The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-01 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Yesterday the War Department transports
Marlborough and Bomarsund left Chatham for
Sheerness, to receive the shot, shell, powder, and
guns from the line-of-battle ship Ganges, 84. The
powder and shell will be deposited in the magazine
at Upnor Castle, and the shot and guns landed at
Chatham.
The Escort and Raven gunboats, at the Hasler
Gunboat-yard, are ordered to be placed in the first-
class steam reserve, replacing the Snapper and
Brazen. The Amelia gunboat was launched from
the slipway yesterday.
The Icarus, 11, screw, Commander N. Salmon,
V.C., bent sails yesterday, on the completion of her
refit, prior to swinging for the adjustment of her
compasses and proceeding out of the harbour to
Spithead.
The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8.,
has her rigging rattlined and blacked down, and is
nearly ready for bending sails.
The Duncan, 101, screw, was admitted into the
steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday, but, as had
been anticipated, she could not be placed in dock,
owing to the want of water on the invert at the
dock entrance.
The Chanticleer, 17, screw, was placed in dock
at Portsmouth yesterday, to take off her launching
gear, fit valves, and receive her copper.
ken into the
The Royal screw yacht Fairy was to
steam basin at Portsmouth yesteraal, to have her
repairs carried out by the steanx
factory.
The Marlborough, 131, acre w, Capt. W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., fitting out in the steam basin at
w
Portsmouth, has her new wire lower rigging over
her mastheads and temporarily turned in, and tops
on. It is reported that this ship will be placed in
dock on the 11th inst., but it is exceedingly doubt-
ful whether the dock (No. 7) will be sufficiently
advanced to receive her by that time. It may, how-
ever, be decided to place her is the new No. 10
dock, a continuation of No. 7.
The Jasper, 1, screw gunboat, Lieut.-Comman-
der Pym, dismantling in the old fitting basin at
Portsmouth, is expected to pay off on Friday or
Saturday. She was commissioned by Lieut. Pym
on the 28th of July, 1857, and has been exceedingly
healthy during her service since that time on the
North America and West India station, having
lost only two of her crew—one dying from old age,
and the other being accidentally drowned. She
has taken one prize, a Spanish ship-rigged vessel,
on the 22d of March off Havannah, without name,
papers, or slaves, but with 2,260 doubloons on board
for the purchase of the latter commodity. At the
moment of making the capture her Majesty's
steamer Styx hove in sight, and of course became
entitled to share, cutting down the Jasper's prize
money considerably.
The wind at Portsmouth yesterday had gone
round to S.W., but up to 7 p.m. none of the other
transports had made their appearance from China,
although, from their close proximity, they were
momentarily expected.
The steam floating battery Thunderbolt, 16, 200
horse-power, having completed the shipment of her
shot, stores, cables, &c., got up steam in Chatham
harbour yesterday morning,.and shortly afterwards
steamed down the river, attended by the paddle-
wheel steamer Adder, tender to the Wellesley, 72,
and the paddlewheel steamer Otter, 3. The Thun-
derbolt was expected to bring up at the Nore last
evening, and this morning will proceed up the
Thames to take up her position at Shornmeade, a
few miles below Gravesend, where moorings have
been laid down for her. The Thunderbolt is armed
with 16 10-inch guns, each of 95 cwt., and the
same armament has been supplied to the steam
floating battery /Etna, 16, 200 horse-power, sta-
tioned on the opposite side of the river.
The screw steam irigate Emerald, 51, Capt. A,
Cumming, flag of Rear-Admiral F. Warren, from
Spithead, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
morning, at seven o'clock. A vessel with coal was
sent alongside immediately, and steam tugs to
receive supernumerary seamen and marines brought
home from China by the Inflexible. The Emerald
was supplied with a draught of boys from the Royal
Adelaide, and a number of artisans from Keyham
steamyard joined her for passage to South America.
The customary salutes were exchanged with Port
Admiral Sir Hou3too t3tc.vo.r.. who received Ad-
miral Warren at Mount Wise during the forenoon.
The merchant. schooner Sir Thomas Mansell,
Capt. De Garis, from Corunna, with cattle, which
arrived, at Plymouth on Monday, reports a very
narrow escape from being run down by a ship of
war in the channel, when half-way between Lizard
and Start Point, on Sunday morning at two o'clock.
The schooner, which lost her foretopmast in the
Bay of Biscay, was under fore and aft canvass only,
on the starboard tack, going about 2 knots; wind
E.N.E., light. The stranger, a line-of-battle ship,
and supposed from her exhibiting a light at the
niizentop head to be the Donegal, 101, Capt. Henry
Broadhead, was under all plain sail, except royals ;
aquaresail hauled up, topsails reefed on the port
tack. It was her place, being on that tack, to have
ported her helm, which Capt. Do Garis called on
her to do,but without effect. He then starboarded
his own helm, by which time his position appears
to have been descried on board the stranger, for she
starboarded her helm and luffed up in the wind,
and by this means a collision was barely avoided.
She was followed by four ships of about the same
size, and supposed to be the Centurion, the Con-
queror, the Abouker, and the Hero.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty C. Weeks, second-class
assistant-engineer, to the Cumberland, for charge
or the Fly ; Julian Taplin, second-class assistant-
engineer, to the Cornwallis, for charge of the Griper;
J. Milli, M.D., surgeon, to the Hastings : C. J.
Bigley, second master, to the Cumberland, for the
Griffin ; and H. Knight, assistant-paymaster, to the
Trafalgar.

VITAL STATISTICS OF 1860.—The Registrar-
General for England has issued his annual tables of the
number of births, deaths, and marriages in 1860. The
number of births and deaths had been already stated in the
last quarterly report, but the number of marriages (170.305)
had not then been ascertained. It is larger than in as'y
previous year ; the nearest approach to it was in 1859, when
the number was 167,723. The births in 1860 (683,440) were
fewer by 6,441 than in 1859, but that is the only year in
which they were exceeded ; the deaths ;(422,472) were
happily less by 18,777 than in 1859, and less also than in
1858, 1855, or 185 h Allowing for the estimated increase of
population, the births in 1860 were slightly above the average
rate of the preceding 10 years, the marriages were more
above it, and the deaths were still more below it—all move-
ments in the right direction. As usual the first half of the
year saw the greatest number of births, about 10 per cent.
more than the last half, and the deaths in the first moiety
were greater than in the last by the large ratio of 23 per
The last quarter was, as usual, the marrying season;
cent.
"0 702 marriages, and only 35,198 in the first
there were ,
quarter. Lincolnshire is always a notable exception to this
last rule ; there the spring quarter is the chief time for
marriage. The termination of the
ordinary periods of ser-
vice has, doubtless, much influence in this matter.
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(From Terilch.)
We have reason to believe that the following
were the actual telegrams which passed between
General Beauregard, Major Anderson, and L. P.
Walker, the Secessionist Secretary of War :