The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE;

The Calypso, 18, at Chatham, is ordered to be com-
missioned. Report gives the command to Captain Ar-
thur Forbes (1846), an officer who entered the navy in
1820, and was promoted on miring off the Illustrious,
72, flag-ship of Sir Charles Adam, in the West Indies.
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has been appointed store i.ecois-erat Woolwich, vice
Laws promoted to be storekeeper at Sheerness, vice Bla-
dock Devonport, vice Jenkins deceased. These arrange-
ments will make a promotion of a first-class clerk. We
believe Mr. Rodwell Willcocks, of Deptford, is the se-
nior second-class clerk in the service. His promotion,
therefore, would not only be an act of equity and justice
to Deptford Dockyard, on which establishment there is
at present no first-class clerk, but it would give the
juniors a chance of promotion, from which they have hi-
therto been barred. The ivacan.cy is a Devonport one,
it should be remembered, and if not filled up by clerks
at that port, the promotion oug:ht to go by seniority of
all the clerks in the dockyard service.
The Dasher, steamer, Commander Le Febvre, ar-
rived at Portsmouth from Sheerness to be paid advance,
and will proceed to Jersey for the protection of the,
fisheries.

Avon, steamer, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
morning from Plymouth, bringing up a draft of men
from the Trafalgar, 120, which were put on board this
vessel at Spithead.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY. The Centaur steam-
frigate is ordered to be commissioned at this port by
Captain St. Leger Canon for this flag of Rear-Admiral
Henderson, appointed to the command-in-chief on the
Brazils station.

The Diligence naval transport arrived at Spithead in
the night with stores, &c.
The Belvidere, 38, has been brought down to-day to
have her jurymasts taken out, which are to be shipped
by the Pique, 40, and the latter is to be navigated with
them to Pembroke to be lengthened.
The Victoria, 110, is to be brought from Pembroke to
this port to be fitted for the ordinary.
The Oberon steam-vessel has been taken out to-day
to try her machinery. It is reported that part of the
crew of the Trafalgar will take her to the Mediter-
ranean.

It is reported here that the Lieutenant-Governor of
this garrison (Lord F. Fitzclarence) has had conferred
upon him the Colonelcy of the 36th Regiment. We
merely give the rumour as we have received it—we must
add, somewhat incredulsus of its authenticity, not being
aware of any war services of Lord Frederick's which
could entitle him to the boon usually conferred upon ve-
teran soldiers, except, indeed, the gallant action with the
conspirator Thistlewoodl— Times.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 23.—Her Majesty's brig Express,
Commander Feed, fitting here, goes out of harbour on
Monday next, the 28th inst., and will shortly proceed to
the West Indies.

The hoy Anchor, lately launched in this yard for ser-
vice at Bermuda, will sail for her destination, under con-
voy of the Express.
The Minden convict-ship sailed on Monday, the 21st
inst., for Swan River.

The Lords of the Admiralty, in reply to numerous ap-
plications, have signified that it is not their intention, for
the present, to fill up the vacancies in the different
branches of the establishment.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, JULY 24.—Commander Thomas Mitchell

(b) (1842) to the Persian, 12, sloop, on the North Ame-
rica and West Indies station, in the room of Archibald
G. Butlman, who has been invalided, after having held
command of that vessel since July 7, 1849.
Lieutenant Henry Boys (1846), formerly First Lieu-
tenant on board the Centaur steam-frigate, when serving
on the west coast of Africa station, is again appointed to
the Centaur, for service on the south-east coast of Ame-
rica station.

Surgeon Charles R. Brien, M.D. (1842), to the Cen
,aur.

Assistant-Surgeon Hugh Girven (1847), to the Con
,aur.

Second-Master Augustus G. Whichelo (1848) to the
Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth.
Master's-Assistants—N. D. Barnes to the Fisgard flag-
ship, at Woolwich; J. Burdwood and W. J. Baker to the
Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport.
Clerks—Henry W. Sanders (1848) to the Impregna-
ble, and Francis J. Long (1851) to the Styx steam-sloop,
at Devonport.
Gunner Stephen Slade to the Oberon, 3, iron paddle-
wheel steam-vesselof 260-horse power, at Portsmouth.
Peter Morgan, senior clerk in the storekeeper's-office
at Woolwich Dock-yard, is appointed store-receiver at
Woolwich-yard, vice Robert Laws, appointed store-
keeper at Sheerness-yard.

Jahn Russell is appointed to be agent's steward at
Haslar Hospital, Portsmouth.