The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

The screw steam troop ship Megeera,
her collision defects made good at Ply'
the Sound on Saturday morning for North Ameitaea 11
and the West Indies, where she will be employed
in changing the troops at the different stations.
The screw steam sloop Alert, 17, Capt. Majeac,
left Plymouth on Saturday for Portsmouth. She
will be attached to the Channel Fleet.
Our correspondent at Plymouth has received a
letter from the Pacific, which states that the screw
steam frigate Sutlej, 35, Capt. Matthew Connolly,
flag of Rear Admiral John Kingcombe, after leav-
ing Valparaiso, called at two or three places on the
coast, to enable the Rev. John Cawston, the chap-
lain, to christen some children, and arrived at Callao
about the 20th of April. The screw steam corvette
Charybdis, 21, Capt. the Hon. George 1). Keane,
left Valparaiso on the 14th April, called at two or
three places on the coast, touched at Islay on the
22d, and arrived at Callao on the 27th. Both ships
wait until Sunday May 3d to obtain letters from
home, when the Sutlej will proceed to Vaecouver's
Island and the Charybdis to Panama, The screw
steam ftigate Bacchante, 39, Captain Donald 111‘L.
Mackenzie has gone to the coast of Mexico to relieve
the screw steam corvette Tartar 20, Capt. John M.
Hayes. The paddle-wheel steam sloop Devastation,
6, Commander John W. Pike, goes to relieve the
screw steam sloop Matine, 17, Commander W.
Graham, which will call at Panama when returning
to England. The screw steam frigate Topaze, 39,
Commodore the Hon, John W. S. Spencer is ordered
to call at Valparaiso on her way
to England.
The Urgent, screw iron troopship, was some
three months since undocked at Portsmouth, after
having had all compositions and paints carefully
removed from all the external parts of her iron
hull and her wooden topsides, and has since lain
afloat in the steam basin, her rusted hull exposed to
the action of the sea water, and her bare topsides
to the sun, wind, and rain. A few months longer
and the ship's bottom will drop out into the mud
of the steam basin, and her wooden topsides will
crumble into dust. Surely the Lords of the Ad-
miralty who visited Portsmouth dockyard but a
fortnight since must have seen and noted the posi-
tion and state of this very useful vessel?
Her Majesty's ships Sanspareil and Sphinx, and
the hired transports Copenhagen, Cospatrick,
Walmer Castle, and Her Majesty, are on their way
home from India, bound to Spithead, with invalids
and time -expired men from regiments serving in
India. The invalids will be sent to the Royal
Military Hospital at Netley, and the time-expired
men will join the depots of their respective regi-

ments.
The Racoon, 20, steam corvette, Captain Count
Gleichen, arrived at Spithead, at a late hour on
Friday, from the West Indies. She brought home
from the station a few naval invalids and military
invalids and time-expired men, embarked on the
9th of May at Bermuda. The naval invalids were
transferred on Saturday to the Victory, flagship of
of the Commander-in-Chief, at Portsmouth. The
military comprised three men of the Royal Artil-
lery and three men of the Royal Engineers, inva-
lids, who were sent to the Royal Military Hospital,
at Netley, and 12 men (time expired) of the 39th
Foot, who were forwarded on to the regimental
depot at Templemore. His Royal Highness Prince
Alfred will join the Racoon as her junior lieut.
Her Majesty's ships of war, now at Spithead.
consist of the Black Prince, 40 guns, screw iron
frigate, Capt. Wainwright ; Defence, 18 guns, screw
iron frigate, Capt. Phillimore ; Racoon, 20 guns,
screw wooden corvette, Capt. Count Gleichen ; and
Orontes, screw iron troopship, Capt. Hire.
Her Majesty's ship Dee, having undergone
thorough repair in ship and machinery, went down
the river on Friday from Woolwich to Southend on
trial, and will now be recommissioned for the trans-
port of naval engines, boilers, &c., as heretofore.
A number of seamen and petty officers were on
Saturday despatched from the flagship Fisgard at
Woolwich to Sheerness, to join the Royal Oak, un-
der fitment for sea.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :
Masters--llaben )3. Hunt, to.,the Phaeton; John Pal-
mer, to the Barrosa ; Percy V. James, to the Rattler.
Assistant-Surgeons—F. IL Moore, to Victory; Mat-
thew Coates, Haslar Hospital.
Engineer—John Barnet (acting first-class assistant), to
the Fisgard, for Vivid.
Second Masters—J. G. Liddell, S. H. Liddell, G. White,
Selwyn Sugden, C. Hirtzel, C. S. C. Watkins, and J.
Thomas. to the Euryalus (supernumeraries).
Masters Assistant—William H. Brickdale, to the Cos-
sack.
Midshipman—W. E. Heathcote, to the Esk.