The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-19 00:00:00

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The work of armour plating the Caledonia, ai
Woolwich, is progressing favourably. The two
plates injured last week by the bending apparatus
have been severely tested under the full force of the
hydraulic power, and the damaged part has been
chiselled out and examined most minutely, but
without discovering any pretext for rejecting them
beyond the flaw in the centre of each, occasioned
by the pressure required in the process of bending
them cold.

Her Majesty's iron screw steam storeship Drome-
dary yesterday completed repairs in dock at Wool-
wich, and will be undoeked this morning, in readi-
ness to ship stores for Rio de Janeiro. Although
only six months in commission it was found neces-
sarry to lay on a new coating both inside and out,
to prevent the rivet heads from being corroded with
bilge water in the hold, and to remedy the adher-
ence and collection of barnacles and seaweed to the
hull, which it is well known affects the speed of
vessels thus infested. The Portland cement with
which the vessel was formerly coated has now been
pared over with Day's composition, which has been
" laid on solid" fore and aft, and in all the bays
between limbers to the level of the limber holes
throughout, as directed to be carried out in her
Majesty's ship Adventure. In order to complete
the work in the specified time it was continued
throughout the whole of Monday night. It was
laid on in a hot lava state from a couple of portable
cauldrons kept boiling night and day. The exterior
is coated with M'lnnis's liquid composition, some-
what similar to thick paint.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Bustler yesterday
went to Greenhithe from Woolwich to lay down
new buoys and to assist in swinging the Spitfire,
Master-Commander Bowden, now ready to sail for
Bermuda.

The paddlewheel despatch vessel Caradoc, in
basin at Woolwich, has been repaired throughout,
and rendered completely new as regards her bul-
warks, paddleboxes, decks, &c. She will be out of
the shipwrighLa' hands on §aturday next, and wnl
be again commissioned for the Mediterranean ser-
vice. The Alecto and the Scourge, also at Wool-
wich, are likewise ordered to be brought forward at
an early date.

A number of hired shipwrights and labourers
will shortly be entered at Chatham dockyard to
break up the Deptford transport, lying on the beach
opposite the dockyard, No. 48 mortarboat having
been brought up from Yautlett-creek to take the
place of the Deptford.

Yesterday a number of the 68-pounder and 56
cwt. cast iron guns belonging to the Hero, 89, 500
horse power, were landed at the Ordnance-wharf,
Chatham, with the assistance of a party of convicts
from the War Department transports which brought
them from the Nore. Notwithstanding the length
of time the Hero has been in commission her guns
are all in excellent order, and only a very few of
those already landed will require to be sent to Wool-
wich to be re-vented.

The arrangements for the extension of the metro-
politan police doing duty at Chatham dockyard to
the Ordnance-wharf, and some other of the public
departments at Chatham, have been completed by
Sir R. Mayne, who, in concert with Mr. Superin-
tendent Richardson, the principal officer of the
dockyard force, has been engaged at Chatham in
taking the necessary measures for extending the
duties of the force to those Government establish-
ments which will in future be under the charge of
the dockyard police. Under the new arrangements
the whole of the Government works at St. Mary's
Island for the extension of the dockyard will be
placed under the charge of the metropolitan police,
and, with the exception of a few troops who will
still be retained, the military guard over the con-
victs employed on the island withdrawn. Since
Monday the dockyard police have commenced their
duties at the Ordnance-wharf, the vast quantity of
all kinds of naval and military stores accumulated
at which have hitherto been guarded by some two
or three soldiers employed on sentry duty. A cer-
tain number of police-constables are also on duty
night and day at the Naval Hospital at Melville.
The additional establishments placed under the
charge of the dockyard police will necessitate the
augmentation of the force at Chatham dockyard.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. G. Wodehouse, to the
Meeanee ; Sub-Lieut. Philip R. H. Parker, to the
Resistance; the Rev. J. P. Oliver, chaplain, to the
Emerald; the Rev. T. R. Hamilton, chaplain, to the
Cumberland; W. J. Ibbett, chief engineer, to the
Asia, for the Urgent, when that ship is paid off;
George C. Scholes, in the Barracouta, promoted to
acting engineer ; Thomas J. Sweeny, first-class
assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary;
and Robert Ditchburn, first-class assist.-engineers
to the Asia, for the Albacore.