The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-22 00:00:00

7.71 E NA Ii Y.

The, screw steam gun-vessel Wrangler left Sheer-
ness yesterday with Armstrong's guns. She will
proceed as far as Stokes Bay, where the scientific
officers appointed to make various experiments as to
range and effect, accuracy of firing, &c., will com-
mence their series of experiments.
The Challenger, 21 guns, screw corvette, at Sheer-
ness, is equipped all ready for the pendant.
The Tartar, 21 guns, screw steam corvette, Capt.
Hugh Dunlop, at Sherness, late from the North
American and West India station, has completed
the return of all her stores. The officers and crew
will be paid off this day.
The Waterloo, 90 guns, recently altered to a screw
line-of-battle ship, in deck at Sheerness, has been
so far completed as to be put out of dry dock into
the fitting basin.
The Dutch corvette screw steam vessel Citadel
van Antwerpen, Capt. P. Y. G. Mossel, was taken
into dry dock No. 2 at Sheerness yesterday, in con-
sequence of some leaks of a serious character, she
being considered unsafe to proceed on her passage
to Batavia, her port of destination. Her armament
consists of 14 long 36-pounders.
Commander J. F. C. Mackenzie's appointment to
command the screw steam sloop Icarus, 11 guns,
now fitting for the pendant at Sheerness, has been
cancelled by the Admiralty.
The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, 60,
Capt. George Wodehouse, left Plymouth on Sun-
day for Falmouth.
The repairs of the Flying Fish, 6, are expected
to be completed in Plymouth by the 24th inst.; the
Trafalgar, 90, by the 26th inst. ; the Conflict, 8,
Dec. 8 ; and the Virago, 6, Dec. 21.
The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander J. Day-
man, is coaling alongside the Malabar, coal depot,
in Portsmouth harbour, and making good slight
defects preparatory to towing out to Gibraltar No.
2 steam dredging vessel, intended for service in
Malta harbour. The lines used for taking sound-
ings between England, Gibraltar, and Malta, with
a view to laying down the telegraph cable, have
been returned to store at Portsmouth dockyard.
The Shannon, 51, screw, will leave Portsmouth
harbour this morning, under steam, and proceed on
a trial of her machinery.
The Urgent screw troop ship, Commander E.
Hire, and the Queen Charlotte sailing three-decker,
will both go into Portsmouth harbour from Spit-
head this morning ; the former will be placed in
No. 8 dock to prepare for service in China,
and the latter in the steam basin, where she will be
dismantled and fitted to take the place of the Ex-
cellent gunnery ship at that port.
The ISinbad from Woolwich, and the Rochester,
from Chatham, both with naval stores, arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—C. Fox, master, to the
Ariadne ; R. L. Cleveland, master, to the Queen ;
G. B. Moore, surgeon, promoted to the Ardent ; W.
W. Baird, chief engineer, to tile Queen • J. Patter-
son, chief engineer, to the AMdne ; W. Wotton,
first-class assistant engineer, to the Icarus ; J. Ver-
coe and T. H. Morgan, second-class assistant engi-
neers, to the Queen ; W. Steil, second-class assistant
engineer, to the Ariadne; F. Martin, acting second-
class assistant engineer, to the Ariadne ; R. Alvin,
acting second-class assistant engineer, supernume-
rary,to the Asia; T. Murray, third-claSs engineer,
confirmed, in the Intrepid ; H. Hull, third-class
assistant engineer, to the Queen ; J. Parry, third-
class- assistant engineer, to the Ariadne ; C. J. Gil-
bert, third-class assistant engineer, to the Icarus;
G. T. Bates, J. R. Hancock, and W;Wallace, acting
third-class assistant engineers, to the Queen ; J.
Slater, acting third-class assistant engineer, to the
Algiers ; J. T. Ludlow, acting third-class assistant
engineer, to the Himalaya ; I. Smith and T. Ritchie,
acting third- class assistant engineers, to the Ariadne;
J. Forrest (a), acting third-class assistant engineer,
to the Edinburgh, for service in the Louisa ; R.
Wyllie, acting third-class assistant engineer, to the
Jackdaw; R. Anderson (b), acting third-class
engi-
neer, to the Asia, as supernumerary; A. Jolla,
acting third-class assistant engineer, to the Asia,
for service in the Colossus ; W. Tempest, acting
third-class assistant engineer, to the Vulcan ;
George Teait, paymaster, to the Icarus; Robert
Deveson, paymaster additional, to the Eagle; John
E. Elsworthy, clerk, to the Queen ; W. A. West-
away, assistant clerk, to the Russell ; Alfred Hert-
zel and W. M. Mitchell, assistant clerks, to the
Ariadne ; Geo. R. Johnson, assistant clerk, to the
Illustrious; and Wm. J. Sumner, assistant-clerk, to
the Queen.

Lieut. C. F. F. Boughey has been promoted to
Commander, in consequence of his long service and
the creditable state of H.M.S. Havannah on paying
off, of which ship he was First Lieutenant.

THE ABZWY.

Yesterday morning the 34th company of Royal
Engineers, under the command of Capt. G. 11. Gor-
don, proceeded from headquarters, Chatham, to
Shorncliffe, where they relieve the 30th company,
about to be quartered at Dover, to be employed in
the erection of the batteries and the other works
of defence about to be raised on that part of the
epast. The 3lth company was originally ordered
kir that service, bu '4 it was subsequently ascertained
that the men of the 30th company had had greater
experience in that kind of works and were more ad-
vanced in fortification.

Two companies of the 36th Regiment, and a de-
tachment of Royal Marines, in heavy marching
order, were embarked in a pinnace and a troop
boat belonging to the Impregnable, at the Royal
William Victimlling-yard, Plymouth, on Friday
last. They were shortly after disembarked at the
same Blue. On shore the exercise was :ruler the
immediate superintendence of Gen. Hutchinson and
Col. Hort, and afloat it was superintended by Capt.
Stewart, C. 8., of the flag-ship, and Capt. Jerning-
ham, of-the gunnery ship Cambridge.
The sentence of a district court-martial, which
assembled at Chatham garrison on Wednesday last
for the trial of a sapper named David Wilton, be-
longing. to the Royal Engineers, for having de-
serted from that corps nearly four years ago, has
just been read to the officers and men belonging to
that branch of the service. The prisoner deserted
in the month of March, 1856, and was not appre-
hended until a few days since, when he was taken
to headquarters in charge of a military escort. The
Court sentenced him to be branded with the letter
" D," and to undergo 112 days' imprisonment in
Fort Clarence. On the sentence being approved
by the Major-General commanding the garrison, a
portion of the imprisonment was ordered to be re-
mitted, in consequence of the prisoner's former good
character.