The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-08 00:00:00

THE COAST OF AFRICA.

By letters from the above station to the sth of' Sep-
tember, we learn the Penelope, 22, flag of Rear-Admiral
Bros.', was at Loando at that date. Our correspondent
says:—" The slave trade is entirely relinquished in the
Bights, and is not likely to be renewed, if the simple
precaution of sending consuls to reside in the countries
with the chiefs of which we have treaties be adopted."
Iler Majesty's steamer Prometheus has bad a number
of cases of slight fever. The Admiral had dent her to
St. Helena, and the officers and men are now quite well
One of her lieutenants, Mr. A. R. Fox, died of apoplexy
on the passage from that island to Ascension: he was
buried at the lattqr place.
The squadron was thus distributed at the date of our
advices
On the South-coast.--The Harlequin, 12, Commander
Wilmot; Volcano, 5, steamsloop, Commander Coot();
Firefly, 3, steamvessel, Commander Seymour; Water-
witch, 8, Commander A. H. Gardner; and the Spy, 3,
Lieutenant-Commander Berosford.

In the Bights.—The Britomart, 8, Commander Hes-
seltine ; Cygnet, 3, Commander White; and Myrmidon,
iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Joliffe.
At Sierra Leone.—The Polyphemus, 6, steam-sloop,
Commander Phillips; Crane, G, Commander Bonhand ;
Bloodhound, iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Christian; and Pluto, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander West.
At Ascenbion.—The Tortoise, 12, Captain Kitchen;
Prometheus, steam-sloop, Commander Foot; and Athol
transport, Lieutenant-Commander Nurse.
The Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Wood, may
be expected home at the end of November.
APPOINTMENTS AND CHANGES.

Lieutenant Graham, from the Waterwitch to the liar
lequin y ea Lieutenant J. D. Curtis in exchange.
Mr. John Forster, mate of the Penelope, to he Lieute

nant of the Prometheus v:co Fox, deceaied. Mr. Fors-
ter has sinoo been appointed lieutenant of the flag-ship.
Mr. S. E. Wright, clerk of the Waterwitch, to be clerk
in charg of the Athol.
Mr. W. 11. Death, clerk of the Cygnet, to bo secre-
tary's clerk in the Penelope.
Mr. J. S. Powell, to be gunner of the Harlequin vice
Stevenson, deceased.

AN UNSEAWORTHY SnlP.—The emigrant ship Heroine,
of London, burden 800 tons, is now on White's Camber
slip, in Portsmouth, undergoing a through overhaul. In
her we have another illustration of the perils and dan-
gers which beset emigrants. She left London about a
month ago, bound for Port Philip, Australia, with
about twenty passengers on board, and laden with a
general cargo, part of which was a large quaatity of
bricks. She had not been long at sea before she was
found to be leaky, and to such a degree that it was im.
possible for her to continue her voyage in safety. She
accordingly put in at Portsmouth, having at the time nine
inches of water in tho hold, and making five and a-half
inches more per hour. A survey was hold upon her by
the surveyors to Lloyd's, the result of which was the
discovery that her caulking had been done in a most in-
efficient manner, indeed, it may with considerable truth
be averred, she had not been caulked at all. had this
leaky state not well developed itself before the Heroine
had got into mid-ocean, it is easy to imagine what
would have been the consequence.
A SAILORS' HOME AT CORK,—Wo understand that a
sailors' home, en a liberal and extensive scale, is being
established in Cork, a port that in point of consequence
as one of call for orders from London, Liverpool, Glee-
gow, &c ,is fast growing into considerable extent. At
this moment there are over 250 vessels at the anchorage,
and we understand that nearly 50,000 British seamen
entered that port within the year ending the Ist of last
October. Wo are glad to learn that those noble institu-

tion3 havo at length obtained the serious attention of
Government, and aro shortly to bo submitted to both
Llousea of Parliament.

THE ARMY.

Tho 21 battalion of the Royal Regiment, stationed in
Cork, under command of Liout.-Colonol George 8011,
has revolved a letter of readiness to prepare for embark-
ation ab'iut the end of next mouth—destination Corfu.

The 3lst Regiment, stationed at Formoy undor
Lieut.-Colonel George Staunton ; the (48th Regiment,
stationed at Newport, S.W., undor Lieut.-Colonel llon.
Alexander Dilzell ; the 57th Regiment, stationed in
Cork, under Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Leigh Goldie, and
the 71st Highland Regiment, stationed at Kilkenny,
under Lieut.• Colonel William Denny, aro also under
orders for the tame station. Tho reserve battalion of
th© latter corps is at present serving in Canada. The
31st returned from Bengal on the Gat of December, 1846;
the 48th from Jamaica, in March, 1847 ; the 57th from
Madras, on the 28th of September, 1846 ; and tho 71st
from 13at badoes, on the 25th of January, 1847.

PALL OF A RAILWAY EMBANKMENT. An neck
dent occurred on Friday evening by the falling in of s
portion of an embankment on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway, by which three men have
lost their lives. Their names aro Joseph Beesley, car-
politer; and William Rugg and John Camp, excavators.
A large engine shed is in the course of erection on the
side of the railway west of Sheffield, about three quarters
of a mile from the station, and the men had been en-
gaged for the last few days in making the necessary
preparations for laying the foundations of the wall which
was to run along the side of the railway. The line at
this point runs upon au embankment about 20 feet high;
and to render the foundations quite secure, a trench has
been dug in the side of the embankment to a depth of
about 35 feet below the level of the rails. On Friday
afternoon the sides of the excavation suddenly gave way
soon after four o'clock, burying the three men above
named, who were at work in it. A fourth man, named
Sutton, had a narrow escape. A moment previous he
observed the sides giving way, and after alarming his
companions, was making his way out. He succeeded in
getting so far out of the trench as to escape injury, but
the other men who were below him, were overwhelmed
by the falling earth ere they could escape. All idea of
rescuing the men alive was deemed hopeless, as they
wore buried under at least 20 feet depth of earth, any
attempt to remove which, in the then state of the sup
porters of the sides of the trench, would have brought
the whole of the embankment upon them. Since then,
however, the supporters have been replaced, and the
bodies of the men removed.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES IN IRELAND.—On Friday
in the Encumbered Estates Court, half a dozon proper-
ties were put sip for sale and rapidly disposed of, the
gross sum realized by the day's sale being 50,145/. Be-
tween the 15th October, 1849, and the Ist July, 1852,
no loss than 2,389 petitions had been lodged, being an
average of 70 for e
sacooW monof
which th. The produce of th
wore the
e sales
amounted to 7,21,., ,318/.
produce of private sales. The produce of sales distri-
buted among the different provinces amounted in Loin-
ster, to 1,969,0001.; in Munster, 2,493,0001.; in Ulster,
1,261,000/4 In Connaught, 1,491,000/., in round num-
bers. The gross annual rental of the lots sold was
520,000/ ; the number of acres. 1,293,573, of which
403,000 were bought by 114 English and Sootch pur-
chasers, being the contents of 95 different estates, sold
in separate lots. The purchase money of those lots
amounted to 1,100,000/. Of the 114 purchasers set
down as English and Scotch, eight were Sootoh, the
remaimler being Englishmen, with the exception of one
America". A very interesting table is that which shows
the amount of purchase money invested by each of the
2,455 purchasers. Of purchasers under 1,000/., there
were 1,040, of whom 24 wore English or Scotch; from
1,000/, to 2,000/., 447 purchasers, of whom 18 wore Eng-
lish or Scotch; from 2,000/. to 5,000/., 549 purchasers,
of whom 26 were English or Scotch; from 5,0001. to
10,000/, 314 purchasers, of whom 21 wore English or
Scotch; from 10,0001. to 20,000/., 83 purchasers, of
whom 13 were English or Scotch; at 20,0001. and up-
wards, 22 purchasers, of whom 12 were English or
Scotch; showing an increase in the proportion of English
and Scotch purchasers as the amount of purchase money
increased.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ISIS.—
A distressing and fatal accident occurred on the Isis, on
the afternoon of Friday last, by which a young gentle-
man, just in the prime of life, met with a watery grave.
From the evidence adduced at the inquest before G. V.
Cox, Esq., M.A., coroner for the University of Oxford,
on Saturday morning, it appeared that three undergra-
duate members of Jesus College, Oxford, viz., Messrs
William Llewellyn Howe, R. Kendall, and L. Morris,
hired a boat called a " dingy," and rowed down the Isis
to Abingdon; on their return, and just after passing
Sandford, the wind began to freshen, when they resolved
to hoist the sail, and while in the act of doing this Mr
Howe overbalanced himself and fell in the water; the
sudden movement caused the dingy to sink, tied his two
friends had to swim for their lives. The body of the
deceased was found in about an hour afterwards, and
conveyed to the public-house at Sandford, where the in-
quest was held, and in accordance with the evidence a
v, rdict of " accidentally drowned" was returned. The
deceased had been at college about twelvemonth. fhe
was a native of Cardiff, and has left a widowed mother,
childless, to lament his untimely end.
EXPORTATION OF SPEClE.—ThoCustora-house account
of the shipment of specie and bullion direct from the port
G
of London during the week ending,s Thursday last, is as
follows :—Gold coin: to Hamburg
h, oun cocsns.;c;
St. Potorsburgb, 4,200 ounces; to Belgium, 850 ounces.
Geld bars: to Hamburgh, 6,600 ounces.
4,0005il ounces;
to
to Calais, 70,000 ounces; to
to Belgium, 2,000 ounces. Silver Hamburgh,bars: to Calais,
12,000 ounces. This gives a total of 40,270 ounces of
gold, and 88,000 ounces of silver, of the aggregate value
of about 178,0001. The other shipments include only
17,000/,, in half imperials, by the Ranger, for St. Peters-
burgh, and 19,1651. by the Orinoco, tor the West Indies.
The total exports from the kingdom for the week are
thus raised to about 214,0001., and there is, consequently,
a balance of imports over exports of some 630,0001.,
being a very largo difference.