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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Admiralty h :Iva ordered the Comet steam-vessel, in
charge of Mr. Yule, master, to proceed from Tobermory to
Edinburgh, to be at the disposal of Sir John M'Neile, con-
nected with the adn iiniatration of the poor-law.
RECOMXISSIONING• THE PAINCE REGENT AT PORTSMOUTH.
—The new appointments for this ship, recommissioned for
the red pendant of Commodore Martin, have been issued.
Captain Harris has been selected as flag-captain. The selec-
tion of so able an of ficer and experienced sailor reflects groat
credit on the nominator. The other appointments are :
Commander—Henry Caldwell (1847), who has served in
the Powerful, 84, during her commission, vice Fead, who, it '
is said, will be appointed to the command of a sloop.
Lieutenants—(4. W. Preedy (1844), late additional, to be
first lieutenant, vice Barnard, promoted ; Thomas Brandreth
(1845), for gunnery duties, a new appointment as second,
vice Egerton, appointed flag-lieutenant to the commodore ;
John B. Scott (1844), new appointment; Robert B. Beale
(1846), new appointment; C. S. Waddilove (1849), late
additional.

Master—Richard Sto keg, re-appointed.
Surgeon—James Sale lon (1840), vice Dr. G. Burn.
Paymaster—A. Sugden (1822), vice Cotteril, to be socre.
tary to the commodore.

Assistant-Surgeon—lDr. William Macleod, re-appointed.
Second Master—Rob.ert L. Cleveland, re-appointed.
Captain Alexander h lurray (1829) has been appointed to
study steam at Woolwich.
Commander George Lavie, who was promoted in No-
vember, 1 846, from command of the Flamer, steam-vessel, in
the Mediwrranean, has been appointed to the command of
the Alecto., steam-vessel, fitting at Woolwich for the coast
of Africa, Commander:Rowlett having declined the appoint-
ment.

Commander William Ellis has been appointed from the
Greenhithe coast-guard station to the Exmouth district as
inspecting commander, vice Thomas Edmond Symons, re-
moved to the Dublin district, vice William Neame, removed
to Greenhithe, vice Ellis.
Lieutenants—R. B. Miller (1837) to the Impregnable,
78, flag-ship, Devonport ; Alexander Charles Birtwhistle to
command the St. Alban's Head coast-guard station, vice
Mr. Gibbon, previously removed.
Masters--Frederick John Kent to command No. 2 Battery
coast-guard station, Dungeness, vice Mr. J. K. White, re-
moved ; Richard A. Burstall to be in command of a station.
Captain William Maclean (1841), died last week. He was
ninth son of Colonel Alexander Maclean, of Ardgour, by the
Lady Margaret Hope, daughter of the second Earl of 'dope-
toun. He entered the navy in 1823, in the Briton, obtained
his lieutenant's commission in 1830 ; served in the Success,
28 ; Calcutta, 84 ; Blonde, 46 ; Britannia, 120; and was
promoted for flag-.lieutenant to Sir F. Mason, in the Mediter •
ranean, Nov. 1841. He commanded the Apollo troop-ship
for about eghteen _months, and then was appointed to the
command of the Cruiser, 15, in the East Indies, from which
ship he was promoted. He married, August 30, 1838, Eliza-
beth, only daughter of the late T. Melet Charter, Esq., of
Lynchfield House, Somerset.
Lieutenant James John Harrington Groves, late of Brad-
ford, Wilts, and eldest son of the late Captain Groves, R.N.,
died Nov. 27, on board the Salamander steam-sloop, whilst
on her voyage to China. He was appointed as cadet to the
Agincourt, 72, in 1841; was in China at the close of the war,
and afterwards engaged in New Zealand at the taking or
Koweti's pah, under a severe fire of the natives. He also
assisted in taking surveys of the coast, which have since
been transmitted to the Admiralty. He was a
.young and
promising officer, and his loss is deeply and sincerely la-
mented by his numerous friends and relatives. .

Mr. Samuel Paramore, a clerk of half a century's service
in Devonport Dockyard, and who had recently retired, died
last week.

Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour's flag-ship, Cumber-
land, 70, Captain Seymour, arrived at Portmouth yesterday
at noon, and anchored at Spithead, where she will be paid
advanced wages, and receive the flag of the Vice-Admiral,
previous to her sailing for the West Indies. As the Earl of
Dundonald is to be at Bermuda by the end of this month, to
give up the command to Sir George Seymour, the Cumber-
land, we presume, will not be many days at Spithead. We
regret to say the boatswain, Mr. Turnbull, who was injured
by a man falling from the rigging on his head, at Gillingham
Reach, died at Melville HospitaL
The Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, was
towed into harbour from Spithead, this day at noon, by the
Echo steam-tug, to alongside the dockyard, to be paid off.
As she was coming to the mouth of the harbour, close off
Soutbsea beach, the troops of the garrison happened to be
returning, on the esplanade on the beach, from their usual
Saturday morning's march into the country, and in pasting
the bands of the military appropriately struck up " A life on
the ocean wave," after which the band on board the Power-
ful played " Home, sweet home." The effect of the whole,
with the troops and the majestic 84-gun ship, just returned
from a three years' absence, passing each other at only a few
yards distance, being very striking.
Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey-, arrived at Devonport
from the coast of Africa at 6 30 P.M. on Wednesday evening,
and is to proceed eastward to be paid off. She has brought
no news. Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., in the Centaur,
steam-frigate, with the Cygnet, 6, Commander Robertson,
and the Harlequin, 12, Commander R. Wilmont, were at
Sierra Leone, Jan. 28. The Harlequin sailed the 26th for the
Bights, to join Cnptain Adam's division. The Kingfisher
has brought home some invalids. She has not been par-
ticularly fortunate in making prizes. The coast was
generally healthy. The Kingfisher confirms our previous
accounts of the decline of the slave trade.
The Kingfisher is ordered to be paid off at Devonport.
Apollo, 8, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, arrived at
Queenstown, on Thursday, to embark troops for the Me d
i-
teranean, the West Indies, North America, &c.
on
Pandora, 6, Commander Drury, touched at QuSeen,s_tff.n'
Thursday, on her way from Devonport to New',.r."
WOOLWICH, MARCH I.—Rear-Admiral
dmn ally,o or e
Fite-
hardinge Berkeley, C. 8., one of the LornclisedofbtyhecAo
visited IVoolwich to-day, and accomp
heads of the departments,
Henry Eden and several of
inspected the Banshee, f the Mediterranean
steam-vessels,fitting or
Lieutenant-Commander Hosken,
and the Caradoc
station.
TherLieutenant- Commander
Tu
steWoolwichain-vesr'
to-day,e from the coast of
o ur, arrived a Shearwatert
Ire-
land, where she was employed on a
tltie this port.
surveying service since
March, 1848, and is to be paid
The Vulcan steam-frigate, blaster-Commander John Penn.
will leave Sheerness on Monday, March 3, for Portsmouth,
where she is to embark troops, and then proceed to Cork.
The Pyrenee hired convict-ship has arrived at moorings
opposite the Royal Arsenal, to take on board male convicts
for the Swan River settlement. Two of the guards of the
Warrior convict-ship go out with the convicts, and will re-
main at Swan River. The convicts are to receive tickets of
leave on arriving at their destination.

The Governollo Sardinian steam-frigate, Captain Count
Persano, when she discharges the packages qf articles
brought over to this country for the Exhibition in Hyde-
park, intends taking a cruise to the coast of Scotland, that
her officers may visit the capital of that country; and they
will afterwards visit the most interesting places in the north
and east of England, proceeding as far as the Land's-end.
Messrs. Maudslay and Field, the makers of her engines, of
450-horse power, went on board to-day to inspect them, and
were much pleased
i with their excellent condition,and the
good working order n which everything connected with them
i 5 kept.