The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-30 00:00:00

711 E NAVY.

The new paddlewheel despatch vessel Psyche,
835 tons and 250-horse power, commissioned on
Tuesday by Master Commander Petley, yesterday
arrived at Greenhithe, to form a portion of the
Royal squadron about to escort the Queen and the
junior portion of the Royal family to Antwerp.
The Victoria and Albert and the Osborne,
having embarked the Royal family, will proceed to
the Downs, where they will make fast for the
night, and the remainder of the squadron will steam
at slackened speed across the Channel and await
their arrival. Admiralty instructions to be ob-
' served, in order to enforce the strictest privacy,
were yesterday issued at Woolwich, ordering a
total exclusion of all visitors from the dockyard on
Monday after 12 o'clock until the Queen's departure,
not excepting officers in uniform. Sir Richard
llacres and his staff and Viscount Sydney, Lord-
Lieutenant of the county, are alone to be granted
admission, and the departments of the yard will
suspend operations during the after part of the day to
insure the strictest possible privacy on her Ma-
jesty's arrival. The baggage and Royal carriages
will be despatched to Woolwich at an early hour on
Monday, and will be hoisted on board the Black
Eagle by means of the hydraulic machinery at the
Royal Arsenal T Pier, and all official attendance of
the authorities will be dispensed with.
The Black Prince iron frigate, Capt. J. F. B.
Wainwright, was undocked at Portsmouth yester-
day, and anchored at Spithead, in readiness to re-
sume her trial of speed at full boiler power at noon
to-day. When in dock, on the water being pumped
out, her bottom was found to be very foul in places,
to an extent which probably caused her the loss of
nearly a knot per hour in speed. To-day she re-
sumes her trial with a clean bottom, and the load
weight on her safety-valve increased to an equality
with that on the valve of the Warrior at her trial.

The Amethyst, 26, the Iris, 26, and the Diamond,
27, belonging to the sailing reserve fleet at Chat-
ham, have been placed at the disposal of the Em-
peror of China, in order that one of those vessels
maybe purchased from the Admiralty, for use as a
storeship for the steam flotilla about to be furmed to
operate in the Chinese waters.
During yesterday and the previous day upwards
of 100 tons of armour-plates for encasing the sides
of the iron-clad frigate Royal Oak 50, were landed
at Chatham dockyard from the Thames Ironworks.
The plates are all 41 inches in thickness, and of
an average weight of 80 cwt. each. Before being
affixed to the vessel's sides, they will be submitted
to a rigid inspection, in order that any flaw may
be detected.
The Italian frigate Eurydice, 26 guns, Captain
instruction,
Ribotty, from Genoa on a cruise, as au
ship, arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday evening,
and on Thursday morning exchanged salutes with
her Majesty's ship Russell, 60, cot. Hall, the Coast-
guard ship at that port.
Mr. Griffiths, under wbese superintendence the
various vessels of war selected by the Admiralty
to be covered with Muntz's patent metal are
being operated upon, attended at Chatham dock-
yard yesterday for the purpose of making the
necessary arrangements for coating the Royal
Oak with that metal, which is also to be fixed on
the bottom of all the iron-built ships. The reports
received from the Bombay, 80, and the Arethusa,
-50, both of which vessels were coated with the
patent metal before quitting Chatham, being highly
favourable as regards the wear of the new metal,
have induced the Admiralty to direct it being ap-
plied to several other vessels now building. It is
probable that it will be generally used in the navy, '
thus superseding the present copper sheathiefr-day
The following appointments were made
aster, to
at the Admiralty :—John R. Ryan, pay Alcock,
Daniel
Braddon,
the Indus, for the Leopard;
Assist.-Surg., to the Resistanweek• e ;
Thos. Summers,
Aafist.-Paymaster, to the Ha