The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-01 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The iron screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the
Hon. Arthur Cochrane, which arrived in Plymouth
home, and
south-east,rendere
rendered
on Thursday evening, as already reported in
The Sun, left Gibraltar on the 19th February. She
took her departure under steam, and crossed the
Bay of Biscay under canvass. During
the passage
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it necessary to get up steam in the chops of the

Channel. In the Sound yesterday the weather con-
tinued so heavy that the topgallantmasts of the
vessel were struck and everything made snug; in
the morning it was not safe for boats to lay along-

side. The officers of the new frigate speak very
favourably of the results of the voyage to the Me-
diterranean and back, and attribute the report of
her being very leaky chiefly to the fact that some
of her boats on deck required caulking, and could
not, therefore, hold the wash and spray of the sea,
which dropped into them during heavy weather.
These defects have been made good. She leaks a
little, however, about the water-ways, probably
through straining at sea. The men were ex-
ercised at gun and target practice when cross-
ing the Bay of Biscay. The passage outward
from Lisbon to Gibraltar is referred to as the
best test of the capabilities of the Warrior. She

left the Tagus on February the 7th, and in 22 hours
arrived at Gibraltar, a distance of 320 miles, being
at the rate of nearly 15 miles per hour. The ship
was under sail and steam, not full power. Her
engines are pronounced " faultless." On a close
inspection of them yesterday in the Sound no defect
was discovered, and no repair or alteration of any
kind is necessary. Her steering arrangements still
require modification.
The Eagle, 20, training ship, Commander F. T. C.
Strode, is ordered to be paid off on Tuesday next,
and her officers and crew turned over to the Bos-
cawen, 70, which will be commissioned on the fol-
lowing day as a training ship for second-class boys
at Devonport. She is to have a complement of 70
men, including Marines.
An Admiralty circular has been received at Chat-
ham Dockyard, laying down an amended scale of
pay and allowances for captains, commanders,
lieutenants, masters, and assistant-surveyors, who

may be employed in surveying operations either at
home or abroad. Officers appointed to surveying
vessels from half-pay are not to commence drawing
their surveying pay until they have reached their
respective stations ; and officers transferred from
one station to another for the benefit of the service
are to continue their surveying pay without a break,
but, if going abroad with a higher rate of pay, such
higher rate is to commence on their reaching the
new station. In the case of officers engaged in com-

piling sailing directions, or in preparing tables o
positions, 10s. per day will be allowed for the time
so employed. The travelling expenses of officers
transferred from one survey to another will be
allowed, together with allowances for lodging and
subsistence, a higher rate of pay being allowed to
officers employed on the West Indian, Cape of Good
Hope, and Australian stations. An allowance for
the wear and tear of clothes will be made to the
crews of surveying vessels in cases in which it may
be certified that from the nature of the coast, &c.,
extraordinary expense for clothing has been in-
curred. The new scales and regulations are to take
effect from the Ist of January.
Orders have been received at Devonport, to com-
mission the paddlewheel steam sloop Styx, 6, with
a complement of 175 officers and men. She is to
be rigged by the first division of the Steam Reserve
in Hamoaze, and be stored and provisioned for
foreign service.
Letters have been received at Plymouth from the
screw steam corvette Charybdis, 21, Capt. the Hon.
George D. Keane. She left Hongkong on the 4th
of December, and on the 23d ran great risk of being
lost on a reef of rocks not laid down in the Admi-
however, got up promptly,
rally charts. Steam was,
and the danger was avoided. The Charybdis arrived
at the island of Niphon on the 26th of December,
and would leave shortly for Jeddo. The Japanese
Ambassador was about to depart for England in a
British ship of-war. All the other ships were
ordered to leave Japan, and Capt. Keane will then
be senior officer. The corvette will be stationed at
Japan for some months.
According to the Bermuda Royal Gazette, there
were at the island, on the 4th of February, the
screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. Barnard, flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B. ; the
Hero, 89, Capt. Ryder; the Agamemnon, 89, Capt,
Hope ; the Aboukir, 86, Capt. Shadwell, C. 8.;
the Immortalite, 57, Capt. Hancock; the Diadem,
32, Capt. Randolph; the Rinaldo, 17, Commander
Hewitt ; the Terror, 16, Capt. Hutton ; the Spite-