The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

TIIE MEGERA AND TEE RIFLES.--The Sampson
brought the news of the arrival of the Megmra, screw
steam-frigate, Master Commander Barlow, with the 60th
Rifles, at Madeira, all well on board. It is not sur-
prising from the heavy gales that set in on her departure
from Plymouth, January 6, that she had a long and
boisterous passage; but the good ship gallantly wea-
thered the gale, and left Madeira January 29 for the
awnhdo lhe
Cape, intending to touch at Sierra Leone for coals.
Lajournal,i e
This intelligence respecting the Megmea will doubtless
allay the anxiety raised in the public mind by the
misrepresentationsnnnfirmin77 as it does, the character of
the a certain Rear-Admiral
the Megzera given in the House of Commons last week
by the new senior naval Lord of the Admiralty._
Herald.

COMMODORE MARTIN'S SQUADRON FOR
CORK.
When the alarming rumours were set afloat to the
effect that the Mediterranean fleet had been ordered to
the Channel, and the Lisbon squadron had been recalled,
we stated that there was no truth in the first report,
but that it was likely that Commodore Martin, who in-
tended to leave Lisbon about the 11th of January, to test
the railing qualities of the ships, would extend his
cruise so far as Cork.
Our letters from Lisbon now inform us that Commo-
dore Martin, with his flag-ship Prince Regent, 90, Capt.
Harris; Hogue. 60, screw-ship, Captain M'Dougall;
Leander, 50, Captain Dacres ; Arethusa, 50, Captain
Symonds; 'and Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain
E. P. Halsted, left Lisbon on the 4th instant, on their
cruise, and our Devouport correspondent announces the
arrival in Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon of the
Arethusa.

The Arethusa parted company with the Commodore
on the Bth instant, who, with the remainder of the
squadron, proceeded to Cork, to refit ; the defects of
the Arethusa being considered such as to require her
being sent to Devonport. She had several cases of
small. pox and secondary fever, the sufferers from which
hare, by directions of the admiral, been sent to tne Naval
Hospital. She also left many of her crew in the hospital
at Lisbon. It is not improbable that the crow of this ship
may, for a time at least, be compelled to be turned over
to the bulks, that her holds and the lower portions of
her may be thoroughly cleansed and ventilated. It is
not always that ships, the crews of which are the most
expert in handling sails, and whose decks have a snowy
whitenese, are beneath the surface in corresponding
order; nor is this always made known until some lurking
disease proves a tell-tale.
The Dragoon, 6, steam,frigate, Captain If. W. Gif-
fard, from Gibraltar, arrived at Lisbon on the 7tb, to
join the squadron, having been detached from the Medi-
terranean station. She and the Sampson, 6 steam-fri-
gate, Captain Jones, remained at Lisbon.
Tho Archer, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Strange,
was also expected at Lisbon from the coast of Africa.
The Fury, 6, steam-
'l°oP, Commander Tatham, had
arrived at Lisbon, and left on the 6th for Gibraltar, and
the Mediterranean.

THE NEW COMM
MEDIATNEDRFRIAtNINE-ECI.IEF OF THE
The Britannia, 120, Caof Rear-Admairal Dundas p
c,tain Goldsmith, with the fig
thusa, off the Lizard, o'n 1.1-1., was spoken by the Arc-
hes flag.
saluted the gallant admiral's flag,
last, when the frigate
The Britannia had to
nesday against a south-we: do ,„
'n Channel from Wed-
We have intelligencefrora
Four o Vailldta. to the 9th inst. A cor-
respondent sayst-6,
returned to port, viz., Aibt_. of five ships cruising have
stone; Superb, 80, Captain , DO, Captain Hope John-
E. Russell; and Trafalgar,Ll2o, Cup
Purcell; Vengeance, 84, Lord
Bellerophon, 78, Captain Captain Grcville. The
The vessels parted company in G. realer, is still at sea.
On the Bth Sir W. Parkery in
the gale of the lst inst.
frigate, Captain Hope, c.B. sent out the Terrible steam-
to look for the ships that
had not entered. It appearseverely. As the gale commenced s
that all have felt the gale
running up to her station, ran fleed the Trafalgar, in
for-
tunately did but little dani„2 - into the Albion, but
jibboom on board, carried away. She left a part of her
and, it is said, sprung her the head of her rudder,
and Bellerophon it foremast• Vengeance has lost
a gun; , la s •
So much for a winter cruise, Aaid, has sprung a mast.
will probably lead to the trial of fatal accident, which
has occurred in the Albion. ,i, a man for manslaughter,
tops seem to have had a sudden" men employed in the
—viz., Ferneaux and Maines. quarrel on the 31st ult.
and fell into the top, and in rising .he former was struck
as yet unaccounted for, to have
seems, by some means
quarter deck. The poor fellow fallen out on to the
when ho died, and was buried at sea on
till the 4th,
ing. Melees is in a dreadful .tats of on the day follow-
ways been most friendly with his 14,5. mind, having al-
Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant
ken, left Malta on the 9th alt., wientli Commander Hos-
brought by the Peninsular and the Indian mail
steamer Bentinck, from Alexandria.
Oriental Company's
the heavy gales the Banshee made th Notwithstanding
seilles in fifty-seven hours. The BeneriPaVage to
the same same eveniug for Southampton with"- was to leave
the bulk of the
mail.
Merlin steam-packet, Lieutenant-Coin
Turner, on her way to Woolwich from Malta,
James
off, was spoken in the Channel by the itlta, to be paid
Oriental Company's steamer Iberia. The
and
coming home under mail. he Merlin is
THE WRECK. OF THE GERM&N,A''
In a recent letter I described the mei, neu',,
of a large barque, and which, as far as ielY wreck
any information (for the fort was in
quarantine could
gather
posed to be the Anna, of lionigsburgh, ), I sup-
this moment nothing really positive is k Although at
have certain facts almost amounting to gown of her, we
unfortunate ship is the Germania, of KoniPar"f that the
ship left Alexandria on thetilth ult. with-asburgh, which
and white wheat. Her figure-head (white)
of red
sheathing had first led to the supposition,) and zinc
blocks and other portions of the shiples but the
strong a resemblance to those of the Gernat bear so
°llia as to
lead to almost certain conviction that sile is the ill-fated
vessel.
Five bodies, a boy and four men, have been washed
i up, but most frightfully mutilated.
The men of the 76th Regiment and Artillery
fort (and of course the officers) behaved very well, at the
everything they could to save the crew; bur, ala ~doing
s • they
seemed to be quite paralysed, and although ,etoo
soldiers rushed into the sea the crew made ne of the exarti
to fling a rope out, which they might easily
rave done,
and thus have been saved had they possessed any portion
of nerve; and it is a lamentable tact that all the
ropes
and tackle usually in the Fort Ricasoli, Were
at the time
in use in Fort St. Angelo to haul up guns, carriages, and
shot, recently sent from England.
So quickly did the vessel go to pieces that Major
Campbell, 76th, commanding at Fort Hicasoli, describes
it most pithily as resembling the
act
of a
cooper who,
having got the hoops off his cask, gives it one blow with
his mallet, and it falls to pieces.
It is indeed a melancholy business, and
the b
pu lic
have not yet recovered from the sensation made on them
by it,
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