The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

ADMIRALTY.-All the members of the board are now at
their posts at Whitehall. The First Lord, Sir James
Graham, resumes his levees of naval officers on Saturday
week next, the 16th instant, and Rear-Admiral the Hon.
M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., will receive officers on Tues-
day, the 19th, and 26th instant.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.
We understand it is now intended to send the whole
of the crew of the Agamemnon to Haslar Hospital.
They are to return to the ship as they recover. Fifty
were sent on Sunday, and fifty others at 2 p.m. to-day.
Rear-Admiral M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., Second
Sea Lord of the Admiralty, and Captain Milne, Fifth
Lord, arrived in this dockyard this morning on a semi-
official tour of inspection. After transacting business
at the office of the Rear-Admiral Superintendent they
proceeded to the office of the Port-Admiral ; on leaving
which Rear-Admiral Berkeley went on board the Aga-
memnon, and Captain Milne, accompanied by Rear-Ad-
miral Fanshawe, inspected the screw steam-frigate
Highflyer, 21, in the angle dock. They were afterwards
joined by Rear-Admiral Berkeley and inspected the
screw three-decker Duke of Wellington, They left
the dockyard shortly before 2 o'clock.

The Isabel screw steamer, Commander Inglefield,
going out to Behring's Straits on a voyage in pursuit of
the missing Arctic expeditions, arrived in this harbour
this morning in tow of the African steam-tug from Wool-
wich, where her outfit has been so ill executed that she
has to have her upper works caulked in this port.
The usual monthly muster of the officers and men be-
longing to the " ordinary" was made to-day on board
the Neptune, 120, by Captain Scott, for the Admiral-
Superintendent.

The petition of the shipwrights of this dockyard, for-
warded to the Lords of the Admiralty some months
since, praying for an increase of wages in accordance
with the increased value of labour and the increased
price of provisions, coupled with the fact that in some
mercantile dockyards nearly double the amount of wages
was given to shipwrights to what they received in Go-
vernment establishments, has at length received an
answer, which has been this day conveyed to the men in
the following circular from the Admiral• Superinte-
ndent :

" Portsmouth Dockyard, April 4.
"In pursuance of the directions of the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, I have to acquaint the ship-
wrights, caulkers, and joiners employed in this dockyard,
who have prayed for an increase of pay, that their Lord-
ships have had the petition under consideration and cannot
entertain their request.

" ARTHVRFANSHAWE, Superintendent."

The Persian, 12, Commander T. Mitchell, whose ar-
rival from the West Indies we reported yesterday, sent
in her invalids by the Echo tug this morning. The Per-
sian experienced bad weather on her passage home, being
compelled to batten down nearly the whole way. Mr.
G. B. Virim, midshipman, came home passenger in her.
The Cumberland, 72, Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour,
K.C.8., was at Bermuda on the 13th ult.—all well.
The Vestal, 26, Capt. C. B. Hamilton, arrived at
Bermuda, from Havannah, on the 10th ult., when Lieu-
tenant H. J. Grant, second of the Vestal, exchanged
with the Hon. A. Hay, and took the command of the
Scorpion, which was to sail for England in a few days.
The Vestal sailed again on the 12th ult., for Havannah.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-ship, has
her ordnance stores being prepared for putting on board.
This will be done this week, the following being the offi-
cial statement of her armament :

Guns.

Cwt.

Length.

Lower deck {lO 8 inch 65
26 32 pounders 56
Middle deck I 6 8 inch 65
(30 32 pounders 56
Main deck 3B 32 pounders 42
{ Upper deck 2O 32 pounders 25
1 68 pounder 95

SHEERNESS, APRIL 4.
The Waterloo, 120 guns, Capt. the Hon. Montagu
Stopford.—Three courts-martial were held on board this
ship on the 2d inst to try three seamen for desertion—
one from the Imperieuse, 60-gun screw steam-frigate,
and two from the Horatio, screw steam guard-ship. The
charge was fully proved in each case, and the Court
sentenced the seaman who deserted from the Imperieuse
to be imprisoned for three months, and then to be sent
on board one of her Majesty's ships to complete the
term for which he originally entered the service. The
sentences of the Court on the seamen deserting from the
Horatio were, one to receive four dozen, the other two
dozen lashes, and then be dismissed her Majesty's ser-
vice. Captain R. B. Watson, C. 8., in command of the
Horatio, prosecuted.
The Imperieuse, 60 guns, screw steam-frigate, came down
from Salt-pan Reach on the 2d inst., and has taken up the
moorings formerly occupied by the London. After her
compasses have been adjusted, she will be inspected by
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy previous to her
departure. Captain Watson has been very much dis-
appointed in volunteers coming forward ; the Imperieuse
is nearly 200 seamen short of her complement at present.
En consequence of the squally weather, her topgallant-
masts have been sent down, and topsailyards lowered
, upon the caps.

WOOLWICH, APRIL 4.
APPOINTDIENTS.
Captain John C. Fitzgerald (1841), to command the
Winchester, 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sir Fleet-
wood B. R. Pellew, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the
East Indies station, vice Loch, deceased.
Acting Chief Engineer Charles K. Renwick is con-
firmed to the rank of Chief Engineer in the Phoenix
steam-sloop for service in an expedition to the Arctic
Regions.
Second Class Assistant-Engineer Stephen A. Harris
to the Phoenix.
Third Class Assistant-Engineer William Owen to the
Phoenix.
Second Class Assistant-Engineer William Saunders to
the Highflyer steam-sloop at Portsmouth,