The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

711 E NAVY.

The Screw steamship St. George, 90, Capt. the
Hon. Ifrancis Egerton, from Portland, arrived yes-
terday• at Plymouth. It is reported that his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred, who recently returned
from. the Cape of Good Hope in the frigate Euryalus,
as midshipman, will join the St. George at Ply-
mouth, on the 10th Jan., and that previous to her
departure all the officers of his new ship will have
the honour of being presented to her Majesty the
Queen at Windsor.

A letter dated Valetta, Dec. 7, says :—" Her
Majesty's gunboat Alacrity, Commander Baird,
left pore on the 2d inst., with despatches for the
Commander-in-Chief. The Boxer, Lieut. Galliver,
and the line-of-battle ship Orion, Capt. Frere,
arrived yesterday, the former from Tripoli and
]3engazi, and the latter from Corfu. Lieut. Smith
and Lieut. Porcher, who proceeded in the Boxer,
presented the firman with which they had been
furnished by the Sultan to the Turkish authorities
at Tripoli, who informed tkem that everything
would be done to provide for their safe conduct to
Cyrene, which place, as you are already informed,
it is the object of these gentlemen to reach for the
purpose of examining the ancient ruins there.
After landing them at Bengazi the Boxer returned
to Malta. She is, lam informed, to leave shortly
for Marsala, on the south-west coast of Sicily, to
he stationed there during the winter, for the pro-
tection of British interests in that little colony. The
Terrible, Capt. Glasse, frigate, left Malta yesterday
for Smyrna, and the Melpomene, Capt. Ewart,
frigate, has just come in from Corfu.

" The Cassar, line-of-battle ship, is to proceed to
Corfu to-morrow. We have now in Malta har-
bour the following men-of-war :—Hibernia, receiv-
ing-ship (flag of Rear-Admiral Codrington, C. 8.),
Victor Emmanuel and Orion line-of-battle ships ;
Amphion, frigate ; and gunboats Foxhound
and Boxer, British; and Zealand, Dutch frigate,
arrived yesterday from Smyrna.
" Lieut.-Col, Laffan, Royal Engineers, lately
arrived from England, has assumed the command
of the Royal Engineers in this garrison. Captain
Steward, Royal Engineers, has left this in the Pen-
insular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus for
England, and Lieut. Decie, Royal Engineers, pro-
ceeded on the sth inst. for Corfu in the screw
steamer Prompt. Leave of absence has been granted
to Ensign Farley, 2d Battalion, 22d Regiment, from
the 3d inst. until his retirement shall take place.
" DEC. 8, 2 F.M.
" Since closing my letter yesterday two of our
men-of-war have left port—the gunboat Foxhound
and the line-of-battle ship Caesar—both for Corfu,
the former with despatches for Vice-Admiral Mar-
tin,"

The screw steamship Warrior, intended to be
iron clad, will be launched from the stocks at Mill-
wall on the 29th inst. The plates or slabs of iron,
202 in number, which will be employed on her,
weigh 960 tons, one tier of which will be affixed
before the launch takes place, and the remainder
after she has floated.
Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Orestes, 21
guns, 400-horse power, was taken on Thursday out
of the fitting basin, Sheerness dockyard, and towed
to the coalship preparatory to undergoing a trial of
her machinery.
Her Majesty's gunboat Sandfly, 60-horse power
(tender to the Cornwallis), Lieut. and Commander
Harrington C. Onslow, left Sheerness harbour after
refitment, for the Humber, on the evening of the
13th inst. When proceeding between the Shears
and the Mouse Light, the Sandfly came in collision
with the brig Clemantina, the property of Messrs.
Joseph Emerson and Co., of North Shields, bound
for London, with about 300 tons of coal. The
Clementina was struck abaft the forerig-
ging on the port side, and cut down to
the water, the crew, consisting of eight
hands, being saved by getting on board the Sand-
Ity. The brig sunk shortly after the crew had left
her. The Sandfly returned to Sheerness slightly
damaged by the collision, and landed the men be-
longing to the Clementine.
The Amethyst, 26, Capt. S. Grenfell, began yes-
terday to be dismantled at Chatham. She will be
paid off on the 22d inst:, in order that the crew may
spend Christmas-day with their friends.
Yesterday an old sailing line-of-battle ship was
brought down Hamoaze to Devonport dockyard,
where she will be fitted as a training ship for the
exercise of the Armstrong guns, several of which
will be mounted on board.
Steam was got up yesterday morning on board
the screw steam sloop Nimrod, 6, at Devcnport, and
she went from Hamoaze outside the Plymouth
Breakwater, to make a further trial of her machi-
nery, and returned into Hamoaze.
The screw steam frigate Narcissus, 51, was placed
yesterday in No. 3 dock at Keyham steamyard, to
have her bottom cleaned and valves overhauled.
The armaments intended for Carrig and Scatter-
ing Islands en the Shannon, were yesterday des-
patched from Woolwich Arsenal, in the transport
brig Gertrude, consisting of 12 68-pounders, gun
carriages, shot, shell, &e. The armaments ordered
for Wave Basin and Abb's Point, Sunderland, are
also in course of shipment on board the Clarendine,
and those intended for Fairy Cove, Hugh Batters,
and Lighthouse Point, at Hartlepool, wil 1 be shipped
early next week.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Archibald Bain, chief engi-
neer to the Asia, for the Duke of Wellington; Thos.
T. Murray, chief engineer to the Indus, for the
Gibraltar; James ityley, chief engineer to the
Cumberland, for t.:he Rodney ; Robert Moore, chief
engineer to the Cumberland, for the Newcastle;
'William Dorininson, promoted to chief engineer of
the Megfera ; and Wm. Hall, promoted to chief
engineer to the Asia, for the Tribune.