The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-20 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Stanch, Sinbad, and Hope, having shipped s
large quantity of war stores at Chatham, have taken
their departure from that port for the various naval
establishments.
Lord Lovaine, M.P., the lay Lord of the Board of
Admiralty, visited Portsmouth Dockyard on
Saturday.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Curacoa, 31, Capt.
Thomas H. Mason, arrived at Spithead on Satur-
day from the Mediterranean.
The screw steam sloop Racer, 11, Commander T.
A. Pakenham, from Gibraltar 7th inst., arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Friday. Fine weather pre-
vailed until Tuesday, when she experienced a very
heavy gale from south-east in the entrance to the
Channel. She left at Gibraltar the Curacoa, the
Vulture, and the Lapwing. The Curacoa was to
leave for England on the 9th. The Racer was
ordered to Gibraltar in consequence of the assassi-
nation of the British Consul at Tetuan.

The screw steam ship De'sperate, 8, Commander
R. G. Craigie, from Malta Nov. 24 and Gibraltar
on the 6th inst., arrived at Plymouth Sound on Fri-
day afternoon. She left at Malta the Marlborough,
Hibernia, Conqueror, Princess Royal, Centurion,
Recruit, Osprey, Coquette, Boxer, and the United
States' steam frigate Wabash. She passed the 'Cu-
racoa on Friday, at 10 a.m., in the Channel.
Steam was got up on Friday on board the Rue'
sell, 60, Captain Henry A. Storey, in Hamoaze, but
her departure for Falmouth was deferred by instruo'
tions from Port-Admiral Sir B. Reynolds. The
command of her tender, the gun-boat Hind, has
been transferred from Lieut. Wm. Hambly to
Lieut. Francis Osburn.

The screw steam-frigate Liffey, 51, Capt. U. W.
Preedy, C.B, steamed from Hamoaze outside the
Breakwater on Fridayt.and then returned to Ply-
mouth Sound, where she saluted the flag of the
Commander-in-Chief.

In March next, the Royal Adelaide, 104, is tube
made guard-ship of ordinary, in place of the Royal
William, 120, which is to be fitted for the reception
of a screw propeller.
It is reported at Plymouth that the Channel fleet
will remain during Christmas at Queenstown, and
then repair to Lisbon.
The President of the United States has sent to
Mr. John Gill, master mariner, of Plymouth, $
handsome medal, in remembrance of his praise-
worthy conduct in April, 1854, in rescuing during
a storm in the Atlantic, 74 passengers, men, women,
and children, from the dismasted ship Black Hawk,
of New York from Liverpool, with 730 passengers,
the remainder of whom were saved by other vessels.
On Friday evening the gunboat Leveret, from
Woolwich (tender to the Arrogant), Lieutenant in
command Annesley T. Denham, put into Sheer-
ness, in consequence of the sudden indisposition of
Lieutenant Denham. On Saturday morning, Lieut.
Denham having obtained medical attendance, she
was getting ready to proceed out of harbour, when
the new screw steam-frigate Forte, which was
being towed down to the basin buoy by the steam
tug-vessels African and Monkey, fouled the Leveret
while she was at her moorings, sprung the Leveret's
foremast, and did other damage. The Forte 10
ordered to be docked, and the Leveret remains at
Sheerness to have the damage done to her by the
Forte repaired.

The Cossack, 20 guns, screw corvette, has been
completed for the third-class steam reserve at
Sheerness.

The gunboat Ruby (tender to the Cornwallis),
Lieutenant in command Robert J. Stotherd, on
Saturday last got on shore on Grain-spit, near the
Round Tower,
where she was left by the tide high
and dry.

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