The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-28 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

The Duke of Cambridge having approved the transfer
of 100 volunteers from the depots of the 10th and 29th
Regiments at Chatham to the 3d Battalion of the 60th
Rifles, an order has been issued from the War.office
directing the volunteers to proceed to Dublin for the
purpose ofjoininP that corps, the head-quarters of which
are about to embark for India.

The Hood, which was originally laid down at Chat.
ham Dockyard as an 80 gun sailing vessel, is now-or-
dered to be completed as a 91-gun screw steamer. in
order to adapt her for a screw she was cut in half amid-
ships, and lengthened nearly 40 feet, and she has been
again cut asunder forward in order to be lengthened at
the bows. Efforts are being made to have her completed
during the present year ; she has been on the stocks
since 1849.

Admiral Sir George Seymour hoisted his new flag
(blue at the main) on board the Victory at Portsmouth
yesterday morning at daylight, and at eight o'clock it
was saluted with 17 guns.
Toe sailing corvette Eurydice, 26, Captain Tarleton,
C.B. received orders, yesterday to weigh from Spithead,
and proceed to moorings off Osborne, to do the duty of
saluting, signalling, &e., during the visit of his Imperial,
Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia. She
went down under all sail in gallant style at 5, o'clock
last evening.
The Devastation, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Mar-
sha►l, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Plymouth, and
remains.

The Hero, 91, screw-steamer, building at Chatham, is
ordered to be completed with all possible Clespatch.
The Lorenzo;-Ardisson, master, has arrived at Chat-
ham Dockyard with a cargo of Italian oak.
,The Hon, Randolph A..Capel, (late of the Cornwallis),
flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral of the Red Provo Wil-
liam Parry Wallis, yesterday at Sheerness took up his
c"mmission, and joined the Cumberland, 70 guns, Cap-
tain John B. Dickson, The Cumberland remains under
sailing orders,
The Agamemnon, Master-Commander Cornelius T.
A. Noddall, now coaling at Saltpan-reacb, is ordered to
take on board her supply of provisions and necessary
stores from Sheerness and then to proceed to Birken-
head, where she is to receive her portion of the tele-
graph cable.

The Jean d'Acre, 101 guns, screw steam-ship, is
to be immediately fitted at Davonport for the purpose
of taking the Halif,ix side portion of the cable, instead
of the Niawara, and that vessel will render her services
in any way in which she may be found available.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE STEAM-SHIP

OTTAWA.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Ottawa, Capt. Methven, arrived this morning in
,dock
from a trial trip to Cherbourg and back. She left on
Monday morning, at 2 o'clock, with the managing direc-
tors of the company and their friends, in all 30, among
whom were Mr. Alan, Mr. Haddow, Captain Nairn,
Capt. Hall, R.N., Caot. Engledue (superintendent of
of the company), Mr. Lamb (superintendent engineer),
Mr Summers (shipbuilder), and other scientific gentle-
men. The Ottawa brought up in St. Aubyn's Bay at
2.50 p.m., when the company went on shore. At 4
o'clock on the following morning they weighed anchor,
and arrived at Cherbourg at 9 o'clock. Here the party
went on shore and witnessed the preparations then
making for the reception of the Grand Duke Constan-
tine. The Ottawa left Cherbourg at 9 o'clock p.m., on
her return to Southampton, where she arrived this morn-
ing at 6 30.
The speed obtained by the Ottawa during this trip was
under st am alone 10i knots per hour ; steam and can-
vass nearly 12 knots ; revolutions of engines from 27 to
30 ; total revolutions during the trip, 42.000. The en-
gines were manufactured by Fossett and Co., of Liver-
pool. They are direct acting engines, with oscillating
cylinders. Their nominal horse power is 200, hut they
can be worked to 750. A new registered guage, in-
vented by Mr. T. Saunders, of Northam, has been
fitted, and worked admirably, both for steam pressure
and vacuum. The machinery was in such perfect order,
that no trouble was experienced either from the heating
of the bearings or any other cause.
The Ottawa draws 16& feet of water, and is 1,274 tons.
She is barque-rigged, and has accommodation for 100
passengers. She was purchased by the Peninsula Corn-
pang of the Canadian Steam Navigation Co., but has
since been entirely refitted. The t-aloon is very tastefully
fitted, the panels being painted in green and gold, with
dr4pery, &c., to correspond. She leaves here in a short
time for one of the company's stations i❑ I❑dia.
The Ottawa was piloted during the trip by Captain
James Goodridge, of the South Western Company. It
was in the Ottawa that Miss Nightingale used usually
to travel between Scutari and Balaklava.

nor INTELLIGENCE.—We have this week received a
number of communications from the several hop-growing
districts in Kent ano Sussex. The tenor of all is simi-
lar. The recent refreshing showers, though not suffici-
ently heavy to penetrate the parched ground deeply,
have bad a most beneficial effect on all the grounds. In
Mid Kenn the growth of the bine within the last four
days is represented as being unparalleled, while the
plants in most places are looking remarkably healthy,
though still infested to some extent wit,' the flea. In
the Weald and in Sussex the change of weather has also
produced a surprising effect, the bines in some of the
young gardens having nearly topped the poles.—South-
Eastern Gazette.

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