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

APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Edward Pellew Halsted (1842), has been
appointed to command the Dauntless screw-frigate, at
Portsmouth. This gallant officer is son of the late Ad-
miral Sir Lawrence Halsted, and grandson of the cele-
brated Lord Exmouth, and has served afloat 19 years.
He entered the navy March, 1821, passed his examina-
tion 1828, and was promoted January, 1829. He was
made a commander December, 1536, and commanded
the Childers, 16, in the East Indies, and also in China,
when he served in the Yang-tee-Kiang during the ope-
rations against the city of Chin-Kiang •Foo, July, 1842,
and was promoted in April of that year to his present
rank. Captain Halsted has devoted many years to the
acquisition of experience in screw propulsion, and has
rece❑tly published the results of a most laborious pur-
suit in a work which will be deemed the only authority
on that all-important subject.
Captain Frederick Warden (1845) has been appointed
to the command of the Retribution, 22, paddle-wheel
ateam• frigate, at Portsmouth. This gallant officer has
served 20 years afloat; he entered the Naval College in
June, 1820, pa,sed Ibis examination in 1827, was pro-
moted in 1828, was made a commander for the Thalia,
46, June, 1828, and was promoted on paying off the
Medea, 8-horse-sloop from the Mediterranean, having
been engaged in the operations on the coast of Syria, and
at the blockade of Alexandria. In November, 1840, he
was wounded in the hand and arm by the explosion of
a shell.

Mr. Pinhorn, the highly efficient and universally re-
spected secretary to Commodore Superintendent Eden,
of Woolwich Dockyard, and before that gallant officer
was secretary to Commodore Sir F. Collier and Sir Gor-
don Bremer, has been appointed store receiver at Wool-
wich, ♦ice Owen, deceased.

GUNNERY PRACTICE.—The 'Excellent will practice to-
day, we believe, some of Moorsow's shells at a new butt,
made partly with piles and partly with plank, the sub-
stance of the wood being about two feet and an inch
thick. The iron butt has also been made to practice at
to further test the effect of shot on iron steamers—the
outside sheathing on the iron side being different thick-
nesses of oak plank, six and four and three inches; the
iron side has no inside lining of wood.
Rear-Admiral Superintendent Henry Prescott, C. 8.,
with the gentlemen from the Pay-office, proceeded on
board the Illustrious, Captain Gates, yesterday morning,
and paid the ship and the ordinary establishment six
months' pay.
THE Aroew TROOP-SHIP.—A Portsmouth corre-
spondent, dated yesterday, writes the following particu-
lars respecting the Apollo:—" The Apollo troop-ship,
Commander Rawstorne, did not get to Spithead till last
evening, about five o'clock. She did hoist the yellow
quarantine flag, but received pratique from the
health officer when he boarded her. Soon after she
bad anchored, the Lieutenant-Governor, Lord Frede-
rick Fitaclarence, went alongside, to inquire the state
of the health of the troops, and to give some orders re-
specting them. The Apollo was towed; into harbour
alongside the dockyard this morning by the Echo. She
sailed from Hong-Kong the 3d March, with the 95th
Regiment on board, under Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John
Walter, consisting of about 11 officers, and 400 rank and
file, with a few women and children. The regiment had
for some time previous to its embarkation been suffering
from ague and fever, and soon after the Apollo left
Hong-Kong dysentery broke out, and proved alarmingly
fatal, the regiment losing sometimes three and four men
per diem. She arrived at the Cape the 24th May, and
the troops were landed and the ship thoroughly cleaned.
She sailed again on the 29th May, leaving about 18 men
of the 95th at the hospital there. She arrived at St.
Helena on the 16th June, remained two days to get
water and supplies, and has had a fine-weather passage
home. Eighteen men died on board since leaving the
Cape, one died this morning, and another lies in a hope-
less state; altogether, since leaving Hong-Kong, 60 men
of the 95th, three children and three seamen belonging to
the Apollo have died on board; latterly, the disease has
not been so virulent, as net more than 12 men have now
gone to the military hospital. The officers of the regiment,
and the officers of the ship, have all been healthy. The
Apollo has brought home from St. Helena about 30 men,
and some women and children belonging 'to the St. He-
lena regiment. The regiment landed to-day at half-past
one, and proceeded by railway to Winchester. The
Apollo has been particularly unfortunate in both her
outward and homeward voyage- In going out with the
59th regiment she had cholera on board, and lost, be-
fore she reached her destination, 50 men, and on her
return voyage with the 95th she has lost in all 67 per-
sons. She is not so well adapted for a troop-ship as the
old-fashioned 36-gun frigate and made into a•yacht, her
place for height, and consequently par-
Resistance; for when the Apollo was altered from an
between-deck was lowered, which made ter troop-deck
a very confined
par-
ticulary ill•adapted for conveyance o_fintroon lee."
The 95th. Regiment have
Our Cape correspondent, dating Si o 's Bay,. 27th of
we are this day enabled to
leaving behindabout
20
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embark
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2(:) of the worst cases in hospital, and she will sail
fitted,to-
and
the troops • they that could be done for the comfort of ps , are
morrow morning. The ship has been cleaned out and
ventilated, air tubes and funnels
furnished on embarking with clean bedding, three months
comforts, as port wine,
arrowroot, sego, pearl barley, . 1
, so that we hope, on
their getting to the northward, the disease will have left
provisions of every kind, bulloc.a ks,sheep, vegetables, and
additional allowance of medic
them."
Baker, arrived at Ply-
mouth, states she sailed front
ship Kestrel, Lieutenantßio on the 19th of June,
and Pernambuco the 4th of July.
m
She spoke on the 2d
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.--A letter from her Ma-
jesty'sfor New York. Mr.
Samuel Winneatt, assistantmaster's•
of the Kestrel,
sth
June, on board
d•ma. ter on theof
inst., in lat. 47 deg. 16 min,. long. 18 deg. 9 min., the
Bremen bark Erie, with emigrants,
passed for secon
the flag-ship.
DlSTltEnglish—The Harpy iron steam-vessel, at Monte
-WAR IN THE RIVER PLATE.
Video,
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wine, 60, Commodore Storer
American—The Brandy
Cock, at Monte Video,
and St. Louis corvette, Captain
May 26. OF MEN-OF
frigates, r nomphante corvette,
nobie and Pomona
iP transport corvettes, Alcibiade
Meur the, Aube, and Eger
ede steam-vessel, Alouette
and Bussard brigs, Arc int _
ti
French—Constitution. frigate,f_a.t Monte_ Video; Ze-
Agathe 'lgen me, at Monte
and Panthers gun-brigs,