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PRICE 4P. STAMPED, 50.

2118 NAVY.

The Ariadne, 26, screw frigate, in the fitting dock
at Chatham, has been inspected by Capt. E. P. Hal-
sted, superintendent of the steam reserve in the
Medway, who was accompanied over the vessel by
Capt. G. Goldsmith, C. 8., and Mr. O. W. Lang,
the master shipwright at Chatham, under whose
superintendence the fitting of this frigate has been
made. With the exception of a few trifling alte-
rations, this fine steam frigate, one of the longest
vessels in the British navy, is now completed and
ready to take her place in the first division of the
steam reserve. She is intended to leave the fitting
dock to-morrow, when the screw corvette Charyb-
dis, 21, will immediately occupy the same place, in
order to be fitted for the steam reserve at Chatham.

The Vulcan, screw troopship, Commander E.
Strode, at Portsmouth, is ordered for survey by the
military and medical authorities at that port to-
morrow, for service in China.
The screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Broad-
head, left PlYmouth at daylight on Monday for
Portland ; she has supernumeraries for the fleet.
Steam was got up on Wednesday on board the
screw steamship Sanspareil, 70, at keyham, and
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to Hamoaze and was placed at her moorings.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Firebrand, Com-
mander Dayman, recently returned from the Medi-
terranean, is ordered to leave Plymouth for Wool-
wich, where she will be repaired.
The gunboat Violet, Lieut. Commander Eugeno
C. Batty, having discharged 34 trained boys from
the Eagle, 60, left Plymouth yesterday (Thursday)
on her return to Pembroke. _ _

The sloop Racehorse, at Plymouth, is to be con-
verted into a coal depot.
The Odin, with the gnnboats Grasshopper,
Weasel, and Flamer, departed from Plymouth on
Wednesday evening for China.
The Arrogant, 47, screw, Captain W. Edrnon-
stone, sailed from Spithead yesterday for Ascension
and the West Coast of Africa. Wind N.E., and fog.
The pendant was hoisted yesterday on board the
Queen, 86, screw, at Portsmouth. No captain was
appointed to her, but it was expected that Captain
I'. Baillie, now commanding the Princess Royal,
would receive his commission to her.
The Shannon, 51, screw, will be taken out of the
steam basin at Portsmouth, as soon as the tides per-
mit, and procetd on a trial of her machinery.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—II. Bond, master, to the
Simootn ; D. J. May, master, to the Conflict ; Wm.
Y. Braund, master, to the Doris; W. S. Baird, sur-
geon additional, confirmed to the Princess Char-
lotte; T. Burnett, second-class assistant-engineer,
to the Urgent; J. Aitken, acting third-class assis-
tant.engineer, to the Mohawk ; and J. Moore, as-
sistant-paymaster, to the Hastings.