The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-08 00:00:00

We have the greatest satisfaction in giving 4currency
to an official announcement to the effect that 11 (r. Engle-
due, the able and indefatigable superintendeot of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co rapany's
establishment and fleet at Southampton, has been
restored to the rank he formerly held in the Royal' ser-
vice—a lieutenant in the navy. This officer had se.rved
long and honourably in various ships. He had worked
out his promotion, after much arduous service as mate,
to the rank of lieutenant—he had recommendations frd.za
all his superior officers, (Sir Watkin 0. Pell, Sir Charles
Napier, Sir Thomas Hastings, Sir Richard Grant, and
Rear-Admiral Corry amongst the number), and good
wishes from his messmates ; he continued to serve as &-
lieutenant in various ships ' • taught himself the science of
naval gunnery, was one of the first officers of the Ex-
cellent establishment, and went to other ports to initiate
other ships' companies. At length, when he saw so
many juniors of inferior claims being daily promoted`
Mr. Engledue naturally looked for his advancement as
the reward of his long, faithful, and valuable afloat ser-
vices, and accordingly applied for it.
Mr. Engledue, however, was too valuable a man in
those days to be any other than a first lieutenant, and so
he continued on the list without promotion. Opportu-
nities, however, very soon offered to Lieutenant Engle-
due to better his condition—a richer, if not a more
honourable, prospect opened to him in the service of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company. Mr. Engledue was
offered a command of one of their best steamers, and
without waiting for the sanction of the Admiralty, he
accepted it. But the Admiralty determined not to lose
sight of so excellent an officer, and ordered him to join
a man-of-war. Mr. E. respectfully deprecated the ap-
pointment to a lieutenant's position, seeing that he had
earned his rank, and begged for leave, but their lord-
ships were inexorable; and, we believe, more for example
than from any strong feeling against him, struck him dff
the list.
Mr., then Captain, Engledue, with the commiseration
of all his friends, pursued his career in the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's service ; and after commanding
ships in the Mediterranean, and filling responsible posts
in Egypt and India, he returned some years ago
to Southampton, and succeeded the late Lieutenant
Kendal, as the company's superintendent. But though
separated from the Royal Navy by a cruel and hasty ex-
cision, it was impossible for him to forget the service in
which he was cradled, and in which he founded his repu-
tation as a seaman and an officer ; and he naturally
looked forward to the time when justice would be done
to his merits and his claims, and he would again be en-
iel*ted.ttrinok upowlrinwen4irßoyal naval officer. The
day has come at last, and we are quite sure a greater act
of justice was never performed than this restoration.
We know not whether we may attribute the restora-
tion to the old or the new board, but whichever it may
be, it has earned the thanks of hundreds of good men,
and the measure will have an effect on the steam-packet
mail service, which will bear good fruit to the nation
should an emergency arise for the services of so valuable
an auxiliary as the mail contract steam force. If the
Duke of Northumberland has had any hand in it, we
may remark that this one good act will silence many a
reflection, and it will be hailed as a mark of generous
appreciation of the services of a hard-working but ne-
glected brother officer. If the restoration is one of Sir
James Graham's first official acts, it will be regarded as an
augury of good, which will go far to remove the feeling
of uneasy apprehension which at present exists in the
navy at the changes at the Admiralty. We cannot help
thinking that Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8,5 of the
past as well as the present board, must have helped the
restoration, for no one will doubt that, if his promotion
was rapid, he is fully capable of estimating, as he is ever
anxious to reward, the ability of those who had not his
good luck. Moreover, the gallant admiral was a good
dockyard superintendent, and if he ever visited South-
ampton he must have been struck with the efficient and
admirable superintendence of Captain Engledue, for
there he was port admiral, admiral superintendent, store-
keeper, accountant, and harbour-master, shipwright,
joiner, Custom-house agent, and everything else ; and
working cordially with the superintendent engineer, Mr.
Lamb, he conducted the business of the great company
to which he was attached with that system, order, regu-
larity, dispatch, and economy, which cannot be sur-
passed. These services were naturally a recommendation
to Vice-Admiral Parker, as we know they were to his
predecessor, Vice-Admiral Dundas. Again, the restora-
tion of such a man is what might be expected from Sir
Phipps Hornby, Sir Thos. Herbert, Captain Duncombe,
and Captain Milne, and if these had little voice in the
matter, then we cannot help thinking that it was to
Admiral Berkeley's generous assistance that Captain
Engledue owes his recovered rank. Admiral Berkeley
is a gunnery officer, and he must have been well
acquainted with Lieutenant Engledue's gunnery
services. Admiral Berkeley was a member of the com-
mittee on the steam navy, and he must have admired the
open, manly, frank, and intelligent evidence of Mr.
Engledue, and the officer-like and practical suggestions
which he made for converting the mercantile steam-ves-
sels into auxiliary squadrons, for the purposes of war on
an emergency. Moreover, Admiral Berkeley has given
a great deal of attention to the condition of the seamen,
and to the question of manning the navy, and he could
not be ignorant of Captain Engledue's success in man-
ning the Peninsular and Oriental Company's powerful •
fleet with the best seamen in the world, and that he has
in the course of the last four or five years contributed
largely towards manning the ships of the Royal Navy ;
and not only that, but at his own expense, he
commenced a system of training the packet-service men
to the use of ships' guns, and created amongst them such
a feeling of regard for the Royal service as to enable
him to answer for their services in the event of hostilities.

On all grounds, and from any hands, then, we accept
the restoration olLieutenant Engledue to the Navy List
as a mark of justice to neglected claims—as an indication
of an improved feeling among the rulers of the navy to-
wards officers of what we may call the auxiliary service;
and further, we hail the act as a step in that necessary
" progress" towards consolidating the naval strength of
this great maritime country. We heartily trust that
the next step after the restoration will be the long-earned
promotion of Lieut. Engledue to the rank of com-
mand er. —Morning 'Jerald.

The new Board of Admiralty entered upon their du-
ties at Whitehall yesterday.
We hear that Captain O'Brien will be succeeded as
private secretary to the First Lord, by Captain Graham,
of the Royal Artillery.
Some surprise is felt that the Ajax, 58, screw guard-
ship, at Queenstown, has not yet filled up her comple-
ment, from 250 to 500. She has been at Queenstown
now about six weeks, and has only entered 100 blue
jackets. We used to get a good supply of boys and men
from the Irish coast.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.
Notwithstanding the wind got up to N.N.W. last
evening, and the stars looked unusually bright, the
wind backed again to the southward at four a.m., this
day, and commenced a gale which lasted till three p.m.,
cutting off all communication with the shore, and at in-
tervals raining a perfect deluge.
Bulldog, 6, steam-sloop, went out of harbour at 10 a.m.,
and continued under steam until one p.m., when she re-
turned, having had ample opportunity of testing her
powers against so fierce a gale.
Simoom, 18, iron-screw steam troop-frigate, Captain
Kingcome, will go out of harbour at daylight to-morrow
morning (Saturday), direct for Cork.
Medea, 6, steam-sloop, Commander J. C. Bailey, was
taken into No. 1 South Dock, this day.
Termagant, screw-frigate, was towed up the harbour
by Echo, steam-tug, and placed near Leopard, 14, pad-
dle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain Gifford.
Fury,te 6,
steam-basin to-morrow
steam-sloop, Co
(Saturday)mmander
Tatham,to have will come
oome
into h
her
boilers repaired, &c.
The launch of the after-body of the Marlborough, 130,
screw line-of-battle ship, will not take place. before Tues-
day or Wednesday, although every exertion has been
used by the parties at work upon her. •

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.
Desperate, 8, Captain W. Chambers, and Argus, 6,
Commander Purvis, are ordered to be taken into dock to
have their coppers examined and repaired.
Mr. Scott Russell, the builder of the Australian mail
steam-ship, Adelaide, lately repaired at the dockyard,
tuts presented 10/. to the Royal Dockyard Female Orphan
Asylum.
The steam-vessel Marten, from Southampton for Spain,
put in here last night, short of fuel.

SHEERN , A.N. 7.
A now screw steam-corvette is to be laESidS doJwn here
immediately after launch of the screw steam-frigate Tri-
bune, of 30 guns, which will take place on the 11th of
this month. She is ordered to be laid from the lines of
the screw steam-frigate Highflyer, of 21 guns, with an
extension of beam.
The screw steam-frigate Tribune will, immediately after
being launched, be towed from here to Woolwich for the
purpose of being fitted with her engines and machinery.
She is to he fitted with Messrs. Penn's new trunk en-
gines. Previous to her leaving here she will receive on
board two of her sea-going bower anchors and cables.
The contractor for beef is now daily victualling for
this port and fort, including Chatham, 10.000 men—e
viz., army 7,000, navy 3,000. The new contract h for t
navy was completed yesterday by Mr. Trott, butcher,
Chatham.

WOOLWICH, JAN• 7•

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APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant J. R. Engledue is restored to the list of
Lieutenants in the Royal Navy. 8491
Assistant-Surgeons.—William F.
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steam-frigate at Woolwich. ,
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period of the present year as possible.
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A large opening has been made '
where the Royal Albert, 120, in the roof of the slip
for the purpose of allowing the is
fi building at Woolwich
The opening made for the fi figure-head to be put up
when she was built, on figure-head of the Trafalgar- *
enough for the the same slip, was not large
great
Royal Albert,the Projection of the figure-head
latter re-head of the
and of considerably vessel being also much
greater tonnage, than longer,
the Trafalgar.