The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-25 00:00:00

TILE NAVY.

A Malta letter, dated Valetta, March 15, says :-
11 Rear-Admiral Sydney C. Dacres, C. 8., Captain
of the Fleet, hoisted his flag, the blue, on the 12th
inst., on board the Caesar, 90, Capt. T. Mason, and,
accompanied by the Algiers, 91, Capt. G. W. D.
Callaghan, left the same day for Corfu. Vice-Ad-
miral F. Martin, the Commander-in-Chief, carrying
his flag on board the Neptune, 90, Capt. F. A.
Campbell, is still here, and Rear-Admiral G. R.
Mundy, C,8., carrying his flag on board the Han-
nibal, 91, Capt. A. Farquhar, has
.not yet left for
Beyrott. The Medina surveying vessel, Capt. T.
A. B. Spatt, C. 8., which was to have proceeded to
Tripoli on service connected with the ;proposed
telegraphic cable between Malta and Alexandria,
received counter orders, and left on the 12th inst.
for Alexandria, whence she will take soundings all
along the African coast to Bengazi, where a fresh
supply of coals has been sent to meet her. Messrs.
Ford and Laws, whose departure in the Mohawk
gunboat, Commander E. H. Howard, has. already
been announced, have proceeded to Bengazi, for the
purpose of ?electing landing-places, which I un-
derstand will most likely be Bombah and Bengazi.
The only other movement among our ships of war
is the arrival yesterday of the Assurance gunboat,
Commander Aynsley, from Corfu. I subjoin a few
items of news received by her. Her latest date is
the 11th inst. :—Her Majesty's ship Queen, 86,
Capt. C. F. Hillyar, left Corfu on the 28th of Feb.
for the coast of Syria. The Agamemnon, 91, Capt.
T. Hope, was at Zante, and the Orion, 91, Capt. J.
J. B. E. Frere, at Cephalonia. The London, 90,
Capt. H. Chadds, was the only British man-of-war
then at Corfu, besides the gunboat Assurance,
which was starting with the mail. The Assurance,
while at Corfu, was saddenly despatched to Trieste.
It appears that through the negligence of the Aus-
trian Lloyd's officials, the porters took empty boxes
on board,: instead of those containing the mails,
and, as the mistake was not discovered until the
steamer had left, Sir Henry Storks,',the Lord High
Commissioner, immediately ordered the Assurance
to take the mails, telegraphing to the Govern-
ment what had been done. A letter an-
nounces the death of Quartermaster J. P.
Arrowsmith, of the 2d Battalion 9th Foot, at
Cephalonia, and states that Lieut. John Aplin, of
the Ist Battalion,same regiment, had been cashiered.
Among the passengers by- the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, which arrived
on the 13th inst. from Southampton and Gibraltar,
were Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, R.N., the gallant
Polar voyager and newly-appointed Captain of her
Majesty's frigate Doris, now on the coast of Syria.
Capt. G. T. Hornby, who is to relieve Capt. Camp-
bell in the command of the Neptune, also arrived by
the same steamer. Her Majesty's ships in port are :
—Liners : the Neptune, 90 (bearing the flag of
Vice-Admiral W. F. Martin) ; the Hannibal, 91
(bearing the flag 'of Rear-Admiral G. R. Mundy,
C. 8.) ; the Hibernia receiving-ship (bearing the.
Bag of Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.) ; the
Cressy, 80, and the James Watt, 91. The frigate
Liffey, 51 ; surveying vessel Firefly, 4; gunboats
Assurance, 4, and Quail, 2 ; and the tug Hearty.
Foreign : the Dutch corvette Cycloop."
The steam sloop Buzzard, 6, Commander Treve-
nen, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday*. She left
Montevideo on the 31st Dec. ; Rio Janeiro, Jan. 24 ;
Bahia, Feb. 12 ; St. Vincent, March 3; and Fayal
on the loth. She brings passengers Lieut. Bayly
and 10 seamen and marines. Commander Trevenen
has for sometime been dangerously ill of consump-
tion, and was conveyed immediately to the Royal
Naval Hospital.
Letters received from the gunboat Janus, dated
at Hope Sound, Jan. 15, state that she had been
driven on shore on the 19th Dec., during rough
weather, by a junk driving down athwart hawse of
the Janus at 3 a.m. that day. At low water the
crew could walk round the ship. Everything pos-
sible to remove was taken out of the vessel, but it
was the 28th Dec. before she was got afloat again.
The weather was exceedingly severe, the thermome-
ter having been down to 20 deg. below freezing
point. Several of the crew had their hands very much
frost-bitten. The Clown gunboat had been driven on
shore at the mouth of the Peiho, and was not ex-
pected to be got off before spring, even if they suc-
ceeded in doing so then. It was reported among the
squadrdns that the officers and crews of the gun-
boats would proceed to England in other vessels,
the gunboats receiving necessary repairs at Hong-
kong and crews sent out to them from England.

The Marlborough, 131, screw, was recommissioned
at Portsmouth on Saturday by,Capt. W.H. Stewart,
-0.13., as flagship for the present commander-in.chief
in the Mediterranean. The ship's masts were taken
out of her alongside the sheer jetty of the dockyard
'the same day.
The hired transport Zebra, for the lonian Islands,
shipped 34 heavy guns of position from Woolwich
Arsenal, and went into the London Docks to fill in
with a general cargo for Corfu on Saturday. She
will be ready for sea in a few days.
Two Armstrong batteries are in readiness for
shipment in Woolwich Arsenal for Madras and
Calcutta.
The following transports have been chartered by
the Government to receive guns and war materials
from the military store department of Woolwich
Arsenal for stations abroad, in the British colonies
and possessions :—Hotspur, Cinderella, Northern
Light, Moor of Venice, City of Quebec, Jabez,
Crystal Palace, Miunahaha, Avon, Northumber-
land, Mary Lord, Maze, and Agrippina.
Her Majesty's 14 floating battery Trusty, expe-
rimented upon by the Armstrong and Whitworth
guns at Shoeburyness, arrived at Woolwich on Sa-
turday under steam, attended by the steam tenders
African and Adder, to be fitted with Capt. Coles's
newly-invented protecting shield.
The name of the 22-gun'screw corvette, one of the
squadron of five vessels of war ordered to be laid
down at Chatham, is to be the Ganymede, *and not
the P actolus, as previously ordered by the Admiralty.
• The 3-gun brigantine Dolphin, and No. 4 mortar
• vessel have been removed from the ordinary at
Chatham and sent round to the Thames to be used
as watch vessels in the Coastguard service.
The riggers have commenced work on board the
screw steam sloop Pantaloon, 11, at Devonport. Her
"tops" are over and the lower rigging is in place.
The crew of the screw steamship .Princess
91, Captain Fellowes, in Hamoaze, have been turned
over to the hulk Vengeance.
The screw steam gunboat Procris, 3, Lieutenant
the Hon. J. Carn ie, is out of the hands of the
e/g
authorities in, the dockyard in Devonport. The
-Nimble, 5, tender to the Nile, will be completed in
the engineer department to-morrow.
The screw steam corvette Jason, 24, Captain Von
Donop, will, weather permitting, proceed to-day
mntside the Plymouth Breakwater to try her Grif-
fiths' propeller with an altered pitch.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Francis C. R. Baker, mate,
to the Marlborough; Charles C. P. Fitzgerald, mate,
,to the Ariadne ; Henry M'lnroy, mate, to the Edgar;
William M. Moger, mate, to the Nile; Thomas H.
Punshon, Ist class assist.-engineer, to the Asia,,
for the Chanticleer; John •E. Rowe Townsend,
acting 3d class assist.-engineer, to the Indus, as
supernumerary; Stephen Vincent Bull, acting 3d
elass assist-en gin eer, to the Asia, as supernumerary;
R. C. Webb, clerk, to the Cossack; W. B. Beve-
ridge, clerk, to the Hero ; R. B. Haly, assist.-clerk,
to the Excellent ; Charles E. Gifford, assist-clerk,
to•the Marlborough ; Joseph Allen, assist.-clerk, to
the Centurion ; and W. B. Spence, assist--clerk, to
the Impregnable, as supernumerary.

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