The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

2HE NAVY.

The line-of-battle screw-steamer Rodney, 91, was
yesterday towed from Chatham to join the steam
reserve in the Medway under the command of Capt.
Schomberg.
The screw steam sloop Aboukir, 90, Capt. Doug-
las Curry, is appointed to sail to-day from Plymouth
Sound.

The transport Blue Jacket, from Sydney Dec.
24, with troops for London, was spoken March 28,
in lat. 15 N., long. 25 W., by La Hogue, from Syd-
ney, which arrived off Plymouth on Sunday.
The following appointments were made on yes-
terday at the Admiralty :—W. S. Holbrook, second
master to the Bacchante ; W. P. Haynes, master's-
assistant to the Euryalus; Thomas Roberson,
master's-assistant to the Wrangler; G. W. Muir
and F. A. Keogh, assistant paymasters, additional,
to the Victory; Frederick J. Newton, chief engi-
neer, to the Bacchante ; Daniel W. King, first-
class assistant-engineer, for charge of the machinery
of the Eurotas ; William Hall, first-class assistant-
engineer, to the Asia as supernumerary; Thomas
William Sanders, acting second class assistant-
engineer, to the Royal Albert, for the Partridge ;
Edward Brown, second-class assistant-engineer, to
the Bacchante; Daniel Dunn and Gustav A. C.
Bencke, acting third-class assistant-engineers to
the Bacchante.

THE IRISH BAR IN AUSTRALIA.---The Dublin
Eveming Packet quotes from a return obtained by Sir E.
Grogan, in order to show that Irish barristers have con-
trived to get the " best things going" in Australia in the
way of public employment. Here is the catalogue of the
fortunate Hibernians :—The Chief Justice of Victoria. Sir
William Foster Stawell, is a member of the Irish bar;
salary, £3,000 per annum. Mr. Redmond Barry and Mr.
Robert Molesworth, puisne judges (salary £2,500), are both
Irishmen ; Mr. Richard Davies Ireland, the Solicitor-
General (salary 1,500) ; Mr. Wrixon, judge of the County
Court (salary 1,500) ; Mr. Michael Francis Macaboy, chair-
man of General Sessions (11,500) ; Mr. James Langton
Clarke, ditto ; Mr. John Foster, Mr. M‘Creight, and Mr.
John Atkins, Crown Prosecutors at General Sessions
(salary £600), all are Irishmen, and members of the
Queen's Inns, Dublin. The Irish element is more in
the ascendant in Victoria t'Aan in any other British colony.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. Hope Crealock, her Ma-
jesty's 90th Light Infantry, has been selected to accompany
Lord Elgin to China as I‘lilitary Secretary. This officer
served with his regiment in the Crimea from December,
1854, to February, 1855, and again from 28th March, 1855,
till the end of the siege, including the assault on the Bth
S3ptember, when he was inside the Redan with General
Windham. He was placed upon the Staff at Constanti-
nople; and on the last Chinese war breaking out, he went
out as ene of the Etat-Major, and at its close he proceededto India, and arrived after the fall of Lucknow, but served
with Lord Clyde in the subsequent campaign in the cape.-
city of Assistant-Adjutant-General to Sir W. R. Mans-
field, Colonel Crealock possesses the peculiar qualifications
of a military secretary, and his reputation as a charming
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