The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-16 00:00:00

IHE NAVY.

The lines and drawings for the Belvedere and
Royal Oak, two of the new screw steamers which
the Admiralty have ordered to be laid down at
Chatham Dockyard, having been prepared under
the direction of Sir Baldwin Walker, Controller of
the Navy, the vessels are to be commenced at Chat-
ham forthwith. There are several other line-of-
battle and other steamers now building at that esta-
blishment, including the Bulwark, 91 ; the Atlas
91 ; the improved steam frigate Undaunted, 51 ;
the screw corvette Orpheus, 21 ; and the Rattle-
snake, 20, in addition to which the Rodney, 91, and
the Galatea, 26, are in dock fitting for service. In
consequence of the efforts which are now being
made to complete the vessels on the stocks during
the present year the workmen and mechanics in
most of the establishments are employed overtime,
and are working until a late hour in the evening,
The paddle-wheel steam sloop Alecto, Commander
Raby, for the West Coast of Africa, and the gun-
boat Louisa, for Left;:, having sailed from Wool-
wich on Saturday, were delayed at Greenhithe un-
til yesterday, when they left for their destinations,
the former calling -at Portsmouth and Plymouth.
The iron screw steam storeship Industry, Master-
Cominander George J. Hodges, for Rio, sailed yes-
terday from Deptford to be swung at Grewhithe,
to be adjusted for sea.
Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K C. 8., will
probably leave Plymouth Sound, in the screw
steamship Emerald, 51, Captain A. Cumming, for
the West India station, about Saturday next.
The screw steam gun-vessel Alacrity, 4, Com-
mander Baird, having been thoroughly repaired,
left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday for the Meliter-
ranean.
The screw steamship Majestic, 80, Capt. Mends,
C. 8., left Plymouth Sound under steam on Tuesday
for Liverpool.
The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, GO, left
Plymouth on Tuesday with stores for Falmouth.
The Flying Fish, 6, screw despatch-vessel, Com-
mander Charles W. Hope, at Portsmouth, has been
placed in No. 1 dock, to make good some defects in
her rudder.

The Megwra, screw troopship, in No. 8 dock at
Portsmouth, is having the surface of her plates on
the inside covered with a patent cement, to pro-
tect her rivet-heads from the wash of the bilge
water and grit when at sea.
The Ariadne, 26, screw, Captain Vansittart, will
be unable to aesume her experimental trials at the
measured mile in Stoke's Bay before the 20th inst.,
owing to the tides.
The Arachne, 18, sailing sloop, Commander John
E. Montgomerie, is hourly expected to arrive at
Spithead from the West Indies.
The materials for the erection of the coaling jetty
in front of the watering island at Portsmouth
Dockyard are being unloaded from a bark in the
harbour, and the staff of the contractors are about
to commence operations forthwith. The sum
allotted for the work in the Navy Estimates for
1860-1 is £5,377, £lO,OOO having been already
vcted for the purpose, making the total estimate
amount to £15,377. _

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander J. W. White to be
Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice
Commander Gryles, deceased ; Commander E. F.
Dent to be Inspecting Commander of the Coast-
guard, vice Commander Clarke, whose period of
service has expired ; James Symon, second master,
to the Himalaya ; Robert Gill, promoted to be
second class assist. engineer in the Tribune ; Aaron
H. Symes, acting third class assist.-engineer, to
the Fisgard, for service in the Monkey ; Robert J.
M'Morris, acting assist.-surg. to the Forte ; John
Brown, acting assist..surg. to the Donegal; Frede-
rick W. S. Ponsonby, secretary to Commodore Dun-
lop at Jamaica; W. E. Chown, assist.-paymaster,
to the Cornwallis; W. B. Risk, assist.-paymaster,
to the Forte ; W. H. E. iNlitchell, clerk, to the
Forte ; L. H. Edwards, assist.-clerk, to the Sans-
pareil ; and Edward B. Cornish, af:sist.-clerk, to the
Forte.

The proposal of raising an Artillery Corps of
Volunteers in her Majesty's Dockyard, Wool wich, I
having been submitted to the heads of departments
by mechanics and others serving in the dockyard,
and their proposition having been forwarded by the
Commodore-Superintendent for the consideration crf
the Board of Admiralty, their lordships have signi-
fied their approTal of its organization. The first
preliminary meeting on the subject was held last
evening in the Dockyard School-room for the pur-
pose of adopting measures to carry out the propo-
sition.