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

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, March 4.—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 general. The Racer, 11, screw corvette, Com-
mander J. N. T. Saulez, left Malta on the 25th for Tunis
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,
andfresh 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. Ilardinge, commanding,lst 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.
Colviu, 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 some time 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
thorough repair and retain her in the service.
These repairs have resulted in the Terrible being
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 subse-
quently altered by the removal of four of her heaviest
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in charge of Mr. J. Rollinson, chief engineer, were
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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 3O 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 34ft.
The floats, 13ft. wide, have an immersion of 7ft.
Gin., 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 large 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 6min. • "Baec.; speed

n knots, 9-783 ; number of revolutions of paddle-
wheel, 13 ; pressure of steam, 9.51 b. ; vac., 28.
Second mile—time, smin . 26sec. ; speed, 11.043 knots;
revolutions of paddlewheels, 13 ; pressure, 11-51 b. ;
vac., 25. Third mile—time, smin. 30sec. ; speed,
10.619 knots ; revolution, 14 ; pressure, 121 b. ; vac.
26.5. Fouith mile—time, 6min. 13sec. ; speed,
9.651 knots ; revolutions, 13 ; pressure of steam,
131 b. ; vac. 28. Fifth mile—time, smin. 19sec. ; speed,
11.285 knots; revolutions, 14; pressure, 111 b.; vac.,
26. Sixth mile—time, 6 min. 12 sec. ; speed, 9.677
knotts ; revolutions, 13 ; pressure, 12 ; vac., 28 ;
giving a mean speed of 10.470 knots per hour. Two
runs were afterwards taken at half-boiler power,
when with ten revolutions of the engines per minute
an average speed of 8.436 knots was attained.
From the reasons already given it would seem that
the Terrible did not attain such a high rate of speed
on the occasion of her trial yesterday as on her pre-
vious trial trip. In making circles, with the rudder
at an angle of 28 deg. and with 10 revolutions of
the engines, the full circle was made in 6min. 32sec.
At the close of the trials the Terrible returned into
harbour to await orders from the Admiralty. She
has upwards of 400 tons of coals on board and the
greater portion of her sea stores.

The Liverpool, 39, screw frigate, Capt. Rowley
Lambert, arrived at Spithead on Saturday, from
Plymouth, after a refit. On anchoring she exchanged
salutes with the Victory, flagship of the Commander-
in-Chief, Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.B.

The annual change of quarters of the Royal
Household Cavalry is to take place on the sth of
the ensuing month, when the Ist Regiment of Life
Guards remove from the Hyde Park barracks to
Windsor, the 2d Regiment of Life Guards from
Windsor to the Regent's Park barracks, and the
Royal Horse Guards (Blue) from the Regent's
Park barracks to Hyde Park barracks.
The usual half-yearly changes of quarters of the
division of the Foot Guards is appointed to take
place on the 31st inst., as follows :—Grenadier
Guards, Ist battalion, from Chelsey barracks to
Wellington barracks ; 2d battalion, from Shorn-
cliffe to the Tower of London ; the 3d battalion,
will remain at Wellington barracks. Coldstream
Guards, Ist battalion, from Wellington barracks to
Windsor ; 2d battalion, from Windsor to St.
George's barracks. Scots Fusilier Guards, Ist bat-
talion, from the Tower of London to Shorncliffe ;
and 2d battalion from St. George's barracks to
Chelsea barracks.

Lieut. - Gen. Sir S. B. Ellis, K. C.B. , Royal Marines
one of the few remaining heroes of Trafalgar, died
at his residence, Old Carlton, on Friday last, aged
78. The deceased entered the Royal Marines in
1804. He first served in Sir R. Calder's action off
Cape Finnistre in 1805, and in the battle of Trafal-
gar in the same year. He was one of the survivors
of the Walcheren expedition in 1809, was at the
capture of Guadaloupe in 1810, was present at the
capture of the American frigate President in 1814,
and was the first officer who boarded her after she
struck. He was employed from 1812 to 1813 off
the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and was engaged
in several boat actions off the coast of North
America in 1814. In 1839 he was at the bombard-
ment and reduction of Fort Munora in Scinde, and
in the same year he commanded a detachment of
his corps at Bushire, where he landed under a heavy
fire from the Persians, and embarked in safety the
political resident. For two years he was actively
engaged in the principal actions of the Chinese war,
for which service he was promoted to the rank of
Brevet-Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, and was
also made a C.B. He was created a K.C.B. in
1860, and Colonel-Commandant of the Portsmouth
Division of Royal Marines in 1863. He had re-
ceived the war medal with two clasps, and also the
China medal.

We have to announce the death of Lieut.-Gen.
Sir Scudamore Winde Steel, K.C.8., of her Ma-
jesty's Indian Forces. The deceased joined the
Indian service in 1806. He served during 1808-9,
under Colonel Doveton, in Berar. During the
Mahratta War of 1817-18 he served as Assistant-
Quartermaster, and was present at the reduction of
the Hill Forts in the Gungterry, where he was
slightly wounded in the head with a matchlock ball.
In 1821, 1822, and 1823 he was employed in the
Southern Mahratta country, for which he received
the thanks of the departmental officers. As Deputy
Assistant-Quartermaster of the Madras troops he
took part in the expedition against Rangoon, and
after a long succession of services he was appointed
in 1852 to the command of the Madras division of
the army of Burmah. He was in 1853 appointed
K.C.8., and in 1854 specially appointed to com-
mand the Peg,u division and Martaban provinces.
He returned to England on the 27th of May, 1856,
after having completed an uninterrupted service in
India of fifty years.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—On Friday—Lieut. Herbert 11.
Edwards, to the Meander ; J. C. Inglis, surgeon,
to the Egmont ; E. B. Broster, assist.-surgeon, to
the Sharpshooter; Albert A. Mullins, assist.-sur-
geon, to the Spider ; J. M. Hunter, assist.-surgeon,
to the Dee ; J. T. Mitchell, assist.-surgeon,
additional, to the Formidable ; J. NV. Dob-
bin, assist.-surgeon, additional, to the Victory ;
Dr. S. Davidson, acting assist.-surgeon, to the
Stromboli ; Dr. Hugh R. Craig, acting' assist.-sur-
geon, additional, to the Leander ; and J. Knight,
second class assist.-engineer, to the Indus for the
Lord Clyde. On Saturday—Lieut. Herbert Dolphin
and Lieut. N. A. R. Spicer to the Sparrowhawk ;
Lieut. 11. P. Gilbert, to the Dauntless ; Lieut. F.
C. Vincent, to the Irresistible; W. H. Monckton,
midshipman, to the Hector ; Philip E. Manger,
second master, to the Ranger ; Henry Hueband,
second master, to the Triton.