The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-04 00:00:00

HE NAVY.

A portion of the Channel Fleet, consisting of the
screw steamships Royal Albert, 121, Capt. 11. J.
"Aeon, bearing the flag of AdMiral Sir Chas. Fre-
mantle, K.C.B. ; the Donegal, 101, Capt. H. Broad-
head ; the Abdukir, 90, Capt. Chas. F. Schomberg ;
and the screw stearh-frigate Melpouiene, 51, Capt.
C. J. F. E wart, hove in sight at' Plymouth about 6
o'clock yesterday (Tuesday) morning, with the wind.
from the westward, a smart breeze. They came in
from sea under their three topsails, and on reaching
the West-end of the breakwater took in all canvas,
and proceeded under steam to the anchorage ground,
the flagship taking her position well to the west-
ward. At 8 o'clock the flag of Port Admiral, Sir Bar-
rington Reynolds, K.C.8., was ,honoured by a
salute, wheh_was acknowledged by the Impreg-
nable, 104, Capt. Stewart, in Hamoaze. This Por-
tion of the Channel fleet left LiSbon on Friday,
March 23, in company with the screw steamships
Edgar, 91; Capt. James E. Bator ; Algiers, 91,
Capt. George W. D. O'Callaghan ; Queen, 86, Capt.
F. Hillyar ; Mars, 80, Capt. James N. Strange; and
the screw .steam-frigate Mersey, 40, Capt. Henry
Caldwell, C.B. The Edgar carried away her main
topsailyard on Sunday morning, when crossing the
Bay of Biscay. The Edger and Mersey have lost
a man each overboard. On Monday night, off the,
Lkard, the Edgar, Algiers, Queen, Mars, and Mer-
sey parted company, and.proceeded up channel for
Portsmouth. Very fine weather was experienced at
first, but within the • last- four -days strong gales
from the west-north-west have prevailed, with ex-
traordinary heavy seas. All the ships are reported
leaky ; the'Royal Albert will require a 'thorough
caulking. Two Dutch ships of war were in the
Tagus. -

The Victoria and Albert, Royal paddle-yacht,
was yesterday removed from the steam basin to her
moorings in Portsmouth harbour, where she re-
ceived her crew preparatory to her intended cruise.
The Euryalus, 51, screw, Capt. Tarleton, C. 8.,
was undocked yesterday from No. 7 dock at Ports-
mouth, and placed in the steam basin, where she
will receive her neNv boilers, and complete her re-
fit for further service.

The Vulture, 6, paddle, Capt. George Parker, has
been removed from the middle harbour buoy in
Portsmouth harbour, and berthed alongside the
sheer jetty, where she has commenced taking out
her masts. She will pay off on Thursday (to-mor-
row) if possible.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir F. Maitland, ac-
companied by his future flag-captain, Capt. Mac-
kenzie, yesterday paid a visit to the Bacchante, 31,
screw, at Portsmouth, the intended flagship of the
gallant Admiral for the Pacific station.
The Siren, 16, Commander G. M. Balfour, whose
arrival at Spithead on Monday from Pernambuco
was reported in The Sun of yesterday, sailed into
Portsmouth harbour yesterday at 5 30 p.m., and
took up a berth for stripping and paying off.
The new screw steam gun vessel Landrail, in-
tended to carry five guns, launched on Thursday at
Deptford, having been fitted with her engines of 80
horse power, was yesterday towed down to Wool-
wich by the steam tug Bustler to be completed for
service.

Her Majesty's military store steamship Lord
Panmure, 11. T. Moore, commander,• yesterday
sailed from Woolwich, laden with Armstrong guns
and other war materials.

The hired transports Sarah, Secret, Robert Hay,
and Royalist have commenced shipping cargoes of
war stores from Woolwich arsenal, and the follow-
ing vessels were yesterday chartered to load from
the docks, namely :—The Teal, Woodbine, Banshee,
Sohn Romilly, Lord of the Isles, and the Brisk.
A huge ship's boiler, on a new principle, intro-
duced by the Earl of Dundonald, fitted with verti-
cal instead of horizontal tubes, which, in lieu of
acting as flues, will contain water serving to gene-
rate steam, and stipulated to create an economy in
the consumption of fuel, was yesterday received at
Woolwich from Birmingham, and is ordered to be
tested and reported on by the officers of the factory
department of the dockyard for the information of
the Board of Admiralty.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—J. D'Arcy Harvey, assistant
clerk to the Conqueror ; A. S. Ramsay, assistant
clerk supernumerary to the Nile ; J. S. Cannon, as-
sistant clerk to the Hawke ; and W. B. Harvey, 2d
class assist.-engineer to the Victoria and Albert.