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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

ADMIRALTY LEVEES.—Sir James Graham will be
unable to see officers on the 14th and 21st of May.
Officers whose names are on the list for the levee of the
14th inst. are requested to attend on the 28th inst. ;
and the levees subsequent to the 14th inst. are likewise
postponed for a fortnight respectively.
APPOINTMENT.—CIerk.--Thomas C. H. Shears, to
to the Amphion, 36, screw-frigate, Devonport.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 5.
ARRIVAL OF THE DAUNTLESS.

The sadly-to-be-remembered and ill-fated Dauntless
24 (screw), Captain Edward P. Halsted, arrived this
afternoon at Spithead, last from Bermuda, which she
left on the 9th of April. There is no news to report.
We give, for. the satisfaction of their friends, the list of
officers who have come home in her. She saluted the
flag of the Commander-in-Chief, which was duly returned
from the Victory :—First Lieut: James W. Armstrong,
Second Lieut. William H. Jones, Third Lieut. Sutton,
Fourth Lieut. Edward Stubbs, Surgeon Alex. Wood-
cock, Paymaster James Biggs, Master Chas. Q. Parker,
Chief Engineer George M. Burt, Assistant En-
gineer Mr. Saunders, Second Assistant Engineer Mr.
Houghton ; Clerks, Messrs. Cullaway, Leecombe, and
Hyde ; Lieut. Starr, Royal Marine Artillery ; Dr. Wal-
lace, assistant surgeon ; and 254 crew, all well ; also as
passengers, Captain Arbuthnot, of the Royal Artillery,
from Barbadoes • and Mr. M‘Donald, from Bermuda.
Midshipmen—Messrs. Selby, Twisr, Blair, Hudson,
O'Connell, and Brooke. She exchanged signals with the
Lowestoff, steamer, on the 30th ult. (bound for Aus-
tralia), in lat. 48.8 N, long. 12.2 W ; desired to be re-
ported. Hove too off Plymouth on the 3d, at 3 a.m., to
notice their arrival by electric telegraph ; but in conse-
quence of the heavy fog could get no communication
with the shore. Left there at noon, and brought up at
Spithead this day at 2 p.m. She comes into harbour
to-morrow.

Conflict 8 (screw), steamed out of harbour this morn-
ing for the purpose of trying her speed at the measured
mile with her new boomerang propeller. Whether the
boomerang was improperly cast we know not, but a
weakness was evident :Z:om the fact that no sooner had
she put herself on trial at the first turn than one of the
blades gave way, and rendered her hors de combat. She
returned into harbour a " lame duck."

Encounter, 14 (screw), has turned the ship's company
over to the Dryad, receiving-hulk (pro tem.), and will
haul into the steam basin to unship her old boilers.
The Imperieuse, 60, screw, Captain R. B. Watson,
got up steam to-day. and took the commander in chief
on board, Vice Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane,
who went out in the Sprightly, Master Commander
Allen, to test her speed at the measured mile.
The Carysfort, old 26, was taken in tow this morning
by the Echo, steam-tug, with a party of Royal Artillery,
to be moored off Hurst Castle, opposite the Needles
passage, whilst improving the defences of the west
entrance of the Isle of Wight.
The Hastings, 72, Captain Francis W. Austen, is now
a complete hulk, and will pay off nearly 50,0001. to-
morrow, to as good and efficient crew as ever came to
this port. A fatal accident occurred on board this ship
to a sergeant of Marines, who fell from the ship's side
into one of the lumps, which caused his death. A second
accident occurred on Monday to a man named Thomas
Gringaid, who fell from aloft when in the act of unbolting
the top, and received such severe injuries that his life is
despaired of.