The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tho Duke of Northumberland lett the Admiralty yes-
terday afternoon, en route to Portsmouth by the South
Coast Railway. His Grace stopped last night at Arun-
del Castle. and would arrive at Portsmouth to-day.
Ic has been positively decided by the Admiralty that
the screw three-decker Royal Albert, 120, on the stocks
at Woolwich shall be converted into a screw ship; and
for this purpose her stern will he immediately pulled
down and I,nghthened about 32 feet, in order to get
the proper after run for the screw propeller. This is
a very proper arrangement, for thereby we shall have
at least a ship equal to the French screw ships of the
line, which now outnumber our list,
It has also been most wisely determined to build the
Marlborough, 110, at Portsmouth as a screw ship, and
to name her the Windsor Castle. The Hannibal, 90, at
Deptford, also is to be a screw ship. We trust these
and others now convertible will at once be proceeded
with; they cannot be pushed on too rapidly.

PORTSMOUTH, 'OcT. 25.

The Sharpshooter, 8, iron steam brigantine, Lieute-
nant Commander Ptrisb, is manned with the exception
of three leading stokers and one seaman, and all able
good men. The paragraph which has been inserted in
several daily and weekly papers, stating she was only
half manned after three weeks' commission, and could
not get men, is therefore erroneous. She will be ready
for the Brazils at the end of the month.

The Fearless steam surveying vessel, Captain Bullock,
put in here this afternoon for a supply of coals.
The Ganges, from Sydney, 4th of June, with straight
in gold and wool, passed this port for London in the
night, and sent in heavy mails this noon by a pilot boat.
The appointment of assistant-master-attendant at
Portsmouth Dockyard has been given at once to Mr.
James Tonkin (1832), of the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship
at Sheerness, vice Davy deceased; Mr. J. C. Barlow
(1835), late in command of the Mega3ra, screw troop-
ship, has been re-appointed to the Waterloo.
Surgeons Dr. William Bobertson (1833), to Leander,
50, Portsmouth, and James G. Buchanan (1846), to
Impregnable, flag-ship, at Darronport.
Clerk J. B. Burl Act has been appointed to the Ajax,
58, screw guard-ship.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 25, 8 sm.

By a private letter from Greenock, dated the 22d inst.,
we are informed that her Majesty's steam-vessel Cy-
clops, commanded pro tem. by Lieutenant Seacombe, of
the Horatio, screw steam guard-ship, arrived at that
port, on the 12th instant, having towed the Blazer
from Gravesend in six days. The whole of the boilers
(four in number) intended for the Duke of Wellington,
are not made, nor the engines for that ship ready, and it
will be the end of the present month ere any portion of
the machinery will be embarked in the Blazer. This
vessel at one time can only stow one boiler and a part
of the machinery ; hence she will have to make four
trips from Greenock to Portsmouth. Under the moat
favourable conditions of wind and weather, it is calcu-
lated that the Cyclops will occupy ten days in towing
the Blazer the distance between these ports. The end
of the present year will consequently have nearly ar-
rived before the whole machinery for the " great Duke"
has reached its destination.

The committee appointed to devise the best plan for
adapting the Royal Albert to screw propulsion have re-
commended that she should be lengthened stcrnways
35 feet, and furnished with engines of the actual power
of 1,000 horses. Should this proposition be acted on,
the Royal Albert will be upwards of 4,000 tons burthen,
and consequently much larger than the Duke of Wel-

lington.
The following ciroular relative to the future payment
of the seamen, &c., in the royal navy_ has very recently
been issued to all commanders-in-chief, captains, com-
manders, and commanding officers of Her Majesty's
ships and vessels :
" Whereas, by an act recently passed, of the 15th
and 16th Victoria, chap. 46, it is directed that so mach
of the 18th section of the 2d George IV., chap. 20,
which enacted that there shall always be left six
mouths' wages of the seamen, marines, and boys of the
fleet in arrear and unpaid,' shall be repealed ; and
whereas it is the intention of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, not only to carry the provisions of the
first mentioned act into effect immediately after the
time prescribed by the said act—viz., on the Ist of Oct.
next, but also, as soon as practicable afterwards, to es-
tablish such an amount of monthly pay' as together
with the monthly payment of allotment to the wives
and relatives of seamen, and the value of clothing, to-
bacco, and other articles taken up by the seamen out of
the public stores fcr their own use, shall, upon an aver-
age, as near as may be, leave only one month's gross
pay in hand for casualties; it is hereby directed, in the
first place, that after the 30th inst. the commanding of•
fieers of her Majesty's ships in any port where there h
an establishment of pay clerks (or destined to arrive at
any one of such ports), shall, instead of waiting until
there be twelve months' wages due to the sea-
men es heretofore cause the pay books of the
ships unthr their command to be made up in the
manner heretofore done, according to the existing
regulations, but without retaining six months' pay in
hand. One month will h 3 allowed for completing every
book, in order that the moneys paid monthly—the
monthly allotments—and all other charges incurred
during the period for which the pay books shall be made
out, shall be set off thereon, and the balance up to the
end of the pay book paid to the seamen on such day
after the termination of the month allowed for making
up and examining the pay books as the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty may fix.—By command of their
lordships,
Sept., 1852."
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" AUGUSTUS STAFFORD.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 25.
APPOINTMENTS.

Master.—John Cla;lt-3;r17;(1835), to the Water-
loo, 120, flag-ship, at Sheerness, vice Tonkin.
Clerk.—John Binmoro Burlace (1846), to the Ajax,
58, screw-steam flag-ship at Cork.
The Driver stearn•sloop is ordered to be made ready
for sea in every respect at this port, and to have her
guns, shot, shell, and powder on board, when she will be
taken to Sheerness and kept as an advanced war steamer
at that pert.