The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander Charles Codrington Forsyth (1849) has
been appointed an inspecting commander in the Coast-
guard service. This officer entered the navy in 1826,
passed his examination in 1836, and served from that
time as mate on foreign service, particularly in the
BPagle, under Captains Clements and Stokes. He was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1843, and at-
tained his present rank for his services at the Cape,
where he did so much good service as Admiralty agent
in landing the supplies that the Commander-in-Chief
attributed the safety and success of the army on one oc-
casion, mainly to Lieutenant Forsyth's admirable ar-
rangements. Commander Forsyth, however, has been
better known to the public of late years by his extraor-
dinary trip to the Arctic regions in Lady Franklin's
little ship, the Prince Albert. In this vessel, it will be
remembered, he ran nut to Barrow's Straits, down
Regent's Inlet, and back again to Scotland in one season,
and was the first to bring tidings of the traces of Sir
John Franklin's party at Beechey Island.
Commander V. A. Massingherd (1842) has also been
appointed inspecting commander in the Coast guard ser-
vice. This officer entered the navy in 1822, and has
served about 20 years afl ,at. He was wounded in 1827
in a boat engagement with pirates; passed his examina-
tion in 1828, but was not promoted until 1837. Was
wrecked in the Pelorus in 1839, and has obtained his
prgsent rank for his service in China, as First Lieutenant
of the Blenheim. He commanded the Alecto steam-sloop
at the Brazils for two years.
Lieutenant F. L. Cotton (1847), of the Coast-guard
station at Swanage, has been appointed to command the
Stag, revenue cutter, via Brewer promoted.
Lieutenants—G. 0. Popplewell (1842), first from the
Ganges, 84, to the Britannia, 120, flag-ship for the Medi-
terranean, at Portsmouth ; J. W. Pike (1848), to the
Hydra, steam-sloop, Sheerness, for the Cape of Good
Hope.
Gunner—R. T. Moore, to the Hydra.
Boatswain—H. M'Dougall, to the Hydra.
Carpenter—William Jago, to the Hydra.
Trincomalee, at Devouport, is to have the following
armament :

Pounders. Cwt. Ft. In.
Main- deck 8 ... 32 56 ... 9 6 long.
Ditto

Forecastle ... 6 ...

... 39

Quarter-deck 1 10-inch bore pivot gun.
Tweed, 18, Commander Lord F. Russell, will be paid
off, at Devonport, on Friday next.
Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, still waits in Plymouth
Sound for a wind to sail for the East Indies.

St. Jean d'Acre, 100-gun screw-steam-ship, building
at Devonport, is ordered to be proceeded with as expe-
ditiously as possible, and to prevent the necessity of
delay fully ceusoned timber is being used in her con-
struction.

Hotspur, gunnery-ship, Captain Hewlett, commenced
target practice to-day.
Hermes, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Fishbourne, ar-
rived at Point de Galle, Dec. 1, from the Cape; last
from Mauritius, which place she left on the 19th No-
vember. She left Galle for Trincomalee, carrying
Colonel Cochrane thither. She then follows the Fox,
42, to Rangoon.
Tyne, store-ship, Master Commander Wellington, ar-
rived at Woolwich from Barbadoes, with artillery, on
Wednesday.
Sprightly, steam-tender, Master Commander Allen,
arrived at Devonport on Wednesday morning with super-
numeraries from Portsmouth.
DEVONPORT, WEDNESDAY.—The weather has been
more moderate to-day, but the appearance of it does not
entice any of the ships to put to sea.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Tbe weather is extremely
changeable; yesterday we had literally a summer's day.
Now we have again a westerly gale, with much rain. The
Hendrick Hudson, American packet, sailed yesterday,
but put back again last night to St. Helens's, on account
of the gale.
The examination'of the remaining stock of preserved
meats was continued to-day at the Royal Clarence-
yard, by Mr. John Davies, the master-attendant; Mr.
Joseph Piehorn, storekeeper ; and Dr. M'Kechnie, of
the Royal Naval Hospital, Hasler, forming the board.
About 400 canisters, varying in size from 61b. to 101 b.
each, were opened to-day in the lower store, where the
investigation first commenced, the attempt to examine
the canisters in the upper store having failed from the
overpowering influence of the stench upon the officers
and men employed in the investigation. Of the 400
cases opened to-day a better proportion than upon any
other day hitherto was found pasQable for consumption
within forty-eight hours, 189 having been reported
" good." The 211 bad were condemned to the depths of
the sea. Sonee of those reported " good" were very
good—fine mutton and beef; the mutton especially was
good. But the bad and condemned exhibited the filthi-
ness before chronicled, some of them containing intes-
tines with the excrement in, rotten liver, putrid kid-
ney, and heart; tail, tongue, ligament of the shin and
throat, palate, root of tongue, putrid washy decomposi-
tion, &c. The stench arising from them was awful. A
greater proportion of the canisters examined to-day con-
sisted of portions of the stock of preserved meats re-
turned into store on the paying off of her Majesty's ships
Hercules, 72, troop-ship; Frolic, 16, lately from the
Mediterranean station; and the Sharpshooter iron steam-
sloop, lately from the River Plate station, clearly show-
ing that the meat has been issued for service. What
became of the 2,000 canisters taken away by the con-
tractor's agent about three months since without exami-
nation, by whose order they were taken from the store,
and what measures were taken by the Admiralty in re-
lation thereto, are questions very frequently asked here.
Major Harvey, A.D.C. to the Lieutenant-Governor,
has resigned and retinal to half-pay unattached, and
Lieutenant D'Aguilar, of the Royal Artillery, rises to
the vacancy.
Captain Cheetham'a company of Royal Artillery moved
from Southsea Castle barracks to Woolwich this day.
Captain Gambier's company arrived here to-day from
Woolwich, and is now quartered in Colewort-barracks,
a company having been removed from thence to South-
sea Castle. - - . - - .

The 7th and 95th Regiments have been practised in
the great gun exercise on the ramparts during the pre-
ient and past week, and appear to make rapid progress in
training.
It is stated that the 38th Regiment will shortly be
brought into this garrison from Winchester, the greater
portion occupying Fort Cumberland quarters. This
would augment the garrison to four complete regiments
of the line.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 15.—1 t is stated, although not as
yet officially given, that Commander Thomas Belgrvge
1848) will have the command of the Hydra steam-sloop,
t Sheerness; and that Major-General the Hon. George
Cathcart, appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
will proceed in her to his destination.
The Sulphur sloop, long used as a receiving ship at
Woolwich, is to be taken to Deptford to-morrow to be
broken up, and it is expected the Hebe, fifth-rate re-
ceiving ship, also at Woolwich, will be taken to Sheer-
ness or Chatham.

SEABORNE MAILS.
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by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]
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Alexandria* ........ Nigh & 30th
Belgium .. .. • • NIDailY • • • • .. I Dover .. Daily
Brazil _ ~ .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 16
Buenos Ayres .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Arrived
Callfornia(viaChagreE)M 2d & 17th of month ,Southampt. Jan. 20
Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of month 'Plymouth.. Feb. 3
Constantinople* .. • • N,7th 17th 27th of mo pover .. Jan. 20
Central America .. Mild & 17th of mon. I Southampt. Jan. 20
Channel dales .. .. NIMon., Wed., &Fri.lSontlsampt. Ta. Th. Sat
Chili .. . Mll7th of the month 'Southampt. Jan. 20
France .. .. M & NlTwice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* .. .. • • Nlth 17th27th of mo Dover .. Jan. 20
Hamburgh • • .. N!Tuesday & Friday London .. Toes. Sat.
Holland .. •• .. M Wednes. & Satur.lLondon .. Mon. Thur
Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20
Ireland .. •• M & NlTwice daily .. ..111oiyhead .. Twicedally
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Madeira .... ..Id 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 16
Mexico .. .. —M2d of the month.. Southampt. Feb. 5
Cith,l7th,l9th,27th 1 Dover Jan. 18
Malta* .. .. i & 30th of month
.. .. .• N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. Jan. 12
NPaspPaiels:tates* .. .. 14 sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. !Jan. 12
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Peril
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Tuscany*W• •
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.. 5,f 17th of the month Southampt. Jan.' 20
stldies " :
West Indies (oxcept
Havanna & Nassau) SI 2d of the month Sonthatipt F
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I2d of the month ..ISonthaxpt.iFeb. 5
°nutrias thus marked (0) are conveyed by
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• The mails to those c
French racket via Mars&
The direct Havre mail
month will be made up tl
CALIFORNIA.—Mails to
are now despatched and d

from London via Southampton during this
line times a week only, Instead of daily.
) and from California, via the United States
lute by every American packet

SHIP NEWS,
ANTivERP, JAN. 12.—The Gezma Jantioa, from
Rouen for Amsterdam, is on shore near Falga, and will
be a total loss; part of cargo expected to be saved in a
damaged state. _ .

FREEILANTLE, W.A., OCT. 30.—The Leander, which
went on shore opposite Owen's Anchorage, Aug. 4, got
off, has undergone repairs, and now proceeds to Singa-
pore, in ballast, with the mail.
CANTON, Nov. 27.—The Adelaide lost masts, yards,
boats, bulwarks, &c., on the 25th of October, in lat. 19
N., lon. 137 E., and has been condemned and sold at
Hong-Kong. N.B. The Adelaide, Moore, from San
Francisco, arrived at Hong-Kong Nov. 5. The Bintang,
from Whampoa for Shanghai, was lost on the Pesca-
dores, Oct. 21. The vessel was attacked by the natives,
and five of the crew forced overboard and druwaed ;
the master and the rest of the crew have arrived at

Amoy.
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OCT..— ,
supposed to be a foregunr
A vessel, of at least 400 tons
MELBOURNE, •
On the coast, about eter, with
shortly before Sept. 6. The shore was strewed
with
hthe
wreck four
of the vessel and other boats, but no
Portland,
bodies have been discovered. She had some few planks
on each side of the keel of pine, with pine trenails,
American oak timber and beams, all quite new. She is
supposed to have been bound from Adelaide to this port
or Sydney, and to have struck upon Cape Northumber-
land.
MAURITIUS, Nov. 19.—The Pauline Houghton, which
arrived here on the 26th of October, from London, has
been aground for a few hours on the reef off Canonier's
Pent on that dRy. She did not sustain much damage,
and is being repaired. The Earl of Durham, flow
Moulmein, put in on the above day, in a very leaky
state. The Dutch barque Yacht Club, from Ba,avia,
Put in on the 7th instant, and the Due d'Orleans, from
Reunion, on the 12th, both very leaky, and are dis-
charging.
MANILLA, Nov. 17,—The Royalist, from Bong-Bong

for Honolulu, put in on the 10th of November, dismasted,
&c.—The Bantam, from Samarang for San Francisco,
put in, Oct. 21, to repair damage sustained in typhoons.
SINGAPORE, DEC. 6.—The Scotia, of Belfast, from
Bombay for China, was on shore on a recf about sixty
or seventy miles north of Port Raffles, Labuan, previous
to the 20th of November, bilged, and the cargo (cotton)
wet to the lower deck. The Lady RAlles left Port
Bales on the 20:h of November, and proceeded to her
assistance.

A smack of about thirty tons, supposed to have gone
down in the gale on the Bth instant, lies sunk, it is re-
ported, with her topmast above water, off Bourne Point;
crew missing.
GRAVESEND, JAN. 15.—Wind, 7 P.M., S.W., mode-
rate, with rain. _ _

Arrd —Leon, Gravelines ; City of London, Dun-
kirk ; Menai, Calais ; Baron o.y, Antwerp ; Fye-
noord, and the Earl of Auckland, Rotterdam ; Leoune,
Gravelines ; Swithamley, China ; Mary and Jane,
Patras ; Harriet Augusta, New York ; Harry Lor-
requer, Callao ; Sobraon, Demerara ; Rainbow, Rot-
tt rdam.

SU—Loyalist, Barbaioes ; Leila, Valencia ; Roman,
Shanghai ; Glaphyra, St. Kitt's ; Westbrook,
Cayenne ; John Brooks, St. Lucia ; Junius, Boston ;
Seabird, Gambia ; Guincha, Santander ; Sir, Robert
Peel, and the City of Rotterdam, Dunkirk ; Carrier,
Mogadore ; Sir Edward Banks, Havre ; Tourist, Calais;
Soho, Antwerp ; Lion. Harhngen ; Adonis, Rotterdam.