The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22.
Orders from the Admiralty were received here to-day
fully to man her Majesty's ship the Queen, 116, Capt.
Mitchell. She has 400 men ; her complement is about
900. This is stated to be preparatory to her receiving
the flag of the Admiral of the Channel fleet.
The• Vengeance, 84, Capt. Lord Edward Russell, with
four months' provisions on. board, continues in the
Sound, hourly expecting orders to proceed to the Medi-
terranean.

The Espiegle, 12, Commander G. Hancock, arrived at
Spithead this morning from Sheerness, on her way to
the West Indies.

The London, 90, Captain Mundy, was paid advanced
wages at Spithead this morning.
The Fairy steam-yacht, Master Commander Welch,
proceeded out of harbour this morning on another screw
tria;,. under the direction of Captain Crispin, and re-
turne:l in the evening.
The Growler, 5, paddle steam-sloop, is ordered to be
taken out of the steam-basin and docked, to have her
bottom overhauled.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 22.

APPOINTMENTS.

Chaplain—The Rev. John B. Bunce, B.A. (1845), re-
cently serving in the Phaeton, 50, to the Vengeance,
84, the latter vessel being under orders of readiness for
the Mediterrawean station.

Assistant-Surgeon—Robert W. Beaumont (1848), re-
cently serving in the Castor, 50, on the Cape of Good
Hope station, to the Naiad, 42, store-ship, stationed at
Callao.

Clerk—Robert W. Warwick (1846), recently serving
in the Phaeton, to be Clerk in Charge to the Tyne store-
ship, at Portsmouth, taking on board stores for the Island
of Ascension and Rio.

Mr. Charles Kerr Ren wick, chief engineer and one of
the survivors of the Birkenhead steam-frigate, whose
conduct at the time of the melancholy loss of that vessel,
off the Cape of Good Hope, was noticed in terms of the
highest approbation in Ow report of Staff-Surgeon Dr.
Bowen, has been appointed chief engineer to the Phoenix
screw steam-sloop, in dock at Woolwich, fitting for an
expedition to the Arctic regions.
Mr. R. Drummond is appointed first assistant-engineer
to the Phcenix.

The Melampus, 42, paosed Woolwich to-day from
Sheerness, on her way up the river to John Penn and
Son's wharf, at Deptford, to receive on board the heavy
parts of the machinery and boilers of St. Jean D'Acre,
manufactured by that firm,, and will convey them round
to Devonport to be put on board that ship, of 101 guns, 1
to be launched on the 23d inst. at that port. The Me-
lampus was towed up fror n Sheerness by the Cyclops
paddlewheel steam-frigate, and the latter will take the
lighter parts of the machinery on board, and then tow
the Melampus to Devonpm.t.
The Terrible steam-frigate, having been again fitted
with her four boilers, for •which she was originally con-
structed, and her engines of 800 horse-power repaired
and put on board, had her steam up during the greater
part of to-day in the inner basin to try their working,
and although held by the. stern by strong cables, she
ground massive pieces of timber into small fragments
when placed betwixt her bows and the granite-wharf
wall next the factory. The paddlewheels, about 38 feet
in diameter, revolved quickly and worked well.
The screw cast from eleven tons of brass for the Aga-
memnon, 91, was taken out of its casting-frame yester-
day afternoon, and is as perfect in every part as could
have been wished. Workmen are now busily employed
in removing the superfluous parts, and when it is finished
in the engineer department it will be sent round to Ports-
mouth as a reserve screw from the Agamemnon, at pre-
sent at that port.
The workmen are engaged in the foundry to-day in
preparing for the casting of a brass tube 14 feet long and
21 inches in,diameter inside to be placed in the stern of
the Hannibal screw steam-ship, to receive the shaft of
her screw-propeller. A similar tube was cast last week
for the Algiers, 90, screw steam-ship, building at Devon-
port. Each of the brass tubes to receive the shafts of
the screw-propellers of these ships weighs 1 ton 18 cwt.
The one for the Algiers has been finished in the engi-
neer department.
The Isabel, Lady Franklin's screw steam-vessel, will
steam down the river to Greenhithe on Thursday, and
Commander Inglefield will proceed to that station to
swing her compasses ; and it is expected she will be able
to leave the river on Saturday, on her enterprising voy-
age, in charge of Mr. Kennedy, for Bhering s Straits.

SHEERNESS, MARCH 21.

At 9.a.m. this day a court-martial assembled on board
the Waterloo to try George Wright, an able. seaman (a
native of flelgium), under an Admiralty warrant, dated
the 15th day of March inst., for deserting from the Ho-
ratio.
The president and the members of the court having
been duly sworn, the Deputy-Judge-Advocate then had
the usual oath administered to him by the president of
the court.

The prisoner George Wright and all the witnesses
being present, the charge was read by . the Deputy-
Judge-Advocate, charging the said prisoner with desert-
ing from on board her Majesty's ship Horatio, on the
Ist day of March instant, while serving on board as an
able seaman.

Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, in command of her
Majesty's ship Horatio, was the prosecutor, and after
evidence had been adduced,

The Deputy-Judge-Advocate read the sentence of the
Court, which was to the following effect :—That the
opinion of that Court was, the charge of desertion had
been fully proved against the prisoner, and that the
Court, after maturely and deliberately weighing the evi-
dence and the defence set up by the prisoner, sentenced
him to be imprisoned in the county gaol at Maidstone
for the term of six calendar months, and then to be dis-
missed her Majesty's service.

DRVONPORT. —The inhabitants of Devonport are much
pained to hear that the Government have again deter-
mined to form a convict establishment here on a large
scale. A building is to be erected. Colonel Jebb is
expected here, when, in connection with the official au-
thorities' a site will be chosen, and the works commenced
without delay. This will be a general calamity, as the
labour of the honest man will be taken away, and with
it the whole of his little earnings, which is now distri-
buted amongst the various tradesmen—the draper, gro-
cer, butcher, Stc., besides the rent of his room, which
will be severely felt by the householder—the poor rate
at present in this parish is 2s. 6d. in the pound ; while
with the convicts everything will be served in by con-
tract ; when few indeed will receive any benefit, and, as
it sometimes happens, the contractor himself becomes a
bankrupt.—Herald.