The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-23 00:00:00

2L1.13 NAVY.

The screw steamship Hero, 91, Captain G. Sey-
mour, is appointed to be removed today (Monday)
from Hamoaze into the basin at Keyham steam-
yard, and to be placed to-morrow in No. 1
dock. Messrs. Wakling, upholsterers, of London,
have received instructions to fit her cabins for the
reception of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 20, Capt.
F. H. H. Glasse, at Plymouth, is receiving stores
and provisions for foreign service.
The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. Tumour, has been
placed in No 7 Dock, at Portsmouth, and a portion
of her copper stripped off for the purpose of die-
covering and remedying the leak in her stern. Her
crew have been berthed on board a hulk in the har-
bour while she is in dock.

The Torch gunboat has been taken into No. 1
Dock at Chatham, just vacated by the Plover, 5,
steam gun-vessel, which is being prepared for the
China waters, to replace the other vessel of that
name destroyed at the attack on the Peiho forts.
The discharge of the supernumerary labourers at
Chatham dockyard has ceased for the present, and
no more are to be discharged from that establish-
ment until further orders. On Saturday 65 super-
numerary shipwrights, smiths, joiners, and other
mechanics were discharged from the dockyard, but
the shipwrights will be re-engaged to-day for the
purpose of being employed in breaking up the Alba-
tross, 12, which has been taken into dock for that
purpose. _ _

The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M.
Bruce, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, at noon,
from Guernsey, with the head-quarters of the 10th
brigade of Royal Artillery, consisting of Col. Dun-
lop, in command, Capt. and Adjt. Kearnes, Capt.
Robinson, Lieuts. Lemotte and Gilles, Surg. M'ln-
tosh, Quartermaster Haynes, and about 220 non-
commissioned officers and men, and 60 women and
children. The Firebrand steamed direct into har-
bour on her arrival, and the troops disembarked at
the south jetty of the dockyard. Headed by the
Artillery band, they were marched into quarters at
the Point Battery. _ _

On Friday a second trial of the machinery of the
screw steam gunvessel Espoir, 5, took place outside
Plymouth breakwater ; revolutions, 98 per minute ;
pressure, 201 b.; speed, 10.05 knots.
The screw steam surveying vessel Porcupine, 3,
Capt. H. C. Atter, left Plymouth Sound on Friday
for the coast of Scotland.

The screw steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Douglas
Currey, at Plymouth, has received orders to prepare
for sea.

The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain
Sotheby, C. 8., is appointed to be taken outside Ply-
mouth Sound to-morrow (Tuesday), to try her
machinery ; and the gunboat Procris will be tested
on Wednesday.

The paddlewheel steamsloop Virago, 6, Comman-
der Dunn, steamed from the Sound into Hamonze
on Saturday, to have some defects made good. She
went alongside the coal depot.

The sailing sloop Atalanta, 16, Commander S. Pas-
ley, was traniported from the Devonport dockyard
on Saturday to the sheer-hulk Kent, and having
had her masts and bowsprit taken out, returned to
her berth.

The hired freight ship Arethusa, Capt. Welsh,
from Belize with mahogany, arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Friday evening, where, through the neg-
ligence of the pilot, her heel caught on the rocks in
Batten Bay. On Saturday morning she floated off,
and went up Hamoaz 3 to discharge.
The wind having veered round to the north, and
the tide having approached the average height on
Saturday afternoon, the hired transport Havering
was at 24 minutes after four o'clock floated off the
Batten Ridge, in Plymouth Sound, by Mr. Orchard,
of the rigging department in the dockyard Devon-
port. The Board of Trade inquiry, which com-
menced at St. George's-hall, Stonehouse, on Thurs-
day, in reference to the stranding of this ship, con-
tinued on Friday and Saturday, and will proceed
to-day, Monday.

The ship Rainbow has just delivered a cargo of
Italian oak at Portsmouth dockyard. It is said
that this timber had been collected for the French
naval yards, and that a large quantity of similar
character had already been delivered. Whether
this be true or not, the cargo which the Rainbow
has discharged is one of the finest assortments of
Italian oak which has ever becn delivered at Ports-
mouth dockyard.

A court-martial is expected to assemble on board
her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour,
this morning, for the trial of the men undermen-
tioned (part of the crew of her Majesty's ship
Edgar, flagship of Rear-Admiral Erskine, second
in command of the Channel fleet), on the charges
annexed to their names : William Mathews,
Thomas Doidge, Alfred Gunstan, Alfred Fry,
William Harvey, William Parker, Charles Lucas,
James Trickey, Daniel Mooney, and Charles
Cannon, private marines; and Henry Dawson,
gunner, Royal Marine Artillery ; on a charge of
disobeying orders to fall in at two different times
when the watch was piped to do so. James Haining,
gunner, Royal ikkarine Artillery, and John Menzies,
private, Royal Marines, for preventing John Clarke
from being put in irons, and rescuing him from the
sergeant and corporal who had him in charge.
George W. Smith, A. 8., for inciting a seaman named
Cook to disobey orders, and to make a disturbance
and unship ladders, &c. John Clarke, private,
Royal Marines, for having when the port watch
was mustered, endeavoured to delay and discourage
the service by falling in with that watch instead of
the starboard, to which he belonged, and for mis-
conduct in the boat when being conveyed to the
Victory a prisoner. Geo. Jervis, ordinary seamen,
for inciting Cook to disobedience of orders, and for
wilfully disobeying orders by remaining below
when his watch was piped to fall in. Rear-Admi-
ral the Hon. Sir H. Keppel, K.C.8., it is believed,
will t.oe president of the Court.

A court-martial was held at Plymouth on Friday,
on board the flagship Impregnable, to try Mr. A. C.
Yule, paymaster, for neglect of duty. The prisoner
pleaded guilty, and ascribed the inattention to ill-
health. The Court ordered him to be put on half-
pay and not to be again employed until he was
sufficiently restored to be entitled to a suitable
medical certificate. The same Court tried George
Burns, sailmaker's crew of the Terrible, on a charge
of theft, which having been proved, he was sentenced
to hard labour in the county prison for six months,
and then to be dismissed the service.

Mr. Miller, late clerk of the works at Pembroke,
took up his appointment at Woolwich on Saturday,
vice Bernays, transferred to Pembroke.
Seventy-six artisans and labourers were dis-
charged from Devonport dockyard on Saturday.