The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Rodney, 92, Captain
E. Collier, C. 8., arrived to-day, at noon, from Ply-
mouth, to be paid off. If possible, she will be brought
into the harbour to morrow, to save the spring tides.
Her pay books have been sent up from Plymouth, so
that no unnecessary delay will occur to prevent her being
paid off. Tho Rodney exhibits the features of a once
perfect line-of• battle ship converted into a bad ono at
the expense of 10,000 L—a melancholy fact for the Liver-
pool quorum to dilate upon. This was one of the long
emelt gue of freaks which rendered so notorious the reign
of the ex-Surveyor of the Navy.
The Diligence, naval transport, came into the harbour
on Friday night, to discharge stores.
The Arrogant, 46, auxiliary screw steam• frigate, was
undocked yesterday. She is quite ready for commission.
There will be little or nothing f,,r her crew to do. On
the 2d of March she will hoist the pendant.
The Sappho, 12, Commander R. C. Michell was docked
yesterday, as soon as the Arrogant was removed, to
have her copper cleaned.
The Driver steam-sloop, Commander C. R. Johnson,
received her sailing orders this morning. She will
leave for Valparaiso on the Ist of March. Ail persons
wishing to transmit goods for officers or men of the
Brazils and Pacific squadrons, or to communicate by
letter, had better have such matters lodged at the office of
the ommander-in-Chief here by Tuesday or Wednes-
day at latest.

Wind, S.S.W.; moderate and hazy, with heavy showers
of rain.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 24.—The Flamer steam-vessel,
when tried yesterday down the river, was found to make
an average speed of 81 knots per hour, and her engines
having worked satisfactorily, she is reported ready for
sea. The Torch is also reported as in excellent working
order.

The Atboll troop-ship, Master Commander Rawstone,
was towed from Long Reach to Woolwich to-day by the
Monkey steam-vessel, and landed Captain Savage's com-
pany, Ist battalion Royal Artillery, from Barbsdoes, and
Captain Fisher's company, 6th battalion, from Jamaica,
at the dockyard in the afternoon, and they shortly after
marched to the garrison.
The Otter steam-vessel has bee❑ ordered round from
Portsmouth to Woolwich, and the Adder from Chatham
to this port.

Commodore Henry Eden resumes his duties as Super-
intendent of Woolwich Dockyard on Monday next.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 24.—A court-martial will be held
on board the San Josef, in Hamoaze, on Monday, for the
purpose of trying Commander John J. Palmer, the late
captain of the Mutine, 12, and the other officers of that
ship, which was lost in the Mediterranean in the month
of December last. The officers and men belonging to
the Mutine have been drafted out of the Rodney for the
purpose of this investigation. Their sufferings are
stated to have been ♦ery severe. The trial will, no
doubt, last the whole of Monday, and may extend over
that day. Commander John J. Palmer was promoted in
1847. lle was officially noticed when mate of the Corn-
wallis, at the capture of Chin-Kiang .Foo, in 1842.
Ships in Harbour—the Impregnable, 104, Cap-
tain Sir Thomas Maitland, with the flag of
Admiral Sir IL Gage ; Agincourt, 72, Captain
Mends, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Louis;
Caledonian, 120, Captain T. W. Carter; Nautilus, ten-
der to the Impregnable, Crane, and Linnet packets,
Rattler steam-sloop, and Confiance steam-tug. I❑
Barnpool : Racer steam-sloop. In the Sound : the
Rodney.
The Atholl troop-ship, Master Commander Rawstone,
was towed from Long Reach to Woolwich to. day by the
Monkey steam•vessel, and landed Captain Savage's
company Ist battalion Royal Artillery, from Barhadoes,
and Captain Fisher's company 6th battalion, from Ja-
maica, at the dockyard, in the afternoon, and they
i•hortly after marched to the garrison.

The Otter steam-vessel has been ordered round from
Portsmouth to Woolwich, and the Adder from Chatham
to this port.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieut. Robert B. Harvey (1841), additional, to the
Hibernia flag-ships in the Mediterranean; Lieut. John
Stephens (1641), to the Sappho, sloop, at Portsmouth, as
first lieutenant; Lieut. George S. Taylor (1341), to com-
mand a station in the Coast-Guard service; Lieutenant
Grorge William Tomlin (1827), of the revenue cutter
Harpy, to command Bembridge station in the Coast-
Guard service, vice Willcox; Lieut. Robert Willcox
(1842), to command the Harpy cutter, in the Coast-
Guard service, vice Tomlin, resigned ; Lieutenant
Alexander R. B. Carter, to command St. Alban's Head
station, in the Coast-Guard service, vice D'Esterre,
removed.

MATES.—B. G. W. Nicolas, to the Caledonia, 120, at
Plymouth; J. Ward to the Trincomalee corvette, on the
West India station.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SQUADRON.

By the Peninsular packet we have intelligence from
Sir C. Napier's squadron at Gibraltar, to the 17th inst.,
six days later than that brought by the Rodney, Captain
llacros.

The St. Vincent, 120 ; Powerful. 84, Captain Hon. R.
S. Dundas, 0.13.; Vanguard, 80, Captain Rich; Harle•
quin 12, Commander Soymour; Sidon, 12, steam-frigate,
Captain Henderson, C. 8.; Gladiator, 8, steam-frigate,
Captain Robb; Stromboli, 6, steam sloop, Commander
Lord A. W. Beauclerk; Polyphemus, 4, steam-sloop,
Commander Crawford; Reynard, 10, screw-sloop, Com-
mander Craroft ; Plumper, 12, screw-sloop, Commander
Nolloth; and Rifleman, 8, screw gun-vessel, Lieut.-
Commander Craton.

The boats of the squadron had been frequently exer-
cised, and brigades of seamen and marines had been
landed and exercised on shore, under their respective
officers.
The Prince Regent, 90, Captain W. F. Martin, left
for Malta in very efficient order on the 11th.
The Orestes sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, to re-
lieve the Nimrod, on the 16th.
The Gladiator had arrived from Malta, on her way to
Portsmouth and Woolwich to be paid off:
The Stromboli was to have lett next day, with dis-
patches for Spithead, respecting the Morocco. affair,
which it was understood had been definitively settled by
an award of a sum of money, by arbitration.
The Sidon brought over Mr. Drummond Hay, the
Vice-Consul at Tangier, on the 9th, and the Polyphemus
retuned with her.