The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-03 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Termagant,
25, left Portland Harbour at 9 p.m. on Tuesday for
the Channel Islands to pick up seamen volunteers
for the navy. The Dasher left for the same destina-
tion during the night. The Biter gunboat arrived
at Portland early on Wednesday morning.
The new screw steam vessel Lord Panmure, built
by Messrs. A. Leslie and Co., of Gateshead, for the
service of the Military Store Department of Wool-
wich, to replace the vessel of the same name run
down at the mouth of the Channel in December
last by the Steam Navigation Company's vessel
TVr went on 11 or first vox-n um. Oa. 1..,.00cic,..cs
yard; went down the river from Woolwich on
Wednesday on a tritii trip, for the satisfaction of
the War Department, in charge of Mr. George
Hindhaugh, commander. Mr. Anderson and Mr.
Fraser, inspector and assistant-inspector of machi-
nery; Mr. Parkyn, deputy military storekeeper of
Woolwich Arsenal; Mr. De Burgh, from the War
Department, and other officers accompanied the
vessel, together with Mr. Leslie, the builder, and
Mr. Morrison, who supplied the engines. Her
average speed with and against the tide was ascer-
tained to be 101 miles pe;hour, the engines making
at the time 82 revolutions per minute, with steam
on the valves at 161 b. per square inch. The machi,
nery possesses all the mr:dern improvements, and
her
_engines are nominally of 165 horse-power,

producing a consumption of coals of 311 b. per horse-
power per hour The vessel, which is under orders
to take her first cargo of 350 tons of shot for
Devonport, had embarked 90 tons of her cargo prio;
to the trial trip, and yesterday continued her ship-
ment. Mr. H. Moore, late of the paddlewheel
steamer London, has been appointed to, the com-
mand of the Lord Panmure, and will sail on Mon-
day for Devonport. The Balaklava, a sister vessel
in the service, but of lesser dEmensions, sailed on
Thursday for Portsmouth, laden with 250 tons of
war stores.

The. Melpomeme, .51, screw steam frigate, had
steam up in the steam basin at Portsmouth to
proceed to Spithead yesterday, but was detained
owing to counter orders received from the Com-
mander-in-Chief.

The Himalaya, screw steamship, Commander
John Seccombe, yesterday disembarked her troops.
invalids, &c., as noticed in The Sun yesterday,
alongside the dockyard, Portsmouth. The 45th
Regiment proceeded from Portsmouth by rail, at
five p.m., for Preston.
The Colossus, 80, screw steamship, in the first-
class steam reserve at Portsmouth, was docked yes-
terday in No. 7 Dock.
The Agamemnon, 91, Captain Thomas Hope, is
receiving her guns at the north quay of the steam

ba sin.
We are informed that numbers of able-bodied
young men have been lately refused as volunteer
landsmen on board one of the ships in Portsmouth
harbour on account of their being milt* an inch under
the required height, and that those men have been
gladly received on board another ship in the same
harbour. The fault is stated to lie with the subor-
dinate officers in carrying out their instructions too
literally, and who on finding the man wanting in
the " half-inch" tell him he is rejected, without
allowing him to see the surgeon or commanding
officer of the ship. A like circumstance has lately
occurred at Gosport. Forty men of the Wiltshire
Militia volunteered for the Marines (which corps
at present we believe has not above a dozen men in
Forton barracks fit for embarkation), and 26 out of
the 40 were refused for a similar reason.
Recruiting for the corps of Royal Marine Light
Infantry is still proceeding
we
almostithgreadtasilpyir
joiningitand
parties of fine young men
the headquarters of the first division at Chatham.
Yesterday and the previous day upwards of 20
recruits were sent up from they London district.
The average weekly number of recruits joining the
headquarters of the four divisions, at Chatham,
Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Woolwich, has consi-
derably exceeded 100 for some weeks past.
. The following circular from the Admiralty was
yesterday promulgated at Chatham:—
" Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to acquaint you that the Royal Marine pen-
sioners who may volunteer for service are, if fit for service,
to be received for any rating for which they may be pro-
perly qualified ; and they may also be received for harbour
duty in the steam ordinary.—l have the honour, &c.,
" W. G. ROMAINE."

In order to encourage the entry of mechanics and
seamen for her Majesty's service a notice has been
posted at Chatham dockyard gates to the effect that
the Lords of the Admiralty will give a gratuity of
£1 to every person bringing a shipwright, caulker,
or seaman to the dockyard, provided the person
brought is fit fin' her Majesty's service. The sum
of ‘los. will also be given to any person bringing a
seaman under 25 years of age who shall be entered
as a first class ordinarrseaman.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at tie Admiralty :
Captain—Charles J. F. Ewart, to the Melpomene.
Master—John Richards (additional), to the Fisgard.
Paymaster's. Assistant—Arthur
_Cumming, to the Mel- ,

pomene.
Clerk—William Crump, to the Arrogant.

The communication between Trieste and Con-
stantinople, which had been interrupted by the withdrawal
of
an Lloyd's vessels, is to be reopened on the
the Au t r
s
Sth by the Catharine, Greek steamer.
The head-quarters of the Emperor Napoleon are
now established at Vercelli; his Majesty only made a short
stay at Casale on his way from Alessaudria.