The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-21 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Glocester, 50, attached to the reserve at
Chatham, is undergoing alterations for the purpose
of being fitted for a receiving hulk.
The Locust, 2, steamvessel, Commander 7. B.
Field. arrived at Portsmouth, from Sheerness, on
Saturday, and sailed again the same day for tho
Channel Islands.

The Perseverance screw steam transport, Com-
mander E. R. Power, at Portsmouth, was on Satur-
'day taken into No. 8 dock, in the steam basin, to
complete repairs, &c., for 'further service.
The Rhadamanthus steam transport, Master-Com-
mander Sturdee, having landed the machinery for
the Neptune and Vulcan, at Portsmouth, sailed
again for that port on Saturday evening.
The Reynard, 4, screw steamvessel, and the Euro-
tas, 12, screw mortar ship, have been put out of the
fitting basin at Sheerness.
On Saturday, the Waterloo, 120, late flagship,
was taken into the fitting basin at Sheerness to be
dismasted and prepared for being, taken into dock
for the purpose of being converted into a screw line..
of-battle ship forthwith.
The gunboat Sandfly (tender to the Cornwallis),
Lieut.-Commander Henry Moore, having had her
defects repaired at Sheerness, on Saturday pro-
ceeded on a trial of her machinery, under the in.
spection of Capt. Edward P. Halsted and his staff,
in command of the steam reserve. The trial of her
engines was in every respect satisfactory. With an
average pressure of 63 she made on an average. 148
revolutions and eight and a half knots per hour.
The gunboat Magnet (tender to the Pembroke),
Lieut. Edward S. Meara in command, arrived at
Sheerness on Saturday last from Harwich, to have
defects repaired. _

Commander Frederick H. Stirling (late in com-
mand of the Wasp) took up his commission at
Sheerness on Saturday last, and assumed the com-
mand of the Hero, line-of-battle ship. Capt. Blyth,
R.M., arrived at Sheerness on Friday last with 138
rank and file of Marines and Marine Artillery, and
joined the Hero.

The Nankin, 50, recently paid off at Chatham, is
not to be converted into a screw steamer as was
originally intended, but is to be placed in ordinary
at that port. _ _ _

The line-of-battle screw steamer Trafalgar, 91,
having been altered from a 120 gun sailing ship,
will be floated out of No. 2 dock at Chatham, at
spring-tide to-day, after which the Rodney, 90,
will go into the same dock to be fitted with a screw.
The new paddlewheel steam yacht Faid Gahaud,
Capt. Kellock, belonging to the Pacha of Egypt,
put into Falmouth on Wednesday afternoon, on her
voyage from Southampton to Alexandria, owing to
its blowing a gale from the S.S.W., and having
besides encountered some derangement in the ma-
chinery on the port side which will require repara-
tion.

The naval and other stores which were laden on
the unfortunate steamer Czar, wrecked near the
Lizard, are being partially recovered by two sal-
vage cutters, with diving apparatia, as the weather
admits of operations, and are brought to Falmouth.
Some machinery has also been recovered, forming
part of the cargo, but the great bulk is still un-
saved.

His Netherlands Majesty's screw steam sloop
Vesuve, 6, Commander Casemboort, joined the
Dutch squadron in Plymouth Sound on Friday
night. On Saturday morning Admiral t'Hooft
visited Port Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds,
K.C.8., at Mount Wise, and then inspected the
flagship Impregnable, 104, Captain William H.
Stewart, C.B ~ in Hamoaze. The customary salutes
on embarkation were duly acknowledged by the
Evertsen, 50. Admiral t'Hooft was shown round
the fortifications by Major-General Eden, Com-
mander of the Forces in the West.

The screw steam frigate Liffey, 51, Capt. George
W. Preedy, from Portland, arrived at Plymouth on.
Saturday afternoon to receive stores and provisions
for the fleet at Queenstown.

The paddlewheel steam vessel Advice, 2, Master
Michael C. Raymond, left Plymouth on Wednesday
for Queenstown, with supernumeraries for the fleet.
The paddlewheel steam vessel Avon, 3, Second
Master James A. Lawrence, sailed the same day to
collect men from the Cornish coast ; and the lighter
Falmouth, Carrick, master, sailed for Pembroke
and Ireland.
The screw steam frigate Doris, 32, Capt. Edward
Heathcote, has entered her full complement, and is
nearly ready to leave Hamoaze for Plymouth Sound.
On the arrival of the iron screw steam troopship
Simoom, 8, Commander John M. Cooke, at Ply-
mouth, she will be ordered to Portsmouth.
The screw steamship James Watt, which was
commissioned on the Bth inst., at Plymouth, by
Captain Thomas Fisher, was taken into Keyham
basin on Wednesday. The defects in her engines are
so important that she has been docked for repair.
The guardship in ordinary Royal William 120,
Captain Woodford J. Williams, was removed from
Hamoaze on Wednesday to the Devonport Dock-
yard, where her masts were taken out, preparatory
to her being docked. She will be cut down to a
two-decker, and converted into a screw with an
armament of 91 guns. The crew of the Royal
William will be paid off on the 31st inst., and she
will be replaced by the Royal Adelaide, 104.
The lower rigging has been passed over the mast
heads of the London, 90, at Devonport, and she is
rapidly fitting for active service.
The steam gunboat Skipjack, Lieutenant and
Commander John Murray, was undocked at Key-
ham on Saturday morning. The St. George, 120,
was appointed to be undocked in the evening.
Two officers and 117 men belonging to the Royal
Artillery arrived at Plymouth by the mail train at
6 o'clock on Saturday morning.