The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-04 00:00:00

THE NAY Y.

The experiments with the diving apparatus on
the plan suggested by Mr. White, surgeon, of
Finchley, were resumed yesterday at Portsmouth
Dockyard, in the presence of the officials of the
establishment by order of the Commissioners of the
Admiralty.
Mr. White's invention consists of a
cylinder in lieu of the ordinary diving dress, and
of two vulcanized indianibber tubes in lieu of an
air pump for the supply of air. The tubes'are used
by Mr. White both with the customary diving dress
and helmet when the work to be done lies on the
ground, and with the cylinder when the latter is
used for cleaning the bottoms of iron ships. The
cylinder in use yesterday was roughly formed of
wood, and hooped with iron. It leaked se much
that it could be kept under water no length of time.
The cylinder is constructed of sufficient size to con-
thin a man, and with room enough to give play to
his shoulders, his arms working free outside through
holes in the case fitted with vulcanized indiarubber
sleeves. These, however, can be readily dispensed
with if the operation to be performed is simply the
scraping of the vessel's bottom, a scraper being
fitted in front of the cylinder with its handle work-
ing from the interior through an indiarubber valve.
The top of a cylinder is closed by a cap, in which
are glass lights to enable the man to see his work,
and which is fastened by indiarubber springs and
hooks from the inside. A brass nut screws into the
centre of the cylinder cap through which pass two
indiarubber tubes for the supply of fresh air and
the discharge of the heated air from the cylinder.
The supply pipe is fitted with a mouthpiece. By
a simple contrivance it is fastened over the mouth
of the man inside the cylinder, who thus draws
each breath directly through the tube from
the surface of the water overhead. Each re-
spiration of the man under the ship's bottom
can be counted by those in charge of the tube
ends by the working of a slight valve at the
end of the supply tube, the stoppage of which
will at once indicate that something is wrong below.
There are other means of safety. Through the two
tubes which supply the fresh and discharge the
heated air, conversation to any extent may be kept
up between the man at work below and those who
are in attendance upon him above, by which means
he also directs their movement of the cylinder to any
portion of the ship's bottom to which his work may
require him to go. In the event of any sudden and
unforeseen danger, when there is no time to commu-
nicate by speech through the tube, the man can cast
loose the springs of the cylinder cap, and throwing
it off, rise to the surface of the water in his inflated
india-rubber life-jacket. Although the trial was
necessarily short yesterday, owing to the leakage of
the cylinder, it was quite sufficient to prove the
soundness of the principle, and its adaptability, at
a wonderfully cheap rate, for cleansing the bottoms
of iron ships when afloat and without the means of
docking.

From the official Navy List just published, we
find that the following officers' names have been
removed during the past quarter for the causes

assigned :

Lieutenant—George T. Gordon (deserted), Henry
Moore (dismissed), Cornwallis W. Martin and Ed-
ward E. Richards (resigned).
Master—Charles A. Martin (deserted).
Sub-Lieutenant—Richard Onslow (resigned).

Chief Engineer—William L. Robinson (dis-
missed).
ROYAL MARINES.—First Lieutenant Frederick
W. Gray, and Second Lieutenant John Serjeant
(names removed).

The following officers' deaths have been officially
reported at the Admiralty during the past quar-
ter :

Admiral (retired)—James P. Stewart, C.B.

Vice-Admirals—lle Hon. Sir Richard S. Dun-
das, K.C.8., Constantine R. Moorsom (reserved),
and John G. Aplin (retired).
Rear-Admirals—Edward H. Scott, the Hon, John
R F. De Ros (reserved), and William Robertson
(retired).

Captains —John Fraser, Peter Fisher, Thomas P.
Robinson, Charles Fraser, Charles Greene, Digby
Dent, Campbell Lock, Charles A. Johnstone, and
Graham.

Commanders—Edward N. H. Hallett, John P.
Palmer, James T. T. Dixon, David Hanmer, Arthur
Loftus, John E. Cabburn, Robert Parker, Richard
Eaito, and Michael Spratt.
Lieutenants—John Trevenen, G. W. Strong,
Hon. A. K. H. Legge, iEneas B. Reid, C. W.
Thackeray-, John Finemore, W. Morley, R. A.
Nicholson, G. Read, L. Leith, C. H. Masterman,
C. Palmer, H. Shepland, R. J. Barrrett, W. Sam-
well, and R. Edwards.

Masters—W. Olive, S. Court, W. Harriott, and
J. Caught.
Sub-Lieutenant—P. R. Dick.

Surgeons—Andrew Millar, R. S. Squire, C.
Chambers, G. Smith, A. Macaush, G. Fitzgerald,
W. Itogers, and R. J. Scott.

Assistant-Surgeon—George H. Somerville.
Paymasters—Wm. Ayre and Wm. H. Breay.
Assistant-Paymasters —H. Somerville, A.
Howard, and W. H. S. Batt.
ROYAL MARINES.--Major-General D. A. Gib-
sone, Captain E. Nepean ; First Lieutenant J.
Combe ; Second Lieutenants R. W. Walter and I.
H. Porter.

THE ARMY.

Th, following general order was promulgated
yesterday from the Horse Guards :
" Her Majesty the Queen having decided that his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is to proceed
to Ireland for the purpose of acquiring military in-
struction, his Royal Highness will join the Curragn
Division as Colonel on the Staff, and will be at-
tached for the purposes of drill to the Ist Battalion,
Grenadier Guards.
" By order of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief.
"JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General."
The annexed general order has been issued :
" Horse Guards, July 1.
si Much inconvenience having arisen from medi-
cal officers of districts and reginaents making re-
ports to the heads of their departments without
pllcing the military officers in immediate command ,
in possession of these reports, his Royal Highness
the General Commanding-in-Chief, wits tha con-
currence of the Secretary. of State for War, is
pleased to direct that whenever medical officers
conceive themselves called on to make reportsupon,
or to offer suggestions concerning matters affecting
the health of the troops and sanitary condition of
the locality in which they are stationed to the
head of the medical department they shall furnishduplicates to the officer in immediate command.
"By order of his Royal Highness the
General
Commanding-in-Chief,
"JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General."
Instructions were yesterday received at Wool-
wich by General Sir Richard Dacres, commanding
the garrison, from the Deputy Adjutant-General,
Colonel Bingham, appointing the following details
of officers and men of the depot at Woolwich
to be placed under orders to embark for India
on the 12th and 13th instant, viz. :—Lientenant-
Colonel H. Le G. Bruce ; Major A. Light ; Capts.
Hutchinson, A. Blunt, and C. P. Roberts ; Lieuts.
J. Alexander, O. Layton, 0. E. Le Mottee, G. A.
Noyes, G. P. Alston, W. M'Clintock, J. Keith,
H. L. Smith, Gardiner, J. A. Kelso, M'Gregor,
R. H. Grant, and A. M. Brown ; Assist.-Surgs,
J. C. H. Wright, M.D., and 1,150 non-commis-
sioned officers and men. They will embark in the
following order :—On the 12th, 400
_men in the
Sydenhana, 100 in the St. Lawrence, and 300 in
Adamant, for Calcutta, and on the 13th, 350 in
the Itydaspes, for Bengal. As the recruiting for
the Royal Artillery at Woolwich ordinarily ex-
ceeds the number of 150 per week the vacancies
thus created will be refilled in about two months
by recruits alone.
Orders have been received at the head-quarters
of the Royal Engineers, Chatham, directing accom-
modation to be prepared. at Brompton barracks for
the Ist company R 03,11.1 Engineers, which has been
withdrawn from Malta., and may shortly be ex-
pected to arrive in England in the screw steam
troopship Megaera. It is the intention of the Go-
vernment to keep only one company
of Royal En-
gineers at Malta, by which arrangement another
company of Engineers. will be at the disposal of the
authorities to be ampl.oyed on the home defences.
Experienced raecha DiCS and artisans being now