The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

21IE Vit.

The court-martial intended to be held on board
the flag-ship Impregnable at Plymouth on Satur-
day, for the trial of Lieut. Marcus P. Costello, of
her Majesty's ship Diadem, on a charge of drunken-
ness, was postponed until to-day (Mocday).
The screw steam corvette Jason, 21, will be
launched at Plymouth on Thursday, the 10th inst.
Her Majesty's ship Prometheus, Commander
Skipwith, will leave Greenhithe this morning in
command of Mr. D. Hall, Master, R.N., ber Ma-
jesty's ship Fisgard, Woolwich, accompanied by
the staff of the engineer department, on a trial of
her machinery in preparation for sea.
The military store steam transport Lord Panmure,
T. S. Moore, Commander, commenced shipping on
Saturday a couple of 18-pound batteries of Royal
Artillery and other war stores for Pembroke: and
will afterwarl.s proceed to Carrickfergus and Dub-
lin to embark returned stores for Woolwich.

1 The military store transport Inkerman has sailed
from *Woolwich, laden with shot and other war ma-
terials for her Majesty's ship Hastings, 60, stationed
at Liverpool, on the coastguard service, a portion
of her cargo being also destined for the Lisgard
battery on the Mersey.
The W. H. Chandler, convict ship, from Bermuda,
with a number of convicts on board whose term of
imprisonment has nearly expired, arrived at Spit-
head during the night of Friday. She was blown
off the coast of Ireland in a heavy gale on Tuesday
last when endeavouring to make Queentsown,
where the greater portion of her convicts were to be
landed. She also experienced a severe hurricane in
lat. 39, long. 43. On the 21st of October, in lat.
41, long. 34, spoke the brig Ayrshire Lass, 31 days
from Demerara for Queenstown. Dr. Edwards is
in medical charge of the convicts.
The Simoom, screw troopship, Commander S.
Cook, was swung in Portsmouth Harbour on Satur-
day to ascertain the deviation of her compasses. She
is now ordered for military inspection and embarka-
tion of her troops &c., on the 11th inst.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Grey, Command-
ing in Chief at Portsmouth, inspected the Odin,
Sphinx, and Princess Royal at Spithead on Sa-
turday.
The Renown and Brunswick screw liners, left
Malta, for off Ancona, on the 26th of October,
and Rear-Admiral Mundy in the Hannibal, withthe
St. Jean d'Acre and the London, on the 31st idem,
for Corfu, where they will winter. The S....ourge,
corvette, with the Malta steam dredger in tow,
arrived from Gibraltar on the 31st October. The
Caradoc despatch steamer returned the same day
from Poti in the Black Sea, where she lamded Sir
Henry Rawlinson and suite, en route for Teheran.
On the 16th of October she called at Trebisond,
Constantinople, and the Piraeus of Athens. The
Shadia, Ottoman screw liner, has just arrived from
England, and saluted the garrison and Rear-Ad-
miral Codrington.
The screw-frigate Ariadne, 26, having been so
far completed in her various departments, Is ordered
to be floated out of the stone basin at Chatham on
the 19th inst., when she will join the steam reserve
squadron in the Medway.
The Charybdis, 21, screw corvette, will be docked
at Chatham during the next spring tides, when she
will be rigged and fitted for the first division of
the steam reserve.

The naval storeship Tortoise has arrived at
Chatham with dockyard stores from Devonport and
Woolwich, and the Falmouth, with stores from
Devonport, Portsmouth, and Sheerness dockyards.
The Rochester storeship, having made- good her
defvcts at Chatham, has commenced shipping war
stores for Portsmouth dockyard.

The Ant and the Louisa, victualling ships, have
arrived at Chatham, from Deptford, with stores
connected with the victualling department of the
navy.
The Rev. Dr. Woolley, the Inspector of Mini-
rally Schools, commenced the inspection of the
school for apprentices in Chatham dockyard on
Saturday.
A large number of the 56 pattern rifles, similar
to those served to her Majesty's Regiments of the
Line and the corps of Royal Marines, are in course
of transport from Woolwich Arsenal for distribu-
tion throughout the fleet, to be used in future as the
sole firearm of both services.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. William H. Phipps
to the Mars; Lieut. Henry Vaughan to the Hero;
Lieut. William Seaward to the Wellesley ; J. W.
Bradshaw, surgeon, to the Ardent ; Matthew
Coates, acting assist•surg., to the Hero ; W. J. F.
Butcher, master's assist., to the Amplion ; John
Boniface, master's assist., to the Hydra ; James
Coode, acting chief engineer, to the Mutine; John
Bruce (b), first class assist-engineer, to the Cum-
berland for the Alacrity ; Thomas Cr)ssman, se-
cond class assist.-engineer, to the Mutine; John
Langrish, second class assist-engineer, to the Corn-
wallis for the Ruby; James Crawford, acting third
class assist.-engineer, to the Mutine ; Christopher
Lund, third class assist.-engineer, to the Mutine;
David Cartmel, acting third-class assist.-engineer,
to the Asia, for temporary service in the Wallace;
James Frazer, James Meiklejohn, Angus Leitch,
Arthur Shanks, Thomas MTarlane, and Robert
Walters, acting third class assist.-engineers, to the
Chesapeake, as supernumeraries.