The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-14 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Our Malta correspondent, under date of the 6th
inst., announces the departure from that island, on
the 31st ult., of her Majesty's iron screw store ship
Himalaya, Captain I. Seccombe, for Marseilles.
Her Majesty's steam surveying vessel Firefly,
Commander A. L, Mansell, left Malta on the Ist
inst. for Alexandria, in order to resume her survey-
ing duties on the coast of Syria. Her Majesty's
screw steam line-of-battle ship Marlborough, 131,
Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8,, which had gone out
for a cruise to exercise her crew at gunnery and
sailing evolutions, returned into Malta harbour on
the 2d inst., and resumed the flag of the Comman-
der-in-Chief, which had been temporarily hoisted on
board the Neptune.
Fears are entertained with respect to the safety of
the screw steamer Wisbeach, which sailed early in
the year with Government stores for Canada. A
month has elapsed without any tidings having come
to hand respecting the steamer, and therefore, unless
the letters distributed to-day bring some intelligence
respecting her, it will be only too probable that
she has met with some serious disaster. The steamer
is the property of Mr. R. Young, the Mayor of
Wisbeach.
The Royal Sovereign, converting to a shield-ship
from a three-decker at Portsmouth, is expected to
be placed in dock on Wednesday, where she will
remain until her conversion at the hands of the
shipwrights is completed. She has now 250 ship-
wrights employed upon her, besides coppersmiths,
blacksmiths, and about 60 labourers. The ship's
outer planking has been removed to the port-sills
of her middle deck, which, when her conversion is
completed, will become her upper deck, or the glacis
covering her towers and shields. The greater part
of the ship's internal fittings and tanks have been
taken out, her poop has entirely disappeared, her
upper deck beams are all out, and by the time she
goes into dock but little will be left to remove above
the line to which she is at present ordered to be cut
down. She has been lightened to 20 feet draught
of water.
The Sealark, boys' training brig, at Portsmouth,
has been taken into dock to clean copper, &c,, pre-
paratory to commencing her summer's cruising, for
which sails have been bent and all necessary prepa-
rations made.
The Rolla, training brig, arrived at Spithead on
Saturday, from off Osborne, where she has been
stationed to give his Royal Highness Prince Alfred
practice on board, under the supervision of Lieut.-
Commander C. G. Nelson. The Rolla returns to
her anchorage off Osborne to-day.
Mr. Cunningham, the inventor of the system of
reefing sails from the deck, has brought out a plan
for protecting the screw propeller from fouling, a
danger to which all ships of war carrying sail
power are liable in action when losing masts or
spars, from their floating alongside. Mr. Cunning-
ham has fitted a small screw vessel on the plan, and
has applied to the Lords of the Admiralty to fit one
of her Majesty's ships to test the prineiple.
The screw steamship Revenge, 73, Capt. Charles
Fellowes, which arrived at Plymouth from Ports-
mouth on Tuesday, sent supernumeraries on board
the Royal Adelaide, and went on Friday afternoon
from the Sound into Hamoaze, to have some slight
defects in her machinery made good. Rear-Adm

ral Robert Smart, K.H., has not yet re-hoisted his
flag on board, and it is uncertain whether he will
do so now or after her arrival at Queenstown.

The hired sailing transport Robinson commenced
shipping 3,000 Armstrong shells and other war
stores on Saturday from Woolwich Arsenal for
Malta,

The Prairie Flower, for Newfoundland, with
powder and other war stores, has sailed from Wool-
wich for her destination.
Five hundred mechanics and labourers were dis-
charged on Saturday from the manufacturing de-
partments of Woolwich Arsenal, being a portion of
the 3,000 ordered to be reduced to meet the estimates
granted for the financial year commenced on the
Ist inst. In addition to the above-named perma-
nent discharges, the boring and rifling and other
branches of the Royal gun factories have totally
suspended operations since the commencement of
the month, awaiting the issue of orders from the
War Department ; consequently large numbers of
the select artisans to be retained ou the establish-
ment are also out of work.

The iron frigate Resistance, 18, 600-horse power,
was completed, so far as the authorities at Chatham
are concerned, on Saturday afternoon, and this
morning will proceed to Sheerness, where she will
be rigged and prepared for the steam reserve, the
Admiralty having decided that she shall not pass
another spring tide in Chatham harbour, where,
from the position which she occupied, she has
grounded several times; she has not, however, done
so to the extent of the Defence, although the latter
vessel occupied the same berth alongside the sheer-
hulk. The whole of the hired carpenters, smiths,
joiners, and other mechanics employed on the Re.
sistance, not required for the service of the yard,
received their discharge on Saturday afternoon,
several of the hands discharged being first-class
workmen. The Resistance will be navigated to
Sheerness by a party of A. B.'s from the Formi-
dable, 84, flagship at the Nore. Although ordered
.t
to be placed in the: first.class steam reserve, is
probable that the Resistance will hoist the pennant

I as soon as she is completed.
Orders were on Saturday received at Chatham
directing the Zebra, 17, 200-horse power, fitting
for service on the West Coast of Africa, to be fur-
nished with:two of the long 40-pounder Armstrongs,
in lieu of the short Arrnstrongs previously furnished
her. The Zebra will be inspected by Vice-Admi-
ral Johnstone previously to leaving the Nore, from
which she is expected to sail to-morrow.
on Fri-
The following appointments were made
day- at the Admiralty :--WilliamT
ter, to the Imaum ; Robert Roots,
confirmed as second-class assis t
—engineer ; and J.
Plowright, of the Megalra, confirmed as second-
class assist—engineer.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Charles Bal-
four, additional to the Victory, for temporary ser-
vice in the Eagle; Lieut. D'Arcy Denny, to the
Coquette; Samuel Winnecott, master, to the FlB-
gard, for the Adventure ; John J. Brown,
master,
to the Cumberland, for the Resistance; Charles L.

ammunition.
A detachment of Grenadier Guards, consi,ting of
three officers, five servants, and 100 rank nod file,
arrived at the North Camp, Aldershot, on Thurs-
day afternoon, from London, for the purpose of
m WlooleAs,,ich South
through a course of musketry instruction.
The A battery of Royal Horse Artillery arrived
at Alders hot
from
in Y in
Friday.amp, Them ;n
are quarteredo
horses in the 20th stables. °nt
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The new cavalry barracks at Colchester are now
fairly commenced. A considerable quantity of
building materials has been collected on the ground,
and the foundations of the officers' quarters are in
progress, Col. Dixon, ri
---B, visited the camp in the
course of last week, but in consequence of continued
ill-health he is still unable to reassume the command
of the 9th depot battalion. His leave of absence
has been extended tct the 30th of June.
It is expected the 6th Dragoon Guards; who are
under orders to leave for Ireland, will be succeeded
in their present stations by the 6th Lancers or the
18th Hussars.
n
His Majesty Victor EM1214/illel Rig of Italy,
has conferred the title of Knight of the Royal
Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzato on the Che.
valier Vincent Papalardo, Italian Conn' at Ports-
mouth, for meritorious services.
A large supply of Capt. Grant's cooking
tus for the troops is now in course of construction
in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. A num-
ber sufficient for the use of 12,000 men is ordered
to be fitted immediately upon 20 of the Royal
Artillery service waggons, under the direction of
that officer. They enable the soldier to prepare his,
rations with as much comfort and variety in the
field (according to the experience of the past three
years) and on the march as in the barrack kitchen.
Orders have been issued to suspend for the pre-
sent any further progress in the construction of the
foundations for the Spithead forts, on the Horse,
Noman, and Sturbridge shoals. It is surmised that
any commission appointed to inquire into and re-
port upon the subject will very probably recommend
the execution of the works on the Noman and Horse
shoals, as they command the narrow passage be-
tween the shoals by which Spithead must be ap-
proached. No such argument can be brought for-
ward in favour of the fort on the Sturbridge, and.
very possibly that might be abandoned, which would
then leave but two, those on the Horse and Noman,
to be constructed out of the six in the original plan
of the Defence Commission. The number of men
in the employment of the contractors for the works.
on Portsdown is being largely increased, in readiness.
for the coming summer. A similar increase is being:
made in the different forts along the ridge of the
Downs. At Wallington, the west-end of Portsdown,
and at the Purbrook and Crookhorn works, on the
eastern side of the London and Portsmouth turn-
pike-road, the greatest progress has been made, and
at these points the depth and breadth of the cut -
tings, and the general appearance of the works, now
give to the eye of even the non-professional visitor a
pretty fair idea of the important part they will play
in the defence of the country when completed: The
original road which existed along the crest of the
Down, from east to west, has been stopped, being
within the lines of defence, and another road has
been formed along the face of the hill, but in rear of
all the works.

ITALY AND GERMANY.

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The following letter has appeared as a reply to
an address sent by Italian Democrats to their Ger-
man brethren :
TO THE CLUB DEMOCRATICO' AT MILAN.,

Friends,—The warm words of international sym-
pathy which your society, established under the
honorary presidency of Mazzini and Garibaldi has
expressed in an address that has been put into my
hands, I respond to with an equal feeling of cor-
diality.

On this occasion, I think it a duty, however, to de-
clare in my own name and that of my friends that
people in Italy have evidently been deceived with re-
gard to a so-called General Committee of the Ger-
man Movement,' erroneously alleged to have its seat
at Frankfort.,The names of the pitiful authors of this
mystification are known to us. They have not the
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these follies.

That this is only a remark in passing. Our senti-
ments towards you admit of no doubt whatever.
Venice, now the possession of the Hapsburg—foisted
upon the House of Austria by the first
tßonlatpsaralirte
as a Danaian gift—rightfully belongs to h
body politic.
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deral
with every success to the neighbouring nation on
the South on the road of deliverance. The fraternal
appeal which Garibaldi has recently intended /or the
Viennese, finds therefore its echo among us. It was
with admiration that we saw him go forth on that
heroic expedition, which, while bringing about the
overthrow of the Bourbon yoke, at the same time
thwarted the Napoleonic designs upon Naples,
opposed, to the semi-Bonapartist policy of Turin,
the idea of full and unbroken unity, as preachlefd by
Mazzini, for 30 years past, with ardent zeal.
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of monkhood which tends to stifle, i
of our own. And surely,
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easy task. The enlight-
nation have no desire
to oppress either Italy or Hungary. What they
only insist on is—the defence of their own territory,
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and the resistance against every Imperialist en-
croachment, and in this they hope to be in accord
with the enlightened freemen of Italy, even as they
are s ith the best patriots of Republican S wit zerlai, d.
With these wishes, and with hearty salutations to
the ' Club Democratico,' I remain, Scc., ever your:,
KAItL BLIND.

The contents of the above letter have been ad-
dressed also to the honorary presidents, Mazzini
and Garibaldi, in person. The Berlin 11rational
Zeitung, and the German press in general, have
published it.

THE EASTER MONDAY REVIEW.—WO are glad
to report that the arrangements for the review at Brighton
on Easter Monday are proceeding in the most satisfactory
manner, and should the weather prove propitious a brilliant
and gratifying display of our Volunteer strength will be
made. From the number of applications made, it is now
most likely that about 15,000 men will be on they ground.
The force will bo in two divisions, commanded b
officers of the regular army, and the brigades generally will
also be under officers of the line. Lori Ranelagh, however
is to have a brigade—a distinction which Lord E'lcho, with
a discrimination not less wholesome than modest, has de-
clined.-4/rmy and Nary Gazette.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, Ih. 28m.—Afternoon, lh. 48m,
To-MORROW.-Morning, 2h. 6m—Afternoon, 2h. 28m.