The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-08 00:00:00

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and Mdlle. de Flahault, the Earl of Powis, the Earl of
Hardwicke, the Earl De is Warr and Lady Arabella
West, Lady Clementina Villiers, Lady Ruthvon, Lady
Charlotte Egarton, Lord and Lady Radstock and the
Hon. Misses Waldegreve, Lady Shelley, Lord • Red;s-
dalf, Lord and Lady William Powlett, Lady Caroline
Murray, Lady Georgiana Cathcart and the Masses
Cathcart, Viscount and Viscountess Colchester and. Lady
Colford, Lady Emily Drummond and Mite Drummond,
Lady Mary Vynor and Miss Mary Vynor, Viscountess
Mahon and the Hon. Miss Curzon, Viscountess Enfield,
nd the,Hon. Miss 13yng, Viscount Somerton, M:'. Baron
Parke-rind Mis's Parke, Lord and Lady Sondes and the
Hon. Mdsses Mills, Lady Frederick Bentinek, Lady De
Dunstanville, Lord and Lady Colborne, Viscount Ma-
hon, Lord and Lady Sheffield, Lord Colville, Lady Bel-
lingham Graham and Miss Graham, Lord Alexander
Lennox, Lady Brougham, Lord and Larly Foley, and
the Hon.. Miss Foley, Lord Henry Lennox • Sir Alex-
ander Woodford, Lady and Miss Woodford; the At-
torneyaGeneral and Lady Thesiger, - Sir Baldwin
Walker and Lady Walker, Sir Edwin Hart, Lady Mary
and Mr. Egerton, Right Hon. Sir George and Lady
Grey, Sir Rowland and Lady Catherine Boyle, Sir
Thomas Harbert, Sir Walter Riddel, Viscount ,Strang-
`ford, Sir Philip and Lady Grey Egerton, Sir 4alph and
Lady Howard, Lady Harriet and Mr. Currie and Mist
Currie, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. James Stuart Wortley, Sir
Charles Hotbam, Sir Richard Mayneabir Charles Le-
mond, Sir John and Lady Johnston and the Misses
Johnston, Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring, Mr.
and Lady: Mary Stanley and the Misses Stanley; Sir
Jas. Mackenzie, Sir Jas. and Lady Weir Hogg, and the
Misses Hogg, the Very Rev. Dean of Norwich and Mr.
Fallon, Mr. William Nelson, Mr. Lyons, Mr. William
' Rose, Mr. Arthur Russell, Mr. Humphrey, Mr. and
Mrs. Cardwell, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Vernon, Captain
Palham, Mr, Sanderson, Mr. Liddle, Mr. Hallam, Cap- '
tain Drummond, Mr. Henry Liddle, Mr. and Mrs.
Percy and Miss Percy, Mr. Burdon, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce,
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Jocelyn Percy and Miss Percy, and
Miss Lyttleton, Mr.'and Mrs. Miles Gasket!, Mr. Repton,
Captain Milnes and Mrs. Milnes, Admiral Bowles, Mr.
Beaumont, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baring, Mr. Burton,
Captain Hamilton, Mr. and Miss Sulivan, Mr. and Miss
Neville, Mr. and Mrs. Cornewall Leigh, &c.

VISCOUNTESS PAL'AEItSTON'S ASSEMBLY.
On Saturday evening Viscountess Palmerston had an
assembly at her Ladyship's mansion, Carlton-gardens. It
was numerously and brilliantly attended by the members
of the corps diploniatique and most of the aristocracy and
beau monde.

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filleg'ipointmen of aide-decamp to the Queen,
app7)oitettrent superintsndent of packets at Southamp-
lon;Y•everte-to the patronage of the First Lord of the
Admiralty.
PROVISIONS FOR SIR E. BELCHER'S EXPEDITION.—
The provisions, such as pemicen, corn beef, bacon, &c.,
to be supplied to the new Arctic searching squadron,
will, no doubt, be of verrosukter6r quality, it •is now
in course of preparation, under the superintendence of
Captain Sir E. Parry and Mr. Davis, of the Clarence
victualling yard. The meet purchased for the purpose
consists of the very primest quality, and the best parts.
MALTA, FEB. 27.—The Superb loft this port on Sa-
turday last for:England, to be paideoff, and the Phaeton
on Sunday for Corfu, to be stationed there vice the Inde-
fatigable, ordered to the Channel.
Samuel Mamas, of the Albion, has been tried by a
general court-martial for causing the death of John Fur- •
neaux by knocking him down from the maintop on the
31st of January. He was found guilty, and sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.
The officers of the watch of the Trafalgar and Albion
have been reprimanded by a ccurt of inquiry, formed by
eßear- Admiral Harvey and Captain Purcell, for their
negligence in running their respective :lips aboard of
each other. -
The Medina, with the homeward mails for India, has
arrived during the night. The Ardent gees on at 10
A.M. to-day, but as yet we have no post delivery.
The English mail, per Medina, reached Alexandria in
9i daye—the quickest arrival on" record by Marseilles.
anodnlo her
st an ordinary sea-
g
m She brings up the mails of 'the Cairo, disabled at
shatene-
Alex-
andria, havi':g beenenshore.
cotain (Daniellnteredvery heavy weather,
J. Scurr) overboard on Monday last, who
sank immediately. The life buoy was cut away and lost,
the first cutter lowered and lost (crew saved with diffi-
culty). On Wednesday, the 25th, during the gale, Me-
The
foretopmast went just !bove the cap.
The damage to the ships of war during the late gale
' not cost the Government much less than 20,000/.
sterling.
The gravest of the items of damage are—Albion, rud-
der condemned ; Bellerophon, foremast rotten ; Trafelee _
gar, rudder much injured; Medics., fore eopmast gone;
zit ausa, paddle-box washed away; and other damage
not precisely known ; Vengeance, lost a gun overboard
and another run through her port.
On the 3d proximo the officers of the, garrison will
give a farewell dinner to Admiral Sir William Parker
and Lieutenant-General Ellice. The gentlemen of the
navy, however, are annoyed at not being allowed to join.
Were they permitted to do so, the number would be so
great that no room in Malta could be found large enough
to contain them.
SHEERNESS, MARCH 6.—Her Majesty's ship Achille,
76, has been taken into the fitting basin to be over-
hauled, and brought forvrard as an advanced ship.
Her Majesty's ship Ganges. 84. was removed on Fri-
day from the basin into the dry dock lately occupied by
the screw steam- frigate Horatio, 24. Her copper is to
be stripped, her bottom examined and caulked. She is
ordered to be got ready as en advanced ship. Her sail-
ing qualities during her last commission are spoken of
in a most favourable manner, and as being superior to
those of many of the two-deckers in the Mediterranean
crisdron. It is expected she will hoist the pendant soon
after ber detects are made good.
Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Horatio, 24, Captain
'the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, has sent up her topgallant-
masts, and is all ataunt in the basin. The windlass in-
terfering with the working of some of her guns, a cap-
stan is to be placed in its stead, which will keep her
some little time longer under the hands of the dockyard.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Amphion, 34, will be
taken into dock when the repairs of the Cylops are
effected, to be put into a state ready for service if re-
quired.
Her Majesty's steamer Lizard, tender to flag-ship, Mr.
G. Brockman master, left port this morning for Chatham,
on dockyard service. She returned in the afternoon.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, the Royal family, and the Court, embarked in
the royal yacht Fairy yesterday at five minutes to 1 P.M.
for conveyance to Osborne. The special royal train
which conveyed the Court to Gosport was in charge of
Mr. Cornelius Stovin, the manager of the South-Western
Railway, on alighting from which her Majesty was re-
ceived by Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., Com-
mander-in-Chief; :Lieutenant-General d'Aguilar, Acting
Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth; Rear-Admiral
Prescott, C. 8., Superintendent of the dockyard; Captain
Sir Edward Parry, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Cla-
rence-yard; Colonel Menzies, Commander of the
division of Royal Marines, and Aide-de-Camp to the
Queen; Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzslarence, G.C.H.,
Aide-de-Camp. The Port-Admiral was attended by
Flag-Lieutenant Pasley, the Lieutenant-Governor by
Aide-de-Camp d'Aguilar and the Brigade and Town-
Majors Purves and Maitland, and the Admiral-Superin-
tendent by Fleg-Lieutenant Aplin. The guard of
honour was of the Royal Marines, under the command
of Lieut.-Colonel Willer, and officered by Captain John
T. Aslett, First-Lieut. Jolliffe, and Second-Lieut. Gill.
Tee band and colours of the division were attached.
The usual salutes and ceremonies were observed, and
about one o'clock the Fairy left the harbour, followed
by the tender Elfin, Mr. Alfred Ballistou Acting-Master,
for Osborne, where it is understeod the Queen end Court
will remain until Saturday week.
The Arrogant, 46, screw, Captain Robinson, arrived
at Spithead yesterday aftereece from the West India -
"Stititdif. Having left since the wail packet her colonial
news hes been anticipated. Sho came through the
Needles' passage yesterday, and on approaching Cowes
her Majesty, on the deck of the Fairy, sighted her, and
the royal yacht was directed towards the frigate. On
seeing the royal standard Captain Robinson fired a sa-
lute of 21 guns, and on both vessels closing the officers
and ship's company of the Arrogant manned her bul-
warks and rigging, end gave three hearty cheers,
and sent up topgallant masts in first-rate style.
She left Grey-town on the 21st of January, where
she had been to exchange compliments with the
American Commodore Parker in the Saranac steam-
frigate. The Calypso, 20, and Express, 6. were at Grey-
town when the Arrogant left, as was the American sloop
Albany. Commodore Parker, to show the re-establish-
ment of good feeling with the English, was to sail the
day after the Arrogant for Port Royal," to pay his re-
spects to Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, C.B. (who,
;with the Cumberland, 70, and two steamers, the De-
vastation and Inflexible, we have since hoard was at Ha-
vannah on the 14th ult.). The Sappho, 12, Commander
Cochrane, was cruizing off Jamaica, where the Inflexible
steam sloop had refitted. The Bermuda schooner had
just returned from the north side of the island, and was
about to sail for the coast of Cuba. The Rosemead
steam-sloop was conveying solders to Barbadoer; the
Alarm, 26, and Persian, 16, were on the windward sta-
tion. Leaving-Port Royal on the 3d of February, the
Arrogant worked up -between- St. Domingo and Cuba,
steaming
through the Crooked Island passage, which she
cleared on the Bth. On the sth inst., about twenty
miles east of the Land 'e-end, she spoke the Windsor, 56
days from the Cape of Good Hope, with the mail on
board, but she did not communinete anything. The Arro-
gant reports the cholera again prevalent in the northern
parts of Jamaica; but Poet nUy 41 was eefrom it,
hogilleelloinltihOheria.dn:bsyseiltapsntltaa;et:drnga(-towtr:
and on the w
Mr. oak, surgeon,
eourts-martial had been held on M D e •
bottom toe
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tiaenxdthMle.r. G.
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the list, and the assistant-surgeon
dismissed the
service. The offences alleged were e
Lieutenant Kynaston, of
the
fla runkc•nness. First
mend of the Devastation.e followingbuce !vas still in corn-
officers came
home passengers in the Arro ant •
man of the Alarm; Mr. johf) Earl, midshipe
Mr. Rowe, clerk; Mr, Me stone, from the Hospital;
clerk. Mr. Edward Hardin ssune, and Mr. Ibbetson,
ship, had been appointed ge, senior mate of the flag-
actieg-lieutenant of the Ex-
press. The Arrogant steamed up from the Land's-end
twenty-nine hours. She has brought
home from the squadron stores between
9,0001 b. and 10 00Ulb at Jamaica „
' - •01 Goldner's " preserved meats
condemned.
It is stated that the Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, has
been ordered to call at Lisbon or
her way to Spithead,
from Malta, to bring to England all the men of Commo-
dore Martin's squadron left behind at Lisbon, from
whieh it is gathered a British squadron will not return
to the Tegus for
some time.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 7.—Port-Admiral Sir John
Ornmanney, after a week's absence, returned from London
yesterday, and hoisted his flag on board the Impreg-
nable, in Hamoaze.
Her Majesty's steanesloop Vesuvius, Captain Bar-
nard, returned on Sunday from a cruise in the mouth of
the Channel. Having had defects made good, her crew
were paid wages on Friday, and Mustered by Commo-
dore Seymour. She appointed to sail to-morrow for
Queenstown.
The masts are to be taken out of the frigate Dublin,
and she is to be docked preparatory for commission.
The steam-ship Vulture is ordered to bo commis-
sioned.
Masts, yards, sails, rigging, and stores for 13 sail of
the line are ordered to be kept separate.
The iron merchant barque Loharee, Captain Watt,
with rice and a general cargo for Antwerp, put into the
Sound yesterday, having
tho day previous, when in
stays, carried away her wheel chains, wheel, and stan-
chions. She left Point de Gallo on the 16th of October,
and in fifty-eight days made the Cape of Good Hope,
where she remained a week. On the 24th ult. spoke
the schooner Elizabeth and Ann, from St. Michael's. for
London. The Loharee brings passengers, Captain
Kellar, of the barque Elizabeth Brown, lost in Torres
Straits on the 28th of July last ; and Captain Waters,
of the brig Urasie, of Leith, lost at Port Natal on the
26th of August.
Upwards of 1,000 persons sailed from this port last
week for the Australian and neighbouring colonies. The
Maria Somes, for Moreton-bay; the London, for Port
Philip; and the Standard, for Adelaide, Government
emigrant ship, took moretha
Fortitude,
700 adults; and there
were four private ships—the with GO needle-
women, for Port Philip; he Da. Gordon, for Ade-
rs Now in
Laidd; see two othe . tee eound, the Fairlie,
• h convicts for Hobart-town; the R,,kv.lGoveri
wit iment
for Swan River; emigrant-shiP, • anti the Sylph, for
llobart-tov,n,
Ic epparquenco of a shipmasters' memorial from the
svea 'having been presented by C . -
apetin Murphy to the
Board of Trade, complaining that the power of grant-
ing the highest class of certificates is withheld from
"
• Plymouth, the Board has stated
that the whole sub-
ject
of examination IS now under
consideration;"
from which it is supposed that
entie
alterations
will shortly be Marie • extensive
this department of the
mercantile marine. re
eereat fears are entertained
among the owners and masters of merchant vessels
ef small tonnage lest the regulations for lights
now under the consideration of a joint committee
from the Admiralty and the Board of Trade should be
so constructed as to become burdensome and oppressive
on them. The maintenance of two or three lights on
board large ships would be a subject of no great con-
sideration where the vessel is valuable and the crew
numerous. Red, green, blue, and white lights have