The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-08 00:00:00

THE NAVE

The large masts, yards, and spars for the iron-
plated steam frigate Warrior, 40, which have been
completed for that vessel at Chatham Dockyard,
will be sent round to the Thames in the course of
s few days for the purpose of being fixed on board,
The large sheer-hulk in Chatham harbour, employed
for masting the vessels of war, is to be towed to the
Thames to be used in masting the Warrior.
Letters by the Brazil mail, received by our
bouthampton correspondent, state that her Ma-

jesty's ship Curlew sailed from Buenos Ayres on
the 15th of February for Monte Video. The Leo-
pard with Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington on
board, arrived at Monte Video on the 2d of March,
from Buenos Ayres. The French brig of war Beau-
manoir, 18 guns, arrived at Buenos Ayres from
Monte Video on the 23d of February. The Fulmi-
nante, French gunboat, and Seminole, American
gunboat, were also at Buenos Ayres on the
27th of February :—The following vessels of
war were at Monte Video on the 2d of
March :—English ships, the Leopard (flag-
ship), the Curagoa, the Curlew, and the Ardent;
the French frigate Pandora (flagship), the gunboat
D'Entrecasteau ; the American frigate Congress
(flagship), the despatch boat Pulaski ; the Spanish
brig Gravina, 18, the gunboat Concordia; the Bra-
zilian corvette Maranaro, 18 guns, the gunboats
Morin, Paranagua, Yequitinhonha (flagship), and
the Parnahiba. The French mail steamer Santonge,
which left Rio at 6 p.m. on Feb. 24, arrived at Mon-
vevidee on the Ist, at 12 a.m.
The Marlborough, 131, screw. Captain W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., at Portsmouth, is ordered to be sup-
plied with four of Sir W. Armstrong's 100-pounder
guns and eight 40-pounders. The masts of this
vessel have been taken to pieces, examined, and re-
ported upon. The mainmast has been condemned ;
the foremast is found to be slightly defective, but
will be repaired for further service; the mizenmast
and bowsprit have no defects.

The Geyser, 6, paddle, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from Queenstown with supernumeraries.

The Cockatrice, 4, screw gunboat, Lieut.-Com-
mander R. M. Gillison, sailedfrom Portsmouth yes.
terday, at 6 a.m., for Devonport, on the way to the
Mediterranean.

The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, 4, Master-
Commander T. C. Pullen, arrived yesterday at Ply-
mouth, supposed from Scotland.
The Isis, 44, from Chatham, under canvas, arrived
at Plymouth yesterday, bound for Ascension, for a
coal depot.

In consequence of a nail having been accidentally
driven into a pipe on board the screw steam gun
vessel Nimble, 5, at Plymouth, considerable leak-
age occurred. The water made itsc way into the
bread-room.

Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steam vessel
Weser, Commander Johnstone, sailed on Saturday
from Woolwich to be adjusted at Greenhithe for
exploring the mouths of the Danube, in the Black
Sea.

The steam storeship Industry, M aster-Com-
mander Hodges, from Rio and Ascension, arrived
at Woolwich on Saturday, and proceeded to Dept-
ford to discharge victualling stores.
The iron screw steam storeship Supply, William
H. Balliston, master in command, went down to
Woolwich on Saturday from-Deptford to fill in
with light dockyard stores for the Mediterranean.

There was on Friday last and may be at this time,
a very dangerous obstruction to the navigation of
the English Channel just outside Plymouth Sound.
On Thursday, at 6 p.m., two Brixham trawl sloops,
the Peerless, James Cornish, and the Four Bro-
thers, William Cornish, fell in with a ship of
about 1,000 tons, bottom up, 20 miles south of Bolt
Head. Her rudder had gone down through the
rudder case, and left the pintle brace empty. To
this the sloops fastened a tow rope, and hung on
until 10 o'clock on Friday morning, when they
found their efforts to convey the derelict into port
were ineffectual. They accordingly left her, and
returned on Saturday morning to Plymouth, where
they reported the fact. The ship is supposed to
have suddenly capsized in one of the heavy squalls
which prevailed about a month sinoo. S6o sr
built, and nearly new; enpper fastened ; bolts
bright ;is probably of and from America. One
anchor is suspended from her bow. Seaweed and
barnacles are attached to her sides.

A great deal of dissatisfaction is felt and ex-
pressed among the crews of H.M.S. Victory, Asia,
and other vessels at Portsmouth at the delay which
has arisen in paying the money due to them. Many
of these men have only received 16s. per month for
the last nine months. A number of men belonging
to vessels in home ports, such as the Victory and

Asia, have wives and families, and are compelled to
run up bills at the various tradesmen's shops for
their support until, by remitting the pay due to
them, their wives can pay off the debts thus neces-
sarily incurred. On board the Victory remittance
lists were made out in the middle of March, but no
orders have yet been received for payment, and
hence the discontent of the men. The result of this
dilatoriness is that the wives and families of the

men are much pressed for payment of the amount
they have been trusted with by the different shop-
keepers, who cannot themelves afford to give long
credit. The household goods in many instances go
to the pawnbrokers, and often are never recovered,
and as a natural consequence of such a state of
things the seaman pays a heavy percentage for the
Government having the use of his money. The one
universal cry of the seamen on board the vessels
quoted is, "Pay us in the same manner that our
officers are paid."
Another extensive seizure of copper metal, con-
jectured to contain Government stores, has been
made at Chatham by Sergeant Crouch, one of the

detective officers attached to the Metropolitan
Police-office doing duty at Chatham, acting under
the direction of Superintendent Richardson. For
some considerable time past suspicion has rested on
Mr. W. Willmott, a wholesale marine store dealer,
carrying on an extensive business in the town,that
he was in the habit of purchasing large quantities
of Admiralty stores stolen from the dockyard and
forwarding them to London. Accordingly, a few
days since, Sergeant Crouch, acting under orders,
followed one of Pickford's vans, laden with bags of
metal, from Mr. Willmott's premises to the Strood

railway station, the articles being consigned to a
person in London. On reaching the station the
officer made a seizure of the whole of the metal,
amounting to upwards of 28 cwt., which was sub-

sequently examined by Mr. Laws, the storekeeper,
Inspector Pethers, and the other officials, when a
sufficient quantity was discovered bearing the Ad-
miralty brand to justify the police in arresting Mr.
Willmott. On Saturday the accused underwent an
examination before Capt. G. Goldsmith, C. 8.,
superintendent of the dockyard, who, under the
30th and 40th George 111., is invested with magis-
terial powers. Mr. G. Essell, Admiralty solicitor,
ausisted Capt. Goldsmith in the inquiry, the prisoner
being defended by Mr. R. Prall, of Rochester.
_;_c.vidence waa given to prove that the metal seized
police contained a small portion of her Ma-
jesty?t3 stores, and Capt. Goldsmith thereupon com-
mitted ti.e prisoner for three months' hard labour.
Only a few weeks since a large seizure of metal was
made from the prisoner's premises by the dockyard
police, on which occasion the prisoner's foreman
was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
The following vessels of war compose the four
'divisions of the steam reserve ordinary in the river
medway at Chatham, the return of the ships, num-
ber 'tuns and horse power of each vessel having
been made
First Di'Zle Admiralty :
The Meeanee, 80, screw, 400
horse power •; talk-
Phae"— • 51, screw,
power ; the Challenger, 22, serer. 0 h 400 horse
'4O horse power ;
the Malacca, 17, screw, 200 horse power
Came-
leon, 17, screw', 200 horse power ; the Griffon, G,
screw, 80 horse Power; the Bullfrog, 2, screw, 60
horse power ; the Carnation, 2, screw, 60 horse
power ; the Cochin, 2, screw, so horse
Power ; the
Griper, 2, ,60 horse
Power ; and the Hasty,
2, screw, 60 horse power. Total." 11 _
the first divi-
sion, 11 ships, 202 guns, and 1,980
one power.
The above vessels have their armament on board,
to proceed to sea at a few
days' each would be ready
days' notice.
good 91 screw, 600 horse
Second Division.—The
00 horse power ;
power; the Rodney, 90, screw,