The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-04 00:00:00

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he is old training is certain death. Whitt' franng s
is to a man a select, committee is to a bill in Var.
liament. While it hes a good long session before
it, a select committee gives health and vitality to a
bill, but when its appointed session is dwindling to
a close a select committee is certain death. Wo
have no fear for our Bankruptcy Bill. It is soft to
undergo the discipline of friendly hands. Eighteen
careful and skilful trainers, cunning as to the anato-
mical necessities for the work to be done, will take
; off all the superfluous fat, strengthen all the im-
portant muscles, tea the lubricity of the joints, and
bring it out fit for action. Since inaccuracies have
• been found in the bill, the Lords have taken the
only course that common sense would dictate. Such
an office as the examination of a measure of so many
details ought to be confined to those Peers whose
studies and experience qualify them for it, and it
will be done much better by a few law lords sitting
round a table than by a miscellaneous body of Peers
making public speeches. We hope to see the hill
back again before the Whitsun holidays, and to see
it law before the mouth of June has run out.—
Times.

THE NAVY.

The J

_asper, 1, screvv gtTnboat, Lieut.-Commander
l'ym, was paid off at Portsmouth yesterday after-
noon, after being officially inspected by the cfficials
of the port. She was reported by them as being in
a very creditable condition of both ship and Ma-
chinery.
The crew of the Asia, Capt. G. T. Gordon, guard-
ship of steam ordinary at Portsmouth, were paid
wages yesterday, in accordance with the recent
instructions from the Admiralty.
The Tyrian, quarantine vessel at the Motherbank,
was towed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday by
the Comet steamtug, and will to-day be placed in
the angle dock for survey and repair, if found fit.
Report says that Capt. G. S. Hand, C. 8., com-
manding the Sampson, 6, paddle, which vessel pays
off at Portsmou''' 4-- a,7, is likely to succeed Capt.
G. T. Gordon in the t ..mmand of the steam reserve
at Portsmouth, the latter officer's period of service
having expired. •
The Sir William Peel, sere w hospital ship, Capt.
Frond, has been paid out of the Government ser-
vice at Portsmouth, has taken in fuel, and
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expected to sail from that port for the Thames to-
day.

The Sparrowhawk, 4, steam sloop, Commander
John C. Byng, arrived at Spithead yesterday after-
noon from China.
The steam gunboat Louisa, 2, tender to the
Edinburgh, 60, screw steamer, at Leith, is still in
the hands of the shipwrights and engineers at
Chatham Dockyard, but is expected to be completed
about the 14th inst.
The Mariner, 12, has the principal portion of the
machinery, as well as the boilers and cylinder, for
the Bombay, 81, converting at Chatham, pat on
board from the sheer-hulk in Chatham harbour,
alongside which she is lashed.
The Ganges, 84, sailing two•decker, Capt. John
Fulford, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir R. L.
Baynes. K.C.8., whose arrival at Spithead from the
Pacific, after an absence of four years, was men-
tioned in The Sun of April 26, arrived at Sheerness
on Thursday, after a most tedious passage from
Spithead to Sheerness, her voyage having occupied
seven days.

The Eclipse, 4, new screw steamsloop, 200-horse
power, arrived at Sheerness from Woolwich ; also
the new screw steam gunboat Snipe, 5, 800-horse
power, to be fitted for the steam reserve.
The Thunderbolt, steam floating battery, 16, 200-
horse power, having taken in her coal, &c., will
leave Sheerness harbour this morning, and proceed
up the Thames to take her position in Lower Hope
Reach off Shornmeade a few miles below Gravesend.
The Challenger, 22, 400-horse power, screw steam
corvette, was taken out of Sheerness harbour yes-
terday, for the purpose of trying her machinery,
and also to test certain appliances which have lately
been introduced into the ship, with a view to its
more efficient ventilation. The vessel proceeded to
the Maplin Sands, and both as regards the machi-
nery and the ventilation answered remarkabl3-
well. Mean speed attained, 101 knots per hour;
revolutions of engines, 56; draught of water for-
ward, 16.2 ; aft, 18-4. The Challenger is ordered
for immediate commission, for foreign service.
The following vessels have been chartered by the
War Department for the conveyance of military
stores to India and the colonies—viz., the Alnwick
Castle, 1,087 tons, for Madras and Bengal ; the Ed-
mund Graham, 885 tons, for Madras ; the Howden,
1,018 tons, the Malakoff, 1,104 tons, and the
Thames, 829 tons, for Bombay ; the Maria Hay, 924
tons, the Mahratta, 773 tons, and the Thos, Sparks,
497 tons, for Calcutta ; the Avon, 645 tons for
Ceylon ; the Lady Wharncliffe, 438 tons, for the
Mauritius ; and the Hero of the Nile, 356 tons, for
Algoa Bay.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :--Capt. J. J. Kennedy, C. 8.,
to the Challenger, commissioned ; Commander H.
Nelson, commissioned ; Commander W. N. W.
Hewett, to the Rinaldo, commissioned ; Commander
S. Dayman, to the Hornet, vice Commander Lord
Elphinstone, superseded at his own request ; Lieut.
C. 0. D. Allingham to the St. Vincent ; Lieut. G.
R. Hope, to the Challenger ; Lieut. J. S. Twysden
to the Mersey ; Henry N. M'Laurin, assist.-surg.,
to the Marlborough; Alexander Fisher, assist-surg.,
to the Revenge ; Henry Fagan, assist.-surg., to
Greenwich Hospital ; J. W. P. Foord, paymaster,
to the Driver ; W. H. Turner, paymaster, to the
Challenger; Alexander Thompson, paymaster, to
the Rinaldo; G. V. Gruzelier, assist.-paymaster, to
the Wellington ; Julian W. Torbett and G. IL
Johnson, clerks to the Challenger; Arthur S. Bin-
don, clerk, to the Rinaldo; C. S. Marsh, clerk, to
the St. Vincent; George A. Michell, clerk, to
the Driver ; John B. Inglis, assist.-surgeon,
to the Fisgard ; F. Howe, assist.-clerk, to
the Illustrious ; Frederick W. Sutton, chief engi-
neer, confirmed and appointed to the Fisgard. for
charge of the machinery of the Vixen ; James
M'Gregor, chief engineer, to the Asia, for service
in the Glasgow; Felix Freeman, chief engineer, to
the Indus, for service in the Defiance ; Maurice
Johnson, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for
service in the Anson ; John F. Williams, chief en-
gineer, to the Indus, for service in the Lion ;
Joseph Deal, chief engineer, to the Fisgard, for
service in the Resistance; Ebenezer Clements,
chief engineer, to the Indus, for service
in the Satellite; Robert C. Reynolds, chief engi-
neer, to the Octavia ; Charles A. O'Dwyer, chief
engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Shannon ;
William Austen, chief engineer, to the Mersey;
Edwin West, acting chief engineer, to the Cumber-
land, for service in the Malacca ; John Lear, acting
chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for service in
the Galatea ; James Sumner, first class assistant-
engineer,in the Raven;
ossirts.tant-engineer,
to the Asia, for service
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