The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-16 00:00:00

TILL NA VY.

Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.8., and M.P. for
Devonport, had an interview yesterday in the dock-
yard with Rear-Admiral Sir T. Pasley, the Admi-
ral Superintendent.
Port-Admiral Sir H. Stewart, K.C.8., was to
entertain a large and distinguished party at Mount
Wise, Devonport, yesterday evening, when it was
expected that H.R.H. Prince Alfred would be pre-
sent.

The soiling brig Liberty, 12, at Devonport, has
had a new topgallant forecastle, and is othervirise
fitting to do the duty of the iaval apprentice brig
Nautilus, 6, Lieut. B. Grant, which is stripped.

The fore foot and false keel of the screw steam-
ship Hero, 91, Captain Ryder, in Keyham steam-
yard, has been replaced, and she will be ready in a
few days for removal.
The naval transport Diligence, J. Head master,
is loading at Plymouth, for Pembroke dockyard.
Captain Arthur Jerningham, of the gunnery ship
Cambrian, 42, in Hameaze, was conveyed yesterday
in the gunboat Redwing to the Sound, where he
inspected the screw steam corvette Satellite, 21,
Captain Prevost, which would go into harbour in
the evening if the weather permitted.
The old gun-brig Rover, laden with a large
quantity of electric cable from the stranded iron
steamship Queen Victoria, in Barn Pool, is now
lying off Keyham.
Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamer Triton,
Lieutenant and Commander H. Burton, from the
West Coast of Africa, is ordered to be paid off at
Woolwich on Saturday next. The successful ser-
vices of the Triton in capturing six valuable prizes
freighted with human traffic will Put the officers
and crew in possession of various sums of money,
independently of their ordinary pay, in the follow-
ing ratio—namely, about £1,500 commander's
share; from £3OO to £4OO to each of the commis-
sioned officers, and a proportionate bounty to each
of the warrant officers, men, and boys belonging to
the ship. The Triton has held her present commis-
sion three years and three months, during which
time no exchange of officers has taken place, with
the exception of the paymaster, appointed in lieu
of an assistant paymaster in charge. It has been
stated, as a fact deserving of record, that seldom has
a ship returned from foreign service to the port
whence she was commissioned in a more orderly
condition, and with greater unanimity, extending
to every class on board. Hence her designation,
" The happy Triton."

The severity of the frost, aided by a strong
northerly wind, has now cut off the usual means of
communication with the ships lying in ordinary at
Woolwieh from the shore. Yesterday the commu-
nication from the dockyard to the Salsette, receiv-
ing bulk, was safely effected on the solid ice on
foot; and the heavy masses of drifting ice, some 5
and 6 feet in depth, which rose and fell with the
ebb and flow of the tide, have now rendered it im-
possible for the passage of a boat without consider-
able danger. The dredging machine commonly in
use between the pier and the jetty at the Royal
Arsenal, extending to the bed of the river, has
ceased work for fire days past, on account of the
frozen state of that part of the river, which resem-
bles air inland lake ; and many persons have ven-
tured to skate and slide thereon, without widest,
between tides.

Capt. Charlewood has resigned the command of
the Pembroke, 60, now lying at Harwich, to Capt.
Patey. Capt. Charlewood, it is stated, retires from
the service.

A court-martial will be held on Monday next, the
21st inst., for the trial of Mr. George Jeffreys, late
paymaster of the steam sloops Salamander and
Vixen, for neglect of duty.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Edwin Pearce, second■class
assist.-engineer, to the Asia for the Snapper; Alex-
ander Purvis, third-class assist.-engineer, to the
Bulldog; Robert Goodwin, acting third-class assist.-
engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary; Thomas
Hunteraacting third-class assist.• engineer, to the
Indus, for service in the Avon; John B. Swann,
paymaster, additional, to the Colossus; and Edmund
B. Walker, paymaster additional, to the Indus.