The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE•

Commander Frederick E. Forbes, promoted on paying
off the Bonotta, has been appointed to study at the Royal
Naval College.
Lieut. J. W. Vaughan (1848) succeeds Lieut. Har-
vey in the Firebrand steam-frigate, Mediterranean.
Lieutenants—J. J. O'Ferrall Carmichael, has been ap-
pointed from Ballynacourty Coast-guard Station to
Wicklow Head Station, vice Mr. 0. Jones, superaneu-
ated; Charles Horace Lapidge to the command of a
Coast-guard station.
THE TURKISH SQUADRON AT PORTS:SWUM—The
Turkish frigate Mirate Zafre, Captain Mehemet Bey, and
brig Sara Bahri, were towed out of Portsmouth Harbour
on Saturday by the Echo steam-tug, and anchored at
Spithead. The frigate, when off the Spit Buoy, fired a
salute of 17 guns in compliment to the flag of Admiral
Sir Bladen Capel, which the Victory returned. It is
not certain on which day they sail for Constantinople.
The second captain of the Mirate Zafre has succeeded to
the command of the brig, vacant by the death of Captain
Boy, her commander. With respect to these inte-
resting foreigners, we may here observe, that during the
six months they have been with us, both officers and
men have been much on shore; that their conduct has,
on all occasions, been marked with the utmost decotum;
no quarreling nor dispute has occurred; a more quiet,
orderly, inoffensive, unpresuming people we never have
seen. They have not mixed much with the inhabitants
of Portsmouth, but this has been owing to their general
—,Y3 may say, their satire ignorance of the English
language, and their not finding any persons speaking
the Turkish language, which has rendered any general
intercourse impossible. They have not expended much
money on shore, excepting some outlay for warm cloth-
ing and shoes to enable them to stand the cold of the
winter season. They hove been tolerably healthy, and
we understand, have not suffered more than the gene-
rality of the inhabitants from the influenza that has
that they pve;
veiled so long in this locality. The men are gennrwhil
small, very cleanly in their persons, sober, quiet, and
disposed, and if during their visit they may
not have
made many friends, we can vouch with safety
have not made an enemy.
After the conclusion of the trial of the steam-frigate
Penelope, Captain Lyster, on Thursday, a party of arti-
ficers from Portsmouth yard were sent on board her at
Spithead, to rectify the defect in' her capstan. This vv,,
accomplished by the, party working all night. The
difficulty she expbricisp„d in getting a back turn with
her engines was said -s9 proceed from the new machi-
nery working stiffly, ancrnot from any defect. On Sa-
turday evening Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel,
K.C.8., went out in the Sprightly steamer, and paid a
visit to Commodore Bruce. He remained on board the
Penelope an hour and upwards, returning into harbour
about six o'clock. The crews of the Penelope and her
tender, the Tenzer, were all on board at sunset on Sa-
turday, and both vessels sailed early on Sunday morning
or the coast of Africa. •

—Hogue, 60, screw-Ship, Captain M'Dougall, has re-
turned to Queenstown; from cruising in the chops of the
Channel for the relief of the windbound.
Avon, steam-tender, Mr. Vcitch in charge, left Queens-
town, on her return:to Devonport, Thursday.
Apollo, troop ship, Commander Rawstorne, arrived at
Malta from Corfu, on her way to the West Indies, on the
11th instant.

Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, is to
have new fore and main yards, which will be fished—Z. e.,
strengthened in the slings, in the same manner as those
recently furnished to the Prince Regent. Her present
yards will be returned to the dockyard. It is now said
sho will go to Spithead on the Ist of May, where she
will further fill up, if not complete, her complement.
Another lieutenant has been appointed to her—viz., Mr.
A. Bathurst.

Simoom, iron screw-ship, has discharged her ballast,
and has been brought into the steam basin at Portsmouth,
preparatory to being taken into dock to be converted to
a troop steamer.
PORTSZIOUTH, SIINDAY.—La Belle Alliance, hired
freight-ship, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from
Corn, with part of the 36th R?giment on board.
The Lady Flora freight ship arrived to-day from the

same place,-also with troops.
The Athol troop-ship arrived at Sierra Leone from
Pl7mouth on the 20th ult.
90, Captain Harris, was taken
The Prince Regent,
out of dock all ataunt on Friday.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 19.—The Vivid, Dover mai
steam-packet, will not be completed in her re-fitting et
Woolwich until about the end of the present month. In
the meantime Captain Smithett, Commander of the
Vivid, is to be specially appointed to another vessel to
convey his Majesty King Leopold of Belgium to En-
land for the purpose of visiting her Majesty, and being
present at the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde-
park on the lst of May next.
The crew that brought round the Greenock steam-

frigate to Woolwich are to return to Portsmouth, and
will navigate the Leopard stcam•frigate to that port, to
be made ready for sea.
The Cyclops steam-frigate is expected to leavo Wool-
wich, fur Sheerness, cn Wednesday or Thursday- next,
and will remain as an advanced war steamer at that
port.
The officers of the Rattler steam-sloop invited their
Commander, Arthur Cumming, to dinner at the Ship
Hotel, Woolwich, on the evening of the day on which
she was paid ofr, as a parting tribute of the many plea-
sant days they had spent together on board the vessel.
The Lords of the A-liniralty have highly approved of
the returns made by Commander Arthur Cumming dur-
irg his service on the coast of Africa, as they have
proved cre3itable to all on board. Their Lordships
have also made a special memorandum of the correctness
and neatness of the pay hooks, and have ordered Mr.
RuLit Collins, clerk of (I S4B), to be entered as a super-
numerary on board the flag-ship at Woolwich, and
granted him six weeks' leave of absence. 1501. was of-
fersd for the chimpanzee brought over in the Rattler the
night before it :lied of asthma, owing to the cold it had
caught on its arrival in England.