The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

WooLwica, JQxn 16.—Surgeon—lionry H. Turn-
bull, M.D. (1846), to the Vestal, 26, Sheerness.

Assistant Surgeon:—Henry Loney (1346), to tho
Vestal; Culhano (1847), formerly serving in
The Birk'nhe:d, and saved when that vessel was wrecked,
to the Vulcan screw steam-ship, ct Portsmouth.
Assistant Ergincers—Patrick Dail, to the Geyser
steam-sloop, at Portsmouth; George Kent, to the Dragon
steam-frigate, at Lisbon.

Clerk—Alfred Whiffin (1852), to the Fisgard flag-
ship, at Woolwich.
The Triton mail steam-packet, Lieutenant-Com-
mand( r Lloyd, risking ready for the Mediterranean
station, was taken into the middle of the stream to-day,
and will be ready for sea about the 26th inst.

THE NAVY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—The stirring up you enabled me to give the late
Board of Admiralty has had its effect on the present,
who really are doing a vast deal of good. The sailors
are treatt d with more consideration than usual; their
wages aro now '° paid down " and leave given on their
arrival in port, instead of being kept back till they are
on the point of sailing; and they have brought a Bill
into Parliament to reduce the money kept in hand from
six mouths to three. But why, Sir, keep any money
in hand at all? Why not pay the sailor the money he
has earned? It is said, if paid up, they will desert.
This is quite a mistake; if a sailor wishes to desert,
that won't hinder him; and if he does he goes without
taking any of the Queen's money with him.
Why punish all the navy because a tow men may
desert? Why should the sailor be the only man in tho
country who is not paid his wages at once? Why should
the aolaier paidevery day and the sailor once a-yca.r?
Fur it amounts to nearly that.

.
or even the Excellent.
psw,ho enter as seamen rig..
Is Ilit'etocbar viin_aidnaenriaettd(:iusyrt?ilma4etisehwaino enter the Bag-ships or
gets are paLa -- mouthy advance; but netting more
Excellent get two
for a year.
is a,. get a
have
sailor one also.
Why E' .
it is propowd to pay the ships in harbour
.-.I hear
but the progress is slow; it requires
dier, when he en
a little ink from your pen would settle it
eve abandoned the system of a
aqmtuo i
one
nut bee
el
ny. i ;, j g ;
,I see, h
and the money is not to be used.
uite right, beemise it was im-
por erisaTvecirhtnviegceaAuoile.mtshicreslamr,l:eYeesn:
rovnelyi,s
rational system of reserve is
manning the flag-ships, as I have before pointed oat-
Let them be depots (as the diviaions of marines are) for
manniegNhips newly cornreLsioned with well-drilled well.-
a great
The time saved -in fitting out a &hip would go
way to cover the expense.
The Rodney was more than three months manning-; I
a time
th t
do not know if elle is complete yet. Buriegan-d--. we were paying a full-metaled ship
abroad
-nd tear of
half-
manned ship-in England, besides
the We3rmaanned im-
two ships. Whereas if the relief-ship was manned
These
mediately, all that expense would be saved.
or, if
things are never thought of at tho —They
they are, they are not acted upon-
of Commons are
wise and Pound foolish; m.d the gmrlit properly stated
not without blame; but lam sure, woneght on, they would
to them when the estimates are bruire _ are penny
d money-
see the advantage and vote
I remain, Sir, your ° cueeens NAPIER.
Arerchistoun, June 14.
the broeculient servant,

ACCIDENT AND
MEL AN CH OLY
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE.
An accident of a most deplorable nature, attended with
rho loss of throe,
the River Thames, off Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe, at a
if not four, human beings, occurred on
the spot it appeared that a vessel,
cit
leicihr
few minutes before midnight on Tuesday. Fron, in-
s ~ monkey," named the Isabella,
was lying off Caen-wharf, near
niciscanallyadteermoned
stairs, laden with stone. There were
vessel Mrs. Lydia Whitlock, the
• belonging to raddingt°ll)
the above-natned
Castle. Whether or not Mr. Whit-
her infant daughter, and a female
wife
abaotf
the
captain her
named IgarY
' lock, the captain' friend, was on board conldnot be ascertained,
but one thing is quite certain if he was in the ill-fated
vessel he has also perished.
Whilst the boat was apparently safely riding on the
water, with scarcely a, ripple on the surface, a large
steamer hove in sight, and was proceeding at a rapid
pace down the River. She had barely cleared Globe
Stairs when the swell of the water completely covered
the smaller vessel. The captain's wife at that time was
en deck, and had ample time to save her own life by
jumping overboard, but instead of so doing she gave a
fearful scream of " Save, oh save us!" She then ran down
into the cabin, and whilst in the act of lilting her child,
the water rushed in with such impetuosity that none of
the occupants were enabled to escape, and in the space
of a few minutes the versel sank. The tide, to th
course of an hour, had run down sufficiently for she
e
Thames police and others to board the boat, when they
beheld the lifeless bodies of Mrs. Whitlock, her infant,and the unfortunate woman Mary Castles. n
Mur-
deck, of Rotherhithe, upon being made 4'l'.
acquainted with
the accident, hastened to the scene, and remained in at-
tendance hoping to be of some assistance when the boat
was got up, but Unfortunately such I,
from the state of the bodies there as not the case, and
seems no doubt bat
that death must have taken placethe moment the water
bodes entered the boat. Tile three ales found have been re-
moved to the dead-house at Rotherhithe, and Gardener,
the beadle, having dispatched the necessary information
to Mr. Carter, the Surrey coroner it is expected that
that gentleman will hold '
La inquest on the unfortunate
sufferers this morning.
The name of the steamer that caused the catastrophe
is not precisely known,, but the Thames police believe it
to be.the John 1-,
4ow tujik 11 t 44u1) trader, which WE lioralydown tier
ea PteYin-6.