The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APP OINTMENTS.
The 1164-ship at Portsmouth, ordinary el.erot ship at
Sheerness, and flag-ship at Woolwich, have been paid off
and re commissioned.
The Victory. at Portsmouth, has been re-commissioned
by Captain F. P. Blackwood; and Lieutenant Mason, of
the Britannia, ordinary depot, has been appointed first
lieutenant of the Victory, vice Bmiber.•
Captain Michael Seymour has commissioned the Mo-
narch, 84, at Sheerness, instead of the Wellington, as the
ordinary' deret, and yesterday relieved Rear-Admiral
Price as superintendent of the dockyard.
Commodore Eden has re-commissioned the Fisgard at
W oolwich; end the Lightning steam-vessel has been
commissioned by Mr. Pettey, her master-commander, ais
tender to the Fisgard. Many, but not all of the officers,
have been re-appointed. •
Lieutenant E.'E.:Morgan to the Calliope, 26, at De-
vonport.
Clerk—George Jeffreys. to the Victory, flag-ship at
Portsmouth.

Gunners—William Andrew (a) to the Monarch, and
William Merriman to the Calliope.
Paymaster Cornelius Dealy (1840), died on Friday
last.

Tha Britannia's launch, a boat 42 feet in length, is
being fitted with the davit and apparatus projected by
Lisut. John Seccombe, for carrying and laying out an
anchor and cable. Mr. Seccombe had been down at
Portsmouth personally superintending her fitting. It
appears to be simply a very stout oak davit, 'the inner
end sweated-to ilietaat'a keelson, a littlelf3forn the After
thwart, the out-end projecting sufficiently far over-tho
centre of the square tuck of the boat to allow the anchor
to swing clear. The anchor is secured by a slip stopper
and to keep it higher out of the water the stopper is
passed under the anchor stock instead of through the
ring. The davit is fitted with a compressor, which is
worked by a winch. When the launch may not be re-
quired to carry an anchor, the davit and apparatus can
all be removed, and the boat applied to any other ser-
vice. It appears to be a useful and serviceable invention,
and will no doubt be fitted to all ships' launches.

Aid lighter, Smallman master, arrived et Devonport
on Sunday, with stores, from Deptford and Woolwich.
Calliope, 26, to be commissioned at Devonport by Sir
J. E. Home, but is to have a complement of 195 officers
and men. _

Cambrian, 40, has been taken into No. 5 dock at De.
vonporr, to be repaired.
Expret.s, 6, packet-brig, Lieut.• Commander Lory, has
arrived at Devonport, from Falmouth, to be paid off into

ordinary.
Hamoaze, lighter, Wood, master, sailed from Devon-
port on Saturday, with stores for Pembroke and C"rk.
Inconstant, 36, Captain J. Sh.pherd, has hem mus-
tered, inspected, and exercised, by Admiral Sir W iiliara
Gage, who has expressed himself hlghly plea,ed with the
efficiency of the crew, and has been towed into Ilamutze
to be paid off.
Quail, lighter, Iveney, master, arrived at Devonport
on Sunday, with stores trona Pembroke.
Tyne, store ship, Master Peter Wellington, master

commanding, was paid advance at Devouport yesterday ;
atter which she was towed into the Sound by the Avon,
steamer, and will proceed at once to:11;o.
We have already announced that the Sphynx, steam-
sloop, Commander Shadwell, at Siam, with Sir J. Burke,
bad been ashore. A private letter says:—
"The Spbynx has had much sickuesa and mortality
on board. Four Seamen and eight artillerymen had
churl, and there was some twenty others on the sick
list. This appears to have been chiefly attributable to
the fatigue that had to be erniured in getting the ship off
the bar, and to the lengthened time she remained on.
On the fid of October the sickness was subsiding."
The Oambyua, Itus,ian man of war corvette, having
n,paired damage reeelved in the North Sea on her pas-
sage from Cronstadt, and refitted her rigging alongside
the Dryad hulk, in Portsmouth Barbour, was towed
out to Spithead on Saturday morning by the Blood-
hound steamer, and after receiving her powder, sailed
at four P.N. on Sunday for liamtschatka, touching at
Rio. She put into Plymouth Sound on Sunday at noon,
and saluted with 17 guns. which was answered by the
Impregnable.

TURKS AT PORTSMOUTH.—The Turkish officers
belonging to the two men of war in Portsmouth harbour
have visited, during the Fast seek, nearly all the de-
partments in Portsmouth yard and the Clarence victual-
ling yard, under the guidance of Lieut. Sir Godfrey
Webster, Bart., R.N. Excepting the captain their uni-
form is copied from the English—viz., blue surtout coat,
blue trousers, waist-belt, and sword. Their seamen,
have also been a good deal on shore on leave. They all
wear blue trousers with brown jackets, and, excepting
their captain, assimilate the other parts of their dress
to the English fashion, which deprives them of their
otherwise picturesque appearance. They spend a good
deal of money on shore. Tbey receive vegetables and
some meat on board, but they brought about 200 quarters
of wheat which they have ground on shore, which sup-
plies them with bread and flour. The wheat is of a
most ordinary nature, long and horny in the corn, more

like oats than wheat. The Turkish officeis hare been
most courteous to their English visitors, but on Fridays
and Saturdays, which days are appointed to ablutions
and religions observances, they are " not at home" to
visitors. With Sir Godfrey Webster the officers again
attended the ball at Mr. Hollingsworth's rooms on Fri-
day last. _ _

THE MEDITERRANEA24.—An accident, which might
have proved serious, happened on the evening of the 23d
ult., to Mr. Warrington, clerk in charge of the Medusa,
who was driving out to one of the Casaba (Zurrico), with
Lieut. White, 44th Regiment. The horse having been
frightened, bolted, and running the cart against the wall,
threw out both the gentlemen. Mr. White was stunned
by the fall, but Mr. Warrington had the misfortune to
fracture a small bone above the ankle, and was rkmond
to the hospital, where he is going on well.