The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-03 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 16,
1,000-horse power, fitting at Chatham, will, in ac-
cordance with orders received from the Admiralty,
be at once prepazed for-the.first division of the Steam
Reserve. She Eas commenced shipping-the heAvy'
porirsair of her engineti, machinery, and boilers,
manufactured for her by Messrs. John Penn and
Sons, and in the course of two or three weeks will
be taken into one of the vacant docks at Chatham
to have the remainder of her armour bolted to her
sides, and to be equipped for sea.
The Windsor Castle, East Indiaman, Commander
Pryce (one of Messrs. Green's fleet), arrived at
Spithead yesterday morning from Calcutta, with
military invalids and time-expired men on board
from various regiments serving in India, in the fol-
lowing strength .—Officers accompanying the troops
—Lieut. Kemp, Ist Battalion 4th Infantry ; Ensign
Wither, 28th Battalion; C apt. Graham, 33d Battalion;
Lieut. Walsh, 44th Battalion ; and Surg. Ekin,
Medical Staff Corps. Invalided men for the Royal
Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, 113, with 4
women and 10 children. Time-expired men to join
the depots of their respective regiments, 141, with 6
women and 10 children. The troops will be disem-
barked from the Windsor Castle at Spithead by
Government steamers this morning, and the ship will
afterwards resume her voyage to London.
The Tartar, 20; screw, corvette, Capt. John M.
Hayes, C. 8., the arrival of which at Spithead, from
China and Japan, was reported in The Sun yester-
day, sailed again from Spithead last evening for
Sheerness, where she is ordered to dismantle and
pay out of commission. Capt. Hayes took com-
mand of her at Sheerness on August 13, 1860.

The turret-ship question enters upon a new phase
this week in the assembling of a commission of naval
officers to inspect and report upon, for the informa-
tion of the Lords of the Admiralty, a set of draw-
ings for a seagoing turret vessel that have been pre-
pared by the chief draughtsman of Portsmouth
dockyard, Mr. Scullard, by order of the Admiralty,
and under the supervision of Capt. C. P. Coles, R. N.
in order to meet the views of that officer on the re-
quirements of a sea-going turreted ironclad. A
short time since it was stated in The Sun that
Capt. Coles officially handed these drawings in to
the Admiralty some time during the first week in
April last. The appointment of the present com-
mission is therefore the second decisive step taken in
the matter by the Admiralty since the order was
given to their draughtsman at Portsmouth to pre-
pare the drawings. The commission is composed of
the following members :—Vice-Admiral the Earl of
Lauderdale, K.C.8., chairman ; Rear-Admiral H.
R. Yelver ton, C. 8., Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., Capt.
J. J. Kennedy, C. 8., Capt. H. B. Phillimore, with
Mr. Arthur Price, paymaster, R.N., 'and attached
to her Majesty'sship Fisgard at Woolwich, for " re-
vision of dockyard instructions," as secretary. The
duties of the commission are to report upon the
" stowage," " accommodation for officers and crew,"
" rig," " armament," and other essential points in
the designs for the ship. In fixing upon the size of
the ship both Capt. Coles and the Admiralty appear
to have selected Mr. Reed's Pallas as the compara-
tive ship, and to have assimilated her general di-
mensions as nearly as may be possible to the lines of
the turret-ship, the dimensions and character of
both being as follows :

PALLAS. T tiRBET-
SHIP.

.
Length between perpendiculars 225 in in
0 ... 225 0
Ditto, keel for tonnage
Extreme breadth 5O 0 ... 49 0
Ditto, for tonnage
Ditto, moulded 4B 1 ... 48 1
Depth in hold l6 5 ... 20 2
Draught of water 24 3 ... 22 6
Burden in tons (builder's measure-
ment) 2,372 ... 2,409
Thickness of armour 4iin. ... Gin.

Armaments.
Four 100 prs. Two 600
Weight of broadsides
= 3101 b.
The Pallas carries her guns in a central square
armoured tower. The turret-ship is designed to
carry her two guns in one turret, the base of the
turret being protected by a square armoured box.
Both vessels carry an armour belt at the water line,
the Pallas completely round, but that of the turret-
ship to terminate at 25ft. abaft her stem, but run-
ning round her stern and protecting
,her rudder
head. At the termination of the belt line, 25ft.
from her stem, a 'thwart-ship armoured bulkhead
will belsrun across and connect the ends of the belt
forward, while at the same time the ship's bows,
where there is no belt, will be so subdivided and
interlaced that no shot passing through can inflict
any serious injury. In fact, they will be much safer
without armour at all than if coated with thin plating
such as it is now the custom to plate the bows of
our ironclads with. The armour-plating and its
backing of the turret-ship are designed to be of
equal strength to those of the Bellerophon, and her
deck will have an underlie of 1-inch iron, in lieu
of the usual 1-inch plating beneath her wooden
planking. The turret-ship is to be propelled by en-
gines of 600-horse power--the same power as those
of the Pallas—and her estimated speed is 13.8 knots.
We are not quite certain what rate of estimated
speed is given to the Pallas. 2,409 tons appears
but a small tonnage for a seagoing turret-ship, and
we aro informed a vessel of one-half more tonnage,
with a proportionate increase in her engine power,
would cary two turrets, each with two 600-pounder
guns, and would attain a speed of 14.3 knots. In
the composition of the committee to investigate and
report upon the plans of the turret-ship no fault
can be found by Capt. Coles or any of his friends,
but to the committee collectively as a body, per-
haps, the objection may be raised that it has
been nominated by the Admiralty alone, and
is solely composed of naval officers. llad Captain
Coles been allowed to nominate such a man
as Mr. Laird to represent him in the committee
it would have been a gracious act on the part of the
Admiralty, and possibly might have silenced any
after murmurs from the advocates of the turret prin-
ciple. We very much regret to learn that Captain
Coles is confined to his room at his residence at
Ventnor by illness, and will therefore be unable
to attend the committee to explain any portion of
the drawings connected with the turret and guns.
Mr. Scullard, the designer of the ship, is, however,
quite competent to do this, and if Capt. Coles is well
advised he will for the present rest from his labours
and recruit his health, as a first consideration, leav-
ing to the Admiralty the responsibility for the ship,
the drawings for which have just beea placed before
them, and which are now undergoing consideration
at the hands of the committee.
A letter received at Plymouth from a naval officer
at Lisbon confirms the statement that the Achilles,
on her passage out, rolled less than any of the

• armour plated ships. It was expected that thesqui:
dron would leave the Tagus on Monday.
Sir John D. Hay, M.P., Sir James-D. fY
stone, M.P., and Mr. Corry, M.R., arrived at Ports.;]
mouth yesterday morning from London, and visited
the site of the extension of the dockyard there.
Capt. Thos. Hope is to receive the captain's good
service pension vacant by the promotion of Capt.
T. P. Thompson to be Rear-Admiral.
In consequence of the strike among the artisans
and labourers at Plymouth, and of the interference
of the union men with others willing to work, the
Government has, it is said, determined to suspend
for the present all progress in the construction of
the fortifications of the vicinity.
Viscountess Templetown, the wife of Lieut.-Gen.
Viscount Templetown, C. 8., Commander of the
Forces in. the West of England, presented new
colours yesterday to the Ist Battalion of the 6th Re-
giment, stationed at Devonport. The presentation
took place in the park. The regimental colour bears
in the centre the figure of an antelope and the title
of tho regiment, the 6th Royal Ist Warwickshire,
encircled by the rose, thistle, and shamrock, and
surmounted by a crown. On the borders are the
words "Roleia, Corunna, Pyrenees, Orthes, Vimiera,
Vittoria, Nivelle,
Peninsula, and Niagara." After
being placed in charge of the two ensigns, Hebeller
and Granville, their reception was acknowledged in
warm terms by Lieut.-Col. Lowe, C.B. During the
proceedings Viscount Templetown, in addressing
the men, stated that within the last hundred years
the 6th Regiment had seen duty in all quarters of
the globe. The old colours were then borne to the
rear by Ensigns Crisp and Morton ; they were pre-
sented to the regiment at Poonah by the wife of the
Brigadier in 1833.
The range of buildings hitherto used as a garrison
hospital for the troops of the line at Chatham being
no longer required for that purpose, in conse-
quencel of the hospital at Fort Pitt being sufficiently
large for the entire garrison, orders were some time
'since received from the War-office directing the
40111EQUitan of the garrison hospital into quar-
ters for the troops of the infantry regiments at
that station. The building so appropriated has been
completed, and was yesterday handed over to the
officials connected with the barrack departments.
The hospital will provide accommodation for 350
men, 12 in each room. All the separate barrack-
rooms into which the building has been divided are
light, lofty, and exceedingly well ventilated, both by
day and night. Each room is lighted with gas, and
there is an abundant supply of water for the troops
to whom the quarters are appropriated. The build-
ings have been inspected, prior to the troops taking
possession of them, by Major-General Sir Robert
Walpole, K.C.8., and other officers of the Staff of
the garrison.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—George Patterson, master,
additional, to the Cumberland for the Star ; Philip
W. G. Canning, Charles E. Gouldsbury, and Ho-
ratio Howell, assist.-clerks, to the Victory, as super-
numeraries ; J. Robinson, chief engineer to the
Terrible ; William Lewis, chief engineer to
the Sphinx ; Lawrence Moreton, engineer, to the
Indus, for the Clinker ; John Marsh, engineer, to
the Terrible ; Edward Newman, engineer, to the
Sphinx ; Thomas Rose, of the Gladiator, promoted,
to be engineer ; J. T. Robinson, first-class assist.-
engineer, to the Terrible ; John B. Gibson and John
Bannatyne, first-class assist.-engineers, to the
Sphinx ; William M'lntyre and Randall Pearce,
second-class assist.-engineers, to the Terrible ; and
James Cameron, second-class assist.-engineer, to
the Sphinx.

HEALTH OF LONDON,

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, April 29,
the births in London and nine other large towns of
the United Kingdom were 4,162, the deaths 2,687.
The annual rate of mortality in the week in those
10 towns was 25 per 1,000 persons living, and was
lower than in the two previous weeks, in each of
which it was 27.

In London the births of 1,149 boys and 1,065
girls, in all 2,205 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of the 10 years
1855-61 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,013.

The deaths in London in the same period were
1,344. The average number for the 17th week in
10 years (corrected) is 1,332. The deaths in tho
present returns slightly exceed the estimated number.

From zymotic diseases in the aggregate, the deaths
were 270 ; 79 children died from whooping-cough ;
55 deaths occurred from typhus, 9 from smallpox,
21 from scarlatina, 4 from diphtheria, and 11 from
measles.

In the sub-district of St. Paul, St. George-in-the
East, 16 deaths were registered. Of this number,
4 deaths occurred from fever, 4 from whooping-
cough, 1 from diarrhoea, and 1 from scarlatina. An
inquest was held on the daughter of a gunmaker,
aged 7 years, who died at 59, Sutton-street, of
effusion into pericardium, resulting from malignant
fever ; there was no medical attendance, and the
room was filthy and unwholesome.
Two hundred and thirty-nine deaths occurred
from disease of respiratory organs (exclusive of
phthisis) ; in the previous week the number was
338. One hundred and nineteen persons died from
bronchitis, 86 from pneumonia, 181 from phthisis,
161 from diseases of the brain and nervous system,
and 50 from diseases of the heart.

The following fatal carriage accidents occurred :
—A wholesale tea dealer, aged 60 years, was run
over by a cab in Lombard-street. A corn chandler,
aged 50 years, fell from a cart at Plumstead. The
son of a potman, aged 5 years, was run over by a
brewer's dray in Martha-street, Camberwell. The
son of a cork-cutter, aged 7 years, was run over by
a brewer's dray. The son of a labourer, aged 2
years, was run over by an omnibus.

The rate of mortality last week was 23 per 1,000
in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 28 in Dublin ; 30
in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 22 in Salford, 22 in
Birmingham, 29 in Leeds, 21 in Bristol, and 31 in
Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 38 per 1,000 dur-
ing the week ending the 15th ult., when the tempe-
rature was 2.1 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the
same week in London, where the rate was 27 per
1,000.

In Liverpool the births were 432, the deaths 274. ;
in Manchester the births 266, the deaths 1..85 ;
Salford the births 83, the deaths 46 ; in Birming.hani
the births 224, the deaths 136 ; in Leeds. the birtthhs
170, the deaths 126 ;in Bristol. the 92,birthsthe e
deaths 64 ; in Glasgow the births 389,
the. deaths deathsl69
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At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
Vienna
height of the barometer in the week was 29.997 in.
The barometrical reading decreased from 30.12 in.
on Monday to 29.79 in. on Friday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 54.2 deg., which
is 6.2 deg. above the average of the same week in
50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
highest day temperature was 81.5 deg. on Thursday.
The lowest night temperature was ;36.1 deg., on
Tuesday. The entire range of temperature in the week
was, therefore, 45.4 deg. The mean highest tempo-
raturn of the water of the Thames was 58.9 deg. ;
that of the lowest was 57.8 deg. The difference
between the mean dew point temperature and air
temperature was 10.2 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 69, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The direction of the
wind was variable.

The high temperature on Thursday, 81.5 deg., is
very remarkable ; it is higher than any on record in
the month of April. In April, 1859, the tempera-
ture was as high as 79 deg., the highest up to the
prep,ent time observed. This high temperature was
not experienced at places whose latitudes exceeded
53 deg. ; for instance, at Birmingham it was 73
deg., at Wakefield, 63 deg., at Manchester 56 deg.,
and at Liverpool 55 deg. only. The range of tem-
perature in southern places on this day was from 30
deg. to 40 deg., while at Manchester it was 13 deg.
only, and at Liverpool 10 deg. only.

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