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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:

Captain Sir Frederick TV.ErskineNicolson, Bart.,
has been appointed to the Royal Naval College, Ports-
mouth.

Captain W. H. 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.
He 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 mato 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
ut 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, ho assisted at the
reduction of the Danish West India Islands, and ob-
tained his confirmation in 1808. He 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. Ho served
as first lieutenant of diffareut 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 be was recommended by high civil powers,
and was promised the promotion he did not get until
after he had served in the Queen, 110, ilagsalaip, is the
Mediterranean, and in command of the Devastation
:ateam.sleop, 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,
1.8, at Chatham. He entered the navy in 1820, and has
:SE reed afloat about eighteen years. He was fortunate
enough to obtain his first commission in 1826, and as
1 ieutenant served in the Jasper, 10, Harrier, 18, Magi-
cienne, 24, and was promoted from first-lieutenant of
tins 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-
part 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 hor being paid ad-
v xnce.

Sylph tender returned to Devonport on Wednesday
e•rening, 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.
rORTSMOIITH, JULY 25.—The Centaur steam frigate
was commissioned this morning by Mr. Loano, the mas-
te.r, 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 Indiamao, 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 Belvedere, 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.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOGIMICH, JULY 25.—Lieutenant Geerge Stratton
(1849) to study at tho steam► factory at Woolwich Dock-
y

Master Henry T. Ellis (1848), to the Styx, 6, paddle-
wheel steam-vessel, of 280-horse power, commissioned at
Davonport.
Surgeons—Gorald Ye° (1850), to the Archer, 14,
screw steam-sloop, oti the west coast of Africa station ;
George Roe, M.D. (1850), to the Ranger, 8, sloop, on
the west coast of Africa station ; and Thomas J. Layton
(1850), to the Volcano, paddle-wheel steam-ressel, on
the west coast of Africa station.
lUsistant-Surgeons—James Henry (1842), formerly
of the Antelope steam-vessel ; Henry Wellings (1846),
Robert Sproule (1851), and C. H. Chambers (1851), to
the Penelope, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate and flag-
ship of Commodore Henry W. Bruce, on the west coast
of Africa station. _

Chief Engineer Robert Taylor to the Centaur steam-
frigate, at Portsmouth.
Assistant-Engineers—James Taylor, F. n. Hodd
'.
J. Laylands, J. H. C. Bishop, George Treviss, and
Robert Madge, to the Centaur ; Arthur Richards, to
tho Myrmidon, steam-vessel, at Woolwich ; William
Pitt and James Cade, to the Cormorant, 6, paddle-
wheel steam-sloop, on the south east cost of America
station ; 'William Donneson, to the Locust, paddle..
wheel steam-vessel, on the south-east coast of America
station.
The number of visitors to Woolwich Dockyard has
been greater to-day than on any day during the sea-
son, upwards of a thousand British subjects, and
above a hundred foreigners, with cards from their re-
spective legations, having been admitted before two
o'clock rat.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

of ye

CRETON'S motion for the recall of the exiled Princes
of the House of Bourbon, and in the event of that
motion being carried, the Prince DE JOINVIELE will
start for the Presidency of the Republic.
Great preparations are making for the grand file
which the city of Paris is about to give to the Corn-
missoners of the Exhibition of all Nations on the 2d
August. The Prefects of the principal towns in France
have been invited.

_ .
It appears certain, says the Debats, that the Pre-
fect of the Seine has received the reply of Lord
GRANVILLE, Vice-President of the Royal Committee
of the,Exhibition of London, to the invitation sent
for the municipal banquet of the 2d of August next.
Lord GRANVILLE announces that he shall shortly
come to Paris, where the name of his father, who
was English Ambassador for ten or twelve years
after the revolution of July, has left the most
honourable souvenirs. To the other fetes, which
the city of Paris intends to offer to its guests, as al-
ready announced, we may add, a representation at
fte °peril, for the evening after the grand ball at the
Hotel de Ville. The Municipality has retained seve-
ral hundred places for this representation.
The Bonapartist Committee for, the revision of the
Constitution has issued a bulletin urging on the
agitation from petitions.
The Sanitary Congress has been formally opened
at the Mini etry fur Foreign Affairs, where it held its
first sitting on Wednesday. M. BAROCRE, who was
in the che,ir' made a speech, in which he stated the
objects of the Congress, and expressed a hope that it
would lend to a material modification of the rigour
of the quarantine laws. The ikurober of members
present bt ?jag only sixteen, the second sitting was,
after some• discussion as to the mode of proceeding
during the, Congress, fixed for the 4th of next month,
in order to give time for the arrival of the other eight
members.

Accounts have been received from Algiers to the
20th. They announce the continued successes of the
expedition ary column in Kabylie.
The Utl:i011 Franc- Condoise,. of Besancon, pub-
lishes the following extract of a letter, written by
General RikRAGUAY D'HILLIERS to one of his friends,
in the dep arrment of the Doubs :
" I hope that my determination to quit the command
of the army of Paris, will have been properly under-
stodd in tho department of the Doabs; but I owe it to
my friends to explain myself clearly to them. Art. 68
of the Constitution does not permit me to be at the
same time a representative and a functionary of the
Statq. The second paragraph of that article leaves it to
the elector al law to specify the exceptions which are to
be made to, this rule. Art. S 5 determines these excep-
tions, amoor, which is not included the command of the
army of Paris. I found myself, therefore, placed under
the uccessity of either resigning that command or my
seat as repve sentative. I considered that owed to the
electors, w..(:) did me the honour of returning me to the
Assembly, to sacrifice my command. In the interest
of the Government and of my own dignity, I would
not expose myself to tho reproach of illegality. The
first duty of a good citizen is to respect the laws of his
country, how ever absurd they may be. As a general
and as ex-president of the Parliamentary Club of the
Rue de Poitiers, I was bound to set an example. Such
were the only motives of my determination, and I leave
my fellow-mtizens to appreciate them. In my eyes, there
is nothing more distressing than the violation of the law by
those whose (hay it is to make it respected."
The follow!ing are the principal items of the weekly
Bank account, :
Specie in Paris ••• •••

Francs.
.., 459,994,435

Ditto in branches
Bills in Pxris portfolio
Bills in branches ...

..• 133,301,961
•.• 41,125,449
... 68,363,492

Bank•notus in circulation ...
Ditto in branches ... ...
Credit to Treasury ... ...
Privato credits, Paris... ...
Ditto in branches ... ...

... 421,978,800
... 113,614,675
... 113,102,300
82 ''s9 457
... 29,262,276.

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The increase of specie in Paris is 5 millions. The
decrease for the departments is upwards of 1 million.
The Paris portfolio has increased 1 million—that of
the branches decreased 11 million. The circulation
of notes has increased in Paris upwares of 1 million,
and decreaned to a similar amount in the provinces.
The credit to the Treasury has increased 3 millions.
The Bourse maintained its firmness, although the
business transacted was insignificant. The Five
per Cents. opened at 95f. 45c., and closed at 95f. 40c.
for the end of the month. The Three per Cents. closed
at 57f. 15e.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 857 f. 50c.; Rouen,
642 f. 50c.; Havre, 245 f.; Vierzon, 440 f.; Zile, 152 f.
50c.; Bordoaux, 395 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 362 f. 50c;
Tours and Nantes, 273 f. 75c.; Amiens to Boulogne,
270 f. _ _

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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 25.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 17% ex in.
East Indian, 18%—Northern of France, 14.;4 ex in.—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 4% ex in.—Sambre and Meuse, 3.A.