The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Lords of the Admiralty
left the George Hotel yesterday morning after break-
fast in their barge, in waiting at the Sallyport stairs in
charge of Lieutenant Mills' of the Victory, and landed
at the dockyard, the First Lord proceeding to hold his
annual levee at the Royal Naval College, and the Hon.
Captain Berkeley and Mr. Cowper proceeding to Spit-
bead to inspect the Amphion and Odin steam-frigates.
The following officers had audiences of the lirst
Lord :
Rear-Admirals—Brown and Searle, C.H.
Captains—Pasco, Aplin, Pritchard, Gambier, Carter,
and Waldis.
Commanders—Mitchell,Douglass, Sharpe, Prettyman,
Seymour, Johnson, Fegen, Oakes, Foster, Virestbrook,
Halbrook, Lye, Sadler, Scott, MiLeod, Wilcox, Jer-
ningham, Twiss, and Morrell.
Lieutenants—Bamber, Hodgkinson, Mills, Bridges,
Thompson, Wolrige, Turner, Lapige, Sicklemore, and
stone. _

Surgeon—Acheson.
Assistant-surgeons—NV. Lovey, M.D. ; Saunders,
M.D.; M‘Whinnie,
Messrs.—Moreton and Hayward, R.N.
Chaplain—Rev. Ross Lewin.
From the levee the Earl of Auckland went to the
King's stairs to receive the Prince Consort, and accom•
pany him in his review of the Dock and Victualling-
yard Battalions, after which the Prince expressed to
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., the Superintendent
of the Dockyard and Virtual Commaadant of the Bat-
talion, his warmest satisfaction at the eminently ser-
viceable state of this newly raised force.
After the departure of the Prince, the Lords of the
Admiralty proceeded to Rear Admiral Parker's to lun-
cheon, after which they inspected the interior of the
Prince Regent, 120, cut down to a 92, on two decks, her
hold, Sec., being illuminated for the inspection. She is
ordered to be fitted for service on Captain Fanshawe
Martin's plan. The weather became foul while their
Lordships were inspecting this ship, so that they did
not extend their inspection of the works in progress in
the dockyard further, but left in flys for the George
Hotel, whence the Earl of Auckland and Captain Henry
Eden, his secretary, proceeded to Alverstoke to dine
with Lord Ashburton, returning to the George to sleep.
The Hon. Mr. Cowper, M.P., the Junior Lord of the
Admiralty, proceeded by the South-Western Railway at
the same time, to dine with Viscount Palmerston, at his
seat at Broadlands ; the other members of the board,
Rear-Admiral Prescott, Lord John Hay, Captain the
Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley, and Mr. Woolley, together
with Colonel Irvine, Royal Engineers, dined at the
George, the latter gentleman proceeding afterwards to
town.
To-morrow the Board will inspect the whole of the
fleet in ordinary and the dockyard, and give a banquet
in the evening at the George, On Tuesday the Royal
Marines and Coast Guard will be inspected, their Lord-
ships dining afterwards with Colonel Astell, the com-
mandant, and the officers of this division. On Wednes-
day their Lordships will be joined by the chief secretary,
Mr. Ward, M.P., and proceed to the Channel Islands in
the Fire Queen steam-vessel.
Her Majesty having intimated to the
.Grand Duke
Constantine that an inspection of the Russian squadron
then off Gravesend would afford her much pleasure, the
Grand Duke commanded the squadron to appear at Spit-
head without delay, and yesterday it anchored in these
waters. Her Majesty, with the Lords of the Admiralty,
and the Grand Duke (who will return to this port ex-
pressly for the purpose on Tuesday) will inspect and
review this squadron at Spithead on that day. The force
consists of the Pallas, :52-gun frigate, Captain Moffet ;
the corvette Olivuzza, 20, Captain Sakaroff ; the steam
frigate Krabroi, 280 horse power, Captain Solootzoff,
and a fine cutter tender to the frigate. The squadron is
commanded by Rear-Admiral Count Heyden.
The 52-gun frigate is a fine specimen of naval archi-
tecture as ever carried a pennant, and in magnificent
trim. She is a similar class of vessel to the. President,
but not so heavily armed, carrying only 94-pounders
throughout. She is manned with 450 as fine fellows as
any country can produce. The Urand Duke's apart-
ments, under the poop, are superbly yet chastely fitted
up, somewhat in the style of the Victoria and Albert
yacht. Vice-Admiral Liitke's apartments, on the main
deck, are laid out with the most refined yet service-like,
taste. 'The officers' quarters are also most complete,
commodious, and healthy. The fighting quarters are
ample, and, indeed, the entire trim of the ship the very
example of a fine man of war. The corvette is also a
remarkably handsome and healthy ship, mounting
twenty 18-pounder;. She is in admirable order for ser-
vice. The steamer is a fine vessel of the Geyser class,
and a very good sea boat. She towed the frigate and
corvette together when last in the Baltic, at the rate of
seven knots per hour—a feat no Symondian of her class
could perform. She carries four 68-pounder long guns.
The Grand Duke Constantine will take his departure in
the frigate after the inspection by her Majesty and Prince
Albert.
The Wolf, 18, Commander Vansittart, arrived yester-
day morning at Spithead from the East India and China
station to be paid off, having been nearly five years and
a half in commission. She is in admirable condition,
which is mainly attrilntable to her first lieutenant (Mr.
Thomas Heard), a highly serviceable officer, who has
served with Captain Sir E. Belcher in the Samara,ng.
6he sailed this day at about t P.M. for Plymouth to be
paid off. She brings the latest news from the Cape of
Good Hope, having left Simon's Bay on the 12th of
June, at which date the predatory incursions of the
Kafiri still continued, end Cape Town was nearly de-
serted. The Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnston, flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, late Commander-in-
Chief on the East India and China station, had arrived
in the bay a few days before the Wolf sailed, and would
leave two days after her for England to be paid off,
touching at St. Helena and Ascension for mails, &e.,
having been relieved in China by the Vernon, 50, flag of
Rear-Admiral Inglefield. The flag-ship President, 50,
Rear-Admiral Dacres, Commander-in-Chief, and the
Brilliant, 22, Captain Watson, were also in Simon's
Bay when the Wolf left. The Rosamond steam-sloop
wag at Table Bay: all well.
The Dragon steam-frigate, Captain Hall, arrived at
Spithead yesterday from the river; and it is said—but
eve cannot credit it—that ehe is ready for sea, without
having any defects to make good here.
The Birkehead steam-frigate, Commander Ingram,
left last evening for Dundrum Bay, with Mr. Bellamy,
the Assistant-Master-Attendant of this Dockyard, and
a party of riggers, to assist in the endeavour to extricate
the Great Britain.
Lieutenant Julius Roberts, R.M.A., has received in-
structions from the Admiralty to place himself in imme-
diate communication with the gun-carriage department
at Woolwich, for the construction of the pivot gun-
carriages and slides for the service, on a very valuable
and improved principle, discovered by him.
The following are the promotions and appointments
of the past week:—

PROMOTIONS.
Lieutenant—L. G. Heath (1840), to the rank of Com-
mander.
Deputy Medical Inspector—Dr. R. Armstrong, of the
Royal Hospital, Plymouth, to the rank of Medical In-
spector, and appointed to that establishment, vice Sir D
J. U. Dickson, M.D., retired.