The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-24 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Lieutenant Thomas Goss (1845), from the coastguard,
has been appointed to the St. George, 120, at D„von11„.
vice Cull, promoted.
Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds, is preparing to refit
at Portsmouth. . _

Sampson, 6, steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones,
that arrived at Spithead on Sunday evening, loft Lisbon
on the 15th instant. She saw nothing of the Britannia
—there was no English man-of-war in the Tagus—but
she has brought home from the English hospital several
sick and invalided seamen belonging to the Lisbon
squadron, who were landed at Haslar Hospital by the
Lightning yesterday morning. The Samson remains at
Spithead.

in gunnery exercise, &c., by Flag-Captain Bohun Martin,
was inspected
Pantaloon, 8, Commander Hyde Parker,
C. 13., at Spithead, and was taken into harbour to pay eff
yesterday afternoon.
Vesuviu, 6, steam sloop, Commander Barnard, has
gone out of Devonport Harbour. She drawn her
chart for the Channel and western station.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAL—The reported probability of
Rear-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland being the
new First Lord of the Admiralty is hz]eci here with
general satisfaction.
The First Sea Lord of the Admiralty will most pro-
bably be Admiral Phipps Hernby, C.D.
Sir James Graham, M.P., arrived here on Saturday
on a visit to his brother, Captain Charles Graham, C. 8.,
of the Rodney, 92, on board which ship Sir James went.
He returned to town yesterday afternoon.
Tbe Tyne store-ship, Master-Commander Wellington,
arrived at Spithead this morning from the eastward, en
route to Ascension.

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and has been taken from the harbour into the steam-
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to have her defects remedied,
The Rolla, 6, instruction brig for naval apprentices,
Lieutenant Fenwick Commander, hauled off from her
outfitting-hulk to her moorings in Blockhouse Hole
to-day.
SHEERNESS, FEE. 22.—Her Majesty's ship Waterloo,
120, was taken out of the basin yesterday at high water,
and warped to her moorings off the north end of the
dockyard. Her officers and crew were shifted over to
her from the Minotaur hulk the same afternoon. At
sunset the flag (blue at the fore) of Vice-Admiral the
Hon. Joscelyn Percy, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore,
was struck on board the Minotaur, and hoisted in the
Waterloo next morning. In the internal arrangements
of the Waterloo every attention has been paid that can
be conducive to the comfort of those belonging to her.
The scuttles on the orlop-deck are of the largest dimen-
sions allowed, affording ample light and ventilation, and
the cabins for the various officers are as spacious as
can be expected under the present system of berthing all
below. _ . _ _ _ _ _

Her Majesty's ship Tyne, 4, store-ship, Master-
Commanding Mr. Peter Wellington, passed by here on
Saturday moning, in tow of the Monkey steam-tug
vessel. The Monkey came into port for the purpose
of landing some chronometers for the steam squadron
of reserve, and proceeded on Sunday forenoon to
Woolwich.
The brig Polly, of South Shields, which went on shore
on the Mouse shoal, as reported on Friday, has become
a total wreck. Her master and crew were brought in
here by the smack Susannah, and received every possible
kindness and attention from the agent at this port to the
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent So-
ciety, for which they desire publicly to express their
grateful acknowledgments. One of the Medway Com-
pany's steam-vessels conveyed them, free of expense,
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turday, en route to Bombay, by one of the river steam-
tug vessels.