The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

TILE ITAVY.

The Agamemnon, 91, screw, Capt. Thomas Hope,
has received sailing orders, and will proceed to the
Mediterranean.

The line-of-battle ship Rodney, DO. and the sail-
ing frigate,. Severn, 50, in dock at Chatha.m,being
converted into screw steamers, have each upwards
of 200 shipwrights employed on board, in order that
they may be completed with all despatch.
Her Majesty's iron troopship Simoom, Commander
Cooke, arrived at Falmouth on Sunday, with the
headquarters of the Fifeshire Artillery- Militia, un -
der Lieut.-Col. •Wynne, froin Plymouth, for garri-
son duty ,at rendennis. On landing them the
Simoom returned up Channel the same afternoon.
The Pioneer, 4, screw, despatch gun vessel, Com-
mander May; has sailed from Spithead for Liver-
pool to pick up hands.
When the Urgent screw steam troop-ship, now
just returned to Portsmouth and docked for repairs,
was at Gibraltar, his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wale's went on board and requested to see the quar-
ter-boats lowered at a moment's notice by Clifford's
new system as fitted in, all troopships. This was
instantly done, and Captain Hire had the honour
of proving to his Royal Highness that a boy of 15
years of.age had (single-handed) perfect control
over the lowering. The lad in the Prince's pre-
sence lowered the boat half way down, then stopped
it, then lowered away again and cast it off. When
in the Bay of Biscay, the ship going 11 knots, a
mat was thrown overboard, representing a man,
and a boat was lowered and the mat picked up
in one minute and 40 seconds. His ,Royal High-
ness was much pleased with the simplicity and
efficiency of The system as practically demonstrated
to him by Captain Hire.
The new screw steam-fiigate Ariadne was, on
i Monday, towed down to Woolwich from the Vic-
toria Docks, to be fitted with her machinery of 800- ,
horse power, to be supplied by Messrs. Mandslay
and Sena, after which she will be removed to dock
at Chatham.
The steam transport Oscar, Mr. T. H. Trupp
commander, yesterday sailed from Woolwich, hav-
ing embarked war stores. The Samian Gem has
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Falmouth,
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commenced receiving war stores from Woolwich;
also the Prospero and the Disraeli.
Sixty seamen and marines were draughted on
Saturday from the Wellington to the Topaze, 51,
both in l'lymouth.
The screw steam corvette Cadmus, 21, Capt. H.
S. Hillyar, went outside Plymouth Sound on Mon-
day to try 'her engines. Mr. Ward, assist.-engineer,
was on board to report on the state of her ventila-
tion.
I The screw steam sloop Falcon, 17, Cemmander
Fitzroy, left Plymouth under steam on Monday,
for the coast of Africa.
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placed m dock at Devonport on Monday, to make
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Royal The Navy.
following
Clifton, Henry C. Sedmond, John Molloy, Adolphus
E. Parks, John D. Rogers, Richd. C. Drew E. J.
Kellow, John R. Ryan, Henry it. Harris, Andrew
:—Lieut. R. H. Harangton
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J. Armstrong, Daniel Pender, E. L. B. Williams,
and James H. Lawrence.
The following. appointments were made Tester-
day at the Admiralty
to the Agamemnon ,• Lieut. R. H. Roe to the'
Donegal; Lieut. W. O. Butler to the Flying Fish ;
Lieut. J. Burgess and Lieut. the Hon. H. Lascelles,
to the Topazes Lieut. J. B. Mitchell to the Victory;
F. T. Jameson, master, to the Dauntless; and W.
F. Greet, additional master, to the Wellington.
The Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, • and Cromarty
Rifles (402 strong), commanded by Lieut.-Col. Ross,
assembled at Dingwall on the 16th inst., were
clothed, armed, and marched to Fort George, a dis-
tance of 19 miles (including a ferry), on the same
day. The manner in which the men f the regiment
assembled, after only 14 days' notice, is most credi-
table to them. Several of the volunteers marched a
distance of more than 40 miles the day previous to
the assembly, in order to be present at the muster.
As barrack accommodation cannot be afforded to
the Royal Sussex Artillery at Eastbourne during
their training, the regiment is ordered to assemble
at the depot at Lewes on the Ist of July.
Messrs. John and Robert White, of Cowes, Isle
of Wight, have received orders from the Govern-
ment to build a screw gun-boat, on improved prin-
. ciples, of 425 tons. Messrs. White, at the present
moment, are completing a steam squadron for the
Turkish navy. During the late war they built the
fastest gun-boats afloat--the Lapwing and the Ring-
dove.
The Admiralty have ordered the Carnatie, old
74, to be sent to the building yard of Messrs. White,
to be prepared as a coal depot for the Portland
Roads station.
An Admiralty order ims been received at Chati