The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-28 00:00:00

lEEE NAVY.

VAT.ArrA, Nov. 22.--The Royal yacht Osborne,
Master-Commander Bower, arrived here on Sunday
last, accompanied by the Magicienne, 16, Capt. his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, for the
purpose of refitting her broken paddle shaft, which
has been temporarily repaired during her absence
to enable her to reach England, when she will re-
ceive a new one. She is expected to be ready for
sea on Monday, when she will start immediately for
Civita Vecchia, to convey the Prince of Wales to
Marseilles. His Royal Highness wishes to be in
EnglrAnd by the birthday of his affianced bride, on
the Ist December, and should the Osborne not ar-
rive in time he will proceed from Civita Vecchia to
Marseilles in the Doris, commanded by Capt. Sir F.
L. M'Clintock. Should the Osborne be in time for
the Prince to avail himself of her, the Doris will
merely escort him, so as to be at hand in case of
anything going wrong with the yacht's machinery.
After cotalpleting this service, the Doris will sail for
Engirand to be paid off, without calling at Malta.
The Prince and Princess of Prussia will proceed in
the Osborne as far as Leghorn. The Princess of
Leiningen returned in her„io Malta from Naples.
The Magicienne left again yesterday for Civita
Vecchia, calling at Naples, whither she is ordered
to return to rel.ieve the London, 86, Capt. H. Chada,
and remain there. The London is to go home,
calling at Malta on her way. The Malacca, 17,
Capt, J. Napier, left Malta on the 18th inst. for
%rout, to relieve the Mars, 80, Capt. J. N. Strange,
ordered home. The other ships at present on the
coast of Syria are the Wanderer, 4, Commander M.
U. Seymour, and the Surprise, 4, Commander W.
H. White. The Firefly, surveying vessel, Com-
mander Mansell, has arrived at Alexandna. She
left Haifa, on the coast of Syria, on Oat. 1, shifting
along the coast-, taking deep sea soundings, and
making large plans of the ruins of Cmsarea and a
port named Yebrah, which has lately been disco-
vered lay that ship. After examining one of the
entr antes to the port of Alexandria she will return
to Malta for the winter, where she is expected
about the first week of December. The Medina,
surveying ship, Lieut. Commander Wilkinson (tem-
porary), was at Salonica by the Last accounts. The
Gannet, 11, Commander the Hon. M. H. Nelson, is
hourly expected from Constantinople, on her way
to England, to be Paid off. The Weser,6,Commander
A. H. Johnstone, and the Cockatrice, 3, Lieut. Com-
mander R. M, Gabon, are still on the Danube sta-
tion, and d:o expect to be relieved this winter. The
followie,,g British and foreign men-of-war were at
the P ira3us on the 15th inst. :-English Queen, 76,
CPapt. F. C. Hillyar ; 'Pelican, 17, Commander P.
Frock; and Foxhound, 4, Commander the Hon. A.
C. Hobart. French-Zenobie, 38 (the French sloop
Eumenide, 4, left the Piraeus on the 10th inst. for
Patras). Italian-Victor Emmanuel, 50, and a sloop
of 4 guns, which latter arrived on the 7th instant.
Russian-Grand Admiral, 79, arrived from Malta.
Turkish-A frigate of 50 guns. Tranquillity con-
tinued to prevail. The elections for the National
Assembly, Convoked for the 22d of Dec., were to
take pl-aee in about a fortnight. The Shannon, 50,
Capt. 0. J. Jones, has been ordered to return to
Corfu from Patras. The Icarus, 11, Commander
Salmon, was at Santa Maura, or one of the other
islands, and the Scylla, 22, Capt. R. Lambert, was
at Corfu. It is expected that the vessel last named
will shortly be sent home. The Edgar, 90, Capt.
the Hon. F. A. Foley (flagship of Rear-Admiral S.
C. Decree, C. 8.), left this afternoon for Corfu, to be
stationed there. Her destination was at first an-
nounced to be Corfu, but was changed to Naples,
and at the last moment again changed to Corfu. It
is reported that the Liffey, 51, Capt. G. Parker,
will also proceed to Corfu very shortly. The Fire-
brand, 6, Commander Piers, is now in dock under-
going repair. The sick of this vessel who had been
removed to Bighi. Hospital, are progressing favour-
ably, but some fresh cases of fever has broken out
among the crew since her arrival from the coast of
SP-A; none of them, however, I understand, are
very serious. The Trafalgar, 70, Capt. the Hon. T.
Bailie, arrived to-day from England and Gibraltar.
The following British ships of war are now in Malta
harbour---MsAborockligh, 131.8 Capt. W. H. Stewart,
C.F. (flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-
Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, ; Trafalgar, 70
Capt. the Hon. T. Bailie ; Liffey, 51, Capt. George
Parker; Chanticleer, 17, Commander S. Sterling;
Firebrand, 6, Commander Piers; Alacrity, 4, Com-
mander Baird; and the Hibernia, receiving ship,
Commander Harvey (flagship of Rear-Admiral
Codrington, C. 8.), and her tenders, Boxer and
Growler. We learn from Gibraltar that the Am-
phion, 36, Capt. A. C. Gordon, Algiers, 89, Capt.
E. B. Rice, and Neptune, 86, Capt. G. T. Hornby,
had all passed through the Straits for England to
be paid off. These vessels took provisions from
Malta for Rear-Admiral Smart's squadron, which
had been ordered to Gibraltar. Rumour says that,
from motives of political delicacy connected with
the affairs of Greece, the St. George, 86, Hon. F.
Egerton, on board of which Prince Alfred is
serving, and which vessel had been ordered to
Malta, will be detained for the present at Gib-
raltar. A serious accident occurred last week to
Col. Laffan, commanding the Royal Engineers in
this garrison, from the effects of a fall on his own
terrace. His left arm was fractured in two places,
and his leg badly injured. On inquiry I find he is
now going on favourably."
The Urgent screw troopship, Capt. H. W. Hire,
was paid out of commission at Portsmouth yester-
day, under the superintendence of Capt. H.. Broad-
head, commanding her Majesty's ship Asia and the
steam reserve. The condition of the ship was
highly creditable to every officer and man on board.
The Urgent was commissioned on the Ist of October,
1857, by Commander M'Donald, the officers and
crew of the Perseverance being then turned over
to her from that ship. Commander Hire succeeded
to the command of the ship on the 31st of March,
1859, and has recently received from the Admi-
ralty his promotion to post rank. Yesterday,Capt.
Hine announced that Chas. Plumley, quartermas-
ter, and Richard Meed, master-at-arms, were re-
commended to the Lords of the Admiralty as being
entitled to the long service medal and gratuity ;
and George Brice, seaman, for the long service

medal.
The screw steam corvette Pelorns, 21, flag of
Commander Frederick B. P. Seymour, from Aus-
tralia, entered Plymouth Sound yesterday after-
noon.

The water, which has been excluded for the last
three months from the south basin at Keybam
dht......5-ar
Constance
, having been let in yesterday the frigate
was hauled from the north basin into the
south, to receive the heavy portion of her machi-
nery. The
steam sloop Buzzard having been re-
paired, was at
dock to the nor the
same
time removed from No. 1
vessel Triton was
basin. The paddlewheel steam
paddlewheel atesa removed from No. 2 dock, and the
caisson were piaerena in
Gladiator, 6, and a
i: No. 1 dock. The water will
be pumped out of
the decks and the basin again
forthwith.
Her Majesty's "rev,
Fish, 6, Commander aisteanlAnderson, from the
gunvessel Flying
West Coast of Atrica, 1:•
authus, Master
Woolwich, and will be paid efir3een dismantled at
The steam storeship Rhadt"norrow.
cargovCommander Sturdee, having shipped
the west, and also the huge ge,„fParl a ar for
Racer, Commnaantldon. I,
pool. has left Woolwich for her deatiguil
fler Majesty's sloop
experienced
strong a
part
tcedf
has arrived at Portsmouth from Halifax, Lyons,
rough passage of 21 days, having
strong easterly wind and gales the greater
the passage.
A uctifiration has been received at Chatham
Dockyard, from the Admiralty, that the paddle.
wheel steamer Vixen, 6, 280 horse power, has been
sold out of the service to Messrs. Castle and Co., of
Millhank, whose tender for her purchase has been
eccepted by the L.--,rds of the Admirolty-
A court -martial assembled at 1 o'clock on Tuesday
last, on board her _Majesty's ship Formidab ule, 86,
flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir J. W. Hope John
or stone,
1(.C.8 , Commander.in- Chief at Sheerness, f the
trial of J. W. Reid, second-class gunner, belonging
to her Majesty's ship Cumberland, guardship of the
steam reserve at Sheerness, and doing duty
Arethasa, in the
horsere I
thusa, 51, screw steam frigate, 3,141 tons, 600-
Power. There were two charges against the