The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-01 00:00:00

NAYAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 28.
Her Majesty's ship Princess Royal yesterday ran the
mile at Stokes'-bay four times, and averaged 4.7 knots
per hour. Her engines worked most perfectly, making
an average of 54 revolutions. There was a slight defect
in the hot-well-joint, which can be repaired by her own
engineer staff. In turning the ship at Stokes'-bay yes-
terday afternoon, at four o'clock, she unfortunately drew
too near the, shallows and grounded, and hung fast until
flood tide. We fear that in consequence she will have
to come into harbour again and be docked, to have her
bottom examined. However, we do not think she can
have sustained any injury, as she lay in a soft bed of mud.
The Blenheim, 60, screw-ship, Captain the Hen. F.
T. Pelham, received her crew to-day, and will go to
Spithead to-morrow. The Neptune, 120, and Caesar, 91,
are getting on very rapidly, and the continuous fine
weather helps them greatly.
A letter, dated off Dover yesterday, the 27th, states
that Rear-Admiral Corry, since he left Lisbon, had been
cruising under easy sail, exercising in various ways, but
he was not then in sight. He had received orders for
no other rendezvous but the Downs, whither he was
steering. The Magicienne steam-frigate, despatched
yesterday to order him to Spithead, has not yet returned.
A court-martial, comprising Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Napier, K.C.8., president, Rear-Admiral Chads, C.B.
Captains Smith, C. 8., Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., E.
H. Scott, W. Ramsay, Lord C. Paget, Hon. F. Pelham,
3. Hobb, G. Giffard, H. Smith (Simoom), F. H. H.
Glasse, W. F. Glanville, and Mr. G. L. Greetham,
Deputy Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, assembled this
morning on board the Victory to try Mr. Henry Charles
Augustus Nicholson, junior Second Master of the Re-
sistance troop-ship, on a charge of being drunk on board
that ship when at Sierra Leone, on the 15th of October
last, he being at the same time officer of the watch. The
charge was preferred by Mr. Bradshaw, Master Com-
manding her Majesty's ship Resistance, and was found
fully proved. The prisoner was sentenced to be dis-
missed her Majesty's service.
The Gorgon steam-sloop has been commissioned to-day
by Commander Arthur Cumming.
The ships at Spithead exercised their crews in great
gunnery this morning, firing at targets with shot and
shell.
The Rhadamanthus steam-transport landed the boilers
for the Colusaus, 80, in the steam-basin to-day.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 28.

Her Majesty's screw steam-ship Royal George, 121,
Captain H. J. Codrington, in charge of Mr. Thompson,
Queen's Harbourmaster, with royal yards across and
sails bent, steamed out of harbour into the Sound yes-
terday afternoon. As she came abreast Of the Himalaya,
the crew of the Royal George manned yards and rigging,
one man being at each royal masthead, and then gave
the troops three hearty cheers, which were acknow-
ledged by the Highlanders and all on board, the Hima-
laya dipping her colours at the same time. It is unusual
to man yards to any ship not carrying a pendant, but
on this occasion the etiquette of the service was set
aside.
The steam-vessel Sprightly sailed yesterday afternoon
for Portsmouth ; the Avon arrived with seamen from
Falmouth ; and the Prospero, with newly-raised men
from Ireland.
The crew of the Pique went on board yesterday after-
noon from the hulk.
The Desperate was placed in dock last evening.
The Belleisle, 24, is ordered to be commissioned for an
hospital ship.
The bread now baked daily at the Royal William Vic-
tualling-yard amounts to 24,1921 b.
The Himalaya screw steam-ship, Capt. Kellock, with
the 93d Highlanders on board, started from her moor-
ings at 20 minutes past 10 this morning, and, having a
fresh breeze from the northward, left the Sound for Malta
at a speed of at least 15 miles an hour.
Under ordinary circumstances and with ordinary wea-
ther, it is confidently expected, from her previous per-
formances, that she will reach Valetta harbour on Tues-
day, March 7, or the following day. The distance is es-
timated 2,040 miles, which would require an average

rate of only 124 knots per hour. As she made nearly 15
knots in steaming from Southampton to Plyi nouth, it
seems reasonable to conclude that the passage to Malta
can be accomplished in a week.
The military are thus disposed of on board : —Officers
of all forces in the chief saloon; non-commission ed officers
and women in the after lower saloon; Sappers mad Miners
and Rifles in the forward main-deck cabin, the lug-
gage-room, and in the second-class aCCOIII3 eodation.
The Highlanders have the lore orlop, after .3 rlop, the
lower saloon cabins, and the maiudeck. :Including
officers and crew of the ship (140), she carries 1,452
souls ; also six horses.

Her Majesty's screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington,
131, Commodore Henry B. Martin, arrive 1 to-day,
having left Lisbon 14 days since, with the flag-ship
Pince Regent, 90, Captain Frederick Hutton ; the screw
steam-ship St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain -the Hon.
Henry Keppel ; screw steam-frigate Imptcrieuse, 50,
Captain Randel B. Watson ; Arrogant, 47, Captain
Hasting R. Yelverton ; Tribune, 30, Captain the Hon.
S. T. Carnegie ; Amphion, 34, aptain Astley C. Key ;
and the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Valorous, 16, Cap-
tain Claude H. M. Buckle.

The Duke of Wellington parted company with the
fleet at 11 o'clock on Monday night, 20 miles so4uth-west
of the Lizard, when they were proceeding to the, Downs.
Wind, west.
The Duke of Wellington communicated with the
Himalaya outside the harbour.

WOOLWICH, FEB, 28.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commodore and First Captain Michael Seymour
(1826), to be Captain of the Fleet, for service as Flag
Captain in the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-
ship, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier,
K.C.8., for particular service.
Commander Robert Jenkins (1853), promoted from
First Lieutenant of the Castor, 36, when serving on the
Cape of Good Hope station, to the Talbot, 22, fitting at
Deptford, for conveying stores to the Arctic regions for
the relief of Captain Sir Edward Belcher's expedition.
Lieutenants.—Edward M. .Rogge (1841), formerly
serving in the Boscawen, 70, when guard-ship in ordi-
Amoy at Chitbarnt to :the Welling 'o arclffship of
ofd I 41‘e Slieerssf -: • ilchnejr
(1844), &on the Aginiemuun, Dl, acrevi,gteati.ship, to
the Monarch, 84, at Sheerness ; Thomas A. swinburne
(1846), to the Miranda, 14, screw steam-sloop, at
Sheerness ; Charles 0. H. P. St. John (1846), to the
Excellent, gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth ; Augustus P.
Arkwright (1845) to the Neptune, 120, at Portsmouth ;
Robert Reid (1843), to the Conway, 26, at Portsmouth,
fitting to serve as flag-ship at Cork, in the room of the
Ajax, 58, screw steam flagship at that port, the latter
being intended to form one of the screw steamships
under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier;
Charles S. Forbes (1848), to the Archer, 14, screw cor-
vette, at Woolwich ; Henry N. Knox, recently pro-
moted from first mate of the Virago steam-sloop to the
Archer.

Masters.—John Thomas (14, (1850), to the Archer, 14,
screw-corvette, at Woolwich ; John Simons (1819), to
the Magicienne, 10, paddle-wheel steam-frigate at
Devon port.
Surgeons.—Walter Dixon, M.D. (b) (1848), to the
Archer, 14, screw corvette ; John A. Corbett, M.D.
(1849), to the Miranda, 14, screw steam-sloop, at Sheer-
ness ; Nicholas Littleton (1851), to the Rosamond screw
steam-sloop, at Sheerness ; John B. Nicholson, M.D.
(1853), to the Prometheus paddlewheel steam-sloop, at
Devonport ; William Macleod, M.D. (1853), from the
Racehorse to the Driver paddle steam-sloop, at Sheer-
ness ; James J. Martin (1853), to the Gorgon, paddle-
wheel steam-sloop at Portsmouth ; W. H. Sloggett
(1853), to the Conflict, 8, screw steam-sloop at Ports-
mouth.

Paymasters. -Arthur A. Speed (1850), from the
Argus, 6, steam-sloop, to the Calypso, 18, on the North
America and West India station ; G. H. Whinier (1854),
from the Scorpion, 6, surveying-vessel at Devonport, to
the Argus, 'vice Speed ; Harrington R. Jones (1850),
from the Medea, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop at Ports-
mouth ; William Johnson (1851), to the Medea, vice
Jones ; Henry Cooper (1850), from the Cruiser screw
steam-sloop, to the Archer, 14, screw-corvette, at
Woolwich ; Edward J. Bennett (1851), to the Cruiser,
vice Cooper ; James Towell (1850), from the Frolic,
16, sloop, at Portsmouth, to the Miranda, 14, screw
steam-sloop, at Sheerness ; F. G. Pearce (1852), to
the Frolic, vice Towell ; Thomas C. Thomas (1851),
recently serving in the Volcano paddle-wheel steam-
sloop on the west coast of Africa station, to the Driver,
paddlewheel steam-sloop, at Sheerness ; Timothy Clinch
(1852), to the Rosamond paddle-wheel steam-sloop, at
Sheerness ; John E. Stiles (1852), to the Gorgon paddle.
wheel steam-sloop, at Portsmouth ; H. C. Pool (1852),
from the Saturn, at Pembroke, to the Prometheus screw
steam-sloop, at Devonport ; George H. Moubray (1841),
from the Retribution paddle-wheel steam-frigate, to the
Sanspareil, 81, screw steam-ship, both in the Black Sea ;
\V. H. Parmenter (1845), from the Leopard, 18, paddle.
wheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, to the Retribution,
vice Moubray ; William M. Shanks (1854), recently
promoted from Clerk of the Britannia. 120, flag-ship
of Vice-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, C. 8., in Beycos-
hay, to the Niger steam-sloop, in the Black Sea ;
Alex. Robinson (1842), from the Sidon, 22, paddle-
wheel steam-frigate, to the Leander,
,c,o, both in the
Black Sea ; John E. Brooman (1843), from the Samp-
son, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, to the Sidon, vice Ro-
binson ; William Ellis (1849), from the Inflexible, pad-
dle-wheel steam-sloop, in the Black Sea, to the Samp-
son, vice Brooman ; H. W. V. Warrington (1853), to
the Inflexible, vice Ellis ; G. A. Lance (1844), from the
Tiger, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, in tha Black Sea,
to the Arethusa, 50, also in the Black Sea; H. W. Rowl-
stone (1849), from the Firebrand, steam-frigate, in the
Black Sea, to the Tiger, vice Lance ; James D. Gilpin
(1849), from the Wasp, 14, screw steam-sloop, in the
Black Sea, to the Firebrand, vice Rowlstone ; H. E. L.
P. Bailey (1854), to the Wasp, vice Gilpin ; Samuel A.
L. Giles (1846), from the Styx, paddle-wheel steam-
sloop, to the Winchester, 50, flag-ship, both on the East
Indies station ; N. Giles (1852), vice S. H. L. Giles ;
George J. Starr (1850) from the Comus, 14, sloop, to
the Spartan, 26, both on the East Indies station ;
James C. Pinhorn (1852), to the Cotnus, vice Starr.
Second Master D. Manson (1854), to the Phoenix
screw steam-sloop, for service in the Arctic regions. Mr.
Manson had made 42 voyages in whaling vessels to the
northern regions, and subsequently accompanied Capt.
Penny as mate of the Sophia, and afterwards was with
Captain Inglefield in the Isabel, and was again with him
last year in the Phoenix, for which services he has been
made a Second Master in the Royal navy.
Clerk-Graham W. Welch (1850), to the Victory
flag-ship, at Portsmouth.
Gunner-Mr. Winneot to the Archer; 14, screw cor-
vette.

Boatswain—John Thomas (b), to the Archer.
Carpenter—Mr. Miller, to the Archer.
Captain Edmund Heatheote (1852), appointed to com-
mand the Archer 14, screw corvette on Saturday last,
arrived at Woolwich to-day, and hoisted his pendant on
that fine war steamer. Two lieutenants, the master,
and the three warrant officers have been already ap-
pointed to the Archer.