The Sun.
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NAVAL 'INTELLIGENCE.

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Commander Crispin.has returned to the royal yacht
at Portsmouth, .from'soc weeks' leave of absence.
Mr. Lang, master shipwright of Woolwich D ack-
' yard, has proceeded to Chatham, to assist at a survey
on the Childers and Wanderer, 12-gun sloops.
The Raleigh, 50,-Captain the Hon. G. Il'pe, will
be paid off at Portsmouth, on the 6th February.
The Hermes steam-410°p, Commander Fishhourne,
has had her compassesjadjusted, and will leave Green-
hithe this morning Vir -Sheernesii, Portsmouth, and
the Cape of Good Tfori6.
Tire Violet, Dovei steam-packet, Master-Com-
mander Sherlock, wai: tried down the River yester-
day, and will leave for.DJver to-morrow morning, to
resume her duties.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 30. Captain 7 Sir Baldwin
Walker, K.C.8., Captain Ellice, and the
Junior Assistant-Surveyor of th! Navy, returned
to London this morning after their official reserrches
yesterday in the dockyard relativa to the screw-pro-
peller.
The Basilisk steam-Sloop was dockel to-day to have
her bottom examined.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell,
came into harbour to-day to refit for foreign service.
ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY.
First-Lieutenant Edward Henderson Starr is
ordered to proceed to Devonport to embark in the
Gladiator steam-frigate for passage to join the steam-
frigate Centaur, on the coast of. Africa, vice Croket,
killed in action, as detailed in The Sun of yesterday,
in the account of the '4:disastrous affair in the Gambia."
APPOINTMENTS.
VOoLwicn, JAN,, it —Lieutenant—Augustus C.
Strode (1 847), supeinniflerity- en board the Excel-
lent since March 26, 1849, to the Hecate steam-sloop,
at Portsmouth, where she had just returned from em-
ployment on particular service under Commander
Charles F. A. Shadwell, who is to continue her com-
mander, and have her made ready for service on the
East India and China station.

Lieutenant—lV H. J. Browne to the Arethusa
50-
gun frigate, at Devonport
Chief Engineer—John Hetherington to the Jackal
steam-vessel, 150-horse power, at Thwonport.
Mates—Robert F. T. Calvert (1849) to the Jackal
Thomas M. S. Pasley (1848) to the Terrible steam-
frigate, at Lisbon.

Assistant-Surgeons—William M•Derrnott, M.D.,
(1840), to the Blenheim, .56, steam guard-ship at
Portsmouth ; William .E. Reynolds, acing assist •
ant-surgeon since Jan 27, 1849, on board the Raleigh,
.50, just returned from the south-eastern coast of Ame-
rica, to Portsmouth, has been confirmed to that vessel.
Assistant-Engineers—James Moon and Redmond
Mahony to the Jackal ; James Ward to the Gladiator
steam-frigate, at Devonport.
Midshipman—J. T. B. Fraser to the Cleopatra, 26,
on the E tst India and China station ; Alexander
Cruikshank to the Arethusa, 50, at Devonport.
Masters'-Assistants—William Barrett to the Gla-
diator • Arthur Morp!ay to the Hecate.
Clerks' Assistants—W. B. Hutcheson to the He-
cate ; Michael H. C. Seymour and Richard S. Lam-
pen to the Hastings, 72, flag-ship, on the East India
and China station.
Gunners—John Welsh is confirmed in the Excel-
lent gunnery ship at Portsmouth ; and James Milton
appointed to the Hecate.
Boatswain—Thomas Foal to the Hecate.

Carpenter—Thomas Woodcock to the Hecate.
Mr. Abernethy, recently gunner and ice master to
the Enterprise, when employed in the expedition to
the Arctic regions, under Captain Sir James Charles
Rose, hae been superannuated on a pension of 531.
per annum. Mr. Abernethy Was with Captain Sir
John Ross during his four years' absence in the
northern regions.

THE lI.IOH- TIDE OF TUESDAY.
The high tide of Tuesday has caused much damage
_along the whole range of the eastern coast of the
island. Scarcely a port has escaped being flooded.
On the Essex side of the Thames the fishing villages
and marsh lands were swamped, as well as a large
portion of the inland country, where the effect of a
high tide was least. expected.
The tide rose in the Medway to an ex'raordinary
height, and fur more than an hour previ R. 13 to the
time of high water the river i►i many parts over-
flawed i's banks, and by the weight of water broke
clown the land-walls by which it is usally kept within
its limits. The various wharfs in the neighbourhood
were flooded, and in the High-street of Stroud a hmat
plied for the conveyance of passengers, many houses
being inundated to the depth of several fzet. Antici-
pating a return of the visitation at night, various pre-
cautions :were taken to exclude the intruder, but
fortunately without cause, as the water then only
attained the height of an ordinary spring tide.
At Ipswich it rose more than two feet above the
average spring tides. Higher up the coast, towards
the Great Wash, the water rushed in with great im-
petuosity.

At Lynn, the whole of the lower portion of
the town was inundated.
Boston experienced a similar flooding, and a serious
damage of property is reported.
The Humber rose to 29 feet 7 inches by the Hum-
ber dock-gates, and before high water the lower part
of the town was inundated.
Similar accounts of the disastrous effects of the tide
have been received from many other places on the
coast. The unexpected influx is attributed to the
continuance of the recent westerly gales, which
forced a great body of water up the channel into the
North Sea, and the wind then suddenly veering to
the N.E. on Monday night, drove it up the nu-
merous rivers on the eastern and north -eastern coasts
of England.

The damage from the high tide on Tuesday, above
Vauxhall-bridge, at Nine Elms, was very great. The
approach to the pier was four or five feet under
water. The Railway Hotel and the Southampton
Arms had five feet of water in their cellars, and Nine
Elms-lane was impassable for horses or carriages.
The goods station of the South-Western Railway was
at least four feet under water, the various ware-
houses being all flooded. Wandsworth-road, from
the gate at Vauxhall to Bradley-terrace, was up to
the horses' middles, and the river Effra burst its
boundaries and inundated every house in South Lam-
beth, almost to the Clapham-road. The road from
. Nine Elms to Battersea was for some hours im-
passable, the fields being one vast expanse of water.
Lady Wombwell's seat, Sherwood-lodge, was entered
by the tide, and great damage was done to the man-
sion and grounds. The palings bounding some fields
opposite Sherwood-lodge, and through which a
watercourse passes into the river, were torn up by the
force of the torrent. At Wandsworth Mr. Daniel
I.Vatney's immense distillery did not escape the visita-
tion, and a large quantity of corn on the basement
floors was much damaged. At Messrs. J. Watney
and Well's lower mill, which is fed by the Wandle,
the tide made a clear breach, doing immense damage,
and spoiling a very large quantity of flour. It was,
however, at ,the water side, amongst the miserable
dwellings of the fishermen, and in Lower North-
street, that the most pitiable scenes presented them-
selves, the water, in some instances, literally reaching
to the ceiling ; and man and wife, children and pigs,
seeking refuge in the upper part of the houses. The
fires at the gas-house were extinguished, and the
town of Wandsworth was in total darkness all U.‘ues•
day night. The poor people whose houses were in-
vaded by the tide were supplied by the parochial
authorities of Wandsworth with coal and other neces-
saries. At Putney, the tide covered the terrace, and
the towing-path was useless for many hours. On
the opposite side of the river, the grounds of the
Bishop of London were all under water, as were
those of Willow Bank, the late residence of Mr.
Delafield.