The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

We regret to hear that among the victims to the yel-
low fever, on board the Dauntless, 31, screw-frigate,
Captain Halsted, in the West Indies, two were midship-
men of that ship.
The Rattlesnake, old frigate, last employed as a sur-
veying-vessel, is ordered to be commissioned this day at
Chatham, to be commanded by a commander, and to
have a complement of 80 men. It is said she is to be
fitted to convey stores, provisions, and dispatches to Sir
Edward Belcher's Arctic searching expedition.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15.
Rear-Admiral Pellew's flag was struck on board the
Neptune last evening at sunset.
The Kassid Kheir, yacht of Said Pasha, left Spithead
this morning for Egypt, but the foulness of the weather
compelled her to brinc, up at St. Helen's.
The Blenheim, 60, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8.,
was docked to-day : and the Sidon, 22, Captain Gold-
smith, came out of the fitting-basin in the afternoon.
The Archer, 14, screw-sloop, Commander Strange,
completed the adjustment of her compasses to-day, and
is now ready for sea.
A collier brig, named the Arrow, of Shields, laden
with coals for sale at this port, went ashore on the
" Horse," a dangerous shoal off this port, a little after 6
o'clock this morning, and as the tide rose she bilged and
filled. The crew abandoned her at half-past 11 a.m.,
when the sea was making a clean breach over her, and
at 2 p.m. nothing but her mainmast was visible above
water.

SHEERNESS, DEc. 14.

The London, 90, Captain George R. Mundy, left the
Nore this day at 11 a.m., assisted by the steam-frigate
Cyclops, commanded by Lieut. John Seccombe, First
Lieutenant of the Horatio, and in command of the
Cyclops pro tem., and the African steam-tug vessel, in
command of Second Master Mr. Gill, for Spithead. Mr.
J. Taylor, Queen's pilot, was boarded on the London,
90, and Mr. J. Millbank, Trinity pilot, was also boarded
on the Cyclops. In addition, Mr. Charles Pope, Assist.
ant-Master-Attendant of her Majesty's dockyard here,
has proceeded in the Cyclops, by an Admiralty order.
The Cyclops will bring the seamen-riggers and seamen
lent from here back from Spithead on the arrival of the
London at that place. The African steam-tug will not
go further than the Downs, unless it be found necessary
in consequence of the foul state of the copper of the Lon-
don, she having laid at her moorings here from 16 to 18
months, during which time a heavy accumulation of
muscles, &c., has adhered to the copper.
The Ordnance boy Elizabeth, William Montague
master, arrived here to-day from Woolwich, with guns,
gun-carriages, and fitments for the Agamemnon, 91
guns, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland ; and the screw
steam-sloop Miranda, 14 guns, and 20-horse power.
The Miranda is ordered to be forwarded in her fitment
with all speed possible. The Agamemnon will take in
her lower deck guns only in the basin, the remainder of
her armament will be put on board after she has left the
basin.

The cutter Longboat, R. Harvey master, sailed yes-
terday for Woolwich and Deptford, with stores from
this yard. _

WOOLWICH, DEO. 15.

The Megmra iron screw steam-frigate, Commander
John 0. Johnson, arrived at Woolwich at a quarter be-
fore 4 p.m. yesterday, having on board Captain Thomas
Elwyns and Major the Hon. R. Spencer's companies,
both of the 9th battalion of Royal Artillery, from Bar-
badoes. The troops will land at the Dockyard to-mor-
row, the frigate having been brought up at moorings in
the stream.