The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-25 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Mates—G. A. W. Welsh, to the Powerful, $4, at
Spithead; Clement C. Day, to the Vengeance, 84, in the
Mediterranean.

Midshipmen—Charles Atkins, to the Fisgard, flag-
ship, at Woolwich; George H.:Broadhead, to the Ven-
geance; Murray T. Parks, to the Kingfisher, 12, fitting
at Portsmouth; Rchs.rd Morris, to the Fisgard, flag-
ship, at Woolwich; Lord Guillarnore, to the Victory,
flag-ship, at Portsmouth; George R. Bell, to the Driver,
steam-sloop, at Portsmouth,

Masters' Assistants—William Long, to the Medina,
steam-packet, fitting at Woolwich; J. G. N. Millett, to
the St. Vincent, 120, flag-ship, at Spithead.
Naval Cadet—The Hon. John B. Vivian, to the Victory.
Gunner—Philip Yoe, to the Rifleman.

THE SHIPS AT SPITHEAD.—The St. Vincent, 120,
Captain S. C. llacres, with the Rag of Rear-Admiral Sir
C. Napier, K.C.8., is reported ready for sea. When she
will go, and where she will be ordered, or whether she
will go at all, is at present uncertain. She is kept quite
ready. The Prince Regent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin,
is changing her armament, and will be ready for sea so
soon as that is completed. The increase of her arma-
ment is net of that extent as to require so many addi-
tional men as anticipated; and it is net likely that she
will at present have any increase to her complement.
At any rate, it is considered that 850—that is, an addi-
tion of 30 marine artillery—would be an ample: propor-
tionate increase. The Powerful, 84, Captain the lion.
R. S. Dundas, C. 8., commenced entering her additional
complement yesterday, but there does not seem to be
any hurry about it; she is not expected to go to sea be-
fore the middle of next month. She will enter 15 subor-
dinate officers, 30 petty officers, 186 seamen, 18 first-
class, and five second-class boys.
CAPE or GOOD HOPE.—By private letters from
Simon's Bay, down to August 15, we find that the Ad-
miral had not arrived there from the Mauritius. The
Eurydice, 26, Captain T. V. Anson, remained, the Gal-
lint Captain carrying on the duties of the dockyard and
port. The Nimrod, 16, Commander Belgian, had arrived
from St. Helena and her cruise.

SUPPLY OF COALS AT MADEIRA..---TllO Dee, Royal
Mail Steam-packet Company's vessel, left Madeira on
the 26th instant, having completed her quantity of fuel
in the short space of six hours. That the private es-
tablishment of Mr. Blaudy, at this was enabled,
in an open roadstead, to ship through a surf 100 tons in
six hours, is a gratifying exhibition in a foreign island
of what a British merchant can effect to forward the in-
terests connected with steam navigation. We believe
that the home ports of Woolwich or Portsmouth seldom
equal the shipment of 100 tons of coals in six hours.
THE SCREW-SOLIOONERS.—The Reynard, $, Com-
mander Cracroft, will not ba refitted for sea, at Ports-
mouth, before the 10th of November. The Plumper is
preparing to be tried with :the Reynard. She went
under the sheers yesterday, and received her anchors.
The Admiralty have censured the carelessness at Wool-
wich in casting the defective screw for this vessel. The
Sharpshooter (iron), Lieutenant-Commander Bailey, ar-
rived at Portsmouth from Woolwich on Monday, at
11.22 A.M., and went into harbour. The Rifleman
(wood), Lieutenant-Commander Crofton, is there fitting
for trial.
La Hogue, 56, steam guard ship at Sheerness, is to
have the midship part of the orlop beams and carlings in
the hold removed, and iron ones substituted.
The Arrogant, 46, screw-frigate, is ordered to be re-
moved from Woolwich to the basin at Deptford, to be
fitted. . .

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The Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, at Portsmouth, is
not to have her stern altered for the present. . .

The Niger, screw-sloop at Woolwich, will ba ready
for further trial by the 26th inst.
The Driver, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Johnson, re-
turned to Portsmouth from the chops of the Channel,
the wind having shifted to the westward, and went into
harbour yesterday morning. In consequence of com-
munication by the electric telegraph, she again hoisted
the blue peter and is ready for sea. Her destination is
not known, but it is supposed that she will convey the
Irish political convicts to some place of transportation.
The Driver looked in at Plymouth in coming up the
Channel.
The Styx, steam-sloop, requiring such extensive re-
pairs, has been ordered to Deptford to have them taken
in hand.
The Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord A.
Beauclerk, will not be out of the hands of the engineers
of Portsmouth before the 11th, and of the shipwrights by
the 15th November.
The Janus, steam-sloop,7at Woolwich, is ordered to
have the masts, rigging, and stores already provided for
her, put into proper condition and placed on hoard.
The Vesuvius, steam-sloop, at Woolwich, is ordered
to have the defects in her hull and machinery repaired.
The Medina, 3, steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander
A. Darby, is ordered to have a complement of sixty-five
officers and men, and is to be ready to leave Woolwich for
the Mediterranean by the first week in November. She
will be out of the hands of the engineers and shipwrights
by the Ist of next month.
The Teazer, 3, screw gun-vessel, Lieutenant,Com-
mender Jasper Selwyn, commissioned at Woolwich for
sea service, is ordered to have a complement of thirty-
five officers and men. She will be out of the hands of
the dockyard and engineers by the 31st instant.
The Llewellyn, Holyhead steam-packet, Master-Com-
mander Gray, will have the accident to her cylinder
repaired by the contractors, Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill,
and Co., by about the Ist of December. This vessel,
when on the Holyhead station, ran the distance across
in three hours and a half ; and the Banshee, we be-
lieve, has done it even within five minutes less time
than this.

The Garland, 1, Dover steam-packet, Master-Com-
mander Smithett, now at Woolwich, is not to have her
new boilers now; but the old ones are to be patched and
repaired, and by lowering the pressure on the valves she
is to work them some time longer. She will be ready to
leave Woolwich by the 29th.
The Myrmidon, whose boilers have been worn out,
although she has not been 100 days under steam since
sho was built, is to have her defective boilers removed,
and new ones to be substituted. The defects in machinery
and hull are ordered to bo tinkered up again without
delay.
The Rhadamanthus, 2, steam-transport, Master Com-
mander Aylen, and the Alban, steam-transport, Master
Commander Bradshaw, remain on the coast of Ireland
as floating barracks for the battalion of marines, the
former having 318 on board, off Waterford, and the
latter with 82, lying off Bantry. All is quiet i❑ that
quarter—the men were constantly employed in shell
practice.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—A rather curious accident,
completely unavoidable, happened to-day. The Lyre-
ington, passage-steamer, a vessel somewhat less in size
than the Ryde, passage-steamer, was coming out of
Portsmouth Harbour, close in to Blockhouse beach, a
strong ebb tide was running, a wherry with, fortunately,
only one waterman, was coming into the harbour, and
was keeping close under Blockhouse Point. Both ves-
sel and boat cleared the point at the same time, and the
latter was completely severed in two. Fortunately the
steamer was low, so that the boatman was enabled to get
hold of her gunnel rnd jump on board, much to the sur-
prise of the captain of the steamer, for so suddenly did
the steamer and boat come in contact, that so soon as
the wherry was seen she was run over. The boat was
towed into harbour in two parts.
FIVE P.M.—Wind, westerly, moderate breszea, with
dark cloudy weather.
THE CHOLERA AT MALTA.—The regulations with
regard to the fumigation of letters, &c., are most strictly
enforced at Naples. The Bull-dog steam-sloop, we learn,
by advices just received, has been sent from M site to
Naples with the letters for Sir Willism Parker's fleet
just taken out by the mail, hut that every letter, paper,
or parcel, was cut open in the most careful mariner and
taken to the health house ashore, as the cholera was
known to hare broken out at Malta. The Bull-dog was
placed in quarantine on her arrival. The bests of the
ships of the fleet were sent to the health-ofrice for the
letters after they had been subjected to the usual pro-
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