The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEPARTURE OF LIEUTENANT PIM, R.N., FOR ST.
PETERSIAURGH.—We understand that a special mes-
senger from the Foreign.office has been appointed by
Lord Palmerston to accompany Lieutenant Pim to
the above capital. They started last night. The
encouragement held out to Lieutenant Pim by our
Government is a subject of universal satisfaction, and
will cheer him greatly on his bold and arduous under-

taking. No officer ever left England with better
wishes for his success than those which attend him

from all sides; and that he may be instrumental in
restoring Sir John Franklin and his long• absent com-
panions, is a prayer breathed from many a lip.

THE CRUISE ON THE COAST OF MOROCCO.

We have already stated that the A.rethusa, 50, Cap-
tain-Symonds, and the Dauntlesq, 33, screw- frigate,
Captain Halsted, has returned to Lisbon from their
cruise on the coast of Morocco.

The Dauntless, arrived at Tangier ou the 30th of
October, communicated with the consul, and left next
morning for Gibraltar, bringing intelligence for the
Arethusa, which ship had arrived a few hours before
the Dauntless. They now found that their services
were not required, the Janus being in an efficient
state, and her gallant commander fast recovering
from his recent wounds. The Dauntless was at
Gibraltar a couple of hours, and left on the 31st of
October. The Arethusa remained a few days there,
and then left for Lisbon. On her. passage a serious
accident occurred. One seaman accidentally shot
another through the leg, and amputation of the limb
was the consequence. The Dauntless arrived at
Lisbon on the 6th instant, and the Arethusa next
day. On the morning of the Ist of November the
Bellerophon, 76, Captain Lord G. Paulet, and Her-
cules were spoken. They were slashing through the
Straits of Gibraltar, all well. Every one appears to
praise the admirable tactics of Commander Powell in
the Janus—all that he did is held to be well timed and
well executed. A day of retaliation awaits those
piratical rascally Moors, and probably the Lisbon
squadron will have to do the work. Just now it
would be useless to attempt to punish them, for little
or no harm could be done; but when their crops are
grown and nearly ripe, and their cattle near to the
coast, then, and not till then, could a successful and
severe lesson be inflicted. It was expected that
Commodore Martin's squadron would go to sea for
the next three weeks • when it does it %ill go for the
purpose of trying the Dauntless, which ship will most
likely come to England.
DEVONPORT, Nov. Ig.—Barnard Weymouth, lead-
ing man of shipwrights in Devonport Yard, has
taken his discharge from that establishment, having
accepted the situation of foreman to the eminent ,
shipbuilders Wigram and Co. Blackwell, London.
Crane, 6, Commander M'Donnell, was towed out of
harbour this morning by the Conflance steam-tug,
and is swung to test her compasses by Mr. Thomp-
son, Queen's harbour-master. She has taken in her
powder, and will sail so soon as Mr. Gabriel, arbi-
trator at Loando, is ready, as he is to take a passage
in her.

Rosamond steamer wil4commence taking in coals
o-morrow.

The following superannuations took place in the
past week :—John Jefferey and John Holland, ship-
wrigts, 241. each ; ,William Phillips, leading man of
ropemakers, 341.; and William Algar, leading man of
labourers, 201. per annum.
Spartan having had her bottom completed, will be
taken out of No. 2 dock to-morrow, when the Trin-
comalee will be taken in the same tide. The Sans-
pareil will be taken out of No. 4 dock on Saturday
next, the 22d. _ _

Aid lighter, Smallman master, arrived today with
stores from the Eastern yards.
Orders have been received at this dockyard that no
seaman rigger is to be entered on the establishment
unless he has served at least six years in sea-going
ships, and held the rating of petty officer or able
seaman, the selection in all cases to be made from the
seamen employed in the yard as riggers, or in the
yard craft. None to be accepted but such as are
efficient, of good character and health.
Sanspareil new 80-gun steam-ship, is ordered to be
fitted with Kingston's valves, with all possible dis-
patch, prior to her being taken out of dock.
Four labourers have been appointed leading men in
the room of a like number superannuated, and in
every case those chosen have before acted in the capa-
city of their new appointments.
Another charge, being the eighth case within a
fortnight, was yesterday preferred against a barge-
man employed in the removal of rubbish from the
new works of Keyham, for discharging the same
within the limits of the harbour. In this case, as in
the former ones, the commodore fined the party 40s.
—in the event of nonpayment to be imprisoned 14
days. Mr. Eastlake attended as solicitor for the
Admiralty.
The Lords of the Admiralty have granted the sum
of 201. towards the repairs of Stoke Church, Devon-
port, which was some time since damaged internally
by fire. By an arrangement entered into we believe
as far back as the reign of William and Mary the
officers and men of the arsenal are entitled to accom-
modation in this church, the officers' pews being in
the south aisle. Until the innovating hand of Pu-
sey ism was allowed to desecrate the building it pos-
sessed a fine old oak pulpit and sounding-board, the
former bearing the Admiralty arms in the front panel.
This has been razed to suit modern notions, and the
sounding-board has vanished from the building alto-
gether. In return for the accommodation in the
church, the Admiralty for many years kept the road
from the yard gates to the church in repair, but
during the naval administration of Sir James Graham,
whose unique samples of economy afforded consider-
able amusement at the time, it was discovered that the
road had been diverted from its original course, and
the worthy baronet therefore cried off so much of the
bargain for repairs. The Admiralty, however, still
keep the pavement of the carriage-way in the princi-
pal, or Fore-street, in repair, in accordance with the
original agreement.