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London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

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N°. 22,760.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

IL-EC FORBES •OF
- . By GEORGE MAC DONALD, - '

The frigate-built Indiaman Renown, 1,1293 tons
register, Commander J. H. Taylor, R.N.R., one of
Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning from Calcutta. She sailed from
Calcutta on the 3d of February, called at Madras
on the 15th of the same month, and sailed thence
again on the 26th. She arrived at the Cape on the
11th of April, touched at St. Helena on the 22d,
and crossed the Equator on the 30th of April. Light
and baffling winds were experienced throughout the
passage until a week before the ship anchored at
Spithead. During this week she ran 1,800 miles.
The officers and troops brought home by the Re-
nown consist of Major Roberts, V.C., R.A., Major
Napper, H.M.N.A., Capt. Coulson, Rifle Brigade,
Lieut. Douglas, R.A., Lieut. Lee, 38th Regiment,
300 time-expired men from various regiments
serving in India, six soldiers' wives, and four chil-
dren. The Rev. Mr. Woodington died on board
on the 3d of March ; three soldiers also died on the
passage. The Renown was towed into Portsmouth
harbour yesterday afternoon, and will disembark
her troops at the dockyard this morning, imme-
diately after which she will sail for London, for
which port she has a general Indian cargo.
The East India ship Winchester, Commander G.
V. Gideon, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon,
with time-expired men and the left wing of the 48th
Regiment on board, from Calcutta, sailing from that
port on the 12th of February, and calling at St.
Helena on the 20th of April. The troops on board
comprised-the left wing of the 48tH, Regime/4314er

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J. R. Lovett in command ; Capt. and Mrs. Drought,
Capt. and Mrs. Castle and two Children, Lieuts.
Brown and Vandeleur, Assist.-Surg. Grant ; En-
signs Talbot, Ryland, Tyron, and. M,Laughlin ; 14
sergeants, 10. corporals, 3 drummers, 223 privates,
9 soldiers'. wives, and 4 children, with. 91 time-
eXpired men, in charge of Captain Marshall, 19th
Regiment. The following were private- pakunkeis
—viz., Captain Boulger, 20th ; Captain Monteith,
38th ; Dr. and Mrs. Warr, Queen's Bays,- &c: The
time-expired men will be disembarked thiS' Morning
from the ships at Spithead, immediately after which,
she proceeds to Dover, where the left wing of the
49th land to join headquarters, the Winchester
going on thence to London to deliver a valuable
cargo of indigo. Major Lovett and the other mili-
tary officers on board, on the arrival of the ship at
Spithead, expressed in the- warmest terms their
satisfaction at the accommodation that had been
afforded them and the troops under their command,
and the attention that had been paid to their wants
during the voyage home by Commander G. V.
Gideon, his officers, and crew. Four soldiers and
two seamen died on the passage home.
The Charybdis, 21, screw corvette, Capt. Tur-
nour, arrived from the Pacific, sailed yesterday'
from Spithead for Sheerness, where she is ordered
to be dismantled and paid out of, commission.
Since the Pembroke, 60, 1,758 tons, 200 horse
power; flagship of .Commodore A. P. Ryder, 'Con-
troller-General of the Coastguard,. has been taken
into dock at Sheerness, she has been surveyed by
the master shipwright and the chief engineer's staff;
and found to require some heavy repairs before she
is again fit for service. The whole of her guns, shot,
shell, and other War Department stores have been
unshipped and placed in stores at Chatham pending
ordeli from the Admiralty as to the ultimate in-
tentions with regard to her.
,The screw corvette Miranda, 15, •250 horse power
(nominal), Capt. R. Jenkins, C. 8., is nearly dis-
mantled, and has been placed in the steam basin,
where she is returning her stores preparatory to be-
ing paid into the- third division of the steam reserve
in the Medway on Saturday next. She has been in
commission 'four years and eight months, during
which she has been attached to the Australian squa-
dron. The Miranda will require a heavy outlay for
repairs before she is again placed in commission.'
The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Chas. R. T.
Russell to the Excellent, for service in the Royal
Sovereign ; Jas. Jones, promoted to engineer ; Geo.
G. Smith, promoted to first-class assist.-engineer ;
Wm. C. S. Hyne, clerk to the Scout ; and James
Tulloch, clerk, to the Dauntless.

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time occupied, as the charge had to be withdrawn
by the ramrod in each instance. The cartridges are
of paper, and, of course, are discharged with the
ball.

The Henry rifle has a bore of .577, the largest of
the three, and takes the Enfield bullet. The charge
of powder is 72 grains. The diagram of the target
did not show such accuracy as that taken after the
60 rounds from the Westley Richards rifle, but the
smaller bore of the latter gives it an obvious advan-
tage. In testing for rapidity of firing, 106 shots
were fired in the first round (6 more than required),
and the time occupied was 8 min. 57 sec., with
three misses. In the second round the time was
7 min. 15 sec., with no miss ; and in the third,
8 min. 15 sec., without a single missfire. The cart-
ridges for this rifle are contained in a stout paper
tube, having a metal end, in the centre of which is
the igniting principle, enclosed in a small copper
case, which is struck by the hammer. The tube is
withdrawn by the action of the lock in preparing to
reload.

Such are the general results of the competition,
but the decision of the council cannot be arrived at
until the diagrams have been fully prepared. It is
probable, however, that a decision will be published
to-morrow.

One of the rules by which the competition was
regulated was as follows :—•" The mere figure of
merit shall not necessarily entitle a competitor to
the prize, which will be awarded by the council to
such rifle as shall, in their opinion, combine accu-
racy with other elements of efficiency, so as to be
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poses. Should no rifle be found to attain the stan-
dard which, in the opinion of the council, is neces-
sary for efficiency and serviceableness as a military
rifle, the prize will not be awarded."

The Irish International Exhibition,

(From the Tunes Correspondent.)

The machinery department of the Exhibition
occupies the extreme right of the building, and is
divided into the "at rest" and "in motion" coutts,

in neither of which are the arrangements as com-
pkte as could be desired, some English and Scotch
machinists being late in fulfilling their agreements.
A few weeks may elapse before the machines now
in course of erection are fitted up. Althougha large
space was devoted to machinery it was found not at
:all equal to the requirements of exhibitors, and, in
consequence, all the agricultural and horticultural
implements are exhibited on the premises of the.
Royal Dublin Society in Kildare-street. These com-
prise a numerous and interesting collection, but
they excite comparatively little attention, partly in
consequence of their isolation from the Exhibition
itself. The "in motion" court presents the most
attractive features. It.is for the most part connected
with cotton, linen, and woollen manufactures, and
is generally of the most improved kind. Immedi-
ately within the left entrance the workmen are still
busy erecting the large pumping engine for .s4ply-'
ing the building with water, working the fountains
in the gardens, and sending hot air through the flues.
The work is still very backward. The engine is be-
ing erected.by Messrs. Easton, Amos, and Co., of
London, and will be worked by Messrs. Grendon
and Co., of Balbriggan. One of the great wants of.
this country in connection with the extension of
manufactures—namely, cheap fuel, is sought to be
provided for by a firm who exhibit their models
here. Mr. John Hackworth, of Darlington, whose
name is well known in connection with locomotives,
exhibits a high pressure horizontal engine, with
models of the sections, the peculiar property of
which is to expand the steam on a principle of its
own, and thus acquire greater power at a decreased
consumption of fuel. Mr. Jas. C. Kay, of Bury, Lan-
cashire, also exhibits, in the next section, a horizon-
tal condensing steam engine, in which flee same re-
sult is sought to be obtained. It works with patent
safety valves, and the result is greater durability and
freedom from accidents, economy in fuel, and a re-
duction in the amount of labour required to keep
the engines in working condition from the smaller
liability to friction. These improvements are ebtained
by the patented valves, which are adapted to any
construction of engine, whether beam, horizontal, or
vertical, or with high or low pressure or steam. En-
gines possessing desiderata such as these will receive
the attention they deserve from all manufacturers
using steam power. The woollen manufacture of
Ireland is represented by Messrs. F. and R. Scott,
of Island-bridge Mills, who exhibit a perfect set of
improved carding machines at work, constructed by
Mr. J. Tatham, of Rochdale. All the processes
undergone by wool, from its raw state until it passes
out of the weaver's hands, are here illustrated prac-
tically, and attract much attention, a considerable
space being allotted to the firm, which carries on a
large export trade in connexion with the manufac-
ture of this texture.

The linen goods, the staple commodity of Ulster,
next demand attention. There are several machines
exhibited in connexion with its manufacture. Messrs.
Robert Hay and Sons (late Mr. Wm. Dargan), of
Chapolizod Mills, in the vicinity of this city, have a
complete set of machines for the preparing and
spinning of flax, in full work, the preparing ma-
chines being supplied by Messrs. Fairbairn, of
Leeds, and Farmer and Broughton, of Salford ; the
spinning machines being manufactured by Messrs.
Boyd and Co., of Belfast. Though the Ulster spin-
ners have sent in large quantities of linen goods for
exhibition, there are but few machines exhibited
by them. Mr. W. Friedlander, of Londonderry,
and Messrs. Rowan and Sons, of Belfast, have sent
in rival scutching machines, the respective merits of
which will be tested, probably, in the course of the
summer. They are made by Messrs. Dobson and
Barlow, of Bolton, and Messrs. Rowan. Last year,
at the exhibition of Irish manufactures, a trial match
took place between five scutching machines by diffe-
rent makers ; but the result was unsatisfactory, the
Ulster men appointed as umpires deciding that none
of them met all the requirements of the growers.
This year the trial will be made on somewhat diffe-
rent terms, and is looked forward to with much in-
terest, the agriculturists of the south and west of
Ireland, who are endeavouring to extend the growth
of flax, being anxious to secure the best machine.

A large space has been very judiciously allotted
to the improved cotton machines exhibited and
worked by Messrs. Dobson and Barlow, of Bolton,
and which form an interesting feature in this depart-
ment. Several newly patented improvements are
here shown, for the first time, to the public. By a
new arrangement in the self-acting mule afar better
quality of yarn is produced. This firm exhibit their
" patent improved cotton gin," which turns out very
considerably more work with much less labour than
the ordinary gins. It is adapted for long or short
stapled cotton, and constructed so as to suit parti-
cularly the fibre grown in India. It is expected that
an important trial will be made during the summer
with the cotton gins with a view to ascertain the
best fitted for the Indian growers, the experiment to
take place under Government superintendence. The
object sought for is a machine that will best clear
the cotton of India of seed and waste matter before
exportation, and thus lower the cost of transit as
much as possible in order to enable Indian cultiva-
tors to compete with growers nearer home.
The other machines include a very miscellaneous
collection. Mr. Sturgeon, of Leeds, exhibits a
patent steam-hammer with a self-acting and self-
adjusting valve motion and embracing several im-
provements. The hammer itself weighs 1 cwt but
strikes a blow equal to 21 tons. Mr. William D.
Grimshaw, of Mitcham, has among other articles
an " improved atmospheric hammer," simple in its
contrivance, and cheap, and completely under the
control of the worker as to speed and weight of
blow. It is worked at a considerably less consump-
tion of power than the ordinary steam-hammer.
Mr. Robinson, of Bridgewater, has a neat and effec-
tive cask-cleaner, capable of thoroughly cleansing