The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Royal Naval Club of 1765 dined at the Thatched
House on Wednesday, the business of the evening bring►
efficiently and agreeably presided over by Captain Win.
Henry Smyth. The guest of the club was Sir Henry
De la Beche, of geological fame. The Gallant Chair-
man was supported by Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Mal-
colm, Captains Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8., Chappell,
Branford, Coghlan, Duthy, Dyer, Fead, Featherstone,
Montagu, and several other members of this estimable
club.
The flag of Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, blue
at the tore, was hoisted on board the Cumberland, 70,
Captain Seymour, at Spithead, on Wednesday evening,
at sunset, and at nine o'clock yesterday the Cumberland
saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral
the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, with seventeen bane, and the
Victory returned it with thirteen. Vice-Admiral Sey-
mour embarked on board yesterday morning, at half-
past ten, and Lady Seymour and family also went on
board, going out in Admiral Cspel's yacht, the Fanny.
The Cumberland will probably sail about Saturday or
Sunday. At present the wind is toul. She takes out
a few Marines and Marine Artillery to complete the
ships on the West India station, and forty supernume-
rary boys.
TRIAL OF THE MAGIOIENNE STEAM-SLOOP.—Accord-
in to their Lordships' directions, the Magicienne steam-
sloop has been further tried as to her sailing qualities,
in charge of Mr. Brown, second master-attendant, and
commenced on Saturday, the Bth instant. going out in
the morning and returning to the Sound in the evening
of each day; and from what we bear said of the result,
her steaming qualities are very fair. She made ten miles
per hour with 81b. pressure, and eight miles with only
two boilers; but her sailing qualities are very indifferent,
83 particularly so that she could not carry her canvas
at all, and with a moderate breeze her paddle-wheels
are so immersed that there is no doing anything with
her. She went up Hamoaze on Wednesday afternoon.
Orders have arrived at Portsmouth to fit the iron
screw steam-frigate the Simoom as a troop-ship, and the
estimate is to be forthwith sent to the Admiralty. She
is to have a poop and topgallant forecastle; the latter is
to come sufficiently far aft to take her ship's company to
mess under.
The Rolla, 5, apprentice-brig, Lieutenant-Commander
Fen wick, has gone down to Cowes cruising.
Petrel, 6, packet-brig, Lieutenant Commander Creser,
is ordered to be paid off at Devonport.
Captain Peter M'Quhie (1835), who formerly com-
manded the Dredalus, 19, in China, has been appointed
Commodore of the second class, to relieve Commodore
Bennett at Port Royal, Jamaica, as second in command
at the We,t Indies. Captain M.Quhte is an able, active,
zealous, and highly deserving officer, and we are glad to
tied that so meritorious a selection has been made by the
First Lord of the Admiralty.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Tho Pyrenees, having
embarked a gang of convicts from Cowes, returned to
the anchorage at Spithea i last evening.
A. court-martial is ordered to be held en board the
Victory on Thursday, to try Commander St. Ledger, the
other officers, and ship's company of her Majesty's
f steam slop Flamer, for the loss of that vessel on the
coast of Africa.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion ;
and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of
fancy.--Eliza Cook's Journal.
AN ORIGINAL DEFENCE.—A prisoner defending
himself on a charge of burglary at the Limerick assizes on
Friday addressed the Court as follows :—" If I committed all
the murders and robberies ;n the county, my lord, I am as
innocent of this charge as the child unborn; and I my wish
I had half an hour's liberty, and 1 would shoot Malone as
dead as a mackerel, the b—y perjured villain. I hope the
Lord will take me out of this world soon; and I pray to
God that my ghost may be an evil spirit, and haunt for life
every one who had anything to do in my prosectvion. You
have all done your best, and I don't care a-- for it all,
for I could live in a bastable oven if I had only a smoke of
a pipe."