The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-14 00:00:00

The next vacancy among the "Active" flag, officers
will occasion the promotion of Captain M‘Dougall,
the Superintendent of Packets at Southampton.
This officer has also a good service pension. Next
to Captain M‘Dougall, Captain Michael Quin twill
be promoted, thereby placing three good service
pensions at the disposal of Sir Charles Wood—viz.,
those of Captains Lapidge, Slaughter, and QUILL.
The Transit iron steam opship, Commander
Ennis Chambers, having reshipped her provisiols
and stores,• re-embarked7her tr.;ops from the Belle-
rophon bulk yesterday.mOrning, and will drop out
of Portsmouth harbour to_Spithead this morning
to reship her ammunition, and if the weather is
favourable the will weigh and proceed to China.
The opinion of the Lords of the Admiralty on the
evidence furnished by the Court of Inquiry,.held on
Good Friday, was promulgateJ on board yesterday,
and acquits the commander -and master fitonl all
blame in the accident winch has caused the ship's
'detention.

Cordelia, 11, scree, commissioned at Devonport
by Commander Vernon on Saturday, is to have a.
complement of officers an men.
Surprise, 4, screw dispatch vessel, Commander
Ciesswell, was paid wages on Saturday, and was to
have sailed from Devonport yesterday for Chin t,
but was prevented by the boisterous state of the
weather.

- The Himalaya iron steam troopship, Commander
Haswell, hauled alongside Portsmouth. dockyard
jetty yesterday, in readiness to embark her troops
for China to-morrow. •
We haie received letters from our Malta corre-
spondent to the 9th April The movements of ships
of war are limited to the departure on the 31st of
March for Messina, and return on the 4th April, of
H. M. steam gunboat Osprey •H. M. steam frigate
Centaur left on the 4th for Palermo to relieve-the
Mal icca, ordered to England, which latter arrived
at Malta on the Bth, last from Messina. The st6ain.
corvette Desperate left on the sth for the coast of
Syria. The ships of war in Malta harbour were
under orders to leave on the 13th of April for the
eastward, to meet the squadron under Admiral
Lord .Lyons, who will, it' is stated, reach Malta
'about the :‘,lst, and remain at Malta for not' more
than a month, when most of the vessels will be de-
spatched to England. to be paid off.. H.M. steam
corvettes Sphyux, on her way to Engfand from
Malta, has on board a beautiful piece of brass ord-
pan.oe of about 201 h. calibre, of peculiar workman-
ship, the carriage being most exquisitely carved, as
a present farm the 6ultati t, her Majesty Queen Vic-
toria. The Pen iusular au d Oriental Company's steam-
packet Pera arrived from Southampton on the 28th
March. The Euxine, belong i rig to the same compihy,
arrived from Marseilles on the 31st ult. The Pera
and Euxine left on the 31st for Alexandria. The
lEttia- steamer arrived from Alexandria on. the
29th of March, and left for 'Southampton on the
same day without the mail by the Oneida, front
Australia, which vessel had not reached Suez. The
Jura,
.with the mails by the Simla, arrived from
Alexandria on the 31st. The Minna. screw steamer
arrived from London and. Gibraltar on the 2d,
bringing Major Savage, wife, and son ; Lies-tenants
Bond and Thomas ; Ensigns Allen and 'Burke ;
138 non-commissions officers and privates, eight
women, and Right children, who left in her for
Corfu on the 3d with Lieut. Hall, who embarked
at Malta. From Corfu the Minna will proceed to
Odessa.

The office. of Director of the Topographical ani
Statistical D,Tot of the War Department, vacant by
the demise of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Rust
Jervis, isolot yet filled up. The deceased was edu-
cated at Addiscombe, and after obtaining the
highest honours at that military seminary of the
East India Company he was appointed to the Bom-
bay Engineers, with which service he was -con-
nected until his retirement in November, 1854.
He was greatly distinguished for his geographical
knowledge and for his proficiency iu Oriental lan-
guages, as well as being au accomplished European
linguist. Lieutenant-Colonel Jervis was a Fellow.
of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Linnean .So-
ciety, Fellow of the Geographical, and Fellow of
the Royal Asiatic Society, as well as a member of
other learned institutions on the continent.
• An order has been received at Chatham by CoL
H. Jervis, Commandant of the PrOvisional Batta-
lion, directing the depot of the 37th Regiment, one
of the colonial corps, tJ be held in readiness to pro-
ceed to Chichester, for the purpose of joining the
depot battalions under the command of Colonel C.
Elmhirst. The service companies of the 37th Re-
giment are how in Ceylon, that regiment having
left England in 1846. • „.
The'Scorpion, 6, surveying-vessel, Master-Com-
mending J. Parsons, from tloe West In dia.station, has
been dismantled and 'stripped at Chatham, and h r
stores removed into the dockyaid. She is intended
to be paid off into ordinary on Friday next.
Colonel the Hon. W. L. Pakenham, C. 8., who,
it will be recollected, was Adjutant General during
the latter part of the war in the Crimea, and who
has been appointed in the same capacity to tee
Military Expedition destined to act against China,
has departed for Hong Kong. Col. Wetherall, C. 8.,
Quartermaster-General,- also left for the seat of war
a few days back- Both officers were to have ein-
harked at Marseilles on Sunday for Alexandria.
Two troops of the military train, recently arrived
at Woolwich from the Curragh, under orders for
China, were yesttirday morning exercised at the long
range in the Arsenal-marsh, in a series of 3-poundt r
battery practice. The two remaining troops of the
corps at Woolwich were assembled on the Royal
Artillery-parade, and went through a course of car-
bine drill, under the dir,ection of non-commissioned
officers of the Artillery. The whole of the Royal
Marine battalions were yesterday morning drawn
up in the barrack-square at head-quarters in dis-
tinct conaparee4 and having been inspected by the
commandant, Colonel Brown, they were marched
to Woolwich-common, end were put through the
manoeuvres of,a fi-ld day's inspecti n. The troop-
ships Neleus and Mooresfort, at Woolwich, were
yesterday morning officially surveyed prior to the
embarkation of the four companies of artillery IT
China. The vessels were pronounced well adapted
for the purpose, and have been engaged by Govein.;-
ment for six months certain, at the rate of 20s. per
ton monthly ; consequently, the Mooresfort, Capt.
Coulthurst, of 1,2U0 tons burden, is hired at 1,200/.
per mouth. She is fitted fear the accommodation of
14 officers, 280 rank and file, and six other passen-
gers, and is to carry about 300 tons ,of baggage,
brass guns, and other war stores.
The Leaven and Slaney, gun-boats of the same
class as the Lee and Algerine, are now nearly com-
pleted, and will leave Woolwich during the present
week. The four vessels flawed are of intermediate
'size, between the larger class of gunboats pre-
viously constructed an the. smallest class of de-
spatch vessels. They will be fotnid extremely use-
'fella shallow water, and several of the same class,
intended for the Chinese service, are now building
at private yards.
The Galatea, screw steam corvette, which • was
commenced about twenty months since, is. now in a
forward state. Her keel haS been laid down, and
her ribs are nearly completed.
The gunboat Algerine, under orders for China,
having been adjusted at Greenhithe, came up ,to-
Wool wick; and proceeded yesterday morning thence
for Plymouth. The Lee, Woodcock, and Watch-
ful, gunboats, having completed their arrangements
for sea, sailed yesterday from Woolwich for Gretto-
hithe, to regulate compasses, and will join the 'Al-
geria° at Plymouth, -whither they are ordered,
prior to their departure for the voyage.
The Transport ;Board, established for the late
war, was abolished on the 31st ult., but the duties
of the department will be carried on by Captain
William Drew, of the; Trinity Board, who is still
retained as " Director of Transports."
The following appointments were Mode at the Admi-
ralty yesterday afternoon :-E- •
Mate—T. W. Simeon to the Cordelia.
Sureons—Dr. J. W. Reid (B) to the Belleisle ;
John E. Hamilton, to the Vesuvius.
Staff-Surgeon—Dr. Alex. Armstrong, to the Belleisle.
Assistant-Surgeons-:-John Little, to the Belleisle ;
C. H. Slaughter (acting), to ditto ; R. L. B. Reid (act-
ing), to the Vesuvius.
Medical Inspector—Dr. Alex. M'Kechnie] to the
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Belleisle.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONEL—The following gen.
tletnen having undergone thenecessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners) on the
We 6th i
nst.s
Messrs. William Garlick, Leeds ; ardpp
Saunders, Truro ; Nathaniel Stevenson, Bayswater ;
Thomas Edwin Edwards. St. Mary's Hospital, 'Padding-
ton ; Whatly Barretl6,Thomas Ruttledge, Lon.
don Hospital ; George Evan Farr, Woolwich ; Joseph
Fisher, Manchester; George Brown Payne, Knutsford ;
George Edmondson, Cockcroft, Middleham ; George
Bate, Plymouth ; Them-Allies Isaac William Pauli, Ox..
ford ; Henry Evans, B!aenaat ; Joseph John .Pope,
Alornington-crescent ; and David Michael; Swansea©
APOTHEOARIESAIALL.—The following are the natoes
of the gewlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine and received ceriificates
t) practice on Thursday, the 4th April :—Frederick
Abercrombie Hope Robson, Peninsular and Oriental
Company's Service '; Thomas James Woodhouse ; Her.
belt James, Merthyr Tydfil ; Robert Benson Lewis,
Bradford, York; Henry Skaife, Easingwold, York;
George Edmundson, Cockcroft, Middleham, York ;
William Wittman Thompson, Bognor, Sussex ; Jona
Masters, jun., Ilaainster ; William Slocombo Grainer,
Bradford Abbots, near Sherborne ;ii )vf'' -
Edwards, Bampton, Davon.