The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

THE ACTIVE LIST OF LIEUTENANTS.

The lieutenants on the active list now amount to
1.221, or 21 more than the number to which it is to be
reduced. If, however, the, promotions to commanders or
reserved half-pay were completed, the lieutenants' list
would be reduced to under 1,200.

THE PAYMASTERS AND PURSERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY.
The Admiralty have IA length filled up the seniority
list of the paymasters and pursers to its established
number, 30. It ,had been kept open for some time, in
consequence of the nex,t in seniority for the retirenent,
Mr. Thorn, hiving an appeintatent on board the Al-
bion, 90 ; and now, instead of compelling Mr. Thorn,
who has been a purser for mere than half a century, and
has had the most lucrative ships is _the navy, to retire,
the. Admiralty have coutirmd him on the active list,
still enabling hint to make money, and have, placed on
the:retired list :officer junior. to Mr. Thorn,--Edward
O'Maley (1802),
Preparations have commenepd, in• the parade-ground
of the dockyard for- the.purpOse of testing the strength
of the various anchors now irc use in„the naval service.
Mr. J. Aylen, master attendant, some time since
submitted to the B:ard of Admiralty the model
of an anchor of his own invention, which, on
being tested with the present Admiralty anchor,
was shown to possess au advantage as regards its
holding qualities of 50 per cent. over the latter. Mr.
Aylen has, in obedience to instructions, since made an
anchor of scrap iron, weighing 32 cwt., which will be
planed in competition with others on the trial which, ac-
cording to present arrangements, is to take place early
in June, ancjer the_superintendenee of various naval
officers of the port, and others connected with our mer-
cantile marine. Mr. Aylen't anchor is an improvement
on the Adnai6lty one, diff.rin front it only as regarda
th earY of the palm,' the bsult thereof being shaped
the
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country, and numerous visitors matt themselves of the

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'eppor :mit). daily to inspect this .4es,:el. The workmen
con:monad taking dolvn thl coffer dam on Friday after-
n-op, in order that . the ways which have already lx..,en
laid the entire length of the vessel may be carried into
the river, and over which ithe will be launched. The
rudder has been hung at her stern, end the whole of her
buttore ai.cl sides caulked, and the latter painted. Tho
decks .11,AT been es,yed with marine glue, and are strongly
11u' togt-tber. and ult.-octet:her the vessel is constructed en
• superior manner and of the best materials.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Master Commander H.
W. Alien, left, the river this Morning for Portsmouth.
for the purpose of kin!: in. attendance on the heals of
several of the departruelits'ivlab ace about to visit the
harbours and defences on the Coat and Channel Islands.
The Black Eagle steani-veasel, Master-Coniraander J.
Pollak; has been placed under orders to hold herself in
readiness for Thursday next, when it is expected she
will proceed to the other naval ports to be in attendance
on his Graco-the puha
of 156ratuaberland, and other
members of the Board of AdMiralty, who intend paying
their official visits to them dming, the time of the vaca-
tion of Parliament for the Easter holidays.
The following are the iessels of the Royal Navy at
present at Wool ' -
The Fisgard fl;g-ship o?Cernmorlorn Henry Eden,
the Assistance flag-
ship of captain Sir Edward Belcher,
c.a., Commander Of the Artie Squadron, the Resolute,
Captain Kellett, R
C. 8,,
ofittinft for :the Arctic Expedition,
the High:lye: stearn-sioon,
F ,TWTI Matson, fitting for
service in the EnglEla eh
--ahhd; thst Black Eagle steam.
vessel, Msster-Cornmander J. Petley. for "Mmiralty ser-
vice; the Moekoy steam-vessel Second Master Salim-
ger. and the Zephyr steam•vessel for tug service.
In the Docks—The Trident, formerly Mediterranean
steana.packet, ar,d the Wildfire steam-tug, for service at
Sheen: ass.

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Commander Pli.‘Clintock, for seririce in the Arctic re-
gionslll. the Outer Basin—The
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, th, Pioneer. scaitz:-.1, Lieatnpaq7CoM7
-4404,4040-r-Shortrri.(YAM'A, !Or iiiri,l,,tri the ArctiCregions,
rntrenid screw steam-vessel,
the Vivid, Dover Mail steam. patket, Captain Smirliett,
receiving new boilers, the Triton undergoing repairs,
aud the Torch, Lieutenant-0
—olcarnancler Chimmo, fitting
for the surveying service in the South Seas.
In the Inner Basin rho Merlin steam-vessel, for-
th° Dee troop-ship, the
the Lucifer surveying-vessel, awl
the Geyser war-steamer.
fa
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elyn
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pr a-
Anheiap, n packet,

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 3.—The Royal Mail steam-
ship Conway, Captain Sawyer, arrived hero at four P.M.
to•clay, with the usual Mat India mails, in charge of
Lieutenant Lyster, R N., Admiralty agent, and dates as
follows :
aGrhesYgton (Mosquito), Feb. 21; Chagres, Feb. 25;
Crt , Feb. 27; Santa Martha, Feb. 14; Havannab,
Feb. 2; Belize (Honduras), Feb. 22; Nassau (Bahamas),
Feb. 17; Kingston (Jamaica), March 4; Jacmel (Uayti),
Feb.Marchßerbice,
(Domerara), Feb. 27; Port of
Spain (Trinidad), Feb. 27; Tobago, Feb. 26; George-
townGeorgetownJuan (Ba.rbadoes), Feb. 29; Grenada, Feb. 28; Antigua,
March 2; Martinique, March 1; Guadaloupo, March 1;
March 11;
Fay
al,
The Conway also brings mails of the dates sub-
joined, received at Panama by the Pacific Steam Navi-
gation Company's ship Santiago, which vessel had on
freight specie value NBOO,OOO dolls. for transmission to
England:—
Marchl; T"217.
°la' March 2; St. Thomas's,

Valparaiso (Chili), Jan. 26; Coquimbo (Chili), Jan.
27; Huasco (Chili). Jan. 28; Cepiepo (Chili), Jan. 28;
;
Cobija (Bolivia), Jain 30; Iquique (Peru), Jan. 31;
Arica (Peru),. Feb. 1; Islay (Peru), Feb. 2 Piece
(Peru), Feb. 4; Lima (Peru), Feb. 8; Callao (Peru),
Feb. 9; Payte (Peru), Feb. 12; Guayaquil (Ecuador),
Feb. 14; Panama, Feb. 19.
The Conway brings 56 passengers, and on freight
silver, value 1,066,035 dells.; gold, value 305,923 dolls.;
British coin, value 5,500 dolls.; the total value of specie
and bullion being 1,377,458 dolls., or, say, 275,0004
set ruing. The freight list also comprises 202 serape
cochineal. 181 serons indigo, 235 cases cigars, 86 bales
leaf tobacco, and 140 packages general merchandise.
The Conway has come home to undergo a thorough
repair. Her voyage from the Isthmus of Panama has
been a most protracted one, having occupied thirty-
seven days from Chagres, including stoppages. In con-
sequence of having encountered very hard weather after
leaving Carthagena , it was found to be impossible to
reach Sr; Thomas's with the existing stock of fuel, and
a deviation from the direct course to touch at Jamaica
for coals was necessary. From St. Thomas's the
voyage, ihcluding a call at St. Fayal for coals,
has beed accomplished in about twenty-three
days, and the mails have been delivered at Southamp-
ton, as nearly as possible, a fortnight after they were
due. It will be remembered that the Great Western
(likewise sent home in a partially disabled
state) brought the last mails twelve days les-
hind their time. The result of the credo progress
of the Conway is quite sufficient to justify the remarks
which have been recently made, and the sending home
of weak or crippled steamers with the homeward mails
at any time cannot be too strongly reprehended.
The injury and inconvebienen sustained by the mercan-
tile body by these irregularities have been very great,
and the present instance seems imperatively to call fur
some such action on the part of the Lords of the Admi-
ralty as will mark their sense of what must be consi-
dered to be a decided infraction cf their contract by the
Royal Mail Steam Company, and such as will prevent a
recurrence of the evil at any future time.. The Royal
Mail Company are paid liberally by the public Exche-
quer, and their service should be properly performed.
The public has nothing to do with the repairs that it
may be needful to perform to the ships, and if the com-
pany cannot arrange to effect such repairs in the West
Indies, some provision to meet contingencies in the shape
of a spare packet should be provided at the out station.
At any time it would be wrong to entrust the Conway in
her present condition with the task of conveying malls
ticross the Atlantic, but that the month of March should
home cannot readily be understood.
Th
e most important chosen for the time of sending her
nt intelligence brought by this packet
fhraovme b been specially
California,p o
Panama and Central America has been
anticipated via the United States.
Private letters from Savannah state that the weather
w "
warmer and
the previous bad weather. Sugars did not come to mar-
stdatesfrom Jamaica are to the 2d of March.
but
the Continued
crop w
afisnien
arrest, n d a suitable
owing
gto
kseat s afh muchrr
ee el l
latest
t manufacture,
e.
The
The Island Legislature, which wes called together on
the 28th of October, ems
Prorogued by his Excellency
the Governor on the 26th of February, when his Ex-
cellency entered into a lengthy explanation of his reason
fur clisalluwing the Loan Bills, which had again passed
the other two breeches of the Legislature. The reasons
and objection ur
his Excellency were principally
and in substance like by
those urged before, adding that he
had received a diapetch.from the S'cretary of State, ex-
pressing his Lordship's general concurrence in the ob-
jeetiene, and his approval of the course pursued by his
Excellency in withholding his assent. The following
extrticts from the speech will show his Excellency's im-
pression as to the decheing fortunes of the island:—
",Yon have conjointly Placed in m hands, for pre-
senta ytion to her MajeatY, a memorial
which the blame
imputed in it to the policy of her Majesty's Ministers
prevents e from entirely
adopting; but I willingly ad-
mit the force of much that is urged. I believe that the
apprehensions expressed are by no means unfounded,
that rhea planting interest of the colony has a just claim
and I frnkly.avow it to be my
upon the parent state for judicious action and effectual
own feeling and opinion
assistance. In the wonderful times in which we live,
when so mansweeping e
Changes are inevitably forced
upon statesmen, great exertions and sacrifices ought to
be made by so powerful and mighty a state as that of
the United Kingdom to reconcile these changes with
justice, by affording from the resources of the whole
community adequate compensation
which by the substitution of improved for bad institu-
tions may be made to suffer, as to any portion of it
it frequently does, not
so much on account of peculiar crime of its own as
for the previous errors and the fault of the whole, and,
although' that principle was both acknowledged and
general emancipation
from slavery, it is notorious and certain that the relief
of the planting interest has neither been complete nor
noted upon at the time of the
even proportionate to the effort and sacrifice which were
pee, and has been endured
made for the purpose of affording it. Much misery has
parties; and the
drooping and decaying condition of the planting interest
is still the most prominent object in
ibnycomnaineyqueunue6efftenecinilllouagnhdt tilleipleas
the affairs of Ja-
might b 3 afforded with wwiotuhldabde-
maica. This would not be a convenient opportunity for
a general disquisition as to these affairs, nor for a care-
ful statement of my opinion as to the mode in which
relief might most effectually be afforded. But, I am
advancing
vparnoscpinegrity of which I think
if I could, in any
this fine island and
firmly persuaded that it
ssttialiltnemore if this were to be effected
av ad-
vantage both t
greath t o Eanngdl a
lastingn d anel j
oy tJamaica;ote
itsdt
heegcn, degree,
ebbci instrumentaletaapnatbslet
o,
t andile
by measures -which might serve as a basis for that union
of England itwth hish empire an exatuple to be followed
by the whole world."
' ea, e home
The qaeatien.of zscn,. - 6
,delegates to representthe state of the country in England was being egitated,
and subscriptions far the purpose were being raised.
The Assembly had appointed Messrs. Thomson, Girod,
and W. Smith, but afterwards Messrs. Jackson, Franklin,
and Vickara—the latter, a block rnata—were Wed to
the delegation, in consequence of which the three first-
named gentlemen withdrew their names es and servieen.
Mr. Girod had stated through the columns of the
Standard that he and the other two gentlemen would be
quite
williag to associate with any other black man who
possed the necessary qualifications for the important
trust of a delegate, brit that they would not associate
with Mr. Vickers. Public meetings were still being
held throughout the island, and resolutions passed .
de-
scribing the ruinous consequences . of the .
policy of the
British Government towards the colonies la the western
hemisphere. Great hopes are entertained that thislas'n
appeal of the colonists would have some effect in Epee
Ned, and Chet protection, so touch d4ired, would at Jest'
be conceded. ..
Our accounts from British Guiana, to the 27th of
February, allude to the opening of the C 91441404 eCturS