The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-25 00:00:00

211 E NAVY.

Toe portion of the Channel squadron which is at
Pl) mouth is nearly ready for sea. The Revenge is
lying inside the Breakwater, and may proceed to-
day to join the Warrior at Portland.
The gunboat Porpoise, tender to the Revenge,
having proved defective, is ordered to be superseded.
The screw steamship Mohawk, 4, Commander E.
H. Howard, from the Mediterranean, last from
Spithead, arrived yesterday in Plymouth Sound,
where her crew was iLspected. In the afternoon
the Mohawk will proceed into Hamoaze, prepara-
tory to her being paid off.
The crew of the Cambrian, 40, Commodore James
M'Cleverty, at Devonport, will be paid off to-day.
The screw steamship Orion, 89, Capt. William C.
de Vere, from the Mediterranean, arrived off Ply-
myth Sound yesterday afternoon, and then pro-
called to Sheerness, where her crew will be paid

off.
The crew of the screw steam sloop Greyhound, 17,
Commander Sullivan, at Plymouth, were inspected
on Wednesday by Capt. Jerningham, and.exercised
at target practice. Yesterday she went from the
Sound into Hamoaze, where her present crew will
be paid off. On the arrival of the Gladiator, 6,
Commander Henry D. Hickley, at Plymouth, her
crew will be transferred to the Greyhound, which
is not to be dismantled.
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constan-
tine of Russia embarked from Ryde pier yesterday
on board her Majesty's steamer Fire Queen, Master-
Commander Paul, and crossed over to Portsmouth
to visit the dockyard. On landing at the King's-
stairs he was received by Vice-Admiral Sir H. W.
Bruce, Rear Admirals Hon. G. Grey and J. E.
Erskine. He returned to Ryde in the Fire Queen.
The Portuguese screw steam frigate Bartolemo
Diaz arrived at Spithead yesterday from South-
ampton, for the purpose of docking. She will be
placed in the dock lately occupied by the Warrior,
at high water to-day ; and, as the Hero, 91, screw
steamer, Capt. Ryder, also requires docking, it is
very probable that she will go into the new dock
at the same time as the Portuguese corvette, there
being room to spare after taking in both vessels.
The Assurance, 4, screw steamer, Commander C.
Aynley, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning,
from the Mediterranean, having sailed from Malta
on the 9th inst.
The President, 51, being nearly completed, and
ready to be undocked during the next spring tides,
orders were received at Chatham yesterday for the
hired shipwrights and mechanics who have been em-
ployed on her to be discharged to-morrow, their ser-
N ices being no longer required. It was generally un-
derstood that the hired shipwrights entered for the
President would,on the completion of that vessel, be
transferred to the Bulwark, 91, which is to be con-
verted into an armour-plated 51-gun screw frigate, of
the Royal Oak and Ocean class,but the final orders for
the proposed alterations of that vessel not having
yet been received at the dockyard, the discharge of
the ship wrights will be made to-morrow, and addi-
tional hands entered as they are required.
An Admiralty circular was yesterday received at
Woolwich, announcing that a medal roll is in course
of compilation of the officers and seamen who are
entitled to medals and clasps for the late China war.
In order to make the roll in question complete, a
list of the officers and men in each division of the
Royal Marines is to be prepared, showing under the
name of the ship in which each person served the
number of clasps he claims in addition to the medal.
Should any officer or marine have been engagell in
any active operations against the enemy between
the dates of the first and second periods of the China
war—viz., June 27, 1858, and July 31, 1860, and not
have been presenteither before or after that date, a
separate list of such exceptions ought to accompany,
but not be included in the roll to be forwarded.

An Admiralty order has been received at Wool-
* 'wich instructing an immediate reduction in the ex-
penditure of the factory branch of the dockyard,
on the plea,as stated, of the heavy expense incurred
in the construction of the Warrior, and the conse-
quent scarcity of funds, the reduction to be effected
in the following manner :—Of the total number of
men employed in the factory—namely, 550,150 are
to be discharged, and the standing wages of those
retained will be curtailed one-third, the hours of
work to commence in future at 8 and terminate at 4.
The principal draughtsmen, now earning 7s. per
day, or £2 2s. per week, will be reduced to £1
es., losing 13s. per week; and the labouring men
will receive 102. only. This severe and uncalled for
measure has, of course, created great dissatisfac-
tion among those who suffer from it.