The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

2BE NAVY.

On Saturday her Majesty's screw steam sloop
Miranda, 15 guns, 250 horse power, Commander H.
C. Glyn, under the charge of Commander 0. B.
Crews Read, and Mr. W. Price, inspector of machi-
nery afloat at Sheerness (on the part of the steam
ordinary), and Mr. G. Blaxland, chief engineer in
her Majesty's dockyard (on the part of the dockyard
authorities), left Sheerness harbour and proceeded
to Mapling Sands for a trial of her machinery at
the measured mile, previous to her leaving this port
for Portsmouth. She attained the mean speed of
81 knots per hour, but it was found necessary to
bring her into the harbour again, to undergo some
alterations in her boiler, consequent upon the too
great accumulation of water. She will remain at
Sheerness for some days further until the defects
are made good.
The Charybdis, 21 guns, screw steam corvette,
400 horse power, Capt. the Hon. G. D. Keane, was
minutely inspected, and the crew exercised at quar-

ters and target practice on Monday, by the Com-
mander-in-Chief at Sheerness, Vice-Admiral W. J.
Hope Johnstone, and staff, after which she left that
port for Devonport to a wait final orders.
The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Captain Sir F. L. M'Clin-
took, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday
from Spithead, and awaits further orders from the
Admiralty. The appearance of this vessel—her
damaged stern and paddlewheels, shattered bul-
warks, and empty boats' davits, sufficiently indi-
cate the tremendous weather she must have gone
through since leaving England. The voyage of the
Bulldog has satisfactorily proved the great infe-
riority of a paddlewheel vessel to a screw in navi-
gating the Polar Seas, especially in reference to the
damage the wheel and boats received by their con-
tact with the ice. _ .

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The Fancy, screw gunboat, has been placed in
dock at Portsmouth to have her beds lowered prior
to receiving her new boilers. The latter are fitted
on the tube-protecting plan of Mr. Langley, in-
spector of machinery afloat, and attached to her
Majesty's Royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
The following ships were in Plymouth Sound
yesterday afternoon :—The screw steamship Hero,
91, Commodore George H. Seymour, C.B. ; the
screw steam frigate Ariadne, 26, Capt. Edward W.
Vansittart ; the screw steam sloop Flying Fish, 6,
Commander Charles W. Hope ; the screw steam-
ship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Arthur P. D. Wilmot,
C.B. ; the screw steamship St. George, 90, Capt.
the Hon. F. Egerton ; and the paddlewheel steam
sloop Geyser, 6, Commander George M. Jackson.
The defects of the Sanspareil are being made good
where she lies. She will be ready in a few days.
The crew of the St. George were inspected yester-
day by Port-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8.,
who was conveyed from Mount Wise in the
steamer Avon.
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, with her
Imperial Majesty the Empress of Austria, is ex-
pected to-morrow in Plymouth Sound. After coal-
ing, the yacht will proceed to Madeira.
The paddlewheel steamsloop Spiteful, 6, Com-
mander Wilson, in Hamoaze, is filled with coal,
and is having defects made good by the artisans of
the Devonport dockyard.
The engines of the gunboats Heron and Dotterel,
in Keyham steamyard, were tried yesterday, when
the boats were secured in the basin.
The paddlewheel steam storeship, Dee, 4, Master
Commander T. C. Pullen, was hauled yesterday
into the basin at Keyhamlsteamyard, to unload
boilers and marine gear:
The supernumeraries brought from Portsmouth
to Plymouth on Sunday by the paddlewheel steam
sloop Gorgon, 6, Commander Jackson, have been
transferred to the reserve depot ship Royal Adelaide,
104, Capt. William K. Hall, in Hamoaze.
Steam was got up on Monday on board the screw
steam corvette Jason, 21, at Plymouth, and she went
from Hamoaze outside the Breakwater to try her
speed at the measured mile, and returned to
Hamoaze.

The: entry of additional blacksmiths and other
mechanics who will be required to be employed on
the iron-cased war steamer about to be commenced
at Chatham, is still proceeding, and hands are
being taken on at the dockyard daily.
The Supply, screw storeship, Master Commander
Balliston, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Malta
with returned stores, &c. At sunset she was making
preparations to proceed to Woolwich.
The Balaklava ordnance steam-vessel, Master W.
Pellatt, and the Lord Panmure, Master F. H.
Moore, have each received a cargo of shot, shell,
and military stores at the Royal Arsenal for various
home stations.
On Saturday his Imperial Majesty the Emperor
of Russia's frigate, the Olege, 50 guns, screw
steamer, arrived at Sheerness from the Downs, and
saluted the garrison with 21 guns, and the flag of
the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral W. J.
Hope Johnstone, with 15 guns, which were respec-
tively returned with the same number. The Olege
is now engaged in taking in a supply of coals pre-
vious to her departure for Plymouth.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Dr. John Johnson (c),
surg., to the Sanspareil ; Dr. Wm. Carmichael, act-
ing assist.-surg. to the Immortalite ; Charles C.
Mitchinson, acting assist.-surg. to the Jason ; Wm.
Stewart and Geo. Sullivan, acting third-class assist.-
engineers to the Cumberland, as supernumeraries ;
John Reeth, acting third-class assist.-engineer to
the Indus, as supernumerary; and Alfred Smith,
assist.-clerk to the Colossus.