The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-31 00:00:00

A grand review took place yesterday at Vienna in
honour of the visit of the Sultan; who, in the course
of the day, received the Cabinet :Ministers.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

A number of shipwrights at Chatham dockyard
have commenced cutting
_out the frames for the

double-screw unarmoured gunvessel Woodlark,
which is ordered to be laid down at that establish-
ment, and built from the design of Mr. E. J. Reed,
Chief Constructor of the Navy. The woodlark is

to be constructed on the same lines and from the

same set of drawings as the twin-screw gunvessel
Plover, building at Woolwich dockyard.
The Aleeanee, GO, 2,591 tons, 400-horse power,
attached to the Chatham steam reserve, is having
the whole of her internal fitmelts, bulkheads, &c.,

converted into an hos-
pit aat ll)ngkong. She was
removed, preparatory to being ant round to Dept-
ford
f
l soir,p
to
originally constructed at Bombay dockyard, and on
the purposebe
stationed
i ofo nbeinge
d
passing into the hands of the Admiralty from the
Indian Government was converted into a screw

steamer. The Meeanee is well adapted for the
particular service for which shs is intended, there
being space for hospital accommodation on her
decks for several hundred men. her engines and
machinery will be removed into the factory.
Yesterday the Assistant-Constructor of the Impe-
rial French Navy paid a visit to Chatham dockyard,
where he was occupied some thrie in the inspection
of the turret ironclad ship Mon&rch, 6, 5,100 tons,
1,100 horse-power, and the Ilercules, 12, 5,226
tons, 1,200 horse-power, under construction, and
the various establishments of the yard, over which

he was conducted by the principal officials and heads

of departments.
Her Majesty's paddle storestip Dee, master-com-
mander George Raymond, oa particular service,
went into basin yesterday. at Woolwich, to ship
machinery and steam gear, for the western yards.

The Industry iron storeship, employed on the
foreign victualling service, was taken out of No. 1
dock at Woolwich, and gave place to her Majesty's
gun vessel Speedwell, recently commissioned by
Commander Parry, and preparing for service on the
West Coast of Africa, to aid in the suppression of
the slave trade. She is to have a complement of 65
men and lads, and is ordered to be ready for sea
during the first week in August.
The War-department steam storeship Earl de
Grey and Ripon, master in command T. 11. Moore,
sailed from Woolwich Arsenal yesterday morning,
for Portsmouth, laden with a heavy cargo of Palliser
shot and shell for the Excellent, the Bellerophon,
the Pallas, and other ships ; together with a large
number of cases of Boxer ammunition, lubricators,

&c., and also stores for the troopship Serapis. She
likewise took 193 packages of private property be-
longing to Colonel Wodehouse, C. 8., Depot Brigade,
Royal Artillery. After landing her cargo at Ports-
mouth, the Earl de Grey and Ripon will ship at
Priddy's-hard 10 million rounds of blank and ball

cartridge for service in Ireland, and will proceed to

Dublin. One thousand six hundred Palliser she]

shot have also been despatched from Woolwich, to
be shipped in the London-docks for transit to the

guardship at llong Kong. They were all carefully
packed in canvas bags to protect the brass studs
from being damaged by removal.
Her Majesty's screw steamship Princess Royal,
73, Captain William G. Jones, flag
of Rear-Admi-
ral George St. Vincent King, from China, the Cape
of Good Hope, and St. Helena, arrived in Plymouth
Sound yesterday morning. The transport Electric,
with the 57th Regiment, from New Zealand for
Liverpool, continues in the Sound.
The unarmoured screw sloop Daphne, 1,081 tons,
300 horse power, Capt. Sulivan, made her official
trial of speed, preparatory to her departure on a
term of service on the East India and China sta-
tion, yesterday, at the measured mile in Stokes Bay,
under the supervision of Rear-Admiral Superinten-
dent G. G. Wellesley, who had on his staff the usual
Government officials from the Reserve and Factory
of Portsmouth dockyard. Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief
Constructor of the Navy and designer of the vessel,
and Mr. Steil, Inspector of Machinery Afloat to the
Admiralty, were also present. Mr. John Ravenhill
and Mr. Hodgson, of the find oflßavenhill, Hodg-
son, and Co., the makers of the engines, had charge
o
during
the trial. The ship drew
3frd, and 17ft. 21in. aft, being
ift the.
Gin. ma machinery liwnsertyer
forward,
a mean of 15f. Sin. and 3ft. 10in. by the stern. Her
weights were all complete for sea, and included 12
months' general stores. The screw is a two bladed
Griffiths of 15ft. diameter, set yesterday at a pitch
choppingthem to the west-
ward, of 13ft. 9in. The immersion of the upper edge of
the upper blade in entering upon the first mile was
14in. The wind was from W.N.W., at a force of
sea under the
ile
from 3to
bows 4,raisingin her
runs a light
over
shi
p's
in addition to the body of water she raised
there by her bluff submerged fore body when under
full steam power. Under these conditions six runs
were taken over the measured mile with full boiler
power, giving the following speeds:-12.000,12996,
11.920, 13.186, 11.803, and 13.235 knots. The
mean speed of the ship was 12.551 knots. The
mean
revolutions of the engines during the six runs were
101, steam pressure 301 b., and vacuum 25in. The
usual runs with half-boiler power succeeded the full
power runs, and those gave in four runs-9.235,
11.538, 8.955, and 11.285 knots, or a mean speed of
the ship with half boiler power of 10.499 knots.
The engines are of the kind supplied by Messrs. Ra-
venhill to theNiob,.., and others of her Majesty's ships
of the same class as the Daphne, and are fitted with
surface condensers and superheating apparatus.
The two cylinders have each a diameter of 62 inches,
and a length of stroke of 27 inches. They kept
steam admirably yesterday throughout the trials,
and gave complete satisfaction to the Government
officials by their working. The Daphne, with the
Nymph, tried in Stokes Bay on the previous day, is
one of the class of sloops built from Mr. Reed's
designs that is represented by the Blanche, Vestal,
Sylvia, and others, which bring out on the measured
mile a fair speed when driven by the full power of
their engines, due consideration being given to the
indicated power in proportion to their tonnage and
length, but which give much more satisfactory re-
sults when driven only by half or two-thirds their
boiler power. They afford very excellent and well
ventilated accommodation aft to the officers and
also to the crew en the lower deck. It is but just to
their commanders to say that they are very much
undermanned. They have men enough to fight
their few guns, but they have not men enough to
handle the ship properly when under sail. The
armament, although only of four guns, is very ef-
fective, consisting of two muzzle-loading, rifled
coilt-built 7-inch 61 ton guns, and two muzzle-
loading, rifled 64 pounder Palliser guns, besides the
usual complement of boat guns and field-pieces.
Yesterday the old East India sailing ship Maori
arrived at Liverpool, with dates from Auckland,
New Zealand, March 30, and Plymouth, July 24,
having on board nine officers, 252 rank and file, 20
women, and 31 children of the right wing of the
57th Regiment. ti
troops vere under the com-
mand of Brigade-Major James Stewart, Capts. Sir
R. Douglas and A. G. 'Listed ; Licuts. W. de W.
Waller and P. A. Powis ; Ensigns Ilohns, C. J.
Mathews, and E. P. Menu; Assist.-Surg. Jas. Davis.
There had been six births and two deaths (adults) ou
the passage. Though the vessel bad been four
months on the passage the troops looked remarkably
well. They disembarked at the Prince's lauding-
stage, and marched to Manchester, where it is un-
derstood they are to be stationed. The ship Electric,
with the head-quarters of the regiment, left Ply-
mouth on Monday for Liverpool, where it is expected
to arrive on Thursday.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—IL J. Edgar, midshipman, to
the Daphne ; C. ii. llopkins, navigating midship-
man, to the Nymph ; and G. 11. Madelye, acting
assist.-surg., to the Liffey.

FINE STURGEON.—A very fine sturgeon is now on
view on the slab of Messrs. Gibson and Quelch, 121, New
Bond-street. Its length is 10ft. 111 in.,
and girth 4ft. Gin.,
and is supposed to weigh between four and five cwt. It
was brought, to London by a Hull fishing boat, and was
caught in the German Ocean in a trawl net. It is not the
common species of sturgeon, but has been pronounced by
Mr. Frank Buckland to be the Acipenser latirostrio, or
" broad-nosed sturgeon" of Yarroll.