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the nominal power of the engines. hi '
expansion as shown on the same degreediagramA
ried out to a very unusual extent. At the greatest
amount of steam on the full boiler-power trials
steam was cut off at one-third stroke. In the half
boiler-power trial on Saturday steam was cut off
between one-fifth and one-eighth stroke. The ge-
neral working of the ship's machinery was in the
highest degree satisfactory. It was the general opi-
nion of the officers conducting and witnessing the
trial that no two-cylinder engines in any of her Ma-
jesty's ships ever passed the centre so noiselessly
and uniformly as the three-throw cylinders of the
Octavia have done throughout their trial. If any
fault can be found with the boilers, it is that they
are rather too small for the engines. The addition
of another furnace on each side of the stoke-hole
would have been ample for all emergencies, and if
the Messrs. Maudslay were now to build a similar
set of engines and boilers they would no doubt give
this additional space. In fact, in their endeavours
to meet one of the requirements sought for with the
new engines—a reduction of boiler space--the boun-
dary line appears to have been just, yet only just,
stepped over, and rather too little has been given, as
we have already said, for the engines' wants under
certain circumstances. While speaking of the speed
of the ship and the performance of her machinery it
is necessary, perhaps, also to observe that the coals
supplied to the ship for her trial were of the com-
monest description. It is usual on all similar trials
of any importanee to send on board specially for the
trial
a sufficient quantity of the coal known as the
tm.hattheiscas, the Nixon's
four-foot seam—but Yacht coal—that
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was not done, most probably from some oversight.
In any consideration of the ship's speed over the
measured mile this fact of the commonest description
of fuel being burnt in the furnaces in lieu of the best
kind, as is the rule, should not be overlooked. The
machinery of the Octavia, Arethusa, and Constance
now about to enter upon their competitive trial, was
designed and supplied by the firms of Maudslay and
Co., Penn and SOntr;-zoilltandolph and Elder, and,
being built for special purposes, the engines have in
all three instances special appliances. One remark,
therefore, will apply in a degree to all, and in its
truth possibly all three firms will concur. Marine
engines cannot be too simple in all their parts, and
the fewer the details the better for their efficiency.
By a typographical error, the time occupied by the
Octavia in steaming over the measured mile in her
full boiler-power trial was given in the report of the
trial in The Sun of Saturday in hours and minutes.
It should have been given in minutes and seconds.
On Saturday the chartered East Indiaman Mala-
bar, which has been taken by the Indian Council for
the conveyance of detachments of various cavalry
and infantry corps to India, embarked the following
troops from Government quay, Gravesend, for Kur-
rachee, under the direction of Brigade Major W.
Congreve and the officers of the staff from Chatham
garrison, viz., one staff-sergeant, three men, two
women, and one child of the 7th Queen's Own
Hussars, from the cavalry depot, Canterbury ; and
bandmaster and wife and one musician of the 7th
Fusiliers, from Kneller-hall ; 54 non-commissioned
officers and men, five women, and four children of
the Ist Battalion 7th Royal Fusiliers, from the 6th
depot battalion, Walmer ; one bandmaster of the
12th Regiment, from Kneller-hall ; 111 non-com-
missioned officers and men, seven women, and four
children of the Ist Battalion 19th Regiment, from
the 3d depot battalion, Chatham ; 49 men of all
ranks, four women, and five children of the 35th
Regiment, and 31 non-commissioned officers and
privates, two women, and four children of the 94th
Regiment, from the Ist depot battalion, Chatham ;
54 non-commissioned officers and men, five women,
and one child of the 38th Regiment, from the Bth
depot battalion, Colchester ; 35 men, three women,
and five children of the 82d Prince of Wales's
Volunteers, from the 4th depot battalion, Colches-
ter; and 103 non-commissioned officers and privates,
one officer's wife and servant, 10 women, and six
children of the 93d Sutherland Highlanders, from
Stirling ; with one subaltern of the Rifle Brigade,
from Winchester. The following officers embarked
with the detachments :—Captain Edward Tedlie,
35th Regiment ; Capt. J. Murray, 94th Regiment ;
Lieut. Ogden, 55th Regiment, in charge of the
draught of the 38th Regiment, from Preston; Ensign
F. W. Douglass, Ist Battalion 7th Royal Fusiliers ;
Ensign J. Jameson, Ist Battalion 19th Regiment ;
Ensign L. J. Collum, 82d Regiment ; Ensign W.
B. M'Kechnie, 93d Highlanders; Ensign 11. St.
Paul, 3d Battalion Rifle Brigade ; and Assist. Staff-
Surg. Smith, from Netley Hospital, in medical
charge. The Malabar, which was inspected prior
to the embarcation of the troops by Major-General
Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., and staff, is fitted up
with every requisite for the convenience and comfort
of the officers and troops during the voyage. Sho
left the Thames yesterday. •
The Ist Royal Dragoons, now stationed at Alder-
shot, are under orders to hold themselves in readi-
ness to move from that station early in the ensuing
month, when the head-quarters and four troops will
r proceed to Brighton, and four troops to Shorncliff.
The Ist battalion Grenadier Guards will leaveAlder-
shot for London on the 31st inst. The regiment
will move by route march, encamping on the 31st at
Bagshot-heath, and at Hounslow on the following
day. The Ist battalion will be replaced at Aldershot
by the 3d battation of the same regiment from the
Tower, proceeding to its destination byroute march,
and taking over the camp equipage from the Ist
battalion on its way. The Ist battalion 14th Regi-
ment is under orders to hold itself hi readiness tb
move from Aldershot. The head-quarters and 11
companies will proceed to Portsmouth, and one
company to Tipner. The regiment will move by
route march, encamping the first night at Woolmer.
The head-quarters squadron of the Scots Greys is
held in readiness to move from Aldershot to Man-
chester, and will probably proceed to its destination
to-day. The 62d Regiment is under orders to move
from Aldershot to Devonport and Pembroke. The
detachment for the latter place is likely to move to-
day, to furnish a guard of honour at Tenby on the
2d of August. The remainder of the regiment will
proceed to their destination at 7 a.m. on Thursday.
On the termination of the Aldershot Camp Races on
Thursday a grand ball took place at the Club-house.
The whole of the troops at Aldershot, under the
command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Pennefather,
K.C.8., turned out for a field-day shortly after 8
o'clock on Wednesday morning. Field-Marshal
the Duke of Cambridge arrived soon after the
troops were in position, and put them through a
variety of manoeuvres, which were performed with
the utmost regularity, steadiness, and precision. The
troops afterwards marched past, the infantry in
quarter-distance column in quick time, the Royal
Horse Artillery and cavalry in open column of bat-
teries and squadrons at a trot, and the Royal En-
gineer Train in column of sections at a walk, As the
regiments successively passed the saluting base the
Duke called the commanding officers to his side and
complimented them upon the satisfactory appearance
and efficient condition of their respective commands.
On Tuesday morning the 3d Infantry Brigade, at
Aldershot, was formed into three sides of a square
on C parade, and the following non-commissioned
officers and privates of the 85th Regiment were pre-
muted with medals and gratuities for long service
and good conduct :—Colour-Sergeant W. Hall, Ser-
geant R. Taylor, Sergeant P. Kinna, Corporal G.
Whitrow, and Private M. Henderson.
The following appointments have been made at
Admiralty :—Lieut.Albert
.E. the Kay to the Liver-
pool ; Lieut. Albert Whish to the St. George ; Lieut.
Clavcll W. S. Blount to the Pembroke, for service in
the Coastguard ; Lieut. Edward Hicks to the Black
Prince ; John N. Stone, acting assist.-surg., and
Donald M'lver, assist.-surg., to the Victory, for
Haslar Hospital ; W. 11. Gribbell, assist-paymaster
in charge, to the Jackal ; W. A. Dungerfield, assist.
paymaster, to the Constance ; George G. M'Ewen,
Charles W. Johnstone, and 0. J. Menzie, masters'
assistants, to the Arethusa ; Andrew J. de Visme,
Ben. J. Sims, and John W. Brown, masters' as-
sistants, to the Constance ; Gabriel Swainson, A.
E. Tregashis and Francis A. Symes, masters'assist-
ants, to the Octavio. ; John B. James, engineer, to
the Cumberland for the Griffin ; Walter Thomas
Fry, engineer, to the Asia, for the Cruiser; James
B. Scarletts, Ist class assist.-engineer, tothe Gannet.

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which never really implies a genuine and earnest desire to
lift up what is below us. (No, and cheers.) But the work-
ing men of this country, the working artisans of this coun-
try, have many who are below them as well as many who
are above them. You know that society is, as you have
gone on to describe it, like a Well built, well ordered fabric.
Many stones, many timbers, many doors, many windows,
many parts and portions of that fabric, all having their
separate offices, some of them larger, and some smaller,
but all built and framed by the mind of the builder to serve
one common purpose ; and that if you are to suppose the
good is to be done by bestowing unjust and exceptional
favour upon some one portion of that building, or upon
some ono class or clique in society, it is the ruin of the
whole. (Cheers.) It is not to the benefit of that class. The
interest of every class is to have justice done to all. (Loud
applause.) Gentlemen, that is the test to which lam sure
you are disposed, and to which I am sure you will always
determine to bring the deeds of the public men of this
country. (Cheers.) Well, then, gentlemen, you go on to
say that the public man ought to be regarded as an archi-
tect. That is the best answer to give to any who suppose
that the profession of popular principles makes a man liable
to be called a destructive. Certainly, gentlemen, an arch!- ,
tect is not a destructive—(cheers)—and a destructive is not
an architect. An architect may find it his duty, as you go
on to point out, to pull down what is old—not because it is
old, not a bit. If it is the fine old architecture of the best
times, he reveres it the more because it is old; and the
good architect you will often find passionate in his admi-
ration of what is old, provided it is good as well as old.
But if it has become worthless as well as old, and if, being
worthless, it attempts to shelter itself under the pretext
of its being old, then the architect says :—" No, I can-
not listen to that. I must pull you down," and
so he pulls down that which is old if it is worthless.
(Cheers.) But why does he pull it down ? Not for
the purpose ofzWiipplown, but for the sake of building up
that which is beitei milts place. -(6reers) Building up is
the business of the politician, the business of the Minister,
the business of the member of Parliament, my business as a
knight of the shire, now that I have been elected a member
for the southern division of the county of Lancaster--
(cheers)—your business as citizens, your business as elec-
tors, your business in every opinion you give on public
affairs. (Cheers.) There have been countries, unhappily,
where destruction would, from the course of affairs having
gone wrong and obstinately awry—and such perhaps was
the state of France before what was known as the Great
Revolution—where a great sweeping work of destruction
-was necessary almost, perhaps absolutely necessary, before
any good could be done, where the defects and disease had
been incurable. This is not our case. Our business is chiefly
to build. I admit, it is to repair; but, besides repairing, it
is to extend—it is to raise higher up—it is to spread wider
and wider. This is the nature of the function to which
public men in England are called. It is a happy duty,
gentlemen. They are supported in it by the indulgent
favour of their countrymen. I will say that nothing has
struck me more in the course of a long public life than the
general fairness—aye, the more than fairness, the ordinary
and usual generosity of the judgments that are passed, not
by one class or by another class, but by the whole commu-
nity, on the character and conduct of public men. lam
certain of this, that if sometimes it has happened to me to
think that in one or another particular I was unjustly con-
demned, the occasions have been ten times more numerous
when I have felt that I was unjustly and excessively
praised, and far in advance of what I deserved. Well, gen-
tlemen, this is the work that has been before us, and I
now cannot help saying one word to you upon your parti-
cular duty and business. (Hear, hear.) It is one in which
I feel a special interest. One of the sharpest passages in
my political life—perhaps I ought to say the sharpest of
them all—was that which was connected with the repeal of
that paper duty in 1860-1. I know not how it was, but
that was a period when many friends seemed to become
lukewarm—many who said before, at least, that they were
friends, seemed to become lukewarm--and when opponents
seemed to become more confident ; I assure you it was com-
mon to mo to sit in the House of Commons and not only to
hear myself called rash, reckless, and profligate for sacri-
ficing uselessly the revenues of the country, but to hear it
said that the paper duty did no harm to anybody, restricted
no trade, was no burden upon commerce, that the addi-
tional dearness of paper could not have, any effect of a sen-
sible description, and in fact, gentlemen, I must use a
strong word, all the 'trash and all the nonsense which, if it
had been good for anything, was perfectly good against the
repeal of the corn laws, against the repeal of the naviga-
tion laws, against the repeal of the soap duties, against
every good measure which has been carried of that kind-

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the whole of thi's trash came out reburnished and......
done up
again against the repeal of the paper duty. (Laughter and
cheers.) And now, gentlemen, what have we seen ? Why,
we have soon, and I now acknowledge it with thankfulness
in the face of God and man, that the repeal of the paper duty
has been a greater blessing oven than I anticipated. (Hear.)
I did gentlemen, to the best of my ability, fight a hard battle
for its repeal. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) And I find now
that not only in its repeal was there involved the liberation
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of a great branch of trade—a branch of trade which is
already groat, and which, I believe will, from year to year,

become much greater; but there was involved a seed o

social and moral good that has sprung up with rapidity,

and a harvest, such as, I confess, I had hardly been san-
guine enough to anticipate. We said to-day, on the hust-
ings, that Liberal policy was Conservative. Look at the
daily Penny Press. What is the daily Penny Prose ? The
daily Penny Press is an organ that finds its way into the

house of the working man:-(hear, hoar)—keeps him faith-
fully informed without the least disparagement to other
classes—for the daily Penny Press is not destructive nor
licentious more than any other Press, if possible, it is less
—and keeps the working man daily informed of all the

current public transactions. (Loud cheers.) Why, what
is that, }nit creating a new interest in the mind of the

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working man—an interest which is refreshed from day to
day ? What is that but making him feel thathe has become,.
in a new sense, a citizen of his country—that his country
owns, in a new manner, his share In public affairs ? lie
feels it—his bosom enlarges with the sense of it ; and hi
that bosom, so enlarged, there is a continual growth and
increase of love and attachment to his country, to the
Queon, and to the institutions of his country. (Loud
cheers.)
--
Naval and Military • Intelligence.

The iron screw steamship Achilles, 26, Captain E.
W. Vansittart, the iron-cased screw steamship
Prince Consort, 35, Capt. George 0. Willes, C. 8.,
the screw steam frigate Constance, 39, Captain
Edward K. Barnard, and the iron-cased cupola ship
Royal Sovereign, 5, Capt. Frederick A. Herbert,
left Plymouth Sound on Saturday evening for
Portland.
The Turkish frigate Osman Ghazy, Capt. Arib
Bey, which arrived in Plymouth Sound from
Greenock on Friday, is appointed to go into
Hamoaze to-morrow to receive her armament. One
of her Armstrong OW, sent by the South Devon
Railway, weighs 12 tons. The Turkish Ambassa-
dor, M. Musurus, is expected at Plymouth to inspect
the frigate.
The Austrian screw steam frigate Frederick, Capt.
Whiplinger, which has been at Plymouth in conse-
quence of the Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural
Society, was under orders on Saturday to leave the
Sound for Cherbourg.

The French ship of war Magenta, Capt. Lebris,
the frigate La Flandre, Capt. Bachine, and the gun-
boat Ariel, Commander Poirier d'Hauterive, which
have also been at Plymouth during the last week in
consequence of the Exhibition, left the Sound by
the Eastern Channel on Saturday evening for
Cherbourg.
The Octavia, 35, screw frigate, Capt. Charles F.
Hillyar, received orders early on Saturday morning,
to sail from Spithead, in company with the screw
frigate Liverpool, 35, Capt. Rowley Lambert, for
Torbay, the rendezvous of the experimental squad-
ron of frigates ordered to assemble there, and after-
wards proceed on a trial of their machinery, under
the command of Captain Hillyar. Previous to
leaving Spithead, however, the officials at Portsmouth
were directed to take the Octavio, over the measured
mile in Stokes Bay, with half boiler-power, and add
the results to their report on the ship's trial with full
boiler-power made on the previous day, a report of
which was given in The Sun of Saturday. The ship
was accordingly, as early as the tide served, taken
from Spithead and given four runs over the mile,
the mean of the four runs giving the ship a speed of
7.751 knots ; maximum revolutions of the engines,
44 ; minimum revolutions, 40. Immediately after
the trial was concluded, and the officials had
been disembarked, the Octavia steamed out to the
southward on her way to Torbay, the Liverpool at
the came time beating out under all plain sail, with
the wind moderately light from S.S.W. South of
the Isle of Wight the Octavia lifted her screw, and,
setting her canvas, joined the Liverpool in a friendly
trial of sailing qualities down Channel. The Oc-
tavia's indicated horse-power on her full-boiler
power trial of Friday, as worked out from her in-
dicator diagrams, was 2303-76, or nearly five times