The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLY MObTII, SATIIRDAY.--110r Majesty's frigate
Leander, 50, Captain S. Dacres, was towed yesterday
by the stoum-vessela Confianee and Pike from the
Sound into Haniosze. She will be docked on Tuesday
and examined, and her crew will be paid wages at this
port.

The defects of the steam-ship Dauntless, 33, Captain
Halstead, are ordered to be made good with all dispatch.
The steam troop-Ship Birkenhead, Commander Sal-
mon—ail well—arrived at St. Helena at 5 P.N. on the
9th of February, on her way to the Cape of Good Hope,
as reported by the Ellenborougb, Captain Lambert.
The East Indiaman Nile, Captain Nesbitt, was off this
port yesterday, and landed passengers. The East India-
man Ellenborough, Captain Lambert, laden with sugar,
rice, hides,,And saltpetre, was off the port yesterday,
going up Channel. •The-Nile and Ellenborough left India
the same day; off the Island of Mauritius they were in
company for a week, and near Scilly they spoke again.
On Wednesday they were going up the Channel together.
PonTsmenTft, SUNDAY.—The Pluto steamer, Lieut.-
Commander West, sailed from Spithead, for the coast,
on Friday evening. She is to call at Plymouth for su-
penumerarjea for the Penelope and other vessels of the
. .
squadron._

The Antelope steamer, Lieutenant-Commander
Young, which grounded on the Ledge on Thursday last,
having received her.stores, sailed for Gibraltar on Sa-
turday, at four P.m.
The Lightning, Admiralty yacht, arrived at Ports-
mouth from Woolwich on Sunday afternoon.
The Falmouth lighter, sailed from Portsmouth on Sa-
turday night, having on board the luggage of Admiral
Hyde Parker, for Deptford.
An Austrian brig came into Portsmouth Harbour on
Saturday, with a cargo of Italian hemp for the dockyard.
• The Vulcan steamer -seems doomed to long passages;
she has not,yet made her appearance at Portsmouth.
Wind, st. flue weather.
SIIEBRIMS, APRIL 4,--Her Majesty's ship London,
90, Captain G. R. Mundy,-has her sea-going topgallant-
masts on ena, and is all ataunt with her summer gear.
Her.offieera,aud.crew were mustered on Friday by Cap-
tain the lion. Montague Stopford, Flag Captain to Vice-
Adcairfit the Hon: Juseeline Percy.
Her Majesty's sloop Comm, 14, having undergone
thorough repair, was removed from the north dock on
Friday to moorings in the harbour, riff the Lapwell.
Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Horatio, 24, Cap-
tain the Hon. S..',T; Carnegie, is reported ready to leave
the fitting basin pn Tuesday neat. The shipwrights
have finished their work on her. Some now 8-inch
guns, weighing 56 ewt., to throw 61-pound hollow shot,
are being made for her. She will shortly proceed on
an experimental cruise for the purpose of testing her
qualities under canvas, and the efficiency of her ma-
chinery and screw propeller.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam frigate Cyclops, 6,
is nearly complete in the repairs of her hull., and is hay-
ing now copper but on forward up to her watar-lfne.
She has been under the baud* of the dockyard more
than two mont!s.

Her Majesty'4 ship North Star, Commander Pullen,
having taken on board her stores at Deptford, has pro-
ceeded to Woolwich for the purpose of being made
ready to accompany the other vessels under the com-
mand of Sir E. Belcher in their voyage to the Arctic
regions.

Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Araphion' 34, has
taken her guns on board and mounted them. Her in-
ternal fittings are fast approaching completion. She is
all ataunt in the basin, which she will be ready to leave
in ten days.
Her Majesty's ship Achille, 76, has been transferred
to the east side of the fitting basin.
Her Majesty'S steam-vessel Myrtle, Mr. W. S. Bour-
chiermaiter,- proceeded to Chatham on Saturday on
dockyard service; and return to port in the afternoon.
We have been infOrmed that on the arrival at Spit-
head of her Majesty's ship Queen, 116, her crew will
receive the larger portion of the wages due to them. in-
stead of being paid off, and that she will form one of the
Channel squadron ,the command of which will be in-
trusted to Sir William Parker, late Commander-in-
Chief in the Mediterranean.

CAPTAANS ON. It!WITruD HALF-PAY.
The following senior Conimanders have been recently
promotnd,to the.rank of Captains 9n the reserved half-
payli.st-:--dhomits Edmund Cole (1821), Alexander
Shairp--(t827), Charles Calmady Dent (1828), and
Gedrge Flower Herbert (1828). The reserved half-pay
list 'of Captains is now ono short of the 25—half the
number at which it is to be established.

COMMANDERS. ON RESERVED 11 ALF-PAY.
The vacancies since 'the establishment of this list, by
promoting the senior lieutenants, have been filled up by
the promoters of Commanders John Nepean (1806), B.
Hooper (1809), Richard ;Lloyd (1810), Thomas Cull
(1812), Charles Coullet (1814), and Lawford Miles
(1825).: The latter officer is Sir Trancis Baring's last
promotion, and, as i¢ a score of other instances, he set
aside the claims of 200 officers to promote a distin-
guished favourite. Ia this, as in the captains' list, 2i
promotions are duo to 'make up the established number.

THE sgtlxon COIIBiANDERS' LIST.
The senior Bothe list of commanders now numbers
only 23, and the seniors on the reserved half-pay list
number 129. This is two above the established num-
ber, according to the Officica Navy List, which, although
published "by authority," is not always officially cor-
rect. The number of commanders now on the active
list is 558. If the, reserved half-pay list of captains
were made up to the established number of 60, by the
promotion, which is duo, of 25 commanders, the active
list would be redubed to 533, or 83 more than tho num-
ber to which it is ultimately to be reduced.

THE ACTIVE LIST OF LIEUTENANTS.

The lieutenants on the active list now amount to

1;221, or 21 mere than the number to which it is to be
reduced. If, however, the promotions to commanders or
reserved half-pay were completed, the lieutenants' list
would be reduced to under 1,200.

THE PAYMASTERS
,AND PURBERS. OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

The Admiralty have at length .filled up the seniority
list of the paythastors and pursers to its established
nutnber,.3o.7 ,It hail been:kept ()lien for some time, in
Consequence of the next in seniority for the retirenent,
Mr. Thorn, having an=appointment on board the Al-
bion, 90 ; and now„instead of compelling Mr. Thorn,
who has been a purser for more than half a century, and
has had the moat lucrative ships in the navy, to retire,
the Admiralty
,have continued him on the active list,
ruin enabling him ,to tnake money, and have plaoed on
the retired list an officer junior to -Mr. Thorn,—Edward
O' Maley (1602). • ; - '
Preparations havelcernmenced in the parade-ground
Of the dockyard for the purpose of testing the strength
of the various' now in use in the naval service.
Mr. J. Aylen; waiter: attendant, some time since
submitted to the Board of :Admiralty the model
Of an anchor of his- own invention, which, on
being tested with the present . Admiralty anchor,
was shown to possess an advantage as regards- its
holding qualities of 50 per cent: over the latter. Mr.
Aylen has, in obedience to, instructions, since made an
Y t°a
ni is: IlEr El ,'.
anchor of scrap iron, weighing 32 cwt., which will be
:pamlace,edrsionfcompetiticiti with others on the trial which, ac-
cording to:present-arrangeMents is to take place early
illejaunbe:ry
c‘ow ounnedt,e,r the superindence of various naval
the port, and othera a6fine.cted with our mer-
mil° rinarine. so. Aylrirt's anchor is an improvement
,„,_ . admiralty one, differing from it only as regards
6"" snaP° of the •palin, the back thereof being shaped
and its inside being fist from the point to
the -
shank., The trial anchor has been
° of thei
Mr. Aylen's principle, and the
wan
in use
made with one:
Jau7l;Andak4alty anchor, and, as far as it
other on that
the experiments already made,
is possible tnjudge
superior holding qualities to
itm ca)sptpoefa appears lei
otherkii i
„the Isabella screw
towed to the,DOwns, on her wltC4Ptiriu Boatson, will be
her Majesty'S'steam-tug, 40iievy.to Behring's Straits, by
Woret.inat, APRIL 3.--The Agame
at Woolwich-, :and to be fitted with
en rnnon, 90, building
by John fetif,k,!lnct 'Son, is now
of 550 horse
power . . _ _. _ now in so forward a
,state that sirolvill 100-is.nnen.d
.. on or about the sth
-19th of May Amt. according as as there may be 4 auffieiZt
depth of water during the spring tides at either of. these h
, periods. The Agamemnon as
.11!aci .her poo-
p deck put
excellent condition for
up, and is now in _
the timbers
showing the
construction_ and oresmji of the timbers of ono, of thEt.
thost powerful war jitep,Fr6.l9s thelgya l navy of A. '
country, and numerous visitors ufuir themselves of the