The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, OCT. 16.—Up to this moment there is no
appearance of the India mail, nor is there any of the
Tagus with the outward mails. It is feared that some
illcident must have happened, as she is three days over
- The mails, rid Marseilles, reached yesterday at
'quo o'clock, A. M.
_ _

Early this morning the Dutch frigate Prince Von
Orange, having his, Royal Highness Prince Henry in
command, and the two corvettes, Juno and Sambre,
were in sight, and at half-past ten, A.M., entered port,
on their return from Genoa.' The Prince will not land
till to-morrow, at ten o'clock.

On Wednesday night Malta was visited by one of the
most violent storms ever remembered. The forked
lightning illuminated the air, the thunder roared in
fearful claps, rain in torrents descended, and hail-
stones (almost unknown) fell; so large were the latter,
that were I to name the siz' of some I should infal-
libly be accused of imitating the celebrated Baron Mun-
chansen.

Iu the midst of the storm, her Majesty's steamer
Flarner, Lieutenant Lavie, entered port. The dexterity
and seamanlike skill manifested on-the cccasion form the
general theme of conversation.
Much damage ensued, and the electric fluid struck
several houses.

Early on Thursday morning (four o'clock, A.m.), a
second squall, even more violent than the storm over
night, was felt. Her Majesty's brig Siren, which took
pratiquc that morning, was taken, and fouled the Heck
steamer. The Siren lost her jibboorn, but the Hecla re-
ceived little or no damage.
Between Gozo and Comino, two Maltese boats, called
speronaras, were wrecked, by which misfortune nino per-
sons perished. One man, named Gausi, was picked up
on a plank thirteen miles distant from the scene of the
catastrophe by a fisherman. The boats are named the
Susanna and the Santa Filomena.

One house at Gozo was blown or washed down, and
(our persons killed; and an ohl cowherd, with his two
cows, were washed away and lost.
SATURDAY, OCT. 17.—The Pottinger, with the mails
from India, has arrived, and the Tagu,,, from tiouthamp-
ton, is coming in.

At ten o'clock, A.3r., his Royal Highness the Prince
Henry.of the Netherlands landed under a royal salute.
A guard of honour from the 42(1 Regiment received his
Royal Highness at the Custom-house, where he was
landed from I,he.birge. of Rear•. Admiral Sir_L. Curtis,
and where alio he was received by Colonel Balneavis,
our acting-governor. Hence they proceeded to the
palace, where a second guard of honour, supplied by
her Majesty's 88th Foot, and commanded by Captain
Irwin, was drawn up, and where also the stiff of the
garrison assembh:d to welcome his Royal Highness on
his return to Malts.
On the 16th, her Majesty's steamer, the Trident,
-having completed her repairs, went on a trial trip to
sea.- She returned in the afternoon, and appears to have
answered remarklbly well. Her avenge spekl was
nine and a half knots per hour.

OCT. 17.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.
In Malta Harbour.—The Ceylon, 12, receiving ship,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Bart.,
st cond in command and Superintendent of Malta dock-
yard, the Siren, IG, Commander Le Hardy, the fleela
war steamer, Commander C. Starmer, the Locust
steamer, Lieutenant-Commander Power, and the Wee
Pet steam tug.
On Surveying Duty.—The Bonetta, Commander T.
S. Brock, and the Research cutter, Lieutenar.t Spratt.
At Sea.—The Hibernia, 120, Cap:ain Peter Richards,
C. 8., bearing the fltg of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker,
Bart., G.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief.
At Gibraltar.—The Phcenix steam-vessel, Com-
mander Dennis, and Virago war steamer, Commander
J. Lunn.

At Corfu.—The Meteor, Lieutenant Commander
Mader, the Tyne, 28, Captain W. N. Glasscock.
At the Piraeus of Athens.—The Jackall steamer,
Lieutenant-Commander W. M. J. G. Pasco, the Amazon
19, Captain J. J. Stopford.
At Beyrout.—The Inconstant, 36, Captain C. 11. Free-
mantle.

At Constantinople.—The Bloodhound steamer, Lieut.
R. Phillips.
At Smyrna.—The Harlequin, Commander Curry.
MAIL STEAM-PACKETS.

At Malta.—The Volcano, Lieut. Crang, the Spitfire,
Lieut. J. A. M' Donald, the Flamer, Lieut. Lavie, and
the Trident, Lieut. C. E. Rigge.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 24.
APPOINTMENTS.

OCT. 24.—W. F. Rains, Second Master, to the
Raven ; W. J. Cunningham, Second Master, to the even ;
.
George E. Verling, Naval Cadet, to the Vengeance ;
Charles Pemberton, Acting First
Ford,
to the Wil-
liam and Mary ; Henry Anson Midshipman, to
the Eurydice ; John Bogen, Master, to the E ury-
dice ; John Pascoe, Master, to the Scourge ; W.
J 'Williams Captain, to the Amphion ; Thomas
Sibbuld, Lieutenant, to the Amphion ; Frank K. Haw-
kins, Lieutenant, to the Amphion ; Robert W. Clark,
Lieutenant, to the Amphion ; John Tucker (B) Master,
to the Amphion.
OCT. 26.7-George Mackay, Surgeon—John Brick-
wood, Paymaster—Henry A. Speed, Naval Instructor--
John Fiddes, Second Master —John T. Robinson, As-
sistant-Surgeon—William Turner, Gunner—Thomas
' Collins Boatswain—John Sullivan, Carpenter—William
Price, First Engineer—William Rumble and Edward
R. Dalton, Second Engineers;—Charles Dickson, Acting
Engineer—Benjamin Greetham, Thomas H. Symons,
and W. M. Biden, Third Engineers—Alexander F. 0.
Young and Richmond Moore, Midshipmen—Thomas T.
Phillips and Samuel Babington, Naval Cadets—R. L.
Cleveland, Master's Assistant—Adderly W. Chimmo
and Edward A. Rowe, Clerks—William Wells, Clerk's
Assistant, to the Amphion; John'Brookes, Gunner, to
the Avenger; John Cook, Boatswain, to the Avenger;
John James Knight, Carpenter, to the Avenger;
Charles Forbett, Clerk, to the Penelope; John Ward,
Acting Assistant-Surgeon, to the Vengeance; W. B.
C. Chge • risty, Acting Assistant-Surgeon, to the Victory;
Geor Gordon, Acting Assistant Surgeon, to the
Naiad; Walter S. Burke, Acting Assistant-Surgeon, to
the Mutine; Thomas Deageley, Acting Assistant-
Surgeon, to the Andromache; Dr. G. Clarke, Acting
Assistant-Surgeon, to the Victory; Thomas C. R. Gill,
Lieutenant, to the Mutine.
FIRST OPERATION OF THE RETIRE:RENT SCHEME.—
Captain James Slade (1810), one of the officers who
have accepted the retirement, is dead, and the
Admiralty, in accordance with their expressed determi-
nation of granting to those officers who had ziven ;n
their names as candidates for the retirement before the
Ist of October the advantages of the measure from that
date, have announced theie intention of granting to the
widow of Captain Slade the widow's pension of a Rear I
Admiral, CaPttlin, Slaclo wars a 14%4%144 of 1799, and

when senior of the Latona distinguished himself in
command of her boats, in cutting out a Dutch gun
brig and two schooners, near Groningen, in 1799. He
also served in the expedition to the Helder in the same
year. He was made a commander in Sept., 1799, for
those services, and attained the rank of captain on the
21st October, 1810.

TrIE PRONOTION.—it is believed that the number of
commanders to be promoted on the 9th of November
will not be less than thirty, and the number of old
and meritorious lieutenants fifty. 'We are informed
that the gallant -and and highly distinguished Captain Sir
S. J. Brooke Peahen, Bart., has not accepted the re-
tirement.

Captain Woodford J. Williams, of the Avenger
steam-frigate, has been appointed to command the Am-
phion, 36, gun-frigate, with an auxiliary screw propeller
of 300 horse-power, at Woolwich. The officers of the
Avenger, Lieutenants Sibbalk, Hawkins, and Clark ;
Master John Tucker, Surgeon Dr. George Mackay,
Paymaster and Purser John Breckwood, Assistant- Sur-
geon John T. Robinson, Second Master John Fiddes, &c.
together with the crew of that steam-frigate, having been
turned over to the Amphion, the Avenger will be laid
up at Portsmouth after sbe is repaired.
Master John Pascoe (1842), from the Eurydice, 26, to
the Scourge, steam-sloop, vice Godden, sick.
The papers contained last week the promotion of As-
sistant-Surgeon Jones, to the rank of surgeon. We can-
not find any assistant-surgeon of the name of Jones on
the Navy List.

Assisiant-Surgeon Dr. Harry IL Turnbull (1838), of
the America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon, has
been promoted to the rank of surgeon.
Second Master.—H. J. Cunningham?, acting of the
Gladiator, steam-frigate, has been appointed to the
Raven, cutter, rice W.F. Rains, to the Penelope, steam-
frigate.
THE NAVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND.-At
a late meeting of the directors of tho Naval Medical
Supplemental Fund it was resolved that a special general
meeting should be convoked on the 29th instant, to elect
a secretary.
Captain Codrington arrived at Devonport on Sunday,
and took up his commission that morning as commander
of the Thetis, 36.

The Admiralty have ordered the Brazilian frigate
Constitutional to be repaired at Devonport dockyard.
Her defects are extensive. •

The Scourge, steam-Sloop, Commander Caffin, arrived
at Devonport on Saturday from Portsmouth, with some
marines for the Stromboli, and sailed on Sunday for
Rochefort, to bring home some distiessed British sub-
jects there.

The Stromboli, steam-sloop, Commander Fisher, has
had her defects completed at Devonport, and has coaled.
She was to have left yesterday for Cork.
The Pluto steam-vessel, Lieut.• Commander Lowe,
was caught in the gale'Of Wednesday last, on her way
from Limerick, with supplies of provisions for Kerry, but
was enabled to lie to at Tarbert.

The Swallow, steam-tender to the Madagascar store-
ship, Commander Green, in the Shannon, and com-
manded by Second Master Bryant, left Limerick on
Tuesday afternoon with a supply of provisions for the in-
terior of Kerry, and was caught in the furious storm of
Wednesday morning, in which she was driven ashore by
the force of wind and waves at the entrance of the
Askeaton river, where she now lies high up at low water.
The vessel is also reported to be strained, if not bilged.

THE STEAM-SHIP RIPON.

DEPARTURE OF THE INDIA MAILS AND

PASSENGERS:- ------
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steam-ship Oriental arrived in Torbay, from
Southampton, on
,griday night, at half-past ten o'clock,
and the mails and' passengers, with their baggage and
the packages for India, were transhipped to her from the
Ripon in the course of Saturday. 'The Oriental started
from Torbay, for Malta and Alexandria, on Sunday, the
25th instant, at half-past seven o'clock, A.M., with a fair
wind and fine weather. The Ripon left Torbay at the
same time under her own steam, steered by guys upon
the after part of the rudder, and arrived off South,
aropton water at seven o'clock in the evening. Her Ma-
jesty's steam ship Cyclops, and the company's steamer
Queen, accompanied her, but their assistance was not
required. A new rudder is being made for her, and sho
is fixed to take the mails of the 20th of November. All
accounts concur in stating that the Ripon proved herself
a most easy and excellent sea boat during the gale in
which her rudder gave way.
The following letter has been received from the pas-
sengers, and Colonel Horne, in transmitting it to the
managing directors, "expresses his regret that the bustle
attendant upon the change of vessels had prevented a
great many from adding their signatures, who, from the
general feeling of satisfaction which existed, might rea-
sonably he supposed as concurring in the sentiments ex-
pressed."

(corit.)
" Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's vessel, the Ripon, Torbay,
Oct. 24, 1846. Nine A.M.
'" To the Chairman and Directors of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned passengers, who
quitted Southampton on beard your new steamer the
Ripon, on Tuesday,' 'the 20th inst., and who are now
about to proceed in the Okiental, desire to express to
you our feelings of gratitude for, and admiration of, the
conduct of Captain Moresby, as well as of his officers
and crew, during the perilous situation in which we were
placed (luring the whole of the 21st inst., and to tender
our acknewledgrnents to you and your acting manager
foe the prompt and strenuous exertions made to obviate
the inconvenience occasioned by the disabled state of
the Ripori:' That we should at this early period have
the Oriental, with an attendant smalfsteamernfongside,
and almost all our baggage transhipped, though it is
now only 48 hours since our, first communication with
the shore after our disaster, is ample proof of the ac-
tivity and judicious arrangements made by your managing
directors on this emergency.
" We are,.Gentlemen, very faithfully yours,
(Signed)
"R. Home, John C. Lyall, W. H. Martin, M.
A. Martin, P: Gwatkin, R. C. Gwatkin, J.
Lord; E. Wilson, 'Mrs. Colonel -ifAquilar,
Miss D'Aquilar, Miss- Jackson; Miss Law,
'Miss Wheeler, 'Dougan, E. P. Mason,'
E. Colvin, Mary Paxton, Charlotte Sneyd,
• - Mrs. Scare,' J. A. Proven; James B. S. Brown,
J. W. Mountjoy, B. W. Young, M.D.,
Catherine Macdonald, J. W. Mitchell, T.
R. Woodrow; E. Ackland, Henry Moul, Mrs.
it- H. Snell, Julia Stanley Shum, James
Gibbs, James T. Bourne, Fred... Hawkins,
W. S.-Kelly, J. I'. Cumming, 'al. S. Ilado.tv,,,
C. S. Hado-vv,•P. J.hi
L. T. Mackail." - • •