The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

71IE NAVY.

The gunboats in the second-class reserve at Ports-
mouth are ordered to fit out immediately, to take
the place of the boats in the first class, ordered for
commission for foreign service.
The Sutlej, 51, screw, the Pandora, 6, screw, and

the Volcano, 6, paddle (floating factory), at Ports•
mouth, arc ordered to complete their armament for
immediate commission. Tho Sutiej will take on
board one 100 pounder Armstrong, and six 40 poun-
ders as part of her armament.
The Shannon, 51, screw, ready for commission at
Portsmouth,w ill receive t wo 12 pounder Armstrongs,

;. erlrlitinn fn hir complemiltti' alr""rit'
She is expected to be commissioned every hour.
The Lyra, 7, screw, Commander Alexander, put
into Portland Roads, from stress of weather, on
Thursday afternoon. She left tho Cape of Good
Hope on the 20th of October, St. Helena Nov.
4, and Ascension November 12. An excellent
passage 'was made to lat. 45 N., long. 15 W.,
when a heavy gale of wind was met with from the
S.W., in which she lost her quarter boats. She was
off the Isle of Wight on the night of Wednesday
last, but a strong N.E. gale prevented her reaching
Spithead. She bore up for Portland, where she has
anchored until the weather moderates sufficiently to
allow her to proceed to Spithead.
Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham
for a trial to be made at that establishment of a
new plan submitted to the Admiralty, the inven-
tion of Mr. Daft, for coppering iron ships by sepa-
rating the copper from the iron by means of vul-
canized indiarubber sheets, with fastenings of
ebonite. A trial of the invention is to be made on
the bottom of one of the iron mortar floats used as
a lighter at Chatham.
The Reindeer, 17, 200 horse power, building at
Chatham, has had nearly the whole of the hands
removed from her in order to complete the various
ships fitting for commission at that port. Admi-
ralty orders have been received for sufficient space
to be provided on board for 103 cases of powder,
140 70-pounder shells, 100 60-pounder shells, and
140 32-pounder shells, together with five boxes of
the 12-pounder diaphragm shells. Her solid shot
will consist of 980 32-pounders, 60 40-pounders,
and 50 70-pounders.
Yesterday, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W
Grey, K.C.8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
accompanied by Rear-Admiral Robinson, Controller
of the Davy, visited Chatham dockyard for the pur-
pose of inspecting the progress made in the frigate
Achilles, 50, building, and the iron steamer De-
fence, 22, Capt. Powell, C. 8., fitting in the third
dock. His Lordship, accompanied by the Control-
ler-General, Capt. Superintendent Fanshawe, and
Mr. Lang, master shipbuilder, went over the De-

fence, the interior of which they minutely inspected,
and on board which they were engaged for some
time. In consequence of the magnitude of the work
still to be accomplished on board the Defence, the
period of her completion is now deferred from the 2d
to the 16th January, by which date it is expected she
will be able to leave the dock, although it is very
doubtful whether she will be completed by the latter
date. Sir F. W. Grey also inspected the Galatea,
26, the Pylades, 21—the latter in dock—and the
other vessels fitting for commission, and urged
their completion as rapidly as possible. Before
quitting the dockyard his lordship and Admiral
Robinson inspected the Achilles, which is progres-
sing as fast as circumstances will merit, a number
of the large ribs on each side being already fixed.
Sir F.W. Grey left the dockyard just before dusk,
and returned to the Admiralty.

The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Captain
Arthur Cumming, continues in Plymouth Sound
ready for sea. She will probably be detained un-
til Monday or Tuesday.

The new screw steam frigate Orlando, 51, Capt.
Francis Scott, C.B , having been completed for sea
service, went yesterday morning from Hamoaze
into Plymouth Sound. Her crew (GOO) consists
chiefly of trained men from the Impregnable, Cam-
bridge, Indus, and Royal Adelaide. She has on
board an Armstrong gun for the Liffey, 61, ordered
from the Mediterranean to the North American
ta The Orlando is supplied with provisions
for t
eightn.
months.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
station.

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Chief Engineer—cF.mWber.lanSud, ttoasn
a(dAditiotrnazfez service
dfvroieme
the Fisgard to
in the Vixen,

Assistant-Engineers—W. R. Henry, confirmed 2d class,
to the Philemel ; J. C. Saunders, to the Forte ; H. D. Gar-
wood, to the Leven ; A., Hindu:lush, to the -Urgent; 4,

Masters' Assistants—lienrylV.Williams to the Revenge.
W. E. Farrington to the Chanticleer; Edwin 0. Hallett
to:the Defence; Cecil H. Franks, and George W. Ballis-
ton, to the Warrior.
Assistant Pay master—Charles S. Patio, to the Corn-
wallis.

Clerk—John E. Charlton, to the Hawke.
Naval Cadets (norninatcd)—Mr. Richard G. Day, and
Win, Stanhope Lovell.

TILE ARMY .

The B battery, Royal horse Artillery, in com-
mand of Capt. Williams, was yesterday ordered to
march from Woolwich to Windsor, to be present on
Monday next and fire the salute of 21 guns on the
solemn occasion of the funeral of his Royal High.
ness the late Prince Cocsort.
Orders have been issued that no firing of guns
shall take place by the military or naval authori-
ties at Portsmouth, under any circumstances,
whether it be arrival of Royal personages, or from
any other cause, however important, prior to the
funeral of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort.
The third battalion Military Train proceeded
from the Farnborough station, Aldershot, at 7 p.m.
yesterday, by special train to Liverpool, as per
route for embarkation for British North America.

Heavy baggage and stores were ordered to be at
Liverpool by dayliglt yesterday, to be shipped on
board the steampacket Asia.

On Thursday the route for the second battalion
of the 16th Regiment was received to march from
Aldershot at 7 a.m. this day (Saturday) to Farn-
borough, and to proceed thence by special train at
9 a.m. to Southampton, for embarkation on board
the Magdalena for British North America.

The H battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
marched from Aldershot yesterday en route for
Woolwich, there to remain till further orders.

The whole of the Lancer brigade, consisting of
the 9th, 12th, and 16th Regiments, were paraded
and underwent a medical examination on Thursday
as to their fitness for foreign service.
The General Commanding-in-Chief has Banc•

oned the formation of two new field batteries of

Royal Artillery by re-forming Nos. 9 and 10
batteries of the 4th brigade into field batteries, to
be called "I" and "K" respectively. "B" field
battery, now at Hilsea, will march into camp at
Aldershot. "A" battery, 4th brigade, is to be held
in readiness to march to Aldershot as soon as " G"
battery, 4th brigade, which is under orders for ser-
vice in British North America, leaves the camp at
Aldershot for embarkation.

The headquarters staff and No, 5 battery of the
10th brigade, Royal Artillery, left Woolwich last
evening, at 7 o'clock, by the North London Railway,
thence to the Euston-square station, for Liverpool,
to embark in the mail steamer Asia for America,
In addition to the detail given in 2' he k 1114 of yes-
terday of the officers and troops, the names of Capt.
Orr and Paymaster Thompson have been added.
Capt. Orr, who was lately Captain Instructor of
Royal Laboratories, has received orders to instruct
the men during the voyage in laboratory exercises,
such as the method of preparing the new Armstrong
shells and the construction of cartridges for firing,
&c. No. 7 battery will embark on the 28th inst.
on board the Royal mail steamer Canada, at Liver-
pool, for Halifax.

The Royal Artillery now consists of 17 horse,
garrison, and field brigades, which arc composed of
145 batteries, or subdivisions, in the following pro
portions :—viz., 11 horse, "67 garrison, and 47 field
batteries. The latter are equipped almost exclu-
sively with the 12-pounder Armstrong guns, at an
average of six guns to cach battery. The strength
of the corps now is 30,000 officers and men, of
which number there are 1,080 officers of all grades.
All are in a high state of dibcipline.