The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

On Saturday the Channel fleet arrived in Yar-
mouth Roads. The squadron, wnich has been en-
gaged in target practice in the North Sea during
the past week, consists of the Royal Albert, 120 ;
Conqueror, 101; Donegal, 101 ; Algiers, 91; Ed-
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gar, 91 ; Aboukir, 91 ; Trafalgar, 91; Centurion,
80 ; Mars, 80 ; Mersey, 40 ; Diadem, 32 ; Ariadne,

26; and Flying Fish, 6. The fleet is not expected

to remain in Yarmouth Roads more than three

or four days, as it is to take part in a naval review
before the :departure of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales for Canada.

The Royal Oak, 91, line-of-battle screw steamer,
has been laid down at No. 7 slip at Chatham dock-

yard, and the screw frigate Belvedere, of 51 guns,
on No. 4 slip, and both vessels are to be proceeded
with in their construction without any delay. The
preparations for the launch of the line-of-battle
steamer Atlas, 91, which is ordered to take place on
the 21st inst., have been commenced, and a number
of shipwrights are employed in preparing the
launching ways and other preliminaries for that
event.

The Bulwark, 91, and the Undaunted, 51, im-
proved screw frigate, building at Chatham, are in
a very advanced state, and a large number of ship-
wrights are employed on them in pushing them
forward in order that they may be completed
as early as possible. The Rattlesnake, 20, and the
Reindeer, 17, the latter just commenced, are both
being proceeded with.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Cora
mander Jackson, was towed on Saturday from the
coal ship in Hamoaze to the Devonport dockyard,
to be rigged and fitted for sea service.
The screw steamship Orion, 91, Capt. Frere, was
hauled on Saturday from under the sheers in Key-
ham steamyard to the south jetty, and lashed there
for a trial of her machinery to-morrow (Tuesday).
The following line-of-battle and other screw
steamers are now building at Chatham Dockyard
and in various stages of progress, viz; :—The Atlas,
91, completed ; the Bulwark, 91, more than half
completed; the Royal Oak, 91, just commenced; the
Undaunted, 51, about half finished ; the Belvedere,
51, recently commenced; the Rattlesnake, 20, in a
very forward state ; and the Reindeer, 17, com-
menced last week. In addition to the above, the
Bombay, 84, and the Arethusa, 51, are in dock un-
dergoing the process of conversion from sailing
vessels to screw steamers.
The Mullett, screw despatch vessel, built for the
Government at Blackwall, is ordered to be com-
pleted for service at this yard.
The screw steamship St. George, 91, Capt. the
lion. J. Egerton, will be out of the hands of the
dockyard artisans at Plymouth on the 4th inst.
She received a draught of thirty-five men from the
flagship impregnable on Saturday.
Col. Haddon, RE., has been directed to inspect
a site for an additional fort or battery proposed
to be erected for the defence of the harbour of Great
Yarmouth.
The War Department screw steamer Lord Pan-
mure got up steam at the Royal William victual-
ling-yard, Plymouth, on Saturday, and proceeded
to the gun-wharf to complete loading for Woolwich.
The paddlewheel steam tender Lucifer, 3, from
Portsmouth,' arrived at Plymouth on Saturday,
with 150 supernumeraries, including 50 boys for
the training ship Implacable, and the same day
took on board supernumerary seamen and marines,
and sailed yesterday morning for Portsmouth.
Eight hired sawyers were discharged from the
Devonport dockyard on Saturday.
The Victualling-yard steamer Thais is under re-
pair alongside Keyham steam-yard, Plymouth.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt.
Glasse, has received supernumerary stokers from
the steam guardship in ordinary Wellington, for a
passage to the Mediterranean. The Terrible will
get up steam today (Monday) to prove her boilers,
and if found perfect she will proceed for her desti-

nation.
The defects of the steam gunboat Violet, Lieut.
Eugene C. Batty, at Devonport, will be completed
about the Bth July.
Ws Brazilian Majesty's steam corvette Donna
Isabel left Plymouth Sound yesterday morning for
the westward. It is stated that she is gone to Canada.
The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. John
Seccombe, was cast off from the hulk Endymion, in
Hamoaze, on Saturday morning, and she proceeded
out of Plymouth Sound in charge of Commander
Paul, of the Devonport dockyard, to try her engines
and new propeller; at 6 p.m. she returned and
anchored in the Sound.
The crew of the guard-ship of ordinary Royal
Adelaide, 104, at Plymouth, will be paid off about
the 20th July.
Capt. Charles Wise was on Saturday appointed
Captain Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard, vice
Capt. R. B. Watson, C.B.
Capt. Luard is appointed to the Formidable, to
be commissioned as flag ship to Vice-Admiral John-
stone, at Sheerness.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Edward J. Maitland, mas-
ter, to the Adventure; J. Young, third-class assist-
ant-engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary, for
hospital treatment ; John Adams, third-class acting
assistant-engineer to the Diadem; Robt. Anderson
(b) and Joseph V. B. Thompson, acting third-class
assistant-engineers, to the Himalaya; John Symons,
acting third-class assistant-engineer, to the Wel-
lington, as supernumerary; George A. Moses, acting
third-class assistant-engineer, to the Geyser, as
supernumerary; and John G. Card, clerk, to the
Pembroke.

THE ARMY.

The following officers and troops belonging to
the East India depots at Chatham garrison are
under orders to embark at Gravesend for Calcutta,
to join the head-quarters of their respective regi-
ments serving in Bengal, as soon as the required
:amount of tonnage has been taken up for them by
the lion. Council for India,—viz. Lieutenant C. J.
Backas, Ensign C. C. B. Tribe, Ensign H. Stokes,
and:6o men of the Ist battalion 19th Regiment;
Lieut. C. 11. Webster, Lieut. C. Enys, Ensign T. A.
Davies, Ensign T. Macaulay, and 70 men of the
Ist battalion 20th Regiment ; Ensign A. H. Put-
chinson, Ensign IV. H. Adams, and 70 men of the
ist battalio' 23d Royal Wcl.slh Fusiliers; Ensign
W. Poste, Ensign W. Tolson, and 98 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the 35th (Royal Sussex)
Regiment ; Lieut. H. P. Dawson, Ensign A. F.
Leatham, and 96 men of all ranks of the 75th Ite •
giment ; Captain W. J. Carden, Lieut. A. T. Butts,
Ensign 0. H. Blount, Ensign E. N. Mosley, En-
sign W. S. Henderson, and 115 non-commissioned
officers and privates of the 77th Regiment, giving
n total of 18 officers and 509 non-commissioned of-
ficers and men. The following troops will embark
for Madras on Friday, at Gravesend :—Lieut. H.
Gorton, Ensign E. Villiers, Ensign R. M. Tod, and
186 men of all ranks of the 43d Light Infantry;
Ensign R. B. Wesley and 272 non-commis-
sioned officers and privates of the 91st Regi-
ment. The undermentioned officers and men will
embark at Gravesend for Kurrachee, but the date
bas not been announced—viz., Lieut. E. Pakenham,
Ensign V. E. Knox, Ensign E. S. Ker, Ensign H.
• arker, Ensign F. E. Dowler, and 50 men of
the 52d LightH. maturiialnfantry ; Capt. S. J. Lowe, Ensign
of the 81st' Ensign It. J. 'McDonnell, and 35 men
Regiment. Thtlegiraent ; and 60 men of the 94th
total
at present under
number of officers and troops
orders to proceed from Chatham
garrison to India is 32 officers,
o,os,
b:it the garrison isand 917 non-com-
missioned officers and Prim
,
now so strong that at least 1
additional troops
could be despatched from it to India should their
services be required.
ing
His Royal Highness the General Co
is has countermanded the
ordorommand
fe
barkation for India of the draughts of ther tlhset ena-
bat-
talion
sth Fusiliers and 37th Regiment,
a
regiments will probably return home befosreth tehsee
next cold season. The draught of the 44th, under
orders for China, and consisting of 2 officers, 1 ser-
geant, and 90 rank and file, will embark on board
the White Star, at Tilbury, on the sth inst., and
the other draughts from the camp at Colchester,
ordered on service in the East, Will Also leap

shortly, the officers on leave of absence having re-
joined their respective depots.
The following is a complete list of the officers of
the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers, who
arrived at Gravesend from Madras in the Trafalgar,
with the head-quarters of that regiment. In the
announcement of the arrival of the 12th Lancers
which appeared in The Sun on Saturday a few of
the officers' names were unavoidably omitted :
Capt. G. Horne, Capt. H. E. Reader, Capt. C. J.
W. Allen, Lieut. and Adjt. E. Brown, Lieut. E.
Gower (acting paymaster), Cornet A. J. S. C. Chi-
chester, Cornet IL J. B. Cruise, Cornet J. D. Jack-
son, and Quartermaster M. Blake. Col. E. Pole, in
command of the 12th Lancers, arrived previously
by the Overland route, and joined the regi-
ment immediately on its arrival at Gravesend.
The head-quarters consist of the A, C, F, and
H troops, the whole numbering 300 non-com-
missioned officers and men. The left wing of
the regiment was left behind at Bengal, but is
shortly expected to arrive at Gravesend.
The Admiralty yacht Vivid having been fitted
at Woolwich with Mr. J. Lee Stevens's patent re-
gulating air doors, for the prevention of smoke,
under a special order from the Board of Admiralty,
will steam down the river on Wednesday, in order
to test the advantages of the invention. The trial
will be superintended by the Commodore Superin-
tendent of the dockyard, the Hon. J. R. Drum-
mond, C. 8., aide-de-camp to the Queen, accom-
panied by Mr. D. Patridge, inspector of steam
machinery afloat.
The two 24-pounder garrison guns granted by the
War Department for the use of the Plumstead Vo-
lunteer Artillery have been placed in position at the
battery erected by the corps under the supervision
of the Engineer Department on Plumstead-common.
The battery has been named Fort Frederick, in
honour of Mr. Frederick Patterson, who gave the
site for its erection.