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London, England, 1867-02-14 00:00:00

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Field-Marshal the Duke of Cam 'die has an. "
pounced his intention of being prese ti4r4olutiik
garrison this morning to preside at a meeting of the
Defence Committee, to be held at the Royal Repo-
sitory, at Woolwich, at 2 o'clock. A model of the
fortress of Gibraltar, which has been deposited for
many years past in the exhibition-room of the Ro-
tunda, will be produced to assist the committee in
illustrating the new system of strengthening our
defences now sought to be introduced, by means of
wrought-iron =emotes, &c. Lieut.-Geu. Sir Jas.
Hope Grant, Quartermaster-Gen. ; Col. G. Gardi-
ner, Assist.-Adjt.-Gen. ; Major If. J. J. W. Jervis,
R.A., M.P. ; Capt. C. S. Hutchinson, R.E. ; and
Major T. Inglis, R.E., will, it is stated, form a por-
tion of the committee.
Major-Gen. E. C. \Verde, C. 8., commanding the
garrison and district of Woolwich, yesterday returned
to Woolwich from Dover, where he he has been. re-
siding during the past six weeks on leave of absence.
The duties of the garrison and district, which in the
interval have been commanded by Lieut. and Brevet
Col. C. S. D'Aguilar, C. 8., the senior army officer,
who now returns to his command of the Royal Horse
Artillery, B brigade, have been most effectively
conducted. Brigade Major Hay and Capt. A. 11.
W. Williams, A.D.C., also on leave of absence, will
return to their garrison duties iu a few days.
Yesterday Lord Henry G. Lennox, M.P., Princi-
pal Secretary to the Admiralty, accompanied by Rear-
Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, paid an
official visit to Chatham dockyard, arriving at the
establishment shortly before noon. Immediately on
his arrival Lord Henry Lennox proceeded to the
private office of Capt. Stewart, C. 8., where he was
engaged for some considerable time in the exami-
nation of the accounts and official documents of the
yard. His visit was understood to have reference .
to the system of -accounts in • use at the dockyard,
more particularly the " expense" and " manufac-
turing accounts," the details of which were closely
investigated, in anticipation of the motion to be
made by Mr. C. Seely, M.P., Rear-Admiral Robin-
son, accomp tnied by the principal officials connected
with the Master-Shipbuilder's department, was oc-
cupied, during his visit, in the inspection of the
ironclad ships and other vessels under construction
at Chatham, the chief objects of interest being the
ironclad frigate Hercules, 12, 1,200 horse power,
and the turret ironclad ship Monarch, 6. 1,100 horse
power, both of which are being pushed forward in
their construction as rapidly as the resources of the
dockyard will permit. Rear-Admiral Robinson also
briefly inspected the wooden unarmoured vessels
Blanche, 4, 350 horse power, and the Myrmidon,
4,200 horse power, which are both nearly ready for
launching; and also inspected the boats building for
the Paris Exhibition. After taking luncheon at the
official residence of Capt. Stewart, C. 8., Lord H.
Lennox and Rear-Admiral Robinson left the dock-
yard shortly before three o'clock and returned to
the Admiralty.
Her Majesty's steam sloop Zebra, 7 guns, 951
tons, and 200 horse power, commissioned at Wool-
wich on the 9th inst., by Commander E. J. Pollard,
for China, and the Niobe, 4 guns, 1,083 tons, and
300 horse power, commissioned on the same day at
Woolwich, for the West Indies, by Commander T.
K. 111‘Kenzie, bare been allotted their relative com-
plements of 170 and 130 warrant and petty officers-
and seamen, all told, together with one colour-ser-
geant, one drummer, 15 privates Royal Marine
Light Infantry, one bombardier and three gunners
of the Marine Artillery for the Zebra, and one
colour-sergeant and ten privates Royal Marine Light
Infantry, and one bombardier and five gunners of
the Marine Artillery, for the Niobe. The majority
of the officers have joined at Woolwich ; both ships
will be in readiness for departure in a few days. In
consequence of the Woolwich division of the Royal
Marine Light Infantry being at present con-
siderably below its usual strength, addi-

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tional recruiting parties, exclusive of those
already at Derby, Ripon, Wakefield, Shef-
field, Liverpool, and Glasgow, have been appointed
at Hull, Norwich, and Bury St. Edmund's, to reiu-
force the division.
The Virago, 6, paddle wheel sloop, 1,059 tops,
220 horse power, Commander H. M. Bingham,
lately returned to Sheerness from the West Coast of
Ireland, has been brought into the basin, where a
number of hands from the factory will be immedi-
ately set to work to fit a new main shaft to her
paddle wheels, in lieu of that broken in a heavy gale
which she encountered during her short commission
on the Irish coast.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty : G. E. G. Jackson, master, to
the Brisk ; J. E. Meryon, midshipman, to the
Charybdis, as supernumerary; F. Sandilands, mid-
shipman, to the Zebra ; E. T. Mortimer, surgeon,
to the Niobe ; C. Gribble, assist.-paymaster, to the
Formidable ; and F. E. Thompson, master's assis-
tant, to the Bellerophon.
PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Evening.
Her Majesty's new screw steam sloop Dryad, 4, in
charge of the officers of the steam reserve in Ha-
moaze, went on trial outside the breakwater this
morning, and was run ashore in White Sand Bay,
and narrowly escaped being wrecked.
She was built of wood at Devonport, burden 1,086
tons, and has engines of 300 horse power, by Na-
pier, which seemed to work well, having produced
92 revolutions per minute with a pressure of steam of
251 b., and vacuum 27. Her present draught islsft.
aft and Bft. llin. forward. Her load draught will
be 18ft. aft.

In consequence of the thickness of the weather the
Eddystone was not descried, and no reliable calcu-
lation of the ship's speed could be made.
When she was put about, instead of returning to
the Sound, she went on the rocks in front of Down
Derry, several miles to the westward, at 11.5 a.m.,
and continued bumping until 11.35, when she was
backed off by her screw. Some timbers, supposed
to be portions of her false keel, were beaten off,
and came up alongside. She was only 100 yards
from the beach, and the houses could be clearly
seen.

Where the Dryad struck the ground was flat on
either side. The rocks are so rugged that they would
soon have torn her to pieces.
The Down Derry lifeboat was promptly manned
and brought alongsida.
The Coastguard boarded the sloop in a quarter of
an hour, and one of the officers piloted her to Ply-
mouth.

Five minutes before grounding the engines were
slowed. After grounding they kept backing astern
at full speed until she got off. Preparations were
made to carry out a kedge anchor .

The accident is attributed to the incorrectness of
the compa.s3es, said to be five points out.
The weather was extremely fine. There was
scarcely any wind. It was high tide at noon.
The Dryad will be docked immediately.

The works at the palaces of the Luxembourg and
Legislative Bodyrendered necessary for the opening
of the session are nearly completed. The old tribune of the
Chamber of Peers has been sot up in the Senate. It is in
mahogany, and harmonises perfectly well with the general
aspect of the hall. At the palace on the Quai d'Orsay a
score of workmen are still employed in erecting the tribune
for speaker s, and a second row of seats for the public. The
old tribune was not entirely destroyed, as the marble stair-
case and lower foundation were preserved. A mahogany
ledge, as in the Senate, will replace the marble which for-
merly served to afford place for papers, documents. /cc.
The bas reliefs of Lemot have been found, in which were
seen two Gallic cocks and a rather revolutionary image of
Liberty, of somewhat questionable taste. Nevertheless,
these had been attached to the presidential bureau in 1832,
and bad wounded no susceptibilities after tilat date. Six
benches in front of the tribune aro destined for the Go-
vernment Commissioners. For the future, the Senators
and Councillors of State will not be admitted in the space
er
occupied by the deputies, although they
were formerly
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allowed to occupy the benches below the public
The Senate and Council of State will have each its own
tribune, with 30 places for the first and 15 for the, second.
The Legislative Body has decided on a strict adherence to
its regulations.
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