The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-15 00:00:00

The Herring gunboat, tender to the Trafalgar,
steamship, 2,900 tons, 500-horse power, -'guardahip
at Queen's Ferry, which was run aground some
time since on Mickery Island, in the Firth of Forth,
has been taken into dock at Sheerness to be broken
up. She is to be replaced by the Erne.
The Griffon, 5, screw steam gun vessel, 435 tons,
80-horse power, recently returned from the West
Coast of Africa, is to be brought into the basin of
Sheerness dockyard to-day, where she will be re-
paired and refitted for four years' service.
The Mullet, 5, screw gun vessel, Commander
Cortland H. Simpson, recently returned from the
West Coast of Africa, was yesterday inspected by
the officers of the steam reserve, previous to being
paid out of commission and placed in the 3d divi-
sion of the Sheerness steam reserve.
The work of fitting the iron cued frigate. Belle-
rophon, 16, 1,000-horse power, is being pushed for-
ward at Chatham dockyard as rapidly as the re-
sources of that establishment will permit, nearly
1,000 mechanics and other workmen being employed
on her. Since she has been in dock a considerable
number of her 6-inch and other armour plates have
been fixed to her sides, and it is anticipated that, at
the present rate of progress, the whole of her plat-
ing will be complete in about a couple of months. In
the construction of the Bellerophon an entirely new
system has been adopted by Mr. Reed, her designer,
and one never before introduced into an ironclad
vessel, to enable her to carry the large 12-ton 300-
pounder Armstrong guns with which she will be
armed. Hitherto the placing of anything like heavy
guns in our vessels of war has been attended with
this difficulty, that the system on which they have
been constructed rendered the carrying of anything
like an exceptional armament altogether unsafe, from
the comparative weakness of the vessel below the guns.
In the Bellerophon, however, all this is obviated by
the decks beneath the guns being formed into one
continuous girder by means of broad stringer plates
riveted to their under sides—an entirely new feature
in iron shipbuilding—and by their whole upper sur-
face being plated with half-inch iron under the wooden

deck. In order, however, to impart additional strength
to the gun deck, each deck below the gun is supported
by means of iron pillars, which step on the deep and
strong longitudinal girders or frames of the ship's bot-
tom. It will thus be seen that the additional strength
imparted to the Bellerophon will enable her to carry
even the 600-pounder Armstrongs, should it ever be
found necessary to arm her with that description of
ordnance.

The armour-plated frigate Lord Warden, 24,
1,000 horse power, having received her iron masts
and the heavy portion of her engines and machinery
on board, will be floated into No. 2 dock at Chat-
ham during the approaching spring tides, to be com-
pleted for sea. She has about four months' work to
be executed on board before she will be ready for
the pennant.
The freight ship North Star, Capt. Graves, in the
service of the War Department, on Thursday coin-

pleted her shipment of army stores for Malta, an

sailed from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for her

destination.
The hired troop-ships Cassapore, Renown, Aga
memnon, Rosalyn Castle, Dilwar, and others o

heavy tonnage, being some of the finest of Green's,

Soames's, and Hankey and Sewell's fleet of sailing
East Indiamen, are now fitting out in the East India
Docks, under charter, to convey 10,000 troops of
the line and reliefs from Dublin to Gibraltar, thence
to the Cape of Good Hope, Port Elizabeth, and
Bombay. It was yesterday stated at Woolwich that
the whole of the ships, 10 in number, will be ready
for sea, and will leave the East India Docks about
Thursday next. Upwards of 1,000 men have been
employed for some time past, working extra hours
so as to insure their leaving the docks at the ap-
pointed time.

Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, son of the late
Earl of Dundonald, has been appointed to the Fia-
gard for special service.

The French ironcased frigates Magenta and Flan-
dre, with the gunboat Ariel, arrived yesterday after-
noon at Plymouth, where they will remain during
the agricultural exhibition. They were received

with royal salutes from the Citadel and from the

flagship in Hamoaze.
The following appointments have been made al
the Admiralty :—Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Coch.

rane, C. 8., to the Fisgard, for special service
Commander MacLeod B. Cockraft to the Bos•

cawen, vice Nare®, to the Salamander ; Comman

der A. R. Wright and Commander Henry T. Boter
to be inspecting commanders in the Coastguard ;

Lieut. George W. Allen, to the Octavio ; Lieut. R.
F. Britton and Lieut. Arthur C. Curtis, to the

Scorpion ; Lieut. Charles F. Cox, to the Constance

Lieut. John W. Brack enbury, to the Black Prince
Lieut. John V. D. Butler, to the Royal Adelaide

James Charles Saunders, engineer to the Gannet ;
John Arthur Kitts and John Davis, first-class

assist.-engineers, to the Gannet ; Lieut. James W,

Dennistoun, and Lieut. the Hon. Alexander F.
Hood, to the Black Prince ; Dr. William Gunn,
promoted to be Deputy-Inspector-General on the
retired list ; Benjamin Wickham, promoted to be

Paymaster-in-Chief on the retired list ; R.
W. M. Jones, paymaster, to the Resistance ; Dr.

Duncan 'Elston, assist.-sung., additional, to the

Exosalent for the Royal Sovereign; Joseph S. Vivian,

second master, to the Snipe ; William J. Hooper,
second master, to the Supply ; J. S. Daniell, pay-
master, to the Salamander ; and J. F. H. Alston,
assist.-paymaster, to the Cumberland.

A COUPLE OF MUSICAL GHOSTS.—An absurd
story comes from Munich about a ghostly service
held in the Protestant church one night. At about 8 in the
evening people collected about the doors of the closed edi-
fice, attracted by the sound of singing. One enthusiastic
auditor distinctly heard hymns, another could detect the
sound of the organ, a third could see through the windows
a ghost in shirt sleeves flitting about the nave. The gens-
darmes came and broke into the church; there was nobody
there, but the singing continued. The infatuated public
hung about till 12 at night ; they searched the chance], the
vestry, the organ-loft, and the gallery, peered under the
communion table, peeped into the baptismal font ; but
neither populace, soldiers, nor gensdarmes could discover
anything. In the morning it was found out that a couple
of lusty fellows had been sitting in their room abutting one
and of the church, drinking beer and singing " Fidole Lieder"
all night. By some architectural or acoustical dispensation
the sound had penetrated into the church ; and the Munich
public, not being very musical, despite Wagner, took the
"Fidele Lieder" for hymns !

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waiting to receive them, and embarked from the
King's stairs of the dockyard on board their paddle
yacht Enchantress, Staff-Commander Petley, lying
off in mid-stream. Their Lordships entertained at
dinner Admiral Sir Michael Seymour and other
officials on board the yacht. The Enchantress is
expected to sail from Portsmouth this morning on a
cruise, with their Lordships, which is expected to
extend as far as Cherbourg and Plymouth.
Prince Napoleon arrived off Ryde, on board his
steam yacht, from Havre, on Thursday evening.
The yacht remained at anchor in Ryde Roads up to
sunset last evening.
The Helicon, improved despatch vessel, made her
preliminary trial of machinery on Thursday outside
Portsmouth harbour, and this morning, weather
permitting, will make her official trial of speed in
Stoke's Bay.
The Turkish iron-cased frigate Osman Ghazy,
Captain Arif Bey, from Greenock for Constanti-
nople, is expected to arrive to-day (Saturday) at
Plymouth, where she will remain during the exhi-
bition of the Agricultural Society next week.
The Sepoy gunboat, Lieut. F. W. Prosser, in
command, tender to the Dauntless, 31, screw steam-
ship, 1,575 tons, 580-horse power, Captain J. W.
Strange, coast guardahip, in the river Humber,
which kas been repairing at Sheerness, was taken
out of harbour yesterday for the trial of her engines.
They were reported to work satisfactorily, and she
will immediately proceed to Hull to join the
Dauntless.