The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-06 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Mate—Thomas S. Gooch has been appointed to the
Rattler screw-sloop at IVoolwich.
Midshipman—J. R. R. Dunlop to the Albion, 90,
in the Mediterranean.

Masters' Assistants—John 11. Cook to the Modeste,
18, at Sheerness ; William Henry Sharp to the Wa-
terloo, 120, at Sheerness; Daniel M.iy to the Impreg-
nable, 78, flag-ship at Dcvonport.
Cl?rk's Assiltant—liirilliarn Henry Hyde (son of
the Rev. Mr. Hyde) her, Wen appointed to the Daunt-
less screw-frigate at Portsmouth.
Boatswains—James Steele to the Modeste; Thomas
Grigg to the Dido, 18, at Chatham.
Carpenter—Richard Callaway, acting, to the Mo-
deste.

Bellerophon, 78, Captain Lord G. Paula-, at De,
voup3rt, has been ordered to fill up her complement
to 650, and to proceed to Portsmouth to be docked.
Defence convict-ship, at Portsmouth, is nearly rig-
ged to go round to Woolwich. Tne new convict
building will be f.ufliciently advanced to admit 200 or
300 in about a fortnight.
Hercules store-ship, Master-Commander Fulton,
gill not be paid off at Portsmouth until Tuesday. She
has Call her spars up.
Vulcan iron screw steam frigate, Master Comman-
der Penn, will be ready for further service on the 7th
October.

Greenock iron screw-frigate, i 3 being fitted at
Woolwich with 250-horse power engines manufac-
tured for the Wasp.
PORTSMOUTII, FRIDAY.—The Centaur steam-
frigate, Captain Cannon, flag of Rear-Admiral W.
W. Henderson, C. 8., receired her crew yesterday,
and bent seil3 to-day. She will go out to Spithead in
a tide or two, and sail about the end of next week for
the Brazils, taking a mail, and parcels and letters for
the squadron.
The fine Indiaman Queen, Captain 11I'Leod, one of
Wigram's fleet, arrived at Spithead to-day to embark
passengers and stock for Calcutta.
The Duke of Marlborough has laid his beautiful
schooner-yacht Wyvern up for the winter in Ilaslar-
lake.

In ntrhour—The Victory, Britannia, Excellent,
Blenheim, Victoria and Albert, Centaur, Hercules,
Seaflower, Rolla, Elfin, Fanny, Portsmouth, and Echo.
In Dock—The St. Vincent, Edinburgh, Raleigh,
Vulcan, Eurydice, Stromboli, and Medea.
In the Basin—The Rodney, 92, Captain Graham,
C.B. ; Dauntless, 24, Captain Halstead ; Leopard and
Furious.

In the Steamer Basin—The Termagant, Simoom,
Blazer, and Porcupine.
At Cowes—The Fairy royal yacht.
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty's screw steam-
vessel Desperate left on Thursday for the Channel
Islands.

The sails of the Grecian, 12, were bent yesterday.
She goes cut of harbour to•morrow, and will probably
start for the Cape of Good Hope on Thursday, the
9th inst.

The steam•ship Virago will go from harbour to
Barnpeol on Tuesday to have her compasses adjusted.
Oa Wednesday the steam-vessel Buzzard went
round the Eddystone to try her engines ; and the
Vesuvius was placed in dock to have her copper ex-
amined and repaired.
On Tuesday the Nile, 90, was towed by the Pike
from her moorings to the jetty. Fifty artisans of the
Davonport yard were the same day examined before
the Board preparatory to their superannuation.
Woormicu, SErr. s.—The Shearwater steam-
vessel was taken out of the basin to-day, and will
leave in the course of next week for Constantinople,
where she will be placed at the disposal of Sir Strat-
ford Canning, her Majesty's Ambassador at the Court
of Constantinople.
The Rattler steam•sloop, Commander Arthur
Mellersb, went down the river to-day to try her
engines.

The John IVilliam Dare, lorded with timber for
the use of the dockyard, was taken into the basin
to-day.
The Rodney, hired convict-ship, was brought up
at moorings to-day, opposite the Royal Arsenal,
to receive on beard a number of male convicts for the
Swan River Settlement. A strong detachment of
local pensioners go out in her as a guard over the
convicts, and they are to remain as settlers in the
colony.
ROYAL MILITARY ACADF.MY.—CoIoneI NV. D.
Jones, of the Royal Artillery, insTyFctor of the Royal
Military Academy on Wooli%ich-common since
March, 1840, has resigned that important trust,
which he diseoarged with great zeal for the benefit of
the institution tor eleven sears and a half, and is
succeeded by Licutenant-Col',:nel Portlock, Royal
Engineers.

ELOPEMENT or SAEAH BA.B.DER'S
ing the past week considerable excitement has been occa-
sioned In Eastwood and the neighbouring district, in conse-
quence of another extraordinfiry occurrence in the family of
the convict Sarah Barlw. Au idler sister of Mrs. Barber's,
Mary by name, was some years ago married to a collier
named Emenuel Wylde, nho then resided at Basford, where
he kept a beer-house. This mac, about two or three years
since, however, removed to Eastwood, where he erected a
house in Langley Mill-lane, at a short distance from the re-
sidence of the unfortunate Joseph Barber, and for this place
he also obtained a licence for the sale of beer. Wylde and his
wife have there resided until the present time, but, according
to general report, anything but comfortably. On Tuesday
morning, at about two o'clock. the husband proceeded to his
regular work in ono of the Brinsley pits, leaving his wife in
charge of the house. He returned at his usual time, but to his
astonishment discovered that she had eloped with a journey-
man tailor, taking with her her three children, all the best
furniture, and a sum of 145/. which Wylde had received a
few days before as -the purchase-money for his house. So
eager did it appear his wife had been to take everything she
could that his clothes had all been raesacked, and from a
pocket in one pair of les trousers 9s. had been abstracted. A
box containing wme, glasses, &c., was found in the house
ready packed up for removal, but this probably the woman
had found herself unable to convey with her. In one of her
drawers, also, her husband found a sovereign, which she had
evidently missed in her search for valuables. It appeared
that the woman and her paramour had taken their departure
in a cab, which had ten seen to run through the Langley
Mill-gate, in the direction of Derby, during the day. No
information has, however, heart obtained as to the whereabouts
of the runaways. The tailor, who was working with Mr.
Henry Goodall before the occurrence, was, it seems, ()ril,
k, own in the neighbourhood by the name of " Charley."--
Nottingham Jou, mai.

- PENSION TO PROFESSOR WILSON.—We understand
that Lord John Russell has intimated, by command of her
Majesty the bestowal of a pension of 3uo/. a Year on our
distinguished townsman, Professor Wilson. The letter inti-
mating this mark of the Royal favour is dated " liolyrood,"
and sets forth, we believe, that it is in consideration of the
professors " literary merits." The transaction is exceed-
; ' •creditable to the Minister at whose suggestion the gitt
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,is tbestowed. The active movers have been the Whigs, who
hase often felt the weight of the crutch of Christopher _North ;
and doubt not that the compliment will be duly appreciated
by him of the reoubtable maga. "lad his own
litical
friends been the medium through which the Royal
Bounty
po
,llact flawed, it would have been imputed to party feeling and
patical predilection. No such imputation can rest on his
political opponents. We could have wished that the health
and spirits of our distinguished townsman bad been sueh itif
via
better to have l:teal:dm to enjoy his fresh honour'••—`0
tislt rre:•s.