The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander William C. Chamberlain appointed to
the command of the Cormorant, 6, steam-sloop, coast
of Brazil, vice Schoenberg, promoted, takes passage in
the Amphitrite to Rio. This appointment is much
regretted by all classes of the service.
Dr. James J. Paul having declined the appointment
of surgeon to the Cumberland, 70, fitting at Chatham
as flag-ship for fhe West Indies, Mr. William Gra-
ham (1841), of the Vengeance, 84, at Portsmouth,
has bee❑ selected for that ship.
Paymaster James Morse (1811), stamp-distributor
at Carmarthen, died at Cardigan on the 10th instant,
aged 65.

Awphitri'e, 26, Captain Frederick, has bent sails,
and ;t ill go to Spithead to- day (Tuesda3), sod sail
ala Saturday for her destination.
Bloodhound steam-tender remains in No. 5 dock,
Devonport, waiting materials for paying her bottom.
Cyclop,,, 6, steam-frigate, Captain lion. G. F. Hast-
iugg, will be paid off at Woolwich this day at noon.
Goodwill lighter (Pledge, master), arrived at De-
vonport on Saturday with stores from Sheerness; and
the Rochester lighter (Sod wicks, master), has arrived
at Devonport with stores from Chatham.
The Oberon iron steam-packet, Lieutenant Com-
mander Harvey, was paid off at Portsmouth yester-
dry, alongside the Portsmouth dockyard ; she will be
immediately got ready for commission.
Sprightly steam-tender, Master Commander Allen,
arrived at Devonport from Portsmouth, with super-
numeraries, on Saturday, returning the same evening.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 27.—The Victory, 104, Cap-
tain F. P. Blackwood, has been taken under the sheers
to-day to have her defective foremast taken out and
another stepped.
The Samarang freight ship proceeded from Spit-
head for Cowes yesterday,to embark troops for Hong-
Kong.
_

The Lady Flora freight ship came into harbour
on Saturday evening to embark the head-quarters
of the 30th Regiment for Corfu.
The Margaret Evans sailed to-day for New York.
The Hercules, 72, store ship, Master-Commander
Robert Fulton, remains at Spithead.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, having
received a new mainmast, hauled off from the sheer
jetty to-day to make room for the Victory.
PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate
Calliope, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Horne, Bart., will
leave Hamosze for the Sound on Monday. Her sails
were bent yesterday, and she will probably sail on
Wednesday for New Suuth Wales.
The steam-vessel Sprightly, Master G. Allen, ar-
rived this morning with seamen for different ships
fitting at this port, and returned in the afternoon fur
Portsmouth.

The steam-vessel Avon arrived on Wednesday from
Woolwich.

The steam. vessel Virago, with Mr. Henderson,
master attendant at this dockyard, arrived to-day
from Falmouth, having in tow the frigate Aurora.
She left at seven A.m., and came in at three F.M. She
will return to Falmouth on Tuesday, to bring up her
Majesty's ship AstrEea.
An accident, by which unfortunately two lives were
lost, occurred this afternoon at Sundown, at the en-
trance of Catwater, in this port. It is the practice of
the crews of the trawl fishing sloops, when returning
from sea, to deposit the fish in their boats, and send
them ashore on nearing the landing-place, by which
arrangement they are better able to be in time for the
market. The Year], John Lucock, when well into
the Sound, lay to, and placed nine maunds of hake
and other fish in her boat, with two lads to row ashore
Just after the sloop made sail, the wind blowing very
strong from the southward and westward, the ladt-n
boat sheered up, lurched over, and capsized. The
sloop mado considerable way after the accident was
discovered, and on returning, owing to the stormy
weather and the darkness which prevailed, no trace
of the ill-fated young men could be discovered. The
elder, Charles Burt, aged 20, was an apprentice • and
the junior, George Bowden, 11, was a nephew of the
owner, Mr. Stibbs.

The Penguin, 6, Commander Etheridge, will be
ready by the end of this month, when she will paid
advance of wages, and sail for the coast of Africa.

Lieutenant Kynaston, of the Cunberland, 72, fitting
at Chatham, has been very successful in entering
men for her at the rendezvous in Devonport ; upwards
of 50 first-rate seamen have been entered.

The Indefatigable, 50, Captain Swart, is slowly
progressing in her refi', and men seem to fight shy of
her.

The Desperate will be the next steamer to join the
reserve.

The Fantome, 12, arrived from Portsmouth on
Sunday. She has some defects to make good previous
to her going to sea, on her voyage to New Zealand.
The Calliope, 26:Captain Sir Everard Home, Bart,
will go out of harbour on Thursday. She will, with
the Pandora and Fantome, be paid wages in a few
days.

OYAL MARINES.—A general court-martial, com-
posed of officers of the line and Royal Marines, as-
sembles on 'Wednesday next for the trial of Lieu-
tenant llutchison, R.M., on charges which hare
arisen out of a fracas at the Royal Western Yacht
Club fancy dress ball, held on Wednesday week at
the Royal Hotel in this town. The lieutenant was
serving on board the Impregnable, but has been re-
lieved.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 27.--Clerk in Charge Sidney J.
Spark (1843), from the Indefatigable at Devonport
to the Sparrow, 6, surveying vessel on the south-east
coast of Ireland.

Clerk William J. Stevens (1849) to the Indefati•
gable, vice Spark.
The Speedwell surveying vessel, Master Edward
K. Calver (1842), will leave Woolwich te•morrow to
resume her surveying duties on the coast of Scotland.
After she arrives at her surveying station she will
only have two men kept upon her, it being left to her
commander to employ the number he may require to
assist in the requisite duties, selected in the locality,
and paid at the rate of 21s. per week, and that plan is
ordered to be adopted when possible on all the home
surveying stations. The new arrangement is expected
to be more economical than the plan previously
adopted, as there were many weeks, and sometimes
months, when the crews of surveying vessels had to
remain in an inactive state owing to unfavourable
weather. The men hired for surveying duties under
the new system will only be paid for the days they are
actually employed.
The Fearless steam-vessel, having undergone a
thorough repair at Woolwich, will leave for Sheer-
ness in the course of to-morrow.

The Vulcan steam-frigate, Master-Commander
John Penn, has opened a rendezvous on board the St.
Lawrence, 46, receiving-ship at Sheerness, for able
seamen, stokers, &c. _

A paragraph recently appeared in some of the local
newspapers at the eastern ports, relative to the scarcity
of boys for the navy. If such is the case at Devon-
port, it is by no means the case here, as several ap-
plications were made at Woolwich, by parents of most
eligible boys, to have them entered in the royal navy,
but in every instance they were unsuccessful, and they
were told there were no vacancies at present, at least
in this quarter.