The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

THE NAVY,

T6OO horse power, Capt. lt. A.
Powell, Defence,ll,C.B.,h 18,
snow as many as 600 hands, in-
cluding mechanics of all trades, as well as her crew,
employed on board, in order that no delay may take
place in completing the vessel. So anxious are the
Admiralty to have her ready to proceed to sea that
an order was yesterday received at Chatham Dock-
yard
engineers, directing
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necessitated several of the hands being taken off the
iron frigate Achilles, 50, under construction, as well
as an additional number of men from the smithery.
Both decks are now
150
rers additional
o be
shipwrights, smiths,
placed on her, which
swarming with workmen. The
cupola and furnaces for preparing the molten iron
and heating the red hot shot are being fixed qn
board near the engines, which required some slight
alterations to adapt them for use in connexion with
the furnaces. At the rate in which the work is now
proceeding, it is expected that the Defence will be
ready to leave Chatham at the end of the present,
or the commencement of next week. Her guns, shot,
and shell are all on board.
The Scourge, 6, paddle, Commander the Hon.W.
G. Ward, arrived at Spithead from the Mediter-
ranean yesterday morning, having sailed from Gib-
raltar on the 18th inst. Previous to leaving Gib-
raltar the Scourge towed the Doris frigate clear of
the bay, starting on her return voyage to Malta.
At Gibraltar there were lying, when the Scourge
left, her Majesty's ships Queen, Amphion, Scylla,
and Firebrand. The naval invalids brought home
in the ship were transferred to the Victory, and the
Scourge received orders to proceed round to Wool-
wich to pay off, taking round with her the case of
sculpture for the British Museum which she received
on board in the harbour of Canea. She had steam
up at sunset, and was expected to sail immediately
afterwards.

The Shannon, 50, verew, Capt. Wainwright, re.
ceived orders yesterday to remove from Spithead to
a berth at the mouth of Southampton Water.
The Investigator, paddle steamer, Lieut.-Com-
mander B. L. Lefroy, which arrived at Spithead
on Saturday from Woolwich, on her way to the
Coast of Africa, yesterday went into Portsmouth
harbour to fill up coal prior to resuming her voyage.

The fine screw corvette Rattlesnake, 21, 400 horse
power, fitting at Chatham, bent sails yesterday, and
as all her guns and most of her sea stores are on
board a few days will see her completed and ready
either for the pennant or the first division of the
steam reserve. The Rattlesnake differs from the
Racoon, 21, and some ethers of the class of screw
corvettes, in having the whole of her armament on
her upper or spar deck, instead of her main deck_
She is also fitted with four catheads, in order that
her anchors may be suspended further aft, to bring
her down more at the stern. A number of addi-
tional dockyard labourers were placed on her yes-
terday to hasten forward her completion. She has
shipped the whole of her shot and shell.
The War Department transport Marlborough
went alongside the Ordnance wharf at Chatham
yesterday, and landed the remainder of the guns,
shot, and shell from the paddlewheel steamer Ter-
rible, 21, Captain Glasse, C. 8., which is ordered to
be paid off on the 4th February. _

The works in connection with the construction of
the paddlewheel steamer Salamis, 835 tons, 250
horse power,' milding under the first shed at Chat-
ham, which were suspended a short time since on
the threatened hostilities were America, were re-
sumed yesterday. A number of shipwrights have
commenced planking this fine steamer, which is as
long as many of our line-of-battle ships, although
only intended to mount four Armstrong guns, She
is diagonally constructed, and is built almost en-
tirely for speed, the Admiralty intending her for a
despatch gun vessel.
Large supplies of munitions of war continue to
arrive at the Ordnance stores, Chatham, almost
daily. Yesterday the War Department transport
Thames completed landing upwards of 1,200 cases
of the 100-pounder Armstrong segment shells, toge-
ther with a quantity of miscellaneous war stores,
from the factory at Woolwich. The Baltic, Ord-
nance transport, also landed 10 of the large 100-
pounder Armstrong guns, with sights, screws, car-
riages., &c., complete, and one 12-pounder Arm-
strong. The issue of the new 70-pounder Arm-
strongs has not yet been commenced at Chatham,
that descrirtion of gun not being at present kept
in store, though a larger supply will shortly be re-
ceived from Woolwich.

The Lords of the Admiralty yesterday made the
following promotions for special service :—Com-
mandgr David Spain to be Capt. for zealous and
active service rendered by him in conveying to and
disembarking troops in Canada ; Commander
by him as senior officer
renderedm il ton to be Capt. for zealous
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active
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on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, and
afterwards at Halifax; Lieut. Thomas Alexis de
Wahl to be Commander, for active, zealous, and
gallant conduct in the suppression of the slave
trade on the coast of Africa.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:—
Engineers—George Trevess (chief), George N. Dooley,
W. H. Wivil (first-class assistant), It. W. Meiklejohn
(acting first-class assistant), Joseph Bamford (acting
second-class ditto), to tho Euryalus.