The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

Air.

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- +52.0
Minimum —51.0
Mean --1.58
ROBERT

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 24.

The Horatio, 24 guns, training ship, Commander
Robert Jenner.—The seamen and boys under training
for the service are now sent out in the Lizard steam
vessel every week for gun and general exercise, cruising
between the Nore and the Mouse. A target being
placed at a distance of 600 yards from mid-channel, the
boys are engaged as helmsmen, leadmen, and captains of
the gun (an 18-pounder) in turn ; their progress in
gunnery is the admiration of their officers ; on repeated
occasions the target has been carried away by the second
shot laid by the boy gunners. Such is their proficiency
that it has been found advantageous to give some of the
More intelligent boys a number of other boys, who are
entirely drilled in their various exercises by them ; this
is found to produce in most of the boys a strong desire
to make themselves fully competent to fill the same
office at the earliest period possible. All the new raised
seamen in this ship have been sent away to Portsmouth
in the Fearless steam vessel, to be put on board ships in
commission at that port.

The Monarch, 84, guard ship of ordinary, Captain
Charles Hope.—All the seamen available for continuous
and general service who were serving on board this ship
have been draughted for service in ships commissioned
and in commission at Portsmouth ; they have left here
in the Fearless steam-vessel.

The Boscawen, 70, guardship of ordinary, at Chat-
ham, Captain Peter Richards.—All the seamen available
for continuous and general service have- been sent
round to Portsmouth, as in the case of the Monarch and
Horatio.

It is reported that in consequence of some of the ships
having taken their departure from Portsmouth, all the
men sent r•und from this port in the Fearless will return
again to their respective ships.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 24.
APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Hastings R. Yelverton (1843), to the Arro-
gant, 47, screw steam-frigate of 360 horse power, vice
Captain Stephen G. Fremantle, appointed to command
the Victoria and Albert Royal steam yacht.
Lieutenants.—Henry Christian (1849), to the Rifle-
man screw steam-sloop, commissioned this day, at Wool-
wich ; Charles Edward Stevens (1853), to the London,
90, at Devonport ; A. J. Innes (1853), to the Diamond,
28, at Sheerness ; Cowper P. Coles (1846), to be Fla..-
Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.8.,
K.C.H., and to the Agamemnon, 91, flag-ship, at Ports-
mouth, preparing for the Mediterranean station.
Master Charles A. Cleveland (1852), from the Cruiser,
screw steam•sloop, to the Juno, 26, at Chatham.

Paymaster Frederick Cleeve (1848), to be Secretary
to Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons and the Agamem-
non flagship.

PROMOTIONS.

Commanders.—Nicholas Lefebvre (1838), at present
in command of the Dasher steam-vessel, and employed
in surveying the Channel Islands ; William Edmonstone
(1841), of the St. George, 120, guardship of ordinary at
Devonport ; Lord William Crompton (1842), in com-
mand of the Modeste, 18, on the Mediterranean station ;
and Henry R. Foote (1845), to the rank of captain.
Lieutenants.—Augustus J. Burton (1841) ; Henry
Croft (1841), first lieutenant of the Ajax screw steam-
guardship ; Henry Temple (1841) ; Alexander C. Gor-
don (1842), first lieutenant of the Sans Pareil screw
steam-ship ; and Francis J. Diggens (1842), to be com-
manders.

Mates.— George Todd (1848), first mate of the Albion,
90, on the Mediterranean station ; Arthur Bagley
(1S48), first mate of the Sampson, paddle-wheel steam-
frigate, on the Mediterranean station ; George William
Packenham Edwardes (1850), serving in the Linnet, 8,
brig, on the West Coast of Africa station • George
Blakeley (1850), acting lieutenant in the Volcano steain-
sloop, on the West Coast of Africa station ; Thomas
Stackhouse (1850), first mate of the Britoznart, 8, brig,
on the West Coast of Africa station ; Sackville William
Henniker Thompson (1850), mate, serving in the Pen-
guin, 6, brig, on the Cape of Good Hope station ; Wil-
liam Ebrington Gordon (1850), first mate of the Virago,
6, paddle-wheel steam sloop, on the Pacific station ;
Richard Carter (1850), serving in the Furious, 16, pad-
dle-wheel steam frigate, on the Mediterranean station ;
Thomas Lehunte Ward (1850), serving in the Leander,
50 ; Louis Hutton Versturme (1850), first mate of the
Hogue, 60, screw steam guardship ; William Henry
Wright (1850), Henry Needham Knox (1851), serving
in the Virago steam sloop ; Charles Edward Stevens
(1851), first mate of the London, 90 ; Arthur John Innes
(1851), first mate of the Agamemnon, 91, screw steam
skip ; Charles Edward Standish (1851), serving in the
Bonetta, 3, brigantine, on the south-east coast of Ame-
rica station ; Henry Hamilton Beamish (1851), serving
in the Excellent, gunneryship at Portsmouth, and Wil-
liam Naper Cornewall (1851), to be lieutenants.
Lieutenant Snow, one sergeant, one corporal, and 25
privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines left
their barracks shortly after 1 o'clock to-day, and were
played by the band of the division to the dockyard,
North Kent Railway station, for conveyance by railway
to Strood, en route to join the Juno, 26, at Chatham,
for service on the Australian and New Zealand station.