The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-08 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

In addition to those hired shipwrights who re-
ceived their discharge from Chatham dockyard on
Saturday last, another discharge of hired men whose
services are no longer required will be made at
that establishment to-morrow, the men selected for
discharge being inferior mechanics and those whose
characters are not good. Yesterday morning a
large party of convicts arrived at St. Mary's
convict establishment from London, for the pur-
pose of being employed in the laborious works now
in progress in the dockyard, where there are daily
several hundred convicts at work.

The screw line-of-battle ships Royal Albert, 121,
Capt. E. B. Rice, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir Charles Fremantle ; the James Watt, 91, Capt.
E. Codd ; the Hero, 91, Capt. G. H. Seymour,
C.B. the Algiers, 91, Capt. G. W. D. O'Callaghan ;
the Mersey, 40, Capt. H. Caldwell, C.B. ; and the
screw despatch gunboat FlyingFish,6, Commander
Hope, left Portland harbour on Wednesday morn-
ing for a cruise in the Channel. The Agamemnon,
91, Capt. T. Hope ; the Emerald, 51, Capt. Arthur
Cumming; the Blenheim, 60, Capt. Scott; and the
Pioneer, 6, Commander May, are still at anchor.
The gunboat Biter, tender to the Blenheim, left
Plymouth on Wednesday for Portland.
The screw steam troopship Himalaya,'Commander
Seccombe, got up steam on Wednesday in Ply-
mouth Sound, and returned again after a three
hours' cruise to test her machinery.

The screw steam frigate Curaco-a, 31, Capt. T. H.
Mason, from Portland, arrived at Plymouth on
Wednesday. She is to be fitted for foreign service.
The Ariel, 9, screw, Commander Charles Brom-
ley, was paid off at Portsmouth yesterday. Wm.
Hall, quartermaster, received the medal with £l5
gratuity for long service. J. Adams, captain's
coxswain, William Conney, leading stoker, and
George Shell, sailmaker, received the gratuities
of £4 13s. 4d. each. Nearly the whole of the Ariel's
crew—a remarkably fine body—are continual sevice
men, and have mostly volunteered for the various
ships fitting in the port-13 have volunteered for
the Neptune, 91, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and six for
the Vulcan, screw troopship, Commander Strode.
The Simoom, Commander J. Cooke, at Portsmouth,
will have her crew "paid down" to-day, and granted
leave of absence ashore.
A grievance exists with reference to the seamen
pensioners lately called upon to serve in the steam
reserves, &c., in the various dockyards. The greater
part of these men were in some situation or small
way of business at the time they were called upon
to serve, which they have had to forfeit in the one
case and neglect in the other. In addition to this,
the men have received no pay or allowance from the
authorities during the time they have been serving,
and the consequence has been that in many cases
the greater part of their clothes and household fur-
niture have had to be disposed of to find a means
of support for their wives and families.
The steam storeship Rhadamanthus sailed from
Woolwich yesterday (Thursday), laden with steam
gear and 150 seamen recruits to be distributed to
ships fitting out at Sheerness.
Arthur Thomas has been appointed Master to
the Vulcan, and Henry Aguillar Second-Master, to
the Grappler.