The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

, Commander Samuel Thomas Carter (1844), on the
retired list of 1830, died a few days since at Stan we
near Colchester, aged G 7. He was the eldest son
of
the late S. Carter, Esq., of Sudbury, and of Twinsted
Lodge, Essex. He entered the navy on the 31st
January, 1800, served in the Juno's cutter, at cutting
out from Campeachy Bay, after a bloody conflict, a
Spanish schooner of 12 guns and 96 men ; and while
attached to the Elephant, witnessed the surrender of
the French squadron, with the remainder of General
Rochambeau's army. He passed his examination in
1807, and was confirmed January 14, 1808, to the
rank of lieutenant, in the Intrepid, 64, in which
ship he had previously beheld the surrender of
Madeira. He afterwards, on proceeding to the
West Indies, efficaciously served on shore at the re-
duction, in February and April, 1809, of Martinique
and the Saintes ; and on June 5, in the latter year,
joined the Castor, 32, Captain William Roberts, un-
der whom we find him contributing to the destruction,
in the ensuing December, of the 44-gun frigates Loire
and Seine, and in February, 1810, to the capture of
Guadeloupe. His last appointments were Sept. 25,
1810, to the Donegal, 74, Captain Pulteney Malcolm,
in the Channel, and Aug. 7, 1811, to the Sophie, 18,
Captain Nich. Lockyer, on the coast of North Ame-
rica. He was placed on half-pay in August, 1815,
and on Oct. 19, 1844, he accepted retired rank.
Commander Carter, until lately, held for many years
the honorary command at Lowestoft of the Suffolk
Humane Society's life-boat, and was thus instrumen-
tal in saving the lives at different periods of 124 per-
sons. He married April 9, 1814, his cousin, Laura
Catherine, second daughter of the late Rev. William
Chapman, vicar of Margate, county Kent, by whom
he has living a son and four daughters.
Lieut. Merion Marshall Moriarty (1814). He was
the brother of Commander Moriarty, entered the
navy in 1807, and in the course of nine years' service
afloat was at the reduction of Copenhagen. He com-
manded the Bristol Company's steam-ship Queen, in
1842, was appointed port officer of Sydney, New
South Wales, and died Government emigration
agent at Sligo.
Commodore Martin's squadron remained in the
Tagus on the 18th inst.
Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Captain M'Dougall, had
returned from the Riff coast.
Captain R. S. Hewlett commissioned the Hotspur,
44, at Devonport, on Tuesday, as the gunnery tender
to the Excellent.

Mr. W. Bennett Carpenter, R.N., and late of the
Vesuvius, steam-sloop has been dismissed the service
on a charga of drunkenness. •

Aboukir, transport, having embarked 66 convicts
from the establishment at Dartmoor, will shortly sail
for Van Diemen's Land.

Barracouta, steam7slOop, is ordered from Woolwich
to be fitted for sea at Chatham.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.—8 y letters received this
morning from the Tagus, dated the 19th, we are in-
formed, " with respect to the squadron of Commo-
dore Martin, everything is at such a standstill that
really nothing occurs worth noticing. Each day has
its allotted duties, but the ships have been much less
exercised lately. The Prince Regent, 90, has a great
deal of sickness on board, and many patients have
been sent to the hospital. This sickness, though of a
trifling character, has rendered many of her hands
unfit fbr active duties aloft, and in consequence, for
the present, she has rather easy times. The Com-
modore has issued stringent orders respecting grant-
ing the men extra spirits or other liquors during the
festive season of Christmas. Messrs. Sanger, Mon-
tague, and Norie, midshipmen of the Hogue, have
passed their examination in seamanship qualifying for
lieutenants. In port—Prince Regent, 90; Hogue,
60; Leander, 50 (bearing the Commodore's broad
pendant) ; Arethusa, 50; Dauntless, 38; and the
America yacht."

We are requested to state that William Hurry,
shipwright, who met with a fatal accident in the
dockyard on Monday and was conveyed to Hasler
Hospital, died from the injuries he received, and not
from any operation performed there, as he underwent
Done.

The Birkenhead steam troop-ship, Master Corn.
mander Sa!mond, will proceed from Spithead to
Queenstown, to embark depots of regiments, on the
2d proximo.

The Sprightly steam-tender will proceed to-mor-
row for Chatham, with the Marines belonging to that
division, paid off from the Havannah, at Devonport.
Woormicm, DEC. 25.—The Antelope, 2, paddle-
wheel steam-vessel, of 260 horse power, formerly em-
ployed as a mail steam packet on the Mediterranean

station, from which she was withdrawn on the substi-
tuting of the Banshee as a mail steam packet, has
undergone a thorough repair at this dockyard, and
will be out of the hands of the engineers on the 26th
of the present month, and will shortly be ready for
commission.

The Triton, 3, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel, of
260 horse power, formerly employed as a small steam
packet on the Mediterranean station, from which she
was withdrawn on the appointment of the Caradoo to
that service, has been repaired here, and will be
completed by the engineer department on the 11th of
February, 1852.

The Trident, 6, steam-vessel, of 350 horse power,
lately employed in protecting the fisheries on the north
coast of Scotland, has undergone a thorough repair,
and will be out of the hands of the engineers about
the 15th of February next.

The Wildfire paddle-wheel steam-vessel, tender to
the flag ship at Sheerness, is in course of repair at this
dockyard, and will be completed by the engineers
about the 11th of February, 1852.
The Greenock, 10, iron screw steam-frigate of 556
horse power, at present in the inner basin at Woolwich

Dockyard, has bad her engines put on board by
Messrs. George and Sir John Rennie, and it is ex-
pected they will be completely adjusted and ready for
getting the steam up by the sth of January next.
The Intrepid, Arctic screw steam-vessel, in the
East Dock No. 2, will be out of the hands of the en-
gineers by the 22d of January, 1852.
The Pioneer, Arctic screw steam-vessel, in the West
or King William's Dock, having sustained greater in-
jury than the Intrepid during her recent voyage to
the Arctic regions, will not be out of hands of the en-
gineers until the 31st of January next.
The Pluto steam-vessel is now ready for commis-
sion, and it is expected she will hoist a pendant in a
few days and proceed to the coast of Africa, where
she is to be employed on the surveying service, for
which she is well adapted, having a light draught of
water and engines of only 100. horse power.