The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 11.—This morning at .9 o'clock,
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, the Commander-in-Chief,
struck his blue flag, and hoisted a white one at the main
of the St. Vincent, which was duly saluted; all the ves-
sels at this port under his command thereupon changed
their ensigns from blue to white.
The Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison (Sir Her-
cules Pakenham, K.C.8.) being promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant-General, makes the command of the garrison
and the south-western district vacant.
The Rose, 18, Commander Pelley, Which arrived last
evening from the West Indian station, brought a freight
on merchants' account. Lieutenant Parkhurst died on
board, and was buried at sea. He was an officer of high
promise, and deeply respected by all who had the plea-
sure of his acquaintance. The Rose has encountered
very heavy gales, and just escaped the hurricane which
was so disastrously felt at Havannah, and which overtook
her. Mr. Grant, paymaster and purser of the Rose, ex-
changed with Mr. Giles of the Electra, who has conse-
quently come home in the Rose. First Lieutenant Dob-
bie is promoted to the rank of commander. The freight
brought by the Rose is taken charge of by Mr. Edwin
Galt, of Portsmouth, wine-merchant and freight agent,
for conveyance to the Bank of England. She touched at
Plymouth for supplies, and is ordered to Sheerness to
be paid off. She was to have been paid off all standing
and recommissioned immediately, had she been in a
serviceable state, but this not being the case she will
be stripped. She is bark rigged, and was built at this
dockyard by the superior class of shipwrights in 1821-
385 tons.
The crew of the Resistance troop-ship, Captain Patey,
were paid off at the Navy Pay-office in this dockyard
this morning.
The Mercury tender, Second-master Scarlett com-
manding, sailed this afternoon with one supernumer-
ary (!) to Plymouth.
The depots of the 91st and 20th Regiments vacated
their quarters in this garrison this afternoon, and crossed
over to Gosport to take up the quarters at Forton, va-
cated by the 2d (Queen's) who come to this garrison
this evening.
WooLwlcii, Nov. 11.—Rear-Admiral Sir Francis
Augustus Collier, K.C.B. and K.C.H., will continue the
duty of Captain-Superintendent of her Majesty's dock-
, yard, Woolwich, until the arrival of Commodore Sir
' James J. Gordon Bremner, K.C.B. and K.C.H., who is
to succeed as Captain-Superintendent here. Commodore
Sir James J. Gordon Bremner is at present in command
of the Queen, 110 gun flag-ship, one of the vessels of
the squadron of evolution.
Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., who had the tempo-
rary charge of Woolwich dockyard, on the appointment
of Lord J. Hay, C. 8., to be a Lord ,of the Admiralty,
succeeds Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., as Comp-
troller of the Coast-guard.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Major-General Cockburn will vacate his office as head
of the laboratory department of the Royal Arseual;
Major-General Paterson his office as chief of the Reposi-
tory Exercises Department; and Major-General Lacy
the head of the Carriage Department is the Royal
Arsenal, in consequence their promotion to that rank
by brevet. In the lists which were previously circulated
relative to the brevet no notice was taken of William
Greenshields Power and Alexander Macdonald, Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonels of 1817, who have been promoted
to Major-General.
Major Nevett's Company, 2d Battalion, left Woolwich
at three o'clock A.M. to-day, for Ireland. The company
will be stationed at Waterford, which is to be a company
station in future.

1 sergeant and 28 gunners and drivers left Woolwich
at eleven o'clock A.M. to-day for Deptford, under the
command of Captain Fisher, to embark in the Blenheim
transport ship for a passage to Jamaica, where Captain
Fisher's company is at present stationed.

ROYAL MARINES.

Colonel Mercer, second in command of the Woolwich
division, is to succeed'Major-General George Jones, pro-
moted from the Portsmouth division.

Mr. Thomas Pidcock, on the list of clerks, promoted
to be Paymaster and Purser, is the officer who distin-
guished himself in command of a boat, with a part of the
crew of the Alecto, in the recent engagements on the
Rivers Plate and Parana.
The following ships, steamers, and sloops, have become
vacant by the promotion of their commanders, and will
give great patronage to the Admiralty:—
Ship. Station. Promotion to Captain of
Albion ...... Channel squadron W. W. Chambers.
Canopus Ditto
Superb
Trafalgar
Vanguard ... Ditto ...... R. Barton.
Vindictive... West Indies J. W. Noble.
Alecto S.E. coast of America .. F. W. Austen.
Comus
Columbine
Cruizer
Driver .. Ditto
Harlequin ... Mediterranean... ..
Siren
Cormorant Pacific ... .... G. T. Gordon.
Helena
Hydra.
Lame Ditto.. ......... ... .. J. W. D. Brisbane. ,
Rolla .....
Belvidera
Imaum
The following lieutenants' commands and appoint-
ments have also become vacant by the promotion of the
officers to the rank of commander, viz:—

Promotion to the Rank
Ship. Station. of Commander of
Albion
America Ditto James B. West.
Ardent
Bonetta ...... Ditto Wm. Critchell.
Dasher
Griffon
Jackal!
Torch Ditto D. R. B. Mapleton.
Victory Portsmouth David Welch.
Ditto , Ditto ......... ........ J. Rawstorue.
Ditto Ditto ... J. W. Finch.
Myrmydon . Coast of Ireland Charles Jenkin.
Raven
Grappler ... Portsmouth
Scourge...... Ditto Hon. G. D. Keene.
Rattlesnake. Ditto J. M. R. Inch.
Vengeance.. Ditto .... . .... H. A. Storey.
•
Nautilus . ... Lisbon
Fowler, Flag-
Trafalgar ...
Ditto Lieu. to Commodore
Sir G. Bremer, K.C.B.
Terrible
Daphne Pacific W. Barrie.
Flamer
Vanguard
Fox ... ...... East Indies .. W. R. Mends.
Caledonia ... Plymouth
Blazer
Viper .... ..... West Indira E. C. Gray
Queen Plymouth
Conway ...... Cape of Good Hope A. Ileseltine.
Rose ...... ... Portsmouth ... W. H. Dobbie.
Albion
The following officers being promoted to the rank of
Bear-Admiral of the Blue :
Sir W. 11. Dillon, Kut., K.C.13., gives up the good
service pelage%