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THE WAR.
NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Orders have been issued by the Admiralty to com-
mence the building of a new 91-gun screw ship, to be
called the Hero. The lines are to be laid down at Chat-
ham, in the second slip, from which the Majestic was
recently launched. The building of a screw frigate, to
be named the Chesapeake, to be pierced for 50 guns, has
commenced at Chatham Dockyard.
Advices were received yesterday, under date Malta,
May the 29th, that the screw-steamer Sydney had ar-
rived, and sailed with troops and stores for Constanti-

nople.
All the parcels, letters, packages, Ac., lying at Sheer-
ness for the Baltic fleet have been ordered to be put on
board the Wildfire paddle-wheel steamer, and she, will
sail, in company with the Holyhead steamer, to join the
fleet under Sir Charles Napier.
The 20 days' notice given by the Queen's Proctor in
the Court of Admiralty having expired without any one
putting in an appearance, the Russian ships Zeleus, Cap-
tain Sandelin, prize to her Majesty's steam revenue cut-
ter Argus ; the Froya, Captain Weekman ; and the
Livonia, Captain Matakat, also prizes to the Argus ; the
Kamschatka, William Engblorn, master, taken by a
coast guard boat off Folkestone station ; and the I)ido,
prize to her Majesty's ship Imperieuse, will forthwith
be condemned and sold, and the proceeds divided among
their captors.
On Wednesday Rear-Admiral Walker and the Sur-
veyor of the Navy, Captain , Sir B. W. Walker, visited
the ship-building yard of Messrs. Mare and Green, at
Blackwall, to inspect theprogress made with the building,
of the.despatch gun-boats now constructing at that esta-
blishment for her Majesty's service in the Baltic. They
are rapidly approaching completion.
Letters were received at Plymouth, on Wednesday
from her Majesty's frigate Trincomalee, dated Callao,
April 24. She was to leave on the 27th with stores and
provisions for the ships at Behring's Straits. The officers
and crew were all well.
The Colossus, 80, new ship, will be complete in her
alterations for the reception of the propeller by the
middle of next week, when she will be undocked and
ready to enter the steam factory basin, Portsmouth, to
have her engines put in working order. She was lifted
on her blocks yesterday to have her false keel adjusted,
and she is now coppering.
The Minx, steam-tender to the Scourge, 6, Commo-
dore Adams, arrived at Spithead on Wednesday evening,
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and was paid in advance cn Thursday. Both leave to-
day for the coast of Alric ion.
The Locust, 3, steam-v Lieutenant Day, is to be
paid down and refitted. Th ew have a few days' leave.
An order arrived at Sheerness yesterdip...for all the
available force of the dockyard to be set on*ie Royal
Albert—they are to work from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., until
she is ready for sea.
The Holyrood, hired screw steam transport, o. 77,
Commander P. C. Lovett, arrived off the Garrison Point,
Sheerness, yesterday, at 1.20 p.m. In consequence of
the Baltic and North Sea pilot not returning on board
on the 7th at Woolwich, she was detained there, and on
making her number in Sea Reach she was signalled, by
the Port Admiral's order, to come into Sheerness for
parcels.
She takes out as supernumeraries the following officers:
Mr. Geo. Robert Bell, mate of the Magicienne, 16-gun
steam-frigate, who came home in charge of the Russian
prize brig Patrioton ; Mr. Archibald Geo. Bogle, mate
of the Amphion steatn-frifate, who came home in charge
of the Russian prize Carolina. Also, Mr. J. G. Dathan,
second master in charge, appointed to the steam gun
vessel Cuckoo; Mr. Alex. Raven Burniston, second mas-
ter of the Valorous steam-frigate, who came home in
charge of the Russian prize Primus ; Mr. Wm. Lynd
Martin, naval cadet, who came hOrie in the Primus ;
Mr. George Lane, midshipman of the Euryalus steam-
frigate, who came home in charge of the Victor ; the
Rev. Walter Bridge Arthy, chaplain to the Imperieuse
steam-frigate, first appointment ; also the- prize crews of
the Amphion, Cruiser, Vulture, and Valorous, and vo-
lunteer seamen for service in the Baltic fleet.
The Holyrood left Sheerness without a pilot at 6.30
p.m. yesterday for the Baltic.
The following appointments have been made :
Lieutenants—Conway M. Shipley (1845), to the Win-
chester, 50, flag-ship on the East Indies station, as addi-
tional lieutenant ; John P. J. Parry (1854), recently
promoted from mate of the Portland, 50, to the Terrible,
paddle-wheel steam-frigate, serving in the Black Sea.
Masters—Henry B. Akaster (1854), recently promoted
from second master of the Impregnable, flag-ship, at
Devonport, to the Star, sloop, on the south-east coast of
America station ; Edwin R.twe (1850), recently serving
n the Portland, 50, to the Indefatigable, 50, at Devon-

port.
Paymasters—William Wiles (1846), from the High-
flyer, 21, screw steam-frigate, on the Black Sea station,
to the Bellerophon, 78, also on the Black Sea station ;
William Ellis (1849), recently serving in the Inflexible,
paddle-wheel steam-sloop, on the Black Sea station, to
the Highflyer, vice Wiles ; Benjamin P. Heather (1851),
from the Vesuvius, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, to the
Sampson, addle-wheel steam-frigate, on the Black Sea
station ; 'James W. P. Foord (1849), borne on the books
of the Fisgard, flagship at Woolwich, for service in the
Naval Coast Volunteers, to the Meander, 44, at Devon-
port ; John H. Greaves (1835), from the Arethusa, 50,
on the Black Sea station, to the London, 90, on the
same station.
Acting Paymaster William Warburton, to the Vesu-
vius, paddle-wheel steam steam-slooo.
Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, re-
turned to his official duties at Whitehall yesterday.
Rear-Admiral Martin, superintendent of Portsmouth
Dockyard, went on leave yesterday, and will return to-
morrow.
Captain Peter Richards, C. 8., was sworn in on Wed-
nesday as one of the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty. Rear-Admiral Berkeley. C. 8., and Captain
Alexander Milne, Lords of the Admiralty, and Captain
Sir Baldwin Walker, 1C.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy,
visited Woolwich the same day, and were accompanied
by Commodore John Sbepherd, Superintendent of Wool-
wich Dockyard, and Captain B. Martin, C. 8., Superin-
tendent of Deptford Dockyard, on a visit of inspection
to the Cormorant, hired steam transport in the basin at
Woolwich.

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