The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-08 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

We have the greatest satisfaction in giving currency
to an official announcement to the effect that Mr. Engle-
due, the able and indefatigable superintendent of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
establishment and fleet at Southampton, has been
restored to the rank he formerly held in the Royal ser-
vice—a lieutenant in the navy. This officer had served
long and honourably in various ships. He had worked
out his promotion, after much arduous service as mate,
to the rank of lieutenant—he had recommendations from
all his superior officers, (Sir Watkin 0. Pell, Sir Charles
Napier, Sir Thomas Hastings, Sir RiCliard Grant, and
Rear-Admiral Corry amongst the number), and good
wishes from his messmates ; he continued to serve as a
lieutenant in various ships ; taught himself the science of
naval gunnery, was one of the first officers of the Ex-
celent establishment, and went to other ports to initiate
oth:we ships' companies. At length, When he saw so
anyma juniors of inferior claims being daily promoted,
Engledue naturally looked for his advancement as
the reward of his long, faithful, and valuable afloat ser-
vices, and accordingly applied for it.
Mr. Engledue, however, was too valuable a man in
those days to be any other than a first lieutenant, and so
he continued on the list without promotion. Opportu-
nities, however, very soon offered • to Lieutenant Engle-
due to better his condition—a richer, if not a more
honourable, prospect opened to him in the service of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company. Mr. Engledue was
offered a command of one of their best steamers, and
without waiting for the sanction of the Admiralty, he
accepted it. But the Admiralty determined not to lose
sight of so excellent an officer, and ordered him to join
a man-of-war. Mr. E. respectfully deprecated the ap-
pointment to a lieutenant's position, seeing that he had
earned his rank, and begged for leave, but their lord-
ships were inexorable; and, we believe, more for example
than from any strong feeling against him, struck hint off
the list.
Mr., then Captain, Engledue, with the commiseration
of all his friends, pursued his career in the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's service ; and after commanding
ships in the Mediterranean, and filling responsible posts
in Egypt and India, he returned some years ago
to Southampton, and succeeded the late Lieutenant
Kendal, as the company's superintendent. But thong h
separated from the Royal Navy by a cruel and hasty ex-
cision, it was impossible for him to forget the service in
which he was cradled, and in which he founded his repu-
tation as a seaman and an officer ; and he naturally
looked forward to the time when justice would be done
to his merits and his claims, and he would again be en-
titled to look upon himself as a Royal naval officer. The
day has come at last, and we are quite sure a greater act
of justice was never performed than this restoration.
We know not whether we may attribute the restora-
tion to the old or the new board, but whichever it may
be, it has earned the thanks of hundreds of good men,
and the measure will have an effect on the steam-packet
mail service, which will bear good fruit to the nation
should an emergency arise for the services of so valuable
an auxiliary as the mail contract steam force. If the
Duke of Northumberland has had any hand in it, we
may remark that this one good act will silence many a
reflection, and it will be hailed as a mark of generous
appreciation of the services of a hard-working but ne-
glected brother officer. If the restoration is one of Sir
James Graham's first official acts, it will be regarded as an
augury of good, which will go far to remove the feeling
of uneasy apprehension which at present exists in the
navy at the changes at the Admiralty. We cannot help
thinking that Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., of the
past as well as the present board, must have helped the
restoration, for no one will doubt that, if his promotion
was rapid, he is fully capable of estimating, as he is ever
anxious to reward, the ability of those who had not his
good luck. Moreover, the gallant admiral was a good
dockyard superintendent, and if he ever visited South-
ampton he must have been struck with the efficient and
admirable superintendence of Captain Engledue, for
there he was port admiral, admiral superintendent, store-
keeper, accountant, and harbour-roaster, shipwright,
joiner, Custom-house agent, and everything else ; and
working cordially with the superintendent engineer, Mr.
Lamb, he conducted the business of the great company
to which he was attached with that system, order, regu-
larity, dispatch, and economy, which cannot be sur-
pau'sed. These services were naturally a recommendation
to Vice _Admiral Parker, as we know they were to his
predecessor, Vice-Admiral Dundas. Again, the restora-
tion of such a man is what might be expected from Sir
Phipps llornby, Sir Thos. Herbert, Captain Duncombe,
and Captain Milne, and if these had little voice in the
matter, then we cannot help thinking that it was to
Admiral Berkeley's generous assistance that Captain
Engledue owes his recovered rank. Admiral Berkeley
is a gunnery officer, and he must have been well
acquainted with Lieu tenant Engledue's gunnery
services. Admiral Berkeley was a member
of the com-
mittee on the steam navy, and he must have admired the
open, manly, frank, and intelligent evidence of Mr.
Engledue, and the officer-like and practical suggestions
which he made for converting the mercantile steam-ves-
sels into auxiliary squadrons, for the purposes of war OR
an emergency. Moreover, Admiral Berkeley has given
a great deal of attention to the condition of the seamen,
and to the question of manning the navy, and he could
.not be ignorant of Captain Engledue's success in man-
' ning the Peninsular and Oriental Company's powerful
fleet with the best seamen in the world, and that he has_
in the course of the lkit four or five years contributed
largely towards manning the ships of the Royal Navy ;
and not only that, but at his own expense, he
commenced a system of training the packet-service men
to the use of ships' guns, and created amongst them such
a feeling of regard for the Royal service as to enable
him to answer for their services in the event of hostilities.
On all grounds, and from any hands, then, we accept
the restoration of Lieutenant Engledue to the Navy List
as a mark of justice to neglected claims—as an indication
of an improved feeling among the rulers of the navy to-
wards officers of what we may call the auxiliary service ;
and further, we hail the act as a step in that necessary
" progress" towards consolidating the naval strength of
this great maritime country. We heartil trut that
the next step after the restoration will be the y long-searned
promotion of Lieut. Engledue to the rank of corn-
mander.—/Iforning herald.

The new Board of Admiralty entered upon their du•
ties at Whitehall yesterday.
We hear that Captain O'Brien will be succeeded as
private secretary to the First Lord, by Captain Graham,
of the Royal Artillery.
Some surprise is felt that the Ajax, 58, screw guard-
ship, at Queenstown, has not yet filled up her comple-
ment, from 250 to 500. She has been at Queenstown
now about six weeks, and has only entered 100 blue
jackets. We used to get a good supply of boys and men
from the Irish coast.

PTSH, JAN. 7.
Notwithstanding the wind got MO U
up toT N.N.W. last
evening, and the stars looked unusually bright, the
wind backed again to the southward at four a.m., this
day, and commenced a gale which lasted till three p.m.,
cutting off all comninnication with the shore, and at in-
tervals raining a perfect deluge.
"--lldog, 6, steam-sloop, went out of harbour at 10 a.m.,
!ontinued under steam until one p.m., when she re-
d, having had ample opportunity of testing her
givers against so fierce a gale.
Simoom, 18, iron-screw steam troop-frigate, Captain
Kingcorne, will go out of harbour at daylight to-morrow
morning (Saturday), direct for Cork.
Medea, 6, steam-sloop, Commander J. C. Bailey, was
taken into No. 1 South Dock, this day.
Termagant, screw-frigate, was towed up the harbour
by Echo, steam-tug, and placed near Leopard, 14, pad-
dle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain Gifford.

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to will comehave
her
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boilers repaired, &c.
The launch of the after-body of the Marlborough, 130,
screw line-of-battle ship, will not take place before Tues-
daysloop, or Wednesday, although every exertion has been
used by the parties at work upon her.

Desper PLYMOUTH, .TAN. 7.
Commander , are ordered to be taken into dock to
have their coppers examined and repaired.
Mr. Scott Russell, the builder of the Australian mail
steain-ship, Adelaide, lately repaired at the dockyard,
Asylum.
has presented 10/. to the Royal Dockyard Female Orphan
-
The steanarvessel Marten, from Southampton for Spain,
put in here last night, short of fuel.

HRETtNESI. .TAN. 7.
A new S
sentw steam-corvette is to be Ltitl,lown here
immodiately
b r..t.
atter lanneh of the. screw ste:. 11, iEe Tri-
bune, of 30 g(ii,,, woot o , i , will ~
take place (01 the 11th of
the screw
this month. She is ordered to be laid from the lines of
steam-frig-ate Highfiyer, of 21 guns, with an
extension of beam.
The screw steam-frigate Tribune will, immediately after
being launched, he towed from here to Woolwich for the
Purpose of being fitted with her engines and machinery.
She is to be fitted with Messrs. Penn's new trunkeel
gines. Previous to her leaving here she will recelivs board two of her sea-going bower anchors and cah...o_
ythizis.,
The contractor for beef is now daily victuallingenz_2:
hatcher,
7,000, navy 3,000. The new cTornott, t for ,
paio.irntyand fort, including Chatham, 10t.Ora0co. 1-11
the
navy was completed yesterday by Mr.
Chatham.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 7.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant J. R. Engledue is restored to the list of
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May next.
The opening for
the figure-head to be put up.
where the Royal Albert c in the roof
, 120, is building at Woolwich,
owing
when she -- e lor the
built figure-head of the Trafalgar
enough for the ,on the same
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projection of the figure head of the
and of the latter vessel being also much longer,
considerably greater tonnage, than the Trafalgar.