The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-26 00:00:00

TIIE 117A.V1'.

The Lucifer paddle steam tender arrivr. at
t
Portsmouth yesterday from Pembroke, having in
tow the Pandora, 5, three-masted screw schooner,
recently launched from that yard, and in charge of
Commander It. L. Stokes, Master-attendant of
Portsmouth dockyard. On clearing Milford Haven
the Pandora cast adrift her warps from the Lucifer,
and made her way under canvas as far as the Start,
displaying good sailing qualities. Off the Start,
the wind drawing ahead, the Lucifer took her
again in tow, and continued with her to the re-
mainder of the voyage round. In the Bristol
Channel numbers of vessels were seen which had
all suffered more or less severely from the effects
of the late. gale. Off the Lizard, and to the north-
west, a very heavy sea was running. The Pan-
dora will be docked and, after coppering, placed in
the steam basin to receive her outfit
for
the
steam
reserve.

According to present arrangements the Narcis-
sus, 51, screw, Captain Risk, is expected to sail
for the Cape of Good Hope the latter end of the
present week, Sir 13. W. Walker, K.C.8., em-
barking to-morrow or Thursday, unless delayed by
the forthcoming Admiralty Commission.
The Victoria and Albert Royal paddle yacht
will be taken out of No. 8 dock at Portsmouth
to-day and placed in the steam basin, where she
will receive her masts, which have each been
shortened eight feet.
The Cossack, 21, screw, Capt. R. Moorman,
will be taken out of No. 1 dock at Portsmouth to-
morrow, and the Rolla, naval apprentices' brig,
Lieut.-Commander Nelson, afterwards placed in
the same,
In the Miscellaneous Services of the Naval Esti-
mates for the present year are the following rather
striking items :—Compensation for damages done
by Her Majesty's ships, £13,672 3s. 9d. ; raising
men, £21,816 14s. 3d.

The Isis, 44, sailing ship, fitting at Chatham for
a store ship at Sierra Leone, and. the Pigeon, 5,
screw despatch gunvessel, fitting for steam reserve,
will be undocked this afternoon, when the Hussar
receiving hulk will be placed in the same dock, to
be fitted as a target ship to be stationed at Shoe-
buryness.

The iron paddlewheel steamer Trident, Com-
mander Nicolas, which vessel sailed from Woolwich
on the 13th inst. for Sheerness, having met with
some injury to her port side paddlewheel and some
slight damage to her machinery, causing her to
return to Woolwich for repairs, recommenced her
voyage yesterday, and proceeded down the river
on trial, under the inspection of Mr. Partridge,
assistant engineer of the factory at Woolwich, and
inspector afloat. It appears that considerable
disunion exists among the petty officers and seamen
as well as the assistant engineers and stokers,
insomuch that several desertions have taken place,
to the number of 12 or 14 from among the crew of
50 men, some of whom have been picked up by the
police and returned to the ship.
Her Majesty's troopship Dee, Master Commander
Thomas Pullen, has embarked a heavy cargo of
steam machinery from Woolwich for the newly
constructed screw steamships Black Prince, at
Glasgow ; Defiance, at Pembroke ; Liverpool and
Albion, at Devonport, consisting of two boilers,
weighing 23 tons each, some heavy cylinders and
condensers, to be lashed on deck, and some minor
gear, which will admit of being stowed below.
From the heavy weight and bulk of the cargo being
thus necessarily placed on the upper deck it is
apprehended that the voyage will be one of great
peril, as experienced on her late voyage from Scot-
land with a similar cargo for Bristol.
The screw steam gun vessel Flying Fish, 6, Com-
mander Hope, in Plymouth Sound, got up steam
yesterday, mad shifted her berth for the readjust-
ment of her compasses.