The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

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rier, 17, Capt. Sir M. M'Gregor, at 'New Zeatand ;
the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins, on a cruise to the
Fiji Islands, and the Pelorus, 21, Commodore Sey-
mour, at Sydney.

The steam store-ship Supply, Master Commander
Balliston, yesterday went down to Woolwich from
Deptford, laden with victualling stores for the
Mediterranean, and, after shipping dockyard stores,
and adjusting compasses at Greenhithe, will take
her departure for Gibraltar and Malta.
The Netherlands steamer Cyclops, with a number
of officials from the Government departments of
Holland, as visitors to the Great Exhibition, took
her departure from Woolwich Arsenal yesterday
morning.

The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacey,
with women and children on board, belonging to
regiments in Canada, sailed from Portsmouth at
9.15 a.m. yesterday morning, calling in at Queens-
town to take in the remainder of her complement.
She went out by the Needles passage before a fine
easterly breeze, and with every prospect of a
smooth, pleasant, and speedy passage across to
Queenstown.

Yesterday a party of 80 convicts arrived at the
Chatham convict establishment, from Pentonville,
for the purpose of being employed on the works
now in progress for the enlargement and extension
of Chatham Dockyard. The number of convicts
daily employed in the undertaking exceeds 1,000.

Yesterday the whole of the hands employed on
the Salamis, paddlewheel steamer, under construc-
tion at Chatham dockyard, were transferred to the
armour-plated frigate Royal Oak, which, with the
exception of the iron frigate Achilles, 50, now ab-
sorbs the whole of the available strength of the
dockyard, the most strenuous exertions being used
to have her complete and ready for launching by
the date ordered, the 10th prox.
The following circular has been received by the
shipping masters in the Tyne :
" General Register and Record-Office of Seamen,
Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Aug. 19.
"My dear Sir,--I this day forward you a Shipping
Gazette containing the copy of a letter addressed to myself
by Captain Hough, commanding the steamship Hercules,
reporting the praiseworthy conduct of his late crew,
composed of Royal Naval Reserve men, in withstand-
ing the offer made to them to desert his ship and
violate their agreement during his recent voyage to
New York. It is desirable the volunteers of that force
should know that all cases of good conduct and character,
and particularly such praiseworthy behaviour as this, is
duly recorded on the Register of the Reserve, in order that
their application to be reinstated at the expiration of their
term of five years, may be favourably considered by reference
to their recorded character ; and in like manner all reported
misconduct, or offences, and particularly desertions and
breach of agreements, are entered, in order that those guilty
of these offences may, at such time, be rejected from the
force. The best means of impressing this information will
be—Firstly, on the delivery of his book, It. V. 2, to the
volunteer, and afterwards, whenever the agreement for a
voyage is under signature; the person explaining the condi-
tions should then take the opportunity of making this re-
gulation known to every reserve man who may form a
member of the crew. It is the zeal which the shipping
masters have displayed in establishing a measure calculated
to improve the condition of the Merchant Service that the
Naval Reserve has already acquired a standing reputation,
and this reputation can only be maintained by the continued
attention observed in expounding the regulations and ad-
monitions, until they are generally understood by the sea-
men of the United Kingdom.—l have, &c.,

" JAMES BOVT,
itrar-General of Seamen."