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Major Lilley was himself compelled to perform
all the painful offices which the state of his
wife required, and this under the eyes of awl-
tries posted day and night, within two feet of
his wife's bed, as sworn to by the late
Sergeant-Major Lilley when giving his evidence at
the Mhow courtmartial, and by such inhuman con-
duct causing, or mainly bringing about, the death
of the said Sergeant Major John Lilley."

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
request 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 Smith, 11, Staple-
inn, W.C."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
VALETTA, Nov. 10.—Her Majesty's ship Queen,
76, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, left Athens on the 31st ult.
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 Alcuck 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 to pieces the following day.
Her Majesty's ship Trident brought the crew to the
Piraeus, 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. 11.
I 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 R. Sterne, left Malta
on the Bth inst. with despatches for the Commander-
in-Chief at the Pireeus. The Queen is under orders
to leave for 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 Dantsic of the Prussian
ships of war, Niobe, 24, Captain Kuper ; Musquito,
12, Captain HassensL.ein ; 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 many cadets, and would
have left as usual in a few days but for the course
of political events in the North of Europe. They
will probably leave the Sound at noon to-day.
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 halt
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 have 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 hat 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
bottoms from
the ship to warrant a careful scraping and ex-
amination of every part of the ship's
keel to water-line. In board the ship is in e
nr
do
im
pd
order.
Many improvements have been made since
the ship last lay in dock at Portsmouth, but the one
possessing the greatest novelty is the
introduction
of "ozone gas" into the en
alley. Two small copper gine-room and screw
reservoirs, holding about
a quart imperial measure each, contain a supply of
spirituous oil which flows by a pipe, after the
manner of a caged bird's water fountain, into a
small copper enclosed tray filled 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
a discharge pipe alld
pulley), which, passing out by
at the opposite end of the tray,
passes direct to the burners. There it gives out a
beautiful white light, with comparatively no heat.
An 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 vapoure
the
nozzle when allowed to oFcipe unburnt from n
nozzle of the burner. Its use entails no attent in
beyond the winding-up, once in 24 hours, of the
of a
small weight which sets the maehttinrtehr
Ythttohfa tahir
e
pump in motion. Its cost is ono-rohe t
paymaster's
candles served out for use from
stores of the ship.
The Malacca, 17 guns,
power, Captain Gerard screw corvette, 200 horse
J. Napier, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday afternoon,fropmlalNclealotna
tahned29Gthibruailt-.
tar, sailing from the latter
The pa„age from Gibraltar has been made chiefly
Fine weather wae experienced until
under aril,

Iheading the tizards, but a,
rally foul winds. A. few nar
sioners have arrived in the sl
Gibraltar. The Malacca was
1861, and has const'quently
ordinary term of is comm!
England is in consequence
arising out of a recent naval cot.
sentence of which one of her lieutenants was dis-
missed the service.
At the sittings of a naval court-martin.,
bled yesterday on board her l, assetn-
A,Tajesty's ship Victory,
under the presidency of Capt. .A.• A. Cochratte, C,8.,
William Bishop and William Nov.ille,
seamm, doing
duty on board her Majesty's ship Vgar, wen found
guilty of quitting the ship without"
leave, an,d
sen-
tenced to ton weeks' imprisonment, with hard
lq,bour. Carl Macket, bandsmen, also A ervinc on
boa.vd her Majesty's ship Edgar, was sent e.nceni to
six ,L'onths' imprisonment, with hard labour, (..u.
dismics,ll with disgrace from the service, for steal •
jog two pairs of trousers from Lieut. E. Wondem-,
falk, of tilt.' Royal Swedish navy, doing duty as
supernumeraTy lieutenant on board her Majesty 'a
ship Edgar.
The iron-ship Braek Prince, 41, Capt. James F.
B. Wainwright, having received a complete coating
will be removed from the
of Hay's composition,
Prince's dock at Devonpert to-day.
The screw steam-sloop .Falcon, 17, Cow. G. 11.
Parkin, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday, for
C
ve Plymouth
Au-
stralia.
scLre:mbsteeratm,
wfarsigaaptpeoiLntievai,tr.tpooloela,
Rowley The
yesterday afternoon for the West Indies.
The screw steam corvette Pelo.,%'la, 21, Capt. H.
Boys, having been repaired and refitted, and having
had her machinery tested in Key ham basin on
Saturday, was removed yesterday Intl Ham oaze,
ique to Veceive her
and placed alongside the hulk P
ke a trial of her
crew. She will probably to-day ma -
for her
engines at sea, preparatory to departure'
destination.
One of the new 300 pounder guns intended for
Excell,ent
experiment on board the gunnery ship
was yesterday mounted on its carriage and slide o.a
the wharf at Woolwich for trial, in the presence 01,
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 qv-
ratus is worked and is moved by a small pinion.
working into a rack formed on a hoop encircling
the gun, and a 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 Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's screw steamship
Racer, 11 guns,
150 horse power, at Woolwich, is ordered to be
taken up by the shipwright department, and put in.
progress for commission.
In consequence of the 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 Brierly.
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-
Burg., to the Aurora ; Philip W. Govett, Burg., 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 Aucora; Reginald
J. Meek, clerk, to the Aurora ; and
_Mozart Win-
ning, assist. clerk, to the Aurora.

THE ARMY.
An order has been issued by Major-Gene Eyre,
commanding the forces in the Chatham dibtrict,
directing the infantry and other troops under his
command to commence the system of route mar:3h-
ing at stated intervals weekly during the winter
months, the season for reviews and brigade field-
days being now at an end. The order applies to
the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, the troops of
the line, and the Royal Marines, who are to be
marched out from the garrison on stated days in.
each week: The Major-General-directs that these
occasions of route marching are to be turned to
practical use in the instruction of the officers and
men in military manoeuvres when on the march.
This will be effected by the officer in command
throwing forward advance columns, and effecting
other movements which the nature of the country
traversed will permit. On these occasions the
junior officers are to make flying sketches of the
district visited, and these, together with an accom-
panying report on the nature of the country with
regard to military operations, are to be forwarded
from time to time to the Major-General for his in-
spection and perusal. The marches will extend
from six to ten miles, at the discretion of the officer
in command, and the bands will in all cases accom•
Pa eeltrlo.opisl.. Anderson, C. 8., commanding tho a
field batteries of Royal Artillery tHbaastltaerr,ns at
nCY
Portsmouth,thnolo is ordered to join the field batteries
Aldershott.

The Portsmouth division of Royal Marine Light
Infantry was inspected yesterday forenoon by
Major-Gen. Lord William Paulet, C. 13., command-
ing the South-Western district. The division was
fot med up in two battalions, drawn up in line in the
large grass space fronting the barracks, under the
command of Colonel Ayles. At the conclusion of
the inspection his Lordship expressed himself en-
tirely satisfied with the appearance and steadiness
of the men under arms, and the precision with
which the various movements were executed, and
said that he should with very great pleasure for'
ward a most favourable report of the general
.cffi
ciency of the division to the General Commando*.
in- C hief.

Mr. Parson's
Which breech-loading 6 pounder gun,
-
Woolwich,
satisfactorily proved a short time ago at
Wool
yesterday underwent a final trial at the
proof butt in the Royal Arsenal, in the presence of
the Select Committee of Ordnance, by firing 100
rounds. The entire test occupied only 621 minutes,
including a delay which took place at
the sixth
round. The 94 rounds fired from that time were
completed in 42 minute's, or one round in 30
seconds. Although, from the rapid firing, the gun
at its termination was so hot that the hand could
not touch it, the breech action worked with perfect
freedom, and maintained the breech quite gas..
tight. Mr. Parsons suggests the adaptation of his
plan to guns of larger calibre, as by it the sphere
ti s
which serves the place of the vent-piece can b
made of any size and strength necessary, as it
has
not to be lifted out of its
place in the opera
loading. In a 110-pounder it may be mad
(311
of
e
weights and it will have corresponding strength-
The slot necessary in the Armstrong of
dispensed with. gun also

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