The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-19 00:00:00

TIIE NAVY.

The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Commander M'Killop, is
expected to proceed from Portsmouth to other
ports on Friday with a portion of the crew of the
Marlborough. She is afterwards destined to pro-
ceed to Ascension, convoying out a coal depot.
The Marlborough, 131, screw, Captain W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., wilt be paid off at Portsmouth on
Friday next. A return of the cost of stripping and
refitting this ship, as affecting her rigging alone,
would be an instructive document for the perusal of
members of the House of Commons.

The Royal standard was hoisted yesterday "half-
mast" from the main of H.M.S. Victory, in Ports-
mouth harbour, as a symbol of mourning for the
decease of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
The ensigns of each ship in commission, together
with the national unions hoisted at the dockyard,
the public buildings, and the forts and batteries of
the port, also floated from the same position.
Letters dated Greytown, Feb. 22, have been re-
ceived at Plymouth from the paddlewheel steam
sloop Hydra, 6, Commander R. F. Hamilton. Divers
have been under her to ascertain the extent of the
injuries she received through grounding, Jan. 10,
at the east end of the island of Cuba. The injuries
incurred will prevent her from continuing on sur-
veying duty in the West Indies—she will therefore
be brought home, and may be expected shortly at
Plymouth.

Steam was got up yesterday morning on board
the screw steamship Gibraltar, 101, in Hamoaze,
preparatory to her making an experimental trip
outside Plymouth Breakwater, to try her engines ;
but the trial was postponed, in consequence of the
boisterous state of the weather.

The screw steam gunvessel Pantaloon, 11, was
appointed to be hauled into the lock in Keyham
steamyard yesterday afternoon, ready for going to
the sheer hulk in Hamoaze to-day to be masted.
The sailing ship Bombay, which is in course of
conversion in No. 4 dock at Chatham from an 80-
gun sailing ship to a 90-gun line-of-battle screw
steamer, has the large number of 200 shipwrights
employed on her, in consequence of the instructions
received from the Admiralty for every effort to be
made in completing her. From the rapid progress
already made in this vessel a very few weeks will
see her completed and fit to leave the dock, to be
fitted with her machinery, which will be of 400
horse power.

Instead of the Dolphin, 3-gun brigantine, which
was given by the Admiralty for the Coastguard
service, instructions have been received at Chatham
for No. 4 mortar vessel to be selected from those
lying in reserve in the Medway, at Chatham, and
handed over to the Custom-house authorities to be
converted into a watch vessel, superseding the old
10 .gun brig Harpy, hitherto in use for that pur-
pose.

His Netherland Majesty's steam frigate Amster-
dam, Captain Muller, from the Texel, bound for
Batavia, put into Falmouth on Saturday morning
for the purpose of taking fuel, Sze., for the voyage.
Rear-Admiral of the White Robert Stuart, K.H.,
Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, was
conveyed on Sunday afternoon by the steam vessel
Avon from Plymouth Sound to Mount Wise, where
the gallant Admiral paid a visit to Vice-Admiral of
the Red Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., Commander-
in-Chief at Devonport. Yesterday morning the
flagship of the fleet, the Princess Royal, 91, Capt.
Charles Fellowcs, steamed from the Sound into
Hamoaze, where she was placed at moorings off
Keyham steamyard, preparatory to her occupying
No. 3 dock there, on its being vacated by the gun-
boats Heron and Doterel.

Admiral Sir Wm. Beauchamp Proctor, who died
on the 14th inst., at Langley-park, Norfolk, was
the son of the second baronet, by the second
daughter of Mr. Robert Palmer, of Sunning, Berk-
shire. He was born at Langley-park in 1781, and
married in 1812 the eldest daughter of Mr. T.
Gregory, who died in 1859. Ile entered the navy
in 1784, and assisted in the capture of a Batavian
frigate on the coast of Norway, in which he was
wounded. in 1801 he received the Turkish gold
medal for his services in Egypt, and in 1802 was
advanced to the rank of Commander, in which capa-
city in the Zebra he served at the bombardment of
Havre in 1804. He tsttained flag rank in 1841.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Edward Parsons, acting
First-class Assistant- r ngineer, to the Fisgard, as
supernumerary ; Richard E. Denison, Second-class
Assistant-Engineer, to the Princess Royal, for ser-
vice in the Porpoise.