The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-07 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Duke of Somerset, First Lord, accompanied
by Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K.C.8.,
Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., and Mr.
Whitbread, M.P., Junion Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty ; Lord C. Paget, Secretary of the
Admiralty ; Rear-Admiral Robinson, Surveyor of
the Navy ; and Capt. Moore, Secretary to the First
Lord, leave town this morning by the express train
to make their annual official visit to Devonport and
Plymouth. The official inspection terminates on
Saturday, when the Lords of the Admiralty will
entertain the local naval authorities on board the
Osborne, Admiralty yacht.
Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamvessel An-
telope, 3, commissioned by Lieut. and Commander
John W. Pike, at Woolwich on the Ist December,
1856, having passed four years' commission on the
West Coast of Africa, and subsequently undergone
the necessary repairs at Woolwich, was yesterday
put in commission by Lieut. and Commander Con-
stantine 0. D. Allingham, and reappointed to the
same station.

Commander Allingham has just paid off H.M.S.
Spitfire, which returned from a most successful
cruise on the West Coast of Africa. _

The City of Hamilton, transport vessel, chartered
by the Board of Admiralty for the service of the
War Department, sailed yesterday from Woolwich,
laden with 68-pounder guns and other war stores,
for Quebec.

Yesterday the War Department transport Sebas-
topol, Mr. W. T. Anders, master, arrived at the
Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, from the Royal gun
factory at Woolwich, with 13 of the 40-pounder
Armstrong guns on board to be distributed among
the vessels of the steam reserve at that port. The
Sebastopol also brought two of the cast-iron 18-
pounders, together with a number of gun-carriages,
boilers for Fort Military Hospital, and other stores.
The 40-pounder Armstrong guns are to be furnished'
to the following steamers at Chatham, each of
which is also to receive a certain number of the
100-pounder, 95-pounder, and 12-pounder Arm-
strongs :--11eannee, 81; Rodney, 91; Hood, 91 ;
Waterloo, 91; Goliath, 81 ; Irresistible, 81 ; Bom-
bay, 81; Severn, 51 ; Phaeton, 51 ; Leander, 51;
Arethusa, 51, and Cameleon, 17.
The Thames, War Department transport, sailed
from Chatham yesterday with a number of 68 and
32-pounder cast-iron guns on board, which require
certain alterations to be effected in them at Wool-
wich before they are fit for use.

The paddlewheel steam tender Cuckoo, from
Sheerness, with supernumeraries for the Impreg-
nable, arrived at Plymouth on Monday evening.
The paddlewheel steam yacht Osborne, from
Portsmouth, arrived yesterday at Plymouth, and
was moored off the Devonport Dockyard for the
convenience of the Lords of the Admiralty during
their official visit.
The naval apprentices' brig Nautilus, '6, Lieut.
B. Grant, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth
yesterday.
Sir R. M. Bromley, K.C.8., Accountant-General
of the Navy, visited the Portsmouth Dockyard yes-
terday for the purpose of finally arranging the sys-
tem upon which the cost or expense of accounts of
building ships and dockyard services are to be pre-
pared and audited in future, under his direction.
Letters received by our Portsmouth correspon-
dent from Halifax speak in high terms of a cour-
ageous and humane act performed by Lieut. Phil-
lips, of her Majesty's ship Nile, who observing,

while on shore, a man fall overboard from Cunard's

wharf at a time when the steamer was entering the
harbour from Boston, at once threw off his coat,
jumped into the water, and by dint of great exer-
tions, happily saved the man's life.
The barrack quarters occupied by the Royal Ma-

rives at Deptford Dockyard have been condemned,
and it is stated that a new building will shortly be
erected. The Endy mien, 36, screw frigate, recently
laid down at the same yard, is now in a forward
state; and the Rattler, 17, screw sloop, is nearly
ready for launching.
A large number of chevaux de frise and other
materials of various kinds for the defence of Canada
were yesterday shipped from Woolwich on board the
hired transport Great Britain for Quebec.
For the abstracts given in our impressions of
Monday and yesterday of the services of Sir Bar-
rington Reynold and Sir Thomas Herbert we were
indebted to thn Naval Biography of Mr. W. R.
O'Byrne.
Capt. C. Eden, C 8., one of the Junior Lords of
the Admiralty, and Capt. the Hon. C. G. J. B.
Elliot, C,8., have obtained their flag rank by the
recent deaths of Admirals the Hon. Sir F. Pellew
and Sir Barrington Reynolds.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Richmond Moore
has been promoted to the rank of Commander ;
Lieut. G. F. H. Parker, to the Warrior ; Lieut. G.
Clayhills, to the Sanspareil ; Lieut. R. S. Bateman
and Lieut. H. St. V. Jenkings, to the Marlborough,
additional, for disposal ; Dr. Alex. Muirhead, to be
Deputy inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets,
on the retired list ; Dr. John Cotton, surgeon, to
the Narcissus ; and James Hunter, assist.-surgeon,
to the Curacoa.