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Orders luiii-b-eeerfeeeiVed-ei Ply.
Vre for the reception of the Channel
expected there to-morrow. Half the
anchor in the Sound, and half will go up Hamoaze.
The Prince of Wales is expected there from Spit-
head in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
The screw, steam frigate Emerald, 51, Captain
Arthur Cumming, which conveyed Rear-Admiral
Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., to the West Indn
arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday eveninv,
and saluted the flag of Admiral Superintendent Sir
Thomas Pasley, Bart., acting Port Admiral in the
absence of Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fansliawe,
K.C.B. The Emerald left Bermuda June 10th,
under canvass, and has btought a mail from the
squadron, and about 30 supernumeraries, invalids,
convicts, &c. The Emerald left at Bermuda the
screw steamship Nile, 91, Capt. Edward K. Bar-
nard ; screw steam corvette Cossack, 20, Capt.
Richard Moorman •, the paddlewheel steam sloop,
Gorgon, 6, Com. B. C. T. Pim ; the screw st. gun-
boat Skipjack, Lieut. and Commander John Mur-
ray ; the floating battery Terror, 16, Capt. Fredk.
Hutton. The Nile and the Cossack were to sail
on the 13th of July for Halifax. The Gorgon was
ordered home on account of the defective condition
of her boilers, end would probably sail on the llth.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Styx, 6; Com-
mander Charles Vesey, left Bermuda for New-
foundland on the 31st of May. Her master, Mr.
Farrant, died on the 27th, and was buried with
funeral honours on the 28th, attended by all the
officers of the squadron and the Marines belonging
to the Emerald. Mr. A. De Grouchy Sutton,
master, has been appointed to the Styx. The Ad-
miral has given Mr. George H. Dominey, second
master of the Nile, the death vacancy, and has ap-
pointed him to the Cossack. Mr. A. J. Armstrong,
master of the Gorgon, has exchanged with M.
David Batt, of the Terror. •
On Wednesday the gunboat Redwing conveyed
Capt. Jerningham, of the gunnery ship Cambridge, •
from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, where he in-
spected the crew of the gun vessel Viper, 4, Com-
mander Hewett, just 'returned from the African
station. The Viper then got up steam, and, while
going into Hamoaze, fouled a schooner and carried
away her jib boom. fire fouled
the Viper, and carried away her jib-boom. After
the crew of the Viper are paid off she will be dis-
mantled and placed in the steam ordinary, but her
internal fittings will be disturbed.
The new contract built screw steam gunvessel
Steady, 4, went on Wednesday from Hamoaze out-
side the Plymouth Breakwater and tested her ma-
chinery a second time.
The trial of the Victoria, 121, screw three-decker,
was resumed and concluded yesterday at Ports-
mouth with the most perfect success, whether as
regards the working of her machinery or the
results obtained. The huge mastless vessel
steamed out of Portsmouth Harbour at half-
speed at 11 a.m., in charge of Captain George I'.
Gordon, commanding the steam reserve. On clear-
ing the narrow harbour channel the speed of the
ship was increased until nearing the Warner Light-
vessel, when full speed was put on, and the ship's
head shortly afterwards brought round and di-
rected towards the trial ground in Stockes-bay, -
Much interest has been felt as to the results of the
Victoria's screw trial, from the power of her engines
—l,OOO-horse nominal ; and also from the proba-
bility of her being the last three-decked ship which
will be built in Portsmouth Dockyard. The ship's
draught of water was—forward, 18ft. iin. ; unit aft,
23ft. Ilin. The weather was all that could be de-
sired for the purpose of testing the steaming powers
of the ship at her present light draught of water,
which when she has all her weights and crew on
board, ready for sea, will be increased by nearly
five feet. Six runs were made at the measured mile
with and against the tide with the following re-
sults :-Ist run, 13.533 ; 2d run, 12 631 ; 3d run,
14 063 ; 4th run, 11.803 ;- sth run, 14 694; and 6th.
run, 11.323, giving a mean of 13129 knots per
hour. The ponderous machinery walked well in
every part, and there was a plentiful supply of
steam. Steam pressure was 201 b. ; vacuum, 21lb. ;
revolutions of engines, mean, 60 ; diameter of screw-,
20 feet, with 25 feet pitch. The screw is Messrs.
Maudslay's adaptation of the common screw with
their shifting pitch, removeable and the leading
corners cut off. At the conclusion of the sixtlrrmt
the ship was again steamed out for the Warner
Lightship, on reaching which her helm was put
hard a-port, and she made a complete circle in 44
minutes. Great difficulty was, however, found in
steering the Victoria, as in all other full-powered.
screw ships, as, with even eight men at the wheel
when under full steam, only lt turn could be got
to port and two to starboard. The immense
pressure brought to bear on the rudder by
the action of the screw, it is well known,
cruses this; still the fact remains the same, and the
safety and efficiency of our high-powered ships.of
war are thereby considerably imperilled. The
speed' obtained by the Victoria is in advance of any
yet obtained by a line-of-battle ship, and the results,
so far, may be considered quite satisfactory. She
is fitted with Suffield's patent engine-room tele-
graph. The stokeholes of the ship are—forward,
54 .feet in length, and containing 20 fires. The
after stokehole is 26 feet in length, and contains
12 fires. The engine-room is 31 feet long. Total
length of ship's hold occupied by engine-room
and stokeholes, 111 feet. The Victoria, at the
close of the trial, was brought into harbour and
berthed alongside the Duke of Wellington, at the
upper part of the harbour. From the manner in
which everything on her upper deck is being housed
in, there seems no probability of this fine ship being
commissioned at present.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—J. Waye, master, to the Wel-
lington, for the Desperate; J. Symon, seco'ud-
master, to the Impregnable ; T. Stringer, master's
assistant, to the Bloodhound; Percy C. Smith,
master's assistant, to the Impregnable ; J. Eishop,
assistant-surgeon, to the Bloodhound ; J. Ferguson,
acting third-class assistant-engineer, to The Wel-
lington, for service in the Avon ; Patrick O'Connor,
pac master, to the Algiers ; Henry Gray (a), pay-
master, additional, to the Monarch ; Mai cus O'N.
IV. Markham, assistant-paymaster, •to the Centu-
rion ; and C. P. Skinner, assistant clerk, to the
Aboukir.

THE ARMY.

Colonel Richard C. H. Taylor, C. 8., 79th
(Cameron Highlanders), left town on Wednesday
fer Shorncliffe, to enter on his duties as Assistant-
Adjutant-General to the division stationed there,
in the room of Colonel H. W. Bunbury, C.B.
Capt. C. E. Gordon, late Adjutant of the Royal
Engineers, at heat! -quarters, Chatham, has received
orders to proceed to China, to take the command of
the Bth company of Royal Engineers during the
approaching operations.
The following officers and troops will embark at
Gravesend this morning, on board the chartered
troopship Marlborough, 1,293 tons, Capt. H.
Toynbee, for Madras,—viz., Lieut. W. Atkinson,
Cornet T. A. Gough, Cornet J. Greatorex, and 48
non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist Dra-
goon Guards, from Canterbury ; Lieut. R. P. Jones,
Ensign T. G. Elrington, Ensign H. H. Roberts,
and 273'non-commissioned officers and mon of the
91st regiment, from Chatham; and Veterinary
Surg. J. W. Callow, and 81 men of the Royal Artil-
lery from Woolwich ; total 7 officers and 402 non-
commissioned officers and men, in medical charge
of Staff Assistant-Surgeon Codrington. The
hired East India troop-ship Holmsdale, 1,257
tons, Capt. W. J. Ferris, will embark the follow-
ing officers and troops at Gravesend to morrow :
Capt. J. Goldie, Cornet F. W. Blumberg, Cornet
H. A. Robinson, 68 non-commissioned officers and
men, 2 women, and 4 children of the 17th Lancers.,
from Maidstone ; Lieut. H. Gorton, Ensign E.
Villiers, Ensign R. M. Tod, 190 non-commissioned
officers and men, 1 woman, and 4 children of the_
43d Light Infantry, from Chatham ; EnsicrniaeTn
Atkinson and 74 non-commissioned officers n
of the Ist battalion of Ist Royals, from
Capt. L. A. Brydon, Ensign N. M.
WLeherty, 138
470 non-
G. W. M. Hall, Ensign C. H. Dougth e 7c4odt ihac
Ehllen sistgi eghr
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men, 2 women, and 2 children
commissioned officers and men,
will proceed to Madras,
landers, from Aberdeen ; total, 11 08i
and
10
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Assistan - 'tag. Grant
children, the whole of whom
in medical charge of S
M.D.
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Kerr, which has been eng g 7 the Goverrment
Yesterday the ship White Star, 2,336 tons Q pt
to convey reinforcempenttsfo tod
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fornon
ionliedongofticersg and
men of the Ist battalion 2d Royals, from Walmer ;
2fonllfflowneircog
atnrdoopls62at
3 officers and 103 non-commissioned officers and
men of the 31st Regiment, from Chatham ; 2 officers
and 91 men of the 44th Regiment, from Colchester ;
and 4 officers and 192 non-ccmmissionf d officers
and men of the 2d battalion 60th Rifles, from Win-
chester. 'The White Star proceeds from Deptford.
to Cork, at which port she will also embark the fol-
lowing troops ;-2 officers and 1 main of the Ist bat-
ntalion 3d Buffs, from Limerick ; lofficer and 102 no-

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commissioned officers and men of the 67th Regiment.
from Athlone; 4 officers and 54 men of the 87th Royal
Irish Fusileers, from Youghal; and 4 officers and 244
non-commissioned officers and privates of the 99th
Regiment, from Cork; giving a total of 22 officers
and 949 men of all ranks. Staff Assist.-Surgeon
G. F. Spry embarked at Deptford, in medical
charge of the troops, and Surg.-Major W.
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M.D., and Staff Assist.-Surgeon F. T. 31'Y
will embark at Cork,