The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-27 00:00:00

7HE NAVY.

Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamvessel
Caradoc, in King William Dock, at Woolwich, is
ordered to be pushed forward for service, to replace
the despatch vessel Banshee, in the Mediterranean
station. She is to be coated internally with Day's
composition. A cylinder for the Caradcc was yes-
terday successfully cast in the factory at Woolwich,
under the superintendence of Mr. Partridge, acting
chief engineer of the yard. The weight of the
metal employed was 16 tons. The screw steamsloop
Columbine, built at Deptford and partially fitted at
Woolwich was on Wednesday despatched from
Woolwich to Sheerness to be completed, by reason
of the great amount of work now on hand at Wool-
wich dockyard.

A special announcement was yesterday posted in
Woolwich dockyard, intimating the sanction of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the ob-
servance of the Queen's Coronation, to be held on
Monday, the 30th inst. This will close the entire
establishment from midday on Saturday till the
following Tuesday.
His Danish Majesty's screw corvette Heindal,
Capt. Grove, arrived at Spithead, from St. Thomas,
yesterday morning. She left St. Thoinas on the
Ist inst. Her Majesty's ship Immortalite sailed
from St. Thomas on the 30th of May, and the Royal
Mail steamer Shannon, arrived there on the 31st.
Darin the voyage home the Heindal spoke the fol-
lowing vessels :—On the 3d inst., in lat. 20, N, long.
64.34 W, the French brig Fernandez, and on the
14th inst., in lat. 41.40 N, long. 43.10 W, the brig-
antine Helen. On the 22d inst. she passed the
wreck of the Joseph Howe, with bowsprit and fore
and main masts and boats gone, apparently aban-
doned by the crew. On the 25th inst., near the
Lizard, she spoke the William Turner, homeward
bound. In the forenoon Capt. Grove was presented
to the military and naval authorities by Mr. A. L.
Vanderbergh, his Danish Mjesty's Vice-Consul at
`the port. The Heindal, after coaling, will leave
Spithead for Copenhagen on Sunday.
The Shannon screw frigate, Captain Oliver J.
Jones, left the
steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard
yesterday, and
proceeded out of harbour under
steam to make the last of her present series of
screw trials at the measured mile in Stokes Bay.
Before clearing
the harbour, however, it was evident,
from the altered
motion of the propeller and the
sudden increase which took
place at the same time
in the vessel's engines, that something was wrong
with the propeller. On gaining open water clear
of the harbour channel an examination as far as
was possible under the circumstances was made, the
result of which gave reason to believe that one of
the three blades of the propeller was gone. Under
such circumstances the ship returned to the harbour,
where she will be docked, and the damage, what-
ever it is, made good ss soon as possible. The trial
will now probably not be made before Monday or
Tuesday next.

The firing at the armour plates on the sides of
the Sultan taro ship commenced from the 68-
pounder of the Stork in Porchester Creek, Ports-
mouth harbour, yesterday. The
plates proved to be
of a very superior quality, as compared with the
general average of plates received for testing.

The Adventure, screw troopship, Commander
Lethbridge, was taken out of Portsmouth harbour
yesterday to test machinery on completion of alte-

rations to her screw shaft, reboring of her stern-
tube. Everything proved to be in good working
order, and fit for sea service. The ship is now being
fitted to convey to Canada the wives and children of
soldiers belonging to the regiments recently sent
there.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Mountford J.
L. Peile, to the Royal Adelaide ; John Henry Ellis,
promoted to the rank of master ; Sub-Lieut. W. C.
Karslake, confirmed to the Trafalgar ; Sub-Lieut.
George R. Keating and Sub-Lieut. W. E. K.
Cockell, confirmed to the Warrior; Sub-Lieut. T.
H. Larcom, confirmed to the Chanticleer ; Sub-
Lieut. Day H. Bosanquet, confirmed to the Black
Prince ; Sub-Lieut. Henry C. Wallis, confirmed
to the Geyser; J. A. Kitt, first-class assist.-engi-
neer, to the Sanspareil ; W. Williamson, confirmed
as second-class assist. -engineer, and appointed to
the Euryalus; W. E. Prescott, acting second-class
assist:-engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary ;
Charles T. S. Kevern, staff surg., to the Wellesley ;
Dr. Lewis C. Urquhart, surg., to the Black Prince;
W. K. Harriott, assist.-paymaster to the Euryalus,
as supernumerary ; Francis D. B. Smith, clerk, to
the Excellent ; Robert N. Haly, clerk, the Eurya-
ins; W. C. S. Hyne, assist.-clerk, to the Cam-
bridge; W. F. Crossthwaite and Francis M. Steele,
assistant-clerks, to the Euryalus, as supernu-
meraries.