The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-30 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Vice-Admiral Hope Johnstone has been appointed
Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, vice Admiral
Harvey, whose term of service is about to expire.
Rear-Admiral Stopford has been appointed Cap-
tain of the Channel Fleet, vice Rear-Admiral
Elliott, who has resigned.
Letters received in Plymouth announce the safe
arrival at Bermuda, on the 2d of June, of the screw
steamship Nile, 90, Capt. E. K. Bernard. Being
under canvas only, and having experienced very
light winds, she was 45 days on the passage—a
length of time which had created some apprehen-
sion of her safety. It is understood that Rear-
Admiral Sir A. Milne, K.C.8., shifts his flag from
the Emerald, 51, to the Nile, and then proceeds to
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to await the arrival of
the Prince of Wales in the Hero.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Smith, M.P., visited Chatham
Dockyard on Wednesday, for the purpose of mak-
ing an inspection of the gun and mortar vessels at
that establishment.,

The head-quarters and band of the 12th (Prince
of Wales's) Royal Lancers arrived at Gravesend
yesterday from India, in the East India troopship
Trafalgar, 1,200 tons, Capt. Taylor.
The Triumph,new 91 gun screw steamer, has been
laid down in No. 2 slip at Pembroke, and is to
be proceeded with in construction without delay.
The Defiance, 91 guns, is very advanced in build at
the above yard, and a number of shipwrights are
at present employed in pushing her forward to
completion. The whole of the officers and crew of
the Eagle, 50, sailing Coastguard frigate, have
received their commission for the Blenheim, 60
guns, screw blockship, which is to be the guardship
off Pembroke dockyard in future.
The Bacchante, 51, screw, Capt. D. Macleod
Mackenzie, carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir
Thomas Maitland, C. 8., sailed-from Spithead for
the Pacific at noon yesterday. She left Spithead
under canvass and reached out to the southward of
the Nab under her courses, topsails, topgallantsails,
spanker, and foretopmast-staysail ; wind at the
time westerly, with frequent rain squalls.
The Victoria, 121, screw three-decker, at Ports-
mouth, will resume her official trials of speed at the
measured mile in Stokes Bay on Tuesday or Wed-
nesday next.
The Harrier, 17, screw, is undergoing repairs in
No. 2 dock at Portsmouth, preparatory to being
brought forward in the first• class steam reserve.
The Volcano, paddle, late floating factory in
China, is being stripped and surveyed in No. 4
dock at Portsmouth, with a view to her being
repaired for further service.
The following vessels are at Spithead :—The
Ariadne, 26, screw, Capt. E. W. Vansittart ; the
Melpomene, 51, screw, Capt. C. J. T. E wart ; and
the Ranger, 5, screw, Commander H. R. Wratislau.
The Colossus, 80, screw, Capt. Scott, C. 8., sailed

on Thursday from Spithead for Portland.
The screw steamship Orion, Capt. John J. B.
Frere, in Devonport, will be out of the hands of the
engineers on the 6th of July.
The shipwrights. employed on the paddlewheel
steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Glasse, in Devon-
port, have completed their work.

Her Majesty's, gunboat Rainbow arrived in
Belfast Lough on Tuesday evening, and is now
lying off Carrickfergus.
The following appointments have been made
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. F. W, Bennett to com-
mand the Bulldog, commissioned ; A. Jones, pay-
master, to be secretary to Vice• Admiral Hope
Johnstone ; G. H. Downing, master, confirmed to
the Styx; C. W. Webster, second master, to the
Ariadne ; W. L. Robinson, first-class assistant-
engineer, to the Orion ; H. G. Constaine, second-
class assistant-engineer, to the Asia, supernumerary,
for hospital treatment; Lord A. P. Clinton, mid-
shipman, to the Melpomene; Denis M'Carthy,
assistant-surgeon, confirmed, in the Emerald ;
James Trimble, assistant-surgeon, confirmed, in the
Melpomene; James T. Ly me, assistant-paymaster,
to the Chesapeake ; and James N. Robinson, secre-
tary's clerk in the Monarch.
By a General Order, dated the 27th iust., Cul.
Hemphill, 26th Regiment, has been placed on the
Staff as a Brigadier-General, with a view to his
commanding a brigade. The Brigadier-General
will assume the command of the brigade in Dublin
on the Ist of July.

DEATH OF TICE-ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE R
BROOKE PECILELL, BART., BART, M.P.

We regret to announce the death of Sir George
It. Brooke Pechell, Bart., M.P. for Brighton, whose
demise occurred shortly before noon yesterday at
his house in Hill street, Berkeley-square, after a
short illness. The gallant baronet was the second
son of Major-General Sir Thomas Brooke Pechell,
Bart., and was born in 1789. He entered the navy
in 1803, and was midshipman of the Medusa at the
capture of the Spanish treasure-ships in 1804, and
of the Revenge at the capture of four French fri-
gates in 1806, also of the Venus at the defence of
Vigo. When lieutenant of the Macedonian he
brought out with her boats a lugger from under the
batteries of the Isle D'Aiz in 1812 ; was commander
of the Calibri and Recruit of New Tork and Charles-

ton in 1814, and of the Tamar and Belette, on the
North American station. On obtaining his post
rank he retired upon half-pay. His commissions
bore date as follow :—Lieutenant, 25th June, 1810 ;
commander, 30th May, 1814; captain, 26th Dec.,
1822 ; and rear-admiral, 17th Dec., 1852 ' • and vice-
admiral, sth Jan., 1858. In July, 1830, the late
baronet was nominated Gentleman Usher of the
l'rivy Chamber, and in April the following year was
appointed one of the Equerries of Queen Adelaide,
and was named a Groom in Waiting to the Queen,
but declined that honour from the position he
held in the Dowager Queen's household.
The lamented officer had represented Bright-
ton in Parliament for 25 years, having been
returned to the House of Commons by the elec.
tors of that borough in 183.5. During his Par-
liamentary career he had uniformly supported the
Whig Administrations. On all occasions while in
Parliament he displayed a strong and most natural
interest in the efficiency of the navy, and, if in some
cases of public interest he may have been thought
to take a narrow view of matters, for the interest of
the navy no member ever adopted a more indepen-
dent and zealous course. The deceased admiral
married in August, 1826, the Hon. Katherine An-
nabella Bishopp, daughter of the late Lord De la
Zouche, and co-heiress with her sister, the present
Baroness De la Zouche. He succeeded to the
baronetcy on the death of his elder brother, Sir J.
R. Peahen, Bart., in 1349. The baronetcy, in de-
fiult of surviving male issue, devolves on his cousin
George Samuel, eldest son of the late Captain S.
G. Pechell, R.N., born in 1819, and married in
1842 to Miss Brenner, daughter of Col. Brenner,
of the• Madras army. He had served in the 47th
Madras native infantry, and is now a captain in the
Shropshire Militia.

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ERROR OF THE PRESS.—Typographical errors
come in oddly sometimes. The other day we were reading
a description of enthusiastic' demonstrations at a political
gathering, when the type went on with—" The air was rent
with the snouts of three thousand people."

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Duke of Norfolk's Estate, Lincoln's-inn, Llanelly
Railway and Dock, and London and South-Western Rail-
way (Kingston Extension), and West-end of London and
Crystal Palace Railway Bills were read a second time.

The Wimborne Minster and Blandford Forum Road
Bill was read a third time and passed.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.

The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition praying
that some alteration might be made in the distribution of
local property other than tithes. And also a petition pray-
ing that compensation might be given for the loss of burial
fees.