The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-11 00:00:00

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.

BANK----OP DEPOSIT,
Established A.D. 1844,

No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON, S.W.

The WARRANTS for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST,
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, on Deposit Accounts. to
the 30th June, are ready for delivery and payable daily be-
tween the hours of 10 and. 4.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.

July llth, 1859.
Prospectuses and forms sent free on application.

THE NAVY.

Another addition will shortly be made to the line-
of-battle ships of the Royal Navy by the comple-
tion of the fine screw steamer Irresistible, 80, now
being built at Chatham, which is likely to be afloat
in the course of a few months. She has a consider-
able body of shipwrights at work on board her.
The. Lords of the Admiralty have also given direc-
tions for a first-class screw steam frigate to be
pierced for 51 guns of the heaviest metal, to be im-
mediately commenced at Chatham, and a large
number of shipwrights have accordingly been em-
ployed for the last few days in trimming the tim-
bers and laying down the blocks on the slip on
which she is to be built. This frigate, which will
be one of the largest of that class of vessels afloat,
is to be named the Undaunted, and it is expected
that she will be completed and launched within a
twelvemonth of the present time. The shipwrights
are also busily employed on the screw steamer Rat-
tlesnake, 20, one of the vessels of war recently
ordered to be built at Chatham; in addition to
which the 'Atlas, 91, and the Bulwark, 91, are both
on the stocks progressing, and the Rodney, 90,
and Severn, 51, in dock, being converted into screw
steamers.
The line-of-battle ship Collingwood, 80, old sail-
ing ship, is ordered to be navigated round from
Portsmouth to Chatham, for the purpose of being
attached to the reserve at the latter port.
The paddlewheel steamer Vivid, 2, W. H. Allen,
master, with the Light, Beacon, and Buoy Com-
missioners left Plymouth on Thursday evening for
Portland.
The screw steamship St. George, 91, was placed
in dock at Devonport on Friday ; she is to have
two additional streaks of copper.
The rigging has been placed over the mastheads
of the screw steam frigate Orlando, 50, at Keyham,
and she is receiving her coal.
A handsome Chinese gun has been sent to Key-
ham steamyard, where it will be mounted.
The Megiera, screw troopship, Commander
Purvis, was paid off at Portsmouth on Saturday.
The Sprightly, paddle steamtender, returned
from Plymouth and Portland on Saturday evening.
Lieut. Robson proceeded in her on Thursday last
from Portsmouth to Devonport, to commission the
Forward gunboat.
The Black Eagle steamvessel, Master Commander
Petty, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from Milford and Devonport.
The Hornet, 17, Commander Viscount Gilford,
making rapid progress •in her dismantling at Ports-
mouth, has berthed alongside the Pitch-house jetty
for the greater convenience of landing her stores,

&c.
Thirty-seven seamen volunteers arrived at Ports-
mouth on Saturday from the coast of Scotland.
In the course of last week the officers of the French
war steamer Galilee, lying at Great Yarmouth, were
entertained at dinner by the officers of the Louth
Rifles and East Norfolk Militia. The meeting was
distinguished by much cordiality and good feeling.