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

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—ll. 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
Rochester lighter. _ _

Assistant-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 cf
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, 3, schooner, 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 embr.rk 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-
&red home from the coast of Africa, and is to be paid
off at Chatham.

Salamander, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Ellman, will
be ready for sea at Devonp,rt by the 24th inst., and v. ill
ccnvey 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.ai., 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 cif at
Devonport, and kept as an advance ship.
Waterwitcb, 8, Commander Quin, is ordered home
from the coast of Africa, 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.31.—1t still blows a
gale from the westward, with !quails; but we have had
but little rain. The Ryde regatta has progressed but
slowly, on account cf 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 the 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 um:locked yesterday after
repair, and will return in a day or two to her, cruising
ground among the Channel Islands.

- The Termagant steam-frigate will be undocked, after
repairs, on Tuesday; 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, AUG. 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.

TEE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
We have three days later news from the Cape—
namely, to June 1. The last accounts from the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Commodore Wyvill, in the Castor, 36,
was from the Mozambique, May 4. The gallant officer
was going to Zanzibar, and thence to Mauritius, and was
expected to return to Simon's Bay in September.
Sphynx, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell (son of
the deceased Vice-Chancellor of Englard), remained in
Simon's Bay. She towed the Apollo, 8, troopship,
Commander Rawstorne, into the offing, on the 29th of
May, and was to proceed to Singapore as soon as she
had filled up with coals, provisions, water, &c. She left
Plymouth March 2, but having touched at Rio, a mer-
chantman, the Royal Albert, from London, had reached
the Cape with English news to the 13th March.
Hermes, 6, steam-sloop,-Commander Fishbourne, re-
turned to Table Bay May 29, from East London, with
Colonel and Mrs. Beckwitb, IS officers, 293 men, 13
women, and nine children, of the Rifles, about to leave
for England in the ship Duchess of Northumberland.
Pantaloon, 8, Commander Hyde Parker, whose
arrival at the Cape from the Mozambique we reported
last week, also remained there refitting. On the 29th
of May one of her prizes, the Brazilian brig Philan-
tropo, of 360 tons, with a cargo of Africans, arrived
in Sirson's Bay from Quillemaine, in charge of Lieute-
nant Montgomery.

RULES FOR CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE

ADMIRALTT.

Admiralty, 18th July, 1850.
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are
pleased to direct that the following rules be observed
by all Naval Officers, on full or half-pay, and by all
officers belonging to the civil establishments of the
navy, in their correspondence with this department:—
1. Separate letters to be written on separate subjects.
2. The subject of the letter must be briefly and con-
spicuously stated as a heading at the binning of the
first page.
3. One-sixth of the first page is to be left blank at
the top, for the purpose of official registratic,n, and one-
fourth of each page is to be left blank as u margin.
4. Each paragraph is to be numbered.
5. Officers are to write their signatures legibly, and to
state their ranks after their signatures.
6. No original certificates aro to be forwarded, but
certified copies only: baptismal and marriage certifi-
cates excepted.

7. All models or plans transmitted to this office, are to
have the name and address of the person who forwards
them securely affixed thereto, together with the data of
the letter, or the explanatory document, which may ac-
company them.
8. In addition to the foregoing, Commanden'in'
Chief, Officers on detached commands, Superintendents,
and others in charge of her Majesty's civil establish-
ments, are to number their letters; the first in a year
to be N0..1, and a fresh series of numbers to com-
mence the beginning of each year. Inclosurce are to

The above are e:
in the estimates:

,xclusive of the following not provided

Calls on shares in the Lancaster and

Carlisle Railway ... £10,491 13 4*
Calls on shares in the Manchester,
Buxton, and Matlock Railway 2,375 0 6*
Charge for locomotive engines, &e. ... 3,505 3Of
"I may add that the above estimate is the aggregate
of 175 minor estimates, which are again subdivided into
415 distinct headQ, to which the several payments are
posted as made, the whole being balanced and submitted
monthly to the committee specially appointed for the su-
pervision of this expenditure.

"I am, Gentlemen, yours faithfully, &c.,
" J. E. COLEMAN, Public Accountant.
i'ta"London,
stemen o h
Aug. 8,
1850."te
Tie‘joint-stock capital" shows that
the total joint-stock capital upon which dividend or inte-
rest is payable is 22,467,2811. Of this, 15,645,976/. is
entitled to full dividend; 2,341,6801. entitled to full divi-
dend, less 5 per cent. on amount not called; 4,209,6281.
entitled to 4 per cent. dividend upon amount called until
July, 1852, after which time full dividend; and 270.0001.
entitled to interest at 5 per cent. on the amount called,
and half surplus profits beyond that rate. The calla in
course of payment are 231,0101., and the calls which may
be made 3,408,2851.

The amount expended, and upon which dividend and
interest are charged to revenue, is stated to he
25,457,8081., and the entire expenditure to 30th June
last to 28,692,566/.

' The debenture debt is stated at 9,922,1811. Of this
the sum of 4,174,478/. 10s. 21. has been applied in pay-
ment of calls in, and raised specially for the use of,
subsidiary lines connected with the company, and re-
presented by the capital of the respective undertakings;
leaving a balance of 5,747,702/. 10s. 2d. appertaining to
expenditure on main line and branches.
The expenditure in respect of capital account has for
the half-year been 191,9491., under the head of " stock
in hand and works, including stations, tunnels, bridges,
permanent way, wharfs, warehouses, Parliamentary,
legal, and all incidental charges." The following are
the details of this item of expenditure:—