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point of the Aurora's day's work, being reached in
one hour and seven minutes, the distance being 20
miles. At Blackwall the numerous visitors disem-
barked and returned to town by rail.
Amopg the visitors on board were Vice-Admiral
Sir Oeorge",Sartorins, Captain Symonds, R.N. (a
strong advocate with the Admiralty for the adoption
of the double screw principle in the Royal Navy for
some time past), Capt. Cuenskaw, the owner of the
Aurora, destining her for the China trade ; Mr.
Service Gazette ; and other gentlemen whose names
Russel,are well C.E. ; Mr. Allen, R.N., of the United
known in the naval, scientific and literary

HEALTH OP LONDON.

(From the Registrar-Ociierars Weekly Return.)

The deaths in London in the week that ended
Saturday the 22d August, numbered 1,337, includ-
ing the deaths of 690, males and 647 females. 963
of the deaths occurred on the north side, and 374
on the south side of the Thames.

If a correction is made for increase of population,
it will be found that the deaths of London at the
present are only 13 above the average derived from
ten corresponding weeks, viz., the thirty-fourth
week in each of the years 1853-62. It is thus ap-
parent that the health of London is not materially
affected by the prevalence of any of those virulent
diseases (if we except small-pox) which at this sea-
son of the year have been known to swell the bills
of mortality.

world.
The principle of the adaptation of double screws
to ships of war has been so far acknowledged in its
importance by the Admiralty that their lordships
have given Messrs. Dudgeon an order to construct
a small vessel which shall combine in their most
efficient form the double-screw principle which they
have so spiritedly and successfully brought into
public notice.

The deaths from the xymotic class in the week
32 more
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tality by diarrhoea to children under two years of
age was no less than 146, in a total of 182.
The deaths from small-pox in the last six weeks
were successively 51, 34, 43, 49, 45, and 39. The
deaths from measles were 17, or 7 below the cor-
rected average; from scarlatina and diphtheria 139,
or 77 above the average ; from whooping cough,
26, or 5 below the average; from typhus, including
gastric, infantile, inflammatory, and other fevers,
61, or 13 above the average; -from diarrhoea, dy-
sentery, and cholera, 205, or 83 below the average;
more than one half of the deaths which occurred

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The iron troopship Tamar, 2,812 tons, 500 horse
power, since her removal from Chatham harbour to
the steam basin, has been. inspected by Capt. W.
Mends, C. 8., director of the transport department
of the navy, who was accompanied by Capt. C. Wise,
superintendent of thedockyard, and Mr. W. Moody,
master shipwright. The result of the inspection
was in the highest degree satisfactory, and the

from scarlatina, typhus, and other fevers, and from
diarrhce3, occurred in the east and south districts.
Five nonagenarians died, two widows, aged 90
and. 94 ; a single woman, aged 93, and two men,
aged respectively 90 and 93 years.
Last week the births of 912 boys and 876 girls,
in all 1,788 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1853-
62 the average number (corrected) was 1,811.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean.

manner in which the Tamar has been constructed

and fitted, reflects great credit on her builders

Messrs. Samuda Brothers. All the available hands

belonging to the dockyard are at present engaged

in preparing the vessel for sea, and already her
lower masts have been nut in, and a commencement

has been made in fitting her wire standing rigging-
In consequence of the great length of the Tamar,

some difficulty was experienced in turning her when
placed in the great basin, the size of which is 520 ft.
by 300 ft., and it was found necessary to open the
gates of No. 1 dock to allow the ship's head 'to get
clear. As soon, however, as the large basins now
in progress at Chatham Dockyard ate completed,

height of the barometer in the week was 29.758 in.

The reading decreased from 29.72 in. at the begin-
ning of tt e week to 29.54 in. on the 17th ; increased
to 29.77 in. by 911. a.m. on the 19th ; decreased to
29.60 in. by 9a. p.m. on the same day ; increased
to 30.02 in. by 9h. a.m. on the 21st, and was 29.88
in. at the end of the week. The mean temperature
of the air in the week was 58.1 deg., which is 2 9
deg. b.:low the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest
day temperature was 76 deg., and occurred on Sun-
day. The lowest night temperature was 46 deg.,
and occurred on Friday. The range of temperature
in the week was, therefore, 30 deg. The difference
between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 9 deg. The mean humidity of the
air was 72, cozapiete saturation being represented
by 100. The wind generally blew from the south-
west. Nearly three-tenths of an inch of rain fell,
chiefly on Monday and Wednesday.

not the slightest difficulty will be experienced in
turning vessels of double the size of the Tamar.
During the time the vessel was in dock at Chatham
she was fitted with a couple of steam cranes in the
forecastle for hoisting in and out stores, baggage,
&c. In addition to the poop and topgallant fore-
.

castle, with which sbe has been fitted since her
launch, she is to have cabins erected for her warrant
offieers, she will also be supplied with an improved
oven for baking fresh bread for the use of the troops
and ship's company on a plan invented by Mr.
Blake, of Portsmouth dockyard. The cabin for the
officers of the ship under a lofty poop, and thequar-
ters for the ship's company are placed beneath the
topgallant forecastle, by which arrangement all
communication is cut cff between the troops and the
ship's company.

The Clio, 22, 1,472 tons, 400 horse power, Capt.
T. Milks, is being rapidly dismantled at the `Tore,
previously to her being paid off into the Chatham
steam reserve. She has been in commission up

wards of four years, during which time she has been

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attached to the Pacific station. The Clio has been
an exceedingly healthy ship, and only a compara-
tively small portion of her crow who left England
in her in 1859 have been sent home us invalids,

while desertions have been very few. Most of her
stores have been returned to the dockyard, and her
guns and shot forwarded to the Ordnance stores,
Chatham ; her powder;and shell have been deposited
in the magazines at Upnor Castle.
The ships on the Australian station at the date of
the last advises were the Harrier, 17, Capt. Sulli-
van, at New Z3aland ; the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jen-
kins, at Sydney ; the Eclipse, 4, Commander Mayne,
at New Zealand. The Miranda has been under-
going repair in the Government dry dock at Syd-
ney, dry rot having penetrated the hull in so many
places that it was found necessary to lay both sides
open. Several portions of the frame have been taken
out and replaced by colonial timber of excellent
quality.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Supply, Master-
Commander Bowden, from the Mediterranean, has
been docked at Woolwich for survey and repair.
Her masts have been taken out and tested in the
usual manner by scraping, straining, and b,ring, to
ascertain their efficiency for further service, and
have been found defective. The mainmast has been
in place since 1849, in constant use, and the fore-
mast was heel-pieced in Malta dockyard two years
ago. The yards and topmasts are still serviceable
and good. The lower masts will now be replaced
by spars of more substantial dimensions, suitable to
the burden of the ship, with new rigging, Be-a• The
tunnel to the screw alley, hitherto dangerous, on ac-
count of its confined size, will be enlarged, and the
ship will be entirely refitted throughout. Peacock's
composition, which has been found to answer the
purpose of preserving the ship's bottom, is in
course of being removed, and the ship will be paid
down anew with the same process.
Mr. Reed's experimental iron-cased sloop Enter-
prise, built at Deptford, is now receiving her armour
casing, which is bent in Woolwich dockyard and
forwarded to the ship, ready to be applied. Two
of the plates, 15ft. by 4ft. 9in. each, have been
fitted to the sides in an admirable and most success-
ful manner, and two others are ready to be for-
warded. The whole of the plates will be supplied
by Mr. Brown, of Sheffield, who made a large pro-
portion of those used in the Caledonia.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, with vic-
tualling and other stores, left Plymouth Sound on
Monday evening for llawlbowline.
The screw steam gunboat Goshawk (tender to the
Majestic), having been repaired at Devonport, was
placed yesterday alongside the gunwharf to receive
artillery.
A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on
board the Formidable, 84, Captain J. Fulford, flag-
Red, Sir G. H.
ship of Vice-Admiral of the Lam-
bert, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, for
al
the trial of Private Jamie Hennessey, Roy Ma-
' rines, serving on board her Majesty's gunboat Mag-
net, tender to the Pembroke, 60, on a charge of
having absented himself from his post when on
sentry on board the said vessel, On the 6th August
last, and remaining absent from the said ship until
the following day, and also for making away with
certain of his divisional necessaries. Capt. J. Ful-
ford presided, and Lieut.-Commander C. G. Fegan,
of the Magnet, prosecuted. Mr. Knight, solicitor,
Rochester, officiated as Deputy Judge-Advocate, and
conducted the case. who pleaded
The prisoner,
guilty, and threw himself on the mercy of the court,
was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, with
hard labour in the prison of Lewes, and to forfeit two
days' PRY. The court afterwards proceeded with
the trial of Private Thomas Pratt, Royal Matines,
serving on board the Magnet gunboat, on a charge
of having absented himself from the said ship, and
also with making away with his divisional neces-
saries. The prisoner, who made no defence, was
sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard
labour, and 21 days' solitary confinement, and also
to forfeit two days' pay.
Capt. the Hon. G. D. Keane, who has recently
returned from the command of the Charybdis, 21,
400-horse power, in the Pacific, has been appointed
to the command of the naval barracks at Sheerness,
and has taken up his appointment, which, it is ru•
moured, he will retain for a short time.
One of the cold anchors, of which a cargo was
brought home a few days ago from Antigua in the
Betsy flail, was yesterday tested by the hydraulic
machinery at Woolwich, with a view of appropriat-
ing those in the best state of preservation to the
purposes of harbour moorings. Many of the an-
chors are supposed to have bEen forged upwards of
200 years ago, and are much corroded. The one