The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-08 00:00:00

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In consequence of the great success of the new
national song, "God Bless the Prince of Wales," the pub-
lishers have presented the composer,Mr. Brinley Richards,
with a purse of 100 guineas.

PMLADELPHIA, March 24 —The bark American,
at this port from Port-au-Prince, reports,—Mich
2, off Nicola Male, was boarded by the British gun-
boat Plover, who overhauled the ship's papers
and left. March 3—Was boarded by a boat
abreast of Inagua, which gave information, re-
ceived by a British revenue cutter, that the priva-
teer Retribution was in Crooked Island Passage, and
had taken several American vessels, run them
ashore on Long Island, and discharged their car-
goes. The rebels had sold part of a cargo to mer-
chants on Fortune Island, and chartered and loaded
a schooner with salt to run the blockade. March
11.—In lat. 31 48, long. 75 40, passed a small
schooner bound South, painted white, topmasts
down, having her deck crowded with men in blue
clothing and white caps. Supposed her to be a
privateer. After coming in sight of the American
all the men except three went below, and the
schooner proceeded on her course.
NASSAU, March 11.—By the steamer Bury, which
arrived from Charleston yesterday, we received files
of our exchange papers from that city to the 7th
inst. From the Courser and Mercury we glean the
most important items of intelligence. The Federal
gunboat Flambeau, from the blockading squadron,
steamed towards Sullivan's Island on the 21st ult.
under a flag of truce. "The unusual incident for a
time," says the Mercury," gave rise to much specu-
lation among the wonder-mongers in the city ; but
a boat from Fort Sumter having boarded the Flam-
beau, her mission was ascertained to relate to
nothing more important than the delivery of some
letters, &c., unless, indeed, her commander desired
a closer view of our defences. The letters were
chiefly for the officers of the captured gunboat Isaac
P. Smith." March 15.—The Ruby left yesterday
for a Confodere.te port. Three steamers arrived
yesterday and one this morning from Charleston.
They bring no news of importance. The steamer
Thistle, which ran ashore entering Charleston har-
bour, and it was supposed would be a total loss, has
since been got off, and found to be but little damsged.
She is expected here daily with a cargo of cotton.
Capt. William Ross Postell, formerly in the United
States revenue service, is here in the sloop yacht
Rosalie, with a cargo of cotton_ The steamer
Georgiana is at present at Cochrane's anchorage.
She is a tine modelled vessel, and said to be very fast.
There is not the least doubt of her being intended
as a privateer. She had two heavy guns mounted
when she arrived. The Governor, at the request of
the Consul, ordered her to be searched. The report
returned was that she was an armed merchantman.
The schooner Albert, from Charleston, is reported by
the British schooner Emulous to have been captured
last Thursday north of Abaco, by one of our gun-
boats. She had on board 250 bales of cotton. There
has not been a gunboat off our harbour for a month.
16th.—The Eagle has arrived with cotton from
Wilmington.
BARBADOES, Feb. 25.—Great is the excitement in
this fast-anchored isle of Barbadoes. The Confede-
rate steamer Florida, Captain J. N. Maffit, arrived
here "in distress," asking for coal. It appears that
the above craft has either had a hard mauling or a
rough handling by the " ocean monarch." The town
is full of rumours of the wildest sort in regard to her
operations. One is that she has had two fights with
clipper ships, armed for cruising, and sunk them
both. Captain Maffit was badly wounded in the
first fight, but is now quite well enough to dine with
the Governor yesterday, and was the observed of all
observers. Even the negroes cheered him as he
went up the wharf. Our representative here, Mr.
Trowbridge, repaired to the Governor and loudly
exclaimed against his allowing it to repair in the
port. I understand he used the following words :
"My Lord,—l hereby, in the name of the President
of the United States of America, warn you from
supplying or permitting any of your people aiding
and abetting the rebels. My voice is raised without
power to back it ; but the consequences will one day
or other show themselves to the British Government.
Calling upon all loyal citizens to take notice of my
declaration, my lord, I take my departure." The
Florida privately takes a mail for France and
England. She went out in splendid style.
She is magnificently handled. This is the
truth. I have written just as things are,
not as I wish them. Facts are facts, however
disagreeable. The Governor has hurried off the
Florida, and regretted her appearance. From the
station look-out the Florida was seen at 5 p.m. to
fire three vessels, some 10 miles from the Barbadoes
shore. A large sidewheel steamer, presumed to be
the Vanderbilt,went after the Florida, which seemed
hove to, ready for a muss. We are all excitement
and anxiety here. No cannonading has been re-
ported—only the echo of one or two heavy guns.
Everybody who can get an elevated position is
looking out for the sea fight. One of the vessels
burnt was a splendid guano ship, with guano on
board. The crew are landing. The Florida is now
now seen, all right, steering N. by E. She is bound
for the English Channel.

A large painting, representing "Rotten Raw
during the Season," is still on Mr. Matt Morgan's
easel in his studio, at the gallery, 14, Berners-street. The
equestrians and pedestrians will all be portraits ; the centre
figures on horseback being the Fringe rd Princess of
Wales, wko, it is said, have signified their intention of giv-
ing Mr. Morgan a sitting.
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Cbiet in Cochin-China, despatches dated the 2d
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March, giving an account of the different nai:itary
operations which led to the capture of Go Cong, the
centre of the insurrection which broke out in De-
cember last :
The preparations for that expedition, 'which had
required numerous reconnaissances, could not be
completed until the 25:h February. On the after-
ecou of that day, a column commanded by General
Chaumont landed at the villageof Dung-Son, which
it took possession of, and immediately marched on
the fortifications of Vinh Loi, which were carried,
and the column establis'led itself there. During the
following night, at a signal made by the Oodine, on
board of which Admiral Bonard had hoisted his flag,
all the troops were landed, and at daybreak marched
against the enemy with irresistible enthusiasm.
The columns of attack under the orders of General
Chaumont, composed of French soldiers and sailors,
Spanish troops, and a native battalion, were com-
manded by the Spanish Colonel Palanca, chef-de-
bataillon Pietri, and Lieut. Guys, of the navy. In
spite of the numerous defences which had been raised
by the enemy, all resistance was promptly overcome,
and we remained masters of all the positions. Lines
of works, some of which were not less than five-
eights of a mile in extent and mounted with very
heavy artillery, were carried by our troops. The
Annamites, perceiving the turning movements of our
colums on Go-Cong, tied in all directions, throwing
away their arms and their uniforms. A battery of
several hundred small guns being taken in the rear
fell immediately into our possession. This last
attack, on which the Annamites had not calculated,
and to which they replied by a very warm but ill-
directed cannonade, was attended with the most
complete success. While the troops which had landed
were marching on the enemy's positions, the vessels
destroyed all the forts within their reach. The
Annamites, terrified by those simultaneous attacks,
fled on all sides. The fortress of Go-Cong was thus
occupied on the same day. The following morning
a column under the command of General Chaumont
took possession of the fort of Trai-ca, the last refuge
of the retels. That part of the province of Gia-
diuh, which had been constantly in a state of revolt,
and which had become the centre of the insurrec-
tion, is thus in our power. The bands, which had
taken refuge on that territory, have been dispersed,
and there is every reason to hope that the lesson
they have just received will render it impossible for
them to renew their aggressions, and will destroy
the influence which their chiefs had been momen-
tarily able to exercise over them. While those
operations were being carried on against Go-Cong,
Colonel Loubcae drove away some bands which had
assembled in the forests, and took 1,000 prisoners.
A part of the Mois, a tribe on the boundary of our
territory to the East, and who had been induced to
take part in the insurrection, abandoned the
struggle, and the remainder of the combatants
offered to capitulate. On the other side, chef de
battalion Coquet was relieving Bariah, and scouring
the Prefecture as far as the frontier of Bin-Thuan.
Although our losses have been very trifling, it
would be wrong tojudge by them of the difficulties
attendant on this rapid expedition. Every measure
indicated by a knowledge of the localities and of
the climate had been adopted to lessen the fatigue
of the troops and to shelter them from the fire of the
enemy. The sanitary state is good, but we have to
regret the death of Lieutenant Odet Pellion, of the
navy, who died of an inflammatory complaint on
board the Alarme, before Go-Cong. In these dit-
, ferent expeditions the troops of all arms gave proof
of the greatest courage and devotedness. Tne
fidelity and discipline of the native battalion were
remarked in all the affairs in which it was
engaged."
After those different successes, Admiral Bonard
returned to Saigon, whence he had sent the Forbin
steamer to Hue to inform the King of Annam of the
arrival of Captain Triceult, with the ratification of
the treaty of the nth June, 1862.

HEALTH Or LONDON.

(From the Registrar General's Report.)

In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths
in London were 1,475. They were less in number
by 119 than they were in the previous week. The
average number of deaths in the corresponding
weeks of ten previous years 185362 is, with a cor-
rection for increasing population, 1,368. The num-
ber returned for last week is therefore greater by 107
than the number estimated for the first week of April.
There were 45 fatal cases of small-pox recorded
in the week, and 51 measles. Both these diseases
appear to prevail much in the sub-district of St.
John, Westminster, where there were 4 deaths from
small-pox, and 8 from measles. Small-pox was
fatal in 4 cases in the sub-district of St. Giles South;
and measles in 5 cases in that of Kensington town.
The deaths from sc,rlatina rose to 80; and of these
4 occurred in Limehouse, 4 in the sub-district of
St. Peter, Walworth, and 4 in Battersea. The
registrar of Pentonville states that small-pox be-
gins to prevail much in his district, and he com-
plains of the great neglect of vaccination.
A child, aged 20 months, was poisoned by suck-
ing lucifer matches. A boy, 15 years old, a convict
in the House of Correction, Wandsworth, hanged
himself. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of
felo de se.
Last week the births of 955 boys and 1,017 girls.
in all 1,972 children, were registered in 1 ondon.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1853.62
the average number (corrected) was 1,924.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29914 in.
The readings fell to 29.65 in. on Sunday ; they rose
to 30.10 in. on Tuesday and Friday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 45.3 deg.,
which is 1.5 deg. above the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
On Sunday the mean temperature was 8.8 deg.
above the average of the same day, but on three
days it was below the average. The temperature
was below the freezing point of water in three in-
stances ; the lowest was 28.3 deg. on -Wednesday.
The highest day temperature was 61 deg. on Fri-
day. The range of temperature in the week was,
therefore, 32.7 deg. The mean daily rangere7oafe
20 9 deg. The mean of the highest tempieorwa
eat was
the Thames was 49.1 deg.; that of
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point temperature and air temperaturehebew:s 7'l deg,
and on the
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In the 13 weeks that ended Saturday, 28th March,
the deaths in London were 18,967, of which 9,485
occurred under 20 years of age. The mean tempe-
rature of the air in the quarter was 42.5 deg., which
is considerably higher than that of any of the three
corresponding quarters in 1860-2. In the corre-
sponding quarter of 1861, when the mean tempera-
ture was 39.7 deg,, the deaths wire 18,965, almost
exactly the same number as in last quarter ; but
they occurred in a less population, and represent
therefore a higher rate of mortality. The last three
weeks of March in this year witnessed a very heavy
mortality; the weekly deaths ranged from 1,561 to
1,624, and exceeded those re3orded in any of the
previous ten weeks of the quarter. A remarkable
fluctuation of the temperature was experienced; for
the mean rose as high as 47.3 deg. in the tenth week
of the quarter, and fell in the next week to 38.1 deg.
It was only in one other week, namely, the thir-
teenth, that the mean weekly temperature was as
high as 47.3 deg.; and only another instance oc-

The Duke of SJmerset, as First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, will hold levees for the reception of officers
of the Royal Navy on Thursday, the 16th and 23d
inst., at half-past 2. Officers wishing to attend arc
requested to insert their names, stating their rank
and seniority, either personally or through their
agent, in a book left with the hall-porter at the Ad-
miralty, Whitehall, for that purpose.
Orders have been received at Sheerness to fit her
Majesty's screw steam frigate Leander, 51, 400-
horse power, with commander's and secretary's
cabins. It is supposed that she will shortly hoist a
commodore's broad pennant, and proceea to the Pa-
cific to relieve the Topaze, 39, Commodore the Hon.
J. W. S. Spencer. The Leander was taken out of
dock on Tuesday, and to-day will be removed from
the basin in Sheerness d3ckyard to her moorings in
the harbour, to prepare for immediate commission.
In order to hasten the completion of the iron fri-
gate Achilles, 50, 6,080 tons, building at Chatham,
in readiness for her being floated out of the dock in
which she is under construction by the close of the
present year, all the avail“ble strength of the dock-
yard is now engaged upon ber, Chatham yard just
now presents the unusual spectacle of every hand
belonging to the establishment being employed on
iron ships, with the exception of a few men engaged
in completing the mahogany-built paddlewheel Ad-
miralty despatch steamer, which will be launched
during the approaching summer. At present there
are between 1,200 and 1,300 mechanics, shipwrights,
engineers, and other workmen engaged on the
Achilles, the wholeof whom have commenced work-
ing extra hours. This practice will be continued
during the spring and summer, in order that no un-
necessary delay may occur in having the first iron
vessel built at either of the Government yards com-
pleted and launched. This body of workmen is the
largest ever employed at one time on any single vessel
at either of the royal yards, and under their exertions
the progress made is very great. A considerable por-
tion of the broadsides, on both the port and star-
board sides, for a length of some 200 feet, is covered
with the 20-inch teak planking, on which the slabs
of iron are bolted as fast as they are prepared in the
adjoining factory. Already four rows of the ar-
mour-plates are bolted to the ship's sides for some
considerable distance, but this portion of the work
is of necessity subject to delay from the time em-
ployed in slotting, planing, and otherwise prepar-
ing the massive slabs of iron. Some considerable
delay is also occasioned from the circumstance of
there being no machinery and appliances at
Chatham dockyard for galvanising the iron bolts
used in securing the plates to the exterior of the
ship, each bolt after being manufactured having to
be sent to a private factory to undergo the process
of galvanising by Tupper's plan. The armour-
plates now being used in plating the Achilles arc
the ordinary 41-inch 80-cwt. slabs, most of those
already fixed being of rolled iron from the Park-
gate Works, Yorkshire, which have supplied the
greater portion of the iron plates now in store at
Chatham dockyard. Unlike the Warrior and the
Black Prince, the Achilles will be furnished with
four masts, each of which will be of iron.
The screw corvette Orpheus, 21, 400-horse power,
the news of the total wreck of which has been re-
ceived, was one of the most recent of the corvette
from the
wase
class of vessels built at Chatham dockyard, and was
June,iaun 60 Sheconsidered
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finest
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of
description of vessel ever constructed, and was built
under the personal superintendence of Mr. O. W.
Lang, the present master-shipbuilder at Chatham,
from the designs of Sir Baldwin Walker, the then
Controller of the Navy. Her dimensions were :
Extreme length, 226 ft. 6in ; the extreme breadth,
40ft. Bin.; depth in hold, 24ft. 2in. ; burden, 1,705
tons. She was fitted with a pair of 400 horse power
engines by Messrs. Humphreys, Tennant,.and Co.
As this was the first voyage, the greatest interest
was experienced for her success, and the news of her
wreck was received with the deepest regret.
Rear-Admiral Horatio T. Austin, C. 8., yesterday
hoisted his flag (white at the mizen) on board the
Fisgard at Woolwich, on taking up his appoint-
ment as Admiral Superintendent of Malta dockyard.
Her Majesty's screw corvette Archer, 13 guns,
commissioned at Woolwich, yesterday steamed cut
of the fitting basin at Woolwich in readiness for
sea, with her full complement of officers and crew,
except the captain, who has not been gazetted. The
appointment, it is stated, will be given to Captain
Norman B. Bedingfeld, promoted on paying off the
Prometheus.
The steam storeship Rhadamanthus, laden with
boilers and machinery for the Ocean, and other
stores, sailed yesterday from .I"Voolwich for Devon-
port. 50 second-class lads also took passengers to
join the receiving-ship Impregnable. In conse-
quence of a rumour which has been afloat for some
time past, to the effect that scarlet fever is raging
on board the Impregnable, a large number of letters
have been received on board the Fisgard from the
parents of lads now serving in the Impregnable,
stating their anxiety as regards the fate of their
sons. The rumour is without foundation. A ff'w
slight cases occurred in the training.ship
h ri-empPort.
cable, which no doubt gave risetothale
Both ships are now in an exceedinglyhealthy state •
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :--W. Hewlett, master, to the
;
Valorous ;J. Feeley, paymaster, to the Valorous
R. L. Harries, assistant-paymaster, to the Valorous ;
J. Aylen, second master, to the Jaseur ; and G. F.
C. Sceales, clerk, to the Valorous.

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TEAS EVENING, April 8, for the 349th tame in London,
PEEP O'DAY. Nevi's. Henry Lorraine, Walter Lacy, C.
Verner, Addison, J. (graham. G. Spencer, T. Neville, &O.;
Misses Cleveland, Clara Weston, M. Hudson, &c.
To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia
Thompson.