The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-23 00:00:00

APPOINTMEIITS.

WOOLWICH, APRIL 22.--Maters—Jahn G. Mugford
(1841), to the Amphioa, 34, screw-frigate, of 300-horse
power, advanced war steamer, at Sheerness; Stephen
Spa:n(lB46), to the C:,:elops, piddle-wheel steam-frigate
of 320-horse_power, advanced war steamer, at Sheerness.

Second l'ilastcr Henry W. Inglis (1849), recently
erring in the Vulcan, crew steam troop-ship, to the
Victory, flag-ship at Portsmouth.
Masters's Assistants—W. L. Dodds arid W. E.
APGrath t, tho Eisgiird flagship at Woolwich.
Commander George L. G. C;owyear (1851), having
completed a course of study of steam at the factory at
Woolwich Dockyard, was examined on Monday and
Tuesday last by Mr. Charles Atherton, chief engineer,
and having been found to have acquired a knowledge of
the properties and the uses of the various parts of
marine steam-engines, received his certificate ac-
cordingly.

The Vivid, Dover mail steam-packet, Captain Smithett,
will be ready to return to Dover on the 24th inst., to re-
sume her
.duties on that statiun. She has been fitted
with new boilers.

The Herald surveying-vessel, Captain Henry Mangles
Denham, is expected to arrive at Woolwich this evening
from Chatham, to receive her boat; and other articles
previous to her dr:partur3 kith her tender, the Torch,
Lieutenant Commander Chimmo, for the purpose of sur-
veying the South be s, where she will be employed in
that ardueu: duty among the numerous islands inhabited

tyy singes for aperiodof from five to seven Years.
The Agimemrron, 90, buil,ling at Woolwich Dock-
yard, will be ready fur launching after Saturday next;

hut, according to present arrange—meets, the launch will
not take place until the 21st of May, between two and
three o'clock in the afternoon. The ways have been

completed and carried out to the river, and seats are in
pregrers of being put up to accommodate a number of
spec:ators on the occasion of the launch taking place.
It is expected this fine vessel will be commissioned
shortly after she is launched, as it is desirable to have
her tried at the earliest possible period. Captain the
Hon. Henry Keppel (1837), formerly of the Meander,
44, is named as likely to have the command of her.

COURT CiIt.CULARe
The Queen held an Investiture of the most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty the
Queen, overeign of the Order, and Field-Marshal his
Royal Highness the Prince Albert. Great Master of
the Order, were conducted to the Throne-room by the
Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward.
There were present—Field-Marshal the Duke of
Wellington, Lord Viscount Straugford, General Lord
Viscount Combermere, Field-Marshal the Marquis of
Anglesey, Lord Heytesbury, General Earl of Strafford,
the Earl of Clarendon, Lieutenant-General Lord Seaton,
Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Cotton, General
Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., Lieutenant General Sir
George Pollock, Lieutenant- General Sir Charles James
Napier, the Earl of Elienhorough, the Marquis of
Normanby, Lieutenant-General Lord Fitzroy James
Henry Somerset, eed Lieutenant-General Sir James
Lillyman Caldwell.
Lord Broughton having been introduced and conducted
between Lord Fitzroy Somerset and Sir James
Cald-
well, the two Junior Knights Grand Cross present,
Lord Broughton knelt before the Qnc:en, and her Ma-
jesty, with the Sword of State, was
to confer the honour of knighthoodgraciously pleased
?Ilihis
on
who had the honour to hies her Majesty's- Lordship,
Queen then, with the assistant,, hand. The
invested Lord Broughton with the of
the Grand Master,
l
a Knight Grand Cross (civil, the riband and badge of
having delivered to him division) of the Bath, and
Ithe star, his Lordship again
kissed his Sovereign's h„
The follovving Knie_ ni , and retired.
introduced,
and
Wereetsta Grand Cross were severally
assisted b rezP"AivulY invested by her Ma-
jesty,with the imsignia ofy his r oyal Highness the Great Master,
division) of the Ord a Knight Grand Cross (military
Peregrine
I‘..aitind. Order of the Bath, viz.:—General Sir
, Admiral the Hon. Sir Thomas
Blador. Captl, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Wood-
ford, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Bourerie,
Lieutenant-Generalee Sir John Fox Burgoyne.
Ate officers were
not knighted, that honour having
been already conferred upon them.
Lieuen,
, ar,- General Sir Thomas Downman, Vice-
Ad .
_ . tuiral the Honourable Sir Anthony Maitland, and
Leut-General Sir Archibald Maclaine were invested
b t
by the Sovereign as Knights-Commanders (military
division).
Major-General John Owen, Lieut-General George
Charles D' Aguilar, Lieutenant-General Henry Gold-
finch, Lieutenant-General Johußell,Lieutenant-General.
George Brown, Rear-Admiral Phipps Homey, and
Rear- Admiral William Fairbrother Carroll, were intro-
duced, and had the honour of Knighthood conferred
upon them by the Queen, and were invested by her Ma-
jesty with the insignia of Knights Commanders (mili-
tary division).
Cho Queen had a dinner-party last eveening at
Bucktngnam Palace. The company included the Duchess
of Athol', the Marquis of Salisbury, Earl Delawarr, the
Earl and Countess of Wilton, Earl Jermyn, Lord El-.
phinstone, Lord and Lady Creroorne, and ColonelWyld.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, on Wednesday, at
Buckingham Palace.
Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg went to Claremont
yesterday morning, and visited the Countess do Neuilly
and the French Royal Family. His Serene Highaess
took leave of her Majesty and his Royal Right's"'
Prince Albert last evening, and quitted Backingtolut
Palace at a quarter before eight o'clock, for the terminus
to Dover, On
of the Seath-Eastern Railway, travelling
route to Ostend and Brussels. mmission. for
The Finance Cornmit.ee of the Royal Co
the Exhibition of [B5l had a meeting yesterday, at the
Palace of Westmins:er. t Dues Association of
A dqutsti,Aa from the Light
with with the Right
London had an interview yesterday
Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester at the Board
of TradN had an interview • '
wan Mr.
Lord Gray, of Gray,
Secretary .. .-,
Walpole yesterday, e the n°llle'dlice- The
Earl of Chichester had also an interview with the Right
Hon. Grothman. . D
eputati^
Mr. aiacqueen cif'(l a
;_ . en had an interview
yesterday with the
s.Right, Inn. J. W. Henley and Lord
Colchester, et the 130 a. u of Tiede.
Mr. W. Perish Robertson, Como- General of the
Equsdor, h:id AU interview With the erl of Lialmesbury
yesterday, at the Foreign Office.
Toe (word I.l.livei-Oy Commission
yat-rday at the clizial rc-ia
the Treasury in Dom,,z_ - ~...enee of the First Lord of
The camtt.rid,,e u.n.eqe-.treet,
trersity Commission had a meeting
on Wetlnestle.y ''at
1 the official residence of the First Lord
of the Treasury LI Downing-street.
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.MIGRATION.--LINCOLN.—A banking agent Jim
Lincolnshire, writing to his principal says:—" Cash seems
to be drawn out of this neighbourhood rapidly. I suppnme
it must be by the emigrants, who are going in large nunrs
from some parishes. As many as 40 or 50 neighbours sail i$
a ship."