The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-01 00:00:00

MA Y 1, 1848,

NAVAL INTELLIG CE.
rORTSIVOUTII, APRIL 30.—Admiral Sir Charles Og:e,
the Commander-in-Chief at this p,,rt, inspected the
Gorgon steam sloop, Commander Paynter, at Spithead
yesterday, and mustered her crew, He was accompanied
by Flag-Lieutenant Cochrane, and went out in the
Lightning steam-tender.
The Mercury tender sailed with supernumeraries for
the eastward yesterday.

the Fanny tender returned from Dover yesterday,
where the had beei with a supply of provisions for the
LTndine steam-packet.

The Waterwitch, 8, Commander R. R. Quin, passed
the Fanny off Dover on Friday morning from Chatham.
She was bound for Plymouth to be paid advance, and
take on board the next African mail.

The Acosta freight ship sailed yesterday for London,
having disembarked the troops the previous day.
The Howe, 120, Captai❑ Sir James Stirling, is to be
brought into the harbour tomorrow forenoon it she is
ready.
The Lightning steam-tender embarked Major-General
Lord Fredericklarence, the Lieutenant-Governor
and Staff, this morning, at the Sallyport stairs, and con-
veyed them to Osborne to visit her Majesty.
Rear- Admiral Dundrts, C. 8., M.P., has arrived ut
Holyhead from his visit to Sir C. Nupier's squadron, at
Cork, and is expected to return to the Admiralty to-
morrow.

Rear Admiral Bowles, C. 8., has been visiting Devon-
port Dockyard during the past week; and has been
inspecting the works of the new basin there.
Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C.B. (1837) has been
officially appointed to the San Josef, as flag captain (vice
Sir Henry Leek) to Sir William Gage, G.C.11., Com-
mander-in-Chief at Devonport.
Commander Western's appointment to study at the
steam-factory, Woolwich, has been cancelled.
Naval Cadets —Allred A. Hanson, and J. W. L.
Oakes have been appointed to the San Josef, flag-ship at
Devonport; and ,Robert Livesay, to the St. Vincent,
flag-ship at Cork.
The Torch, 1, Lieutenant Commander G. Morris,
having been run into by a merchant steaw-vessel in the
Cly de, her defects are ordered to be made good at
Glasgow.

On Friday the ward-room officers of the flag ship San
Josef, in the Sound, gave their late Flag Captain, Sir
Henry Leeke, a parting dinner as a testimonial of their
respect.
On Saturday Sir Henry Leeke gave the naval appren
tices (200 tu number) of the port a substantial dinner,
under a tent erected for that purpose, near the Obelisk
opposite the moorings of the San Josef ; the band of the
ship attended. A brilliant phalanx of beauty and gal-
lantry assembled to witness the interesting festivities:
LIEUTENANT %\ INNE, R.M.—The friends of this gen-
tleman, who was recently dismissed from her Majesty's
service on the 19th ult. on proofs of charges of drunken-
nesi, preferred by Captain Ratcliffe of the Apollo
troop ship, intend to petition the Admiralty with a view
to get him restored.
The Ringdove, 12, Commander Inglefield, was at Sin-
gapore March the ith, but on the point of sailing for the
Ananbas in search of the Chinese convicts that had
escaped from the G,,neral Wood, the sad fate of which
vessel and the barbarous murder of the officers the
public are already acquainted with. The Hon. Com-
pany's steamer, Hoogly, sailed from Singapore the day
before the North Natunas, on the same search us the
Ringdove.
HER MAJESTY'S LATE. STEAMER AVENCER.—The
committee intend meeting on Saturday the 6th of May,
at the Naval College, to pay money to such persons
residing in the neighbourhood as they consider objects
fur continuing to participate in the fund subscribed, and
also to vote the remittance of sums to others living in
different parts of Ireland, Scotland, &e. The corn.
mittee have obtained the full particulars of the cases of
161 of those who are supposed to have perished in the
Avenger. The whole number is officially stated to be
234.—R0yal Naval College, April 29, 1848.

PROMOTIONS.

Mate—John Eglintoun Montgomerie, to tho rank b
lieutenant.

♦PPOINTbIENTB.

Second Master—A. J. limes, to the Spartan, 26, in
the 'Mediterranean.
Master's Assistant—G. W. Ackherson, to the Belle
rophon, 78, fitting at Portsmouth.
Carpenter—Charles Kingston, to the Investigator dis-
covery ship at Woolwich.
COAST• GUARD APPOINTNENTS.

Lieutenants—Charles Goldsmith, from a station, to
command the Royal George revenue cruiser; R. W.
Charleston, to Ardmore station; F. P. Coull, to com-
mand Portland station; Mr. Montgomery Campbell,
late Midshipman, ILN.); to command Larne station;
Mr. James K. White (late East India Naval Service),
to command Frazerburgh station; Mr. William Henry
Pawll (late Mate, R.N.), to command a station; Mr.
Thomas Lapernotiere, from Buckie to Muchuls; Lieut.
A. J. Molesworth, R.M., from Winchelsea to Camber
station.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 29.—The General Palmer tran-
sport-ship arrived off the Royal Arsenal yesterday
evening, at six o'clock, P.M., having on board the 7th
company of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Captaiu
Chapman, R.E., commanding, from Corfu, the company
having been relieved from that station by Captain Ogle'.to
company of the same corps, brought out in the General
Palmer. Captain Chapman's company went to Corfu in
January, 1842, and were brought home in charge of
Lieut. Hassard, R.E. The passage from Corfu to Wool-
wich occupied 65 days, The General Palmer also
brought some detachments of the Royal Artillery, and
of infantry regiments from Mediterranean stations.
The Myrmidon steam:vessel recently put out of conic,-
mission in consequence of 'having been declared unfit
for further service, was brought to Woolwich and undert
went some repairs, which have answered remarkably
well, us on trial down the river yesterday, in charge of
Lieut. Robertson, she made a steed of Of knots per
hour.
The Dover, formerly a mail steam packet on the
Dover station, and now refitted for service on the coast
of Africa, was tried down the river this morning and
made a speed of fif knots per hour.
The Vivid, Dover mail steam-packet, Capt. Smithett,
has turned out to exceed the most sanguine expectations
as to speed, and yesterday made the quickest passage he
has yet done, having crossed from Boulogne to Dover iu
ninety-five minutes.
The number of labourers in this dockyard is to be
reduced by eighteen from this date.
The Tory, hired convict ship, left her moorings oppo-
site the Royal Arsenal, this morning, with 180 female
convicts on board, for Van Diemen's Laud.
The Plumper steam-vessel, recently launched from
Portsmouth, is daily expected round to the river to have
her engines put on board.
DOCKYARD INTELLIGENCE.—Foreigners have been
permitted to view several of our dockyards, this week,:
by Admiralty orders. There is a vacancy for a cltik
in Chatham Dockyard, in consequence of the decease, on
Wednesday last, of Mr. John Bliss, a third-class clerk
in the captain superintendent's office. Mr. Francis
Martin and Mr. John Brown have lately been appointed
inspectors of shipwrights at Portsmouth Dockyard.
These intelligent young men were selected by the Ad-
miralty on account of their being at the head of a list of
11 candidates for theta situations, after a severe exami-
nation, embracing laying oil' ships, practical shipbuilding,
arithmetic, and algebra. The Admiralty, in giving the
appointments to the above gentlemen, stated, through
the admiral superintendent; how pleased they were with
the result of the examinations of all, which convinced
their Lordships that in future talented persons might
always be obtained from Portsmouth yard for similar
situations when vacancies occurred. How much better
this than political influence, giving deserving men some-
thing to look up to as vacancies occur, and induce them
to improve themselves- in their profession. Two men at
Chatham, belonging to the brigade, having lost their
uniform, the Admiralty have ordered them to pay the
cost.—United Service Gazette.
MALTA Dociutaltp.--Mr. Henwood, late foreman at
Portsmouth, and appointed master shipwright at Malta
Dockyard; is not very much impressed in favour of the
advantages of his promotion; on the contrary, Malta
Dockyard to him, as to most Englishmen proceeding
there on appointment from the home dockyards, pre-
sents anything but an agreeable change. Mr. Tucker
has arrived at Malta, to enter upon his duties of addl.
tional clerk of works, to which post he has been ap-
pointed for two years, at a salary of 3501 per annum.
THE MEDITERRANZAK SQUADRON.

With the overland India mail, which arrived at Mar-
seilles by the Ardent, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Co -
mender Mowell, we have letters from Malta to the 24th
of April. Our correspondent says—
" Little in our naval circles since my last dispatch has
occurred. Continental affairs, yet unsettled, have neces-
sitated the dispatch of some of our squadron to protect
the British interests. The Terrible, steam frigate.
Captain Ramsay, left port on the 17th April for a cruise.
proceeding to Sicily, thence to Athens, or rather the Bay
f Salamis, to dispatch respectively the Harlequin, 12,
Commander Moore, and the Spartan, 26, Captain Sy-
monds. to Trieste, whither the steam-frigate herself
would precede them. The Spitfire, steam-vessel, Com-
mander Macdonald, had also been ordered from Corfu
to Venice disturbances there requiring a vessel to protect
'commercial iatererts.
" I am sorry to announce that [a great deal of fever,
contracted, it is thought, by drinking the mineral waters
of Baja, exists at present in the fleet. Several men and
officers have been sent to the hospital, and some cases
have terminated fatally. The hospital wards, and the
sick-bays on board two-thirds of the vessels of war in
port, are tenanted. The first indications of attack are
known by severe diarrhea, and the disease afterwards
assumes the appearance of typhus.
It seems now settled that the Trafalgar will leave
Port on Tuesday next, the 27th, fur England. She will
be very deep, as old stores from the dockyard, and
all the heavy baggage of the late Admiral Super-
intendent, Sir Lucius Curtis, are being pat on board.
Admiral Harvey's flag flies on board her at pre-
sent, but will be shifted to the Ceylon as soon as
Sir Lucius is .ready. I have heard, on very good
authority, that Sir Lucius does not make over his late
charge till the last of the month. Yet how to recon-
cile the two accounts ? My own fixed opinion is that
although the 27th is said to bo fixed for the Trafalgar's
departure, it will be found that the latter information
will prove to be the most correct."

We have already stated that the orders for Sir Lucius
Curtis were to hoist his flag on board the first man of
war ordered to England, and proceed to Spithead.
Our correspondent has furnished us with particulars of
some little notice, by Sir Wm. Parker, of certain little dif-
ferences on points of duty between Commander Wilmot
and Lieut. May, of the Superb, 80, Captain Corry.
They relate, however, more-td the internal discipline of
the ship, and are not of sufficient importance to interest
the service.—Huald.
The Right lion. the Speaker of the House of
Commons and family. arrived In Eaton•square on,Satur-
day, from ileckfiekl, Hints.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY WHICH
NOW STAND IN THE ORDER BOOK OF THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.

MONDAY, MAY 1.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.

1. Tobago Relief, &c.—Committee thereupon.
2. Public Works (Ireland)—Committee thereupon.
3. Removal of Aliens Bill—secord reading.
4. Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
5. Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome Bill—
second reading.
6. Game Certificates for Killing Hares Bill—further
consideration of report.
7. Supply—Committee.
8. Ways and Means—Committee.
9. Horsham Borough Bill—second reading.
10. Collectors of Cess (Ireland) Bill—second reading.
11. Insolvent Debtors' ilndia) Bill—report.
12. Distilling from Sugar Bill—further consideration of
report.
13. Indemnity Bill—third reading.
14. Evicted Destitute Poor (Ireland) Bill—second
reading.
15. Election Recognisances Bill—consideration of Lords'
amendments.