The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

2.HE NAVY.

We much regret to have to announce that Admiral Sir
Charles Napier, K.C.8., was yesterday, at his residence,
Murchistoun-hall, Hants, seized with a sudden and severe
attack of, illness, which has caused serious anxiety to his
friends.
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshstwe, who has resigned is
consequence of ill-health, struck his flag as Port Admiral
on board the Impregnable, 104, in Haraoue, on Saturday
night, and his successor, Vice-Admiral Sir Houstoxt
Steward, shifted his flag on Sunday from the Cambridge to
the Impregnable, and has now assumed full command at -
Plymouth.
Orders have been received at Portsmouth to place the
Harrier, 17, screw, in immediate commission. No officer
had yesterday been positively named to the command.
The Princess Royal, 91, screw, in the first-class steam
reserve at Portsmouth, yesterday made her half-yearly
trial of machinery, &c., which was satisfactory on eery
point.

Letters received frem H.M.S. Neptune, lying offßeirout,
mention a gallant act on the part of two seamen belongiig
to that ship while engaged in one of the boats in watering
the ship from the shore. A boat from one of the French
men. of-war was similarly engaged, when, (wing to the
heavy surf running on the beach, she capsized. Two of the
Neptune's boat crew named Farlane and Fry jumped over-
board and succeeded in bringing one of the Frenchmen on
shorn, two of the crow heing drowns,' before assistance could
reach them. rrld half-drowned French seaman, on being
brought ashore by his preservers, nearly lost his life at the
hands of the crowd assembled on the beach, who, in their
haste to complete the work of resuscitation, held the man
up by his legs to allow the water to run out of his mouth.
The naval cadet in charge of the Neptune's boat, Mr. C. B.
Anson, was fortunately observing the proCeedings, and,
recollecting the instructions contained in Nores's Cadets'
Guide, applicable to such circumstances, and which he had
learnt as a cadet on board the Britannia, he took the man
out of the hands of the crowd, and gave proper directions
for his treatment, which resulted in his recovery.
The Dee, paddle, Master-Commander Pullen, has gone
into Portsmouth Harbour from Spithead, to discharge boiler*
and machinery.

The gunboat Hinds, tender to the Russell, 60, fromFal.
mouth, arrived. on Saturday at Plymouth with Naval Coast
Volunteers.

At a meeting of officers and men connected with the
arsenal at Devonport, held on Saturday evening in the
sale-room of that establishment, Admiral-Superintendent
Sir Thomas S. Pasley in the chair, about 100 men enrolled
themselves members of a Dockyard Volunteer Artillery
Corps.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty:—Lieut. John H. Vidal, to the Scourge; Lieut.
E. T. Nott, to the Himalaya ; Henry C. Sodmond, master,
to the Harrier; Vernon Jones, second master, additional,
to the Gorgon ; Frederick K. Taylor, master's assistant, to
the Gorgon ; Samuel M'Callura, second-class assistant en-
gineer, to the Asia, for charge of the Beaver; Samuel E.
Derrick, second-class engineer, to the Cumberland, for
charge of the Griper; llenry Bunting, acting third-class
assistant-engineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary ; Thos.
G. Sanders, acting third-class assistant-engineer, to the
Asia, for service in the Shannon ; James Woolton, acting
third-class assistant-engineer, to the Asia, for service is
the Immortalite.