The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The following ships at Chatham Dockyard are
ordered to be completed and fitted for the second
division of the steam reserve in the Medway—viz.,
the Rodney, 90, in dock, converting into a screw
steamship ; the Irresistible, 80, line-of-battle screw
steamer, building; the Severn, 50, frigate, in dock,
being lengthened and altered into a screw steamer;
and the Wasp, 13, screw steam sloop, in dock,
having defects made good.
The Sir William Peel screw transport, sailed
from Portsmouth at noon yesterday, for Corfu, with
the officers and troops on board, as stated in The
Sun of Saturday, with the exception of Paymaster
Treeve, of the 2d Battalion, 4th Foot, who did not
embark.
The Cressy, 80, screw steamship, arrived at
Portsmouth from the eastward yesterday.
The Hannibal, 91, screw steamship, Captain
Matthew Connolly, bearing the flag of Rear-Admi-
ral G. R. Mundy, left Spithead yesterday at noon,
under canvas, for Malta, and rounded the east end
of the Wight on her course down Channel, with a
fine breeze easterly.
The Agamemnon, 91 screw steamship, Captain
Thomas Hope, being fitted out in the steam basin
at Portsmouth, has sent up her lower and topsail-
yards and pointed her topgallant masts.
Rear-Admiral Sir C. Fremantle, K.C.8., was
summoned from Plymouth on Saturday evening by
the Lords of the Ad niralty.
The paddlewheel steam vessel Advice, Master M.
C. Raymond, left Plymouth on Saturday for Queens.
town.

The screw steamship Revenge, 91, had her j ary-
masts taken out at Devonport on Friday, and was
transported to Keyham basin on Saturday.
The gunboat Weser, 6, Commander A. S. H.
Johnstone, from the Mediterranean, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Friday night. She was commissioned in
1856, and her crew will, it is expected, be paid off
at once.
The paddlewheel steam vessel Pigmy, 3, Master
W. Johnstone, sailed from Plymouth on Friday for
Portland.
' The Pheebe, 6, was taken into the Devonport
dockyard on Friday.
The screw steamship Donegal, 101, was warped
to the sheer hulk at Devenport on Saturday, and
had her masts and bowsprit stripped.
The training brig Nautilus, 6, Lieut. W. B. Grant,
sailed from Plymouth on Saturday for Dartmouth.
A notice has been posted at the gates of her Ma-
jesty's dockyard, Portsmouth, directing all naval
pensioners fit for sea service to present themselves
on board the St. Vincent (flag ship of Rear-Admiral
'Hon. G. Grey) at once. All pensioners fit for Coast-
guard or harbour service are to be on board the
Bellerophon for service in the Asia (guard ship of
steam reserve) at 10.30 a.m. on the 24th inst.
Twenty-seven men for the navy from Bristol
arrived at Plymouth on Saturday. They were sent
immediately to the guard ship Impregnable.
Forty-five volunteers for the navy were sent from
Liverpool to Portsmouth on Friday night last, and
another draught, numbering about 60, were to be
;forwarded to the same destination to-night (Mon-
,day.) The proportion of able seamen who now
:volunteer at Liverpool is on the increase.
Capt. Brown, R.N., Registrar-General of Seamen,
has been visiting the eastern ports during the last
few days for the purpose of encouraging volunteering
for the Royal Navy. At Great Yarmouth Captain
Brown had interviews with several of the ship-
owners of the port, who expressed their readiness
to afford him every assistance. At Lynn about 50
volunteers have already come forward.
A close holiday is ordered to be observed today
(Monday) in the whole of the departments of Wool-
wich Arsenal, which gives the clerks and operatives
a freedom from their duties from Saturday at noon
until Tuesday morning. The privilege of to-day's
holiday has been accorded to the men by Govern-
ment at their own request, instead of Thursday, in
commemoration of her Majesty's birthday, which
was observed in the dockyard and other Govern-
ment establishments at Woolwich on that day.
Lieutenant Walton, in command of 40 non-com-
missioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artil-
lery, left Woolwich on Saturday for Gibraltar.
Two Norwegian ships of war—the Ornen cor-
Vette, of 18 guns. and the Alfen screw schooner, 6
guns, from Christiania, on a Channel cruise, put
into Falmouth on Thursday, and on anchoring ex-
changed salutes with her Majesty's ship Russell, 60,
Captain Wodehouse, in command of the Coastguard.
The above ships are supposed to be the two mistaken
' for French, and. said to be in search of Austrian
merchantmen, as reported some days since.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—W. H. Leech, midshipman,
to the Emerald ; J. B. ,Ricardo, surgeon, to the
Falcon ; Dr. T. M'Gill Fulton, acting assistant-
surgeon, to the London ; T. Leetham, second master,
to the Cressy ; Herbert W. Hore, acting assistant-
clerk, to the Queen Charlotte; and Alfred P. Free.
man, acting assistant-clerk, to the Emerald.