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• - NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
-The following officers attended his Grace the Duke of
Northumberland's levee yesterday:—Vie-Admiral
Thomas, Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross, Rear-Adnairal
Sir Henry Baker, Rear-Admiral Sir Joshua Rawley,
Rear-Admiral Walpole, Admiral Sir Graham Hamond,
Captain Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Lieutenant T. A. Butler,
- Lieutenant C. R. Bomber, Lieutenant C. Dyke, Captain
H. G. Alitford, Captain Sir Frederick Nicholson, Com-
- mander-J. N. Gladstone; Commander Graham Hewitt,
Sir John Liddell, Lieutenant E. Robinson, Captain
James Dowman, Lieutenant F. Macnaraara' Captain
Chads (Excellent), Lieu:.-nant Harry Smith. Ceptain
Berkeley Maxwell, Linuter.ant Alexander 'J. Smith,
Captain James Brasier, Commander C. W. Riley, Lien-
tenant Horace But, ck, Ctptain J. L. StOtes, Lieutenant
Lindsay.
We aro gh.d to find by our letters from Queenstown,
that the hospital at ilaulhowline is underg(ing a cora-
pie e repair; end we have no doubt ultimately I hat the
,stablislarm:lt will be worhy of the first naval port In
Ireland. We meet c:rdiath congratulate the ereerred
Dirtetar-General of the Medical- Department of the
Ito) al I.:.avy (,n this :novo in the right cur. ciur ; and we
Ire quiets tare that the vt;ri, ut strictures which have
been la,t,ily pasied on tha her:pi:al, in a vrofessional con-
temporary, N.: °old here h..,en porf,c!ly nnncessary had he
beau mAJ, mrainVe, as ho 0ni.113 to have been, with
le true stove of in items.—Herald. a
Tifo.V,,t,tal. 26. Captain, C. 13. Hamilton, fitting at
S will proc.aqi t... 5 eo,-as I.s ready, to the •Weit
ic,7ei,_r:e,ts'
to rJiava the Alarm, Captain Ramsay, whose
perio iof se-viv ex-ires in August next. Captain• H-
a. -
siege: sl
taking
ot
'Milton visited the Superb, 80, on Saturday last. This
atlip is now paying di at Chatham, and the captain of
the Vestal suceee,sted in manning his ship from volun-
teers
is reported that Captain Robinson, in the Arrogant,
ghe course of the day.
TH3t6 i
ohs
ufic
sryeor
I.
asewrw:iepv:
h. m:as-frigate, a: thee,i
vweill
Dauntless,purtep ast o ctmleoee
Encounter,
Captainiti a few
Captain days
Halsted; the
Gordon,'ar,for the' Matson;piuurpose of testing the' merits of these
this will be the last
service on which the Arrogant, with her present officers
comnsission since
March,. 1849.
and
men, will b 2 employed, as they have now been in
PORTSMOUTH J
harbour to-
the steam
-frigate,
li—
-
' - trllic 16 .—The Dauntless, 26, screw
misted, returned
The Retribution, 24 replenishingocallsl9 &e.,
Drummond, came into -a
ateaul-fr
'
igate Captain
'to Spithead
the purpose of coaling.. -
taken shelter in St. Helen's and
A number of outward-bound -cdaoytv ovilw:amitsoprditheresa.d
to. r
merchant vessels have
sequence of the strong Wester! . es roads in con-
reilinaorcoahnra; bound up
vailed. y winds that have pre-
ofhagsoll
. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.--Thei me beasiit.ship Black_
wall, • Captain Thorn,
.belonging
Green, of
to
London, was off Plymouth this afternoon,
Channel. She left Sydney on 7th
cargo of wool worth 50,0w0011,hanisd
valued at nearly 250,0001.,
than ever.exported at any one time from Sydney, Her
accounts confirm those per Vimiera. The Blackly:lr,
had 106 persons in all, crew and passengers. Landed
hero, Messrs. Robert Campbell, Brierly, Roderick, Tra-
vers, and Adolphus 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_
. gareaftr::gial.n,ntd
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 the- screw steam-blooktibip
Sans Pareil were got np on Monday; and the same day
the steam-ship Vulture left at 11 A.M., took a cruise
round the Eddystone, and returned at 4 20 P.M.
Six joiners, three shipwrights, six sawyers, and four
labOurers were entered in the Devonport-yard. on
Tuesday. :
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PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.
. ._

The summer drills of the Royal Dockyard Brigade are
-continued every evening, and a great degree of steadi-
ness and efficiency in the various drills and evolutions
has been attained. The battalion will prove an orderly
and well-disciplined body of men.
It is now feared. that the large man-of-war the Wind-
sor Castle, of 140 guns, will not be in a condition to be
launched this summer. A great portion of the dock-
yard strength has been placed upon her in order:to
insure her early completion; but the magnitude of the
works will preclude the hunch this year.
The James Watt, 90• gun ship, is.progressing; when
completed she will he fitted for the reception of engines
of great power. which will work a screw propeller. ,
Tenders have been received for the erection of a bat-
tery. with,stores, &c., on Thorn Island,, at the ,entrance
of Milford Haven, and likewise for various additions and
alterations to the Pater Battery, close adjoining the
dockyard. This battery is to be fitted for the reception
of guns of far heavier metal than hitherto used,
and otherwise to be rendered more complete and
efficient.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, JUNE 16.—Surgeon—Henry 11. Turn-
bull, M.D. (1846), t4)Oe Yips4l, 26. Sheerness.
Assi§ty, Sul'gitckratlr4.4B46, to the,

,arwrawllllo),ftiediffls/ ing in
the Birkenhead, anel-sue, d R ben that vessel was wrecked,
to the Vulcan :crew steam-ship, et Portsmouth.

Assistant Epgineers—Patrick Dail, to the Geyser
steam-sloop, at P.,rtstuouth; George Kent, to the Dragon
steam.t.igate, at Lit.bon,
Whiffin (1552), to the Fiegard flag-
ship, tit Woolwich.
Tne Triton steam-packet, Lirtitenant-Com-
mander Lloyd, n: .k ng ready for the Mediterranean
station, was taken into the middle of the stream to-day,
and will be ready for sea about the 26. h iubt.

THE NAVY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—The stirring up you enabled we to give the late
Board of Admiralty l•as osd its effect on the present,
who really, are doing a vast deal of good. The sailors
are treated with more consideration than usual; their
wages are now " paid down " and leave gj.ven on their
arrival in port, instead of being kept batk till they are
on the. point of stifling; and they have brought a Bill
into Parliament to reduce the money kept in band from
six months to three. But why, Sir, keep any money
in hand at all? Why not pay the sailor the money lie
has earned? It is said, .if paid up, they will desert.
This is quite a mistake; if a sailor wishes to desert,
that won't binder him; and if he does he goes without
taking any of the Queen's money with him.
Why punish all toe navy because a few men may
desert? Why should the sailor be the only man in the
country who is not paid his wages at once? Why should
the soldier be paidevery day and the sailor once it-year?
For it amounts to neatly that.

-irweannot man our flag-ships, or even the Excellent.
'el monthly; men who enter the fisg-ships or
Is it to be wondered at? Men who enter as seamen rig-
gers ore psi
Excellent get two mcuths' adv!ince; hut nothing more
the marine.
foraEz year. This is not right, it is not just. The sol-
dier, when he enlists, get a bounty; so does
Why should not the sailor have one also.
I hear it is proposed to pay the ships in harbour
monthly; but the progress, is slow; it requires
quickening; a little iuk from your pen would settle it
at once.
The Admiralty, I see, have abandoned the system of ll
reserve of seamen, and the money is not to be Eiseu•
Giving up the reserve is quite Ili*, beaah„ it was im-
practicable. The only rational system of reserve is
manning the fln-ships, as I have before pointed af"
Let them be del.ets (as the divisions of 113Srires are) oar
.
manninglships newly coinnaissioned with well-drilled Teem
The time waved in fitting out a ship would go a g
way to cover the orpenEe.
ha manning; I
Tne Rodney was more than three mnntre,-- that time
do not know if she is complete yes. During
and a halt-
we were paying a fail-manned ship ''''..r
~),-t. and tear of ul"necrithiP in Englund, b =sides t" ;::, mauned im-
two ships. Wrivreas if the relief-
things are never thought
mediately, all that expenseor, if
These
they are, they are not acted P_'_
the ulidonuse of Commons are
wise and pound toolish; and e were it properly stated
not without blame; but
Jam suer brought on, they would
to them when the esdin
see the advantage and ateuthsre required money.
0 i
at would
t.i PAbTdemh
They
yrs:
l.a,dyr.e;
penny
vote
obedient servant,
Dderchistoun, June I±.....___________-
I remain, Sir, Your CHARLES NAPIER.

ELANCH ACCIDENT AND
MOLY
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE.
An accident of a most deplorable nature, attended with
apormaTrendesdtahya.t
if not four, human beings, occurred on
the loss of three,
the River Thasies, ell' Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe, at a
Fa"vmessinel,
technically termed a
to' monkey," named the reabella,
naydding n, 713 lying off Caen-wharf, near
few minutes before midnight ,
spot
belonging d sews, ',den with atone. There were
the above-
. in the vessel Mrs.
at that time .
~ . Lydia Whitlock, the
wife of the captain, bt. infant daughter, and a female
friend, named Mary Castle. Whether or not Mr. Whit-
lock, the eaPtain• was on board could not be ascertained,
but one thing is quite certain if he was in the ill-fated
vessel he has also perished.
Whilst the boat was apparently safely riding on the
water, with scarcely a ripple on the surface, a large
steamer hove in sight, and was proceeding at a rapid
pace down the River. She had barely cleared Globe
titairs when the swell of the water completely covered
the smaller vessel. The captain's wife at that time was
on deck, and had ample time to save her own life by
jumping overboard, but instead of so doing she gave
a
aerial scream of " rcn Savo, oh save us!" She then down
into the cabin,
and whilst in the act of lifting her
child,
the water rushed in ere :h such impetuosity that none
tee occupants were enabled to (Leap°, end in theß.l),c!
of a few minutes the vessel sank. The t ills'--
course of an hour, had run down eta ' Vivi', f,:-- the
el
Thames police end others to board tho boat,iclen
"L. -"r theyvue
bzimld the lifeless bodies of Mrs. WI: _ „hen
and the informant-13 woman Mary Castles. raccl, her infamy,
d.)ck, of Rotherhithe, upon beiee Dr. Mar-
the accident, hastened
' to the sceiba made
scquainted with
tendance hoping to be a Kran e, and remained in at-
fibbistanee when the boat
was got up, but unfortetately such was not the case, and
from the state of the Indic, there seems no doubt bat
that death must to To telte n '
entered the boat. Ti.i.e
three
place the moment the water
ree bodies found have been re-
moved to the deed-leu sn at Rotherhithe, and Gardener,
the beadle, having di'
9Peetehed the necessary information
to Mr. Carter, the Surrey coroner, it i 3 expected that
that gentleman will hold an inquest on the unfortunate
sufferers this neeril 'ng.
The name of the I
feeteeldr that caused the -catastiophe
is not precisely known, but the Thames police believe it
John vi
to be the
~ Bull, trader, which left lierslydon tier
a few minutes previous.

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"That no satisfactory reason appearing in the evi-
-11 !., 1 denee for the engine g,:cingeff the rails, the
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' usable tocerne to any othEr conclusion th jury are
an that there
was some dcfoet connected with the rails or the sleepers
1 k
in the reighbourbond of t':e rrfeiclA3t."
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