The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-25 00:00:00

THE NA PT.

The Styx, 6, paddle, Commander Charles Vesey,
sailed from St. John's, Newfoundland, for a cruise,
on the 23d of June.

The Briton target frigate has been raised from
her sunken position on the mud of Porchaster Lake,
and towed nearer to the N.W. part of Portsmouth
Dockyard. It is intended to place her in No. 6
dock for the purpose of breaking her up.
The Shannon; 51, screw, will make her annual
trial of machinery today outside Portsmouth Har-
bour, as one of the first-class steam reserve.

The Perseverance, screw troopship, Commander
Power, will sail from Portsmouth to-day at 1 p.m.
for the West Indies and coast of Africa.

The Megmra, screw troopship, Commander Hen-
derson, was under orders to leave Portsmouth yes-
terday for Gibraltar and Malta, but her sailing was
delayed by direction of the Admiralty. She will
call at Deronport on her sailing from Portsmouth,
and fill up with bread, &e., for the Mediterranean
squadron.
In the steam basin at Portsmouth the Hornet, 17,
screw, Commander Elphinstone, fitting out for
foreign service, has crossed her lower and topsail
yards and rattled down rigging. She will be com-
plete in the engineering department by the end of
the present Month. The Gorgon, 6, paddle, Com-
mander B. C. Pim, is refitting for further service.
The Princess Royal, 90, screw, and the Immortalitc,
51, screw (improved Melpomene), are both fitting
out for the first-class steam reserve, and both, it is
rumoured, will be shortly commissioned.
The Duncan, 101, screw, Frederick William, 86,
screw, Sutlej, 50, screw, Rinaldo, 17, screw, Cyg-
net, 5, screw, Stromboli, 6, and Medea, 6, paddles,
are fitting for the second-class steam reserve,_ and
nearly completed. In the two docks connected with
the basin are the Prince of Wales, 131, screw, and

the Philomel, 5, screw, both receiving their copper,
fitting-valves, &c., and preparing for second-class
reserve.

The American Government, through Mr. Dallas,

its Minister, has presented to Mr. john Jenkins,
late Lieutenant, R.N., commanding her Majesty's
gunboat Banterer, a sword of honour, as a mark of
its appreciation of the gallant services rendered by
him in China in numerous engagements with the
pirates.

- The Atlas, 91, line of-battle ship, was towed from
Chatham yesterday afternoon to Sheerness, to be
taken into the steam basin, ror the purpose of being
fitted with her engines and machinery. She will
afterwards return to Chatham and join the second-
class steam reserve at that port.
Letters received from Halifax, Nova Scotia, speak
in eulogistic terms of a gallant act on the part of
Mr. F. B. Fegen, secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir
Alexander M i Inc, commanding the British squadron
on the North American and West India station.
Mr. and Mrs. Fegen were in one of the cutters be.
longing to her Majesty's ship Nile, having just left
the shore for the purpose of returning on board that
ship, when a boy about six years old, who had been
amusing himself with some of his playmates in
fishing from one of the wharfs, near the market at
Halifax, fell into the water,, amid the screams of his
companions, who were, of course, powerless to assist
him, the water at that spot being of considerable
depth. Mr. Fegen, on witnessing the accident,
saw that any attempt to save the boy's life by
means of the boat might prove to be a waste of pie-
cious time, at once jumped overboaid without wait-
ing to divest himself of any of his clothes, and
swimming towards the spot where the lad had gone
down, succeeded, by dint of much personal exer-
tion, in bringing him to the surface, and supporting
him until the boat reached him and took them both

in. The boy's fife was only saved by the prompt
Manner in. which Mr. Fegen acted. Letters also
received by our correspondent from her Msjesty's
ship Nile, at Halifax, mention two other instances
of saving life at sea. The writer says :
" At about 8.30 a.m., on the 13th of June, the
ship was under all plain sail with starboard stud-
ding sails and going about six knots, when two men
fell overboard from off a lower deck port. On the
cry of A man overboard!' being raised, Mr. Ander-
son, the master's-assistant, who was on the poop
taking morning sights, immediately jumped over-
board from the taffrail, about 30 feet from the
water, and encouraged the men by his voice and
example to keep afloat until the ship's boat reached
them, and rescued them from their perilous position.
The boat had been lowered with great expedition,
being fitted with Kynaston's life-hooks. Again, on
the morning of the 15th, the ship going eight knots,
a man fell overboard from the mizen-chains, when
Mr. Anderson leaped out of one of the gun-room
ports, and endeavoured to reach the man with a life
buoy. Both were very much exhausted when
picked up .This is Mr. Anderson's first ship-of-war,
as he was brought up in the merchant service, but
whatever service he may belong to he is a credit to
it, and we feel proud at having such men for brother
officers."

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—W. C. Buck, master, additional,
to the Donegal ; Junius Bank, staff surgeon, to the
Russell ; T. N. Johnston, clerk, to the Centurion ;
A. R. C. Webb, assist.- clerk, to the Royal Adelaide:

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The assisted im-
migration to the colony of Victoria from July, 1851, to the
end of 1858, amounted to 82,512, of whom 32,197 were
males and 50,315 females. This number includes only
those who had arrived in the colony before the end of
1858 ; and if we add those who left this country, but had
not arrived before the end of the year, the numbers would
be 32,473 males and 51,592 females. Last year the Emi-
gration Commissioners sent out no single men, with the
exception of 18 who accompanied their families ; the whole
number of males, including married persons and children,
proceeding in the commissioners' ships did not amount to
more than 336, while the number of females was 1,698, of
whom 1,397 were single women. It thus appears that
since July, 1851, the number of females in the assisted
immigration has exceeded the number of males by 20,481.
THE PORTER AND THE CZAR.—Peter, while in
England, was one day, to his wrath and astonishment,
shouldered aside in the street by a porter with so much
violence as to be thrown into the kennel. He was proceed-
jag to take personal vengeance, when Lord Carmarthen
(who had been appointed his bear-leader) judiciously pre-
vailed on him to be quiet. His lordship thought fit at the
same time to give an angry rebuke to the porter, asking
him if he did not know that " this was the Czar."
" Czar 1" cried the porter, who had the blood in him of
the future heroes of Balaklava—" we are all czars here.
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