The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-19 00:00:00

VIE NAVY.

Admiralty orders have been receis ed at Chatham,
directing the Castor, 35, sailing-frigate, and the
Brilliant, 26, gun-frigate, now attached to the re-
serve in ordinary at that port, to be removed from
the river Medway to London, to be used as train-
ing-ships for the Naval Coastguard Volunteers now
being raised. The Castor is to be stationed in the
river Thames, and the Brilliant in or near the City
Canal. Each vessel is to be got ready with all
despatch for the service to which it is tabe put, and
both are to be furnished with their heavy main deck
guns from the gun-wharf, in order that the volun-
teers may ba exercised at gun-drill on board. The
Castor is a very fine frigate, and has only been at-
tached to the ordinary a little more than a year,
having been Arid off after a lengthened service on
the West Coast of Africa. As soon as the vessels
have been got ready they will be towed round
from Chatham, to their destination. The sailing
frigate Trincomalee, 24, also attached to the ordi-
nary at Chatham is ordered to be prepared as a
training-ship for the naval volunteers on the east
coast of Scotland, to which station she will be
towed. It is also intended to station vessels of war
at Bristol, Liverpool, Hull, Newcastle, and the other
great ports, to serve as training ships for the volun-
teers to be raised under the Royal warrant, the
ships to be selected from those in ordinary at Chat-
ham.
The Perseverance, iron screw troopship, Com-
mander E. R. Power, arrived at Spithead from
Malta and Gibraltar at midnight on Saturday.
She will go into Portsmouth harbour this morning
to land her invalids, passengers, &c., and will after-
wards make'good her defects and prepare for fur-

ther service.
The Melpomene, 51, screw, Captain C. J. F
Ewart, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the
Channel.
The Vigilant, 4, screw steam-sloop, Commander
W. Armytage, alongside the dockyard at Ports-
mouth stripping for paying off, had leave granted
ashore to her crew from Saturday. night until this
morning, only sufficient hands being left on board
to keep watch.
The Megmra screw troopship, undergoing repairs
at Portsmouth, has been placed in No. 8 dock at
that port.
The paddlewheel steam sloops Alecte and Hecate,
under repairs at Woolwich, will be ready in a
few days for tke pendant, and the Devastation,
Antelope, and Rifleman have been removed
from the fitting basin to the river. The new
screw steam-frigate, 26, Galatea, on Saturday
received her yards and other portions of her equip-
ment, and in a few days she will proceed under
steam to Sheerness. The steam storeship Supply
has been hauled into basin for examination and re-
pairs. The Harpy was on Saturday unlocked. The
Industry, from Ascension; cleared out the remainder
of her cargo of returned stores on Saturday, and
will commence reloading for her return voyage.
The military store steam transport Lord Panmure,
IL T. Moore commander, arrived at Woolwich on
Saturday, from Pembroke, Carrickfergus, and Dub-
lin, laden with returned stores, having experienCed
some heavy and severe weather in the Irish and
English Channels.
The screw steam transport Himalaya, Captain
Seccombe, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Friday morning. She is appointed to
embark 80 men of the 41st Regiment, and proceed
to Queenstown. There is some doubt about her
going to Nova Scotia, as originally intended.
The gunboat Shamrock, at Devonport, is in a
bad condition ; she is to have a thorough repair
preparatory to the resumption of her surveying
duties in the spring.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Tbeodore M.
Jones to the St. Vincent; Lieutenant J. Simpson
(b), to command the Jackal, vice Lieutenant N. G.
E. Murray, superseded ; George Marsh, master,
to the Edgar ; James M. Share, master, to the
Wellington, for the Revenge ; Frederick B.
Youel, master, to the Wellington, for the Or-
lando; Frank Inglis, master, to the Diadem;
Daniel J. May, master, to the Flying Fish; Geo.
Giles, master, to the Cumberland, for the Charybdis,
Frederick Townsend, Thomas Pounds, John F. R.
Aylen, James S. Watts, Henry G. Swainson,
Charles E. Ryall, Frederick Piper, Percy V. James,
and Frederick J. Ray, second-masters, have been
promoted to the rank of masters; Robert Bryan
Turner and Henry Darroll, acting third-class
assistant engineers, to the Asia, as supernumeraries.