The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-07 00:00:00

2HE NAVY.

VALETTA, Oct. I.—Her Majesty's frigate Mel-
pomene, 51 guns, Capt. J. F. Ewart, left port on the
23d ult. for Marsa Susa, to embark and convey to
Malta, for transhipment to England, the marble
sculptures recently excavated from the ruins of the
ancient city of Cyrene. The gunboat Surprise, 4,
Cora. W. H. Whyte, left on the same day to convey
despatches to the Commander-in-Chief at Naples.
Her Majesty's line-of-battle ship Orion, 91, under
the command of Capt. W. C. De Vere, entered the
great harbour on the 28th ult. from Beyrout, which
place she left on the 16th: She is to start for Eng-
land in a few days, probably about the beginning of
next week, to be paid off. The paddlewheel fri-
gate Terrible, 21, Capt..F. H. H. Glasse, C. 8., came
in on the 29th ult. with despatches from Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Win. F. Martin, K.C.B. She is expected
to return to Naples with provisions for the squadron,
about the 7th inst., after the arrival of the next
overland mail from England. The Terrible left at
Naples on the 27th ult. the following ships, com-
posing Admiral Martin's squadron :—The Marl-
borough, 131 (flagship) ; the James Watt, 91 ; the
Neptune, 91; the Victor Emmanuel, 91 ; the -Ex-
mouth, 90; the London, 90 ; the Liffey, 51 ; the

Doris, 32 ; and the Surprise, 4. A good deal of
sickness is said to prevail on board the Exmouth.
Her Majesty's corvette Scylla, 21, was at Messina
on the 28th. The steam storeship Supply, 2, Mas-
ter Commander Balliston, arrived to-day from
Woolwich, 9th ; Plymouth,lBth, and Gibraltar, 26th
nit. lam happy to say that the Malta and Alex-
andria electric telegraph is now un fait accompli.
The whole line has been successfully laid, and
telegrams have been received through it announc.
ing the fact. The screw steamer Rangoon, re-
turned to this island on Thursday last, and the
Malacca has just entered port, but the mail being
about to close, lam not able to send you any par-
ticulars. The screw steamer Berwick arrived here
on the 27th ult from Algiers, for the purpose of at-
tempting to recover the Corfu cable. The receiving
ship Hibernia, the line•of-battle ship Orion, the
frigate Terrible, the gunboat Wanderer, the store-
ship Supply, and the tug Hearty, are the only
ships of war in port. The squadron from Naples
is not expected to return, to Malta before the Ist of
November.
The Warrior was undocked at Portsmouth on
Saturday, and is now berthed alongside the dock-
yard, where she will be completed in her coaling,
and afterwards painted up to, on, and between
decks, all visitors during the time being rigidly
excluded, in accordance witn the order to that effect
mentioned in The S'un of Saturday. The issuing of
this order became imperatively necessary, as, from
the great number of visitors constantly on board
the ship, numbers which increased daily to an
alarming degree, the outfit of the ship was being
very seriously retarded, and, had matters gone on
in the same manner for a few more days, must
have been brought to a stand-still altogether.
The Malacca, 17, screw, Captain Gerard R.
Napier, sailed from Spithead on Saturday morning
for Plymouth Sound, and thence will proceed, it is
supposed, to the Mediterranean.
The Emerald, 50, screw, Captain A. Cumming,
sailedfrom Spitheadat mid-day on Sunday for Hali-
fax, with Armstrong, guns, stores, &c.
A Russian man-of-war is hourly expected to ar-
rive at the Motherbank,
The iron steamer Defence, 22, was successfully
placed in No. 3 dock at Chatham, on Saturday after-
noon, at spring tide, without the least mishap, the
entire operation being attended with scarcely any
more difficulty than is experienced in docking an
ordinary gunboat. At half•past 12, about half an
hour before the tide ceased flowing, the Defence
was loosed from her moorings at the floating-shears,
and her head hauled round to the entrance of the
dock, Commander Pope, the master-attendant, with
a number of riggers and shipwrights under his
orders, directing the operations on beard, and Mr.
Zang, master shipbuilder, with a numerous staff,
superintending the arrangements on shore. At this I
time the draught of water forward was 18ft. Sin.,
and aft 22ft. 9in., bat as there was 23ft. Sin. of
water in the dock there was amply sufficient to
carry her over the blocks. At one o'clock the signal
was given to haul her into the dock, and so carefully
was this accomplished that although her great size
and breadth of beam left but a very few inches be-
tween her iron plates and the projections at the
entrance to the dock her sides never once came in
contact with the stonework, and by half-past 1 she
was warped into the desired position over her blocks,
with nearly 15in. of water between her keel and the
ground blocks, the latter of which had been reduced
to an uniform level of nin. A numerous body of
shipwrights immediately commenced shoring her
up, after which the water was let out of the dock

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until it had been reduced several feet, when the re-
mainder was pumped out. Contrary to what was
generally supposed, her bottom was found to be
cleaner and freer of weeds than had been expected.
During the afternoon the Defence was visited by a
number of persons after' she was in dock, but in
order that no interruption may be caused to the
numerous body of mechanics employed in fitting
her, no visitors will be permitted on board during
the time she i/ in dock without special permission.
An additional number of hands will be placed on
her this morning to expedite her completion.
The War Department transport Bomarsund was
placed under No. 2 steam crane at the Ordnance-
wharf, Chatham, on Saturday, and landed several
tons of solid and hollow shot taken out of the -vari-
ous vessels attached to the steam reserve in the
:Medway, which have been furnished with the
Armstrong guns, shot, and shell.
The Marlborough ordnance transport left
Chatham on Saturday to receive the powder and

shells from the screw frigate Chesapeake, 51, Capt.
It. Maguire, on her arrival at the Nore from the
East Indies, to strip and be put out of commission.
Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Archer, 13,
Capt. Craufurd, from the West Coast of Africa,
having been dismantled at Woolwich, was on Satur-
day paid off. The ceremony, at all times an attrac-
tive one to a certain class of traders, was on Satur-
day one of more than ordinary interest. The seamen
had no sooner got outside the dockyard gates with
their well•filled packs and purses than they were
eagerly set upon, and in a few hours it was stated
that some had been stripped of their last shilling.
£3,000 that morning received from the Admiralty
for distribution as prize money, and £5,000 as ar-
rears of pay, making a total of £B,OOO, were paid
to the ship's company in the course of a couple of
hours.

The iron paddlewheel steam vessel Recruit, Capt.
8 pain, sister ship to the Weser, arrived atWoolw.le h
on Saturday from the Mediterranean, to be paid off.
Defiance,
was got up S• on Saturday on board the
-ue,rnualue, 91, at Devonport, to try her machinery.
—ilk Bey._ steamship Osborn,
e'vr.u, f Donegal, 99, Capt, Sherard
from Beerhaven on MbndaY,. and
Queenstown .0„ NAT
mouth Sound on perioneaday, which arrived in Ply-
Saturday, discharged her powcler on
Saturday, and is
dockappointed to go up Hamoaze to-
day, and be achave the outer part
of her rudder din
epard. This is the only damage
she sustained in the late severe
gale
Mer spare provisions were ge
off Lough Foyle.
rest of the fleet which was
leftdistributeditlamong the
Bantry Bay.
The screw steamship Sanspareil, 7P. E. Wilmot, C. 8,, which •ve:).CaPt. Arthur
in Plymouth
sound on Friday evening, brought home
naval and military invalids and a quantity of
a few
demned stores from the Mediterranean fleet,COn.
which
were landed from her on Saturday.

Mechanics have been sent from the Devonport
dockyard to the Swedish frigate Nordkjoping, 32,
Capt. Adlersparre, now in Plymouth Sound, to ex.

amine her bilge pumps, which are broken. She is
from Carlacrona, bound for New York.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. F. Walker, to
the Cornwallis; C. J. Hires, midshipman, to the

Exmouth ; W. H. Adams, sturgeon, to the Simoom;
W. J. Lewis, surgeon, additional, to the Nile ; J.
Potts, acting second-class assisLengineer, to the
Megmra; and Ashley R. Maham, acting assist.-
engineer, to the Handy.
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