The Sun.
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the Commander-in-Chief, the first portion of the
judgment was yesterday morning carried out,
when the prisoner was marched to the Royal
Artillery riding establishment, and in the pre-
sence of the u-ual numb r of his comrades and
their (.fficars he underwent the allotted punish-
ment of 50 lashes ; of er which hi was removed
to the infirmary for medical trea•ment. He wac
like wise sentenced to be imprisoned in Fort Clarenc
for two years. The hardened deportment di-played
by the prisoner during the infliction of the punish-
ment is scarcely conceivable.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Rhadamanthus, Master
Commander Sturdee, is ordered to be paid off on
her return to Woolwich from Portsmouth, after
which she is to be fitted out and recommissioned
with a complement of 69 hands.
The following appointments were made at the
Admiralty yesterday :--
Commander—•A. Wodehouse, to the Alacrity.
Lieutenants—E. G. Kirby, to the Lapwing ; Hon.
F. W. Charteris, and Robert Sterne, to the Renown.
Masters—John Scott, to the Renown; W. P. Haines,
to the Lapwing ; B. B. Stuart, to the Syra, and John
S. Smith, to the Racoon.
Masters-Assistants—P. F. Milman, to the Alert ; E.
K. Barnes, to the Ardent ; C. P. M'Conachy, to the
Syra; J. A G. Morgan, to the Lynx; Henry Castle,
to the Sharpshooter ; J. Southwick, to the Viper ; F.
Ayler, to the B:enheirn.
Paymasters—J. N. Andrews, to the Renown ;C. D.
Lindsey, to the Lapwing ; E. J. Giles, to the Racoon.
Assistant-Paymaster John Sheppard, to the Corn-

wallis.
Surgeons—Samuel S, D. Wells, to the Racoon ; John
Gailiger, to the Conqueror ; Hugh J. S. Beveridge, to
the Cornwallis.

Assistant-Surgeon—John L. Sands, to the Racoon.
Clarks—Jobn G. FraOtlyn, to the Alert ; Silas Way-
mouth, to the Racoon ; Johrt Bremner, to the Racoon ;
Charles M'Kean, to the Renown ; Bertram Mitford, to
the Renown.

Assistant-Clerks —Frederick B. Williams to the Re-
nown, Thomas Silk to the Lapwing..

DEATH OF VICE ADMIRAL OWEN.
Accounts have been received of the death of Vice
Admiral William Fitzwilliam Owen, at St. John's,
New Brunswick, on the 3d inst.
Admiral Owen was brother of the late Admiral
Sir Edward Owen, G.C.8., and Ives a veteran
officer of 69 years' standine, having entered the
navy so far back as 1778. Although undecorated,
it will be scee that during his active service of 34
years under the pendant he earned his various
grades by hard fighting. He was a "Ist of June"
officer, and was perhaps more acquainted wish the
details of the Spithead mutiny-the real mutiny of
the fleet-than any survivor of those times. Ad-
miral Owen was in the receipt of the admiral's ser-
vice pension, which now reverts to the patronage
of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Wu subjoin a
sketch of the services of the deceas: d.
This officer entered the navy June 4, 1788, as
midshipman, on board the Culloden, 74, and was
in that ship, under Captain Schoenberg in the
famous action of June 1. On his return to England
from the Cape of Good Hope, whilier he had gone
in the Ruby, 64, Capt. Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope,
he joined, in November, 1795, the London, 98, bear-
ing the flag in the Channel of Vice Admiral John
Colpoye. For his conduct during the mutiny at
Spitheed he was promated, June 12, 1797, to the
rank of lieutenant ; and at the same time placed in
command of the Flame, gun vessel. He wai next,
between Dec., 1798, and Oct., 1801, employed, prin-
cipally in the channel, on board the Charm), 44,
Captain John M'Kella.r ; Gorgon, Captain Robert
Williams; and Namur, flag ship of Earl St. Vincent,
and for 7 months in command of the Nancy, fire
vessel. Assuming command, July 8,18 n, of the Sea
Flower, brig of 14 guns, Lieut. Owen, after serving
for a time on the French coast, sailed for the East
Indies, where be effected the capture, July 15,
1806, of Le Charles, French national ketch. In
the following September he explored part of the
Maldive Islands, and their separating channel,
which had never been invested ; and on November
10, in the same year, he discovered an excellent
channel, now b-aring the name of his brig, situated
between the islands of Sai Berout and Poulo Porn,
near the west coast of Sumatra. On the 27th of
the latter month, having conducted Sir Edward
Pellew's squadron through a very intricate naviga-
tion into Batavia Roads, he there distinguished
himself by his gallantry in command of a division
of boats at the capture and destruction of a Dutch
frigate, seven brigs of war, and about 20 arined
and
other merchant vessels. We subsequently, Dec.
11, 1807, ilud hint contributing to the destruction
of the dockyard and stores at Griessee, in the island.
of Java, and of all the men of war remaining to Hol-
land in ludia. In September, 1807, Lieutenant
0 men had the misfortune to be taken captive by
the French, who detained him in the Mauritius
until June, 1810 ; from August, to November in
which year he was employed, we believe, in super-
intending the transports sent from Madras to the
Isle of France. He then, having been awarded a
second pronaotal commission, bearing date May 20,
1809, obtained command of the Barracouta, 18,
part of the force employed in the summer of 1811
at the reduction of the Island of Java, where he
assisted at the debarkation of the troops at Chil-
lineching, and continued attached to the army
until after the surrender of Batavia. In December;
1811, Capt. Owen, who had been advanced to post
rank on the 2d of the pi eeeding May, and had held
for a short time the command of the Piemontaise
frigate at Bombay, was eppointed to the Cornelia,
32. Le 1812 he took po-session, with a squadron
under his orders, of the Island of Palembang. He
returned to England with a China convoy in June,
1813, and was subsequently appointed, March 27,
1815, to the surveying service on the lakes of Ca-
nada, whence lie came home in May, 1816. On the
10th August, 1821, he was appointed to the Leven,
24, in which vessel he was for upwards of four
years employed in conducting a survey of the coast
of Africa ; and on the 2d Feb., 1827, to the Eden,
26, fitting for another expedition to the African
coast, where, prior to his departure for South
America, he was engaged in forming a settlement
at Fernando Po ; and having paid the last-men-
tioned ship off at the close of 1831, he was ap-
pointed, April 22, 1847, to the Columbia, steam sur-
veying vessel, of 100 horse-po w or, stationed in North
America. Since Dec. 21, 1847, the date of his ele-
vation to flag rauk, he has been on half-pay.
Assisted by various officers, Rear Admiral Owen,
during his command of the Leven, constructed the
following charts and views-viz ,22 of the west
coast of Africa, 31 of the east coast of Africa, 12
of the east coast of Madagascar, 17 of the west,
coast of Madagascar, and 1 of the harbour of Grand
Port in toe Mauritius. He also, wo understand,
surveyed the coast of Asia from Cape Comorin
along the shores of Malabar and Surat. together
with the whole extent of the sea-side of Persia and
Arabia. In 1828 be constructed two charts of the
Seychelles and one of the port and bay in the island
of Mabe. He had executed a chart of the mouth
of the river Demerara, and published in conjunc-
tion with Captain Richard Owen, " Table of Lati-
tude and Longitudes by Chronometers of Places in
the Atlantic and Indian Oceans ; with an Essay on
he Management and Use of Chronometers."

We should have stated yesterday that Captain
John Elphinstone Erskine (1838), C. 8., A.D.C.,
the senior on the active list, obtains his promotion
to the rank of rear admiral of the blue, vice Rear
Admiral H. F. Greville, C. 8., to be vice admiral
of the white, vice C. Graham, C. 8., deceased.
Captain James Hope, C. 8., A.D.C. (1838) gets his
flag rank by the death of Admiral 0 wen ; and
Captain Superintendent Horatio Austin, C. 8., of
Deptford Dockyard, becomes senior and next in
turn for promotion.
In addition to the admiral's service-pension, Sir
Charles Wood has now at his disposal the nomina-
tion of two naval aides-de-camp to the Queen.

MILITIA.
A detachment of the Oxford Militia (in command
of Col. Bowles, doing duty in Woolwich Garrison)
is to proceed this morning to Tilbury Fort, consist-
ing of Capt. Lambert, Lieut. Gifford, Lieut.
Sererne Ensign Crowder, and 160 nou-commis-
sioned officers and privates.
Major-General Williams, commandant of Wool-
wich Garrison, on Thursday inspeced the whole
of the East Kent Militia, in command of Colonel
Brockman.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKE3.—At a meeting of
the Metropolitan Board. of Works yesterday, Mr.
Thwaites in the chair, it was unanimously resolved,
"That the engineer be instructed to consider and roper
as to the expediency of extenying the outLts of th,
existing sowers on either side further down into th,
river,' so as to ensure a great dilution of the sewage
waters, and to make an approximate of the cost
fir. Alderman Cubitt said that by the report rf th,
engineer he thought the cost would bo about 100,0001
Au epplicatien by Meesis. Scovell, the wharfingers, f
permission to erect an iron bridge across Tooley-street
was unanimously refused,