The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Her Majesty's steam storeship Industry sailed on
Friday from Woolwich, ialen with victualling
stores and iron buoys for moorings in the South
Atlantic stations. She also took a few head of oxen
from the south of France for experimental breeding
purposes in the Isle of Ascension.
During the last few days a large supply of the
5A inch and 6 inch iron armour pates have been
sent in to Chatham dockyard from the Millwall
Ironworks and the establishment of Messrs. John
Brown and Co., Sheffield, for the Lord Warden and
the Bellerophon, ironcased frigates, building in the
dockyard. In anticipation of the heavy demand
which will be made on the factory department of
the dockyard when the works connected with the
Bellerophon are fairly in hand, a number of addi-
tional mechanics will shortly be entered at the yard,
and several new machines of enormous power arc
now in course of erection for the preparation of
armour plates. . .

The Talia, Turkish Imperial yacht, lying ;at
Woolwich, has been open for public inspection dur-
ing the past three days, and has been visited during
that time by about 12,000 persons. It was calculated
that about half that number were admitted on board
on Friday. The Arsenal pier was thronged during
the whole of the day, and large numbers failed in
obtaining admission. She is now closed to the pub-
lic, in order to complete the arrangements for her
departure for Constantinople, appointed for to-day.
The Talia was on Thursday visited by Rear-Ad.
rairal Eden and the Hon. J. R. Drummond, Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty. Their Lordships
subsequently repaired to the dockyard, and officially
inspected the shipbuilding departments, visiting
the plate-bending sheds, in which the armour-
casing is being prepared for Mr. Reed's corvette
Favourite, and also the Enterprise and Pallas, and
the various works in progress. An Admiralty order
had been previously received notifying that the
annual establishment of the yard should be dis-
charged, in conformity with regulations recently
issued. Accordingly about 400 mechanics and
labourers, coming under the denomination of hired
men, assembled in the open space ft-exiting the
official quarters, and were informed viva voce by Mr.
Turner, the master shipwright, that, having ful-
filled the terms of their engagement up to that
peeiod, he was ordered to give each man his dis-
missal from the service. The whole of the men
were forthwith re-engaged and were again entered
as hired men. These regulations are put into effect
in order to relieve the Government of the onus of
superannuation. This step has called forth some
severe animadversions, as many of the men had
been in the service upwards of a quarter of a cen-
tury, and hoped shortly to be entered on the per-
manent establishment, by which the whole of their
time would have been taken into consideration
for retirement. Their Lordships, having inspected
the paddlewheel sloop Hecate, pronounced her
unfit for further service. Her ironwork is eaten
with rust and her timbers are quite rotten.
She is consequently to be taken to pieces.
On Saturday Rear-Admiral S. Robinson, the Con-
troller of the Navy, visited Chatham dockyard for
the purpose of inspecting the progress made in the
way of fitting the various vessels building and pre--
paring for sea at that establishment. After transact-
ing basiness at the office of Capt. Stewart, C. 8., the
superintendent of the establishment, the Controller
directed his attention to the Bombay, 67, now in dry
dock, where she has been several months fitting for
an Admiral's flag. Most of the work on board is
now completed, and in about a fortnight she will be
reedy to leave the dock. The Admiralty have di-
rected her condensers to be strengthened by means
of tension bolts, which will be fixed athwart ship,
and this work will be executed by Messrs. Hum-
phreys, Tennant, and Co., the makers of the engines.
After inspecting the Cadmus, 22, 400 horse-power,
which is undergoing some heavy repairs in the ad-
joining dock, the Controller visited the east end of
the yard, where the ironclad frigate Lord Warden
is now being put in frame, and afterwards embarked
on board the City of Rochester steamer and proceeded
down the harbour to the Achilles iron frigate, which
is being brought forward for sea with as much de-
spatch as the resources of the dockyard will permit.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Ariadne, 26, 3,214
tons, 800 horse-power, Capt. E. W. Vansittart, was
put out of commission and the crew paid off in the
Medway on Saturday under the superintendence of
Capt. C. Wise, naval aide-de-camp to the Queen.
The Ariadne has been upwards of four years in com-
mission, and has been attached principally to the
North America and West India squadrons, and for
some time was engaged in operations on the Mexi-
can coast. Notwithstanding the length of time she
was in commission, she has lost but few of her crew
from death or sickness, and most of the officers who
joined the ship at the time she was commissioned re-
turn in her. Three of the crew have been recom-
mended to the Admiralty for medals and the accom-
panying gratuities for long service and exemplary
conduct. The crew were paid off in a most orderly
and expeditions manner, and nearly the whole of
them immediately left by train to spend their six
weeks' holiday with their friends. The Ariadne
goes into the fourth division of the Chatham Steam
Reserve.

The Bulldog paddle, Capt Chas. Walker, will be
docked this morning for the purpose of having her
valves examined prior to her going out of harbour.
She will soon:be ready for sea.
The Adventure troopship, Cept. Waddilove, is
still in the hands of the dockyard officials and along-
side the jetty ; she is, however, nearly completed in
her fittings, and will probably embark naval super-
numeraries and a few troops (detachments) to-mor-
ro or and leave on Wednesday or Thursday for China,
calling at Plymouth and Dublin. Very extensive
alterations have been made in the internal fittings
of this ship, and her ventilation is much improved.
The subjoined is notified as the amended scale of
allowances to officers of her Majesty's ships on the
East India station, who may qualify themselves to
act as interpreters in Oriental languages, sanctioned
by the India Office :—Per Mensem,—Class I. For
Hindostanee or Persian, 180 rupees, moonshee
allowance ; 50 rupees, interpreter's allowance.
Class 11. For Arabic, 180 rupees, moonshee allow-
ance; 100 rupees, interpreter's allowance. Class
111. For Hindostanee, Arabic, and Persian (three
languages), ISO rupees, moonshee allowance; 200
rupees interpreter's allowance. In appointing in•
terpreters preference will be given to Class 111.
over Class 11., and to Class 11. over Class I.
The Highfiyer, screw, after having had very ex-
tensive repairs in Mr. White's yard at Cowes, was
towed into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday. It is
expected she will immediately be brought forward
and. fitted out, in readiness for being commissioned.
The America, target ship, having been repaired
and made available for further eervice, was un-
docked on Saturday. She will resume her station
this morning, and some interesting trials will take
place tomorrow. Seven armour-plates have been
affixed to her sides—One 43in from Beale and Co.,
Sheffield; one 51-in and one 6in from Brown and
Co., Millwall ; one 6in and one Sin from the
Thames Iron Company (the latter being manufac-
tured from iron imported from Norway); and two
4i-in French plates.

The screw steamship Princess Royal, 73, Capt.
Jones, flag of Rear Admiral G. St. Vincent King,
C. 8., left Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon
for the Cape of Good Hope Station.

The sere* steam frigate Galatea, 26, Captain
Rochfort Maguire, was taken into do3k at Devon-
port on Saturday to make good her defects.
The screw steam coastguard ship Ajax, 60, Capt.
Michael De Courcy, is early expected at Plymouth
from Kingston.
The screw steam ironcased ship Research, 4, Capt.
William Hurst, and the paddlewheel steamsloop
Gladiator, 6, at Plymouth, received draughts of
seamen and marines on Saturday.
The Royal Marine division at Woolwich, which
has for some time past been considerably below its
allotted strength, was on Saturday further reduced,
55 men of the division having been previously exa-
mined by a medical board, were invalided and dis-
charged from the service, and 75 recruits were trans-
ferred to the depot station at Deal-
k The following
appointments have been made at
the Admiralty:—Alfred G. 13, liervey, ntidohiP-

man, to the Revenge ; F. Day and A. M. Brum-
mage, asaist. engineer, to the Bulldog ; Lieut.
Francis C. R. Baker, to the Excellent, for study ;
Lieut. H. Wilkinson, to the Majestic: I f ent. A.
H. Webb to the Asia ; Lieut. Godfrey Taylor to the
Pembroke; and Lieut. George W. A. :en to the
Geyer.
The undernamed have been nominated naval
cadets :—Joseph Alleyne, Frederick Bell, Archibald
W. Cavage, Arthur G. Cuthbert, Henry C. Dawson,
Philip A. C. De Crespigny, Arthur Dove, Charles
S. Elton, Reginald B. Ful?ord, George K. Gordon,
Martin A. Hammill, William P. L. Heyland, Edwin
A. Hobson, Walter H. Maher, the Hon. Basil Napier,
Michael P. O'Callaghan, Charles G. Robinson,
George H. C. Stzpletol3, Ferdinand F. Tupper,
George Walmisley, Frank C. Youn ghnsband, Francis
G. Jones, Charles M. Le Blanc, George P. Hender-
son, Reginald Y. Smith, Charles J. Poole, Murray
William Gruggen, and William H. Hingston.