The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-26 00:00:00

Ponsonby, Thaekwell, De Bathe, Lennox, Hon
Charles Powys, Ferguson Davie, MP, Hon strange
Jocelyn, Donovan :T L Gallwey, Tremenheere, D'Albiac,
Bartlett, M P, Charles D'Aguilar, C B, Burnaby, Sir John
Shelley, Bart, MP, Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart, CB,
Lowe, C B, Lloyd Lindsay, Hugh D Baillie, Airey, C B,
H Sykes, MP, I 0 Travers, CB, M Whitmore Tidy,
M G White, Romilly, Le Touzel, Hinde, Jeffreys, CB,
Clementson, Hon Richard Rowley, MP, Hon Charles
Grantham Scott, Anderson, CB, R Laard, J G Light-
foot, CB, Daniell, Collingwood Dic son, CB, Gilpin, M P,
Haygarth, Gibbon, CB, Erskine, Humfrey, Sir William
Russell, Bart, CB, MP, Robinson, Hon Henry H- ly
Huchinson, Marsden, CB, Wheatley, Forster, W Wood,
Elsey, Lord Claud Hamilton, M F, Bradford, Frederic
Green Wilkinson, Hon John Jocelyn. Bourke, Feilaing,
Askwith, A P S Green, Pinney, MP, Dunne, MP, W
Clarke, Whimper, Rawstone, Gubbins, O'Halloran, II A
Turner, Frederick Tighe, E Price, CB, Caulfield Pratt,
Charles Fraser, V C, Baynes, Douglas, C B, Goulburn,
Wilkinson, Smythe, MP, Bryan Millman, Frederic Spence,
CB, Holcombe, H Clerk, Dickson, MP, Fisher, CB, May-
rick, Hon C D Plunkett, Scriven, T E Knox, C B, Sir
George Everest, CB, FRS, F Percy Nott, T F Blois,
Elwyn Pack, MP, Clark Kennedy, CB, Fane, MP, Wal -
ker, C B, Hope Graham, CB, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Hon
Geoige Devereux, Hon Henry Byng, Pocklington, Cham-
bers, Richard Wilbraham, Lord Eastace Cecil, Edward
Begot, Hammond, Gawler, King, Jervois, George Bent,
CB, Turner, Murray, Cooper, W Hunter, G H G
Teesdale, Gambier, Donnelly, Goulburn, Kennedy, L
Phipps, Twiss, Fletcher, Wyndham, George Cruikshank,
A R L'Estrange Philip Pandas, T 11 Pringle, Crutchley,
Hon H H Clifford, Verschoyle, F E Chapmen, C B,
Browne, CB, Lambert, Bayley, Strange, CB, Barnard, V
Harcourt, Limmons, CB, C S Henry, Conway, Sir Alfred
Horsford, KCB, Hutchinson, Valentine Biker, Vandeleur,
MP, F Beckford Ward; Montgomery,] * Bourne, James
W E Baker, H G Hart, Greville, M F, Hon 0 Dun-
combe, J. W. Pease, George J Garey, Robert Bruce, Arm-
strong, CB, Hopwood, J H Smythe, CB, Barry, T H
Hockley, George Campbell, CB, Nicholson, W Napier,
Fraser Tyner, CB, North, MF, Whitelock, Graham,
Fyers, Myrick, Myddelton Biddulph, William Ridley, Hon.
Somerset Calthorpe, Teush Hecker, A J Taylor, Kemeys
Tynte, Robert Wardlaw, Neville Shute, Ormsby, Luke
White, MP, Green, Allcock, Pipon, Sir George Everett,
CB, FRS.
MAJORS—Cookworthy, Finney, Storer, Thomas S P
Field, Hon Henry Gage, Bligh, Martin, St John Sherving-
ton, H Stevenson, C Wright, Waud, F w Kirby, Sanford,
G W Wallace Carpenter, Mainwaring, MP, Stapylton,
Gavin, M P Vacher, George T Field, Sales, A Leahy,
Ogilvy, It Curtis, T De Courcy Hamilton, VC, Harvey,
Turnbull, Stewart, Puget White, Atherley, Cornwall Legh,
M P, Windsor Parker, M P, B B. Williams, Graham, C B,
Ewart, Craig, W A Dick Reilly Edwards, MP, Milward,
Cumming Bruce, MP, Towneley, Priaulx, W Reed,
Rowley Platt, Hon Charles Keith Falconer, Anson, Ald-
ridge, W H Snell, It B Lawes, Spier Hughes, Somerville
Burney, Henry Wilmott, VC, Balcarres, W Ramsay,
Gage, Pearson, Millman, Pipon, Marcus Beresford, Riley,
Williams, Tillbrook, Vance.
CAPTAINS—Arthur Bromley, Spence, D. Turner, H J
Alderson, W J Eastwick, Griffith Jenkins, CB, Dean
Hoare, De Burgh, Baylis, Robert M Piper, Jay, Campbell,
Hon Augustus Henry Vernon, Sandbach, IV Aubin, R J
D'Arcy, Gordon Ives, C E Barrett Lennard, Edward
Hoare, Walter Stopford, Edward A Collins, Yonge,
Albert M'Murray, Stotherd, Thomas Gonne, Charles
E Mortimer, R. Armstrong Roberts, Labalmondiere, J
W Welch, Henry Gratton, Hon George Windsor Clive,
Nelson, Count M G De Wezele, Remnant Henry
Nangle, E Stanhope Jervois, Ranelagh Thomson, Hum-
berston, MP, Patterson Fox, Freeth, Ross, E Markham,
Wilsone Black, E Vere Jones, Huns Busk, Martin Petrie,
G Hepburn, R J D'Arcy, Lord Charles Bruce, T In-
glis, G Kennedy Shaw, Lamorock Flower, Plummer,
Leo Schuster, J Malcolm Sewell, J Hartley, H Montagu,
E J Dyson, Kerke, W V Greetham, Henry It Martin,
Onslow, Labrow, F S A, Marriott, Matthews, Sharke, C M
Walmisley, Little, Richard Lambert, Warden, Schofield
Patten, C Manley Browne, Charles Dashwood, Shea, W J
Marshall, Thomas Unitt Brocklehurst, Holdforth Festing,
H Greville, Bolton, Keith Fraser, Mansel Jones, Mallon,
Harvey, Bischoff William Lewis Collins, Johnstone, Ellice,
M C Browning, Alfred Byng, Robert Heane, Horace J
Smith, Dunne, King, Dalzell, Percival Swan, John Gollop,
Houghton Platt, Francis It Cox, Macneill, Arthur Wad-
man, De Burgh, Hon Edward Sackville West, Donnelly,
Daniell, Milligan, A H Augustus Durant, Edw Harmar,
Archbald Calvert, Charles F Simms, Eteson, W B. Lewis,
Jervis White Jervis, M P, Henry Cartwright, William
Stacpole, M P, George Barlow, Richard Oldfield, Edward
Napier, W Thomas Hall, Edward Jeffcock, Hon H W
Campbell, Creaton, Fowke, Langton, Pemberton, Pember-
ton Campbell, W C Naugle, W Booth, Millington Synge,
Joseph Moreland, Albert M'Murray, Jas Dixon Mackenzie,
Ross, Waller, John Dowman, Seymour, Wm H O'Shea,
Hon Cecil buncombe, Weller, Forbes. Gennell Rodd, J P
Hook, C Chesney,'G S Hawthorn, Jesse, Moreton J Wheat-
ley, Bolfield, J G Noble, De Vismos, Percival Carleton,
Frederick F Fereday, A Ridgway, Bower St Clair, Ghunies
Kell, Edward Ottley, C Manley Browne.
LIEUTENANTS—A M Boner, Lionel Guy, Budd, Philip,
F A Mant, H W Shoubridge, J G Malcomson, V C, Wyn-
dove, W H Clifton, George Hill, Charles Henry Riley, W
Pulteney Scott, GVRB rowel, T E M'Neale, Algernon
A Stewart, Hill, 11 Edwards, Newsome, A D Eden, A
Wilbraham, Newman, M E Selwyn Tupper, Christopher
Hatton Tumor. Holford, J It Oliver, D F Gabbett, G
Holdsworth, George Thomas Oldfield, Charles Cox, Frank
Hodgkinson, John Fryer, Pargiter de Malvoisin Dickenson,
Caldwell, Newman, Walter Walshe, William Henry Pat:
tinson, Christopher J Russell, William Ii Aahe' Thomas
Duff Cater, Stephens, Robert Arbuthnot, Henry
Doherty, B. Liddell, W A Battine, Lowther, Archibald
DudmgstonUnwin,
Boyd, Percy Kirk, Sterling S J F T
Beanies, Richard Francis Jennings, Salis, Gordon Wat-
son.

CORNETS—A 'Wentworth Gore, C Wilkinson, G Fair.
bairn.

THE ARMY.

ENSIGNS—H A Hebeler, James A Harris,Brooke, Hugh
Cathcart, Clifford Borrer, G De Courcy Morton.
COMMISSARIAT—The Commissary General in Chief
Commissary General Adams, C B, Deputy Commissary
General Maturin.

The public works now in progress at Chatham,
as well as those intended to be carried out at that
garrison during the next financial year, will involve
an outlay of close upon £20,000, which sum will be
taken by the Government for the purpose in the es-
timates now before Parliament. The most impor-
tant of the works contemplated is the erection of a
gymnasium, the cost of which will be upwards of

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral Elliot, the newly appointed Supe- £5,000, exclusive of the site on which it is erected.
rintendent of Portsmouth dockyard, hoisted his flag Of this sum, however, only £2,500 will be taken
of command yesterday at that port. this year, so that the erection of the building will
Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Racoon, 22, probably occupy some time. The importance of a
Capt. Victor Count Gleichen, which has recently gymnasium cannot be overestimated, and the Army
been refitted at Chatham Dockyard, was taken from
Sanitary Commissioners have recommended the erec-
Sheerness harbour for her final trial on Monday tion of such a building at all our large garrisons.
previously to proceeding to sea. The Racoon carries
The site selected for the proposed building is exceed-
an armament of two 1101 b. Armstrong guns, one 'ugly appropriate, being open and easily accessible.
121 b. Armstrong and one 121 b. smooth bore guns for The Commissariat establishment, the works of which
boats, one 121 b. Armstrong fieldpiece, and one 61b. are in a very forward state, is set down in the esti-
smooth bore gun for practice at short ranges on mates at £7,430, of which amount £2,600 has been
the upper deck ; 16 8-inch smooth bore, and four already expended, leaving nearly £5,000 to be
401 b. Armstrong guns on the main deck. The voted for the completion of the building. A portion
most experienced workmen have been employed in of the establishment has been already finished and
fitting her out, which has been done on the princi- taken possession of by the Government, the whole:of
ple most approved in the service, and no expense or the meat required by the troops of the garrison being
labour has been spared to render her, as she un- killed and prepared by a number of the Commis-
doubtedly is, one of the finest vessels of her class
sariat Corps under the superintendence of an o
now afloat. The trial was under the superinten- ffi-
d ter belonging to that department of the service.
dente of Capt. T. P. Thompson, of the Sheerness
The additional buildings now in course of erection,
steam reserve, and took place at the measured mile
off Maplin Sands. Messrs. W. Rumble, inspector and for the completion of which a vote will this
year be required, include a bakery, in which the
of machinery afloat at Sheerness, and Baker, chief bread required for the troops will be baked ; a,
inspector of Chatham Dockyard, were in attend- brewery, barrack-rooms, officers' quarters, and
ante to note the results with respect to the working buildings. The various blocks of buildings occupy
of the machinery, and the condition of the ship was a portion of the Government land on the outskirts
also minutely inspected by Messrs. Moore, of Chat-
the
ethe o garrison.spital for thlenwaidvdeistiaonndtcohtihlderoetnheorfbthueiltdrionogpss,
ham Dockyard, and Martin, assistant-master ship-
now in ro ress 'will '
wright at Sheerness. The engines were in charge
The at Chatham, p g , involve an out-
of Mr. Lawson, chief engineer of the ship. lay of upwards of £3,000, a portion of which has
already been voted. vessel attained an average The estimated expense of re-
of speed at full boiler. power
appropriating Fort Pitt as a hospital for the entire
10.1 knots per hour ; revolutions of engines, 54
per minute; pressure of steam, 201 b.; vacuum, 251 b;
garrison on the removal of the medical school and
while at half boiler power the average speed was invalid depot to Netley Hospital, is £l,OOO, which
7.279 knots; revolutions of engines, 42. The circle
sum will be taken this year. In addition to the
was turned with full boiler power, helm to port,
above upwards of £6,000 will bo required to be
17 deg. with hal,
f-boiler
provided to enable the Royal Engineers to carry on
in 5 min. 21 secs. j ,
helm to starboard, 23 deg. in 5 min. 59 sacs. The their works during the present year.
engines were stopped when going at full speed in The annual distribution of the prizes and badges
16 secs. from the time of moving the telegraph; to those non-commissioned officers and men of the
they were started ahead in 35 secs., and astern in Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry
oftry
25 secs. from dead stop. The Racoon is fitted with
rifle musketry,
have passed
have
their regular
nen
uht. courseir
of walks
various
classes
and
o°
g
trunk engines, 400-horse power, made by Min theessrs.entitle them to the prizes
Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., and common screw offered, took place at a full-dress parade of the ern-
with corners cut off; pitch, 26ft. ; diameter Dift, ; ccra and iinqi of the division at headquarters 3:ester-
length of blade, 3ft. During the trial the draught of Dies having been formed
day morning. The companies Ci p .i, -
1 under the command of Lieut.- 0.. P. H- i ellovvet,t,
water was 18ft.2in. forward and 19ft. 0 in. aft. There i the non-commissioned officers and men selected to
was an entire absence of hot bearings or priming, I receive the prizes were called to the front. The
and the trial was pronounced highly successful ‘ total number whoob!ain edprizes in the Chatham
d
both as regards the machinery and the qualities ofexceeds 200
the b
largest proportion being
in the third class. The best shot in the whole
the vessel. The Raceon left Sheerness harbour on
divisionivisjn °
was Sergeant Denham, but since the prize
was awarded him that non-commissioned officer has
Tuesday for Greenhithe, where she will be stationed
y ng
. It was accordingly until after the arrival of her Royal Highness the died taken by Sergeant Wit-
Princess Alexandra, after which she will proceed:to iNifam.s, now serving With the detachment of Royal
Portsmouth, and remain there until the Royal mar- . manes on board the Racoon, the second best
riage ceremony is over, when she is expected to shot.

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Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., was brought Ile a -.se S
yesterday after three days' practice. The firing at
the sample plates resulted in nothing of particular
interest to the general public or calling for any re-
mark further than that the plate supplied by Messrs-
John Brown and Co., of the Atlas Steel Works,
Sheffield, undoubtedly carried off all the honours.
The firing at the experimental plates proved inte-
resting and important as far as related to the testing
of the two bent plates. The crossed planks of iron
had been tested in somewhat different forms, but on
the same principle, on several former occasions, and
have utterly failed, as they did yesterday, in resist-
ing the blows of the 68-pounder. One of the
earliest experiences gained in convection with ar-
mour plating was that iron divided into small or
separate masses offered no serious resistance to shot,
in whatever way it might befixed on the chip's side
as armour. The crossed planks or plates of iron
fired at on the present occasion were cech 6ft. long
by lft wide and nin. thick. Six of these were
bolted on the Powerful side by side in a horizontal
position, the remaining six being laid over them in
a contrary or vertical position, and the whole 12
thus covering a 6ft. square space. A ship thus pro-
tected by divided masses of metal would be more
easily destroyed by the ordinary 68-pounder smooth
bore gun than a wooden vessel, and free from ,all
armour casing, could possibly be. The result of the
testing of the two bent plates must suggest serious
considerations in relation to the armouring of the
bows and sterns of our ships of war. The supposed
object of the Admiralty in making this experiment
was to ascertain whether any difference existed,
and if so, to what extent, in the shot-resisting quali-
ties of plates bent hot and cold, the latter being
doubtless the-eheaper and more expeditious method.
For this purpose one of the '4,i. "Royal Alfred
plates" was seleetedfrotii-Tte stockin store in Ports-
mouth dockyard, and divided into two parts, each
being then about 70. long by 3ft. 6in. wide. It had
had been intended to bend each of these portions of the
plate to a curve of 4,1-in.from a centre line,but in bend-
ing the one part cold in the hydraulic press,themetal
began to open on the outer curve when the curve
had only reached liin. out of the intended 4-1-;.
Under these circumstances the plate was only bent
further to 2-lin., just half the extent originally in-
tended. The other part was bent hot in the wedge
press to the same extent, but exhibited no opening
of the metal, and was apparently as sound as when
first sent in from the contractors. The plates were
of rolled manufacture, and had been bent across the
grain. The first shot at that part of the plate bent
cold decided its fate, the effects produced by the
shot proving incontestibly that the very operation
of bending the metal cold had completely altered
the structure and nature of the metal, rendering it
to a great extent crystalline and brittle, and worse
than useless as protecting armour to the bows or
stern of a ship, for the broken parts would merely
assist the half-crumbled shot in its further work of
destruction, and, the ship's side once penetrated,
would cover her decks with broken and jagged
pieces of iron, acting as showers of grape upon the
gun's crows, and destroying all life within its reach.
The firing at the hot bent plate was attended with
as much interest. That bent cold, from the open-
ings exhibited in its bending, was not expected to
stand very severe hammering, although the way in
which it broke up astonished every one. The hot
bent portion, however, represented the sides of our
present armoured ships afloat and building, and
therefore strong hopes were entertained that it was
all right. The result showed that it was not so.
This plate stood but little bettor than the one bent
cold in the hydraulic press, and its structure was
also apparently as much changed as that of the cold
bent plate by the bending process to which it had
been subjected. It is requisite here to state that the
plate selected for this experiment was from the
manufactory of one of the best of our armour plate
makers, Mr. John Brown, of Sheffield, a firm at
present unsurpassed, if even equalled, in the
uniform good quality of their plates. With,
therefore, this utter destruction by the pro-
cess of " bending" of all the rigidity and blow
resisting powers of an acknowledged superior de-
scription of armour plate, certainly more complete in
the cold than hot process, abundant material is
furnished for future and most serious consideration
in armouring our ships of war. If a correct judg-
ment may be formed from the result of this experi-
ment, than no armour plate can be bent hot or cold
without serious injury, and the more it is bent the
more it loses its power of resisting shot, until at
length the shot entirely overpowers any resistance
from the plate, at which point the latter becomes a
most destructive agent to the ship it was intended
to protect.
The following promotions and appointments were
made yesterday at the Admiralty :—James W. Arm-
strong, master, and A. M. P. Mackay, master, to be
retired captains; Dr. John Munro to be on the re-
tired list of Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals
and Fleets ; Henry De Ridder, assist-paymaster,
to the Cambridge ; and Wm. G. Atkinson, assist.-
paymaster to the Hastings, for the Ferret.