The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Gifford, left
Spithead yesterday morning for the coast of Africa sta-
tion, taking out officers, supernumerary seamen, and
marines for distribution among the squadron. On ar-
riving on the station, she will take the broad pendant of
Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., Commander-
in-Chief, from the Devastation, at present carrying it.
The Naiad coal and store-ship, for Callao, Master-
Commander Browne, sailed yesterday from Spithead for
Rio, where she vi ill discharge 50 boys for service in the
squadron under Sir Thomas Herbert : whence she pro-
ceeds to Valparaiso, where she discharges 150 boys for
the Pacific squadron. She has also 700 tons of coal on
board.

In consequence of the death of Commodore Daniel
Pring, late second in command on the North American
and West Indian station, the Commander-in-Chief,
Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Austen, K.C.8., has promoted
the following officers :—Commander O'Callagan (1841),
of the Vesuvius steam-sloop, to the rank of Captain, and
appointed him to the Imaum (Commodore's ship); Flag-
Lieutenant H. G. Austen (1841, son of the Admiral), to
the rAnk of Commander, and appointed to the Vesuvius,
vice O'Callagan ; Mr. E. W. Bridge, mate of the Vin-
dictive flag -ship,-to the rank of Lieutenant ; and Lieut.
Fletcher (1845), of the Electra, to be Flag-Lieutenant.
The same advices which contained the above, also
contained -the report of Captain O'Callagan's being so
ill from attacks of yellow fever as to be compelled to
invalid home. By the Hyacinth, which arrived here
on Friday afternoon from the above station, we learn
that the day prior to her sailing from Barbadoes
(the 9th ult.), the Hermes steam-sloop, Commander
Carr, arrived at that island with Governor Reid, from
Bermuda, who was installed -with all due ceremony as
Governor of Barbadoes. The Hermes was to sail on the
10th, with Sir Charles Grey for Jamaica, to which
island ho bad been appointed governor. The Viper
brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Hore, and the
Persian, 16, Commander Coryton, were the only men-of-
war at Barbadoes when the Hyacinth left. The Princess
Royal transport was also there, and the Vindictive flag
ship, with the Admiral, was expected early in January.
Lord Howard de Wa'den and Sir William Codrington
had arrived out in the Severn mail packet, to see to the
better management of their estates. The Hyacinth
proceeds to Sheerness where she was commissioned) to
be paid off.
The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert,
and the Constance, 50, Captain Sir B. Walker, we learn,
by private letters, parted company on the 29th of Sep-
tember, in latitude 23 deg. 44 mRo ii
In
neg r e
Plate,
qualities,
era vt where
here Thesh e Constance
shaped S., and longitude
32 deg. 40 min. W., after being together 100 days, and
sea-going good quality,
shaped her course towards the Falkland Islands, and
competing
Raleigh
f
in
locrt oStLeheaer- g.
we are informed, the Raleigh beat her competitor,
outsailing her many miles, and on two occasions the
Constance was left " half courses and hull down."
The squadron in the River Plate was distributed as
follows, on the 29th of October :—the Vernon, 50, Cap-
tain Fitzgerald, flag of Reim-Admiral Inglefield ; the
Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert ; the
agle, 50, Captain G. B. Martin ; the Melampus, 42,
Captain Campbell ; and the Comus, 16, Commander
D'Eyncourt, were at Monte Video.
The Curacoa, 24, Captain Broughton, and the Dol-
phin 3, Lieutenant-Commander Miller, were at Rio on
the 18th of November, the latter having arrived from
Monte Video five days prior.
The Grecian, 16, Commander Tindal, was at Buses.
The Racer, 18, Commander Reed, was at Colonia.
The Satellite, 18, Commander Rowley, was at
Maldenado.

The Firebrand, steam frigate, Captain Hope, and
the Harpy, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Tomlinson, was at
Buenos Ayres.
The Acorn,lB, Commander Bingham,was at Paraguay,
The Alecto steam -sloop, Commander Massingherd,
had proceeded up the Urugay to relieve the iron steam-
vessel Lizard, Lieutenant Commander Tylden.
The Dido, 20, Captain Maxwell, sailed from Monte
♦ideo for the East Indies on the 29th of October.

The Carysfort, 26, Captain G. H. Seymour, arrived
at Valparaiso on the 19th of October, from Sydney
and New Zealand (where she had landed the new
Governor and specie), and remained there on the 24th
refitting.
The Salamander steam-sloop, Captaim Hamond, left
Valparaiso for Rio and England on the Ist of October.
The Sampson steam frigate, Captain T. Henderson,
lest Valparaiso on the 25th of October for Talcahuano,
and on an experimental sailing cruize.
The Nereus store-ship, Master Commander Bateman,
was under orders, at the above date, to proceed from
Valparaiso to Callao

SUPPOSED SUICIDE.—On Saturday afternoon a
man named Bilby discovered in the water, near Waterloo-
bridge, the body of Mr. W. Isaac Jarvis, formerly a
furniture dealer, of 16 and 17, Melina-place, West-
minster-road. On getting the body ashore the skull was
found to be mutilated, and the side of the head and face
disfigured. In the head was a large aperture. From
inquiries there seems no doubt that the unfortunate man
committed suicide by jumping from Waterloo-bridge,
and that the injuries were the result of his striking
against the piers in his descent. The deceased, on
Friday night, retired to his bed in good spirits, but on
one of the inmates of the house in which he lodged
going into his bed room on Saturday morning, it was
ascertained that during the night he had gone out, and
nothing was seen or heard of him till his body was found
in the river.
STATE OF THE DUTCH NAVY.—TWO ships-of-the-
line of 84 guns, five of 74 (of which three are building),
two of 60, one of 54, eleven of 44, two of 38 (building),
three of 32, nine of 28, four of 20 (of which two are
building), two of 22, two of 20, eleven of 18 (of which
one is building), one of 16, eleven of 14, seven of 12 (of
which four are building), two of 8, five of 6, five of 5,
four of 4, and three of 3 guns ; in all 92 vessels, with
2,356 guns of different calibre. Besides, there are tet:
steam-boats, carrying 64 guns, two iron steam •boats (and
one building), five tran3ports, ten gun-boats, and one
bomb-vessel.