The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-17 00:00:00

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STAMPED ...aid

Horse Guards, S.W., Nov. 12, 1863,

" Gentlemen, —I have had the honour to receive
and to lay before the Field Marshal Commanding
in Chief your letter of the 11th inst., in which you
re-quest that the two additional charges therewith
transmitted may be preferred against Lieut.-Colonel
Crawley, of the 6th Dragoons, at the approaching
court-martial.

"In reply, I am directed to acquaint you that his
Royal Highness does not propose to make any addi-
tion to or alteration_ in the charges upon which
Lieut.-Colonel Crawley has already been informed
that he will be arraigned.—l have the honour to
be, gentlemen, your obedient, humble servant,
" J. YORKE SCARLETT, A.G.
"Messrs. Thorndike and Smitb, 11, Staple-
inn, W.C."
Naval and Military Intelligence.

The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 39, Captain
Rowley Lambert, was appointed to leave Plymouth
yesterday afternoon for the West Indies.
The screw steam corvette Pelorus, 21, Capt. H.
Boys, having been repaired and refitted, and having
had her machinery tested in Keyham basin on
Saturday, was removed yesterday into Hamoaze,
and placed alongside the hulk Pique to receive her
crew. She will probably to-day make a trial of her
engines at sea, preparatory to departure for her
destination.
One of the new 300 pounder guns intended for
experiment on board the gunnery ship Excellent
was yesterday mounted on its carriage and slide on
the wharf at Woolwich for trial, in the presence of
Brigadier-Gen. St. George, president, and the other
members of the Ordnance Select Committee of
Woolwich Arsenal. The breech of the gun is raised
or depressed on Lieut. Roche's system. The appa-
ratus is worked and is moved by a small pinion,
tworkinggun,
andint a
o a rack formed on a hoop encircling
quoin is thrust under the breech
when a proper adjustment has been made. The
trial appeared to be satisfactory, and the gun and
fittings are to be forwarded by an early opportunity
to
HPeorr u
joes tt hy
s screw steamship Racer, 11 guns,
150 horse power, at Woolwich is ordered to be
taken up by the shipwright department, and put in
progrless
efeocir
ucommission.
great amount of work con..
nected with the audit department at Chatham dock-
yard, and the incompleteness of the returns relating
to that branch of the establishment, a number of
shipwrights were yesterday transferred to the
audit-office in the dockyard, to assist in the com-
pletion of the accounts
.and documents relating to
that department.
We are requested to state that the hammered
plates supplied to the Caledonia at Woolwich were
manufactured by Messrs. Hill and Smith, of Briefly.
hill Works, Staffordshire.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock to
the Aurora, commissioned ; Capt. A. C. Strode to
the Vulcan; Lieut. Henry N. Knox, Lieut. Thomas
Hooper, Lieut. F. W. B. H. M. Heron, and Lieut.
John C. Smail, to the Aurora ; Lieut. T. M. M.
Wynyard to the Royal Adelaide ; Lieut. Chas. B.
Theobald to the Wasp; Thomas W. Jewell, staff-
surg., to the Aurora ; Philip W. Govett, surg., to
the Wasp; J. F. Kynsey, assist.-surg , to the
Aurora ; James C. Allen, assist.-surg., to the Wasp;
J. A. Macdonald, acting assist.-surg., to the Aurora;
Henry C. Pool, paymaster, to the Aurora ; Henry
Knight, assist.-paymaster, to the Aurora; Reginald
J. Meek, clerk, to the Aurora ; aud Mozart
assist.-clerk, to the Aurora.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Nov. 10.—Her Majesty's ship Queen,
16, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, left Athens on the3ls
t nit.
for Corfu, Malta, and England. She arrived at Corfu
on the morning of the 4th inst., and having em..
barked military invalids, women, and children, left
under steam on the 6th. She arrived at Malta on
the morning of the Bth, after a fine passage. The
following is a list of the naval and military super-
numeraries, &c., on board—Eight seamen, pen-
sioned ; 12 ditto, dismissed the service as objection-
able characters ; one man under sentence of court-
martial; 25 naval invalids; 63 seamen for disposal
in England; 3 ditto for Malta Hospital; 10 dis-
tressed British seamen, crew of the late British
bark Star of the North ; 3 military officers, 93 sol-
diers, 14 women, and 23 children. The Star of the
North, John Watson, master, 370 tons, belonging to
Charles Alcock and Co., London, laden with Indian
corn, from Kustendji for Cork or Falmouth, was
wrecked on Oct. 13 last at Mandilli, during the
night, the master having mistaken one light for
another. The ship went topieces the following day.
Her Majesty's ship Trident brought the crew to the
Pirzens, and they are to proceed home in the Queen.
There were at Corfu her Majesty's ship Liffey, 35,
screw frigate, Capt. G. Parker, and the Firefly,
surveying ship, Commander A. Mansell. The Wan-
derer, 4, gunvessel, Commander M. C. Seymour,
and the Surprise gunvessel, Commander W. H.
Whyte, were on the west coast of Greece. It was
reported that the Liffey was about to be sent to the
coast of Syria. Her Majesty's despatch vessel
Psyche, 2, Lieut.-Commander It. Sterne, left Malta
on the Bth inst. with despatches for the Commander-
in-Chief at the Pincus. The Queen is under orders
to leave far England on Wednesday or Thursday to
be paid off,
On Sunday night a telegram from' the Prussian
Government was received at Plymouth, ordering
the immediate return to I)antsic of the Prussian
ships of war, Niobe, 24, Captain Kuper ; Musquito,
12, Captain Hassensein ; and Rover, 10, Captain
Warpfan. The Rover arrived in the Sound on the
21st Oct.; the two others on the 24th. The three
ships were then bound to Madeira, the West Indies,
and New York, for the exercise of their crews,
among whom there are mare cadets, and would
have left as usual in a few days but for the course
of political events i;1 the North of Europe. They
will probably leave the Sound at noon today.
The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. Arthur A.
Cochrane, C. 8., in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth,
has, according to established custom, had her hull
below the water-line and the compositions and ex-
perimental sheathings with which it is coated exa-
mined and reported upon to the Admiralty by the
officials of the dockyard. It is four and a half
months since the Warrior was in dock. She was
then coated below the water-line with the preser-
vative and anti-fouling compositions prepared by
the Admiralty's Chemical Assistant, and at the
same time had three patches of " Brown's vitreous
sheathing" attached to her port side. The ship's
bottom, as she now lies in dock, has the appearance
of a well-made thrummed-mat, being covered with
a fine crop of tuft weed, which must haee grown
at the rate of about three-quarters of an inch per
month since the ship has been afloat to reach its
present condition. The vitreous sheathing had less
of this weed upon it than the compositions, and
they have adhered to the ship's bottom with two
exceptions. It is impossible, however, to say how
far these small plates (which are about 12 or 14in.
in length and about 4in. in width, and are attached
to the ship's bottom by a hot cement) have pro-
tected the iron until they have been removed, and
the surface has been laid bare and examined. The
same remark will also apply to the composi-
tions, for there are signs of corrosion,
over the lines of rivet heads at the ship's
bows that require to be very closely looked
into. On one occasion of the Black Prince being
docked at Portsmouth it was discovered that not
only had the anti-fouling composition attacked the
lower edges of the tier of armour plates where they
had been bevelled off with the cold chisel and file,
and the fibre of the iron thus laid bare, but that
the majority of the rivet heads throughout the
bottom were also attacked in a similar manner. It
may be, perhaps, a matter of a great moment whe-
ther a ship's lower tier of armour-plates is slowly
eaten into by anti-fouling compositions and pitted
with innumerable holes ; but it is a matter of serious
moment when the rivets of a ship's bottom plates
are being thus gradually and surely destroyed, that
is, so far as their holding powers are concerned, and
this is precisely what remains to be ascertained in
the case of the Warrior. Nothing certain, however,
can be stated on the subject until the compositions
have been scraped off, and an opportunity thus
afforded for a full examination of the ship's bottom
plates and their fastenings. There are existing in-
dications of mischief to the rivet heads at the bows
of the ship to warrant a careful scraping and ex-
amination of every part of the ship's bottom from
keel to water-line. In board the ship is in
splendid
order. Many improvements have been made since
the ship last lay in dock at Portsmouth, butthe
possessing the greatest novelty is one
the introduction
of "ozone gas" into the engine-room and screw
alley. Two small copper reservoirs, holding about
a quart imperial measure each, contain a supply of
spirituous oil which flews by
a pipe, after the
manner of a caged bird's
water fountain, into a
small copper enclosed trayfilled with sponge.
Through this a stream of atmospheric air is blown
by a pipe from a pump (the latter set in motion
by a weight and Pulley), which, passing out by
a discharge pine
at the opposite end of the tray,
passes direct to the burners. There it gives out a
beautiful white light,
Au with comparatively no heat.
apparatus for the supply of a dozen burners may
be carried under the arm. It requires no gasome-
ter, and its use entails no danger to the ship. It
emits no smell when burning, nor does the vapour
itself, when allowed to escape unbarnt from the
nozzle of the burner. Its use entails no attention
beyond the winding-up, once in 24 hours, o•
small weight which sets the machinery of ti.et: theair
pump in motion. Its cost is one-fourth that of the
paymaster's
candles served out for use from the

stores of the ship.
The Malacca, 17 guns, screw corvette, 200 horse
power, Captain Gerard J. Napier, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday afternoon, from Malta and Gibral-
tar, sailing from the latter place on the 29th nit.
The passage from Gibraltar has been made chiefly
was experienced until
under sail. Fine weather

heading the Lizards, :tie-
rally foul winds. A pen-
sioners have arrived in and
Gibraltar. The Malacca A pt.,
1861, and has consequently natT, yetlcon4eted d he
ordinary term of a commission. Her return to
England is in consequence of leg Ell proceedings
11 arising out of a recent naval court= rtial, by the
sentence of which one of her lieutenants was dis-
missed the service.
At the sittings of a naval court-martial, ass em-
Major Lilley was himself compelled to perform
all the painful offices which the state of his bled yesterday on board her Majesty's ship VictiirYt
wife required, and this under the eyes of sen- 1 under the presidency of Capt. A. A. Cochrane, C,.8.,
tries posted day and night, within two feet of I lam Bishop and William Neville, seamen, doitl,'
his wife's bed, as sworn to by the late
,duty
I.t on
of quitting
.her .Majesty's ship Edgar, were found
giving his evidence at genl:,eYd ot quitting the ship without leave, and sen-
Sergeant-Major Lilley when
the Mhow courtmartial, and by such inhuman con- t to ten weeks' imprisonment, with hard. labour. acket, bandsmen, also serving on
duct causing, or mainly bringing about, the death
board 1-er
,Majesty's ship Edgar, was sentenced to
of the said Sergeant Major John Lilley."
ix months imprisonment, with hard labour, and
disniaissa/ with disgrace from the service, for ' steal-
ing t,,vo pairs of trousers from Lieut. E. Wondem-
faik, of the RoyAl Swedish navy, g. doir du t
supernumenry lieutenant on board her'y24
Majesty's
ship Edgar.
The iron-ship Black Prince, 41, Capt. James F.
B. Wainwright, having received a complete coating
of Hay's composition, will b 3 removed from the
Prince's dock at Devonport to-day.
The screw steam-sloop Falcon, 17, Corn, G. ii.
Parkin, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday, for Au-
stralia.