The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Colonel Commandant Menzies, K.ll. of the Ports-
mouth division of Marines, has resigned his good-service
pension, and has been appointed to the distinguished
post of naval aide-de-camp to the Qaeen, vice Parke,
promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general.
Colonel Wearily", a gallant and distinguished officer
of the Plymouth' division of Royal Marines, has re-
ceived the other vacant appointment of aide-de-namp
to the Queen, vacated by Lieutenant-General Owen,
C. 8., on promotion.
Colonel Whylock, of the Chatham division of Marines,
has had conferred upon him the good-service pension
relinquished by Colonel Menzies.
Captain Charles M.M.Wrigh
,t R N,. (1846), died on
the 19th instant, at Wargrave, Berkshire, aged 56. rWe regret to announce thedz etise of Commander
William Symons (1842)
his residence North-
hill, Plymouth, aged 69. This officer had served 25
years afloat."
Dr. William Robertson (1843) has been appointed to
the Hogue, 60 gun ship, at Lisbon.
Mr. James C. Pinhorn (1844) has been appointed
clerk in charge of the Janus steam-vessel,
M-VeBBo, Gibraltar,
vice Heather, promoted.
Mr. Adam Ainslie has been appointed master smith at
Devonport Dockyard, and Mr. Henry Devonshire fore-
man of smiths at that establishment:
Lieutenant Arthur Tower, appointed to the Waterloo,
120, at Sheerness, was never placed on the retired half-
pay list, as stated. He is comparatively a young officer.
Messrs. Oswald and Bowing, first-class clerks at
Deptford Victualling-yard, have retired, the former on a
pension of 275/. per annum, and the latter on 190/. per
annum ; and the following gentlemen have been pro-
moted and appointed in consequence:—Messrs. Williams
and James, from second class to the first class; Messrs.
Stevenson and Hall, from third class to the second class;
Messrs Owen (extra clerk in Deptford Dockyard), and
Pollock, to the third class; and Mr. C. Brown, extra
third class, vice Owen.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDIY.—The wind shifted to the
westward yesterday evening, which will relieve the
homeward-bound vessels in the Channel.

In anticipation of the removal of the Court to-mor-
row to Osborne Palace, the Fairy, yacht-tender, Master-
Commander Welsh, and the Ellin, royal dispatch
steamer, have been down at Cowes several times during
the week.

The Court are expected about noon to-morrow en route
to Osborne. The Fairy is all ready to convey the royal
party to Osborne.
The Sharpshooter, iron steam gun-vessel, Lieutenant
Commander Bailey, was paid off on Wednesday last,
and will be taken into the steam basin on Monday.
The Simoom has finished painting outside, and she
looks like a magnificent vessel. Her bottom has been
payed over with Mr. Hay's composition. She will un-
dock on Monday.

The Helena, 16, Commander De Courcey, arrived at
Spithead this afternoon from the West India and North
American station. She left Bermuda on the Ist inst., at
which date the Cumberland, 70, flag of Vice-Admiral
Sir GeJrge Seymour, Commander-in-Chief, was there.
The Express, 6, Commander Fead, and the Scorpion, 6,
Lieutenant-Commander Laurence, sailed for St.
Thomas's on the 31st of o,:tober. The Calypso, 20,
Captain Forbes, sailed for Jamaica on the 29th of Sep-
tember. Captain G. B. Martin, C. 8., the flag captain
to Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Com-
mander-in-Chief, went out in the Fanny, and mus-
tered the crow and inspected the Helena, which will
come into this harbour to-morrow morning to be
paid off.

- The Basilisk, new advanced steam-frigate, was taken
out of harbour to-day by Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8.,
to try her machinery, &c. She made only two rune
along the measured mile, which realised an average
speed of ten knots per hour, after which she steamed to
the westward and returned to harbour.

The Sprightly steam-tender, Acting-Master-Com-
mander Allen, sails to-morrow for Plymouth, taking
supernumeraries for Lisbon and the West Indies, to take
passage, lespecfively in' the Row:gond and Hecate
steam-sloOps.
Captain Lord Adolphus Fite Clarence arrived at the
George Hotel this evening from town, to be in attend-
ance on her Majesty to-morrow.
Woor.wrcsr, Nov. 21.—Henry Devonshire is ap-
pointed Foreman of Smiths at Devonport dockyard.
THE ARCTIC COMMITTEE.—The committee, of which
Rear-Admiral Bowles, C. 8., is chairman, concluded the
examinations of the officers and others of the recent
Arctic expedition on Wednesday last, and the roport of
the result of the labours of the committee will soon be
ready. There is no doubt of another Arctic expedition
being fitted out so as to take its departure for the Polar
regions early in the ensuing spring. It is also the
general inipmsion that the instruction to the expedition
of 1852 will be to devote its energies to the passage of
or a thorough search up, Wellington Channel, and the
direction in which the open waters of Victoria Channel
were observed by Captain Penny in the early part of
the present year. ,The crews of the American ships
Rescue and Advance have been presented with medals
on their return home, and Mr. Henry Grinnell has
again placed these vessels at the disposal of the American
Government for a further search of Sir John Franklin
and the officers and crews of the long-missing vessels
Erebus and Terror, discovery ships.

PRIVATE EXPEDITIONS of the PRINCE
ALBERT and of LIE UT. PIAL
In the reports given in the American newspapers of
the grand dinner given at New York by the British re-
sidents there to Mr. Grinnell and the officers of the
Arctic expedition, we find the following notices by dif-
ferent speakers of these two expeditions :
Passed Midshipman Griffin, late commanding the
Rescue, said—The field of search is not yet entirely
abandoned. The flag of England still floats from the
peak of the vea.tel sent out by that true-hearted English
wife, the Lady Franklin, Constant to a degree which
ha 3 made her name almost as illustrious as that of her
husband, she still clings on to hope. Her own unyield-
ing spirit seems to have passed into the brave men who
navigate her vessel. A more gallant body of men, with
a more gallant head, were never afloat beneath the cross
of St. George than those who are now aboard the Prince
Alhort. Relenting fate may have reserved for them the
undying honour and the inexpressible happiness of re-
storing the gallant Franklin to his home and country.
God graiA that it may be so—that the vessel consecrated
by a woman's love may bring back her hero for its
freight. The speaker concluded by inviting the com-
pany to join him in drinking " Health, happiness, and
success
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that the search for Sir John Franklin was not by any
means to be abandoned. Mr. Henry Grinnell had read
to him an extract from a letter of Ledy Franklin, in
which she mentioned that a new project was now before
the British Admiralty—one that there was every reason
to hope would be adopted. The plan was submitted by
Lieutenant Pim of the Royal Navy, who urges the
Admiralty to explore the coasts of Siberia, from Cape
North (not to be confounded with North Cape) west-
ward, and he begged the Admiralty to give him an im-
mediate answer, as he desired to start from St. Peters'
burgh on the 15th of November instant, having a jour-
ney of 6,500 miles to make before reaching his starting
place on the coast of Siberia. Mr. Young mentioned
this circumstance, which had not yet before been made
public, to show that the British people were determined
to prosecute the search until every resource of science
had been exhausted. The mass of theall
on the right side. people were