The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-05 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Her Majesty's screw steam transport Perseve-
rance, Commander E. R. Power, embarks at Ports-
mouth this day the undermentioned officers and
men of the 2d Battalion, 23d Royal Welsh Fusi-
liers for Malta :—Major Gubbins, Brevet Majors F.
Vane and J. Duff; Captain S. C. Millett ; Lieuts.
G. Packe and J. K. S. Henderson ; Ensigns S. W.
R. Sadler, H. M. Molyneux, G. G. Liddell, and G.
Wildes ; Assistant-Surgeon R. W. Berkeley ; 344
men, seven soldiers' wives, 12 soldiers' children.
Her Majesty's screw steam transport Urgent, Com-
mander J. W. D. M'Donald, will embark the head-
quarters on the`9th inst.
Eighty-one men of the Depot Ist Battalion, Rifle
Brigade, will proceed from Winchester to New-
castle-upon-Tyne on the 9th inst. and join head
quarters there.
The paddlewheel steamship Hecla, 6, Commander
E. D. 0. Aplin, from Ascension, Dec. 30; Sierra
Leone, Jan. 11 ; and Teneriffe, Jan. 23, arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Thursday afternoon, as reported
in The Sun of yesterday. The coast was healthy
when she left. The Triton, from Ascension, arrived
at Sierra Leone, Jan. 10. The Viper, 4, and Heron,
12, were on the South Coast. The Pluto, 4, had
sailed from the South Coast for St. Helena, where
she would remain a short time to recruit the health
of her crew. In the Bights were the Sharpshooter,
8 ; Hydra, 6 ; and Conflict 8. The Ardent was on
her way from the Bights to the South Coast.
The Medusa proceeds from Ascension to the Bights.
The Conflict relieved the Hecla on the 15th of De-
cember as senior ship on the southern division.
. Commodore Chas. Wise was to leave Ascension in
the Vesuvius for Sierra Leone on the arrival of the
January mail. The Heels, exchanged signals Jan.
20, in lat. 37.23 N., long. 14.9 W., with an English
bark showing the third distinguishing pendant
3,240, from Cardiff, steering south-west for Manilla.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamship Amazon left, Teneriffe on January 23 for
Mogador. The Hecla experienced strong winds
from north to north-west after leaving Teneriffe.
She was commissioned in Plymouth, Oct. 22, 1855,
and has been ever since employed in the suppression
of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.
The screw steamship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Roch-
fort Maguire, will be paid off at Plymouth on the
15th inst. The officers are enjoined to be careful in
returning stores, as through negligence on board
other ships recently paid off much damage has
L occurred. _ _ _

The sailing frigate Pique, 40, Capt. Sir F. W. E.
Nicolson, was towed into Hamoaze on Thursday, to
be paid off.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander Montagu B. Dunn, steamed alongside the
coal depot Lavinia, in Plymouth Sound, on Thurs-
day.
The paddle-wheel steam frigate Leopard, 18,
Capt. James F. B. Wainwright, was docked at
Keyham, on Thursday. She has no defects.
The Windsor Castle, 112, was lashed to the jetty
at Devonport on Thursday, in order to try her
machinery.
The gunboats Spider and Grappler are to be
commissioned at Plymouth. It is not improbable
that the Howard, being more forward, will take
the place of one of them.
The troop transport Ramilies sailed again from
Plymouth on Thursday for the East Indies.
Letters dated Greytown, January 1, have been
received at Plymouth from the Caesar, 90, Captain
Charles Frederick, which ship, with the Diadem,
32, Capt. W. Moorsom, had been lying outside the
harbour, three miles from the shore, from the
11th of Dec., during which time rain had fallen
nearly every day, accompanied by a heavy sea. On
New Year's-day a report prevailed that Walker
had escaped from the States and was coming to
Greytown.
Her Majesty's iron screw steam storeship Supply,
under repairs, on return from the shipment of
antiquities, from Halicarnassus, in Boudroun-bay,
was yesterday undocked at Woolwich, and reshipped
her boilers. The paddlewheel steamvessel Banshee,
lately on a surveying commission in the north, was
yesterday docked at Woolwich, to be overhauled
and repaired.
Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Curacoa, 31,
Capt. T. H. Mason, sailed from Spithead for Ply-
mouth to embark Lord Lyons and suite on Thurs-
day evening. At 3 p.m. yesterday, 20 miles off
Durlstone Head, she came in contact with the
schooner Fleta, of Shoreham, from Shoreham for
Cardiff, in ballast*. The Fleta received considerable
damage ; she arrived at Portsmouth yesterday.
Capt. Field, of the Fleta, reports that his vessel
was closehauled on the starboard tack, heading
south, wind W.S.W. The Curacoa sent a boat to
offer assistance if needed, and afterwards proceeded
on her voyage to Devonport.
Her Majesty's steam-yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. the Hon. J. Denman, was removed from her
harbour moorings at Portsmouth yesterday to the
Steam Basin, to undergo her annual overhaul and
renovation.
Her Majesty's screw steam yacht Fairy, having
completed the repairs to her hull in No. I,dock, at
Portsmouth, was yesterday at high water removed
from the dock, and towed round to the steam basin
to receive her boilers and machinery.
- lier Majesty's screw steam-sloop Swallow, 9,
Commander C. L. Waddilove, arrived at Spithead
from the Mediterranean yesterday. morning. She
sailed from Malta Jan. 12, passed Gibraltar on the
20th. On the 19th of Jan., in lat. 36 10, long. 2 26,
spoke the Josephine, of Shields. On the 20th, in lat.
36 4, long. 56, spoke the brig Asseuro. On the
27th, in lat. 38 11, long ,16 3, the barque Chanti-
cleer. Her supernumeraries were landed by her
Majesty's steamer Pigmy, and she afterwards sailed
for Chatham to be paid off.
Her Majesty's steam transport Dee, Master Coro-
pander T. Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
from Woolwich, with machinery, &c.