The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Cemmander-in-Chief of- Devonport, Admiral Sir
J. 'A. Ommanney, returned from . leave. on Saturday
morning, and immediately relicisted his flag on board
the Impregnable, and resumed the command of the port.
The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Thomas
Briggs, G.C.AI.G., went to Spithead yesterday morning
to inspect the Arrogant, 46, steam-trigatc, Captain R.
S. Robinson. We understand she is to go into
.Ports-
mouth harbour to be paid off, having been in commission_
for more:than three years.
Aid lighter, Smallman, Master, arrived at 31.voraport
with stores from the eastern yards, on Saturday.
DEVONPORT, SUNDAY.—Fifty convicts were brought
in from Dartmoor yesterday, and conveyed 'from, Laria
on board the Fairlee, convict-ship in the Sound; in Go-
vernment boats. The Fairlbe now waits orders to sail
for Hobart. Town.
It is Mr. Rowe, late clerk of the Imam, depot-ship
at Port Royal, and not Mr. Thomas Rowe, paymaster of
the Cumberlaad, who has come home in the Arrogant,
from th© West Indies.
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APPOINTMENTS.
WooLwxol, MARCH 8. —Second Master Edmund
Swain (1847), to the Pluto steam-vessel, at Woolwich.
fitting for the coast of Africa.
Clerk in charge Thomas W. Shanks (845), recently
serving in the Acheron steam-vessel, to the Pluto.
Gunners—Henry Warner. to the Iliglifiyer steam-
sloop, at Woolwich; James Yates; to the Pluto; 'Charles
Samson, to the
.Sampson steam-sloop, at Portsmouth.
The Fearless steam-vessel, Captain Bullock, left Wool-
wich on Thursday last, far .Shocrness, to zosuune her
surveying duties.

PROMOTION.
Commander Louis Aug?stus liobinson (1837), to the
rank of captain on the retired list.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.---Tho Assistance and Re-
solute sailing vessels have been newly. painted inside,
and have now nearly the whole of their rigging put up.
The screw steam-vessels Pioneer and Intrepid are also
in a forward state. Although statements have,. been
made that the vessels of Captain Sir Edward Aelwecher's
expedition are still short of officers and men, , have
the best authority for stating that . there is not a single
vacancy remaining to be tilled: up. After sending a
number of seamen who had applied to ha entered iu the
ships at Woolwich to Cliatham, Coat nter in the North
Star, upwards of forty other sipplicons had to be re-
Jused. Out of upwards of ninety applications front o
cers to serve in the Arctic Expedition in 1852, it must
have taken some time for Sir Edward Belcher to chooed
se
the most eligible for this service; but he has complet
his Choice, although the names of all he not been ha offi-
cially given. As an instance,' it rosy av
be stat tt
Assistarit-Surgeon John Bernard Ricwillards (184 i sta7), at
present serving in the Rodney, 90, be assnt-
surgeon of the Pioneer ecrew-steamer.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 8.--The Dauntless, screw steati...
frigate, Captain E. P. Halsted, arrived in the Sound' this
morning from Queenstown, She has brought all the
supernumerary officers of the western squadron from
Queenstown, which she left on the ad instant. She win
now refit, take in stores and provisions, be paid .wan,e
and return to Qusenstown. The Hogue,
S. 0. Dscreci, Captain
609 3
L'l‘Dougall, and Leander, 50, Captain
full of tickets, and
,they must go to a dockyard
ee, arrived
po'rtarto.
refit. .
The East India ship Windsor, Captain_Pary.
yesterday from East Indies, leaving
111suritius,
a silt on the
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3d of October;
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frontier were reported to wear a
captured n1)(113,000 head of cattle had been
Somersst and Colonel Eyre. The Windsorby Gun ral
touched rat
Falmouth previous to her arrival here, and sent on her
dispatches to London.
The yesuvins,` steam-sloop,
Lieutenant-Commander
Ba
rnard, sails to-day for on, instead of for Queens-
town, as previously reported.
Return, of pt
' - The Happy Palmouth Captain Gilbert,
came is this morning totally dismasted. She experi-
relmoutb, weather in the Channel after she left