The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-09 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING JULY 9, 1862.

7HE NAVY.

Letters received from British North America
by our Chatham correspondent announces several
items of important intelligence respecting the
movements of the ships comprising the North
American and West Indian squadrons. The
Aboukir, 86, 3,091 tons, 400-horse power, Capt.
C. F. A. Shad well, C.B. ; the Hero, 89, 3,148
tons, 600-horse power, Capt. Ryder ; the Agamem-
non, 89, 600. horse power, Capt. Hope; the Mersey,
40, 1,000-horse power, Capt. H. Caldwell, C.B. ;
and the Melpomene, 51, 600-horse power, Capt. C.

F. Ewart, left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 18th
ult., for a cruise as far as Shelbourne and Ship
Harbour, for the purpose of exercising the respec-
tive crews at the great guns, after which it was
understood they would return to Halifax. The
Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, Capt. H. S. Hillyar,
C. 8., arrived at Halifax on the night of the 14th
ult., and the Challenger, 22, 400-horse power,
Capt. J. J. Kennedy, C. 8., on the 24th ult., from
St. John's, New Brunswick, where they had been
despatched to undergo some necessary repairs.
Her Majesty's screw steamer Desperate, 7, 400-
power, Commander J. F. Rose, arrived at Halifax
on the 17th ult. The paddlewheel steamer Medea,
6, 350-horse power, Commander D. S. Preston,
left Halifax on the 24th ult. with Vice •Admiral
Milne, K.C.8., on board. The following were the
ships in harbour on the 26th ult.:—The Nile, 90,
500-horse power, Capt. E. K. Barnard ; the
Cadmus, 21.400-horse power, Capt. H. S. Hillyar,
C.B. ; the Nimble, 5, 80-horse power, Lieut.-Com-
\
wander J. D'Arcy ; the Challenger, 22, 400-horse
power, Capt. J. J. Kennedy, C.B. ; and the Despe-
rate, 7, 400-horse power, Commander J. F. Rose.

In accordance with orders received from the 11
Horse-guards by Major-General Eyre, command-
ing the Chatham district, the D Field Battery,
9th Brigade, Royal Artillery, under the com-
mand of Major N. M. Mackay, was yester-
day placed under orders for removal to Shoe.
buryness, where the officers and men are to
go through a complete course of instruction
at the School of Gunnery. The Duke of Cambridge
has directed the practice to be carried on under the
superintendence of the Commandant at the School of
Gunnery, instead of at Sheerness, to which it was
at first intended to remove the battery.

The Racoon, 22, 400-horse power, fitting at Chat-
ham for the pendant of Prince Victor Hohenlohe,•
having been completed at that dockyard, will be un-
docked on Friday next, when the Chesapeake, 51,
500-hone power, belonging to the steam reserve,
will be placed in the same dock to undergo a thorough
overhaul and repair. The Chesapeake will be towed
into Chatham harbour to-day. During the time the
Racoon has been in dock she has undergone very
extensive alterations in her internal arrangements,
and additional cabins have been fitted on the main
deck for his Royal - Highness Prince Alfred and
suite, who will proceed on a cruise to Australia.
Her Majesty's screw steam store ship Drome-
dary, built by Messrs. Samuda, and recently
commissioned, left Woolwich on Monday, in
charge of Mr. Barnes, one of the Queen's pilots,
for Greenhithe, to be adjusted for sea. The
Dromedary is laden with victualling stores for As-
cension and Rio, and takes out a number of boats.
The following are the chief dimensions of the
Prince Consort, 51, armour-plated frigate, recently
launched at Pembroke :—Length between perpen-
diculars, 273 ft.; length of keel for tonnage, 232 ft.
83in. ; extreme breadth, 58ft, Sin. ; breadth for ton-
nage, 57ft. 2in. ; moulded breadth, 56ft. 4in. ; and
depth of hold, l9ft. 10in. This fine frigate is 4,045
tons burden, and will receive engines of 1,000-horse
power. She was named by Miss Jones, of Pantglas.
Great disappointment was felt-at Pembroke dock
that Prince Alfred did not perform the ceremony.
The Rapid 11, screw, sailed from Spithead yes-
terday for service on a foreign station.
Captain the Hon. F. Foley, late of the Coquette,
will commission th e Edgar, 86, screw, at Portsmouth,
on Friday next, for service in the Mediterranean.
A peremptory order was yesterday received at
Chatham from the Admiralty, directing two leading
men among the mechanics employed on the iron ship
Achilles, 50, to be immediately discharged from the
yard, as, from facts which have come to the know-
ledge of the Admiralty, they were the instigators of
the strike which took place in the dockyard a few
days since. Several of the men who left their em-
ployment now bitterly complain of the step which
they were compelled, under compulsion of the union,
to take, and would gladly re-enter the yard. Under
no circumstances however will any of the hands con-
nected with the late strike be again taken on. The
Admiralty are determined to submit to no coercion
from their own men, who had no real grounds for
taking the course they did. Yesterday several ad-
ditional applications were received from mechanics
for entry in the yard, and there is no doubt the
whole number of hands required on the iron ship
will before long be obtained.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Arthur Adams, surgeon,
additional, to the Fisgard ; and W. Williamson,
engineer, to the Revenge, for the Tyrian.