The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEPARTURE OF LIEUTENANT PIM, R.N., FOR ST.
PETERSBURGM.—WO understand that a special mes-
senger from the Foreign-office has been appointed by
Lord Palmerston to accompany Lieutenant Pim to
the above capital. They started last night. The
encouragement held out to Lieutenant Pim by our
Government is a subject of universal satisfaction, and
will cheer him greatly on his bold and arduous under-
taking. No officer ever left England with better
wishes for his success than those which attend him
from all sides: and that he may be• instrumental in
restoring Sir John Franklin and his long-absent com-
panions, is a pr.syer breathed from many a lip.
THE CRUISE ON TILE COAST OP MOROCCO.

We have already stated that the Arethusa. 50, Cap-
tain Symonds, and the Daunthss, 33, screw-frigate,
Captain Halsted, has returned to Lisbon from their
cruise on the coast of Morocco.
The Dauntless, arrived at Tangier on the 30th of
October, communicated with the consul, and left next
morning fur Gibraltar, bringing intelligence for tee
Are►husa, which ship had arrived a few hour.,, before
the Dauntless. They now Lund that their services
were not required, the Janus bring in an efficient
state, and her gallant commander fast recovering
from his recent wounds. The Dauntless was at
Gibraltar a couple cf hours, and left on the 31st of
October. The Arethusa remained a few days there,
and then left for Lisbon. On her passage a serious
accident occurred. One seaman accidentally shot
another through the leg, and amputation of the limb
was the consequence. The Dauntless arrived at
Lisbon on the 6 h instant, and the Arethusa next
day. Oa the morning of the Ist of November the
Bellerophon, 7G, Captain Lord G. Paulet, and Her-
cules were spoken. They were slashing through the
Straits of Gibraltar, all well. Every one appears to
praise the admirable tactics of Commander Powell in
the Janus—all that he did is held to be well timed and

well executes. A day of retaliation;;W:litTtlio7e
piratical rascally Moors, and probably the Lisbon
kquad ro n will have to do the work. Just now it
would he useless to attempt to punish them, for little
or no harm could be done; but when their crops are
grown and nearly ripe, and their cattle near to the
coast, then, and not till then, could a successful and
severe lesson be inflicted. It was exiected that
Commodore Martin's squadron would go to sea for
the next three weeks ; when it does it will go for the
purpose of trying the Dauntless, which ship will most
likhly come to England.
DEVOISPORT, Nov. 19.—Barnard Weymouth, lead-
ing man of shipwrights in Devonport Yard, has
taken his discharge from that establishment, having
„accepted the situation of foreman to the eminent
shipbuilders Wigram and Co., Blackwell, London.
Crane, 6, Commander M'Donnell, was towed out of
harbour this morning by the ConCance steam-tug,
and is swung to test her compasses by Mr. Thomp-
son, Queen's harbour-master. She has taken in her
powder, and will sail so soon as Mr. Gabriel, arbi-
trator at Loando, is ready, as he is to take a passage
in her.

Rosamond steamer commence taking in coals
:o-morrow.

The following superannuations took place in the
past week :—John Jefferey and John Holland, ship-
wrigts, 241. each ; ,William Phillips, leading man of
ropemakers, 34/. ; and William Alger, leading man of
labourers, 201. per annum.
Spartan having had her bottom completed, will be
taken out of No. 2 dock to-morrow, when the Trin-
comalee will be taken in the same tide. The Sans-
parcil will be taken out of No. 4 dock on Saturday
next, the 22d.

Aid lighter, Smallman master, arrived to-day with
stores from the Eastern yards.
Orders have been received at this dockyard that no
seaman rigger is to be entered on the establishment
unless he has served at least six years in sea-going
ships, and held the rating of petty officer or able
seaman, the selection in all cases to be made from the
seamen employed in the yard as riggers, or in the
yard craft. None to be accepted but such as are
efficient, of good character and health.
Sanspareil new 80-gun steam-ship, is ordered to be
fitted with Kingston's valves, with all possible dis-
patch, prior to her being taken out of dock.
Four labourers have been appointed leading men in
the room of a like number superannuated, and in
every case those chosen have before acted in the capa-
city of their new appointments.
Another charge, being tlle eighth case within a
fortnight, was yesterday preferred against a barge-
man employed in the removal of rubbish from the
new works of Keyham, for discharging the same
within the limits of the harbour. In this case, as in
the former ones, the commodore fined the party 404.
—in the event of nonpayment to be imprisoned 14
days. Mr. Eastlake attended as solicitor for the
Admiralty.
The Lords of the Admiralty have granted the sum
of 201. towards the repairs of Stoke Church, Devon-
port, which was some time since damaged internally
by fire. By an arrangement entered into we believe
as far back as the reign of William and Mary the
officers and men of the arsenal are entitled to accom-
modation in this church, the officers' pews being in
the south aisle. Until the innovating hand of Pu-
seyism was allowed to desecrate the building it pos-
sessed a fine old oak pulpit and sounding-board, the
former bearing the Admiralty arms in the front panel.
This has been razed to suit modern notions, and the
sounding. board has vanished from the building alto-
gether. In return for the accommodation in the
church, the Admiralty for many years kept the road
from the yard gates to the church in repair, but
during the naval administration of Sir James Graham,
whose unique samples of economy afforded consider-
able amusement at the time, it was discovered that the
road had been diverted from its original course, and
the worthy baronet therefore cried off so much of the
bargain for repairs. The Admiralty, however, still
keep the pavement of the carriage-way in the princi-
pal, or Fore-street, in repair, in accordance with the
original agreement.

APPOINTMENTS.

Woolavlcm, Nov. 20.—Lieutenants—Thomas P.
P. Barrow (1825) to study steam at the factory at
Woolwich Dockyard; John Trevenen (1850), to the
Prince Regent, 90, flag ship of Commodore Martin,
at Lisbon.

Paymaster and Purser Robert.,Wilson (1826), to
,he Leander, 50, at Lisbon..

Mate Johil d''Arey (1860), to the Victory flag ship,
at Portsmouth.

Naval Cadet Brownlow A. A. Capel, to the Rod-
ney, 90, at Portsmouth.

The officers, five in number, late of the Reynard, 9,
screw steam-sloop, of 60-horse power, which was
some time ago wrecked on the Petras Islands, when
serving in the China seas, embarked with the Captain's
clerk and the crew of the vessel on the Ist of October,
at Singapore, in the ship Woodbridge, Captain Cop-
pill, for England. The Admiral on the East India
station chartered the Woodbridge for the passage
home for 1,2301., and she is to call at the Cape and
St. Helena. When she arrives she will come up to
Woolwich, and the officers and crew will be turned
over to the Fisgard flag-ship at this port. The names
of the officers of the late iteynard coming home in
the Woodbridge are Lieutenant Patrick Johnston,
Lieutenant Henry D. Hickley, Acting-Master
M'Auxland, Surgeon Robert Pottinger, and the se-
cond engineer.

NAVAL MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A
Yesterday morning an inquiry tooktook place OFFICER.—
plsatcret,St.before James's-
square, Mr.m Bed-
ford, ed:
ford, the coroner, at the Red Lion, Y
square, as to the death of James Thompson, Esq., aged
sixty-five, a gentleman of fortune, who was formerly in the
naval service of the East India Company. The jury having
viewed the body, which was lying at Crockford's Palace
Club Chambers, St. James's-street, John Flegg, chamberlain
at er ockford's, stated that the deceased had resided there
for the last seven months. On Wednesday morning he had
breakfasted as usual, and gave directions as to what he
wished done. At half-past eleven he gave witness a stock
tohave a buckle put on, and on taking it back at twelve
he was not in his room, and he supposed he had gone ti,
the water-closet. In the evening, as lie had given no
order about his dinner, witness went and knocked at his
door, but no answer was returned. Inquiries were made,
but no one had been him, nor could he be anywhere heard.
At last it was determined to open his room door, and witness
became greatly alarmed at seeing his silver snuffbox on the
table, his gold watch on the mantelpiece, and his hat and
gloves on one of the chairs. Ile then went to the water-
closet, and the door having been forced open the unfortunate
gentleman was discovered bent up, with his head on the
floor, quite stiff, and he must have been dead for at least
six hours. Mr. Armstrong, of Duke street, surgeon, said
he found deceased as above described. He had a white
neckerchief on, and a black one over it, which were very
tight, but tied in the usual way. He had since opened the
body and found extensive disease of the heart, quite suffi-
cient to cause death. In his opinion he had fainted, and
fallen down with his head on his shoulder, and the tightness
of his neckerchief might have caused an overflow of blood tol the brain. The jury found that he vied a disease of the
heart.