The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rear-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of
the Admiralty, held a levee at Whitehall yesterday, and it
was attended by the following officers :—Vice-Admiral Sir
Lucius Curtis, Bart , C. 8., and Vice-Admiral Sir Edward
Chetham Strode, K.C.B , K.C, IL ; Rear-Admirals the Hon.
George Alfred Crofton, David Price, Provo William Parry
Wallis, Gordon Thomas Falcon, Alexander Renton Sharpe,
C. 8., the Hon. Edmund Sexton Pery Knox, and John Chas.
Gawen Roberts Gawen ; Captains Nicholas J. C. Dunn,
William F. Glanville, George Elliot, Thomas Hope, Wallace,
Houstoun, Stephen G. Fremantle, Sir William Hosts, Bart.,
William W. Chambers, James Scott, C. 8., Mark H. Sweny,
Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., John Moore, and Hon. Henry
Keppell ; Colonel John R. COryton, Royal Marines; Com-
manders Hyde Parker, John Tudor, Edward Smith, William
Critchell, R. Purvis, George Western, Richard R. Western,
Alexander B. Becher, Edward H. Beauchamp, Louis S. Tin-
dal, and John Huison ; Lieutenants C. W. Hallett, J. Clay-
ton, and B. Sharpe ; Lieutenant C. J. Ellis, Royal Marines ;
Paymaster and Purser J. Colwell.
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., held a levee at White-
hall yesterday, and it was attended:by the following officers :
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Chetham Strode, K.C.8., K CIL ;
Rear-Admirals Alexander Renton Sharpe, C. 8., Gordon
Thomas Falcon, J. C. G. R. Gawen, and P. W. P. Wallis ;
Captains Thomas W. Carter, Thomas Francis Birch, Wil-
liam J. C. Clifford, the Hon. James R. Drummond, J.
M'Donell, St. Vincent King, Henry T. B. Collier, W. Lo-
ring, Charles J. Bosanquet, Wallace Houstoun, N. I. C.
Dunn, H. I. Douglas, W. F. Glanville, and M. H. Sweny;
Colonel John R. Coryton, Royal Marines; Commanders
Charles Gayton, G. Western, C. Reid, James Dirom, G.
Mends, R. B. Crawford, 11. 7e. Morris, A. Boyle, and W.
Critchell; Lieutenants T. C. F. Risk and B. Sharpe.
Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., held a levee at the
Admiralty, at Whitehall, yesterday, whichiwas attended by
the following officers :—Captains F. W. Carter, T. F. Birch,
George St. Vincent King, J. R. Ward, H. T. B. Collier,
Wallace Houstoun, N. I. C. Dunn, W. Glanville, E. Smith,
J. M'Donell, M. 11. Sweny, F. Boyce, and W. Moorsom ;
Colonel John R. Coryton, Royal Marines; Commanders W.
Critchell, C. Gayton, C. Reid, J. Hills, and G. Mends ;
Lieutenants Thomas Tribe and T. C. F. Risk ; Master Wil-
liam Jeffery; Surgeon Charles A. Anderson; and Mate
Alfred H. Alston.
It is reported that three commanders are to be appointed
to each of the three principal home ports, to be borne on the
books of the flag-ship, for the purposes of being ready for
active service. Commander Marsh has already received
his appointment to the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship, at Sheer-
ness.
A board of officers have assembled at the Admiralty, con-
sisting of one of the lords, Mr. Grant, of the Victualling
Board, and three paymasters and pursers, to take into con-
sideration the best manner of placing all the different ac-
counts now kept on board a man-of-war, so as to place them
all under the direction of the paymaster and purser. Mr.
Bell, paymaster of the Royal Yacht, is one of the board, Mr.
J. Grant, paymaster, another, and Mr. Parmeter, paymaster,
is the third.
Pluto steamer (brig rigged), Lieut.-Commander West, ar-
rived at Spithead, and went into harbour yesterday morning,
en route for the coast. She is a small, slow vessel, and ap-
peared very deep in the water.
The starboard watch (about half the ship's company) of
the Arethasa, 50, Captain Symonds, went on leave on Satur-
day. When these men return the port watch will have the
same indulgence.
Arrogant, 46, steam-frigate, Captain R. S. Robinson, was
paid down at Portsmouth, on Monday morning, and half
her crew will go on a fortnight's leave; and the other half
when the former returns. Both these frigates will thus be
stationary at Portsmouth for the next month.
St. Vincent, 101, is slowly progressing in her rigging at
Portsmouth.
Winchester, 50, Captain Loch, C. 8., is rigging with all
dispatch at Portsmouth,
Britomart, 8, Commander Ilesseltine, was commissioned
at Devonport on Monday by Mr. Braddon, the master; her
complement is to be 80 officers and men.
Vulcan screw-steamer will have her defects made good at
Devonport, should the Admiralty so direct. The invalids
brought home in the Vulcan were landed on Monday after-
noon by the Confiance steam-tug.
PORTSMOUTH TUESDAY.—The Prince Regent, 90, Captain
Harris, late pendant-ship of Commodore Martin, arrived at
Spithead this morning from Queenstown, saluted the Com-
mander-in-Chief, and brought up.
The Hogue, 60, Captain M'Dougall, arrived at Spithead
this afternoon from Queenstown, and also saluted the Port-
Admiral.
These ships have come to have their crews " paid down"
and leave given the men.
The Antelope, 3, steamevessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Young, left Spithead this afternoon for Gibraltar.
The Sampson, 6, steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, has
been paid down to six months to-day, and her crew given leave
for a fortnight.
The Vesuvius, steam-sloop, has been taken into the steam
basin to-day, to have her defects repaired.
The Plantagenet, Captain G. E. Bird (one of Smith's India-
men), after embarking passengers and stock, saile d last night
for Calcutta.
ROYAL MARINES --One hundred and twelve of the divi-
sional corps are ordered to replace the like number of the
Artillery corps on board the large steamers at this port.
Captain Lowder will embark on board the Arrogant, re-
lieving Captain Holloway. First-Lieutenant Usher embarks
on board the Retribution, relieving Lieutenant Poore.
Brevet-Major Evans and Captain Thompson Aslett are or-
dered on recruiting service—the former to Macclesfield and
the latter to Beverley, Yorkshire, to relieve Captains Payne
and Kennedy, who are required for embarkation.
Instructions have been issued by the Board of Admiralty,
directing that previously to sending any patients, whether
officers or men, from her Majesty's ships to sick quarters
on shore (excepting to naval hospitals or to established
surgeons or agents), a statement is in each case to be re-
quired from the medical officer of the ships, signed and ap-
proved by the captain or commanding officer, of the parti-
cular nature and effect of the disease, and of the reason why
the patient could not be safely treated on board ; and when
there is no medical officer on board the same information is
to be required from the professional person to whom the pa-
tient is sent. The rates charged for thesubsistence and me-
dical attendance of the patients aro to be also stated; which
rates are to be as reasonable as possible, consistently with
providing proper accommodation. The above statement is
to be transmitted in every such case to the Director-General
of the Medical Department in the Navy.

GREAT INFLUX OF SHIPPING INTO THE PORT OF
LoNnox.—The wind having suddenly veered round from
the N.N.E. (in which quarter it had been for some weeks,
with heavy gales) to the S.E., very near 200 vessels that
had been weather bound, beating about the Channel, and
anchored in the Downs, have been able, since Saturday, to
come up the Thames, with valuable cargoes, from nearly
every quarter of the globe, whilst from 200 to 300 have taken
advantage of the favourable change to proceed to the north-
ward, westward, and other parts. The British Channel has
seldom presented such a fleet of weather-bound merchant-
men as it has for the last three weeks, and great praise is
due to the naval authorities at Portsmouth fur the
timely assistance they have rendered many of them, by
sending off Government steamers with water and supplies
of every description to those that needed them, whether Bri-
tish or foreign. Yesterday the St. Katharine's, London, West
and East India Docks, presented a scene of great activity, and
a considerable number of what are called " dock men,"
who
bad been for some weeks out of employ, were engaged in die"
ollicers to keep account of the articles either sent
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charging the cargoes, as also an extra number of
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bonding warehouses,
or cleared by the parties the vessels were
consigned to.