The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Captain Beechey, who has been on the northern coast en.
ceavouring to reconcile the seamen to the observances of the
provisions of the New Mercantile Marine Act, and to settle
disputes between the seamen and the shipowners, has returned
to the Admiralty.

The statemeni of the terms under which Mr. Conk, late
master-commander of the Admiralty aciat. black Eigle,
has accepted his new appointment under the Board of Ord-
nance, is incorrectly given. _

Arrogant, 46-gun frigate, Captain R. S. Robinson, calls at
Plymouth for a few hour-, on her way for Spithead to Lisbon,
to join Commodore Martin's squadron.
Athol store-ship, Lieut.-Commander Pearse, calls at Ply-
mouth on her way from Spithead to Ascension.
Avon steam-tender, Second Master Veiteh, returned to
Devonport, from the eastern p, rts, on Sunday.
Hercules store-ship, M ,titer-Commander Fulb on, arrived at
Queenstown on i'riday, to embark troops toe the Mediter-
ranean
Meander, 44, Captain the Hun. Henry Keppel, is likely to
bring home a large freight of specie from the Pacific. She
is expected at Spithead about the end of May.
Penguin, 6, Commander Etheridge, was mustered, in-
spected, and paid advance, at Devonport, on Saturday, by
Commodore Lord John Hay, and sailed on Sunday morning
for the coast of Africa. _

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Rochester lighter, Ludwicks master, sailed from Devon-
port, with stores, for Chatham, on Saturday.
Sampson steam-frigate, Capt. T. L. Jones, on embarking
Sir Emerson Tennent and suite at Devonport, is ordered to
keep her tender, the Bloodhound steam-vessel, company un-
til she arrives at Madeira; she will then dispatch the Blood-
hound to Sierra Leone. and will proceed thence direct to St.
Helena, where she will land the Governor, and then return
remembered,ivalat:t,ceorrtn3-.
Commander-in-Chief of the coast of Africa. The bottom of
of Admiral Hugon
to Ascension, and report herself to Commodore Fanshawe, the
the Bloodhound having been coated, and had time to dry,
She was taken out of
.rNalot.ysßoDamecl,nespteirade
Admiral De la Suisse,
mended in chief the French squadrone French, is appointed • Vice-
mouth with the late King of oilionbeitsarr
President of the Arlon
admitted to retirement.
vr,,NDAY.—A court-martial will be held
Poem:women', ---
-, V' t try
boa,. the ictory o the boatswain of her
to-morrow on .
ship Topaze in this
Majesty's receiving who,it
• harbour, for a breach
of discipline.
Theiron
steam-frigate Birkenhead hats been brought down
from her moorings to take in coals. She will be comm is-
aioned to-morrow by Mr. Robert Salmond, Master (1838), for
special service. Mr. Salmond will command the Birkenhead.
ne is late of the Vengeance, 84, and Retribution steam-
frigate, and is one of the most skilful and able masters in the
British navy,
The Wellington arrived at Spithead this morning to em-
bark mails and passengers for Port Philip.
We have private letters from the squadron of Commodore
Wyvill, the Commander-in-Chief on the Cape of Good Hope
station, which state that the Fox, 42. Commodore Lambert,
arrived at Simon's Bay. from England,' on t he3d of December.
Site would sail thence in a few days for Trincomalee. Lieute-
nant-General Sir Harry Smith, K.C.8., the Governor of the
Cape Colony, embarked, with 500 men of the 73d Regiment
and a body of artillery, on the sth of December for the
mouth of the Buffalo, disturbances having again broken out
among the Kafirs. The Castor, 36, Commodore WYvill,
had been absent from Simon's Bay ten month, in the Mo-
zambique, but bad been unsuccessful in cruising. The
Orestes, i 4, Commander Hawkes, was in Simon's 81,437 refit-
ting, on the sth of December; and the Pantaloon, 0 ,
together
Core-
mender Parker, was in tl.e Mozambique, cruising,
with the D'e steam-ve-,''.

A ITOIN T3IENTS.
WOOLWICH, FEB W.— Chief Engineer-- Charles Pember-
ton, to the lii: ken iicad ,team-troup-sbip, at Ptbrtsu„,,, ii.
Assistant• Engineers—Joshua C. Rohim.,n, James Dlorris,
andßenjamint
her!, Gs rme eatkl7 '
to t Gl°ir re
Mast:?rs'-Assistants - William C. Buck, to th e Fisgard flag-
ship, at Woolwich; T. IT. Spence, to the Birkenhead.
eiilirkl;:tiitheehaidn.
g man, J
Clerks--John Freihtield (1847), to the Victory flag-ship,
at Portsmouth ; John H. Duffel!
(18',0), to the Ceylon re-
ceiving-ship, at Malta, to the Cumherland, 70, flaggilliP,
fitting at Chatham for the West India station.
Master Robert Salmond, late of the Fisgard, and now
Commander of the Birkenhead, left Woolwich to-day for
Portsmouth.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.•rWe have
reason to believe that the past half•yeset working at lib be
is of a very prchtiliog character.