The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-13 00:00:00

AV AL 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 les-
sen 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 Havaunah, 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 bob-
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.
WooLwlcrr, 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 Arsenal;
Major-General Paterson his office as chief of the Reposi-
tory Exercises Department; and Major-General Lacy
the head of the Carriage Department in the Royal.
Arsenal, in consequence of 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, Brevt t
Lieutenant-Colonels of 1817, who have been promoted
to M or - 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
ft 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-
vished 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
Canopus Ditto. .... . G. H. P. White.
Superb
Trafalgar
Vanguard ... Ditto ..... R. Barton.
Vindictive... West Indies J. W. Noble.
Alecto S.E. coast of America .. F. W. Austen.
Comus
Columbine .. East Indies
Cruizer
Driver . Ditto
Harlequin ... Mediterranean... ..
Siren
Cormorant... Pacific ... ...... .....
Helena
Hydra.
Lame Ditto .. ......... ... .. J. W. D. Brisbane.
Rolla .....
Belvidera
Imaum Jamaica .. • H. M. E. Allen.

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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 Channel Squadron ...... Cumberland Hadaway
America Ditto
Ardent
Bonetta ...... Ditto Wm. Critchell.
Dasher ------ Coast of Ireland W. V. Read.
Griffon
Jackall
Torch Ditto D. R. B. Mapleto
Victory Portsmouth David Welch.
Ditto Ditto ......... ........ J. Rawatorne.
Ditto
Myrmydon . Coast of Ireland Charles Jenkin.
Raven
Grappler ... Portsmouth H. Hawker.
Scourge...... Ditto Hon. G. D. Keene.
Rattlesnake. Ditto J. M. R. Inch.
Vengeance.. Ditto
Nautilus . ... Lisbon
Trafalgar ... Ditto R. D. Fowler, Flag-
Lieut. to Commodore
Sir G. Bremer, K.C.B.
Terrible Ditto F. E. Johnston.
Daphne Pacific W. Barrie.
Flamer ...... Mediterranean .....
Vanguard ... Lisbon Wm. Howat.
Fox
Caledonia ... Plymouth
Blazer ...... Coast of Ireland W. C. Wingrove.
Viper ... West Indies E. C. Gray
Queen......... Plymouth
Conway ...... Cape of Good Hope A. Heseltine.
Rose ... Portsmouth W. H. Dobbie.
Albion
The following officers being promoted to the rank of
Rear-Admiral of the Blue :
Sir W. H. Dillon, Knt., K.C.H., gives up the good
service pension.
Thomas Serle, C. 8., ditto.
Henry Hope, C. 8., gives up aide-de-camp to the Queen.
Sir Thomas Ussher, K.C.H.,ditto good service pension.
Sir S. J. B. Pechell, LB., ditto aide-de-camp to the
Queen.
Robert Elliott, ditto good service pension.
C. F. Daly, C. 8., ditto. •
Hon. Sir F. B. renew, K.C.H., gives up aide-de-camp
to the Queen.
Sir F. A. Collier, C. 8., ditto aide-de-camp to the
Queen and superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard.
Sir C. Napier, K.C.8., ditto aide-de-camp to the
Queen and good service pension.
Richard Arthur, C. 8., ditto good service pension an
superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard.
Phipps Hamby, C. 8., ditto aide-de-camp to the Queen
and superintendent and comptroller of the Coast Guard.
Charles John Austen, C. 8., ditto good service pension.
Philip Brown, ditto.

EXPERIMENTAL STEAM TRlP.—Wednesday the
Capri, a new iron steam-boat, built for the Neapolitan
Steam Navigation Company, by Messrs. Ditchburn and
Mare, left her moorings at Blackwell on an experi-
mental voyage down the river. The Capri is fitted up
by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, with their patent
double-cylinder engines, tubular boilers, and feathering
wheels. She is of 220-horse power, builders' tonnage
605 tons, is 180 feet in length between perpendiculars,
and 26 feet 6 inches breadth of beam. The vessel left
Blackwall at half-past ten o'clock, and after performing
the distance between Woolwich Church and Gravesend
Church in lh. lm. 10s., she 'rounded the Nore Light at
a quarter past 1 o'clock, having had a strong head wind
against her all the way down. At thirty-five minutes
after three the Capri arrived at Blackwall on her return,
the average speed of nearly 17 miles per hour having
been attained throughout the voyage. This'fine vessel in
intended to ply between Marseilles and Malta, calling at
Civita Vecchia and Naples. She is fitted up in a style
of great elegance and comfort. Her quarter-deck ex•
tends nearly to the mainmast, and beneath it is the
grand saloon, under which, again, are roomy berths for
the cabin passengers. The saloon is pannelled with
American maple, and decorated with carved mahogany
and a white and gilt cornice. The ladies' cabin is fitted
up in Ow same tasteful manner. The Capri has sleep-
ing accommodation fur 180 passengers, and stowage in
her holds for 250 tons of merchandise. Her internal ar-
rangements reflect great credit on M. Boni, the Neapo-
litan Steam Navigation Company's agent, under whose
superintendence the Capri has been built. About five
or six years ago the company had two vessels fitted up
with Messrs. Maudslay and Co.'s patent double-cylinder
engines and tubular boilers, and they have recently
ordered two new iron boats to be built, with the same
engineering improvements—the Vesuvio and the Capri.
The difference of speed between the company's wood
and iron boats, both having the same description of en-
gines, is such, we are informed, as to show a striking
difference in speed in favour of the iron boats. The
Capri is expected to sail for Naples on Saturday next.
The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Rome, at the
end of last month, from Milan, and contemplates a
sojourn of about five weeks in the "eternal city," from
whence his Grace departs for Naples, in which capital
the Noble Duke has made arrangements to pass the up •
preaching winter.