The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-22 00:00:00

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JANUA Y 22, ISL 2

NAVAL INTELLIGENC, E.

PROMOTIONS.
Second Master—William Stanton (18.t8), late of the
ordinary guard-ship at Portsmouth, has Clem prow Acd
to the rank of master.
Acting Boatswain—Joseph Dennison.
APPOINTMENTS.

Master—F. W. Paul (1841), from the IlLonareh, ordi-
nary guard-ship at Sheerness, has been appointed to the
Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-ship at that port.
Paymaster—H. S. Hooper (1846), late of the Victory
guard-ship at Portsmouth, to the Magioienne, steam
guard-ship at Devonport.
Second Master—J. M. Pridham (1847), late of Ache-
ron steam-sloop, to Magicienne.
Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master-Commander
Pettey, will have her defects completed by the 26th inat.
Intrepid screw-schooner, for Arctic service, will be out
of the engineers' hands on the 23d. Pioneer all be in
hand unsil the sth February.
Magicienne stem-frigate, Captain Ramsay, commis-
sioned as snare guard-ship at Devorport, is to have a
complement of 200 men.
Resistance troop-ship, Master-Commander. Bredshrew,
will be completed for further service, at Woolwich, by
the 24Th instant.
Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lon 3 A.
Fitzelarence, was brought down from her moorini ;3 at
Portsmouth Harbour on Tuesday; she was dime aced,
and will go into dock to refit when the Eurydice
comes out.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The examination of the
preserved meats at the Royal Clarence Victualling
Establishment, Gosport, has concluded. The following
is the result of the entire ineeeention
Total number opened, 6,378; condeined, 5,463; good,
910.
It thus appears that out of 6,378 can%i o
tershoafve"bpereen-
served meat" opened in this inquiry,only
found consumable, the rest having been condemned from
not only the general putridity of their contents, but from
the fact of those contents disclosing the " preservation"
of matters never bargained for by the " high contract-
ing powers." Nor does this large number include all.
It must be borne in mind that about three months or so
ago the agent for the contractor was allowed to carry off
without examination 2,000 canisters of stuff, forming a
portion of the same contract, their smell alone condemn..
ing them in his estimation! The officers who have been
deputed to perform the disgusting task of reporting
upon these discoveries ought to be handsomely rewarded
for their trouble; and now they have completed their
labours, we trust their conclusion here i het a pr.ltlas
to a more rigid and satisfactory inquiry in a higher place.
The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, flag-ship of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean squa-
dron, bent sails this morning, and was afterwards taken
over to the Gosport shore, for the purpose of swinging
for the adjustment of her compasses, Lee.
Tne Edinburgh, 58, screw steam-ship, is being has-
tened with her fitting very expeditiously. Part of her
engine works are on board, and she is being copparei,
preparatory to leaving dock.
A remarkable accident occurred in this dockyard yes-
terday afternoon, which might have been attended with
serious censcquences. A large party of workmen are
employed in preparing the foundation for the new
smithery, and a number of holes are being dug to re-
ceive the columns. These holes are about six feet by
five feet, nine ft et deep, and are lined with wood to pre-
vent the loose earth from falling in. In the one in ques-
tion was a man at work with a pickaxe, and a pair of
horses were engaged close by in hoisting the Mud front
a hole at a further part of the building. The horses
had just drawn up a load of mud and were turning
round, when one of them slipped backwards into the
hole, and dragged the other in on the top of him.
Fortunately there happened to be an iron drain
pipe across one side of the mouth of the hole, which
prevented the horses from falling on the man,
who otherwise would have been crushed beneath them.
He was soon extricated from his perilous situation, and
escaped unhurt, with the exception of a slight, bruise on
the arm. The next thing to be done was to get out the
horses; and after some deliberation two scaffold poles
were erected across the hole, and the uppermost horse
was slung and hoisted to the top, but just at the point of
being lanled he slipped from the slings and again fell on
the top of the other horse. Every one present now
thought both of them were dead; another attempt, how-
ever, was made, and after some time they were both got
out, and neither of them hal received much injury.
PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel
Hecate, Commander Hand, arrived here this morning
from Brest, after a fruitless search for survivors of the
Amazon. She has been cruising on the grounds, as
ordered, but has not fallen in with any portion of the
wreck; neither has she seen the Sprightly or Avon. The
Hecate is ordered to sail again on the same mission
when some repairs to her machinery have been com-
pleted.
Her Majesty's surveying vessel Sparrow arrived on
Sunday from Queenstown; on Monday she went into
harbour to be paid eff.

Iler Majesty's tra❑sport Diligence arrived on Monday
with stores from Wcolwich.

The steamer Shahperi,:42,o tons, Captain Butcher,
built in the Thamas for the Turkish Government, put in
hero to coal on Saturday evening, on her way from Lon-
don to Constantinople. She is expected to sail this after-
noon.

The sloop Tern, of Whitstable, Captain Livingstone,
from Whitstable for Sr. Michael's, in ballast, which put
in here yesterday, reported that about a quarter to four
o'clock on Monday morning, Start Point bearing N. by
W. about seven or eight miles, wind southefly, saw an.
object, to all appearance the bottom or side of a large
ship. Captain W. H. Kennedy, Inspecting Commander
of the Coast Guard for the Plymouth district, immedi-
ately dispatched a revenue cruiser in search, but in con-
sequence cf the hazy and unsettled state of the weather
she returned without effecting any discovery.
The fishing sloop Amelia, Tucker master, belonging
to Mr. Millman, of Plymouth, picked up on Saturday
near the Eddystone, a piece of red pine 22 feet long and
131 by 121 inches thick, burnt about three parts
through, and then, apparently, broken off by some vio-
lent concussion, attached to it was a piece of clear
cross-barred muslin, the fragment of a lady's dress.
The timber is judged to hare been a part of one of
the lower deck beams of the unfortunate mail-packet
Amazon.
The owners of the Amazon, the Royal Mail Steam-
packet Company, through their agents at Plymouth,
Messrs. Fox, Sons, -and Co., have paid the master of the
Dutch galliot Hillecbicna, the sum of_ 60/. and the port
charges incurred, for returning to Eagland with thirteen
of the crew and passengers of the Amazon, picked up at
sea on the evening of
the 4th inst., instead of landing
them at Gibraltar as originally intended.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 21.—The Lightning steam-vessel,
Master-Commander H. W. Allen; left Woolwich to-day,
and will take the authorities on board at Portsmouth,
their object being to visit the harbours of refuge at Jer-
sey and the Channel Islands.

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