The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

THE NAT/ Y.

Her Majesty's steam storeship Adventure was on
Saturday hauled under the shears in the fitting
basin at Woolwich, and was dismasted, prior to her
being docked for the removal of her engines and
machinery.
The Rinaldo, 17, screw, Commander Hewett,
V.C., steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday.
She is expected to sail immediately for the North
American and West India station.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain the Hon. J. Denman, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday at noon, on her return from con-
veying her Majesty the Empress of Austria from
Madeira to Trieste. Off the north coast of Spain the
yacht fell in with a heavy gale from the north, ac-
companied by a very heavy sea. The yacht's pas-
sage home from Trieste has been accomplished in
nine days 19 hours, under steam.

According to present arrangements, the star-
board division of the Channel Squadron will pro-
ceed into the Channel towards the close of the pre-
sent week.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Desperate, 6, Com-
mander Nelson, left Plymouth on Saturday
afternoon for the West Indies.
The engines of the screw steam frigate Phoebe, 51,
having been completed, a trial took place in Key-
ham basin on Friday. This vessel was lengthened
60 feet in Devonport Dockyard in three different
places—forward, aft, and amidships. She is now
240 feet long between the perpendiculars, 206 feet
for tonnage, 51 feet 6 inches extreme breadth, 51
feet for tonnage, and 50 feet moulded ; depth of
hold, 17 feet 2 inches, and burden 2,848 tons. She
will be full-ship rigged, and will spread as much
climes as if dependant only on her sails. There is
a good height on her maindeck ; the lower deck is
not so high, and the space in the hold for steam
machinery not being designed for its reception, is
scarcely adequate for the purpose. The engines,by
Messrs. It. Napier and Son,of Glasgow, aro of 500-
horse power nominal, but capable of working up to
2,100 horses, as evidenced in a preliminary experi-
ment about three months since. The engines are
seated just before the mainmast; between them
and the boilers (tubular) forward there is about six
feet of coal-box. The bunkers on the wings run
27 feet astern of the after side of the engines, and
forward they are flush with the boilers ; they can
stow about 400 tons of coal, equal to eight or ten
days' consumption. The boiler-room, like that of
the Orlando, is fitted with an upper double tram-
way to receive a pair of wheels from which the coal
buckets are suspended—an arrangement which
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diameter of the screw, 18 feet ; pitch of the screw
(Griffith's) 23 feet. The engines of the Phoebe are
what are termed trunk air-pump engines, similar
to those on board the Royal William, Orestes, and
several gunboats.
The following appointments were made on
Saturday at the Admiralty :—Lieut George Morice,
to the Donegal ; Lieutenant Richard Evans, to the
Flying Fish ; W. R. Cronin, master, to the Asia,
for the Pelican ; Michael S. Grey, second master, to
the Pelorus, for surveying duties ; A. B. C. Booth,
naval cadet, to the Hero; Robert Bacon, first-class
assistant-engineer, to the Asa, as supernumerary ;
James M'Glasham, promoted to the rank of first-
class assistant-engineer in the Weazel ; James Stir-
ling, acting second-class assistant-engineer, to the
Indus, as supernumerary ; Messrs. Thomas H. Simp-
kins, 0. H. H. Bentley, and John S. Long have been
nominated to naval cadetships,

The Rutland and Northampton Militia assembled
on May 28 for the annual training—Lord Burghly,
M.P., in command. Major Lord B. Cecil, Captains
Clark, Christie, D'Arcy, Robinson, Kerr, Powell,
Andrew, Finch, Hatton, and the Hon. E. Freke ;
Lieutenants Bowman, De Capell Brooke, Whit-
worth, Jennings, Pares, Platt, Lawrance, Luanae,
and Orme ; Captain and Adjutant Rose, Dr. Barr,
and Quartermaster Manful], were the officers
present.
PORTSMOUTH, June 2.—A fire broke out this
evening in the valve and fitting building at the gasworks at
Landport, which at first threatened to be serious. By the
prompt arrival, however, of the fire• engines, with detach-
ments of police, the 11th Regiment, and a large number of
seamen, it was fortunately suppressed before extending
beyond the building where it broke out. The result was
that the fitting store in the upper story of the building was
destroyed, but the lower floor, which contains the governor
and valves, escaped, it is believed, serious injury.