The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-28 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27.
The Russian corvette Navarin, 22, put back to St.
Helen's yesterday afternoon from stress of weather.
The Leopard, 12, paddle-sloop, Capt. Giffard, steamed
into harbour yesterday morning, and hauled alongside
the jetty.
The Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Trollope, was at the
Sandwich Islands on July 30.
Commanders to the ships of the senior officers of steam
reserve squadrons at the home ports will not be re-ap-
pointed on the next commissions of such ships.
Baking for the fleet will be resumed at the Royal
Clarence Victualling Establishment, Gosport, on Mon-
day.
Lieutenant Browne, who recently joined the Blenheim,
has been invalided to Haslar for epileptic fits,'and it is not
expected he will rejoin.
We are informed by letter that Vice-Admiral Sir
George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief, is on the West
India station.

The gunnery examination day in December for mates
and midshipmen on board the Excellent will be on Mon-
day, the 19th, and not on Monday, the 26th.
The Indiaman Ann, Captain Brown, from Bombay to
London, put in at this port to-night, having been in
collision. She had her starboard bow stove in by a
schooner (name unknown) off St. Alban's Head, last
night, about 9 p.m. The schooner lost her foremast,
but it was too dark to ascertain what other damage
she met with. The Ann sailed:lllpm Bombay on the 4th
of July, and St. Helena, Oct. 1 She spoke Oct. 9in
iat. 36 S., long. 18.30 W., the Harriet Humble ; Oct.
25, in lat. 23.30 N., long. 39.0 W., the Arethusa, from
Callao for London ; Nov. 17, in lat. 43.36 N., long. 16.0
W., the Governor of Liverpool standing to the westward.
The Channel squadron, under the orders of Rear-Ad-
miral Corry, got under way at Spithead at 20 minutes
past 12 to-day, and took their departure for the westward.
It comprises the following vessels :—Prince Regent, 90,
flag-ship, Capt. F. Hutton ; Duke of Wellington, 131,
screw, Commodore H. B. Martin, C.B. ; Arrogant, 46,
screw, Capt. Yelverton ; Amphion, 34, screw, Capt, A. C.
Key ; Tribune, 30, screw, Captain the Hon. S. T. Car-
negie, and Cruiser, 14, screw, Commander the Hon. G.
Douglas. It is understood that they will proceed to
Lisbon. Having a fair wind, they got well away to the
back of the Isle of Wight before dusk, being last seen at
4 p.m.

The Rifleman, 8, screw steam sloop, Lieutenant Com-
mander Christian, arrived at Spithead this morning from
Woolwich.

The Rhadamanthus steam-transport, Master-com-
manding Belam, sailed last night for Woolwich.
The Russian corvette Navarin, which returned to
Spithead last night, again exchanged salutes this morn-
ing with the port and garrison.
A new steam frigate on the screw principle, to be
named the Shannon, with 600 horse power, is about to
be built, of the following dimensions :

ft. Length between the perpendiculars 235 in
0
Length of keel for tonnage 203 5.
Breadth extreme 5O 0
Breadth for tonnage 49 6
Breadth moulded 4B 8
Depth in hold l7 8
Burden in tons, 2,651 29.94

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.
Her Majesty's screw steamship Duke of 'Wellington,
131, Commodore H. B. Martin, is reported off Berry
Head at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. She was in
the run of the Eddystone, under steam only. Wind
squally from the north-west. Well outside her was
another screw steamship of war, under steam only, pur-
suing the same southerly course. To the eastward of
both these was a large sailing ship reaching in towards
the land. She would fetch the Bolt if she kept her
reach.

The surveying vessel Saracen was commissioned on
Saturday by Commander Richards.
The sloop Racehorse, 14, is to be fitted with all des-
patch for immediate commission.
The Mariner, 12, was placed in dock on Friday, pre-
paratory to her being put in commission.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 26,

APPOINTMENTS.
Paymaster James S. Mounsteven (1837) to the Boa•
cawen, 70, fitting at Chatham, for service as flag-ship on
the North American and West Indies station.
Assistant-Surgeon Cecil Crandell, (1843), recently
serving in the Dffldalus, 20, on the Pacific station, to
the St. George, 120, guard-ship of ordinary, at Devon-
port.

- Second Masters.—James H. Lawrence (1853) to the
Leopard, 12, paddlewheel steam-frigate ; C. G. Mitchell,
to the Bonetta, 3, brigantine.
Naval Cadets.—Berkeley G. A. Benson, to the Prin-
cess Royal, 90, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; John
Eliot to the Royal George, 120, screw steam-ship at
Sheerness.

The Myrmidon, iron paddle-wheel-steamer, Lieute-
nant-Commander William K. Joliffe, on the west coast
of Africa station, has recently had her false keel put
right, and, by the latest accounts, had left Ascension
for Sierra Leone. The Myrmidon is not expected to re-
turn to this country from her present station until the
middle of next summer, when she will have completed
her full period of service, having been commissioned at
this port in June, 1851.
...

Surgeon David Cowan (1800) died in the early part
of the present week, at Southsea, where he had resided
since he retired, after having been many years a surgeon
of Portsmouth Dockyard. The deceased served as
assistant-surgeon of the Superb at the taking of St.
Domingo, and was for many years surgeon to the house-
hold of his late Majesty Bing William IV., when Duke
of Clarence.

THE NEW SCREW STEAM-FLEET OF THE ROYAL NAVY.
—The following tenders have been accepted by the Ad•
miralty for supplying the machinery for the new men-of-
war. For the Orion, 80, engines of 600 horse power,
and PS lades, 50, 350 horse power, Penn and Co. ; Re-
pulse, 80, 600 horse power, Curacoa, 50, 350 horse
power, Mandalay and Field ; Harriet, sloop, 100 horse
power, Humphrey and Dyke ; Hornet, sloop, 100 horse
power, Bolton and Watt ; Falcon and Fawn, sloops,
100 horse power each, and Swallow and Ariel, 60 horse
power each, by Miller, Ravenhill, and Salkeld.—Ply-
mouth Mail.