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

NAVAL :INTELLIGENCE.

DUKE OF NeeTnumiiirmatio's LEvez.—Yesterday
the tollowieg,officers attended the levee of the First
Lord of the Admiralty:--Vice-Admiral Percy, Rear-
, Admirals Carroll, Collier, Douglas•' Captain Hiflyer,
Commodore Seymour, Commander Skypwith.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Encounter, 14,
Captaio Gordon, arrived at Spithead this morning from.
the Tagus.' Ellie left Lisbon on the 15th inst., at which
date the Albion, 90, Captain Johnston; the Phaston, 50,
Captain Elliot; the Indefatigable, 50, captain Smart;
.and the Dragon, steam-frigate, 6, Captain Gifford, were
in the Tagus.
(The Orestes, 14; Commander Hawker, arrived this
morning from the Cape of Good Hope, which she left
,o 2 the 14th of February; her news from that colony,
therefore, has been considerablyanticipated. She sailed
from St..Hdena on the 22d, and Ascension on the 28th
of the same months The Bloodhound steam-vessel had
made the- circuit of the island of St. Helena with the
Governor on board, find had left for Ascension before-
the Orestes touched- there. Mr. Chamberlain, pay-
esaater and purser,
_iho went- out some time since
to 'make up the accounts of Mr. Clotworthy, purser
of ' the Castor, has . taken --psesage in - the Orestes,
as also Mr. .;Crocker, AsaiStant-Surgeon of the
depot ship Seringapatam, which is paid off.
rho Orestes has taken two prizes in the Mozambique,
tad shares in three others wall the Castor, 36, Corn•
modore Wyvill. The last Capture was a flue Spanish
pirate, having 50,, dare-devils for the crew, and a mast
drily lung 24-pounder swivel amidships, which would
have done awfulexectition could it have been worked
%pinta the Orestes when chasing her, but owing to bad-
weather the pirates hadsteived it below, and in. their &sire
to get away did not-waste time in - the. kndtravour : to
1.-monneit, This was the sort of pitatial *later which
L,stood $9 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-Caster, was in Simon'a
Flay, 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
fie kept in commission, and join the squadron at Spit-
+lead; that she will be paid down, and her crew have
f ortnight's leave.
• The Blenheim, screw block-ship, 10, Captain Bender-
-ion, got up steam this morning at eleven o'clock, and
proceeded out of harbour; she went out against a fresh
head wind aed adverse tide, was a long time getting
round the Spit buoy,-hanging at the narrow entrance,
just holding her own for half an hour. This stoppage
-.eve rise to a report -that ,she was aground; but there
was no truth in finch report. She went round the ships
st anchor at Spithead, and returned into harbour at
half-past two o'clock.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Commodore Sir Michael
ieymoar, Commodore Superintendent of the Devonport
tockyerd, struck =his broad pendant on board the St.
George on Monday, -on-leave of absence; The duties of
'he 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,
for the Brazils.

The Aberdeen clipper John Taylor, Captain Hawk-
togs, from Bombay. 22d January, laden with ivory, ele-
phants' teeth, cotton, wool, tea, &e., was off this port
yesterday, bound to Ltilidon, audio:tided here Captain
Johnstone, of her-Majeily's 22d Regiment. Passengers
gone on—Lieutenant Dragg, 98th, Quartermaster Rear-
don, 98th, -Lieutenant Meehan], 86th, and• Mr. Foreehall.
° Sir William Call has given• a donation of 251. towards
the subscription for the sufferers by the Birkenhead, the
tieyor of Devonport, Mr. R. ll Knowliug, 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 Sourid 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.
a few'W ildliaayeas jaanrdd ifinel cuopn vhieert-scboimp
pwlei lintecuattlfr. aotmt bpi sarptomr
air!
and then sail (or Van Diemen's Lrnd. • •
Vixen steamer, Commander Barnard. will be oat of
the hands of the artificers of the dockyard the 24th
instant.