The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-29 00:00:00

SHE NAVY.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Major Cowell, embarked on Saturday on board her
Majesty's yacht Elfin ,Master-Commander Balliston,
screw, Capt. Hon. Francis
from the St. George, 86,
Egerton, at Spithead, and, landing at the dock-
yard, left for London on a visit to the International
Exhibition. His Royal Highness returned to
Portsmouth on leaving the Exhibition, but owing
to a dense fog was unable to reach his ship at Spit-
bead, and slept at Dent's George Hotel, rejoining
the St. George yesterday morning.
The Edgar line-of.battle ship, Capt. the Hon. F.
A. Foley, was undocked at Portsmouth on Satur-
day, on completion of the repairs to her stern, and
went out of harbour to Spithead, where she will
take in her powder and shell for sea. She is ex-
pected to sail this afternoon for Lisbon,alooking in
tat Portland to pick up the Warrior and Black
Prince iron frigates. The Resistance, 16, screw,
iron ram, Capt. Chamberlain, is also expected to
leave Spithead to-day or to-morrow for Portland
or Lisbon. It is reported that, in addition to these
vessels, a portion, if not the whole of the Channel
fleet, will proceed to Lisbon to render all possible
honour on the part of this country to the marriage
of the King with the Princess Maria Pia, daughter
of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy.
A letter from Malta, dated Valetta, Sept. 22,
says :—" Her Majesty's steam corvette Icarus, 11,
Commander Salmon, V.C., arrived here on the 17th
inst. from Beyrout, touching at Rhodes and Candia.
Having been three weeks on the passage, chiefly
under sail, she brings no fresh nevvs. She confirms
the reports previously received of Syria being in
rather an unsettled state, but contradicts the ru-
mours which had prevailed for some time past of a
renewal of disturbances in Candia. She left at
Beyrout the Mars, 80, Capt. J. N. Strange, and the
Surprise, 4, Commander W. H. Whyte ; also the
surveying vessel Firefly, 3, Commander Mansell,
which had arrived there a day or two before her de-
parture for Malta. The Mars was expecting orders
to be sent home to be paid off. The Wanderer, 4,
Commander M. C. Seymour, was at Cyprus. While
on the coast of Syria Commander Salmon, one or
two of the officers, and several of the crew were
laid up with fever, but are now, I am happy to state,
convalescent. The commander, a midshipman, and
three men were, however, on arrival here, removed
to hospital to complete their recovery. The other
ships on the station continued healthy. No other
changes have taken place among her Majesty's ships
in the Mediterranean. Rear-Admiral Codrington
has returned from Italy, and rehoisted his flag (the
red) on board the receiving-ship Hibernia. The
only vessels of war in port besides the Hibernia,
and her tenders, the Boxer and the Growler, are
the Magieienne, the Icarus, and the Alacrity.
Easterly winds have continued to prevail during
the past week, and the weather has consequently
been disagreeably warm, clammy, and oppressive.
23.—The Foxhound arrived from Corfu at daylight
this morning. Admiral Martin was still there on
the 19th inst., with his flag flying on board the
Algiers, 89, Capt. E. B. Rice. The Shannon, 50,
Capt. 0. Jones, and the Trident, 3, Commander C.
J. Balfour, were also lying there, the former having
arrived from England and Malta, and the latter
having returned on the 18th from Ancona and other
ports in the Adriatic. The Marlborough, 131,Capt.
W. H. Stewart, C. 8., was entering Corfu under
sail from a cruise when the Foxhound left on the
evening of the 19th. The Foxhound arrived at
the Zante at 2 p.m. of the 20th, and consigned to
the Commissariat Department there 170 empty
casks to fill with currants for the fleet. She left
again the same evening."
The hired transport Maria Frederika, laden with
700 tons of returned stores from Hong Kong for
'Woolwich, Deptford, and the Tower, arrived at
Woolwich Arsenal, on Saturday, and commenced
discharging on the pier.
Her Majesty's screw steamship Adventure, Com-
mander Lethbridge, from North Amercia, com-
menced repairing in dock at Woolwich, on Satur-
day. A number of artisans from the factory de-
partment of the dockyard have been ordered to
work with the utmost diligence, and to continue
over a considerable portion of the night, so as to
complete the repairs by the 24th of next month,
when the dock will be required to receive the Cale-
donia, ordered to be launched and docked on that
day. The Adventurer's fore foot has been entirely
removed, the plates having been found to be da-
maged in that direction. The nature of the damage
was safficiently ascertained by means of the diving
bell at St. John's, whore the accident occurred. A
quantity of felt was forced over the spot, and the
vessel was rendered comparatively safe for the voy-
age home. The master carpenter who directed the
proceedings in the diving bell was invalided on the
ship's arrival at Woolwich,
The Carnation, screw gunboat, attached to the
Chatham steam reserve, is having her engines con-
verted from high pressure to those on the condens-
ing principle.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty:—E. T. Mortimer, surgeon,
to the Stromboli ; W. T. Grieve, paymaster, to the
Perseus ; J. Roberts, acting chief engineer to the
Barossa ; W, N. Donald, engineer, to the Eclipse ;
R. Hodge, engineer, to the Barrosa; T. H. Mor-
gan, acting engineer, to the Pembroke ; W. Castle,
acting engineer, to the Cornwallis ; J. Cooper and
A. Young, first class assist.-engineers, to the Barrosa;
J. S. M'Farlane and J. C. Weeks, first class assist.-
engineers, to the Eclipse ; C. W. G. Chambers,
first class assist.-engineer, to the Cornwallis; T. G.
R. Knight, confirmed first class assist.-engineer in
the Asia; J. A. Dicks, second class assist.-engineer,
to the Barrosa ; J. Mitchell, acting second class
assist.-engineer, to the Eclipse; A. A. Lee, R. F.
Orton, A. It. Bickford, and H. S. T. Chowne, mid-
shipmen, to the Barrosa; E. Wickham, J. R. Aylen,
and A. H. Fronde, midshipmen, to the Perseus;
B. A. Carbonnell, naval cadet to the Perseus ; H.
H. Askew and W. A. Norman, naval cadets, to the
Narcissus ; R. L. Groome, A. I). Woodd, B-
D.
Acland, C. Gardner, and J. L. Burr, naval cadets,
to the Bacchante, as supernumeraries. A. H. Baker
has been nominated to a naval cadetship. The
following appointment has been made in the
Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Lieut., B. A. John-
ston.

7HE ARMY.

Major-Gen. Rumley, Inspector-General of Infan•
try, will make his usual half-yearly inspection o:
the troops in the camp at Colchester in a few days
Deputy-Purveyor Wilton has arrived at the camp
for the purpose of relieving Deputy-Purveyor Lons-
dale, who hasbeen ordered to the Mauritius. Lieut.
Kelson and Lieut. O'Connor, of the 6th Regiment,
have received orders to join the service companies
of that corps, andCapt.Nott,lst battalion Ist Foot,
is to join depot. On Friday, Col. Guy, C •Bcom-
mandant of the camp, presented a silver medal for
long service and meritorious conduct to Colour-
Serg. Salmon, Ist battalion, 6th.
A detachment of Artillery, under the command
of Lieut. Scott, was engaged last week
in remount-
ing the guns at the Harwich redoubt, which has
undergone a series of extensive alterations and re_
pairs.
A notification has bsen received at Chatham that
th© 9-pounder Armstrong gun, recently approved for
the Horse-brigade,Royal Artillery, has been adopted
by the Admiralty for naval service. The 9 pounder
Armstrong will, therefore, be in future substituted
for the 12 pounder gun at present used in the ar-
mament of pinnaces and barges from 28 to 32 feet in
length. It will also be used for field marine ser-
vice, and will be supplied to every vessel placed in

commission.
owing entirely to timely intervention the Royal
Arsenal at Devonport has just been saved from a
conflagration. The dockyard possesses two smith-
cries, the larger and most ancient of which is near
the northern boundary, close to the entrance to the
Keyham-yard tunnel. The lesser is at the other
end, and is called the South Smithery. The coal
store for the north smithery has the steam-hammer
works close to it on the north, the millwright
and engineers' shop 30ft. in front, and the saw mills
on its south ; it is slate roofed and divided into two
stores, each capable of containing about 500 tons of
was The south ern compartment Was last week