The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The De fence, 18, screw, iron frigate, Capt. R. A.
Powell, (2.8., weighed her anchor at Spithead at
8.30 a.ol. yesterday, to make her second trial of
speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay. Capt.
H. Brriadh,ud, of her Majesty's ship Asia, and com-
mand.ing the reserves at the port, had charge of the
trio), ; Mr. Jones acted as pilot ; the machinery was
under the care of Mr. G. Murdoch, inspector of
machinery afloat, and Mr. Miller, assistant-engineer
of Portsmouth Dockyard. The weather was favour-
ab).e for the trial, but at times very thick. The wind
Irma light, at west-northwest. The ship's draught
•of water was nearly the same as on her former trial
—being 25 feet 5 inches aft, and 24 feet 3 inches
forward. She was complete in her stores, and had
440 tons of c3al on board. After completing the
first mule to the westward the weather became
thick, and the ship was taken off the trial ground
for a short time ; but the weather again cleared up,
and the runs at full power showed a mean speed
of 11.612 knots an hour. This completed the trialb
7at the measured mile, thick weather again setting
in and preventing the half-boiler trials being car-
ried out. The ship was then taken into deep
water, and tested in going round the circle, which
she completed in 8 minutes and 10 seconds. In test-
ing the engines, they were stopped, from the time
of moving the telegraph on the bridge, in 12 se-
conds, started ahead in 15 seconds, and astern in 11
seconds. The temperatures on deck and belaw
were as follows:—On deck, from 45 to 49 deg.; in
the middle of the engine-room, from 90 to 100 deg. ;
and in the stokeholes, from 88 to 96 deg. The speed
made on the first trial was 11.357, and that made
on the present occasion 11.612—a quarter knot less
than had been anticipated. The steering qualities
of the ship were found to be as uncertain as on the
former trial. At the conclusion of the day's pro-
ceedings the ship again anchored at Spithead,where
she awaits orders from the Admiralty as to her
future movements.

The iris, 26, attached to the ordinary at Chat-
ham, was yesterday hauled under the floating
31`.ear3 in the harbour to ship the boilers and machi-
nery for the screw gun-vessel Myrmidon, 4, 250-
horse power, building at Chatham.

The utmost energy is being displayed by the
dockyard officials at Chatham to have the iron
screw frigate Resistance, 18, ready for undockitag
on Monday next, on which date she will leave the
dock in which she has been lying for some time past,
and proceed immediately afterwards totheWore to
try her speed at the measured mile, Maplin Sands.
There are upwards of 300 hands employed on board,
exit a vast amount of work still remains to be corn-
:pleted befoie she is fit for sea. Additional plates of
iron, rather less than one inch in thickness, are
being placed at the stem of the vessel, beneath the
catheads, to prevent a similar disaster to that which
befell the Defence by the anchor knocking a hole
through her plates. One side of the bottom of the
Resistance has been payed over with a composition
the invention of Mr. Redman, of Chatham Dock-
yard, and the other with the composition invented
by Mr. Hay, of Portsmouth Dockyard, in compli-
ance with instructions from the Admiralty to have
both preparations tried on the hull of this ship, in
order that their merits may be fairly tested and

compared.
The nndernamed have been nominated to naval
cadetships:—J. D. Kirkness, Josh. H. Lane, Henry
J. F. Harrison, Herbert Horner, Charles Edward
Huggins, Edward W. C. Amcotts, Francis C.
BridgPman Simpson, Alexander Baring, R. J. Bar-
ton, Charles R. Gordon Beresford, Henry H.
Boteler, Henry B. Callander, Gilbert Edward Corn-
wall, Frodsham H. Crutwell, Philip Ernest Cres-
well, Mkicolm de Sanmarez,Edye, Henry Fletcher,
George A. Giffard, William H. G. Goodlake,
A7.thnr G. Hall, Alfred G. H. Hervey, George
O'Connor, Robert Murray Ramsey, Francis R.
itS'andilands, A. Cornwall Taylor, Alfred A. Tay-
lor, and Charles Reeve.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :--Captain Lord Gilford to
the Tribune, commissioned ; Capt. his Serene High-
ness Ernest Prince of Leiningen to the Magicienne,
commissioned ; Commander E. C. Symons to the Lee,
commissioned ; Lieut. E. White, Lieut. Charles P.
Bushe, and Lieut. Francis Durrant to the Magi-
cienne; Lieut. Arthur R. Tinklar, Lieut. William
W. Smyth, and Lieut. Frederic A. Sargeant, to the
Tribune; Henry Bond, master, to the Tribune;
George A. Macfarlane, master, to the Magicienne ;
John C. Gruchy, promoted to chief engineer ; Mat-
less G. Autey, paymaster, to the Magicienne ;
James W. P. Foord, paymaster, to the Tribune ;
Joseph G. W. Hoare, assist-paymaster, to the Ma-
gicienne ; Henry Knight, assist.-paymaster, to the
Tribune ; Albert H. Carlyon, clerk, to the Warrior ;
J. G. Card, clerk, to the Implacable ; Edward A.
Dyer, clerk, to the Tribune; and Thomas W. Snell,
clerk, to the Magicienne.