The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

VALLETTA, Oct. 24.—Her Majesty's gunboat
r.prise, i guns, Commander Whyte, arrived from
aples on the 20th instant, leaving the fleet under
a command of Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin,
,C. 8., in the bay. The fleet is expected to return
. \ialta about the end of this month. bier Majea-

's gunboat Wanderer, 4, Commander Seymour,
t ich left this port on the 16th instant to convey

Lf, commissioners, Dr. Sutherland and Captain
t.lton, to Corfu, put back from stress of weather

i the following day, and took a fresh departure
t the 21st instant. Her Majesty's gunboat In-
c pid, 4, Commander Marryat, came in on the 22d
3%. from Corfu. Rear-Admiral Mundy who was

have proceeded home in the Himalaya, and re-
),•ted to have taken passage by that vessel, leaves
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
-night for England via Marseilles. Her Majesty's
.ips in port are the Hannibal, Hibernia, Melpo-
ne, Doris, Surprise, Intrepid, Supply, and Hearty.
The War Department transport Sebastopol, Mr.
nders, commander, was placed alongside the Ord-
ance-wharf, at Chatham, yesterday morning, and
iring the day landed 196 cases, containing 4,000
and of arms, consisting of the short rifle for sea
irvice, with the sword bayonet attached, and also
given brass 24-pounder howitzers, from Woolwich.
ho rifles were forwarded to Chatham from the
rmoury at the Tower.
yesterday the Sarah arrived at Chatham dock-
ard from the Thames, with a number of the large
abs of iron for the armour plates for the Royal
)oc, 51, building at that establishment. The plates,
tl of which weigh about four tons each, were
'aided by the labourers and placed in store in readi-
es to be fixed to the exterior of the vessel as soon
3 her teak planking is completed. The armour
kites, which are of rolled iron, are from the Park-
ate Iron Works, Yorkshire.

The Warrior, 40, screw, Capt. Hon. A. A. Coch-
rane, C. 8., sailed from Spithead, on her sea experi-
mental trip, at daylight yesterday morning, calling
at Portland on her way down channel.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Gladiator, 6, Com,
sander Henry D. Hickley, from Halifax, Oct. 9,
rrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday: She brings
ome 126 of the crew of the paddlewheel steam
loop Driver, 6, Commander Horatio Nelson, re-
ently lost, and 55 invalids, passengers and pri-
oners from the North American and West India
quadron. During the passage heavy weather was
perienced, and she was compelled on Saturday to
mt into the Scilly Islands for coal. Her crew were
sspected yesterday forenoon by Rear-Admiral R.
;mart, K.H., and to-day she will go into Hamoaze,
there her hands will be turned over to the Grey-
•tound. The Gladiator will then be stripped and
,laced in the third division of the steam reserve.
ihe left at Halifax the screw steamship Nile, 90,
;apt. Edward K. Barnard, flag of Rear-Admiral
;ir Alexander Milne, K.C.B. ; the screw steamship
St. George, 86, Capt. the Hon. Francis Egerton ;
the screw steam frigate Immortalite, 51, Capt.
George Hancock ; the screw steam frigate Diadem,
'32, Capt. James H. Cockburn ; the screw steam
frigate Ariadne, 26, Capt. E. W. Vansittart ; the
screw steam corvette Jason, 22, Capt. Edward P. B.
Von Donop ; and the screw steam sloop Racer, 11,
Commander Algernon M'Lennan Lyons. The
paddlewheel steam sloop Barracouta, 6, Commander
'William Wood, was gone to Bermuda ; and the
paddlewheel steam sloop Spiteful, 6, Commander
Wilson, to Newfoundland.

The gunboat Shipjack left Plymouth yesterday
morning for Spithead, but, owing to strong winds
from the eastward, she was compelled to put back
to the Sound.

A portion of the machinery intended for her Ma.
jcsty's 51 screw steam-frigate Arethusa, manufac-
tured at Messrs. Penn and Sons' factory, in the
I ewisham-road, was yesterday removed to their
wharf at Deptford, for shipment to Woolwich.
Being constructed on a new principle of expansion
the cylinders and condensers are of very great size
and weight, inasmuch that horse-power was found
inconvenient and inadequate for their safe removal.
Recourse was consequently had to a Bray's traction
engine, which su3cessfully removed the huge ma-
chinery of the vessel. A new engine of great power
and improved construction having been placed at
their disposal yesterday commenced the transport
and performed the operation with marked success.
Each truck load exceeded 35 tons weight, exclu-
sively of the engine weighing another 12 tons. It
climbed the steep ascent leading from the factory
and through the narrow windings and acclivities
with apparent ease, and performed the distance
of about two miles in half an hour. Messrs.
Penn and Sons, who were present, witnessed with
satisfaction the performance of the traction engine,
and expressed their approbation of this means of
transport as in every way desirable.
A serious collision by which her Majesty's steam
vessel Monkey was much damaged, occurred in
Woolwich harbour at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
It appears that the Monkey was lying at her usual
moorings, immediately opposite the dockyard, when
a laden brig came up the stream, and went com-
pletely out of her proper course, being apparently
unmanageable. The Monkey was struck with. great
force by the brig, and carried away from her moor-
ings, one of her paddle boxes was driven in, her
funnel removed, and the vessel otherwise injured.
Mr. Macdonald, Master Attendant of the Fisgard
flagship, and other officers, immediately proceeded
to investigate the matter, and the brig, which ap-
pears to be entirely in fault, was detained, but af-
terwards proceeded up the river. The Monkey will
be removed to the basin to-day for repairs.
On the 18th, the Norwegian barque Leip, Capt.
0. C. Olsen, arrived at Malta with Capt. Hughes
and 24 of the crew of the late screw steamer Marco
Itozzaris, which foUndered at sea on the 16th, about
200 miles from Malta. Great praise is due to Capt.
Oslen for the noble manner in which he behaved on
the occasion, for though the weather was very bois-
terous, with a nasty chopping sea, he remained
close to the ill-fated steamer from 5 p.m. of the
l sth to 2 a.m. on the 16th, and saved the whole
ef the crew with the exception of one of
the men. The Marco Bezzaris was nearly a
rew vessel, and the captain has enjoyed the reputa-
tion of being a good seaman, and a careful, steady
man ; but this is the second steamer that has been
lost within a short distance of Malta, the other I,
being the Pomona ; and these two vessels founder-
ing at sea has greatly shaken the confidence of the
public in screw steamers. In both cases the weather
was rough and blowing hard, but not extremely so, '
in, fact in both cases average gales of wind, and yet
eallorwegian barque goes through it safely, and anl .„
e Mish steamer, with all her modern improvements,
tovrnd
era. This certainly should be explained, or
the
confidence of the public will not easily be re-
"'red. It appears to b 3 the fault of the ships, for
both steamers were
commanded by steady, clever
seamen. It
appears that the lifeboat with ten men
left the Marco Bozzari
ato
They were to leave six
men on
me proceed to the barque.
with four men to take anotherboard and to return
portion of the crew ;
but on getting on board the barque
they, with the
exception of two, refused to return
and
remainder of the crew. When the
captainrasa" the
and the
rest saw themselves so abandoned they set to work
t o clear the other lifeboat, which
wee to windward.
In getting her into the water she was stove very
dangerously, but floated, and the remainder of the
crew crowded into her. In their hurry to get
away they abandoned one poor man, Edward Daw-
ton, of Hull, a seaman who had been shipped at
Constantinople in place of a man left sick in the
hospital there.
When this poor fellow foam' him-
heir thus abandoned in sinkinga ship in a heavy
storm in the dead of night his cries to be taken also
became heartrending, but from the damaged state
of the boat they did not think it prudent to return,
and thus the poor fellow was left to his fate. In
the morning no sign of the vessel was to be seen.
In a popular London periodical there have lately
appeared several tales, the interest of each of
Which turns upon the cruelty of a captain of one
vessel passing another in distress without render-
inag assistance, and it is to be feared that in many
cblowln particularly when a fair wind is
It ra_gl this
s charge rests on good foundation.
owner b© e terrible
. loss to a captain and
damaging their
fair wind, and to run the risk of
vessel, Resides the expense of