The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

7118 NAVY.

The Rodney, 91, in dock at Chatham, undergoing
the process of lengthening, and being converted
into a screw steamship, has a body of engineers
working on board from an early hour in the morn-
ing until late at night, preparing the interior of
that vessel for the reception of her engines, which
are shortly expected to arrive from the contractor's
factory at Greenwich.
The Rattlesnake, 23, formerly used as a floating
police-station for the police at Chatham dockyard,
is ordered to be taken into the dock lately occupied
by the St. Lawrence, where she is to be broken up.

Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel stearnvessel
Trident, 6, Commander F. A. Close, fitted out at
Woolwich in Oct., 18156, for service on the West
Coast of Africa, was paid off at Woolwich on Satur-
day, and the whole non-continuous service men de-
manded their disclr.rge. Several deaths have taken
place during the term of her commission, the whole
period of which, it is stated, was fraught with re-
peated bickerings and unhappy misunderstandings
among the commandor and his officers and crew.

The Urgent screw troopship, Commlnder Hire,
sailed on Saturday for Kingstown from Portsmouth,
to embark the Lanark Militia for Portsmouth.

The Thetis, Prussian frigate, arrived at Spithead
on Saturday from Dantsie, for China and Ja;pan.
She saluted the military and naval authorities of
the port yesterday morning.
The Mmander, Commander Sir M. 11PGregor
(pro. tent.), sailed from Spithcad yesterday for As-
cension.

The Beagle. 6, screw, Commander E. Hay, at
Spithead, under orders for China, had steam up at
sunset yesterday, and was expected to ptoceed to
sea the same evening.
A serious disturbance took place in the Ports-
mouth dockyard on Saturday, and on board the
Princess Royal, lying alongside the Sheer Jetty,
clearing out for paying off. A body of the men had
'eft the ship, it is said, on leave for the night, but on
reaching the dockyard gates they were not allowed
to pass through, having no officer with them. The
men were ordered back to the ship, and no man
was to leave her that night in consequence of the
disturbance which had already taken place. The
men had no sooner reached the lower deck than they
began destroying their mess traps, tables, and stools
—in short, breaking into open mutiny, and taking
possession of the deck. Marines were sent for from
all the ships in harbour, and over 100 of the crew
were taken prisoners on board the Victory, and
placed in irons. Some hundreds of the crew who
denied any participation in the riot were ordered
on the jetty, while the ringleaders were secured.
A large number of visitors had previously been
allowed on board, but yesterday no visitors were
admitted.
The paddlewheel steam-frigate Odin, 16, Capt.
Lord John Hay, from Portsmouth, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Friday with the gunboats Grasshopper
and Flamer in company. On Saturday the Odin
was filling up coal, preparatory to sailing for China.
The Flamer has some defects to make good.
Capt. Jerningham, commanding the gunnery ship
Cambridge, inspected the screw steamship Encoun-
ter, 14, Capt. Roderick Dew, in Plymouth bound
on Friday. On Saturday she steamed alongside the
coal depot Lavinia, preparatory to sailing for China
in charge of three gunboats.
• The gunboats Bouncer, Lieut. A. R. Owen, and
Snap, Lieut. W. 0. Butter, steamed from Hamoaze
on Saturday into Plymouth Sound, and took on
board their powder.
The crew of :he corvette Havannab, 19, Captain
Thomas Harvey, will be paid off at Devonpo t on
Thursday. The Havannah is the oldest sailing-
ship of war in commission, having been built in
1811. _

His Netherland Majesty's steam corvette Cornelis
Dirks, Commander Koopman, from Helvcotsluys
for the coast of Guinea or the Brazil!, arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Friday.
The hired ship Talbot, from London for the Cape
of Good Hope, arrived at Plymouth on Friday to
embark Government stores.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Firebrand, 6, Com-
mander Joseph Dayman, from Malta, arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. Mr. W.
H. M. Arnold, additional Paymaster of the Han-
nibal, 91, Captain Matthew Conolly, with eight or
ten other invalids, embarked at the island; two
died in the Mediterranean. The Firebrand called
at Gibraltar, and sailed therefrom on the Ist inst.,
bringing as passenger Lieut. W. F. Gregory, for;
merly first of the screw steamship Neptune, 90,
Capt. Sir W. Hoste. When the sloop left Gibral-
tar the English fleet was in the bay. The French
squadron was at Algesiras, but only one Spanish
ship of war. The Centurion and the Conqueror
were expecting to leave shortly for England. The
engines of the Firebrand require repair, and her
main shaft is damaged.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Hydra, 6, Com-
mander R. V. Hamilton, left Hamoaze on Saturday
for Plymouth Sound. She is appointed to accom-
pany the new ship Immortalite from Pembroke to
Portsmouth.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com.
mander M. Dunn, has received temporary repair at
Plymouth. She is ordered to Woolwich.
A letter received at Plymouth, written from the
screw steam corvette Pearl, 21, Capt. John Borlase,
C. 8., dated at Funchal, Oct. 25' states that she was
to leave the next day for the Cape of Good Hope
and China. The ship is reported to be fast under
both steam and canvas. She, however, " rolls like
a tub," and it becomes frequently necessary to bar
the ports, which makes it anything but pleasant
below, especially when under stain, This incon-
venience will, of course, be increased when passing
through the tropics.
On Saturday the shipwrights employed at Chat.
ham dockyard completed the breaking up of the
famous frigate St. Lawrence, formerly called the
Shannon, which made the gallant capture of the
American frigate Chesapeake during the war with
the United States.