The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

7ILE NAVY.

Commodore the Hon. James R.Drummond, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camu to her Majesty, and superintendent
of Woolwich Dockyard, yesterday returned to Wool-
wich on the expiration of a month's leave of absence,
and resumed his official duties.
Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Mutine, intended
to carry 17 guns, was yesterday hauled out of the
fitting basin at Woolwich, and was admitted into
dock to be coppered. The Admiralty yacht Black
Eagle on completion of some slight repairs was yes-
terday undocked; and the paddlewheel steam sloop
Ardent was ordered to be placed in the Ist class
steam reserve at that yard. Her Majesty's steam
-don]) Hecate is in progress of thorough repair at
Woolwich, and is ordered to be completed with de-
spatch.

Mr. James Dearly, Mr. S. It. Graves, and Ca A.
Powell, of Liverpool, attended by Mr. J. Ewart,
M.P., had an interview with the Duke of Somerset
yesterday afternoon, at the Admiralty, respccting
the Conway school frigate.
Letters for the screw steamship Orion, 91, are to
he sent to Malta. She was at Gibraltar on the 3d
insztani, getting a new foreyard, the old one being
sprung in three places. The Orion was appointed
to leave shortly for Malta.
A special messenger from the Lords of the Admi-
ralty arrived at Plymouth on Sunday with de-
spatches, and the screw steamvessel Flying Fioi,
6, Commander Hope, left the Sound immediately.
it is supposed that she will communicate with the
squadron of eight ships which left Plymouth on
Thursday, under Rear-Admiral George Elliott, and
which form a portion of the Channel flea, under
full command of Admiral Sir C. Fremantle.
The Trident, 6, iron paddle steamer, Commander
Francis A. Close, arrived at Spithead yesterday at
noon from Ascension, from which port she sailed on
the 19th August, arriving at Eva!, where she put
in for coal, on the 28th September, and sailing.

thence on the Ist of October.- The greater part of
he passage home has been made under canvass, the
Trident having only two engineers on board in con-
sequence of her losses by fever. She also brings
home the whole of her Kroomen (22), owing to her
being short•han,3..ed in her crew from the same
cause. She arrived at Ascension from the coast,
with the fever raging aboard, on the 27th of June,
when the officers and crew were encamped ashore,
and the vessel placed in quarantine, as was reported
in The Sun of July 28. The following officers and
men fell victims to its ravages :—M r. liignell, pay-
master; Mr. Martin, Mr. Case, Al 7. Owen, Mr. Pat-
terson, and Mr. Buiste, engineers ; Mr. Atkinson,
master's assistant; Mr. Mould, gunner; and 36
petty officers, seamen, and marines ; 17 of the deatha
occurred on the coast, and the remainder after the
ship arrived at Ascension. The first death occurred
on the 26th May, and the last on the 22d July.
Lieut. Chapman and the survivors, five of the prize
crew of her Majesty's ship Heron have come home
as supernumeraries ; the remaining six of the prize
crew died from fever on board the Trident and in

the encampment at Ascension. Mr. Broome, assist-
ant-paymaster from the Tortoise, and Mr. Kelly,
the nephew of Mr. Dart, the British Consul at
Fayal, have come home as passengers. The Tri-
dent has only taken one prize during her service on
the coast, the Lydia Gibbs, in June, 1858, empty.
The following vessels were spoken on the voyage
home :—On the 22th of August, in latitude 4 25
N, long. 22 39 W, the English ship Belmont, stand-
ing SSE; on the 2d Sept., in hit. 10 54 N, long.
25 3 W, the English barque Marsden; Sept. 5, in
lat. 13 54 N, long. 26 27 W, her Majesty's ship
Curacoa, bound to Monte Video, and the English
ship James Scott ; Sept. 6, in lat. 15 24 N, long. 27
w, exchanged colours with a French ship showing
third pendant, No. 3,508 ; Oct. 4, in lat. 41 22 N,
kn... 22 22 W, spoke the English schooner Sverige,
of Liverpool, who reported herself leaky, 30 days
from Loango ; Oct. 13, in lat. 48 35 N, long. 9 17
W, the English barque Danube, of Dundee, for
Cape of Good Hope, showing first pendant, No.
2,560 ; Oct. 14, communicated by signal with the
Norwegian barque Speculator, in lat. 48 57 N, long.
743 W. The Trident entered the Needles passage
on Sunday evening, and brought up for the night
in Yarmouth Roads, where she found, lying at
anchor, the Blenheim, 60, screw guardship ; the
Biter gunboat; and the Renard, 6, screw gunvesstl,
Commander J. G. Goodenough. The latter vessel
had left Shithead for the westward the same day,
but had put into Yarmouth Roads for shelter from

the violence of the weather outside. The Trident
will proceed, it is expected, this morning to Wool-
wich for paying off.
A letter from her Majesty's ship Tartar, dated
Halifax, Oct. 6, states that she was expected to
leave for England on the 10th inst.
The Locust, 3, paddle, Commander J. B. Field,
arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the west-
ward.

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The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—James Jenkins, surgeon
additional, to the Simoom ; Richard Evans, assist.-
surg., to the Weser; J. B. Murphy, assist.-sure.,
to the Formidable ; John Albert Ylevsu, 3d class
assist.-engineer, to the Wellington, as supernu-
merary for hospital treatment; Jams
acting 3d class assist.-engineer, to the Diadem ;
and George Boyd, acting 3d class assist.-engineer,
to the Urgent, as supernumerary.