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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 12.—Her Majesty's sloop Rose,
having landed the specie which she brought from the
West Indies, has sailed for Sheerness to be paid off.
The Scourge, mortar steamer, remains at Spithead
ready for sea.
The dockyard officers baying reported that the Re-
sistance can be repaired. and got ready again as a troop
ship, the Admiralty have ordered her to be cleared out,
and washed throughout with Dr. Sir -William Burnett's
solution, to destroy the bugs and vermin which swarm in
her. When the dockyard people have finished the Re-
sistance, Gimmander Lowe, and the crew of the Croco-
dile, are to be turned over to her.

Captain Sir William E. Parry, of North Pole celebrity,
comptroller of steam machinery, is to succeed Captain
Carter as superintendent of Haslar Hospital, and of the
Clarence victualling-yard at Gosport.
Captain Sir J. G. Sinclair, Bart., has commenced
duty as superintendent of the packet service at South-
ampton.
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Dr. Moseley, the Government inspector of pubic
schools, has been officially occupied here for two► days in
the examination of the dockyard apprentices (amounting
to upwards of 200) who attend the Schools in the yard.
Dr. Moseley has gone to Devonport and Pembroke Dock-
yards, to examine the apprentices of those schools in a
similar manner, and on his report being sent to the Ad-
miralty of the result of the inspections of the six dock-
yards, a selection is to be made of eight pupils, whom
he may recommend as eligible to be placed under the
professor of the Naval College, to be educated in the
higher branches of mathematics, and other subjects con-
nected with ship-building, steam, &c.
By the promotion to the rank of Lieutenant- General
of the Hon. Sir Hercules Pakenham, K.C.8., the situa-
tion of Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison, and Com-
mander-in- Chief of the south-west district, becomes
vacant.

Colonel Thompson Astlett, from Plymouth division,
is to succeed Major-General Jones as commandant of
this division of Marines, and Colonel Ed. Smith Mer-
cer succeeds Major-General Beatty as commandant at
Plymouth.
Commander Thomas Challoner is appointed to the
Siren, 16, vice Edgell, promoted. This officer goes to
join her in the Mediterranean by the packet from South-
ampton, and carries out orders for the Siren to go to the
coast of Africa. _ _ _

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Lieutenant Amphlett, from the Actaeon, and Mr. Twee-
dale, surgeon of the Prometheus, have returned inva-
lided from the coast of Africa.

Rear-Admiral Dacres, with his flag in the President,
50, was at the Mauritius, all well, on the 10th of August.
The Thunderbolt steamer was in company.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL OF THE RED, PHILIP STEPHENS,
ESQ.—The London Gazette announcing the general pro-
motion, and including in it that:of Admiral of the White,
?hilip Stephens, Esq., to be Admiral of the Red Squa-
dron, had only been published a few hours when the in-
telligence has reached us of the above gallant officer's
decease at Little Plumstead Hall. Admit al Stephens
was a Lieutenant in June, 1792, and his promotion was
as rapid as Sir E. Codrington's, for he was made a com-
mander in March, 1794, and Captain in October the
same year. He obtained his flag-rank of Rear- Admiral
in December, 1813, Vice Admiral in July, 1821, and
Admiral in 1847 Fur many years he held the civil
appointment of Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of
Norfolk.

By the Gallant Admiral's decease another promotion
will take place among the flag officers, viz , Frederick
Watkins will be promoted from the White le the Red
Squadron, being now the 10th Admiral on the list ; Sir
John We-t, Commander-in-Chief at Devonport, will
hoist the white at the main on board the Queen, 110, in-
stead of the blue ; Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Henry
Heatheote will be promoted to the rank of Admiral of
the Blue, being the 20th flag officer on the list ; Vice
Admiral of the White Bendall Robert Littlehales to the
Red Squadron ; Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Charles
Dashwood will be promoted to the White ; and Rear-
Admiral of the Red Charles Carter will be promoted to
be Vice-Admiral of the Blue Squadron, being the 75th
on the list of flag officers, and the 45th on the list of Vice-
Admirals.
In the extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday
we find that 14 of the senior Rear-Admirals were pro
mote d to the rank of Vice-Admiral, which left lour on
the list of Rear-Admirals of the Red. It appears, how-
ever, that the Gazette has only promoted 20 Rear-Admi-
rals of the White to the Red, making 24 instead of 25.
Rear-Admiral of the White Archibald Duff should have
been included in the promotion to the White, Rear-
Admiral of the Red Edward Walpole Brown.' having
died on the 15th October. By the Admiralty circular of
August 31st last the number of Rear-Admirals was to
be fixed at " 75, or 25 of each squadron;" but the general
promotion having added 20 Rear-Admirals to the list
(then 76), and taken 14 from it for Vice-Admirals, there
remained 82, or seven above the permanent number.
Adding, however, Rear-Admiral Duff to the Red from
the White (omitted in the Gazette), and now, by the
death of Admiral Stephens, promoting Rear -Admiral of
the White the Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay to the Red
squadron, being the 100th flag officer on the list, and
then promoting Rear-Admiral Inglefield, C. 8., of the
Blue, to the White, -vice Duff, and Rear-Admiral Sir
Wm. A. Montagu, C. 8., K.C.IL, from the Blue to the
White, vice Mackay, we shall then have 81 Reat-Admi-
rals of the Blue squadron, or six above the permanent
number.

THE CAPTAINS' GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS.—We gave
on Tuesday several officers who had been mentioned as
successors to the good service pensions relinquished by
the captains promoted to the rank of rear-admiral. We
have reason to believe that, although virtually deter-
mined on, the names of the captains on whom the good
service pensions are to be bestowed will not be officially
published for some days.
Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Collier, C. 8., K.C.H., has
hauled down his broad pendant as Commodore Super-
intendent at Woolwich Dockyard, but not for the pur-
pose of being succeeded by Captain Houston Stewart,
C.B. He will hoist his flag (blue at the wizen) on board
the William and Mary, as rear-admiral superintendent,
until the arrival of Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon
Bremer, K.C.8., K.C.H., who has his broad pendant
flying on board the Trafalgar, 120, Captain J. N. Nutt,
at Lisbon, as second in command of the Channel squadron,
who has been appointed Commodore Superintendent of
Woolwich Dockyard, vice Collier, promoted. Sir G.
Bremer is a captain of 1814, and is now 33d from the
top of the list.
Captain Houston Stewart, C.B. (1817), the 59th captain
on the list, recently Acting Superintendent of Woolwich
Dockyard, in the absence of Sir F. Collier, has been ap-
pointed Comptroller of the Coast Guard, in the room
of Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., promoted on
Monday.
It will be seen that the report of the appointment of
Captain Ellice to be comptroller of the coast guard was
unfounded. That of the re-appointment of Captain Sir
J. Hill (1815), on the expiration of his command at
Deptford, December 11, 1846, to be captain superin-
tendent of the victualling establishment and the dock-
yard must be equally fallacious. Sir John has had
several successive lucrative shore appointments, and will
doubtless, now remain on half-pay until he gets his
flag rank, to which he will naturally succeed in a very
short time.

Captain Frederick Huttcn (1844), a lieutenant of
1825 and a commander of 1838, who was lieutenant of
the Tees during the Burmese war, was also first lieute-
nant of the Magicienne, , with Captain Plutnridge and
likewise of the Vanguard, has been appointed to the
Tortoise guard-ship, at Ascension, as goiernor of that
island, vice Morrell.
Commander Arthur Morrell, of the Tortoise, and
governor of Aseen-ion, has been 'appointed to the
Hydra, steam-.1i,0p, on the coast of Africa, vice
Young promoted. The Hydra is ordered home direct
from Ascension.
Lieutenant Thomas S. Lysaght (1841), recently ap-
pointed to study steam at Woolwich, has been appointed
to command the Grappler, steam-vessel proceeding to
the coast of Africa, vice, Hawkes, promoted. Lieutenant
Lysaght was promoted for services on the coast of China
in 1841.)