The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

THE NA TTY.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, according to pre-
sent arrangements, will sail from Portsmouth on the
19th inst. for Holyhead, whence she will convey
her Majesty to Ireland.
The Osborne, Admiralty yacht, Master Comman-
der G. K. Bowers, arrived at Spithead at 6 p.m.
yesterday from Plymouth and Portland. The
Board will commence their inspection of the dock-
yard, public buildings, and works under their juris-
diction at that port to-day.
The President, 50, attached to the reserve at
Chatham, was ;owed into harbour: yesterday by
the African and Otter steamers, to be fitted as a
training ship for the Naval Reserve and stationed
in the Thames, where she relieves the Brilliant,
20, which returns to Chatham.

The Winchester, 50, sailing ship, having been
fitted with her lower masts and rigging, left Chat-
ham yesterday afternoon, in tow of two steamers,
for Liverpool, where she will be stationed, to be
used as a training ship for boys at that port.
Yesterday the first of the powerful steam cranes
which Messrs. Taylor, of the Britannia Ironworks,
the patentees, have entered into a contract for sup-
plying to the Admiralty, was successfully fixed in
its place on the tramways which extend the whole
length of the dock at Chatham in which
the Achilles, 50, will be built. Four of these
portable steam lifts are to be employed in
raising the massive beams, armour-plates, and
other heavy portions of the ironwork used in the
construction of the vessel, and each will lift a
weight of five tons. Two steam lifts have been
under trial for several weeks past on the Anchor-
wharf at Chatham Dockyard, in loading and un-
loading the various transports. So satisfied are the
Admiralty with their performance that they are to
be generally adopted at that establishment, and
tramways laid down the entire length of the wharf
to facilitate their removal from one part of the
wharf to another.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Dr. John Dunlop and Dr.
John Robertson (b), to be Deputy Inspectors of
Hospitals on the retired list ; and John T. Gabriel,
surgeon to the Virago.

THE ARMY.

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By a general regimental order issued by Colonel
Charles Bingham, the Deputy Adjutant-General,
dated the 9th inst., the following changes and move-
ments in the Royal Artillery have taken place :
Lieut. W. B. R. Hall, of the 15th Brigade, having
been appointed aide-de-camp to his Excellency the
Governor of Gibraltar, is transferred to No. 6 battery,
Ist Brigade; and Lieut. Graham from that battery
to No. 7 battery, 2d Brigade, in place of Lieut.
Noyes, who is posted to No. 1 battery, 15th Brigade.
The following exchanges have been ordered between
the Hon. Capt. and Brevet-Major Yelverton [sic] ,
of the 9th, and Capt. Byrne, of the 15th Brigade ;
Second Capt. Purcell of the 3d Brigade, and Second
Capt. Hope Johnstone, of the 15th Brigade; Capt.
Wodehouse, of the Bth Brigade, and Lieut. Bowen,
of the 3d Brigade; Lieut. Maclean, of the 3d Brigade,
and Lieut. Goodeve, of the 4th Brigade ; Lieut.
Pariby, of the 6th Brigade, and Lieut. Porter, of
the 3d Brigade. Two additional instructors in topo-
graphical drawing and surveying being required at
the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich, officers
desirous of these appointments are requested to for-
ward their names to Col. Yorke, R.E., Inspector of
Studies at the Academy. Officers of the rank of
Second Capt. will be preferred.
The following redistribution of the Royal Artil-
lery Coast Brigade has been ordered, viz. :—One
captain withdrawn from Ireland, and a division
formed at Purfleet, to consist of the detachment
serving there at Woolwich ; No. 6 division to com-
prise the detachments at the Tower of London and
in the Medway district ; the officers and men serv-
ing in the South Wales district to be transferred
from No. 1 to No. 4 division ; Capt. Handyside re-
moved from Dublin to the Tower of London ; Capt.
W. Henry from Cork harbour to Portobello, Dub-
lin ; Second Capt. Scott to command the division
at Purfleet ; and Lieut. Lee to do duty with the
head-quarters at Woolwich. Lieut. J. Taylor, of
the Coast Brigade, is raised to increased pay in this
service, vice Scott, promoted.
The 2d battery of the 4th Brigade of Field Artil-
lery (12. pounder Armstrongs), under the command
of Lieut.-Col. Turner, stationed at Hilsea, was yes-
terday officially inspected on Southsea•common,
Portsmouth, by Major General Lord W. Paulet,
C. 8., commanding the South-Western district. The
Major-General, accompanied by Col. Somerset and
other officers, arrived on the ground where the bat-
tery was drawn up at 3 p.m., and immediately
commenced the inspection. The battery was put
through a series of manoeuvres incidental to move-
ments of attack and defence in the field in presence
of an enemy, firing blank, all of which were exe-
cuted with great precision and rapidity. At the
close of the proceedings Lord Paulet said it was
exc'edingly creditable both to officers and soldiers
to find a body of men who had but recently returned
from service in China in so efficient and orderly a
state.

A portion of the Ist company of Royal Engineers,
numbering about 30 non-commissioned officers and
men, with the 9th company, arrived a few days
since from the Mediterranean. The men belonging
to the Ist company have been sent to Plymouth,
where they are employed in the erection and repair
of the defences at that part of the coast•. The re-
mainder of the company will embark in the first
transport, and proceed direct to. Plymouth. The
men belonging to the 9th company have arrived at
Aldershott.

A large and commodious Presbyterian church,
dedicated to St. Andrew, built on land given by
the War Department, and towards which Govern-
ment granted a considerable sum, has been built
at Chatham, for the accommodation of the Royal
Marines belonging to the Church of Scotland, the
condition of the grant by Government being that
space shall be allotted in the church for 200 men
from the garrison on each Sunday. The church
was opened for public worship on Sunday last.