The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-26 00:00:00

M AY 26,

NAVAL INTELLIGEN CE.
THE DUKE OF NoRTHUNBERLAND'S LEVEE.—The
following officers attended the levee of the First Lord
of the Admiralty yesterday:—Captain C. Talbot, Sir
13. Outran;, Mr. S. S. Flinn, Lieut. I'. Fowl, Captain F.
Scott, Captain W. B. Dodson, Commander T. Wilson,
Captain C. M. Hawkey, Commander H. D. Twysdee,
Commander G. C. Mends, Captain T. B. Maxwell, Cap.
,ap.
tain T. Robb, Commander C. Festing, Lieut. A. Darby,
Captain G. Woolcombe, Commander C. P. Coppin, Com-
mander P. B. Stewart, Captain A. C. Key, Commander
W. Robson, Lieut. H. B Everest, Captain J. T. Stop-
ford, Lieut. H. Lloyd, Lieut. W. P. Chapman, Lieut. F.
W. Ellis. Lieut. W. E. Fisher, Commander R. Phillipps,
Lieut. C. G. Crawley, Lieut. T. G. RAine.
ADMIRAL PARKER'S LEVEE.--Subjoined is the list of
officers present, at Admiral Parker's levee yesterday :
Captain W. B. Diihson, Captain Justice, .Lieut. F. W.
we Ellis.l Captain Captain
L.
J. Robb,Captain F. Scott, Captain Max-
well, Robinson, Lieut. H. Lloyd, La-ut.
W. Chapman, Captain J. W. Cole, Commander J. Rich-
ardson, Lieut. Bathurst, Lieut. C. M. Luckcroft, Lieut.
J. P. Luice, Commander Oliver, Commander E. F.
Roberts, Mr. S. Flinn.
In alluding to the paying cff late ly of her Majesty's
ship Amazon, Captain Barker, at Devonport, we omit-
ted to mention that Mr. Ramstien, the clerk, was highly
complimented on the manner in which the pay-books
had been prepared, there not having been one mistake.
He also received a high encomium tor the way in which
the store account had been kept.
DEVORPORT, MAY 24.—The newly-raised men of
the Rodney were paid advance this morning, after which
she sailed for Ireland.
Sanspareil was brought alongside the dockyard again
this morning, for the contractor to perform the work
required to her engine, pointed out and recommended to
be done by Air. Dennin.
Sprightly tender sailed this afternoon, for Ports-
mouth.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—To- day, in honour of the
Princess Helena's birthday (the Queen and Court being
within the port) a Royal salute was fired by all the
.
ships at Spithead and the flag-ships harboar at twelve
o'clock.
The Edinburgh, 60. screw gunirry-ship, Captain
Hewlett (acting), was taken out to Spithead and Stokes-
bay to-day to make a trial of her qualifications, which,
as far as could be judged of from the shore, were very
satisfactory.
The Tiger new steam-frigate, having been examined,
was undocked to-day. It is reported she will be com-
missioned by the officers and crew of the Dragon.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Allen, Act-
ing Master, R.N., commanding, returned from Plymouth
this morning with supernumeraries.

PROMOTIONS.
Lieutenant Frederick A. Egerton (1841), serving in
Prince Regent, 90, at Portsmouth, to the rank of Com-
mander.

Mates Joseph H. Maryat, J. M. Bushell, M. B. Pechall,
W. A. T. Boyse, Jumes C. Campbell, and C. A. Camp-
bell, to be Lieutenants.

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apower,til3t E. B. Hopkins (1850) to the B(rii
William Jeffery (1841) to the Basilisk.
Paymaster and Purser James F. Phillips
Basilisk.
SHEERNESS, SIINDAY.—iIer Majesty's screw steam-
frigate Amphion, 34, Mr. W. J. B. Hilliard master n
charge, is ordered to get ready for sea forthwith. She
has taken her powder o❑ board, and embarked a detach-
ment of the Chatham division of Royal Marines. The
officers and crew of the Horatio, we hear, will be trans-
ferred to her pro tem., and she will shortly proceed on a
trial cruise round the Mouse, to test her engines and
machinery.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Wildfire,
tender to the Waterloo, Mr. Brockman, second master,
commanding, left port yesterday morning for Wool-
wich, with Vice-Admiral the Hon. Joceline Percy, Com-
mander-in Chief at the Nore, accompanied by his Flag
Captain, the Hon. Montagu Stopford, and other officers,
to be present at the launch of the screw hne-of-battle
ship Agamemnon.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Miranda, 14, is ordered to
be stationed at this port, as one of the first division of
the advanced steam squadron of reserve. She was
launched from this dockyard last year, having been built
by Fincham. She is of 1,039 tons, and fitted with a
screw propeller of 250-horse power, and will be na-
vigated hero shortly from the Clyde, where she has
for some time past been placed to have her engines put
in her.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrtle, Mr. W. S.
Bourchier master commanding, proceeded to Chatham
yesterday on dockyard service, and returned in the
afternoon.
Her Majesty's ship London, 90, Capt. G. R. Mundy,
will be completed by the dockyard artificers on the 29th
inst. It is expected she will proceed to Spithead the
latter part of June.
The trial of the various anchors now in use is fixed
to take place at this port on the Ist of July. A portion
of the parade ground in the dockyard has been prepared
for the purpose, and the other necessary arrangements
are nearly completed. Their holding qualities will be
tested abet as well son shore, under the superintend-
ence of a committt e formed of the principal naval officers
of this port, and others connected with our mercantile
marine.
The Royal Dockyard Battalion, under the command
of Colonel Reed, will commence this week their summer
drills.
_ _

The men belonging to the Coast Guard are practised
every Thursday at Minster in the great gun and small
aline exercise, by the Inspecting Commander Webb,
'assisted by Lieutenant Baker, according to the mode at
present in use on board her Majesty's abips and Teasels
of war. •
.A court-martial assembled on Tuesday at the Royal
Marine Barracks, Chatham, to try a private of that divi-
sion, teemed Bryant, now serving on board her Ma-
jesty's ship London, 90, Captain G. R. Mundy, on a
charge of having stabbed with a knife the arm of his
messmate Alltn while on shore on leave. Several
witnesses %ere examined on both sides, from whose evi-
dence it appeared the prisoner committed the act under
circumstances of great provocation. The finding of the
Court has not yet been promulgated.
Her Majesty's ship Meander, 44, has been docked fit
Chatham, and is to be immediately got ready for com-
mission, to relieve the Castor, 36, Commodore Wyvill,
at the Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty's brig Kangaroo, 12, is expected to be
launched during the present summer.
The new slip in course of construction at Chatham-
yard is being proceeded with rapidly by the contractors,
Messrs. Baker and Co., who have also received orders to
clear the mast-ponds from the accumulation of mud.
The Hercules store-ship is to be placed in ordinary.
TIIEBDAY.—Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Hora-
tio, 22, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, had her powder
taken out early yesterday morning, and was towed by
the Myrtle and African steamers from her moorings off
the west shore of the harbour to those abreast of the
dockyard-wall for the purpose of baring her compasses
-re-adjusted. Captain E. J. Johnson, superintendent
of the compass department at the Admiralty, is expected
here to-day to
.conduct the necessary operations.
ap-
pears the deviation of the compasses on board tlt
•Horatio varies according l
.as the funnel (wh• eh is he
on
the telescopic principle) is raised or depressed. From
information that has reached us relative to her recent
trial cruise, it appeared that the engines worked in a
most satisfactory manner; her speed
under steam anti
eight knots per
plain sill set, with the wind free, wa
hour. With the screw-propeller disconnected and under
knots nt sails, with the wind
single-reefed topsails end topgallant
aft, she made. upwards of nine
working expansively with no snit t,leir)crphecodura.gaWinshtilise
kuote. s
light wind was nearly eight The Horatio during
her cruise encountered
and was placed uan,'l.33erederate•
gale from tbo west-
ward,reefed courses for nearly nbeearlytreble-reefed topsails and
24 hours, during which time she
proved herself
being extremely an Excellent sea-boat, her motion
uaintidpliyninfi easy and regular. She is slow in tack-
ing plele circle. She is fitted with
of the screw-
propeller
whereby the ratio of the revolu-
tions 2
to 1. to that of the engines is as
going full speetfd,BatiaiWrathaiontl without coal
quan-
tity sufficient, the
aidto
eloasfdtiezhanveser six dsys,
jades of
expansion, to last her near]undetrh the
weeks, as her con-
sumption of fuel under thoseycircrumstances is extremely
small. The Amphion, screw steanyfrigate, although
50-horse power more than the Horatio, during her last
commission never exceeded greater speed than five knots
an hour, and stows a much less quantityof coal in pro-
portion to the latter, taking into account their relative
consumption.
The Goodwill dockyard lighter, Patrick master, sailed
last eveuing for Devonport, with stores.
The Rev. G. Jackson, M.A., chaplain and naval in-
Waterloory
structor of her Majesty's ship Captain the
Hon. Montagu Stopford, leas obtained Admiralty leave
of absence for the space of one month.
Monarch,
' The chaplaincy of the 84, Captain C. Hope,
at Devonport, has not yet
vacant by the removal of the Rev. Josiah Thompson to
consequence, it is said, of there being
the Impregnable, fleg-ship
been filled up, in
no one on the active list of chaplains in the navy un-
employed.
The following is an analysis of the recommendations
of the Select Committee appointed to investigate the
system hitherto in force in her Mej f.Bt3'd navy relative
to the mode of keeping the victualling accounts by the
„„asnasters and
rs:—
purser s, and to the remuneration of that
class office
°
1. That the present system should be abolished, and
that the paymasters and pursers should be placed on a
fixed scale of pay, and in proportion to the duties they
have to perform.
.2. That they be divided into seven classes, and that
die promotion from one class to another depend on the
faithful discharge of their duties.
u 3, That the number of paymasters and pursers, at
present amounting to 474, be reduced to 240, and that
the number of widows receitieg pcnsions be limited
to 162.
"4, That a liberal scale of half-pay be instituted, as
well as a limited retirement."
The report also recommends a similar plan to be
a adopted with respect to the ptitotymt
plan asteret'boas suggested
will
and pursers'
stewards and assistants. By
the ultimate reduction in the pursery establishment
amount to 34,79 i/ any ually.
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A FAST YOUSG LADY.—A member acme of the
leading clubs in London, and a master of foxhounds, will
back a young lady, for from 2,0001. to 5,000/ , to rids
against any other lady in England as follows:—viz., to
ride from London to Birmingham in twelve hours, using
two horses; to ride lour miles over Newmarket Course; to
a four-mile steeplechase over lierttordabirei
the Horsley fozhotulds Octobtr poach to kW ti sua or to hunt
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