The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-04 00:00:00

PEMBROKE DOCKYARD,

The Cesar, two-decker, 90 guns, now building at this
dockyard, is being fitted for the reception of the screw
auxiliary power. She is far advanced, and it is said will
be launched this year, to form one of the squadron of
screw two-deckers.

The James Watt, 90, is positively to be launched this
month. Her jury gear and ballast have been sent round.
All the available force of -the dockyard is now at work
upon her in order to expedite her completion.
It is stated that another ship of the line, of equal
force with the above, is shortly to be laid down in one
of the sheds, and likewise that the lines of a first-class
frigate will soon be drawn, to be built here.

WOOLWICH, APRIL 2.

APPOINTMENTS,

Second-Master.—Alexander Brown (1847), to the
Rolla, 6, brig, making ready for commission, at Ports-
mouth.

The following appointments have taken place on the
dates undermentioned :

March 21.—Lieutenant George Mitchell (1815), to
retired commander, under the Order in Council of Janu-
ary 30, 1816.

March 23.—Lieutenants—B. Urmston (1848), to the
Queen, 116, at Devonport ; Godfrey Taylor (1852), to
the Queen ; Joseph Robinson (1849), to the Trafalgar,
120, on the Mediterranean station ; George Y. Paterson
(1841), to the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-
ship, at Portsmouth ; John K. Simcoe (1850), to the
Duke of Wellington.
Mates.—Richard Onslow (1849), Robert S. Chisholme
(1853), and Henry Berkeley (1853), to the Queen.
March 24.—Mate—Henry R. Stewart (1852), re-
cently serving in the Inflexible steam-sloop, on the
Mediterranean station, to the Espiegle, 12, at Sheerness.
Assistant-Surgeon Henry Arnot, M.D. (1846), to the
Waterloo flag-ship at Sheerness, vice Nicholas.
March 25.—Surgeon Edward Nolloth, M.D. (1845),
to the Hercules emigrant ship at Cork, vice Carey.
March 26.—Captin John Moore (1848), to the High-
flyer steam-sloop, vice Heathcote.
Lieutenants—Charles Stirling (1851), to ,the Queen ;
Alfred Young (1842), to be Agent for Mails in a con-
tract steam-vessel.

The Rifleman, 8, screw steam gun-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander Richard H. Dalton, arrived at Woolwich
to-day to be paid off, having been in commission since
October, 1848, and mostly on the Pacific station. Lieu-
tenant Dalton left England as Second-Lieutenant of her
Majesty's ship Southampton, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral
Reynolds, Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good
Hope station. On Rear-Admiral Reynolds succeeding
to the command-in-chief of the South-East Coast of
America station, he gave Lieutenant Dalton the com-
mand of the Harpy steam-tender, which he held until
appointed to command her Majesty's ship Rifleman, on
the death vacancy of Lieutenant Branch, who com-
mitted suicide by jumping overboard in the River Plate,
in a fit of temporary insanity. Both •in the Harpy and
Rifleman Lieutenant Dalton won golden opinions from
officers and men, and his leaving the former was unani-
mously regretted by every one on board, his affability
and kindness having endeared him to all.
The London, 90, Captain George R. Mundy, at Ports-
mouth, has been placed under orders to proceed to the
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Dockyard
The Mediterranean station, to join the fleet at Malta under
thecomcnylicalnodps steam
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passed
Vice-Admiral
to-day on her way up to John Penn and Son's
Deptford, to take the Melampus, 42, in wharf at
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pro-
ceed with her to Devonport, with the ow, and heavy
engines and boilers made by that firm parts of the
for the St. Jean
d'Acre, 101, recently launched at Devonport.

THE EAST INDIES AND CHINA.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew, C. 8.,
has by this time arrived at Rangoon, and superseded.
Commodore Lambert in the command in chief, with his
flag in the Winchester 50. Who will be captain, now
that Captain Loch is killed, is a question which the next
mail probably will solve—most likely Captain Shadwell,
who has been twice promoted, the intelligence from
India having passed the Admiralty commission going
out. Commander Hillyar has also been twice promoted
in the same way, so that the new admiral will have the
patronage of filling up the death vacancies. We trust
he will distribute them amongst those who have taken
the risk of creating a vacancy by the sacrifice of their
own lives.
Poor Captain Loch was a gallant officer. He was
second son of James Loch, Esq., of Drylaw, county
Edinburgh, an Advocate at the Scottish bar, and M.P.
for Kirkwall, &c., by Ann, youngest daughter of P: Orr,
Fsq. of Kincardineshire, and. nephew of Captain Fras.
Erskine Loch, R.N. His promotion in the service was
one of the most rapid. He entered the navy in February,
1826, and was a captain in August, 1841. He volun-
teered to join the expedition in China, where he acted as
extra aide-de-camp -to Sir Hugh Gough at the storming
of Chin-Kiang-Foo July 21, 1842, and was present with
Sir Henry Pottinger in his negotiations with the
natives. In the course of 1842 he published an able and
very interesting work, entitled "The Closing Events of
the War in China." In 1846 he obtained the command
of Alarm, 26, then on the West India station. In this
capacity he conducted a very spirited expedition in boats
up the River San Juan de Nicaragua (the scene of one
of Nelson's early exploits), which enabled him to adjust
the differences then existing between the British Govern-
ment and the Nicaraguan Republic, and to dictate a
treaty with that state. For this service he received from

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.
On the 30th ult., at Ardess Glebe, Lady Adam Loftilg;f,
On the Ist inst., at Cheadle, the wife of T. W. Bar b°
Esq., barrister-at-law.
OF A DAUGHTER. j
On the Ist inst., at 32 Devonshire-place, the Loaf
Sir John W. H. Anson,Bart.

MARRIED.
On the 30th ult., at Leeds, Thomas Turner Maiynea
Esq., to Catherine Esther Long, daughter of the .1"01
Lieutenant Joseph Packer, R.N., and granddaughter
late Major Simpson.
On the 30th ult., at St. Peter's, Eaton-square,
linson, Esq., surgeon, Green-street, Kent, to 01;0
Georgiana, third daughter of George F. Dick, Esq.,
Colonial Secretary at Mauritius.

DIED.
On the 6th ult., at Worthing, Barbadoes, the f„,dl
Harris, aged 22.
,ficY
On the 28th ult., at Brighton, aged 23, Hubert P.
_"101 t'
Milman, Esq., Lieutenant, R.N., fifth son of Lientew"
General Milman.
On the 28th ult., at Stonehill, Glenarm, Hill H.
Esq., A.M. T.C.D., barrister-at-law. 6.
On the Ist inst., at Cumberland place, Southamptoll'
H. Edwards, Esq. :36
On the 29th ult., at 6, Notting-hill-square, agecii
Lieut. W. S. Stratford, R.N., F.R.S.,
upwards of twenty years superintendent of the " Nauti 1
Almanack."
On the 31st ult., at 153, Piccadilly, Lieutenant-GI-8n
Cartwright, Bengal Army.

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