The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-18 00:00:00

TILE NAVY.

Th' s Coquette, 4, screw, having Ind completed a
wen' • extensive repair to hull and machinery, more
• i
es pecially the former, steamed out of Portsmouth
%Aarbour on Friday to test boilers and machinery.
At the conclusion of the trial she returned into
liarbour and berthed alongside the north part of the
yard, where she took in her waist anchors, and
will commence receiving her stores from the steam
reserve.

The defects of the screw 'steamships Conqueror,
101, Capt. Edward S. Sotheby, C.B. ; Hero, 91
Capt. Ryder, and Centurion, 80, Capt. H. Rogers,
at Plymouth, have been made good.
The screw steam gunvessel Penguin, 5, tender to
the screw steam frigate Narcissus, 51, Capt. Risli,
in Hamoaze, is nearly manned.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander Jackson, having embarked supernumeraries
from the reserve depot ship Royal Adelaide, 104,
Capt. William K. Hall, C. 8., and volunteers for
the Princess Royal, 91, left Plymouth on Saturday
for Portsmouth.
The Dart, 5, and the Sparrow, 5, screw despatch
gun vessels, each of 80-horse power, have arrived
at Chatham from Woolwich, under their own steam,
and joined the steam reserve ordinary under the
command of Capt. C. F. Schomberg.
The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded Mr.
T. Dainea and Mr. T. Coast, for many years inspec-
tors of the old dockyard police force at Chatham,
the former a pension of Z 56 135., and the latter
£55 per annum. The police-constables who be-
longed to the dockyard police on the occasion of its
being broken upAnd the A division of the metropo-
litan police placed on duty at the dockyard have
been awarded pensions varying in amount from
£lO to £32 per annum, according to their length
of service. Those police-constables whose term of
service was insufficient to entitle them to a pension
have been awarded gratuities of from £lO to £4O.
The Lords of the Admiralty have decided on
making several improvements at Chatham Dock-
yard, for which purpose the sum of £35,000 has been
taken in the estimates, in addition to the large
aLIII previously voted by Parliament. Of this sum
115,000 will be expended in the extension and im-

provement of the yard by means of convict labour

alone ; £13,000 for the erection of new machinery;
£2,000 for the improvement of the harbour; £l,OOO
for a new caisson for the entrance to No. 2 Dock,
in which the iron-plated screw steamer is to be
built ; besides other sums for the embankment of
the Medway, the erection of an additional iron
foundry, the erection of a leck•up at the police
station, and other works.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—The Rev. John H. Knapp,
chaplain and naval instructor to the Princess Royal;
the Rev. John L. Moore, chaplain and naval in-
structor to the London; John Flintoff, Wm. H.
Keats, and James Petts, acting 3d-class assist.-
engineers to the Asia, as supernumeraries ; and
James Bradley, acting assist.-surg., additional, to
the Nile.

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards at
one o'clock on Thursday next, the 21st inst.
The 'iron screw steam troopship Megmra, 6,
Commander Tr, Henderson, which left Woolwich
in January with the Ist Brigade of Royal Artil-
lery, and touched at Plymouth on the 28th, ar-
rived at Gibraltar on the sth inst., and having
disembarked her troops, embarked the Fifth Bri-
gade and sailed therefrom on the 12th. She made
the passage home in 4 days 16 hours, having
arrived at Plymouth yesterday (Sunday) morning,
and has brought 342 non-commissioned officers and
men, 26 women, and 55 children, 11 officers, and
eight families, The officers are Lieut.-Col. Evan
Maberly, Capt. Charles R. Hill, Second Capt. F.
113. Maude, Second Capt. Pilkington Jaekson,
tieuts. C. G. Lnard, N. A. Douglas de Vismes, G.
E. Callender, C. Crossthwait,e, C. H. S. Paisley,
and W. 11. Wright, and 3 argeou F. H. Fasson, who
are under orders to land for service in Plymouth
Citadel. The Megrera has experienced very heavy
weather from West and south-west, and on the
14th, in lat. 4023 N., long. 10.33, passed a Prus-
sian barque showing the first distinguishing
pendant 284, bound for Liverpool. The Megmra
will embark from Plymouth garrison, for convey-
ance to Woolwich, about 350 non-commissioned
officers and men, including 15 drivers, belonging to
the Royal Artillery, for some time stationed there.
They compose the batteries Nos. 3,4, and 5, and
are commanded by the following officers :—Major
Adige, Major Williams, Capt. Purcell, Lieuts.
Cameron, Cooke, Stewart, Lewis, and Thompson,
Burg. O'Leary is the medical officer in charge.
The Himalaya screw troopship, Captain John
Seccombe, embarked the batteries of the 15th bri.
gade Royal Artillery, under command of Colonel
Francklyn, C. 8., at Portsmouth on Friday, sailing
for Pembroke at 10.35 a.m. on Saturday. Captain
Bolton, embarked, vice Johnston, ordered to join
the 10th brigade.
The Bulldog, -6, paddle, Commander Henry
M`Killop, embarks a portion of the 15th brigade
Royal Artillery at Portsmouth to-day, for convey-
ance to Queenstown.
In compliance with an application forwarded to
the Chelsea Board by Hugh Davis, late a gunner
in the Royal Artillery, and who, in addition to his
pension for wounds, is honoured with an annual
bounty of £2G from her Majesty's privy purse, a
circular to the following effect was on Saturday re-
ceived at Woolwich by Major-Gun. Sir R. Dacres,
X.C.8., Commandant, from the Adjutant-General's
office at the Horse Guards, by special recommenda-
tion of H.R.H. the General Commanding-in-Chief:
—" Hugh Davis has been granted an additional 6d.
per day pension on account of his wounds. This
man performed very gallant services with the two
18-pounder batteries at the battle of Inkerman, on
which occasion, although severely wounded, he re-
mained at his duty with his gun until a round shot
from the enemy deprived him of both his arms as
he was in the fCt of sponging the gun. He is now
• employed as a foreman of labourers in the Royal
Arsenal, Wool wie-h, at a guinea per week."
An equipment of Armstrong guns, &c., for No. 3
held battery, Bth brigade, having been completed,
will be drawn from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich,
on the 22d inst., and conducted to Croydon by the
4th, where it will be received by the officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men of the battery for
which it is intended. The Armstrong equipment
prepared for No. 7 battery of the same brigade will
also leave Woolwich on the 22d, instead of the 20th
inst.ois formerly directed.
Deputy Assist.-Commissary•General E. L. Ward
is abont-6 be relieved at the camp at Colchester by
Deputy Assist-Commissary-General J. H. Tubby,
formerly.of Newfoundland. Mr. Ward has received
a similar appointraent at Guernsey. On Saturday
a small draught of troops from the 10th battalion
left the campfor Landguard Fort, Harwich, to re-
place a party who returned to Colchester.
Many of the men belonging to the Durham
' Militia. Artillery, at Devonport, which will shortly
be disbanded, have volunteered into the Royal Ar,
tillery in Plymouth.

The work; for the extension of the Cambridge
backs at Portsmouth have been commenced, and
ae4Orting to the terms of the contract are to be
pleted within. 12 months, the cost not exceeding
16.°°0. By the alteration a superficial area of
18,000 feet will-be added to the barracks.
jThe name of Mr. H. F. Gaimes, who has just
oined the head-quarters of the Royal Artillery at
Woolwich, from Addiscombe, was accidentally
printed in our impression of the 15th Mr. H. T.
Graimes.

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