The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

WooLwicu, DEC. 11.—Lieutenant Charles G.
Fegen (1845), to study steam at the factory at Wool-
wich Dockyard. Boatswain William Inglis to the
London, 90, at Sheerness.
Commodore Henry Eden having obtained six weeks'
leave cf absence, Captain the Hon. Montague Stop-
ford has arrived here from Sheerness, to be acting
superintendent at Woolwich Dockyard during the
absence of Commodore Eden.

Captain Erasmus Ommaney, recently in command
of the Assistance, one of the ships of the last Arctic
expedition, having been appointed Deputy-Controller
of the Coast Guard, it is expected Captain H. T.
Austin, C. 8., will be appointed additional to the
Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth, for packet service
at Southampton, in the room of Captain Armor L.
Corry, on the promotion of the latter gallant officer
to the rank of Rear-Admiral.

Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, C. 8., will leave
the position he now holds at Whitehall, as First Naval
Lord at the Admiralty, in about six weeks from the
present time, and will then hoist his flag on the Bri-
tannia, 120, and proceed to relieve Admiral Sir Wil-

Liam Parker in the command of the Mediterranean
station. Rear-Admiral F. M. Berkeley, C. 8., the
present Second Naval Lord, is expected to be First
Naval Lord, and Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart,
C. 8., one of the present Lords of the Admiralty, has
addressed the electors of the borough of Greenwich,
Woolwich, and Deptford, with the view of being
elected their representative in the room of Rear-Ad-
miral Dundas, who will vacate his seat on leaving for
the Mediterranean. Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart
is well known and greatly respected in this borough,
having, when Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard,
some years ago, secured many influential friends in
the constituency by his excellent disposition and kind
manner to all parties in this locality.
The Tartarus steam-vessel was navigated to Leith
in the latter part of the last and the beginning of the
present week, where she is to be stationed, and em-
ployed in the protection of the fisheries on the north
coast of Scotland. Mr. Stuart, the Government pilot,
proceeded from Woolwich to Leith in her, and he de-
scribes the whirlwind and gale he encountered in her
when off St. Abb's-head as more severe than any he
had ever experienced during his long professional
service.

The Defence, formerly a 72-gun ship, but now con-
verted into a convict-hulk, was taken down the river
to-day, from opposite the dockyard, to her permanent
moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal, to contain the
convicts employed during the day in that department
of her Majesty's service.
The Amazon West India Royal mail steam-packet
started shortly after 12 o'clock to-day on a further
trial down the river, having on board Mr. Hughes,
assistant to the chief engineer at Somerset- house, and
Mr. Mills, chief engineer to the company, but after
proceeding about five miles below Gravesend the fog
became so thick that it was considered advisable to
drop her anchor and bring her up in good anchorage
ground. The trial of her speed between the Nore
and Mouse lights is, consequently, deferred until
Saturday, when she will be tried if the weather is free
of fog, and she will afterwards proceed on the after-
noon of that day for Southampton. The vessel has
been surveyed and considered capable of carrying
14 32-pounders and two 10-inch pivot guns, the latter
of 85 cwt. each, on her main deck. Her coal boxes
are constructed to carry 1,000 tons of coals, or up-
wards of 16} days' consumption at the rate of 2i tons
per hour for her 26 furnaces. She is fitted with
Captain Sir Snow Harris's lightning conductors, and
in case of need can accommodate 360 troops below,
allowing each man twelve superficial feet. Altogether
the vessel is a great credit to the company, and when
the five already ordered are completed, and one or
two more, Captain Chappell says, are contemplated,
this wealthy company will possess a splendid fleet,
available for commercial purposes in the time of peace,
and for the service of the country on any sudden
emergency of war.

SMITIIFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.
Though on the first two days of the great Christmas
Cattle Show there was no deficiency of visitors as com-
pared with the corresponding days of previous years,
yet during the whole of yesterday the crowd in attend-
ance at the show in Baker-street was so dense as to pre-
clude anything like a satisfactory view of the stock.
The visitors, too, were of a different class from those in
the early part of the week. Though there was still a
considerable attendance of farmers and others whose
whose occupations are more or less connected with the
cultivation of the soil, the butchers and dealers had to a
great extent disappeared, but their absence was agree-
ably compensated for by the presence of a number of
ladies, chicfly from the rural districts. With the ex-
ception of a few of the least promising of the cattle,
and some half dozen pens of Leicestershire sheep, the
whole of the animals have been sold, and there is every
probability that no part of the stock brought to the
exhibition for sale will have to seek another market. The
interest of the visitors yesterday was principally con-
centrated on the articles exhibited in the implement
gallery, including American reaping machines, portable
steam-engines, grinding mills, thrashing machines,
ploughs, and every other mechanical contrivance of
modern date for the improved cultivation of the soil.
Tho Duke of Wellington and General Wemyss were
among the more distinguished of the visitors, and both
of them appeared to take an especial interest iu the stalls
devoted to the display of field produce.

THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE AND THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION.—We learn from a source which has never
misled us, that the Prince de Joinville, though at Esher now,
did, after all, according to the statement in the Times, ac-
tually proceeded to Lille, with the view of getting up a de-
monstration in favour of himself, provided he received the
slighest encouragement. The fact that the Times announced
this piece of information exclusively, affords collateral con-
firmation of what we said yesterday respecting that journal
being in the service of . the Orleans family. On reaching
Lille, the Prince de Joinville found that there was not the
shadow of a chance for him, even in that disaffected town,
and, therefore he hurried back to England per the next
train, in the hope that the fact of his having contemplated
an expedition against Louis Napoleon would not transpire.
—Advertiser.
We are happy to say that Mr. Brown, M.P. for
South Lancashiro, is so far recovered from hie late attack of
influenza as to enable him to go to Southport for change
I Of air.