The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following officers attended his Grace the Duke of
Northumberland's levee yesterday :—Vico-Admiral
Thomas, RearaAdmiral Sir John Ross, Rear-Admiral
Sir Henry Baker, Raar-Admiral Sir Joshua Rawley,
Rear-Admiral Walpole, Admiral Sir Graham Hamond,
Captain Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Lieutenant T. A. Butler,
Lieutenant C. IL Bamber, Lieutenant C. Dyke, Captaiia
11. G. Mitford, Captain Sir Frederick Nicholson, Com-
mander J. N. Gladstone, Commander Graham lewitt,
Sir John. Liddell, Lieutenant E. Robinson, Captain
,James Dowman, Lieutenant F. Macnamara, Captain
Chads (Excellent), Lieutenant Harry Smith, Captain
;Berkeley Maxwell, Lieutenant Alexander J. Smith,
Captain James, Brasier, Cot:mai:ogler C. W. Riley, Lieu-
tenant Horace Bulla.ck, Captain J. L, Stokes, Lieutenant
Lindsay.
We are glad to clad, by our letters from Queenstown,
-that the .boapital at Haulbowline is undergoing a corn-
ple!e repair; end we have no doubt ultimately that the
cstablishuirnt will be worthy of the tirat natal port is
Ireland. We most cordially congratulate the estet,med
Directar-General of the Medical Department of the
Royal Navy on this move in the light direction; and we
gre quite Lure that the various strictures which have
ban lately passed on the hospital, in a professional con-
temparary,- would have la:,en perfectly unecessery had be
been aceaaintcd, as he ought to have been, with
the tale atato matters —Herald.
The Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamilton, fitting at
Sterracas, will proceed as (;on as ready, to the West
lialkF, to relieve the Alarm, Captain Ramsay, whose
period of service expires in August next. Captain • Ea-
milton visited the sunerb, 80, on Saturday last. This
ship is now paying of i Ceatbam, and the captain cif
the Vestal succeeaed in manning his ship from
volun-
teers in the course of the day.
It is reported that Captain Robinson, in the Arrogant,
36, screw steam-frigate, will proceed in a few days to
purpose of testing the merits of these
Gordon, far
Be;u, taking with him the Dauntless, Captain Halsted; the
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`ghtlYor, Captain Matson; and the Encounter, Captain
various :crewvessels, We presume this will be the last
service on which the the
Arrogant, with her present officers
and men, will be
employed, as they tare now been in
commission since March
PORTSMOUT :r , 1849.
11' JUNE
16 The Dauntless, 26, screw
Halsted steam-frigate, Captain '—
to-day, after replenishing
Coals'
&c., to wait orders.
Captain
usrtedto..draetyurnfreodm tsop
Drummond, came into har paddle steana•trigate,
the purpose of coaling.
A number of outward-b
taken shelter in St. Helen's sand alid nd orders.
dealifor
merchant vessels have
sequence of the strong westerly
va tied.inds that have pre-

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The
well, Captain Thorn, belonging to m
London, was off Plymouth this afternosol Messrs Green,
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has a
bnd
Channel. She left Sydney on 7th Marcl, bound up
o of
cargo of wool worth 50,0001, and a freight
valued at nearly 250,0001., which is greater in
amount
aniof gold
than ever exported at any one time from Sydney. her
accounts confirm those per Vimiera. The Blaekwll
a
had 106 persons in all, crew and passengers. Landed
here, Messrs. Robert Campbell, Brierly, Roderick, Tra-
vers, and Adolphua Young, the last of whom has a
nugget of pure gold, which from its resemblance is called
Punch's head. It weighs twelve ounces, and was pro-
cured from the Ballarat diggings near Geelong.
WEDNESDAY.—The officers and crew of her Majesty's
ship Queen, 110, Captain Wise, will be paid down to-
day, and the men will have 14 days' leave.
The topgallant masts of tho screw steam-blockahip
Sans Pareit were got up on Monday; and the same day
the steam-ship Vulture left at II A.M., took a cruise
round the Eddystone, and returned at 4 20 r. r.
Six joiners, three shipwrights, tix sawyers, and four
labourers were entered in the Devonport-yard on
Tuesday.