The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-04 00:00:00

THE NAVY

The Algiers, 91, screw, Captain O'Callaghan, is
ordered to Devonport from Portland to be docked.
She will there fill with stores and provisions, and
proceed to join the Channel squadron.
The Devon, lighter, sailed from Devonport yes-
terday (Sunday) for Holyhead.
The Hind, steam gunboat, tender to the Russell,
at Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Friday, and
returned to the firstnamed port yesterday (Sunday).
Icarus, 11, steam sloop, of 150 horse power, built
at Deptford, having been fully completed at Wool-
wich, left on Saturday for Sheerness, and is ordered
to be placed on the steam reserve at that port.
The Nankin, 50, is removed to Gillingham Reach.
The intention of turning her into a screw is aban-
doned ; her timbers being diagonal, the expense for
altering her was ascertained to be too considerable.
The Royal. Adelaide, 104, was commissioned at
Devonport, on Friday, as ordinary guard ship at
that port, in the room of the Royal William, to be
converted into a screw. Captain Woodford J. Wil-
liams, officers, and the crew have turned over from
the latter to the former ship.
The St. George, having been altered to a 90, screw '
two-decker, has been towed from the dockyard to
the steam-basin at Keyham to complete her fitment
and receive her machinery.
The St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw, Captain Thomp-
son, has left Devonport for Queenstown, with
stores and provisions for the Channel squadron.
The Assurance, 4, screw steam gun vessel, Com-
mander C. M. Aynsley, arrived at Spithead on
Saturday, with dates from Rangoon to Dec. 17 ;
Trincomalee, Jan. 9 ; Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 16 ;
Ascension, March 4 ; Sierra Leone, March 11 ; and
Madeira, March 26. The smallpox had considerably
abated at Cape Town. The Princess Charlotte screw
steam transport, :with invalids sent from Hong Kong,
left Simon's Bay, for Spithead, on Feb. 8, calling
at Table Bay, whence it was expected she would
sail about the 13th. The Russian squadron were at
Simon's Bay, intending to sail for the Amoor
River about the 20th. The Boscawen, 70, bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W.
Grey, K.C.8.; the Lyra, 16, the Persian, 12, and.
the Surprise, 4, were in Simon's Bay. The small-
pox was prevalent among the negro population of
Sierra Leone. Commodore C. Wise, with his broad
pendant on board the Vesuvius, 6, paddlewheel
steamer, arrived at Sierra Leone from the westward
on the 11th of March. About 40 miles N.W. of
Sierra Leone she passed the American mail steamer.
The Stately, of Swansea, arrived at Madeira on the
26th, and reported having experienced heavy S.W.
winds. The Assurance performed the journey from
Trincomalee to the Cape—a distance of 4,653 miles
—in 27 days 111 hours, 2,148 out of that under
steam with a consumption of 92 tons of fuel ; had
very fine weather the whole passage up to Madeira,
and thence to the Bay strong westerly and north-
westerly winds ; in crossing the Bay light northerly
winds, springing up off Ushant to strong S.E., veer-
ing to strong S.W. in the Channel. She brings home
only two invalids. The Assurance was commissioned
by her present commander at Portsmouth on the
17th of July, 1857, forming one of the squadron spe-
cially commissioned for the East Indies under the
supplementary vote of the House of Commons. She
sailed for Calcutta from England on the 26th of Aug.
in that year, touching at Madeira, Rio Janeiro,
the Cape, Point de Galle, and Trincomalee, arriving
at Calcutta on the 4th January, 1858, . being 101
days performing the voyage, running over a distance
of 14,770 miles ; out of this steaming 6,024, with a
consumption of 385 tons of coal. On arriving at
Calcutta her draught of water, 11 feet 6 inches,
being too great to ascend the Ganges, she was des-
patched to Rangoon, since which period, with the
exception of a voyage between that port and Cal-
cutta, she has been constantly employed in the
Rangoon river. The Assurance has been very
healthy, the whole period of her commission.
The Peninsula screw steamer, laden with heavy
ordnance stores for Gibraltar, put into Spithead on
Saturday.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander W. E. Triscott
to be Superintendent of the Packet Service at Dover;
A. J. B. Collins, mate, to the Algiers ; Henry
M'lnroy, midshipman, to the Doris ; Samuel G.
Robison, paymaster, confirmed to the Assurance ;
and Silas W. Parker, paymaster, confirmed to the
Adventure.