The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1865.

'his Day.

LAW INTELLIGENCE. -This Day,

Naval and

;lligence.

COURT OP DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
MAUD V. MAUD.

Admiral Sir Henry Chads, K.C.8., one of the
members of the Ironclad Committee, accompanied
by his son, Capt. Henry Chads, Superintendent of
the Victoria dock and victualling yards at Deptford,
yesterday went down to Woolwich and inspected
the battery fitments in the cupola ship Prince Albert,
alluded to in The Sun of yesterday. They likewise
visited the ironclad ship Pallas. They were received
and accompanied in their inspection by Commodore
Dunlop, Capt. Connolly, Capt. Wilmshurst, Com-
mander Towsey, Commander Dillon, Lieut. Pon-
sonby (secretary), and other officers of the yard.
Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Supply, Com-
mander Bawden, in basin at Woolwich, was yester-
day inspected by Commodore Dunlop, C. 8., Super-
intendent of the Dockyard, in preparation to her
being paid off to-day. It is expected that Captain
Bawden will be reappointed to the command, and
that the whole of the officers and crew will rejoin•
The Supply will be recommissioned immediately on
her being paid off.
Her Majesty's six-gun paddlewheel sloop Spiteful,

This was an undefended suit by the wife for judicial
separation, on the ground of cruelty.
The learned oounsel for the petitioner read some letters
written by the respondent admitting ill-treatment, and the
marriage, which took place in 1863, having been proved,
Robert John Eldridge, the son of the petitioner
by her first husband, said that he lived near his
mother, at Woctlville-terrace, Harrow-road, but
for somo time 'Was unacquainted with the fact
of her marriage. He identified the signature of
both parties to the marriage register. In August last he
called at her mother's and saw her with her face bound up,
and in going to her room he saw the respondent lying on
the sofa in a state of intoxication. His mother refused to
tell him how she had received the injury in her face, and
ordered him out of the house lest he should disturb
the respondent. On the 23d of tho following month he
was attracted to his mother's house by screams issuing
from it, and he succeeded in getting in. The respondent,
who had a large stick in his hand, seized his mother by the
throat, and threatened to murder her, but he interfered and
turned him out of the house.

The petitioner and other witnesses were called, who
proved the case, and in the course of examination it was
elicited from the former that the ground for keeping the
marriage secret was that she was intitled to between £4OO
and £5OO a-year, which she would lose in the event of her
second marriage being known.

•
Commander A. D. W. Fletcher, in Woolwich har-
bour, preparing for sea, yesterday sent up top-gallant
masts and cross-gallant yards, and made all a-taut.
Lieut. W. E. Miller, late of the Satellite corvette,
from the south-east coast of America, recently paid
out of commission, yesterday joined the Spiteful.
Her destination is still officially notified as the coast
of Brazil, for which station • she has received her
charts, and to relieve the Stromboli, whose term of
commission has expired. It is, however, expected
that her ultimate destination will be Jamaica.
The screw frigate Bristol, 3,027 tons, 600-horse
power, Capt. Leveson E. H. Somerset, flagship of
Commodore G. T. P. Hornby, recently fitted at
Sheerness for service on the west coast of Africa,
made her official final trial of speed yesterday at the
measured mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, under
the usual measured mile conditions. The wind did
not exceed a force of 4, the furnaces in the ship's
stoke-hole were delivered over to the charge of the
trial stokers from the steam factory of Portsmouth
Yard, and the fires were fed with hand-picked
Welsh coal. The frigate was under way by 8 a.m.
yesterday morning, and was at once taken on the
trial ground. Commander Brett, of her Majesty's
ship Asia, had charge of the ship as the officer com-
manding the Steam Reserve, and the performances
of the engines and boilers were under the super-
vision of Messrs. Ward and Murdoch, of the steam
factory and reserve. The ship's draught of water,
after having stowed her anchor and made all ready
for running the mile, was 20ft. 11in. forward and
23ft. 11in. aft, the wind being at a force of from 3
to 4. It was from S.S.E., and there was a slight
movement of water over the vessel's course, but
not enough to affect her speed in the slightest
degree. Under these conditions 10 runs were made,
six with full and four with half boiler power, with
the following results :—Full boiler power, six runs;
12.371, 10.286, 12.587, 9.524, 13.043, 9.549 knots ;
the mean of the six runs giving the ship a true mea-
sured mile speed of 11.272 knots. The mean va-
cuum was 26k in., with the safety valve loaded at
201 b., and the revolutions of her engines were,
maximum 60, minimum 58. The four runs with
half boiler power gave 11.726, 7.214, 11.077, and
8.163 knots ; the ship's mean speed being 9.346
knots. In testing the ship in making circles, she
exhibited no properties differing from the greater
number of ships of her class or calling for particular
remark. In comparing the results of yesterday's
trial with the recent Maplin Sand trial, it will be
found that yesterday the ship gained an additional
speed of 0.676 knot with full boiler power, and
1.292 knot with half boiler power, a mean excess
of 2 being also gained in the revolutions of the
engines. The ship's machinery is from the manu-
factory of Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow. The boilers
primed somewhat freely during the trial, but other..
wise both boilers and engines worked most satisfac-
torily. The Bristol was expected to have sailed
from Spithead for her station to-morrow, but cer-
tain defects in the shipwright department have been
discovered; which may possibly delay her departure
until Monday ntxt. The Bristol is a fine, roomy,
and well ventilated frigate—considerations of no
mean importance in a ship aerving on the coast of
Africa.

His Lordship said that acts of violence were proved not
only by evidence, but by the admission of the respondent
himself in the letter which he had read. The wife, no
doubt, was very foolish to sacrifie £4OO or £5OO a year
for such a man, but she was entitled to the protection of
the Court. He would therefore decree judicial separation.
There was no application respecting costs.

The screw steam sloop Amazon, 4, has been placed
in No. 3 dock, Keyham steamyard.
The ironcased ship Lord Clyde, 24, has been re-
moved from Hamoaze into Keyham basin, to com-
plete for the first division of the Steam Reserve.
The sailing frigate Flora, 40, Staff Commander
John Rees, which will in a few days proceed to
Ascension as a storeship, is now alongside the De-
vonport dockyard, receiving her bolts ; she will
shortly be removed into the Sound.
By the mail steamship Briton, which arrived at
Plymouth on Wednesday, we learn that the French
ship of war Lynox, from Bourbon, which arrived at
the Cape Sept. 26, left on the 30th for Rochfort.
Her Majesty's screw steam gun-vessel Serpent, from
Plymouth, which arrived Sept. 8, left on the 27th
for China. The screw steam sloop Rapid, 11, Com-
mander Charles T. Jago, left Simon's Bay Oct. 11,
for Table Bay. The transport Mauritius, from
Algoa Bay, put into East London Oct. 5, and left
again on the following Sunday for Natal and
Mauritius, taking for the former port 37 men, two
women, and two children of her Majesty's 99th
Regiment ; Ensigns Kennedy, Cooch, and Brak-
stone, eight men, one woman and child of the Royal
Engineers ; D epty-Assist. - Cora. - Gen. D esbarres

and three Army Hospital Corps men, two women

and nine children, one man of the Cape Mounted

Rifles, and Mr. Romilly.

The paddlewheel steamer Adder, Mr. Blakey,
master commanding, left Chatham harbour at day-
light yesterday morning, having on board the staff

and a large number of officers from the headquar-
ters of the Royal Engineer Department for convey-
ance to Shoeburyness, for the purpose of witnessing
the artillery experiments undertaken to test the
powers of various descriptions of ordnance against
defensive works.
Capt. Thomas Wilson, R.N., has been appointed
Captain-Superintendent of Greenwich Hospital,
under the 28th and 29th of Victoria, cap. 89. The
appointment is to date from the 12th Oct. last.
First Lieut. A. Fonblanque, R.M., is appointed
Adjutant of the Woolwich division of the Royal
Marines, vice Shairp ; First Lieut. J. W. Scott,
R.M., to be Acting Adjutant of the Royal Marines,
vice Fonblanque.
Orders have been received at Chatham garrison
directing Deputy-Assist.-Superintendent of Stores
E. Nicoll to embark to-day at Southampton on
board the mail steamer for Jamaica. Ensign A.D.
A. Furse, 2d West India Regiment, is also to em-
bark at Southampton to-day for Barbadoes.
Staff Assist.-Surg. Tate and Ensign Lynch, 2d
battalion (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, have re-
ceived orders to proceed from Chatham and embark
at Gravesend to-day, on board the Mutlah, for the
Mauritius.

Yesterday the chartered troopship Isabella, which
has been taken up by the Government for the con-
veyance of troops to Ceylon and the East Indies,
embarked at Government-quay, Gravesend, the fol-
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lowing detachments for Colombo—viz., 102 non-
commissioned officers and men, five women, and six

children of the 2d battalion 25th (Kinks Own Bor-

derers) Regiment, from the 9th Depotßattalion,
Preston, one non-commissioned officer of the Army
Hospital Corps, and one staff-sergeant's wife and

three children, for Colombo, with one staff-sergeant
of the 105th Madras Light Infantry, for Madras.
The following officers embarked with the detach-
ments—viz., Lieut. C. F. Barnardiston, and Lieut.
C. D. Swete and wife, 2d battalion 25th Regi-
ment ; Lieutenant 11. K. Fenwick, and Lieutenant
J. B. Pilkington and wife, Ceylon Rifles ; total—
four officers, 103 non-commissioned officers and men,
two officers' wives, six women, and nine children,
the whole in medical charge of Staff Assist.-Surg.
O'Farrell. The Isabella was inspected in the East
India Docks on the part of the Government by Bri-
gade Major W. Congreve, who, with the other offi-
cers of the Staff at Chatham garrison, superintended
the embarcation of the troops yesterday. The Isa-
bella will leave the Thames in the course of to-day.
By direction of the authorities the diving opera-

tions which have been so successfully carried out by
means of Heinke's improved diving apparatus, now
exclusively used at the Royal Engineer establihli-