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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APP OINTMENTS.
The flag-ship at Portsmouth, orcinary depot ship et
Sheerness, and flag-ship at Woolwicb, 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 Bamber.
Captain Michael Seymour has commissioned the Mo-
narch, S 4, at Sheerness, instead of the Wellington, as the
urdivary derot, and yesterday relieved Rear-Admiral
Price as superintendent of the dockyard.
Commodore Eden has re-commissioned the Fisgard at
Woolwich; and the Lightning steam-vessel has been
commissioned by Mr. Petley, her master-commander, as
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 Deely (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
Lieut. 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 secured to the boat's keelson, a little before the after
thwart, the out-end projecting sufficiently far over the
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 at 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-
vonport, to be repaired.
Express, 6, packet-brig, Lieut.-Commander Lory, has
arrived at Devonport, from Falmouth, to be paid off into
ordinary.
Hamoaze, lighter, Wood, master, sailed from Daven-
port on Saturday, with stores for Pembroke and Cork.
Inconstant, 36, Captain J. Shepherd, has been mus-
tered, inspected, and exercised, by Admiral Sir William
Gage, who has expressed himself highly pleased with the
efficiency of the crew, and has been towed into Hamosze
to be paid off.
Quail, lighter, Iveney, master, arrived at Devonport
on Sunday, with stores from Pembroke.
Tyne, store ship, Master Peter Wellington, master
commanding, was paid advance at Devonport yesterday;
atter which she was towed into the Sound by the Avon,
steamer, and will proceed at once to Rio.
We have already announced that the Sphynx, steam-
sloop, Commander Shadwell, at Siam, with Sir J. Burke,
had been ashore. A private letter says:—
" The Sphynx has had much sickness and mortality
on board. Four Seamen and eight artillerymen had
died, and there was some twenty others on the sick
list. This appears to have been chiefly attributable to
the fatigue that had to be endured in getting the ship off
the bar, and to the lengthened time she remained on.
On the 3d of October the sickness was subsiding."
The Oambyua, Russian man of war corvette, having
repaired damage received in the North Sea on her pas-
sage from Cronstadt, and refitted her rigging alongside
the Dryad hulk, in Portsmouth Harbour, was towed
out to Spithead on Saturday morning by the Blood-
hound steamer, and after receiving her powder, sailed
at four r.m. on Sunday for Kamtschatka, touching at
Rio. She put into Plymouth Sound on Sunday at noon,
and saluted with 17 guns, which was answered by the
Impregnable.
THE TURKS AT PORTSMOUTH.—Tho Turkish officers
belonging to the two men of war in Portsmouth harbour
have visited, during the past week, 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 o❑ 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. They receire veg 4 tables 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 have been
most courteous to their English visitors, but on Fridays
and Saturdays, which days are appointed to ablutions
and religious 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 MEDITERRANEAN.—AR 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 Cassis (Zurrico), with
Lieut. White, 44th Regiment. The horse having been
Irightened, 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 removed
to the hospital, where he is going on well.
THE ADMIRALTY PACILETS.
Our correspondent sends us the following with refer-
ence to the inefficient Admiralty packets:—
"Referring to my letter of the 12th instant, in which
I mentioned that several of the Bombay passengers
then in our lazaretto waiting the arrival of the Merlin
packet from Marseilles had not up to to that time been
allotted berths in that ship to Alexandria, I must now
inform you that upon her arrival the passengers were, after
some considerable trouble, accommodated by her, although
by a want of management that cannot be overlooked the
berths of Mr. and Mrs. Sewell and Mr. and Mrs. Trotter
were appropriated to others, notwithstanding those par-
ties had come from Marseilles in the Merlin, and there-

fore were thus compelled to remain behind. Mr. Davis,
one of the Bombay passengers, had the prospect of lying
on the table during the trip, which occupies at least four
days.

;-‘ I cannot but consider it a duty to the public that the
present Government steam-vessels, as packets on this
station, should be brought to the notice of the Admiralty,
and their want of accommodation, and almost of delicacy
made known. Eighteen ladies are placed in one cabin,
and in some of the vessels the berths in these cabins
are not even shut off by a curtain! Then there are two
six-berth cabins, and two of four bertha for gentlemen;
and here terminates the capacity for berthing passengers,
on a line where frequently fifty or sixty passengers are
anxious to go forward. 'Vessels of a different class are
required. So long as the present packets continuo on
this station, so long will the passenger traffic, for want
of proper accommodation on board, fall into foreign
marines, and the inhabitants of Malta deplore the loss
of a branch of trade heretofore providing bread fur hun-
dreds of the poorer classes."—Herald.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—We are requested to con-
tradict a statement announcing Captain Cospatrick
liaillie Hamilton as likely to commission the Amphitrite,
25-gun corvette, at this port. There is no foundation
wh,itevicr for such announcement.

The Sir Robert Seppings convict-ship arrived at Spit-
head yesterday from London to embark convicts from
this port for the penal settlements.
The Southampton, American line-of-packet ship, ar-
rived to-day from London, en route to New York.
The Hogue, 60, Captain Maeclougal, has been removed
from the basin and taken alongside the Blake hulk to
complete refit.

The Phaeton,'so, Captain Elliot, has received another
foremast, and been taken into the angle dock to-day to
have her bottom overhauled and broomed down.
The Victory. 104, Captain F. P. Blackwood, flag of
Admiral the Hon. Sir. Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Com-
mauder-in-Chicf, has been paid off this day. She will
be re-commissioned to-morrow under the new Admiralty
regulations.

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.—It is reported that a court-
martial will take place here shortly to inquire into the
cause of the death of Nichols, a seaman, shot on board
her Majesty's frigate Inconstant, Captain John Shep-
pard, for attempting to make his escape from that ship
when lying at California.
Letters dated Port Mahon, Nov. 14, have been received
here from her Majesty's ship Caledonia. She was to sail
on the 28th for Barcelona and Sicily.
John Stamp, seaman, 18, of Exmouth, was landed here
to-day by Mr. Eddy, pilot. He belonged to the schooner
Atalanta, Captain Richards, 130 tons, of Ex.mouth,which
left there on the 21st of November,:in ballast, for Hartle-
pool. She experienced very heavy weather, and being
off Robin Hood's Bay, on Sunday night, the 24th inst.,
between eleven and twelve o'clock, under close-reefed
mainsail, jib, and staysail, wind south-west, blowing
strong,was run into by the brig Seaton Sluice, of Shields,
William Gibson master, from Shields, with coal for
Malta. The brig, stem on, struck the schooner on her
starboard bow, and the concussion having roused Stamp,
who was lying asleep on the cabin floor he jumped on
deck and sprang from the bulwarks of his own vessel to
those of the brig, which then fell off, and losing sight of
the schooner the brig pursued her voyage. Last night
Captain Gibson put Stamp in the pilot boat outside the
Eddystone. Through the Shipwrecked Mariners' So-
ciety he has been franked to Starcross, which is just op-
posite his native place, Exmouth.
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