The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

orders to call at Portsmouth, Devonport, Madeira,
or St. Vincent, Rio Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope,
&c., through the Straits of Magellan to Hongkong,
to carry out a survey in the Chinese waters.
The steamship Britannia, in the London Docks,
yesterday shipped 700 11-inch shell from Woolwich
Arsenal for Gibraltar. The James Holmes com-
menced receiving hutting materials for Bermuda in
the West India Docks, and the Gazelle in St. Ka-
tharine's Docks, shipped a cargo of timber and
general stores for Malta, all from Woolwich Arsenal.
The Admiralty order quoted a short time ago in
The Sun, in which it was stated that their lordships
had been pleased to permit all men on the 10 hours
system to enter the dockyard at Woolwich at 8 30
for a certain period, as an experiment, was yester-
day announced to have yielded the desired results.
The order is intended to relieve those men who by
sheer accident may not be able to reach the dock-
yard in readiness for the first muster at 6 o'clock,
and, not being entitled to admission until after the
dinner hour, were consequently mulcted of half a
day's pay. The order contained a caution to the
effect that if any undue advantage were taken of the
indulgence the order would be reconsidered, and the
permission would be withdrawn. It was yesterday
announced that no infraction by reason of the pri-
vilege has been reported, but that, on the contrary,
the number of those who failed to be present at the
early muster had been fewer than heretofore.
The steamship Golden Fleece, chartered by the
Transport Department of the Admiralty for the
conveyance of troops to Hongkong, left the Victoria
Docks for Gravesend, on her way to Portsmouth,
on Saturday afternoon. Every provision has been
made for the comfort and accommodation of the
officers, the men, and their families, which are to
accompany them under the regulations of the Admi-
ralty Transport Department. The system intro-
duced by Dr. Edmonds, R.N., which has for some
time been adopted by her Majesty's Emigration
Commissioners in all ships chartered by them, is now
also applied to Government troopships. In the
Golden Fleece provision is made for effective ventila-
tion whether during calms under the line or in stormy
weather, when all ports or even hatches might re-
quire to be closed. This is effective without any
machinery liable to derangement, but by the econo-
mical use of steam as a rarefying agent, or, when a
more powerful action is desired, by its direct pro-
pulsive action. The five large transports now being
built by contract on the plan of the Admiralty and
TransportDepartmentsare all to have Dr. Edmonds's
system of ventilation applied to them. The Golden
Fleece will embark a portion of the troops at Ports-
mouth to-day, and will call at Cork for the remainder
and then proceed to the Cape and Hongkong. When
all are embarked she will have nearly 1,100 souls on
board.
The paddle steam sloop Buzzard, 6, Commander
Charles G. Lindsay, from the Wrest Indies, arrived
in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. She left
Barbadoes September 26, arrived at Fayal October
20, left November 5, and spoke November 10 the
brig Iris and ship Patrician ; and November 11
the Dutch bark Water Nymph.
The persons employed in the modelling depart
ment at Chatham dockyard have been busily occu
pied for some time past in executing a number' o

models of the various descriptions of ships belonging
to the British navy, for transmission to Paris,
where they will be exhibited in the French Exhibi-
tion. The various classes of ironclads and other
vessels of the English navy will be represented at
the Exhibition. The models completed include those
of the Bellerophon, Achilles, Hercules, Monarch,

Warrior, Lord Warden, Blanche, and Royal Oak,
besides the various types of partially plated iron
ships, and the different descriptions of wooden
frigates and other ships.
The following is published at the Admiralty,
Whitehall,respecting the loss of the Griffon : —" The
Buzzard arrived at Devonport this (Monday) after-
noon, after a lengthened passage from Barbadoes.
Intelligence has beee received from the West Coast