The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DUKE OF NORTH !JIIIII_ERIeAND'S LEY,EE.—Yesterday
the following dficors attended the levee of the First
Lord of the Admiralty :—Vice-Admiral Percy, Rear-
Admirals Carroll, Collier,. Douglas; Captain •Hillyer,
Commodore Seymour, Commander Skypwith.
pons3louTa, W EDNESD A Y.—The - Encounter, 14,
Captain Gordon, arrived at Spithead this morning from
the Tagus. Sho left Lisbon 'on the 15th inst., at which
date the Albion, 90, Captain Johnston; the Paton, 50,
Captain Elliot; the Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart;
and the Dragon, steam-frigate, 6, Captain Giffard, were
in th© Tagus. • • •

The Orestes, 14, Commander Hawker, arrived this
morning from the Cape of Good Hope,-which she-left
on the 14th of February; her news from that colony,
therefore:has been considerably anticipated. She sailed
from St. Helena on the 2-21.. and AsCetision On the 28th
of iheialie'inontl4 The Bloodhound steam-vessel had
made the- circuit of• the- island of St. Helena with the,
Governor on board, and had, left for Ascension before
the OresteS touched !
there.. Mr. Chamberlain, pay-
Master and purser, 'Who "went out some time since.
to make "isp the ,accounts of Mr.: Clot Worthy- purser
of the Castor, has. .takep ...passage -in the 'Orestes,
as also Mr. Crocker; Assistant-Surgeon of ,;the
depot . ship Sitingapatird, which •is paid . off.
The Orestes has taken two prizes-in the .Mozdtribique,
and shares in three others- with the Castor, 86, Com-
modore Wyvill. The- Fist elpture was a fine Spanish
pirate, haying 50 dare devils for the crew, and a most
ply I,,ng 24-paunder swivel amidships, which would
have done awful execution could it have been worked
against' the restea when_ Chasing hit., but owing to bad
weather they pirates had stovvediikklow, and in their desoe,
to get, sway did -net waste- time in the endeavour fa'
mount it., This. was the sort of piratical slaver which
stood 39 shot being fired into her from the Orestes with-
aut bringing to, notwithstanding she got hugged so
closely by her captor that musketry could be fired into
her.. The Orestes has been three years 044 a half in
commission, and will now be paid cif,
Commodore Wyvill, in the Castor, was in Simon's
Bay, awaiting the arrival of the Gladiator, when the
Commodore was to proceed up the Mozambique.
The Queen is expected hourly. It, is said that she will
he kept in commiision, and join the sq'iadron at Spit-
head; that she will be paid down, aed her crew have a
f trtnigt.'s leave.
The Blenheim, screw block-ship, 10; Captain Haider-
-on, got up steam this morning at eleven o'clock, and
proceeded out of harbour; she went out against a fresh
need wind and adverso tide, was a long time getting
round the Spit buoy, hanging at the narrow entrance,
just holding her own for halt an hour. This stoppage
Ave rise to a report that she-was aground; but there
was na troth in such report. She went round the ships
at anchor at Spithead, and returned into harbour at
salt'-past two o'clock.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 2l.—Commodore Sir Michael
ieymonr, Commodore Supeiintndeut of the Devonport
tockyaid, struck his broad pendant on board the St.
George on Monday, on leave of absence. The duties of
he dockyard dt-volve oo the Master-Attendant, Mr. J.
E. 'Milts, and of the ordinary on Commander Ed-
mondson.

Iler Majesty's steam-vessel Vixen, Commander Bar-
nard, corn wenced coaling yesterday preparatory to her
,aiiing about the 24th inst. with Sir Charles Hotham,
tor the Brazils.

The Aberdeen clipper John Taylor, Captain Hawk-
logs, from Bomboy 22.1 January, laden with ivory, ele•
phants teeth, cotton, wool, tea, &c., was.off this port
yesterday, bound to London, and landed here Captain
Johnstone, of her Majesty's 22d Regiment. Passengers
gone on—Lieutenant Dragg, 9803, Quartermaster Rear-
don, 98th, Lieutenant Mecham, 86th, and Mr. Forcehall.
Sir William Call has given a donation of 251 towards
the subscription for the sufferers by the Birkenhead, the
Mayor of Devonport, Mr. R. E. Knowling, 21. 25.; and
a day's pay from the officers and crews of the ships
in port has been set aside for the same benevolent
object.
Rolla tender, with the seaman apprentices of Ports-
mouth, put into the Sound on Sunday evening, and sailed
again on Monday.
Nautilus tender, the exercising vessel for seaman ap-
prentices at Thivonport, put into the Sound on Monday
morning, and sailed again the same evening
William Jardine convict-ship will call at this port in
a few days, and fill up her complement from Dartmoor,
and then sail for Van Diemen';, Lrnd.

Vixen steamer, Commander Barnard, will be out of
the hands of the artificers of the dockyard the 24th
instant.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, APRIL 21.—Lieutenants James H. Fur-
neaux (1845) and Richard M. Moorman (1849) to the
Vulcan troop-ship at Portsmouth, now under the com-
mand of Commander Edward Pelham Brenton von Do-
nop (1849), recently serving in a contract steam-vessel.
Paymaster and Purser George W. Pickthorn (1845)
to the Vulcan. -