The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

COmmander Schultz, on the retired list of 1830, has
been appointed to the retired list under the order in
council of 1816.

A TEAK STEAM•9LOOP FOR THE NAVY.—The Malacca,
steam-sloop, built at Trincomalee, has been launched at
that port.

The Cleopatra, 26, Captain Massie, is at Trincomalee,
her crew being employed in fitting out the Malacca,
which ship will be navigated to England by a party of
the Cleopatra.
Vice• Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew, C. 8.,
K.C.H., was at Trincomalee, by last advices, in his flag-
ship the Winchester, 50, continuing in the command of
the station, although he has been promoted since he
hoisted his flag.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 11.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. 13. Martin,
C. 8., will leave Spithead on a few days' cruise to-morrow
to shake up her hands. She is still 200 short of her
complement, nor has a man offered himself the last ten
days.

A young officer is missing from her Majesty's ship
Odin, whose absence causes the liveliest regret to his
captain and messmates. He was granted 24 hours' leave
on Tuesday last, came ashore to the Star and Garter
Hotel, and changed his uniform for private clothes, un-
der the intention of proceeding to London. He has
not been heard of since. He was a smart, regular officer,
sober, attentive, and generally respected.
Captain Jerningham, R.N., requests us to correct an
error which appears in our yesterday sreport, relative
to the cone signals tried on Saturday in this harbour.
We stated the signals were " Captain Xerningham's
system," whereas the cone system is the invention and
property of Mr. C. A. Redl, of 38, North Audley-street,
and are secured to him by patent. The only connection
Captain Jerningham has with the signals is to conduct
the experiments, assisted by Commander F. A. Egerton,
under orders from the Admiralty.
The Vesuvius, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Wilson,
went out of harbour this morning, and joined the squad-
ron at Spithead.
The Conflict, 8, screw corvette, made another trial to-
day to test her speed, for which purpose she had shipped
her common spare screw, the four corners of which had
been cut off about 10 inches in diameter, to ,reduce the
spread. It is next intended that her serviceable screws
shall be altered to the shape of the bomerang propeller,
if the Admiralty will allow it. The lines for the purpose
have been taken.
The Bulldog, 6, steam-sloop, has been temporarily
commissioned this day, by Lieutenant Reynolds, of the
Blenheim, as a depot for the steam reserve during the
absence of the Blenheim.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 11,
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Sphinx, 6, Commander
Henry S. Hillyar, arrived last evening from the East
Indies and the Cape of Good Hope.
This ship has been absent from England more than
three years, and during that period has gone over a
course of 92,000 miles, of which she has towed the
Hastings, 72, a distance of more than 7,000 miles. The
Sphinx left Plymouth on the 2d of March, 1850, and
calling at Madeira, St. Vincent, Sierra Leone, Whydah,
Ascension, and Rio Janeiro, arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope on the 12th of June. She reached Singa-
pore on the 3d of August, and during the remainder of
that year, the whole of 1851, and 1852, was most ac-
tively employed in the East Indies and China seas. She
left Trincomalee on the 14th of March, 1853, and the
Cape of Good Hope on the 16th of May, the day before
the Melbourne, screw steam-ship, departed. The Sphinx
c ailed at St. Helena on the 28th of May, at Ascension
on the 4th of June, and at St. Michael's on the 20th of
July._ -

In December, 1851, the Sphinx, at Chinghai, made
30 large piratical junks give up their guns. About 18
months since she was at Loo Choo with treaties from
Lord Palmerston. Her boats were up the Irawaddah
at Burmah 10th of December, 1852, with Captain Loch's
expedition, when six hands, seamen and marines, were
killed. Lieutenants Glover and Pocock, and Mr. Cook-
swain, midshipman, wounded, have since recovered.
Commander Shadwell, who went out in command of
the Sphinx, was promoted to the Winchester, 50, and
SeSecond Lieutenant Hillyar, of that ship, was, 7th of
Fbruary, 1853, promoted to the command of the
Sphinx.
Mr. George J. Carr, the master, and Mr. Foord,
purser, are the only officers who have continued on
board, all the others having been promoted. Two en-
gineers, Mr. Scott and Mr. Beby, died at Calcutta, in
June, 1852, from dysentery and the effects of the
climate.
The boilers of the Sphinx have been in her since 1846,
and are now worn out, which is the cause of her re-
turn. Her engines (Penn's oscillating), of 500-horse
power, and said to be the largest ever put on board
ship, have answered exceedingly well. The consump-
tion of coal since she left the Cape of Good Hope is only
150 tons, as she used her sails chiefly during the greater
part of the.passage.
The Sphinx brings invalid seamen from Rangoon and
invalid soldiers from the Cape. Among her passengers
are Captain Bonhen, of the Penelope ; Lieutenant
Townshend, of the Tortoise ; Mr. Hall, late purser of
the Volcano ; and Mr. Lilias Smith, master of the Trin-
comalee. Captain Bewes, 73d ; Captain Warren, 91st ;
Mr. Ramsbotham, and 28 non-commissioned officers and
privates and 14 children from different corps at the
Cape. Surgeon in charge, Dr. Seccombe. Mr.
U.
Hind, late master of the Winchester at Rangoon, died
of his wounds on the 24th of March, between Trin-
comalee and the Cape, and two seamen, Heywood and
Colegate, invalids from Trincomalee, died at sea on the
14th of June.

A t St. Helena, on the 20th of May, were her
Majesty's steam-frigate Penelope, 16, Captain Henry
Lyster, and brig Crane, 6, Commander Thomas Miller.
At Ascension, on the 4th of June, the Volcano steam-
vessel, 5, Commander Robt. Coote, and the Waterwitch
sloop, 8, Commander Alan H. Gardner. The Ferret
sloop, 8, Commander Reginald J. J. G. Macdonald,
sailed for Loando on the 3d of June.
The Sphinx spoke, on the 15th of June, intlat. 7.46 N.,
long. 22.7 W., the French frigate Belle Poule, outward
bound. 16th June, in lat. 9.36 N., long. 23.42 W., an
English barque, with second distinguishing pennant
8.731, outward bound. 17th June, in lat. 11.19 N.,
long. 25.8 W., the ship Forfarshire, all well, with ma-
rines, for Trincomalee. 9th July, in lat. 48.33 N.,
long. 8.49 W., the Bremen barque America, outward
bound. 10th July, off Scilly, a screw steam line-of-
battle ship, steering to the west, under steam only, bear-
ing the flag of a Rear-Admiral of the Blue, probably
the Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, with
the flag of Admiral Corry.
John E. Pettey,
The Black Eagle steam-yacht, Master
arrived in the Sound at 7 o'clock this morning.
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and her tender,
the Fairy, both from Wales, entered the Sound this
afternoon at 4 o'clock.

WOOLWICH, JULY 11.
APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant Harry Smith (1845), from the Imp4rieuse,
50, screw steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, to the Ceylon,
receiving ship, at Malta, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-
Admiral Houston Stewart, Superintendent of Malta
Dockyard.

Masters—John Jackson (1835), to the Victory flag-
ship, at Portsmouth, as Master and Pilot ; Henry N.
Thomas (1835), to the Impregnable flag-ship, at Devon-
port, as Master and Pilot.
Midshipman A. R. Smith to the St. Jean d'Acre,
101, screw steam-ship, at Devonport.
Assistant-Surgeons—Joseph Coulter, M.D. (1845),
from the Amphion, screw steam-frigate, to the Edin-
burgh, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; H. R. Ley,
to the Amphion, at Portsmouth, vice Coulter ; Edwin
T. Watkins (1848), to the Antelope, iron paddle-wheel
steam-vessel, on the Mediterranean station ; Dugald
M`Ewan (1847), to the Magicienne, 16, paddle-wheel
steam-frigate, at Devonport.

A deputation from the Protestant Dissenting Deputies
of the three Denominations had an interview with Sir
W. Molesworth yesterday at the office of Works and
Public Buildings, Whitehall-place, on the subject of the
Burials Bill. The deputation consisted of Mr. Thomas
Pewtress, Mr. W. Offor, Mr. Benjamin Hanbury, Mr.
William Beddome, and the Secretary. The deputation
were accompanied by Mr. J. Cheetham, M.P.