The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAR,CII 14, 1853.

NAV.AL INTELLIGENCE.

SHEERNESS, MARCH, 12.
The Cyclops, paddle-wlieel steam-sloop, Lieutenant
John Seccombe, in command pro tei., and rot Mr.
Harvey, as formerly reported, arrived here from Wool-
wich at 7 30 p.m. yesterday.
The Rhadamanthus, paddle-wheel steam-transport,
Master-Commander John Belam, passed here at 11 a.m.
this day, from Woolwich to Chatham.

The 'Driver, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Mr. Cor-
nelius Fox, master, has this day taken up his commis.
sion as additional master to the Horatia for duty in the
Driver.

The Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, Captain Charles
G. E. Patey, Mr. William Roy, Naval Instructor, 2d of
February, 1846 (late of the Phaeton), has taken up his
appointment to this frigate. She will be ready to leave
the basin in about ten days.
The Melampus frigate is masted and rigged all ataunt.
A novel mode was adopted to expedite the rigging of
this frigate. Her mainmast and maintopmast were com-
pletely rigged, also her mizenmast, and hung by the
shears. The masts were then stepped, when the seamen
riggers of the yard commenced their work, and, after a
few hours, the topgallantmasts were on end. Her rig-
ging is partially sparred ready for rattling down. She
will go out of the basin on Tuesday next, the 15th inst.,
and proceed immediately for Woolwich, in tow of the
Cyclops steam-sloop.
The Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate was masted yes-
terday, and taken into the deck from which the Terrible
was taken out to-day.
The Barracouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander George Parker, has completed the entry of her
crew within a half-a-doaen blue-jackets.

PEMBROKE.
The James Watt, screw-steamer, of 91 guns, will
shortly be ready for launching, and when afloat will
immediately be rigged and made ready for commission.
Heavy gangs of men have for some time past been most
actively employed in pushing on the work of completion.
Her armament will be a formidable one, and, it is said,
will consist of 28 8-inch guns, and 62 32-pounders of
56cwt. and 9 feet 6 inches in length. She will also
mount one pivot gun, which will be a 68-pounder, 10
feet in length.

The Encounter, screw steam-sloop, 14 guns, under the
command of Captain O'Callaghan, will visit from time to
time the various ports in the Bristol Channel and Irish
Sea. She has lately been lying at Bristol, and since then
has gone on to Liverpool to pick up seamen for the
Royal navy.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 12.
APPOINTMENTS.
Master Jabez Loane (1846) to the Encounter, 14,
screw steam-frigate, at Devonport, vice John Pyper, dis-
missed the service.
Surgeon Charles Ede (1851) to the Espiegle, 12, at
Sheerness.
Second Master Joseph Cutajar (1845), serving in the
Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich, is promoted to the rank
of Master, and appointed to the Gorgon paddle-wheel
steam-sloop, of 320-horse power, at Portsmouth.

PROMOTION.
Commander Charles Wilson Riley (1838) to be Cap-
tain on the reserved half-pay list.

MALTA, MARCH 3.
On Saturday a vessel was found on the coast a com-
plete wreck, and abandoned by her crew, of whom no
intelligence has been to this day received, and of whose
sad fate reasonable apprehensions are entertained. The
wreck is ascertained to be the Swedish brig Apollo,
laden with wheat, from Alexandria for England. She
left that port on the 2d February last direct, and had on
board 3,418 ardebs of wheat.
On Sunday last the English brig Washburn, Morris
master, from Bristol for Constantinople, in ballast, put
in here with the captain and crew (12 persons in all) of
the Norwegian brig Gefion, which vessel left Constan-.
tinople, for Queenstown, on the 25th of January. The
vessel sprang a leak on the 25th of Feb., in lat. 38 deg.
N., long. 7 deg. 5 min. E., and, in fear of going down,
was abandoned by the crew in two boats, whence they
were recovered by the Washburn, as above.
The Wallachin brig Combinazione has also been
wrecked at Marsala, on the Bth of February. She, too,
was corn-laden from Constantinople for Falmouth for
orders—crew saved.

Her Majesty's screw-steamer Simoom, with the 41st
Regiment on board, arrived on Monday evening last
from Cephalonia and Zante, and will be ready for sea by
Wednesday next, with the head-quarters of the 76th
Regiment on board for Halifax. Colonel and Mrs. Car-
penter, Major and Mrs. Eman and two children, Major
Northey, Captains Goodwyn, Handcock, Brett, and
Meredith ; Lieutenants Hunt, Alexander, Bligh, Skip-
with, Balguy, Richards, and Bush ; Ensigns Fitzroy
and Carpenter; Adjutant Bernard, Paymaster Creagh
and wife, Quartermaster Elliott and family, Dr. Wilkins
and family, 584 rank and file, 36 women and 54 children,
of the 41st Regiment, have been disembarked from the
Simoom.

The Bengal screw steam-ship of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company reached Malta on the night or the
28th ult., and proceeded to Alexandria on the morning
of the 2d instant, having been delayed a day by the non-
arrival of the Sultan, from Marseilles,ibut which vessel
arrived to her time, with her portion of the mails. She
is a beautiful vessel, and made one of the most rapid
passages from Southampton to Malta on record.
The following extract from her log :
" Feb. 20, left the dock buoy at 11 a.m.
" Noon, 21, distance run, 300 miles—all sail set.
" „ 22 PP 261 sail set 14 hours.
23 PP 282—a1l sail set.
" 24
PP PP 272—a1l plain sail sot.
24 70—arrived off Gibraltar,
6 45 p.m.
24, left Gibraltar, 11 30 p.m.
„ 25, distance run, 148 miles—all sail set.
„ 26 21 264 sail set 12 hours.
„ 27 Pt 262—fore and aft sail occa-
sionally.
240—n0 sail, wind nearly
ahead.

„, 28

fl 28 74.
" Arrived off Maha Light, Feb 28, 8 p.m.
The Rodney, 90, Captain Graham, arrived in port on
the afternoon of Sunday last, having been but 15 days
on her passage from Portsmouth.
The Fury steam-frigate, 13 days from Plymouth,
arrived here on the Ist inst., and on the day following
proceeded to Trieste, where she was to take on board
her Majesty's Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Lord
Redcliffe, and would return to Malta in about a fort
nigh

MARCH 4.
The French steamer Osiris, from the Levant, came in
his morning.
M. de Lavalette, French Ambassador to the Porte, is
on board the Osiris, en, route to Marseilles. He has ob-
tained 2,500/. from the Porte, the sum for which Mr.
Barry was ransomed.

SUSPECTED MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon Mr.
W. Carter, coroner of the eastern division of Surrey,
held an inquest at the King's Arms, Rotherhithe, on the
body of a female unknown, who was found in the River
Thames on Tuesday last, with a very extensive lacerated
scalp wound, and some oher serious injuries. Mr.
Crutch, surgeon, of Rotherhithe; deposed that he had
made an examination of the body, but could not posi-
tively state whether the wound on the head had been
received before or after deceased was in the water. The
body not being owned, and the coroner having expressed
his opinion that in such a serious case further evidence
ought to be obtained, the inquiry was adjourned for a
week,

Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, held
a levee at Whitehall on Saturday, and it was attended by
the following officers :
Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dillon, K.C.H.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Alfred Crofton.
Captains—Henry Dundas (1825), Robert F. Stopford
(1810), Woodford J. William (1841), John Washington
(1842), William Kelly (1844), William H. Hall (1844),
Thos. Sparke Thompson (1846), Chas. John Bosanquet
(1846), James Wilcox (1850), and Frederick B. Montressor
(1851).

,
Commanders—Thos. Greene (1833), Wm. MeDwaine
(1838), Alexander Goldie (1839), Wm. M. G. Pasco (1846),
Chas. R. Johnson (1847), Wm. Thomas (1849), and Wil-
loughby J. Lake (1851).
Lieutenants—Francis Wm. Ellis (1812), Sir Henry Wil-
mot (1825), Colin W. Lindsay, (1837), and David Miller
(1840).
Master—Samuel S. Flinn (1825.)
Chaplain—Rev. Pascoe G. Hill, B.A. (1850.)

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 13.
The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, flag of Rear-
Admiral Corry, completed the re-adjustment of her com-
passes yesterday, and will go to Spithead to-morrow,
according to present orders.

The London, 90, Captain Mundy, will also go to Spit-
head to-morrow, according to present arrangements.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin,
C. 8., is being expedited as much as possible by the en-
gineer department of this dockyard ; and it is hoped she
will be out of their hands by the Ist proximo.
The Neptune, 120, Captain E. H. Scott, flag of Rear-
Admiral Superintendent Fanshawe, C. 8., is reported to
relieve the Trafalgar, 120, in the Mediterranean, and
that the Princess Charlotte, 104, in this ordinary,•will
be fitted to take the Neptune's place in this harbour.
The Cruiser, 14, Commander the lion. G. H. Douglas,
left Spithead on Friday evening on a cruise.
The Fairy Royal yacht, Master Commander Welch,
was docked yesterday morning to ship a new propeller.
The Rolla, 6, naval apprentices' brig, Lieutenant Fen-
wick, of the Victory, in charge, hauled over to her
moorings in Blockhouse-hall yesterday morning.
The Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander
Hosken, will be ready for sea to-morrow.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 13.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Firebrand, Captain Hyde,
Parker, having coaled and had defects made good, went
out of harbour yesterday, and sailed for the Mediter-
ranean.

The Encour, ter, 14, screw steam-corvette, Capt. O'Cal-
laghan, is appointed to sail to-day for Woolwich, where
she will receive new boilers.

Yesterday the steam block-ship Sanspareil got masts
on board and tops over the masts.
The steam-vessel Avon arrived yesterday from Ports-
mouth.

The Valorous steam-frigate, 16, Captain Buckle, went
out of harbour on Friday, took her powder on board,
and made a short trial of her machinery.
The merchant ship John Young, from Calcutta to
London, was off Plymouth on Thursday, and had on
board the crew of the abandoned schooner Aim, of
Greenock, Captain John Gibson.
The brig Pomone, Perran, from Newcastle for Lisbon,
was off the Eddystone on Tuesday.