The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

TILE NA IT.

By the last accounts from China, the Admiral had
purchased for the Government a new and very fast
paddle-wheel steamer, lately built at Whauspoa,
and fitted (it was supposed) for the opium trade.
Her name had not been fixed, although it was
thought she would be called the Tay. Lieut. G. D.
Broad, who distinguished himself in the gunboat
Haughty at the Peiho attack, has been selected by
Admiral Hope for the command of this clipper,
which was to be employed as a despatch-boat in the
forthcoming expedition to the north. With the
exception of the second master and the engineer,
the whole of the Haughty's crew were turned over
to the new steamer. _ _

The St. George, 91 guns, Capt. the Hon. Francis
Egerton, has arrived in Liverpool from Plymouth.
The St. George will for the present occupy the
same position as that recently held by the Majestic,
Capt. Mends. •
The launch of the large line-of-battle screw
steamer Atlas, 91 guns, will take place at Chatham
Dockyard this afternoon, shortly after 2 o'clock, at
which hour the tide will be at its height. The
dockyard gates will be thrown open to the public
about an hour before the time fixed for the launch.

The Racehorse, 4, screw gun vessel, has returned
to Chatham from the Nore, after a trial of her en-
giaes. During the run the speed of the vessel
averaged 12 miles an hour.
The sailing line of-battle ship Indus, 78, CaptA A.
C. Keys, at Devonport, received her jury-masts and
bowsprit on Thursday, and was warped yesterday
from the she& hulk to the dockyard, to expedite
her fitting out.
The rigging of the screw steam-frigate Emerald,
51, Capt. Arthur Cumming, in Keyham steamyard,
is being refitted ; her lower masts were struck on
Thursday:
The screw steam-frigate Narcissus, 51, at Devon-
port, was hauled under the crane in Keyham steam
yard on Thursday, to receive some of her machinery.
The iron paddlewheel steam-vessel Bloodhound,
3, Lieut.-Commander Bennett, from Woolwich, ar-
rived yesterday in Plymouth Sound, on the way to
the West Coast of Africa.
The construction-of another gun despatch vessel
is being proceeded with at Pembroke Dockyard.
She is to be called the Nimble, and is being built in
the same shed and from the same lines as the Espoir,
launched some,little time ago from No. 6 slip. The
Nimble will be the third of these fast despatch vessels
built at Pembroke, and the following will be her
chief dimensions :—Length between perpendiculars,
145 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 127 ft. 10in. ;
breadth extreme, 25ft. sin. ; breadth for tonnage,
25ft. lin. ; breadth moulded, 24ft. bin. ; depth of
hold, 13ft. She will be fitted with engines of 80-
horse (nominal) power.
On Thursday the Torch, 5 guns, screw steam
gun-vessel, 80-horse power (Commander Frederick
H. Smith), left Sheerness Harbour for Maplin
Sands to test her speed at the measured mile,
after having been fitted with gins and gear
preparatory to going to sea. She attained a speed
of nine knots an hour. Sho is to be fitted with one
of Griffith's propellers and to be sent out for further
trial.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—F. T. Jameson, master, to the
Mersey ; D. H. Speir, master, to the Cossack ; E.
B. Walker, paymaster, to the Porcupine; W.
Weaver, paymaster, advanced to the Ist class; G.
J. Steer, paymaster, advanced to the 2d class ; and
E. W. M. Millman, paymaster, advanced to the 3d
class; Lieut. G. D. Bushe to the Orion; Lieut. J.
D'Arcy Irvine, to the Britannia ; A. B. Wodehouse,
mate, to the Marlborough ; J. Marsh, first-class
assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary;
F. C. Ford, promoted to second-class assist.-engi-
neer, to the Skipjack ; I. W. Nott, promoted to
second-class assist: engineer, to the Urgent; W. C.
Moreton, promoted to second-class assist.-engineer,
to the Hecate ; E. Dooley, promoted to second-class
assist.-engineer, to the Furious ; M. Gitt, promoted
to second-class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland,
for the Myrtle ; and H. W. White, acting second-
class assist.-engineer, to the Niger ; W. S. Eames,
itssist.-surg., to the Bloodhound; and E. Thorne,
paymaster, to the St. Vincent.