The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:

We are pleased to hear that Commodore Lord John
Hay, superintendent of the dockyard at Devonport, is
again convalescent, but we understand, in deference to
the wishes of his medical attendant, the Gallant Com-
modore will absent himself on leave for a short time.

The members of the Plymouth Royal Naval Club dine
together at Elliott's Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 6th
of August, the anniversary of the naval engagement off
the Dogger Bank.
Lieutenant Dorville, late first lieutenant of the Gram-
pus, has been appointed to the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth.

Dr. George Rae (1850) has been appointed surgeon,
and John M'Swineyt(lB47) has been appointed assistant-
surgeon of the Calypso, 18, at Chatham. Dr. Rae
served during the operations in China; was senior as-
sistant-surgeon of the Canopus, 84 guns, in the experi-
mebtal squadron; and afterwards was promoted from
the Wellesley, flag-ship in the West Indies. Dr. Rae is
made honourable mention of by Dr. Wilson, inspector of
hospitals in China, for his services in the hospital-ship
Minden, during the extreme prevalence of sickness in
that ship in 1848.
Eagle, 50, was taken out of No. 5 dock at Devonport
on Monday ; and the Styx, steam-ship Commander W.
K. Hall, will be taken in to clean her copper this day.
Trafalgar, 124, Captain Greville,
weighed anchor at
Spithead yesterday at 11.30 A.m., and made all sail to
royals, with a light northerly breeze. At noon she
set her studding sails, and was soon afterwards outside
the Nab light-vessel. She takes several officers, seamen,
marines, and marine artillery to fit up
ships in the Me-
diterranean.
Oberon, iron steam-packet, got up steam, and left at
the same time as the Trafalgar. The Oberon is in
charge of Lieut. Norman, and is manned by a party
from the Trafalgar,
DOCKYARD.—John Wallis, shipwright, who has been
ill for some time, with no prospect of returning to his
duty, has been discharged from Devonport dockyard,
their Lordships having granted him a gratuity of four
months' wages.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 30.—Her Majesty's steam-ship
Magicienne, in charge of Mr. Biddlecombe, which lett
Portsmouth on Monday morning at 3 A• 21•9
notwith-
standing a strong head wind, made 11 knots an hour
under steam, and arrived here at 8 r.m. the same day.
The brig Express, 6, Commander Feed, was warped
to her moorings on Saturday and was towed yesterday
by the Kite from Hamoaze into the Sound. The boy
which is to accompany her to Bermuda is also in the
Sound.

The steam-vessel Styx was warped yesterday from
her moorings to this jetty. To-morrow she will be exa-
mined and have her copper repaired, and on the sth
proximo she is to be ready for sea.
The contract ship William Hyde, Captain Apple-
whaite, with Burra Burra copper ore from Port Ade-
laide, ore and flax from Auckland, and spars from New
Zealand for the dockyard, arrived last evening. She left
Auckland on the 9th of April, touched at Pernambuco
on the 15th, and sailed therefrom on the 17th of June.
Passengers:—The Hon. Miss Clinton, niece to the
Duke of Newcastle ; Mrs. Pitt, widow of General
Pitt, late Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces
at New Zealand, three Misses Pitt, and five
children; Captain Pitt and lady, 80th Regiment; Lieu-
tenant Page and lady, 58th Regiment; Miss Morton;
Dr. Campbell, one of the Emigration Commissioners'
no men-of-war
surgeons; Mrs. Applewbaite and child, and five servants.
Off the Western Islands spoke the ship London, 84 days
from Valparaiso, for Liverpool; and the Hamburgh
barque Johannesse, 46 days from Bahia, for Cowes.
Emigrants are much required at New Zealand, where
farm laboarers are getting 201. to 25/, per annum besides
rations. Trade brisk at Pernambuco, only one or two
cases eso of rhad
occuvrerseadel.s—lntbhuarßbroimb
chiefly
from
Liverpool.
many v e
merchant
WooLwicH, JULY 30.—Mr. John Lee, second-class
clerk at Woolwich Dockyard, is promoted to be first-
class clerk, vice Peter Morgan, appointed store-receiver.
The Polyphemus, 5, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 200-
horse power, having undergone a thorough repair at
Deptford Dockyard, was towed clown the river to-day
to Woolwich, to be made ready for commission, and is
expected to be employed on the Mediterranean station.