The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-16 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The screw steamship Revenge, 9:1, was towed on
Wednesday from Keyham basin to the Devonport
dockyard, to expedite her fitting.
. The gunboat Forward, Lieut. Robertson, was
masted at Devonport on Wednesday,, partly rigged,
and warped to the hulk Argo.
The screw steam transport Himalaya, Commander
Seccombe, left Plymouth on Wednesday evening
for Portsmouth.
The screw steam frigate Liffey, 50, Capt.'Preedy,
was towed out of Plymouth Sound on Thursday, by
the steam tug Confianee, and. sailed for the Medi-
terranean.
The screw steam frigate Topaze, 51, Capt. the
Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, saluted the flag of the Port
Admiral, on Thursday afternoon, as she passed
down Hamoaze into the Sound. She made an ex-
perimental trip outside the breakwater in the even-
ing, to try her enginei.
The sailing ship Vanguard, 84, was towed on
Thursday by the steam tugs Zephyr and Confiance
from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, where the
paddle-wheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Commander
M. B. Dunn, took her in tow for Sheerness. The
Vanguard is in charge of Mr. Paul, Assistant-
Master attendant at Devonport. She is to be
lengthened and converted into a screw.
The Rhadamanthus steam storeship sailed at 5
a.m. yesterday, from Portsmouth for Woolwich,
calling at Sheerness with supernumeraries.
The Hornet, 17, screw, has been towed from
alongside the Sheer jetty at Portsmouth, to a berth
in the harbour, preparatory to being placed in the
steam basin for docking and repairs.
The Dauntless, 32, screw, Capt. Edmonstone,
will move out of the steam basin to-day, and after
testing her machinery outside Portsmouth Harbour,
berth alongside her hulk to complete her outfit.
The Neptune, 91, screw, Capt. Sir W. Hoste,
Bart., will make her second trial of speed at the
measured mile in Stokes Bay, on Monday. At the
conclusion of the trial she will bring up at Spithead,
where she will take in the remainder of her guns,
stores, provisions, &c.
The Beagle, 6, despatch vessel,will get her steam
up in the steam basin at Portsmouth this morning,
to test machinery, &c.
A court-martial was held yesterday on board her
Majesty s ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, to
try Mr. Goodyer, late paymaster of her Majesty s
ship Hornet, on charges of neglect of duty in not
furnishing proper returns of the ship's accounts to
the Admiralty, &c. The Court, comprising Capt.
Gforge T. Gordon, commanding steam reserve,
president; Captahis A. Farquhar, Wilson, How-
lett, C. 8., Edmunstone, Magu .re, and Crawford,
with Mr. Heliyer, Deputy Judge Advocete, having
heard the evidence adduced on behalf of the prose-
cution, and also what the prisoner had to say'in his
defence, declared all the charges proved, and sen-
tenced him to be dismissed her Majesty's sErvice,
and further declared him ineligible for entry at any
future peri

A court-martial assembled on board the Impreg-
nable, at Plymouth, on Wednesday, to try William.
Stephenson, able seaman of the Rogue, for muti-
nous conduct towards the boatswain of the Caesar.
The, prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to
receive fifty lashes and be imprisoned for two years.
While the corporal punishment was being inflicted
on hoard the Csar, in Keyham-dock, on Thursday
morning at seven o'clock, several artisans and
labrairers then entering were attracted alongside
by the cries of the prisoner, and expressed dis-
approbation by hisses and groans, in which
they were joined by the Turkish sailors
assembled on the deck of their own ship,
which lies near. On this the Marines of
the Caesar were sent on shore, and were drawn up
in a line to disperse the people, when Burney, act-
ing leading man of shipwrights, and an apprentice
was seized and reported. Burney is suspended
until the return of the Admiral Superintendent, Sir
Thos. Pasley. He had charge of the hired men on
the Shadia, and alleges that he ordered them on
board, but they would not go.
Mr. Charles C. Ick was yesterday appointed pay-
master to the Cyclops.