The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-03 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt. G.
H. Seymour, C. has filled up coal at Portsmouth
in readiness to proceed to Antwerp, As understood
to be arranged at present, the yacht will sail in
about eight days with his Majesty Leopold 1.,
King of the Belgians, and his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, and suites to Antwerp. It will
return thence with the Crown Princess of Prussia
and the Princess Royal, to Osborne.

The Caner, 86, screw, Capt. Mason, was paid out
of commission at Portsmouth on Saturday, under
the superintendence of Capt. Broadhead,command-
ing the steam reserve at the port, the crew being
granted the usual leave of absence. From among
the crew the following men were selected and re-
commended to the Admiralty as entitled by length
of service and good conduct to the silver medal and
gratuity awarded by the regulations in such cases :
—Henry Mitchell, ship's cook ; Wm.-Welsh, eapt.of
afterguard ; Edward Saunders, chief gunner's mate
Thomas Nicholls, quartermaster ; John Dore,
boatswain's mate; Daniel Weddell, William
Mitchell, and William Groombridge, gunner's
mates. The night before the ship was paid off
the Rev. Marshall Jackson, chaplain, was pre-
sented by the communicants on board with a piece
of plate. Staff-Surgeon Joseph Caldwell, late sur-
geon of the Csar, dismissed the service by sen-
tence of court-martial, has been restored to the
Navy List, with the loss of ten years' rank.
The Magdalena, hired transport, Lieut. Hodgin-
son, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning. She left Halifax on the 11th
of Jan. for Sydney, Cape Breton, where she coaled
for England. She called in afterwards at St.
John's, Newfoundland, which port she left on the
22d of January, bringing news thence by telegram
from New York. The Hibernian reached St. John's,
New Brunswick, on the 20th of January, having
encountered strong westerly gales during the whole
of her passage. Nothing called at Cape Race since
the Arabia on the 14th of January. Neither the
City of Manchester nor the New York had arrived.
Her Majesty's ship Orlando arrived at Halifax on
the 15th of January, and was reported to have suf-
fered severely during the passage out from England
from the unusual severity of the weather. The
Parana was at St. John's, New Brunswick, disem-
barking troops. The Adriatic and Melbourne were
at Halifax, the firstnamed being about to proceed
to Sydney, Cape Breton, to coal up for her return
voyage to England. The Magdalena reports having
passed, on the 23d and 24th of January, through a
great quantity of drift ice, and by a number of ice-
bergs. On the 25th and 26th she encountered a
severe hurricane. She brought home mails from
St. John's, Newfoundland, which were landed
yesterday at Portsmouth, and forwarded to London
by evening's train. The Magdalena awaits orders
at Spithead.

The hired screw steam transport Adelaide, Capt.
Frond, which left Queenstown early in the year,
with the 15th Regiment, for Canada, and put back
to Plymouth disabled, on Wednesday, the 15th of
January, having been thoroughly overhauled and
repaired at Devonport, went outside the break-
water, on Friday last, the 31st ult., to test her
inefficiency, under the inspection of Capt. Astley C.
Key, C. 8., and Mr. Jas. Steil, of the guardship of
steam ordinary Indus. There were also present, as
representatives of the Board of Trade, Mr. W. B.
Cuming, shipwright surveyor, and Mr. Down, en-
gineer surveyor. The owners of the ship were •re-
presented by Capt. Allen Young and Mr. Harring-
ton, consulting-engineer. The Adelaide
,registers
2,060 tons, and has two pairs of oscillating direct-
engines, and of 450 horse power in all.. Between
the Breakwater and the Eddystone, under steam
alone, against a fresh gale, accompanied by a
short head. sea, she made 71 knots an hour.
She was then tried under steam and canvas, and
ultimately under canvas alone, when the screw
was disconnected and the steerage found
good. The trials gave entire satisfaction to all
concerned, and the ship was pronounced in good
condition to resume her voyage. The expedition ob-
served by the officials of the Devonport dockyard
in making good. the defects of the Adelaide has met
with general approbation, especially on the part of
her owners. Today her equipment and troop ac-
commodation will be examined by Major-General
Hutchinson, commander of the forces in the west,
or some military officer deputed by him, and to-
morrow or Wednesday, the 15th Regiment-25 offi-
cers and 720 men—will be conveyed in two steam
tugs from the Royal William Victualling-yard to
the transport in the Sound. She may leave on the
evening of the day of embarkation. On this occa-
sion the route (which is recommended by Captain
Washington, F.R.S., Hydrographer to the Admi-
ralty) will be through a less tempestuous latitude
than on her first attempt. The Adelaide goes direct
to Madeira, where she will coal; she will then pro-
ceed nearly due west, which will bring her close on
Bermuda, where she will probably touch, and then
go direct to Halifax.
Mr. G. Clarke, of the Keppel's Head naval tavern,
near the dockyard, Portsmouth, has been presented
by the officers of her Majesty's navy with a silver
salver and tea and coffee service en suite, worth 300
guineas, as a mark of their appreciation of the high
character which he has maintained during his long
connection with the naval service.
The following appointments were made oa Satur-
day at the' Admiralty :—Lieut. the Hon. J. M.
Yorke to the Revenge, and James R. Veitch, mas-
ter's assistant, to the Defiance.