The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.

The Serpent, 12, Commander (acting) Edward H. G.
Lambert, arrived at Spithead at 1 o'clock to-day from
the Pacific station. She was commissioned in 1849 for
service on the East India and China station. During

her sojourn on those waters she shared in the operations
in the Rangoon River. At the close of these she went
4, on the China station, and thence to Australia, and pas
had a lengthened voyage, if not "round the world,' at
all events over a most important and extensive portion
of it. She sailed from Hong Kong towards the end of
1852 ; touched at the Bashee Islands on the 18th of
November of that year ; touched at Bonin Islands on
the 15th of December ; Strongo Island on the 12th of
January, 1853 ; Wanderer's Bay, Solomon Islands, on
the Bth of February ; Gery Islands on the 15th of
March ; Delhi, Timour Islands, on the 29th of March ;
Copang, Timour, on the 4th of April ; Port Essington,
Australia, on the 19th of April ; Swan River, on the 2d
of June ; Albany, King George's Sound, on the 9th of
June ; Sydney, July the 26th ; Auckland, New Zea-
land, August the 14th ; Valparaiso, the 13th of Octo-
ber ; and Stanley (Falkland Islands), November the 6t1.1
last. She did iot sight land after leaving Stanley until
last night, when she approached the Needle rocks, off
the Isle of Wight. She reports the Thetis, 40, Cap-
tain Kuper, C. 8., having sailed from Valparaiso,
for Spithead, touching at Rio, on the 11th of Octo-
ber last, with a freight of $1!000,000 on board on mer-
chants' account. Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8., Com-
mander-in-chief in the Pacific, in the Portland, 50, Cap-
tain H. Chads,
was at Valparaiso when the Serpent
mailed' just received theintelligence of
being
and has to-day
succeeded in the command by Rear-Admiral Price,
n the President, 50 (now well on her way to the station).
The Dido, 18,
Captain Moorshed, was at Pitcairn's
Island, whence she was to visit the Mexican coast to
collect freight for England. The following are the officers
who have come home in the Serpent :—Lieutenants
Campbell and Gammell, from Australia ; the Rev. Jas.
Moody, colonial chaplain at the Falkland Islands ; and
Mr. Johnstone, a private gentleman from Australia. A
few invalids from her Majesty's ships on the Australian
station have also come home in her. The Serpent went
on a, searching expedition at the Solomon Islands in re-
ference to Mr. Boyd, whose loss excited so much public
interest some time since, but she gleaned no tidings of
his fate. The natives of the regions searched appeared
in numbers, armed with spears, and, as no one on board
could interpret between the explorers and the natives,
the result, as may be readily anticipated, was fruitless.
The Serpent, having been so long in commission, will
now be paid off. Lieutenant Hammett (first) was in
command of the Serpent during her voyage amone. the
Australian Islands, and from the time of Commander
Luard (now of the Boscawen) being invalided until Lieu-
tenant Lambekt (son of Commodore Sir George Lambert,
K.C.8., of the Fox) joined her as acting commander.
The Banshee steam despatch-vessel, Lieutenant-Co.m-
mander Reynolds, arrived at this port this morning from
the eastward, and came into harbour. She will leave
to-morrow evening for the Mediterranean, conveying
despatches to the British admirals in the Dardanelles or
Black Sea. Captain Brock, appointed additional captain
of the flag-ship Britannia, goes out in the Banshee; as
does, we believe, Lieutenant-Colonel Vicars, R.E., and
three other engineer officers, who are to be associated
with him on the "particular service" for which Captain
frock has been appointed.
The Frolic, 16, Commander Nolloth, is manned, with
the exception of half-a-dozen artificers and a mate. She
awaits the arrival of her consort, the Juno, at Spithead.
A waterman, named Lane, was convicted at Gosport,
on Saturday, of attempting to vend spirits to the crew of
this vessel, contrary to the stipulations of a recent act of
Parliament, which enables officers commanding her Ma-
jesty's ships to prosecute all persons suspected
ofintro-
ducing 'pinta into her Majesty's ships without the per-
mission of the commanding officer.
The Simoom, 18, troop steam-frigate, Captain Smith,
came into harbour this morning from Spithead, to dis-
embark the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bullar, and a detach-
ment of Royal Artillery. The latter landed to-day, and
the Rifles will land to-morrow.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 10.

APPOINTMENTS,

Mate—John Swinburne (1353) to the Boscawen, 70,
at Chatham, fitting to serve as flag-ship to Rear-Admiral
Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., in the room of the Cumberland,
70, on the North America and West Indies station.

Clerk in Charge Henry W. Death (1850), who went
to the West Coast of Africa station in the Pluto, paddle-
wheel steam-vessel, and is at present acting as paymaster
of the Philomel, 8, sloop, on that station, is confirmed
to be paymaster of the Philomel.

Master's Assistant—Charles Williams, to the Eury-
alus, 50, screw steam-frigate, at Chatham.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander
John Petley, has been taken out of dock, as it was
ascertained, on examining her bottom, that she had not
sustained the slightest injury when she touched a sand-
bank near the Nore.

The Vivid, Dover mail steam-packet, Capt. Smithett,
left Woolwich this morning for Dover, to resume "her
duties on that station.

Tho Banshee steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Louis R. Reynolds, when she went down the river yes-
terday, did not remain at Greenhithe, but held on direct
for Portsmouth, to take onboard the officers going to
Constantinople in her. A portion of furniture for Rear-
Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons arrived at Woolwich in the
afternoon of the day she left, but being too late, it will
have to wait until another opportunity occurs of sending
it to the gallant officer.

The Turkish war steamer Wasintaj, the Turkish name
of the vessel, went up the river to-day 'to be taken into
the East India Dock, to have new boilers put in by
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, the firm that originally
fitted her with engines and boilers.
A great number of homeward-bound vessels passed up
the river to-day to discharge their cargoes at the various
docks and landing places. The river is now quite free
of ice, and the navigation is uninterrupted.
The saw-mills at Woolwich Dockyard are actively
employed in converting timber for the Edgar, 90, screw
steam-ship of the same class as the Agamemnon, and
building on the same slip from which the Agamemnon
was launched. The Edgar is progressing fast in her
construction, a considerable portion of her frame timbers
having been put together in the strongest manner. •

PROMOTIONS TO THE RESERVED LISTS.
The following officers have been promoted to their re-
spective ranks in the reserved list of June, 1851 • being
the third batch promoted to make up the complete list
of 50 reserved half-pay officers, 20 having been promoted
in 1851, ten in 1852, and ten in 1853.
To THE RANK OF CAPTAIN.
Commander Robert Sinclair Hay (1827), who entered
the navy in 1812, has served 23 years afloat. He was
made a lieutenant in 1823, and as senior of the Talbot,
28, was slightly wounded at the battle of Navarino. He
has served as inspecting commander of the Coast Guard.
Commander William Cheselden Browne (1832), ne-
phew of the late Rear-Admiral Browne, entered the
navy in 1816, and served 21 years afloat. He was
wrecked in the Carron, in the Bay of Bengal ; was made
a lieutenant in 1827, and served under Captain W. A.
B. Hamilton (now second secretary at the Admiralty)
in the destruction of several piratical vessels at Cara-
Lusa. He served as flag lieutenant to Sir John Gore,
in the East Indies. Since his promotion he has served
in the coast guard. lie married the daughter of Vice-
Admiral Linzee.

Commander Felix Edwin (1835) entered the navy in
1810, and has served actively 22 years. In the Donegal,
78, he was at the attack of the French frigates Amazone
and Eliza, protected by the several strong batteries near
Cherbourg ; was made a lieutenant in 1821 ; and was
made a commander for his gallant and intrepid conduct
in an affray with a band of smugglers on the night of
July 12, 1834. He has since served as inspecting com-
mander. _

Commander James Lamport Parkin (1837) entered
the navy in 1809, and has served 22 years afloat. He
saw some service in the expedition to Flushing, and in
blockading the French and Venetian squadrons. He
was master's mate of the Minden, 74, at the battle of
Algiers ; was made a lieutenant in 1818 ; served as first
of the Cruiser, 18, in the Swan River ; and was pro-
moted from flag-lieutenant to Sir W. Gage.
Commander Samuel Charles Timfreville (1838) en-
tered the navy in 1805, and has served afloat and ashore
35 years. His services are more distinguished than
those of any Lord of the Admiralty, and would have
obtained for him a better reward bad he been a Parker
or a Berkeley. We shall give his services to-morrow.
Commander Henry Duncan Twysden (1838) has
served 19 years afloat and ashore. He is on of Cap t.
Thomas Tw vsden,
who commanded the Pylades when
wrecked in 1794 ; and the Revolutionnaire, 38, during
the latter part of the French revolutionary war ; and is
grandson of the fourth baronet, Sir W. Twysden. He
entered the navy in 1809, and was in the Donegal at
Lord Cochrane's attack on the French fleet, in Aix
Roads, and at the attack on the French frigates near
Cherbourg, as before stated. He was made a lieutenant
in 1815, and subsequently served in a great number of
ships, including the Iphigenia, Captain Hyde Parker (a
ship as well known as the Resistance). He has served
also as inspecting commander in the coast guard.
Commander Thomas Peter Dobree (1839) entered the
navy in 1817, was made a lieutenant in 1827, and in the
Brisk, 18, was in the battle of Navarino. He served as
first lieutenant of the Pelorus, 18, Comus, 18, Larne,
18, and Volage, 28, and was promoted for his services
at Aden.

Commander William Morris (1841), has served afloat
20 years. Ile is son of the late Captain Morris. who
represented the city of Gloucester from 1805 to 1817, and
at the invasion crisis raised, and for many years sup-
ported at his own expense, a corps of Yeomanry Cavalry.
Captain Morris entered the navy in 1805, and in the
Kent, 78, was at the capture of the French frigate Le
Rhin, 44. From 1806 to 1812 he served at the blockade
of Toulon, and in an expedition against the pirates of
Basal-Kyma in the Persian Gulf. He was made a
lieutenant in 1813, and, in the Genoa, was in the battle
of Navarino. He commanded the Partridge, 10, and
capttlYed two slave vessels on the Brazilian station.
Commander Thomas Baldock (1841), late superin-
tendent of the packets at Dover, has served on full pay
25 years, having served with the fleet of Indiamen under
Commodore Dance, when he defeated the French
squadron under Admiral Linois, entered the navy
in 1806, commanded a gun-boat at the defence of
Cadiz, was senior lieutenant of the Herald, 28,
in many operations on the coast of North America
and in the expedition to New Orleans, and corn-
xnanded every detached operation at the mouth of the
Mississippi, including the capture of a privateer. Built
and commanded the Swallow packet, under the Post-
office ; commanded the Firebrand and Firefly steamers,
as packet-ships, and commanded for three years the
Snipe cutter, on the coast of Ireland.
Commander Hugh Myddelton Ellisombe (1841) has