The Sun. — 1850-09-26 (London, England)

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTAIENTS.--ADMIRALTY, WEDNESDAY.  Surgeons—Edward Davies, M.D. (1841), to the Hecate steam-sloop, at Portsmouth ; Dr. John Coulter (1834), additional, to the flag-ship at Devonport for the Bellorophon. Assistant- Surgeons—E. W. Pritchard (1846), to the llecate ; Patrick Stevin (1841), of the Thetis, 38, to the flag-ship at Devonport for the B2lleropton ; W. Lawrence, additional, to the Portland, 50, at Devonport, flag-ship for the Pacific. Sir F. Baring, Bart., is expected back at the Admiralty today from Balmoral, where the Right lion. Baronet has been attending a meeting of the Privy Council. Rear-Admiral Dundee, C. 13 , retures to the Adeairaltyitc-day. The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., has left the Admiralty for the Continent. Albatros, 12, Acting-Commander Elliot, will be paid off at hetham on Saturday. Benetta, 3, brigantine, Commander Forbes, will Le paid off at Chatham on Monday or Tuesday. She has arrived there from Portsmouth. It is generally expected that her commander will be promoted. His services, it is generally admitted, richly demand this reward at the hands of the Board of Admiralty. G:adiator, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Adams, captured 1e tiest prize on th coast of Africa on the 25th of May. See was an Atn,,rican clipper of 200 tons. On the 24.11 of June the captured another slaver of 180 tons, when she was taken possession of by Mr. Kiddie, the second master; she was named the Juliana, and proving leaky she was burned at Quitah. Part of her crew belonged to the vessel that murdered young Palmer, the midshipman of the Wasp. Jackal, steam-tender to the Gladiator, joined the latter ship off \Vhyhda, on the 23d of June, when her commanding officer, Lieut. Lambard, exchanged with Lieut. Powell, the former becoming first-lieutenant of the steatn•frigate. Portland, 50, Captain Chub, was taken out of No. 5 dock at Devonport, on Monday morning, and placed on board the sheer hulk, and had her masts and bowsprit put in. Plymouth yacht, having had her bottom coppered, has been taken out-of No. 2 dock. PORT3MOUTH, WEDNESD .—The Fairy royal yacht, .Muster-Commander D. N. Welch, went out of harbour at eleven A.M., to try her machinery, &c. The officers of the Dutch frigate Prin Von Orange have been on board and inspected her. The Fox, 42, Captain Lambert, has proved herself a superior sailer, having beaten the Thetis, 36, Captain Kuper, both in working to windward and running in a nine-knot breeze ; also the Bonetta brigantine, close hauled. The Thetis was eight miles in advance at starting, having vveighed two hours before the Fox on Sunay last, but the latter got up with, passed her, and went into Plymouth Sound at two r M. on Monday, the Thetis eight or nine miles astern of her. This was a result by no means expected on board either ship. The Fox has White's bow. The Phaeton, 50, has achieved another triumph over her competitors in the squadron of evolution, as we learn by letters from Lisbon to the 19th inst. After a fortnight's cruise under the terms mentioned in Commodore Martin's memorandum,* which placed the Arethusa and Leander so much on the vantage ground, she has beaten them on every point more than ever. Whether or not she tried harder to succeed under such circumstances, or whether she sailed better than usual, our correspondent cannot say, but the result was unprecedented. The Phaeton is truly a wonderful ship. We think the squadron has been tried enough off Lisbon during the past six months. It it is needful to test them further, we should suggest a little romlli weather work in the channel.  * Copy 0-i a memorandum from Commodore W. F, Martin, to Captain Symonds, of the Arethusa, and CapWin llacres, of the Leander:— " Her Majesty's ship Prince Regent, "Lisbon, 26th August, 1850. "