The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-13 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Admiralty paddlewheel yacht Enchantress,
intended for the forthcoming trip of Prince Arthur
in the Mediterranean, was on Saturday hauled out
of the fitting basin at Woolwich, after being reno-
vated throughout. She is under orders to sail on
Tuesday for Marseilles, where the Prince and suite
have proposed embarking. His Royal Highness,
attended by Major Elphinstone, went over the ship
on Thursday last, and approved the arrangements
which were then in progress.

The ironcased screw steamship Ocean, was re-
moved on Saturday from Hamoaze into No. dock in
Keyham steamyard, to receive some necessary re-
pairs below the water line.

The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 39, Captain
Rowley Lambert, which lost a portion of her false
keel in the West Indies, will be removed to-day
from No. 1 dock in Devonport-yard. Her false keel
has been made good, and she has been supplied with
a new bridge, &e.

The screw steam gun vessel Dapper, tender to the
training ship Britannia, arrived on Friday at Ply-
mouth, and having landed an insane patient, who
was sent to the Royal Naval Hospital at Stonehouse,
returned on Saturday to Dartmouth.

The repairs of the ironcased ship Caledonia, 35,
having been completed, she was removed on Satur-
day from No. 1 dock to the basin in Devonport
dockyard.

The Geyser, 6, paddle sloop, Commander A. T.
Thrupp, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from Gibraltar.

The Imperial Ottoman squadron, comprising the
screw line of battle ship Kossova (flag), of 80 guns,
and the 50-gun screw frigates Khudevendigar and
Ertegroul, under the command of Admiral Edham
Pasha, have completed their screw trials at Ports-
mouth, and are now lying at Spithea,d anchorage.
Thence they are expected to sail for Constanti-
nople, calling in at Cherbourg and Gibraltar, about
the 20th inst.

The Virago, 6, 1,059 tons, 300-horse power,
paddlewheel steamer, has unshipped the whole of
her powder and shell, which have been deposited in
the magazines at Upnor Castle. She has commenced
returning her guns, shot, and other War Depart-
ment stores to the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, and
the crew are busily employed in dismantling her,
preparatory to being pit out of commission and
placed in the steam reserve squadron in the Medway.
The committee, consisting of the leading officials
connected with the iron and metal departments at
the royal dockyards, which has been engaged for
some time past at Chatham dockyard in carrying
out experiments at that establishment, with a view
to the adoption by the Admiralty of a code of rules
and regulations for the testing of the various de-
scription of iron sent into her Majesty's dockyards
by private firms, has completed its labours, and
agreed upon the report to be submitted to the Admi-
ralty. During the progress of the inquiry nume-
rous trials and experiments were conducted at Chat-
ham yard, which have resulted in the recommenda-
tion by the committee of a code of rules to be
adopted by the Admiralty, the effect of which, it is
believed, will put an end to the dissatisfaction which
has for some time existed on the part of the eminent
firms under contract to supply iron to the dockyards
with the hitherto arbitrary manner in which the iron
sent in by the contractors has been from time to
time rejected by the dockyard officials.
The Secretary of State for War has given autho-
rity for the establishment of a canteen for the use of
the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal
Engineers attached to headquarters. Accompanying
the order granting this privilege were instructions
for Major Harrison, one of the adjutants, to pro-
ceed to Gosport, for the purpose of making himself
acquainted with the system adopted at the canteen at
that station, which is stated to be one of the best
conducted and successful of all hitherto established.

An intimation has been received at the cavalry
barracks at Colchester that the depot of the 17th
Lancers (dismounted) will arrive there about the
28th inst. The 16th Lancers, some troops of which
occupy the barracks, while the remainder are quar-
tered at Ipswich and Norwich, will embark for India
in June or July, and will then be succeeded by the
17th Lancers. Colchester will continue to be the
headquarters. Staff-Surgeon Williams, of the 10th
Depot Battalion, having been appointed surgeon to
the 28th Regiment, has received instructions to pro-
ceed to the Royal Victoria Hospital, at Netley, for
duty, until the arrival of the regiment in England
from India. Capt. Brown, of the 97th Regiment,
has taken the command of the troops at Harwich
and Landguard Fort, in succession to Capt. Cooper,
of the 54th.

Capt. Nangle's battery, sth Brigade Royal Artil-
lery, arrived at headquarters, Woolwich, on Saturday,
from Pembroke Dock, consisting of Second Captains
Still and Bleacley and 99 non-commissioned officers
and privates, with 14 women and 28 children. They
were transhipped at Greenhithe from the troopship
Urgent, Capt. Henderson, and brought up the river
by the dockyard vessel Monkey, Master-Commander
Smithers, and landed without delay at the arsenal
pier. Soon after two o'clock they were comfortably
housed in quarters prepared in the west square cf
the Royal Artillery barracks, and will be inspected
this morning on parade by Gen. Warde, C.B, com-
manding the garrison.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—P. S. W. Mayow, midshipman,
to the Niger ; llugh G. Gough, Charles 11. Herring,
and Algernon B. Sheridan, midshipmen, to the Dun-
can ; and Edwin Gossage, assist.-engineer, to the
Enchantress ; W. P. Burdwood, paymaster, to the
Meander ; Charles IV. Ring, assist.-paymaster,
supernumerary, to the Royal Adelaide ; Thomas L.
Walker, chief engineer, to the Hector ; George
Aitcheson, chief engineer, to the Lion ; George Met-
calf (of the Alagicienne), L. J. Croome (of the Cum-
berland), to be engineers in the Fleet ; Alex.
Stewart (a), of the Swallow, to be acting
engineer ;
Christopher Lund (of the Pembroke), W. 11.
~Vivil
(of the Princess Alice), John Clift (of the Raven),
and Josh. Knight (of the Bombay), to be engineers.

A NEW &Limoßm.—Last week M. Guerin-
Meneville communicated a paper to the Academy of
of Sciences on a new silkworm sent over from
Senegal. During General Faidherbe's campaigns in
that colony, the cocoons of this insect wore found
in large quantities on the branches of various
kinds of wild jujube trees. The importance of
this discovery did not escape the penetration of the
governor of the colony, who directed Dr. Bancal to examine
the matter. That gentleman last year sent over to M.
Guerin-Meneville twelve cocrons in a state of vitality ;
and butterfles having issued from three of these
eggs obtained have produced silkworms which M. G.
Meneville has recognised as belonging to the genus baturnia
Bauhinite, but differing from the specimens described by
him in 183$ in this—that the attennm of the butterfly
are equally broad and shaped like feathers in
both sexes, which is not the case in the real
Saturnia. It therefore proposes making a sub-genus of
the new breed, under the name of Faidherbia Bauhinix.
The eggs of this silkworm are quite white, slightly flat-
tened, and about the size of the Bornbyx Cynthia. The cater-
piller on being hatched is black ; it then becomes
grey, then of a brilliant silver white, and in the
last stage green, its body being covered with small bunches
of bristles, those near the head being red and blue, and
those on the body red and white. The crysalis is brown,
with a waxy grey substance, of a pulverulent appearance
on the dorsal part, and tubercle like the head of a nail at
the posterior end, to which is fixed the last skin of the
worm It has not got on its head the small reservoir of
liquid intended to soften the silk, and which is met with in
the species producing cocoons that are closed. The cocoon
is egg-shaped, perfectly white, and has a shining inner
surface. It consists of two envelopes, the inner one of
which is composed of a straw-coloured silk. It has a nar-
row opening, and hangs from the branches by a sort of
ribbon. The butterfly, on issuing from the cocoon, exhales
a strong smell of musk. The food of this breed consists of
the leaves of the jujube-tree, which in Senegal is known
under the name Siddern (Zispyhus Orthocantha). A weight
of 9gms. of cocoons yields I.9ogms. of silk, or 19.30 per
cent., while the mulberry breed only yields from 11 to 14
per cent. Each cocoon contains on an average 663 milligr.
of silk.

THE AFFAIRS OF NEW ZEALAND.—On Saturday a
large blue book containing "further papers relative to the
affairs of New Zealand," was issued from her Majesty's
Stationery Office, for presentation to both houses of Par-
liament. The papers are in continuation of those presented
on the 15th of January last year, and are dated between the
7th of last May and the 26th ult.
THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ASSOCIATION, in Con-
sequence of the support which it has received from the
press and the public, has determined to increase its capital
and enlarge the circle of its operations.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 11.
The Queen and Royal Family took their usual
exercise yesterday.

FEB. 12.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold.
The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood arrived yesterdaY
afternoon, and had the honour of dining with her
Maj esty.