The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5,186 L

THE NAVY.

The Winchester, 60, at Chatham, which is to be
sent from that port to Liverpool to be used as a
training-ship for boys destined for the mercantile
marine, where she relieves the Conway, 26, is to be
fitted with the masts, spars, yards, rigging, and
other gear belonging to the Iris, 26, paid off at
Chatham on Saturday. A party of men from the
dockyard commenced making the necessary pre-
parations on Saturday for transferring the gear
from the Iris to the Winchester.

The Orpheus, 21, 400-horse power, is to be towed
up to Chatham harbour to-morrow, and placed
under the floating shears, to be masted and brought
forward for sea.

On Saturday a number of shipwrights com-
menced laying down the blocks in the spacious
dock at Chatham, in which the iron-plated frigate
Achil:es, 50, is to be built. Nearly the whole of the
powerful machinery required in the construction of
the beams, plates, and other portions of the iron

vessel has been fixed in the new factory adjoining
No. 2 dock, in which the steamer will be built, and
already the preliminary works for preparing the
plates are in operation. An exceedingly powerful
hydraulic press for bending the massive iron plates
to any pattern has been fixed adjoining the dock,
and the trials made with it have been exceedingly
satisfactory. As fast as really good mechanics offer
themselves at the dockyard they are taken on. In
the course of a few weeks there will be as many as
1,000 workmen employed about the new steamer.
The class of mechanics mostly required. are platers
and angle iron smiths, especially the latter.
The Iris, 26, Capt. C. G. H. Vernon, late the flag-
ship of Commodore W. Loring, C. 8., on the Aus-
tralian station, NN as paid off and put out of commis-
sion in Chatham harbour on Saturday last.
The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. John
Seccombe, which has been thoroughly repaired at

Keyham steamyard, left Plymouth Sound on Satur-
day afternoon for Gravesend. Mr. Melrose, engi-
neer at Keyham, goes with her to watch the condi-
tion of the machinery. The Himalaya will, it is
said, embark troops for the Mediterranean.

Preparations are making at Plymouth for sup-
plying the Channel squadron with water and provi-
sions immediate on their arrival in the Sound. The
Aboukir, 84, Capt. C. F. A. Shadwell, C. 8., which
grounded in the Orkneys, will go into dock No. 1

at Keyham for inspection and repair.
The screw steam gunvessel Surprise, 5, Comman-
der Whyte, which left Plymouth Sound with de-
spatches on Thursday for the Mediterranean, put
back on Saturday evening through stress of weather.
The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. A.
Cumming, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral of the
White the Hon. Sir H. Keppel, K.C.8., from South
America, and the iron screw steam troopship

Megzera, 6, Commander Henderson, from Corfu,

Malta, and Gibraltar, arrived in Plymouth Sound
yesterday evening. The Emerald will disembark
invalids and supernumeraries, and then proceed to
Spithead. The Megvera has troops, invalids, and
other passengers, including some engineers, who
land at Plymouth.

By direction of the Admiralty a new Coastguard
station is to be erected at Shoeburyness.
The armaments intended for the following ships
—viz., the Defence, Resistance, and Achilles, re-
cently laid down, and also to be iron-clad, after the
method of the Warrior, are announced as follows :
—The Defence and Resistance, of 1,462 tons each,
and to be fitted with engines of 600 nominal horse-
power, will have two 100-pounders on the upper
deck, 16 100-pounders as side guns on the main
deck, and four 40-pounders also on the main deck.
The Achilles will be provided with 34 100-pounders
on the main deck. On the upper deck there will
be two 100-pounders on revolving carriages. There
will be eight of the same on slides and carriages;
four 40-pounders on truck carriages, and two 32-
pounders smooth bore of the old castiron ordnance,
making a total of 50 to the Achilles, and 22 each to
the Defence and Resistance. The whole of the guns
have been handed over to the store for despatch
from Woolwich on demand.

A complete battery of 14 of the large 100-pounder
Armstrong guns, for distribution among the ships
composing the steam reserve in the Med way, arrived
at the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, on Friday, from
Woolwich, in the War Department transport Henry,
which was placed under the steam crane. Theguns
were landed on that and the following day. The
steamers at Chatham which are to be furnished with
the 100-pounder Armstrongs are the Hood, 91; the
Waterloo, 91; the Rodney, 91; the Bombay, 81;
the Irresistible, 81; the Goliath, 81; the Meeanee,
81; the Severn, 51 ; the Arethusa, 51 ; the Phmton,
51; the Leander, 51 ; the Galatea, 26 ; the Orpheus,
21; the Orestes, 21 ; and the Barossa, 21. Each of
the above ships will also be furnished with a certain
number of the 40-pounder Armstrong guns, several
of which have already been put on board from the
supply received at Chatham.
We have to announce the death of Admiral Sir
Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8., who expired at an
early hour on Saturday morning at Penair, his re-
sidence, near Truro. The gallant admiral was the
son of Rear-Admiral Robert C. Reynolds, who was
lost in the St. George, 98, on returning home from
the Baltic in December, 1811, and was born in

1185. The deceased officer entered the navy as a
first-class volunteer soon after he had completed his
tenth year ; he was midshipman on board the
Amazon, 36, when in company with the Indefatig-
able, 46, L'Unite, 38, and La Virginie, 44, were
captured. In January, 1797, he was wrecked and
taken prisoner near Ile Bas, at the close of the gal-

Lunt action of ten hours with Les Droits de I'Hommc,

74, also wrecked. On regaining his liberty in
January of the following year he was appointed to
La Pomone, in which he assisted in the capture of
Le Cheri, French privateer, of 26 guns. He shortly
afterwards joined the Indefatigable, Capt. Sir E.
Pellew (afterwards Lord Exmouth), under whom
he contributed to the capture of La Vaillante cor-
vette. Under the same famous commander he
served with the squadron sent in the summer of
1800 to co-operate with the French Royalists and
Chouans, in Quiberon Bay, and the I\lorbihan, and
in August accompanied the expedition against Fer-
rol. For his gallantry in several successful boat
actions with the enemy he was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant. In the boats of the Diana, on
the night of the 28th of March, 1806, Lieut. Rey-
nolds captured Le Nearque, of 16 guns, off L'Orient,
the rearmost of the French squadron, without being
discovered by the three French frigates, her con-
sorts. Afterwards he proceeded to the East Indies,
and early in 1811 he was appointed to the com-
mand of the Hesper, 18, part of the force employed
in the expedition against Java, where he assisted
at the bombardment and storming of Fort Cornelis,
and served on shore with a party of seamen through-
out all the operations. After the reduction of
the town of Cheribon he was appointed Com-
mandant, pro tem., of that place. As a re-
ward for his distinguished services in the
subjugation of that island, he was appointed to
the command of the frigate Sir Francis Drake,
and was in the following year removed by the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Sir S. Hood, into the Bucephalus,
32, in which he continued until paid off in 1813.
From impaired health engendered by the climate
of the East Indies he was not employed for several
years. From October, 1833, to April, 1842, he com-
manded the Ganges, 84, which formed one of the
fleet in the Mediterranean. He superintended;
Syria,dur-
isted at the the landing of
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assisted
bom-
bardment of Beyrout, and the blockade of Alexan-
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Alexan-
dria. In 1843 to 1852 he was Commander-in-Chief
at the Cape of Good Hope and the Brazil station.
It was during his command at that station that he
obtained the thanks of Government for his activity
and zeal in suppressing the slave trade. Shortly
after his return home he was selected by the Admi-
-1/4 ralty in May, 1857, for the post of Commander-in-

Chief at Devonport, which appointment he filled up
to October last. In 1838 he was made a Companion
of the Order of the Bath, and in February, 1856,
was made a Knight Commander of that most hon-
ourable order of knighthood. The late Admiral's
commissions bore date as follows:—Lieutenant,Sept.
18, 1801; Command fir, Oct. 3, 1810; Captain, Jan.
22, 1812; Rear--Admiral, Jan. 8, 1848; Vice-Admi-
ral, July 4, 1855; and Admiral, Nov. 1, 1860.
The following appointments wet e made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—The Rev. J. W. Bussell,
chaplain to the Hawke ; the Rev. H. Bannister,
chaplain to the Britannia ; Horace H. Smith, sur-
geon to the Wasp ; John T. Moore, acting assist.-
surgeon to the Wasp.

a flourishing condition, having no liabilities and a
balance of £133 in the hands of the bankers. On
the motion of the chairman the report was unani-
mously adopted. After the discussion of various
other matters, the question of the proposed amalga-
mation with the 4th Tower Hamlets was brought for-
ward, and adjourned for further consideration.
A grand review of the volunteer corps of Lan-
cashire took place on Saturday, on the racecourse
at Newton-le-Willows, by Lieutenant-General Sir
G. Wetherall. The corps assembled were nomi-
nally about 10,000 strong, but the incessant rain of
the previous night and of the morning of Saturday
up to nearly the time for the troops to start, pre-
vented the muster from being as full as it other-
wise might have been. The greater part of the
volunteers, including those from Liverpool and
Manchester, were conveyed to Newton by the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company, who
had laid down a branch line to the course, and
numerous sidings for the especial accommodation
of the troops. The whole of the troops
were on the ground by about half-past four
o'clock, and had taken up the positions laid down
in the programme. Sir G. Wetherall, accompanied
by the Earl of Sefton and a brilliant military staff,
then rode along the front of the line. The usual
evolutions were then performed. The weather was
better than expected, and only slight showers fell.
The proceedings closed about seven o'clock, by the
whole body of the troops marching past, amidst
repeated bursts of cheering from some thousands of
spectators. There seemed to be a general opinion
that a considerable improvement had taken place
both in the drill and general bearing of the volun-
teers since last year. The rapid manner in which
the volunteers and visitors were taken up by rail
and conveyed homewards was highly creditable to
the London and North-Western Company's
management.
The Westmorland Rifle Volunteers were reviewed
by Major Harman, Inspector for the Northern Dis-
trict, at Culgarth, Windermere, on Monday last.
Until last week the Westmorland Volunteers had
never before had an opportunity of assembling for
the purposes of battalion drill. The weather was
beautifully fine, and 3,000 or 4,000 spectators were
present at the picturesque scene to witness the dis-
play. The tourists staying in the neighbourhood
of Windermere flocked to the place. The battalion
having been inspected "marched past," and after-
wards went through the manual and platoon exer-
cises. Upon the conclusion of the review Major
Harman praised the volunteers for the way in
which they had executed the manoeuvres, especially
the Kendal corps. The officers dined together at
the Low Wood Hotel. Lieutonant-Colonel Gandy
then promised to give a ten guinea cup to be com-
peted for by the Westmorland battalion, and a com-
mittee was formed to make the necessary arrange-
ments.

The annual rifle contest between the members of
the Ist Wilts (Salisbur3 ) Rifle Volunteers came off
on the practice ground at Laverstock, near Sails.
bury, on Wednesday and Thursday last. The weather
was propitious, although the wind was perhaps
rather more boisterous than riflemen care to have it
on occasions such as this. The first prize offered
for competition consisted of the silver challenge
cup, presented to the corps last year by Sir
Alexander Malet, to which was added a very hand-
some claret jug, given by Major Jacob, the prize
being for the best shot at 200, 500, and 600 yards,
five rounds at each distance. A second prize, a
pail. of silver saltcellars, with spoons, was also
given by Major Jacob for the second best shot at
the same ranges. For these prizes 43 competitors
entered the lists. The highest scores made were
17 each by Corporal Sheppard and Private Watson,
of the 2d company, and 16 by Sergeant Butler
(who won the challenge cup last year with 18
points), of the Ist company. On shooting off the
ties Sheppard was declared the winner of the first
and Watson of the second. A silver pint cup, pre-
sented by the Mayor of Salisbury and a silver
pocket flask were next contended for at 200, 300,
and 400 yards, with five rounds at each range.
There were 43 competitors, and, after rome excel-
lent general firing, particularly at the two longer
distances, the first prize was won by Private J.
Sidford with 23 points, and the second by Ensign C.
Brown with 20. The two next prizes were given by
the officers, and consisted of a cream jug, and a
pair of silver saltcellars, with spoons, the range
being 500 yards with five shots each, Thirty-five
fired, Corporal Dodds obtaining seven points, and
Sergeants Farrant and Clapperton six each. On
the tie being shot off the former carried off the
second prize. The contest, particularly on the
second day, was very interesting.