The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

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I . The sailing transport Mooresfos -at otavich
Arsenal has shipped three core , te 'te'afterms of
Artillery, a large quantity of reserve stores, and the
greater portion of the baggage belonging to the
. troops ordered to take passage on board that Vessel
for China. The shipment of the baggage will be
completed to day, and the troops will embark from
the pier at - 2 o'clock p.m. They consist of two
full companies of the 13th battalion Royal Artillery
—namely, Captain Longden and Captain Middle-
ton's companies. Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Craw-
. ford, 13th battalion, who is appointed to the chief
comman.d`of the Royal Artillery in China, takes
passage in the MooresEnrt, with Cominissari-Ge-
npral Young, C. 8., and Dr. Pickett, of the trans-
port department.. • 1
The Royal Marine Artillery being below its re-
qUired esta,blishm-nt, an order hai been isitted
from the Admiralty for volunteering to he opened
from the Royal Marine Light Infintry companies.
ihe qualifications of volunteers are that they be
not lesS than 5 feet 8 inches in height, of good don-
. duct; and general intelligence. . On the order being
announce" at Chatham yes'erday, 40 men belong-
ing. to that division immediatly volunteered, •and
as soon as they have been approved by the Adnii-
ra.lty they will be handed over to Captain W. P.
Draffen, Marine Artillery, who has ben sent frten
Portsmouth to take the command of the voingteera.
The new heavy-class stemn-frigate Diadem, 32,
is nearly ready for trial of her machinery: she got up
steam in her boilers on Thursday in the Null). at
Portsmouth.
Tile Blenheim GO depot slip of the steam reserve
in -Portinaouth harbour, Capt. the Hon. F. T. Pei-

ham, CB., li Ls moved from her moorings at the
north part of the dockyard to Gosport side,• out of
the way of the run of the slip from which the Royal
Sovereign screw three-decker is to be launched this
day wet'k.
Mr. Grant, the Controller-General of Victualling,
visited Portsmouth yesterday, and transacted busi-
ness connected with his department.
The ward-room officers
.of H.M.S. Excellent gave
a complimentary dinner on board on Thursday, in
honour of Mr. Charles Stark, on his retiring from
the position of mathematical instructor, after a
period of 25 years' service on board that ship, dur-
ing which time be has instructed nearly 400 officers
in the mathematical branch of the gunnery course.
His total service in the navy amounts to a period
of 39 years.
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The Scorpion, 6, Master-Commander J. Parsons,
which was paid off at Chatham yesterday, has been
in commission nearly four years, having sailed from
Plymouth in 1853. During the whole of that
period she has been stationed in the West. Indies,
where she was employed as surveying vessel, prin-
cipally off the northern coast of South America,
Carthagena Bay, St. Lucie, St. Thomas's, Santa
Cruz, Cuba, and Bermuda. hile surveying off the
northern coast of Cuba the Scorpion discovered a
large Spanish v. ssel of 1,000 tons, called the Pri-
mera de Catuluna, on shore on a reef, and a total
wreck. The vessel was bound from Barcelona for
New Orleans ; and the Scorpion, after great diffi-
culty succeeded in rescuing the whole of the pas-
sengers and crew and landing them at Havannab.
On arriving at Bermuda Commander J. Parsons
left the vessel for the purpose of continuing his
surveying duties, when the command of the
ship devolved on the master, Mr. J. P. Dillon.
nib Scorpion left at Bermuda the Nile, 91, screw
steamer, Captain G. R. Mundy. During the
time she has been in commission the crew were
generally healthy, and only one death occurred
on board. On the occasion of the crew being pad
of yesterday, the Lords of the Admiralty awarded
a good service medal, with a gratuity of 15/. to
Richard Coutts, ship's cook, for long service and
meritorious conduct ; a gratuity of 7/. was al4o
awarded by the Admiralty to John Richards for
good conduct. The Scorpion will be placed in ordi-
nary at Chatham.
The freight ship Admiral, under orders to embark
the 23d company of Royal Engineers, bas been de-
layed at Deptford to complete her fitment. She is
ordered to embark 200 tons of engineers' tools at
Woolwich, and 17 passengers, exclusively of the
company of Sappers. Mr. J. R. Fittock, R.N.,
late on special service at Deptford, having been
gazetted to the post of Agent of Transport Ship-
ping in China, will also embark on board the A-
dmiral. The accommodation of the vessel is on a
well-arranged and superior scale ; and the middle
deck, appropriated for the troops, is arranged with
the various appurtenances which may serve to ren-
der the floating quarters comfortable and healthy.
The gunboat Min; Lieut.-Commander Roe,
whose arrival at Woolwich was delayed in Margate
Roads from the disabled state of her machinery,
was yesterday morning brought up to London by a
merchant vessel, and was immediately ordered 'o
'bout ship under canvass, and proceed down the
river on the trial of her sailing qualities. , She was
subsequently ordered to be admitted into basin to
return dockyard stores and prepare for the payment
of her crew, to be discharged. The Minx is not to
be dismantled for the present, but to remain stand-
ing. The four gunboats remaining in Woolwich
inner basin—namely, the Quail, Ripple, Porpoise,
and Clinker—are ordered to be cleared out of Vie
basin and removed to Chatham, as well as the mor-
tar floats Nos. 115, 120, 130, 135, .and 136, which
are also to be despatched to Chatham.- Her Mt-
jesty's steamer Monkey, Master-Commander Syn-
dercombo, was yesterday morning hauled under Vie
sheers in Woolwich basin to be fitted with a new
boiler.