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.The following Admiralty notices were yesterday
pe,sted at the entrances of Woolwich dockyard :
" The entry of all artificers and labourers rests
with the superintendent of the dockyard, who is re-
sponsible that no workmen be admitted but such as
are in all respects the best to be obtained for her
Majesty's service. No person will be eligible for
entry whose age exceeds 35 years, to be proved by,
certificates of birth, or extract from baptismal re-
gister. Certificates of character will also be re-
quired. Ever, candidate before entry will be tested
in the use of his tools. He must also be examined
by the superintendent of the yard, and pronounced
fit for service.
" On the first entry for the establishment all men
will be required to serve one month on probation,
and ifat the end of that period they shall have proved
themselves competent to the satisfaction of the
superintendent, the appointments will be confirmed.
In filling up vacancies on the establishment prefer-
ence will be given to hired men in the yard who
are of good character.
"An examination is required of every candidate
for promotion. The surperintendent will select
from the examination list, on the recommendation
of the officers, those who are considered to be best
qualified. The claims of those whose names appear
at the head of the examination list will be dull
considered, but industry, merit, and practical qua-
lifications also have their weight in guiding the
selection. Applications must not be made by per-
sons serving in the dockyard, except through the
superintendent. Any at tempt to obtain promotion
by political or etherlindirect influence will be pun-
ished, for the first offence by reprimand, for the
second offence by reduction to an inferior situation,
and for a third offence by dismissal from the service,
such proceedings having been strictly forbidden by
Order in Council of the 11th of March, 1853.
" Admiralty, Jan. 1, 1860."
Her Majesty's screw steam gun vessel Wanderer,
4, 200-horse power, Commander Mark R. Pechell,
which was paid off at Chatham yesterday, has been
in commission upwards of four years, having been
commissioned at Chatham by Captain. J. P. Luce
in the latter part of 1855. During the whole time
she has been absent from England she has been
cruising in the Mediterranean, where she was em-
ployed as a despatch vessel, cruising chiefly between
Gibraltar, Malta, Corfu Athens, Constantinople,
and in the Black Sea. In February, 1858, Capt.
Luce, on being posted, was succeeded by Comman-
der Pechell, who has held the command ever since.
The crew, generally, have been very healthy, and
there has been but a small number of deaths on
board from sickness during the time the 'Wanderer
has been in commission. In the month of February,
1859, an accident happened off the mouth of the
Danbue, by the upsetting of one of the ship's boats,
in which five seamen were lost. During the whole
time the ship has been in commission there have
only been two cases of corporal punishment. Before
the ship was paid off Commander Pechell mustered
the whole of the petty officers and the crew, and
addresscd a few words to each on their general
character and conduct. The following first-class
petty officers were awarded gratuities by the Ad-
miralty for long service and good conduct :—E.
Bird, carpenter's coxswain ; R. Keast, chief boat-
swain's mate, and T. Allman, blacksmith ; J. Brown-
ing, sailmaker's mate, one of the second-class petty
officers, was also awarded the gratuity. Most of
the crew are continuous service men, and these have
been granted six weeks' run ashore, after which
they will join the guardships at Chatham, Ports-
mouth, or one of the naval ports. The 'Wanderer
is to be thoroughly overhauled and repaired at
Chatham, after which she will be attached to the
steam-reserve, in readiness to be recommissioned.

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The repairs of the screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt.
Arthur P. E. Wilmot, C. 13., at Devon port, are pro-
gressing satisfactorily, She is to be supplied with
a new rudder and stern walk, and will be caulked
inside and out ; the copper has been stripped off at
the water line. While superintending the lower-
ing of a pinnace belonging to the Nile, down the
slip at the dockyard camber, on Wednesday, Com-
mander Mackenzie had his leg broken. It appeared
that the lowering rope was veered round a bollard
to the end of which the man in charge held on. The
tide, however, was so low, that when the pinnace
fell over the bow of the slip, the hook was, by the
sudden fall, disengaged, and, flying round, struck
Commander Mackenzie on the leg and broke it. He
was immediately conveyed to the dockyard surgery,
and after being examined by Staff-Surgeon Mr.
William Folds, was, accompanied by that officer,
carried to the Royal Hospital.
The War Department screw steamvessel Bala-
klava, having dicharged shot and shell at the gun-
wharf, Devonport, left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday
for Woolwich.

The steam screw transport Khersonese, No. 8,
yesterday terminated the shipment of her cargo
of 2,000 tons of war stores for China, and was to
leave Woolwich early this morning to load her
powder and to he adjusted for sea at Greenhithe.
Captain Hurst, late of the Golden Fleece, has been
appointed to the command. The Khersonese is
now the property of Mr. Pearson, of Hull, the
purchase having been effected on Friday last, and
the contract transferred from Mr. Duncan, her late
owner.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamvessel Weser,
Commander J. Raby, brought back to Woolwich,
in consequence of the discovery of her being in-
applicable for her appointed voyage to La Plata,
was yesterday put out of commission, the whole of
the available officers and crew being transferred to
the steam sloop Alecto. Her stores :have been
returned to the depot, and information has been
received of her six guns having been landed at La
Plata, whither they were despatched with a view
of rendering her voyage less perilous.
The Rhadamanthus steam storeship, Master-
, Commander Sturdee, arrived at Portsmouth yes-
terday from Woolwich, with boilers and machinery
for the,,Sutlej, 50, screw steamer, and a number of
supernutmeraries from the Fisgard.
The Virago, 6, paddle, Commander M. B. Dunn,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the westward.
She is expected to take in tow the Pitt coal depot,
for Portland.
The Lucifer paddle steamer, with Second-Master-
Attendant Stokes and party on board, has arrived
at Portsmouth from Portland, where they have
been engaged in laying down moorings for the use
of the Channel fleet.

The Traveller screw gunboat, having on board
Captain George T, Gordon, commanding the Steam
Reserve, and Staff, and Mr. J. I)innen, Admiralty
Inspector of Machinery Afloat, proceeded yester-
day morning to Spithead to test the Mer-
sey frigate at the measured mile with her New
propeller. Shortly after the gunboat's departure
from the harbour a fresh breeze from S.S.E. sprung
up, with every appearance of increasing, and as the
intended trial is one of the greatest importance it
was again deferred until a more favourable oppor-
tunity.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. E. W. Turnour, to the
Forte, commissioned ; Lieut. E. J. Squire and
Lieut. E. H. Wilkinson, to the Forte ; Francis H.

May, master, to the Forte ; Dr. J. J. Crawford,
surgeon to the Forte ; Thomas T. Murray, chief
engineer, to the Cumberland, for charge of tha Ma-
chinery of the Rodney ; Dr. P. IV. Wallace, assist.-
surgeon additional to the Ganges ; J. P. Courtenay,
acting assist.-surgeon, to the S,ltellite; Albert 1.
O'ltorke, naval cadet, to the Forte ; and the Hon.
E. H. Ellis, naval cadet, to the Emerald.
The heavy baggage of the Ist battalion 9th Foot
was yesterday embarked on board the screw troop-
ship Perseverance, Connnander E. B. Power, at
Portsmouth. The troops will embark to-day.

SUICIDE IN A GAOL—The man Thomas Shore,
who cut his throat with glass in the county
gaol in this
city, sometime during the night of Monday „,ennight, died
on Tuesday afternoon at about a quarter to three o'clock.
There never was the slightest hope of his recovery,. for in
addition to inflicting the wound in his throat, severing the
windpipe and gullet, he had injured his head byraising his
iron bedstead against the wall, and pulling it down upon
him. For the first day or two he could speak in a low
tone, but he afterwards lost the power to do so. He was
unable to take any nourishment, and gradually sank, He
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