The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-08 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The iron paddlewheel steamer Lizard, 'employed in har.
bour duty between Chatham and Sheerness, has been
selected by the Admiralty to bo experimented upon with
Capt. M‘Killop's coffer-dam, or portable dock, in order to
test the merits of that invention. —The Lizard having been
placed on the gridiron to ascertain the state of her bottom
will be floated into the steam basin to-day, should the gale
at all moderate, and will be placed in the dock to-morrow
in order to save the spring tides.
The Bombay, 67, 400 horse power, which was to have
been undocked at Chatham during tho present week, is now
ordered to remain in dry dock for a month longer, and in
the meantime she is to be made ready as soon as possible
for commission. During the time she has been in the ship-
wrights' hands she has been fitted with an entirely now
description of apparatus, from the plan of one of the officials
in the dockyard, for more expeditiously and safely lower-
ing the boats at sea. The date at which the Bombay is
now ordered to be undocked is the 7th of April.
The Ariadne, 26, 100 horso power, Capt. E. W. Vansit-
tart, having been inspected at the Noro byVice-Admiral of
the White Sir C. Talbot, K.C.8., naval Commander-in-

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Chief, has discharged the whole of hor powder and shells
into the magazines at Upnor Castle, and yesterday the War
Department transports Marlborough and Bomarsund landed
her heavy 63 pounder and Armstrong guns at the Ordnance
Wharf, Chatham. The orders previously given for the
♦riadne to be paid off in Chatham harbour have been
countermanded, and sha is now to be paid off at the Nore,
and afterwards placed in the third division of the Steam
Reserve in the Medway. The crew of the Ariadne are now
busily employed in dismantling the ship and returning her
stores into the dockyard. Notwithstanding the length of
time she has been in commission, the vessel is in excellent
order, and her condition reflects the highest credit on Capt.
Vansittart and the officers under him.

Yesterday a large party of convicts arrived at the St.
Mary's convict establishment, Chatham, from Leede, to be
employed on the works now in progress for the enlargement
of the dockyard.
Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham for the
paddlewheel steamer Hermes, 6, 830 tons, 220 horse power,
attached to the third-class Steam Reserve, to be broken up,
the Lords of the Admiralty having decided that she is not
to be sold, as was previously directed.

A portion of the Channel Fleet, consisting of the screw
line-of-battleship Edgar, 80, bearing the flag of Vice-Admi-
ral Decree, C.B ; the iron plated screw steamships Warrior.
10, Black Prince, 40, and the Defence, 18, arrived at Port-

land on Saturday. The li9ctor and Prince Consort have
been in port some days.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Henry M. Barkley, midshipman, to the
Princess Royal; Robert F. Smyth, assist.-paymaster, to the
Rattlesnake; Russell Hill, assist.-paymaster, to the Pem-
broke; Dr. Alexander Mitchell, acting assist.-surg., to the
Excellent ; John Lambert, assist.-surg., to the Implacable ;
William Oliver, chief engineer, to the Asia, for the Royal
Sovereign, vice Taylor; W. J. Ibbott, chief engineer, to
the Asia, for the Prince Regent; and Adam Dunn, chief
engineer, to the Pembroke.