The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Theo naval service will feel pleased to hear that the
First Lord has appointed Commander Corbet, who was
promoted for his desperate gallantry at the late san-
guinary of at Lagos, and in which he was most
dangerously woundLd, to be the Admiralty agent in the
General Screw Steam Company's ship Mauritius, to
convey the mails to the Cape, Mauritius, and Calcutta,
on the 15th instant.

Lieut. Thomas W. Langton (1823), now Admiralty
agent in the contract mail-packet service, has been pro-
moted to the rank of commander cn the resolved half-
pay list, vice Nepean, doceased.
We stated on Thursday that Commodore Lord Adol-
phus Fitz:darence hoisted his red broad pendant as a
first-class commodore at Portsmouth; we may now add,
that in compliment to this worthy and gallant officer and
Captain Crispin on their promotion, the whole of tho
officers of the Royal yachts, including those of the Fairy
and Eltin, entertained teem at a sumptuous dinner on
board the Royal George. Commander the lion. R.
Curzon, recently promoted from the Royal yacht, went
down from London on purpose to join the officers in
given the dinner. Between 20 and 30 sat down, and we
hear it was a must convivial and happy party. Yester-
day evening the noble commodore and Captain Crispin
had the honoac of dining with Admiral Sir Thomas
Briiiigs, the Commander-in-Chief, who mitertaitica the
captains of the ships in commission, and a largo party
of naval officers, in honour of big lordship's promotion.
The broad pendant will be struck at sunset on Satur-
day, when Lord Adolphus leaves for town.
Midshipmen—Messrs. Lane, Phillimoro, and Challis,
passed their examination for seamanship, on beard the
Victory, on Wednesday ; and Mr. Benton, assistant-
manrcr, passed for second master.

The 81-gun screw-ehip Sansnareil, Captain Dacres,
left Plymouth Sound on Thursday morning, on a trial
trip in the Channel, and returned ut 4.30 p.m.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 5. '
The Duke of Wellington, 131, has been warped from the
steam• basin into dock to-day, to be coppered and have
her machinery fitted.
The Dvina, Russian corvette, arrived at Spithead to-
day from tha erstward. She anchored in the quaran•
tine ground in the Motherbank, and saluted the national
flag with 21 guns and the Port-Admiral with 17, which
compliments were duly returned by the Platform Bat-
tery and the flag-ship.
The Northumberland line-of-packet ship arrived at
Spithead this morning from the Thames, on her way
to New York.
The Dudbrook, hired convict-ship, arrived at Spit-
head this morning from the Thames, to embark pri-
soners for transportation.
The Sharpshooter, 8, iron steam•vessel, Lieutenant
Pariah, hauled out of deck this afternoon fully rigged.
Avon, steamer, Master Commander Veiteh, arrived r t
Portsmouth from Plymouth yesterday morning, and
sailed again on her return in the afternoon, bringing up
and taking dogs zupernuraeraries.

SHEERNESS, FRIDAY.
Her Majesty's screw steam line -of-battle ship Aga-
memnon, 91, Captain Fit: Thomas Maitland, will be com-
plete in her rig by the end of the ensuing week, and
tally Equipped by the latter part of Docetaber. She has
owned half her complement of men.

Her Majesty's paiidle-wheel steam-vessel Porcupice,
3, Lieutenant-Commanding George M. Jackson, has
made good her defects and is reported ready for sea by
Tues Joy next.
Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Miranda, 14, will be
complete in her fittings as an advanced steamer of the
reserve squadron by the 24th inst.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Tartan-la,
Lieutenant-Commanding R. 11. Risk, having been re-
fitted at Chatham, steamed down the Medway on the 2d
inst as far as the Fortitude, coal-der Having takon
on board a full eupp!y of fuel, :,he came into harbour
next morning, and was swung for the purrh,e of ascer-
taining the deviation of her compasses. Yesterday at
9.30 a m. she proceeded to the anchorage at the Little
Nore, where her crew wore paid their wages. She is to
sail to-day for the coast of Scotland, to resume the ser-
vice of protecting the fisheries.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Myrtle, Mr.
W. S. Bourchier Master Commanding, will shortly Le
ready to leave the discharging-basin and resume her du•
ties as tender to the Monarch, 84, Captain C. Hope.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Avon, tender to the Im-
pregnable, Mr. Alfred Veitch, Second-Master Command-
ing, arrived yesterday at noon with supetaumersril s.
Atter disembarking them aho proceeded to the we:;t-
ward.

Her Majesty's steam-venal Lizard left port yesterday
forenoon for Chatham.

Her Majesty's brig Sappho, 12, Commander A. A.
Cochrane, was paid off at Chath6rn ou the tad inst.
The seamen of the Horatio, screw steam-guardsbip,
received yesterday their wages for extra duties.

THE CAPTAIN'S GOOD SERVICE PENSION.
We arc glad to be able to announce that His Grace
the First Lord of the Admiralty has conferred the vacant
good service pension, relinquished by the promotion of
Rear Admiral Sir John Frankin, on that gallant anal
distinguished officer, Captain Ryder Barton, K.H.(1822.)
As stated in O'Byrne's " Naval Biog.raph of the late
y"—
James Ryder Burton, born in 1795,s of
Bishop of Killala, a collateral descendant of Fras. Pwife
pont Burton, first Lord Conyngbara (whose first
was a niece of Dudley Ryder, first Lord Het rowby), and
cousin of the late Admiral Sir Robert Otway, 13art.,
May 12, 1806,
G.C.B. This officer entered the Navy,
as a volunteer, on board the Pearl, Lieut.-Commander
Charles Woodger, lying at Portsmouth, and f rem Octo-
ber following until December, 1812, served with Captain
Charles Malcolm, in the Narcissus and Rhin frigates,
the last four years as midshipman and master's mato.
While so attached, we find him, in 1809, conveying to
the West Indies the timely intelligence of the French
,hChannel,
French fleet having loft Brest, and assisting
at therit capture of
i
the Saintes; next, on his return to the B
contributing to the capture of four
privateers,
carrying, in the whole, 58 guns, arid 310
finally, while in active co-operation with men; and,
in
an
the north coast of Spain, receiving a desperate gun-shot
the patriots on
wound in the left side attack on the town of
K
Castro, July 12, 1812, owing
to which misfortune he was
obliged to invalid, and
remain for several months at
Plymouth Hospital. His promotion to the rank of
Lieutenant taking place Feb
capacity, on July 22nd following,22, Cap-
tain Richard Plummer Davies, the Garland,
to serve, off Lisbon and C with whom he continued
and Adriatic, until paid Cadiz, and in the Mediterranean
appointed to the Albion, off iu Feb., 1816. He was then
of Lord Exmouth's ft on, 74, Captain John Cood3, ono
eet at the subsequent bombardment
1 of Algiers, where he volunteered the command of No

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191 gut-boat. forth. purpose of dastroying the shipping
inside the Mole ; and in September, 1817, he again
invalided from the eg ets of his former wound. From
August 5, 1818, until d'aeharged, June 14, 1819. Alr.
Burton next served, as flag-lieutenant to his relative
Rear-Admiral Ozway, is the Vengeance, 74, on the Lcith
station, an din Nov. 27, in the latter }ear, be wan pro-
moted by the Admiralty to the rank of commander, as a
coward for an invention for propelling ships of war
during a calm. His last appointment was May 23,1823,
to the command of the Camel:am brig, of 10 guns. in
which, after an attendance of some time on George IV.,
he was dispatched, early in 1824, to Algiers, in order to
convey thence the British Consul, to whom the Dey had
offered a serious indignity. On working out of the Bay, in
company with the Naiad frigate. Captain Burton fell in
with an Alg.,,erine corvette, the Tripoli, of IS guns, and
100 men, and. after a close and most gallant action, under
the very batteries of' the place, boarded and carried her.
His conspicuous conduct on the occasion was rewarded,
immediately on his arrival in England, with a post com-
mission, dated Feb. 23, 1824. Captain Burton was no-
minated a K.H. Jan. 1, 1337. A pension for his wound
(from which the ball has never been extracted) of
91/ 55., awarded him in 1818, has been of late increased
to 150/. He married July 2, 1822, Anna Maria, young-
est daughter of the late Lord Dunsany, widow of Philip
Roche, Esq., and mother-in-law of Lords Trimlestowa
and Louth, by whom he has an only son, Francis Adol-
phus Plunkett Burton.
Captain Ryder Burton has served afloat 13 years
since his first entry into the service, and although ho
has not been so fortunate as to obtain employment since
his promotion to his post rank, he has ever evinced an
esprit de corps which bas distinguished him among his
brother officers, and he has always been foremost
amongst those who have incessantly laboured to improve
the navy in all its departments, and to induce the Ad-
miralty to build a class of ships of such tcnnage, and
mounteinogntgundg
guns of such icalibre, as to render them capa-
ble of contending
men-of-war whiocrt h,eciwneala are glad msh
,enareemnyo—wabcelinsgs
built in our dockyards. ot
find,

NAVAL AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE QUEEN.
The Duke of Northumberland has conferred the va-
crut appointment of naval aide-de•camp to the Queen on
Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford (1825), flag-captain
to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8., the
commander-in-chief at Sheerness. Captain Stopford is
the 14th on the list of the senior captains; and there are
now only three officers senior to Captain Stopford on the
list who do not hold good-service pensions or appoint-
ments of naval aides-de-camp.
The Honourable Montague Stopford, born November
11, 1798, is fourth son of John George, third Earl of
Courtown, K.P., by Mary, eldest daughter of Henry,
third Duke of Buecleuch ; brother (with the present
Peer) of Lieut -Colonel Hon. Edward Stopford, who
died sth July, 1840 ; and nephew of the late Admiral
Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., G.C.M.G. This
officer entered the navy October 8, 1810, as first.class
volunteer, on board the Scipion, 74, Captain James
Johnson, bearing the flag at the Cape of Good Hope
of his uncle Hon. Robert Stopford, under whom, in the
ensuing year, he assisted as midshipman at the con-
quest of the island of Java. After serving for 12 months
at the Cape with Captain Henderson Bain in the Lion,
64, he returned home in the early part of 1813 in the
President, 38, Captain Samuel Warren. On his arrival
he was placed as a supernumerary in the Trent, Capt.
Jones, lying at Cork ; and in the course of the same
year he was sent in the Leonidas, 38, Captain George
Francis Seymour, to the West Indies, where he remained
until September, 1814. He next, in June and Decem-
ber, 1815. joined the 'ronnaut, 80, fitting at Plymouth
for the flag of Sir Benjamin Hallowell, and Alceste,
38, Captain Murray Maxwell. In the latter ship he
accompanied Lord Amherst in his embagsy to China,
and was wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on his pas-
sage home .Cubruary 18, 1817. In October, 1819, at
which period he had been serving for six months on the
Haiifax station in the Newcastle, 60, flag-ship of Rear-
Admiral Edward Griffith, he was presented with a
commission, dated July 17, preceding. He was appointed,
Feb. 24, 1820, to the William and Mary yacht. Cap-
tains Andrew Sproule, John Philiimore, and William
Bowles, employed on the attendance on the Lord-Lieute-
nant of Ireland; was promoted January 29.1322, to the
rank of commander; and of April 8,1825, atter having
served for about fourteen months in that capacity in the
Algerine, 10, in the Mediterranean, was advanced to
pest-rank. He subsequently, from August 1, 1842, until
paid off in 1846, commanded the Pique,36, on the North
America and West India station. Captain Stopford mar-
ried, August 25, 1827, Cordelia Winifreda, second
daughter of Major-General Sir George Whitmore, Kt.,
K,C.H., then colonel commandant of the Royal Engin-
eers iu the island of Malts. By that lady he had issue.

7HE BEDFORD FAMILY AND 7IIE PRO-

PERTY OF THE CHURCH:

Now that so much is being said by the " religious
equality" men and others, respecting a re-adjustment of
ecclesiastical revenues, it may be interesting to the pub-
lic to he informed how the ex-Premier, Lord John
Russell, stands affe 3t,CCI in this regard. We can advance
some " considerations" which must naturally weigh
somewhat with the noble lord, when the question comes
fully before the country. The following facts are taken
from authorities which cannot ha aceesed of hostility to
the Church, and are worthy of reception for their accu-
racy:—
At Castle Hymel, or Finnoshead, in the parish of
Laxhon, county of Northampton, stood a Priory of
Austin (black) canons, founded in the beginning of King
John's reign, dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary. In
26th Henry VIII. it was rated at 621. 165., end seven
years later (33d henry VIII.) it was granted to " John,
Lord Russell." The probable present value is com-
puted at 3,847/. a year.
The Carthu,ian priory of Mountgrnce, in Yorkshire,
was founded in 1396, end dedicated to the Blessed
Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas, and endowed with the
manor of Bordelly, and Richard lIT granted it to the
lands and possessions of the three alien priories. Value
at the dissolution 3821. sa. 11d. a year. The site of this
priory was granted in 32d Henry VIII., to one James
Strangeweyes; but a large share of the territorial Pro-
perty was granted to " John, Lord Russell." Houghton-
on-the-Hill was attached to this priory, of which the
present annual value is computed at 5,0001.,—t0tal value
of the whole probably about 13,0001. This property
has by marriage or purchase now passed into other
hands.
At Woburn, in the county of Beds, there was an abbey
of Cistercian Monks, to the honour of the blessed Virgin
Mary, the iucomo of which, in the time of Henry VIII.,
was 4301135. Ild. The site, and a great part of the lands,
was granted by Edward VI. to" John, Lord Russell."
Woburn Abbey is well known, and its present probable
value is about 27,0001.
At Mcichburn, in the same county, was a preceptory
of the Knights Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusalem,
given to them by the then Countess of Pembroke, with
lands attached to the value of 2421. a year. In 3rd Ed-
ward VI. this was granted to John, Earl of Bedford.
The present probable velue is 13.0001. a year.
shire , too
Bcaulieu Abbey, in the New Forest,
ancient De belle loco regis, or " Benley," was an abbey of
Llamp
Chaercian monks, beat by King John in 1204, and en-
dowed for the suoport of thirty movies to the honour
of the Blessed Virgin M.ery. At the dissolu-
tion it was worth 429/, The silo was granted
30th Henry VIII , to Thomas Wriotheeley,
The famous hero of the Whigs, Lord William Russell,
executed for treason in 1683, married Ledy Rachel
Wriothesley, the heiress of her father's property, rho
was a descendant of the above Thomas riothesley; so
that the family of that " deserving servant" of Henry
VIII., became eventually also possessed of this fine pro-
perty, now worth nearly 30,0001. a year.
Duoltswell Abbey, Devonshire, vented in 26th
Henry VIII., to John, L'rd Russell, was then worth
2291., now it is worth 19,0001.
Tevistoek Abbey, in the same county, was granted
five years after to the same fortueute person, value then
9031., now about 57,7121.
There is also a house of Dem;nican preaching friars,
which tile ancient chronicler describes as being " on the'
north side of the cemetorie of the cathedral of Exeter
but without Ihe close," erected in the time of Ed
31swardt of
L,
suppressed in 1538, and granted July
Henry VIII., to John, Lord Russell. The present value
4, in the
of this house of " Blake Freres," as Leland calls it, is
l
w22i t ,
un-
known. It is now called " Beadtfog. gioeortixasetle",,C,a9nprdpn.
Soule other church property
said to have been absorbed in rho same direction,
been valued at 10,C00/. a Benedictine
Thorney Abbey, Cambridgesthniisirit,h,.
eedn.,•asw
establishment, founded and fun. prior end
‘;aof e stltio"thevalue at 4121.,
Speed'se4v:raasla eat
an.:°ol bye °/.nr gBs7
Greateri g
partu hll lands, with the site,
was granted, in the third of Edward VI., to John, Earl
of Bedford. It has been stated that there are in this
parish 19,000 acres of land, whose average annual value
is 27e. per acre. If so, the whole is worth 25,0001.
a year. Then there is Covent-garden, said to be worth 10,000/.
a year.
f-
rhototal present value of Church property granted
to the Bedford family, and moat of which is still pos-
-200,000/.—Morning Advertiser.
sessed by them, is nearly

NEW FRENCH RAILWAY.—A nother large French
railway is on the market, ender the designation of the
" South-Eastern Railway of France." The lino is to
embranch at two points upon VI) ParN and Lyons Rail-
way—viz., at Macon and Lyons. From Lyons it will
proceed to Geneva, by Amberieux, St. Rambert, Cubes,
and Fort L'Eclusei and from •Culoz through Aix in
Savoy to Chambery, to unite with the railway deter-
mined upon by the Sardinian Government to Illoosne,
at the foot of Mount Cenis. A glance at the map will
show that this line is, as the prospectus states, a neces-
sary complement to the French railway system,
.yatemi end it
is also apparent that it must become the direct route for
a very extensive traffic. The capital is fixed at
65,000,000 fr. (2,600,0001.), of which 600,0001. is to l!e
raised by debentures, and the remaining 2,000,0004 in
201. shares. Of this share capital, the London market is
to supply one half. The tender to be made by the com-
pany
to the French Government is to be upon the ex-
press condition that the State shallguarantee a four per
cent. interest, besides a sinking land.
NEW KENTISII RAILWAY.—Another now home line
has been projected under the title of the " Chatham and
Canterbury Local Reil iyay." This line is to commence
ahtem Chatham,,
end, pas,ing through Brompton, Gillinge
gum, Milton, Sittingbourne,
Rainbam,
.Newin
Faversham, and. tneintervening villages, will join the
South-Eastern line at Chilham, being a total distance of
24 miles. The capital is fixed at 300,0001., of which
one-third is to be subscribed by the contractors, and
upon this latter sum there will be no dividends till the
ordinary proprietors have received 5 per cent.