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NOVEMBER 18, 1846.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

NOVEMBER 14.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
- Surgeons —John Moolenburgh Winter, to the Medea;
Robert Grigor, to the Albatross; Frederick N. Slight, to
the Rosamond; William Robertson, to the Birkenhead.
Clerk in Charge—Herbert Johnston, to the Belvidera.
Master—Richard Read, to the Mutine.
NOVEMBER 16.
Masters'- Assistants—Frederick T. Carr, to the Ocean;
William Hewlett, to the Rosamond.
Acting Assistant•Surgems—W. E. O'Brien, to the
Birkenhead; William Crawford, to the Medea.
Assistant-Surgeons—T.l Urquhart, to the Woolwich
division ; C. N. Wilkinson, to Greenwich Hospital ;
Joseph B. IL Collings, to the Hibernia; NV. m. Saunders,
of the Victory ; William Webber, to the Grappler ;
Alexander Armstrong, to the Victoria and Albert.
Naval Cadet—Alexander F. Cambier, to the Ocean ;
Seymour Curtis, to the Hibernia. -
Lieutenant—John A.' H. Boyd, to be Chief Officer
Coast Guard.. •
Commanders Edward Collier, to the Trafalgar ;
Horatio Jauncey, to the Albion ; William Worsfold to
the Imaum.

NAVAL AIDES-DE-CAMP TO THE QUEEN.
The following officers have been appointed to the dis-
tinguished honour of aide-de-camp to the Queen, in the
room of Captains Hope, Sir S. J. B. Pechell Hornby, Sir
F. Collier, Sir C. Napier, and Sir F. B. R. Pellew, re-
cently promoted:—
Captain Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley,
C.B. (1814), one of the Lords of the Admiralty.
Captain Morgan Crofton (1814).
Captain Sir George Rose Sartorius (1814).
Captain Arthur Fanshawe, C.B. (1816).
.Locaptaiituiefflia pay, C.B; (1818), one of the
Captain Sir George Augustus Westphal, Knt. (1819).
Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzzlarence, G.C.H. (1824),
has also been appointed an extra aide-de-camp to her
Majesty.
The senior naval aides-de-camp to the Queen are
Captain Sir Andrea Pellatt Green, Knt., K.C.H. (1814),
and Captain EdwolPd H. A'Court (1811). The marine
aides-de-camp are Colonel Thomas A. Parke, C. 8., and
Colonel John Owen, C.B. •
The good-service pension, which again reverted to the
Admiralty on the... promotion of Captain Philip Browne,
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his broad pendant flying on board the Imaum at Jamaica.
Three of the captains' out-pensions of Greenwich Hos-
pital, relinquished on promotion, have been conferred on
the following officers :
Captain George Hayes (1829), a brother of the late
distinguished Admiral Hayes, a lieutenant of 1793, and
commander of 1814. When lieutenant in command of
the Experiment, lugger, he beat off a French brig and
two row-boats of superior force ; was lieutenant of the
the Lively, in St. Vincent's action ; and commanded the
Daring, gun-brig, in the expedition to Flushing in 1809.
Captain Edward Sparshott, K.H. (1'830), a lieutenant
of 1807, and commander of 1821. He was lieutenant of,
the Niobe at the attack on two French frigates under
the batteries of La Hogue, 1810 ; and destruction of
Amazone off Cape Barfleur, 1811 ; and first lieutenant
of a number of ships, and among them of the Rochefort,
with Sir Thomas Freemantle ; captain of Winchester,
and rendered important services in quelling an insurrec-
tion on the coast of Malabar in 1837, where, however,
he had the misfortune to receive a coup de soled.
Captain Samuel Burgess (1830), a lieutenant of 1799,
and a commander of 1816, a most distinguished officer
as a lieutenant. He was midshipman of the Impreg•
nable in Howe's action, and of the Isis in the expedition
to the Helder; senior lieutenant of the Sylph, when she
twice beat off the French frigate Artemise; and com-
manded the Carteret cutter in the attack on Granville,
in 1803; lieutenant of the Prince at Trafalgar; and
commanded the Pincher, gun-brig, at the destruction of
the .batteries at Cuxhaven and Gessendorf. Subse-
quently he was flag lieutenant to Lord Exmouth on board
the Queen Charlotte, at Algiers.
Vice-Admiral Sir F. W. Austen, the commander-in-
chief in the West Indies, as we stated he would, left
Halifax in his flag ship the Vindictive, 50, Captain
Stanley, on the 21st ult., for Bermuda. The Vesuvius,
steam-sloop, Commander O'Callaghan, left Halifax two
days before for the same port.
Commander Sir James J. Gordon Bremer, K.C.H.,

K.C.8., appointed to Woolwich Dockyard, it is ex
petted, will likely come up to Sheerness in the Terrible
steam-frigate,
,on his way to Woolwich, and will there-
fore keep his broad pendant flying until that time. The
Admiralty have offered Sir Gordon this alternative.
Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., the newly-appointed
Comptroller General of the Coast Guard, entered upon
the duties of his office yesterday.
-Commander Henry JaAcs Lacon (1842), a lieutenant
of"lB3s;Auxa.s:lieutdnant of the. Qe.3tor, 36, in her
operations on the north coast of Spain, and senior of the
" - - (ntge. to the conclusion of the
has been appointed to tile v angua.u, co, me
promoted.
Lieutenants Arthur Grose (1815) has been appointed
to the Victory, 104, ordinary guardship at Portsmouth.
F. E. Forbes (1843), of the Wolf, 18, at China, to the
Penelope, steam-frigate.
Mate J. J. O'Ferral Carmichael has been appointed to
the Penelope steam-frigate.
Second Master J. B. Read has been appointed to the
Excellent, 48, gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, vice Wallis
promoted.
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain A. Milne, flag-ship of
Sir C. Ogle, at Portsmouth, is ready at that port, but is
at least 50 seamen short of her complement.
The Queen, -110, Captain Sir H. Leeke, flag-ship at
Devonport, has her full harbour complement of 760.
She had her lower rigging set up and her maintopmast
pointed on Saturday, and will be ready to leave the har-
bour on Wednesday. She is ordered by the Admiralty
into the Sound, where she is to be paid wages, and to be
kept ready for sea at the.shortest notice.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lushington, fitting at
Portsmouth, will not be ready for sea before the 6th of
next month. She is more than 100 short of her com-
plement of 43t'.
The Belleisle, 20, two-decked troopship, Captain
Kingcome, at the Nore, has drawn charts for the Medi-
terranean station and the South American station, and
is ready to sail for Plymouth, to make her complement
of 290, of which she is about 25 short, and to receive orders.
The Crocodile, 26, will be ready for sea at Ports.
mouth, on the 26th inst. She will most probably resume
her old station as flag-ship, at Cork.
The Rose, 18, Commander Pelly, arrived at the Little
Nore on Sunday at noon, and saluted the flag of Sir
Edward King. Orders for paying.her off at Sheerness
were waiting her, and she will go into harbour for that
purpose. ller complement is 130.
The Columbine, 16, sloop, Commander (now Captain)
Booth, was at Bahia, from Chatham, on her way to the
East Indies, Sept. 30, repairing damages, having sprung
her bowsprit on her passage out. As she is one of the
" intuitive" vessels, we presume that the bowsprit was
rotten, and was only inteaded to last exactly up to the

time when it was sprung.
The Albatross, 16, Commander Farquhar, hoisted the
pendant at Chatham on Thursday last. er comple-
ment is now 120, 10 less than before.

The Mutine, 12, Commander Tryon, was yesterday
towed from Chatham to the Nore. She Is ordered to
proceed to Spithead to have her compasses adjusted, and
will then be paid advance and proceed to the Mediter-
ranean to relieve the. Syren, 16. This brig, as we have
before stated, has 120 men, her complement having been
increased by 10. She has been six weeks in com-
mission.
The Raven, 3, cutter, Commander Stephen, will be
paid off this day at Sheerness, and will then have her
defects made good, and be re-commissioned.
The Seagull, 6, packet-brig, Lieutenant Commander
Dickens, was paid wages at Devonport on Saturday, and
will be ready to sail for Falmouth on Wednesday.
The Belvidere, frigate store-ship, Captain Layton, is
to be-paid advance at Deptford, and is to proceed without
delay with her provisions to the west coast of Scotland,
where she is to be stationed as a provision &pert for the
distressed population of the Highlands.
The Andromeda, store-frigate, Commander Gilbert, is
ordered to be sent from Cork to Killybegs, there to be
moored as a provision depot for that part of the coast of
Ireland.
The Andromache, store-frigate, Master Commander
Thompson, has been ordered from Cork to Galway,
there to be moored as a provision depOt for that portion
of the coast of Ireland.
The Naiad, old 46 gun-frigate, Master Commander
Langton Brown, fitting at Portsmouth •as a store-ship,
for Valparaiso, will be ready when she has received her
guns and anchors, and has been painted.
The Terrible, steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, as soon
as her defects are made good at Devonport, is ordered to
Portsmouth. to land the Royal Marines belonging to that
division, and then to Sheerness, with those belonging to
Chatham. She is to wait further orders at the latter
place. The Terrible has some defects, which arose from
an accident, and will take four days to make good. The
upper part of the framework near the inner bearing on
the port side, in consequence of the two main beams
having Shrunk, has severed ; consequently she was
obliged to conic on with one engine only,"and under these
circumstances reached Devonport, from Lisbon, with 600
marines comfortably stowed, on the night of Thursday
last, having left Lisbon on the previous Thursday.
The:Penelope, steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, fitting at
Portsmouth, for Sir Q. Hotham's broad pendant on the
coast of Africa, is daily picking up her crew by twos and
threes. Her complement is 260, to make up which she
requires at least 80 petty officers and seamen. Originally
we believe she had above 400 men, but the great mistake
in her " conversion" obliged them to reduce the number
to 320; and these sbe could not properly stow. She has
now a less number of guns, and will therefore be efficient
with a less number of men. The Kroomen which she
will get on the coast will fill up her number to aborouchve 300.
The Gorgon, steam-frigate, Commander C, ar-
rived at Falmouth from Monte Video, has been ordered'
to Woolvvich to be paid off, having been in commission
since November, 1842. Her master, just promoted, and
the Assistant-Surgeon Evan Evans, are the only officers
on board who have been in her during the, whole time.
It is well known that but for Sir C. liotham, her late
gallant captain, and his equally gallant officers and crew,
this vessel, or her wreck, would have never left the
shore of South America.

PRICE SD.

RELATING TO THE HER3INE AND THE FOR-
TITUDE OF LYNN. •
Nov. 12.—Dispatches were received at Lloyd's from
the Admiralty and Foreign-Office : the former announces
the arrival at Victoria, North Australia, on the 11th of
May, of the Enchantress schooner, having on board the
master and remaining part of the crew and passengers
of the brigantine Heroine, wrecked in Torres Straits,
on the 24th of April last, with loss of eight lives ; the
latter advises that the master of the brig Gipsy, of
Greenock, ,had reported to her Majesty's, Consul at
Oporto having fallen in with the wreck of the'Fortitude,
of Lynn, on the 20th of October last in lat. 46 44 N.,
long. 26 W., with no one on board.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE AT SEA.—CAPTAIN
COUCH'S SAFETY. CHANNELS.
Captain Couch, of the Royal Navy, has submitted to
Government and public bodies interested in maritime
affairs a plan for the preservation of life and property at
sea. It consists in fitting vessels with solid safety chan-
nels, upon a patented principle, by which, when a ship
is dismasted, the wreck can be quickly and safely de-
tached without injury to the vessel. By the old plan of
fitting channels, when a vessel is dismasted, she runs
great danger of being stove in by the masts thumping
under her bottom before the wreck can be cut away ;
this arises from the chain plates to which the dead eyes
are attached falling below the surface of the water, when
much dangerous delay ensues before all can be cut clear.
By Captain Couch's plan the chain plates never alter
their position, so that the rigging can be cut away im-
mediately from on board. At a meeting of the Com-
mittee of the General Shipowners' Society, held on Tues-
day, Captain Couch having personally attended and sub-
mitted to the notice of the Committee models of his plan
of fitting " solid channels " to ships, together with seve-
ral documents and testimonials which he had received
from diffi.rent nersons on the subject, it was resolved,—
" That the Committee are precmuee, ny ale
of the society, from expressing in their collective capa-
city any opinion on the plan of Captain Couch, but
that he be informed that it is considered by several mem-
bers who are practically acquainted with nautical sub-
jects as calculated to give additional security to the chan-
nels, and, in the events of the masts of a ship being car-
ried away, greatly to facilitate clearing the wreck, and
consequently to preserve life and property in such cases.