The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander Henry Le Veiconte (1828), died July
7th, at Seymour East, Canada West. He was brother
of Commander Le Vesconte, whose death we announced
a few weeks since. They were sons of the late purser
of the Royal William, who lost his leg in the Ist of Juno
action. Commander Henry Le Vesconte entered the
navy in 1790, was made a lieutenant in 1800, was in the
Jamaica, 24, in the action off Copenhagen in 1801, and
in August following, in conjunction with Lient. Agassiz,
took command of the boats of a squadron and gained the
commendations of Lord Nelson for the capture and des-
truction, with but slight loss to the British, of six flat-
bottomed gun-vessels, which had been driven ashore
near St. Valery, and were protected by the fire of a body
of military and ' five field-pieces. He served in the
Naiad, 30, at Trafalgar. and on that occasion assisted in
extricating •the.liellaisle, 74, from a perilous position
near the shoals, whither she was fast drifting. In 1811-
12 he was first lieutenant of the Rodney and Melford,
74, flag-ships of Lord Colliogwood and Sir F. Freman-
tle, and last served, in 1812, in the Queen, 74, flag-ship
of Sir C. V. Penrose.
Master William Elias Hyne (1848) in command of
the Coast-guard station at Mousehole, in the Penzance
district, died on the 7th inst. He served in the Albion
at Navarino, commanded the boats of the Conflict, and
was wounded in the capture of the piratical slaver
Nymphia (1830), and was acting master of the Nimrod,
20, Captain Glasse, in the operations on the coast of
China, 1840.42, and on the coast of Scinde, 1843.
APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants Alexander Hamilton (1842), to the
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, at Portsmouth; J. A. San-
ford (1847), and J. E. Commerell (1849), to the Daunt-
, less screw frigate, at Portsmouth; C. A. Sidebottom
(1849), to the Retribution steam-frigate, at Portsmouth.
Master—Vincent Williams (1841), to the Dauntless.
Surgeons—Samuel W. Webb (1845), late of the Con-
stance, 50, to the Retribution; Alexander Woodcock
(1844), to the Dauntless.
Paymaster and Purser—H. K. Conquer (1846), to the
Alarm, 26, West Indies, vice Hooper.
Second Masters—C. J. Crompton (1848), to the
Dauntless; C. Downward (acting), in charge of the
Roches lighter.
Assiiiiiit-Surgeons—Dr. Robert Wallace (1845), late
of the Vengeance, to the Dauntless; Henry Stapleton
Edwards (1849), to the Retribution.
Midshipman—Graham Eden, to the Thetis, at Devon-
port.

Gunner—Charles Hicks to the Retribution.

Boatswain—John Kitt, to the Dragon.
Captain Ellice, R.N., Comptroller-General of the
Coast-guard, has returned to London from his tour of
inspection of the west coast of England.
The divisional ships of the ordinaries are ordered to
hoist the pendant.
Apollo, 8, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, at
Portsmouth, is ordered to be refitted for the conveyance
of troops to the West Indies. Captain Milne visited this
ship last week, and some new arrangements were sug-
gested, by which better accommodation will in future be
afforded to the (troops.
Bermuda, 3chooner, Lieutenant-Commander Jolly,
was to leave Havannah, July 9, for Port Royal, having
been relieved by the Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart,
from Lisbon.

Clarence, 84, advanced ship, at Devonport, was docked
on Friday morning to be overhauled.
Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander P. H. Dyke,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Sheerness,
to embark supernumeraries, &c., for the West Indies.
She will call at Devonport for the same purpose, and will
then proceed to Port Royal, convoying thither the
Alban, steam-tender, Lieutenant-Commander Crawford.
Spy, 3, brigantine, Lieut. Commander Western, is or-
dered home from the coast of Africa, and is to be paid
off at Cbathaw.

Salamander, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Ellwan, will
be ready for sea at Devonport by the 24th inst., and will
convey a mail to Rio and the Cape on her way to Trin-
comalee, to join Rear-Admiral Austen's flag.
Trincomalee, 25, Captain Warren, from the West
Indies, but last from Portsmouth, made her number at
3.30, P.M., off Plymouth on Friday, the wind being ,
W.N.W., and blowing strong; she was not expected to "
anchor in the Sound until late. She is to be paid off at
Devonport, and kept as an advance ship.
Waterwiteb, 8, Commander Quin, is ordered home

from the coastofAfrioa, and is to be paid off at Chatham.

Wyvern schooner-yacht, belonging to his Grace the
Duke of Marlborough, was taken on the graving slip at
the dockyard on Friday, to have her copper repaired
and bottom cleaned. She came off again the same
evening.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, FIVE, P.M.—lt still blows a
gale from the westward, with squalls; but we have had
but little rain. The Hyde regatta- has progressed but
slowly, on account of the bad weather on Friday and the
strong breezes yesterday. About fifty convicts were
sent off from the hulks in Portsmouth harbour to the
Rodney yesterday. When to weather moderates she
will proceed to Portland, to fill up, and sail for Van
Diemen's Land.

The Dauntless and the Retribution steam-frigates
have not hoisted the pendant yet, but are expected to do
so to-morrow. The complements are ordered to be
250 each,

The Seaflower cutter was undocked yesterday after
repair, and will return in a day or two to her cruising
ground among the Channel Islands.
The Termagant steam-trigate will be undocked, after
repairs, on Tue,day; and the Vengeance, 84, Captain
Sir Henry Blackwood, taken in.
It is reported that the Blenheim steam-guard-ship,
Captain Henderson, C. 8., is likely to take a cruise as far
as the Baltic, on service presumed to relate to the affairs
of Denmark and the Duchies.

WOOLWICH, Auc. 10.—The convict, John Griffith,
a canvass weaver by trade, who escaped from Woolwich
dockyard some time ago, while under sentence of trans-
portation for 15 years, and subsequently stole a waist-
coat belonging to a mower on the farm of Claypits, near
Eltham, and was apprehended at Chatham with the
waistcoat on his person, pleaded guilty at the last Maid-
stone assizes, and is now sentenced to transportation for
life. He will be sent at once to a highly penal settle-
ment. The constable who apprehended him received a
reward of 201.