The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-23 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

On Wednesday, as second in command in China,
Rear Admiral T. Jones hoisted his flag, blue at the
mizen, on board the screw steam frigate Imperieuse,
51, Capt. Maguire, now in Keyham-yard, Plymouth.
The flag was duly saluted by the Impregnable, and
the salute acknowledged by the gunnery ship Cam-
bridge, Capt. Jerningham.
Vice-Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, having been
granted leave of absence, struck his flag ou board
the Impregn able, in Hamoaze, on Wednesday night.
His duties will in the meantime devolve on Sir C.
Fremantle, Admiral of the Channel Fleet, now in
Plymouth Sound.
Commander E. D. Aplin is appointed to the pad-
dle-wheel steam-sloop Centaur, 6, at Plymouth.
The gunboats Cockchafer and Weazel at Plymouth
are to be commissioned immediately, with crews of
40 men each.

The revenue screw steam vessel Argus, Conmo-
dors John S. W. Grindy, which put into Plymouth
on Sunday, sailed again on Wednesday.
The large screw frigate Ariadne, 32, with engines
of 800-horse power (nominal), is being rapidly made
ready for sea in the fitting dock at Chatham.
The line-of-battle screw steamer Irresistible, 80,
which is to be launched at Chatham dockyard on
the 29th October, has a large body of shipwrights
employed about her in making the necessary pre-
parations for the launch.
The line-of-battle sailing ship Rodney, 90, and the
sailing frigate Severn, 50, in dock at Chatham,
being converted into screw steamers, are progress-
ing very fast, several hundred shipwrights being
employed on board, in order that both those vessels
may be completed with the utmost despatch.
The British Navy is just about to lose one of the
old frigates which played a conspicuous part dtir-
ing the American war—the St. Lawrence, for-
merly called the Shannon, which, under the com-
mand of Capt. P. Broke, attacked and made the
capture of the famous Chesapeake, on the Ist of
June, 1813, having arrived in Chatham yesterday,
in tow of the African and Adder, for the purpose of
being broken up. The St. Lawrence had been sta-
tioned at Sheerness for some time, where she has
been employed in harbour service, but the Admi-
ralty have now ordered her to be taken to pieces.
She will be taken into the dock at Chatham, now
occupied by the Tartar, 46, also being broken up,
when a large body of hired shipwrights will com-
mence her destruction.

Yesterday orders were received at Chatham by
Col. E. Rea, commandant of the battalion of Royal
Marines, directing detachments of non-commissioned
officers and men to be selected from that division,
and:held in readiness to embark in the Reynard, 4,
and Snake, 4, two of the screw steam vessels
which have just been commissioned for operations
in China. It is expected that several of the
steam gunboats which are now lying on the
covered slip at Chatham Dockyard, will shortly
be commissioned for service in China, it being the
intention of the Government to despatch a fleet or
50 gunboats to the Chinese waters, besides a squa-
dron of frigates and other vessels. In consequence
of the great care which has been taken of the gun-.
boats at Chatham, they are now in as good condi-
tion as when they were hauled up on the slipway
at the conclusion of the Russian war, and can all
be brought forward for ser%jce in a very short time.
Especial care has been take!! to insure the machi-
nery against being spoiled or injured.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty:—D. J. May, Master, to the Ring-
dove; J. H. Lawrence, Master to the Centaur;
J. D. Switzer, Master to the Reynard ; D. J. May,
Second Master, promoted to Master ; W. L. Dodds,
Second Master to the Hardy ; E. Colburne, Second
Master to the Havoek ; T. Steel, Second Master to
the Cockchafer ; C. W. Harris, Paymaster to the
Sphinx; F. C. Flenley, Paymaster to the Centaur;
J. B. Rawlings, Assistant Paymaster in charge to
the Beagle; C. A. Shapeote, Assistant Paymaster
in charge to the Snake; J. K. Cowley, Assistant
Paymaster in charge to the Ringdove ; W. Flood,
Clerk to the Pembroke; and R. Olivey, Assistant
Clerk to the St. Vincent. In the list of appoint-,
ments made at the Admiralty on Wednesday, for'
" Lieut. A. G. Boyle," read A. G. 80g.1e4.6.41441-
mand the Hardy, commissioned.