The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-27 00:00:00

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Naval and Military Intelif-Ugg7
THE NAVY.
The Government having decidecotlAolratinet,4=Z
the dockyard and naval store esttintetLata-
Deal, Admiralty instructions have been r4tieivealt S
Chatham, directing the whole of the stores to be
removed from the Deal yard to Chatham, where
they will be inspected by the officials of the esta-
blishment. Those which are found to be unfitted
for the public service will be condemned and dis-
posed of. Already several of the largest descrip-
tions of anchors and cables have been transferred
from Deal to Chatham, and two of the dockyard
transports are employed eze!usively in removing
the remainder of the stores. The site of the dock-
yard will be appropriated by the Government for
building purposes, a portion being set apart for in-
creasing the barrack accommodation of the troops
quartered at Deal.

The improvements lately introduced by the Ad-
miralty into iron shipbuilding, and more mrticu-
lariy those made in the construction of the Bellero-
phon, have had the effect of stimulating the private
shipbuilding interest to unwonted activity in the
same direction. The committee of Lloyds' have
suhmofittierodn their rules and regulations for the
shipsbuild-
ing to a thorough revision, based on
communications which have been furnished by all
thet ry p r irrnhcei pal
suggestionsiron shipbuilders
which h
throughoutav been b
the coun-
try. ni a-
this way to the notice of the committee
have bell
well considered, and made the basis of a now codee
of regulations, compiled by Messrs. Martin end
Ritchie, the principal shipbuilding surveyor& at
Lloyds'. In order to render this cede fully intelli-
gible to the profession, the committee hive offered
to their large staff of surveyors a eeries of prizes to
,hose who should succeed in producing the best
and most exact set of illustrated drawings
of everything relating to iron shipbuilding. In order
.t the same time to secure a thoroughl iedependent
adjudication upon the various competitive plans, the
committee requested Mr. Reed, the recently-
appointed chief constructor at the Admiralty, to
award the prizes. He has done so, and also prepared
an official report, which is about to be printed and
circulated by the committee for the information of
the eurveyors and agents throughout the world.
The first prize has been awarded to Mr. Cornish,
the youngest surveyor on the staff at Lloyds'.
Prizes of a second-class have also been awarded to
Messrs. Boolde, Davey, Light, and Like. The re-
port of Mr. Reed was so satisfactory to the commit-
tee, and afforded such evidence of the professional
skill evinced by Lloyds' surveyors, that the com-
mittee have trebled the sum which they originally
appropriated as prizes and gratuities to the compe-
titors. The prize drawings will be engraved and
published for the guidance of the shipbuilding pro-
fession.

A number of workmen am now busily employed
at Chatham in cutting away the solid granite aides
at the entrance to No. 2 dock, in which the iron.
ship Achilles is under construction, in readiness
for that vessel being floated out. As much as 2ft.
Bin., or 16in. on each side, will have to be cut away
from the entire length of the solid wall on both
sides the dock in order to admit of the Achilles being
floated out without touching the sides.
Major-Gen. Bloomfield, Inspector-General of the
Royal Artillery, returned to town last evening from
a tour of inspection in Scotland and the northern
districts.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty—Lieut. W. Howorth to the Hogue,
for service in the Harpy ; Lieut. Richard H. Napier
to the Duke of Wellington ; Sub-Lieut. Edward J.
Beliett and Sub-Lieut. Francis H. Chapman to the
Marlborough.

BEES AND BEEKEEPING.

(Front the Ficld.)

REMOVING BEES TO TILE lIE&THER—Your correspon-
dent " Socdolager" appears to have managed his bees very
badly in taking them to the moors; and as it is my object
to preserve the lives of these interesting, useful, little crea-
tures, and to encourage bee-keeping, by showing how Ciey
can make a good profit out of their bees, I cannot better
cony nee him that swarms can be moved with perfect safety
than by publishing a correspondence that I have had since
my instructions appeared in the field of July 25, whito
will show him that other people besides myself can carry
swarms any distance if my instructions are strictly carried
out (as " Soedolager" says that loss is sure to ensue if
swarms are removed to the moors, and he warns all bee-
keepers not to remove swarms). A gentleman in Lincoln-
shire wrote to me on the 29th July, saying that previous to
seeing my instructions in the Field how to remove bees to the
heather, ho had removed 13 swarms to the moors, and the
combs broke down in several of them, and the bees were all
drowned in their own sweets. He says The plan I
pursued was, I took the hives gently off the stands, and
tied them up in a thin piece of calico, and they were con-
veyed vary steadily, but you appear to prefer' carrying them
turned upside down. My bees are in flat-topped straw
hives. I shall esteem it a great favour if you will drop mo
a line with some further instructions, as I want to taro
about 20 more hives to the heather."