The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-23 00:00:00

TILE NAVY.

The screw steamship Gibraltar, 101, was placed
yesterday in No. 3 dock, K eyham Steamyard, to
have her propelling apparatus adjusted and valves
overhauled.

Arrangements were made yesterday at Keyham
to remove the screw steamship Howe, 121, from the
basin to her moorings in Hamoaze, and to place the
screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Capt. H. D.
Lacon, in.
Forty-four shipwrights, eight joiners, eight
smiths, two millwrights, two sawyers, and 4zB
labourers are to be discharged from the Devonport
Dockyard on the 16th of March.
In consequence of the severe weather on Thurs-
day afternoon, steam was got up on board the
Narcissus, Jason, and Geyser in Plymouth Sound
to assist their anchors. The Narcissus and Jason

ruck lower yards, the Geyser lower yards and
,opmasts. Yesterday morning lower yards were
sent up, sails loosed, and topgallant yards crossed.
During the storm at Plymouth on Thursday the
Coastguard watch vessel Linnet, moored off New
Passage, parted from her moorings, and was driven
alongside the wall of the gunwharf. Severll boats
in the basin of the Devonport Dockyard were
damaged, and large sheets of lead on the roofs of
the building shed No. 1 were curled up like paper.
A barge was sunk alongside the sea wall of the
Keyham Steamyard.
The screw steam sloop Pantaloon, 11, built in
the Devonport Dockyard, and now in the third
division of the steam ordinary, is to be brought for-
ward for the first division, in place of the Desperate.
The contract-built screw steam gunvessel Steady,
4, now in the second division, is to be advanced to
the first division of the steam. ordinary, in place of
the Nimble, 5, recently put in commission, and now
fitting alongside the Devonport Dockyard.
The War Department screw steamvessel Lord
Panmure, M. Moore, master, is receiving condemned
stores at Bull Point Works, Plymouth, for convey-
ance to Woolwich.

The screw steam troopship MegEera, Commander
Henderson, having embarked draughts from the
Royal Artillery, quartered in Plymouth citadel,
left Hamoaze yesterday for Woolwich.
In order to provide additional accommodation for
the large stores of shot and shell which are being
accumulated at Upnor Castle, opposite Chatham
Dockyard, for the supply of the ships of war fitted
out at Chatham and Sheerness, the Government has
decided on erecting a large building on the Crown
lands adjoining the Castle to serve as a store for
shells. This building is expected to cost nearly
£4,000, of which sum £2,000 will be taken in this
year's Estimates for the commencement of the work.
A considerable sum will also be required for the
purchase of the private property adjacent to the
magazines at Upnor, in order to insure the better
security of those buildings.
The month's notice given to the hired mechanics
and labourers at Chatham Dockyard having termi-
nated, the first batch of the hands to be discharged
from that establishment will leave the dockyard to-
day, when 58 mechanics, most of them excellen t
workmen, will quit the service of the Admiralty.
The same number will leave the dockyard weekly
until the 25th of May, by which date the whole of
the 800 hands to be discharged will have left the
establishment. An impression has for some time
past prevailed among the shipwrights to be dis-
charged of their being able to procure employment
in the French dockyards at Cherbourg and Brest,
where they had intended transferring their services
after quitting this establishment. Within the last
few days, however, private letters have been received
from France, in reply to applications from some of
the shipwrights at Chatham, intimating that there
is no chance whatever of an English shipwright
obtaining employment at either of the French naval
yards, as, although the utmost activity prevails at
those establishments, there are comparatively few
wooden vessels now under construction, the atten-
tion of the French Government being just now
almost wholly devoted to the construction of iron-
cased vessels.

A notice was yesterday issued from the office of
the Council of Military Education, Whitehall, and
forwarded to the various commanding officers at
the several military stations, intimating that the
Secretary of State for War has, upon the recom-
mendation of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief, given his sanction to the
children of deceased soldiers enjoying the same
advantages at the military schools as the children
of soldiers still serving, the terms of payment being
in each case the same.