The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-05 00:00:00

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THE NAVY.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Aiber t
nailed from Portsmouth yesterday for Cowes, to
embark Captain his Serene Highness the Prince
and Princess Leiningen, and will sail hence this
morning for Antwerp, to convey her Majesty the
Queen to England at the close of her visit to Ger-
many. Existing arrangements are for her Majesty
to embark on board the Victoria and Albert et
Antwerp at 8 a.m. on the 9th, the yacht imme-
diately starting on her voyage, and anchoring at
the Nore for the night on reaching the English
coast. On the following morning the yacht will
weigh her anchor early, and resume her voyage to-
wards Greeuhithe, where her Majesty will disem-
bark from the large yacht and proceed to Woolwich
in the Fairy. The Fairy left Portsmouth for the
Thames yesterday morning. The Admiralty yachts
Black Eagle and Vivid at Woolwich were yesterday
ordered to be held in readiness to sail on Sunday
morning next for Antwerp, and join the Royal
squadron about to convey the Queen and Royal
family back to England.
The Bloodhound, 3, paddle, Lieut.-Commander
Stokes, arrived at Spithead yesterday, from th
West Coast of Africa. She sailed from Ascensio .
July 4, and afterwards calling in at Sierra Leone.
Goree, Teneriffe, Madeira, and Vigo, her date from
the latter port being Aug. 29. From Madeira the
Bloodhound experienced strong north-east 'winds.
She has brought home Mr. Allen, late Second
Master of her Majesty's ship Mullett ; Mr. Bell, late
engineer of her Majesty's ship Zebra ; and six naval
invalids. She is ordered to fill up coal and leave
Portsmouth this morning for Woolwich to dis-
mantle and pay out of commission.
Private letters received yesterday at Portsmouth
from the Channel Fleet state that the ships will
visit the Mersey about the 15th inst.
The Wye, steam store and tank vessel, has
arrived at Spithead from Woolwich, on her way to
Ascension.

The steam storeship Industry, Master Comman-
der Youel, has received her new fore and main
masts, under the outer sheers at Woolwich, and has
been rigged down anew. She has shipped a full
cargo of victualling stores for the West Coast of
Africa, and is under orders to sail this afternoon.
On coming out of dock, as already stated in The Sun,
she came in collision with the Kite, when the In-
dustry's foremast fell over in three pieces on the
deck. On a subsequent examination of the main-
mast that was also found to be defective and rotten.
The Calcutta line-of-battle ship arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday from Devonport, in tow of her
Majesty's steamer Geyser, Commander Pechell.
The Calcutta is to supersede the Illustrious as drill
ship and tender to the Excellent gunnery ship at
Portsmouth, the Illustrious being in a very defeo-
tive condition.

The Monarch target ship has been brought down
from the practice moorings in Dorchester-creek and
placed in No. 2 dock in Portsmouth-dockyard, to
have her cropper stripped off her bottom prior to
resuming her duties as target ship. The Controller
of the Navy has given orders that the 15ft. armour-
plate which has been recently coated with copper
by Mr. Walenn's electro-alkaline process in the
steam factory of Portsmouth yard is to be bolted on
the Monarch's side while in dock, so that when
afloat again the plate shall have about three-fourths
of ; its surfaces submerged below the ships water-
line. After having undergone this test for a
certain time, to ascertain whether any action is
created by its contact with salt water, the plate will
next be fired at from a 68-pounder and broken, to
ascertain the exact nature of the cohesion between
; the deposited copper and the iron plate. A 15ft.
plate, 3ft. in width, and lin. thick, coated with the
large armour-plate, has been tested in a very severe
manner by striking it with the utmost possible force
with a 141 b. hammer. The blows were struck ob-
liquely by one of the boiler makers of the factory,
in the endeavour to rip up and separate the two
metals if it was possible. This separation was, how-
ever, found impossible ; large indents were made by
the hammer as if on solid copper, but no other re.
sults could be obtained.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Dr. J. Henderson, staff-
surgeon, to the Boscawen ; Henry Brown, chief
engineer, to the Challenger ; J. Davis, chief
engineer, to the Lily; S. H. Dawkins, acting
engineer, A. J. Tout, J. D. Lamont, Malcolm Baird,
R. Young, and George R. Beer, assist.-engineers,
to the Nile, as supernumeraries.

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