The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Hampshii e Telegraph
states that the Queen, 110, Captain Bruce, now in the
Mediterranean, is ordered home to be paid off, and
then sent out azain to carry the flag of the Mediter-
ranean Commander•in-Chief.. We cannot believe that
such an act, in the face of the fact we have so recently
instanced about untried old -new ships, is, or has latterly
been, contemplated by the Admiralty. The Queen has
been kept in commission since launched in 1839, to the
exclusion of equally good, and beyond question less ex-
pensive hulks, and the sooner she is taken off the com-
missioned list to give place to some more venerable prop
to tho " wooden walls," the cheaper and better for the
service and the country. Of course when she comes
home she will have an immediate and expensive refit,
perhaps a second edition of the Chatham 10,0004 dock-
ing and alteration!

The Briton, convict hospital ship, was removed from
her moorings in Block-house Hole to-day to a berth near
the Creek of Clarence-yard, to make room for the De-
fence. The place is to be deepened by the dredging-
vessel for the reception of the latter.
Wind, S.E. by E.; moderate breezes, and dark hazy
weaLthy mer. p oirrit, MARCH 18.—Iler Majesty's ship Van-
guard, Captain George F. Rich, under all plain canvass,
light easterly_ breeze this morning
a
witha a
and
shortly after entered the Sound by
thhtoeve weigeihsnt o'clock,
g elphoatcsksage, saluted the flag of the Port Admiral,
and dropped anchor to the north of Camber. She left
Gibraltar on the 4th inst.,, and having had light northerly
and easterly winds has been as far as 19 deg. west lon-
gitude. Within the last three or four days the wind has
veered to the southward and south-east, and yesterday,
at 3 P.M., she hove to off the Lizard. The Vanguard left
the St.. Vincent, 120, and three or: four steamers at
Gibraltar; the Powerful had sailed for Malta. No fur-
ther discovery has been made of the pirates on the north
coast of Africa. The Vanguard vvai commissioned on
February 7, 1845, and attached to the experimental
squadron until October, 1846, when she went up the
Mediterranean, where she has continued till the present
time. The Vanguard to-morrow goes up Hamoaze to
be paid off. She will require at least six months repair,
being very weak, especially in her decks.
Her Majesty's steam-ship Stromboli came in this
morning from Portsmouth.

Her Majesty's ship Caledonia, 120, Capt. T. W. Car-
ter, was paid wages and inspected yesterday morning by
Admiral Superintendent Sir John Louis. This morning
at ten o'clock she loosed canvass, and at eleven, shortly
after high water, under all plain sail, with a light easterly
wind, left the Sound by the western channel; outside
she held her wind, and made off the land to the eastward,
and at twelve o'clock, owing to the fog, was out of sight.
She was destined for Malta up to Friday, when 4 is un-
derstood she received sailing orders for Naples.
Wind easterly, light and APY WWI"

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE OF DATeS.—It is a Curious
coincidence that Rear-Admiral H. D. Byng received his
appointment to that rank on the 14th inst., the anniver-
sary of-the day on which his ancestor, Admiral Byng
was " done to death" at Spithead.
Lieut. Edward Heunah (1821), of the coast guard
service, died on the 11th inst. at Government House,
Hastings, leaving a widow and six young children
without any private means of support.
The Racer, 12, Commander Beddoes, was muetered
and inspected yesterday, at Devonport, by Real-Admiral
Superintendent Sir John Louis, after which she will
sail for the Mediterranean station, first, most pro-
bably, relieving the Harlequin, 12, Commander Beau-
champ Seymour, at Lisbon, and sending her to Devon-
port, to be paid off.
The Arrogant, 46, screw -frigate, Captain Fitzroy, is
receiving her sea-service stores at Portsmouth; She
victualled from the coppers yesterday about 210 men.
Most of the crew being seamen from the Rodney, &c.,
have not yet returned from leave, so that she is compa-
ratively short-handed at present.
The Stromboli, 6, steam sloop, Commander A. W.
Beauclerk, proceeded on to Pembroke, for Plymouth, on
Sunday evening.
The Vulcan revenue cruiser, Lieutenant-Commander
Pritchard, was alongside the coal depOt at Portsmouth
yesterday, taking in a supply of fuel.