The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-17 00:00:00

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were simply blown forward a few yd a, tllltruN
nions and outer jacket remained in the carriage un-
injured and fit for further use. As the gun was
doomed to destruction, to prove its extreme power
of endurance, the experiment was carried out with
the usual caution in the bursting cell, but the nature
of the rupture of the gun was such that had no cau-
tion been observed, and the gunners remained at the
gun, no injury could have been sustained. The man-
ner in which the gun gradually gave way is held to
be a satisfactory proof of its superiority. The repair
of the gun in an early stage of the experiment;
which was easily practicable by the insertion of a
new tube; was not adopted, as the object was to test
the endurance and safety of the gun with a split tube.
The gun has fired upwards of '2,200 rounds.
The screw frigate Leander, 39, 400-horse power,
from the Pacific, having been dismantled, and the
whole of her naval stores returned into the dock-
yard, and her War Department stores into the Ord-
nance wharf, Chatham, will be put out of commis-
sion, her crew being paid off this morning. The
Leander will afterwards be placed in the third divi-
sion of the Steam Reserve.

PRICE.... 4d.
STAMPED sd.

Yesterday the workmen at Chatham dockyard
commenced preparing No. 3 dock, and laying down
the blocks for building the iron-clad turret-ship
Monarch, 6, 5,100 tons, 1,100-horse power, the
work of clearing the dock of the accumulations of
mud and sand formed during the construction of the
coffer-dam at the entrance having been completed.
A number of mechanics have also commenced
taking to pieces the keel plates of the Monarch,
which were temporarily put together in the work-
shop adjoining the dock, in readiness for their being
re-fitted in the dock. During the progress of the
work of building the Monarch an iron caisson will
be constructed in the same dock, and the old wooden
caisson and coffer-dam now at the entrance re-
moved, the new caisson being fitted in its place.
This arrangement has rendered necessary the for-
mation of the large coffer-dam at the dock entrance,
in the construction of which all the past summer
has been occupied.

The name of Sub-Lieut. Andrew Ross, appointed
to the Sylvia, owing to a clerical error, appeared as
" Cross" in our Naval and Military Intelligence of
Monday.

Major- General Lord Frederick Paulet, C. 8.,
commenced the half-yearly inspection of the several
battalions of Foot Guards on Monday by the in-
spection of the Ist Battalion of Grenadier Guards,
and yesterday inspected the Ist Battalion of
Fusilier Guards. The different battalions will be
inspected as follows :—To-day (Wednesday), the
2d battalion of Coldstream Guards; Thursday, the
2d battalion of Grenadier Guards ; Friday, the 2d
battalion of Fusilier Guards ; and Saturday, the 3d
battalion of Grenadier Guards.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander F. H. Stevens, to be
tgeorv,
se-ransosri s
tllO.l at lbt prison
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Sylvia; ;
Murphy,C. P. B aswurdge.n, ,mt
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Sylvia ; Dr. W. R. Bennett, surg., to the Star ; J.
Walsh, engineer, additional, to the Cumberland,
for service in the Rosario ; Dr. E. Bogg, assist.-
surg., to the Duke of Wellington ; and R. Poore
and F. Strickland, nominated naval cadets.