The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee
yesterday at the Horse Guards. Upwards of 90
officers attended on the occasion.

The Barracouta, 6, paddle wheel, 1,053 tons,
300-horse power, in the first division of the Sheer-
ness Steam Reserve, was placed in commission on
Thursday last by Commander W. B. Urmston.
She will be ready for sea in a few days, and will be
finally employed on the West Indies station.
The Icarus, 3 screw steam sloop, 580 tons, 150-
horse power, recently commissioned at Sheerness by
Commander S. P. Townsend, was taken for a final
trial at the measured mile off Maplin Sands, pre-
vious to leaving Sheerness for foreign service. The
vessel was in charge of Capt. G. G. Randolph, of
the Sheerness Steam Reserve, and the trial was
most satisfactory, the vessel making a speed of
nearly nine knots an hour. The Icarus will leave
Sheerness for China on Sunda! next.
The Challenger, 22, screw steam corvette, 1,462
tons, 400-horse power, Master in charge Henry
Y. Slade, has finished fitting for the first division of
the Sheerness Steam Reserve, and will, it is re-
ported, be commissioned in a few days for foreign
service.
The Favourite, 10, screw steam ironcased cor-
vette, 2,094 tons, 400-horse power, Captain Francis
H. Shortt, after being inspected by Vice-Admiral
Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., left Sheerness, on
Friday, for Portsmouth, to await further orders
with reference to her final destination. It is re-
ported that she is now intended for the Mediter-
ranean Station.

The iron screw frigate Bellerophon, 14 guns,
4,720 tons, 1,000 horse power, Captain Edward
Tatham, will have her pennant of commission for-
mally hoisted this morning at Portsmouth for Chan-
nel and home service. In our report of the trial of
this frigate over the measured mile, which appeared
in 2he Sun of Tuesday last, mention was inadver-
tently omitted from the list of offieers on board of
Capt. E. Tatham as the officer commanding the
ship. Capt. Tatham, as a matter of course, was
present and in command of his ship, but the trials
of the ship were made under the direction and
supervision of the officer commanding the Steam
Reserve of the port, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., who
was attended by his inspector of machinery afloat,
Mr. George Murdoch. The steam factory depart-
ment of the navy, with which department the trial
of the ship was chiefly concerned, was represented
by Mr. Andrew Murray and Mr. John Ward, the
chief and chief assistant-engineers of Portsmouth
yard and the steam factory department. The in-
dicated horse power of the Bellerophon's engines,
as worked out for the Admiralty from the indi-
cator diagrams, was found to be as follows :—With
full boiler-power the mean indicated horse power of
the entire six runs taken over the measured mile
was 6048.63 ; the mean indicated horse power of
the last four runs taken was 6106-16 ; with half
boiler power the mean indicated horse power of
the four runs taken was 3020.79. The question
put in the House of Commons relative to the
lengthening of the funnels of the Bellerophon,
and the subsequent remarks thereon, have led to
considerable misconception of the matter. The Bel-
lerophon is not the first ship that has had her fun-
nels lengthened. The Warrior's funnels were
lengthened for her trial six or eight feet ; the fun-
nels of the Orontes were lengthened eight feet. The
fact was that a deficiency was found in the draughts
of the furnaces, and to remedy this deficiency by the
simplest and surest method Mr. Penn added a 16ft.
length to the top of each funnel. Mr. Penn had a
perfect right to do this without reference to the de-
signer of the ship. His contract with the Admiralty
stipulated that the engines should work up to 6,000
indicated horse power, but it did not limit the
length of the ship's two funnels. The funnels were
accordingly lengthened by him, the defective draught
cured, and the power bargained for not only ob-
tained, exceptional as it was, but exceeded. The
Bellerophon will now take up the trials of the com-
petitive 121 ton gun carriages where they were left
off with the Minotaur. The training of the guns
with their carriages and slides will, however, be con-
fined to the training gear of Mr. E. J. Reed, with
which the Bellerophon's central battery is completely
fitted. At the annual gathering of the members of
the Institution of Naval Architects, now taking
place at the Adelphi-chambers. Mr. Reed, as chief
constructor of the navy and designer of the Belle-
rophon, will read papers to-day on the central bat-
tery of that ship, and other matters of interest con-
nected with her construction.

The Charger, gunboat, 60 horse power, is ordered
to be completed at Portsmouth dockyard with all
possible rapidity for service at llalifax.
The Liverpool, 35, screw frigate, Capt. J. Sec-
combe, arrived at Spithead yesterday, from Ply-
mouth Sound, and, on entering the roadstead,
saluted the flag of the naval Commander-in-Chief,
Admiral Pasley. The salute was duly returned from
his flagship in Portsmouth harbour, the Victory,
Capt. Egerton, A.D.C. to the Queen.
The Ganges, 80, training-ship for boys, Com-
mander Stephens, arrived at Falmonth on Tuesday
evening in tow of the Gladiator, 6, Capt. Aplin,
from Plymouth, to take up her station at that port,
and is moored in Carrick Roads. Her complement
is very likely to be speedily filled up.
The Ariadne, 26, 3,214 tons, 800-horse power
(nominal), left Chatham harbour yesterday for
Portsmouth, where she is to be docked for the pur-
pose of undergoing a thorough repair, previously to
being brought forward for commission. Steam was
got up in a portion of her boilers on the previous
day to test the working of her engines alongside the
dockyard. She will be navigated to Spithead by a
number of seamen, riggers, and stokers belonging
to the Steam Reserve, and conveys round a quan-
tity of spars, stores, boats, and timber. The
Ariadne is one of the smartest of the class of wooden
frigates belonging to the Royal Navy, but from the
fact of her being unarmoured her value as a ship
for combative purposes is nil. She is spoken of as
being the frigate which will probably be selected for
Prince Alfred's first command as captain.
The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, 1,131 tons,
200-horse power, Staff-Commander H. A. Mo-
riarty, having shipped a quantity of miscellaneous
stores, left Chatham yesterday for Portsmouth and
Devonport.

The Rev. James 11. Lang, M.A., has been ap-
pointed by the Admiralty chaplain of Chatham
Dockyard, in succession to the Rev. Allen Fielding,
M.A., who retires in accordance with the recent
regulations of the Admiralty as to the retirement of
dockyard and other chaplains. The Rev. J. H.
Lang was formerly chaplain of the naval training
ship Wellesley, 72, at Chatham.
The chartered convict ship Belg,ravia arrived at
the Nore yesterday from the Thames for the pur-
l'Ose of receiving on board a numerous party of
convicts from the St. Mary's convict establishment,
Chatha'alifvor conveyance to Western Australia.
She will
leave the Nore this morning, nailing in at
and Portsmouth Portland.
Capt. Hall, Private secretary to the Duke of
Somerset, is app a
Captain Superintendent of
Pembroke Dockyard, eaix_,ltear-Admiral Loring,
C.B. Capt. F. A. C
irst Lord.
Hall as private seeretarftZ,ls_to succeed Capt.
obneentn.-mde in the
The following appointmentle,
lent., John
Royal Naval Reserve :—To be,/
Richardson.

YACHTING INTELLIGENCE.—The fin, 0
ty
of oner-
yacht Lenore (late Sappho), the proper
Lawton,
is being put into commission, with the view of going
on a
cruise to Norway this spring.
THE LATEST THING ABOU'T THE LlONS.—Certain
unbelievers having stated that Sir Edward Landseer has
not yet begun to model the Nelson lions, we have much
pleasure in being able to contradict the rumour. The
great artist has got as far as the paws —which would seem
likely to prove long.—Fun.
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