The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Simoom, 18, new
iron steam-frigate, 350 screw power, Captain Kingcome,
went out of harbour at-nine o'clock this morning, for the
first time since commissioning, eud looked remarkably
well, hut deep in the water. She went out round the
Knab Light, and appeared to steam with great ease and
accuracy, as . regarded the worgingeof her machinery,
until about twelve o'clock, when something broke down
(we are informed, her condensers), which brought ber
up, and the Echo took her in tow to Spithead, whore the
Simoom anchored. She will come into harbour again
to-morrow, the tide not admitting of her return this af-
ternoon.' The OP of this steamer may be judged of by
her comparison with an old 74, the Malabar, welch ship
was quite hidden from sight from the off-side when the
Simoom was coaling from her. She has been inspected
by the Naval and. Military Commission appointed to ( a-
amine her Majesty's steam troop-ships before being dis-
patched on transport service.
The Fire
Queen steam yacht has been docked today
72,Suweirlahreenrsesm, esty's ship Benbow,
to repair defects.
MovAedßcinn4a.—dallyeorrMtwajo from her present
moorings Otter-creek,
and there be sta-
tioned
ato has one
ootftehr o
es
veffse
intended
to complete the line
of direct communication by telegraph between this port
and Chatham, A warrant officer and a few men will be
placed on board of her from the Ordinary, together
with some
Majesty's ship
vfroominhgeer,
22,1tj will Supply the play eesty's ship Waterloo.
Her
of the Beebow, as one of the receiving ships of the Ordi-
nary et this port.
Her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, flag of Vice-Admi-
ral the Hon. Joceline Percy, Commander-in-Chief at the
Nore, has taken on board all her guns, with the excel).
Lion of a few for the quarter-deck.
Her Majesty's
un. s
n sc.reTw. -
Carnegie,steam gt
isrde-ositplete in her rig,iP, Horatio, 24,
Captain
and is lying at the west side of the fitting-basin,l with
her topgallantmasts struck.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Cyclops, 6, 320 horse-
power, is far from being complete in her repairs. It has
hboeethn
nfiodu,ns f
donte.wcensrsda,rywhtoieh will cause her to remain inremove some of the planks on
the dry dock some time longer. The greater part of her
rigging is set up.
Her Majesty's ship Longen, 90, Captain the Hon. M,
Stopford, completed the adjustment of her compasses on
Monday.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, MARCH 4.—Surgeon James John Louie
Donnet (1845), to be surgeon-zuperintendent of the
William Jardine convict-ship.
Assistant-surgeon Hart Gunlett, M.D. (1846), re-
cently serving in the Southampton, 50, on the south-
east coast of America station, to the St. George, 120,
guard-ship of ordinary at Devonport.
The Greenock, 10, iron steam screw-frigate, was taken
out of dock to-day, having been taken in to have Pea-
cock's composition applied to her bottom.
O❑ the Greenock being taken out the Torch steam-
vessel was taken is to have her bottom examined, pre-
paratory to her departure for surveying service in the
South Seas.
The Polyphemus steam-sloop, Commander Charles G.
Phillips, is to be taken out of the basin on Monday
next, and will proci ed down the river to try her engines.
A stoker, named John Lee, belonging to this vessel,
when in a state of excitement yesterday attempted std.
cide, by cutting his throat. and was removed to the
Marine Hospital on the discovery being made.

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
The following letter, addressed to the President of the
Royal Geographical Society by her Majesty's Under-
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, will show how
kindly end promptly the Imperial Government of Russia
has responded to the wishes of the geographers of
Eng-
land in favouring the private expedition about to sail in
search of Franklin, and which for the first time is to
make use of steam in proceeding northwards from
Behring's Straits:—.

" Foreign-office, March 2,1852.
" Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 30th of Ja-
nuary, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit
to you herewith sealed letters to the Commandant of the
port of Petropavlosk and to the Director of the Russian-
American Colonies at Sitka, and an open letter to the Rus.
sian authorities in the neigbourhood of Behring's Straits,
which, at the request of her Majesty's Government, the Em-
peror of Russia has been pleased to allow to be written, en-
joining the parties to whom they are addressed to exert their
good offices in favour of Captain Beatson's expedition. The
Russian Government has, moreover, sent directly to the
Russian authcrities on the east coast
of Siberia and on the
north-west of America instructions to afford Captain Beatson
all the assistance which it may be in the power of those
authorities to render to him,
I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
Sir R. Murchison, &c. U. Anantarow."

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by the night—and Al by the enorning,uspatch.]

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BOARD OF. TRADE b
aoarcrET URNS.
Tulathe
of Trade for the
have just been issued,
and exhibit au increasing failure of all the evil predictions
that attended the repeal of the Navigation Laws. Since
month
ending shipping
the resttuhrns of ofF ?hthrueary
that event the employment of British vessels has steadily
augmented, but up to the period preceding the present
returns the employment also of
thenforeig vessels had aug-
mented in a greater ratio. Thus benefit on our side
was only partial, and although it could not be denied
that the result, even as it stood, presented a singular,
contradiction to what had been foretold, it was urged
that our share had been disproportionately
small,
and
that this disproportion might continue until it had ren-
dered the position of England relatively with , that of
other nations an inferior one. Already ,
-Y however, the
d even for this complaint seems likely to groan
the returns now
.su
h. .
submitted, While disappear,
ince they present
againa a general increase in the shipping F s employed, show
an entire change in the distribution
i of that increase.
The following are the resultc,and ~,,,
British ill
be found by an
' don of them that the
tonnage, outward
examine
has increased in the aggregate 37,944 tons
and inward,
art(' with the co
duneg ' the month, as comp for© orresponding
the gn ha, • • •
month of last year, whilediminished
10,726 tons.
Entered inwards
ENDING pE
TONNAGE FOR MONTEt Li it
trA.RT
5.
1850. 1851. 1852.
British vessels 234,120 243 • • 477
246,078
,
Unit,4l States vessels 51,456 46659 .. , 71,684
15,971
Other countries 42 468 43,731
-- ----__.
328,014 366,107 361,493
The clearance outward were :-
1850. 1851. 1852,
British 'vessels
"United States vessels 44 376
5t,127 54,254
Other countries
._.___—. --.—.

month ending inwar4s wag 880,408
305,888 358,199 390,031
With regard to the coasting trade, the tonnage
Fe-
bruaryen-
tered
5, 1850 *
.900,955 in 1851, and 887,153 in 1852.
The clearance; ouaard were 1.004,37.1' in Febru4rYI
1850 ; 1,017,660 P 2 1851, And 927,758 m 1§52.
in the