The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

JANUARY 23, 1852.

NAVAL INTELLIGENcE.

It i 5 with exceeding regret that we find Commander
Al‘Corinick, of the ordinary guard-ship at Devonport,
has been superseded, at his own request, and that
Commander Ediuontone (1841) has been appointed
in his place. Commander M'Cormick's services are
those which ought not, at this time of life, to have
subjected him to the treatment which he has received,
and we are astonished that the Admiralty have al-
lowed an officer of his standing and career to have
retired without such an explanation as would have
satisfied the world that he was not driven from active
employment, which had become unbearably oppres-
sive. We know nothing of Commander M'Cormick,
beyond what we have heard of him, end that is, that
he has the sympathy of everyone at Devonporz, and
that his retirement is looked upon as an alternative
forced upon a most correct and deserving officer. His
career in the service is thus given' in the Naval
Biography :
" Shepherd M'Cormick was born in January, 1794,
This officer entered the navy, Sept. 17, 1803, as first-
class volunteer, on board the Repulse, 74, Captains Hon.
Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday, to which ship
he continued attached in the capacities of midshipman
and master's mato until Feb., 1811. It was his fortune
to be present in consequence in Sir Robert Calder's ac-
tion, July 22, 1805; at the copture of the Marengo of
80 guns, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun
frigate, Belle Pulite, 13th March, 1806; at , the taking,
27th Septemba r following, of Le President, French fri-
gate; at the passage of the Dardanelles, and the destruc-
tion of the Turkish squadron at Point Pcxtuies, iu
February, 1807; at the siege of Flushing in August,
1809; and on the 30th of August, 1810, when the
Repulse gallantly rescued the Philomel sloop from cap-
ture, by interposing herself between that vessel and an
advanced division of the Toulon fleet, which she com-
pelled to put back. In October, 1811, after he had bean
for eight months employed with Captains Halliday and
Joseph Bingham in the Montagu and Egmont, 74's, he
joined the Swiftsure, of similar force; in the boats be-
longing to which ship, when off the Island of Corsica, we
find him assisting at the capture of a privateer, whose
resistance occasioned her assailants a heavy loss. Being
appointed acting-lieutenant, in March, 1813, of the Vol-
cano bomb, Captains Win. Farebrother, Carroll, David
Price, and John Wyat Watling, Mr. M'Cormick (whose
promotion was confirmed June 25 following, and who
continued in the same vessel until August, 1815),
was at first very actively employed in co-operation
with the army on the coast of Catalonia, where
he freqaently landed, and was wounded during his
arduous investment of the fort of St. Philippe in the
Col de Balaguer, mounting 12 pieces of ordnance, with a
garrison of 101 officers and men. Proceeding subse-
quently to the coast of America, he was afforded an op-
portunity, previously to participating in the operations
against New Orleans, of serving with the boats of a
squadron at the capture, on Lake Borgne, Dec. 14,
1814, cf five American gun-vessels, after a very despe-
rate struggle, in which the British sustained a loss of 17
men killed, and 77 wounded. On 31st of the preceding
October, the Volcano, at the time in charge of a trans-
port, had succeeded, with a loss to herself of two per-
sons killed, in beating cff the United States privateer
Saucy Jack, a vessel of far superior force, 7 of whose
people were slain, and 14 wounded. During the insur-
rection of 1837 in Canada, Mr. M'Cormick received five
balls through the body, and a sabre cut across the right
loin while effecting the capture of a piratical steamer,
the Caroline. This led to his promotion to the rank he
now holds, Nov. 23, 1841. Commander M'Cormick is
in the receipt of a pension of 911. ss. for his wounds."

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant Charles H. Carter (1840), son of the
late Admiral Carter of Gosport, late of the Bellero-
phon, has been appointed to the Victoria and Albert
Royal yacht, vice Hon. Henry Pellew, deceased.
Lieutenant Frederick H. Stevens (1841), of the
St. George, 120, at Devonport, has been appointed to
the Magicienne, steam guard-ship. This officer has
already been attached to the steam reserve at that
port.
Paymaster Thomas S. Heywood (1847) has been
appointed to the Horatio, screw-steamer, guard-ship
at Sheerness.

Chief Engineer John Bell, to the Magicienne steam-
guardship, Devonport.
Assistant Engineers George GriMtha and Henry
Purchase, to the Magicienne.
RETURN OF LIEUT. GRYLLS TO HIS NATIVE
PLACE.—The return of this young officer, rescued
from the burning wreck of the Amazon, to the resi-
dence cf his father, the Rev. Henry Grylls, vicar of
St. Neot, Cornwall, was made the occasion of great
rejoicing. Early on the morning of Friday last a
special messenger arrived at the vicarage bearing a
letter from Lieut. Grylls to his respected parent, an-
nouncing his rescue, and that he hoped to be with his
friends on the evening of that day.
The news was spreadhastily—hundreds from Dos-
mary, Drones, \Varleggan, Blisland, and the neigh-
bouring plains, came pouring into the quiet little
village of St. Neot, to hail the arrival of the lieute-
nant, with unmiatakeable tokens of
.pleasure. The
village bells rang; congratulation was on every
tongue, and joy illuminated every face. Towards the
evening, a party of about l 50 set off for Two-water's
Port, a small hamlet about a mile and three- qnarters
from St. Neot's village, with the family carriage to
receive him, and to draw him up the woody valley by
band. The lieutenant, however, although reluctaut
to refuse. them, felt so anxious to be among hie friends
that the horses were allowed to proceed, and twelve
boys, bearing torches and laurel, preceded the car-
riage. At Wheal Mary Mine, about a quarter of a
mile from the village, they were net by hundreds,
whose united cheers rent the air, said made the val-
leys ring. On arriving at the entrance to the vica-
rage, the cheering of the assembled concourse was
immense. The worthy vicar, accompanied by his
daughter, Mrs. Hendy, her husband, and others,
then burst from the house, and at the same moment
the lieutenant jumped from the carriage. The bells
again rang ; the females shrieked ; the crowd huzzaea;
and tears fell fast from many au eye. We fancy, but
dare not paint the rest. The worthy vicar had
buried a son just about the time aif the melancholy
catastrophe of the Amazon, another died within the
preceding twelve months, and the lieutenant was
given up for lost. On seeing his son jump from the
carriage, alive and safe, he stagger ed to the wall, and
the exclamation, "My Charles !" which escaped him,
reached every heart, and spoke volumes. After being
closeted with his friends a short ti me he showed him-
self from a window to the people., and the deafening
cheers which followed abundattl:ie testified how every
heart warmed at his return, and that the genuine
feelings of Englishmen do really exist at St. Neot s.
We understand the lieutenant landed at Ply mouth on
Thursday evening last, and vv;als picked up lby a
Dutch galliot, which, for 501., ,eingaged to put him
and his fellow-sufferers into this, nearest port. He
appears just as well as ever, and, received no injury
hut a burn on the right arm.
Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, has moved
down to the moorings off Gosport, for the purpose of
swinging her compasses, but the: high wind has pre-
vented her from doing so. She has bent her topsails,
and will be ready to go to Spithead on the 2Gth inst.
She will hoist Admiral Dunda flag on the 3d of
next mouth, and sail about the ;sth for the Mediter.
ranean, calling at Devonport.
Lightning steam-tender, Ma ster-Commander Al

lee, is expected at Portsmouth to convey a board o.
officers to the Channel Islands, to inspect the fortifi-
cations. Major-General Carder r, of the Royal Engi-
neers, Captain Sir Ed. Belche:r, Mr. Walker, C.E ,
and an artillery officer, whose name we have not
learned, constitute the board.
PORTSMOUTH, THHRSDAY. —3 it blew a severe gale
of wind, with much rain, last :night from the S.W. ;
it still blows hard, but the wind has got to the west,
with dry weather. The Corot= made!, East Indiaman,
arrived from the River last nigt it and remains, with a
number of vessels, at the Mother Bank.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's steam-
vessel Sprightly, which returne d from her cruise in
the Channel yesterday, sailed a gain the same day for
Portsmouth, with boats and sea men for her Majesty's
ship Britannia.
The steam-vessel Hecate, being replenished with
100 tons of coal, has sailed ags in towards Brest.
The steam-ship Magicienn e was commissioned
yesterday by Captain William Ramsay, with a com-
plement of 200 officers and men.
agents of
Letters received here yesterday by the
the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company state that a
piece of wreck, 20 feet long, by 5 feet wide, of fir,
apparently part of a paddle-box, much burnt, was
washed ashore in the evening of the 19th instant,
.on
Swanpool-beach, near Falmout b, and that the
ari endremains
of a made mast, 52 feet in length, burnt from one
and
to the other, with several small bolts appr
three iron hoops thereon, about 2i feet in diameterng,
b the p
and 4 inches broad, were found about nine
ilot-cutter
miles S.E.
of Start Point, on the 19th inst.; y
Fanny, No. 13, Robert Kers wail ma
are , of Dart-
mouth, and taken into that port. The above sup.
22.—Messrs. eorge and Sir
posed to be portions of the unfortunate Amazon.
Woormicu, JAN. 22.
dreclging works are placed
John Rennie have just compl* ted a dredging machine
for the Russian service, to be emipl3.oie.):l,:asac:tiipOnpedirlejysgtsohaitne.,
The vessel in which the
is 92 feet long by 24 feet in breadth of beam, with
cf 9 fee witfh all the
capable 0 . working in mud to
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n:
ei
rntwo
th the
a:
odr: , apch 6:
a draught of waantedr
hoard. The dredgTeraost
feet in length,
depth of 28 feet.
the Black NyrriPb,
about to sail for Odessa. OH hacks,
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Tyr DtuEDFr AT SIIADAVELL.--11l the case of
Alma,,, ir he was stabbed I,7ith a knife early in the
Jameiistl, ~of the Bth inst. at a brothel in New Gravel-lane,
110
,Iliar
di.
vi
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1,
the Secretary of State for the home Department
has been Pleased, on the, representation of tits: tarts by Mr.
the coroner for East Middlesex, to give directions to
Solicitorer of tho Treasury to conduct the prosecution
Jose Fortuso &rang° 1 ;
, Nv.to ,s to take his trial at tbe
cnsstession of the Central Criminal Court for the wilful
murder;Bnatlialaki
reward of 50/. for the apprehension of his companion, who
absconded when the crime was committed, and who is still at
large, and who also stands charged ivith the murder by the
coroner's jury.