The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-25 00:00:00

THE ARMY AND NAVY.

(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
THE MASTER. GENERAL OF THE ORDNANCE.—WO
are sorry to hear that the Marquis of Anglesey is
Buffering from illness.
GOVERNOR OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL.—We regret to
hear that General the Hon. Sir Edward Paget, G.C.8.,
has been again attacked with serious illness. This
amiable officer has been confined to his bed for many
months, and is also afflicted with loss of sight. He is
with his family at Cowes, in the Isle of Wigbt.

THE COMM-ODORESHIP OF THE COAST OF AFRICA.—
We have heard that Captain W. F. Martin, now
in command of the Prince Regent, has been offered
the appointment of the Commander-in-Chief on the
coast of Africa, to succeed Sir C. Hotham,
and has declined the appointment. We trust that the
Admiralty will send out to the coast no offi-
cer who has not some experience in the sup-
pression of the slave trade. The evils that have
resulted from the appointment of inexperienced officers
to command the squadron on the coast ought to teach
the Government a better appreciation of those officers'
services and abilities who have been promoted for their
success in capturing slavers. The appointment of
either Captain Denman, Butterfield, Adams, or some
others that we cou" —ne, would soon raise the
price of slaves, or entirely put a stop to the traffic
if they had half the latitude allowed to them that has
been given to Sir Charles Hotham. The latter Gallant
Officer was never on the coast of Africa before he pro•
ceeded there as Commodore, and now that he has just
acquired some knowledge of the service he is about to
leave the station. From all that we have heard, we
heartily say the sooner the better, for the comfort of the
squadron.
NORTH AMERICAN STATION.—V ice-Admiral the Earl
of Dundonald, G.C.8., in his flag ship the Wellesley, was
at Halifax on the 10th inst., and with the Scourge steam
sloop intended to leave for Bermuda on the 20th instant.
The Helena, 14, Commander De Courcy, arrived on the
sth at Halifax from Cork.

Rear-Admiral Sir Francis A. Collier, C.B. , K.C.11. ,
the Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, has de-
lighted his home friends with the assurance that his
health has very much improved since his arrival on his
station. Sir Francis had his flag flying on board the
Meander's steam launch at Singapore on the Bth October.
Commander Young, who, during the old Packet Ser-
vice, has been in charge of the coal depot Pembroke at
Dunmore, has been ordered to be discharged, the services
of the depot, and consequently his own, being no longer
required.
ROLLING MOTION OF SHIPS. —The Admiralty have
ordered Mr. Unchain, Master Shtpyright of Ports-
mouth Dockyard, to call to hislassistance the Head
Master of the Central Apprentice School at Portsmouth,
and to carry out a course of experiments relative to the
rolling motion of ships, with the view to its modifica-
tion if practicable.
PROTECTION OF OUR COAST FISUERIES.—Last week
we called attention to the absence for many weeks past
of a man-ot war cruiser on the coasts of Kent and
Sussex, for the protection of our fishermen and
fisheries, and we pointed out the injury which had
been done to the English fishermen by the neglect
with which they had been treated by the Govern-
ment. It appears now that the Admiralty
have dispatched the Myrtle steam-vessel to
Folkestone, for the purpose of inquiring into the corn-
pisints of the fishermen that their nets had been de-
stroyed or stolen by the French ; and to protect our
industrious countryinem against the aggree.sion of our
neighbours. The Mayor of Folkestone, who is the
owner of two fishing boats, we understand, first
applied to the Admiralty for the protection which
has been afforded, and which protection—that is, the
sence of a man-of-war cruiser or two—the coasts of
Kent and Sussex should never have been without. The
greediness of a French crew was so great a few days
since, that they loaded the boat up to the gunwale with
fish'on the English side, but on their way across to Bou-
logne a sea struck the boat so heavily as to capsize her,
when every one on board, eight in all, perished.
HOSPITAL STAFF. —On the reFresentation of Dr.
Armstrong, the chief of the medical department of
the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, and on the recom-
mendation of Certain Superintendent Toup Nicolas,
C.B , the Admiralty hive most humanely, as well as
judiciously, ordercd that in future when patient:: arrive
at ihte different hospitals to be treat-0, they shall be
allowed a supply of provisions for that day, notwith-
, standing that they have their rations served on board
- the ship to which they belong. hitherto men on the