The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

ROYAL DONATION TO THE PORTSMOUTH SAILORS'
HOME.—WO are very harpy to learn that her Majesty
the Queen has (thrungi Colonel Phipps and Lord
George Lennox) most gre3iously presented 100/. in aid
of the Sailors Home at fortsmouth. We are also most
happy to say that the hone is progres3ing most satis-
factorily. Since the opetin,g 100 beds have been occu-
pied; and on our
going into the home on Monday we
saw eight seamen comfortably dining off a sumptuous
supply of roast beef and other good things.
The following officers attended the levee of the First
Lord of the Admiralty ytaterday:-L.
Rear-Admirals—Sir .l)hn Hill and Wauchope.
Captains—Sir Henry Leeke, A. Murray, James
Dowman, Ryder Burtos, C. Pearson, S. G.
Fremantle, the Earl of 4.:graorit, Sir F. W. Nicholson,
Bart.

Commanders—A. Mdlersh, Edward Peirce, M. M.
Wroot, T. B. Bond, R. Connor, E. Franklin, C. Ha-
daway, St. Leger (latf in command of the wrecked
Flamer).
Lieutenants—Alfred Kortright, P. Godfrey, Robert
Robertson, John Hill, B. Westropp, W. G. Scorell,
Edward Lo Mesurier, W. C. Sulivan, John Rainier,
John Douglas, W. C. Burbidge, Hon. 11. W. Chet-

wynd. -
Master—A. M. Adaekay.
The following °alma attended the levee of the Senior
Naval Lord of the Admiralty yesterday:—
Captains—Ryder :3urton, K.H., C. Pearson, J.
Dowman.
Commanders—J. Thompson, J. Camillieri, J. IL
Selwyn.
Lieutenants—J. R Harward, C. B. Yule, Darloy, A.
Graves, A. Kortright. W. C. S. Sulivan,
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T. M'Killop, Hon. 11. W. Chet-
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C.
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wynd.
Inspector of Hospitals Sir B. F. Outram, M.D.
F.R.S.

Master—J. K. Mtctyn.
Paymaster—John Grant.
Second Master—A. Collier.

Messrs. Edwards, lienry Cox, and Duff.
After the levees Sir F. Baring and Admiral Dundas
dr ei
scteied ievg ei
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d iel I ot,
his of the
profession,
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sFs
ireeen,c navy,
who,
be, an
wehave officer
alreadyh i ghl y
informed our readers, has nobly and generouSly volun-
teered his services in search of Sir John Franklin and
the missing crews of ',the Erebus and Terror, is on the
point of embarking at Aberdeen, in the Prince Albert,
under the orders of Mr. Kennedy.
Sir Francis Baring, in appointing Mr. John Grant,
paymaster and purser of 1832, to be agent and steward
of Plymouth Hospital, has shown his estimation of the
high character and services of that gentleman, who has
been afloat for nearly thirty-two years—was in the:Alert
sloop or war, when captured by the United States fri-
gate Essex, in 1812; was made a purser by Sir James
Graham, in consequence of the accurate and excellent
way in which he rendered his accounts as acting purser
of the Helicon, Cadmus, Algerine &e.; and who has
also served as secretary to Rear-Admirals Hyde Parker,
C. 8., Sir Francis Collier, Sir Samuel Pym, and latterly
wish Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, in the Brazils.
Although Mr. Grant only stands on the list of pursers of
1332, from the restrictions then existing, we find that
he passed his examination for that rank in 181;.
P
rince 90,
aClyeafptftoarrioni:Htisabmaroornuis.t,h was visited and
inspected
the Commander-in-Chief; Admiral the Hon.
Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.B. Yesterday she was paid ad-
vance, under the superintendence of Rear-Admiral Pres-
cott, Sohne
Monday,
onwdeally,anodn
by
Avon, steam-tender, e
her return to Davenport.
Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Captain M'Dougal, and Ajax,
60, screw-ship. Captain Quin, arrived at Spithead yes-
torday,
from Queenstown. Rear-Admiral Dixon ac-
companied the bhips some distance at sea.
Lucifer, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Jackson,
has arrived at Queenstown, from Galway and coast of
Donegal.
Advice, steam-tender, to the Ajax, arrived at Queens-
town on Sunday afternoon from Bristol.
The Turkish frigate returned into Portsmouth har-
bour again yesterday morning, being towed in by the
Echo. She was dismantling as she came in for the pur-
pose
of receiving now lower masts, her present ones being
rotten;
she will be supplied by the dockyard, and come
under the sheers to-day to be disinsisted.
P itTSMOUTII, TUESDAY.—The Victoria and Albert
royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, has
f the basin to-day and removed to moor-
been taken out o
ings up the harbour.
fri ate has been taken •
'The Leopard steam g
ship basin to-day, stripped of her jury rigging, and pre-
paredout
for copperin. and fitting
The Mizat Z ifir'Turkish frigate, Captain Mahomet
Boy, has been towed from Spithead into harbour this
morning by the Echo, and prepared for new masting.
Sithead looks quite encouraging to the port residents
P now, four line-of-battle ships and two brigs being at
anchor, besides
just n a fine merchantman and a Danish
rived.
man-
of-war sloop just sr

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THE NEW SOUTH-PASTERN EXPRESS TRAINs.—
Since the first of the month, the South-Eastern Railway
Company have been running day special expresses via
Folkestone and Boulogne, and eta Dover and Calais, alter-
nately, changing the hours of departure and the routes daily,
in order to suit the tides at the respective harbours. These,
expresses achieve the journey cleverly in from eleven to
twelve hours. The servants of the company are greatly to
be praised for their attention to travellers, and indeed the
whole of the arrangements are admirable. For instance, on
arriving at Boulogne from Paris, by this express, we stepped
out of the carriage into the Bureau des Passports, whence,
r
to our great delight, we perceived that all commissionaires
were,
e a
ipresented . ourb mark thereupon, passport at a pigeon-
in-
forming us that that would suffice for eermis d'embilication.
pigeon-
hole, whenex
There were no fees to pay, and plenty of time to take some
refreshment with comfort. the company's servants took
charge of all luggage, and it could not have been under
cin
a legki. gentleman
m
better care. In short, we have never made a pleasanter
trip by boat and rail. Those ancient terrors of travellers,
commissionaires, touters, douane, passeports, and ” permis
dembarcation," hide their diminished heads before the
energy and enterprise of the South-Eastern Railway di-
rectors.—Post.
The leaders and many distinguished members of
the Whig party have presented the Right Hon. Henry
Tufnell,, M.P. for Devonport, and formerly Secretary of the
Treasury, with a splendid candelabra, as a testimonial of
their high personal respect and appreciation of his valuable
and laborious services in the cause of reform, more especially
during the four years he tilled the most difficult of all
official trusts, Secretary to the Treasury. The candelabra
and plateau have been beautifully executed by the Messrs.
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