The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-18 00:00:00

The screw steamship Howe, 121, having been
coppered, was removed from No. 1 dock in Keyham,
steam-yard on Thursday.
The screw steam corvette Jason, 21, is placed in
No. 1 dock at Keyham to have her bends coppered.
Her topmasts are fidded.
The repairs of the screw steam coast guardship
Hogue, 60, at Devonport, will be completed in the
shipwright edepartment about the 30th inst.
The crew of the screw steam frigate Emerald, 51,
Capt. A. Cumming, at Plymouth, were paid wages
and granted leave of absence on Thursday.
When the crew were in the act of catting the
anchor on board the Russian frigate General Ad-
miral, Capt. Shestaskoff, on Tuesday last, as she
passed out through the western entrance to Ply-
mouth Sound, at a speed of eight knots, one of the
men engaged in the bows fell overboard, when
Lieut. Falbe, a Dane by birth, threw off his coat,
and, jumping in, swam after and sustained the
drowning sailor until relief arrived.
The gunboat Hind, tender to the screw steam
coastguard-ship Russell, 60, Capt. Woodhouse, at
Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday
night and went up Hamoaze.
Steam was got up on Thursday on board the
gunboat Violet, at Devonport, and she went out-
side the breakwater to prove her machinery.
The War Department screw steamer Balaklava,
from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Wednes-
day with stores for the gunwharf at Devonport.
The Pembroke, 60, guns, Capt. Charlewood, has
returned from a Channel cruise, and again taken
up her moorings as a guardship off Harwich
harbour.
The screw steamship Gibraltar, 101 guns,
launched on Thursday at Devonport, is of the fol-
lowing dimensions :—Length between the perpen-
diculars, 252 feet ; breadth, extreme, 58 feet
1 inch ; moulded, 56 feet 5 inches ; depth in hold,
25 feet 7 inches ; burden, in tons, 3,715 62.94 ;
horse power, 850 ; number of guns, 101.
The screw steam coast guardship Hawke, 60,
Capt. W. Crispin, got up steam iu Plymouth Sound
on Wednesday, and left for her station on the coast
of Ireland,
The /Etna, 16, steam floating battery, in dock at
Chatham, has had the decayed iron sheathing re-
moved from the bottom of her hull, which is being
coated with a preparation used in the navy for the
prevention of ravages by marine insects.
The Elk, 12, Commander R. Campion, is ordered
to be paid off at Chatham on Tuesday next. She
-is now being dismantled and her stores are in course
of being removed into the dockyard.
The Bombay, 84, and the Arethusa, 51, which
are being converted into screw steamers at Chatham,
have each a large number of shipwrights employed
on them in order that they may be completed with
all despatch.
The following vessels at Chatham are now being
fitted for the steam reserve-at that port—viz., the
Orpheus, 21, 400 horse-power; the Cormorant, 4,
200 horse-power ; the Racehorse, 4, 200 horse-power;
and the Linnet, screw gunboat, 60 horse-power.
The Colossus, 80, screw, Capt. F. Scott, C. 8.,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Port-
land and Yarmouth-roads. She brought up in the
last-named anchorage the preceding night.
The following second masters were yesterday
promoted to the rank of master :—Chas. M. Hughes,
Francis Hixon (acting), Frederick Howard Edward.
George F. Day, Edward P. Bedwell,
Spence, Robert Gilpin, Richard T. M‘Pearce,
Robert Brown, D. Farrant, John A. B. Patch, and
George Patterson.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Francis B. Henwood, master,
to the Asia, for the Shannon ; William P. Hains,
master, to the Amphion ; Dover Farrant, master,
to the Lapwing ; Dr. George Mason, surgeon, to
the Tartar ; Robert Creighton, surgeon, to the
Curlew ; and Thomas P. Potts, third-class assist.-
engineer, to the Hornet.

TILE WOUNDED VOLUNTEERS' OF
GARIB4LDI.

We have been favoured with a letter on the state
of the wounded volunteers in the hospital of Bar-
cellona, whieh Madame Mario has addressed to a
friend in this country who is interested in the
"Ladies' Garibaldi Benevolent Association"
Barcelona, Aug. 11, 3 a*.m.
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" Our wounded are progressing famously. The numbers,
which at first amounted to nearly 400, are now reduced to
160 ; including those at Melazzo, 190, We have had but
few deaths in the hospitals—since the 28th July, when Dr.
Stradivari took possession, but 6—Enrico Ferraro, of a
frightful wound in the left lung, and Lieutenant Poggi,
whose case excited much interest among: the doctors.
For eight days we had every, hope of his recovery ; on the
9th he rapidly declined, and on the 10th he died. Dr.
Monastieri, ono of our most devoted and able surgeons,
made a post mortem examination in the Convent of the
Carmine, and proved that the bullet (one of these terrible
cones) had passed between the lumbar vertebra and the
sacrum, had gone through the spine, lodging itself in the
body of the last lumbar vertebra, producing a comminuted
fracture of both the neighbouring bones. Both Poggi and
Ferraro belonged to the Carabinieri Genovesi, of whom, at
Calatafimi, of 3,5, but 14 were left standing, and of wham,
at Melazzo, out of 84, nine were killed and 30 wounded
three have since died in the hospital, 11 have recovered and
rejoined their corps, and 16 are now lying in the corridor on
which my room opens. Of these all will recover, save, I fear,
one who is suffering most severely ; but though his sufferings
are great, his only grief seems to be that he cannot cross to
Calabria with Garibaldi. After the Genoese corps, the
company of Gaeta—i.e., Major Corti's band, imprisoned at
Gaeta, and carried off by Garibaldi to Melavzo the moment
they arrived in the port of Palermo—have suffered most.
When we came here we found six churches converted into
hospitals by the kind and patriotic people of Barcelona, the
best I have yet found in Sicily. Dr. Stradivari has re-
duced the hospitals to three, as we have taken possession of
a convent on a height. There the air is delicious, and
with good diet we soon bring the invalids round. Many of
my patients at Palermo I find again here. One poor fel-
low, who left the hospital with a wound in his left arm
barely closed, is now down with another in the left shoulder.
' I shall come in for a third in Calabria, he said smilingly
yesterday, when I brought down the news of the expedition.
Another, whom I had in the hospital a wonth, had his
right leg amputated a few days since ; and thus I might go
on enumerating, but I must close."