The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-17 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Tile paddlewheel steamer Adder, Mr. J. Minehin,
second master, in charge, came alongside the dock-
and at Chatham yesterday afternoon, and em-
barked 140 convicts from the convict establishment
at St. Mary's, for conveyance to the True Briton,
chartered convict ship,at anchor at the Nore. On em-
barking at the dockyard tlie convicts set up a loud
cheer, which they repeated at intervals as the
Adder steamed away with them. They will pro-
ceed in the True Briton, with a number of other
convicts from Milbank, to Bermuda, where they
are to be employed on the public works in progress
at that island.
•The Prussian squadron, under the command of
Admiralhis Royal Highness Prince Adelbert, whose
flag is on board the Thetis, put into_ Falmouth on
Wednesday, on their way to Brest, and for the yacht
to replenish her fuel, for which purpose she entered
the inner harbour. The usual salutes were ex-
changed between the ships, the garrison of Pen-
dennis, and her 'Majesty's ship Russell.
The Calcutta and Lady Jocelyn, screw steamers,
arrived at Spithead at 11.30 a.m. from the Thames,
to embark troops for Calcutta. The Calcutta em-
barks 790 rank and file of the 67th ; the Lady Joce-
lyn 740 of the 99th, exclusive of officers.
The Russian screw steam line-of-battle ship Ret-
vizan, 84, from Cronstadt for Brest, passed the Isle
of Wight early yesterday morning.
A court-martial was held on board the Victory,
in Portsmouth harbour, yesterday morning, to try
Richard Snape, a private Royal Marine on board.
her Majesty's ship Hogue, for mutinous conduct in
that ship at Greenock, Scotland. The Court found
the charge proved against the prisoner, and sen-
tenced him to receive 50 lashes on board his own
ship, and to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
in Winchester gaol for 18 calendar months from
the passing of the sentence.
The screw steam gun-vessel Lapwing, 4, Com-
mander Montagu F. O'Reilly, which arrived at Ply-
mouth on Tuesday from Jamaica, brought 30 inva-
lids and some supernumeraries. She left the paddle-
wheel steam-frigate Leopard, 18, Capt. James F.
B. Wainwright, at Greytown.
Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Challenger,
21, steamed down the river from Woolwich yester-
day, to try her machinery of 600 horse-power,
fitted by Messrs. Penn and Co., and subsequently
proceeded to Sheerness to be placed in the second
class steam reserve of that yard. She is fitted
with one of Messrs. Delpech and Co.'s pumps,
which is capable of discharging 600 gallons of water
in ;52 seconds, as verified by experiments in Wool-
wich dockyard, extending over a series of trials
during the last four months. It has a gun-metal
working barrel of 11 &ths of an inch internal diame-
ter, and was purchased, it is understood, for the
sum of £l2O. Two smaller pumps of the same de-
scription were also tested in the dockyard from the
same manufactory, one of which (a double-barrel
pump, each barrel double acting, giving the result
of four barrels combined) attracted considerable
notice, and threw a very large quantity of water to
a great height.
The second battalion of the 18th Royal Irish,
stationed in Londonderry, were inspected on Mon-
day last, at the barracks, by Major-General Gough,
C. 8., who, it appears, had been sent down by Lord
Seaton to examine into disturbances created by
some ill-conducted men in the regiment. At the
close of the inspection the General briefly addressed
the men, alluding to the recent disturbances, and
exhorting them for the future to take pride in
maintaining the high character of the regiment.