The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-05 00:00:00

NAVAL I.NTELLIGEINCE.

The iron paddle steam-vessel Bloodhound, Lieu-
tenant and Commander Chas. R. Robson, and the
paddle steam-sloop Hecate, Commander George F.
Burgess, recently returned from the slave preven-
tive service; on the west coast of Africa, were pa'd
off at,Woolwich on Saturday morning, at the dock-
yard, and the crews were granted leave of absence.
The Bloodhound was commissioned in Dec., 1856,
and the Hecate in February, 1857, and during this
term, prizes were made of two schooners named
the Chatsworth and the Niagara, sailing under
American colours, and engaged in the slave trade.
It appears that a portion of eta crew of the Blood-
hound have not been on -the best terms with their
commander, more than ono petty officer having
been disrated, and -the result was that on Saturday
last a small number expressed a wish to purchase
their discharge. After some remarks from the com-
modore superintendent, these men wisely decided
not to throw away the advantages of continuous
service—in addition to 121. for their discharge, and
were subsequently entered as disposable supernu-
meraries on the books of the Fisgard flag ship ; the
gallant commodore promising to iuve/tigate the
cases of those men who had been disrated.
During her term of commission the Hecate expe-
rienced much sickn(s=, no leis than seven of the
crow, including assistant surgeon W. J. Butler,
having died from fever. After receiving their wages
on Saturday, the crew assembled at the Ship Hotel,
opposite the dockyard gates, when a deputation of
the body waited on the chief surgeon, Mr. W. T.
Wilson, and presented to that officer a handsome
gold watch, of the value of 271., which bore the fol-
lowing inscription
''Presented to Dr. W. T. Wilson by the ship's company
of her Majesty's ship Hecate as a mark of their admiration
for his unremitting attention and kindness to the sick
during the late fever that visited the ship on the coast of
Africa."
The watch was presented to Mr. Wilson by Colour
Sergeant G. Lock, Royal Marines.
The °emu, 91, Captain Frederick, fitting out at
Portsmouth, has obtained half her complement.
The freight-ship Rochester, Heather Master-Com-
mander, has commenced unshipping war stores at
Chatham dockyard from Portsmouth and Devon-
port.
Captain the Hon. Thomas Fowler Hastings, late
in command of Hannibal, 91, screw, and superin-
tendent of the steamer reserve at Portsmouth, has
taken up his appointment as Captain Superinten-
dent of the Royal Hasler Hospital, vice Captain
Sydney Colpoy Dacres, promoted to flag rank. •
The Avon, 3, paddle, Second Commander John
Palmer, sailed from Devonport on Friday for Scot-
land, for new raised men.
The Buffalo, screw, from Sierra Leone, arrived
at Ascension on the 11th May, and left on the
26th.

The Curacoa, 31, screw, Captain Thomas H.
Mason, hauled out of No. 2 dock at Portsmouth on
Saturday, and will complete her defects during the
present week in the fitting basin, after which she
will proceed on a Channel cruise.
The Dee, steam store ship, Master Commander
Pullen, arrived at Devonport on Saturday, with
machinery, from Woolwich.
The Diadem, 32, screw, was cru;sing off Devon-
_port on Friday morning.
On Saturday the usual midsummer examination
of the pupils of the Greenwich Hospital Schools
took place in the presence of Sir J. Pakington,
First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Dwaine, and
Admiral Martin (ilso of the Admiralty), Sir J.
Gordon, Governor of Greenwich Hospital, and a
humerous company. The boys were exercised in
the usual ship drill, which was performed in a very
creditable manner. They were them deployed in
line, the band of the schools playing several popular
airs, under the direction of their conductor, Mr.
Wilkinson, their lordships passing up and down
the line, inspecting the lads very minutely, and
being thence conducted by the Rev. G. Fisher
(accompanied by the Rev. J. Hill, the head-master
of the Upper School, Mr. F. Riddle, master of the
Nautical School, and Mr. E. Hughes, head-master
of the Lower School, Fellows of. the Royal Astfe-
nomical Society) to the class rooms. The boys, to
the number of 800, were then re-formed, when Sir
J. Pakington expressed the gratification he felt at
tho proficiency displayed in the various departments
of their studies. The pupils of the Upper School,
he observed, after receiving their education in the
school, left and entered upon the severvi branches
of professional and private business pursuits ; but
those of the Lower School, numbering 400, he
found were more especially educated for that pro-
fession in which their forefathers had served, the
naval service of their country, and which service he
hoped the greater number of Owe he was then
addressing, cn the expiration of their term in that
establishment, would be found to enter. Their
lordships then proceeded to the bathing establish-
ment and gymnbsium, where 200 of the boys went
through some remarkable performances, and were
thence conducted to the dining-hall and dormi-
tories, with the whole of which they expressed
their entire satisfaction.

GIBRALTAR, JUNE 22.

Her. Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Royal
Albert, 121 guns, Vice-Admiral of the Blue Lord
Lyons, preceded by the gunboat Vigilant, arrived
in the Bay at 11 o'clock this morning from Malta.
The Conqueror, Princess Royal and Centurion,
ships of the line, and Wanderer gunboat, remained
at Malta ; the Vulture had been ordered to Tunis.
The gallant admiral will await here the arrival of
his successor, Vice-Admiral of the White Arthur
Fanshawe, who is hourly expec,ed from Ports-
mouth in the new screw ship Marlborough, 131
guns. Lord Lyons is to land this afternoon on a
visit to our Governor. The Vigilant is now coaling
alongside the New Mole Quay preparatory to re-
turning to Malta on the arrival of Admiral Fan-
shawe.