The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-29 00:00:00

TILE NAVY.

Yesterday tenders were received at the East
India-house for the conveyance of the following
reinforcements of cavalry and infantry to India,
viz., 315 men for Calcutta, to embark at Gravesend
on the 15th of January, 25 men to Kurrachee, to
embark at Gravesend on the 3d of January ; 63
non-commissioned officers and men, to embark at
Gravesend for Bombay on the 3d of January.
The following ships of war were in Malta harbour
at the latest dates :—The Marlborough, 131 (bear-
ing the flag of Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, C. 8.), Capt.
Lord F. H. Kerr ; the Conquerer, 101, Capt. H. R.
Yelverton, C.B. • the Centurion, 80, Capt. Sir G. N.
Broke, C.B. ; the Hibernia, guardship (bearing the
flag of Rear• Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.), Capt.
the Hon. A. C. Hobart. Gunboats—The Coquette,
4, Commander the Hon. Fitzgerald A. Foley • the
Boxer, Lieut. S. P. Townsend, tender to the ifarl-
borough. Paddle-wheel Steam Vessels.—The
Recruit, 6, Commander H. McKillop ; the Caradoc,
2, Lieut. C. M. Buckle; the Hearty, tug-steamer ;
and the Euryalus, steam-frig,ate, having on board
Prince Alfred.

Her Majesty's Revenue screw schooner, the
Argus, mounting four, guns, Commander John S.
W. Grandy, having had a six days' Channel cruise,
returned into Portsmouth Harbour on Tuesday.
Sbe will re-coal and again proceed on her usual
Channel service.
The following foreign ships are now at or off
Portsmouth :—The Dutch bark Macao, Capt. Kroll,
from Amsterdam for Batavia. The Dutch bark
Antoinette, Captain de Winter, from Rotterdam
for Cadiz. The Dutch brig America, Capt. Meer-
mans, from Rotterdam for Boston. The Rostock
bark Johanna Friedrich, Captain Dade, from Alex-
andria, for orders. The French vessel Padan,,,,,
Captain Gerard, from Havre for Arica. The Dutch
galliot Albertine, Captain Zwaal, from Newcastle
for Seville. The Prussian bark Friedrich Wilhelm
IV., Captain Rasch, from Onega for Bordeaux.
The American ship Lelia, Captain Haines, from
Rotterdam for Baltimore.

The screw steam Coastguard ship Russell, GO,
Captain Storey, is be paid, off at Plymouth on the
31st of December and recommissioned on the Ist of
January.
The paddlewheel steam troop-ship Dee, 4, Master-
Commander Thomas Pullen, is appointed to call at
Plymouth to convey supernumeraries to the fleet
at Queenstown.

The Curacoa, 31, screw, Captain Thomas H.
Mason, has sustained no damage from having got
aground off Smyrna. She is caulking decks in No.
-2-dock at Portsmouth, and repairing other eefects.
A great number of foreign ships are at Ports-
mouth repairing defects from the recent gales, and
are receiving every attention from consul Chevalier
Vandenbergh to expedite their departure.
Forty-eight men belonging to the Ist Royals,
6th, 7th, 25th, and 48th Regiments arrived at Fort
Pitt yesterday evening, having disembarked at
Portsmouth from the Perseverance steamer, which
sailed from Gibraltar on the 15th inst. On the
arrival of the invalids at Fort Pitt, 21 men were
taken into hospital,' and the remainder sent to the
'invalid establishment at St. Mary's, to await their
discharge.
The Royal Commissioners for manning the Navy
have terminated their labours for this year, and
adjourned until the 11th January, 1859. It is
believed says the United Service Gazette) that they
have with some few exceptions, exhausted their
programme. of examinations, and it is probable their
report will be laid on the table of the house at an
early period.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieutenant G. T. Patterson,
Lieutenant .G. S. Nares, Lieutenant M. Lowther,
and Lieutenant J. W. James to the Britannia ;
Lieutenant E. H. Kirby and Lieutenant H. M'C.
Alexander to the Russell • Lieutenant G. G. Boyer
to the Himalaya; and Matthew Burton, Surgeon,
additional, to the Nile.