The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

MAtiTA, 2:

The screw steam-frigate Agamemnon and the line-of-
battle ships Queen and London have reached the
anchorage of the English fleet at Beycos.
The .A rethusa, frigate is shortly expected here on her
way to England.
On Saturday last the court-martial, of which Lieut.-
Colonel Adams was president, was dissolved. Captain
Eyre, 47th Regiment, who-was tried before it on charges
of fraudulently appropriating several sums, has been
under arrest ever since (nearly five months), without
learning his sentence, which has but recently been sent
out. He is sentenced to seven years' transportation, and
has been removed to the Corradino Gaol, prior to being
sent to England.
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Lord Ha-milton Chichester, who had been a great suf-
ferer for many years, expired at 8 o'clock yesterday
morning, at his residence at the Pieta. His Lordship
leaves a widow, but no children.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.

The Simoom, 18, iron troop-ship, Captain Kingcome,
from the Cape of Good Hope, will come into .harbour to-
morrow morning to land the lit battalion of the Rifle
Brigade, Lieutenant Calvert Buller, who will proceed
hence by the South Coast Railway to quarters at Dover.
The detachment of Royal Artillery will also land here
and proceed to Woolwich. The Simoom is Lot in a very
sea-worthy state.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 7.
The Medea, 6 guns, paddle wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander Augustus Phillimore, from Portsmouth, made
her number at the Nore yesterday at 1 p.m., and was
signalled from the Waterloo flag-ship when she made for
this harbour. She came to an anchor off the yard on
the west shore at 1.45 p.m., where she will await orders
for being taken into the fitting basin and afterwards
docked in No. 3 dock for survey of damage, defects, &c.
A court-martial is ordered to take place on board the
Waterloo flag-ship, 121 guns, Captain Lord Frederick
Kerr, on Monday next, on certain officers of this sloop,
in consequetice of her having been on shore off Lowes-
toft.

The steam transport Rhadamanthus, Master Co-Inman-
der John Belam, arrived, here from Chatham at 7 p.m.
this day. She leaves here to-morrow, at 9.30 a.m.,.di-
rect from Pembroke-yard, laden with timber, &c., for
the new Royal yacht, Windsor Castle, to be built at that
yard. _ _

The meeting of the School ComMittee is to take place
on Wednesday next, at the Captain-Superintendent's
levee-room, for the purpose of recommending to the
Admiralty a number of boys (after examination) to be
entered as apprentices in the yard. here. The Captain-
Superintendent Charles Hope sits as president of the
committee; Mr. Richard Crockford, schoolmaster of the
dockyard school for apprentiCes, officiates in his capacity
under the directions of the committee. The mode of
entry at present adopted by the Admiralty is as follows :
The committee recommend as many boys as their lord-
ships direct to be examined. The first half from the
top of the list are ordered by the Admiralty to be en-
tered ; the remainder are selected by the Admiralty,
preference being given to the sons of the most deserving
officers, artificers, and labourers belonging to the yard,
such recommendations emanating from the respective
officers of the yard.
The barque Don, of Newcastle, William Tillock master,
from London for Newcastle, has put in here with loss
of an anchor and part of chain cable(parted from at the
Nore), and with her best bower anchor stock broken,
She has been supplied with a new stock from her Ma-
jesty's dockyard here, on an application made to the
Captain-Superintendent Charles Hope, R.N.

JAN. 8.

The Wildfire paddle-wheel steam-tender to Waterloo,
Second Master (additional) George Brockman in com-
mand, arrived here this day, at noon, from Dover.
The Rhadamanthus left here at 9.30 a.m. this day for
Pembroke.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 9.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander E. D'O. D'A. Aplin (1853), recently pro-
moted, after having served as flag-lieutenant to Rear-Ad-
miral Henry Prescott, C. 8., of the Neptune, 120, guard-
ship of ordinary at Portsmouth, and subsequently as
flag-lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas J. Cochrane,
of the Victory, flag-ship, at Portsmouth, is ap-
pointed to study steam at the factory at Woolwich
Dockyard.

Clerks.—George J. D. Andrews (1849), recently serv-
ing in the Fisgard,'llag-ship, at Woolwich, under Com-
modore Henry Eden, to the Euryalus, 50, screw steam-
frigate, at Chatham ; Henry C. Pool, to the Fisgard ;
W. Horniman, to the Hogue, 60, screw steam-guard-
ship, at Devonport ; J. N. M'Avoy (1853), to the Pique,
40, at Devonport. '
The Banshee steam-vessel, Lieutenant. Commander
Reynolds, left Woolwich this morning for Greenhithe,
where she will have her compasses adjusted and then
proceed round to Portsmouth to embark Captain Brock,
R.N., and several officers of the Royal Engineers, for a
passage to Constantinople.
The Black Eagle, Master-Commander Pettey, was
taken into the west dock to-day to have her bottom ex-
amined, havinr, been on the sand near the Nore for a
short time, on her return from Grimsby, where she had
been in attendance on Sir James Graham during his
inspection of that part of the coast, to ascertain its capa-
bilities as a station for a North Sea fleet.
A. number of remarkably healthy and apparently suit-
able young men from various parts of the country have
daily offered to enter the naval service at this port, but,
unfortunately, only a few could be entered, as the far
greater number were under the stipulated height, 5 feet
7 inches. There surely must have been some error in
these figures, as the Royal Artiliery or Royal Marine
corps would not reject young growing lads of less height ;
and when it becomes known that plenty of healthy
young, well-built men are ready to serve her Majesty
afloat if they are accepted when nearly the required
height, the' Lords of th 9 Admiralty will reduce the
height for sailors to 5 feen or 6 inches, or give a dis-
cretion to the officers whose duty it may be to enter
men to secure the service of all who appear in other
respects eligible, until the required number is obtained.