The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-16 00:00:00

TAE NAVY.

The iron screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon.
Arthur A. Cochrane, followed by the Edgar, 71, flag of
Rear-Admiral Sidney C. Decree, C. 8., the Black Prince
41, the Resistance, 16, and the Defence, 16, all under
steam, left Plymouth Sound by the Western Channel yes-
terday afternoon between foul and five o'clock.

The Queen, 71, gun screw line of battle ship, Captain C.
Hillyar, was paid out of commission yesterday at Ports-
mouth under circumstances of great credit to the captain,
officers, and ship's company. The medals and gratuities re-
commended to be awarded for long service and good con-
duct were as follows :—Silver medal, with a gratuity of
£l5, to Thomas Reay, quartermaster, and also to Samuel
Yenning, boatsmain's mate; silver medal, with a gratuity
of £lO, to Edward Symonds, quartermaster, and to George
Dilnot, captain of the hold; £7 and a silver medal to Isaac
Miller, corporal Royal Marine Artillery. Captain Hillyar
addressed the crew previous to the payment, and gave
them all praise for good conduct. The Queen had been
upwards of four years in commission, and her captain, as
well as many of the officers who were paid off from her
yesterday, joined her on her commission. For about four
months, after sailing from Spithead on the completion of
her outfit for sea, the Queen was attached to the Channel
squadron, and accompanied it in its cruise to Lisbon.
Shortly afterwards the Queen was ordered to the Mediter-
ranean, where she has been employed a great portion of her
time as senior officer's ships at parts of the station. For
the last 12 months of her stay in the Mediterranean she
was stationed at the Piraeus, and remained there until the
arrival of his Majesty George I. The Royal Marine Artil-
lery, serving on board, rejoined their headquarters at Fort
Cumberland, and the Marine Light Infantry serving, be-
longing to the Portsmouth division, rejoined headquarters
at Forton, those belonging to the Chatham division being
sent on by rail.

At 2 p.m. the Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander M. P.
Pechell, sailed from Portsmouth harbour for Devonport with
the seamen and medicines paid off from the Queen belonging
to that port, and also conveyed round a party of the Indus's
steam reserve seamen, who had been engaged in navigating
the sailing frigate America to Portsmouth from Devonport.
The Wasp, 17, screw, Capt. W. Bowden, sailed from Spit-

head, on foreign service, early yesterday morning.

We are informed that information has been received at
the Admiralty of the death of Admiral Sir Henry William
Bruce, which took place on Monday evening. It was only
on Monday last we announced that the admiral's good ser-
vice pension had been awarded to him. The late admiral
was the only surviving son of the late Rev. Sir Henry H.
A. Bruce, and was born in February, 1792. He entered
the navy in 1803. He was midshipman of the Euryalus at
Trafalgar and of the Endymion at the passage of the Dar-
danelles. He was lieutenant of the Belvidere, and assisted
at the capture in the boats of that ship and of the Nemesis
of two banish schooners on the Coast of Norway, and was
slightly wounded in the action with and retreat from the
squadron, under Commodore Rodgers on the coast of Ame-
rica. He served in the boats of the squadron at the capture
of a schooner in Chesapeake Bay, and subsequently of a
privateer of 15 guns and 70 men. When in the command
of the Manly ho assisted in the operations in the Patuxent
and Patapsto rivers. For some years Sir Henry was Com-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, and was nominated a
Knight Commander of the Bath in June, 1861. The gal-
lant officer's commission bore date as lieutenant, Jan. 5,
1810—commander, May 27, 1814—captain, Nov. 16, 1821—
rear-admiral, July 30, 1852—vice-admiral, Oct. 2, 1857
and obtained his rank of admiral only a few weeks back.
By the demise of the gallant officer, Capt. Sir Frederick F.
Nicholson,commodore and senior naval officer at Woolwich,
obtains his flag rank.

—The following appointments were made yesterday at tae
Admiralty :—John Sanders, chief engineer, to the Fisgard,
for the Minotaur—James W. German, chief engineer, to
the Asia, for the Termagant--Wilmot t W. Rivett and Gus-
tavus H. Yonge, nominated to naval cadetship.