The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-09 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—P. A. feipm- in,tostudy at the Royal Naval

Lieutenants—W. Robson and W. P. Crozier to the Royal
yacht ; J. J. M'Donnell, from the Coast Guard, to command
the Nautilus, vice Robson ; F. Lowe to command the Pluto,
vice Crozier; G. C. Fowler to the Calliope ; P. A. Halkett,
from the Excellent, to the Crocodile ; C. Sullivan, of the
Snake, and Lord Charles W. Butler to the Calliope; R. D.
Fowler to the St. Vincent, vice Cheere, promoted.
Secretaries—J. A. Smith to Admiral Sir John West; J.
Grant (pro tern.) to Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker's office.
Masters—R. B. Graham to the Calliope; W. White to com-
mand the Albion, vice Lowe, to the Pluto; vice Crozier, to
the Victoria and Albert; C. J. Polkinghorne (second) to the
Calliope; F. Wise (second) to the Queen; W. Osmond
(assistant) to the Hecate.
Chaplain—J. A. Llatchard to the Rodney, vice Cooper, to
Hasler Hospital.
Surgeons—J. Symes to the Crocodile ;H. Bakers in charge
of Stratheden, and C. K. Nutt, in charge of Lloyd'a convict
ships. Assistants—E. Walsh from Melville Island, fo the
Penguin packet ; M. Burton to the Crocodile : C. D. Shep-
herd to the Vernon; D. Duigan to the Vernon; F. F.
Morgan and J. Philp to the Victory, for service at Hasler;
W. Ross, and W. H. Cameron to the Caledonia ; F. M'Aree,
C. Roberts, and A. Brown to the Vindictive; J. Campbell to
the Actaeon.
Paymasters and Pursers—R. Parker to the Albatross; T.
Dobbin to the Crocodile; T. Harris to the Calliope.
Mates—E. H. H. D'Aeth to the Royal yacht; C. 0. Weed
to the Queen; T. B. Hanham to the Excellent ; G. A. Balfour
to the Hibernia.
Clerk—G. C. Burney (in charge) to the Alert.
Naval Cadet—G. Goolden to the Canopus.
ROYAL Meanies—Gentlemen Cadets—Win. Pitt Draffen,
Charles Pyne, William James Kinsman, and John Butable, to
be Second Lieutenants. _ _ _

COAST G u;;;;3=APpeinmen ts—Com menders G. S. Dyer,
R. Mann, J. G. Dick, and M. G. Skinner, to be Inspecting
Commanders.

WOOLWICH JULY s.—The Spitfire steam-vessel, Lieut.-
Commander WOOLWICH,
with the officers and crew of the Lizard
steam-vessel, transferred to her, has had her compasses adjusted
by Captain Johnson, and left Greenhithe on Wednesday, ;for
Portsmouth, where she will be paid wages in advance, and is
expected to proceed to the Mediterranean. •
The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander Petley,
left Woolwich on Saturday, for Portsmouth, for the purpose of
attending on the experimental squadron.
'I he Monkey steam-vessel, Second Master W. Bryant, left
Woolwich on Monday, for Brighton.
The Swallow steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich, on Tuesday,
from Dover, and the crew left again on Thursday, for the latter
port, in the Myrtle, to take the Swallow's place.
The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Abraham
Parks, is to be stationed on the coast of Scotland, to protect
the fisheries. Assistant-surgeon William Buie has been ap-
pointed to the Cuckoo.

The Equestrian, hired convict ship, left her moorings oppo-
site the Royal Arsenal yesterday, and was towed down the
river, and will proceed direct for New South Wales. The con-
vict guard was selected, of sufficient strength, from the 11th
Regiment, and the detachment of Captain Turner's company
of the Royal Artillery did not go on board. It is expected the
whole of the company, with the addition of a collar maker,
shoeing smith, and wheeler, will proceed in a vessel expected
down the river next week direct for New Zealand, where the
company will be stationed.
CHATHAM, JULY s.—The Batt lighter' sailed on the 3d
inst. for Woolwich.

The Rover, 16 guns, in dock. A cumber of hands have
again been put i n this vessel to complete her repairs.
The Janus steam-sloop--The engineers have taken to pieces
the whole of tins machinery of this vessel, and workmen are
now engaged making considerable alterations in the formation
of some parts of the works; but it remains to be seen whether
they will be attended with the desired success.
The Bull Dog steam-frigate—Some additional gangs of
shipwrights have, during the week, been put on this vessel, to
complete her for launching. She will be ready in the course of
a week to receive the painters.
Military Prisoners,—lt having been officially intimated by
the Secretary-at- War, that the district military prison at Fort
Clarence was ready for the reception of prisoners on the Ist
instant, the Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to direst
that, on and after that date, all prisoners sentenced by Courts-
martial in this garrison to periods of imprisonment above thirty
days, will be committed to Fort Clarence; accordingly, it is
left to the decision of commanding officers of corps to confine
prisoners in the new barrack cells. If under sentence for any
period beyond that, then the prisoners are to he committed to
the district prison at Fort Clarence. Since the above prison
has been opened, several prisoners have arrived from different
districts to undergo terms of their sentence.
War-office Circular—The following circular was received at
this garrison on the 4th instant, relating to the punishment of

" The 46th clause of the Mutiny Act has authorised com-
manding officers to order that a soldier guilty of an offence
which such commanding officer may not think necessary to
bring before a Court-martial, shall be imprisoned for any
period not exceeding seven days, either with or without hard
labour, or in solitary confinement, and has further conferred
upon commanding officers the power which they did not pre-
viously possess, of ordering that a soldier so imprisoned by their
authority shall forfeit his pay for the days of such imprison-
ment ; the soldier having his right of appeal to a Court-martial
against such order.

" It has been brought to my notice that officers command.
ing regiments have interpreted the words of the Act as convey-
ing to them a discretion to award imprisonment either with or
without forfeiture of pay.
" It was the intention, in proposing the clause, to confer the
power of awarding imprisonment carrying with it the for-
feiture of pay, but not to sanction a discretion, on the part of
commanding officers, to award the imprisonment but remit
the forfeiture of pay.
" The commanding officer has an undisputed discretion to
award punishment for an offence according to the circumstances
of the case.

" If of an aggravated character, he may bring the offender
before a Court-martial. If there are extenuating circum-
stances, he may determine whether anyother, and what punish.
ment, that he has authority to award, may be ',inflicted. He
may order the imprisonment of a soldier for any period from
one to seven days ; but in no case ought a soldier, who has
been punished by imprisonment, to receive, when he comes out
of prison, the accumulated savings of his pay, after paying only
for his actual subsistence.

" By the 30th clause of the Mutiny Act, it is lawful for the
Secretary-at-War to withhold the pay of an officer or soldier
improperly absent from his duty • and, to avoid any future
misconstruction of the intention Of the Act, I am now to ae•
quaint you that whenever a commanding officer shall award
imprisonment, without distinctly ordering, that pay shall be
forfeited. I shall equally feel it my duty to disallow the pay
for every day of absence from duty, as if such imprisonment
had been awarded by the authority of a Court-martial.
" This decision will not affect the authority of the command-
ing officer to allow the pay of a soldier, who shall have ab-
sented himself for any period not exceeding five days, and who
shall have accounted for the same to the satisfaction of his
commanding officer ; but when the commanding officer shall,
by awarding imprisonment, have decided that the soldier was
improperly absent from his corps, and from his duty, the pay
for such day of absence must be forfeited.
" You will be pleased to direct that, from the date of the
receipt of this letter, no charge shall be made for the pay of a
soldier imprisoned as punishmen"t.
SIDNEY HERBERT."
The above circular has. been forwarded to every regiment
and depot in her Majesty's service.

HER MAJESTY'S NEW STATE YACIIT.—This state
yacht, the Fairy, left the East India Docks on Monday morning,
where she has been fitted out, and proceeded down the river on
her way to Portsmouth, so as to ccnvey her Majesty, Prince
Albert, and their Belgian Majesties, out to Spithead and into the
Channel, to witness the sailing of the experimental squadron now
lying off that port. The working of the propeller against the tide
fully bore out all expectation, the average speed being about 15i
miles per hour. On reaching Greenhithe she was brought to, in
order to have her compasses and chronometers arranged, and then
resumed her course to Portsmouth.

MORE STEAM-VESSELS UPON THE RlVER.—Thir-
teen steam vessels arc now in course of building by Messrs. Ditch-
burn and Mare) who built the Fairy for her Majesty, and the
engines and machinery are being prepared for them by Messrs.
Penn and Son, of Greenwich. They arc intended to run between
London-bridge and Kew, and are to be called Citizens. The first
three, Citizens A, 13, and C, have been recently launched, and one
of them is to run upon an experimental trip this afternoon. The
cost of the new boats is 30,000/.
UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.—OXFORD, JULY 4.
In the convocation to be holden to-morrow, at ten o'clock, a
letter from the Chancellor respecting his notnii:ation of a Vice.
Chancellor will be read to the house.—P. B. SYMONs, Vico.
Chancellor.
A MAN SHOT AT A PIGEON MATCH.—On Thurs-
day James Holloway, a young man, 23 years of age, who was in
the outer bounds of the pigeon ground at the Red-house, Battersea,
was severely wounded by being shot by a person who was shooting
at the strayed birds.