The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant G. W. E. Lloyd (1849), to the Ter-
magant, 24, screw-frigate, Portsmouth; J. H. Crang
(1840), to the Hercules emigrant-ship, Chatham.
Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. J. Barclay (1846), to the
Dee steam-vessel, Woolwich; Dr. Thomas B. Purchas
(1847), to the Electra, 14, Portsmouth.
Mate—W. H. Burnaby, to the Megmra screw-
troop-ship, Sheerness.
Midshipmen—T. W. Howorth, to the Electra ;W.
G. T. Purcell, to the Bittern, 12, Sheerness.
Lieutenant Hoffmeister's death has been reported as
having occurred on board the barque Chebar, nine
days after leaving Calcutta, on the 20th November,
1850.

We regret to state that Mr. James Honiball, well
known in the navy as the patentee of Porter's anchor.
died a few days since. He was universally respected
for his honest worth and high integrity. He spent a
large fortune in introducing Porter's anchor into the
navy, and after years of toil and disappointment has
died just at the moment when a fair trial of bis anchor
has overcome official prejudice, and has established its
claim on the mercantile world.

After the launch of the screw-frigate Imperieuse on
Wednesday, the highly respected builder, Mr. Wil-
cox, entertained at his official residence the Surveyor
of the Navy and Lady Walker, Mr. Watts, the as-
sistant surveyor, Captain Warder, R.N., and others
who were present on the occasion. As the Imperieuse
would arrive too late for the tide to be taken into the
basin at Woolwich on Wednesday afternoon, she was
towed to Woolwich yesterday.
The royal yacht tender Elfin, Master-Commander
Balliston, went down to Cowes yesterday morning
to attend on Lady Barrington and the two princesses,
The Fairy returned into the harbour from Cowes.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY. Commodore Talbot
hoisted the broad pendant in Meander, 44. twain yes-
terday morning, and Rear Admiral Prescott and the
pay clerks proceeded off to her to pay her crew "ad-
vance. Her state room has received the necessary
alterations, and she will probably sail either on Sa-
turday or Sunday for the Cape to relieve the Castor,
Commodore Wyvill.
Medea, 6, steam-sloop, is under the shears at Ports-
mouth, being masted; she will be prepared for com-
mission.

Powerful, 84, having undergone a thorough repair,
was taken out of dock at Portsmouth into the old
basin yesterday.
Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, was taken out of Ports-
mouth Harbour on Wednesday, and tried along the
measured mile in Stoke's Bay, to test her engines and
machinery. She returned into harbour, and went
alongside the Maidstone, coal-depot.
Trident, iron-steamer, Lieut. Commander Harvey,
sailed .from Spithead yesterday afternoon for the
South American station.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's steam-
vessel Avon sailed with supernumeraries for Ports •
mouth on Monday, and returned yesterday.
The transport Diligence arrived from Portsmouth
on Monday, and sailed on Tuesday with stores for
Gibraltar.
The steam block-ship Hague, Captain Ramsay, will
be masted to-day.
The storeship Cornwallis, having been masted on
Tuesday, was warped to the jetty to be rigged by the
riggers of the dockyard. She will be sent to Hong-
Kong to relieve the Minden.
The Cloud yacht, the property of the Earl of
Mount Edgecumbe, was taken into dock yesterday to
have her keel fitted.
The Chatham hulk, depOt to the artisans working
on the breakwater, having been repaired, was taken
out of dock on Monday, and towed by the steam-
vessel Confiance to her moorings in the Sound, in the
Admiralty anchorage ground.
Vesuvius, 6, steam-sloop, is receiving new copper
in the angle dock at Portsmouth.
The Trafalgar Indiaman sailed yesterday for Cal-
cutta. The Tudor, outward-bound, is hourly ex-
pected at Spithead.
The Gladiator, 6, steam-frigate, has been removed
from the steam basin to-day, and placed alongside the
Camperdown, 104, in readiness to enter the Neptune
dock, to be overhauled and refitted.
The Encounter, 14, screw steam-frigate, has been
taken into the steam basin to-day, to have her defects
repaired. Her new commander, Capt. O'Callaghan,
hoisted the pendant to-day.
First Lieutenant Searle, of the Royal Marine
Artillery, embarks to-morrow on board her Majesty's
ship Dauntless, in the room of Lieut. Hewett, gone to
Hasler Hospital.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 16.—The Agamemnon, 90, was
taken out of dock yesterday, and remains in the basin
for the convenience of the engineers and others at
work upon her.
The Inaperieuse, 50, screw steam-frigate, was towed
down the river from Deptford to Woolwich to-day by
the Monkey and Zephyr steam-vessels, to have her
engines, of 350-horse power, by John Penn and Son,
fitted on board at this port.

ANNANDALE PEERAGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—My attention has been called to an article in
your paper of the ith instant, in which it is stated
ttat Mr. George Souter Johnston, now living, is son
of Lieutenant-General Johnston, and that the latter
was grandson of the first Earl of Hartfell (in your
paper called Hartfield).
That this is quite impossible, is sufficiently clear
(amongst other reasons) from the well-known fact,
that the four grandsons of the first Earl of Hartfell
were cotemporaries of Charles the Second.
I am concerned as solicitor for Mr. John Henry
Goodinge Johnstone, whose petition for the dignities
has been referred to the Committee of Privileges, and
will be brought on for hearing next Session, and I beg
the favour of your insertion of this letter in your
columns, as the article in your paper of the 7E"k
instant (with persons unacquainted with the fact..-3)
might otherwise disparage my client's claim.
I am, Sir, yours very obediently,
EDWARD FLO
26, Great James-street, Bedford-row,
15th Sept., 1852.

EXTENSION OF STEAM COMMUNICATION.—A Tlew
line of screw steamers has been established between Liver-
pool. New York, and Chagres, at low rates of passage money
(first cabin 20/., second cabin 151.) The first vessel will sail
from Liverpcol on the Bth December next, and will be fol-
lowed in the first instance by other vessels once a month,
until the ships now in course of construction are completed,
when the service will be extended to twice a month. These
vessels after discharging cargoes at New York will proceed
to Chagres, and return to Liverpool via Havannah and New
York.
The lion. Captain llarris, brother to the Noble
Foreign Secretary, and late M.P. for Christchurch, has left
town. to assume his cvusular duties iu Denmark.