The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-20 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral Stopfordstruck his flag yesterday
(Friday) on board the screw stamship Royal Albert,
121, Captain H. Lacon, in Plymouth Sound, and is
gone on leave of absence. The crew were exercised
yesterday firing shot from the port side towards the
eastern entrances.

Rear-Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley, Superintendent
of the Devonport Dockyard, returned on Thursday
evening from leave of absence, and rehoisted his
flag on board the Royal Adelaide in Hamoaze.
Captain Jerningham, of the gunnery ship Cam-
bridge, has also returned from leave of absence.
The Foxhound, 4, screw, Commander Mitchell,
has steamed out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead
on the completion of her repairs, &c.
The Himalaya, screw ship, Capt. John Seccombe,
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spit-
head to make good defects.
The Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. Cockburn, is under-
going repairs in No. 8 Dock, at Portsmouth. The
copper has been stripped off her bows for examina-
tion of her wooden ends, &c. Gangs of shipwrights
and caulkers are engaged upon her decks and upper
works.

The Tribune, sere w frigate, in the steam basin at
Portsmouth, has been taken in hand by the ship-
wright department. From the appearance of her
stern, and a portion of her timbers, her required re-
pairs proniise to be of a somewhat extensive cha-
racter.

The Algiers, 91, screw, Capt. G. D. O'Callaghan,
has had the leading corners of her propeller re-
moved. Her main and mizen lower rigging (wire)
is in position and topmasts on end.
The Edgar, 91, screw, Capt. ICaton, is ordered to
unship her propeller, for the purpose of removing
its leading corners.

The .Megvera, screw troopship, Commander S. H.
Henderson, at Portsmouth, will proceed thence to
the Mediterranean with detachments of troops,
supernumeraries, &c.

The Immortalite, 51, screw, will be placed in the
steam basin at Portsmouth to-day, to make more
room in the harbour, in consequence of the presence
of part of the Channel Fleet in the port.
The Undaunted, old target ship, was yesterday
towed down from her position in Porchester Lake,
for the purpose of breaking up, in the south dock
of the dockyard. By the aid of a large number of
men on board with pumps, the frigate was brought
to the entrance of the dock, but caught the ground
when half way in, and will have to remain in that
position until to-day's tide. The Undaunted has
lain in a sunken position in the lake since she was
set on fire, come considerable time since, by the
experimental firing with Martin's molten iron
shells, on which occasion she was scuttled to extin-
guish the fire.
The following line-of-battle ships are now at
Portsmouth, commissioned and in reserve :—Edgar,
91 guns, 600-horse power ; Algiers, 91, 600-horse
power; Trafalgar, 91, 500-horse power; Duke of
Wellington, 131, 700-horse power ; Royal Sove-
reign, 131, 800-horse power; Victoria, 121, 1,000-
horse power ; Duncan, 101, 800-horse power ; Prin-
cess Royal, 91, 400-horse power ; Nelson, 91, 500-
horse power ; Frederick-William, 86, 500-horse
power, giving a total of 1,156 guns and a nominal
steam power of 7,200 horses.
The Orpheus, 21, screw corvette,4oo-horse power,
fitting at Chatham for the second division of the
steam reserve, got up steam yesterday, in order to
try her machinery, which was found to work in all
respects very satisfactorily.
The weather was so severe at Plymouth, on
Thursday, and the wind from the south-west so
strong that many of the men ashore on leave from
the ships of war in the Sound had great difficulty

in joining them. A gunboat, by order from the
Admiral's office, towed the launches off from De-
vonport, and at Plymouth a number of the crew
belonging to the Royal Albert, unable to face the
storm in watermen's boats clubbed together, and
hired a trawl sloop to convey them on board. _

The paybooks of the screw steamship Donegal,
101, Capt. H. Broadhead, having arrived at Devon-
port, the crew will probably be paid on Monday.
A court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's
ship Victory in Portsmouth harbour yesterday, to
try Wm. Peters, a private Royal Marine, serving
on board her Majesty's ship Excellent, on a charge
of having, on the Bth inst., struck Sergeant Richard
Hollis, Royal Marines, he being his superior officer,
and in the execution of his duty. The Court con-
sisted of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine, president,
and Captains Fanshawe, O'Callaghan, Harris,
Cockburn, Wilson, Caldwell, C. 8., Coote, Katon,
Hayes, and Seccombe. At the conclusion of the
' evidenoe for the prosecution the prisoner, being
called upon for his defence, threw himself upon the
merciful consideration of the Court, alleging that
he was under the influence of liquor at the time he
committed the offence. Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8.,
commanding the Excellent, gave the prisoner a
very high character. The Court then closed for
deliberation, and after a lengthy period reopened.
The prisoner was found guilty of the charg6 brought
against him, and was sentenced to receive 50 lashes
on board the Excellent, to lose his good conduct
badge, to be placed in the second class, and to be
imprisoned for six months, with hard labour, in
Winchester Gaol.

On a court martial held on board the flagship
Impregnable in Hamoaze, Plymouth, on Thursday,
Captain H. Broadhead, Donegal, president, Mr.
John Kinsman, gunner of the first class, belonging
to the St. George, was tried on a charge of drunken-
ness, which was proved, and he was adjudged to
be reduced to the second class, and to be dismissed
from the ship.
GOOD SERVICES.—There is a man at Pembroke