The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 7.—A court of inquiry, compris-
ing Captains Yates, of the Illustrious, Dundas, of the
Powerful, and Eden, of the Victory, sat on board the
Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, on Friday and Satur-
day, to investigate reports of a most extraordinary cha-
racter and variety, with regard to the wholesale desertion
from the ship (Bellerophon), and the great amount of
punishment which had been inflicted upon her crew
during the seven months she had been in commission.
In the course of this time about 1,600 lashes have been
administered, and 94 men were posted " run" upon the
books up to yesterday.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, accom-
panied by a small retinue, arrived here at eleven o'clock
yesterday morning. The Prince's carriage was taken
into the Royal Clarence Victualling Establishment by
Mr. Superintendent Stevens, of Gosport. Captain Eden,
of the Victory, was in waiting on his Royal Highness,
and showed him over the establishment, crossing to the
dockyard in Sir Charles Ogle's barge. Captain Eden
escorted the Royal party over the dockyard, on board
the Victory and Excellent. The Prince partook of lun-
cheon with Sir C. Ogle, and returned to London by the
thirty minutes past five afternoon train.
The Pluto steam-sloop, Lieutenant-Commander R.
Richardson, arrived at Limerick, from Dublin and Cork,
on the 30th ult.

Wind south, moderate breezes, and fine weather.
ROYAL MARINES.
PROMOTIONS.
Second-Lieutenant A. F. Sutherland, of the Plymouth
division, to be First-Lieutenant, and appointed to the
same division, vice Winne, dismissed the service.
First-Lieutenant E. S. Browne, of the Chatham divi-
sion, to be Captain at that division. vice Brevet-Major J.
Fynmore, retired on hill pay.
Second-Lieutenant E. Richards. of the Chatham divi-
sion, to be First-Lieutenant at that division, vice
Browne, promoted.
Mr. Peter Bolt, the contractor for the enlargement
and repairs of the new marine barracks at Gosport, has
commenced the construction of a new practice battery
on an improved plan, suggested by Major Calamy,
gunnery instructor, immediately in rear of Forton
barracks.

The decision come to by the Admiralty at their
recent inspection of these barracks, to purchase all the
buildings abutting on the boundary wall on either side
of the gate, has, we are told, caused considerable altera-
tions to be made in the plans of the proposed new
buildings; and as the experiment of keeping a portion
of this division on either side of the harbour under one
commandant, has proved to be highly inconvenient, and
in many respects i-rejudicial to the interests of the ser-
vice, it is now contemplated to increase these barracks
sufficiently to contain the whole division, including the
artillery companies, for whom a depot of practice and
instruction will be established at Fort Moncton, as was
the case some years since.
APPOINTMENTS.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 6.—A. L, Kaye, midshipman, to
the Gorgon; Lieutenant John Moffatt, to be agent for
the mails; Hon. A. K. Legge, naval cadet, to the Belle-
rophon ; William H. Truscott, midshipman, to th©
Thetis.

MAY 8.

IOYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD.— Quantities
of Indian corn and meal are being shipped from this
yard, to the north coast of Ireland, for the relief of the
poor in that country.
The Express 6 gun brig packet, and the Confianca
steam-tug, were taken into docks at Devonport to be
repaired on Saturday.
Sir Charles Napier's squadron has refitted and is
ready for any orders. At present the St. Vincent,
Prince Regent, Amphion, and Dragon are at Cork and
Kingstown. The Canopus has been detached to Ply-
mouth to be paid off.
The Wolf, 18-gun sloop, having been converted into
a floating pier for Kingstown, Dublin, left Plymouth for
that port on Sunday, in charge of Mr. Henderson, the
master-attendant of Devonport dockyard, who will with
his navigating party proceed from Kingstown to Pem-
broke Dockyard, to jury-rig and navigate the newly-
launched 80-gun ship Colossus from that station to De-
vonport, to be completed. During Mr. Henderson's
absence, Mr. Stigant, the storekeeper, will perform the
duty of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Artillery Companies
of the dockyard brigade, and Mr. Truscott, clerk, will
act as a Captain of Mr. Peake's company on that gentle-
man removing to Woolwich.
The Belleisle, 72 gun troop-ship, arrived off Ports-
mouth to-day, from St. John's, New Brunswick, with
the 33d regiment on board, and sailed with them for a
Scotch port to disembark.
The frigate-built ship Herefordshire, 1,400 tons, ar-
rived at Portsmouth to-day, from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
with her Majesty's 49th regiment on board.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant John Moffat to be Admiralty agent for
mails. This officer's commission as Lieutenant in the
navy is dated the 13th of March, 1811. He was a mid-
shipman of l'Hercule in action with the Poursuivante in
the West Indies in 1803; ho was midshipman and mate
of the Amphion and Cerberus, and bore a part in nume-
rous boat enterprises in the Adriatic, particularly at the
capture of a convoy at Pesaro; and acting Lieutenant of
the Cerberus in the action off Lissa, 1811.
Midshipmen—A. L. Kaye to the Gorgon steam-sloop
at Plymouth; W. H. Truscott to the Thetis frigate, in
the Mediterranean.

Naval Cadet—The Hon. 11. Legge to the Bellerophon,
78, at Portsmouth.