The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S LEVEE.—Yesterday
the following officers -attended the levee of the First
Lord of the Admiralty:---lrice-Acimiral Percy, Rear-
Admirals Carroll, Collier, Douglas; Captain Hillyer,
Commodore Seymour, Commander Skypwith.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Encounter, 14,
Captain Gordon, arrived at Spithead this morning from
the Tagus. She left Lisbon on the 15th inst., at which
date the Albicn, 90, Captain Johnston; the Pbse'on, 50,
Captain Elliot; the Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart;
and the Dragon, steam-frigate, 6, Captain Giffard, were
in the Tagus.
The Orestes, 14, Commander Hawker, arrived this
morning from the Cape of Good Hope, which she loft
on the 14th of February; her news from that colony,
therefore, has been considerably anticipated. She sailed
from St. Helena on the 22d, and Ascension on the 28th
of the same month. The Bloodhound steam-vessel had
unacle the circuit of the island of St. Helena with the
Governor on board, and bad left for Ascension before
the Orestes touched there. Mr. Chamberlain, pay-
master and purser, who went out some time since
to make up the accounts of Mr. Clotworthy, purser
of the Castor, has taken passage in the Orestes,
as also Mr. Crocker, Assistant-Surgeon of the
depot ship Seringapattina, which is paid off.
The Orestes has taken two prizes in the Mozambique,
and shares in three others with the Castor, 36, Com-
modore- Wyvill. The last capture was a fine Spanish
pirate, having 50 dare-devils for the crow, and a most
ugly long 24-pounder swivel amidships, which would
have done awful execution could it have been worked
against the Orestes when chasing her, but owing to bad,
weather the pirates had stowed ithelote-andiiitheir deeire
to get away did not waste time in the endeavour to
mount it. This was the sort of piratical slaver which
stood 39 shot being fired into her from the Orestes with-
eat bringing to, notwithstanding she got hugged so
closely by her captor that musketry could be fired into
her. The Orestes has been three years and a half in
commission, and will now be paid off.
Commodore Wyvill, in the Castor, was in Simon's
Bay, awaiting the arrival of the Gladiator, when the
Commodore was to proceed up the Mozambique.
The Queen is expected hourly. It is said that she will
be kept in commission, and join the squadron at Spit.
head; that she will be paid down, and her crew have a
f ,rtnighl.'s leave.
The Blenheim, screw block-ship, 10, Captain Hender-
son, got up steam this morning at eleven o'clock, and
oroceeded out of harbour; she went out against a fresh
nrad wind and adverse tide, was a long time getting
round the Spit buoy, hanging at the narrow entrance,
just holding her own for halt an hour. This stoppage
,ave rise to a report that she was aground; but there
was no truth in such report. She went round the ships
at anchor at Spithead, and returned into harbour at
calf-past two o'clock.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Commodore Sir Michael
ieymour, Commodore Superint,ndent of the Devonport
lockyaid, struck his broad pendant on board the St.
George on Monday, on leave of absence. The duties of
the dockyard devolve on the Master-Attendant, Mr. J.
E. Mills, and of the ordinary on Commander Ed-
mondson.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Vixen, Commander Bar-
nard, commenced coaling yesterday preparatory to her
sailing about the 24th inst. with Sir Charles Hotham,
tor the Brazils.

The Aberdeen clipper John Taylor, Captain Hawk-
inge, from Bombay 22d January, laden with ivory, ele-
phants' teeth, Cotton, wool, tea, &c., was off this port
yesterday, bound to Lyndon, and landed here Captain
Johnstone, of her Majesty's 22d Regiment. Passengers
gone on—Lieutenant Dragg, 98th, Quartermaster Rear-
don, 98th, Lieutenant Mecham, 86th, and Mr. Forceball.
Sir William Call has given a donation of 251. towards
the subscription foF the sufferers by the Birkenhead, the
Mayor of Devonport, Mr. R. E. Knowling, 2/. 21.; and
a day's pay from the officers and crews of the ships
in port has been set aside for the same benevolent
object.
Rolla tender, with the seaman apprentices of Ports.
mouth, put into the Sound on Sunday evening, and sailed
again on Monday.
Nautilus tender, the exercising vessel for seaman ap-
prentices at Devonport, put into the Sound on Monday
morning, and sailed again the same evening.
William Jardine convict-ship will call at this port in
a few days, and fill up her complement from Dartmoor,
and then sail for Van Diemen's Lrnd.
Vixen steamer, Commander Barnard, will be out of
the hands of the artificers of the dockyard the 24th
instant.