The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-11 00:00:00

PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD.

THE NAVY.

Orders were _ yesterday received at the head-
quarters of the Chatham division of Royal Marine
Light Infantry for First-Lieutenant A. C. J.
M'Meekan, and a detachment of non-commissioned
officers from the Chatham. division to proceed to
Portsmouth, where they will be joined by similar
detachments from the other divisions, the whole to
proceed to the School of Musketry at Ilythe, for
the purpose of going through a course of instruc-
tion with the Enfield rifle, in order to qualify them
for instructors in muSketry.-
A telegraphic despatch. has been received at
Chatham dockyard intimating that upwards of 100
shipwrights have been engaged as extra men for that
establishment, and may be expected to arrive from
the north in the course of this day. Up to the pre-
sent time only about 60 of the additonal 300 ship-
wrights required at Chatham dockyard. have been
entered, together with 24 joiners and 21 smiths.
It is not intended to enter any additional smiths
besides the number already taken on until fires are
provided for them.
The' paddlewheel steam sloop Ardent, 5, Com-
mander John Cave, from Sierra Leone, January the
22d, Teneriffe, Fehruary the 26th, and -Lisbon,
March the sth, and the gunboat Skipjack, Lieut.-
Commander Murray, from Berehaven and the skirts
of the Bay of Biscay, with loss of forerigging,
arrived in Plymouth,Sound yesterday. .
The screw steam sloop Gannet, 12, Commander
Lambert, sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday
for the Mediterranean.

The Perseverance, screw steam troopship, Com,
mander E. R. Power, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from Malta and Gibraltar. She sailed
from Malta on the 27th of February, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 4th inst., and sailed again on the
sth. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamvessel
Argus, Commander H. F. W. Ingram, with the
Quail gunboat in company, sailed the setae day
from Gibraltar for Tangiers. The steamtug Red-
pole, with the French paddlewheel steamer
Colignv, remained at Gibraltar. The Perseverance
has has remarkably fine weather the whole pas-
sage home. On the 7th inst., off Cape Finisterre,
she exchanged signals with a screw steamer show-
ing third pendant No. 4,095. The following pas-
sengers, &c., have come home by her. From Malta.
—Commander H. F. M'Killop, lately commanding
the Recruit ; 1 mate, 1 gunner, 2 petty officers, 8
stokers, 12 seamen, 8 Marines and &boys ; part of
the crew of .the same vessel r&ently paid off at
Malta; Mr. J. M'lntyre, assistant-engineer, 4 sea-
men, and 2 Marines, from 'the Medina surveying
vessel. Mr. Gamma; from the Ariel, screw. steam
sloop; Mr. Rounds, . gunner, and Mr. Reynolds,
boatswain, both on promotion from her Majesty's.
ship Chesapeake ; Capt. Cator, 3d Buffs.; Lieut.
Connell, . 29th ioot. From Gibraltar.—Captain
Cooper, 6th Dragoon Guards ; Captain M‘Donald,
Bth Foot; Lieut. Kelson, 6th Fort; L
-Lieutenant A.
Arnett, 7th Foot ; Mr. Goderich and Mr. Duffield,
9 convicts in charge•of a 'warder, and 1 distressed
British subject.
The Avon paddlewheel steamer arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday Morning frOm the • -Westward, and
sailed again at noon. •
The Nelson, 120, (old . sailing three-decker), was
yesterday towel down from her moorings in Ports-
Mouth harbour, and placed-in No. 3 dock, for con-
version to a 91 two-decked screw steamship.
In pursuance of garrison orders, issued on the
preceding evening at Woolwich, a funeral party,
consisting of 120 rank and file of the Royal Artil-
lery, 100 of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, 100
of the 79th, the Queen's Royal Rifle Regiment, the
Antrim Militia, and an armed detachment of 40
Royal Engineers, assembled yesterday morning at
Anglesea-terrace, Woolwich-common, the residence
of the late Lieut. Walsh, Royal Engineers. The
deceased, it is stated, was 26 years of age,- but of a
somewhat debilitated constitution. It appears that
on Monday, the 28th ult., in company with n couple
of his brother officers, he was proceeding on horse-
back at a moderate fret along the high road at
Charlton, when the animal he was riding stumbled,
over some loose stones, fell, forward, and threw him
on the kerb, rolling twice' over his body. As he
was in an extreme state of suffering he was con-
veyed to his own home,_ where he lingered in great
agony until Sunday last, when he expired.
Her Majesty's steam store transport Dee, Master
Conimander Thomas Pullen, in dock at Woolwich,
was yesterday paid off, and the permanent service
Jaen were granted leave of absence.
Captain Ryder, Royal Marine Light Infantry,
'has been permitted to retire from the service on
full pay.
All salaried officers in the Devonport dockyard
who have attained' the age of 65, are to be super-
aunuated.

The whole of the bricklayers employed by the
contractors for the construction of the new Royal
Marine Infirmary yesterday struck for an advance
of 6d. per day wages. As this point was not con-
ceded the men left their employment, causing a
cessation of the works now in progress.
The following appointments were m ade yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. Sir George N. Broke,
C. 8., to the Hero, commissioned ; Capt. George
Edward Patey, to the Centurion, vice Broke ; Capt.
Thomas Fisher, to the James Watt, commissioned ;
Charles C. Scott, master, additional to the Chesa-
peake ; Henry T. Ellis, master, to the Hero ; and
George A. F. Day 2 second master, to the Algiers.