The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, March4.—The arrival of Prince Arthur
here is looked forward to with much interest. A pro-
gramme of his intended movements has been re-
ceived. After embarking on the 3d inst. at Mar-
seilles on board the royal yacht Enchantress,
in company with Major Elphinstone, he will
proceed to Naples, where it is expected
he will arrive on the 6th. He will re-
main there only one day, will afterwards touch at
Messina, Catania, and Syracuse, on his way to
Tunis. Having paid a visit to the site of ancient
Carthage he will return to Sicily, for the purpose of
seeing the ruins of Agrigentum, and will thence
proceed direct to Malta, where he may be expected
about the 18th inst. The further movements have
not been as yet, I believe, quite decided upon. It
is not intended that his Royal Highness should stay
here more than two days ; but before his departure
he will probably witness a military review, and the
grand spectacle, lately much in vogue, of manning
the batteries.' The Prince will be received at Naples
by Rear-Admiral Yelverton, who is at present there
in the Revenge, which will shortly afterwards
return to Malta. The Pelican, 17, screw corvette,
Commander H. B. Comber, returned from the
neighbourhood of Benghazi on the 24th ult. ,
where she had been in attendance on the tele-
graph steamer Fanny Lambert. She experienced
dreadful weather, and during a whole month had
been able to anchor only once, no port being at hand
into which she could run for shelter. Her bow ports
and hammock nettings were carried away by a heavy
sea, and she has been so much knocked about gene-
rally that she has had to go into dock to refit. The
weather having moderated, the Fanny Lambert left
again on Friday for Tripoli and Benghazi, to resume
operations which had been cut short by the violence
of the late gales. From accounts received from all parts
of the Mediterranean the bad weather seems to have
been gentral. The Racer, 11, screw corvette, Cora-
mander J. N. T. Saulez, left Malta on the 25th for Tun is
to relieve the Wanderer, 4, screw gun vessel, Com-
mander M. C. Seymour, which has since arrivedhere.
The Cossack, 20, screw corvette, Lieut. G. Borlase (in
charge) left to-day for Z ante to relieve the Magicienne,
16, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. W. Armytage. Affairs
continue in a very unsatisfactory state in that island,
and fresh deeds of violence are reported. The Psyche,
2, paddlewheel despatch vessel, Lieut.-Commander
Sterne, is under orders to proceed to Naples, on
Monday next with Dr. Trower, Bishop of Gibraltar,
who is about to consecrate the new English church
lately erected on the piece of ground granted for
the purpose by Garibaldi during his brief Dictator-
ship. The Austrian screw corvette, Graf Dandolo,
Capt. G. Nanta, arrived on the 24th of February
from Corfu. The Duke and Duchess of Bucking-
ham and family arrived here on Friday in their
schooner yacht Surprise, commanded by Capt. G.
Mends, Royal Navy. They last touched at Syra-
cuse, and will probably next visit Algiers. The fol-
lowing have arrived during the week :—Lord Guil-
lamore, Col. Harding°, commanding
.Ist Battalion
22d Regiment; Lieut.-Col. Anderson, command-
ing 2d Battalion 22d Regiment ; Capt. Arkwright,
Lieut. Geneste, R.N., and family, Captain Pear-
son and family, Mr. W. Rumble and family,
Lieut. H. A. Denney, R.A., Lieut. Pope, Captain
Herbert, and Ensign Hamilton. The following have
taken their departure :—Capt. Cookesley, Capt.
Colvin, and Lieut. J. Powys, Ist Battalion 22d
Regiment ; Lieut. Eggington, Lieut. Hundy, and
Lieut. Jones. The Prussian war brigs Mosquito and
Rover, as well as the Austrian steam corvette Graf
Dandolo, are still here. The British men-of-war in
port are the Victoria, Hibernia, Gibraltar, Royal
Oak, Resistance, Cossack, Pelican, Enterprise, Wan..
derer, Wizard, Firefly, Psyche, and the tug Hearty.
News has just been received of the repair of the
Tripoli and Benghazi section of the Malta and
Alexandria cable. The fault existed seven miles
from the Tripoli section."
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamer Terrible, 21
guns, 1,850-horse power (nominal), having been
under repair nearly two years, was on Friday taken
to the Maplin Sands, near Chatham, for the pur-
pose of making her official trial of speed at the
measured mile. The Terrible, which is the largest
and most powerful paddlewheel steamer in the
navy, was sometime since ordered to be broken up,
but on being surveyed by the dockyard officials her
engines were found to be in such good order, not-
withstanding the length of time they had been in the
ship, that the Admiralty reconsidered their former
order, and it was decided to put the vessel into
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almost reconstructed. They have only recently been
completed, and this fine paddlewheel steamer is now
fully equipped with the whole of her Armstrong and
other guns, stores, &c., on board, and only waits
the appointment of her officers and crew to be ready
to proceed on the particular service for which she is
intended—that, it is understood, of accompanying
the Great Eastern in laying down the Atlantic
Telegraph cable, for which her great power
and steaming qualities will well qualify her. The
Terrible left her moorings alongside the Ocean
shortly after 9 yesterday morning, and at once
steamed towards the Mouse light for the purpose of
making her trial at the measured mile. She was in
charge of Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., commanding the
Steam Reserve, the other officials on board being
Mr. Urquhart, officiating as chief inspector of
the Steam Reserve afloat, and Mr. Blaxland, inspec-
tor of machinery. The day was favourable for the
trial, the wind being from the northward with a
force of 4 to 5. The draught of water was 19ft 6in.
forward, and 19ft. 2in. aft, but her trim was
osubse-
quently altered by the removal of four of her heaviest
guns aft
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in charge engineer,
manufactured by Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field.
They are fitted with double cylinders, each 6ft.. in
diameter and of Bft. length of stroke. During the
tune the Terrible was in dock her engines
went complete replair, and in addition to several
new fitments, the intermediate shaft,
longing to the Retribution, was fitted •on board.
The four boilers, each of which will hold 30 tons of
water, are fed by 24 furnaces, and during the trial
yesterday the boilers generated an abundance of
steam. The Terrible is fitted with the common float
paddle-wheels, each of which has a diameter of 31ft.
The floats, 13ft. wide, have an immersion of 7ft.
6in., with nine in the water. On reaching the trial
ground the Terrible was at once placed on the mea-
sured mile, and six runs taken at full boiler power.
It should be remarked, however, that in conse-
quence of the unusually la
rge fleets of colliers and
other vessels passing and repassing the runs could
not be satisfactorily made, the vessel having re-
peatedly to go out of
her straight course when run-
ning over the mile. The following are the results
of each run :—First mile—time, 6min. Bsec. speed