The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE NEW SCREW FLEET.
We are now enabled to enumerate the new screw
fleet, and to name the ports at which the ships are to
be built :

LINE-OP-BATTLE SHIPS.
Conqueror
Hero
Repulse

FRIGATES.
50 guns
50 "
50 "
SCREW CORVETTES.
.. 20 guns ....
20
.. 20 "
SCREW SLOOPS
Fawn
Falcon ..........16
Ariel 8 VP
Pembroke.
Total addition to the screw fleet, 12 ships, to mount
530 guns.

Forte ..
Topaz°
Aurora

Pearl
Pylades
Esk

... Woolwich.
... Sheerness.
Millwall.

The right hon. baronet the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty is to be entertained at dinner at the Navy Club,
Thatched House Tavern, to-morrow ; Vice-Admiral Sir
T. J. Cochrane, K.C.8., the commander-in-chief at
Portsmouth, presiding.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 12.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin,
C. 8., sailed from Spithead this morning at 6 o'clock, on
a few days' cruise to the westward. She is to fall in
with the Agamemnon, 91, Captain Sir Thomas Mait-
land, C. 8., and try rate of steaming, &c., under the di-
rections of Rear-Admiral Corry.
The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master-
Commander Petley, one of the squadron appointed to
accompany the Victoria and Albert from Holyhead to
Kingstown on her Majesty's intended visit to Dublin,
returned this morning, and the Victoria and Albert,
Captain Crispin, and Fairy tender are expected in this
' evenin, having been left by the Black Eagle, at Ply-
mouth last night.

The Sphyni, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hißyer, ar-
rived at Spithead this morning from the East India sta-
tion, last from Plymouth, where she landed her mails
and news. She is ordered to be paid off at this port.
The speed obtained yesterday by the Conflict was
about two knots per hour less with her common screw
than she attained with the last trial of the boomerang
propeller.
The Queen Charlotte, 104, was hauled out of dock
into the fitting basin this morning, having had her leak
stopped.
Upwards of 3,000 strangers came into this town to.
day, principally from Brighton, and
.belonging to the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company's
establishment, to see the fleet. Sore was the disappoint.
ment at the Great Duke having left the anchorage, for
she was the grand object of attraction to most of the
numerous party, and, they being chiefly scientific men
(engineers, &c.), their desire to see the interior of the
greatest steam man-of-war in the wozld will easily be
understood.
We regret to state that Lieutenant Macdonnell, of the
Odin (the officer alluded to in our yesterday's report),
has not, up to this time, been heard of.

WOOLWICH, JULY 12.
APPOINTMENTS.
Captain Astley C. Key (185 O), to be acting captain in
the Arnphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, in the room of
Captain Charles G. E. Patey, who has commanded that
frigate since December, 1852, but is at present unable
to do duty, owing to the severe injuries he received by
the falling of a block upon his head when on board the
Amphion.

The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-ship,
Captain Henry B. Martin, will, it is said, extend her
cruise as far as the station occupied by Vice-Admiral
Dundas in the Mediterranean, or at the entrance of tho
Dardanelles.

DINNER IN HONOUR OF PRINCE ADAM CZARTORYSKI.—
The Polish Historical Society received their illustrious
compatriot, Prince Adam Czartoryski, patron of that
society, at dinner, in the Thatched House Tavern, on
Monday last, Colonel Last Szyrma, president, in the
chair. The assemblage of the Poles, both members and
guests, was numerous, including Lord Dudley Stuart
and other patrons of the Polish Society. After the
customary toasts for the Queen, Prince Albert,
and the rest of the Royal Family, which wero,
all given in Polish, the national toast of "Poland
followed, and in the next place, that of Prince Adam
Czartoryski, as one of her most eminent Solis. In pro-
posing his health the chairman drew a lively outline
of the prince's public career as a statesman, and dwelt
in particular on the services which he had rendered to
his country by promoting
national education, and pro-
tecting the administration of justice from the corrupt-
ing influence of Russia. The illustrious prince's health
was drunk with all the honours, as was also that of
the princess his amiable consort, a lady who is most
deservedly respected by the Poles for the solicitude
which he is bestowing on the education of the daughters
of the Polish exiles, at her own residence in Paris, and
mainly at her own expense. The toast was proposed
by the vice-president, Lieutenant Szulczewski. The
prince proposed the health of Lord Dudley Stuart,
the zealous and unwearied president of the Literary.
Association of the Friends of Poland, in conjunction
withits members, which toast was acknowledged by the
noble lord in a speech in which he took occasion to ren-
der a tribute to the memory of Cutlar Ferguson, Thomas
Campbell, Wentworth Beauniont, and other distin-
guished supporters of the Polish cause who had preceded
him. Several other toasts• were proposed and drunk,
as " English Hospitality," "Regeneration of Poland,"
&c. The festivity closed with the recital of . a piece of
poetry, composed for the occasion by Mr. Alexander
Rypinski, and the party broke up at a late hour, amidst
aspirations for the continuance of the prosperity of Eng-
land, and admiration of her free institutions.