The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-14 00:00:00

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NEWSPAPER
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fever was prevailing there, bilt;that; ,-4.--,
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ceed on his voyage. At 6 i tle tnOiiiitiirM-i: Z 1
nesday Captain Jones, havin '.l44.4.siciOrnif ,
spoke a branch pilot in Morant az,,wild tifirVikd
take a letter to the Mayor of Morai%forae Ulgted
States Consutat Kingston. Captain Sartori wrote
to the mayor, telling him it was very important the
letter should be despatched at once, and he his no,
doubt the consul got the paper by 12 o'clock tlif-

same day. Neither the pilot or the mayor were
informed of the contents of the letter, or of the cc-
currences here detailed. If the consul is not afraid
of taking responsibilities, as he should not be, in
such important matters, he chartered a vesspl,
and a steam one, if possible, to take the news
to Santiago de Cuba, a short distance from
which there is a telegraph to Havannqn, and
where there may have been some United Staten;'
war-steamers. All the officers and passengers IT.
have talked with say that Lieut. Low acted in they

most gentlemanly, and even courteous manner,

Capt. .Tones says the same of Capt. Semmes. • In fae
all the Ariel's folks appear to have been perketl

fascinated and enchanted by Lieut. Low. He soltheei
the ladiee, patted the children on the head, kissed
the ugliest-looking as well as the prettiest babies,
and made himself generally agreeable. Ho told
Capt. Sartori he did only his duty in molesting the
Ariel, and remarked, " You, Captain Sartori, would
do the same thing were your country treated so out-
rageously as mine has been." He allowed Captain
Sartori to keep a favourite fowling-piece he had
with him, and did many other gracious things. All
great villains, if they are smart, are courteous. Had
the 100-lb. shell gone through the Ariel, the pas-
sengers, what there would have been left of them,
would have thought differently of their captor. Capt.
Semmes, in his conversation with Capt. Jones, talked
a good deal about the Pacific, and knew all about:

our ships-of-war there. Capt. Jones thinks that
when the West Indies gets too hot for him, he will
turn up in our waters here, but I think not.
He might make a raid upon our whalers, and he
says he is particularly anxious to cripple New
England men—but the facilities for such business
as his are much less on the Pacific than on the At-
lantic. The thing that seemed to trouble him most

was the impossibility of his burning Vanderbilt'6
ship, which he could not do on account of her pas-
sengers. The fact is, he had won an elephant in a
raffle. He could not drop them down in any desert
place, and he knew he could not land them in
Kingston, or in the port of any powerful nation.
Captain Semmes told Captain Jones that he coaled
last at Martinique, that when he left the port the
San Jacinto trained a gun upon him, when the fort
immediately trained her guns upon the San Jacinto,
and she desisted from the attack. I wouldn't like

;o say that Captain Semmes is a fool, in the face of
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many evidences to the contrary ; but in scaring his

bird before he got fat, he has lost the chance of a

good dinner a little later. Had he waited till the
Ariel returned he might have got a million or so of
dollars from her. Now she will not give him a

chance. And while he was fiddling with the Ariel
he lost the Champion, which passed through the

Islands on the 9th.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Admiralty orders have been received at'Chatham
directing the screw corvette Coesack, 20,1;6 tons,
250 horse power, to be supplied with the following
armament—viz., on the upperdeek two.llo plunder
Armstrong pivot guns, each of 81 cwt. ; and on the
main deck four 40 pounder Armstrong's, and 14 8
inch 60 cwt. smooth bore guns.,Her bpat armament
will consist of one 12 pounder Armstrong, and one
12 pounder howitzer. Her shot and eller Will be
supplied in the following proliortiohni--440)f the
common, and 140 ofthiisegmentlito pounder 'Arms-
strong shell ; 100 common; and the same number of
segment 40 pounder Armstrong shell; 50 boxes Gf
the 12 pounder segment shell; and 380 filled and
740 empty of the 8 inch common shell. Her solid
shot will include 100 of 110 pounder, 120 of the 41
pounder, and 50 of the 12 poander Airithtlietiks. A.
second order directs the paddlewheel steam sloop
Salamander, 6,818 tons, 220 horse power, to bo
armed with one 110 pounder Armstrong pivot gur:,
and one 10 inch smooth-bore gun on the upper deck,
and four 32 pounders, each of 25 cwt., on slides otx
the main deck. She is also to be furnished with
two 12 pounder Armstrongs, and 12 pounder hovvi:.-
zer for her paddlebox boats. Her solid and hollow'
shot will include 70 110 pounder common, and the
same number of the segment 110 pounder Arm-
strong shell; 75 boxes and 300 loose 12 pounder
Armstrong shells, 60 filled and 60 empty of the 10
inch shell, 40 32 pounder filled shells, and 60 10
inch hollow shot. The slides and fighting thwarts
for launches are in future to be made stronger. The
Salamander is required to be ready to be commis-
sioned by Sept. 1, 1863.
The Pylades, 21 guns, screw-corvette, 350 horse-
power, and 1,278 tons, Capt. Arthur W. A. Hood,
sailed from Spithead at an early hour yesterday
morning for the North American station to join the
squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir
Alexander Milne, K.C.B.
The Imperieuse, 51 guns, screw-frigate, Captain.
Robert Gibson (acting), is expected to arrive at
Spithead from the East Indies and China about the
end of the last week in April. Her term of foreign
service having expired, she will, on arrival, be taken
into port, dismantled, and paid out of commission.
The Enchantress, paddle-yacht, of 836 tons, and
250 horse-power,fitting in the steam basin of Ports-
mouth dockyard with her engines and boilers by
Messrs. John Penn and Son, of Greenwich, will be
ready to make her official trial of speed at the mea-
sured mile in:Stokes Bay by the 21st or 22d inst.

The Prince of Wales's yacht, Osborne, has com-
menced the repairs of her paddle-shaft and other
portions of her machinery in the steam basin of
Portsmouth dockyard. The Bulldog, 6 gun, paddle-
sloop, of 1,124 tons, and 500 horse-power, has also
been taken into ,the basin for repairs to her machi-
nery, preparatory to bringing her forward for com-
mission.

Mr. Edward Higgens was yesterday nominated
to a naval cadetship, and Edwin R. S. Sandys,
clerk, appointed to the Russell.
Capt. Wm. Cornwallis Aldham, C. 8., has been
appointed Captain of Greenwich Hospital, in the
place of Capt. Wm. A. Willis, deceased.
Lieut. Spencer R. Huntley, R.N., was yes ter ay
appointed to H.M.S. Osprey.
A captain's good service pension is placed at the
disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty, by C pt.
W. C. Aldham accepting the vacancy caused at
Greenwich Hospital by the death of Capt. Willis.