The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-11 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Warrior, 40, screw, Capt. the Hon. A. A.
Cochrane, C. 8., steamed out of Portsmouth harbour
yesterday at 3 p.m.,anchoring at Spithead,and taking
in the chains of the Edgar's anchors, which had been
slipped from that ship on her going into harbour the
previous day. By these moorings she will swing
for the adjustment of her compasses, and make fast
to them in the intervals between her trips under
steam and trials of speed. She has been filled up with
coals to 900 tons, of the kind used in the Victoria /
and Albert Royal yacht, during her late voyages
to the Alediterranean and elsewhere, and which
have been reported upon in an unusually favourable
manner both by the Capt. the 'Hon. J. Denman,
commanding the yacht, and by the heads of the
engineering department of Portsmouth dockyard.
The Edgar, 89, screw, flagship of Rear-Admiral
J. C. Erskine, was placed in No. 10 dock, at high
water yesterday for examination and repair. In
addition to her loss of canvass in the late gale, she
also lost two of her quarter boats. The Conqueror
was also so terribly knocked about by the gale that
500 men were at one time engaged on her lower
deck in baling out the water.
The Java sailing frigate, 1,458 tons, built at
Devonport in 1814, is being stripped of her copper
and fittings in No. 1 dock at Portsmouth, for the
purpose of serving as a target-ship to the Excellent
in future iron-plate testing experiments, &e.
The Handy, 2, screw gunboat, Lieutenant-Com.
Glover, sailed from Spithead yesterday for Devon-
port, whence she will sail for Sierra Leone, in com-
pany with the Orestes, 21, screw, Capt. A. Gardner,
entering upon her duties on arriving on the station
as tender to the Arrogant flagship.

The Ellen and Coquette transport vessels, in the
service of the War Department, have shipped
cargoes of guns and military stores from Woolwich
Arsenal for Malta and Corfu. The Ellen yester-
day left Woolwich pier for Deptford to fill in with
naval stores, and the Coquette will sail direct from
Woolwich.

The War Department transport Baltic completed
landing at the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, yester-
day, 400 cases of 100-pounder Armstrong segment
shells, 200 boxes of 100-pounder Armstrong solid
shot, 100 boxes of 20-pounder shot, together with a
number of carriages and slides brought froth Wool-
wich for the Armstrong guns landed at Chatham.
The Baltic also brought a number of the 32-pounder
and 8-inch guns from the Chesapeake, 51, Captain
Maguire, at the Nore, the remainder of which will
be shipped on board the War Department transport
Marlborough, and landed at Chatham.
It appears from the official return recently pub-
lished that during the last three months nine new
vessels of war have been completed at the various
dockyards, viz,, two at Chatham—the Ganymede
and the Rattlesnake, the former of 400 horse-power
and carrying 22 guns, and the latter of 400 horse-
power and carrying 21 guns ; two at Woolwich—
the Hyperion, of 800 horse-power and carrying 26
guns, and the Pegasus, of 200 horse-power and
carrying 7 guns ; two at Deptford—the Circassian,
of 200 horse-power and carrying 17 guns, and the
Portia, of 80 horse-power and carrying 5 guns ; at
Jarrow, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Defence, of 600
horse-power and carrying 16 guns ; at Pembroke
the Perseus, of 200 horse-power and carrying 17
guns ; and at Devonport the Cynthia, of 15') horse
power and carrying 11 guns. During the same time
seven new vessels have been commenced, viz., at
Portsmouth the Bruiser and the Cromer ; at Mill-
wall the Dromedary and the Tamar ; at Blackwell
the Orontes; at Chatham the Salamis; and at
Devonport the Royalist.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander J. Edye, to the
Impregnable; J. Gordon, promoted to first-class
assist.-engineer in the Curlew ; W. J. Foster, pro-
moted to first-class assist.-engineer in the Pelican ;
Charles Mobberly, promoted to first-class assistant-
engineer, supernumerary, in the Asia ; R. Dixon,
promoted to first•class assist.-engineer in the Ariel ;
J. Patterson, promoted to first-class assist.-engineer
in the Scourge; W. Fenton (a), promoted to first-
class assist.-engineer in the Centurion; J.F. More-
ton, promoted to acting first-class assist.-engineer
in the Victor Emmanuel ; Arthur Moreton, pro-
moted to acting first-class assistant-engineer in
the Waterman ; Francis E: Whalley, master's-
assist., to the Arrogant, for the Handy ; Henry
Hodge, assist.-paymaster, to the St. Vincent ; W.
*Wallace, assist.-paymaster, to the Excellent; C. S.
Marsh, clerk, to the Virago; and E. B. Nettelton,
clerk, to the Formidable.