The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-19 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Nearly the whole of the extra shipwrights,
smiths, joiners and other mechanics and labourers
ordered to be hired at Chatham dockyard have been
entered, with the exception of the shipwrights,
several more of whom are still required. Yesterday
it was officially announced that 30 more spinners
were required to be entered, in addition to those
already hired. Great activity prevails in all the
establishments, the workmen connected with which
are working until a late hour in the evening at
_increased wages.
Captain Warburton, commanding the depot of
her Majesty's 3d Regiment, the 13uffs at Limerick,
has received instructions to hold in readiness a
draught consisting of 2 officers and 100 non-com-
missioned officers and men to embark on the Ist of
June for Calcutta.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamvessel Barn,
constructed on the novel method of steering fore
and aft with equal facility, recently commissioned
at Woolwich by Captain Williams for coast sur-
vey, sailed from Woolwich on Tuesday for Green-
hithe to be adjusted for sea.
The hired transport Queen, having shipped 2,000
barrels of gunpowder and war stores from Wool-
wich, has sailed for Malta, where she will take in
an equal quantity of powder presumed to be unfit
for use from over age.
The steam transport Peninsula yesterday com-
menced shipping war stores from Woolwich Arsenal
for Gibraltar, and the John Banks-for Sidney. Not-
withstanding that the reception and manufacture
of war materials in Woolwich Arsenal exceed, at
the present moment, that of any former period, the
departure of vessels is frequently delayed from a
lack of supply on hand, on account of the enormous
quantities which have been unremittinglydespatched
for some time past to our home and foreign stations.
The shot and shell factories in the Arsenal, said to
be turning out 16,000 heavy shot per day, are daily
increasing their establishments. Canvas awnings
have been erected alone, the outer Walls of the fac-
tories, so as to form additional accommodation, and
the most unprecedented activity is perceptible both
without and within.
Applicants for enrolment in the Royal Navy still
continue to offer themselves at thevate of about
200 per day at. the Fisgard's offices at Woolwich,
the great majority of whom being growing country
lads from the ages of 15 to 20 years and under the
height of 5 feet 6 inches, are rejected, that being
the standard appointed by the Admiralty for lands-
men of all ages. It is stated that already have the
large number of 20,000 been admitted in different
parts of the kingdom.
The following officers and troops embarked yes-
terday on board the Melbourne, hired screw steam
transport, at the South Jetty, Portsmouth dock-
yard : For Gibraltar—Royal Engineers, Lieut.
Durnsford, and 14 non-commissioned officers and
men ; 2d Battalion 7th Foot, 31 non-commissioned
officers and men, and one woman. For Corfu—
Royal Artillery, Major L'Estrange, Lieuts. Harris
and Sexton, 117 non-commissioned officers and men,
9 women, and 16 children ; Royal Engineers, Capt.
Bridge, wife, and child, Lieuts. Luard and Craw-
ford,ll9 non-commissioned officers and men, 8 women
and 10 children; 2d Battalion 4th Regt. (King's
Own), Lieut.-Col. Thompson and wife, Capt. Smith,
wife, and child, Capt. Hamilton and wife, Lieuts.
Broomhead, Clerry, an d Ryn d, and Assist.-Sur. Lane,
265 non-commissioned officers and men, 11 women,
14 children, and. two horses; 2d Battalion 9th
Regiment, Capt. Grace, wife, and two children,
Ensigns Layton and Dunn, 20 non-commissioned
officers and men, two women, and three children ;

Ist Battalion 4th Regiment (King's Own), Ensigns
Metcalf, Hutchinson, Close, and Hall. The Mel-
bourne will sail for her destination this morning.
A large number of naval cadets yesterday passed
for active service out of the Britannia, cadet train-
ing ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Robert Harris.
The Eurydice, 26, sailing frigate and future sea-
training ship for the naval cadets, was towed into
Portsmouth harbour from Spithead yesterday, and
berthed alongside the Prince Regent.
The Doris, 32, Capt. E. Heathcote, got under way
at Spithead yesterday morning, in charge of Capt.
George Gordon arid staff, and proceeded to the trial
ground in Stokes Bay, to make her last screw trial
with the Admiralty screw, but was again compelled
to defer it on account of the weather.
A large proportion of the men who have arrived
in Portsmouth from the outports, where they had
been entered for the navy as " stokers," have
proved, on being tested, to be totally unacquainted
with a sea-going stoker's duties. The Lucifer
steamer was yesterday ordered to get up her steam
in consequence, take a party of men on board, and
proceed with them outside to test their qualifica-
tions.

The Bartolomeo Dios and the Sagres passed
through Spithead yesterday at 6 p.m. from the
westward, and proceeded to the eastward, firing a
salute of 17 guns in passing, which was returned
from her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth
harbour.

The screw steam frigate Liffey, 51, Capt. Preedy,
left Portland harbour yesterday afternoon for the
estward.

The Nothe fortifications for the protection of the
town and harbour of Weymouth, and also the ad.
,jacent roadstead of Portland, will be proceeded with
immediately. A very short space of time will
suffice to put this position in a defensible state.
The paddlewheel steam Vessel Advice, tender to
the Nile, Second Master Michael C. Raymond, was
taken alongside Keyham yard, Plymouth, on Tues-
day, to have some defects made good.
Several shipwrights from Liverpool were entered
at Devonport dockyard on Tuesday:
Sixty men for the navy, from Bristol, arrived at
Plymouth by the South Devon Railway on Tuesda;c.
The screw steam gaardship of ordinary Exmrjutli,
90, Capt. R. S. Robinson, took her powder 07,1 board
in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday.
The paddlewheel steam store vess,:,l Rhadaman-
thus, 4, Master F. R. Sturdee, limit Plymouth for
Woolwich. en Tuesday.
The steam gunboat Seagull, tender to the Porcu-
pine, Lieut. W. Chimmo, was undocked at Devon-
pelt on Tuesday.
The gunboats Weasel and Cockchafer were takes
out of Keyham basin on Tuesday.
The screw steam ship Lion, 80, was undocked at
Devonport on Tuesday afternoon. In the evening,
at 10, Lieut. J. Graham, Lieut. C. R. Ricketts, 1
sergeant, 1 corporal, 1 drummer, and 75 rank and
file of the Royal Marines, from Woolwich, arrived
at Plymouth by the South Devon Railway, for the
purpose of joining the Lion.
The screw steam gun vessel Intrepid, 6, Com-
mander Marryatt, was transported to the coal
depot in Hamoaze on Tuesday.
The ways are beinglaid in Portsmouth Dockyard
for the launching of the Bacchante, 51, screw, sister
to the Shannon, which will take place in June.
Admiral Wm. Bowles, C.B. commander in chief
at Portsmouth, .hay
litriok his Rag on board the