The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

‘Ws
V:4
,t;\
The screw corvette Pylades, 21, 350 holt, eyk,
riv
fitting ai Chatham, is out of the hands
gers, and will Z;:1 completed, and ready to be. j
docked in about a fortnight, when another fine cor-
vette will be at the dispotZll of the Admiralty for
immediate commission.
The Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy,
was undocked at Portsmouth yesterday, tempora-
rily, and berthed alongside the dockyard.
The Resistance, 16, iron ram, Capt. Chamberlain,
was docked yesterday at. Portsmouth in the large
dock, to carry out repairs to her Kingston valves.
The Hero, 89, screw line-Of-battle ship, Capt. A..
P. Ryder, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning
from Halifax, bringing home
.30 invalids and other
passengers. She left Halifax on the.2lat.Ontobor.
The ship is ordered to Sheerness to dismantle and

pay off.
The Flying Fish, 6, screw, Commander W. H.
Anderson, arrived et Spit head yesterday afternoon:
from Atieension, having left that islat,d on Sept. 8.
She arrived at the French, settlement of Gorec on
Sept. 21, left aga:n on the 24th, experienced a plc
on her passage thence to Lisbon, where she arrived
on Oct. 16, left the Tagus on Oct. 24, on Oct. 29
called at Vigo, and sighted Ushant on Nov. 4. At
8 30 p.m., on comiog up the West Channel by the
Needles Passage, the ship went ashore about a
cable's length off Newtown harbour, Isle of Wight.
She came off again at 11 30 p.m; at high water,
without sustaining any serious damage, and brought
up abreast of Hampstead for the night, the weather
being at the time very thick and foggy.
The gunboat Trinculo, 4, Lieut. Creagh, tender
to the flagship Revenge, left Plymouth on Wednes-
day for Gibraltar.
The screw steamsloop Rosario, 11, Commander
,ham, from Sheerness for Jamaica, arrived at
Plymouth oil Wednesday night. She embarked
supernumeraries for ships on the West India station.
A succession of trials and experiments of interest
and importance to the naval sefvice took place yes-
terday in Woolwich dockyard, by of der of the Board
of Admiralty, occupying upwards of foz.kr hours and
a half, to test the relative merits of three r val port-
able ships' engine pumps. The Commodore super-
intendent, Sir F. Nicolson, Mr. Turner, and Mr.
Thornton, master and assist.-master shipwrights,
and other officers of the yard, were in attendance.
The first engine tried was that of Mr. Roberts, of
Millwall, and manufactured by Messrs. Brown,
Lennox, and Co. This was a double-action pillar
pump, and was worked by four men, and afterwards
by double that number, casting various jets of
water, by a change of hose-pipes, directed horizon-
tally and vertically. It filled a tank containing 108
gallons of water in two minutes and 31 seconds,
from one of the fitting basins adjoining the place of
trial. The result was very satisfactory. The next
trial was with Mr. Stone's, of Deptford, also a port-
able engine of similar dimensions, but pronounced
superior in power and capacity in each of the tests,
as to distance, height, and the time consumed in
filling the tank. The third engine was that of Mr.
Gossage, of the Admiralty, and manufactured by
Mr. Stone, which anderwent the same series of trials
as the two named above, and with a slight advan-
tage over that of Mr. Roberts. At the termination
of the trials an opinion was pronounced by the in-
specting officers in favour of the engine supplied by
Mr. Stone. They reserve to themselves the right of
examining and measuring the diameter of each of
the cylinders, which will be done this mottling.
Mr. Gossage's pumplas been used in her Majesty's
service for about 14 years. Mr. Stone's is also an
old service pump; and that of Mr. Roberts is sup-
plied to several of our ships of war.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—George Gilpin, master, to
Phaeton; Dr. T. A. Roe, assist.-surg., additional,
to the Sutlej ; Dr. J. Simpson, acting assist.-surg.,
to the Trafalgar ; Henry Gray (a), paymaster, to
the Leopard; Henry A. C. Meeson, master's assist-
ant, to the Euryalus ; W. J. Bullmore, master's
assistant, to the Resistance ; E. B. Nettleton, clerk,
to the Formidable; Sydney H. Scrogge, assistant
clerk, to the Excellent; and Gabriel Beer, assistant
clerk, to the Leopard.

11-1 E ARllll'.


By the appointment of Major-General W. H.
Eden to the colonelcy of the 90th Light Infantry
Regiment a major-general's good service pension is
placed at the disposal of his Royal Highness the
Commander-in-Chief.
The colonelcy of the 76th Regiment of Foot has
become vacant by the death of Gen. Jervois, which
took place on 'Wednesday at Bath. The deceased,
who had reached the advanced age of 80, had been
in the service nearly 60 years. He received his
first commission early in 1804 as ensign in the 89th
Regiment, which he accompanied to Hanover in the
following year. In 1810 he was appointed to the
staff of Lord Blayney, and accompanied him on the
expedition to Malaga. He was slightly wounded
in the attack on the fortress of Frangerola. In 1813
hp was appointed to the staff of Sir G. Drummond,
with whom he embarked for Canada, where during
the operations of that and the following year he was
present at almost all the actions fought with the
American army. Gen. Jervois was appointed to
the colonelcy of the 76th Foot in 1853, and in
recog-
nition of his services in the army had been created
a Knight of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover.
The extensive range of buildings recently erected
for the married non-commissioned officers and
men attached to the first division of the Depot
Brigade, Royal Artillery, having been completed
by Messrs. Naylor and Son, the builders, and
handed over to the War Department, the married
men belonging to the division have taken possession
of their new quarters, in conformity with an order
to that effect issued by Major-Gen. Eyre. Each
married soldier is provided with a separate room,
and in certain eases two rooms are allotted to a
family. The entire building is fireproof, and con-
structed with a due regard to the health and comfort
of the inmates. Since its completion the erection
has been inspected by the officials connected with
the War Department, who have pronounced it to be
one of the best buildings of its kind yet erected.