The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-03 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Assistant-Surgeons.—Henry French (1846) and Tho-
mas Wilson (1852), to the Winchester, 50, flag-ship,
East Indies.
Master's Assistant.—C. M. Ross, to the Leander, 50,
Portsmouth.
Carpenter.—Edward W. Vincent, to the Arrogant,
46, screw-frigate, Portsmouth.
Fire Queen, steam-tender, Master Commander Paul,
arrived at Devonport, on Tuesday night, with marine
artillery for the Magicienne and Vulture, steam-frigates.
Avon, steam-tender, Master Commander Veitch, re-
turned from Portsmouth to Devonport on Wednesday
morning.
Magicienne, 14, steam-frigate, Captain Fisher, was
taken into No. 5 Dock on Wednesday morning, to have
her bottom cleaned. She was to come out again yester-
day.
Mr. Thomas Baldock, late store-keeper of the Devon-
port Dockyard, died on Sunday last, at his residence,
No. 5, St. Mary's-terrace, Paddington-green.
The Terrible, 21, steam-frigate, at Woolwich, will not
be completed before February next.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 2.

Her Majesty's steam-vessels Avon, Master Com-
mander A. Veitch, and the Fire Queen, Master Com-
mander Paul, arrived yesterday from Portsmouth.
The Spiteful, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Parker,
went up harbour on Tuesday for the purpose of being
dismantled, and to return stores. Her crew will pro-
bably be paid off on Friday.
The steam-frigate Magicienne, Captain Thos. Fisher,
was placed in dock yesterday to have her copper
examined and repaired,
The Dido, 18, Captain Morehead, was warped to her
sailing moorings on Wednesday.
The Madagascar, 44, was taken out of dock yesterday.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2.

The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw three-decker,
shipped one of the massive iron flooring joists for the
support of her ponderous machinery yesterday. The
other portions are expected daily from the Clyde.
The Leander, 50, Captain
_King, has been brought
alongside the jetty to-day to be, docked.
The Pallas, Russian frigate, 50, has been supplied with
one of Grant's improved cooking and distilling galleys,
and will come out of dock to-morrow.
Th. Edward hired convict-ship, arrived on Tuesday at
Spithead, to embark convicts for transportaion ; 22
were shipped on board her from this depot to-day for
Bermuda.
The Egyptian steam-yacht Kassid Kheir, the property
of Said Pasha, has been at length converted from a
screw steamer into a sailing yacht, and was undocked
yesterday.
The Gladiator, 6, paddle-frigate, was docked yester-
day for repairs.

WOOLWICH, DEC. 1.

The Terrible, steam-frigate, has been taken out of dock,
and placed in the basin under the shears for the purpose
of having her boilers put on board. The work required
to be done on board the Terrible will require at least ten
weeks from this time to complete it, and she will not be
out of the hands of the engineer department before the
15th of February next.
The work on board the Cormorant steam-sloop, at
present in the east dock, is discontinued, and she is
ordered to be broken up.
The Cruiser steam-sloop will be ready for trial down
the river on the 11th of the present month, and it is
expected she will be commissioned immediately.
The Imperieuse, 50, recently launched at Deptford,
and to be fitted with a screw propeller and engines of
350-horse power by John Penn and Son, is in so ad-
vanced a state that she will be out of the engineers'
hands on the 23d inst. _ _ _

The work on the Jackal iron paddle-wheel steam-
vessel, of 150-horse power, and on the Janus paddle-
wheel steam-vessel, of 220-horse power, is suspended for
the present. •
The distilling galleys for the Cruiser being completed,
and the galleys for the Brisk steam-sloop nearly ready,
the workmen are under orders to proceed to Portsmouth
when the galleys for the latter are completed.
One of the Marine Artillery serving in the Rosamund
fell overboard from that vessel on the evening of Sunday
last, and was rescued from a watery grave by one of the
sailors jumping overboard and saving him. The Second
Master of the Rosamund is at present on board the
Waterloo flag-ship at Sheerness, where a court-martial
is being held upon him, for, it is said, neglect of duty
since the arrival of the vessel at this port. Several of
the officers here went to Sheerness yesterday to be pre-
sent at the court-martial.
The Garland, Dover mail steam-packet, having under-
gone a thorough repair, left Woolwich to-day, under
Lieutenant-Commander Wylde, to resume her duties as
a mail-packet on that station.