The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

rap. SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 13,

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A court-martial msembled on board her Majesty's ship
Victory in Portsmouth Haibour yesterday morning, to try
Mr. Thomas Watcher Wellington Spear for conduct unbe-
coming the character of an officer, in telling a wilful and
deliberate falsehood to ComMander Victor Grant. flickloy,
his commanding officer. Another charge was -that of
drunkenness. The Court adjudged him to be 'placed at
the bottom of the list of paymasters in the_ navy, and there
to retna;n. •••• .7 •

The Mauritius, No. 5 steam transport, 2,30010n5, 300
horse powor, Captain Cruickshank, arrived at Spithea4 at
8 o'clock yesterday !miming frdm Graveiend, haVing made
the run in 18 hours.

Cleopatra, iron screw, merchant chartered steamer, ar-
rived on Thursday evening at Spithead; and the Mauritius
iron screw chartertedsteatner (Yo. s)"arrived this moroing
at Spithead. The latter vessel left' Gravesend at 2 p.m.
on Thursday, and arrived 'at Spithead this morning at 7
o'clock. She has' lately undergone' some very extensive
alterations and improvements suggested by, her chief
engineer, Mr. M•Nieol ; • awl ca,•ried' into effect by the
Messrs. Summers, Day, and Co., civil engineers, of Sou-
thampton. Her quarter boats are fitted with Clifford's
patent lowering gear, and her propeller is by Griffith. Oa
her voyage round she was put on ler canvas to see the
effect on the propellrr, and after an hoot's trial it was
proved to the satisfaction of the owners and the com-
manding officer that it did not affect her an eighth of
a knot an hour. The fact is of value to the public, and
to the government in particular, on account of the enor-
mous expense saved by the brass frame work, which is a
matter of necessity at the present moment to lower and
hoist the screw, and this at an average cost to each of her
Majesty's ships of war Of 15;00N-
The Austrian ambassador and suite visited the Niagara,
United States' steam corvette, at Portsmouth, on Thurs-
day, and also the Victory, which saluted his Excellency
with 15 guns.. y,
Major-General Breton, Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth,
entertained at Government-house on Thursday night Capt.
Hudson, Lieuts. North and Whiting, Dr. Palmes, of the
`United States' corvette Viagars, and Chevalier Pappalardo,
Consul; also a numerous company invited to meet them.
The Eurydice,:26, Captain J. W. Tarleton, C.B. (18'5),
which was paid off at Chatham yesterdaY, has been in com-
mission upwards of three years, having sailed from Ports-
mouth in April, 1851. This vessel formed one of the squa-
dron directe I to proceed to the White Sea, and during the
summer of 1854 was employed in the blockade of Arch-
angel. The crew have been extremely healthy, only one
death having occurred. On the vessel being paid off yes-
terday Captain Tarleton addressed the petty officers and
.crew, expressing his approbation of their uniformly good
conduct since he had been in command. He also stated
that Prince Albert and the Prince of Walerr had signified
their approval of the good order and regularity which pre•
veiled on board on the recent occasion' of their taking a
cruise in the Eurydice from Osborne to Spithead.
The Mariner, 12, sloop, commander W. R. G. Palliser
(1856), was paid off at Chatham yesterday. She was com-
missioned at Plymouth in 1854, since which period she has
been employed in the West Indies for the purpose of assist-
ing in the suppression of the slave trade off Cuba and the
other Spanish islands. During the time she has been in
commission one death occurred on board from fever, two
men were killed by falling from aloft, and one man was
accidentally drowned. The Mariner brought home super-
numeraries from the Orion, 91, Captain J. E. Erskine.
A fter being paid off yesterday, she was placed in ordinary
at Chatham.

The officers of the factory department of the dockyard,
Woolwich, having tested the strength of Messrs. Short-
ridge, Howell, and Jessop's homogeneous metal, and hay-
ifig obtained the maximum of steam in a small boiler of
100 pounds the square inch. have received an Admiralty
order to furnish a couple of high pressure and condensing
boilers of that metal, for the purpose of entering into more
extensive experiments, with a view of introducing the
homogeneous plates, which are considerably lighter than
iron,-in the use of boilers generally for the service of the
steamships of the navy.