The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-28 00:00:00

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.
Commander Archibald 2lucdonald (1842), on the re-
tired list, died a iew days since at. Rock Ferry. He en-
tered the navy in 1798; was in the expedition to the
Helder; was wounded in the expedition to Copenhagen;
was at the capture of Le Duequene, 74, and Creole, 44;
was made a lieutenant in 1807; served with great dis-
tinction under Sir R. Keats,
,ancl. was in the Tribune
when, in 1810, she beat off-four Danish brigs of war.
He was for 24 years superintendent of quarantine at
Liverpool.
Edinburgh, 58, screw-gunnery tender, Captain Hew-
lett, has completed her fuel, and has hauled off to the
moorings off Gesport.
Fairy royal yacht terew-tender, Master-Commander
Welch, was taken on the graving slip at Portsmouth on
Saturday morning, and again shipped the flexible screw.
The screw was slightly, altered, having a greater pitch
than when last tried. Captain Crispin took the Fairy
out in the afternoon, and it was found that she had a
little more speed than when tried with tho flexible crew
last time; howeier, she did not go so fast by a knot an
hour as she did well Smith's screw, although she made
five revolutions more per minute. We understand that
th© flexible screw occasions more tremulous motion in
the vessel than the of .i screw.
Ferret, 8, Commander M.Donald, is nearly ready for
sea, and will go into the Sound in the early part of this
week. The Ferret goes to the Coast.
Spartan, 26, Captain Sir W. Rome—Forty seamen
and boys of the Queen have seen akowed to volunteer
for the Spartan, 26, fitting at this port.
Trincomalee' 24, Captain W. Houston, was masted
on Friday, and taken alongside the jetty at Davenport.
Her marines were embarked on Saturday, under the
commapd of First Lieutenant Havetfleld:
Triton -steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Lloyd,
arrived at Devonport on Seturday afternoon from Wool-
wich, bringing a party of mariues for the Qaeen, 116, to
be recommissioned at teat port. The Triton will be paid
advance wages there, and then proceed to join the fleet
in the Mediterranean.
MALTA, JUNE 22.—The Medina, from Corfu, and the
Medusa, from Alexandria, with homeward India mails,
have both arrived. .•
The Fury steamer, with the Governor and suite,
having repaired her defects, left port this morning for
Gee), to try her engines, and to-morrow will go out to
j0i.71, the Admiral.
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`,13 have no local news of the slightest interest to
foreign readers.
examina-
tionl3
when Mr. .Flugn Pearsova, ate,was recommended aSI uziNaDAYl.C—oTllhegee
hcaoinfeYluedaerdlYyesterday,
for the
lieutenant's commission, - m
and Cadets (R.M.) Petman,
nun, for commissions Harrison, Rybot, and se in the
re
Royal Marine corps.
The Rolla, 6, apprentices' trainingbrig, Lieutenant-
Commander Fenwick h left.
Leith to enter
this port for Scotch boys for the navy.
The Vulcan iron troop-ship, Commander Von Donop,
is under orders to leave this poet On the 2d rox. for
Ireland, to embark troops for AustraliP The Simoom iron troop-frigate Captaina°
Kingcome,
disembarked the Rifle Brigade at th •
14 deter-
day morning, and they left immediately byy theouth
Coast Railway for quarters at Canterbury. - Ss
The Statesman, 900 tons, Captain Godfrey, arrived at
Spithead from the Thames on Friday night bound for
Australia. Upwards of 50 persons arrived by train on
that day from Brighton, to take passage in the ship for
Port Philip, many of whom are most amply fitted out
with stock, implements, &c., for the diggings. The
Statesman is famed for her rapid passages, her captain
being reported the person who introduced the system of
circle sailing. She has on board between 240 and 250
passengers, among whom are persons of the better classes,
many of them old and eminently respectable colonists.
She put in at this port owing to the number of pas_
sengers who had engeged berths in her belonging to
Brighton, but the result showed the facilities of Ports-
mouth for victualling, &c. No ship ever left Spithead
better stocked with every necessary to make a voyage
comfortable than the Statesman. She sailed this evening
for her destination.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 27.—Her Majesty's brig Philomel
is ordered to be fitted for commission.
A general muster of artisans and labourers took place
in the Devonport dockyard yesterday, in the presence of
Commodore Seymour and the principal officers. Seven
labourers were entered on the establishment.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail-
packet Hellespont, Captain W. Watts, which arrived
from the Cape on the 6th inst., sailed again for that
colony yesterday. Besides her general cargo she em-
barked here a quantity of stores on Government ac-
count. The Hellespont will only touch at St. Vincent
on the passage out. She is appointed to bring home
the Ist of August Cape letters, in place of the Qaeen
of the South, which left here on the 21st for the Cape
and Calcutta.

bHEERNESS, SIINDAY.—Her Majesty's ship Vestal,
26, Captain Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton, was undocked
on Thursday, and warped to the south side of the fitting
basin,. Her bottom has been stripped, re-caulked, and
newly coppered, the lower rigging is-set up, caps fitted,
and topmasts pointed.
Her Majesty's iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel Triton,
3. Lieutenant Henry Lloyd commanding, made her
number on Friday forenoon, and proceeded on ber voy-
age to the westvard. She was built at Blackwell is
1847, from designs of the late Surveyor of the Navy,
Captain Sir W. Symonds, is of 650 tons burden, and
fitted with engines of the nominal power of 260 horses.
She is to proceed to the Meciiterrnean forthwith, to be
employed Lir the conveyance of her Mojestfb mail be-
tween Malta and the landau Islands.
Her Mejcsty's paddle-wheel steam-me,t,sel Wildfire,
Mr. Buckman, second master, commanding, is completed
in the repairs of her hull by the dockyard artificers.
So soon as she is painted, &c., in the inside, she will
resume her duties as tender to the Waterloo, 120, flag-
ship at this port.

Her Majesty's screw Ettam.frigate, 30, bui!ding on
the norta-slip, is progressing rapidly. Several gangs of
the dockyard men are at work on her, and she will be
ready for launching towards the end of the pre,ent )ear.
Her Majosty'a snip Meader, 44, fitting at Cihattiem
for the broad pendant of Captain Charles Talbot, as
successor to Commodore Wyvill at the Cape of Good
Hope, will ba ready to ba undocked the latter part of
next week. Her equipment is rapidly progressing.
The Goodwill lighter, Patrick master, arrived on
Friday from Chatham, and is loading with stores for
the western yards.

Second•Lieutenisnt W. H. H. West, of the Chatham
division of Royal Marines, and serving as junior subal-
tern in her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, has proceeded
on leave of absence for two months, for the benefit of
his health.
The crews of the whole of her Majesty's ships inerdi-
nary were inspected on Friday by Captain C. Hope,
Superintendent of the Dockyard, and Commander Pryce,
of the Monarch, 84.
A portion of the Coast-guard tam were practised
yesterday in firing shot end shell from the old garrison
battery, at a target placed n-ar the Nore middle-ground.
Tne portion of th,3 parade-ground which has been
prepared for the trial of the anchors cf all nations, as
also the machinery erected. thereon, was tepted on' the
afternoon of Friday, presence of the Vice-Adtniral
the Honourable Josceline Percy, C. 8., Commander•in-
Cnief at the. Nore, Captain the Honourable Montagu
Stopford, his flag-capt4in, attended
lieutenant the Hon. 0. W. M. Lambert, MtrheJafiniegs-
Tonkio, Master of the Waterloo, Mr. J
ylen *Master-
Attendant, and several. of the port officeigi Tw'o Admi-
ralty anchors, designated the old and ntr ones, the for-
mer weighing 25 cwt. 2 qrs.. 211 b, the latter 25 cwt.2' clrs-
-171b., were attached to
.the gear, and the order given to
heave tight. The Admiralty anchor, on the new plan,
quickly embedded itselt to the entire, length of the arm,
continuing its holding properties, rd siarting only 3
feet, while the other on the old plan end
15 feet, thus
showing the very great superi
the latter as regards holding
qualities. This preliminary
trial was made under
the able direction of the former over
Master-
Attendant, Mr. J. Ay
01! to whom is intrusted the su-
perintendence cf thc whole of the arrangements
t y ofs the.
general trial, which for the
will commence on Thursday, the
Ist proximo.

WOOLWICH, jtril Itasr...t Engineers—John
ArponiTassEsists
Roberts, second el ass, the 26. Fisgard, flag-ship at Wool-
wich; George
Reube __ai
jss, to c
jug.,
) second class, to the
W sun Ca t . Vulcan , ate, at Portsmouth;
- berevr wain troop-frig
the ISloraaio screw seam guard-ship, at Sheerness;
a P. Blake and Francis T. Elliott, third class, to
Robert J. Hay and Thomas Wilson, third class, to the
Blenheim screw steam guard-ship, at Portsmouth;
Henry W. Eiger and Joseph J. Lovell, third class, to
the I;i,gar ,
Frederick 13. Youel (1846) to the
Second Master
d flagship at Woolwich.
Trincc,malee, 24, at Devonport. .
, R Hawkes is appointed first timber con-
Mr. Joseph R..
at Woolwich dockyard, vice Mr. Stewart Barr,
vuehroteried
d suddenly here on Tuesday morning last.
Mr. William Carr to be second timber converter, vice
Hawkes.
Mr. Charles Morgan and Mr. Benjamin Lee have been
eappointed extra clerks at Woolwich dockyard, in the
o
ieepers' department, to assist in taking stock
storekeepers
the general survey about to take place.
The committee, consisting of Commodore Henry
Eden, Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard; Captain
wavier), of the steam department at Somerset House;
and Captain Mundy, of the London, 90, at Sheerness,
sat again yesterday and to-day, on board the Fisgard
gag-ship at this port, to inquire into the cause of the
length of the voyage of the Megmra steam troop-frigate
to and from the Cape of Good Hope. The result of the
inquiry is not yet known, but we have ascertained from
A party who noted the time occupied by the following
vessels in their voyages to the Cape the following
results : Horse Time to the
Tons, power. Cape.
The Birkenhead
The Vulcan 1,764 350 56 days.
The Megmra
56563, dddaaajysss...
The Retritivion 1:641 800
The Sidon
The Cyclops
Oa referring to the dates of sailing, stopping and
reaching home, the actual time occupied by
the Me-
gaera in iailing and ste.aming durlr?g her last voyage
borne from the Cape was forty-nine days, going in that
time 6,300 miles, the distance of the Cape of Good
Hope from Plymouth.

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