The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-08 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS.

Mates—W. G. Herbeßo7l3;iand ; C. H. Young, of the
Agincourt ; W. C. Forsyth, of the Volcano ; R. H. Mou-
bray, of the Hazard ; and F. D. Graham, to the rank of
Lieutenant.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—F. Holland, to the Endymion ; W. Crawford,
Lo the Scourge; W. G. Herbert, to the Bittern; 0. Borland,

!o the Nimriid.

Surgeon—A. C. Air, to the Scourge.
Paymaster and Purser—W. Reiland is appointed to the
Heroine ; W. D. Bateman, to the Bittern.
Assistant-Surgeons—J. B H. Collings (confirmed). to the
Cruiser ; W. F. Nooth (acting), to the Scourge; C. S. Les-
ter, to the Victory, for service in Haslar Hospital.
Mate—A. Wilmshurst, to the Queen.
Midshipmen—H. Christian, to the Sydenham ; IL M.
Bingham, to the St: Vincent.
Naval Cadets—T. G. Baillie, to the Scourge ; Messrs. Law
and North, to the Crocodile.
Clerks in Charge— Bowman, to the Raven, vice Phil-
lips. to the Harpy.
THE TERRIBLE, STEAM-FRIGATE.—The naval community
will be gratified to hear that the first and largest man-of-war
steam vessel in the world, the Terrible, of 1,800 tons burthen
and 800-horse power, at Woolwich, and designed by Mr.
Lang, is at length ordered to be commissioned. Captain
William Ramsay (1838) has been appointed to command
the Terrible. This gallant officer has seen a little sharp
service, and has had vane experience in steam-vessels. He
was made a lieutenant in 1821, and in that rank served on
board the Albion in the battle of Navarino. Subsequently,
he commanded the celebrated slaver the Black Joke, which
vessel, after her capture, was made a tender on the coast of
Africa. In the Black Joke he engaged a Spanish pirate
slaver of double her force, and captured her after a desperate
conflict, in which he was wounded. For this act• of gallantry
he was promoted to the rank of commander in Is3l. He
was appointed to the Dee steam-vessel is 1834, and com-
manded her for three years on the North American and West
Indian station.
CHATHAM, DEC. s.—On Monday last, the Ist inst., the
Right Hon. H. T. Corry, one of the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, attended by Mr. Fitzroy and Captain Brand-
reth, R.E., Director-General of Works, made an inspection of
the improvements and enlargement of the Royal Dockyard,
now going on under the management of the contractors,
Messrs. George Baker and Son; after which they examined
the advanced ships fitting in dock ; they then proceeded on
board the Retribution steam-frigate, lying at Folly Point, and
thence left for Sheerness Dockyard.
The Fortitude coal depot was put oat of dock on the Ist
inst., and the Scout, 16 guns, taken in, to be repaired and
fitted for sea, and the shipwrights on this latter vessel are
employed by task and job work, with unlimited earnings, for
the purpose of expediting her fitting.
The Cumberland, 70 guns. fitting for an advanced ship, is
nearly completed, and will be put out of dock the ensuing
spring tides. It is reported that she will be stationed off Gil-
lingham as a receiving-ship for seamen, and that the Poictiers
will be done away with.
The Eurotas, 42 guns, will be taken into dock on the Cum-
berland going out. She has already a number of hired ship-
wrights on her, and those that were employed on the Ara-
tude have been transferred to this vessel, which is to be fitted
for a steam guard-ship.
The Janus steam-sloop is still in the hands of a number of
workman, making alterations and putting new fittings, and
the engineers are busily employed in effecting such altera-
tions in her machinery as are considered necessary. It is,
however, uncertain when she will be completed to make
another trial.

The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Stephen Lushing-
ton, returned on Tuesday, the 2d inst., to her former moor-
ings at Chatham-reach, to undergo very considerable altera-
tions in her coal-bunkers, which are to be removed further
aft, for the purpose of bringing her down more by the stern,
as she is down by the head about nine inches, and when
propelled by her powerful engines her head is down-
wards nearly 20 inches. In this state she could not proceed
to sea. Her cabins, by this alteration, will have to be re-
moved and refitted, and some repairs are required to be made
in her machinery; she will therefore it is expected, be de-
tained in hai bout for about six weeks.
The Aid, .Smallnian master, arrived on the 4th inst., with
water-tanks for the Cumberland.
The Adventure naval transport, Mills master, will sail
about the 19th inst., with stores, for Portsmouth.
SHEERNESS, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Alarm, 26, Captain
Charles Colville Frankland, went out of harbour to the Little
Nore on Saturday, where she took in her powder, and was
afterwards visited by the Commander-in. Chief, who, it is
rumoured, found her decks io lumbered up with stores and
piovisions, of which she has five months' allowance on board,
that he would not permit her to go to sea. He went on board
again yesterday afternoon, and some arrangement having been
come so, she at last got under weigh this morning, and pro-
ceeded to Portsmouth, with a fresh breeze from the north-
west. She has a party of marines as supernumeraries on
board, and the kroomen recently paid off from the Eclair
embarked yesterday afternoon.
The Mercury and Emerald tenders, having brought sea-
men' for the Bittern and the marines of the Chatham divi-
sion paid off from the Thalia, sailed on their return to Ports-
mouth on Monday. _ _ . .

The Ocean, 80, Captain Richard Arthur, C. 8., having
completed her refit, was discharged from the basin on Tues-
day, aad has taken up new moorings close to the dockyard.
The Bitter n, 16, Commander Thomas Hope, progresses
with her fittings for sea in the basin. A sergeant's party of
marines joined from Chatham on Friday.
The Dwarf, steam I.lcler, Lieutenant Edward B. Proctor,
sailed for Woolwich yesterday, to be paid off; it is under-
stood that she will be recommissioned by a second master,
and return to this station. The Fearless steamer has arrived
from Woolwich, in the meantime, to take her place.
The Viper, 6, was discharged from dock on Tuesday, and
had her mast and bowsprit put in to-day.
The Electra, 18, was hauled into the dock vacated by her
yesterday, to be fitted for immediate commission.
The St. Lawrence, 46, having had Fullerton's manccuverer
removed, has been discharged from the basin, and the
Euryalus has been hauled in to be fitted as a coal dep6t.
The Retribution, steam-frigate, Captain Lushington, has
not yet arrived here from Chatham.
The Snake, 16, and Ferret, 10, are being brought forward
for commission with all dispatch.
In the Basin—Brilliant, 20, Havannah, 20, Bittern, 16,
Viper, 6, and Sampson steam-frigate.
In Harbour—Trafalgar,l2o flab-ship), Ocean, (ordinary
guard-ship), Raven, 3, and Wildfire and Fearless steamers.