The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1862.

THE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral James J. Stopford was yesterday
appointed Commander-in-Chief of the East India
and China station, in the room of Rear-Admiral
Sir James Hope, K.C.B.
The Euryalus, 51, screw, was commissioned at
Portsmouth yesterday by Capt. Gordon, for the
flag of Rear-Admiral Stopford.
The paddlewheel steamer Terrible, 22, 800 horse
power, Capt. Glasse, C. 8., is being dismantled at
Sheerness, where she will be paid off and put out
of commission on the 4th of February next.

The Pylades, 21, screw corvette, 350-horse power,
which was a few weeks since taken into No. 4 dock

at Chatham, to undergo repairs preparatory to
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being brought forward for commission, is now found
to be in a very unsound condition. Many of her
stern timbers are completely rotten, and her planking
both outside and inside, is in the same advanced

state of decay. Tier copper has been entirely stripped
off. In order to put the vessel in thorough repair,
it is said that it will be necessary to have her
engines lifted out, for which purpose it is consi-
dered probable that she will shortly be floated out

of dock, and taken alongside the floating sheers in
this harbour. So extensive are the repairs re-
quired, that it is said she will not be completed
within six months.
The iron-cased steam frigate Caledonia, of 51
guns, is fast progressing, and a sufficient number of
workmen are ordered to be set on, to ensure her
completion for launching in October next.
In consequence of the inadequate accommodation
on board the surveying screw steamer Swallow, 9,
Master-Commander Wilds, caused by a portion of
the vessel being appropriated as a room for the
charts and surveying instruments and stores, orders
have been received at Sheerness for a poop to be
built on the deck for the use of the officers and
crew. Orders have also been received for two 20-
pounder Armstrong guns, on rear chock carriages,
to be supplied to her in lieu of two 24-pounder
brass howitzers. Only two-thirds of the usual
naval allowance of shot and shell will be furnished

to the ship. The work of erecting the poop on the
deck is to be prosecuted with as much expedition
as possible, in order that the Swallow may proceed
to her destination, the coast of Japan, before the
setting in of the tremendous storms which are fre-
quent in those latitudes at certain periods of the
year.

A return has been prepared by the officials at
Chatham Dockyard, for the Admiralty, of the
names, tonnage, and horse••power of the various
vessels repaired and refitted at that establishment
during 1861, the return specifying the number of
shipwrights employed on each.

The works connected with the fortifications on
the western side of Plymouth Sound have been con-
siderably damaged by the late storms. The con-
tractor's road, tramway, and landing-place, under
Picklecombe Fort, Mount Edgcumbe, have been
washed away. Some of the blocks of granite for
sustaining the:road weighed three or four tons each.
Tho following appointments were made at the Admiralty
last evening :
Rear-Admiral James John Stopford to be Commander-
in-Chief on the East India and China station.

Lieutenants—John C. Wells, John M. D. Elphinstono,
and James E. Hunter, to the Euryalus.
Sub-Lieutenants—Osborn H. Parker, M. R. M. Grif-
fiths, and Frederick Edwards, to the Euryalus.
N►asters—William H. Parker, to the Euryalus; William
Wallace Vine, confirmed in rank.
Second Master—Cuthbert I'. Layton, to the Euryalus.
Masters'-Assistants—Thomas J. Kelly and Augustus
Pane, to the Euryalus.
Assistant-Surgeon Thomas H. Taylor, additional, to the
Victory, for Sealark ; Dr. Robert Hague, to the Trafalgar.
Assistant Clerk Richard E. Moore, to the Euryalus.
Midshipmen—Reginald C. Pole, Vincent J. English,
Robert R. Jaifray, Frank G. Denison, and C. W. Atkin-
son, to the Euryalus; George H. Verner, to the Orpheus.
Naval Cadets—Owen F. Glanville, Duncan G. Boys, R.
N. Custance, Edward F. M. Davis, and Henry T. G.
Tipping, to the Euryalus.
Assistant Engineers—G. Metcalf, in the Jackal ; L. J.
Croom, in the Cygnet; W, Wivil, in the Indus; G. T,
Allison, in the Revenge ; J. C lift, in the Asia, have been pro-
moted to first-class assist.-engineers. A. Stewart (A), in the
Algiers ; C. Lind, in the Mutine ; J. S. Smith, in the
Forward ; and J. Hopwood, in the Odin, have been pro-
moted to acting first-class assistants; John Francis (seco
class), to the Shannon, vice Hyde.