The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-23 00:00:00

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The following promotions were made on the re-
turn of the squadron with his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales from America ;—Commander F.
IL Stirling, of the Hero, to be Captain ; Lieut. A.
Philips, of the Ariadne, to be Commander ; and
Messrs. Parsons, Williams, Francis, and S. D.
Broughton, mates of the Hero, to be Lieutenants.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred is to join the
St. George, 90, Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, at this
port. The Rev. W. L. Onslow, chaplain and naval
instructor of the Euryalus, will also join the St.
George as special instructor to the Prince. Mr.
Barris, of the Britannia, training ship at Ports-
mouth, has been selected to attend the Prince in
the St. George. In this ship the royal midshipman,
we hear, will visit the West India Islands and
North America.—Plymouth Journal.
The following letter, dated Valetta, Nov. 15, is
from a Malta correspondent :
" Since my last letter I have only to announce,
in the way of movements of our men•of-war, the
departure on the 12th inst. for Corfu, to bring back
invalids, of the steam troopship Megmra, Com.
Henderson, and the arrival on the 14th of the gun-
boats Foxhound and Alacrity, the former from
England and Gibraltar, and the latter from Corfu.
Owing to some accidental cause that has not trans-
Fired, the Megmra returned into port soon after
leaving, signals having been made for her to do so.
She left again immediately for thesame destination.
Several officers of the garrison took passage by her
for a trip. The Foxhound has been a long while on
her passage, having been 23 days from England,
and 9 from Gibraltar. The Alacrity leaves with a
mail for the fleet at Corfu to-night.
" On the 14th inst., in pursuance of a general
order issued the preceding day, the guns bearing on
the sea front of this fortress were manned at a pre-
concerted signal and repeatedly fired, as if to ward
off an attack from that direction. 100 men, with a
.due proportion of officers from each of the battalions
of the line regiments in garrison, selected for their
efficiency in gun-drill, took part with the Royal
Artillery in this affair. The booming of the heavy
ordnance drew numbers of the inhabitants to the
line walls to witness the firing.
"Sir W. Codrington, K.C.8., the present Gover-
nor of Gibraltar, and towards the end of the Cri-
mean campaign commander-in-chief of the British
army before Sebastopol, who arrived here on the 7th
inst. in the troopship Megmra, on leave of absence,
left on the 9th, in the French packet Vatican, for
Naples.
"The English screw steamer Elba arrived yes-
terday from England, and commenced early this
morning, under the superintendence of Capt. Drake,
of the Royal Engineers, laying the submarine elec-
tric cable, brought out by her, to connect the diffe-
rent forts and military and naval stations of this
fortress with head-quarters at the palace."
The Charybdis, 21, screw, Capt. the Hon. G. D.
Keane, arrived at Spithead on Wednesday from the
eastward, exchanging the usual honorary salutes
with the Victory, flag-ship of the Commander-in-
Chief, on anchoring. She sailed again yesterday at
2 p.m., by the Needles passage, for Devonport.
The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock,
at Portsmouth, still awaits orders from the Admi-
ralty. Her crew are granted leave ashore each
evening in watches.
The Meteor, 16, floating battery, in dock at
Portsmouth, has had her plates parallel with her
main deck ports taken off, and the row underneath
are in course of removal. So far as can be ascertained
at present, this vessel is rotten fore and aft. Scarcely
a sound timber can be seen in her. Several of her
beams and a large portion of her shelf pieces are
little better than a mass of dust held together by
the paint.
The Coquette, 6, screw, in dock at Portsmouth, is
receiving her copper, and will be undocked in a few
days. She has been nearly two-thirds rebuilt.
The Rosamond 6, paddle, in the dock adjoining
the Coquette, has her bulwarks down fore and aft,
planking stripped to expose timber heads, and is
otherwise undergoing a thorough overhaul and re-
pair, both internally and externally. This vessel is
the fever-stricken Eclair, on board which so many
lives were lost some years since.
The Euryalus, 51, screw, paid off at Portsmouth
on Monday last, has been taken in hand by the
steam reserve, and commenced returning her re-
maining stores, Sc.c. She is to be fitted with a poop
on the same plan as the Forte, and is expected to be
commissioned for the flagship on the Pacific or
China station. The Euryalus was paid off on the
plan which the late Admiral Sir Charles Napier so
long and earnestly advocated.
In consequence of the severe storm from the south-
ward experienced at Plymouth on Wednesday, it
was not considered prudent to attempt to move any
of the ships in the Sound, but, the weather having
moderated, yesterday the screw steamship Hero, 91,
Commodore Seymour, got up steam and proceeded
into Hamoaze, to have defects made good, and the
furniture used by his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales and suite returned. The screw steam
frigate Ariadne, 26, Capt. Edward W. Vansittart,
also got up steam, went into the inner harbour,
and discharged her powder. The screw steam
gun vessel Flying Fish, 6, Commander C. W.
Hope, left the Sound at the same time, and
went into Hamoaze to have her defects made good.
The defects of the screw steamship Sanspareil,
78, Capt. Wilmot, in Plymouth Sound, are made
good. She has received supernumeraries for the
Ajax at Kingston, and is preparieg for sea.
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Bart.,
Admiral Superintendent of the Devonport Dock-
yard, struck his flag yesterday on board the Royal
Adelaide, 104, Capt. Hall, in Hamoaze, and has
gone on leave of absence. The duties of his office
devolve in the meantime on Commander J. Brown,
Master Attendant of the yard.
The steam sloop Ariel, 9, Commander Alexander,
at Devonport, continues under examination. She
is ordered to be undocked, probably for the purpose
of getting up steam for another trial.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Rhadamanthus,
4, Master Commander Frederick R. Sturdee, has
been placed alongside the Royal William Victual-
ling yard, at Plymouth, for the purpose of receiving
several hundred casks of provisions.
The defects of the paddlewheel steam sloop
Spiteful, 6, Commander Wilson, at Devonport,
having been made good and the rake of her fore-
mast altered, she will shortly remove into Plymouth
Sound,
The defects of the gunboat Porpoise, at Devon-
port
have been made good and she is now out of
Styearendl, '
of the artisans of the dockyard.
got up yesterday on board the pad-
dlewheel teeleft_ sloop Geyser, Commander Jackson,
and she
i'lYraouth Sound for Lisbon taking
supernumeravi
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or the fleet in the Tagus.
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Dee was hauled yesterday
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hulk Pallas to cold 'Am, and placed alongside the
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for Pembroke. eparatory to her departure

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n a
charge of drunkenness.
The following vessels are in the steam basin
Portsmouth :—The Immortalite, 51, screw , at
G. Hancock, caulking and fitting for service ; the
Harrier, 17, screw, Commander Sir Malcolm
M'Gregor, fitting out for service ; the Firebrand,
6, paddle, Commander J. M. Bruce, refitting; the

Frederic William, 86, screw, completed fitment of
machinery, and will make her official trial next

spring ; the Sutlej, 51, screw; the Pelican, 17,

screw; and the Volcano, paddle, floating factory.
The ships in commisssion at Portsmouth (sea-
going vessels) comprise three screw liners, three
screw frigates, one screw corvette, and three paddle
sloops, giving a total force of 131 guns, propelled
by 5,430 horse-power of engines (nominal).
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. E. F. Weld, addi-
tional to the Hawke, for the Coastguard Service ;
Henry W. Inglis, master, to the Gorgon ; Frede-
rick Townshenl, master, to the Icarus ; Jas. Roffee,
chief engineer, to the Asia, for the Sutlej ; Peter