The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

NAVAL INii.ENCE.

Commander P. A. APPOINTMENTS.CampbeII (1846) to command
the Rosamond steam-slop
Lieutenants—H. W. Comber (1846), and Godfrey
Taylor (1850), to the Rosamond; J. W. M.
M'Donald (1851), to the Excellent, gunnery-ship;
Robert Deane, and L. C. H. Somerset, supernume.
rary to the Excellent.
Master—George IL Blakey (1849), to the Rosa-
mond.
Paymaster—H. S. Collins (1848), to the Rosa-
mond.
Clerk—G. D. Gordon (1847), to the Rosamond.
Masters Assistant—W. L. Baker, to the Rosa-
mond.
Clerk's is Ass tant-I'rederiok Ives, to the Rosa-
mond.

Gunner—R. F. Storey, to the Rosamond.
Boatswain—Daniel Birch, to the Rosamond.
Carpenter—Henry Palmer, to the Rosamond.
THE PAClFlC.—Letters have been received from
Valparaiso to the 25th of August. The Thetis, 38
Captain A. L. Kuper; Amphitrite, 24, Capt. Charles'
Frederick ; Gorgon, 6, steam-sloop, Commander
Paynter, and Nereus, receiving-ship, were then i n
port. The admiral was daily expected in the Portland,
Capt. Chads, and would, it was supposed, bring with
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Commander Hayes, was hourly expected, with
large freight for England. The Thetis bad a most
splendid voyage from Monte Video to Valparaiso,
rounding Cape Horn with all sails set. The Gorgon
waited the return of the admiral, to leave the station
for England, orders for which, it was anticipated,
were received by the last mail.
The iron steam-transport Birkenhead, Master
Commander Salmond, was undocked yesterday,
having been partially touched up with Mr. Hay's
composition. She has had eight months' service since
she was last paid over with it, and all that she required
was to be touched up where the composition had
been rubbed off about the light water line, where
some few clusters of barnacles had accumulated.
Under the bilge she was hard and smooth, and we
cannot speak in too high terms of her bottom in ge-
neral. She was payed over in January last, when she
took troops to Halifax and to Quebec at a time of the
year when she encountered sufficient field ice to knock
off some of her paddle floats. She afterwards con-
veyed troops to the Cape, where she encountered
some very heavy weather, but behaved exceedingly
well, and it i 3 quite pleasing to hear that her crew
speak of her as a brat-race sea boat, and as to
speed, nothing can touch her. When this vessel was
first commissioned as a steam-sloop she was thought
to be a dangerous vessel, and was placed on one side,
fortunately Capt. Stevens, of the steam department
at Portsmouth, made several short trips to Lisbon, to
Cork, &c., and he reported so very favourably of her
speed and poi. qualities, that she was immediately
brought into use, and is now one of our best steam-
transports. She was taken alongside the coal depot
yesterday, and when complete will go alongside the
' yard jetty, where she will be in the hands of the en-
gineers of the yard till the 31st instant, when she will
be again ready to convey troops.
Medea, steam-sloop, will be undocked on the 10th
of November, when the Simoom will be taken in in
her place.
Stromboli, steam-sloop, was taken into the steam
basin yesterday.
Porcupine, steamer, was taken into dock yesterday
at Portsmouth.

Ranger, 6, Commander Miller, was paid off at
Devonport on Saturday. The officers dined together
at Morshead's Royal Hotel, where they spent the
evening very comfortably.
Rochester, lighter, Sudwicks, master, sailed from
Devonport, with stores, from Portsmouth, on Sa-
turday.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25.—The Crane, 6, Commander
M'Donnell, was commissioned on Wednesday, and is
to have a complement of 76 officers and men. She
was brought to the jetty to-day, and is to he ready
for the coast of Africa on the 10th of November.
The Desperate screw-steamer, in charge of Mr.
Brown, Second Master Attendant, is ordered to cruise
in the Channel.

The main and mizenmasts of the steam block-ship
San,pareil are to be fitted with galvanized iron rig-
ging.
The Spartan frigate and Ferret brig are ordered to
be brought forward for commission.
The Manoeuvrer lighter came in yesterday from
Woolwich.

The Lucifer steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
George M. Jackson, is ordered to be paid off at this
port on Thursday next.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 27.—THE ARCTIC COMMITTER.
—The members of this committee held a sitting at
the Admiralty to-day, to examine the reports of Cap.
tain Austin and Captain Penny, and also to obtain
answers to questions which may be put to them, and
to the officers who accompanied them in the recent
searching expeditions, as to the best plans to be
adopted in the future expeditions which were decided
upon before the committee was appointed.

SEABORNE MAILS.
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by the night—and M by the morning--dispatch.]

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Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. ISouthampt. Nov. 5
Channel Isles .. .. N'Mon. Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Tu. Th. Sat
Chili .. .. • • . M 17th of the month ,Southampt. Nov. 20
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Greece* .. .• •• N 7thl7th27th of mo IDover .. oot. Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday (London `. Ties. 30
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Honduras .. .. • • N 17th of the month Southampt. Nov. 20
Ireland .. .. Bi & N Twice daily .. ..IHolyhead • • I:yri India (via Southamp) M 20th of the month Southarapt• Nov._
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Havanna & Nassau) soithampt. Nov. 5

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French packet via Marseilles•
CALIFOZNIA.—MaiIs to and from Califon:li
are now despatched and due by every Amer,

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ACCIDENT IN THE SURREY CANAL.—On Saturday
too
night, about nine o'clock, a distressing case of drowning
k place iu the Surrey Canal, near Brick-bridge, Peck-
ham. About the hour above named, Mr. W. R. Blaksly.
of Peckham, who had been for many years engaged es tr.-
yeller to the house of John Reay, Sons, and Co., Mark-
lane, while on his way home, walked into the Surrey Canal,
which at that place is in a dangerous and unprotected state.
The unfortunatd gentleman called out for assistance, and
was heard by Mr. George Munday, a baker, in Coburg-
road, who gave an instant alarm. The drags were pro-
cured without delay, and the body taken on shore in about
eight minutes. It was carried to the Surrey Canal Tavern
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means that
close by, and Mr. Leonard a surgeon in Surrey-plasee Old
Kent- road, was promptly in attendance. Everynle medical skill could suggest were resorted to restore
anima-
tion, but without elite.
BURSTING or A BOILER.—The
workmen at the fac-
tory of the Watermen's Steam-horse-power steam-engine, used by tttripany at Woolwich,
-oeut the bottom part of a
boiler of a three
was at work for boring
burst yesterday morning,
window in the building in whiclliei
damage at the same time,
and turning, and did considerable
boy so severely, that it was
scalding two men and a boy,
throwingt
a him taken to an hospital in
Lcozidoner.ed advisable to lay