The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-03 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

WcoLwicm, FEY. I.—Boatswain—Hodgson Brown to
the Vulcan steam-frigate, at Sheerness.
Carpenter—George Penn, to the Vulcan.
Master—Robert Salmond (1836), appointed to the
Fisgard, flag-ship at Woolwich, vice A) len, joined at
Woolwich to-day.

Mr. Jost ph Pinhorn left Woolwich on Thursday lest
for Portsmouth, to take the duties of storekeeper at the
Clarence victualling yard.
The Cyclops steam-frigate
on Monday, and as she will require very little refitting,
she will be
shortly
le•commissioned.
t of the hands of
The Alecto steam-vessel will
be
out
3d instant, and
is to be taken into the basin
no:Aistfra
the shipwrights on Monday eveninf
9 left
of
Li on
The Argus steam-sloop,
will be commissioned formserrvjiCeoe
when
:19hTtrizieckceotast:
vitabmouth, in charge of Lieu-
Tuesday morning last for Portsmouth,
once
with Woolwich Dockyard ou board.
incta.t o
ttehnea nt
chiefß o Robertson, r a s
twice down and up the measured
made three runs, b and her average speed was found to
mile at tee reach,
per hour. The Argus built at
be about ten knot .
of
975 was
b in 1849, and is
Portsmouth
was designed by the Navy-office, and when launched
brought round to the River to be fitted with oscillating
engines of 300-horse power, by John Penn and Son.
Lieutenant Robertson, and the crew who navigated her
to Portsmouth, returned to Woolwich on Friday even-
ing last.
The Monkey steam-vessel towed No. 9 transport down
the river yesterday.

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW, MIDDLE TEMPLE.—The
undermentioced gentlemen, called to the degree of the Utter
Bar on Friday last, were published in the Middle Temple-
hall this day
:—Tompson Chitty, Esq., James Grant, Esq.,
8.A., Walter Copland Perry, Esq., William H. Beadon, Esq.,
William Mackenzie, Esq., Edmund Jackson, E-q., Charles
Watkins Merrifield, Esq., Leonard Worslev, Esq., William
F. Segar, 8.A., W. Marshall, Esq., J. W. Bowen, Egg,
William Crawford, Esq., J. P. Bridgwater, Esq., and William
Courthope, Esq.
The public will be sorry to hear that Mr. Hender-
son, of the firm of Fox and Henderson, the contractors for
Mr. Paxton's glass edifice in Hyde-park, lies dangerously
ill in the country, and that fears are entertained by his
friends for his recovery. It appears that Mr. Henderson was
seized with a violent attack of the intestines on Saturday
last, but that he found himself considerably better on Thurs-
day. The report concerning him yesterday was, however, so
purnefsasv
trainour unfavourable,
laste, that
ninight
hill Fox,rt.ovi t his partner, went down by him.ex-
EXHIBITION OF 1851.--Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent visited the building on Saturday. Her
igb
Colonelne ss was received by Lord Granville, Mr. Field
Reid, Mr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, and Mr. Wyatt.
GSRioirbysaoGlne Highness
George Couper was in attendance on her Royal
Highness.
THE SAILORS S
in STRIKE,
strike_The
there amongthe
sailors of the north
still any
imme-
diate prospect of an arrangement with the
shipowners, as
both parties stand out for the rates respectively fixed lav
them.

The mortal remains of the late Archibald le
Dalmeny were consigned to the family mausoleum,
Dalmeny Park, Mid-Lothian, yesterday. The Earl of
bery, Lord Mahon, the Hon. Bouverie Primrose, and
relatives, attended the obsequie4.