The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

N'AVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE :CHID NAVAL AIDE-DE-CAMP TO TEE
QUEEN.- --The third new appointment of naval aide-
de-camp t o the Queen is that of Sir Charles Hotham,
K.C.B. The gallant officer has served afloat twenty
years, oh c gat the same time as Commander M'Murdo,
who sery ed under him on the coast. The following
is O'By r ne's illustration of the ex-commodore's
career This officer entered the navy Nov. 6,
1818 ; az i d on the night of May 23, 1824, when mid-
shipman of the Naiad, 46, Captain Hon. Robert
Spencer, served in the boats under Lieut. Michael
Quin at the gallant destruction of a 16-gun brig,
moored i a a position of extraordinary strength along-
side the walls of the fortress of Bona, in which was a
garrison of about 400 soldiers, who, from cannon and
musket, 'kept up a tremendous fire, almost perpendi-
cularly, tus the deck. He was made lieutenant Sept.
17, 1825, in the Revenge, 76, flag-ship of Sir Harry
Burrard :Neale in the Mediterranean ; and next ap-
pointed May 15, 1826, to the Medina, 20, Captain
Timothy Curtis and William Burnaby Greene, on the
same stt ttion ; and Dec. 8, 1827, and July 26, 1828,
as first, t o the Terror and Meteor bombs, Captains
William. Fletcher and David Hope. As a reward
for his distinguished exertions on the occasion
of the vrreck of the Terror, Mr. Hotham was pro-
moted by the Lord High Admiral to the rank of
commander August 13, 1828. After an interval of
half-pay be obtained an appointment in March 17,
1840, to the Cordelia, 10, and returned to the Medi-
terranean, whence he ultimately came home and was
paid off in October, 1833, having been raised to post
rank on the 28th of the preceding Jane, in compli-
ment to the memory of his uncle, the late Vice-
Admiral Hon. Sir Henry Hotham, G.C.8., G.C.AI.G.
His next appointment was November 25,1842, to the
Gorgon, steam-sloop, stationed on the south-east
coast of America. In November, 1845, having as-
sumed the command of a small squadron, be ascended
the River Parana, in conjunction with a French
naval force under Captain Trehourt, and on 20th of
that month, after a hard day's fighting, succeened in
effecting the destruction of four heavy batteries
belonging to General Rosas at Punta Obligado, also
of a schooner of war carrying 6 guns, and of 24
vessels chained across the river. Towards the close
of the action he landed with 180 seamen and 145
marines, and accomplished the defeat of the enemy,
whose numbers had originally consisted of at least
3,500 men, in cavalry, infantry, and artillery, an,
whose batteries had mounted 22 pieces of ordnance,
including 10 brass guns, which latter were taken off
to the ships, the remainder being all destroyed. The
loss of the British in this very brilliant affair amounted
to 9 men killed and 24 wounded. In acknowledg-
ment of the gallantry, zeal, and ability displayed
throughout its various details by Captain Hotham, he
was recommended in the most fervent terms of admi-
ration by his Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral
Sam. Hood Inglefield, in his dispatches to the Ad-
miralty, and be was in consequence nominated a
K.C.8., 9th March, 1846. On 13th May in that
year he was employed as Commodore on the coast of
Africa, with his broad pendant successively flying in
the Devastation and Penelope steamers.
" While Sir Charles Hotham was in the Gorgon,
that vessel was blown far on shore in a hurricane at
Colonia, and it was only by the most indomitable and
procrastinated exertion on the part of himself and his
crew that she was saved."

AFFOINTMENT3.
Chaplain—Rev. Allen Fielding, B.A. (1834), has
been appointed chaplain to Chatham Dockyard, vice
Pittman, deceased.
Naval Instructor—John Jeans (1847), late of
Meander, 44, to Dido, 18.
Second Masters—George A. Stabb (1847), of the
Impregnable, flag-ship at Devonport, to be acting
master of the Grecian, 12, for the Cape ; G. H. Allen,
to the Impregnable, vice Stabb.
Naval Cadet—Leicester Keppel, to the Bellero-
phon, 78, at Devonport.
OFFICERS STORES FOR FOREIGN SERVICE.—The
Admiralty have issued a scale of the quantities of
the different articles of grocery to be allowed free of
duty to officers of the navy, the Customs have issued
orders to permit the shipment of groceries, duty free,
on board her Majesty's ships proceeding beyocd the
seas, upon the receipt of a request properly filled up
by the commanding officer, and duly approved by the
Commander-in-Chief in the official form.
Mr. Mills, Master-Attendant, of Devonport yard,
paid an official visit at Loo harbour on Tuesday, in
the Pike steamer, to examine th© Government moor.
ings laid down there.
Bellerophon, 78, Capt. Lord G. Paulet, Was paid
advance at Devonport on Tuesday, by Commodore
Seymour. She was expected to sail yesterday for
Portsmouth.
Calypso, 18, Capt. Forbes, sailed from Devonport
on Wgesdayt for North America.