The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

NAVAL 1N TELLIGENCE.

A Board of Admiralty, including the Duke of
Northumberland and Mr. Secretary Stafford left
the Admiralty yesterday, on an official visit to
Devonport Dockyard and the other Admiralty estab-
lishments at that port. Sir John Heron Maxwell,
Bart., has arrived at Devonport to meet their Lord-
ships.

Commander William Wynne Eyton, who has been
promoted to the reserved half-pay list, entered the
navy on July 10, 1805, as first-class volunteer, on
board the Neptune, 98, Captain Thomas Francis
Fremantle, and on Oct. 21 following participated in
the battle of Trafalgar. Removing next to the Sea-
horse, of 42 guns and 251 men, Captain Joha Stewart,
he assisted, on the night of July 5, 1808, in putting
to flight the Turkish frigate Alis Fezin, of 26 guns
and 230 men, and in capturing, after a memorably
furious engagement, and a loss to the British of 5
killed and 10 wounded, her consort the Badere Zuffer,
mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543
men of whom 170 were slain and 200 wounded.
While in the Seahorse, Mr. Eyton also contributed,
as midshipman, to the reduction of the islands cf
Gianute and Pianosa. In the course of 1811 he
joined in succession the Ville do Paris, 110, and
Rodney and Milford, 74's, bearing each the flag of
Rear- Admiral T. F. Fremantle, under whom, in the
Milford, we find him co-operating in the capture of
Fiume and Trieste, in July and October, 1813.
Being confirmed in the rank of lieutenant on July
29, 1814, he was appointed ultimately, on Jan. 7 and
Oar. 5, 1819, to the Rosario and Redpole, sloops,
commanded in the Channel by Captains Villiam
Hendry and William Devereux Evance; on Sept.
15, 1827, as first lieutenant, to the Wolf, 18, Captain
Geo. Hayes, in the Mediterranean; and on Feb. 17,
1829, May 1, 1830, and Feb. 18, 1831, in a similar
capacity, to the Victory, 104, St. Vincent, 120, and
Asia, 84, flag-ships at Portsmouth and off Lisbon, of
Admirals Sir Robert Stopford, Sir Thomas Foley,
and William Parker. During his attachment to the
St. Vincent, Mr. Eyton appears, iu November, 1830,
to have been appointed to the Lightning, steamer, for
the purpose of conveying Charles X. from Lulworth
to Leith. He invalided from the Asia on June 16,
1832, and has not since been employed afloat.
Commander Lamont, who has been removed to the
list of 1816, is an officer of an ancient Highland fa-
mily, of great respectability. He entered the navy

on Dec. 28, 1798, is first-class volunteer on board the
Repulse, 64, Captain James Alms, lying at Ports-
mouth ; and in the course of 1799 joined the Queen
Charlotte, 109, bearing the flag of Sir Cearles
Thompson, and Charon, 44, Captain John Mackeller,
in which latter ship, on his return from a visit to the
Mediterranean, he assisted at the evacuation of the
Helder. Becoming midshipman in January, 1800,
of the Hebe, Captains William Birchall and George
Reynolds, he accompanied the expedition in 1501 to
Egypt; after which he was for more than two years
employed in the North Sea in the Clyde, 38, flag-ship
of Sir John Borlasse Warren, and for nearly one, as
master's mate in the Mediator and Renomm4e, both
commanded by Sir Thomas Livingatone, on the
Channel station. He was then, in August, 1805, ap-
pointed sub-lieutenant of the Staunch, gun-brig,
Lieut.-Commander Benjamin Street; and on the
16th of the following October he was confirmed a
full lieutenant of the Moselle, 18, Captains John
Burman Carden and Alexander Gordon, employed at
first in the Mediterranean and next in the West In-
dies. In 1808 it was Mr. Lamont's lot to be severely
wounded while boarding an enemy's vessel in the Gulf
of Mexico, for which he received a gratuity of
801. 11'. 6i. Ho was obliged in consequence to in-
valid in June of that year. Unable to procure fur-
ther employment, he accepted his retired rank, April
18, 1838.
C6unT MARTIAL AT PORTsMOUTII.—A court-
martial took place yesterday morning on board the
Victory flag-ship, in Portsmouth Harbour, to try Mr.
Rogers, gunner of the Ajax, on charges of drunken-
ness, brought against him by Captain Quin. In the
absence of Rear-Admiral Superintendent A. Fan-
shawe, C 8., Captain Chads, C. 8., presided, and, with
Captains Martin, C. 8., Scott, Henderson, C. 8., King-
come, King, Freemantle, Gifford, and O'Callaghan,
with Deputy-Judge Advocate W. Greatham, Esq.,
formed the court. The business was over before 12
o'clock, and the prisoner was found Guilty, and sen-
tenced to be dismissed her Majesty's service. He
was, however, strongly recommended by Capt. Quin,
in consideration of his long services as a seaman and
petty officer, to be allowed a pension, which, no doubt,
will be awarded to him by the Admiralty.
Echo steam-tug proceeded to Spithead yesterday
morning, with 72 convicts from the new prison, and
put them on board the Ocean Queen, for Australia.
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mouth Harbour to join the steam reserve vessels.
Linnet, 6, was commissioned on Saturday by Com•
mander Need; her complement is to be 80 officers
and men.

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PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 11.—The leviathan screw line-
of-battle ship I)uke of Wellington, three decker, 140,
arrived at Spithead this morning from Pembroke, in
tow of the Inflexible and Desperate steam sloops. Her
appearance in sightwas quickly reported through the
port and town, and the walls of Portsmouth were
speedily very thickly tenanted by anxious gazers.
The vast numbers congregated on the shore to witness
the grand match between the yachts Sverige and Ame-
rica also swelled the number to a considerable extent.
The Duke of Wellington is truly a stately ship; she
sits upon the water most majestically, and, notwith-
standing her enormous body, seems a very graceful
model of a first class man of war. She is a fine illustra-
tion of the talents of the new master shipwright of
this dockyard (Mr. Ahethel), under whose eye she was
built and altered at Pembroke, while he was master
shipwright of that establishment. Numbers of persons
went out to Spithead in boats to make a closer in-
spection of the noble fabric than they could make
from the shore three or four miles off. Admiral Sir
Thomas Briggs) G.C.M.G., the Commander-in-Chief,
accompanied by Captain G. B. Martin, C. 8., with his
flag flying on board the Fire Queen, port tender, M.
Paul, master, commanding, steamed out and made an
external inspection of the Duke of Wellington this
afternoon. She is anchored at Spithead for the night,
and will be to :red into harbour to-morrow to be
forthwith equipped for service.
The yacht match between the Swede and the
America has not come off to-day, the seven-knot
breeze stipulated for not blowing at the hour ap-
pointed for starting-11 A.M.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 11.—The following members of
the Board of Admiralty are expected at Moorshead's
Royal Hotel, Devonport, this afternoon, viz. :—Rear-
Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northumberland,
Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., Captain the
Hon. Arthur Duncombe, M.P., First Secretary
Augustus Stafford, Esq., M.P., Captain the Hon. F.
Pelham, Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of
the Navy, and Colonel Green.

Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, between four and
five o'clock, three men-of-war, apparently British,
were observed about three leagues south of the
Breakwater, going up channel ; wind north-west,
light breeze; the headmost, a barque, supposed to be
a small frigate, under canvas and steam, but whether
screw or paddle could not be distinguished. She was
closely followed by the second, a vessel similar to
herself. The third was a large ship, looking like a
line-of-battle ship, less than a mile astern, under
canvas only, with an ensign half-way up the peak.
WoorAvicer, OCT. 11.—The St. Jean D'Acre,
building at Devonport to carry 90 guns of large ca-
libre, is now in an advanced state, and will soon be
ready for launching, and when launched she is to
be immediately fitted with engines of 600-horse
power, of Messrs. Penn and Sons' construction,
on their patent trunk plan, which gave such sa-
tisfaction when tried in the Agamemnon, 90, now
at Sheerness. The engines of the St. Jean
D'Acre are already in progress, and all the castings
and works are to be made and finished from the models
used for casting and making the engines of the Aga-
memnon, these models having been used for the first
time for the engines of that vessel. The diameter of
the !cylinders of the engines is 78 inches, the trunk
321, equal to 70/ inches when the trunk is deducted ;
the length of stroke 3 feet 6 inches, the diameter of
the engine shaft 13k inches, and the screw shaft 12
inches. The diameter of the air-pump is 23} inches,
the diameter of the screw 18 feet, with a pitch of 20
feet 6 inches, the length being 3 feet 4 inches. The
boilers are in 4 pieces, and the tubes 1,904 in number,
each 2} inches diameter outside, and 6 feet 6 inches
long. The fire-grates are 20 in number, and so ar-
ranged that the position fur the stokers is well venti-
lated. There is also ample spice for getting to every
part of the engines, and the whole of the boilers and
engines being considerably under the water line, they
are well protected from injury in the event of the
vessels in which they are fitted being engaged in
actual warfare.
lii. Grace the Duke of Northumberland, Commo-
dore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., Captain the Hon.
Arthur Duncombe, M.P., Mr. Stafford, M.P. (First
secretary), and Captain Pelham (Private Secretary
to the Duke of Northumberland), left the Admiralty
this morning on their annual official inspection of the
dockyard establishments.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.—The returnl of the
Prince Albert to Aberdeen, bringing intelligence
from Captain Sir Edward Belcher's expedition that
he had been able to proceed up Wellington Channel,
it being quite clear of ice, has given fresh hope to
many of the relations and friends of the missing na-
vigators, as they naturally infer that if Sir Edward

Belcher could proceed up the Wellington Channel this
year, Captain Sir John F:ankiin and his companions
could have passed up with similar ease in 1846. Sir
Edward Belcher's opinion that Sir John Franklin did
not leave his winter quarters at Beechy Island in a
hurry has given additional hope that traces of the
further progress of the missing expedition will be
found, and the great suspense which has hitherto
prevailed relative to their fate will shortly be
removed.