The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

' A new code of Admiralty instructions was a
short time ago received at Woolwich, restricting
the term of persons to be continued in the employ
of her Majesty's dockyards up to the age of 70,
which instructions were ordered to be put in force
at the close of the last month ; consequently, all
those who had attained and exceeded the age of 70
were on Saturday discharged OR the superannua-
tion list. Yesterday the order was recalled at the
ofggestion of the Lords of the Treasury, by reason
flie heavy expenditure that regulation would
entail on Government. The whole of those who
*ere on Saturday discharged, on the above-named
conditions, was ordered to be sought out and rein-
stated in their former positions.
Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Fremantle has shifted
his flag from the Orion to the Royal Albert, 121,
screw, Captain B. Rice, lying in the Sound. The
Royal Albert is quite ready for sea. Yesterday
advance wages were plaid. The squadron is to sail
from Plymouth this day or to -morrow for a cruise,
and to rendezvous at Spithead.
Yesterday, by order of the Admiralty, upwards
of 400 hands were put on the Neptune, 120, old
sailing three-decker, at Portsmouth Dockyard,-, o
convert her into a 90-gun screw line-of-battle-ship.
She is ordered to be brought forward with all ex-
pedition.
The Admiralty steamyacht is to leave Woolwich
for Boulogne this day with the funeral car used in
the interment of Napoleon at St. Helena, and which
has been completely restored. Sir J. Burgoyne,
K.C.8., Inspector-General of Fortifications, pro-1
ceeds do Paris to present the car in the name of
her Majesty to the Emperor and the Frenchpeople.
The Lords of the Admiralty have sanctioned the
extension of the system of clothing seamen by con-
tract to Woolwich- dockyard.
Her Majesty's gunboat Forward, Lieutenant and
Commander H. Davies, arrived at Scilly on Thurs-
day-for coal, after experiencing very heavy gales
from the N.E., in which she lost her guns and part
of bulwarks, from Bermuda, Oct. 2.
The Calcutta screw steamer, which sailed from
Portsmouth on Sept. 19, with the 67th Regiment
for Calcutta, arrived at St. Vincent's, Cape de Verd
Islands, on the 2d of October, and was coaling
there ; all on board well. She passed the Alfred,
one of Green's ships, with reinforcements for India,
three days before ; all well also.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
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Captain—G. W. Preedy to the Liffy, commissioned.
Chaplains—Rev. S. Beal, to the Pylades, vice Le Brocq,
invalided ; Rev. H. T. Clerk, to the Royal Albert, vice
Beal.

Muter—George Rt34.nond, to the Liffy.
Paymaster—Thomas H. C. Gray, to the Liffy.
Clerk—Thomas Clayton, to the Liffy.
Assistant-Clerk—W. M. Weatherby to the Liffy.

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding
in Chief will hold. a levee at 1 o'clock en Monday
next, the Bth inst.
The following reinforcements are ordered to em-
bark, on Friday next, on board the ship Bombay,
1,400 tons, which has been taken up by the Hon.
Council for India for the purpose of conveying
draughts to join the service companies of their re-
spective regiments in the Bombay Presidency—viz.,
34 men of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon
Guards ; 64 non-commissioned officers and men of
the Bth (the King's Royal Irish) Light Dragoons ;
1 officer and 32 men of the 17th Lancers ; 1 officer
and 12 men of the 4th King's
.Own ; 1 officer and
12 men of the 28th Regiment ; 2 men of the 33d
(Duke of Wellington's) Regiment ; 1 officer and 42
men of the 57th Regiment ; 1 officer and 11 men
of the 61st Regiment ; 1 officer and 13 men of the
70th Regiment ; 16 men of the 71st Highland
Light Infantry ; 10 men of the 72d Highlanders, 1
officer and 10 men of the 86th Royal County Down
Regiment ; 27 of the 89th Regiment ; 72 men of
the 91st Regiment ; 43 men of the 94th Regiment ;
34 men of the 95th Regiment ; and 38 men of the
Royal Artillery.
"Mr. Cheeseman, foreman of the Chatham Dock-
yard, who has retired from that establishment after
a period of service extending over half a century,
has been presented by the workmen with a hand-
some time-piece, and also with a massive silver
goblet from the officers as a token of the high
esteem in which he is held by all classes employed
in Chatham Dockrd.
The brigade of Royal Artillery, in command of
Colonel Maude • the Royal Marines, in command
of Lieut.-Colonel Hopkins, C.B. ' • and a portion of
the Antrim Rifles, were yesterday drawn up on
Woolwich-common, and underwent a variety of
field exercises, the Horse Artillery firing 20 rounds
of blank ammunition, and performing a series of
gun practice. The whole of the troops in garrison
were likewise paraded, and mustered according to
the new system, and received their monthly pay.
-In The San of Saturday, in a paragraph referring
to the sketch for the Artillery memorial at Wool-
wich, the name associated with Mr. Wyatt's, the
architect, was given as " Mr. Woodin." It should
have been " Mr. Woodington."