The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-20 00:00:00

211 E NAVY.

Rear-Admiral Sir Alex. Milne, K.C.8., struck
his flag on Wednesday on board the screw steam-
frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. Arthur Cumming, at
Plymouth. She will sail in about a week for the
West Indies, and after conveying Admiral Milne
round the station, will bring his predecessor to
England.
The Nelson, now undergoing pros( ss of conver-
sion at Portsmouth, in No. 3 dock, will be removed
on the 27th instant, and on the following Monday
placed in the steam basin to receive her engines.
The Princess Royal, 91, will be removed from
the steam basin, Portsmouth, and placed in dock
for repairs.
The Sutlej, 50, in dock, Portsmouth, undergoing
the process of conversion into a screw, is being
rapidly brought forward, and will soon be ready to
leave the dock.
The Ariadne, 26, Capt. Vansittart, will steam out
of Portsmouth harbour this morning, and make a
second trial with her screw at the measured mile in
Stekes Bay.
The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8.,
is expected to test her machinery and speed at the
measured mile to-morrow.
The Stromboli, steam sloop, the,Bulldog, 6, steam
sloop, and the Medea, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, are to
be removed from the dock, Portsmouth, about the
27th instant, and placed in the steam basin, to be
brought forward for commission.
The screw steam sloop Greyhound, 17, Com-
mander Sullivan, received. her powder in Hamoaze,
Plymouth, on Wednesday.
The Brilliant, 20, one of the vessels selected by
the Admiralty as a training ship for the Naval
Coast Volunteers, has been commissioned at
Chatham by Capt. A. H. Gardner (1856.) She is
intended to be stationed in the City canal, London.
The Castor, 36, the second vessel selected for the
same duty, has also been commissioned at Chatham,
but no captain has yet joined. The Castor will be
stationed off Greenhithe.

Mr. Taylor, commanding her Majesty's ship Fire-
fly, in basin at Woolwich, under orders to relieve
the Tartarus, Commander Mansell, at Malta, yes-
terday received a despatch from the French Go-
vernment requesting him to present the Imperial
bounty of 16 guineas, in equal proportions, to the
eight men of his ship who so courageously put off in
the ship's cutter, and succeeded in rescuing the
lives of the crew belonging to the French schooner
La Blanche Marie, wrecked in the fearful gale on
the night of the 25th of October, 1859, in the
Guernsey Roads.
The steam storeship Industry, Master Commander
G. J. Hodges, having shipped 70 tons of war stores,
was yesterday hauled out of basin at Woolwich, in
readiness to proceed to Deptford for the shipment
of victualling stores.
The iron steamer Weser, condemned by the Ad-
miralty as inapplicable for the intended voyage to
the River Plate, was yesterday received into basin
at Woolwich to await orders.

Her Majesty's ship Rhadamanthus, Master Com-
mander Sturdee, yesterday commenced shipping
boilers and steam gear at Woolwich for the 50-gun
ship Sutlej at Portsmouth, and will also convey 120
naval recruits, ordered to be removed from the re-
ceiving ship Fisgard to Portsmouth.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Pigmy, 3, Wm.
Johnson master, arrived at Plymouth on Wednes-
day from Portsmouth, with supernumeraries and
men returned with leave. At Keyham steamyard
she took in a shaft for the Firebrand at Portsmouth.

The iron screw steamship Supply, 2, was placed
alongside the coal depot Lavinia, in Plymouth
Sound, oa Wednesday; she is bound to the Medi-
terranean.

The Arcona, 26, screw (Prussian frigate), Com-
modore Sundewald, is expected to sail from Spit-
head for Southampton to-morrow for the purpose of
being docked, the whole of the docks in her Ma-
jesty's dockyard at Portsmouth being engaged.
Last evening Commodore Sundewald, with the offi-
cers of the Prussian squadron and the principal
inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, were
entertained at a ball given in honour of the ap-
proaching departure of the squadron for Japan, at
the residence of the vice-consul, M. Van Den Bergh,
Beresford7house, Seuthsea.

Tile ILltovi g (*.VII net 1111lue yes Ler-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. H. Murphy to
the Ajax ; Dr. T. A. O'Flaherty, acting assisttnt-
surgeon, to the Brunswick ; W. Cockshott, lat class
assistant-engineer, to the Edinburgh ; J. Watson,
2d class assistant-engineer, to the Edinburgh ; A.
Watt, promoted to 2d class assistant-engineer in the
Niger ; J. C. Williams, promoted to 2d class assis-
tant-engineer in the Princess Charlotte; G. F. Wil-
liams, promoted to 2d class assistant-engineer in the
Centurion, as supernumerary in the factory ; D. P.
Staddy, promoted to 2d class assistant-engineer in
the Doris ; H. W. Tregilgas, promoted to 2d class
assistant-engineer in the Cockchafer ; E. Taylor
and R. AV. Jones, promoted to acting 2d class as-
sistant-engineers in the Chesapeake ; James W. E.
Barron, promoted to acting 2d class assistant-engi-
neer in the Buzzard ; C. M'Dermott, paymaster
additional to the A sia ; and Joseph Bright, assistant
paymaster, to the Nile.