The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-16 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham
directing the screw gun vessels Julia, Bullfrog,
Cochin, Griper, and Carnation, belonging to the first
division of the steam reserve at that port, to be fur-
nished each with one of the 100-pounder Armstrong
pivot guns and one of the 40-pounders, instead of
the 68-pounder cast-iron guns with which they are
at present armed.

The line-of-battle screw steamer Bombay, 81,
400-horse power, which has been removed from
Chatham harbour to Folly Point, to be fitted for
the second-class steam reserve in the Medway, is
so far completed that she is out of the hands of the
shipwrights and also of the engineers, the whole of
her machinery having been fitted on board by the
contract engineers, Messrs. Humphrey, Tennant,
and Co. In order to remedy the great inconve-
nience hitherto experienced in large line-of-battle
ships of the want of proper ventilation in the ma-
gazines, the Lords of the Admiralty have given
directions for the mode of ventilation recommended
by the committee appointed by the Admiralty to
be adopted on board the Bombay, the most satis-
factory results having accrued from the trials made
with it on board the Marlborough, 131, and some
other vessels of war where the system has been
carried into operation.
By order of the Admiralty, a new Coastguard
station is to be erected at Christchurch, Hants.
The Orestes steamvessel, now at Sheerness, hav-
ing received her crew, will proceed to the Pacific
station. The Swallow, in the same dockyard, is
ordered. to be fitted out immediately for service on
the coast of Japan and Corea. The Barossa, new
screw steamer, has shipped her masts, and the
riggers are fitting her for the first division of the
steam reserve. Messrs. Westwood and Co. have
entered into a contract with the Admiralty to erect
a new caisson to fit one of the docks at this yard.
The President, 51, is undergoing the most exten-
sive alterations in the fourth dock at Chatham, in
order to adapt her for the purpose to which she is
to be applied—that of a training ship for the Volun-
teers belonging to the Naval Reserve in the London
district. Since she has been in dock it has been
found that her great size will not allow of her pass-
ing the gates at the entrance to the City Canal, in
which she will lie, and it has therefore been found
necessary to cut away a portion of her planking
amidships to reduce her breadth of beam. A p'rtion
of her main deck is to be fitted up in all respects as
a line-of-battle ship, and is to be armed with 16 68-
pounders, in addition to which she will have 34 32-
pounders distributed over her main and upper
decks, to admit of the Volunteers being exercised
in the working of the various descriptions of guns.

The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M.
Bruce, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from Ply-
mouth Sound. After landing supernumeraries, she
sailed again yesterday for the eastward.
The Himalaya, screw troopship, at Portsmouth,
Capt. J. Seccombe, is being got ready with all de-
spatch for further service. She is expected to pro-
ceed with draughts of troops to the Mediterranean.
The following gentlemen have been nominated to
naval cadetships :—W. Buckner, E. Le Vert, E. V.
B. Guant, and C. N. Robinson.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. N. Streatfield,
to the Asia ; E. G. L. Street, master, to the Indus
for the Petrel; W. R. Partridge, acting 2d class
assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland as supernume-
rary; F. Penfold, paymaster, additional, to the Wel-
lesley; and H. D. Paramorc, clerk, to the Malacca.