The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-08 00:00:00

THE' NAVY.

The large masts, yards, and spars for the iron-
plated steam frigate Warrior, 40, which have been
completed for that vessel at Chatham Dockyard,
will be sent round to the Thames in the course of
a few days for the purpc►se of being fixed on board.
The large sheer-hulk in Chatham harbour, employed
for "nesting the vessels of war, is to be towed to the
Thames to be used in msasting the Warrior.

Letters by the Brrtzil mail, received by our
Southampton correspondent, state that her Ma-
jesty's ship Curlew sailed from Buenos Ayres on
the 15th of February For Monte Video. The Leo-
pard with Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington on
board, arrived at Monte, Video on the 2d of March,
from Buenos Ayres. Tte French brig of war Beau-
manoir, 18 guns, arrfiN ed at Buenos Ayres from
Monte Video on the 23a of February. The Fulmi-
nante, French gunboat, and Seminole, American
gunboat, were also at Buenos Ayres on the
27th of February : --The following vessels of
war were at Monte Video on the 2d of
March :—English sl lips, the Leopard (flag-
ship), the CuraQos., the Curlew, and the Ardent;
the French frigate Pam flora (flagship), the gunboat
D'Entrecasteau ; the .American frigate Congress
(flagship), the despatch boat Pulaski ; the Spanish
brig Gravina, 18, the g unboat Concordia ; the Bra-
zilian corvette Marano tro, 1.8 guns, the gunboats
Meorin, Paranagua, Viequitinhonha (flagship), and
the Parnahiba. The Fi ench mail steamer Santonge,
which left Rio at 6 p.lv . on Feb. 24, arrived at Mon-
vevidee on the Ist, at 12 a.m.

The Marlborough, 131, screw: Captain W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., at Porits,mouth, is ordered to be sup-
plied with four of Sir W. Armstrong's 100-pounder
guns and eight 40-pounders. The masts of this
vessel have been taken to pieces, examined, and re-
ported upon. The mainmast has been condemned ;
the foremast is found, to be slightly defective, but
will be repaired for further service; the mizenmast
and bowsprit have no defects.
The Geyser, 6, paddle, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from Queer ntown with supernumeraries.
The Cockatrice, 4, ,screw gunboat, Lieut.-Com-
mander R. M. Gilliso.cr, sailedfrom Portsmouth yes-
terday, at 6 Nil., for Devonport, on the way to the
Mediterranean.

The paddlewheel stx am storeship Dee, 4, Master-
Commander T. C. Pullen, arrived yesterday at Ply-
mouth, supposed front. Scotland.
The Isis, 44, from CEatham, under canvas, arrived
at Plymouth yesterday, bound for Ascension, for a
coal depot.

In consequence of a, nail having been accidentally
driven into a pipe on. board the screw steam gun
vessel Nimble, 5, at Plymouth, considerable leak-
age occurred. The water made its way into the
bread-room.

Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steam vessel
Weser, Commander J.ohnstone, sailed on Saturday
from Woolwich to be adjusted at Greenhithe for
exploring the mouths of the Danube, in the Black
Sea.

The steam storeship Industry, M aster-Com-
mander Hodges, from Rio and Ascension, arrived
at Woolwich on Saturday, and proceeded to Dept-
ford to discharge victualling stores.
The iron screw steam storeship Supply, William
H. Balliston, master in command, went down to
Woolwich on Saturday from Deptford to fill in
with light dockyard stores for the Mediterranean.
There was on Friday Last and may be at this time,
a very dangerous obstruction to the navigation of
the English Channel just outside Plymouth Sound.
On Thursday, at 6 p.m., two Brixham trawl sloops,
the Peerless, James Cornish, and the Four Bro-
thers, William Cornish, fell in with a ship of
about 1,000 tons, bottom up, 20 miles south of Bolt
Head. Her rudder had gone down through the
rudder case, and left the pintle brace empty, To
this the sloops fastened a tow rope, and hung on '
until 10 o'clock on Friday morning, when they
found their efforts to convey the derelict into port
were ineffectual. They accordingly left her, and
returned on Saturday morning to Plymouth, where
they reported the fact. The ship is supposed to
have suddenly capsized in one of the heavy squalls
which prevailed about a month since. She is fir
built, and nearly new; copper fastened; bolts
bright ;is probably of and from America. One
anchor is suspended from her bow. Seaweed and
barnacles are attached to her sides.

A great deal of dissatisfaction is felt and ex-
pressed among the crews of H.M.S. Victory, Asia,
and other vessels at Portsmouth at the delay which
has arisen in paying the money due to them. Many
of these men have only received Ns. per month for
the last nine months. A number of men belonging
to vessels in home ports, such as the Victory and
Asia, have wives and families, and are compelled to
run up bills at the various tradesmen's shops for
their support until, by remitting the pay due to
them, their wives can pay off the debts thus neces-
sarily incurred. On board the Victory remittance
lists were made out in the middle of March, but no
orders have yet been received for payment, and
hence the discontent of the men. The result of this
dilatoriness is that the wives and families of the
men are much pressed for payment of the amount
they have been trusted with by the different shop-
keepers, who cannot themselves afford to give long
credit. The household goods in many instances go
to the pawnbrokers, and often are never recovered,
and as a natural consequence of such a state of
things the seaman pays a heavy percentage for the
Government having the use of his money. The one
universal cry of the seamen on board the vessels
quoted is, " Pay us in the same manner that our
officers are paid."

Another extensive seizure of copper metal, con-
jectured to contain Government stores, has been
made at Chatham by Sergeant Crouch, one of the
detective officers attached to the Metropolitan
Police-office doing duty at Chatham, acting under
the direction of superintendent Richtrdson.
some considerable time past suspicion has rested on
Mr. W. Willmott, a wholesale marine store dealer,
carrying on an extensive business in the town,that
he was in the habit of purchasing large quantities
of Admiralty stores stolen from the dockyard and
forwarding them to London. Accordingly, a few
days since, Sergeant Crouch, acting under orders,
followed one of Pickford's vans, laden with bags of
metal, from Mr. -Willmott's premises to the. Strood
railway station, the articles being consigned to a
person in London. On reaching the station the
officer made a seizure of the whole of the metal,
amounting to upwards of 28 cwt., which was sub-
sequently examined by Mr. Laws, the storekeeper,
Inspector Tethers, and the other officials, when a
sufficient quantity was discovered bearing the Ad-
miralty brand to justify the police in arresting Mr.
Willmott. On Saturday the accused underwent an
examination before Capt. G. Goldsmith, 0.13.,
superintendent of the dockyard, who, under the
30th and 40th George 111., is invested with magis-
terial powers.. Mr. G. Essell, Admiralty solicitor,
assisted Capt. Goldsmith in the inquiry, the prisoner
being defended by Mr. R. Prall, of Rochester.
Evidence was given to prove that the metal seized
by the police contained a small portion of her Ma-
jesty's stores, and Capt. Goldsmith thereupon com-
mitted the prisoner for three months' hard labour.
Only a few weeks since a large seizure of metal was
made from the prisoner's premises by the dockyard
police, on which occasion the prisoner's foreman
was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
The following vessels of war compose the four
divisions
of the steam reserve ordinary in the river
Medway at Chatham, the return of the ships, num-
ber of guns, and horse power of each vessel having
b""), made t
First Ili° the Admiralty :
horse pow evr.l4i°,'l—r he Meeanee, 80, screw, 400
power; the chogishaeton, 51, screw, 400 horse
the Malacca, 17,v--. .22, screw, 400 horse power ;
ewt 20
!eon, 17, screw, 290 home nower ; the Came-
power ; griffon, 5,
screw, 80 horse power ;
e Bullfrog, 2, scre.,,fpli
horse power; the Carnation, 2,
hscrew, GO horse
power ; the Cochin, 2, screw, 00
horse power; the
), 60 horse power
and the Hasty,
Griper) L)
2, screw, 60 horse power. Total in the first
202 buns, and 1,980
e,
sion, 11 ships,horse Power.
The above vessels have their armament " *bard,
and each would be ready to proceed to sea, at a few
days' notice.
Second Division.—The Hood, 91, screw, 600 horse
power; the Rodney, 90, screw, 500 horse power;

_ - the Waterloo, 90, screw, 500 horse power ; the Go-1
liath„ 80, screw, 400 horse power ; the Irresistible, '
80, Ficrew, 400 horse power; the Severn,. 51, screw,
500 horse power, the Leander, 51, screw,
400 horse
Po wer (in dock) ; the Galatea, 26, screw, 800 horse
Fower ; the Orestes, 21, screw, 400 horse power;
the Barossa, 21, screw, 400 horse power (in dock) ;
the Orpheus, 21, screw, 400 horse power ; the /Etna,
16, screw, floating battery, 200 horse power; the
Thunderbolt, 16, screw floating battery, 200 horse
power; the Thunder, 14, screw floating battery,
150 horse power; the Trusty, 14, screw floating
battery, 150 horse power (in the Thames) ; the
Horatio, 12, screw, 250 horse power; the Dragon,
6, paddlewheel, 560 horse power; the Victor, 6,
screw, 350 horse power ; the Lee, 5, screw, 80 horse
power ; the Dart, 5, screw, 80 horse power; the
Plover, 5, screw, 80 horse power; the Wanderer,
4, screw, 200 horse power ; the Cormorant, 4, screw,
200 horse power; the Racehorse, 4, screw, 200
horse power ; the Herring, 2, screw, 60 horse
power ; the Julia, 2, screw, 60 horse power ; the
Mistletoe, 2, screw, 60 horse power ; the Sepoy, 2,
screw, 60 horse power ; and the Surly, 2, screw, 60
horse power (in dock), Total in the second divi-
sion, 29 ships, 733 guns, and 8,600 .horse power.
The ships composing the second division are ready
for sea, with the exception of having their arma-
ment and sea stores on board.
Third Division-The Atlas, 91, screw, 800 horse
power; the Anson, 91, screw, 800 horse power (in
dock); the Newcastle, 51, screw, 600 horse power
(in dock) ; the Eurotas, 12, screw mortar ship, 200
horsepower; the Swallow, 9, screw, 60 ho,rse power;
the Hermes, 6, paddlewheel, 220 horse power ; the
Virago, 6, paddlewheel, 300 horse power; the Spar-
row, 5, screw, 80 horse power ; the Wizard, 4,
screw, 200 horse power; the 4Britomart, 4, screw,
200 horse power ; the Linnet, 4, screw, 200 horse
power ; the Pigeon, 4, screw, 200 horse power ; the
Serpent, 4, screw, 200 horse power ; the Locust, 3,
paddlewheel, 100 horse power ; the Manly, 2, screw,
60 horse power; the Mastiff, 2, screw, 60 horse
power; the Pelter, 2, screw, 60 horse power; the
Spey, 2, screw, 60 horse power; the Thistle, 2, screw,
60 horse power, the Thrasher, 2 (s), 60 horse power ;
the Tickler, 2, screw, 60 horse power ; and the Dwarf,
2, screw, 20 horse power. Total in the third di-
vision, 22 ships, 310 guns, and 4,600 horse power.
Fourth Division--The Bombay, 81, screw, 400
horse power; the Collingwood, 80, screw, 400 horse
power; the Arethusa, 51, screw, 500 horse power ;
the Undaunted, 51, screw, 600 horse power (in dock
in the Thames) ; the Phoenix, 6, screw, 260 horse
power; the Salamander, 6 paddlewheel, 220 horse
power; and the Fidget, 2, screw, 20 horse power.
Total-7 ships, 277 guns, and 2,400 horse power.
Most of the vessels composing the fourth division
are in dock for the purpose of being fitted and sup-
plied with their machinery.
Grand total of the four divisions of the steam
reserve fleet in the Medway-69 ships, 1,522 guns,
and 17,580 horse power (nominal).
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :-James G. H. Thain, master,
to the Britannia; W. F. Hains, master, to the Con-
queror ; Valentine G. Roberts, master, to command
the Wye ; Thomas F. Hall, first class assist-engi-
neer, to the Fisgard, for charge of the Industry ;
Wm, Wynd, engineer, qualified for charge of the
Wye, in lieu of an assist.-engineer ; James Young,
third class assist.-engineer, to the Hornet; T. P.
Potts, third class assist-engineer, to the Fisgard,
as supernumerary ; Adolphus Andrews, third class
assist.-engineer, to the Wye; William Bowley,
acting third class assist.-engineer, to the Russell,
for service in the Hind ; J. V. B. Thompson, acting
third class assist. ..engineer, to the Wye ; -Watson
W. Parminster,,paymaster, to the Centurion ; W.
H. Bateman, paymaster, to the James Watt; E. F.
Nicholson, assist-paymaster in charge, to the Wye ;
Charles H. W. Cole, clerk, to the Fisgard, as secre-
tary's clerk ; and James D. Harvey, clerk, to the
Conqueror.