The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-30 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant Arthur G. Filiroy, to the Miranda ; Lieut. W.
V. Leigh. to; the Alarm ; Lieut. T. W. Williams, to the Wa-
terloo ; Lieut. A. St. Clair, to the. Duke of Wellington ; Sa-
eond-Masteitdark Netten, to the Alarm ;.Mr. C. C. iteberts;
NavekCadO, to the Rpyal Albert, for disposal.

Surgeon itichard Percy Chapman, R.N., of the i•Tp.val
Bridge before Sebastopol, died of cholera on the 14th iust.

VISIT'OF SALIK PASHA TO PORTSMOUTH.

His Execlimey, Salik Pasha, General in the Icarkish army,
accompanied,• by his son and a small Staff, arrived. at Ports-
mouth yeSterday; and proceeded to the C mmander-in-Chief 's,
the Lieuten4nt-Governor's, and theAdmiral-Superintendent's ;
by the ,latter 'they were most courteously received, but the
Commander4n-Chief left on the preceding evening on an offi-
cial tour of the various stations ,along, the coast within the
sphere of his 'command. The g.:allarit General' was escorted
over the:dockyard and vietnalling,yand by the Turkish Vice-
Consul at Portsmouth, and. Captain Harris, R.N., of licr.Ma-
jcsty's ship Illustrious; who urns delinted-to" that duty 'by the
acting Port Admiral. He also visited the Victory flag-ship,'
and left, on his return to London,' soon after 4 o'clock.

MEDICAL STAFF CORPS.
The followink memorandum, signed by the Adjutant-Gene-
ral, bas been issued from the Horse Guards as a guide for per.
sons engaged iu recruiting for the Medical Staff ,Corps :
" Tho Queen having been pleased to command that a-corps
to be designated the ' Medical Staff Corps' shall be forthwith
embodied, whose employment will be mainly confined to the
duties connected with military hospitals, and composed of
men who can produce testimonials of previous good character,
the General Commanding-in-Chief directs that all recruiting
parties, as well as the district Staff, be authorised to enlist
men as orderlies for that service under the following regula-
tions :—The bounty and levy money to be the same as for
recruits of regiments of the line at home ; term of enlistment,
10 years ; ago, from 25 to 35 years; height, 5 feet 2 inches
and upwards ; rate of pay for orderlies, 2s, per diem, with
increase for length of service."

EXPERIMENT ON BOARD THE ROYAL SOVEREIGN.

An important experiment in shipbuilding was made yester-
day in Portsmouth dockyard on.the three-decker Royal Sove-
reign, built as a sailing 120-gun ship after the Queen • this
was the drawing out her frame after separation amidships a
distance of 23 feet—an experiment in mechanics which was
accomplished with the simplest appliances under the direc-
tions of Mr. Moody, the second-assistant to the master ship-
wright. At a given signal the ponderous mass of timber,
weighing many hundreds of tons, was " launched" the re-
quired distance and " trought up" et the required position
to a mathematical nicety, to the astonishment of all the nume-
rous beholders. The after body of the ship was that thus
moved; the bow will therefore remain as that of her originally
intended character, of a sailing three-decker's, the bow of
which is very bluff, and not like the Marlborough's (a ship
lengthened by the bow six feet, and also by the stern 25
feet), and Duke of Wellington to adapt them the better to
their converted character of team-ships. The *experiment
was performed in the presence of Rear-Admiral Superinten-
dent Martin and all the professional officers of the dockyard,
who appeared highly gratified with the success of the stupen-
dous operation.