The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-07 00:00:00

TILE NAT/ Y.

The Cyclops, 6, paddle, Capt. Pullen, whose arri-
val at Spithead from China was reported in The
Sun of yesterday, is ordered to proceed to Sheerness
to pay off, and will leave for that port after coaling.
The Comet steam tug arrived at Portsmouth yes-
terday from the Shingle shoal, on which the Avon
steamer got stranded during the night of Saturday
on her passage from Portsmouth to Devonport. All
attempts to get the Avon off by the steamers Pigmy,
Comet, and Echo, sent to her assistance from Ports-
mouth, had proved unavailing at high water both
on Sunday night and yesterday morning. A bower
anchor and chain, with one of her paddlebox boats,
had been taken from her, and her coals, about 25
tons, were to be thrown out of her yesterday, with
the object of lightening her, and, as the tides are
on the increase, it was hoped that she would be got
off last night's, or at the latest this morning's, tide.
Since the Avon has been ashore the wind, fortu-
nately, has been light at north-east, and the sea con-
sequently quite smooth, so that she cannot have
sustained any very serious damage. She lies about
a cable's length west half north of the N.E. buoy of
the shoal, and on its highest part. The Comet left
Portsmouth again at 6 p.m. yesterday for the scene
of the accident with additional aid from the Victory.
The Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. Cockburn, steamed
into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning and
embarked alongside the dockyard the undermen-

tioned officers and men of the 55th Regiment (West-
moreland), with whom she sailed at 5 p.m. for
Jersey :—Lieut.-Col. R. Hume in command, Major
R. England, Capts. R. Hume, F. F. Twysden, J. G.
Echalaz, J. H. Sharpe, F. P. T. Hobbs, and W. H.
Rowland ; Lieuts.. E. C. Hilton, J. F. Morton, J. H.
Harrison, T. Dunn, W. M. Frobisher, and J. W.
Justice ; Ensigns D. A. Ogden, A. H. Kay, F. H.
Tate, W. King, A. J. Clarke, S. Cargill, and J. E.
Lee; Paymaster H. Burke, Adjutant 0. S. D.
Osborne, Surgeon H.. Somers, 36 sergeants, 14
drummers, 24 corporals, 461 privates, 59 women,
and 98 children, and 5 officers' horses. The troops
will disembark from the Diadem at Jersey this
morning, and will be succeeded on board by a wing
of the 30th Regiment, with which the Diadem
returns to Portsmouth this evening. The Dasher,
paddle steamer, Commander P. de Saumerez,
stationed at the Channel Islands, will assist in
the embarcation and disembarcation of the troops
from the Diadem at Jersey and Alderney, at the
conclusion of which service she is ordered to Ports-
mouth for repairs.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander George M. Jackson, from Gibraltar, April
26, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Sunday after-
noon, with condemned stores and three returned
convicts. She left Plymouth on the 13th of April,
with the gunboats Procris and Cockatrice, and
arrived on the 22d at Gibraltar, when she dis-
charged the guns and shot belonging to the Procris
into that vessel, and transferred 140 supernu-
meraries into the screw steam frigate Ariadne, 26,
Capt. E. W. Vansittart, which, with the screw
steamship Cressy, 80, Capt. Thomas Harvey, was at
anchor in the Bay. The Cressy, with invalids from
the Mediterranean fleet, sailed on the 26th for Eng-
land, and is supposed to have been observed on
Saturday night, under canvas only, beating against
a north-easter, by the Geyser, which spoke, May 2,
lat. 45 40 N., long. 10 30 W., the barque Caesar,
steering south-west, and May 6, off the Lizard, the
Prussian ship Arnold Boninger, from Baltimore for
Rotterdam, and the Norwegian brig, Christiana,
outward bound, with emigrants.
The screw steam storeship Industry, from Wool-
wich, with boilers and engine gear for the screw
steamship Defiance, 91, arrived at Plymouth yes-
terday morning. She was appointed to be placed in
the basin at Keyham steamyard in the afternoon.
The gunboats Heron and Doterel were hauled
yesterday afternoon from the basin in Keyham
yard into the stream in Hamoaze.
The gunboat Redwing, tender to the gunnery
ship Cambridge, went into Plymouth Sound yes-
terday morning for shot practice, and the brig
Nautilus, tender to the flagship Impregnable, went
outside the breakwater for exercise for the naval
apprentices.
Yesterday the War Department transport Bomar-
sund arrived at the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, and
68-pounder and other
with theirguns, taken out of the Ganges,
8l landed da et dth 20e ofN o tr he
carriages,.e largeTh ship
egus
were all landed in a
comparatively short time by means of one of the
steam cranes recently erected at Chatham. The
Marlborough and the Petrel War Department
transports have also arrived at Chatham, and landed
a portion of the guns and stores belonging to the
Ganges.
The hired transport Indomitable, No. 45, Capt.
Carew. arrived at Spithead yesterday from China,
with a division of the 2d (Queen's Royals) Regi-
ment on board, consisting of 12 officers, 300 men,
and 3 women. The officers comprise, Major D. W.
G. James, in command ; Capts. J. Connor, J. C.
Weir, G.Wolfe, and J. Chalmers; Lieuts. H. Echalaz
and F.
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Ensigns T. D. Fosbrooke and
M. W. Jackson,
medical staff. The Indomitable
will
orternouth harbour this morn-
toba
ing, and the troops landed at the dockyard, taking
up quarters in the garrison, where they are ordered
to be stationed for the present. The Indomitable
sailed from Hongkong on the 18th of Dec., 1860,
from Singapore on the 29th of Dec., from the Cape
of Good Hope on the 3d of March, 1861, and from.
St. Helena on the 15th of March. The Mars and
Alfred troopships left St. Helena for Spitbead on
the 14th of March. The Indomitable experienced
light winds easterly from the Line to the Western
lolanda, where she fell in with a heavy gale frees