The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander Frederick E. Forbes, promoted on paying
off the Bonetta, has been appointed to study at the Royal
Naval College.
' Lieut. J. W. Vaughan (1848) succeeds Lieut. Har-
vey in the Firebrand steam-frigate, MedWrranean.
Lieutenants—J. J. O'Ferrall Carmichael, has been ap-
pointed from Ballynacourty Coast-guard Station to
Wicklow Head Station, vice Mr. 0. Jones, superannu-
ated; Charles Horace Lapidge to the command of a
Coast-guard station.
THE TURKISH SQUADRON AT PORTSMOUTH: The
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Turkish frigate Mirate Zafre, Captain Mehemet Bey, and
brig Sara Bahri, were towed out of Portsmouth Harbour
on Saturday by the. Echo steam-tug, and anchored at
Spithead. The frigate, when off the Spit Buoy, fired a
salute of 17 guns in compliment to the flag of Admiral
Sir Bladen Cape!, which the Victory returned. It is
not certain on which day they sail for Constantinople.
The second captain of the Mirate Zafre has succeeded to
the command of the brig, vacant by the death of Captain
Bey, her commander. With respect to these inte-
eniayrniifTetnhheteeeodCrews of the Penelope and her
inte-
resting foreigners, we may here observe, that during the
six months they have been with us, both officers and
men have been much on shore; that their conduct has,
on all occasion!, been marked with the utmost decorum;
no quarreling nor dispute has occurred; a more quiet,
orderly, inoffensive, unpresuming people we never have
seen. They have not mixed much with the inhabitants
of Portsmouth, but this has been owing to their general
—we may say, their entire ignorance of the English
language, and their not finding any persons speaking
the Turkish language, which has rendered any general
intercourse impossible. They have not expended much
money on shore, excepting some outlay for cloth-
ingwarmte
and shoes to enable them to stand the coldh of
eh,
winter season. They have been tolerably healt y,
sane!
we understand, have not suffered more than theofpre.
rality of the inhabitants from the influenza that h
disposed, and if during their visit they may not have
getting a back turn with
pirnoceed from the new machi-
small, very cleanly in their persons, sober, pie , well
howithef safetymtheen a
steam-frigateeet
andth a that r
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Penelope, Captain Lyster, on Thursday, a party of arti-
ficers from Portsmoudnithiryaslrdthweerenosenn. tsoirnßbiaodaerdn
Chearpealt,
any defect. On Sa-
Spithead, to rectify the defect in her capstan. This was
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working
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oneoasigutski experienced
as.
accomplished by the pasrtpyriwghortlkyins
visit to Commodore Bruce. He remained on board the
Penelope an hour and upwards, returning into harbour
tender, the Teazer, were all on board at sunset on Sa-
turday, and both vessels sailed early Sunday •
on morning
for the coast of Africa.

Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Captain MPougall, has re-
turned to Queenstown, from cruising in the chops of the
Channel for the relief of the windbound.
Avon, steam-tender, Mr. Veitch in charge, left Queens-
town, on her return to Devonport, on Thursday.
Apollo, troop ship, Commander Rawstorue, arrived at
Malta from Corfu, on her way to the West Indies, on the
llth instant.

Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, is to
have new fore and main yards, which willbe fished—i. e.,
strengthened in the slings, in the same manner as those
recently furnished to the Prince Regent. Her present
yards will be returned to the dockyard. It is now said
she will go to Spithead on the Ist of May, where she
will further fill up, if not complete, her complement-
Another lieutenant has been appointed to her—viz., 3.1 r.
A. Bathurst.
Simoom, iron screw-ship, has discharged her ballast,
and has been brought into the steam basin at Portsmouth,
preparatory to being taken into dock to be converted to
a troop steamer.
POnTSINIOUTII, SUNDAY,—La Belle Alliance, hired
freight-ship,
gini
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning
from
Corfu, with plrt of the 36th Reonton board.
The Lady Flora freighnship arrived to-day from the
same place, also with troops.
The Athol troopship arrived at Sierra Leone from
Plymou, n on the 20th ult.
The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Harris, was taken
out of dock all etaunt on Friday.
WooLwicu, Aran, 19.--1 be Vivid, Dover mai
steam-packet, will not be completed iu her re-fining at
Woolwich until about the end of the present month. In
the meantime Captain Smithett, Commander of the
Vivid, is to be specially appointed to another vessel to
convey his Majesty King Leopold of Belgium to Eng-
lsnd for the purpose of visiting her Majesty, and being
present at the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde-
park on the Ist of May next.
The crew that brought round the Greenock steam-