The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-28 00:00:00

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE

We have great pleasure in announcing that the new
90-gun screw-ship Agamemnon, launched at Wool-
wich a few weeks since, has been so far completed by
the shipwrights' and engineers' departments that she
will be commissioned this week, and be forthwith
fitted out for sea-service, under the command of
Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C 8., late flag-captain
at Devonport. The Agamemnon in commission, we
shall have the following heavy screw-ships ready for
any service :
Agamemnon 9O guns ... 550 horsepower.
Sans Pareil
Blenheim 6O „ ... 450
Ajax 5B „ 450
Hogue
Edinburgh
A respectable fleet, it will be admitted, and approxi-
mating in force more nearly the size and armament of
the French screw ships of the line, which have been
in active employment for some time.
Sir Thomas Maitland, we believe, has never com-
manded a steam-ship, but as flag-captain to his late
relative when commander-in-chief in the East Indies
he commanded the Wellesley, and afterwards, for a
short time, the powerful 50-gun frigate America, and
subsequently was flag-captain to Sir William Gage,
then commander-in-chief at Devonport. The follow-
ing is O'Byrne's notice of this officer :
" Sir Thomas Maitland, born in 1803, is only son of
Hon. Wm. Mordaunt Maitland, a general in the army,
by his first wife, Mary, widow of John Travers, Esq., of
Firgrove, county Cork, and daughter of the Rev.
Richard Orpen, of Killowen. He is grandson of James,
seventh Earl of Lauderdale, a lieutenant-colonel in
the army; and first cousin of Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir
Anthony Maitland, C.B. K.C.M.G. This officer en-
tered the navy September 22, 1816, and was made a
lieutenant, May 16, 1823, into the Euryalus, 42,
Captain Augustus William James Clifford. His next
appointments were, December 20, 1825, and March 1,
1826, to the Superb, 78, Captain Henry Hill, gaard-
ship at Portsmouth, and Ganges, 84, fitting for the
flag of Sir Robert Waller Otway, commander-in-chief in
South America. Obtaining a second promotal commis-
sion, April 30, 1827, be successively assumed command,
Jtine 14, 1832, and April 4, 1835, of the Sparrowhawk,
18, and Tweed, 20. In the former vessel, which he
paid off, May 7, 1833, Captain Maitland brought home
589,405 Mexican dollars and 42 bales of cochineal; in
the Tweed, the command whereof he retained until
posted, Jan. 10, 1837, he served during the civil war on
the north coast of Spain, and was in consequence pre-
sented with the cross of Charles 111. On June 19th in
the year last mentioned we find him nominated captain
of the Wellesley, 72, iu which ship he continued em-
ployed under the flags of Sir Frederick Lewis Mait-
land and Sir Gordon Bremer, until paid off in the
summer of 1842. In 1838 he commanded the seamen
and marinea landed for the purpose of quelling an
insurrection on the coast of Malabar; he participated,
in 1839, in the operations on the coast of Scinde
and in the Persian Gulf; and during the hostilities
in China he obtained mention for his zeal and ala-
crity at the capture of Chusan, in July, 1840, and
for the valuable assistance he afforded Sir Gordon
Bremer at the reduction of Tycocktow, January 7,
1841—was present with her Majesty's plenipotentiary at
a formal meeting which was held with the Chinese
Commissioner on the 26th of the same month—again
acquired the public thanks of Sir G. Bremer for the
cordial aid he afforded him in the actien which preceded
the capture of the Bogue Forts, Feb. 26—had charge of
the Wellesley's boats during the original advance of the
British towards Canton—commanded the first naval
battalion, consisting of eleven officers and 127 of other
ranks, at the storming of the heights in the vicinity of
that ,city during the operations which led to its re-
capture—elicited notice for the admirable manner in
which he placed the Wellesley (within 400 yards of the
principal battery) in the attack upon Amoy, Aug. 26—
and in October of the same year (1841) was further
praised for his skill, zeal, and ability at the reduction of
Chusan and Chinghae. For these services Captain
Maitland was nominated a C.B„ June 29, 1841; and, in
1843, invested with the honour of knighthood.
Commander Robert Hall, recently promoted from
the command of the Hound, 8, will be commander of
the Agamemnon.
The Agamemnon will be taken from Woolwich to
Sheerness, to be fitted for sea.

Lieutenant John E. Parish (1846), late of the
Arrogant, 46, screw frigate, it is reported, will have
the command of the screw schooner Sharpshooter, on
being re-commissioned at Portsmouth.
Commander John Nepean, who was promoted to
that rank on the reserved half-pay list in February
last, died at Plymouth on Friday last.
Lieutenant Lardner Dennys (1812), has not been
promoted to the rank of retired commander, as stated,
but has been appointed to receive the out-pension of
Greenwich Hospital, vice Hills, deceased.
COURT 'MARTIAL AT PORTSMOUTII.....A. court-mar-
tial sat yesterday morning on board the Victory, flag.. '
ship, in Portsmouth Harbour, to try Mr. Frederick
Garton, a boatswain attached to Portsmouth ordinary,
for breaking his leave, having absented himself from
his duty for several days. Rear Admiral Prescott was
president, and the captains of the ships in commission,
with M. Greatbam, Esq., as deputy judge advocate,
formed the court. The prisoner was found guilty,
and sentenced to be dismissed her Majesty's service.
CONVERSION OF ANOTHER SHIP OF THE LINE.—It
has at length been decided that the Hannibal, 90, on
the stocks at Deptford Dockyard, shall be converted
into a screw ship, to have auxiliary machinery of 400
horse power.
ARRIVAL OF THE TERRIBLE STEAM-FRIGATE.—
The Terrible, 21, steam-frigate, Captain James Hope,
C. 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Medi-
terranean. She left Malta oa the 9th instant, arrived
at Gibraltar on the 15th, and sailed again on Mon-
day, the 20th, having had fine weather the whole
time. Admiral Dundas, with the squadron, was
cruising in the vicinity of Malta; there was no man-
of-war in port when the Terrible left, but the Spiteful
steamer went in as she came out. The Terrible left
the Antelope steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Young, at Gibraltar. Lieutenant Harrison, of the
Royal Artillery, has come home in the Terrible, and
Mr. Dent, mate of the Albion, 90, has come home
to pass his college examination. A number of mi-
litary invalids have come home from Gibraltar.
Lieutenant David Miller, senior lieutenant of the
Terrible, landed to report her arrival to the Com-
mander-in-Chief. We are sorry to state that Captain
Hope is suffering severely from an inflamed arm, ori-
ginating from the bite of a mosquito, in consequence
of which the Terrible did not salute the flag on her
arrival at Spithead. She will be inspected to-day by
the Commander-in-Chief and Captain Chads, and
proceed to Woolwich to pay off. The Terrible has
been in commission since November, 1849, but has
only had in use two of her old boilers. She will now
have new boilers, and a general overhaul and repair.
Captain Henderson, C. 8., will take out the Sidon
steam-frigate to-day, to test her engines and speed
along the measured mile in Stokes Bay, Portsmouth.
She was removed from the steam-basin yesterday.
Avon steam-tender, Second Master Veitch, re-
turned to Devonport on Sunday morning.
Bleinheim, 60, screw guard-ship, went into Ports-
mouth Harbour yesterday morning, at high water.
At a good rate of between seven and eight knots, she
has had a pleasant cruise, and is said to have answered
remarkably well. Captain the Hon. Duncombe,
Mrs. and Miss Duncombe, and party were on board.
She has gone up to her moorings for the winter.
The Bulldog, G, steam-sloop, was undocked at
Portsmouth yesterday, and the Encounter, 14, steam-
corvette, Captain O'Callaghan, was taken in to have
her defects made good.
Growler, 6, steam-sloop, was taken into the Ports-
mouth steam basin yesterday.
PORTSMOUT u, Morsuev.—The American liner
packet the Sir Robert Peel arrived from the river,
and sailed for New York this morning.
The Rolla, 6, Lieutenant Fenwick, naval appren-
tices' instruction brig, took the ground this morning
at Blockhouse Beach, at the time of leaving her
moorings to go out of harbour. Assistance was im-
mediately sent from the dockyard, and her topgallant
masts were sent on deck, which, together with her
spare spars, were got over the side to prevent her
from going on her beam ends until the tide flowed.
Her unfortunate position was not without its benefits,
however, as it allowed the bottom of the vessel (which
was very foul) to be scrubbed without the trouble
and inconvenience of docking.
The Royal Albert, 130—The Lords of the Admi-
ralty have determined that this ship shall be converted
into a screw vessel, and in order that this convers!on
should be carried out in the most effective manner,
they have appointed a committee composed of Mr.
Laire, master shipwright of Chatham dockyard; Mr.
Abetbel, master shipwright of Portsmouth dockyard ;
Mr. Rice, master shipwright of Pembroke dockyard;
Mr. Murry, chief engineer of Portsmouth dockyard ;
and Mr. Atherton, chief engineer of Woolwich
yard, who are to report to the Admiralty the result
which they come to as to the best method of carrying
out their Lordships' intentions with reference to this
ship.

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 27.—Her Majesty's iron screw
steam troop-ship Megmra, Commander John Johnson,
left port at 8,30 A.M. this day for Woolwich, to
embark
Majesty's
troopsnd stores for the West Indies.
Her
paddle-wheel steam-vessel Adder,
Mr. J. Watt in charge, arrived from Chatham shortly
before nine A.m., having on board Commander
Morrell of the Boscawen, that officer having been
summoned to be present at a court-martial holden
this day on board the Waterloo, 120, Commodore the
Hon. Montagu Stopford.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Barracouta, 14, was
taken this morning into the north dock of the fitting
basin to have her copper examined and cleaned.
Her Majesty's steam•vessel Lizard, tender to Mo-
narch guard ship of ordinary, was dispached toThat -
ham this day at 1 P.M. with a seaman who tell from
the main yard of the London. 90, for medical treat-
ment at Melville Hospital. Toe injuries sustained by
the unfortunate sufferer are of so serious a nature
that little hopes are entertained of his surviving
beyond a few hours.
A court-martial assembled this day at nine A.M., on
to try Lieutenant C.
board the Waterloo flag-ship,

B. Hore, of her Majesty's ship London, 90, Captain
G. R. Mundy, on a charge of having absented him"
self from his ship without leave for the space of fife
days. The following officers comprised the Court:
Commodore .--
and Senior Officer the Hon. MontagStopford, President ; Captain C. Hope, Superintend
e
ent of the Dockyard ; Captain the Hon. S. T. Car-
negi
Henry e
of
the
n steam guard- ship Horatio, 22 ; Com-
mander Pryce, her Majesty's ship Monarch;
Commander Arthur Morrell, her Majesty's ship
Boseawen, 70, guard-ship of Chatham ordinary.
Captain G. R. Mundy, of the London, was prosecutor
in the case.
The members of the Court having been sworn, and
the usual preliminaries gone through, the charge
against the prisoner was read by the judge-advocale•
Witnesses were called and examined in suPPrt
thereof. The case for the prosecution was concluded
by 11.30 A.M., when the p
harisoner was called upon for
his defence. This having been read by the judgr°.
"
Advocate, the prisoner called witnesses as to c
ter, all of whom spoke of him in the highest term an
an officer. The court was then cleared of strangers,
and on their being again admitted, the Court dec
eutel redrn
the charge to be fully proven, and sentenced Li
nant C. B. Hore to be severely reprimanded.
APPOINTMENT.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 27.—Second Master genrY W.
Short (1848), from the Centaur steam-frigate, fl_a
ship on the West Coast of Africa station, to the .1131 g"
-
pregnable, flag-ship at Devonport.
The Wasp steam-sloop, Commander Lord Jobe
Hay, was taken out of the basin to-day, and is now
ready for sea,
The Megwra steam-frigate arrived at Woolwich
this afternoon from Sheerness, to embark two c
'13_03u:.:
panies of the Royal Artillery fora passage to
hadoes.
SUDIDAIr'-"--q
THE QUEEN'S STORES.--DEYONPORT,
One of those disgraceful scenes, which freqeend),
occur here, has taken place in the past week. I? ti_l3;
low neighbourhood of Ordnance-lane, inhabited u
a good
poor people, there was what they term " a j° J_ftio,
row," or a regular fall-out, when one of the par. ,
through revenge, laid information that another Ditcu.
Queen's stores in her possession. A search
the agentWiwas
Queen's for
the
cordingly instituted by Mr. Eastlake,
Dockyard, and some Queen's
the Crown solicitor, and SOOlB constables frofmund
waseaoline,
consisting of some fathoms of an old deep
:another
used to dry clothes on, and in the same court,
woman,
piece of white-line, belonging to another _
property
bearing the Queen's mark, ore Superie'
two women were brought before Comm
od . a
..e,
and convicted in ne
tendent Seymour or Saturday. Both
each, or three months'
not
money,
was 8180 discovered. The
being poor widows they could not raise the
and were sent to prison in default.

NORTH AMERICA AND WEST INDIE„S'
Sir (1
Th4s Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Adrairal '
F. Seymour, C. 8., G.C.11 ,in his flag' Sept. Climber;
land, 70, Captain Seymour, was at Halifax, Sept."
at
__Alarm, 26, Captain George Ramsay,. arrive .0
Halifax on Monday evening, the 13th instant,
off
twenty-three days, from Antigua. She anchored Ili
the south end of George's Island, where she remained
all night; got under weigh at seven next
and saluted the flag of the Vice-Admiral, which svti
returned with the usual number of guns by the Cara"
Dartmouth Cove, where she remained for
quarter of an hour, when shegot ff and anchored cu
o
Buzzard, 6, steam-sloop,
the dockyard. morning:
Buzz -
ployed in the protection of the fisheries, arrived at
Quebec, Sept. 10, it was said, with the intention o
going into dock to repair damage on
by touch"
in
argrivtahle Commander nobble, era;
fgroromunEdngofflantdh.e harbour -of Halifax on bar first
of Lie
Rosamond, 6, steam-sloop, in commas d
mint Cranford, left Port Royal for Cabe, Aug. 26ute-

THE COUNTRY MARg"-
The following is the official statement of the
poi
corn, &c., received in the port of London from
..the
Essex, from the 19th Sept 1852, to the 25th Sept.,
both inclusive :
qnantiti

Colchester
Harwich
Leigh .. ......... ..•...
Maldon

Q.
tl o
o ,-.
0 01

18!
3741
395, 92
10331 58

200
1137

I 15,

1-6;

ies of
rts 01
1452,

../
06

CHELMSFORD, SEPT. 24. to b2s ;
Wheat, white, old 46s Od to 545 Od, new 42s 0 ~..
red, old 40s to 465, new 35s to 405• barley, 265
tt 293.
red, ------------------Prices to-day
malt 559 o .;
chevalier 275 to 325; grinding 213 t0'270;
chevalier 55s to 585; oats 199 to 25s ; peas, partridge,
,t,),i,
to 36s ;follow:-"
white, 80s to 325 ; boiling, 345 to 365; dun, net L 4:;
to :15
—s ; beans, tick, 32s to 34s ; barrow ticks,
were as
310 to
ou
mazagan, 29s to 325. red 800
Co Lexisnla, SEPT. 25.—V4 neat, white 400 to Ns ;
middle
to 459 ; oats, 17s to 239;:beans, mazagan 28s to 320; 305 to
and2B small 32s to 365; peas, white 34s to 365, greP
3 ; barley, 28s to 32s per qr. ... the qUitiltiOnS
KIRKALDT SEPT. t 2s.—The following a'-
for new
Wheat. :Barley.
First 44s Od 26s Od
Second 40s Od 24s Od
Third 33s Od 223 Od
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801 b,
HADDINGTON„ SEPT. 24.
grain at our market to-day :
Old Wheat.

1 Oats. Beaus. I
213 Od 30s Od
193 Od 283 Od
18s Od —s Od
imperial, 289 Od to I
he follovring are the

Pea
303 &ICI
281 0
...-3
'prices 0 f

BOO'
First
Od
468 Od 298 Od 22s ou ‘,3, il
Second
Third
36s Od 24s Od 17s Od 39 sold
Total quantity of Old Wheat in market 199 qrs., 1 Id
Do. New do.
Do. Barley do.
Do. Oats do.
Do. Beans do. 34748115016 :qqr s
.rrr i:: 39
n€'°^3o.9 °:
soldBo6 de

Cookso:ss Hartley Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market 000
T.--YEBTXRDAT• .
OALMAM"
. 160
Hastin
Holywell
..,
Hartle l6B 6d Lambton ............ ;'r
15s 6cl ;Russell's Hetton .....: -''',!
New Tanfield
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 16s 6d Hetton Hartlepool ... lbs
Townley
West Hartey
—14 s South Hartlepool •...: 160
16s 6d South Kelloa ............ _
_s
West Wylam
Wylam . l4s 9d, Whitworth • ........... .
_g
Wall's End, &c. I Tees ...... • .......... ••• 10
Acorn Close
Bell ....... ••••• 16s Od Woodhouse
Belmont. l6s 3d Dynant Blilford Stone 228
. .............. 11648
16s 3(.1'
Ships at market, 33..- Sold, 80.
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RAILWAY SHARE MARRIiET..
STOCK BRISTOL, SEPT. 27.
The only qO.
transaction reported to-day was—South DeVOl3,
ExcaANGE.—The share market continues dull.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 27.
STOCK Extuatfort.—We have to note a trifling
inilent in our share market to-day, and a firmer feeling is 1131‘_;
_ 'lest. The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead and
L ncashire (late Chester and Birk-enhead), 201i--Ditto, ,I,_
,4
Shares, 31/4 dis.—Caledonian, 213/4—Eastern Counties,dslA
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 84ye—Ditto, Fifth ', 4
-
-Lancashire
London and North- Western 1 I 9—Midland, , d
New
Preference, 41 ' South-Eastern an
Dover, 21 /2 per cent., P•
Rhenish, 1 dis. North improv
and South
Wales, 3%.

and
swaenrde MANCHESTER, SOlr* 27' d
limited, and prices bad a downward tendency. The trans
STOCK EXClTio!rwr.—The business done to- ay was Veil_
Yorkshire, 84—D'itto Preference, 6 per cent., 15'4,--
Lincolnshire, New 61. Prefereinic9elacn•
London North-Wei
o•—ateEr,nas,t Lancashire, 18N—Lancashire
Midland, 76',4,-.-
cph.e_ster, Sheffield, and
Scottish Central, 20—South-Eastern and Dover, 21 7-16.
BIRMINGHA, 27.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened fir in is
coursemorning at last quotations, but business was flat. In tu!
of the day Shropshire Unions were done 0
31. is. 3d. dis.
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_—_.l.____---------------
[ADvEßrisEstENr.]--A. Life Guardsman• one u.
the Heroes of Waterloo, cured of Rheumatism by HolloWg'S
Ointment and Pills.-111r. Thomas Brunton, landlord of the.,
Waterloo Tavern, Coathaint Yorkshire, was afflicted for tee%
months with rheumatism and rheumatic gout. His legs *vet
dreadfully painful, and disfigured with colours of every WI
frightful to behold. For ten weeks he was wholly unable I
walk, the treatment he received from several medical wen 11°.
only failing to do him any good, but leaving him in fact ie,::
considerably worse condition. At this] uncture Holloway's Poi'
and Ointment were resorted to, and by_ their sole means he 130
been restored to health and strengt.Sold by all Druggis?
and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand'
London.
The weekly reviews of the Amsterdam
terdam produce-markets mention a snore favourable fee
lia
among operators, which had in some cases caused an advance
and Rot"
in prices. Little change had taken place in coffee, but tbe
general tendency was towards improvement, higher but
having, in special instances, been paid. The transactions in
raw sugar had been limited ; purchases of refined bad teal
more freely made. In rice the dealings continued active,
and indigo could be obtained only at an advance. The e,
more
counts from Hamburgh and Antwerp represent a grail'
state of trade.
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