The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-10 00:00:00

Dockyard to have the Undaunte fe`
She is esitecaiew
l.
sde bfelLeifialgnralf3:ers:asb:lii
edpsertcsaesbet
present.
no,
elnaeroli.ft
,sselhc-
gh rate of
speed, and will be supplied with corrependinglv
powerful engines. Her armament is to consist
entirely of Atinstrong guns.
The screw line-of-battle ship Conqueror, 101,
Capt. Sotheby, C. 8., arrived at Port Ltud last Wed-
nesday night from Plymouth. The Conqueror, the
Conti:li i)n, the Blenheim, and the Greyhound, are
the only vessels at Portland.
The Harpy, iron paddle-wheel steamer, arrived
at Spit h( ad yesterday morni:lg from Woc;Iwkl:,
and shortly afterwards sailed again fur the est-
wai d.

The follow:ng appointintuts -,vere mado
day at the Admiralty :—Dr. R. Arnott, surge on, to
the Chesapeake; Jas. M. Hillyar, paymaster (e.(11
firmed), to the Cadmus ; and Thomas J. Wnburton
acting 3d class assist.-enginecr, to the Asia, as
supernumerary.

11 BARMY.

♦ •
His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the
Netherlands, accompanied by his Excellency Baton
Bentinck, Minister in London from the King of
Holland ; Capt. Itooseniale Nepven, A.D.C., and
Count W. F. Von Otterloo, secretary to the Prince,
yesterday visited the Government establishments
at Woolwich. Official instructions had been re-
ceived on Thursday by the heads of all the civil,
military, and dockyard establishments there,
announcing the intended visit, and direct-
ing that the reception should be attended
with all the formalities and honours due to his
Royal Highness's rank. Major-Gen. Sir Richard
Dacres,K.C.B., commanding the garrison, Brigade-
Major Shaw, and Major -Reilly, C. 13., Aide-dc-
Camp to the General,- were accordingly -in attend-
ance in the Royal Arsenal, where the Prince was,.
expected to alight. Col. Tulloch, Mr. Anderson,
Capt. Gordon, Col. Clerk, Capt. Fraser, and the
officers of the depertments generally, were likewise
assembled, in anticipation of the Prince's arrival,
at half-past 12. At one o'clock one of the Queen's
carriages, containing the distinguished visitors, en-
tered the arsenal gates and drove up towards the
select committee offices, in front of which the autho-
rities were in waiting. The guard of Royal Artil-
lery on duty in the arsenal, in charge of Lieut.
Hall, presented arms, end his Royal Highness and
attendants immed is telydeseendc d from the carriage.
Col. Tulloch undertook the task of present& iore
and introduced Sir Richard Dacres and each cfficer
in succession, after which they proceeded along the
principal thoroughfsse towards the ro3 al gun fa
tories. In front of the military store department
the Prince's attention was arrested by ohserving'
some heavy brass guns of peculiar construct tee, re-'
cently captured in China, which he minutely exa-
mined. They next entered the factory for the ma-'
nufacture of Sir Wm. Armstrong's guns. The st in
gency of the regUl ttions. formerly in force for the:
exclusion of Nisitors from the establishment has
been considerably relaxed. The whole of the ett-
tendants and officials, together With a . number of
vo!unteer officers who happened to be present, were
admitted at the Same time, and profitel by the op-
portunity or witnessing and examining in detail_
the various stages of manufacture to which the
materials forming the Armstrong cannon are sub-
jected. The Prince remarked that it was 50 years 7
since he had visited Woolwich, and that lie was
prepared to find an extraordinary change and int-
provement during the lilac of so many years, but
that the wonderful progress which science had -at-
tained, es evidenced. -by what he there beheld, .far
exceeded his ideas on that subject, and he was highly
pleased in expeessieg them. One hear and a-half
was consumed in inspeCting that portion of the
royal gun factories, when the Prince in vitedsCel.
Tulleer to accompany him to the Royal Artillery
barracks, a-hither he had accepted the proposition
of General ilteres to repair for luncheon . On his
Royal Highness's arrival at the mess-room he was
received by a guard of honour, composed of Capt.
Barnett, two subaltern officers, and 100 men be-
longing to the Ist Brigade Garrison Artillery, s% ho
performed the usual honours, the regimental bands
playing the Dutch national anthem. Commodore
the Hon. James R. Drummond, superintendent of -
the dockyard, and Capt. Grant, inventor of the
new military cooking apparatus, were likewise
specially invited to meet the Prince at the Mess
luncheon. At half-past 3 the Prince prepared to
return to the arsenal, and was accompanied in the
carriage by Commodore Drummond and Capt.
Grant., in addition to his own attendants. . About •
600 men belonging to the Ist Brigade of Artillery,
on drill in the parade, then commenced marching
past in double file of 20 abreast. The Prince drove
hurriedly off to return to the arsenal, whither lie
was accompanied by the general and staff on horse-
back, the guns from the park battery firing a salute
of 21 rounds. His Royal Highness went over the
whole of the departments, and visited with pecu'iar
interest the ambulating cooking boiler deposited as
a pattern for the supply of the service. At 5
o'clock the Prince, accompanied by the general and .
staff and his own attendants, visited the dockyard,
where he spent one hour, commencing by an in-
spection of the steam-frigate Orion, in a forward
state of construction and intended to be launched
in July. They afterwards proceded to the steam-
hammer shop, where the Prince appeared to be ex-
tremely interested in witnessing the process of
beating up the old fragments of iron and converting
them to future use. From thence they passed
through the smitheries, saw-mills, testing-house,
&c., went on board her Majesty's ship Barossa, to
be launched this day, and terminated his inspection
of that establishment by passing through the fac-
tory mad engineers' department. His Royal High-
ness left the dockyard at 6 and returned to London.
Major-General Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8.,
Lieut. Governor of Portsmouth, and commanding
the South-West District; Major-General Foster,
Royal Engineers ; and Vice-Admiral W. H. Bruce,
Naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, era •
barked yesterday on board the Royal screw yacht -
Fairy at Portsmouth, and proceeded to Osborne on
a visit to her Majesty.
The officers in command of the three battalions
of infantry at Chatham garrison have received
orders to select 300 men from the Ist battalions of
the 7th Royal Fusileers, Bth Foot, and 20th Regi-
ment, in order that that number may be transferred
to the second battalions of those regiments, which
will thus be increased to their full establishment.
The men selected were inspected yesterday morning
on the general parade-ground at Chatham by Gen.° -
Eyre, commanding the garrison. The number
selected from each of the corps enumerated is 150
men of the Bth (The King's) Regiment, 100 men of .
the 20th Regiment, and 40 men of the 7th nisi-
leers. Orders were yesterday afternoon issued for
the troops who join the 2d battalion of the 7th
Fusileers to proceed this morning to 1):111 to be
attached to the depot of that regiment, and those
for the 20th Regiment to embark on Monday fbr
Dublin, where the 2d battalion of the 20th is lying.

LAT I G 11 BUhlllf LRINE CABLE
7201! EURRACHBE TO Jf MUT.

We have been favouz eil with the following from
her Majesty's paddle.steamer Retribution, 28, bear-
ing _the pendant of Commodore Harry E. Edgell,
C. 8., dated Aden, February, 1860 :—" We have just
arrived with the Imperador and Imperatriz, screw
steamers, from laying the submarine cable which
connects London with Calcutta. The run across
from Kurrachee to Muscat was most exciting, as a
great portion of the cable had to be laid at a depth
of 2,000 fathoms, or nerly two nautical miles. The
speed run was seven and a-half knots, and the only
thing; that prevented an accident was the pace the
Imperador kept up over this deep portion. On the
17th the cable was landed at Muscat, amid great
excitement, the beats of the Retribution, the Cyclops
and the Indian men of war here forming in 'proces-
sion, all the ships being dressed out in colours to add
to the brilliancy of the scene. The Retribution was
in some danger at Muscat, from a strong north-
wester suddenly s=;ringing up, with a heavy sea;
o
She had to slip and' steam out, the Imperado* fol.
lowinr. The commodore lost his barge, and other
e.
French naval al force on the
of Viscount de
L
ships their boats. The French frigate La Cordelie
uis
nhgeiree,
ewminttlinatnhdeing thebroad iindepi,
east coast of Africa. A regatta comes oft. here on
Monday, followed by a theatrical performance on
board the Retribution in the
was joined to the Aden end on
thveeilli9utgh.oflFleiZicsuaabrlye
ell d,,spatched a message to the
a nde
Admiraltyonin r e E
dg
announcing
the
the successful result. This
deepest of all the submarine lines, and
Acalbr.leNies t
w al tie ,
fullydeserves
a.O
casl hisg i
ship hy the manner in which he has
weo r b
kl
h all the honour and credit
tusing down this line. We all
entered Aden oti in c
18th of February and dressed
as.for a Royal
b• . _
pii thdill the Retribution and the
,
forts
ashora n,
fir: ~
. a Royal salute in honour
xcasion. Off the Kooria M •
.i owes Islands the Retri-
bution brolthe .
to air-pump bucket of her starboard
engine, but manogcd with one • engthe and canvas
to keep her position as the leading ship. We pro-
ceed hence to Bombay.

PRESENTATION FROM THE AMERICAN PRESI-
DENT TO AN EN GLISII CAPTAlN.—Yesterday S. R.
Graves, Esq., of the Local Marine Board, Liverpool, pre-
sented to Captain Charles Robertson a gold chronometer
watch and chain, forwarded by the President of the United
States, in acknowledgment for the services rendered by
Captain Robertson to the crew and passengers of the Arne.
riean ship May Queen, in the autumn of 1858.