The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-23 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Nov. 16 :—Her Majesty's ship Queen,
76, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, left Malta on the 12th inst.
for England, to be paid off, having been in commis•
sion since November, 1859, or just four years.
She took with her a large number of naval and
military supernumeraries, women, and children,
and the crew of the late British bark Star of the
North, wrecked on the 13th of October last. The
Supply, 2, iron screw storeship, Master Commander
Bowden, having discharged the stores she brought
out from England, and shipped condemned stores,
is under orders to leave to-day on return to Wool-
wich. The Magicienne, 16, paddlewheel frigate,
Capt. W. Armytage, proceeded to the Piraeus yes-
terday, with the mail for Marseilles for the squad-
ron. She also takes up £6,000 for the use of the
ships, and a large supply of stores and provisions.
The Gibraltar, 81, Capt. Prevost, is also under
orders for Athens, and is expected to leave for that
station today or to-morrow. The Foxhound, 4,
gunvessel, , Commander W. H. Anderson, arrived
here on Saturday, the 14th inst., from Greece. A
letter by her from the Piteous, of the 9th inst., con-
tains the following naval news :—Her Majesty's
ship Revenge, 73, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
H.R. Yelverton, C. 8., Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley,
is to remain here for the winter, taking under her
orders the Meeanee, 80, Capt. G. Wodehouse, and
three or four small craft; and the Commander-in-
Chief returns to Malta with the St. George, 86,
Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, and the Trafalgar, 70,
Capt. T. Mason. The Foxhound, 4, Commander
W. H. Anderson, leaves to-day or to-morrow morn-
ing for Malta, with a mail. The marines and French
seamen are to be withdrawn from the Bank to-mor-
row, to relieve the Liffey, 35, Captain G. Parker,
ordered to the coast of Syria. The Pelican, 17,
Commander Comber, has gone to Beyrout, to relieve
the Cossack, 20, Capt. R. Rolland, ordered to Malta
The ships here are the Marlborough, 121(bearing the
flag of the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief Robt .
Smart, K.H.) Captain C. Fellowes, the Revenge,
Trafalgar, Chanticleer, Trident, Foxhound, and
Boxer (gunboat); in Salamis Bay, the St. George,
Meeanee, and Orlando, besides the following fo-
reign ships :—French—Algesiras, liner (flag), Ma-
gicienne (flag of the Commander-in-Chief), and two
small craft ; Austrian—two frigates and a gunboat ;
Prussian—iwo gunboats ; Italian—two steam
sloops; Russian—one frigate and one sloop; Tur-
kish—one sloop; also two Greek vessels. All the
foreign ships are lying in the Piraeus, with the ex-
ception of the Russian frigate, which is anchored
at Salamis. The Foxhound left the Piraeus at noon
on the 10th inst. Before her departure the Or-
lando had left for Corfu, and the despatch vessel
Psyche, 2, Lieut.-Commander Sterne, had arrived
from Malta with despatches for the Commander-in-
Chief and a mail for the squadron.
The Prussian corvette Mosquito, 14, Capt.
Haasenstein, which left Plymouth suddenly on
Monday last with the Niobe and Rover for Dant-
sic, put back on Friday afternoon to the Sound
where she will await further instructions from the
Prussian Marine Department. The corvette had
proceeded afar as Deal.
Commodore Thomas Harvey is to have the cap-

tain's good service pension, placed at the disposal
of the First Lord of the Admiralty by the promo-
tion of Capt. Buckle, C. 8., to flag rank.
The following appointments have been made at

,he Admiralty i—Lieut. Herbert C. A. Brand, to

the Defence ; Thomas Burnett, engineer, to the
Fisgard for the Ranger ; W. IL Clarke, assist.-
surg , to the Aurora ; Denis M'Carthy, assist.-surg.
to the Rifleman ; Charles Tucker, chief engineer, to

the Aurora ; J. Rice, engineer, to the Indus, for the
Delight; J. L. Davies, engineer, to the Aurora ;
Edward Carling and J. Forster, assist-engineers, to
Aurora; Lieut. Karl H. A. Mainwaring, Lieut.
Conrad A. Watts, and Lieut. Henry J. Farlie to the
Conqueror; the Rev. E. M. Johnstone, chaplain to
the Liverpool; John Hay (a), paymaster, to the
Conqueror; John Robson, chief engineer to the
Phoebe; Benjamin F. Pine, chief engineer to the
Asia, for the Highflyer ; Thomas W. Moore and
Edward B. Cornish, assist.-paymasters, to the Con-
queror; Edmund G. Ellis, clerk to the Royal
Adelaide; and Thomas Evatt, assist..clerk, to the
Conqueror.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Nov. 21.

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)

The Court sat this day at the Guildhall, Westminster,
for the purpose of hearing rate appeals. The appeals en-
tered for hearing were as follows :—The United Kingdom
Electric Telegraph Company, against a poor rate of the
township of Uxbridge; the Great Central Gas Consumers'
Company, against a poor rate of St Mary, Whitechapel ;
the Metropolitan Railway Company, against a poor rate of
the parish of Marylebone, dated April, 1863 ; and another
appeal by the same company against a poor rate of the
parish of St Sepulchre, for the year 1863,
After a short discussion, the rating of the United King-
dom Electric Telegraph Company in respect of their station
at Uxbridge was confirmed.
THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY, APPEL-
LANTS; THE PARISH OF WHITECHAPEL, RESPONDENTS.
Mr. Clarke appeared for the appellants ; Mr. Metcalfe for
the respondents.

Mr. Clarke said this was an appeal against a rate made
by the overseers of the parish of St Mary, Whitechapel, on
the mains only of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Com-
pany laid down through that parish from the works at Bow-
common to the City of London,where the gas was consumed
The actual expenditure was about £B,OOO, and the company
urged that they ought only to be called upon to pay 4 per
cent., which would be £320,
Mr. Metcalfe having addressed the Court for the parish,
called

Mr. Lee, who proved that a contractor would require 6
per cent, on the outlay, and that there ought to be £l5O in
respect of land, making a total of £530.
The Assistant-Judge, after conferring with the other
magistrates, reduced the rate to £313, and gave taxed costs
incurred since July.

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY, APPELLANTS ;
THE PARISH OF ST MARYLEBONE, RESPONDENTS.
On this case being called on,
Mr. Keane, on the part of the'parish, took a preliminary
objection to the appeal being heard. Under a local act of
Parliament, the appellants against a [rate were required to
go before the vestry and state the grounds of their appeal.
In this case the Metropolitan Railway Company merely
stated that they appealed against the rate, but offered no
reasons why they should not pay it. This omission he held
to be fatal, as the
.appeal was informal, the vestry being
the first tribunal to which the merits of the appeal ought to
have been stated.

Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Cripps argued that this court was
the proper place where the grounds of the appeal should
be heard—that they had given notice of appeal, and were
now come, with all their witnesses, prepared to go into the
question.

The Assistant-Judge held the objection to be fatal, and
dismissed the appeal.

In the appeal of the Metropolitan Railway Company
against a poor rate of St. Sepulchre, the rate was reduced
from £1,250 to £397, by consent, without costs ou either
side.

Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the company, and Mr. Poland
for the parish.

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