The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-21 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Orders were received yesterday at Portsmouth
for the Hannibal, 91, screw steam guardship at that
port, to be placed in dock and prepared for imme-
diate sea service. Capt. Gordon, C. 8., commanding
Steam Reserve, and staff, with the present com-
mander, senior lieutenant, paymaster, and assistant
surgeon, will be transferred temporarily to the
Bellerophon.
It is rumoured that C. pt. Arthur Cumming;
(1854) is likely to commission the Melpomene at'
Portsmouth. Capt. Cumming last commanded the
Glatton floating battery. The Melpomene is coaling
in the steam basin, has taken on board the whole of
her upper deck guns, and commenced taking in her
maindeck guns. Steam power is being used for this
purpose in the same manner as formerly applied to
the Mersey.
The Doris, 32, screw steam frigate, Capt. E.
Heathcote, was taken out of dock yesterday at
Portsmouth. She afterwards steamed out to Spit-
head, exchanging the usual salute with the Victory,
flagship of Admiral W. Bowles, C.B.
The Supply, screw steam store ship, Master Com-
mander Balliston, arrived at Spithead yesterday
from Woolwich, bound for Boudron Bay.
The gunboat Hind' was placed in Keyham basin.
on Monday for repair.
The screw steamship London, 90, and the screw
steam frigate Topaze, 51, at Devonport, will be
ready for the pennant on Saturday.
The screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. Arthur P.
E. Wilmot, took in her powder on Monday, at Ply-
mouth, and on Tuesday morning sailed for Queens-
town.

The screw steam frigate Termagant, 25, Capt•
Robert Hall, at Devonport, has some slight defects
to be repaired.
The gunboat Shamrock, Master Wm. S. Calver,
went outside Plymouth Sound on Tuesday, to try
her machinery.

Admiral Siiperintendent Sir T. Pasley inspected
the blockships Forth and Seahorse, at Devonport,
on Tuesday.
The Turkish lirte-of-battle ship Fethia, which
has been fitted with a screw in Keyham-yard,
steamed from Hamoaze, on Tuesday, into Plymouth
Sound.

The Brazilian screw steam gunboats Belmont, 7,
and Parnahida, 7, each of 120-horse power, which
left Havre on Monday, arrived on Tuesday in Ply-
mouth Sound. After coaling they will sail for the
Brazils.

The French screw stoamvessel of war La Corse,
Commodore Viscount Laviassierre, left Sheerness
for Calais yesterday at 4 a.m.
The new steamship Edgar, 91 guns, at Sheerness,
has had a very satisfactory trial of her engines.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Paymaster—E. W. W. IVliliman (additional), to the 4.
Vincent.

Assistant Paymasters—Frederick Burne, Thomas W•
Harriott, and John Bremner, to the Ganges; Thomas
Goodman, to the Hawke.

Clerks—Charles D. Lee, to the Virago ; Henry
Wyatt, to the Racoon.

Mate—R. Macdonell, to the St. Jean D'Acre.

THE Alt3IY.

The first competitive examination under the nest
regulations at the Staff College was considered by
the council to be highly creditable to the talent and
application of the officers, and the result was as fol-
lows :—From among the officers who completed the
course—Capt. M. Petrie, 14th Regiment, 3,280
marks; Major D. Gamble, 4th Regiment, 2,740
marks; Major R. Carey, 40th Regiment, 2,735 marks;
Captain S. Wilson, 55th Regiment, 2,655 raarks•
Captain B. Branfill, 16th Regiment, 2,106 marks'
Officers who have completed one year at the College:
—Capt. W. Congreve, 4th Regiment, 2,038 marks;
5 •
Capt. E. Jones, 20th Regiment, I,947marks ; Capt.
O'B. Woolsey, Royal Artillery' 1,827 marks; Capt*
A. Bruce, 91st Regiment, 1,80 arks
Major W•
Williams, Royal Artillery, 1,759 marks'; Lieut. W•
Palliser, 18th Light Dragoons 1,704 marks ; Capt.
H. poathu
Regimbent 1,605 marks; Capt. T•
Weir, 2d Regiment, 1,580 marks; Capt. P. Till'
Regiment, 1,568 marks; Capt. W.
wood, 14th Re iment
67th Pe' 72d
'
man, 15th
g, 1563 marks • Capt. F. Jeu '
Regiment, 1,410 ma' rks ; capt. A. Douglas, 4th
Light Dragoons, 1,372 marks ; Capt. C. Pearson'
3d Light Dragoons,. 1,357 marks. Capt. Petrie
.hal
since received an appointment in the 'Popograpillea,_'
Branch of the War Department, such appointment,
under warrant of 17th of December, 1857, being. re,
served for those officers 'who have distinguished
themselves in the examination.
The half-yearly inspection of the corps of Royal
Engineers took place yesterday by Major-General
H. Eyre, Commandant of Chatham Garrison. The
officers and men of the entire corps assembled 111
the barrack square at ten o'clock, under the COin..
mand of Lieut.• Col. Ross the troops.being in heaq
marching order. On arriving on the parade round
General Eyre made an individual inspection of each
of the companies, examining the kits and accoutre-
ments of the troops. The men were afterwards Pt
through a variety of movements in the barrack
square, all of which they went through with gr.eat
..
steadiness and precision. General Eyre also ?.1;,
spected the barrack rooms, libraries, halls of stud. _
school rooms, and the several departments of
rtr.
establishment, together with the books of the co.."'
Capt. E. L. Bland, R.E., has been ordered toj. I_l2
the command of a company of Royal
headquarters, Chatham, for the purpose of
Engineers,taking.
under orders to proceed to the Mediterranean.
The 29th Company Royal Engineers, stfttlerief.
at Portsmouth, will remove from that garrison.
a tu,.
Chatham on the 28th inst., and will be relieved.
Portsmouth by the 36th Company of that corps'
from Chatham.

THE GOLDEN ROSE. --" The Pope," says a letter
from Rome, "recently, in accordance with annual custom,
blessed what is called the " Golden Rose." This flower, which
is made of the purest gold, and ornamented with
stones, wits rubbed with balm and incensed, his Holiness
reciting verses explaining the mystic meaning of the bent;
diction; after which he took it in his left hand and blessed
the people. Mass was then celebrated in the Sixtine Chapel.
The gold roses are ordinarily sent to female Sovereigns,
sometimes to princes, and sometimes, though rarely, to
towns and corporations, The one of last year was sent to
the Empress of the French, and that of the year-before to
the Queen of Spain." precious