The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

ship
Hawke, 60,
Ireland, was
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received supernumeraries, seamen's clothing, &e.,
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towed out of Plymouth Sound yesterday (Monday)
by the tug Thais, and took her departure forQueenstown.
Queenstown.
The new steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. H.
onthstegu
Broadhead, was removed yesterday (Monday) from
her moorings in Hamoaze, and put in Ne.S dock in
Keyham steam-yard, Plymouth.
His Netherlands Majesty's steamer Cyclops, Capt.
Toewater, from the Texel, bound for Lisbon and
Constantinople, put into Falmouth on Saturday,
for the purpose of coaling and watering.
The hired transport Chanticleer, with building
stores, &c., for the Cape of Good Hope, left Wool-
wich Arsenal yesterday, in tow, for Gravesend;
and the Rifleman, with a similar cargo, is to sail
this morning, also for Gravesend and the Cape.
The first portion of the fortifications to be erected
at Chatham for the protection of the dockyard will
shortly be commenced on the summit of Chatham-
hill, close to the great highway from Dover. The
owners of the land on which the proposed defences
are likely to be raised have received notices to for
ward their claims to the Government.

A powder magazine, capable of containing about
2,500 barrels of gunpowder, has just been com-
pleted at Pembroke Dock. It is intended to be the
principal one in Milford Haven, from which all the
smaller ones in the defences now in the course of
construction will be supplied. It is built of massive
bombproof brickwork, walled and roofed in. In
order to guard as much as possible against injury to
the dockyard, should an explosion ever take place,
it has been built in an excavation made in the side
of the Hut Cantonment hill.

A cargo of Spanish oak is now being delivered at
Portsmouth dockyard ex Mentor from Barcelona.
We are informed that this is the first cargoreceived
from Spain, and is the result of the labours of the
Commissioners who were despatched some time
since by the English Government to search the
forests of Spain for timber suitablefor shipbuilding
purposes. The timber referred to as now being de-
livered at Portsmouth dockyard is of very inferior
size and quality, and in this respect forms a marked
contrast to some noble specimens of white oak, of
foreign growth, lying in another part of the yard.
The stock of timber in the dockyard during the past
two months has been largely increased. Some of the
English elm in the yard is very fine. A piece in
the hands of the sawyers yesterday, measuring
only 32 feet in length, contained 470 square feet of
timber.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Heneage Freeling, midshipman,
to the Hannibal; William Donnison, first-class
assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, as supernu-
merary ; John Langrish, first class assist.-engineer,
to the Foxhound ; Henry Payne, first class assist.-
engineer, to the Mersey ; James Hansford, second
class assist.-engineer, to the Colossus, for service in
the Biter; George Thompson, second class assist.-
engineer, to the Cornwallis, for service in the Raby ;
Charles Augustus Shapcote, promoted to paymaster;
and James S. Daniell, assist.-paymaster in charge,
to the Firefly.