The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-12 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Edmund W. Gilbert, Commander, to the Andromeda;
Thomas Green, Commander, to the Madagascar; Ed-
ward B. Rice, additional Lieutenant, to the Hibernia;
Richard Thompson, Master, to the Andromeda; Edward
P. Cox and T. C. Jones, Master's Assistants, to the
./Eolus; W. F. Pickthorn and C. F. Puckett, Master's
Assistants, to the Belvidera; H. W. G. Molesworth,
Clerk's Assistant, to the Belvidera; Ralph Roberts,
Clerk's Assistant, to the Grappler; N. G. Simrnonth.,
Clerk's As iistant, to the Andromeda ; James Wray,
Gunner, to the Andromeda ; and William Dickson,
Boatswain, to the Andromeda.

Talavera Vernon Anson, Captain, to the Eurydice ;
John Thomas, Master-Commanding, to the dEolus
Peter Wellington, Master-Commanding, to the Belvi-
dera; W. H. Bateman, Clerk in Charge, to the Belvidera;
Henry Hawley, Clerk in Charge, to the aEolus; John
Jones, Clerk in Charge, to the Torch ; Gregory G.
Foote, Second-Master, to the Ardent; C. S. Forbes, Mid-
shipman, to the Canopus; Alexander Henderson, Naval
Cadet, to the Rattlesnake; Richard Adams, Naval Cadet,
to the Collingwood; William Ware, Boatswain Super-
intending, to the Caledonia; and James Ross, acting
Third Engineer, to the Shearwater.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, OCT. 11.--The Lords of the
Admiralty announced their intention yesterday to Sir
Charles Ogle of visiting this port officially to-morrow.
Orders were received on Friday evening by telegraph
from the Lords of the Admiralty, in reply to the report
of the arrival of the St. Vincent, for that ship to remain

at the anchorage at Spithead, with orders for Commo-
dore Sir Francis Collier to keep his broad pendant flying
on board, and also for Captain Shepherd to continue in
command. Other orders from their Lordships were re-
ceived yesterday afternoon for the St. Vincent to come
into harbour, but as it was too late then for her to come
in, as the tides are neaping, an endeavour will be made
to get her in to-morrow. If unsuccessful, she must re-
main at Spithead until the next spring tides.
The Belvidera provision and troop-ship, Master-Com-
mander Peter Wellington, was undocked yesterday,
when the Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Johnston, was docked to repair a trifling defect, prior
to returning to the coast of Ireland for the winter.
The Vengeance, 84, built at Pembroke in 1824, on
the lines of the Canopus, of 2,284 tons, ordered for im-
mediate commission at this port, is intended to be the
flag-ship on the Irish station, and will probably carry
the flag of Sir Thomas Usaher, who, it will be remem-
bered, we some time since stated would succeed the pre-
sent Commander-in-Chief (Sir Hugh Pigott) on the above
station.

The weather has been for the last few days exceed-
ingly boisterous here, and high tides have committed
much destruction to property along shore. Double and
quadruple fares have been charged nearly every day for
a passage across the harbour either way ; and the
anchorage at Spithead has been signalled by flags from
the Market-house, Gosport, as dangerous for watermen
to attempt to make. The men-of-war have been at-
Londe.' upon by the Myrtle steamer, Master-Commander
Balliston, their boats being almost useless in conse-
quence of the high sea. On Monday, after the court.
martial, it was found that the officers could not get
back to their ships at Spithead, so violently was the gale.
Yesterday it was similarly heavy, and to-day it bids fair
to increase.