The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

St. George, 120, Captain Eyees, C. 8., is still in Ply-
mouth Sound ; Calcutta, 84, Captain J. J. Stopford, is
at Falmouth. The sea-going ships Royal William, 120,
Captain singcome ; Cossack, 21, screw, Captain E. G.
Fanshawe ; and the Belleisle, hospital ship, Commander
Hosken, are in Hamoaze.
Exmouth, 90, screw, Captain Hon. F. Pelham, was
not in commission on Sunday. Captain Smith, C. 8., of
the Prince Regent, 90, at Portsmouth, having been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Clarence Victualling
Yard, the petty officers, seamen, and marines of that
ship are to be turned over to the Exmouth. Her com-
plement of marines is to be made up from the Marine
Artillery at Davenport,
The Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds, had been ordered
from Constantinople for Malta. Wo hear that she has
arrived there with 192 invalids. She is to come to
England.
The Brisk, 15, screw, Commander Curtis, received
orders at Portsmouth yesterday morning to leave Spit-
head without delay. She sailed yesterday afternoon,
and will call at Plymouth for her mail.
Rolla and Sealark, naval instruction brigs, went out
of Portsmouth harbour yesterday for their usual chan-
nel cruise.

Drake, mortar-vessel, will leave Portsmouth Harbour
to-day for practice, after which she proceeds to Sheer-
ness for further trial, thence to the Crimea.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—Robert Reid (1843), to the Cenway, 26,
flag, at Queenstown ; and John P. Palmer (1842), to
the Royal William, 120, ordinary guardship, at Devon-
port.'
Surgeons—Charles A. Anderson, M.D. (1849), re-
cently serving in the Blenheim, to the Exmouth, 90,
screw, at Devonport ; Robert Pottinger (1847), recently
serving in the Hecla, to the Blenheim, 60, in the Baltio ;
and John B. Ricards (1854), to the Heels, 6, at Ports-
mouth.

THE COMMAND IN CHIEF IN THE MEDI•
TERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA.

We feel that it is perfectly unnecessary at the moment
to state more than to announce that the usual period
allotted to admirals holding foreign command has expired
in the case of Admiral Dundas, and that he will return to
this country in his flag-ship, the Britannia, accompanied
by the Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, and
the Bellerophon, 78, Captain Lord George Paulet ; these
ships having been relieved by the powerful screw-fine-of-
battle-ships Algiers, 90, Captain Talbot, and Hannibal,
90, Captain the Hon. F. W. Grey.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, as a matter of
course, becomes commander-in-chief, vice Dundas, and
we sincerely trust that he will p issue that high,
dignified, impartial, and even-handed course in the man-
agement of the fleet which has characterised Admiral
Dundas's term of service, and that the fleet will be kept
up in that same degree of efficiency to which his now
gallant chief has brought it by the hardest cruising an
admiral has had for many years past. It will be re-
membered that Sir Edmund Lyons was a candidate for
the chief command of this fleet before Admiral Dundas
was appointed. Having served so many years in a dip-
lomatic capacity in the Mediterranean, the gallant offi-
cer's highest ambition has ever been to hold the chief
post in his own profession in the East.

The Royal Albert will, as we stated in our impres-
sion of yesterday, be the flag-ship of Sir Edmund
Lyons, and Captain Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart., now in
command of this noble three-decker, will heist his pen-
dant (broad) on board the Agamemnon. Rear-Admiral
Stopford, the captain of the Black Sea fleet, will, in all
probability, continue to hold his present position ; always
supposing that the " maintopman of the A.gamemnon, '
and other supporters of the Coalition Cabinet of similar
rating, have given him a certificate of character.--Morn-
ing Herald.