The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

EVENINC-1-3 OCTOBER l3: 1852.

NAVAL IN TELLIGEN CE.

DEvo:NrouT, TUESDAY.—His Grace the Duke of
Northumberland, Captain Sir Thomas Herbert,
K.C.8., Cilptain the Hon. A. Buncombe, Captain the
Hon. F. Pelham, with Mr. Stafford, Chief Secretary
to the Admiralty, together with Sir Baldwin Walker,
K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, and Colonel Green,
Director-General of Works, arrived at Moorshead's
Royal Hotel, by the express train from London, yes-
terday afternoon.
In the evening Admiral Sir John A. Ommanney,
K.C.8., commander-in-chief, and Commodore Sey-
mour, superintendent of the dockyard, with their
flag-lieutenants, had the honour of dining with their
Lordships at the hotel.
Their Lordships gave interviews to the officials and
a number of naval officers at the hotel, this morning,
and then proceeded to the dockyard, where, after in.-
specti,)g the several departments, they held a general
muster of the establishment.

If time will permit, their Lordships will, on leav-
ing the dockyard, visit the new works at Keyham and
the Royal William Victualling►-yard. In the evening
they entertain till heads cf the public departments
and a party of friends, after which the First and
other Lords patronise the ball i❑ aid of the funds of
the Royal British Female Orphan Asylum.
To-morrow the First Lord holds his levee in the
dock-yard, dining with the port admiral in the even-
ing.

The Admiralty are expected to pay an official visit
to Portsmouth on Friday next.

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL. PRAED.

Vice Adteiral Bulkeley Mackworth Fraud died on
the 6th instant, at Acton Castle, Cornwall, at the ad-
vanced age of 82 years. Although this gallant officer
bad served 23 years on full pay, he bad never served
at sea since the date of his post rank. He was con-
s€ qnently, in 1837, placed on the retired list of flag
officers, was transferred to the active list in 1840,
promoted to the rank of vice-admiral in 1846, and
pieced on the reserved half-pay list last year.
" The gallant deceased was related to the Praeds, of
the firm of Praeds and Co.. bankers, of Fleet-street,
London, and a protege of the late Earl St. Vincent. Ho
entered the navy Sept. 21, 1780, as first-class volunteer
on board the Canada, 74, Captain Sir George Collier,
stationed in the Channel, where he continued employed
in the Nonsuch, Captain Truscott, until 1782. He
served next, from 1786, until promoted to the rank of
lieutenant, Sept, 1, 1793, nearly the whole time as mid-
shipman, in the Jupiter, Sybil, Soleray, Culloden, 74,
and London, Romney, and Princess Royal, flag-ships of
Rear-Admiral Goodall, in the West Indies, Channel,
and Mediterranean. During the occupation of Toulon
we find him officiating as aide-de-camp to the officer last
mentioned, as well as to Lord Hood. Ho was subse-
quently employed on the home station in La Perle fri-
gate and Atlas, 98, in command of the Crash gun-brig,
and in the Overyssel, 64, flag-ship of Admiral Peyton.
In the Crash, Mr. Praed accompanied the expedition
under Sir Home Popham, against the locks and sluice-
gates of the Bruges Canal in May, 1798, and was cap-
tured by the enemy on the coast of Holland August 26
following. He was made commander, August 21, 1799,
into the Firm sloop, and after having served for two
years and Eight months in that vessel on the English
coast, was advanced, April 29, 1802, to post rank. His
last appointment was July 4, 1803, to the Durham dis-
trict of Sea Fencibles, in which he continued until the
abolition of that service in 1810."
Having been on the reserved half-pay list, there
are no promotions consequent on his decease.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant—Alexander F. 0. Young (1852), to
the Termagant, 34, screw-ship, vice Moreton, whose
appointment has been cancelled.
Mates—Charles A. J. Heysham, to the Agamem-
non, 90, screw-ship, Sheerness ; A. G. Broadhead,
to the Niger, 14, screw-sloop; Frederick Hardy, to
the Encounter, 14, screw-corvette, Woolwich.
Assistant-Surgeon—Seaton Wade (1846), to the
Fisgard, flag-ship, at Woolwich, for service in the
infirmary.
STEWARDS' FEES.

The following Admiralty circular has lately been
issued :

" My Lords are pleased to establish the following
scale of fees for the stewards of the military messes of
officers, when embarked in troopships for passages to
or from foreign stations; those fees are to be paid by
each officer of the mess on the completion of the voyage,
and the commanding officer of the ship is to cause such
sums to be paid to the stewards at once, instead of being
paid to the paymaster:—
To or from the Cape of Good Hope, and other
more distant stations ... 0 0

received considerable injury in her topsides and paddle-
boxes, the greater portion of the port paddle-box
being washed away. Her qualities as a sea boat are
spoken of moat favourably by her commander.
The Tartarus passed a barque with loss of fore-
mast, a considerable quantity of wreckage, and a large
ship's rudder. Her defects are to be made good forth-
with.

Her Majesty's ship Aigle, 26, passed down the
Medway yesterday morning, at 8 A.M., in tow of the
Adder and African steamers, en route to Woolwich,
where she is to be stationed as a depot for coal for the
use of her Majesty's vessels. The Aigle when
launched, 50 years since, was a 46-gun frigate, of
990 tons, and was subsequently raised to a corvette.
Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Agamem-
non, 90, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, will bo taken
into dock to-day to have her copper examined. The •
caisson at the stern of the middle dock was removed
yesterday. On the Agamemnon being placed in the
dock, the gates thereof, owing to her great length,
will be lett open, extra bl:,cks will be laid in the
space between the gates and the caisson sunk in its
groove, by which the dimensions of the dock length-
ways will be considerably increased.
The Goodwill lighter, Partrick master, has arrived
from Pembroke, laden with stores for the dockyard.
She is ordered to return with iron ballast, 1,000 tons
of which are required at that port for the public
services.

The barque lionclurag, Palo master, from Sierra
Leone, laden with African teak, for the use of the
dockyard, will be taken into the discharging basin to-
day to deliver her cargo.