The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-15 00:00:00

THE GUN-BOATS.

The Hind, screw gun-boat, arrived at Sheerness yes-
terday, about 1 p.m., in tow of the Lizard, paddle, Lieu-
tenant Christopher. This vessel, it will be remembered,
got ashore off Clay, and was despaired of ever being got
off ; but, through the assistance rendered by the Lizard,
assisted by the able and judicious judgment of Mr. Jack-
son, second master attendant of the dockyard, this ves-
sel is safely brought in here, to all appearance not very
much injured.
The Gleaner, gun-boat, remains at Sheerness to make
good defects of machinery, to enable her to leave for
Portsmouth.

The steam gun-boat; Magpie and Redwing, having
had their copper examined and repaired, were taken out
of the basin clock at Devonport yesterday.
The Thistle, screw gun boat, hauled out of No. I dry
dock yesterday morning, and is now in the basin, caulk-
ing and making good all her defects.

The paddle steam-vessel Vixen, Master-Commander
R. E. Pym, left Woolwich yesterday to proceed to
Portsmouth, Devonport, and Southampton. She takes
a mixed cargo of machinery, to the amount of 267 tons,
and consists for the most part of the machinery for the
Repulse, 90 gun, and 600-horse power, at Pembroke ;
four boilers, weighing 80 tons, for the Furious, 16, pad-
dle, of 400-horse power ; and the greater portion of the
engines for the Whiting, gun-boat, at Southampton,
weighing 16 tons, and the remainder is filled up with
light stores for the western yards.
The sailing-transport Eden, No. 107, which arrived off
Woolwich Dockyard yesterday afternoon, has on board
a quantity of guns which were captured by the English
at the taking of Bomarsund. They appear to be made
of very excellent metal, and vary from 6-pounders up to
32-pounders. Some of the 6 pounders have as great
weight of metal in them as our long 32-pounders, and
are of a description of metal nearly approaching bell
metal. They number about 80 pieces. The vessel is
at present moored alongside the Hebe receiving hulk,
awaiting orders.

M. Vandenbergh, the Imperial Royal Austrian Con-
sular Agent at Portsmouth, has, by Imperial decree,
been promoted and appointed the Imperial Royal Aus-
trian Vice-Consul for Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight,
Southampton, and the coast as far west as Bridport, in
DcrsetQYre, and received his new commissions under
the great seal of Austria, accompanied by her Britannic
Majesty's Royal licence and approval, under the seal of
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
yesterday morning.
The Lords of the Admiralty have rewarded James
Newby, late boatswain of her Majesty s ship Sanspareil,
with an appointment of that rank to Malta Dockyard,
for his intrepidity in saving the lives of men from the
Balaklava wrecks last year.

The vunnery ship Hotspur, 44, in the Homoaze, is to
be fitted as a floating Catholic chapel, for the use of
Irish militia expected at Plymouth.

A number of 8-inch guns for discharging hollow-shot
and shell, and several 32-pounders, for the East India
Company's service, as well as the guns for the Turkish
Government, have been satisfactorily proved at the Royal
Arsenal butt at Woolwich.

The whole of the machinery lately received from
America, and landed on the Arsenal-quay, was yesterday
chipped in barges, and forwarded from Woolwich to the
small-arras factory, which is nearly completed at Enfield.
60 barges are in constant use there, under Government
contract, for the especial service of reshipping and re-
moving ordnance and other stores.
Colonel Sandham, the director of the engineer estab-
lishment at Chatham garrison, made his half-yearly in-
spection of the corps of the Royal and East India Com-
pany's Sappers and Miners, and of their kits and arms
yesterday. The troops assembled at half-past 10 a.m. on
the general parade of the barracks at Brompton. The
number of me❑ was about 500, and a very fine body they
are. The whole of the engineer officers was-also present;
everything was very satisfactory, and the commanding
officer was highly pleased with the order and regularity
in which everything is kept belonging to the force.
It is generally reported that her Majesty will arrive
at Chatham on Friday next, to pay a visit of condolence
to those brave troops from the Crimea now in the hospi-
tal at Fort Pitt, and the supplemental hospital, Bromp-
ton Barracks. It is also expected that the Queen will
inspect the encampment for the Royal Sappers and
Miners, which is formed within the works of the fortifi-
cation; the road leading thereto being formed and
covered with fresh gravel. At the hospitals everything
is being got ready to receive the royal visit.

APPOINTMENTS.
The following appeared hi our late edition last
night :

LIEUTENANT.
A. C. Ballingall, to the Polyphemus.
• ASSISTANT CLERK.
William Harriott, to the Arachne.
MASTERS' ASSISTANTS.

Thomas Silk, to the Impregnable.
C. L. Pope, to the Sampson.
THE QUALIFICATION FOR CLERKSHIPS.
The memorandum relative to the qualification required
for clerkships under the Admiralty which appeared in
the newspapers was not intended as an invitation to can-
didates to offer themselves for a competitive examination,
but was inserted that the public might be made ac
quainted with the subjects of which persons nominated by
their lordships would be required to have a knowledge.

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