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London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

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The Lords of the Admiralty have directed Roar-
AcbzairslY. Bullock to place himself in communica-
' *lth thW6ffieials connected with the Chatham
steam` reserve, as well as with the officers of the
dockyards at Sheeiness, for the purpose of tho-
roughly testing the efficiency of his invention for
measuring with accurst* the speed of ships at sea.

STAMPED ~..sd.

on their The metal curves on the decks of the whole of the
ships fitting for the first division of the Chatham
steam reserve, as well as of those already attached
dtooctkhyatarddivoifficina,ls are t
whoo be
i carefullysio inspected by the
condi-
tion previous to the vessels being commissioned for
service at sea.
,wareport

The Fawn, 17, 100 horsepower, is being brought
forward for sea at the Nore, with all possible de-

spatch. Orders having been received at Chatham
for her to be hastened forward ior commission, as

she is intended to relieve the strew steamer Despe-
rate, 8, 400 horse power, Commande6. T. Thrupp,
{ attached to the West India squadron, and not the
Greyhound, 17, 200 horse power, as previously an-
nounced.

HOME•

The old, line-of-battle sailing ship Duncan, 74, for
several years past employed as a, lazaretto ship at
Stapgate-creekida almost entirely demolished-, and
by the close of the present week the shipwrights

and labourers at Chathasa dockyard will have en-
tirely broken her up. Many of her timbers are still

exceedingly sound, notwithstanding that the Dan-
can was built upwards of half a century since. The
best are being conveyed to St. Mary's Island, where
they will be used in the works in progress for the

extension et Chatham dockyard.
Her Majeaty'a2Lgan sorowvorvettaWavereaeo

1,702 tonsoras yesterday Witted vitt of Witt' at
Woolwich, and floated into No. 2 dock to be pre-
pared for sea service. The lirolverina is built on 'the
same principle as the,unfdriunate is
intended forthe Australian station: •

' 'The armour-clad- ship- Caledonia, undoPked- on
'Monday at Woolwich,' 'and 'afterwards. itibored att
Pprfleet, ivasyesterday morning towed up the rife;
and'received in the Victoria .Docks, where sloe will
rem* until the spring tide at the , commencement
of NOveMber, to be fitted with herboilers and init.
clj . The shipwrights and other artificers, 300
in numbetvemployed in the construction pf the in.
tenor apcptAmoFlation of the tship have been granted
an additional 2s.per day, termed "sleeping money,"
to indenAnilfx-them for the extra expenses incurred
by their Alisenee from home. Admiral Gold-
arrival,of
• the Caledonia yestertiarmarfiing.
smith,, and other naval officeri,, awaited
in
the
Woollich Dockyard as she 'passe ap the;
river; and' expressed ltdminition" of
'her 'aPpdtiiiiiee:
Notwithstanding the enormous weigllt:,'of;her; ea-
mour and other applianbei.:ddilectiiiiiii:Ale
launched, weighing over 1;500 tipipit, she floated Up(
on the surface of .the tide with neniaikabhi'steadi-
ness and buoyancy. Being inylided,:to ,ttet!iks'' a '
ram, she is unprovided with a flgure•head.. On her
removal from dock she will be taken down to Bheei4
nest to be completed for sea.

mr, Thornton
afikietant-master shipwright of
Woolwich, having completed. his survey of the
Calais and Dover patket:Breete--,-abuut 'catty-the
French mails, yesterday. left Wepliich, by order or
the Admiralty, to survey the Patiflc-Steam Davi*
gation'Compapy's ship Chile, at • '
Her Majesty's steam storeship Fox yesterday
arrived at 'Woolwich 'from Pembroke, 'and Was -
'hauled into basin to ship boilers and machinery, for
Mr. Reed'a experimental iron-cased ship Repulse.
The Hecate, *fir steamer of ' 700 tons burden, _
carrying six guns and under the command of Capt.
Richards, which was lying in Port Jackson at the
last'dates, was about to leave for England via Beek
tavia-and the Cape of Good Hope. ,The Hecate has
been engaged ea ,aspientific and surveying voyage
extending over seven years. She left Vancouver's
Isfand Dec. '22, 1862, and having touched at San
Franeisco, proceeded to Honolulu, where she ar-
rived March 17. She left the Sandwich Islands on
April 21, and made Fanning's Island May 8. She
touched at Humphrey's and Reardon's Islands, and
also at several islands from which the natives have
been recently been kidnapped by slavers. Sunday
Island has been stripped of its inhabitants, and the
plantations and settlements in the other islands in
the vicinity have also been completely destroyed.
It is understood that the plans and reports sub-
mitted by Mr. Scamp, C.E., Deputy Director of
Works, to the Board of Admiralty for the extension
and improvement of Portsmouth Dockyard have
been approved, and that a bill embodying the de-
tails of this scheme will be laid before Parliament
early next session. Of late Mr. Stansfeld, M.P.,
Junior Lord of the Admiralty, has visited Ports-
mouth daily, and in addition to investigating the
dockyard system of accounts has spent considerable
time in acquainting himself with the requirements
of the port.
The ships of war on the Australian-station at the
date of the last advices were the Harrier, 17, Capt.
Sullivan, at New Zealand ; the Miranda, 14, Capt.
Jenkins, at Sydney ; the Eclipse, 4, Capt. Mayne,
at New Zealand ; and the Hecate, 6, Capt. Richards.
The Miranda has been undergoing extensive re-
pairs for some time at the hands of Mr. Cuthbert,
of Sydney. Dry rot was discovered to have pene-
trated the hull in so many places that it was neces-

sary to lay both sides Open. She was, therefore,
placed in the Government dry dock and stripped ;
several portions of the frame have been taken out
and replaced by colonial timber, and the frigate is
now again ready for service. The Australian Steam,
Navigation Company has constructed a gunboat for
the New Zealand Government, intended for service
on the inland waters of that colony. She is 140 ft.
holes, generated. The
in length, 20ft. beam, Bft. 6in. depth of hold, and.
will draw only 2ft. 6in. of water, She is built of
h
sin. iron, is fitted with four water-tight compart-
ments,
propelling
engines.
g ineo
.On deck
power
consists of an overhanging stern wheel with feather,
aing
eplaced
la
floats,
actesn:driven bullet-proof.
byeach 7ft. in diameter, the
two
cupolas,3 - The
se oor
sides being pierced for rifles ; these cupolas are
placed on forward and the other aft, the communi,
cation being from below. A, it was important to
protect the gunboat in the event of her getting
aground, a 3-inch pipe is carried fore and aft, flush
with the gunwale, and connected with one of the
twopipe
ibeopilieerrsceidnwwithih cahsesrtieeasmof is
oles,so that a con.
tinuous jet of scalding hot water could be thrown
from the gunwale should an enemy come alongside,
The gunboat affords accommodation for 300 men.
Capt. Harris, three sergeants, and four corporals
Royal Marine Light Infantry, were yesterday
ordered to leave Woolwich for Lincoln on recruit,
ing service, the strength of the corps, 18,000 of all
ranks, having diminished about 1,000 in consequence
of dismissals, deaths, &c.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander Stapleton J. Orel
ville to the St. Vincent, vice Commander Lowther ;
Lieut. George W. Carter to the Asia ; the Rev,
Francis Hannan, chaplain, to the Gibraltar ; George
Foster, naval instructor, to the Gibraltar ; and Jas,
N. Hall has been nominated to naval cadetship.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1863.

For France, the situation at this moment is cer-
tainly momfantous. At one and the same time,
tb.ere is an imminent possibility of the Empire being
engaged is a war with Russia and a war with
America. The juncture looks ominously in this
way befn at St. Petersburg and at Washington.
Angry feelings, in regard to the course pursued by
the EItIPEROR'S Government, appear to have sprung
up almost simultaneously, far to the east in the
great Autocracy, far to the West in the
great Democracy. So far as these ill feelings
have arisen within the Imperial Councils
of the CZAR, they have been there engendered by
the irritating influence of a long and rather sharp
diplomatic correspondence. In its origin, the ill-
'6ll now, every successive mail, more and more
4btrily manifested towards the Emperor NAPO-
L 4c* by the Federal authorities at "Wash-
iD
gt°ll, is traceable to a vary different source
indeed----not so much to words written or
spoken, as to acts visible or inferred. The
occ upa tic%
of Mexico by French troops ; the
proclivity t,t the
EMPEROR'S policy, by preference,
towards tue a
-4uth ; the building up of an empire,
at his IVlai
4rt's instance, cheek by jowl
with the disrupt
republic of North America ;
the favourable
teeption granted in Paris
to the representative of the Confederate
power, the rebel power as it is considered to be at
Washington ; even the r ‘lnoured, we must add the
akstirdly rumoured complicity (or whatever else it
-may be called), of the Goverment of NAPOLEON
111. in the ordering of tbt,te
from the -two nominally
En
Egyptian steam rams%hall shipbuilder's
yard at Liverpeol—each and all at
these things
have had a share, more or less direct,; provoking
ill-blood towards France, or at any rate towards the
ruler of France, among the angry population of the
North, as well as among the F 6 deral.Admirastarats at
Washington. All this while, however, it is certairas.
due to the Government of his Majesty the French
EMPEROR, to assert that, so far as acts go in regard
to America, that is to say, in regard to the Federal
power in America, that so far as words go, the
written notate of diplomacy, in regard to Russia
neither the Federals on the one hand,
nor the Russian Autocrat upon the other,
have any grcunds whatever for complaint
against the Governme'ot of NAPOLEON 111. In
respect to the affair of the two steamers at
Liverpool there is no case at all that can in any
way be made out against the ExPEßon's Govern-
With that transaction he has nothing what-
ever to do. It is a matter resting entirely hitherto
13etween a private mercantile firm in
'era's theFrances,htihpe-
7'a's Government in Egypt, and
builders in England. Our Foreign Secretary seems
bent, however, upon assuming to himself, in the
transaction, the full weight of whatever respensi•
biliry may bo involved in the settlement of it.
Whether be will be backed, in E 0 doing, by Parlia.

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