The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE;

Captain Sir Frederick W. Erskine Nicolson, Bart.,
has been appointed to the Royal Naval College, Ports-
mouth.

Captain W. 11. Kitchen (1846) has been appointed to
the Tortoise store-ship, as Governor of Ascension, vice
Hutton, whose term of service has expired. Captain
Kitchen is in the sixty-fifth year of his age, entered the
service in 1799, and has served afloat thirty-one years.
lie was in the Monarch, 74, at the Copenhagen action,
and commanded a tender of the Argo, 44, at the reduc-
tion of St Lucie and Tobago, in 1803. As mate of the
Speedy sloop, in 1804, received injury in his knee
whilst firing at the enemy's flotilla off Ostend; and, in
1805, when in command of a rocket-boat, under Sir
Sidney Smith, off Boulogne, was severely burnt in both
hands. Was nearly two years sub and acting lieute-
nant, and commanded the Dominica's gig and cutter
at the capture, 1806, of the French national schooner,
Chiffone; and was slightly wounded in the leg at cut-
ting out four of the enemy's vessels from under the
batteries of Guadeloupe. In 1807, he assisted at the
reduction of the Danish West India Islands, and ob-
tained his confirmation in 1808. Ho was senior
leutenant of the Asp sloop, in 1809-10, at the taking
of Martinique, the capture of the French frigate La
Junon, and in the boats at the destruction of the forts
and magazines of Port St. Louis, Guadeloupe. He served
as first lieutenant of different ships until 1822. In 1824
he was appointed to the Terror, part of the force em-
ployed in the expedition against Algiers; commanded
the Nightingale cutter, in the Channel, and was pro-
moted in 1827. As a commander he served three years
in the coast guard at Harwich, and so distinguished him-
self in suppressing riots and extinguishing incendiary
fires that ho was recommended by high civil powers,
and was promised the promotion he did not get until
after he had served in the Queen, 110, flag-ship, in the
Mediterranean, and in command of the Devastation
steam•sloop, from February, 1844, to the close of 1845,
and then he had to wait a year for his present rank.
Captain Arthur Forbes (1845) has received his com-
mission appointing him to the command of the Calypso,
18, at Chatham. He entered the navy in 1820, and has

served afloat about eighteen years. lb was fortunate
enough to obtain his first commission in 1826, and as
lieutenant served in the Jasper, 10, Harrier, 18, Magi-
cienne, 24, and was promoted from first-lieutenant of
this ship, after a second appointment of three years, in
1838. As a commander, he served in Sir Charles Adams'
flag-ship Illustrious, West Indies, and was promoted on
paying her off.
Express, 60, Commander Fead, bent sails at Devon-
port on Thursday. She will go out of harbour to-day,
when her compasses will be adjusted by Mr. Thompson,
Queen's harbour master, previous to her being paid ad-
vance.

Sylph tender returned to Devonport on Wednesday
evening, from Fowey, where she had been to settle some
dispute with the fishermen.
Java freight ship arrived at Devonport on Thursday
morning, from Quebec, with part of the 19th Regiment
on board. They will disembark at Devonport.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 25.—The Centaur steam frigate
was commissioned this morning by Mr. Loane, the mas-
ter, for the flag of Rear-Admiral Henderson, on the
Brazil station. Such an unprecedented circumstance as
a second or third-rate steamer carrying an admiral's flag
is naturally the chief topic of gossip at this port.
The Hotspur Indiaman, Captain Toynbee, 1,300 tons,
sailed from Spithead this morning with a detachment
of troops and full of passengers, for Calcutta, on her
first voyage.
The Belvedera, 38, has been dismasted to-day.
The Avon steam-tender returned to Devonport this
evening.
The weather has been too unfavourable to admit of
the Royal yacht at Cowes being used by her Majesty.