The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 7.
This morning the Lords of the Admiralty left the
George Hotel and embarked at the town sallyport in
their barge, under the charge of their selected Flag-
Lieutenant, Mr. F. T. C. Strode, First of the Victory.
They first visited the Victory ; they were received by
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrare, K.C.8., whose
flag she bears, Rear-Admiral Farsiiawe, C. 8., Captain
Shepherd and Commander Boyle, of the Victory, and
all the other principal officers of the fine old ship, whose
crew manned her yards, but did not salute. Their
Lordships mustered the officers and ship's company, and
afterwards the newly-entered men upon the principle of
service enacted during the past session, on the report of
the Committee on Manning the Navy, and witnessed
their exercise in gunnery, reefing, furling, &c., with
which, we believe, they expressed their satisfaction to
Captain Shepherd. Their Lordships left the Victory in
their barge for the Royal Hospital at Haslar. Captain
Superintendent Courtenay, R.N., and staff, conducted
their Lordships over this vast national Sanitarium, with
the condition and order of which the Board expressed
their perfect satisfaction. From the hospital the Board
proceeded to the Royal Clarence Victualling Establish-
ment, also under the superintendence of Captain Cour-
tenay, who, attended by his principal officers, Mr. John
Davies, R.N., master attendant, and Mr. Joseph Pin-
horn, R.N., the storekeeper, escorted them over this
great provision and store depot. They remained in the
Clarence-yard until 20 minutes past three o'clock when
they left for the head-quarters of the Portsmouth Divi-
sion of Royal Marines, at Forton, commanded by Colonel
Menzies, K.H., who received their Lordships with full
military honours, and conducted them over the quarters,
inspecting the men on parade, their kits, their gunnery
at the drill battery, with the serviceable state and effi-
ciency of which their Lordships expressed their high gra-
tification to Colonel-Commandant Menzies. After in-
specting the Royal Marines, the Board re-crossed the
harbour in their barge, and were landed at the dockyard,
where all the naval authorities received them, and at-
tended upon them until they left for their hotel (the
George), where they gave a banquet to the heads of the
naval, marine, and military departments, the guests
numbering 36. After this the whole party patronised
the ball at the institution of the Seamen and Marines'
Orphan Schools in aid of the funds of that eminently de-
serving charity.

The following ships of the Royal Steam Squadron
which attended her Majesty during her late visit to Ire-
land returned to Cowes early this morning, and subse-
quently came up to Spithead. The Victoria and Albert,
Captain Crispin, bearing the broad pendant of Commo-
dore Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H. ; Barracouta,
6, Commander George Parker ; Banshee, Lieutenant-
Commander Hosken ; Black Eagle, Master-Commander
Petley ; and Fairy, Master-Commander Welch. All,
except the Barracouta, came into harbour, and the
Vivid, Master-Commander Smithett, followed them in
the course of the morning.
The Rhadamanthus steam transport, came up to Spit-
head last night from Plymouth, on her return to Wool-
wich with troops. She met with a fearful collision in
the Channel, by which her bowsprit was broken short
off, and a large portion of her head gear is carried away.
She, however, left this evening for Woolwich.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 7.
Her Majesty's frigate Ddalus, 20, Captain George
Cr. Wellesley, was towed into harbour yesterday morn-
ing by the Confiance and Avon steam-vessels, and was
warped alongside the jetty to be dismantled. Her crew
have unbent sails and returned spare spars, and will
commence taking out her guns to-day. She will pro-
bably be paid off on Tuesday next.
The frigate Leander, 50, Captain G. St. Vincent
King, was towed into harbour on Monday by the Con-
fiance and Avon, to refit ; the crew are ordered to be
paid down.

The steam troop-ship Rhadamanthus, which arrived
on Sunday, with 130 Artillerymen, for service here,
sailed with the same number on Monday for Woolwich.

WOOLWICH, SEPT. 7.
APPOINTMENTS.

Surgeon.—Mitchel Thomson (1832), to the St. George,
120, guardship of ordinary at Devonport.
Second Masters.—William Francis Greet (1845), from
the Coast Guard, to be acting master to the Arab, 12,
sloop, at Chatham ; John W. Harvey (1847), from the
Tribune, 30, screw steam frigate, to the Dolphin, 3,
brigantine, at Sheerness ; William C. ruck (1850), from
the Dasher, paddlewheel steam-vessel, to the Tribune,
vice Harvey.
The Cyclops steam frigate arrived at Woolwich yes-
terday afternoon from Sheerness, for the purpose of tak-
ing on board at this port the engines and boilers of the
Nile, 90, screw steam-ship, for conveyance to Devon-
port,'where they are to be fitted on board that ship.
The Dover steam-vessel, lent to the Colonial Depart-
ment for the purpose of being stationed in the Gambia,
on the west coast of Africa, left this morning for Green-
hithe, to have her compasses adjusted, and will be
navigated principally by an African crew, under the
charge of Mr. Mitchell, who brought the vessel from
that station to Woolwich to be repaired and receive new
boilers.

The Agamemnon, 91, screw steam-ship, having shown
during the recent review of the fleet at Spithead that
she was capable of greater speed than the Royal Victoria
and Albert paddlewheel steam-yacht, it is in contempla-
tion to build a splendid new Royal steam yacht, to be
fitted with a screw propeller and engines on the most
approved principle, or to considerably lengthen the
present Royal Victoria and Albert steam yacht, and
convert her from a paddlewheel to a screw steam-yacht,
capable of attaining a high rate of speed.
An order has been issued to dispense with the future
drill of the Boat Brigade at Woolwich, and to return
the boats into store. It is expected, however, that the
services of the men will still be made available by form-
ing them into artillery companies.