The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, the Second Secretary,
has left the Admiralty for a short tour in the country.
Commodore Martin's squadron will shortly be com-
plete, and when all the mou have returned from leave,
the ships will proceed on an exercising cruise.
The committee on accounts, consisting of Messrs.
Murray, chief engineer, and Mr. Rice, master ship-
wrights' assistant of Portsmouth yard, and Mr. Laws,
storekeeper of Sheerness yard, has arrived at Chatham for
the purpose of examining the accounts kept at that yard.
THE NEW STEAM-YARD AT KEYHAM.—We are glad
to find that the present Board of Admiralty, convinced
of the national importance of these works, have deter-
mined that they should be actively proceeded with; and
it is probable a portion of the proposed establishment
will in the course of the present summer be put into
effective and profitable operation.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The commission appointing
the Rev. E. Parish chaplain and naval instructor to the
Blenheim, 60, screw steam guard-ship, has been returned
to the Admiralty.
Four field pieces have been ordered to be supplied for
the use of the dockyard brigade.
Commander-in• Chief Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs,
accompanied by Captain Chads, Captain Martin, and
Lieutenant Passey, wont out to Spithead this morning
in the Sprightly, to muster and inspect the Encounter
steamer, Captain Gordon. The crew were exercised at

gunnery practice.
Orestes, 14, Commander Hawker, passed yesterday a
most satisfactory inspection, after which she discharged
her powder and came into harbour and unbent sails.
She has this morning commenced returning stores, and
will come alongside the jetty to pay dr.
Arrogant, 46, screw steam-frigate, Captain Robinson,
has her topmast fidded, and has commenced rattling
down her rigging.
There is a vague report to-day that the ofii,:ers and
ship's company of the Superb are to be turned over to
the St. Vincent, 110; but we cannot trace it to any au-

thority.
Hogue, 60 gun ship, Captain Macdougall, at Spii
head, was exercising her crew at firing at a target dr

morning.
It is now certain that the Edinburgh, 60, screw-ship,
when she comes out of dock, will be attached during the
summer months to the Excellent, Captain Chads, as a
tender, and will occasionally proceed to sea, to exercise
her officers and mon at gunnery practice while under
weigh when the ship has motion, Sm. This will be a
most advantageous plan; for so still and motionless is
the Excellent, moored head and stern as she is, that it is
no more than mere battery practice that the officers and
men learn in her.
Captain Crispin, of the Royal yacht Victoria and Al-
bert, has gone on a fortnight's leave.
Queen, 116, Captain Wise, flag-ship of Sir William
Parker, has not yet made her appearance at Spithead.
Vulcan, iron screw steam-ship, Commander Von
Donop, is being refitted, and will not be completed be-
fore the 15th June.
Winchester, 50, Captain Loch, C. 8., is now fully
manned, and will be ready for sea by the 10th of May.
The anniversary meeting of the Portsmouth Sailors'
Home was held this afternoon, in Portsmouth. under
the presidency of Admiral Sir Francis Austen,
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Comman-
der•in-Chief, being prevented by important duty from
attending in time to take the chair. The report read
showed the Home to be in most flourishing use and pa-
tronage among those for whose peculiar advantage it
was established, and as the numbers of applicants for
beds and rations are nightly and daily more by hundreds
than the means of the institution can supply, an increase
of the establishment is resolved on, which it is hoped
the public will enable the directors speedily to carry
out. A note received through Lord George Lennox,
Lord in Waiting on Prince Albert, announced his Royal
Highness's intention of heading a new list of subscribers
for the above objeot with a donation of 501.
The Encounter, 14, screw, Captain Gordon, was in-
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at Spithead to-day by the Port-Admiral,
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Thomas Briggs, and her crew excised in gunnery by
Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Exoellent.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Alien, act-
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commanding, took the Commander-inof -chthieef
to Spithead, and bore his flig on his inspection
Encounter.
hat barque
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The RUSS.BH
Gustav, Captain Bjorkroth, from Alexandercria tonr Ghent,
last from Falmouth, reports that y t_
."ert
Ind the Eddy-
ker, with
da (Thursday)
morning she saw, between Start Pointiree.de
stone, a large British man-of-war, a t
_a.rst.wo-decker, going
an Admiral's flag at the peak, and
up Channel. Wind, light, from E.na-4_.
Letters received here from the Alediteiranean state
that her Majesty's ship Vengeance is ordered home to
refit.
The brig Britomart will go out of Ilamoaze into the
Sound to-morrow (Saturday) preparatory to sailing fur
the coast of Africa.
DEVONPORT, APRIL 22.-11 - William,. M. Walker,
son of Commander William Walker, of Stoke, has this
day been appointed temporary clerk in this dockyard,
vice Mr. Wolrige, lent to Woolwic .
The crew of the Vixen steam sloop, Commander Bar=
nard, will be paid the wages due to them while serving
in the Vesuvius, to-morrow morning, by Mr. Mills,
master-attendant; the fitments of the Vixen will be
complete on Saturday.
Hamoaze, lighter, Wood, master, sailed to -day with
stores for the Comet surveying vessel, at Sky Island, on
the coast of auctlantit she will Call at Liverpool on her

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