The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENLNG, MAY 16, 1862.

ratter remains to be ruined iu a place where 70,000
petitions have been presented to the King during
his short sojourn here! Your true Neapolitan will
throw himself down in the sun and call on God or
man to help him; but as to lifting a finger for him-
self, is out of the question. " Dio ci pensera! La
Madonna ci pensera" (" God or the Madonna will
think for us"), will express the national faith and
the national apathy.

Sir James Hudson, who arrived on Tuesday
night, has been confined ever since to his hotel by a
slight indisposition.

THE NAVY.

The Duke of Somerset held a levee yesterday at
the Admiralty, Whitehall, at which the under-
named officers attended :—Rear-Admiral W. Ram-
say, Captain F. Marten, Captain S. S. L. Crofton
Captain S. G. Cresswell, Captain the Hon. Thos., Baillie, Captain George A. Seymour, Captain W.
IL Hall, Commander the Hon. Thomas A. Paken•
ham, Commander E. W. Shaw, Commander Robt.
A. Parr, Commander A. T. Mann, Commander J.
E. Bingham, Commander M. S. L. Piele, Comman-
der T. T. Bullock, Commander John Sanders, Com-
mander J. Palmer, Commander C. Bromley, Lieut.
Thomas Eyton, Lieutenant W. G. Douglas, Lieut.
J. A. A. Hatchard, Lieutenant E. F. Lodders, and
Staff-Surgeons John Moody and Robert J. C. Scott.
Arrangements are being made in her Majesty's
Dockyard at Sheerness for the construction of a
new iron-cased steamer, to be built on Capt. Cow-
per Coles's cupola principle, with two shields. The
dimensions of the vessel are as follows :—Length
between perpendiculars, 185 feet; length of keel
for tonnage, 148 feet ; extreme breadth, 42 feet ;
breadth for tonnage, 42 feet; breadth moulded, 41
feet 9 inches ; depth in hold, 19 feet 10 inches; and
burden in tons, 1,385. She will draw about 16 feet
of water forward and 17 feet aft, Her stem will be
constructed somewhat after the pattern of that of
the Defence and the Resistance iron-cased frigates.
What has been chiefly kept in view in the design
of the vessel is to combine great speed with great
powers of resistance. The preparations which are
necessary for the construction of this vessel will be
effected without any extraordinary expense to the
Government.

The Arethusa, M, 3,140 tons, 500 horse Tower,
has been removed to the Stangate-creek, Chatham,
where she is to--be stationed for the present, Admi-
ralty orders having been received for discontinuing
the work of fitting her, in order that the hands
employed on her may be transferred to the other
vessels fitting.

Messrs. Taylor, of the Britannia Ironworks,Birk
en head, have entered into a contract with the Admi-
ralty for erecting one of their portable cranes
adjoining No. 3 dock, at Chatham, for raising the
iron armour-plates to be affixed to the sides of
the Royal Oak, 50, which will be placed in that
dock as soon as launched. The traveller for the
crane is to be constructed by Messrs. Aveling
and Porter, Rochester. The caisson at the en-
trance of the dock is to be altered to admit of
the Royal Oak being docked.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. S. Barnes, to the St.
Vincent ; Sub.-Lieut. J. J. C. Smail, to the Gala.
tea ; Julian A. Dash wood, Henry C. Maclean,
Arthur B. Mansell, J. C. Montgomery, W. Henn,
and G. E. Somerset, midshipmen, to the Galatea ;
W. R. Clutterbuck, Harry N. Lowe and J. Hioks,
midshipmen, to the Vesuvius; W. H. Roberts,
midshipman, to the Emerald ; A. H. H. S. Mercer,
Butler J. S. 0. Carter, Marcus M'Causland, Walter
P. Ogle, and Francis C. Master, naval cadets, to
the Galatea; T. M'Carthy, Burg., to the Vesu-
vius ; and D. R. Alcock, assist.-surg., to the Vesu-
vius.