The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH SETT. 10.—Trie Stromboli steam-
sloop, Commander Lord Aurelius Beauclork, returned
to Spithead from Liverpool this morning, and was in-
spected this afternoon prior to coming into harbour
to bc paid off.
Admiral Mackay, the ex-Minister of French Ma-
rine, went on board the Excellent to-day to witness
the shot and shell practice from that ship. Captain
Chads did the honours with his usual cordiality, and the
gallant stranger left under a salute of 15 guns, highly
gratified with his reception and inspection.
The Caradoc steam-packet, Lieutenant- Commander
Ladd, arrived this morning from Holyhead, and came
into harbour to be paid off.
The Fire Queen steam-yacht was put out of com•
mission to-day.

APPOINTMENTS.

WooLwlcn, SEPT. 10.—Gunner Richard Ellis to
the Geyser steam-sloop, making ready for commission
at Woolwich.

Ihe Hon. William Cowper, M.P., one of the Lordr
of the Admiralty, returned to Whitehall yesterday,
and the other Lords at present on an official visit to
the eastern ports are expected to return on Saturday.
• DEPTFORD, SEPT. 10.-Sir John Hill, the captain
superintendent of the Dock and Victualling Yards,
has availed himself of leave of absence and has gone
on the continent for a month.

The Hon. Captain Dunham, R.N., and party of
' naval officers, visited the Dockyard for the purpose of
inspecting the application of his patent for steering
vessels of war in the event of the rudder head being
deranged or damaged. They were received and at-
tended by the master-shipwright, Charles Wilcox,
Esq., whom they highly eulogized for the very able
manner in which the duties were performed inj his
department.
the Volcano, steam-ship of war, was taken out of
dock with the greatest dispatch and facility.
The Polyphemus was docked in her room to be ex-
amined. She is of the same class as the Volcano.

The Perseus sloop•of-war was removed out of
dock for, space, and is to be immediately re-
docked. She is a true specimen of a rotten or decayed
ship-of-war.
The Northumberland, 74 guns, is in an advanced
state of decay, and has been ripped up and broken to
pieces as old and useless.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—The Lords of the Admi-
ralty arrived at Devonport this morning from Cher-
bourg, about half-past eight o'clock, and took up their
quarters at Moorshead's Hotel. The party consists
of Sir Francis Baring, M.P., the First Lord ; Ad-
miral Berkeley, C.B. Captain Milne, Sir Baldwin
Walker, Mr. Parker, secretary to the Admi-
ralty, and Captain Eden, the First Lord's private
secretary. Their Lordships were engaged through-
out the day in the dockyard, and did not, as was sup-
posed by some would be the case, attend the funeral
of Colonel Holloway, of the Royal Engineers. Their
Lordships will dine at the Royal Hotel this afternoon;
with Sir William Hall Gage, the port-admiral, to-
morrow; with Lord John Hay, the captain-superin-
tendent of the dockyard, on Wednesday ; and will
give their official dinner, at Moorshead's, on Thurs-
day. The First Lord holds his levee to-morrow
morning, at ten o'clock ; and on Wednesday evening
there will be a grand ball, in behalf of the Female
Orphan Asylum, which will be patronized 4 by their
Lordships.
The Stromboli, which entered the Sound yesterday
with the Bacchus lazarette, from Liverpool, left same
day for Portsmouth.
The Dutch merchant ship Macassa, Captain Klein,
from Batavia, for Rotterdam, was off Plymouth yes-
terday, left at St. Helena, on the 221 of July, the
Duke of Bronte, from Ceylon, and the Diadem, from
Port Phillip ; the Quebec packet arrived from Eng-
land on the 21st.

Francois Guerit, a French sailor, belonging to a
fishing vessel from Cherbourg, was picked up alone
in a small boat at 11 A.M., on the Bth instant, by
Captain Joseph Martin, of the schooner Margaret, of
Fowey, from Hartlepool, with coal for Plymouth,
when seven miles S.W. of Portland. The Frenchman
was safely landed here on Sunday, and is now in
charge of Mr. Luscombe the Consul. Guerit states
that he had landed two persons from his vessel, and
that while so doing she was blown off the shore.
Wind, S.S.E.; fresh hreez*.