The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

211 E NAVY.

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden
arrived in Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning
in the Elfin Royal paddle yacht, Master-Com-
mander Balliston, and landing at the dockyard,
visited, accompanied by Rear-Admiral the Hon. G.
Grey, the Resistance, 16, iron-cased frigate, Capt.
Chamberlain, lying alongside the dockyard, the
Royal Sovereign shield ship, converting in dock,
the screw steamship Himalaya, in No. 19 dock, and
other objects of interest in the yard. His Royal
Highness afterwards left in the Port-Admiral's
carriage for the railway station, and proceeded by
ordinary train to London.

The St. George, 86, screw, Capt. the Hon. F.
Egerton, sailed from Spithead for Lisbon on Sun-
day, immediately on his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred rejoining her from Osborne.
Among other names of officers mentioned as likely
to succeed Vice-Admiral Sir H. W. Bruce and
Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, as Port• Admiral
and Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth, are
those of Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. F. Martin, K.C.8.,
the present Commander-in-Chief in the Mediter-
ranean, and Rear-Admiral George Elliot.
The Pembroke, 60, screw steamship, 1,758 tons,
200-horse power, Captain Thomas Fisher, Coast-
guard divisional ship at Harwich, which has been
refitted at Sheerness, left that port for Harwich
yesterday morning to resume her duties.

The Rosario, 11 [screw steam sloop, 573 tons,
155-horse-power, Commander James S. Graham,
ha%ing made good the injury sustained by run-
ning foul of the Pembroke in Sheerness harbour
during the late gales, was yesterday inspected by
Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone, Commander-
in-Chief at Sheerness and Staff, and left the harbour
for Portsmouth and the West Indies, to which sta-
tion she is appointed.
The African, steamtug, Master R. Harvey, has
been taken into dock at Sheerness to be broken up.
She is to be replaced by the Locust, 1, paddlewheel
steam-vessel, 150-horse power.

The paddlewheel steam yacht Black Eagle, Mae-
ter Comutander Whillier (tender to the Fisgard),
sailed from Woolwich on Saturday for Calais,under
orders by telegram from the Admiralty, on special
service.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel despatch vessel
Psyche, Lieut. Commander Robert Sterne, yester-
day left the basin at Woolwich, in readiness for
sea. Her destination is the Mediterranean.

The steam storeship Rhadamanthus,Master Com-
mander Sturdee, sailed from Woolwich yesterday,
laden with a cargo of stores, for Plymouth, consist-
ing of four boilers, capstans, and armour plates, for
the iron-cased steamship Ocean, building at Devon-
port. The Rhadamanthus was detained some days
at Woolwich, awaiting the arrival of the great Hors.
fall gun from Shoeburyness,for conveyance to Liver-
pool,but,on account of some defects to the machinery,
intended for its removal, the gun had not arrived,
and will be shipped in the Rhadamanthus on her
next return voyage from Woolwich.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Edward L Jermain, to
the Cambridge; Francis J. Lory, paymaster, to the
Royal Adelaide, for service as secretary's clerk ;
Thos. D. Roe, M.D., assist.-surg., to the Trafalgar ;
Thos. F. Hall, supernumerary in the Fisgard, pro-
moted to be chief engineer ; Wm. Gilbert, 2d .class
assist.-engineer, to the Eclipse. The following
supernumeraries in the Euryalus have been con-
firmed as 2d-class assist.-engineers—Jos. R. Beal,
James Radford, Joseph Sharpe, Peter M'Cormack,
Benj. F. Lewarn, W. C. Amos, E. Fisher, Francis
Andrew, and Wm. H. Moore.
The following appointments have been made in
the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Lieut., Alex.
Bowers; to be Sub• Lieut., James Sturrock Peters.