The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

THE NAVE

A letter from Malta announces the arrival from

Zante on the 20th of February of the Ariel steam
corvette, and the departure for England on the 27th
of the Perseverance troopship, conveying Captain
Mackillop and such of the crew of the Recruit, paid
off at Malta on the 25th, as did not volunteer to
enter on board of other vessels in port ; also the
arrival on the 2d of March, from Sudak, of the
Princess Royal. The Urgent steam transport left
for England on the Ist of March, conveying Mr.
Taylor, late of the Vulture. The Caradoc, steam
despatch vessel, left Malta for Alexandria .on the.
26th, to receive on board Lord Elgin, shortly ex-
pected to reach Suez on his return to England from
his special mission to China and Japan. The Vul-
ture steam frigate arrived at Malta from Gibraltar
on the 21st, escorted by the Perseverance, in conse-
quence of her leaky condition, from having got
aground on the western coast of Barbary, near Cape
Blanes, for which accident Captain Frederick A.
Campbell, and Mr. Francis Taylor, the master, were
put on their trial before a naval court-martial, of
which Rear-Admiral Codrington, C. 8., the second
in command in the Mediterranean, sat as president,
and Mr. Thos. Alexander Telfer, R.N. his secre-
tary, officiated as judge-advocate. The trial com-
menced at 8 a.m. on the 24th, and was not con•
eluded until the afternoon of the 26th, when Capt.
Campbell was fully acquitted of any blame, but
against the master neglect was declared proved,
and he was accordingly condemned to be severely
reprimanded and dismissed the ship. The defence
of the master seems to have had in view the throw-
ing the responsibility on the first lieutenant,
Mr. Rae, who, like the master, was absent from the
deck, the senior officer of the watch at the time
being a midshipman. The Vulture has had to be
docked. Her. Majesty's Ships in Valetta Harbour
on the 3d March were the Marlborough, screw line-
of-battle ship (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral A.
Fanshawe, C. 8.) • the Hibernia, receiving ship
(flag-ship of Rear-Admiral H. J.Cedrington,C.B.);
the Conqueror, the Centurion, and the Princess
Royal, screw line-of-battle ships ; the Ariel, screw
corvette ; the Tartarus, Vulture, and Medina,
paddle steamers ; and the Recruit and Boxer, steam
gunboats.
The screw steamship St. Jean d'Acre, Captain
Thompson, left Plymouth early on Sunday morning
for the eastward.
The gunboat Biter, tender to the Blenheim, left
Plymouth Sound on Sunday for Portland.
The screw steamship James Watt, 91, in the
first-class steam reserve at Devonport, is ordered to
be commissioned immediately with a complement
of 860 men.

The head-quarters of the 58th Regiment were
yesterday transhipped from the Mary Ann, hired
troopship, at Spithead, to the Pigmy steam-vessel,
Master Commander Johnstone, which vessel con-
veyed them into Portsmouth harbour, and disem-
barked them at the south jetty, her Majesty's dock-
yard. The troops were marched into Anglesey
Barracks, Portsea, where they will remain until
further orders are received concerning them, a tele-
gram having been received yesterday by the mili-
tary authorities at Portsmouth, from the Horse
Guards, to that effect.

The Neptune (late 120, sailing ship) was yester-
day floated out of No. 3 dock at Portsmouth, where
she has been converted into a 91 two-decked screw
steamship, and placed alongside the North Quay,
in the ship basin. No. 3 dock will be at once cleared
out and prepared for the reception of the Nelson,
120, to undergo a like process. According to pre-
sent arrangements she will be brought down the
harbour, and placed in dock on the 10th inst. The
Nelson was built at Woolwich, and brought into
Portsmouth harbour on the 31st of August, 1814,
and her longest voyage during that time has
been from her moorings up the harbour to the
dockyard, and back to her moorings again,
never having been outside the mouth of the harbour
during the last 45 years. She is a fine old ship of
her class.
The Alfred, 50, sailing frigate, has been pumped
out and raised from the ground of the ship basin at
Portsmouth, and placed alongside the north jetty,
preparatory to being berthed at moorings up the
harbour.
The Melpomene, 51, screw steam frigate (new),
was- yesterday placed under the shears at Ports-
mouth dockyard to be masted and brought forward
on the first class steam reserve.
The Royal Sovereign, 131, screw steamship, in
the steam basin at Portsmouth, yesterday shifted
her berth from under the shears to the -West Quay,
the Agamemnon taking her berth under the shears
to receive her masts and lower rigging, &c.
Yesterday a court-martial, composed of Rear-
Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, president ; Captains A-
Farquhar, of her Majesty's ship Victory, R. S.
Hewlett, of the Excellent, and F. B. Wainwright,
of the Leopard, assembled on board her Majesty's
ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, to try Mr.
James Foss Andrew, Acting Assistant Engineer of
the Second Class, Supernumerary of the Hannibal,
on the following charge :—" That he, the said
James Foss Andrew, did, on or about the 17th 01
January last, desert from her Majesty's ship Han-
nibal." The court found the charge proved, and
adjudged the prisoner to be imprisoned for si%
months in Winchester gaol, and at the expiration
of that term of imprisonment to be dismissed her
Majesty's service.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. H. H. Claveringt
Lieut. H. Davies, Lieut. R. M. Blomfield, and
Lieut. J. T. Swann, to the Hero ; C. Albert,
master, additional, to the Hannibal; E. Wise, G.
S. Alldrick, and J. T. C. Webb, masters, additional,
to the Cressy; W. A. K. Craven mate, to. the
Mersey; E. C. Drummond, midshipman, to the
Mersey; P. Degan, M,D., surgeon, to the Doris;
H. Harkan, assistant-surgeon, to the Mersey ; W-
Anderson (b), acting assistant-surgeon, to the
Mersey ; J. Coogan, assistant-surgeon, to the Doris ;
D. Campbell, assistant-surgeon, to the Brunswick ;
J. Ray, paymaster, additional, to the Blenheim;
G. Love, paymaster, additional, to the Algiers; B-
O. Hayes, paymaster, additional, to the Fisgard;
H. S. Gibson, paymaster, to the James Watt;
V. Miller, paymaster, to the Hero; G. W. Underhill,
assistant paymaster; to the James Watt ; W. O•
Bignell, assistant paymaster, to the Hero ; H. B.
Roy, clerk, to the James Watt ; A. J. Blair, clerk,
to the Hero ; I. E. Stanton, clerk, to the St. Vin-
cent ; C. Royle, clerk, to the Termagant ; T. W.
Snell, assistant clerk, to the James Watt; W. B.
Allnutt, assistant clerk, to the Hero.

THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT LEAMING-
Torr.—The adjourned inquiry respecting the late fatal acci-
dent at Leamington took place at the Town-hall on FridaY•
Engineers and some of the passengers were examined, but
no additional fact of importance was elicited. The follovr-
ing verdict was- returned :—" The jury is of opinion that
the deceased met with his death from an accident on the
railway, caused by the breakage of the adjusting screw ef
the leading or near spring of the engine attached to the 10'e
train from Rugby, but that there is no evidence to obey/
how the breakage occurred. The jury recommend that the
rails of all curves such as the ono where the accident har
pened should be more strongly pinned or coupled together'
nd stronger timber used for sleepers."
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