The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

NAVY PAY.

The following is a Bill prepared and brought in by
Mr. Secretary Stafford and the Hon. Captain Dun-
combe, to amend an Act of the eleventh year of King
George IV., for amending and consolidating the laws
relating to the pay of the Royal Navy :
" Whereas by the 18th section of the Act 11th George
IV., chap. 20, provisions are made for the payment of
wages and pay of the officers and seamen of the Royal navy,
and by such section it is, among other things, enacted that
there shall always be left six months wages in arrear and
unpaid over and above the wages accruing to the time
during which the ship's books shall have been prepar-
ing and examinieg, but that whenever any ship shall
return home in order to be laid up, all the wages due
for such ship shall be entirely paid off as soon after-
wards as may be: and whereas it is expedient to
repeal the said 18th section of the said Act, and
to make other provisions in lieu of those thereby
enacted, and also other provisions in regard to naval
remittances. Be it, therefore, enacted by the Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty. by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com-
mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
" 1. That from and after the let day of October, 1852,
the 18th section of the Act of 11 th George IV., chap.
20, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
"2. That out of all supplies to be granted by Par-
liament for naval services, the necessary sums of
money shall ba first appropriated, issued, and applied
for the regular and punctual payment of the pay and
wages of the officers and men of the Royal
.Marines; and when any of her Majesty's ships
in commission shall be or arrive at any
port of the United Kingdom, or on the coast thereof, on
or after the Ist day of October, 1852, such officers and
men shall be paid their pay and wages according to such
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of the United Kingdom, shall at any time or times,
or from time to time, order, direct, or appoint,'
with power for such Lord High Admiral or
Commissioners to alter or revoke at any time or times
such regulations and restrictions, or any of them, or
to make the same or any of them applicable, if he or
they think fit, both to sea-going and stationary ships, or
to make some applicable to seagoing ships and others
to stationary ships; and to order, at any time
or times, which ship or ehips shall be deemed sea-
going and which shall be deemed stationary : provided
always, that under such regulations and restrictions there
shall not at any time be due to any of such officers and
men, when borne on the books of any of her Majesty
ships in commission which may be at any such port or on
such coast, more than the gross amount of three calendar
months' pay and wages, except when any such officers
or men shall cease to have full pay or bo discharged from
the service, when all the pay and wages which may be.
due to them or to which they may bo entitled as having
belonged to any ship in commission shall bo entirely
paid to them as soon as may be.
"3. That, notwithstanding anything in the said Act
of the 11th of George IV., chap.
other Act or Acts contained, all naval remittances what-
soever when made by any person belonging to one
Majesty's of
ships not being in
her 2O, or anything in any
any port of the United.
Kingdom or on the coast thereof may extend to and
include all such wages and pay which may be due to the
persons respectively making any such remittances, as
the Lord High Admiral or the said Commissioners may
at any time or timeF, or from time to time, order or
direct, with power for him or them, at any time or times,
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to order or revoke any such order or direction."

DEATH OF A MEMBER. OF THE SWELL MOD,— On
Monday morning, at an early hour, a young man died in the
accident ward of St. Thomas's Hospital, under circumstances
of a very remarkable nature. The deceased was well known
as a member of the swell mob, frequenting the neighbourhood
of the Elephant and Castle. It appears that the deceased got
into conversation on Saturday evening with two gentlemen in
the Walworth-road, and after taking some refreshment with
them, he followed and attempted to rob one of them, who
happened to be a good boxer, and gave the deceased a sound
thrashing, and then let him depart. The deceased was shortly
after taken ill, and the foot passengers carried him into the
shop of Mr. Waring, the chemist, of Walworth-road, where he
appeared to be suffering from the effects of a narcotic. Lie
was accordingly placed in a cab and taken by a police-con-
stable of the Pdivision to the hospital, where he remained in
a state of unconsciousness until five o'clock yesterday morn-
ing,
when he died. A female identified the deceased as James
Smith, and the police have also recognised him as being the
man they were in search of for robbery.
QuEENsrowrr, MAY 25.—Wind E., fresh.—Sld. Eli-
zabeth Bentley, New York.
SHIELDS, MAY 26.--Sld. Sceptre, Nova Scotia; Sove-
reign, Quebec..
CARDIFF, MAY 26.--Wild SE.—Sld. Zuluka Porto
Rico Carleton, Callao,