The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Colonel Commandant Menzies, K.H. of the Ports-
mouth division of Marines, has resigned his good-service
Pension, and has been appointed to the distinguished
post of naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, vice Parke,
0.13. promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general.
Colonel Wearing, a gallant and distinguished officer
of the Plymouth division of Royal Marines, has' re;-
ceived the other vacant appointment of aide-de-camp
to the Q
C. 8., on promotion.
Colonel Whyinek,
Queen, vacated by Lieutenant-General Owen,
has had conferred upon him the
Captain Charles good-service pension
relinquished by Colonel Menzies.
of the Chatham division of Marines,
We regret to announce the 19th Instant, at W
argrave Berkshire aged 56.
William Henry Symons
ce-fiVirt
hriethdtec R.N..ase of (1846),
com diedlm doe:
North-
hill, Plymouth, aged 6,
• This officer had served 25
Dr. William Robertson
years afloat." • -849),.at his residence North-
t hem,Hr.ogjuttem,6oo gcu.n
pa hini ph,oarnt Lisbon,
(1843) has been appointed to
has been appointed
-clerk in charge of the Janus
vice
Mr.H eAadtharner,Aprinomslioetehdas.
been
aaptepoTlated-vesseaLGlraithtaar:
Devonport Dockyard, and Mr. Henry Devonshirela fore-
man of smiths at that establishment. -
Lieutenant Arthur Tower, appointed to the e
W t I 120, at Sheerness, was never placed on the retired half
pay list, as stated. He is comparatively a young officer.
Messrs. Oswald and Bowring, first-class clerks at
Deptford Victualling-yard, have retired, the former on a
pension of 2751, per annum, and the latter on 190 L per
annum ; and the following gentlemen have been pro-
moted and appointed in consequence:—Messrs. Williams
and James, from second class to the first class; Messrs.
Stevenson and Hall, from third class to the second class;
Messrs Owen (extra clerk in Deptford Dockyard), and
Pollock, to the third class; and Mr. C. Brown, extra
third class, vice Owen.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAT.—The wind shifted to the
which will relieve the
hwoems t
ewwa
ar
rdd yb yesterdays
seevlsenininte Channel. _

In anticipation of the removal of the Court to-mor-
row to Osborne Palace, the Fairy, yacht-tender, Master-
Commander Welsh, and the Elfin, royal dispatch
steamer, have been down at Cowes several times during
the week.

The Court are expected abOut noon to-morrow en route
to Osborne. The Fairy is all ready to convey the royal
party to Osborne.
The Sharpshooter, iron steam gun-vessel, Lieutenant
Commander Bailey, was paid off on Wednesday last,
and will be taken into the steam basin on Monday.
The Sunoom has finished painting outside, acid she
looks like a magnificent vessel. Her bottom has been
payed over with Mr. Hay's composition. She will un-
dock on Monday.
The Helena, 16, Commander De Couroey, arrived at
Spithead this afternoon from the West India and North
American station. She left Bermuda on the Ist inst., at
which date the Cumberland, 70, flag of Vice-Admiral
Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief, was there.
The Express, 6, Commander Fead, and the Scorpion, 6,
Lieutenant-Commander Laurence, sailed for St.
Thomas's on the 31st of (Meter. The Calypso, 20,
Captain Forbes, sidled for Jamaica on the 29th of Sep-
tember. Captain G. B. Martin, C. 8., the flag captain
to Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Com-
mander-in-Chief, went out in the Fanny, and mus-
tered the crew and inspected the Helena, which will
come into this harbour to-morrow morning to be
paid oft.
The Basilisk, new advanced steam-frigate, was taken
out of harbour to-day by Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8.,
to try her machinery, &c. She made only two runs
along the measured mile, which realised an average
speed of ten knots per hour, after which she steamed to
the westward and returned to harbour.

The Sprightly steam-tender, Acting-Master-Com-
mander Allen, sails to-morrow for Plymouth, taking
supernumeraries for Lisbon and the West Indies, to take
passage respectively in the Rosamond and Hecate
steam-sloops.
Captain Lord Adolphus Fitz Clarence arrived at the
George Hotel this evening from town, to be in attend-
ance on her Majesty to-morrow.
WooLvilcu, Nov. 21.—Henry Devonshire is sp.
inted,zaromm of Smiths at Devouport. &city ard,
Tixs-7A-Tfald- CorastrprEE.—The committee, of which
Rear-Admiral Bowles, C. 8., is chairman, concluded the
examinations of the officers and others of the recent
Arctie expedition on Wednesday last, and the report of
the result of the labours of the committee will soon be
ready. There is no doubt of another Arctic expedition
being fitted out so as to take its departure for the Polar
regions early in the ensuing spring. It is also the
general impression that the instruction to the expedition
of 1852 will be to devote its energies to the passage of
or a thorough search up, Wellington Channel, and the
direction in whioh the open waters of Victoria Channel
were observed by Captain Penny in the early part of
the present year. ;The crews of the American ships
Rescue and Advance have been presented with medals
on their return home, and Mr. Henry Grinnell has
again plaeed these vessels at the disposal of the American
Government for a further search of Sir John Franklin
and the officers and crews of the long-missing vessels
Erebus and Terror, discovery ships.

PRIVATE EXPEDITIONS of the PRINCE
ALBERT and of LIE UT. PIM
_ .

In the reports given in the American newspapers of
the grand dinner given at New York by the British re-
sidents there to Mr. Grinnell and the officers of the
Arctic expedition, we find the following notices by dif-
ferent speakers of these two expeditions :
Passed Midshipman Griffin, late commanding the
Rescue, said—The field of search is not yet entirely
abandoned. The, flag of England still floats from the
peak of the vessel sent out by that true-hearted English
wife, the Lady Franklin, Constant to a degree which
has made her name almost as illustrious as that of her
husband, she still clings on to hope. Her own unyield-
ing spirit seems to have passed iuto the brave men who
navigate her vessel. A more gallant body of men, with
a more gallant head, were never afloat beneath the cross
of St. George than those who are now aboard the Prince
Albert. Relenting fate may have reserved for them the
undying honour and the inexpressible happiness of re-
storing the gallant Franklin to his home and country.
God grant that it may be so—that the vessel consecrated
by a woman's love may bring back her hero for its
freight. The speaker concluded by inviting the com-
pany to join him in drinking " Health,
happiness, and
success to Captain Kennedy, of the Prince Albert, his
officers, and men."—(Great cheering.)
Mr. Young, of the Albion newspaper, representative of
tt
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SirNe
John York,
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aa then company
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anya
means to be abandoned. Mr. Henry Grinnell had read
to hire an extract from a letter of Lady Franklin, in
which she mentioned that a now project was now before
the British Admiralty—one that there was every reason
to hope would be adopted. The plan was submitted by
Lieutenant Pim of the Royal Navy, who urges the
Admiralty to explore the coasts of Siberia, from Cape
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give him
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this circumstance, which had not yet before been made
ptoubplrico'set
had been exhausted. The mass of the people were all
on the right side.