The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-04 00:00:00

?HE NAVY.

The Sim Dom, screw troopship, Commander J. Cook
will be ready for sea at Portsmouth on the 7th inst.
The screw steam sloop Conflict, 8, Commander
F. W. Sullivan ; the paddlewheel steamship Devas-
tation, 6, Commander John Baird; and the paddle-
wheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Commander Dunn,
arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. The
Conflict left at Sierra Leone, Sept. 29, the screw
steam vessel Sharpshooter, Commander Charles Gib-
bons, and the screw steam sloop Prize, 4, Commander
Lord E. Cecil. The Conflict touched at St. Vincent
October 9th. The Devastation went on to Sheer-
ness in the afternoon. She left Halifax October
11 th in company with the screw steam corvette
Tartar, 20, Captain Dunlop, and brings 13 military
invalids, in charge of Lieut. Rowan, 42d Regiment.
The Indus, Cossack, Styx, and Jasper were at
Halifax. All those arrived have experienced very
severe weather. On the Ist inst., when in the
Bristol Channel, throo young seamen—Thomas
:Wyse, Edward Batten, and William Cameron—
were unfortunately washed off from the jib•boom
of the Virago at one time. She shipped a sea
which extinguished all the lights. She has lost her
starboard paddlebox boat and first gig, and has in-
curred other damage. She has gone into Hamoaze
to repair.

Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Mutine, Com-
mander W. Graham, yesterday commenced receiv-
ing her stores in preparation for sea. One sergeant,
one corporal, and 16 privates of the Royal Marines
will embark to-day from the Woolwich division.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Prometheus, Com-
mander Skip with, sailed from Woolwich yes-
terday at 3.15 p.m., and proceeded to Greenhithe to
adjust compasses in preparation to join the Chan-
nel fleet.

Yesterday the screw corvette Charybdis, 21, had
her masts put in under the shears at Chatham, pre-
paratory to being taken into the fitting-basin to be
made ready for the steam reserve at Chatham, to
which squadron she is to be attached.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Ariadne, 26, now in
the fitting-dock at Chatham, has made rapid pro-
gress in her fitments during the comparatively
short time she has been at that dockyard, unusual
exertions having been made by that establishment
to complete her. She is now entirely rigged, which
has been most expeditiously accomplished by the
dockyard riggers, and in the course of a week
or ten days she will be ready to leave the basin
and take her place in the first division
of the steam reserve now in the Medway,
to which fleet she will be a valuable addition,
the Ariadne being one of the finest and longest
frigates in the Navy. As soon as she has left the
dock her place will be occupied by the Charyb-
dis, 21.

The Undaunted, 51, one of the large class of screw
frigates now in course of construction at Chatham,
is being pushed forward with the utmost possible
energy, a large number of additional shipwrights
having been placed on her in order that she may be
completed and launched early in the ensuing year.
Large bodies of shipwrights are also at work on
board the Rodney, 91, Atlas, 91, and Severn, 51,
to hasten the completion of those vessels.
The Princess Royal, 91, screw, Capt. T. Baillie,
arrived at 6pithead yesterday morning from Ply-
mouth with a dismasted schooner in tow, which
she had fallen in with off Dunnose. She proved to
be the Norwegian schooner Ceres, Captain Ride,
laden with coals from Newcastle for Cadiz.
Captain Eide reports that when lying-to, on
Tuesday, at 2 p.m., about 40 miles south of
the Start, under a close-reeted mainsail, a ter-
rific sea struck the vessel, and threw
her on her beam-ends, totally dismasting her, carry-
ing away her bowsprit, boats, and making a clean
sweep of the whole deck fore and aft, filling the
cabin with water, and destroying the provisions.
The wreck was cut away, and the vessel put before
the wind, but, the sea breaking over her, they were
obliged to throw a portion of the cargo overboard.
After a short time they got a small jurymast rigged,
and arrived off Dunnose at G a.m. yesterday, when
they were spoken by her Majesty's steamer Prin-
cess Royal, which at once took them in tow and
brought them into Spithead. The vessel has since
been towed into harbour for the necessary survey
and repairs.

Orders have been received at Portsmouth to pre-
pare the Queen, 91, screw, to receive the officers and
crew of the Princess Royal, 91, screw, who will
turn over to her and commission her for immediate
service. The Queen is in the first-class steam
reserve at Sheerness.

The Odin, 16, paddle, Captain Lord John Hay,
C. 8., and the Sphinx, 6, paddle, Commander Day,
V.C., steamed out of harbour yesterday to Spithead.
They will be officially inspected this morning by
Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, commanding-in-
chief.

The Arrogant, 47, screw, and the Beagle, 6, screw,
have both suffered severely from the effects of the
last gale in the Channel, and require extensive
caulking, and other repairs to bulwarks, rigging,
&c. The little Beagle is reported to have behaved
remarkably well during the gale.
The Admiralty yacht Vivid left Woolwich yes-
terday moining at 9.10, and proceeded to Dover on
special service.

The steam storeship Rhadamanthus, Master-Com-
mander Sturdce, arrived at Woolwich yesterday, at
4.15 p.m., from Portsmouth.

The following ships yesterday commenced freight-
ing with m:litary stores from Woolwich Arsenal—
namely, the Patrician, Prospero, Idalla, Diana, and
General Windham.

The screw steamship Donegal, 101, steamed from
Plymouth Sound on Wednesday into Hamoaze,
for the purpose of landing Capt. Glanville, whose
severe illness continues unabated.

klt is stated that in consequence of the highly fa-
vourable report of the committee who superintended
the late experiments with Dr. Normanby's distilling
apparatus, an order has been issued to adapt the
late Sir T. Grant's apparatus, if possible, to Dr.
Normanby's principle on board all those ships in
which Sir T. Grant's apparatus is already fitted.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Wm. Charles Bicknell, pro-
moted to master ; Charles Wotton, second master,
to the Jasper ; George Park, chief engineer, to the
Ardent; Francis T. Elliott, first-class assistant-en-
gineer, to the Fawn ; Thomas Scott, acting second-
class assistant-engineer, to the Fawn ; Richard H.
Alvin, acting second-class assistant-engineer, to the
Vulcan ; John Parkin, acting third-class assistant-
engineer, to the Fawn ; James Russell, acting third-
class assistant-engineer, to the Vulcan, as supernu-
merary ; Robert Winfield, acting third-class assist-
ant-engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Fire
Queen ; and Joseph Sharp, acting third-class
assistant engineer, to the Prometheus.