The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

EVENING, OCTOBER l3, 18452.,

NAVAL IN TELLIGEN CE.
DEVONPORT, TUESDAY.—His Grace the Duke of
Northumberland, Captain Sir Thomas Herbert,
K.C.B Captain the Hon. A. Duncombe, Captain the
Hon. F. Pelham, with Mr. Stafford, Chief Secretary
to the Admiralty, together with Sir Baldwin Walker,
K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, and Colonel Green,
Director-General of Works, arrived at Moorshead's
Royal Hotel, by the express train from London, yes•
terday afternoon.
In the evening Admiral Sir John A. Ommanney,
K.C.8., commander-in-chief, and Commodore Sey-
mour, superintendent of the dockyard, with their
flag-lieutenants, had the honour of dining with their
Lordships at the hotel.
Their Lordships gave interviews to the officials and
a number of naval officers at the hotel, this morning,
and then proceeded to the dockyard, where, after in-
specting the several departments, they held a general
muster of the establishment.

If time will permit, their Lordships will, on leav-
ing the dockyard, visit the new works at Keyham and
the Royal William Victualling-yard. In the evening
they entertain the heads of the public departments
and a party of friends, after which the First and
other Lords patronise the ball in aid of the funds of
the Royal British Female Orphan Asylum.

To-m-orrow the First Lora holds his levee in the
dock-yard, dining with the port admiral in the even-
ing.
_ . . .

The Admiralty are expected to pay an official visit
to Portsmouth on Friday next.

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL PRAED.

Vice Admiral Bulkeley Mackworth Praed died on
the 6th instant, at Acton Castle, Cornwall, at the ad-
vanced age of 82 years. Although this gallant officer
had served 23 years on full pay, he bad never served
at sea since the date of his post rank. He was con-
seqnently, in 1837, placed on the retired list of flag
officers, was transferred to the active list in 1840,
promoted to the rank of vice-admiral in 1846, and
placed on the reserved half-pay list last year.
" The gallant deceased was related to the Praede, of
the firm of Praeds and Co., bankers, of Fleet-street,
London, and a protege of the late Earl St. Vincent. Ho
entered the navy Sept. 21, 1780, as first-class volunteer
on board the Canada, 74, Captain Sir George Collier,
stationed in the Channel, where he continued employed
in the , Nonsuch, Captain Truscott, until 1782. He
served next, from 1786, until promoted to the rank of
lieutenant, Sept, 1, 1793, nearly the whole time as mid-
shipman, in the Jupiter, Sybil, Soleray, Culloden, 74,
and London, Romney, and Princess Royal, flag-ships of
Rear-Admiral Goodall, in the West Indies, Channel,
and Mediterranean. During the occupation of Toulon
we find him officiating as aide-de-camp to the officer last
mentioned, as well as to Lord Hood. He was subse-
quently employed on the home station in La Perle fri-
gate and Atlas, 98, in command of the Crash gun-brig,
and in the Overyssel, 64, flag-ship of Admiral Peyton.
In the Crash, Mr. Praed accompanied the expedition
under Sir Home Popham, against the locks and sluice-
gates of the Bruges Canal in May, 1798, and was cap-
tured by the enemy on the coast of Holland August 26
following. He was made commander, August 21, 1799,
into the Firm sloop, and after having served for two
years and eight months in that vessel on the English
coast, was advanced, April 29, 1802, to post rank. His
last appointment was July 4, 1803, to the Durham dis-
trict of Sea Fenciblos, in which he continued until the
abolition of that service in 1810."
Having been on the reserved half-pay list, there
are no promotions consequent on his decease.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant—Alexander F. 0. Young (1852), to
the Termagant, 34, screw-ship, vice Moreton, whose
appointment has been cancelled.
Mates—Charles A. J. Heysham, to the Agamem-
non, 90, screw-ship, Sheerness ; A. G. Broadhead,
to the Niger, 14, screw-sloop; Frederick Hardy, to
the Encounter, 14, screw-corvette, Woolwich.
Assistant-Surgeon—Seaton Wade (1846), to the
Fisgard, flag-ship, at Woolwich, for service in the
infirmary.

STEWARDS' FEES.
The following Admiralty circular has lately been
issued :
" My Lords are pleased to establish the following
scale of fees for the stewards of the military messes of
officers, when embarked in troop-ships for passages to
or from foreign stations; these fees are to be paid by
each officer of the mess on the completion of the voyage,
and the commanding officer of the ship is to cause such
sums to be paid to the stewards at once, instead of being
paid to the paymaster:—
To or from the Cape of Good Hope, and other
more distant stations ..• ... £1 0 0
To or from Malta—West Indies, North
America ..• 0 15 0
To or from. Gibraltar (or shorter voyage) 010 0
West Indies to North America 0 15 0
Intermediate passages in the West Indies, if
not beyond three days' duration... ... 0 5 0
" The amount received from military officers on ac-
count of breakage of glass, crockery, &c., is to be paid
into the hands of the paymaster, or the clerk in charge
(as the case may be), and he is to debit himself there
with in his cash account."
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE GLADIATOR AND JACKAL.
—Woodhead and Co. have given notice that the ac-
count sales of the proceeds arising from the capture
of the slave-vessel Gira Sol, by the Jackal, tender
to her Majesty's ship Gladiator, Captain John Adams,
on the 4th of September, 1850, will be registered in
the High Court of Admiralty on or after the 18th
instant.
We understand that Mr. Sugden, the paymaster of
the Prince Regent, flag-ship to Rear-Admiral Corry,
is about to apply to be placed on the retired list. We
believe ill health is the cause of this officer's wishing
to decline this lucrative appointment.
THE SCREW THREE-DECKER DUKE OF WEL-
LINGTON.—This huge leviathan of the ocean was
towed into Portsmouth yesterday morning at eleven
o'clock, by the Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, and Echo,
tug, one on each side. The platform battery and
lines of the fortifications fronting the entrance were
literally covered with persons anxious to get a sight
of this colossal specimen of naval architecture. She
came in slowly and majestically. She appears to be
a very handsome ship. Her change of name will re-
quire a new figure-head, which we hear will be a bust
of " the Duke."
She went alongside the dockyard jetty, under the
shears, and in the afternoon Mr. Brown, master-at-
tendant, who has had charge of the ship in her pas-
sage round (Mr. Davy being sick), commenced dis-
mantling her, unbending sails, and returning stores.
Numbers of naval men and others visited the Duke
of Wellington in the afternoon, and all ex-
pressed astonishment at the room and capa-
bilities of this magnificent man-of-war. She
left Pembroke at one P.M. on Saturday, in
tow of the two steamers, the Desperate and
Inflexible. Fine breezes springing up, the Desperate
cast off, and the Inflexible only continued to tow her.
Sail was made to courses, topsails, and topgallant
sails, the ship proving very stiff, and steering like a
duck. Instead of tillers she has a yoke on the middle
and lower deck, by either of these she is steered,
These yokes are fitted on account of the well made
for the shipping or unshipping of her screw-fan.
She has more spring forward than most line-of-
battle ships ; her quarters are especially roomy ; and
on her lower, middle, and upper decks she has 19
broadside guns on each, exclusive of bow and stern
chase guns. The Neptune, 120, has long been con-
sidered the finest line-of-battle ship in the service;
but the Duke throws her entirely in the shade. The
Neptune is 2,700 tons burden o.M.—the Duke up-
wards of 3,700. Her jury spars will be taken out
to-day, when the Duke will be forthwith taken into
dock to be coppered. As far as the officers in charge
could judge, she will sail remarkably well, and, as we
have before observed, stand up well under canvas, as
in a stiff breeze, on a wind, on Sunday, she had all
plain sail set. The masts that have been prepared for
the Royal Frederick will be probably put into her,
but new lower yards, three feet longer than-any ever
yet made, have been got ready for her.
Daring, 12, Commander Gerard Napier, is ordered
to proceed without delay to the West Indies. She
will probably leave Portsmouth in the course of to-day
or to-morrow.
Desperate screw steam-sloop, Lieutenant Stevens
in charge, will return to Plymouth from Portsmouth
on Wednesday, taking supernumeraries for Queens-
town from the Rodney, 92, and the Indefatigable, 50.
Encounter, 14, screw-corvette, Captain O'Cal-
laghan, was taken out of dock, and the Bulldog has
been taken in.
Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander George R.
Wolrige, will proceed immediately to Lisbon.
Leopard, 12, advanced steamer, was swungd yeds-.
terday at Portsmouth to have her compasses
Electra, 14, Commander William e_
Mfrrisor AUStralia,
be ready to sail from Portsmouth
t be stir-
about the end of the week. We should no a(biuswteill
ney yet before that big marine. moll_
out,
prised if this compact, useful, little reactcrnasftter, liheed
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during the
bourne, which has been floundering b
late gales, somewhere between the Downs and the
Land's-end.
screw-frig
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mart willow
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have her compasses adjusted at
'termagant, 24, tarteo,ts
arrived
when her officers and crew will turn over from the
hulk to her. K.H.
50 C aptain Smart
Indefatigable, , , ,
off Queenstown, on Sunday, for Lisbon and the Me-
diterranean.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The hired convict-ship
Oriental Queen, having yesterday embarked seventy-
two convicts from the New Prison in this borough,
for transportation, dropped down to Cowes this
morning to embark incorrigibles from Parkhurst, for
the same destination, which is reported to be Aus-
tralia.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 12.—Her Majesty's paddle-
wheel steam-vessel Tartarus, Lieutenant-Command-
ing Richard H. Risk, employed during the past
summer on the coast of Scotland for the protection of
the fisheries, arrived yesterday at ten A.M. last from
Leith. On her voyage to Heligoland, n fortnight
since, she experienced very tempestuous weather.
During the violent gales of the 28th and :Nth ult. she

received considerable injury in her topsides and paddle-
bozes, the greater portion of the port paddle-box
being washed away. Her qualities as a sea boat ale
spoken of most favourably by her commander.
The Tartarus passed a barque with loss of tore-
mast, a considerable quantity of wreckage, and a large
ship's rudder. Her defects are to be made good forth-
with. _ _

Her Majesty's sh;p Aigle, 26, passed down the
Medway yesterday morning, at 8 A.M., in tow of the
Adder and African steamers, en route to Woolwich,
where she is to be stationed as a depot for coal for the
use of her Majesty's vessels. The Aigle when
launched, 50 years since, was a 46-gun frigate, of
990 tons,_ and was subsequently raised to a corvette.
Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Agamfm_
non, 90, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, will be taken
into dock to-day to have her copper examined. The
caisson at the stern of the middle dock was removed
yesterday. On the Agamemnon being placed in the
dock, the gates thereof, owing to her great length,
will be left open, extra blocks will be laid in the
space between the gates and the caisson sunk in its
groove, by which the dimensions of the dock length-
ways will be considerably increased.
The Goodwill fighter, Partrick master, has arrived
from Pembroke, laden with stores for the dockyard.
She is ordered to return with iron ballast, 1,000 tons
of which are required at that port for the public
services.

The barque Honduras, Palo master, from Sierra
Leone, laden with African teak, for the use of the
dockyard, will be taken into the discharging basin to-
day to deliver her ow-go.