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TRIAL TRIP OF TIIE STEAM SHIP
AUSTRALASIAN.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.
The new screw steam-ship Australasian, built by
the European and Australian Co., for the convey-
ance of the Australian mails, left the dock this
morning with a large party of scientific gentlemen
on board, under the command of Captain Scales
(formerly of the Golden Fleece), and proceeded to
Stoke's Bay, where her speed was tested by the
measured mile.

Among the company on board were Capt. Vin-
cent, superintendent of the Royal Mail Co.; Capt.
Ramsay, Admiralty superintendent ; Lieut. O'Reily,
deputy superintendent ; Captain Young, R.N., Dr.
Beattie, and Mr. Greenwood, directors of the Royal
Mail Company ; Captain Sttutt, examiner to the
Royal Mail Company ; Mr. Lock, manager of the
European and Australian Company; Mr. Marshall,
manager of the Royal Mail Company ; Mr. Rubie
and Mr. Murray, surveyors to the Board of Trade;
Mr. Hughes, of Woolwich, and Mr. Brain, of Ports-
mouth, Admiralty surveyors ; Mr.' Rit:hie, the
Royal Mail Company's superintendent engineer et
Southampton ; Mr. Notmay, the Company's super-
intendent engineer at St. Thomas's ; Mr. Lankes-
ter, &c.
A sumptuous dejeuner was served on board and
partaken of by the guests.

- During the passage one of the boats of the Aus-
tralasian (four of which are fitted with Clifford's
lowering apparatus) was twice lowered into the
water whilst the ship was steering 10 knots per
hour. The result was highly satisfactory.
Four trials were made at the measured mile—two
with and two avainst the tide. With the tide the re-
sult was as follows :-Ist, 4 min. 7sec., being 14.575
knots per hour (44 revolutions). 2d, 4 min. 15 sec.,
being 14.118 knots per hour (44 revolutions).
Against the tide—lst, 5 min. 2 sec., being £1.921
knots per hour. 12d, 4 min. 52 sec., being 12.329
knots per hour '(4415 revolutions). The averags
spead per hour was 13.325 knot 4. The ship was
drawing 21 feet of water, with a burden of 1,200
tons.

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AT

CLIALONS.

(From yesterday's Moniteur.)'
CAMP, SEPT. 20, 5.15 P. M.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was
present at the manoeuvre which the Emperor com-
manded as before. The weather was delightful,
and the movements were well executed. On the
following day, Saturday, at an early hour, there
was firing at the target for the infantry, and at the
polygon for the artillery. The EMperor and the
Prince. went to witness these exercises. In the
afternoon, as the Prince wished to see everything,
he mounted his horse, and, with his aides-de-camp,
inspected the camps in all their military and ad-
ministrative details.

This day, Sunday, high mass has been celebrated
with great pomp. The service was read by Mon-
seigneur Menjaud, the Emperor's first almoner.
The troops, in full uniform, ranged around the
altar, the cavalry seated on their horses, and the
artillery with their guns in harness, presented a
most imposing sight. After Divine service, the
Imperial Guard defiled before the Emperor and his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge in the midst
of a large crowd of spectators, attracted to the camp
from Paris and the neighbouring towns.
To-morrow (Monday) the army corps will strike
their tents, feign a march in advance and bivouack
on the Suippe.

SIR WILLIAM HENRY DILLON, KT., K.C.11.
VICE ADMIRAL OF THE RED.

This distinguished officer was the son of Sir Joha
Talbot Dillon, a baron of the Holy Roman Empire,
and author of " Travels in Spain," and other works.
Paternally he was descended from Logon Delome, or the
Valiant, third son of O'Neill, Monarch of Ireland, and
through female descent from the house of Wingfield,
being great grandson of Sir Mervyn Wingfield, and the
senior claimant to the barony ef Scales. Sir W. H.
Dillon entered the navy at a very early period of Lfe, and
commenced his career en board the Alcide, 74, com-
manded by Sir Andrew Snaps Douglas. He was mid-
shipman on board the Thetis, and in 1793 served with
Captain Gambier in the Defence, 74, where he was
stunned by a splinter in Lord Howe's celebrated action
on June 1, 1794. He accompanied Captain Gambier ill
the Prince George, 98, and as senior midshipman was in
Lord Bridport's action with the French fleet off Ile de
Groix, June 23, 1795. He then served in the Glory, 98,
and in the Thunderer, 74, under Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh
Christian, and was at the reduction of St. Lucie in May,
1796, carrying a flag of truce to take possession of Pigeon
Island. He became acting lieutenant of the Ariadne, 20
guns, Captain H. L. Bill, whence he was removed to
the Amiable, 32, Captains Mainwaring and Lobb, and
was frequently engaged with the enemy's batteries. In
1798 he was in the Glennaore' 36, Captain Duff, and co-
operated with the army at Wexford during the Irish
Rebellion; where he succeeded in arresting the Irish
rebel chief, Skailion. He afterwards served on the
Jamaica station, assieted in the capture of the corvette
El Galgo, in sight of a Spanish line-of-battle ship and
frigate, and also in the taking of La Diligente, a French
national brig, the Lanzanotta, a Spanish armed packet,
and several privateers, of which he had the charge. In
1801 he was present at the destruction of the British
frigate Meleager, which bad grounded in the Gulf of
Mexico, and he effected an exchange of a part of the crew
who had been taken prisoners. As senior lieutenant of
the Africaine, with a flag of truce from Lord Keith to
the Dutch commodore, Valterbach, at Helvoetslnys,
he was in 1803 made most ' unjustifiably a pri-
soner, handed over to the French, and detained in cap-
tivity until Sept., 1807. The following year (having been
made commander in 1805) he assumed charge on the
Leith station of an old worn-out-sloop, the Childers,
carrying only 14 121 b. carronades and 65 men, in which,
on the coast of Norway, he gallantly engaged and ulti-
mately drove off, after an action with intervals of upe
wards of seven hours' duration, a Danish man-of-war
brig of 60 guns and 200 men. In this service he was
severely wounded, and his meritorious conduct was ac-
knowledged by the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's by the pre-
sent of a sword valued at 100 guineas. He also received
a post commiton, and in 1809- was at Walcheren,
where he superintended the debarkation of a division of
the army. He was afterwards employed off the coast of
Holland, and in Feb., Isll, commanded the Leopard,
60 guns, in which he took out a battalion of the Guards
to Cadiz, served actively on the coast of Portugal and
Spain, commanded a small squadron for the protection
of Csrthagena, and saved several villages of Murcia and
Valencia trout the ravages of the French army. In 1814 he
was appointed to the Horatio,,3B guns, in which he re-
mained until January, 1817, escorting a convoy to New-
foundland, protecting the whale fishery of Greenland
against the Americans, and cruising off the coast of
France to intercept Bonaparte atter the battle of
Waterloo, and afterwards made voyages to China and
India in the PLaaton, and in the Russell, 74, in which be
rendered much service to the Spanish cause, and was
employed in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon. The
Russell was put out of commission in 1839. He obtained
his.flag rank Nov. 9, 1846. He was Naval Equerry to
H.R.U. the Duke of Sussex, nominated K.C.H. Jan.
13, 1855, knighted in the June following, and in 1839
received the good-service pension. He died on the 9th
Sept. 1857, leaving a widow, whom he married in June,
1843, the eldest laughter of Mr. T. J. Pettigrew, late of
Saville-row, the author of the " Memoirs of Lord Vis-
count Nelson," and to whom he has intrusted a MS.
account of his professional career, with particulars re-
lating to the various places, and a description of the
scenes in which he has been engaged, and which may
probably be hereafter printed and given to the pnblic.

GENERAL SIR JAMES OUTRAN.—The circumstance of
this soldier of fortune, or fortunate soldier, being just
called to a new and most difficult and delicate sphere of
action in command at Dinapcire; may -invest with some
interest the following extract from a letter written by
one who knows him well, as he did also the other gentle-
man alluded to :—" How much the late William Boyd,
the political commissioner for Guzsrat-, would have en-
joyed the honours that await his friend Jemtny Out-
rain,' le Chevalier Bayard of the East, as he is called—
the knight sans peur et sans reproche. Boyd bad formed
a correct estimate of Outram as a lad, He used to rate
the young soldier, in his own happy, humourous style,
amongst his friends at Poonah and Narsauak. I can't
persuade that fellow, Outram, of the great talents he
possesses. If we live to see it, we shall find him a great
diplomatist, as well as a great general.' Often did Boyd,
when assistant to Sir H. Pottinger, in the social circle
at the residency, give out his auguries regarding Out-
ram, in which.the future Chinese plenipotentiary heartily
concurred. A. good anecdote was told by Boyd of
rather extraordinary meeting, or almost renc4ntre, he bad
,on one occasion with Outran, when the former was one
of the secretaries to government at Bombay. The cir-
cumstance is well known of Outram, who had most chi-
valrously volunteered to the general far the hazardous ser-
vice, arriving at Bombay with despatches from the army
after a victory having, dressed as a native, passed
through hostile tribes—in fact, accomplished a journey
of many weeks, undercircumstances of such peculiar peril
and adventure, which, if ever equalled, certainly were
never surpassed. lie reached Bombay at midnight, and
made his way to the abode of Boyd, then secretary in
effectedgto dist
disturb
t h entranceehousehold,
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hthe secretary's studio, rolledin
thequietlyfrie nd Persian
s bh betook
tuosoeibhuiitnenie department.
it
himself up in a tiger's skin, and was soon, poor fellow,
as way be easily conceived, in a' state of oblivion after
tha passages, by flood and field,' of the previous sire
weeks. The secretary had work to do at an early
hour, and accordingly repaired to his sanctum, when lo
and behold a huge mass presented itself to the astounded
secretary. Few men had shot more tigers than Boyd,
and as the heap on the floor presented both ocularly and
orally, evident proofs of vitality, the dirk, the rifle, the
pistol, all flashed across his mind, as he viewed some-
thing of which quoad tho genus tiger there could be no
doubt. Fortunately for the future hero of Kbooshab,
Boyd merely applied his foot, when out rolled the un-
wa,hed And unshorn Jeintny Outratn.' "—Liverpool
Albion.
Dame Nature has again prayed us a prank. Captain
S-11, aanaster mariner, aged 73 years, rebid rig ire this
town, last week cut three back teeth.—. Port Alizaktle
Mercury.