The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.
Mates—Richard P. Gresham (1850), of the Excel-
ent, to the Dragon, steam-frigate, Portsmouth; W. G.
bcovell (1848), of the Excellent, and A. G. Broadhead
(1849), of the Excellent, to the Retribution steam-frigate,
Poi tsmouth; Thos., J. Young (1848), of the Excellent,
to the Dauntless screw-frigate, Portsmouth.
Assistant-Engineers—Thomas E. Woodfield, to the
Salamander steam-frigate, Devonport; Charles Mosley-,
Samuel Madden, and John Burgess, to the Flamer, steam-
sloop, Portsmouth.
, _ _ _

Midshipmen—A. 11. W. Battiscornbe and Richard
Harrington, to the Dragon: A. J. Wootton and C. H.
Carpenter, to the Traia;gar, 120, Sheerness; John
Swinburne, to Salamander; J. P. Townsend, W. S. De
Kantzow, and Robert H. Ss,iton, to the Retribution;
George G. Buckley and W. D.l). Selby, to the Daunt-
less.

Naval Cadets—F. S. H. Webber and R. J. Onslow,
to the Dragon; Richard Sheepshanks, to the Trafalgar;
Harrington Hudson, to the Retribution ; Thomas K.
Hudson and Joseph Crispin, to the Dauntless.
The following appointments have also been made:—
Lieutenants—Ross M. Floud (1840), and Francis
Rooke (1844), the surviving officer of the ill-fated
Avenger, to the Dauntless screw frigate ; Thomas
D. Williams (1850), to the Apollo troop-ship Ports-
mouth.

Master—Charles J. Parker (1841), who was promoted
for services in China, to the Dauntless, vice Vincent
Williams, who has declined the appointment.
The Board of Admiralty will commence their annual
tour of inspection of the dockyards and ports at the
latter end of the present week.
Arachne's (18) bottom having been completed at De.
vonport, she was taken out of No. 2 dock on Monday
morning, and the Ringdove, 12, was taken in the same
tide to be broken up.
Kestrel, 4, brigantine, Lieutenant Commander Baker,
would not have been paid off at Devonport, but on
examination she was found defective. As we have
stated, orders have been received to pay her off, after
which she is to be carefully surveyed and her actual
state reported.

The Vengeance has received her mizenmast at Ports-
mouth, and will be brought into the Angle Dock to-day.
'The Termagant, steam frigate, was removed from it:yes-
terday, the beams having been placed over her engine
for stepping her mainmast seven feet further forward.
The Termagant will be masted and prepared again as
an advanced steamer.

The Seaflower cutter and buoy-boat were undocked
at Portsmouth, on Monday.
The Fire Queen, iron steamer, was docked at Ports-
mouth, on Monday, to have her bottom examined. She
was payed over with Mr. Hay's composition eight months
back, and has been lying in the dirty water of the harbour
for the last two months; but her bottom was perfectly
free from barnacles and weeds. There was a slight coat-
ing of soft brown soapy matter on it, which came off with
the lightest touch of a mop. There was no oxide, and
the varnish was hard and perfectly smooth; altogether,
the iron was as clean as the copper sheathing of ships is
after lying up the harbour for a considerable time. She
is to be again payed over with Mr. Hay's composition.
We understand the Government have some intention
of purchasing the yacht Nancy Dawson, lately returned
from the Pacific, after having been of much assistance
in the Arctic regions to the Herald and Plover. She
will be placed (if purchased) to run between the river
Plate and Rio, in room of the Kestrel. We hear she was
surveyed by the authorities on Friday last. She is a safe,
wholesome little vessel, but some of the revenue cutters,
now being; paid off, would answer the purpose of carry-
ing the intermediate mails in South America just as well
as the Nancy Dawson.

The Dauntless was commissioned on Monday at Ports-
mouth. She is rigged, and will soon be ready for ser-
vice if required.
The Retribution also hoisted the pendant on Monday
at Portsmouth. Captain Warden having joined, the
shipwrights have something to do to her, altering her
spirit-room, hatch, &c. She will now make a useful
vessel, and carries a sufficient armament:—
On her main-deck l2 guns, 32-pounders ,9 feet, 50
cwt.
„ Quarter-deck ... 7 guns, 8 inches, 9 feet, 64 cwt.
„ Forecastle
shot, 95 cwt.
7) If If
2 guns, 8 inches, 9 feet, 64 cwt.

Total 22 guns.
With 2 brass 24-pound howitzer guns.. The riggers of
the yard are fitting her.
The Inflexible has not yet sailed from Portsmouth for
Plymouth, the Alban not having arrived.
The Alfred, Indiaman, arrived from the River at
Portsmouth yesterday morning, outward bound. The
Downshire, Indianan, was also coming in.
The Bombay sailed for the Cape and Bombay from
Portsmouth on Monday.
The Blackwell, Indiaman, was beating up to Spithead,
yesterday.
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anThe Apollo is
byo hrdtereedlottoh beof refittedseptemr.
beat Portsmouth,
An ordinary boat, belonging (we believe) to the Col-
lingwood, was capsized in Portsmouth Harbour on Sun-
day afternoon;
were ernoo having iron ballast in she sank, but the
people
saved. On Monday morning the boat was
n
picked
up, bottom upwards, with her mast and sail set,
by the coast-guard, on South-sea beach. She was drift-
ing out with the ebb-tide, and not injured. She had, it
is supposed, rolled over, and her ballast having got out,
she floated and drifted with the ebb-tide.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Fire Queen, steam-
yacht, has been taken into the dock vacated by the Sea-
flower to day to have her bottom scraped and to be re-
paid with composition.
The Bombay convict-ship sailed from Spithead this
afternoon for Cowes, to embark prisoners, &c.
The New York packet sailed from Spithead last
I evening.
The Inflexible steam-sloop, Commander Dyke, sailed
from Spithead this evening, for Plymouth, en route to
the West India, station.
Wooewien, Auc. 13.—Mr. Thomas Crouch, senior
extra clerk at Woolwich dockyard, has been placed on the
establishment as a third-class clerk.
The crew of the Perseus receiving-ship, recently lying
off the Tower of London, and commanded by Lieutenant
Greet, were paid off to-day at Woolwich.
The Advice and the Jasper steam-vessels went up the
river yesterday to John Penn and Sons' establishment,
adjoining Deptford Dockyard, and passed Woolwich
this morning at a qurter before six o'clock, having the
Tiger steam-sloop, fitted with engines of 400-horse
power by that firm, in tow to take her to Sheerness to
be made ready for sea.
The Lords of the Admiralty intend visiting Woolwich
Dockyard to- morrow, and will afterwards embark in the
Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander S. B.
Cook, and proceed to Sheerness.
The Firefly steam-vessel had her steam up in the basin
to-day, and is now taking on board a supply of coals.
Vessels in the Harbour, in Commission—Fisgard flag-
ship, Black Eagle and Lightning steam-vessels.
Not in Commission—Hydra, Jesper, mad Advice
steam-vessels, and the Mastiff.
In the Basins—Rosamond, Monkey,
Dwarf, Firefly,
Miex, Buzzard, Locust, Polyphemus, and Geyser steam-
vessels.

In Docks—Wasp, Princess Alice, and Alecto steam-
,
vends.

PLYMOUTH,' Ara. 12.—Ifer Majesty's frigate Trin-
comalee, 28, Captain Warren, came in from Portsmouth
on Friday, and was on Saturday towed from the Sound
by tha Avon, steamer up liamoaze. On approaching
the eastern shore near the dockyard, and when round-
ing, the strong flood tide caught the Trincomalee
under her quarter, and the masts of the Avon got in
contact with the packet- brig Crane, which was on the
Larboard Side of the Argo receiving-hulk, lying just off
Forward Point. The Crane lost her flying jib and jib-
boom, and received other damage. The Avon carried
away her ensign staff. The Trincomalee is now moored
at the Rubble Bank moorings, near Mutton Cove. She
will be paid off on Friday.
The steam-frigate Stromboli, Capt. Lord Amelius
Beauclerk, came in from Pembroke yesterday, and sailed
again in the afternoon for Portsmouth.
T4ie Wizard, 6, is in the Sound, waiting hands to
navigate her to Cork, for the use of the naval appren-
tices there.
The Clarence on Friday was placed in the Union Dock
for repairs.
The Hibernia, having been repaired, was taken out of
dock on Wednesday.
Wind N.W., thunder showers.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
CHATIIAM, Arc. 13.—The following detachments at
this garrison are under orders to embark on board the
ship Aboukir for Bombay on the 15th instant at Graves-
end, with the undermentioned officers:-
Bth Foot (King's Own Regiment)-56 men, with
Captain R. W. Hartley, Ensign F. MTherson, Assistant
Surgeon Fowler and Assistant-Surgeon Martin.
64th Foot-53 men and Lieutenant F. B. Forster,
Lieutenant Hinchtiff, Ensign V. Ryan, and Ensign D.

78th Highlanders-28 men.
83d Foot-30 men, with Captain W. K. Stuart, Lieu-
tenant J. R. Croker, Lieutenant H. M. Havelock, En-
sign W. Winniett, and Assistant-Surgeon James
Coghlan ; making a total of 14 officers and 179 men.
The detachments are to be inspected this day by the
commandant, and the troops furnished with the articles
of war.

Colour-Sergeant Robert Taylor, Ist battalion, 12th
Foot, is appointed second ward-master in the garrison
hospital at Chatham, vice outpensioner Johif Wyse,
discharged.
On Sunday afternoon the head-quarters of the Ist
battalion of the Rifle Brigade marched into the garrison,
with their band, from Gravesend, consisting of 5 staff
sergeants, 16 sergeants, 9 buglers, and 243 rank and file,
under command of Lieut.-Colonel S. Beckwith, with
Captain A. Macdonnell, Captain J. R. Glyn, Lieut. E. M.
Buller, Lieutenant P. Macdonald, Second Lieutenant C.
Buller, Lieutenant Robert Baillie, Lieutenant James
Rowles, Quarter-master Henry Peacock, Surgeon E.
Lloyd, and Adjutant Brown. With the head-quarters
are 2 officers' ladies, 13 women, and 19 children; also 1
sergeant, 1 corporal of the reserved battalion of the 45th
Regiment, 1 sergeant of the 73d, and 6 prisoners of the
95th Regiment. These troops are from the Cape of
Good Hope, and they came home in the ship Duchess of
Northumberland, which vessel sailed on the 6th of June
last, and after a delightful passage of 66 days arrived at
Gravesend on Saturday, the 10th. The only death at
sea was that of private Richard Brown, Rifle Brigade,
who died on the 10th of June. The head-quarters of the
brigade, after being medically inspected by the Deputy
Inspector-General at Fort Pitt, will remove to Canter-
bury barracks.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY.
TIIE HARVEST.—The accounts of the potato are gene-
rally less unfavourable; but some, from Tipperary and
Wexford especially, are quite disheartening. A letter
from Nenagh says—" The potato crop is more than half
gone in tr•lis neighbourhood." On the other hand, a
letter from Macro= mentions that the potato fields in
that quarter, since the heavy rain, are again wearing a
healthy appearance. The Cork Reporter has an account
to the same effect from Blerney, where, it is stated,
" several fields iu which the symptoms of disease had ap-
peared have since the rain of the last few days begun to
look healthy once more, and the diseased stalks to ac-
quire new verdure." Altogether the reports are more
favourable than might have been expected, as regards
the cereal as well as the potato crops. Wheat is deficient
in most parts of the southern and midland counties; but
appears to be a pretty fair crop i❑ Down and other
norther counties. Oats are everywhere a very fine crop.
SUICIDE OF A MILITARY OFFICER.—CoIoneI Beau-
champ, an officer of long and distinguished service in the
Peninsula, but for acme years retired from the army,
committed suicide at an hotel in Dawson-street, on Sun-
day last, in a fit of temporary insanity, produced by a
severe attack of erratic) gout.
BRAY HEAD ESTATE.—The mansion-house of Mr.
Putland, at Bray Head, with 47 acres of land, has been
purchased for 7,5001. by Aliss Ball, sister to Judge Ball,
who is at the head of the Loretto Convent, at Rathfarn-
ham, near this city.
THE CGrFE-sTitEET SAVINGS BANK CASE.—Yester-
day the City grand jury found true bills against John
Emanuel Hughes for embezzlement, as cashier of the
Cuffe-street Savings Bank.
ATTACK ON A CLERGYMAN IN THE MARINERS'
CLIUKCH.—On Sunday, during the performance of Divine
worship in the Mariners' Church, Kingstown, a woman,
whose name was subsequently ascertained to be Sarah
Adams, entered the church mentioned, and took her
seat near the reading desk. In a short time after she
stood up and exclaimed, while the Rev. John Massy
was reading, " Silence, air 1 Why do you lead the
peoplo astray, having no sacrifice ?" and rushing
on suddenly, she made a blow at his head with a
stick, which he avoided by a sudden movement. She
made three other blows at him before she could bo
seized upon, when she was removed from the church in
custody of a constable. The congregation was greatly
alarmed, and the worship was interrupted for a con-
siderable time. She was brought up in custody on Mon-
day, before Mr. Wyse, at the police-office, Kingstown,
when upon the examination of witnesses it was ascer-
tained that she was labouring under the effects of in-
sanity. She pleaded guilty—uttered some incoherent
sentences evincing disappointment at not accomplishing
the act she intended to perpetrate, and on the informa-
tion of the Rev. Mr. Massy, who only desired to have
her placed under protection, she was committed, with the
view to her removal to a lunatic asylum. She declared
she was a Roman Catholic, and had a mission to root out
error.—Saunders's News Letter.

DUBLIN STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.—SaIes yester-
day—Three per Cent. Consols, 96t, 4, t; Three per
Cent Consols, for Account, 9th Sept., 96k; Three-and-
a•Quarter per Cent. Stock, 97k. i; ditto for Account,
9th Sept., 97i; Bank Stock, 203; Mining Company of
Ireland, 4i; Wicklow Copper Mine, 17.

, THE A.TUR ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. 73, Wobsttr, Sole Lessee and Manager, OH Rrompton.
For a few nights only, Adeiphi Company and Adelphi Pieces.
Last Wool,. of Thu Willow Copse, in consequence of Madame Celeste's

departure for the Continent
THIS EVENDTG.

Will be perfcrmed THE WIILOW COPSE. Sir retard Vaughan,
Mr. Boyce ; Colonel Vanguard, Mr. Cullenford ; Luke Fielding, Mr.
Hughes ; Augustus de Rosherville, Mr. Wright ; Hulks, Mr. 0. Smith;
Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rose Fielding, Madame Celeste; Meg,
Miss Woolgar.
After which a new and original Zoological Extravaganza, called
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. Mr. Tiddywink, Mr. Wright; Sergeant
Bulbul, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mrs. Tiddywink, Miss E. Harding.
To conclude with THE DOUBLE-BEDDED ROOM. Characters
y Mr. Lambrt, Miss E. Chaplin, &c.