The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The 300- pounder Armstrong gun has been offi-
cially reported, after proof, as fit for service. The
flaw in the bore to which allusion has been made is
represented as unimportant. The experiment
against Captain Coles's cupola will take place as
soon as the naval preparations are completed.
After completing the inspection of the Devonport
dockyard and Keyham steam-yard on Saturday,
Prince Arthur re-embarked in the Port Admiral's
barge, and was conducted by Admiral Sir Thomas
Pasley to the iron-plated screw steamship Warrior,
40, Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane,in Hamoaze.
The Prince dined in the evening with Sir Houston
Stewart, at the Admiralty house. To-day (Monday)
his Royal Highness will probably inspect the Vic-
tualling-yard, and visit the Royal Albert Bridge,
and other objects of interest at Plymouth, and to-
morrow (Tuesday) take his departure for the west-
ward.

The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, Henry
Goldsmith master, at Plymouth, is ordered to be
put into commission, with a complement of 485
met,.

The Duke 'of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, Is"..111 hold a levee on Thursday next at the
Admiraity, Whitehall.

Admiralty orders were on Saturday transmitted
-to Deptford dockyard for the immediate commence-
ment of the Enterprise, which is to be proceeded
with as rapidly as possible. The keel is in the
hands of the shipwrights, and will be laid down in
the course of a few days. The preparations of the
frames will be carried out as fast as the moulds can
be issued from the mould-loft. The Enterprise is
to be a powerful sloop of war, armed with the
heaviest Armstrong guns at present in use—viz.,
110-pounders. Her dimensions are to be 180 ft. in
length, 36ft. in breadth, 15ft. in draught of water.
The timber frames,planking, shelf-piece, and water.
-way of the vessel will be made to serve as " back-
ing" for the armour, which will be equal in
resisting power to that of our largest
ships. It is a remarkable fact that the offensive
power of the new vessel, which will be of about
1,000 tons burden only, is even greater in pro-
portion to her tonnage than that of the
Defence and Resistance. The entire superintendence
of the Enterprise has been intrusted by the Admi-
ralty to the designer, Mr. E. J. Reed.

Her Majesty's ship St. George, 86, commanded by
Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, which left Portsmouth
on Monday, arrived on Friday in the Firth of Forth
-about 1 o'clock, and cast anchor in Burntisland
Itoads. In coming up to the anchorage (having no
local pilot on board) she struck upon a sandbank,
and was not got off till near high tide in the even-
ing. The St. George is understood to be waiting for
Prince Alfred, who accompanied her Majesty to
Balmoral, and is expected to join the ship before
she proceeds to the North Sea.
The Adventure screw transport, Commander
Lethbridge, has gone into Portsmouth harbour from
Spithead for troop service.

The following vessels have been taken up by the
Government for the conveyance of military stores to
India and the colonies, viz. :—The Helvellyn, 1,017
tons, for Kurrachee ; the John o'Gaunt, 859 tons, for
Bengal; the Hanover, 1,045 tons, for Auckland;
the Crystal Palace, 440 tons, for the Cape of Good
Hope; and the John Romily, 210 tons, for St.
Helena.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Capt. Rochfort Maguire to
the Galatea, commissioned ; Henry Goldsmith,
master, to the Galatea; Dr. E. H. Cree, surgeon,
additional, to the Saturn; W. Johnson, paymaster,
to the Galatea ; Charles Gribble, assist.-paymaster,
to the Galatea ; and Edward F. Williams, clerk, to
the Galatea,