The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-29 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, March 24.—Orders have been received
from the Admiralty to make a series of trials of the
ironclads in the Mediterranean, to determine the
most economical application of their steam power at
given rates of speed. The Royal Oak, 35, and the
Resistance, 16, accompanied by Vice-Admiral
Smart, in the Victoria, 101, left port yesterday
morning, to commence operations, and will remain
out two or three days. The other ironclad ship on
this station, the Enterprise, 4, is at present away,
having left on Tuesday, to convey. Col. Herman,
her Majesty's Consul-General, and Mrs. Herman,
to Tripoli. On her return she will take part in the
trials of speed already commenced with the other
armour-plated vessels. The alarm which prevailed at
Athens has subsided, and a telegram received here
on Tuesday says that all apprehensions of any
serious outbreak are for the present at an end. There
are now at the Piraeus the Gibraltar, 81, Capt. R.
Coote, senior officer ; the Meeanee, 60, Capt. G.
Wodehouse ; the Assurance, 4, Com. Woollcombe ;
and the Wanderer, 4, Cora. M. C. Seymour. The
Pelican, 17, Lieut.-Com. N. B. Smith, has also been
despatched to reinforce the squadron at the lonian
Islands and the west coast of Greece. Capt. W.
Rolland has returned from England to reassume the
command of the Cossack, 20, at present at Corfu.
The Revenge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon. F. A. C.
Foley, has discharged a portion of her guns and stores
prior to leaving for England on Saturday, to be put
out of commission. She will take home a large num-
ber of military and naval invalids, besides women
and children. Rear-Admiral Yelverton is to
return to the Mediterranean in the Caledonia
ironclad. The Rev. F. Gutteres, chaplain to the
Resistance, received a telegram last week, by which
he was informed that he had been appointed to the
Narcissus, and that he was to proceed at once to
England, via Marseilles, to take up his commission.
He accordingly left by the first mail steamer. Two
addresses, I am informed, have been signed by a
very large number of the English clergy, and will
be presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury and
to the Lords of the Admiralty. Their object is to
express their indignation at the treatment Mr.
Gutteres has received from his late captain, and to
pray that steps may be taken to prevent any mem-
ber of their body from being subjected to similar
treatment. There is also reason to believe that the
Bishop of Ely will take an early opportunity of
bringing the case before the Upper House. The
Prince and Princess Hohenlohe Langenburg arrived
the day before yesterday in the Euxine from Gib-
raltar.

The Shannon, 35, screw wooden frigate, 2,657
tons, and 600 horse power, Capt. Oliver J. Jones,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from North
American and West India station, and . exchanged
the usual honorary salutes with the flagship of Sir
M. Seymour, K.C.8., the Port Admiral and Com-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. She sailed from
Port Royal on Feb. 25 last, and sighted Bermuda
on March 16, bringing to England as passengers
Capt. Arthur, a military officer, and a few naval
supernumeraries. The ship is ordered to be inspected
at Spithead this morning, and will afterwards go
into Portsmouth harbour to dismantle and pay out
of commission.
Instructions have been received at Chatham dock-
yard, directing the ironclad frigate Lord Warden,
24, 4,067 tons, 1,00 horse power, to be launched on
May 23 next, orders having previously been given
for the Bellerophon, ironclad frigate, also building
at Chatham, to be launched, or rather floated out of
dock on April 27. It had been originally proposed
that both the ironclad ships should be launched on
the same day, and with that view every effort has
been for some time made to have them completed.
The graving dock, however, in which the Bellero-
phon is under construction being required for the
commencement of the new ironclad frigate Hercules,
it was decided not to delay the launch of the Belle-
rophon until the Lord Warden was ready. Imme-
diately after the launch of the Lord Warden, one
of the improved class of Amazon wooden frigates,
from the design of Mr. E. J. Reed, the chief con-
structor of the Navy, will be commenced on the
same slip. The Bellerophon, after shipping the
heavy portions of her machinery, boilers, and iron
lower masts, will be placed in No. 4 dock, at Chat-
ham, on the 22d of May, and the Lord Warden will
be floated into No 3 dock on the 24th of June, and
both frigates immediately got ready for sea.
A party of riggers will shortly leave Devonport
for Pembroke, to return with the ww screw steam
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