The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

2HE NAVY.

Since the Trusty, 14, steam floating battery, re-
turned to her former moorings opposite Upnor
Castle, Chatham, she has undergone an examina-
tion in order to ascertain the amount of injaries
she met with during the experiments that were
made on her with the view of testing her capabi-
lities of resisting the effects of the shot fired from.
the Armstrong cannons at Shoebnryness. The re-
sult of the survey has demonstrated that this new
kind of iron-cased floating batteries presents com-
paratively no resistance whatever to the shots from
the Armstrong guns. Although the Trusty is
covered with massive wrought-iron plates, of ex-
traordinary thickness, yet every shot that struck
them shivered the plates to pieces and entered the
vessel; some of the shots, it is evident from the
examination, having passed through the iron plates
and beams of the battery on one side, and through
the timber and iron casing of the vessel on the other.
The battery presents the appearance of having been
most severely handled ; and it is the unanimous
opinion of the officers and others who have exa-
mined her that vessels of this class will be found to
be almost entirely useless when fired upon by
guns of the Armstrong class.
The Admiralty yacht Vivid, H. W. Allen, master,
left Woolwich yesterday for Dover, to embark the
Royal Commissioners engaged in the survey of the
coasts and marine fortifications of Great Britain.
The building of her Majesty's 91 gun ship Bris-
tol has commenced at Woolwich, on the slip from
which the Galatea was recently launched, and is
ordered to be carried on with the utmost despatch.
The Bristol will be of the same dimensions as and in
every respect similar to the Anson, laid down at
Woolwich in February last. Her total length will
be -about 300 feet.
The freight-ships Champion and Osprey have ar-
rived at Woolwich for the shipment of shot, shell,
and military stores.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, Master T.
C. H. Pullen, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth
on Tuesday, with large boilers for the Narcissus.
She went into Keyham basin to discharge.
The steam sloop Virago, Commander M. Dunn,
left Plymouth on Tuesday, with supernumeraries
for Portsmouth.

The mizen mast and !bowsprit of the flagship
Royal Albert, 121, at Plymouth, are defective,
which will involve a longer delay in the dockyard.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Locust, 3, Lieut.
Field, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on
Wednesday, with 45 supernumeraries for the guard-
ship Impregnable and the Imperieuse.
The screw steam corvette Pearl, 21, Capt. John
Borlase, C. 8., from Portsmouth, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Wednesday afternoon. Her feed pipe has
burst, and will have to be made good before she
sails for China.

The screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Glan-
ville, from Liverpool, arrived at Plymouth on Wed-
nesday afternoon. The name of the seaman unfor-
tunately • drowned in the Mersey is James Rose.
He clung to the lead-line, but was drawn under the
current, as the ship was under steam and canvas.
Four seamen jumped overboard to save him. Dur-
ing her stay at Liverpool the Donegal shipped 98
men. A court-martial will assemble.to-day (Friday)
to try a private of Marines, on a charge of stabbing
his sergeant.
The gunboat Hind, from Falmouth, arrived at
Plymouth on Wednesday with supernumeraries.
The screw steamship Topaze, 51, Capt. the Hon.
W. H. Spencer, in Plymouth ound, is ordered to
prepare for foreign service. She has embarked 100
boys for distribution at her new station.
Letters have been received at Plymouth from the
screw steamship Orion, Captain J. J. Frere, dated
Gibraltar, Sept. 4 She left Malta on the 12th, and
arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d. On the passage
sfie sprung her maintopsail yard, and lost a man,
who was drowned. The crew had not yet been
paid bounty. In port were the Marlborough, Orion,
Princess Royal, Conqueror, Centurion, and Victor
Emmanuel. Five were expected to be sent home
shortly.
The Russian squadron at Spithead, comprising
the screw frigate Ilia Mourometz, 53, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Nordmann ; screw liner Gan-
goud, 84 ; and the screw corvette Vohl, 11, left that
anchorage yesterday afternoon, under steam for the
Mediterranean. The Ilia Mourometz exchanged the
customary salutes with the military and naval au-
thorities on leaving, the saluting battery on King's
Bastion replying on behalf of the Governor, and ,
the Mars, 80, at Spithead, on behalf of Admiral
Bowles, the commander-in-chief. A Russian screw
sloop, one of the three vessels expected at Spithead
from Cronstadt, on their way to the Amoor river,
arrived at that anchorage yesterday as the above
vessels were getting under weigh.
Mr. J. C. Ingles was yesterday appointed sur-
geon additional to the Nile.