The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-20 00:00:00

NEWSP" PF

40 furnaces ;lite fire grates are ft-fh
number of brass tubes, 4,80 rdiai
length, 6ft. Bin. The screw mope
blades—diameter, 23ft. 9in. ; m n
length. aft. 111 in. ; immersion of 'or
Six runs at the measured mile, unat fun'boirel
power, gave a true mean speed of 15.459. She then
made four runs under half-boiler power, showing a
true mean speed of 13.079. The engines were under
way for six and a half hours, and during the whole
of this time worked most satisfactorily. The load
on the safety valve was 27M ; pressure of steam in
boilers, 26.4. Vacuum in condensers—forward,
24.71 b ; aft, 25. IN umber of revolutions of engines
—maximum, 61:1 ; mean, 60i. Mean pressure in
cylinders, 26.625'; indicated horse power, 7,241.63:
The unartnoured screw gunboat Netley, one of. tile
four new timber built vessels recently constructed
at Ilaslar yard, and called " improvements upon
the old Crimea class, altl►otOt like th..in built of
wood, was put through' her official trial of speed
over the measured mile in Stokei B ty, Portsmouth,
on Saturday. Her draught of water was 7ft. 9in.
forward and Bft. 4in. aft. The wind had a force of
about two from the south-east, and the water was
perfectly smooth. The vessel was complete in her
rig and stores, and had 30 tons of coals in her
bunkers. Her engines are of 60-horse power nomi-
nal, and drive a Griffiths's screw of 6ft. 6in. dia-
meter, 6ft. pitch, a length of blade of aft., and an
immersion of the upper edge of lft. Sin. Six runs
were made over the mile with high pressure and
four non-condensing, the mean of the engines re-
volutions in the former being 173, and the latter
193, and the mean speed of the vessel 7.177 and
7.741 knots. This rate of speed is ridiculously low
when compared with that of gun-vessels of much
larger tonnage and the same nominal power built in
private shipyards in this country for foreign Go-
vernments. The pressure of steam was 351 b. and
601 b., and the vacuum 25.5 in. In testing the ves-
sel four half-circles were made in 1 min. 34 sec.,
1 min. 20 sec., 1 mm. 33 sec., and 1 min. 30 sec.
The circles were completed in 3 min. 10 sec., 2 min.
44 sec., 3 min. I 1 sec., and 2 min. 59 sec.

The sailing Indiaman Windsor Castle, Captain
Pryce, one of Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet, has
arrived at Spithead from Kurrachee with the fol-
lowing troops on board : —Major E. W. E. Walker,
R.A., 19th Brigade, in command; Lieut. G. Quin
and Mrs. Quin, 79th Highlanders ; Lieutenant C.
Skinner, Ist battalion, 19th Regiment; Lieut. E.
M. Drew, 7th Hussars ; Assist.-Surgeon C. P. Bax-
ter, 93d Highlanders, in medical charge of the
troops ; Capt. W. Strickland, Mrs. W. Strickland,
and five children, and Mrs. Strickland, Master A.
Foster, 172 invalided soldiers from various regi-
ments, 15 women, and 29 children. The ship left
Kurrachee on the 30th of January, and passed St.
Helena on the sth of April. The troops will be
disembarked from the Windsor Castle this morn-
ing at Spithead, and forwarded to the Royal 17":0-
tonic Military Hospital at Netley.
On Friday Major-Gen. Freeman Murray resumed
and brought to a conclusion his first half-yearly
inspection of the regimental depots of infantry
regiments attached to the 3d Battalion, at 'Chatham
garrison. In the morning the officers and men
were drawn up in review order, when the arms,
clothing, and accoutrements of each corps were in-
spected, the remainder of the day being devoted to
the inspection of the barrack-rooms, books, ac-
counts, schools, and hospitals belonging to the Bat-
talion.

With reference to the reported loss of the Wasp
in Table Bay, we are authorised to state that Her
Majesty's ship of that name was at Bombay, " all
well," on the 20th of April last, and that no infor-
mation of any disaster having befallen her has been
received at the Admiralty. It will be seen, on re-
ference to our news from the Cape, that it was a
small vessel of the same name that was lost.

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