The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

THE NAYI'.

Rear-Admiral Erskine's division of the Channel
Fleet, consisting of the Edgar, the Hero, and the
Trafalgar, joined Admiral Smart's division, com-
posed of the Revenge, the Aboukir, the Conqueror,
and the Centurion, in Leith Roads on Saturday
evening. It was expected that they would leave
that anchorage early on Wednesday morning to pro-
ceed northward by the Moray and Pentland Firths,
and subsequently visit the north of Ireland, and
also, it is said, the Clyde.
The East India Company's paddlewheel steamer
Punjaub, directed by the Lords of the Admiralty
to be removed from Gravesend to Woolwich, was
yesterday ordered to be surveyed in the river at
Woolwich, in order to arrive at an estimate of her
intrinsic value, to be paid over to the representa-
tives of the late East India Company, by whom the
Punjaub is about to be ceded to the Board of Ad-
miralty.
The sailing transport Clemanthe, bringing a
cargo of returned stores, including 300 tons of un-
serviceable ball cartridges and powder from Malta,
arrived yesterday at Woolwich Arsenal; and the
lonian also arrived at Woolwich from King Wil-
liam's Town, having 1,100 barrels of unserviceable
ammunition ordered to be returned.

The hired ship Scorpion for Gibraltar sailed yes-
terday from Woolwich with war stores ; and the
Eva also went alongside the buoy off Woolwich
Arsenal, to fill in her magazines with 2,000 barrels
of powder for Gibraltar.
The Eliza Mary, hired transport, for Quebec,
yesterday went alongside Woolwich pier and com-
menced shipping a cargo of war materials, consist-
ing of arti).lery and engineers' implements, shot,
shell, &c., to the amount of about 800 tons, includ-
ing cupolas for preparing molten iron, platforms,
gun carriages, &c.

The Esk, 20, screw, Capt. Sir Robert Le M.
M'Clure, K.C.8., paid off her crew at Portsmouth
yesterday, and hauled down h..u. pendant at sunset.
Sir Robert M'Clure is under treatment in the Royal
Naval Hospital at Haslar. Medals and gratuities
were distributed to several of the crew prior to
paying off.
The War Department transport Petrel, Mr.
Chambers, Commander, arrived at the Ordnance-
wharf, Chatham, yesterday, and landed 700 cases of
the 40-pounder solid Armstrong shot, for the guns
ordered to be furnished to the vessels composing the
steam reserve at Chatham.

The Sirius target ship has been removed from her
moorings in Porchester Creek and placed alongside
Portsmouth Dockyard, for the purpose of detaching
from her side Beale's armour-plate, which was ex-
perimented upon from the Stork's 68-pounder gun
on the 11th inst., that it may be examined by the
members of the Ironplate Committee.
The Megwra screw troopship, Commander Hen-
derson, sailed from Portsmouth at 8 30 a.m. yes-
terday, with troops for the Mediterranean, call-
ing in at Queenstown. Her departure the pre-
vious day, as had been ordered, was deferred,
owing to the unfavourable state of the weather.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—J. West, acting second-class
assistant-engineer, to the Asia, for the Shannon ;
R. Macaulay, acting second-class assistant-engineer,
to the Indus, as supernumerary ; J. H. Leech, act-
ing second-class assistant-engineer, to the Dee, as
supernumerary; G. Hostey, second-class assistant-
engineer, to the Fisgard, for the Warrior; C. H.
Roebuck, acting engineer, to the Indus, additional
for the Plover; S. Matthews, engineer, to the
Cumberland, additional for the Carnation; John
Riddle, assistant paymaster, to the Indus ; C. G.
Nash, assistant paymaster, to the Dauntless ; J. G.
Jones, midshipman, to the Immortalite ; W. Nelson
Hood has been nominated to a naval cadetship.