The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA JAN. 22.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Euxine
arrived on the morning of the 18th, after encountering
very heavy gales for the whole voyage. So heavily was
she laden with guns, shot, anchors, and cables, that she
could not rise to the waves, and had she by any chance
been pooped, the consequences might have been most
fatal.

The passengers speak in high terms of the steady cool-
ness and excellent seamanship of Captain Meehan.
The Earl of Carlisle has delivered an address before the
members of the Literary and Scientific Institute.
Two French steam-frigates from Toulon, the Vauban
and Cacique, have arrived and taken their departure for
Constantinople.

TORTSMOUTH, JAN. 30.

The King of the Two Sidles has conferred the cross of
Chevalier of the Royal Ordlir of Francisco I. on ➢ir. Vin-
cent Pappalardo, in acknofiledgment of his consular ser-
vices at Portsmouth.

Mr. James Ernest Brudenel Bruce, a student at the
naval academy of Mr. Eastman, R.N., has received a
nomination as naval cadet from the First Lord of the
Admiralty.
The Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship, Captain the Hon.
F. T. Pelham, will, when refitted, we believe, be paid off
and recommissioned by the same officers.
The floor timbers of the. Shannon, 60, gun screw frigate,
aro laid, and the workmen of the contractor have com-
menced lengthening the slip and shed 40 feet.
Convicts have been employed for some weeks past in
pulling down and otherwise clearing away the old sheds,
sawpits, and other buildings, beside the newly-constructed
blacksmithery in this dockyard, and the ground, when
cleared, will remain open, so as greatly to facilitate the
work on the building slips, where at present workmen are
much confined for room.

A letter from the Sidon, 22, paddle-wheel steam frigate,
Captain Goldsmith, dated Malta, the 11th inst., says—
" We arrived here all wellyesterday morning, after a very
pleasant passage of 12 days from Plymouth. We touched
at Gibraltar on the sth, and got in 170 tons of coal during
the night and started on the following morning. They are
getting us packed off as quickly as possible from this
(Malta) ; and, by working all night, we have succeeded in
getting on board 300 tons of
.coal and a shipfull of stores
and provisions for the fleet in the Black Sea. We have
just taken on board a large quanaity of shells for the
fleets. The Wasp, 14, Commander Lord John Hay, ar-
rived here yesterday, from the eastward, and is to fill up
with provisions for the fleet."
Captain Fremantle, of. the Juno, at Spithead, was tele-
graphed yesterday mornms to proceed to the Admiralty,
and he went up this morning.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.
Since Saturday evening very severe gales from the
north-west have been experienced in this vicinity. At half-
past five on Sunday morning the merchant ship Ellen
Simpson, Captain Heckel, timber laden, from Moulmein,
drove from her anchorage in the Sound, and would have
become a total wreck but for the timely assistance of
Lieut. Haswell, R.N.., of the Turnchapie Coast Guard sta-
tion, and his men ; Mr. Thompson, Queen's harbour-mas-
ter; Messrs. Hyde, Glynn, Trelwen, and Williams, pilots,
and others. Mr. Thompson's yacht, the Tavy, dropped a
large anchor to windward, and sent stout hawsers on board
the distressed ship, by which she was hove off and secured
to the yacht. At 12 o'clock, through the application of
Messrs. Luscombe, Driscole, and Co. her Majesty's steam-
tug Confiance was sent from the dockyard, and took the
Ellen Simpson back to her anchorage.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 30.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—Hon. Augustus C. Hobart (184 b), from
the Coast Guard, to the Bulldog paddle-wheel steam-
sloop, at Portsmouth; William Thorp (1838), to the Tri-
bune, 30, screw steam-frigate, ordered home from Lisbon ;
William Graham (1849), from: the Blenheim, 60, screw
steam-ship, at Portsmouth, to the Leopard, 18, paddle-
wheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth ; Reginald Bateman
(1847), the Blenheim, vice Graham ; Thomas Stackhouse
(1853), recently promoted while first mate of the Brito-
mart, on the West Coast of Africa station, to the Dragon
paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth ; Richard
Peachey Gresham (1854), promoted while serving as mate
of the Tartarus steam-vessel, employed on particular ser-
vice, to the Dragon.
Master.—George Brockman, promoted last week while
serving as second master of the Wildfire paddle-wheel
steam-vessel, is re-appointed to that vessel, in his rank of
master, for services al tender to the Waterloo, 120, flag-
ship at Sheerness.
Second Master.—Thomas H. Julian (1848), to the
Euryalue, 50, screw steam-frigate, at Chatham.

LAUNCH OF ANOTHER SCREW TWO DECKER.---The 91-
gun. screw-ship Hannibal will be launched from Deptford
Dockyard this day. It will be remembered that this ship
has been built by Mr. Willcox who has lately retired from
the post of master shipwright at Deptford, but the period
for launching her was postponed until the present time.
Like all Mr. Willcox's ships, the Terrible, Phaeton,
50, Termagant, screw, and other large frigates, the
Hannibal has been carefully and faithfully con-
structed ; and the present master shipwright, Mr.
Chatfield, will do well to study carefully the practical
system of direction which characterised his predecessor.
Mr. Willcox was one of the old school, and was proud of
the designation of "master shipwright;" but he, neverthe-
less, appreciated the abilities of the new school; and al-
though the latter prefer to be denominated "naval archi-
tects," we trust they will not despise that experience of the
working officers of the dockyards, without which they ale
the merest cyphers in her Majesty's service. It was for-
merly the custom of the Admiralty to present to the
master shipwright of the Royal dockyard from which a
line-of-battle ship was launched a piece of plate on each
occasion—but of late, we believe, the sum of fifty
pounds has been awarded in lieu of the souvenir, On
the present occasion, we understand, the Admiralty
as an act of justice to the officer who really built the ship,
will present the late master shipwright, Mr. Willcox, with
the gratuity of 50/. ; and we feel assured that Mr. Chat-
field will most cheerfully assent to such an equitable
arrangement. The Hannibal will be immediately taken to
Sheerness after she is off the stocks, and will be fitted with
her machinery and for commission with all despatsh pos-
sible, under the superintendence of the respected master
shipwright Mr. J. Read. The Hannibal will be the sixth
screw ship of the line of 91 guns launched from the Royal
Dockyard--Herald.

MAußiTfus.--The advices from Mauritius state that
arrangements had been made for reopening the trade
with Madagascar, the Government having accepted the
$15,000 subscribed by the members of the Mauritius
Chamber of Commerce. Shipments of sugar were being
freely made, and several vessels were in port loading.