The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-09 00:00:00

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The screw steamsloop Racer, 11, Commander tho
Hon. T. A. Pakenham, steamed from Hamoaze into
Plymouth Sound on Monday, and took in her
powder, preparatory to sailing for the North Ame-
rican and West India station.
The broken bowsprit of the screw steam-frigate
Curacoa, 31, was removed from her at Devonport
on Monday. It is to be replaced with the bow-
sprit belonging to the frigate Pique, 40, which has
been taken'out for that purpose.
The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Lightning, from
Portsmouth, with Mr. Craddock, master shipwright,
for Pembroke, put into Plymouth on Monday, to
disembark 17 supernumeraries for the Curacoa, after
which she sailed for her destination.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Virago, Commander
Dunn, having in tow the Conway, 26, intended for
a training ship at Liverpool, put into Falmouth,
from Plymouth, on Sunday, owing to stress of
weather, and sailed again on Monday.
The paddle-wheel steam yachts Black Eagle and
Vivid got up steam yesterday morning, in pur-
suance of an Admiralty telegram, and sailed from
Woolwich at an early hour for Portsmouth. The
Vivid embarked 48 supernumerary seamen and
boys from the Fisgard, and the Black Eagle was
ordered to call at Sheerness and embark supernu-
meraries from the Waterloo. An Admiralty de-
mand was likewise transmitted to Mr. Rice, mas-
ter shipwright, requesting to be informed when the
Banshee, in dock at Woolwich, could be got ready
for sea, and to name the earliest date. The reply
stated that " the partial repairs necessary for home
service only could be got through by the 12th inst.,
and that the more important details rendering her
fit for foreign service might be completed, if re.
quired, by the 19th." The whole of the ships in
course of construction and under repairs at Wool-
wich are ordered to be completed with despatch.
The screw steam-frigate Galatea, in a forward
state of progress, has received an additional num-
ber of hands. The officers of the shipwright de-
partment of Woolwich dockyard are desirous of
correcting a slight inaccuracy which appeared in
our military and naval intelligence of yesterday, to
the effect that " the Nankin was built at Chatham,"
whereas she was built at Woolwich and launched
from that yard in March, 1850. The present is
her second commission. The whole of the war
material shipped from Woolwich Arsenal on board
the ill-fated ship Czar, wrecked off the coast in the
Channel, consisting f 51 68-pounder siege guns
and 400 tons of stores, having been lost, a second
cargo is ready for embarkation at Woolwich, and
will be shipped in a few days. The freight-ship
Plover was yesterday taken up for the conveyance
of war stores for Barbadoes.

Her Majesty's screw steamship Royal Sovereign
131, wasyesterda.y warped under the sheers in the
steam basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, and shipped
her bowsprit.

Her Majesty's gunboats Havoc, Hardy, and
Grasshopper got up their steam to test their ma-
chinery, in the steam basin, Portsmouth, yesterday.
Commander Joseph Bickford, of the flag ship
Victory, at Portsmouth, has been summoned to
attend the Royal Naval Commission for the more
efficiently manning the British navy.
The Fire Queen, yacht, Master Commander F.
W. Paul, went out of Portsmouth Harbour yester-
day morning, to test some improvements to her
machinery, which were successful.
The Nankin, 50, at Chatham, bearing the broad
pendant of Commodore the Hon. Keith Stewart, has
commenced rattling down her rigging. As soon as
she is paid off she is to be turned into a screw steam
ship.
The Urgent, 6, embarked yesterday alongside
the Portsmouth Dockyard jetty the right wing of
the 2d battalion of the 23d Regiment, from Alder-
shot, comprising 19 officers, 526 rank and file, 3
officers' wives, 18 women, 22 children, and 3 horses,
for conveyance to Malta ; she will ail from Spit-
head to-day.
A desperate attack was made yesterday by a con-
vict on his warder in the Portsmouth Dockyard.
The warder was severely injured. The convict was
secured, handcuffed, and placed in an underground
cell in the convict prison.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. L. V. Peyton, Lieut.
the Hon. Richard. Hare, Lieut. Edward Poulden,
Lieut. Sir Lambton Loraine, and Lieut. C. P.
Palmer to the Algiers ; Lieut. It. H. Roe to the
Victory ; S. J. Cunningham, surgeon, to the Al-
giers, and John G. Smith, assistant surgeon, to the
Algiers. It was Mr. John W. Mel. Hall who was
appointed on Monday master to the Algiers, and
not " Molfale," as stated in mistate.