The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

IRE NAVY.

The Chanticleer, 17, screw, Commander Charles
Stirling, has arrived at Gibraltar from England,
after a somewhat long passage from Spithead, owing
to the prevalence of heavy weather during the
greater portion of the voyage out. Letters received
from her; dated Gibraltar, Nov. 3, state that a very
heavy gale was met with the night after the ship
sailed from Spithead, and that Capt. Stirling was
compelled to lar the ship to for seven days in the
Channel until the force of the gale moderated. The
ship has sustained no' glorious damage.
Her Majesty's line-of-battle screw steamship the
Hero, 89 guns, 3,148 tons, 600 horse power, Capt.
Alfred P. Ryder, from the ,North American and
West India stations, arrived at Sheerness on Sun-
day last, where she will be put out of commission.
On Monday the vessel was inspected by Vice-Ad-
miral W. S. Hope Johnstone, Commet2der-in-Chief
at Sheerness, and Staff. The Hero has been in com-
mission since March, 1859, and will be paf,i off in a
few days, when she will be moored in the b.arbour
and placed in the third division of the Shoe.vness
steam reserve.

In accordance with Admiralty instructions, :mil
also with others received from the War Departmen f,
yesterday was observed as a clo-e holiday in the'
dockyard, victualling-yard, and gunwharf, &c., at
Portsmnuth, No other public demonstrations in
honour of the day were made by the authorities;
even the guns
of the fortress and ships of war re-
mained silent,owi.ng,itis supposed, to the proximity
of her Majesty, the Court being at Osborne.
The paddlewheel gteamtug African, employed as
a tender to the vessels attached to the Chatham
division of the steam r,9serve in the Medway, is
ordered to be thoroughly examined, in order to
ascertain whether or not she is worth repairing. In
the meantime her officers and cmw are to be turned
over to the Thistle gunboat, which will act as a
tender until it can be ascertained whether the
paddlewheel steamer Locust, 100-hors; power, can
be converted into a tug. The Locttst, has been
placed in the great basin for the purpose of being
examined.

The screw-steamer Vigilant, 4, 200-horse' power,
which got on shore on the Essex coast duriLig her
run from Scotland, and received such injuries•that
it was necessary to turn over officers and crew to the
Lily, 4, 200-horse power, is to be brought forward,
as soon as her injuries are made good, for the first?
division of the Chatham Steam Reserve. In con-
sequence of this order her masts and gear will not
be disturbed.

The screw corvette Cossack, 21, 250-horse power,
attached to the second division of the Chatham
Steam Reserve, is to be taken into dock, as' soon as
a dock becomes vacant, for the purpose of being re-
paired and made ready for sea. Her boilers. ex-
hibit several defects, and will have to be replaced
by new ones.

The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :—Thomas Brisbane,
N.])., Daniel Donovan, M.D., Robert More, M.D.,
and Edward J. Sharard, acting-assist.-Burgs., as
supernumeraries to the Nile ; Walter J. Bluett,
assist.-surg., to the Victory, for Hasler Hospital ;
E. C. Legh, second-class assist.-engineer, to the
Dauntless, for tender; Alexander Stewart (b.), G.
B. Blackwell, and G. J. Maybury, second-class
assist.-engineers, to the Nile, as supernumeraries;
H. Lanekester and J. Mitchell, acting second-class
assist.-engineers, to the Nile, as supernumeraries.
In the paragraph of the " Naval and Military
Intelligence" of Thursday last which refers to ships'
bottoms, read " Walenn's," instead of "jr'"Waes
process.