The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-30 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Application has been made for the following men
for the Devonport dockyard :-500 shipwrights, 96
joiners, 24 caulkers, 142 smiths, 10 painters, 50
sawyers, 300 labourers, 20 millwrights, and 6 plum-
bers. It is probable that 300 labourers will be
entered at Keyham to attend to the work connected
with the steam reserve.

Commander A. Barrow joined the screw steam-
ship Exmouth, 90, at Devonport on Thursday,
Captain J. J. Stopford was expected to join yester•
day...

Sails were bent on Thursday on board the screw
steamship James Watt, 91, Captain Edward Codd,
in Hamoaze, preparatory to her going into Ply-
mouth Sound.

The screw steamship Algiers, 91, Captain George
W. D. O'Callaghan, was docked at Keyham on
Thursday.
The screw steam•frigate Termagant, 25, Captain
Robert Hall, left Plymouth yesterday for Portland
and Portsmouth.

The paddle steam-sloop Gladiator, 6, was un-
docked at Devonport on Thursday.
The screw steam-sloop Brisk was also undocked
at Devonport on Thursday.
The screw steam gunvessel Intrepid went out-
side Plymouth Sound on Thursday to try her
engines.

The brig Swift, 6, at Devonport, is to be fitted
and sent to the Cape of Good Hope as a mooring
lighter. .
The Liberian: schooner Quail was towed from
Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound on Thursday.
The Amethyst, 26, Captain Sidney Grenfell, was
spoken February 27, in lat. 54 32 S., long. 156 41
W., by La Hogue, Captain Williams, which
arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday. The Ame-
thyst was, from China for Callao, via Hobart Town.

The Doris, 32, screw steam-frigate, Captain E.
IJeatheote, was towed into Portsmouth harbour
from Spithead yesterday morninr, to receive on
board her altered crew. She proceeded out to Spit-
head again last evening, and will this morning
make another trial in Stokes Bay under the super-
vision of Captain George T. Gordon of her Majesty's
ship Asia, commanding steam reserve and staff.
Captain Matthew Connolly (1858) will, we un-
derstand, receive the appointment to the Hannibal,
91, screw steamship, at Portsmouth, as Flag Cap-
tain to Rear Admiral of the Blue George Rodney
Mundy. Commander John L. Perry, we also
understand, will receive his appointment to the
same ship.
Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., has been appointed
Captain of the Hero, in the place of Captain Sir G.
Broke. This appointment, we understand, was
made solely in consequence of the ill health of
Captain Broke, who had, in consequence, requested
a further leave of absence of 14 days. The Lords
of the Admiralty could not comply with the re-
quest under present circumstances, and, therefore,
the appointment was given to Captain Seymour.
Fifty hired labourers are ordered to be entered at
Portsmouth dockyard (pensioners preferred, if not
too old) for the service of the steam reserve.
The Falcon, 17, screw steam sloop, is ordered.to
be brought down to Portsmouth harbour and placed
in the basin ready for commission.

The Colossus, 80, screw steamship, is to proceed
round from Sheerness to Portsmouth for the pur-
pose of being placed in dock, and afterwards added
to the first•class steam reserve at that port. The
Edgar, 91, Trafalgar, 91, and Queen, screw steam-
ships, are also to be taken round to Portsmouth
and added to the steam reserve there.

The screw steamship Scamander, which arrived
at LiverpOol yesterday, when coming through the
Straits of Gibraltar on the 22d, saw a large three
decker and two frigates, accompanied by a steamer,
apparently French, reaching towards the African
coast.

The Liverpool Mercantile Marine Association are
about to issue an appeal to the seamen urging them
to enlist in her Majesty's naval service.
The following is a list of the screw ships of war.
actually building in the royal dockyards :
SCREW SHIPS OF THE LlNE,—Prince of Wales,
131 guns, and 800 horse power, building at Ports-
mouth, is nearly ready for launching ; Victoria,
121 guns, and 1,000 horse power, at Portsmouth,
will be ready for launching about June; Royal
Frederick, 116 guns, at Portsmouth ; Howe, 121
guns, and 1,000 horse power, at Pembroke ; Dun-
can, 100 guns, at Portsmouth, will be ready for
launching about June ; Gibraltar, 101 guns, and
800 horse power, at Devonport ; Anson, 90 guns,
at Woolwich ; Atlas, 91 guns, and 800 horse power
at Chatham, is very forward; Defiance, 91 guns,
and 800 horse power, at Pembroke ; Hood, 90 guns,
and 600 horse power, at Chatham, is now com-
pleted, and is to be launched on the 4th of May ;
Irresistible, 80 guns, and 400 horse power, at
Chatham, is very forward.
SCREW FRIGATES.—AIII'Ora, 51 guns, and 400
horse power, at Pembroke ; Immortalite, 50 guns,
and 600 horse power, at Pembroke; Narcissus, 50
guns, and 400 horse power, at Devonport ; New-
castle, 50 guns, at Deptford, very forward.
EXPERIMENTAL SCREW FRIGATES.—Ariadne,
26 guns, and 800 horse power, at Deptford, is very
forward, and will soon be launched; Galatea, 26
guns, and 800 horse power, at Woolwich, is very
foyward, and nearly ready for launching.
SCREW CORVETTES.—Barrosa, 22 guns, and 400
horse power, at Woolwich; Charybdis, 21 guns, and
400 horse power, at Chatham, is just completed, and
will be launched on the Ist of June; Jason, 21
guns, and 400 horse power, at Devonport ; Orestes,
22 guns, at Sheerness; and Orpheus, 21 guns, at
Chatham.

SCREW SLOOPS, &c.—Chamelion, 17 guns, and
200 horse power, at Deptford ; Greyhound, 17 guns,
and 200 horse power, at Pembroke ; Mutine, 17
guns, and 200 horse power, at Deptford ; Pantaloon,
10 guns, and 150 horse power, at Devonport ;
Pelican, 17 guns, and 200 horse power, at Pem-
broke; Ranger, 5 guns, at Deptford; Rinaldo, 16
guns, at Portsmouth.
It will be seen from the above that the aggregate
of all the vessels of war now in the course of con-
struction at the several ports is 27, mounting in all
1,547 guns, and 15,010 horse power.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Captains—George 11. Seymour, C. 8., A.D . C., to the Hero,
vice Sir G. Broke, superseded owing to ill health ; Mathew
Connolly to thegatmlbal as Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral
G. Rodney Mundy, second in command in the Mediter-
ranean.

Lieutenants—W. Spratt to the Gorgon, and S. Webber
o the Exmouth.

Paymasters—Frederick Brady, to the Marlborough ; IV.
H. M. Arnold (additional) to the Hannibal.
Masters—John E. Scudamore, to the Gorgon; Joseph
Cutajar, to the Coast Guard.
Surgeons—W. F. Mott, to the Firebrand ; James M.
Wallace, to the Gorgon. •
Assistant Paymaster Joseph F. Allen, to the Exmouth.
Assistant-Surgeons—Thomas Craig, to the Firebrand ;
David Campbell, to the Gorgon. •
Master's Assistant—Stopford C. Tracy, to the Dasher.
Naval Cadets—H. F. Robilliard, to the James Watt;
Sacheveral C. Darwin, to the Mersey; Lindsey G. P.
Goodiieh, to the Royal Albert; Frederick C. N. Hall,
to the Doris; W. F. A. H. Russell, to the Hanni-
bal ; Lawrence A. E. Roberts, to ditto ; Robert
A. Smith, to the Nile ; Richard F. Byron, to the Mersey ;
Fras. Romilly, to the Marlborough ; W. F. Down, to the
Hero ; J. C. 11Wilkinson, to the Doris ; C. Townshend,
to the Hero ; H. St. C. Hammill to the Doris ; C. H. Taylor,
to the Hero, Chas. G. P. Hicks, to the Algiers ; Crawford
Caffin, to the Mersey ; W. H. Lewan to the Exmouth ;
David Mac D. Smith, to the Algiers •, Charles J. Hives, to
theExmouth; SlingsbyA.D.Shafto,to the Algiers ; John L.
Wilson to the Cressy.; Fred. A. Gardner to ditto ; Gilbert
V. Story to ditto ,• William A. Ewbank to the James Watt;
Hon. A. R. Hewitt to the Nile • A. F. Gardner to the James
Watt; Victor E. J. B. Von Dollop to the. Nile ; W. M'C.
Fitzgerald Castlo, to the Exmouth ; Henry A. Street, to
ditto ; Edward W. F. Boxer, to the Hero; H. F. Alleyne,
to the St. Jean d'Acre ; Arthur Kinsman to the Hannibal ;
Thomas Flowers to ditto; Robert C. Jolliffe to the St. Jean
d'Acre.