The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Captain William Fanshawe Martin (1824) has
been appointed commodore of the second class, to
command the Lisbon, or Channel squadron, to hoist a
broad pendant in the Prince Regent, 92. The G-31-
lant Commodore will have the following ships at

present in commision under his orders :

BAILING-VESSELS.
Ships. Guns. Men. Commanders.
Prince Regent 92 820 Commodore Martin.
Leander
Indefatigable
Thetis

STEAM VESSELS.
Guns. Men. 1.1.-?. Commanders.
60 500 450 Capt. Macdougall.
A.rr)gant
Encounter 8 173 300 Capt G. T. Gordon.
Coi.flict
Sc;6 160 420 Cow. Lord F.

This gives a force at present in commission of nine
ships, mounting 354 guns, with 3,595 officers and
men. Of the five steamers the Scourge is the only
paddle wheel vessel. The Hogue is a converted two-
ducker, the Arrogant is an auxiliary screw-frigate.
All are fully manned and ready for service, with the
exception of the Indefatigable, fitting at Devonport.
The Prince Regent and Thetis are on their way to
Lisbon from the M-diterranean, and the Leander is
on her way to Lisbon from Portsmouth. The Rogue,
Arrogant, and Encounter are already at Lisbon, and
the Conflict and Scourge are about to sail thither from
Portsmouth and Devonport. The above will form a
very useful and, no doubt, under Commodore Martin's
command, a very effi:.Aent and powerful squadron.
Commander James A. St. Lager (1848) has been
appointed to study steam at Woolwich.
The senior commander, William Bambara Rider

, .
(1806), died on the 11th inst. This gallant old officer
entered the navy in 1781, as A.B. in the Crocodile.
As a lieutenant he is said to have served in the
Diadem, in Hotham's first partial action, March 14,
1795, and in the Aigle he was wrecked near Tunis,
July 18, 1791. During the taco or three years
which succeeded his promotion to the rank of com-
mander, Jan. 22, 1806, he served at home in the Sea
Pencibles and in the Galykheid, 64, Captain Isaac
‘Voolley; Otter, sloop, Captain John Davies (a) ;
and Antelope, 50, flag ship of Sir W. Sydney Smith.
He subsequently commanded the Gorgon, 44, and for
a long time the Challenger, sloop, on the home and
West India stations. On Nov. 20, 1810, he lost his
commission by the sentence of a court-martial, for
returning home with dispatches from the Lieutenant-
' Governor of Curacoa without having obtained the
previous authority of the naval commander-in chief
at Jamaica ; but the Court, feeling strongly that in
the commission of this offence against professional
etiquette he had been misled by error of judgment,
arising from the best motives for the welfare of his
King and country, earnestly recommended him to
the favourable consideration of the Admiralty. He
was in consequence restored to his former rank in
March, 1811 ; he has since been on half-pay. He
was in receipt of the Greenwich out-pension.
Commander William Hall (1814) died on the 9s.h
instant, at St. Servan, in France, and his son, Mr.
Henry Hall, died the same day, aged 21 years. Com-
mander Hall, since his first entry in the navy, in
December, 1797, served on full pay seventeen years.
In the Boadicea, 38, he witnessed, July, 1799, the
attack made by Rear-Admiral Pole on a Spanish
squadron lying in Aix Roads, and was in the Superb
in Sir James Saumarez's action off Algesiraz and
Cadiz, He was made a Lieutenant in 1807. While
in the Superb he was earnestly recommended fur his
exertions in a battery before Flushing, and when
belonging to the Ti rneraire, 98, and the Atlas, 74, had
charge of the Bouncer brig at the defence of Cadiz,
where he was severely wounded. As a Commander
he commanded the Sabine and Jalouse sloops on the
Halifax and Jamica stations.
COAST GUARD.—Commander Charles Spry Norman
to be inspecting Commander of the Scilly District,
vice Commander Hall, previously removed ; Lieute-
nant 'William Hay, to command the Tetney Station ;
Lieutenant Archer Prose, to command the Greystones
Station, vice Lieutenant Turner, appointed to revenue
cutter Lively.