The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-21 00:00:00

THE NAVY

The Princess Royal, 91, screw, has been brought
down Portsmouth Harbour, and berthed alongside
the dockyard, in readiness for commission.
The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Commander Henry F.
M‘Killop, is filling up her complement of coal
alongside the Malabar depot, in Portsmouth Har-
bour, before proceeding to Spithead.
Capt. G. F. Gordon, commanding the steam ordi-
nary at Portsmouth, has resumed his duties on return
from leave of absence.
The Royal yachts Victoria and Albert and the
Osborne, in the steam. basin at Portsmouth, are
being caulked in their outside planking and making
good other defects, the results of their Madeira
voyage.

The Euryalus, 51, screw, has a large number of
hands engaged upon her in No. 8 dock in Ports-
mouth yard, completing her poop and making good
her necessary repairs. She will be got out of dock
as soon as possible, it being required for other ves
eels.

The following is from the Bermuda Royal Gazette
of Dec. 18, 1860 :

" The line-of-battle ship Nile, Capt. E. K. Bar-
nard, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Milne, the
naval Commander-in-Chief on the North American
and West Indian station, arrived here on Tuesday
morning last, December 11, from Halifax, which
place she left on the previous Thursday. The Nile ,
was saluted as she came up the Channel, and prior,
to her taking up her moorings at Grassy Bay. We
regret to learn that a sad accident took place on
board on the day of her arrival, when mooring,
which caused the death of two seamen, named
Joseph Caine and George Lowman. Two others
were seriously injured, and 14, including Lieut.
Trotter, were more or less contused, but are pro-
gressing favourably."
The iron paddle-wheel steam vessel Triton, Lieut.
Burton in command, was on Saturday paid off at
Woolwich, the officers and crew receiving a large
portion of their prize money, in addition to their
arrears of ordinary pay—namely, the award of
three out of the six slavers captured by the Triton,
the whole of which are valued at £26,000. The
Lords of the Admiralty, in a letter to the Commo-
dore-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, on
Saturday, expressed their unqualified satisfaction
of the state of the ship, on her arrival from the
Coast. and desired it might be made known on the
assembling of the ship's company before their dis-
persal. ' The Triton is the first ship supplied with
Clifford's patent boat-lowering gear, which is now
becoming general throughout the service, 350
vessels of the Royal Navy having been already
fitted with that system, as a certain method of
lowering and disengaging the boats without endan-
gering the lives of the crew in cases of hasty
emergency.

Her Majesty's iron screw steam troopship
Magwra, Commander Henderson, has arrived along-
side the Royal Arsenal pier, at Woolwich, for the
embarcation of the Ist brigade Royal Artillery, for
Gibraltar. A portion of her crew and Marines were
granted leave on Saturday until this morning at
12 o'clock, when they will commence shipping the
military baggage. The embarcation of the troops
is ordered for to morrow, and the sailing from
Woolwich to take place on the following day at
early tide.
The screw steam transport Peninsula arrived at

the Arsenal pier on Saturday, and, having embarked
110 tons of war stores for Gibraltar, sailed for her
destination.

The Elizabeth, sailing vessel, is shipping a cargo
of military stores from Woolwich Arsenal, likewise
for Gibraltar.

The work of the shipwrights and engineers on
the screw steamship Donegal, 101, Captain Henry
Broadhead, at Devonport, will be completed about
the 28th inst. Nearly all her maindeck guns arc
landed.
The capstan of the screw steam frigate Emerald,
51, Captain Arthur Cumming, at Devonport, is
defective.

With the exception of the boat's davits, the re

pairs of the paddlewheel steam sloop Spiteful, 6,
Commander Wilson, at Devonport, are complete.
The iron screw steam troopship Meg era, 6, Com-
mander Samuel H. Henderson, is expected to touch
at Plymouth to complete with coal.
The War Department steam vessel Lord Po nmnre
is receiving old stores at Devonport for conveyance
to Woolwich.
The sailing sloop Arachne, lent to the Electric
Telegraph Company for the reception of the tele-
graphic cable from the stranded steamship Queen
Victoria, in Parnpool, Plymouth, was towed on
Saturday by the tug Zephyr to Keyham steamyard,
with the remainder of the cable.
The screw steam sloop Desperate, 8, Commander
T. F. Ross, from Portsmouth, arrived at midnight
on Friday at Plymouth, and, having embarked
supernumeraries and officers on Saturday morning,
left the Sound in the afternoon under canvass for
the Mediterranean.

The shipwrights in the Devonport Dockyard are

fully occupied on the screw steamship Albion, 90,
and the frigate Constance, 51. They have com-
menced planking the Royalist, 11, in No. 1 slip.
Preparations are making in shed No. 2 for the re-
ception of the keel of the screw steam sloop African,
11, which will be laid down shortly ; this shed has
been considerably lengthened, and the roof over the
lengthened part is nearly finished. Very little
progress is making with the Robust, 91. The per-
pendiculars and floor timbers of the later, 36, are
in place. The lower part of the Ocean, 91, is in
frame.

The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain
Henry Imo', was placed on Saturday alongside the
sheer hulk Kent in Hamoaze, when her masts and
bowsprit were taken out, and she was towed to her

moorings.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
•lay at the Admiralty; Lieut. Henry Rogers to the
Cossack ; Dr. William J. Baird, surgeon, to the
Spiteful; Henry It. J. Pearch, second-master, to
the Rhadamanthus ; and John S. Moore, assistant-
paymaster, to the Sanspareil, as secretary's clerk.