The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-20 00:00:00

T.HE NAVY.

The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Commander H. F, M'Kil-
lop, sailed from Portsmouth at 6 p.m. on Monday,
for Queenstown, with Nos. 5 and 6 batteries of
the 15th Brigade of Royal Artillery, for service at
Kinsale. The numbers embarked were-9 officers,
11 sergeants, 4 trumpeters, 29 corporals and bom-
bardiers; and 180 gunners, with 30 women_ and 41
children,
The Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander G. M. Jack-
son, sailed from Portsmouth for the westward at 7
a.m. yesterday.
The screw steam frigate Narcissus, 51, Captain
Risk, which is to bear the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir Baldwin Walker, at the Cape of Good Hope,
got up steam in Hamoaze on Monday, and in going
down into the Sound saluted the flag of Port Ad-
miral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.B. The Narcissus
has taken in her powder, preparatory to sailing for
Portsmouth. .

The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain
Henry Lacon, was appointed to be removed yester-
day from Hamoaze into the Keyham steamyard to
have her machinery overhauled. The Howe, 121,
will probably be removed from the basin at the
same time and placed at her moorings in the steam
ordinary.
The iron screw steam troopship Megaara, 6, Com-
mander S. H. Henderson, moved on Monday from
Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze, where the artil-
lerymen brought from Gibraltar, as already stated
in The sun, were placed on board the tugs Pike
and Zephyr, and landed at the Royal William
Victualling-yard. The Megeera has some de-
fects l t make good, and she will not embark
,le ' : Vit,,.: ,11 (artillerymen going in her from
A,'.-y.'";,,'* 4 ( iladclto Woolwich.
t 1 i, 14 zt ii 'steam gunvessel Nimble, 5, was put in
treA
6).4,1 .10( r at Plymouth on Monday by Lieutenant
,i•
D 4 44,4 e.. She is to have a complement of 50 men,
an ell , attached to the screw steamship Nile, 90,
C243tf. Award K. Barnard, flag of Rear-Admiral
tt
Sit A wander Milne, K.C.B.
Her Majesty's ship Spitfire, Lieut. and Comman-
der Allingham, from the west coast of Africa, will
be in readiness to be paid off in Woolwich basin on
Saturday next, as ordered. Notwithstanding the
large number of journeymen and mechanics under
orders to be discharged from Woolwich dockyard
during the present and the ensuing month, each
building shed throughout the yard is occupied with
the framework of ships in a state of progressive
construction, and all the works are expected to be
carried on with the greatest possible diligence. A
considerable portion of the keel had been laid down
and the first timbers were yesterday crossed in the
construction of a new 36-gun frigate, to be called
the Dartmouth, on the slip from which the Bristol
was launched on Tuesday, the 12th inst. All hands
employed on the new ship are engaged from 6 to 6,
in order that the framework may be up complete
by the end of the present financial year. It is con-
sequently a matter of surprise in the department
that men are under orders to be dismissed. Many
who have been notified to that effect have organised
themselves into a body, under an impression that
on application to the Imperial authorities at Cher-
bourg they can readily obtain employment in that
dockyard.
By the promotion of Capt. Sir Edward Belcher,
C. 8., to the rank of Rear-Admiral, by the demise
of Admiral Sir George Mundy, a good service pen-
sion is placed at the disposal of the First Lord of
the Admiralty.
giThe following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. George B. Evans
and Lieut. Richard Sheepshanks to the Jason ;
William R. Bennett, assist.-surg., to the Britannia ;
William Redmond, acting assist.-surg., to the
Bacchante ; George V. Cruzelier, assist.-paymaster,
to the St. Vincent; Henry H. P. Shanks, assist.-
' paymaster, to the Impregnable, as ship's clerk.