The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, held
a levee at Whitehall on Saturday, and it was attended by
the following officers :

Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dillon, K.C.H.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Alfred Crofton.
Captains—Henry Dundas (1825), Robert F. Stopford
(1840), Woodford J. William (1841), John Washington
(1842), William Kelly (1844), William H. Hall (1844),
Thos. Sparke Thompson (1846), Chas. John Bosanquet
(1846), James Wilcox (1850), and Frederick B. Montressor
(1851).
Commanders—Thos. Greene (1833), Wm. Mcllwaine
(1838), Alexander Goldie (1839), Wm. M. G. Pasco (1846),
Chas. R. Johnson (1847), Wm. Thomas (1849), and Wil-
loughby J. Lake (1851).
Lieutenants—Francis Wm. Ellis (1812), Sir Henry Wil-
mot (1825), Colin W. Lindsay, (1837), and David Miller
(1840).
Master—Samuel S. Flinn (1825.)
Chaplain—Rev. Pascoe G. Hill, B.A. (1850.)

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 13.
The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, flag of Rear-
Admiral Corry, completed the re-adjustment of her com-
passes yesterday, and will go to Spithead to-morrow,
according to present orders.
The London, 90, Captain Mundy, will also go to Spit-
head to-morrow, according to present arrangements.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin,
C. 8., is being expedited as much as possible by the en-
gineer department of this dockyard ; and it is hoped she
will be out of their hands by the Ist proximo.
The Neptune, 120, Captain E. H. Scott, flag of Rear-
Admiral Superintendent Fanshawe, C. 8., is reported to
relieve the Trafalgar, 120, in the Mediterranean, and
that the Princess Charlotte, 104, in this ordinary, will
be fitted to take the Neptune's place in this harbour.
The Cruiser, 14, Commander the Hon. G. H. Douglas,
left Spithead on Friday e 7ening on a cruise.
The Fairy Royal yacht, Master Commander Welch,
was docked yesterday morning to ship a new propeller.
The Rolla, 6, naval apprentices' brig, Lieutenant Fen-
wick, of the Victory, in charge, hauled over to her
moorings in Blockhouse-hall yesterday morning.
The Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander
Hosken, will be ready for sea to-morrow.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 13.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Firebrand, Captain Hyde,
Parker, having coaled and had defects made good, went
out of harbour yesterday, and sailed for the Mediter-
ranean.
The Encounter, 14, screw steam-corvette, Capt. O'Cal-
laghan, is appointed to sail to-day for Woolwich, where
she will receive new boilers.
Yesterday the steam block-ship Sanspareil got masts
on board and tops over the masts.
The steam-vessel Avon arrived yesterday from Ports-
mouth.
The Valorous steam-frigate, 16, Captain Buckle, went
out of harbour on Friday, took her powder on board,
and made a short trial of her machinery.
The merchant ship John Young, from Calcutta to
London, was off Plymouth on Thursday, and had on
board the crew of the abandoned schooner Aim, of
Greenock, Captain John Gibson.
The brig Pomone, Perran, from Newcastle for Lisbon,
was off the Eddystone on Tuesday.

SHEERNESS, MARCH, 12.
The Cyclops, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Lieutenant
John Seccombe, in command pro tern., and not Mr.
Harvey, as formerly reported, arrived here from Wool-
wich at 7 30 p.m. yesterday.
The Rhadamanthus, paddle-wheel steam-transport,
Master-Commander John Belam, passed here at 11 a.m.
this day, from Woolwich to Chatham.
The Driver, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Mr. Cor-
nelius Fox, master, has this day taken up his commis-
sion as additional master to the Horatia for duty in the
Driver.

The Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, Captain Charles
G. E. Patey, Mr. William Roy, Naval Instructor, 2d of
February, 1846 (late of the Phaeton), has taken up his
appointment to this frigate. She will be ready to leave
the basin in about ten days.

The Melampus frigate is masted and rigged all ataunt.
A novel mode was adopted to expedite the rigging of
this frigate. Her mainmast and maintopma,st were com-
pletely rigged, also her mizenmast, and hung by the
shears. The masts were then stepped, when the seamen
riggers of the yard commenced their work, and, after a
few hours, the topgallantmasts were on end. Her rig-
ging is partially sparred ready for rattling down. She
will go out of the basin on Tuesday next, the 15th inst.,
and proceed immediately for Woolwich, in tow of the
Cyclops steam-sloop.

The Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate was masted yes-
terday, and taken into the deck from which the Terrible
was taken out to-day.
The Barracouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander George Parker, has completed the entry of her
crew within a half-a-doien blue-jackets.

PEMBROKE.
The James Watt, screw-steamer, of 91 guns, will
shortly be ready for launching, and when afloat will
immediately be rigged and made ready for commission.
Heavy gangs of men have for some time past been most
actively employed in pushing on the work of completion.
Her armament will be a formidable one, and, it is said,
will consist of 28 8-inch guns, and 62 32-pounders of
56cwt. and 9 feet 6 inches in length. She will also
mount one pivot gun, which will be a 68-pounder, 10
feet in length.

The Encounter, screw steam-sloop, 14 guns, under the
command of Captain O'Callaghan, will visit from time to
time the various ports in the Bristol Channel and Irish
Sea. She has lately been lying at Bristol, and since then
has gone on to Liverpool to pick up seamen for the
Royal navy,

WOOLWICH, MARCH 12.

APPOINTMENTS.

Master Jabez Loane (1846) to the Encounter, 14,
screw steam-frigate, at Devonport, vice John Pyper, dis-
missed the service.

Surgeon Charles Ede (1851) to the Espiegle, 12, a'
Sheerness.

Second Master Joseph Cutajar (1845), serving in the
Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich, is promoted to the rank
of Master, and appointed to the Gorgon paddle-wheel
steam-sloop, of 320-horse power, at Portsmouth.