The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-19 00:00:00

mot,which arrived in Plymouth Sound from Queens-
town, on Thursday, landed her supernumeraries and
p
received stores, and wasreparing on Saturday to
leave Plymouth. She is merely on a cruise.
The screw steamship St. George, 91, Capt. the
Hon. F. Egerton, is preparing to leave Plymouth
Sound. The order for her to go to Spithead has
been annulled, It is said that she will go to Queens-
town, and it is also said that her armament will be
increased preparatory for the reception of his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred as midshipman.
The screw steam corvette Jason, 21, at Plymouth,
is ordered to be commissioned, to have a crew of
270 men, and be stored for foreign service. Before
departure there will be another trial of her machi-
nery at sea. Capt: E. P. B. Von Donop will pro-
bably' hoist his pendant to-day (Monday).
A le'cter of thanks from the Lords of the Admi-
ralty was read on Saturday to the men on board
the guardahip of steam ordinary Indus, 78, Capt.
Key, C. 8., in Hamoaze, for their alaerity in prepar-
in.g the screw steam frigate Orlando, 50, for sea,
'when his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was
expected at Plymouth in the Hero from America.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander G. F. Jackson, from Portsmouth, was
hourly expected at Plymouth on Saturday. She
arrived yesterday (Sunday) morning.
The screw steam sloop Pantaloon, 11, is taking
on board her boilers in the north basin in Keyham
steamyard.
Capt. H. Stewart, C. 8., son of Port-Admiral Sir
H. Stewart, K.C.8., will in a day or two take com-
mand of the flagship Impregnable,lo4, in Hamoaze,
in succession to Capt. Lord F. Kerr.
The metropolitan police force on duty in the
Devonport dockyard are to receive the benefit of
medical assistance in the Royal Naval Hospital at
Plymouth.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, 4, Master
Commander J. C. Pullen, from Woolwich, with
machinery for the screw steam frigate Liverpool,
recently launched at Plymouth, arrived in the
Sound on Saturday. She will be placed in Keyham
steamyard to-day, Monday.
The gun brig Liberty was brought down Hamoaze
on Saturday morning to be fitted in the Devonport
dockyard for a naval instruction brig, probably to
take the place of the Nautilus.

His Netherlands Majesty's screw steamship Ad-
miral Wassenaar went from Plymouth Sound on
Saturday into Hamoaze to ha-re defects made good
and receive a new bowsprit, rudder, &c. She was
assisted up harbour by the steam tugs Confiance and
Prospero.

The entry of the additional artisans required at
Chatham Dockyard, to be employed on the large
iron-cased vessel of war to be constructed at that
establishment, has commenced, and a number of
smiths, hammermen, and other artificers have
already been engaged. The total number of men
who will be employed on the new mail-clad steamer
will be 1,000, it being the intention of the autho-
rities to have her completed with the utmost possi-
ble despatch. Several hundred additional smiths
have yet to be entered, the class of artisans known
as angle-iron smiths and platers being particularly
required, although none but first class mechanics
will be engaged for the work.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—John Sloan, M.D., sur•
geon, to the Royal Adelaide ; William Duirs,
M.D., surgeon, to the Immortalite ; Geo. B. Hills,
surgeon to the Jason ; Wm. Rumble, inspector of
machinery afloat the Marlborough ; John Davey,
inspector of machinery afloat the Royal Albert;
John Downie, inspector of machinery afloat the

Princess Charlotte; Francis Pearce, chief engineer
to the Asia, for the Duke of Wellington ; Richard
H. Cowan, chief engineer to the Asia, for tho
Cressy; John Bonney, chief engineer to the Asia,
for the Racoon ; William Green, acting third-class
assist.-engineer, to the Pigmy ; Thos. Baekhouse,
assist.-paymaster, to the Immortalite ; Horatio W.
P. Kooystra, clerk, to the Jason ; and C. R. Drew,
clerk, to the Immortalite.

THE ARMY.

On Saturday orders were received at Chatham
133' Colonel W. D. Harness, C. 8., Director of the
Itc74l,Engineer Establishment, for the 27th com-
pany of the Royal Engineers, under the command
of Rapt. A. Durnford,be to held in readiness to
proceed to Gibraltar to relieve the 2d company of
Royal Engineers, whose period of foreign service
has expired.
The following isa list of the officers at present
commanding the 9th
the camp at ColehestetraannadlthOtehredgiepmoethbtastctoamlipoonssinign
those battalions :
9it Depot Battalion—Colonel Dixon, C. 8.; lstßoy
_8
Foot,
capaltailiCaptain White; Ist bat-
Thompson ; 54th Foot,
Captain Fowke; 56th
Foot Captain
lrevet-M Bassett ; 66th
Foot, Capt. Walker; 88tb,
Root,
Major Gore.
10th Depot Battalion—coL street
talion sth Fusiliers, Capt..Pender• , C. 8., Ist bat-
Stewart ; 37th Foot, Capt. Pel aly4th Foot, Capt.
Brevet-Major Vance; 44th Foot, Co;
of
t3Bth Foot,
Cobham
97th Foot, Capt. Jones, Ensign Norman ea,
late
abo ;
the Ist Foot, having removed to the 2d battalion,
has received orders to proceed to China with all prat_
ticable despatch. Purveyor R. M. Lonsdalelate
of7dinburgh, has arrived in camp to succeed Pur-
veyor White, ordered to Dublin. A considerable
number of recruits have joined the depots of the
various regiments in camp during the last few
weeks.

The Suffolk Artillery Militia, stationed at Fort
(lower, near Gosport, is under orders to proceed to
Ipswich about the 23d inst., for the purpose of dis-
embodied. The detachment of the regiment on
duty at Marchwood will be relieved by a detach-
ment of the Ist battalion 11th Regiment;

DEATH IN THE HUNTING FIELD.—The members
of the Cambridge Hunt met on Friday at Croxton-park,
when a melancholy event completely marred the anticipated
pleasures of the day. A large party had assembled, and one
gentleman, Mr. Booth--a younger brother of Sir William-
Booth—was suddenly seized with a fit, fell from his
"si and expired almost instantly,