The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

P 0 It MTU IT, UES Y . —The following officers
passed examinations at the Royal Naval College this
day, qualifying for the rank of lieutenants :—Messrs.
Hamilton, Millman, Calvert, Smith, Doran, Stupart,
Winnyett, and Whymper.
The Scout, 14, Commander Johnstone, has brought
up in Yarmouth-roads, from stress of weather. An
officer brought up her pay-books yesterday, and the
Myrtle steam tender took him back and brought up
her supernumeraries.
The Queen Indianian, a noble specimen of naval
architecture, sailed from Spithead, outward bound,
this:morning.
The Comet, Madeira packet, arrived here yester-
day, and sailed this morning for London.
The Castor, 36, Commodore Wyvill, touched at
Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, on the sth of July, and sailed
on the 6th for the Cape of Good Hope.
The Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander Schom-
berg, went out of harbour this morning to Spithead,
where she took in her ammunition, &c. She will be
inspected to-morrow, and probably sail in the evening
for Plymouth. It is supposed she will take the
advertised mails to Rio, Buenos Ayres, and Val
paraiso, intended for the Da dalus corvette, which
was announced to sail with them on the 10th, but is
prevented by her captain being a member of the
pending court-martial on Commander Pitman.
The Phoenix steam-sloop, Commander Wodehouse,
was at Madeira on the 25th ult., en route from this
port to the western coast of Africa—all well.
The Calypso, 20, Captain Worth, arrived at Rio
from Valparaiso on the 13th of July, with 2,750,000
dollars on merchants' account for England. She is
hourly expected at this port.
The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Skipwith, left
Rio on a cruise after slavers on the 12th of July.
Wind, S.W. by W.; freshbreezes and find weather.

ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY.
A detachment of about 80 gunners, under the
command of Captain Fraser, will leave head quarters
tomorrow and proceed by the South Coast Railway
to Chatham to relieve the detachment on duty there
under Captain Parke.
GARRISON APPOINTMENT.

Captain F. T. 'Maitland, on half-pay from the Roya;
Staff corps, has been appointed Town Major of Ports.
mouth garrison, vice Lysons, promoted.
DOCKYARD BATTALION.

The commissions for the officers of the Portsmouth
brigade were received on Sunday morning, and were
vngie out on Monday.

RECAPTURE OP THE CONVICT BOWER..— On the
181 of December, 1843, Joseph Bower, Thompson,
Bians, Green alias Morrell, Smith, and Burton, were all
convicted at Nottingham Assizes before Mr. Justice
Parke, of a burglary at the residence of tho Rev. R.
Meek, of Sutton-Bonington, and sentenced to be trans-
ported for life. On the evening of the 31st of the same
month, the convicts, after a desperate and bloody fight
with the keepers, effected their escape from the gaol,
and up to the present time, although the country had
been scoured in pursuit of them, four only have been
retaken, the last being the convict Bower. This fellow
for a lengthened period has been living in London, and
ultimately took up his abode in Lower Bland-street,
near Dover-road, from which place he was proceeding
on Wednesday lest to Billingsgate to buy a little fish
for dinner, when he was recognised and information
given to the police. Perceiving himself pursued,
Bower took to his heels, but he was soon caught, and
though he made great resistance was quickly secured.
Tho same evening Bradley, a policeman, dispatched a
telegraphic message to Nottingham, whence Messrs.
Barnes and Jackson set out, identified the convict, who
had given bis name as Joseph May, a blacksmith,
lately living in Devonshire, and on Friday brought him
by the last London train to his old quarters at the
county gaol. Since his arrival Bower has been gloomy
in his manner, and perfectly silent as to his late pur-
suits. The two convicts remaining at large are Smith
and Green.
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 11.--The Rus-
sian steam-frigate Kamtschatka, Admiral Von Schants,
arrived here this morning from Funchal, Madeira, where
she has conveyed his Imperial and Royal Highness the
Grand Duke de Leuchtenberg and suite, to take up his
residence during the winter months. Tho Kamtschatka
has come to this port merely for a supply of coale, after
taking on board which she will sail for Cronstadt, pro-
bably to-morrow or Thursday.
The Rio de Janeiro advices of the 14th of July
Quote the rate of exchange upon London 25 to 254; and
fee Paris, 378 to 380. The local stock was marked 87,
and freights for the Channel ruled about 455. to 505.;
and for London and Liverpool, 403. to 45g.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—An anonymous donor
has sent to the Rev. D. Coleridge, the principal of St.
Mark's Training College, at Chelsea, the large sum of
I,OOOL, with directions that it be applied to the exten-
sion of the college, to effect which great exertions have
recently been made by the Bishop of London and the
heads of he Church.