The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

APPOINTMENTS.

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Second Master—J. 0. D. Davis, to Birkenhead.

Clerk—Richard Shambler, to Rapid.
Acting Gunner—Thomas Pope, to Rapid.
PROMOTION.

William Thurston, to be acting carpenter.
Lieut. Curtis, Commander of H.M.S. Locust, died
at Bahia on the morning of the 19th October, after a
short illness.

MOVEMENTS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.
At Rio de Janeiro—Boneta, Cormorant steamer,
Crescent, Geyser steamer, and Havannah. The latter
had just arrived with the mail from New South
Wales, and as soon as she had coaled and taken in
water, was to proceed on her voyage to England.
At Monte Video—Tweed and Rifleman.
At Bahia—Conflict and Locust.
In the Tagus—Prince Regent, Leander, Arethusa,
La Hogue, Dauntless. Also, the French men-of-war,
Henri IV., 120, and Narval steamer.
The Severn exchanged night signals with the
Royal Mail Company's steam ship Teviot, on the 26th
October. The company's steamer Princess sailed for
the River Plate on the 14th ultimo.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Sharpshooter iron
steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Bailey, arrived
this afternoon from the Brazils station, to be paid off.
She has brought no news, having left Rio as far back
as the 13th of September. The squadron was dis-
tributed as follows :—The Southampton, 50, Rear-
Admiral Reynolds, was at Monte Video, to which
place the Geyser steam-sloop was on her way with
supplies for the squadron ; the Tweed, 14, Com-
mander Lord F. Russell, and the Rifleman steam-
vessel, were also at Monte Video; the Cormorant,
Commander Chamberlain, the Harpy steam-tender,
and the Crescent receiving-ship, were at Rio--the
Cormorant hors de combat; the Conflict, 14, Com-
mander Drake, and the Locust were at Bahia. The
Sharpshooter called at Pernambuco on the 3d ult.,
apd at St. Vincent's on the 18th. The Severn Royal
mail packet, outwards, bad touched at Pernambuco,
and passed on on the Ist. Lieutenant Carnegie has
come home on promotion in the Sharpshooter, which
has been very successful in capturing slavers, having
taken as many as nine during her service on the
coast, viz. :—One brigantine with slave equipments,
off Rio, by cruising; one brigantine equipped for
slave trade, off Cape Trio, by cruising ; one two-top-
sail schooner equipped for slave trade, out of Mocabe,
by information ; one topsail schooner fully equip-
ped, off Campos, by cruising (she was heavily armed,
had been chased four days previously by the Sharp-
shooter, and had then a cargo of slaves on board) ;
one cutter, off Manguinas, having 74 slaves (26 had
died on the passage over), taken by cruising ; one
brig fully equipped, off St. Paul's, Bahia, taken by
cruising ; one schooner, empty, of Rio, by informa-
tion (this was the Valaroso) ; one brig, off Busios,
102 slaves on board, taken by cruising on information;
one schooner, taken out of Tigucas river by four boats
and 36 men of the Sharpshooter, and one boat and six
men of the Locust.

The Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George Allen,
Acting-Master Commanding,
.has been undocked to-

day.
The Elfin, royal dispatch steam-boat, Mr. Alfred
Balliston, Acting-Master Commanding, has been re-
moved from the steamer basin to the south dock, to
have her bottom examined.

The Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, has been docked
to-day to have her bottom examined.
WooLwica, Nov. 13.—The Monkey steam-vessel
is placed under orders to tow the! Northumberland
prive life-boat, made by James Beeching and Sons,
Great Yarmouth, from Woolwich to Ramsgate to-
morrow, where she will remain in charge of Mr.
Samuel Beeching until the other life-boats are ready
for being tested in the open sea off Brighton.