The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

711 E NA Vl'.

We much regret to have to announce that Admiral Sir
Charles Napier, K.C.8., was yeste,eday, at his residence,
Murchistoun-hall, Hants, seized with a sudden and severe
attack of illness, which has caused serious anxiety to his
friends.

Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, who has resigned i*
consequence of ill-health, struck his flag as Port Admiral
on board the Impregnable, 104, in Hamoaie, on Saturday
night, and his successor, Vice-Admiral Sir Houston
Steward, shifted his flag on Sunday from the Cambridge to
the Impregnable, and has now assumed full command at
Plymouth.

Orders have been received at Portsmouth to place the
Harrier, 17, screw, in immediate commission. No officer
had yesterday been positively named to the command.
The Princess Royal, 91, screw, in the first-class steam
reserve at Portsmouth, yesterday made her half-yearly
trial of machinery, kc., which was satisfactory on over,
point.

Letters received frem H.M.S. Neptune, lying off Beyrout,
mention a gallant act on the part of two seamen belonging
to that ship while engaged in one of the boats in watering
the ship from the shore. A. boat from one of the French
men• of-war was similarly engaged, when, owing to the
heavy surf running on the beach, she capsized. Two of the
Neptune's boat crew named Farlane and Fry jumped over-
board and succeeded in bringing one of the Frenchmen on
shore, two of the crew being drowned before assistance could
reach them. The half-drowned French seaman, on being
brought ashore by his preservers, nearly lost his life at the
hands of the crowd assembled on the beach, who, in their
haste to complete the work of resuscitation, held the man
up by his lege to allow the water to run out of his mouth.
The naval cadet in charge of the Neptune's boat, Mr. C. B.
Anson, was fortunately observing the proceedings, and,
recollecting the instructions contained in Ners's Cadets'
Guide, applicable to such circumstances, and which he had
learnt as a cadet on board the Britannia, he took the man
out of the hands of the crowd, and gave proper directions
for his treatment, which resulted in his recovery.
The Dee, paddle, Master-Commander Pullen, has gone
into Portsmouth Harbour from Spithead, to discharge boilers
and machinery.
The gunboat Hinds, tender to the Russell, 60, from Fal-
mouth, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth with Naval Coast
Volunteers.

At a meeting of officers and men connected with the
arsenal at Devonport, held on Saturday evening in the
sale-room of that establishment, Admiral-Superintendent
Sir Thomas S. Pasley in the chair, about 100 men enrolled
themselves members of a Dockyard -Volunteer Artillery
Corps.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty:—Lieut. John H. Vidal, to the Scourge; Lieut.
E. T. Nott, to the Himalaya; Henry C. Sedmond, master,
to the Harrier ; Vernon Jones, second master, additional,
to the Gorgon; Frederick K. Taylor, master's assistant, to
the Gorgon ; Samuel 111‘Callunt, second-class assistant en-
gineer, to the Asia, for charge of the Beaver; Samuel E.
Derrick, second•class engineer, to the Cumberland, for
charge of the Griper; Henry Bunting, acting third-class
assistant-engineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary ; Thos.
G. Sanders, acting third-class assistant-engineer, to the
Asia, for service in the Shannon ; James Woolton, acting
third-class assistant-engineer, to the Asia, for service ill
the Immortalite.