The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Mr. J. G. Messum is announced as clerk in charge to the
Banshee, steam-packet. This officer was said to have bee❑
promoted a few weeks since.
Second Masters—Thomas C. Cave to the Bonetta; T. D.
Browne to the Banshee. _

Clerks—Thomas S. Vinall, in charge, to the Bonetta;
Alexander Allen to the Apollo ; Charles Fisher to the
Fisgard.
Midshipmen—N. D. F. Lillingston and W. M. Wright to
the Bonetta. _ _ _

Masters Assistants —George A. F. Day and John E.
Chapple to the Bonetta; R. G. Pashley and F. H. Buist to
the Banshee.
Captain Sir E. Home and his little band of sufferers are
progressing favourably. Sir E. Home has a core formed in
the wound in the head, which is expected to work out in a
day or two. He will then leave the hospital, as the wound
will be reduced considerably. He now expects to join his
ship the beginning of the week.
Commodore Lambert, in the Fox, 42, left the Cape, Dec.
15, for Trincomalee, all well.
Assistant Surgeons M‘Mahon and Sole, of the Dee, steam-
tender, and Arab, 12. exchanged ships at the Cape.
Arab, Commander Morris, sailed on Saturday evening for
Chatham, to pay off. She landed her invalids that she
brought home at Hasler, and took round some supernume-
raries that the Pike brought up from Plymouth for the Cum-
berland, 70.
Echo steam-tug, took off to Spithead and put on board the
Cornwall about 80 convicts from the hulks at Portsmouth,
for conveyance to Gibraltar.
PORTSSIOUTIT, SUNDAY.—The Birkenhead, iron steam
troop frigate, Master-Commander R. Salmond, completed
provisioning yesterday for ten weeks for tOO troops, whieh
she expects to embark this week for Gibraltar. She will be
swung on Monday to ascertain the deviation of her coin-
passes. She will be ready for sea on Wednesday.
Captain Yates, of the Britannia, 120, has been granted six
weeks further sick leave. He continues very ill.
The Seaflower, cutter, Lieutenant-Commander Fletcher,
sailed yesterday to resume her station off Jersey in protect-
ing the fisheries.
The Pike steam vessel camei ► Friday night from
Devonport with supernumeraries r the Cumberland at
Chatham. These were transhipped to the Arab, about to sail
for the latter port, and the Pike came into harbour to obtain
new boilers.

The Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey, bas arrived at
Ascension, on her way home from the coast of Africa.
The Admiralty have appointed Mr. Macdonald, late
master of her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, and now
ma4er-attendant of Woolwich Dockyard, to ►e one of the
officers to be consulted by the Privy Council "en all mat-
ters relating to navigation, questions of collisions at sea,
salvage, &c."

WOOi.wictr, Fun. 16. —Tne Resistance, 10, troop-ship,
Master-Commander Bradshaw, left Woolwich this morning
for Cork, and was towed down the river by the Monkey
and Jasper steam-vessels. The Resistance is to convey the
service companies of the 68th Foot (the Durham Light In-
fantry), under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel R. W.
Huey, from Cork to Malta, after six years and upwards of
service on home stations.

The Birkenhead troop-ship, Master-Commander Aylen,
when ready at Portsmouth, is to proceed to Cork to embark
the service companies of the 55th Foot, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Warren, C. 8., for conveyance to
Gibraltar.

The Vulcan steam-frigate, Master-Commander John
Penn, when ready for sea at Sheerness will proceed to Cork
to embark the service 'companies of the 74th Highlanders,
under the'command of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Fordyce, for
conveyance to Gibraltar, where they are to be stationed.
The Apollo troop-ship, Commander James Rawstorne,
when ready at Sheerness, is to proceed to Cork to embark
the service companies of the 92d Highlanders, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel M. K. Atherly, for Corfu,
where they are to be stationed.
Commander Edward Dixon (1841), having finished a
course of study of steam at the Woolwich Dockyard, was ex-
amined by Mr. Humphreys, chief engineer, as to his profi-
ciency on Thursday last, and, having passed, received his
certificate accordingly.

A BARN OF GLASS.—We understand that Mr. N.
Tuckett intends to cover a large barn, 110 feet long, and 28
feet wide, on his farm at lleavitree, with a glass roof, after
the model of the Palace of Glass. The expense will not be
above two•thirds of the cost of slate, and he anticipates
several advantages from the novel roof; among others, it
may be applied to the drying corn during a catching har-
vest. The corn can be placed in the barn immediately upon
being reaped, where it will have the benefit of the sun when
it shines, be protected from the showers, and also dried by
artificial heat, if required, and then stacked in ricks under a
covered stackyard. This will enable the land to be imme-
diately ploughed up, and sowed with turnips or rape. which
will prepare the land for another cereal crop the following
year, so that he anticipates three crops in two years.— Wes-
tern Times.
Dispatches ware sent of on Saturday from the Colonial-
office for the Governors of the West India Islands.
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Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Leghorn,Feb.o 1, 1845.
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eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, had not
been able to effect: nay, not ever the waters of Carlsbad or Ma-
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