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 followin g appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—John 'Vest, engineer, to the
W
Asia, as supernumerary ; and William Murray, as-
sist.-engineer to the Columbine.

THE ARMY.
There was a field-day a
to-day at 10 o'clock before bits Wormwood
Royal Scrubs
al Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding-in-
Chief. The Ist and 2d Life Guards and the mounted
Artillery Company took part in
troop of the 'la-
the evolutions.
The inaugural lecture of the course to be delivered
to the officers and men of the Royal Engineers was
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 echanical Problems by Geometrical Con-
structi Mon," and the lecturer Lieut. T. Fraser, Royal
Engineers. The following is the order in which the
course of lectures will be delivered :—Oct.ls, " 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
steel, as produced by Krupp and other German
manufacturers, by Bessemer, ; homogeneous
iron, and the employment of varieties of cast steel
as materials for cannon, projectiles, 8,:c." by
Professar Abel. Oct. 22, "On the application of
the principles of dynamics to practical engineer-
ing," by Professor Pole, F.R.S. Oct. 27, " Copper,
and the influence of foreign metals, &0., upon its
Properties; objections to bronze as a material for
ordnance ; alloys of copper with aluminium, phos-
phorus, copper and zinc alloys ; ' istoreo-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, " Lead, its impurities and their
influence upon its susceptibility to corrosion ;
small arm projectiles, their corrosion, and how
guarded against ; corrosion of lead by waters,
and means proposed for avoiding the con-
tamination of water by lead ; their merits ,
applications of alloys of lead to militarypur-.
poses ; white metal fuses, and objections to
dth em ,
compound projectiles, their manufacture an p.hanical
re-
servation," by Prof. Abel. No 12," Mec
t
prime movers," by Prof. Pole. Nov
.17, " Theory of
spectrum analysis and principal results obtained by
it; detection of very minute proportions of metals h
a l !
thal-
lium ; sources and
discovery of the metals cesium, rubidium, an
properties of these metals ; im-
portant inference drawn from spectrum analysis,"
by Prof. Abel. This lecture will be illustrated by
experiments arranged by Mr. Ladd. Nov.
11, "The
Prof. Pole. Nov. 24, Memo-
steam-engine," by
randa relating to building stones ; their variations
) in strength and durability ; causes of the decoy of