, Gen. Knollys,
Dr. Travers Twiss, Dr. Liddell, Dr. Jeff, &c.
The Chancellor occupied his own seat, the Prince and
Princess sat on his right in chairs of State ; and all having
taken their places waited patiently till the long cheering
should come to an end. This it did at last, after an interval
of some 10 minutes, gradually dying out, and then reviving
with redoubled force, and again, as some one called out for
" one cheer more," or shouted " the Princess," when again
and again the clamour of cheers broke forth. At last the
Chancellor rose, and would have begun his oration, when
the audience was seized with a fresh fit of enthusiasm, al-
most as long and quite as loud as that which went before,
and Lord Derby had to resume his seat until this had passed
away like the rest, At length comparative quiet reigned,
and the Chancellor rose again, and a silence fell on the
whole assembly so profound as to be almost startling in its
contrast with the previous din. Even the crushed and
heated occupants of the body of the theatre seemed to for-
get their long and tedious sufferings, as the proceedings
commenced with a very long and quickly delivered oration
in Latin from the noble Chancellor. To this address the
undergraduates listened attentively, and rewarded the well-
merited, yet simply paid, compliments to the Prince and
graceful allusions to his fair young bride with stentorian
bursts of applause, There was not the same freedom of de-
livery which marks the vigorous flow of his lordship's elo-
quence in the House of Peers—on the contrary, he stumbled
in his sentences once or twice,but every word of the oration,
though occasionally delivered with far too great rapidity,
was distinctly audible in all parts of the theatre. The
Prince, of course, understood every word of the address, and
listened to it with marked attention, while the Princess, who
must with difficulty have followed the flow of the discourse,
if she was able to follow it stall, at least took the hint from
the undergraduates, and bowed gracefully as they applauded,
The oration is not to be given to the public till it has been
freed of one or two inelegancies of style which even a
peienci sincery interval o f
h e thirty years devoted
to public a
life
his studies
quitted
scholar so accomplished as the noble Chancellor may admit
at the University. The general feeling among the learned
was that, barring these minor defects, the whole oration
was a fine specimen of classic oratory, and one worthy both
without
blush,an te
the speaker and the occasion. At the conclusion of the
address the usual dry formula was gone through, and the
Chancellor presented the. diploma conferring the degree of

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Yesterday their Royal Highnesks the' Prinoe and Prin-
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of disappointments as regards the weather where the Prince
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chilly drizzle and ended in as steady and as heavy rain as
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was thronged with spectators ; every window and balcony
was crowded with ladies; the houses were dressed with
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more or less suited to the occasion, ilutfered in all direc-
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till they were brought to a sudden stop by a most scrubby
arch, in the style known as carpenter's gothic, yet, as far
as real and becoming preparation went, it may be said to
have ceased entirely on the Oxford side of the picturesque
old bridge which spans the Cherwell at Magdalen. Viewed
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through the trees, with the Botanic Gardens en the one
aide, and the old gray windows, filled with flowers, and the
noble tower of Magdalen filling up the middle distance, on
the other. The university and civic authorities arrived here
only a few minutes before the time fixed for the reception
of the royal visitors. The Archbishop of Canterbury, with
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Doctors of Divinity and Medicine, in their Academic robes,
headed the procession, which was brought up by a crowd of
Masters of Arts and College dignitaries. Hardly had this
grave and learned assemblage drawn up in double lines
along the bridge when the rain, which had until now been
gentle, came down with swamping vehemence, and, of
course, in the midst of this the Royal cortege drew up. It
was a plain travelling chariot drawn by four horses, and
preceded by two outriders in scarlet liveries; while in front
of all came the Duke of Marlborough, as Lord Lieutenant
of the county. Just on entering the bridge the Royal car-
riage stopped, and, though the drenching rain might well
have justified their Royal Highnesses in keeping the vehicle
closed, yet the Prince gave orders that the hood should be
thrown back, and for the rest of the route to Christ Church
they bath sat exposed to the heavy, pitiless shower with the
most perfect indifference, and looking almost as if they liked
it. Both the Prince and Princess were in plain morning
costume, and looked pleased with the extreme warmth of
their reception. Unfortunately, just as the cortege reached
the bridge, the pressure of the country people who had
gathered in the Iffiey-road quite overpowered the police and
volunteers in their efforts to keep the pathway clear; and
the Royal carriage was instantly surrounded by a mixed
crowd, whose boisterous and hearty cheering and pushing
to see the Princess marred the very meagre ceremony which
constitutes the presentation of an address. These coarser
elements, which so sadly interfered with the University
display, were with some difficulty weeded out by the police,
and the Royal procession continued its course up the High-
street, amid the most enthusiastic demonstrations of wel-
come, in spite of the drenching rain, which now came down
in streams.

Early in the forenoon the academic seclusion of Christ
Church had been rudely disturbed by the arrival of numer-
ous visitors, armed with passports from the Dean, These
licensed invaders were chiefly ladies, who tripped recklessly
over the velvet award, transformed the terraces which sur-
round the largest and noblest of Oxford quads into a gay pro-
menade, and, even scaling the dingy staircases, took posses-
sion of the rooms overlooking the square, and filled the quaint
old windows with their pretty faces and brilliant bonnets.
Shortly before noon the University Volunteers marched into
the quad, and took up a position in a continuous double
line, forming two sides of a triangle, and reaching from the
gate to the centre of the upper terrace. This peculiar
arrangement was rendered necessary by the fountain and
basin which occupy the middle of the enclosure, and cause
a diversion of the carriage drive. Recruited as they are from
the flower of English youth, and trained at the head-quar-
ters of muscular Christianity, the University Volunteers
are an unusually fine body of men, and their goodly pro-
portions and gallant bearing, which the smart gray and
blue uniform displayed to full advantage, elicited very'
favourable criticism, especially from the ladies. But when
the volunteers had been duly inspected time began again
to hang heavy on the hands of the spectators. For more
than an hour a thin, misty rain had been drizzling down,
and many anxious eyes watched the clouds over Tom Tower,
growing every moment ominously blacker and heavier,
Gradually the narrow patches of blue sky and feeble un-
certain bursts of sunshine, which had served to justify the
hopes of the more sanguine, disappeared. What was at first
made light of as a mere passing shower soon became a
settled rain, and those who had no choice of places sought
the shelter of the porches, while those in the front
rows, unwilling to quit their vantage ground, huddled
miserably together under umbrellas. The situation was now
decidedly unpleasant, and it was a relief to all when, about a
quarter to 1 o'clock, the great gates of Tom Tower swung
open and revealed the outriders of the royal party in their
scarlet livery. Instantly there was a general furling of
umbrellas, as though there wa i
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all
accept the rain in a non-natural
covering was superfluous, even for the most delicate dresses
rsl a unanimous
sense,
or the most gossamer bonnets. All at once the dismal mass
of silken and gingham screens which marked the terrace was
changed, like a trick in a pantomime, into a variegated
throng of gaily-dressed people, as fresh, brilliant, and many-
hued as the prize bank at a flower show. At the same time
the band-atruck up " God Savo the Queen," the Volunteers
presented arms with credible precision and harmony,
and amid general cheering the Royal cortege drove up to
the flight of steps at the upper terrace, where they were
received under an awning by Dr. Liddel, the Dean of Christ
Church, Archdeacon Clarke, the Sub-Dean, and the other
dignitaries of the College. Giving his arm to the Princess,
the Dean led his illustrious guests to the apartments
provided for them in his own house. Lady de Grey and
Ripon, Lord Mount Edgecumbe, Lord Harris, Lieutenant-
General Knollys, and other members of the Royal suite,
followed in the other carriages. The Duke of Newcastle
and Lord Granville arrived a few minutes afterwards.
Daring the next quarter of an hour the spectators again
retired gloomily under their umbrellas, from which they
were not to be seduced by the sight of the 'Volunteers

tge.

The Iron-plated Ship Royal Oak.

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Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, R.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is aecom-
pcnied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
CM the average, than 3,000 out-patiento a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to tdmit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman Esq Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
;; D_ruminond' and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
and Co. .;
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Doctor in Civil 'Law on his Royal Highness, amid pro-
longed applause.
After the usual presentation by the ,Regius Professor of
Civil Law (Dr. Travers T wiss), -the honorary degree of
D.C.L. wtts COnferred on Lord Spencer, Lord Mount Edg-
cumbe, Lord Harris, and General Snollys.
Congratulatory poems were then delivered on the occa
Bien of the Royal visit by two undergraduates, and this was
decidedly the heaviest and least satisfactory portion of the
day's proceedings. As specimens of Oxford poetry they
were ♦ery bad ; as specimens of how the undergraduates
committed their studies to memory they were worse ; and
as speciments of delivery they were worst of all. It
was perhaps a trying thing to address such an assem-
bly, and the confidence of the young men was by no
means restored by the running cmments of the under-
graduates in the galleries—their cries of " Speak up, sir."
" Oh, look at his gloves," &0., and the open smiles with
what were meant to be pathetic portions of their recitals
were received. But there was no excuse fro these gentle-
men not knowing the odes they came to recite. The first
orator came to a dead stop, not aithstanding the continued
and perpetually audible prompting of a friend at his elbow
throughout the whole poem. The second was even more
unsuccessful. He faltered and halted continually, and
apparently missing some parts of the poem, took it up again
at the next line which came to memory, and, turning
towards the Princess, said, " The loving trustfulness of
those eyes," and then stopped again. There was no re-
sisting this—it was apropos to nothing which had gone
before, and seemed so much a kind of confidential compli-
ment to her Royal Highness that there was a shout of
laughter, in which the Princess could not but join, though
she blushed till her face quite glowed again. Nor did the
next line mend matters, when in a plaintive tone the
speaker, looking up to the undergraduates, added, " Oh,
bliss without alloy 1" an appeal to which the undergra-
duates - inhumanly responied, by repeating, " Oh I and
Ah I and Ha I" in tones which could not have much effect
in restoring the speaker's self-possession. At length the
odes were over, and then this special Congregation closed,
and amid the same cheers and shoutings the Prince and
Princess left, and everyone hurried out into the rain, for
there were still a Flower Show to be visited, a Bazaar to
be opened, a Banquet to be eaten, and a Ball to be
danced. Bad as the rain was, however. the Prince and
Princess brayed it in an open carriage as before,
though from her repeated exposure to the rain the
dress of het. Royal Highness mttst by tliat time have been,

to'isay the least, very damp indeed.
In the evening the Prinee and Princess of Wales were
entertained ate a grand state banquet in the Hall of Christ
Church. This noble old hall has lately been renovated, and
on .this occasion presented an exceedingly brilliant appear-.
ance. At the dais, under the portrait of bluff Sing Hal,
who adopted 'Wolsey's work in this instance as he did in
so many other cases, from his palace at Hampton to-even
his tomb at Windsor; sat the Dean and Mrs. Liddell, having
immediately on their right and left the Prince and Princess,
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York,
'Mrs. ThonTson, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Derby,
Lord Granville, Lord Carnarvon, Lord Spencer, Lord
Harris, the T., ady de Grey and Ripon, Lord Stanhope, &c.
At the doctbrs' tables were the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli, Mr,. S. Walpole,
Mr. Newdegate, Sir W. Heathcote, Sir H. Cairns, Mr.
Whiteside, Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, Mr. Cardwell, Sir S.
Northcote, the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Lincoln,
Lord Dufferin, &c. The banquet was otherwise nume-
rously attended by,doctors, masters, and students, and the
cheer with which the toasts of " The Queen," " The Prince
and Princess," and " The Chancellor of the University"
were received made qie roof ring to the echo. The pro.
gramme of the evening 'was completed by the visit!of the
Prince and Princess to the Masonic ball in the Corn Ex-
chan

The official trial `Of this vessel, thitZt4t..of otir 049'1
verted and fully armoured frigates, -commenced on
Monday at the measured -mile hi Stoke's Bay,' near
Portsmouth, under the direction of Capt: H. Broad-
head, cominanding- her Majestrs'ihip Asistund the
steam reserve at Portsmouth. Two previous at-
tempts had been made to commence the trials, but
failed, owing to the rough state of the weather.
On Monday the Fancy gunboat, having Captain
Broadhead and his staff on board, left Portsmouth
harbour for the ship at 8 a.m., and on emerging
from the harbour entrance the Royal Oak came
in full view as she lay broadside on at
Spithead (about two miles distance) with steam up
and her anchor short speak. As seen thus far off
it was almost impossible to conceive anything more
nautically ugly both in the outline of her hu'l and
her rig. The long squat-looking hull, with its
tumble home stem and peculiar shaped stern, re-
sembled some of the large frigates lately built in
French private shipbuilding yards for the Russian
Government more than anything yet seen in the
English navy. The disposition of spars aloft is
precisely similar to that of her Majesty's ship De-
fence, but the disproportion between the hull and
rig of the ship is greater apparently with the Royal
Oak than with the Defence. In the disposition of
the spars and rig there is the same bastard arrange-
ment of mixed systems of double topsail yards, the
stumpy bowsprit forwards, and naked mizen-
mast aft, altogether giving the ship a
look of having been dismasted at sea and
afterwards run into Spithead under jury
rig to receive a new outfit. A closer view
of the ship did not at all diminish this feeling with
regard to the ship's appearance aloft, but the hull
improved considerably as the distance was short-
ened, until, when at last the gunboat steamed slowly
around her, the ship's,real size and truly formidable
character were at once seen and acknowledged. Her
naked stern, with its sharp apex above the rudder,
is doubtless the very form required for strength and
for throwing off an enemy's shot, and well matches
her cutter form of bow, the latter without any en-
cumbrance of head, cutwater, and the weighty orna-
mental mass with which a ship's stem is generally
loaded. With the exception of two main deck stern
ports which give a chance to sweep her gun- desk
from aft to forwards, and which it would be wisdom
to fill in with timber and armour• plating and a ra-
ther too great exposure of the rudder, the hull of the
Royal Oak is to all outward appearance all that can
be wished for in an armoured broadside gunship.

Inboard the ship has fine roomy decks. On her
upper deck she carries three 110-pounder Arm-
strongs, besides the usual complement of boat guns
and fieldpieces. Just abaft the mainmast is the
" pilot house," at present without its armour, and
close to the wheel is Gisborne's patent electric tele-
graph signaling apparatus. This deck, being above
her line of armour, is unprotected except by her
wooden bulwarks and hammock nettings. The
main deck, which is protected all round by the
ship's external coating of armour, and therefore has
no armour-plate bulkheads built across it forward
and aft, presents to the view a continuous battery
of 95cwt. 68-pounders and Armstrong 110-pounder
breech loaders. The ports are.closer together than
those of the iron ships, but there is abundance of
room to work the guns, and a sufficient height
between decks for every necessary purpose and
to assist ventilation. The crew of the ship 'mess
on the lower deck, and the main deck is thus kept
clear of all mess-tables and utensils, which gives it
a much more showy and imposing appearance than
is the case with the main decks of the iron frigates
where the men mess between the guns. The
lower deck of the ship, however, from the fact of
the ship carrying armour all round, is necessarily
unprovided with side-scuttles, is consequently ex-
cessively dark, and, losing air with light, would
very possibly be unhealthy on such a station as the
West Indies. A great deal has been done to remedy
this serious defect, and under the supervision and
instruction of Mr. Baker, chief engineer of Chat-
ham Dockyard, a comprehensive system of up and
downcast air tubing and shafting has been fitted.
This is stated to be quite sufficient for the ship's
ventilation, and very possibly is so while any
strength of wind is passing over the ship's upper
chor in a warm
sufficient with the ship lying at an
in a home port
climate, or even when at anchor .
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nominal, by Messrs. Mandalay, Field, and Son, and
are from the same patterns, with the exception of
some minor improvements in their detail, as those of
ber Majesty's ship Marlborough. They are on the
firm's horizontal principle, with direct action, and
have cylinders of 82 inches diameter, with a four
feet length of 'stroke. The fire grate surface is
565 square feet, the heating surfaces in furnaces
and flue is 2,400 square feet, end the
heating surface of the tubes is 13,300 square
feet. The weight of the engines is 186 tons,
of boilers 206 tons, and of water in boilers when
filled 118 tons. The coal boxes have a measurement
of 24,480 cubic feet, and stow uOO tons of coals—
seven days' consumption. The propellor is a
Maudslay-Griffiths, weighing 11 tons 11 cwt. It
is 19ft in diameter, with a length of. 3ft 101 in, and
is set at a pitch of 27ft bin. It has a varying pitch
down to 22ft, but to alter the pitch at any time the
ship must be placed in dock, as the screw has been
made a fixture, in this following the example of the
French Imperial Marine. The stowage of the ves-
sel below in her holds and storerooms is as near
perfection as anything of the kind can possibly be.
The water tanks are fitted on the plan of Mr. Wallis,
of Portsmouth Dockyard Tide Gauge-office, and by
which means each tank is filled from the conden-
sers, without the trouble of pumping by hand, es is
ordinarily the case. The steering of the ship is
managed by a simple reversion to the old gun-
room tiller, i.e., a long straight tiller projecting
from the rudder-head into the after cabin, in a

line with the keel, and the manner in which the
ship answered her helm on Monday satisfied all on
board that the resumption of the old description of
tiller has given back to our ships some considerable
portion at least of their old power of answering the
helm, even before the introduction of the screw.
The ship has been evidently fitted out regardless
of trouble or expense, and there is but little margin
left for any ,fault-finding in so large en amount of
work. There are, however, two serious faults in con-.
nexion with the ship's armour which it is impossible
to pass by without some notice.' TheUri:l'olli plates,
which are adinirablyimit on the ship, are bolted on
'with galvanised boltis, and every schoolboy knows
the result of placing iron, zinc, and salt water in,,
contact with each other. Thq second error is the
" tapering" of the armour plating at the bows and
stern. Both errors have nothing to do with Chat-
ham yard, both being "by order ;" but both
are most serious, and are being perpetuated
in all 'the iron-cased vessels now converting
in her Majesty's dockyards. It is indeed said that
the "tapering" of the armour-plate has been aban-
doned by the Lords of the Admiralty, and that an
order is about to be issued that the planking of the
ship's side is in future to be tapered in lieu of the
plate, and, that the latter is to be bolted on the
ship's side in all its rough strength.
By the time Captain Broadhead and his staff
had reached the Royal Oak's upper deck from the
deck of the Fancy gunboat the ship's anchor was
hanging Pi the cathead, and by nine a-.m. she was
steaming dut towards the Warner Light, to clear
her fires and otherkise prepare for the race over
the trial ground of the measured mile. The morn-
ing was fine, with a light breeze from W. by N.,
just sufficient to furnish a good draught to the
fires, but not prejudicial to the ship's way when
going -against it. On reaching the lightship the
Royal' Of&'s course was altered, and her head
stokes Bay, where the trials of speed
with full boiler power were at once entered upon
and completed with the following results :

No. of Revolution Time. Speed of Pressure
Run. of engines. M. s. Ship in knots. of steam. mum.
1.. 50 455 .. 12.203
2.. 611 .. 440 .. 12.500
3.. 61 .. 440 .. 12.857
221 b. 22' in,
4.. 61 .. 5 2 .. 11.920 2
5 61i .. 4 30 .. 13'333
6.. 61 .. 5 9 .. 11.650

First mean speed in knots, 12.351, 12.678,
12.388, 12 626, 12.941 ; second mean speed in knots,
12.514, 12.533, 12.507, 12-558. Mean speed of the
ship, 12528 knots,
It as well here to place in juxtaposition the tem-
peratures of the engine-room and stokeholes at this
time, as we have referred at some length to the great
want of ventilation in ships coated with armour all
round, and the means which have been taken to
remedy this evil in the Royal Oak.
In making the first run at the mile the tempera-
tures were recorded as follow—On deck, 6S deg. ;
in engine-room, 73 deg. and 76 deg. ; in the forward
stokehole—fore part, 84 deg.; middle, 109; and
after part, 113 deg. ; in after stokehole—fore part,
103 deg.; middle, 105 deg. ; and after part, 103
deg.

In the sixth mile run they were as follow—On
deck, 69 deg.; in engine-room, 72 deg., 72 deg.,
and 75 deg. ; in forward stokehole—fore part, 91
deg.; middle, 120 deg.; and after part, 112 deg. ;
in after stokehole—fore part, 102 deg.; middle,
104 deg.; and after part, 103 deg.
The speed attained by the Royal Oak must be
considered in the highest degree satisfactory in all
the sense of the words, if it is considered that
the ship's official estimated speed was set down as
111 knots, and that she has actually exceeded that
rate by over one knot per hour.
In considering the Royal Oak's speed, it will be
as well also to remember that she is a wooden ves-
sel, with her bottom coated with Muntz's metal,
therefore not liable to foul in the manner our iron
ships do, despite their protecting pigment covering.
So far as this would affect the ship's speed, then, it
may fairly be reckoned, that if the Warrior, Black
Prince, and Royal Oak were stationed in the West
Indies for three months, the Royal Oak at the end
of that time would be the fastest ship of the three.
It is almost needless to refer back to the fact that
the Royal Oak, like the Prince Consort, Caledonia,
and Ocean, is an armour-cased frigate, converted
from the frame of a 91-gun screw liner. Her en-
gines having been made from the same patterns as
those of the Marlborough, 131-gun screw three-
decker, now the flagship of Vice-Admiral R. Smart,
K.H., Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, a
comparison between the performances under steam
of the lofty three-decked steamship and the long
armour-plated frigate may be interesting.
In the " light draught" trials the conditions and

results were as follows :—Marlborough, tried May
12, 1856.—Draught of water, 21ft. lin. forward,
and 22ft. 10in. aft. ; displacement of hull, 4,510
tons; speed of ship 11'866 knots. Royal Oak,
tried March 24, 1863.—Draught of water, 20ft. 4in.
forward, and 23ft. lin. aft; displacement of hull,
said to be 6,500 tons ; speed of ship 12.480 knots.
In the seagoing draught of water trials the condi-
tions and results were :—Marlborough;tried June
1, 1858.—Lengthbetween perpendiculart
of water,
245 ft 6in.;
extreme breadth, 61ft. 21i0.; drfatug.
displacement
h
25ft. 4in, forward, and 27,tt. 3
of hull, 6,050 tons; speed of 11.233 knots.
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Length between
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Royal Oek, tried June
extremelo breadth, 58ft. sin. ;
, 1863•
perpendiculars, 2 I aft. ,
draught of water, 23f t.Bin. forward, and 25ft. 7in.
ull, 7,430 tons ••, speed of
aft. ; displacement of h
ship, 12.528 knots.
At the close of the full-power runs it was re •
solved to anchor the ship again at Spithead until
the following morning, it being impossible to con-
clude the whole of the trials, including the runs at
half speed and the testing the turning powers of
the ship in making circles in one day, and the ship
was accordingly steamed into Spithead and her
anchor dropped in nearly its old position.
Soon after the ship brought up Vice-Admiral Sir
Miahael Seymour, G.C.8., Port Admiral and Com-
mander-in-Chief, steamed alongside in the Fire
Queen steam tender, Master Commander Pad, and,
hccompanied by Captain A. Campbell and Com-
mander Soady, privately inspected the ship.
It is almost needless to say that the working of
the ship's engines and boilers gave the greatest
possible satisfaction, and reflected the customary
credit upon the manufacturers, Messrs. Ilaudslay,
Field, and Son, of Lambeth.
Yesterday morning the ship weighed anchor at

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