The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-04 00:00:00

NAVAL IN FELLIGENCE.

PROMOTIONS.
Mates—John Ward (b 1848), the senior, eligible
for promotion ; Charles Joseph Wrey (1848), third
in seniority on the list, now serving in the Prince
Regent, 90, at Lisbon ; Edward Biornard Hopkins
(1848) fourth on the list ; Thomas Malcolm Sabine
Posley (1848), fifth on the list, now of the Terrible
steam-frigate, Mediterranean—have been promoted
to the rank of lieutenant.

Mates—William Chimmo, passed in seamanship
Jan. 2, 1848 ; Bedford C. T. Pym, passed in seaman-
ship July 7, 1848 ; and T. B. Collinson, passed in
seamanship July 7, 1848—all three serving in the
Herald surveying-ship in the Pacific, have been pro-
moted to the rank of acting lieutenant, to be con-
firmed at the above dates, on passing the examina-
tions at the Royal Naval College.
Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. Thomas James Layton
(November, 1838), the seventh on the list of those
who have passed for surgeons (numbered in the alpha-
betical list of the navy to belong to the Firefly
steamer, but whose name does not appear in the list
of officers belonging to that vessel), and Alexander
Leith Eltnslie (June, 1841), fourteenth on the list of
officers passed for surgeons, ani serving at the Royal
Marine Infirmary at Chatham—have been promoted
to the rank of surgeon.
Clerks—Charles A. Jenkins (Jan. 26, 1842),
twelfth on the list of qualified clerks, who has lately
been paid off, as clerk in charge of the Porcupine
steam- vessel, after three years' service in the Mediter-
ranean ; Joseph Cave Paine (Dec. 7, 1842), twenty-
second on the list, now serving as clerk in charge of
the Investigator, in Captain Collinson's expedition to
the Arctic Regions, via B-hring's Straits; and Alfred
Whitehouse (Jan. 4, 1843), twenty-fifth on the list,
in charge of the Scorpion surveying vessel, West
Indies, have been promoted to the rank of paymasters.

APPOINTMENTS.

Assistant Engineers—William Oliver, William
Farley, and Joseph Levering, to the Wasp, 12, screw-
sloop, fitting at Woolwich, for coast of Africa.
Naval Cadets—O. S. Cameron and Edward M.
Tupper, to the Victory, flog-ship, at Portsmouth, G.
11. Stokes, to the Ajax, 58, screw guard-ship,
Queenstown ; Percy Bagwell, to the Albion, 90,
Pl 3 mouth Sound.
Gunner—Henry Smith, to the Wasp.
Boatswain—William Topson, to the Wasp.
Carpenter—James S. Casey, to the Wasp.
Commander Charles Mason White, who retired
from the masters' list July, 1846, died on the 30th
ult., at East Retford, Nottinghamshire, aged 78. In
Allen's New Navy List, we find that he was a master
of 1796. He was master of the Diligence at the cap-
ture and cutting out of various privateers in the West
Indias' 1796-97-98, including a privateer and five
merchant vessels cut out of Aguada Bay, Porto Rico,
and the Spanish armed sloop Nativedad, captured off
Cuba, 1798 ; master of the Adventure in the exptdi-

tion to the Helder, 1799 ; in the following year at-
tached to all; ing squadron with a military force me-
nacing the enemy's coasts, and of Monmouth, in the
expedition to Egypt, and consequent operations in
1801 ; master of the Amphian, in Nelson's pursuit of
Villeneuve, and engaged in Roses Bay a fbtilla of 27
gun-boats, 1805 ; of Phoebe, off Boulogne, 1806; of
Excellent, at the defence of Roses, 1807-8 ; and
Adriatic, in 1807.
Paymaster and Purser Francis May (1831) died
at Peckham, aged 84. ile was in the Severn at
Algiers.
Adventure, 2 (transport), Master Commander
Wellington, was paid off yesterday at Devonport.
Blenheim, 60 (screw guard-ship), Commander W.
H. Henderson, C.B , is ordered to go into Ports-
mouth Harbour from Spithead, and to take up her old
moorings.
Dauutless, 24, screw-frigate, Captain Halstead,
will be ready to go to Spithead on the Bth, and is
ordered to he paid advance and to proceed to Cork.
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain H. W. Gifford,
arrived at Devonport on Wednesday morning from
Portsmouth. She took on board a fire-hearth for
the Arrogant, screw-frigate, at Lisbon, and supernu-
meraries waiting a passage, and left yesterday, en
route to Malta.
Firefly, 3, steam-sloop, Commander Seymour, ar-
rived at Devonport on Tuesday evening from Ports•
mouth and Woolwich. The mails for the coast of
Africa arrived on Wednesday morning, but in conse-
quence of a slight defect in the paddlebox and engine
she was detained from .proceeding until yesterday
afternoon.
Lively lighter, Hatfield, arrived at Devonport, with
sores from Portsmouth, on Wednesday.
Tbetis, 38, Captain Kuper, C.B , was to have becn
docked at Devonport yesterday evening, if the tide
was sufficiently high. They had lightened her con.i-
desahly by taking out her guns, stores, &c.
Volcano, steatn-vensel, is to he sent from Woolwich
to Sheerness, where she is to be rigged for commis-
Bien for coast of Africa service.

Wasp, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Crozier, fitting
at Woolwich to take the mails to the coast of Africa
on the 2d of November, is to have a complement of
150 men.
PORTSMOUTH, TIIURSDAY.—The Norwegian cor-
vette Ornen, Captain C. H. Valeur, 16 guns, from
Horton to the Mediterranean, anchond at Spithead
this morning, and saluted the national flag, and the
Port Admiral, whom the captain cf:ertvards welted
upon in company with his consul, Chevalier Louis
Vandenberg.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, has
been taken into dock tc-Ly to have her bottom ex-
amined. She is taking in coals, and will go out to-
morrow to try her engines.
News has been communicated to the Port Admiral
this afternoon of the discovery of the remains of an
encampment in the Arctic regions, believed to have
been a wintering plaice of Sir John Franklin.
The Sutlej Indiaman sailed from Spithead at nor n
for Madras and Calcutta.
The Furious et qim-sloop bent seils this afternoor,
and will sail in a day or two for the eastward.
The directors of the Portsmouth Sailors' Home
acknowledge with many thanks a donation of Si., re-
ceived by them in aid of the funds of the institution
from Lieutenant-Commander Selwyn, the officers,
and crew of her Mrje ship Teazer, just paid off.
MALTS, SEPT. 27.—The cholera is fast decrcasing.
The Merlin steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander
Tamer, with the homeward India mail, is just telc-
graphed. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Po!tinger, from Constantinople, arrived yes•
terday with A full cargo of fruit. She left this
morning at half-past ten, A.M., for Gibraltar and
Southampton, On the Merlin being telegraphed the