The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, AUG. 2.
Commander Woliige, of the Inflexible, after a painful
illness, is no more. His state of health was sufficientatly
alarming to give uneasiness to his friends, but the fatal
termination was not anticipated so suddenly. Removed
from the ship when she went into dock to make good
the repairs necessitated by being run into by a brig she
had in tow a few days before (e Inflexible having
taken the ground off the Barber's Point), he survived
but a few days.
Vice-Admiral Dundas has filled up the vacancy by
appointing his First-Lieutenant, George. O. Popplewell,
to the rank of Commander, and giving to his mate, Mr.
Henderson, the commission of Lieutenant.
H. E. L. P. ailey, clerk of te Albion, has received
an acting appoißntment of Purserh to the Furious steam-
frigate.
fhe fleets of England and France are still at anchor
in the Bay of Besika. " Our only amusement," says a
private letter, " consists of fishing and shooting. Never
was there a duller or more stupid place—hot, unhealthy,
uninteresting. I wish we could only get away."
The Triton has gone up to the fleet. She left us on
Saturday evening with dispatches from England, re-
ceived by the Indus and Sultan, vitt Southampton and
Marseilles.
Lieutenant W. It. Bent, of the Vengeance, died yes-
terday morning in the hospital at Bighi. The brave
fellow received his promotion quite recently for his gal-
lantry in an action with a slaver off Lagos.

PEMBROKE, AUG. 8.
Her Majesty's .hip Ceesar was last evening, after re-
peated trials, sent afloat. The camels, which were con-
structed to carry about 1,800 tons, were placed under
her on Saturday morning, and on Saturday evening, by
dint of great exertions, she was moored astern about
10 feet, and then she stopped. She was tried again on
Sunday morning, when she moved about 38 feet more,
but so great was the strain on the new 18-inch cable
which was used in heaving her, off that it broke like a
piece of packthread. On Sunday evening a heavy strain
was hove on everything, and, as the tide rose, she
started, and finally was hauled off at 20 minutes past
6 o'clock. The injury done to her is but trifling ; her
sheer, which was rather hogged, has now gone back to
its original shape. She will be taken into dock on
Tuesday morning, to be rigged and sent to have her
engines put on board.

WOOLWICH, AUG. 8.
APPOINTMENTS.
Captain Richard Burridge (1846) to be Flag Captain
to Rear-Admiral David Price, who will hoist his flag on
the President, 50, commissioned on Saturday last at
Chatham. She will proceed to the Pacific, to relieve
the Portland, 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Moresby,
C. 8., on that station.
Surgeon James J. L. Donnet (1845) to the President.
Assistant-Surgeon William B. C. Christy (1846) to
the President.
Clerk Charles W. Tuke (1848) to the President.
Au G. 9.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant Samuel 0. Wooldridge (1837), to be agent
for mails in a contract steam-vessel.
Mate —Thomas T. Phillips (1852), recently serving
in the Hastings, 72, when on the East India station, to
the Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth.
Second Master. - George H. Allen (1851), to the Pre-
sident, 50, at Chatham.
Naval Cadet.—H. W. Rocbf9rt, to the President.
Captain Henry Broadhead 1.846), and Commander
William H. Gennys (1853), I ave been appointed to
study steam at the factory at Woolwich Dockyard.
It is the general impression here that Captain Peter
Richards, C. 8., at present Catauperintendent at
Chatham Dockyard, will succeed Commodore-Superin-
tendent Henry Eden, at Woolwich Dockyard, in No-
vember next, when his five years' service in that respon-
sible charge is completed.
Commodore Henry Eden will proceed to Portsmou w
othf
to-morrow, by railway, to be present at the revie
the fleet at Spithead on Thursday.
The Zephyr steam-vessel was placed under the charge
of Master-Commander Henry William Allen, ofoolwic the
Lightning steam-vessel, yesterday, and left Wh
this forenoon, having on board Lieutenant Robertson,
of the steam department afloat, and Mr. M‘Donald,
Master-Attendant at this dockyard, to be in attendance
• at the naval review on Thursday.
t The Alban steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich on
Saturday from the West Indies station, and was tak her
n
into the basin yesterday, preparatory to having
stores delivered over, so as to be ready to be paid off on
Saturday next.

THE LATE ATTACK UPON MR. ,CROMPTON, AT MAN
CIIESTER,—We have already given an account of an out-
rage committed by turn-outs at the dyeworks of Messrs.
Crompton and Co., Pendleton, near Manchester, when
Mr. Crompton, the senior partner of the firm. and some
of his men, were seriously assaulted. A man named
Boyle had been examined, charged with being concerned
in the outrage, but was remanded. Three other men,
whose names are William Coyle, John Hill, of Salford,
and John Hill, of Pendleton, were on Monday examined
before the county magistrates, at the New Bailey, Sal-
ford, charged with being concerned in the outrage. Mr.
Crompton, whose head was bound up, and who appeared
to have suffered much from the treatment he re-
ceived, spoke to the attack made on him byr the
turn-outs, and said they had krocked him down
and beat him very severely. He escaped down a
passage, and took refuge in an outhouse, but the door
was burst open, and he was struck on the forehead with
a stick by a tall man, who had not been apprehended.
Boyle was yesterday identified as having taken part i
the outrage, and evidence was given implicating Hill,
of Salford, and Coyle. A surgeon deposed to the Mr. W severe
injuries which Mr. Crompton had received. .
P. Roberts, who appeared for the defendants, endea-
voured to induce the magistrates to discharge Coyle and
Hill, of Pendleton, on the ground that the evidence
against them was not satisfactory. Some exculpatory
evidence, tending to show that Hill, of Pendleton, did
not take any actual part in the assault, was offered, and
he was discharged ; but the magistrates decided upon
committing the other three prisoners for trial at the as-
sizes. The court, however, said that they might be ad-
mitted to bail.
MISAPPLICATION OF WORDS BY FOREIGNERS. —The
misapplication of English words by foreigners is often
very ludicrous. A German friend saluted us once with,
" Oh, good bye, good bye,"—meaning of course " How
d'ye do." It is said that Dr. Chalmers once entertained
a distinguished guest from Switzerland, whom he asked
if he would be helped to kippered salmon. The foreign
divine asked the meaning of the uncouth word kippered,
and was told that it meant 2».eserved. The poor man in
a public rayer soon after offered a petition that the dis-
, tinguishepd divine might long be " kippered to the Free
1 Church of Scotland. '