The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MIT 11.
The Duke of Taranceau, son of the Queen-Mother of
Spain, and Admiral T. M. Quesada, Brigadier-General
and Chief Spanish Naval Commissioner, arrived at this
port to-day to inspect the dockyard, &c., and were
attended by Mr. Pappalardo, the local consul for Spain.
The squadron at Spithead are daily exercised in sea-
manship by Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8.,
the Port-Admiral. The whole of the boats from each
ship, manned and armed, were ordered to be sent into
harbour yesterday afternoon. After lying alongside the
flag-ship Victory a couple of hours, they returned to
their respective ships, which have this morning exercised
in shifting topgallantmasts, topg,allantyards, and jib-
booms.

The Menelaus lazaretto ship, after being thoroughly
repaired, returned this morning to the quarantine ground
at the Motharbank.

The crews of her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain Crispin, and the Fairy, Master-Commander
Welch, Lave been this day paid wages.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 10.

Lord Ellesmere and suite embarked last evening,
uneler a salute on board her Majesty's frigate Leander,
s'j, Captain Ki ng, in the Sound, bound to New York.
Shipwrights have commenced laying ground blocks
for taking ships into the new docks at Keyham.

SHEERNESS, MAY 10.

Th6lizard iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel arrived here
yesterday at 2 p.m., last from Dover, having been en-
gaged in laying down the telegraph wire between Dover
and Ostend.

Mr._ George J. Starr, paymaster, took up his commis-
sion to the Comus, 14, sloop, yesterday.

WOOLWICH, MAY 10.
APPOINTMENT.
Clerk George H. Shepherd (1851), from the Horatio,
24, screw steam-guard-ship at Sheerness, to the Nerbudda,
12, brig, at Chatham.
The Phoenix screw steam-sloop is under orders to pro-
ceed to Greenhithe to have her compasses adjusted, and
it is expected she will leave the river for the Arctic
pthoewDel
regions en Saturday next.
The Barracouta paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 300-horse
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hiroerdesttooret-islheipN,
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Sea, in order that the Phoenix may consume as few coals
as possible on her voyage to the Arctic regions.
11.
coaling,
The Desperate to-day,steam-rsilgoaotpearhraisvedeohmermeenceMd
having
the Diligence in tow, to be loaded with stores for the
taAanrkTdcethnti hec regions.ientCoa tr
ioile i Terribleiibea,sstoienf a 1 Danne-frigate
alongside
vonpo r t , a brig,tchoeal Terrible,
to been
taken into the basin and alongside the Terrible, to dis-
charge her cargo into her at onoe.

PIRATES IN THE BOSPHORUS.--The Semaphore, of
Marseilles, states that a Dutch vessel, the Anthony,
Capt. W. J. Nepperus, while at anchor near the Tower
of Leander, at the entrance of the Bosphorus, was sud-
denly attacked on the night of the 16th ult. by a band
of pirates. There was only one man on watch on deck,
who was seized and gagged to prevent his giving the
alai in. The captain, who was asleep in his cabin, with
the captain of another vessel, who had come on board
to see hint, were attacked and desperately wounded.
Everything in the cabin was pillaged. On the following
day the police, to whom information had been given,
arrested two persons, who were recognised by the man
who was on duty on deck, These freebooters are sup-
posed to be Greek pirated from the islands of the Archi-
' pelago.