The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-01 00:00:00

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Letters received from Hongkong, dated Aprit
13, state that Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.8.,
had gone to the Peiho in the Scout, and wasexpected
to return to Hongkong early in May. Then he will
shift his flag to the Imperieuse, 51, screw, as his
future flagship, Admiral Jones proceeding to Eng-
land in the Chesapeake, 51, screw. The Odin, 22,
paddle, had left the Peiho. The Pearl, 20, screw had
been ordered to the Canton river, to relieve the
Simoom, screw, Commander J. Cook. The Centaur,
6, paddle, was at Nankin. The Urgent, screw, Com-
mander Hire, was at Shanghai, ordered to be re-
lieved by the Sphynx, 6, paddle, Commander Day,
V.C., who becomes senior officer at that place. The
Encounter, Vulcan, and Pioneer were at Japan.
The Sphynx was also to take troops to the Peiho.
The Royal and Indian Engineers of the head-
quarters, Chatham, are busily employed under the
direction of Major Lovell, C. 8., and Capt., Fyers,
the fieldwork instructors, in the construction of an
elevated four-gun battery on the fieldworks attached
to the Royal Engineer establishment at Brompton.
The battery will be formed in the most complete
manner, with sandbags, gabions, and fascines, the
work having been undertaken with the view of in-
structing the young officers of Engineers as well as
the men of that corps in the best mode of forming
earth batteries in the field. A number of the Sap-
pers and Miners of the Engineers have also cora-
y, while a third
menced the formation of a double and flying sap,
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efnoguarg-geudnin drivingbatter two galleries,
at a considerable depth below the ground, at the
rear of the battery. The recent fine weather, has
enabled all kinds of fieldwork operations to be pro-
secuted by the Royal and Indian Engineers on their
practising ground under exceedingly advantageous
circumstances and with considerable success.
The newly converted steam storeship Wye,
Master Commander Roberts, yesterday eailed from
Woolwich on her way to Rio and Ascension
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with victualling stores for ships on that ittatietl:'
In pursuance of an Admiralty order yesterday re-
ceived at Woolwich the arrangements for lengthen-
ing one of the dry docks were commenced, by remov-
ing the stone steps projecting inwards from the
eastern extremity, and which impeded the admis-
sion of the screw steam storeship Adventure, for-
warded from Portsmouth for that purpose. The
paddlewheel steamvessel Lucifer, which accom-
panied the Adventure from Portsmouth, yesterday
returned from Woolwich, and the Adventure, it is
stated, will be docked at Woolwich as soon as the
necessary alterations in the dock are completed.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Ad:niralty :—Commander W. H. Jones, to
the Donegal ; . Lieut. Orford S. Cameron, to the
Steady ; Andrew Malian, assist.-surg., to the Im-
pregnable ; W. Anderson, assist.-surg., to the Ar-
tillery Division of Marines ; Francis H. Moore,
assist.-surg. to Haslar Hospital ; J. Hudson, assist.-
surg., to the Southampton, for Sheerness dockyard ;
J. Dunwoodie, assist,-surg. to the Hibernia,
for Malta Hospital ; F. Hurley, acting assist-surg.,
to the Victor Emmanuel; G. Thompson, first-class
assist.-engineer, to the Terror, for charge of the
machinery of the Kite ; F. Bush, first-class assist.-
engineer, to the Cornwallis, for the Ruby ; George
Sullivan and Joseph Connolly, second-class assist..
engineer, to the Gladiator; R. B. Nicholson and W.
Hawkesley, second- class assist.-engineer, to the Nile,
as supernumeraries ; John:Bolas, acting second-class
assist.-engineer, to the Nile ; and Wm. Stewart,
second-class assist.-engineer, to the Firebrand.