The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17.
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., the
Commander-in-Chief, went out to Spithead this after-
noon, with his flag flying, on board the Fanny yacht,
' Second Master Scarlett ih charge, and inspected the
Sidon, 22, paddle steam-frigate, Captain Goldsmith.
The Sidon the Odin, 16, paddle-frigate, Captain Francis
Scott, and the Leopard, 12, paddle-frigate, Captain
George- diffard, got up steam this afternoon, at 3 16,
and stood out to the westward under all sail. The Sidon
took the lead with Sir Thomas Coehrane's flag flying at
the fore. They appear to have gone on a short cruise
only, as the Port Admiral's yacht is awaiting his return
at Spithead.

The Duke of Wellington, screw three-decker, 131,
Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., has received her new
figurehead, which is an admirable likeness of the late
Duke of Wellington, by Mr. Hellyer, of this dockyard.
The Illustrious, 72, having been partly re-coppered,
as a floating battery for Spithead, was undocked this
afternoon.

-
The ship's company of the Agamemnon, 91, Captain
Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., are not yet convalescent,
several fresh cases having broken out this week.
The Fire Queen, steam-tender to Victory, Master
Commander W. F. Paul, having been docked this morn-
ing, an opportunity was afforded of getting under and
examining her bottom. Hay's composition had been
applied upwards of a twelvemonth, the Fire Queen hav-
ing been afloat the whole time, and we found on in-
spection that nothing save a little slimy dirt was visible,
and which, in one hour, was scrubbed off by birch-
brooms, leaving her bottom perfectly fair and as clean as
though it had been black leaded. Her commanding
officer, Mr. Paul, has made application to hare the
inside bottom of the vessel coated with this excellent
preventive to rust from the iron work.

THE SCREW FLEET.
We understand that in the course of the next three
months we shall have a very strong addition to our fleet
screw-line-of-battle ships. The St. Jean d'Acre, 101,
will be launched at Devonport on the 23d instant. The
James Watt, 91, will be launched at Pembroke in the
course of" next month. The Royal George, 120, will be
completed at Chatham by the 30th of next month. The
Royal Albert, 131, at Woolwich ; and the Hannibal,
91, at Deptford, will be launched about next June.
The armament of the Sanspariel, 81, at Devonport, is
to be reduced to 70 guns. It was originally intended
after she had been advanced on the stocks as an 84-gun
ship that she should be converted into a 60-gun frigate,
and yet she was subsequently an 81-gun screw-ship.
We must not regard her as a regularly designed screw-
ship, but as an experiment in conversion. She would
have done better, perhaps, if Captain Dacres's health
had been good ; but this is the fault of the Admiralty in
not giving an experimental ship a commander equal in
every respect to the working out of the qualities of the
experiment.

The Illustrious, old 72-gun ship, in course of adap-
tation,is to have an armament of 39 broadside guns and
one pivot, so that she
will be enabled to fight 20
like the Edinburgh, to receive screw-machinery,
guns on each side. Captain Chads, of the Excellent,
has the arrangement of her armament. Her pre-
sent fittings are not to be disturbed, and by the
plan proposed for her conversion it will be a more eco:
nomical job than the adaptation of the Edinburgh, Con-
verted at less cost than the Ajax, the bill for which ship
was considerably less than the Hogue, converted by
Messrs. Green at much less expense than the Blenheim
was niadoea screw-ship by Messrs. Wigram.
THE ARMAMENT OP THE HANNIBAL, SCREW-SHIP.—
The armament of the screw line-of-battle-ship, Hannibal,
to be launched at Deptford Dockyard next June, is as
follows :—Lower deck--28 guns, 8 inch, 65 cwt,, 9 feet
68- pounders 95 cwt., 'lO feet.--.
long ter-de main deck, 38 32-pounders, 56 cwt, 9 9 fet 6 in. ;
quarck and forecastle, 24 32-pounders 42 cwt ,-
annibal will receive her armament
TBoftaeelt9;l
gaunnds.lThpiveotH,
at Sheerness.

Mr. Kingdon prosecuted,
The evidence went clearly to show that the boy did
the act, but Mr. Justice Crompton left it to the jury to
say whether the boy really knew what he was doing
when he did the act for which he was indicted.
The jury said they thought he had done the act, but
was too young to know he was doing wrong. He was
then acquitted, and given up to his father.
MARCH 15.
Louisa Saunders was indicted for the wilful murder of
her illegitimate male born child, at Siberton, on the
24th of November last.
Mr. Cox prosecuted; Mr. Carter defended.
The facts of the case were very simple. The prisoner
a simple-looking young girl, lived as servant to Mrs.
Borrington, at Park Farm,
_Siberton. Mrs. Borrington . PRIZE-MONEY FOR TRE CORESTEs. Me s. Ors
and
for some time suspected that the girl was in the ney, Son, and Ce., have given notice to the officers and
family way, and accused her of it, but she denied it. On crew of the Orestes, entitled to share for the Bob,o cap-
the 24th of November, after breakfast, she complained tured on the 22d of March, 1851, that distribution of of being unwell, and went upstairs to bed. Mrs. Bor. the net proceeds and tonnage bounty granted for 'the
she asked her what was the matter with her, and said capture, will be made at7No. 40, Charing-cross,hoenn
she stated that she had a bad headache. Some time the 28th of March, 1853, and that the shares not then
to after she %ad gone upstairs, Mrs. Borrington went up to paid will be re-called, at the same place,
according
third
see the prisoner, when she saw such marks about the . act of Parliament :--= Commander, 3361. 4s.
_.l,
room as led her to believe the girl had been confined. class, 95/. 18 3d. ; fourth,lid.
.-0n
101. 3s. 7d. ,
She asked her if she had been confined or was likely to 33/. 11 4d. ; 8.
h 281. 155- sd' .
, seventh,.
odtenth,
be, but she said she was not in the family Way.. Not eighth,B.9' - sixt
'
lls 9d. ; ninth,
Si. igs. 1-- ;
satisfied with this answer, Mrs. Borrington made a search, 3/• 11 I*
*
s. 11d.
and between the mattress and the sackin
g of the bed
moanedandleft day last a discoveryat
she found a new-born infant. It was alive, and
A LEAD MINE IN a little. Mrs. Borrington placed it on the bed, DISCOVERr or
like to
rd, b
the room to fetch a neighbour, and on heTullyratty, near Strangfo y
r return the country was made Foundry, Belfast.
'Sall
child had been removed. A search was made,Coates, Esq., of the 'Am
lead mine, rich in the
child was found between the bed and mattress and the 1 Williammde
to
th exposure of a
t only 33 fathoms be-
a spare room. It was still alive. Thechild
of a bed in 1 We allude
e and purity of its ore,
prove of great value to the
571.Dolw°sii.
and attended to, and a sur was -washed t abundance
night
geon sent for ; the child, low the surface
It was at a late hour last
however, only lived a few hours'
I marl favourable.
of the discozery, accom-
examined, and found to hav been The prisoner was
ma
that we 'received intelligence
so that we are not
e just delivered. She .
specimens of the minerals,
was asked what she had dd by soil, and in circumstancesa otherwise re-
one to the child •she said she ; parried had not done anything to it, ex ,
' at present able
however, we (Belfast %niter) have
bed
except put it under theh.
of the information, .
in her hurry. She was
and the which may
entertain a doübt,
It was stated bv very ill, and cried very niii no reason to
to enter into particulars. Of the accuracy
at office, will afford the best evidence as to
' Mrs. 13arringto that
be seen our
inoffensive girl.
value.
1 its purity and
The surgeon was called, and stated
that when he sa ,
WooLIVICH BATHS AND WASH-HOIISES.— Yesterday
the child it was " . . l cord had ; .
nshe was a quiet
auve, and that the umbilical
been torn asunder. There was a small bruise on 1 e
cog a 7,000/. by a company, for the purpose of raising
hca c the :the baths, wash-houses, and lecture hall, erected at a
head,and
w i the moral and intellectual character of the neighbourhood,
on a post-mortem
discovered that there:was extravasated blood
fracturedbt
m were sold by public auction, in consequence of the large
1 the scalp and the skull, and the skull was
he skull being debt which had been incurred in their erection, The
several places, the two side bones of. t
even pieces. • premises only realised the sum of 2,465/.
examination
and the other into s
being made he
broken, one into five,