The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-31 00:00:00

✓AL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 30.
The Highflyer, 21, screw, Captain Moore, left Spit-
head yesterday morning for the Mediterranean.
The London, 90, Captain Eden, will sail about Tues-
day next for the Mediterranean.

Courts-martial are ordered to be held on board the
Victory, on Tuesday, for the trial of two officers of the
St. Jean d'Acre.

The Terrible, 21, paddle-frigate, Captain M'Cleverty,
will be paid wages to-morrow, and leave for Devonport,
to embark Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons for the
Mediterranean. We have been informed by the same
authority which enabled us to announce Sir Edmund's
selection for his post some weeks ago that Vice-Admi-
ral Sir Hyde Parker will retire from the Senior Sea
Lordship of the Board of Admiralty at the close of this
year, Vice-Admiral Dundas, now Commander-in-Chief
in the Mediterranean, taking the Senior Sea Lordship
(his old placelb and Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons
becoming Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean.
The Cwsar, 91, screw, was docked in the steam-basin
dock yesterday, to receive her steam power.
A steam-vessel for the accommodation of officers and
men of the fleet, at Spithead, is ordered to be in attend-
ance on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 11 a.m., to ob-
viate the necessity of their risking their lives in small
craft in foul weather.

The Avon, steam-tender, Master Commander Veitch,
arrived in harbour this morning, from Plymouth, with
supernumeraries.

The Frolic, 14, Commander Nolloth, was commis-
sioned on Friday evening, in this harbour, by that popu-
lar and good officer. She is ordered for the Australian
station, and will accompany the Juno.
The pendant is not yet hoisted in the Princess Royal.
The Cyclops, store steamer, is under the steam-basin
sheers, discharging boilers and machinery- belonging to
the Cmsar.

THE RUSSIAN FRIGATE.—The Russian frigate Ab-
pops. (Aurora) must have had a very narrow escape from
total wreck on the late occasion of her living been on
shore off the Swedish coast ; the whole of her false keel
being gone, a great part of her main keel, and her gar-
board streak being literally ground to shavings, it is only
a mercy her fir bottom held together ; her rigging is heavy
enough for a line-of-battle ship, and nune of the smartest.
She is fitted with patent screw lanyards. This is con-
sidered objectionable in our service as running a great
risk from the danger of shot. The backstays of this
Russian frigate are pretty nearly as big as the top-
masts, and draw many a grin from our blue jackets.
The crew are a strong-built dirty-looking lot.

PLYMOUTH, OCT, 30.
The Makassar, Dutch war schooner, Captain H. P. de
Kock, having made good defects, sailed for Malta early
this morning.

The St. George, 120, ordinary guard-ship, Captain
Kingcome, will be paid off to-morrow, and re-commis-
sioned the following day.
The Dolphin, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander
Webber, having made good defects, sailed for the Coast
of Africa at 6.20 this morning.
Vessels in the Sound.—Hogue, 60, Captain W. B.
Ramsay ; President, 50, Captain R. C. Burridge, with
the flag of Rear-Admiral David Price ; Valorous, 16,
Captain C. H. M. Buckle ; Magicienne, 16, Captain T.
Fisher ; Desperate, 8, Captain W. W. Chambers ; and
Vulture, 6, Captain F. H. H. Glasse.
In Hamoaze.—lmpregnable, 104, Captain Arthur
Lowe, flag-ship of Admiral Sir John Ommanney ; St.
George, 120, Captain John Kingcome, flag-ship of
Commodore Seymour; Agamemnon, 91, Captain W.
R. Mends ; Edinburgh, 58, Captain R. S. Hewlett ;
Iniperieuse, 91, Captain R. B. Watson, Scorpion and
Madagascar.

The poor fellow, Sutton, the engineer, hurt by the
screw propeller of the James Watt, died on Thursday at
the Royal Hospital, Stonehouse.

James Watt, 91, screw, has been taken alongside the
sheer-hulk, and her masts and bowsprit have been put in.
Queen, 116, Captain Mitchell, sailed on Thursday
night for the Mediterranean.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 29.
APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Lord Clarence Edward. Paget (1839), to the
Princess Royal, 90, screw steam-ship, commissioned this
day at Portsmouth.

Commander James George Mackenzie (1847), to the
Princess Royal.

Lieutenant John Hanbury Chads, recently serving in
the Daedalus, 20, on the Pacific station, to the Princess
Royal.

Chief Engineer John R. Closh, in charge of the ma-
chinery of the Royal George, 120, screw steam-ship, at
Sheerness, is appointed chief engineer to her, now that
she bas been commissioned at that port by Captain
Henry J. Codrington, C.B.

Chaplain the Rev. James Henry Lang, M.A., from
the Arrogant, screw steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, to
the Royal George, at Sheerness.
Paymasters—Benjamin Dyer (1825), to the Royal
George ; Henry South (1830), to the Princess Royal ;
James H. Towell (1850), to the Frolic, 16, at Ports-
mouth • George B. Bales (1851), to the Polyphemus
steam-sloop, on the west coast of Africa station.
Clerk in Charge William A. Ward (1846), from the
Fisgard flag-ship, to the Rifleman screw steam-sloop, at
Woolwich.

Mates—Wellesley Gregory (1852), recently serving
in the Contest, 12, sloop, on the East Indies station, to
the Royal George ; William A. Cambier (1852), from
the Ajax, sg, screw steam-ship, at Queenstown, to the
Diamond, 28, at Sheerness ; W. D. D. Selby (1853), to
the Juno, 26, at Chatham ; William Edward Brinkman
(1853), from the London, 90, at Portsmouth, to the
Frolic.

Assistant Engineers—James Turner and Charles Roe
buck to the Royal George.

Midshipmen:-H. D.-Grant and A. M. Norman, to
the Royal George ' • G. J. Jermain, to the Frolic.
Naval Cadet N. B. Smith to the Royal George.
Clerks—Edward W. Gordon (1851), from the Monarch,
84, guard-ship, at Sheerness, to the Frolic ; Edmund A.
Rowe (1848), from the Archer, 14, screw steam-sloop, at
Leith, to the Monarch, vine Gordon ; Edward D. Her-
bert (1848), from the Vestal, 26, on the North America
and West Indies statism, to the Fisgard flag-ship, at
Woolwich, vice Ward ; C. W. Motherwell and W. J.
Comerford, to the Royal George ; William Thom (1846),
recently serving in the Firefly steam-vessel, on the west
coast of Africa station, to the Juno ; Edward S. Cooke
(1849), and Henry C. Davy (1850), from the Daedalus,
to the Princess Royal._

Clerks' Assistant S. G. Robinson to the Royal George.
Surgeon John J. D. Burns, M.D. (1852), Surgeon of
the Unit convict hospital-ship at Woolwich, has
rejoined from leave of absenee, having proceeded to
Edinburgh to pass the Royal College of Physicians after
the usual examination, which was satisfactory, and he
passed accordingly.
Captain Rose, deputy-governor of the convict estab-
lishment at Portland, is appointed governor to the War-
rior convict-hulk at Woolwich, and will commence his
duties here on Tuesday, November 1. He is succeeded
at Portland by Mr. W. E. Buller, Deputy-Governor of
the Defence, at this port, where he has given very great
satisfaction by unremitting attention to his arduous
duties.

One sergeant, one corporal, and 25 privates of the
Chatham division of the Royal Marines, lent some time
ago to assist in carrying on the duties of the corps at
Woolwich and Deptford, left the Dockyard station of
the North Kent Railway yesterday afternoon, on their
return to head-quarters at Chatham.
One hundred and fifty men, in addition to the eighty
privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines,
have received orders to hold themselves in readiness for
immediate service.
The whole of the officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines
doing duty at Deptford have been ordered to return to
head-quarters here on Monday next. A detachment of
the Foot Guards, from London, will arrive at Deptford,
on Monday, to do duty at the dockyard, in the room of
the Royal Marines.

OCT. 30.

The Rhadamanthus steam store-ship, Master Com-
mander Belam, arrived at Woolwich this morning from
Devonport.
The Archer screw steam-sloop, Commander James N.
Strange, is daily expected at this port, from Leith, it is
supposed to be paid off at this port, as she has been three
years and six months in commission.
The Rifleman screw steam-ship, commissioned at this
port, is getting on very well towards the complement
of men allowed as her crew. Lieutenant Christian, her
commander, has had applications from a far greater
number of robust, healthy-looking landsmen, apparently
suitable for service at sea, than he can accommodate—a
proof that plenty of men of that description are desirous
of entering the naval service of this country,

THE SCREW FLEET.—The screw line-of-battle ships
James Watt, 91, Devonport ; Cressy, 81, Sheerness ;
Ceasar, 91, Portsmouth ; and Nile, 91, Devonport, are
the next vessels that will be ready for hoisting the pen-
dant.
SCARCITY OF ROYAL MARINES,—Such is the scarcity
of Royal Marines that the authorities have been com-
pelled to send a detachment of Foot Guards to do duty
at her Majesty's naval establishment at Deptford.