The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

7IIE NAVY.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. G. H. Seymour, C. 8,, arrived at Portsmouth
on Monday evening from Antwerp and Sheerness.
She left the Mouse Light the same morning, and
steamed down Channel against a strong gale, meet-
ing a large number of vessels putting back owing
to the violence of the weather, and among them a
four-masted screw steamer, with machinery appa-
rently damaged. Notwithstanding this unfavour-
able condition of the weather, the yacht averaged
13 knots' speed during the passage from the Mouse
to Spithead.
The Trafalgar, 86, Capt. the Hon. T. Baillie, sailed
from St. Helen's Roads, off Falmouth, at noon
yesterday, under canvass for the westward, calling
in at Plymouth Sound for final orders.
The Megftra screw troopship, Commander Hen-
derson, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, and will
be docked to make good existing defects and prepare
for further troop service.
The Resistance, 16, screw iron ram, Capt. Cham-
berlain, will go into Portsmouth harbour this
morning from Spithead, in order to have certain re-
pairs carried out to her iron capstan, caused in
weighing her second anchor recently at Spithead.
The Defence, 16, iron ram, Capt. A. Phillimore,
is expected to sail from Spithead for Lisbon early
this morning.
The Revenge, screw line-of-battle ship, Captain
Fellowes, flagship of Rear-Admiral Smart, K.H., is
expected to sail from Spithead on Saturday, for
Lisbon and Gibraltar, in company of the Resistance,
if the repairs to the latter's capstan are completed.
A court-martial is ordered for to-morrow on a
marine belonging to the Revenge, to be held on
board the Victory, Port Admiral's flagship.
The Eclipse, 4, screw gunboat, Commander
Mayne, at Portsmouth, on her way from the Nore
for China, is detained to carry out slight repairs to
portions of her machinery.
The Elk, 12, attached to the sailing reserve at
Chatham, has been run into by the brig Britannia,
T. Smith, master, while the latter was beating up
the harbour. The Elk had a portion of her figure-
head carried away, and received other damage.
The screw steamer Vigilant, 4, 200 horse power,
Commander the Right Hon. Lord W. B. Elphin-
stone, which arrived at the Nore a ft w days since
from the east coast of Scotland, has been taken into
dock for the purpose of making good the injuries
she sustained from having been driven on shore on
the Gunfleet Sands during the recent gale. Since
she has been in dock she has been carefully sur-
veyed by the officials; the result has been to dis-
cover that she has seriously injured her stern-post,
and strained her keel and most of her timbers,
loosening her bolts, and causing her to leak
very much. During the time the Vigilant is
under repair at the dockyard the officers and
crew will occupy the naval barracks. The Vigilant
was intended to be despatched to the West Indies,
but, in consequence of her injuries, it will be at
least two months before she can be ready to proceed
to sea. In consequence of this, it is probable that
the officers and crew will be turned over to the Lily,
4,200 horse power, attached to the Ist division of
the Chatham steam reserve, which can be made
ready for sea in a very few days.
Her Majesty's iron troop ship Adventure, Com-
mander Lethbridge, having been thoroughly re-
paired in dock at Woolwich, was yesterday swung
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destroyed by the collision have been replaced with-
out leaving a trace of the damage. The rivet heads
are all counter-sunk, and what is termed " flush,"
so that the outside colouring with which she has
been coated has removed every appearance of the
injury, and the vessel is again as sea worthy as when
first built, and in every way in the most perfect
trim.

The paddlewheel steamsloop Prometheus, re-
cently on service on the West Coast of Africa, was
yesterday removed from basin at Woolwich, and
will be sent to Chatham for repairs.

The iron paddlewheel vessel Oberon, Lieut. and
Commander G. Morice, from the South-East Coast
of America, has been stripped in basin at Woolwich,
and will be paid off on Saturday nest.
The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, which arrived
at Woolwich on Sunday with his Royal Highness