The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-22 00:00:00

AMI:RICA.

The United States mail steam-ship Washington,
Captain E. M. Fitch, arrived off Cowes yesterday
morning on her way to Bremen, and landed the
English and French passengers and mails. The
Washington has experienced' unfavourable weather
during her passage across the Atlantic. She brings
specie value 60,425 dots• for Havre. The British
and North American mail steamer arrived at New
York from Liverpool on the 4th inst. By the
Washington we have New York journals, with our
usual correspondence to the Gth inst. inclusive.
The election of General Franklin Pierce as Pre-
sident of the United States by an overwhehning
majority, is fully confirmed by this packet.
The Hon. Edward Everitt, who has been selected
as the successor of the late Mr. Webster in the
State Department, has, avived in Washington to
commence his duties.
According to the last advices from Texas, the
people were again freely discussing the proposition
to divide the state. It has territory enough to
make four good-sized states.
The Canadian Parliament is adjourned to the
14th of February. Mr. Hincks stated in the house
on the 3d. inst. that the new tariff would be post-
poned till after the adjournment, and that the
measure would even then depend upon the course
of the American Government. It is not to apply
to British goods passing through the United States
in bond. The Grand Trunk Railway project had
been carried, the opposition of the Montreal party
having been withdrawn.
The steamer Empire City had arrived at New
York with two days' later news from Havannah.
Nothing positive was known as to the result of the
interview between Judge Conklin (the American
Envoy) and the Captain-General. Freights at Ha-
vannah were firmer, and slightly advancing, there
being more activity both for Europe and the United
States.

The commercial advices from the United States
present little change. Business on the Stock Ex-
change at New York was moderate. There was a
good business doing in railway bonds. Exchange
on London ruled at 110. The movement in dry
goods was large. In ashes there was less anima-
tion. Cotton favoured holders, the supply being
small and , the demand brisk. In flour and meal,
State and Western brands were also active, busi-
ness experiencing some check from the increasing
rates of freight and scarcity of vessels. The supply
of grain was ample. Rye scarce and advancing.
In provisions pork was in good demand• ; mess beef
heavy. In wool less activity, owing more to the
diminished supplies than to any abatement of de-
mand. The week's transactions amount to 80,000 lb.
In freights rates continued to stiffen and vessels to
be in better demand.

NATrAL INTELLIGENCE.

POIITSMOUTH, Nov. 21.

The Scourge, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Lord F. H.
Kerr, arrived yesterday morning from the Mediterranean
to be paid off. She left Malta on the 6th instant and
Gibraltar the 14th. Lieutenant Yonge, from the Albion,
appointed flag lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Fanshawe,
Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, has come
home in the Scourge, and 16 invalids from the squadron.
Her Majesty's ships Firebrand, Niger, Wasp, and Ante-
lope were at Gibraltar on the 14th. The Scourge had
very rough weather on the passage home, having ex-
perienced a heavy gale of four days' continuance in the
Bay of Biscay. The squadron under Rear-Admiral
Dundas was daily expected at Gibraltar. The Fire-
brand steam-frigate, Captain Codd, was to leave Gib-
raltar on the 15th for Tangier, and thence to Woolwich.
The Spiteful steam-sloop was ordered from Corfu to
Plymouth to be paid off.
The Calliope, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home ; Bramble
schooner, Lieutenant Ward ; and Acheron steam-sloop,
Lieutenant Fitzroy, were all at Sydney, on the 17th of
July, refitting.
The Daring, 12, Commander Gerald Napier, arrived
at Madeira from this port (which she left in company
with the Bittern, 12) on the 24th ult., after a very bois-
terous passage of 10 days from Spithead. She parted
company with the Bittern in the Bay of Biscay after the
latter had carried away her maintopgallant-mast. The
Daring sailed for Barbadoes on the 20th ult. All well.
The Lords of the Admiralty have directed the super-
intendents of her Majesty's Dockyards to inform the
officers and men employed therein that they disapprove
of their taking municipal appointments.
General Viscount Hardinge, Commander-in-Chief of
the Army, and Baron Raglan, Master-General of the
Ordnance, are expected at the port in a few days in re-
ference to some important additions to the military de-
fences of this station.
The Queen and Royal family are expected here, en,
route to Osborne, on or about the 26th inst.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 21

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Sharpshooter, Lieutenant-
Commander Parish, arrived on Friday from Portsmouth,
came into harbour to coal, and on Saturday was placed
to her sailing moorings.
Her 1\ Tajesty'a frigate Indefatigable, 50, Captain.
R. Smart, is now being dismantled ; her masts will be
taken out to-morrow, and her crew paid off on Tuesday.
Her Majesty's brig Linnet, 8, Commander Need, is
now in the Sound awaiting sailing orders.
Wind, S.E., with heavy rain.

SHEERNESS, Nov. 2.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-vessel Fearless,
Captain Bullock, employed in surveying the south coast
of England, arrived on Friday at noon. Having coaled,
&c., she left port yesterday to resume her duties.
ler Majesty's paddlewheel steam-vessel Wildfire,
tender to Waterloo, Mr. Brockman, second master com-
manding, left port for Chatham on Friday at 10 a.m., to
embark Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8.,
Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. The Wildfire re-
turned in the afternoon, and on the gallant admiral's
landing at the dockyard, the Hon. Montagu Stopford,
flag captain, struck his broad pendant on board the
Waterloo, and the flag (blue at the fore) of the Com-
mander-in-Chief was forthwith hoisted.
Her Majesty's screw steam line-of-battle ship Aga-
memnon, 91, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, has her
love' • rigging sparred, preparatory to fixing the ratlines.
It is stated she will be sent to Queenstown in the spring,
there to be stationed as flag-ship. Another accident oc-
curred on board this ship yesterday, one of her seamen
having fallen from the fore-rigging and broken his collar

WObLWICH, Nov. 20
APPOINTMENTS.

hone.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel African, second master
Gill, came into harbour yesterday, having towed the
Hercules as far as the Downs.
It is currently reported that her Majesty's ship Lon-
don, 90, Captain G. It. Mundy, will not be employed on
foreign service, and that her crew will ere long be trans-
ferred to a screw line-of-battle ship.
Her Majesty's ship Royal George, 120, is forthwith to
be fitted with a screw propeller, orders to that effect
having been received at Chatham Dockyard. A large
number of workmen are already employed on her. She
is to be fitted for the screw on the plan adopted in the
steam-guardships Ajax and Edinburgh, and is to have
engines of 400-horse power.
The officers, seamen, and marines of the Waterloo,
London, Agamemnon, Horatio, and Porcupine, were
mustered on Friday afternoon by the Hon. Montagu
Stopford, Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and Flag
Captain to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, C.B.
The schooner Alfred, of Wells, Hudson, master, from
Milton for Middlesboro', has been washed up on the salt-
ings in the west Swale, near Queenborough.
Mr. David Blyth, commanding the detachment of
Royal Marines on board the Horatio, 22, screw steam-
guardship at this port, has attained the rank of captain
by the retirement on full pay of Brevet-Major W. M‘Kin-
non, and is appointed to the Chatham division. Second
Lieutenant F. S. Dowse, of the same division, becomes
First Lieutenant, vice Blyth.
Nineteen minute guns were fired from the saluting
battery in Chatham garrison on the occasion of the
funeral of the late Duke of Wellington, and the Royal
standard at Fort Amherst hoisted half-mast high. A
garrison order was also issued to suspend all drill for the
troops during the day.

Mate.—John Z. Creasy (1850), from the Victory flag-
ship at Portsmouth, to the Hague, 60, screw steam-ship,
at Portsmouth.

Midshipmen.—Viscount Ockham, to the Albion, 90,
on the Mediterranean station ; W. J. Pollock to the
Blenheim, 60, screw_ steam-guardship at Portsmouth.
Nava
and E.
Naval Cadets.
Portsmouth. —CS..
F.
Buckle, B. S. Hamilton, D. A.
Stanley,
Digby, to the Leander, 50, at
The Rosamond steam-sloop, brought home from the
West Indies' station, inCo
mmander
Frederick of Acting
Frederick A. B. Crawford, of the Alban steam vessel,
tender to the Imaum, wzeinspected on Friday afternoon
.n, Superintendent of Wool-
bw3icCheDininockeydaerrde,Haccenorym aLieutenant Robertson,
of the steam reserve at accompanied
by
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exercises, which
occupied nearly three houarnps,dee
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through their great-gun
they performed in a satisfactory m
no orders yet as to what will be dbaoennneeariwd.
ves-
sel, nor is it known if she will
was only commissioned in October, 1851,13
having as
she:
sent home from the West Indies in consequence of
the sickly state of her crew and the numbesie•distrdiecaths
that took place when on the West Indies'
her last station. There must be some peculiarity inttll:)ef
construction and ventilation of the Rosamond, or in the
wood of which she is constructed, of a noxious nature, to
render her unfit to be ever again employed in a tropical
or warm climate ; bnt she might still be made useful as
a tug at any of the naval ports in this country, and the
officers and crew might be turned over to any of the
steam-sloops in an advanced state and ready for corn-

mission.
Four of the officers studying steam at the factory at
Woolwich Dockyard, Captain Francis Scott (1848 Co-
m),
Commander Hon. George H. Douglas (1851).
mander Frederick Woollcombe (1852), and Lieutanant
Griffith G. Phillips (1838), were all examined by Mr.
Charles Atherton, chief engineer, on Tuesday, Wednes-
thy, and Friday last, as to their knowledge of the prin-
ciples and working of marine steam-engines ; and their
L examinations having proved satisfactory to the chief
ellginoQr, they have all received certificates accgrdinglY,