The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

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• The Coast Guard—During the week the voen under
the command of Inspecting-Commander Kennedy, have
gone-through the sword, carbines and gun. exercise, on
board her alejesty's ship Hotspur. The practice was
completed on Friday. when mita 40 rounds of hall car-
tridge, no less than 13 shot struck the target, tit- ;1,000
y eras' distance, the target beiag four feet square: There
arels-Vmeu, and they nave all acquitted themselves in
' the different exercises to the satisfaction of the various
officers present. Thegun practice was excellent.
SHEERNESS, SUNDAY.—Her ' Majesty's ship Volage,
22, has been removed from the anehorage off, :the Lap-
wall to the mooring in-Saltpau-reach, recentli Occupied
bee the Vestal. __
Her Majesty's ship Superb, 80, Captain E. Purcell, is
ordered-to be paid off at Chatham, on Monday next, the
14th inst. . •. , : . . ,
Her Majesty's matter, Gossamer . has . beeu, removed '
from the fire-leg-basin to the camber to be got ready for
the purpose of proceeding to the North Seas:, where she
will remain during .the summer reamthe toeceatinue a
series of tidal observations under the superintendence of
. Mr. C. H. Dillon, Master. , The Gossamer_ wilhsail for
her destination the letter part of the ensuing week.
, Hee-Alstjes:ty's steam-sloop Baptaconte; 6, _left. port on
Friday, at 10 30 A.AI , on her 1441, ertilao doyen gissosnel.
• Her Majesty's ship Vestal, Captain eospatritk:Baillie
Efamilion, hoisted the pendant yeeterday teeming. This
°Roo is youngest brother. of Ceptildg. A... 11: Demil-
ton, second secretary to the Admiralty. , no entered the
navy the 24th of Dehember, 1831, frorejthe,Royal Naval
:.n . • •
.-
..•re4A hia exemintion tel
,1-B,seeiettainee the
College, te -r , • s
k.deteeteeaala on the 2a :h of June, 1840,
,aed then
.rinjoined to Melville, 72, Captain the Hon. Viehard Saun-
ders Diodes, whom be assisted at the captures of Ty-
co:4=w -and the forts of the BOOM Tigris, 'in January
h' nind- war. In October, 1841, he joined the qifeensll6,
a„senecil
inFepbreubarr:,,ar 1v.814814,2a, nd in other operations of the
;Plaiee, at Portsmouth, for the flag of Sjareawstiel.W. C.
—''''''eat Commsnder-in-Chief in Ashes Mediterrauean
Was celpeiped Hs, tdsh Winchester
50. as Phi L- -' t-- the Hon. Josceline,Bercy, at
the ca g- ieutenant 0 , '
Pe °f Good Hope, under whose command he
served until Febrn
to
_the rank of commander.a'Oa the Bth iif April, iti the
same year, he
~,ora when he was promoted
wns earployeti in that vessel lisu-ttud- Pacific
stations for three ye _ _ ehs, Brer
vessel on s - -
10 'lB4;lt,he
freight of
,his peat rank eR
more than 1,500,000 dollars
and brought home aobtained
Delia, 16-aun sloop,
th,
9th of
in June, 1847.. He
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Waterloo,
A eetertentirtlareieei-121.1..44..cteber, 1847. . I
Ina., on —hoard
her Majesty's `hi Wee eill- '
Chief, to try a private of the Chatham Percy, Commander-in-
-120,' bearing"theatig of
since. The prisoner was found
Marines for having deserted from"hain Division of liOPl
sentenced to he imprisoned for the ship some time
sue to him.
the Meander as
;laity Of the charge-, and
labour, and to be mulcted of the,,,z of
with hard
, =tear-Admiral iitguished him-
Captain Charles Talbot,
successor to Commander Wyvill at th
Cape of Good
Vestal,
Hope, has seen much servieles,Prnidnhtedeawsgehte°;eetdi
u in 24
sclE on various occasions. In 1845,
off Borneo, he was intrusted 14. e
...
enterprise
Thomas Cochrane with the command of a tor: illtels:ri.r
ing of VA, offieers, seamen, and marines,:•einbakkded7sw"
boats (nine of them carrying guns), and was sent
of the branches of a river in Malloodoo Bay, tea 42 °thn:
stronghold of Seherif Osman, the most notorious -of the
Sooloo pirate chieftains. The success-of the
and the distinguished gallantry and rood goitd„., ex-
hibited on the occasion by Captain Talbot and his
brave companions had the effect of drawing from the
Admiralty an expression of its great admiration
and satisfaction. While on the East India station Cap-
tain Talbot was for a considerable period twice employed
as senior officer in the Chins Seas, where his constant
consideratihn for the interests of British-commerce, and
the unremitting attention he displayed in his official
capacity towards the mercantile community, procured
him on leaving a warm address. On paying off at this
port in the summer of 1847 he was desired to communi
cate to the ship's company the expression of the Ad-
miralty's approbation of the state and discipline, as well
as the gunnery exercise, of the Vestal as reported by
Vice-Admiral Sir E. D. King.
.._
Her. Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel lightning,
Mr. E. K. Calirer, Master Commanding, arrived here at
a P.M. yesterday, with 1 subaltern, 1 .sergeant, 2 cor-
porals, 1 drummer, and 20 privates of the Woolwich di-
vision ef Roved Marines, for service in the Vestal, Capt.
C. Talbot. 'The Lightning after disembarking them,
left part at 2 nor. for Woolwich.
Her Medssty's paddle-wheel steam.veseel Adder, Mr.
J. Watt in charge, arrived yesterday afternoon, with a
lighter in tow, and after communicating with the dock-
yard returned to Chatham.
Her Majesty's ship Royal George, 120, will be under
the hands of the Chatham dockyard artificers for seve-
ral months.
Her Isiejesty's ship Mender, 44, will not be temple tad
in her fittings before the middle of the ensuing. month.
See will hoist the broad pendant of Commodore Charles
Talbot en the fat proximo.., .
r
Her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120. and the Horatio,
screw steam-frigate require some fittings to their ports to
render them complete.
Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Amphion, 34, was
reported ready for sea this wetik.
Her Majesty's ship Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamil-
ton, is to be out of the dockyard hands„ the.fiest week of
rseatasoeth. .
WOOLWICH, JUNE 12.—Mr. Augustus Stafford M.P.
First Secretary to the Admiralty, visited Woolwich
dockyard to day, accompanied by Mr. Thomas T.
Great, F.R.S., Controller for the ,Vietuelling and
Transport Services, and Mr. Role the contractor and
the secretary, and was received 'by Commodore Henry
Eden and the beads of the . various departments,
who eccompamied him to the factory to see the large
screw propeller cast set the foundry on 'Wednesday last,
and at the time at his visit quite cool aed uncovered,
nad ready for being lifted out of the underpart of the
Mould in which it had been cast. A portion of the
bre-ss metal was cleaned and showed the superior
quality of the metal and the excellence! -of the eastirg.
The .breadth of the blades of this fine screw repealer at
about 10 inches from the extreme of each is 8 feet, and
the upper end lower poises, from -the :greatest part of
the breadth of the bisdrs, tapir gradually to the ex-
treme length of the blade, which will have the effect of
causing a less resisting power when it strikes the water
when in motion. On leaving the. factory; it being near
to 12 o'clock, the Secretary, with Mr. Grant, Mr.
Bolt, and Commodore beery Eden, with the heads of
the departments, proceeded to the ticket-office, to wit-
ness fee manner in which each inclividual'e rsttendanee
each individual
.in the yard to psrrorm his respective duties is correctly
ascertained by means of metallic . checks, which is at-
tended with very little trouble compared with the old
liev,,, to
'liliio'thoert:ik:LUClpain:::Ofonse:tnihicitlrgegyooa7.nredgr, outatnhed fromh names
7rasentortclfr
returned
souring t 0 backw u . r
....d the
particular steam
-'-e:lcH.7e
their wet's. lan Stafford subsequently visited
APPaNTIaENTS.
Captain Frederick Warden (1845), wee has had
August,
Isgerd additionalflag-
:lloBl7spoea:is;efi‘dvpopoft:l4,teiechdß,etrfoi I:rut
Captain t 0
Lien
111 connexion
with.the steam department efloat.
Robertson, additional of the Fisgard, elltrnant
, all olfew
charge of the steam departmeet efl hay lieu the entire •
coniuntesion, for a cooaiderahle : -Robert
during the Exnerimela'al trials -of cat nt this port, and
especially in taking reund ~, s.tehru vessels actin
, sponsibilities considerable,
have bsea arduous, and his r,.-T. v rif-'9, g,..7.3 his duties
a very satitaactory
which, on bein
mouth and Devon or steam-vessels to Ports-
eurred to any of which he has performed in
very beneficial and ag
depart-
ment,
Robertson entered the saving
carried into effect, shave Proved
has suggested several ins
thmenrnwehriienuhnadceeeidi:ir:t
charge;baving everand chete:
provemonts in the steam depuevred
obtained his
lieutenant's commissionservice in 1826,Aanu d
ust, 1840, and
on the is; of g
to the service:
has now served twelve ase which renders
him eligible for promo ears as Lieeurtseunk
of Commander.
The appointment CaptainionoV4flrden to the steam de-
partment is with the of
supplying
i a blank which
has existed niece th viepwe_ntment of Captain Ellice, for-
merly of that departmentei
at Somerset-house, to the
Coast Gus: d, and Lieutenant Robertson will still con-
tinue his dutiesallhere as usual, unless he has to vacate
hi 3 appointmenth- deserved promotion.
by Is
Ceptein the Hon. James Drummond (1846), to come
round the Retribution, vlce Warden.
Master Thomas Bo
(1846), to the Scorpion, 6,
North America and West Idia
surveying-vessel on the
station, vacs Ilflauuder, serving in that vessel since April,
1849. - eerPorts—A. M'Ewen, to the Encounter,
First-class Engla
t smouth;
at George Goldsick, to
screw steam-sloop, a- ,ri _
steam-tgst e, Portsmouth.
the Arrogant shirt
,
• t-Enginer Samuel Clements, 2d class, to the
~
Assistan
Encounter.
dsrick Gilbert (1846), to the Vestal, 26, at
Parser Fre
Sheerness.
le S. Shanks (1852), to the Impregnable flag-
Cierk •
Air,. ag Deronport.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JUNE 12.
srom EXCHANGE.—The share market was more than
usually buoyant to-day, and prices were firm. The transac-
tions reported were—nristol and Exeter, 97—Great Western,
for cash, 92k.
LIVERPOOL, JusrE 12.
Srocs EXCHANGE.—There was an improved feeling ex-
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business
has been done at firm priEes. The transactions were as fol-
low:—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late Chester
and Birkenhead), 17i13—Blackburn (lute Blackburn, Cli-
theroe, and We.:tYorlisbire), G —Caledonian, 191/—Eastern
Counties, 9 5-16—East Lancashire, 17%—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 741,4—Ditto, Fifths, 574 dis.—Midland, CB—
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 321/2 North British
7%—Shrewsbury and Chester (New V/. Third Shares),
South-Eastern and Dover, 20%—York, Newcastle. and Ber-
wick, Preference, unpaid-up,•2,43 dis.—York and -.N.Toith Mid-
land, 23%.