The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-12 00:00:00

for sea.

In consequence of the companies of Royal Marine Artil-
lery being below their proper strength volunteering for
that branch of the service has been opened at Chatham.
Yesterday 42 volunteers, the names of whom had previously
been submitted for approval at the Royal Marine-office,
left head-quarters for Portsmouth to join the Artillery
companies. _ _ .

The iron-cased screw frigate Prince Consort, Capt. Willes,
has been detached temporarily from the Channel Fleet, at
Spithead, and anchored in Cowes Roads, where she will re-
main during the sojourn of her Majesty at Osborne.
The Nugent, screw troopship, Capt, Henderson, tried her
machinery yesterday at tho measured mile in Stokes Bay
prior to being formally handed over by the steam factory
department to the Steam Reserve for commission.
The Frederick William. screw coastguard line-of-battle
ship, Capt. E. Codd, will, according to present arrange-
ments, go out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead on Thurs-
day next, make her official trial at the measured mile on the
following day, and on Saturday sail for a cruise in the
the place of the Colossus.
Channel, and afterwards take up
The Pigmy paddle-steamer her station at Portland, in
, Master-Commander Vine,
under the command of Commander Colomb, R.N., sailed
from Portsmouth yesterday morning to resume her station
south of the Isle of Wight as an experimental signal ship,
in conjunction with a signal party on St. Catherine's Down
Isle
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Accountant-Generale
assisted by some of the officials connected with that depart-
menthas
ofbeEn engaged at Chatham Dockyard in the in-
vestigation the accounts and returns previously prepared
at that establishment by Mr H. N
~IT • R. Walker, the inspec-
torl4 and auditor of dockyard accounts, 4' and Mr Watson, con-
nected with the construction of the Royal Oak, ironplated
wooden frigate, in order that an accurate account may be
obtained of the entire coat of that vessel, previously to the
returns
e cost of the other armour-clad
woodenbeing made up of the
ships built at Portsmouth, Woolwich, Plymouth,
and Pembroke.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. John J. Martin, to the Prince Consort
J. Carey, to the Clio—Henry S. Ley, master,
—Lieut. C.
-
to the Indus, for the Caledonia_Francis E. Wolrige,
Wm. Y. Ottley, Wm. C. S. Ilathorn, L. E. S. Vidal, G. H.
B
j Downes, chief engineer,
to the Clio—
W. Oliver, chief engineer, to the Royal Sove-
reign—F. G. Barr, chief engineer, to the Asia, for the im.-
mortalite when paid °ff—W* Ash and J. W. Al'lkenzie,
engineers, to the Royal Sovereign—
R. Hetherington, e
en-
gineer, to the Clio--v. Horn, assist. engineer, to the Cale-
donia—T. M'lntyre, H. Onions,s
the Royal Sovereign—R. H.
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engineer, R
to the Caledonia—
P. Harris, naval cadets, to the Clio—C. Icely,
chief d
Cooper, assist. engineer,engineers,
to he Cumberland, for the Wild-
tire—and W. Gentles and S. T. Coombs, assist. engineers,
to the Clio. _....--
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j, Dinwoodie, and H. W.
Wilkins, assist. eng