The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-16 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Feb. 10.—Her Majesty's ship Cossack,
20, Capt. W. R. Rolland, arrived on Sunday last
from the neighbourhood of Benghazi, where she has
been employed for some time past in assisting in the
repair of the Malta and Alexandria cable. She has
been relieved by the Pelican, 17, Commander H.
W. Comber. Capt. Rolland proc.mds to England
by this mail on leave, granted in consequence of a
family bereavement. Nothing has been done to-
wards the re-establishment of telegraphic commu-
nication since the 25th of January, when the cable
was hooked between the fault and Benghazi, and
that station spoken to, as already announced. The
boisterous weather has suspended all further opera-
tions in the meantime. The faulty part is supposed
to extend over several miles. The Racer, 11, screw
sloop, Commander N. T. Saulez, arrived on Sunday
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4, screw gunvessel, Commander M. C. Seymour.
The Enterprise, 4, screw ironcased ship, Comman-
der J. C. Rowley, joined the Mediterranean squad-
ron on Wednesday, from England and Gibraltar.
She met with very bad weather on her passage out,
but on the whole gave great satisfaction, though she
did not prove a very good sailer. She belongs to a
small class of ironclad ships, carrying four 100-
pounder guns on the Armstrong principle, but with
a smooth bore. Lieut. Bradshaw, R.N., Lieut. Le
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England. She arrived here on the 9th. The Fox, 2,
screw storeship, Staff-Commander H. A. Moriarty,
arrived at Gibraltar from Malta on the 27th Jan., and
took a fresh departure for Woolwich. She has on
board invalids and condemned stores. The Supply,
2, iron screw storeship, Staff-Commander Bawden,
could not leave port on Wednesday, as ordered, on
day at 2 o'clock for Gibraltar, Spithead, and Wool-
wich,account of the weather, but sailed on the following
conveying condemned stores and a few super-
numeraries. Lieut. Allen, Royal Marines, goes
home in this ship, on return from leave. The Re-
venge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R.
Yelverton, C. 8.), is still at Naples. The Caradoc,
2, paddlewheel despatch vessel, Lieut.-Commander
surveying Wilkishnipso,nbaonmdmtahnedeFrirGefi. Firefly, 5, paddlewheel
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Wilkinson, are
both in the dry dock, undergoing repairs. The Royal
Oak, 35, ironcased ship, Captain F. C. Campbell,
which has been undergoing some alterations, is now
ready for sea. The Egyptian screw steamer Tantah,
belonging to the Viceroy, arrived here on the 4th
inst., laden with cotton for Liverpool, and left for
that port on the following day, but had to put back
through stress of weather. Among the passengers
by the last Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Delhi, from Marseilles, is Capt. Lord John
Hay, R.N., who is on his way to Alexandria, whence
he intends proceeding, in company with the manager
of the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph at that sta-
tion, to Bombay, for the purpose of raising capital
to lay a second Red Sea Telegraph.
The Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief, held a levee yesterday afternoon
at the Horse Guards. Above 100 officers attended.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Buffalo, Master
was yesterday dry-docked at Deptford
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bCyoillid3n7kr3' Admiralty order, for the purpose of examining
Mr. Leetch's plan of preserving iron ships by means
of a sheathing of plates of coarse glass. The Buffalo
has been more than 12 months afloat, and has stood
the test of some severe weather. The officials engaged
Superin-
tendent ; Corn. C. T. Noddall, Master-Attendant ;
in the examination were Capt. H. Chads,
Mr. W. Ladd, master shipwright, and others.
The surface of the glass was totally free from
animalcules, seaweed, barnacles, or incrustations
of any kind. On the removal of three of the plates,
the side of the ship, bolts, &c., thus protected,
were found exempt from corrosion, and ap-
peared in as good a state of preservation as when
the experimental sheathing was applied at Wool-
wich, as reported in The Sun, in December, 1863.
The plates, which were bolted on over a solution of
gutta percha, were so firmly attached that after the
removal of the bolts they required the hammer,
chisel, and wedge to remove them. The invention
is already widely known, and is about to be fitted,
it is stated, to the new iron ship Affondatore, in
course of construction at the Millwall Ironworks
for the Italian Government.