The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-27 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

COmmanders-Alcx,:ndpr Little, from Leith cote-
guard sti.tion, to Wextord district, as inspecting com-
mander, vice) Charles IL Douglas, whose pLriod of set.-
vic,, has expired; Thomas Cochran, from Grimsby to
Leith district, as inspecting commander, vice Little;
,che Power (1854), to be inspecting com-
mander of the Grimsby district, vice C,chran.
Lieutenants—Ja-nes Irwin to command the Lyno
Cobb c ,ast-guard sievion, vice Mr. W. B. Stocker. su-
perannuated; H. A. Ciavering (1847), and C. S. Dun-
bar (1847) bavt, bee appoint, d t, the Excellent, gun-
wry ship, Portsmouth.
Mtettra—Samuel Bradd,ti (1851) to the l3ritomart,
8. D,vonport; F. H. May (1844) to the Winchester,
50, l'ortsmouth.

Matt —a. R.. Fitzgerald !to the Highflger, screw-
corvettP, Wt-Joleich ; E. S. Douglas, G. S. Dill, and T.
M. F. Bum', to the Winchester; Thomas StaAhouse to
the Britornurt.
Second Master—S. 0. Jones to the Retribution, steam-
frigate, Spithead.

A.l,ltstaitt-Surgeon—Julian W. Bradshaw (1847) to
the Hadar Hospital, vice Henry Slade, to the Wiuchea-
ter, 50, Portsmouth,

Clerk—C. A. Sttapcote to the Britomart.
Midshipman—James Best to the Highflyer; C. Baillie
to the Lesuder, 50, Devonport.
Master's Assistants.—F. P. Haswell to the Dauntless;
W. B. Bastion to the Britomart.
Gunners—S. R. Brown to the Winchester; Richard
Parkins to the Britomart.
Boatswains—James Etheridge to the Winchester; J.
Thou-Tien to the Britomart; 0. D. Maxwell and Thomas
Flinthatn of the Monarch, 84, Sheerness, have been con-
firmed.

Carpenter—John Gedge to the Britoutart.
Ilige.flyer, 26, ,screw-frigate, Captain H. J. Matson,
at Woolwich, is picking up her crew very fairly. She
has already some eighty or ninety of her ship's com-
pany on her books. The 3d of April is the day named
for her completion by the dockyard. She was tried
down the river on Thursday; when the average of three
runs, two up and one down, at the measured mile in
Long Reach, she made a speed of 9.052 knots per hour.,
Sirnoom iron-screw steam-ship, Captain Kingcome,
which put into Devonport on Thursday, with the dis-
patches received from the Vulcan screw-frigate, Master
Commander Penn, off Scilly, on Wednesday, will pro-
bably sail again to-day fur Portsmouth. the injury sus-
tained by the machinery being but trifling, though suffi-
cient to have placed the ship in some peril, from the
circumstance of her being at the time of the accident in
the narrow channel ist the east end of the breakwater.
She was tore: l to the anchorage, inside the breakwater,
by the Avon and Cenfiance steamers.
Vulcan had not arrived at Devonport yesterday noon,
and from the point at which the wind stands, will have
some difficulty in working up Channel
' Resistance troop-ship, Master Commander Bradshaw,
arrived at Devonport on Thursday, with victualling and
naval stores, and has been towed into harbour to dis-
charge her cargo, by the Confiance.
Racer, 12, Commander Beddoes, was inspected by
Captain Lowe on-Wednesday, an 3 towed into Devonport
harbour on Thursday, to be paid off.
Falmouth lighter sailed from Devonport, with stores,
.for Deptford, yesterday.
Prince Regent, 90, Captain Harris, and Leander, 50,
Captain Dacus, ' left Queenstown March 24, the former
for Portsmouth, and the latter for Devonport, to be

" paid down."
PORTSMOUTEt, Faina.v.,--The Rodney. 92, Captain
Graham, G. 8., wilt, according to present arrangements,
go to Spithead on the Ist pros.
' The Antulope steam-sloop arrived at Spitheed to-day
from the eastward, and came into harbour in the after-
noon. She will be paid advance previously to leaving
this port.
The officers and 'crew of the Vesuvius steam-elm')
were turned over-to the Vixen steam .bleep, at this port,

to-day.
Tne Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds, will be " paid
down" to-morrow, azid her crew will b© granted a tort-
night's leave.
The Arr,gant, 46, Csptaia Robinson, will be "paid
down" on Mopday.

MILITARY FORCE.
We have between 30 000 and 35 000 excellent trocrus
iictually in Grem Briiiiiii, over and above some 8,000131 f ora
10,000 Marines and Artillery, and l torausftheir
way
ii
'!ainnslywtbehee nucleus ot a
good military
t z( i ..zuf
rtionme regiments
tt e‘ap e , ,
wme; yuhrba:vhfeeo roe;
retsonrces ot our regular
point.the p
rWi a
cei tookp tprinciple
w occasionhich
haa not
a t
1,,,g•5g0 to sugg7:.
d for the navy should be extended to
leng;_h been adop _.
the army, Sand , thc, „rmy, as they now do in largo
army do not stotporactte.tthhiast
panic, or quittino
snort service, should be em-
numbers, after a vory $
and acceptable conditions as
that the trained soldiers disbanded after
bodied urider some f•ir
an army of reserve. manifest success;
but the pensioners, besides
and with
form presumptively more
or less disabled, do by no means
being
the whole body
In the case ot the pensioners this
has been already done,
of discharged soldiers. We have been favoured
with some statistics on this point from credible
authority, and we shall probably surprise
•the reader in
of soldiers
annually small degree by stating that the number
annually disbanded exceeds six ihousand. Many of
these—and as the Limited Enlistment Act operates
there will be many more—are in the prime of life ; iu-
deel, it ia computed that at least 1,000 men actually
purchase their discharges arart from any
disability for
service. Now, the chief objection to the naval reserve,
—that of the dispersion of the seamen in vessels at sea,
—would not apply to men who would be at hand in
their several districts, exactly like militiamen or pen-
sioners; and, if they were indaced by any small pri-
vilege or bounty to render themselves thus available, we
should at once possess a resery s of trained soldiers, ne-
cessarily more serviceable them county militias. With
40,000 troops of the line, 40,00 a more of the " reserve,"
and 50,000 pensioners, less robust than the reserve, but
capable of home service, we co raid surely give a reason-
' able account of any expedition which could slip through
a chain of steamers Irons the North Foreland to Fal-
-1 mouth, and encounter our CIA!) mei aqudrou to boo.

SATURDAY EVENING,

MARCH 27,

£I,~'8)

Ic3
1,992

645
3,563
7,517
2,140

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3,503
12,045
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3,134
1,940

389
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4,301
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1,531
8,"47
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1,113
2,45
328

0,117
7,051

3,070

964
62
9,739
5,216
7,312
3,543
4,667
2,212
1,331