The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-20 00:00:00

The armour-plated screw steamship Resistance,
16, Captain Chamberlain, went on Friday from
Hamoaze into Pl 3 mouth Sound. She received her
powder on Saturday, aria is vow ready for sea. She
will probably leave to-day (Monday) Dr to-morrow
(Tuesday) for Portsmouth to be docked.

he screw steam gun-vessel Sparrow, 5, Com.
the Hon. E. Cochrane, left Plymouth Sound, on
Saturday, for her station, the West Coast of Africa.
The iron-screw steam gun vessel Tien Sion, Com.
Nicholas, belonging to the Emperor of China, which
left Plymouth on Saturday morning for China,
calling at Falmouth, returned in the afternoon to
her moorings in Barn pool.
The iron screw steam transport Orontes, 3, re-
cently built for the Admiralty by Nfessi-s. Laird
Brothers, of Birkenhead, was taken outside Ply-
mouth breakwater en Tnurkdiy to test her engines
and machinery. The trial was under the supervision
of Capt. Astley, C. Key, C. 8., and Mr. A. Dinnen, in-
spector of machinery from the guardship of steam
reserve Indus, in HallloBZe ; Mr. James Steil, R.N.,
assistant to the chief engineer at Keyham steam-
yard; and Mr. James Edwards, assistant-master
shipwright of Devonport Dockyard. Mr. Schoales
represented the manufacturers of the machinery,
Messrs. Watt and Co., of London-street, city. The
weather was very fine. The Orontes, which is
built entirely of iron and has her lower mast stepped,
has a burden of 2,812 tons, and draws 17ft. llin.
aft and 17ft. 3in. forward. The engines, direct act-
ing, are 500-horse power nominal, but were worked
up to 2,020 horse power ; cylinders horizontal; dia-
meter 31in ; stroke, )6in. The screw shaft is about
110 ft. long by 13in. diameter. The screw is Grif-
fith's shifting ; diameter, 18ft ; pitch, 25ft. The
mean speed obtained from six runs was 13.292
knots, which, when it is recollected that the ship
has been in the water since the beginning of De-
cember, and that her bottom cannot consequently be
clean, is considered very fair. The maximum num-
ber of revolutions is 63 per minute ; the mean num-
ber of revolutions at full power 64 ; the pressure is
251 b. to the square inch. There were no indications
of hot bearings or of priming. The engines of the
Orontes are similar to those of the Prince Regent,
Sanspareil, and Barossa, by the same makers. This
transport has accommodation for 1,150 troops. The
trial under steam appears to confirm the anticipa-
tions of her good qualities for speed expressed when
she was launched on Nov. 22d last at Birkenhead.
She will probably be put in commission at an early
period.
The surviving officers and crew of the Orpheus
arrived on board the Victory, at Portsmouth, on
Friday evening. They arrived at Portsmouth by
Southampton steampacket from the Peninsular and
Oriental Mail Company's mail steamship Ellora,
which arrived the same day at that port from Malta.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander H. E. G. Earle, to be
an Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice
Commander Fletcher, whose period of service has
expired ; Lieut. F. C. Law and Lieut. John Shortt,
to the Valorous ; Lieut. E. B. Wadlow and Lieut.
Francis Stirling, to the Excellent ; Lieut. J. F.
Lenow, to the Resistance ; Lieut. E. Drummond, to
the Leander; Lieut. 0. H. Parker, to the Euryalns;
A. J. Armstrong, master, to the Cumberland, for
the Cossack ; Stephen Spain, master, to the Royal
Adelaide ; Henry T. Ellis, master, to the Corn-
wallis; W. B. Shellabear, master, to the Indus, for
the Orontes ; T. A. Watkins and S. A. Hamilton,
midshmen, to the Victory ; G. A. J. Macdonnell,
midshipman, to the Nile ; H. F. H. Hallett and G.
H. R. Willis, midshipmen, to the Revenge ; Piers
Warburton, nominated to a naval cadetship; E. A.
M. Chaffers, assist. paymaster, to the Canopus;
W. H. Whichelo, assist. paymaster, to the Hanni-
bal; T. Bullions, chief engineer, to the Hannibal;
W. Wotton, chief engineer, to the Leander; R.
W. Hultord, engineer, to the Leander ; John
Etherington and William Skelton, assist.-engi-
neers, to the Hannibal ; William B. Cottam, J.
WendoVer, and G. Fordham, assist.-engineers,
to the Leander; C. F. Hulford, assist-engineer, to
the Cumberland, for the Aretbusa ; J. Forster, assist.
engineer, to the Indus, for the Aurora ; Charles G.
T. Cater, William R. Fos, John L. Veitch, and
Edwin W. G. Hilliard, masters'-assists., to the
Leander; Malcolm Merrett, master's-assist., to the
Lizard ; Charles G. Ansell, assist-clerk, to the Han-
nibal; and Charles F. Gahan, assist.-clerk, to the
Canopus.

THE ARMY.
His Royal Highness the field Marshal Command-
ing-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Wed-
nesday next, the 22d inst.
The Adjutant-General, Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, has
issued a circular memorandum, dated Horse Guards,
April 1, in which his Royal Highness the Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief directs,—
" That all regiments of the infantry of the line at homo
and in the colonies (with the exception of those in New
Zealand, Australia, China, and Ceylon, and the battalions
under orders for India) shall be divided as follows, viz., 10
service companies, 3 field officers, 10 captains, 11 lieu-
tenants, 9 ensigns, 5 staff, 48 sergeants (exclusive of school-
master), 21 drummers and buglers, 40 corporals, and 640
privates; 2 depot companies, 2 captains, 3 lieutenants, 1
ensign, 10 sergeants, 4 drummers and buglers, 10 corporals,
and 110 privates. Total 800 corporals and privates. The
regiments in the West Indies and Bermuda—viz., the Ist
battalions of the 14th and 21st, and 39th Regiment, have
an additional assistant-surgeon. Highland regiments have
a pipe major and five pipers, in addition to their establish-
ment. The regiments in New Zealand, Australia, China,
and Ceylon—viz., Ist battalion 12th Foot, 2d battalions 14th
and 18th Foot, 31st, 40th, 50th, 67th, 70th, and 99th Regi-
ments—are to be thus distributed :-10 service companies,
3 field officers, 10 captains, 11 lieutenants, 9 ensigns, staff
6, 48 sergeants (exclusive of schoolmaster), 21 drummers
and buglers, 40 corporals, and 730 privates; 2 depot com-
panies, 2 captains, 3 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 10 sergeants, 4
drummers and buglers, 10 corporals, and 120 privates;
total, 900 cerporals and privates."

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointniento,
in the Civil Service•

----'---to_,, be a clerk in the
WAR-OFFICE.—AIr H. Cornwa.
"sefhpamersra, in the place of
Commander- in-Chiers office.
Beaumont, of the Chan-
01'110E-41r
COLONIAL-
to be Chief Justice o
eery bar,
Mewl K.C.B.
the late Sir W. Arr
NI ' Tamesßeeb
y,deputy accountant.
Tire A DurBALTY--
r.
, of the navy, to beaccountant- general, in succession
genera. Bromley, K
to Sir Richard IU. . e ~B.—and Mr Whiffen,
chief clerk of tho cash account section, to be , deputy ac'
countant-general.
cvsToMs—Mr Richard E. w
Gleado
oho., out-door officers, Hull—mr
Al , f lora sth to 4th
to 3d class, out-doorfred Corneby, from 4th
officers,
shall, from 2d to 1 Hull—and Mr Robert Mar-,
Hartlepool. st class, out-door officers, West
INLAND P
REVENUE —Stamps
Boulger tamps and Tax Branch—Mr B. A.
to be extra clerk
the Income-tax Department—
and Mr Allen to be in r
a William Henry
collection Mason, dropped
oocf 6 c e rg
Reading, 4th division, Reading of
Coventry, 4th division, Coventry
collecti to be officer
on—Mr Josepher
p
eaoock, first. class assistant, Cork, 6th division, Cork col-
lection, to be officer of Reading ride, Reading collection--
Mr Peter Brenen, dropped officer, Bath, sth division,
Bath collection, to be officer of Sarum, 3d division, Sarum
collection—Mr John Skinner, officer, Bridgend, 2d division,
Argyll collection, to be officer of Stowmarket, 3d division,
Suffolk collection—Mr Joseph Hughes, officer, Ballinasloe,
2d ride, Athlone collection, to be officer of Bridgend, 2d
division, Argyll collection—Mr William Thurston, officer,
Chichester, Ist ride, Hants collection, to be officer of Bail-
sham rids, Susstx collection—Mr Patrick Murray, first
class assistant, Co k, sth division, Cork collection, to be
officer of Chichester, Ist ride, Hants collection—Mr Belnlejea:
min Darling, officer, Wirksworth ride, Nottinghainactoion.
tion, to be officer of Sheffield, Ist ride, Sheffield colee
B.,;sim.
EAST INDlES—Lieutenant O. E. Erskine, to be ajn.
mar.
tent-commissioner of the third aiss in Oud
professor of the Civil
principal
tin, 8.A., to officiate as anPdresiM J. W.
Eng veering Colleg
a at
the
Bengalat a rofessor in the Bengal
J. Stephenson, B.A ,to officiate, p
h• 'iv-waster in the
to be e ippi
Presidency—Mr C Burbank , ,
, hl r officiating magistrate
of Calcutta—Mr W. MCe y,
magistrate and collector
port o to act as
and collector of JollDpOr ,
M•
Ricketts, C. 13., to act as ma.
of Mirza pore—Mr Cf li. •
ere—the Rev. D. Bellam
te and collector of Joupp y
gietrasuccession to
ur in Mr Horsbur
,g
to be chaplain of Peshasv
—the Rev. J. P. 'tarris, to be chaplain of IJinTl sur,—.
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Civil 'Service G.fet____,_.,.....___,....____.

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