The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-08 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. Henry Richardson (1841),
and Fs antis H. Blaxall (acting), to the Caledonia, 120,
at Devonport.
Midshipman —John Packwood, to :the Excellent,
gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth.
Naval Cadet—;Walter A. Craven, to the Fisgard,
flagship, at Woolwich.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAT.—The Adventure, naval
store transport, blaster-Commander P. Wellington,
was docked as soon as the Dauntless was out, to repair
damages received in the late gales.
The masts and bowsprit of the Rodney, 92, were
got out last night. The order to haul her off for pay-
ment to-morrow has been rescinded, and she is to be
paid off alongside the dockyard.
The order for paying off the Electra, 14, Commander
F. W. P. Bouverie, has also been rescinded, that vessel
not being ready for payment so soon as to-morrow. It
is consequently postponed until Friday.
The Sappho, 12, Commander R. C. Michell, was paid
two months' wages in advance to-day, and both that
vessel and the Superb took on board their powder.
The Phoenix screw steam-sloop was taken 0.:.t to be
tried on the measured mile to-day by Captain H. T.
Austin.
Wind W.S.W., fresh breezes and cloudy.
WooLwlcir, Macs 7.—The Athol' troop-ship has
had her copper stripped off and a new description of ex-
perimental sheathing is to be substituted. She is to be
ready by the 14tbinstant, and will embark three compa-
nies of the Royal 'Artillery for a passage to Canada.
The Gladiator steam-frigate, Commander Robb, is
ordered to be paid off here on Saturday next, the 10th
instant.
The drill-sergeants of the dockyard battalion have
resumed their great gun exercises for the season. In
April next they are to be reduced to half the present
number.
CHATHAM, Mum' 6.—Captain M. F. Berkeley and
the Right Hon. Lord John llay, two Lords of the Admi-
ralty, with Mr. 11. G. Ward, Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, arrived by the twelve o'clock down train of the
Gravesend and Rochester Railway, their Lord-
ships having disembarked at the Terrace-pier,
Gravesend, from the Black Eagle Admiralty steam-
yacht. At the Rochester station their Lordships em-
harked on board the Admiral's barge, and landed atithe
Queen's-stairs of the dockyard, when a guard of honour
of the Royal Marines was in attendance, consisting of
four sergeants and 60 rank and file, with their band of
divisional columns, under command of Captain G.
Griffin, with Lieutenant G. F. Branch. On their Lord-
ships landing the guard presented arms, and the band
played " God save the Queen," and their Lordships were
received by the Captain Superintendent, Sir Thomas
Bourchier, Colonel J. Owen, Deputy Adjutant-
General of the Royal Marines; Mr. F. G. Laire, Master
Shipwright ; Mr. A. Laurie, Chief Engineer ; Cap-
tain Thomas R. Mould, officer of Royal Engineers in charge of works, and other officers
of the yard. Their Lordships, after taking a cur-
sory view of the ships in dock, proceeded to the three
new iron roofs recently erected at the east end of the
yard, of a magnitude sufficient to build first-class men-
of-war under; thence they went to the Marine Barracks,
and were there received by the commandant, Colonel
John Wright, K.H., and his staff. The whole of the
division was in readiness to be inspected, but owing to
their Lordships'
time being limited, the men were dis-
missed, and their Lordships, with Colonel Wright,
crossed the Barrack-square to the officer's mess-room,
for the purpose of making an inquiry respecting a para-
graph which appeared last week in one of the military