The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-07 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Yesterday Prince Oscar, Crown Prince of Sweden,
attended by his suite, paid a visit to Chatham for
the purpose of inspecting the dockyard and other
naval establishments. His Royal Highness, who
was accompanied by Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drum-
mond, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
arrived at the dockyard shortly before 11 o'clock.
He was received there by Capt. Fanshawe, sul;4,r_
intendent, and the principal officials, who rZWiducted
him over the establishment. Tht objects which
attracted the greatest interest.—orere the iron steamers
now building, one of wb.:Leb, the armour-plated fri-
gate Royal Oak, id so far advanced that she will be
shortly launched. His Royal Highness was first
shown the Achilles, 60, every part of which he
examined, and with the extraordinary size of which
he appeared much struck. Nearly the whole of
the frames—answering to the timbers of a wooden
ship—are in their places, and two of the bulkheads
fixed. After spending some time in examining the
works connected with the Achilles, the Prince in-
spected the Bulwark, 91 ; the Belvidere, 51 ; the
Menai, 22 ; and the Reindeer, 17, all eventually to
be transfeirrned into iron-plated steamers. He then
visited the works connected with the Royal Oak
and the various factories. He left the dockyard
shortly before 1 o'clock and returned to town.
An intimation has been received at Chatham gar-
rison from the Horse Guards, announcing that it is
not intended to despatch the usual annual reinforce-
ments to India this season to fill up the vacancies
in the various cavalry and infantry regiments serv-
ing in the three Presidencies, caused by troops be-
ing invalided or sent home to be discharged. There
are nt present four infantry and two cavalry regi-
ments either on their passage home or under orders
to return to England, and not the slightest diffi-
culty is felt in obtaining some hundreds of volun-
teers from each of the regiments returning from
India for the regiments left behind, the many ad-
vr.ntages of superior pay, &c., inducing the greater
number of the private soldiers to prefer serving in
India to any other part of the world. Each volun-
teer receives the sum of one guinea, whereas the cost
of despatching each soldier to India may be put, at
the very lowest, at £3O. It is expected, therefore,
that the Government will encourage as much as
possible the system of volunteering.
The first of the large plate-bending machines for
preparing and bending the armour plates for the
item steamer Achilles, 50, by means of hydraulic
pressure, has been erected at Chatham dockyard,
in the factory adjoining the dock in which the iron
frigate is building. The plates are to be bent
cold. So great is the force required to effect this
that the hydraulic engines can be worked up to a
pressure of 2,000 tons to the square inch. The
new furnace for heating the armour-plates has also
been erected, and the first plate was made hot, a
few days since, in the presence of the principal offi-
cials of the dockyard, with highly satisfactory re-
sults. Messrs. Westwood, Baillie, and Co. are also
erecting one of their large machines, adjoining No.
7 slip, to be used in preparing the plates for the
Royal Oak, 51, armour-plated screw steamer. A
second machine is to be erected, in order that no
time may be lost in preparing the plates and affix-
ing them to the sides of the vessel, it being now
ready for that operation.
• The Victor Emmanuel, 86, screw, Capt. W. J. C.
Clifford, C. 8., was paid out of commission at Ports-
mouth yesterday, under the supervision of Captain
H. Broadhead, commanding H.M.S. Asia and the
Reserve of the port. At the close of paying off,
Capt. Broadhead complimented Captain Clifford on
the appearance of the ship's crew as they had come
forward to the pay-table. The following men were
recommended for the silver medal and gratuity
given by the Admiralty for good conduct and long
services Wilson, chief quartermaster ; Thos.
Johnson, sergeant, Royal Marines ; William Birch,
boatswain's mate ; John Dawe, quartermaster; T.
Barton, captain of hold; John Harris, chief boat-
swain's mate; Thos. Wilts, boatswain's mate; and
Henry Kemp, seaman gunner.
The plan suggested by Mr. Cunningham, the in-
ventor of the patent topsail, for protecting the screws
of our ships of war from fouling by the wreck of
spars and rigging shot away and falling alongside
in action, or from hawsers towing overboard in the
vicinity of the screw, was yesterday tested in
Weovil Lake, off the Royal Clarence victualling
yard, in the presence of several naval officers. The
results were most satisfactory, and the invention
has been reported upon to the Lords of the Admi-
ralty.

The carpenter of the Shannon, 36, screw, in dock
at Portsmouth, in walking forward yesterday on
the main deck discovered a fire smouldering be-
tween the fixed fowl coop and the inner planking
of the ship's bows. It had partially destroyed a
corner of the fowl-coop, but had not burnt in to flame.
A few buckets of water set matters to rights. Had
the fire not been discovered so early as it luckily
was the results must have been much more serious.
A handful of oakum was found, also partially burnt,
thrust between the fowl-coop and the ship's side.
It is supposed that some of the men on board had
been smoking, in defiance of the dockyard regula-
tions, and that on being disturbed one of them had
hurriedly thrust a pipe in the spot where the fire
was discovered. The existence of the oakum is
accounted for by caulkers being employed on board.
The Zebra, 17, screw, Commander A. H. Hoskins,
sailed from Spithead yesterday, at 2 p.m., for
Devonport, en route to the West Coast of Africa.
In the Royal Naval Reserve John W. Gill, Henry
White, Thomas Baker, and James Clarke have been
appointed Lieuts. ; James W. Callow and William
Alfred Ridly Styles, Sub-Lieuts.; and Staveley
Taylor Honorary Lieut.
The following appointments were made on Mon-
day at Admiralty :_Capt. Stephen Smith Lowther
Crofton to the Satellite, vice Capt. Johnson,
invalided ; Dover Parrant, Master additional to
the Marlborough ; John Hill, acting-engineer,
from the Asia to the Pisgard, as supernumerary ;
W. C. Archbold, of the Defence, confirmed as second
class assist.-engineer ; and J. B. E. Warrington, of
the Mullet, confirmed as second-class assist.-engineer.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. the Hon. S. T. Carnegie,
C. 8., to the Colossus, in the room of Capt. Patsy,
deceased ; Commander Cr. A. Brine, to the Russell,
additional, for the Coastguard ; Sub-Lieut. J. J. C.
Smail, to the Euryalus, additional, for disposal; and
Mr. R. J. Hughes, midshipman, to the Zebra.

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A circular, signed by CO]. G. C. Langley, Deputy
Adjutant-General Royal Marines, has been issued
from the Admiralty, by order of their Lordships, in
which is embodied the report of Commodore Dunlop,
C. 8., Commander-in-Chief on the West India station,
on the exemplary conduct of the officers, non-com-
missioned officers, and privates of the Royal Marines
landed in Mexico. Their lordships desire that the
report may be promulgated to each of the divisions,
with the expression of their great satisfaction at this
testimony to the efficiency and discipline of the bat-
talion, together with their approbation of the zealous
exertions of Lieut.-Col. Lawder and the officers
under his command,
in equipping the battalion for
active service in Mexico. Commodore Dunlop espe-
cially mentions the following officers who particu-
larly distinguished themselves by their energy,
zeal, and military knowledge in the different depart-
ments in which they were employed—viz., Major
Digby, 0.11,, Royal Marine Artillery, field officer
on the Staff ; Lieut. Heaslop, Royal Marine Artil-
lery, commanding battery of Armstrong guns ;
Capt. Elliott, Brigade Major; Lieut. Hamilton,
Adjt. ; Lieut. Broughton
, Quartermaster; and Lieut.
Smith, Military Train.
He also specially notices
the great zeal displayed in the execution of a very
arduous duty by Dr. Elliot and Assist.-Sorg. Adams
and Henderson. Nothing, he says, could exceed
the care and attention shown by those officers to
the sick during the trying period of their service at
Vera Cruz.

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THE SING OF ITALY AT NAPLES,

A letter from Naples, dated May 1, say. :
Again I write, for matter of interest c ,ntinually
presents itself, and impressions must be formed at
this momentous crisis in a cause whit. is that not
merely of Italian but of European peace and pro-
gress. The 'visit of the King assumes a much more
?.,rious character than did his first visit. His
Ministers, Rattazzi, Conforti, and Persano, are with
him, and it may be hoped that work is really done.
I saw his Majesty twice yesterday, when he left
and returned to his Palace,and certainly his manner
of acknowledging the salutes of the people was less
military and more royal and cordial. As for the
masses, whom it is a great thing to keep in good
humour, they are all in ecstacies, and shout louder
than ever they did for the Bourbons. Persons will
no doubt laugh, and say that they have been
bought ; that the redeemed pledges and hopes of
other boons have much to do with this uproarious
loyalty ; but say they have—admit it all ; there is
something at the bottom of everything, but I con-
sider it a great thing to have produced a conviction
in the minds of the multitude that their King, Vic-
tor Emmanuel, is the fountain, the sole fountain, of
public good. Hitherto they have looked elsewhere
and nearer ; for in polities as in religion these half-
educated people have not risen to a belief in an
invisible power ; they must have the actual pre-
sence ; and as in religion they must have their
dolls and pictures and the Host, so in politics
they must see and touch the robes of royalty, and
feel that benefits emanate from him, or else they will
raise up their golden calf. The sight of the King,
therefore, and the few boons which he has as yet
conferred, have done much good, and hate created
a sentiment and a conviction that did not exist
before. You well know that I have always thought
it was impolitic to banish all at once every sign of
royalty here. I would have left the shadow of it
at least, and my opinion was formed on a knowledge
of the Neapolitans, who, like all people in a state of
semi-civilisation, require signs. It Is for the same
reason that they are such lovers of fetes ; and, truth
to say, they have enough of them to gratify the
wants of the most exacting. Last night the city was
again illuminated for the third time, and the streets
which were crowded to excess echoed with the vivas
of the people. Reports, too, are pouring in from
the most distant places of the general enthusiasm
which has prevailed ; from Reggio Bari, Girgenti,
Chieti, Avellino, Barletta come descriptions of illu-
minations and music, and the Prefects of Bari,
Vasto, Terra d'Otranto, and the Capitanata, in the
name of the populations, send welcome and congra-
tulation to the King. Of the places more imme-
diately in the neighbourhood of Naples I have
already spoken ; the expression of public joy was
spontaneous and universal. Of course it will be said
it was all got up. Well, if so, it was a very exten-
sive " get up," and so many hands must have been
employed about it as to prove the truth of my re-
presentations. Next Monday his Majesty goes to
Salerno, the second city in Southern Italy, and
holding a population always remarkable for their
advanced liberal opinions. I have no doubt that
the King will there have another grand ovation ; of
this, however, I will speak when I have seen it.
When last I visited that city it was on the occasion
of the monster trial, well remembered as the " Cag-
liari" trial. As I left it I bade adieu behind his
bars to Nicotera, who had just been condemned to
death. Nicotera is now the Deputy for Salerno,
and Victor Emmanuel is going down the accepted
Sovereign of a place which but yesterday was the
second city in the kingdom of the Bourbons. What
marvellous changes one witnesses from day to day,
and how mighty are the mysterious operations
of Providence, which from disorder and darkness is
now creating order and light ! "While at Salerno
his Majesty will visit Persani, where the late
Kings established an institution for breeding
horses. Of late it has, I believe, been neglected,
but it is to be hoped that greater attention will now
be given to it. One fact which struck me on Mon-
day last, but to which I have not as yet adverted,
was the great good will which evidently existed
between the people and the military of all branches.
As the latter defiled before the King they were
greeted enthusitstically by all the people—of
course the National Guards, and especially the Ber-
saglieri, whose smart appearance win the imagina-
tions of the Neapolitans. And yet those men more
than :any others have been employed in putting
down the brigands.

It must, too, be confessed that the soldiers of the
Northern army are a perfectly different class of
men from the rough and cowardly brutes who,
under the Bourbons, dishonoured the uniform by
their excesses and cruelties.

Tolerant and gentle, they are citizens in the
midst of citizens, and I have not witnessed in the
course of the last two years one single instance of
disorderly or unsoldierly conduct ; and yet these
troops are as brave as lions.

And what have the Bourbonists been doing all
this week? Gnashing their teeth, I suppose; for
in the general enthusiasm which has prevailed they
must have foreseen the destruction of their hopes.
In the city they have made one or two impotent
efforts to create disorder, but so childish that I
should not have adverted to them but for the pro-
bability that the Legitimist press might note and
exaggerate them. We have had one or two small
bombs exploded, popguns to amuse babies, and two
or three panes of glass broken thereby. Should
you hear of them, take my word for it that I have
not diminished the character or the effect of them.
It is not at all unlikely that the thieves, who are
legion, let them off to call off the police from
other quarters where their companions might
have a free field. On Tuesday night an impor-
tant arrest was made in the person of Captain
Moxidana. He was residing in the Vomero,
and in his house were found bombs in the
course of construction, gunpowder, hemp, and all
the other materials employed in the manufacture of
these instruments.

It appears that he has been one of those princi-
pally employed this winter in getting up the bombs
which have from time to time created a panic in
our streets. A telegram from Barletta, too, informs
us that a domiciliary visit had been made in the
house of the Bishop of Foggia, who resided in
Andria, and that a dagger and compromising papers
had been found. Monsignor was arrested and
taken off to Foggia. One hears much of brigands
in Southern Italy, but there cannot be the slightest
doubt that the clergy
are at the bottom of every
movement against the established order of things,
and so long a, their influence continues we shall
hear of disturbances. I would, therefore, in all
seriousness suggest that means, which I frankly
onerin°t point out, be taken to exchange
them diocese to another. This plan is
bing confess
fromadl
oci)ated with the laity, both civilian and
military, and if it could
where
adopted
their power would be crippled, with the clergy
ere a priest has
made his nest he has an infinite number of chirp-
lings all around him who take—not their daily food,
very little of that is to be got .
out of the t
their political food from this sot disant vase of the
Holy Spirit. Remove the priest, breakup his little
structure of straw and feathers, transport him to
another place, and it will be long time before he
can make another nest or get around him another
brood. Though I have made the suggestion thus
figuratively 1 do so with all seriousness, as I am
convinced that it would be most efficacious—only
the Government must win the bishops to their
views. To arrest every priest who is suspected
would be impossible; the remedy would be illegal,
and worse than the disease ; but to traslocare a
man who on tolerably good moral evidence was
disloyalty
charishing to a Sovereign would be no
great piece of severity, and would be of no infinite
benefit to the public.

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