The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-15 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Feb. B.—The newly •appointed Vice-
roy and Governor-General of India arrived on the
night of the 3d-4t inst., from Marseilles, in her
Majesty's despatch boat Banshee, Commander E.
Madden, which had been despatched from Malta,
for the purpose of conveying his lordship from
Alexandria. He landed in the morning, and visited
the Governor at the Palace. After seeing the new
harbour works and lunching with the Governor,
Lord Elgin re-embarked the same afternoon, and
proceeded on his way to Alexandria. His lordship
is accompanied by two aides-de-camp, Major Scott
Lieut. Thurlow. It is said that the Banshee will
await the arrival of Earl Canning at Alexandria,
in order to convey him to England. Her Majesty's
ship Queen, 86, Capt. C. Hillyar, is not to proceed
to Corfu, as at one time intended. The Neptune,
89, Capt. G. P. Hornby, proceeded in her stead on
the sth inst. The Queen and the Algiers, 89, Capt.
Rice, will remain here for the present with the Ad-
miral to go through a course of drill. The Intrepid,
6, Commander S. Marryat, left on Monday for Gib-
raltar, and the London, 89, Capt. IL Chadds, fol-
lowed her for the same destination on Tuesday.
Commander R. B. Harvey, recently appointed to
command her Majesty's ship Hibernia, vice Com-
mander Blanc, resigned, arrived here by the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon.
Colonel Bell, C.8.,V.C., Commanding the 2d batta-
lion 23d Fusiliers, Col. Bowen, and Capt. Trevor,
22d Regiment, returned to Malta by the Palestine,
from Liverpool. The Earl of Dalhousie arrived
yesterday from Marseilles, to remain here for a
week. A case of stabbing occurred on the 2d inst.
on board her Majesty's ship London. It appears
that a seaman named Ambrose Gorman, in a quarrel
wshoiupnded man was
with another seaman nameldiA.cn.gß:, M alcolm, stabbed
the latter with a knife. T
conveyed to the hospital in a dangerous state, and
died this morning. Her Majesty's ship in port
arethe
Sir Marlborough,W
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of Vice-Admi-
ral the Hibernia,
receiving ship (flag
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11, 131 (flagship
of Rear-Admiral H. J. Cod-
rington, C. 8.); the Algiers, 89; the Queen, 86; the
Medina and Firefly, surveying ships; the Alacrity,
4; the Surprise, 4; and the Hearty tng. The
yesterday from Messina,
and is bound to Gibraltar.
KSwedish a
tetooresk-e,t corvette Lagerbyelke, 16 guns, Captain
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in

Tehde at Euryalus
Plymouth
fitt
fore the flag of Rear-Admiral
Kuper, C. 13., the newly-appointed Commander-in-
Chief on the East India and China station, was yes-
terday taken out of Portsmouth harbour to the
measured mile in Stokes-bay to test her rate of
speed at deep draught prior to her departure from
the port. Mr. Miller, assistant-engineer of the
dockyard, and Mr,Eames, acting-inspector of machi-
nery afloat, superintended the trial. The ship's
draught of water was, forward, 20 feet 7 inches,and
aft, 22 feet 4 inches. Her screw was of the com-
mon Admiralty pattern, with the leading corners
cut, with a diameter of 17 feet, and a pitch of 21
feet. The load on the safety-valve was 20, the
average revolutions 56, and mean speed of the runs
made 9469 knots, A complete circle was made
under full steam in six minutes and two seconds.
The engines w ere stopped dead, turned ahead, and
then astern, readily and quickly. Her engines are
of 400 horse, nominal, by Messrs. Penn and Son,
and their working was pronounced perfectly satis-
factory. At the close of the trial the Euryalus re-
turned to the harbour and took up her former
moorings, where she will discharge 16 of her 32-
pounders, reducing the number of her guns to 35,
in accordance with the order recently issued from
the Admiralty.

The Shannon screw frigate, Capt. Wainer right,
at Spithead, commenced discharging 1G of her 32-
pounders yesterday under the same order as the
Euryalus, above.
Signal was made from the Victory, flagship of
Vice-Admiral Sir H. W. Bruce, in Portsmouth har-
bour, at 8 a.m. yesterday,for " all the gunboats in the
first-class of the reserve to man with their crews,
take on board a week's provisions, and report them-
selves for sea when ready." The men were scat-
tered on board the different ships in harbour, in
various parts of the dockyard, and over at the
Haslar Gunboat-yard, and the signal was wholly
unexpected, yet every boat was manned, provi-
sioned, and reported officially as ready for sea under
two hours, and there is no doubt but that another
hour would have seen them fairly under steam at
Spithead. The rapidity with which the signal was
made out speaks well for the efficiency of our Steam
Reserves.

The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gun-
nery ship at Portsmouth, is engaged, under the
snpervisiou of Captain IR: S. Hewlett, C. 8., in test-
ing sample armour-plates with her 95 cwt. smooth-
bore gun. The plates are from the Thames Iron
Ship Companies, Sheffield Atlas, and Glasgow
Lancefield Works, and are for her Majesty's ships
Royal Oak and Caledonia.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander W. J. H. Johnstone, left Plymouth Sound
on Wednesday evening, having in tow the paddle-
wheel steam vessel Investigator, Lieutenant and
Commander Benjamin L. Lefroy, which she will
escort as far as the island of Madeira, on her way
to the Cape of Good Hope, where she will be em-
ployed in the exploring expedition.

A letter has been received at Plymouth, from the
screw steam sloop Icarus, 11, Commander Nowell
Salmon, which left the Sound on the 16th of Janu-
ary, arrived at Gibraltar on the 4th inst., and sailed
on the sth for Malta. Very stormy weather was
experienced in the Bay of Biscay, and off Cape
Finisterre it became necessary to batten down and
heave-to for three days. She left at Gibraltar the
screw steam frigate Amphion, 36, Capt. Thomas F.
Birch; the screw steam corvette Scylla, 21, Capt.
John Corbett; the paddlewheel steam sloop Fire-
brand, 6, Commander James M. Bruce ; and the
paddlewheel steamvessel Cuckoo, 3, Capt. Frederick
Warden, C.B.

The hired transport Alexander yesterday berthed
alongside the Royal Arsenal pier, Woolwich, and
commenced shipping a bath of 27 32 pounder old
pattern garrison guns for Malta.
The Eliza Nelson sailed from Woolwich, laden with
prepared hutting timbers and planking, for the
Cape of Good Hope.
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The Persia yesterday hauled off to the buoy at
Woolwich, laden with 450 tons of Armstrong shot
m&ca.g'sfzoirnßeewrinituhd4, and is under orders to
280 tons of powder.
report of the Parana steam transport, in
fiannldninohe
shell,er
The Sun of yesterday. for " the entrance to St.
John's,
"S. n's'Ntewßrunswick, blocked with ice, &7n ,"
read John's, Newfoundland."

The 18 pounder battery of position at Tilbury
of 42 cwt., with carriages mid ammunition com-
plete, has been ordered to be removed to 'Woolwich.
Fort, consisting of four long 18 -pounder guns, each
A 40-pounder Armstrong battery will be substi-
tuted.

Yesterday the War Department transport Bo-
marsund shipped to 20-pounder Armstrong guns,
quantity of shot and shell, Chatham, together with a
, for conveyance to
Swallow,Sheer-
antestshefoOrrdtnheance-wharf
9,
screw steamer, Master
CommanderE. Wilds, fitting for surveying opera-
tions on the coast of Japan. The War Department