The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Vice• Admiral Arthur Fanshawe, K.C.8., struck
his flag on board the Impregnable, 104, on Wednes-
day evening at sunset, and went on a month's leave
of absence. The duties of Port-Admiral will de-
volve on Sir T. S. Pasley, Admiral Superintendent
of the Devonport Dockyard.
The trial of the engines of the paddlewheel steani-
sloop Geyser, 6, has given entire satisfaction. She
was taken to the sheer hulk at Devonport on Th
day to have her masts put in.
The screw g anvessel Wrangler, 4, Commander
Beamish, is to have her defects made good at
Devonport. She went into Hamoaze on Thursday
afternoon for that purpose.
The paddlewheel steam tender Advice, M. Ray-
mond, second master commanding, will have her
defects made good at Devonport, and return to
Queenstown.

The Hecate, 6, paddle, arrived at Spithead
yes-
terday morning from the eastward.
The Lizard paddlewheel steanzvessel, Lieut. E.
E. Maunsell, has arrived at Sheerness from Devon-
port and Portsmouth, with supernumeraries for the
Barracouta, 6, paddlewheel steamsloop, Commander
W. Wood, and the Torch, 5, screw steam gunboat,
commissioned at Chatham, by Commander F. H.
Smith.

Admiralty orders were yesterday received at the
office of the steam reserve in Woolwich Dockyard,
instructing the enrolment of first and second class
boys for the navy, at present limited to 20 per week,
to be increased to 50 per week. The days ap-
pointed for the examination and reception of the
recruits have been fixed for Tuesdays and Thurs-
days in each week.

The following transports have been chartered by
the War Department for the shipment of stores
from Woolwich,—the Eliza Nelson, Gottenburg,
Prosperous, Scorfle, and Plover.
Mr. T. H. Robins, of the store department, Wool-
wich Dockyard, has been promoted to the vacant
chief clerkship at the Naval Establishment in
Jamaica.

Capt. Rundell Burgess Watson, C. 8., having
been superseded at his own request, owing to pro-
tracted ill health, the Admiralty have appointed
Captain Charles Wise (late of the Vesuvius), Aide-
do-Camp to the Queen, Captain Superintendent of
the Sheerness Dockyard.
An Admiralty order has been received at the
Sheerness Dockyard for the entry of a number of
extra shipwrights, caulkers, and labourers.
The following Naval Cadets, having com-
pleted their course of instruction, were discharged
yesterday, from her Majesty's ship Britan-
nia, to seagoing ships :—Mr. H. H. Gren-
fell, awarded a regulation dirk, for proficiency in
mathematics and navigation; A. Ross, second in
mathematics and navigation ; E. W. Hennah,
awarded a pocket compass, for proficiency in
French and drawing combined ; J. L. Luckraft,
C. T. Hodgkinson' awarded a telescope, for profi-
ciency in seamanship; J. H. Leventhorpe, A. M.
Ducat, P. B. Aitkens, P. S. Menteath, J. S. Bruce,
G. Usborne, C. T. Francis, H. E. Walters, B. H.
Dunn, second in seamanship ' • T. Ferris, W. Wise-
man, second in French and drawing; E. T. Dug-
dale, R. B. Needham, A. 0. Tottenham, J. A. Clif-
ton, E. G. Fasting, T. J. Hoghton, J. A. Wilkins,
G. La Costa, Hon. E. Browne, B. W. Fielding, E.
Herrick, P. E. Bowly, H. Ching, F. M. Bland, L.
Dacres, E. W. Cole, G. I. Bolton, A. J. Booth,
P. A. Black, W. Freeland, F. A. Gataker, H. B.
Lang, C. J. Prevost, G. G. Boys, R. 0. Webb.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—John E. Knight, master, to
the Wasp; Charles Cettow, chief engineer, to the
Colossus; George Kent, chief engineer, to the
Archer; Thomas Davies, chief engineer, to the
Blenheim ; C. P. B, Jones, first-class assist.-engi-
neer, to the Blenheim ; James Ross and Saunders,
first-class assist.-engineers, to the Colossus ; Wil-
liam Roberts and Edwin Hawke, second-class as-
sist.-engineers, to the Blenheim ; Edwin Pearce,
second-class assist-engineer, to the Bulldog; John
Crichton, acting third-class assist.-engineer, to the
Colossus; Andrew Templeton, acting third-
class assist.-engineer to the Colossus, for service
in th 3 Biter ; Albert Joliffe, acting third-class
assist.-engineer, to the Asia, as supernume-
rary; Adolphus Andrews, acting third-class
assist.-engineer, to the Blenheim, for service in the
Violet ; David Howarth, acting third-class assist.-
engineer, to the Bulldog; William H. Tweedy,
third-class assist.-engineer, to the Asia, for charge
of the Grinder; Hugh H. Pulhen, paymaster, addi-
tional, to the Dauntless ; William L. Inch, pay-
master, to be Secretary to Admiral Sir A. Fan-
shawe, Commander-in-Chief at Devonport; Alfred
Whiffen, assist-paymaster in charge, to the Torch ;
William 0. Bignell, assist-paymaster, to the Blood-
hound; Ashby N. James, clerk, to the Hero; and
Henry D. Edgcome, clerk, to the Centurion.