The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert Ivas
moved on Tuesday from the steam basin tsl her
moorings in Portsmouth harbour. She has not yet
completed her repairs.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steamship,
steamed out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead on
Tuesday, in charge of Captain George T. Gordon,
commanding steam reserve, to have her machinery,
&c., tested, under the superintendence of Mr. G.
Murdoch, inspector of machinery afloat.
The Nelson, in No. 2 dock at Portsmouth, under-
going conversion from a three-decked sailing ship
to a two-decked steamship, has had the whole of
her after body, to a distance of about 28 feet from
her old sternpost, removed. A portion of her dead-
wood with the after portion of her lengthened keel,
38 feet in length, including the scarfe, have been
fixed in their respective positions. Her new stern,
when completed, will give her additional length of
13 feet 8 inches.
The Diligence, naval transport, arrived at Spit-
head from the westward on Tuesday morning, and
has been towed into Portsmouth harbour.
The Neptune, 91, screw steam ship, Captain Sir
William Hoste, is coaling alongside the sheer jetty
in Portsmouth harbour. Dockyard riggers are em-
ployed upon the rigging, and a party of men from
the steam reserve are engaged in stowing her hold.
Parties of riggers and men from the steam reserve
are also similarly employed on board the Daunt-
less, Capt. W. Edmonstone, and the Sidon, Capt.
Crawford. The latter vessel completed masting at
the inner shears in the fitting basin yesterday.
The Simoom, screw troopship, Commander J. M.
Cooke, arrived at Spithead on Monday evening
from Devonport and Scotland, and has steamed
into Portsmouth to pay. off.
The whole of the mechanics and labourers who
have been
~ employed working overtime in Ports-
mouth dockyard have, by orders received from the
Admiralty, discontinued working extra hours from
Saturday last, but are still to continue on job and
task work.
The Gorgon, 6, paddle, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday from Sheerness, with a large number of
boys and supernumeraries to join the Victory, for
general service.
The Imperieuse, 51', screw, Captain J. B. E.
Frere, hoisted the pendant at Portsmouth on Tues-
day evening.
The Nautilus, exercising brig, from Devonport,
anchored at Spithead yesterday.
The Agamemnon, 91, screw, Captain Thomas
Hope, will have her crew paid advance of wages at
Spithead this day. She is expected to proceed
direct to the Mediterranean.
The Pioneer, 6, screw despatch vessel, Com-
mander May, sailed from Spithead on Tuesday, to
join the Channel fleet in Portland Roads.
The hired East India troopship Barham, 1,149
tons, A. Consit, commander, arrived in the Thames
yesterday from Madras, with a party of sick and
wounded troops on board, most of whom were dis-
abled in the recent conflicts with the mutineers in
the North-East Provinces, The troops, to the
number of seven men of the Royal Artillery,
and 32 non-commissioned officers and men of
the 74th Highlanders, with 28 women and chil-
dren, under the command of Lieutenant Richards,
sth Fusiliers, embarked at Madras on the 22d of
February. The Barham was 120 days at sea, dur-
ing which time one birth and one death occurred
on board. She touched at the Cape of Good Hope
on the 15th April. Major Balderson, Major Clark,
and Capt. Smith, of the East India Company's ser-
vice ; and Ensign Barber, 15th Native Infantry,
have come home as passengers. A private of the
Rifle Brigade named Coleman was brought home a
prisoner in irons, having been tried by general
court-martial in India and sentenced to 14 years'
transportation for striking an officer. After the
invalid troops had disembarked at Gravesend they
were conveyed to Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham,
where nine men were ordered into hospital for sur-
gical treatment, and the remainder sent to St. Mary's
invalid depot, to await an order for their discharge.
The following vessels comprise the steam reserve
in Portsmouth Harbour :—First class : 1. Duke of
Wellington, 131; 2. Colossus, 80 ; 3. Sphinx, 6,
paddle ; 4. Volcano, paddle (steam factory) ; six
gunboats. Second class : 5. Royal Sovereign, 131;
6. Shannon, 51; 7. Ringdove, 6 (despatch vessel) ;
8. Pearl, 21 ; five gunboats. Third class : 9. Rosa-
mond, 6 (paddle) ; 10. Beagle, 6 (despatch vessel);
11. Vulcan, troopship ; ten gunboats. Fourth.
class : 12. Penelope, 22 (paddle); 13. Fox, troop-
ship ; 14. three floating batteries; four gunboats.
Of the above, 1 and 2 are masted and rigged,
with the greater part of their stores on board. 3
requires masting, but is otherwise ready for service.
4 has but just returned from a foreign station, and
will require repairs. 5 has her lower masts in,
and a portion of her weights. 6 has her weights on
board, such as tanks, shot, cables, &c., but is not
masted at present. 7, 10, and 11 are ready for im-
mediate service. 8 has just returned from foreign
service, and requires repairs. 9is nearly ready for
sea. 12 requires an overhaul and repairs before fit
for commission. 13 could be quickly made ready
for sea, and would make a fine floating steam factory
in lieu of the Volcano. 14 would require an over-
haul. Six of the gunboats are ready for immediate
service, and the remaining 19 could quickly be made
so. In addition to the above there are 45 gunboats
at Haslar, 15 of which are ordered to be got ready
for immediate service ; the time in which the
remainder could be got ready would depend on the
number of hands employed on them.
Vessels under repair in Portsmouth dockyard
(steam reserve) :—Odin, 22, paddle, nearly com-
pleted •, Bulldog, 6, paddle, nearly completed ;
Stromboli, 6, paddle, in steam basin for overhaul ;
Medea, 6, paddle, in ship basin for overhaul, no
machinery on board.
In Commission :—Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Hope,
at Spithead ; Neptune, 91, Capt. Sir W. Hoste ;
Dauntless, 32, Capt. Edmonstone; Imperieuse, 51,
Capt. Frere ; Sidon (paddle), 22, Capt. Crawford ;
Gorgon (paddle), 6, at Spithead. Paying off—
Simoom troop steamer.
Her Majesty's ships Caesar and Diadem, from
Havannah on the 19th of May, arrived in Plymouth
Sound yesterday afternoon. All well.
The screw steam corvette Cadmus, 21, Capt.
Hillyar, made a trial trip outside Plymouth Sound
on Tuesday. Her engines, by Messrs. John Penn
and Son, of Greenwich, are 400-horse power, and
the mean speed obtained was 111- knots, 59 revolu-
tions, 20Ib. steam, and 26 vacuum.
Donegal, 101, screw, and 800 horse power, at
Devonport, having had her copper completed, has
been taken out of dock and placed in the basin.
She is to be commissioned with a complement of
930 officers and men, and to be commanded by
Captain William F. Glanville, who obtained his
commission as lieutenant in 1827, and served as
flag lieutenant at the capture of St. Jean d'Acre.
He was appointed captain of the Boscawen, 70,
flag ship of Rear-Admiral Arthur Fanshawe,
on the North American and West India stations,
in November, 1853, where he remained until 1857.
London, 90, screw, Captain Chads, sailed from
Devonport, on Tuesday morning, for the Mediter-

ranean.
The following appointments were yesterday
made at the Admiralty :
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Captains-13. E. Frere, to the Orion, vice Houston, in-
ded ;
rra R.Maguire,
to the Imperieuse (commissioned) ;
T. Amphion ; H. D. Hickley, to the
Masters—John L. Smith, to the Imperiouse ; Edwin
Rose, to the Donegal.
iadCittotcoh(ncO t o the
mmissioned).
Surgeon—Alex. Woodcock, to the Trafalgar.
Paymasters—John Tweedie to the Mars ; W. H. Norman,
to the Donegal ; R. A. Cumming, to the Trafalgar ; Charles
C. Ick (additional), to the Eagle; John T. Wells, to the
Amphion.

Assistant-Paymasters—James B. Bawling, to the Mars;
John E. C. Sullivan, to the Donegal ; Charles H. Ceely,
to the Imperieuse.

Clerks—Edward C. Taylor, to the Mars ; Donald Bogue,
x) the Donegal.
Assistant Clerk—Robert J. B. Smart, to the Ajax.

SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE.—The Canard
Company have contracted with Messrs. Robert Napier and
Sons, of Glasgow, and Messrs. James and George Thom..
son, of Clyde Bank Foundry, Glasgow, for the immediate
construction of several large first-class steamers, to replace
those recently sold to the Spanish Government.
THE METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.--This
hospital is open to the sick poor of all countries without the
necessity of a governor's letter of recommendation, and the
daily attendance of patients last year amounted in the ag-
gregate to 53,511. It is situated close to the most desti-
tute and populous districts of the metropolis, viz., Spital-
fields, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel,
,kc., places
whose names , are almost synonymous with poverty and
disease, and where aro generated those unhealthy influ- .
enees arising from overcrowded and ill-provided habitations
which render the advantages offered by such a charity as
this a paramount necessity to the surrounding population.
It is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions, and at
the present moment urgently requires assistance. The
anniversary dinner was celebrated last evening at the Lon-
don Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, when about 120 gentlemen
sat down to dinner. The Earl of Carlisle occupied the chair.
Among the gentlemen present were Messrs. J. H. Gurney, -
M.P., J. G. Hoare, J. G. Fry, J. Davis, J. Somers, J.
Fry, and 11. Clarke. In proposing the toast of the evening,
" Prosperity to the Metropolit an Free Hospital," tho chair-
man dwelt upon the fact that, although called an hospital,
this was really a monster dispensar That it was so was
not the fault of the designers, friends, or patrons of the in-
stitution ; and ho strongly urged all those who heard him
to come forward with their subscriptions, and enable the
managers of the institution to
intended to be--an hospitalshouldwithout difficulty
or .
indigent of
ants of the most indigent of
make it what it was really
or impediment supply
our population. The al.Pheeal:v
subscriptions were
responded to, and during the evening
tehveenCliniagirman was liberally
Mr. E. Grant, who meats were under the direction of . r.
W.
Smith, Mr. Bur, ably assisted by Miss Messent, Mr. W
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announced to the amount oft 12,080. The musical arrange.
was toastmaster,
and Mr •0- 'NOP. Mr. Higgs„asst •.. •