The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.

PORTB3IO un r, S UNDAY.— Extrac Eof a private letter from
one of the ships of the squadron, dated the 27th of June, in
lat. 48 deg. 27 min. N. lon. 10 deg. 32 min W.
" From the time of leaving-Cork to the 19th of June the
squadron have been exercising newly-raised men in reefing,
furling, making and shortening sail, general quarters, firing
at a target, &c. On the 20th a trial took place on a wind
between Superb, Vanguard, and Raleigh, wind light, from
two and a half to three knots. time six and a bale hours. At
the conclusion Raleigh beat Vanguard 4,200; Vanguard beat
Superb 1,150 yards.
" 22d.—Another trial between Canopus and Superb on a
wind. The latter weathered her oponent 300 yards.
" 23d.—Light airs, with a heavy swell. 'Trial between
Canopus and Vanguard. During the trial the wind shifted
six points, consequently it was declared ' no trial.'
" 24th.—Fresh breeze; single reefs and topgallant sails.
Trial between Raleigh, Canopus, and Vanguard, three hours
and a half; rate from seven to nine knots on a wind. Ra-
leigh carried away foretopsail-yard in stays, beat Vanguard
300 yards, and then gave up. Vanguard weathered Canopus
500 yards.
"since leaving Cork the crews have turned out once for
general quarters at 11 P.m., and fired three rounds of blank
cartridge. The crvise, as yet, has been very quiet. We are
expecting Sir William Parker daily, Trafalgar and Cyclops
hourly, with letters and officers' hoped-for commissions. The
Queen and Rodney do not do so well as in the last year's
trials--they have wonderfully fall - Vanguard will beat
all the liners on every point of sail - •,,h some of the
newspapers have given Superb ' . , considered
Superb and Vanguard's superiority s. • :0 the improve-
ment caused by additional ballast*"
The Scourge, steam bomb-vessel, Commander Caffin, and I
the Albion, steam transport, Maste‘Commander J. Aylen,
arrived at Cork orrthe Ist instil, the foi.nteilvom the Channel
squadron, with letters and dispatches.
The Admiralty has issued instructions under an order in
Council for the revival of the School of Naval Architecture
in this dockyard, in the following manner :—A selection is to
be made from the apprentices in the dockyard school of two
of the most advanced pupils in mathematics, classics, and
general good conduct from this yard, who have served four
years of their apprenticeship, two from Devonport school,
and one from each of the schools in Chatham, Sheerness,
Woolwich, and Pembroke yards. The same number are
to be admitted annually, and . not to exceed twenty-four;
they are to be instructed in the higher branches of
mathematics and practical shipbuilding, drawing, kc., by
masters to be selected by the Admiralty; and the place of
study to be appropriated, for the purpose is the residence
of Captain Denison, R.E., who will vacate it in September
next, when ha will go out as Governor of Van Diemen's
Land. This is the south wing of the present apprentices'
school in this dockyard. On the apprentices completing
their seven years' study with credit and professional ability,
they are to be eligible to the offices of foremen, assistant-
master shipwrights, and master shipwrights, or the other
appointments of the various trades in her Majesty's dock-
, yards for which the examining officers may consider them
qualified. This institution, if properly followed up, will
insure a supply of scientific officers for all the royal dock-
yards, particularly in the shipbuilding department.
The Seamen and Marines Orphan Schools, Portsea, which
have for their sole objects the education, maintenance, and
ultimate comfortable provision of the orphans of seamen
and marines of the Royal Navy and the Hon. East India
Company, are, we are happy to say, receiving that share
of benevolent patronage and attention from the affluent
and charitably-disposed which such an institution richly
deserves. Under the distinguished presidency of Admiral
Sir Charles Ogle, the Commander-in-Chief at this port,
whose warm support the institution eminently enjoys,
the funds of the charity are daily increasing. His Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia transmitted
yesterday, through Baron Brunnow, to Sir Charles Ogle,
the handsome donation of 20/. in aid of its funds, accom-
panied by his Highness's best wishes for the prosperity and
extended usefulness of the charity. Six boys have been en-
tirely fitted out And sent to sea since March, and three girls
have been placed in comfortable and suitable situations.
The Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, was
paid off yesterday into ordinary. A rumour prevails that
she is to be altered by having her bow lengthened, according
to the plan of Mr. White, of Cowes. If so, some considerable
time must elapse before she can be re-commissioned. As the
ship is apparently very sound, her spars only being defective,
we doubt the truth of these reports.
The Vixen steam-sloop, 6, Commander George Giffard,
had her freight cleared out very expeditiously on Friday
afternoon, and landed in lighters at Clarence-yard. She
sailed the same evening for Woolwich, to be paid-off.
The Fairy, steam-tender to the royal yacht, was un -
masted on Friday evening, in obedience to some whim of the
commander of the Victoria and Albert, who has, it appears,
taken a fancy to try the Fairy under canvass, and imagines
additional brass hoops are necessary to strengthen the masts,
lest they should split when the sails are set. It is obvious to
every sailor that this vessel can never de anything under
sail, being so exceedingly narrow.
One of the dockyard lumps, with the Drake sailing lighter
and the buoy-boat, has been employed for some days past in
sweeping the middle part of the anchorage at Spithead for
the purpose of discovering and removing some impediment
which is'statecl to have entangled one of the anchors of the
Ia
ourge steam bomb-vessel when lying there. The search
• hitherto been unsuccessful, although they have had, in
dition to the sweeps, the assistance of a diver from the
cellent.

Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., went on board the Con-
stance, 50, Captain Sir C. B. Walker, K.C.8., yesterday after-
noon to inspect her and muster her crew. The yards were
manned on his arrival and departure, and a salute fired when
he left. We understand he expressed hisunqualified admira-
tion at all the arrangements of the frigate and the proficiency
of her crew—a just tribute to the indefatigable exertions of
her captain, Sir Baldwin Walker, and the first lieutenant,
Mr. W. R. Kennedy.
The North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart., sailed
from Sydney, New South Wales, for the Cape of Good Hope
and England, on the 24th of February.
A contract was taken on the 25th ult. at the Royal Cla-
rence victualling establishment, Gosport, for 1,000 quarters
of wheat, principally at b6s. 6d. per quarter; a small quan-
tity realised 575., and some 575. 6d. The average was a
shade higher than the previous contract.
The Griffon, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Wil-
mot, on her passage from Devonport to Rio, was spoken in
June, in let. 38 deg. 50 win. N., long. 14 deg. W., by the
Ro-,alist, arrived at Cork.

The Cyclops steam frigate, Capt. Lapidge, is to relieve the
Rattler screw sloop, Commander Smith, at Oporto, the Ratt-
ler to rejoin the Channel squadron, and the Cyclops to follow,
when her services can be dispensed with.
The Retribution steam frigate, Capt. Lushington, has re-
joined the Channel squadron.
The Crocodile troop ship, Commander Lowe, and the
Blenheim transport, have left Cork for Hudson's Bay, with
Royal Artillery and a detachment of the 6th Regiment.
The Admiralty have ordered that in future galvanised iron
is to be used instead of copper, as heretofore, in the construc-
tion of coal bunkers for her Majesty's steam-vessels.

rnornoirozis.
Lieut. Wm. H. Kennedy' (seniority December 15, 1838),
promoted to Commander July 2, 1846. Entered the service
in 1828, served four years and a half as mate, and seven
years and eight mouths as lieutenant; he has had 15 years
continuous service in the West Indies; now first lieutenant
of the Constance.

Mr. Francis P. Coull (seniority November 16, 1838), pro-
moted to lieutenant July 4, 1846, for long and good service
in the Coast-guard.

APPOINTMENTS.
Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood Inglefield, C. 8., to be Com-
mander-in-Chief on the China and East India station, vice
Sir T. Cochrane, whose period of service has expired.
Commodores—Captain Sir Thomas Herbert,K.C.B., of the
Raleigh, 50, to the command in chief on the south-east
coast of America, vice Rear-Admiral Inglefield; Captain Sir
Henry Hotham, K.C.8., of the Gorgon steam-frigate, to the
chief command on the west coast of Africa, vice Jones, de-
ceased.

Lieutenants—Thomas James, to the Express, vice Her-
rick; S. Reeve, to the Linnet; C. B. Kennedy, to the Hi-
bernia; G. S. Taylor. to the Bulldog; H. T. Chesshire, to
command the Wee Pet steam•vessel at Malta; D. B.
Hawes, to the Columbine; and W. Horton and 0. Borland,
to the Recruit.

Masters—J. M'Donald, of the Rodney, to the Victoria and
Albert, vice Ellis, retired; J. Mitchell, to the Minden; R.
Roberts, to the Columbine; J. C. Barlow, to the Rodney;
B. Simpson, to the Linnet; C. Pope, to the Queen; and V.
Bowen, to the Recruit.

Paymasters and Pursers—M. Scott, to the Columbine;
C. F. Turner, to the Bulldog; W. Brown, to the Caledonia,
vice Bone.

Surgeons—Robert Bernard (who was promoted by the
Admiralty, as a token of respect for the memory and services
of his brother. the late Assistant-Surgeon Sidney Bernard,
whose martyrdom in the cause of humanity will ever be
remembered in the case of the Eclair steam-sloop), to the
Contest brig at Portsmouth ; J. Campbell, M.D., to the
Columbine.

Mate—S. T. Dickens, to the Locust, vice Kennedy.
Second Masters—B. Simpson, to be Acting Master of the
Linnet ; H. Martin, to the Lucifer ; E. Maunder, to the
Crocodile.

Assistant-Surgeons—D. Coulter, J. Henderson, and J. S.
Davidson, to the Agincourt; J. Pickthorn, to the Contest;
A. Jackson, from Haslar Hospital, to the Columbine . G.
Brewster, to the Caledonia; S. Stephens, to the Avenger;
G. E. Nicholas, acting, to the Bulldog.
Masters' Assistants—T. Richards, to the Victory ;E.
Charlesworth, and J. G. Morgan, to the Tartarus.
Clerk in Charge—C. E. Colman, to the Crescent.
Midshipmen—R. Twisden, to the Eurydice; Baker, to
the Spartan.
Naval Cadets—M. St. Clair, G. W. Carter, and J. R.
Ouseley, to the Contest; H. Marden, to the Eurydice.
Clerk—H. C. Poole, to the Contest.
DOCKYARD APPOINTMENTS.--PROMOTIONS AND CITANGES.
Those Masters-Attendant retiring take the rank of Com-
mander :
Portsmouth Dockyard—Mr. Purdo, Master-Attendant, to
the retired list; Mr. C. Brown, the Assistant-Master-At-
tendant, to be Master-Attendant ; Mr. C. Bellamy, to be
Assistant-Master-Attendant.
Plymouth Dockyard—Mr. Lumsdale, Master-Attendant,
to the retired list; Mr. llenderson, to be Master-Attendant;
and Mr. John E. Mills to be Assistaat-Master-Attendant
Woolwich Dockyard—Mt. Nicholas Tinmouth, Master-
Attendant, to the retired list; Mr. Thomas Elson, to be
Master-Attendant.
Chatham Dockyard—Mr. F. W. R. Sadler, to the retired
list ; Mr. Alexander Karley, to be Master-Attendant;
Samuel G. J. Northcote, of the Albion, to be Second Master-
Attendant.
Sheerness Dockyard—Air. Gaze, to the retired list; Mr.
R. Easto, to be Master-Attendant; Mr. James Underwood,
to be Assistant-Master-Attendant; Mr. William Blessley,
foreman of the Sheerness-yard, to be foreman of Chatham-
yard, vice Hancorn, deceased.
Royal Clarence Victualling -yard—Master-Attendant, Mr.
John Town, to the retired list; Mr. John Davis, to be Mas-
ter-Attendant, vice Town.
Royal William Victualling-yard—Mr. John Franklyn,
Master-Attendant, to the retired list; Mr. J. W. Armstrong,
from the Somerset-house department, to be Master-Attend-
ant; Mr. J. C. Giles, to the department at Somerset-house,
vice Armstrong.
Mr. R. Stonehouse, master smith at Chatham, has been
superannuated on 1901. per annum.
Mr. L. Peake, of Sheerness, has been promoted to be a
permanent foreman of shipwrights, and has been appointed
to Pembroke yard ; and Mr. Sturdee, acting at Chatham,
,
has
been promoted to be a permanent foreman, and has been