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

MONDAY EVENING,

et cffieers and men,
dseavreinnotya-tnwdobwraerreerykiollnedtnaendpawrtounded. The feats of
with the exception of the rascally Krocmeo, is beyond
belief. Captain Lyster received two wounds, Colonel
Iliflyer one, Lieut. Corbett (gallant fellow) seven,
Lieut. Williams (in artillery) three, Mr. Fletcher (mid.)
killed, Mr. Gilman (master's assistant) mortally
wounded and E inco dead, besides several other officers
slightly. This left the Teazer quiet, as also the
enemy, who took off the heads of the two men
dead, and which we have since found in the king's
house. During this time the Bloodhound had silenced
the batteries, but remained still aground, and the boots
proceeded round the north point and silenced one or two
more batteries by the time it was 11 o'clock, when they
were all recalled and went to dinner, being annoyed oc-
casionally by the musketry opposite. At one the
'Tenzer signalled her killed and wounded, and was sig-
nalised to close when the tide turned and she could get
off. . At two P.x, the boats of the Sampsou, with a
spiking party, under the command of Lieut. Samalarez,
with Lieut. M'Arthur, with all his Majesty's artillery,
were ordered to land and spike the guns in the batteries
under cover of the Sampson's boat, in charge of Mr.
Bayley (mate). When they
opposite looked quite deserted. The boats pushed for
the shore, but they had to cut and break through a
stockade
th tomahawks, thea ha
wwater, h tehne t
n e carpentersieenfetll whows hi
with lap axes,wtehree
lying
itihegee
in ambush, opened a terrific fire, and in less than ten
minutes, finding they
could not cut and force this
stockade, they had to return to the Bloodhound, having
Lieutenant Saumarez severely wounded in three places,
Mr. Richards (midshipman), mortally (since dead), and
11 men severely wounded. At 4.30 the Teaser got off
and anchored in deep water, buried her dead, and sent
her wounded out of the river; thus ended the 26th. At
daylight on the 27th theTeazer weighed under a
terrific fire, which was returned by the Bloodhound
and herself, and anchored astern of the' Bloodhound,
having had her gunner, Mr. Howard, as also some
men, severely wounded. The rocket boat then
commenced an opening tire, and the two steamers
and boat commenced shelling, as also the Volcano's
and Waterwitch's boats, which had then arrived.
The rocket boat succeeded in setting fire to Tappi, the
second chief's house, and the place was in a blaze.
Commander Cooto then took the boat, with the rocket
boat still in command
of Lieutenant Marshall (let of
Penelope) and attacked the batteries towards the King's
house. This, and tattle more skirmishing, lasted till
sunset, when the rest of. the wounded were sent out. You
and were oblged. to anchor all night off the bar, and
i
did not imagine
raegaicnhetthheteirr shipsrngs, when they left at 8 r.m.,
till next morning at 9.30. On
the 28th, at daybreak, the town was found deserted, the
enemy having left on the other side of the island in their
canoes. The forces then landed and took possession;
fifty-seven guns were. taken and destroyed; the paddle-
raontdh.
emr
box boat retaken with gun; and all belonging to the
present king, Atakoi, placed on the throne,
and all his men with him ; and thus finishes
the capture of Lagos, and with it we hope the
suppression of the slave trade. A few deaths have since
those who fought and
bled takes
t placethere may
yfacers and men at last
receive that reward for which some of then have served
some four years on the coast, and looked for in vain, i e.
promotion.
re wfirtonm
" The stockades consisted of green coccsienut trees,
then sand, and then cocoa-nut trees; hence they had no
thfeeTrerb,
splinters. In each stockade was a trench, so that when
a shell was fired at them they jumped in the trench, and
hence escaped danger. Each stockade had. a ditch to
communicate, so that they could reinforce or retreat at
leisure. About 15 feet from the shore, in 9 feet water,
were a quantity of bamboo stakes, so firmly driven in
and so secure, that 1301bs. of gunpowder could not
effect a breach, and hence prevented any one from land-
ing. Our total force was about 400; the enemy from
10,000 to 20,000. " C. P. R.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE MEGZ RA AND THE RIFLES.--The Sampson
brought the news of the arrival of the Megovra, screw
steam-frigate, Master Commander Barlow, wittt the 60th
Rifles, at Madeira, all well on board. It is. not stir-
passage; but the good ship gallantly wee-
bporiissitnegrofursom the heavy gales that set in on her departure
from Plymouth, January 6, that she had a. long and
thered the gale, and left Madeira January 29 for the
Cape, intending to touch at Sierra Leone for coals.
This intelligence respecting the Megtera will doubtless
allay the anxiety raised in the public mind by the
wholesale misrepresentations of a certain Rem-Admiral
and his journal, confirming., as it does, the character of
the Megwra given in the House of Commons last week
by the new senior naval Lord of the Admiralty.—
/Jerald.

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 sailing 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; Hague, 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 Devonport correspondent announces the
arrival in Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternocm of the
Arethusa.

The Arethusa parted company with the Com modore
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 bent to Devonport. She had several eases of
small-pox and secondary fever, the sufferers from which
have, by directions of the admiral, been sent to t he Naval
Hospital. She also left many of her crew in the hospital
at Lisbon. It is not improbable that tho crew of this ship
may, for a time at least, be compelled to be turned over
to the hulks, 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
whiteness, 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 H. W. Gif-
fard, from Gibraltar, arrived
at Lisbon on the 7th, to
join the squadron, having
been detached from th e Medi-
terranean station. She and the Sampson, 6 at earn-fri-
gate, Captain Jones, remained at Lisbon.
The Archer, 12, screw-sloop, Commander strange,
was also expected at Lisbon from the coast of Africa.
The Fury, 6, steam-
arrived at Lisbon, and left on the 6th for Gibraltar, and
the Mediterranean. 61°°13, Commander Tatham, had

W E COMMANDERMEDITERRANEAN.
The Britannia, 120
of Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8..,
RANEAN.
Captain Goldsmith, with the flag
• waslN-CHIEF
spoken
40,
tF)2O
thusa, off the Lizard, THEAre-
saluted the gallant
admiral's
last, when the frigate
The Britannia had to flag"
eat down. Channel from. Wed-
nesday against a south-
We have intelligence rest wind'
says :—,,
Four
rota Malta to the 9th inst. .A cor-
respondentreturned to port, viz ur out of five ships cruising have
John-
stone; Superb, 80, !
Cap.; • Albion, 90, Captain Hope
E. Russell; and ain Purcell; Vengeance,. 84, Lord
Bellerophon, 78, Trafalgar,Capta 120, Captain Greville. The
The vessels parted 4 Lord. G. Panlet, is still fat sea.
On the Bth Sir W. company Parker sent
in the gale of the lat inst.
Captain 073 sent out the Terrible steam-
frigate,had not entered. It Hope,ft p . *, to look for the ships that
severely. As the gale Pears that all have felt the gale
running up to her station,
the Trafalgar, in
did but little d_ , ran into‘ the Albion, but for-
tunatelyjibboom on board, carried away
She left a part of her
and, it is said, sprung her fawaY the head of her rudder,
a gun; and Bellerophon, it is
Vengeance has lost
So much for a winter cru' ise is
said, has sprung a mast.
will probably
.lead to the trial A fatal accident, which
has occurred in the Albion a of a man for manslaughter,
tops seem to have had u
sudden
Two men employed in the
—viz., Ferneaux and Maine en quarrel on the 31st ult.
and fell into the top, and in risingB: The former was struck
as yet unaccounted for, to seems, by some means
quarter deck. The poor fellow have fallen out on to the
when be died, and was buried lingered till the th,
ow-
ing, Maines is in a dreadful at sea on the day followays been most friendly with his
of. mind, having al-
Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant victim."
ken, left Malta on the 9th ult. Commander Hos-
brought by the Peninsular and
with. the Indian mail
steamer Bentinck, from Alexelisddrpriental Company's
the heavy gales the Banshee made itt Notwithstanding
Mar-
seilles in fifty-.seven hours. The Be the to
the same evening for Southampton with
was to leave
mail. ith the bulk of the
Merlin steam-packet, Lieutenant-0
Turner, on her way to Woolwich f
romommander James
off, was spoken in the Channel h Malta, to be paid
Oriental Company's steamer IbeYriathe Peninsular and
coming home under sail. • The Merlin is
THE WRECI or THE GER„.I"
In a recent letter I described the klq[A.
of a large barque, and which,
as
far melancholy wreck
as I
any information (for the fort was in could gather
posed to be the Anna, of Konigibunrantine), I sup -
this moment nothing really positive is known
Although at
have certain facts almost amounting to of her, we
unfortunate. ship is the Germania, of lie •
proof that the
ship left. Alexandria on thelllth ult. willtiligsburgh, which
and white wheat. Her figure-head f
ri,?, cargo of red
sheathing had first led to the supposition,!t!t) and zinc
blocks and other portions of the ah but the
strong 'a resemblance to those of the 4lost -.bear so
Germania as to
lead to almost certain conviction that tin •
e is the ,ill-fated
vessel. s
Five bodies, a boy and four men, have been washed
up, but most frightfully mutilated.
• The men of the 76th Regiment and
Artillery
at the
fort (and of course the otficers) behaved
verybut
well, doing
everything they could to save the crew •
IT, alas! they
seemed to be quite paralysed, and although some of the
soldiers rushed into the sea the crew magd
to fling a rope out, which they, might easily
no exertion
have done,
and thus have been' saved bad they possessli
of nerve; and it is a lamentable fact thate all
portion
the ropes
and tackle usually in the Fort Ricasoli, werea
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
Campbell, 76th, commanding at Fort Ricasoli, that Major
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 public
have not yet recovered from the sensation
by it. made on them
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