The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

711 E NAVY.

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden
arrived in Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning
in the Elfin Royal paddle yacht, Master-Com-
mander Balliston, and landing at the dockyard,
visited, accompanied by Rear-Admiral the Hon. G.
Grey, the Resistance, 16, iron-cased frigate, Capt.
Chamberlain, lying alongside the dockyard, the
Royal Sovereign shield ship, converting in dock,
the screw steamship Himalaya, in No. 19 dock, and
other objects of interest in the yard. His Royal
Highness afterwards left in the Port-Admiral's
carriage for the railway station, and proceeded by
ordinary train to London.
The St. George, 86, screw, Capt. the Hon. F.
Egerton, sailed from Spithead for Lisbon on Sun-
day, immediately on his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred rejoining her from Osborne.
Among other names of officers mentioned as likely
to succeed Vice-Admiral Sir H. W. Bruce and
Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, as Port-Admiral
and Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth, are
those of Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. F.Martin, K.C.8.,
the present Commander-in-Chief in the Mediter-
ranean, and Rear-Admiral George Elliot.
The Pembroke, 60, screw steamship, 1,758 tons,
200-horse power, Captain Thomas Fisher, Coast-
guard divisional ship at Harwich, which has been
refitted at Sheerness, left that port for Harwich
yesterday morning to resume her duties.
The Rosario, 11 Iscrew steam sloop, 573 tons,
155-horse-power, Commander James S. Graham,
ha'ing made good the injury sustained by run-
ning foul of the Pembroke in Sheerness harbour
during the late gales, was yesterday inspected by
Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone, Commander-
in-Chief at Sheerness and Staff, and left the harbour
for Portsmouth and the West Indies, to which sta-
tion she is appointed.
The African, steamtug, Master R. Harvey, has

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been taken into dock at Sheerness to be broken up.
She is to be replaced by the Locust, 1, paddlewheel
steam-vessel, 160-borse power.

The paddlewheel steam yacht Black Eagle, Mas-
ter Commander Whiffler (tender to the Fisgard),
sailed from Woolwich on Saturday for Calais,under
orders by telegram from the Admiralty, on special
service.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel despatch vessel
Psyche, Lieut. Commander Robert Sterne, yester-
day left the basin at Woolwich, in readiness for
sea. Her destination is the Mediterranean.
The steam storeship Rhadamanthus,Master Com-
mander Sturdee, sailed from Woolwich yesterday,
laden with a cargo of stores, for Plymouth, consist-
ing of four boilers, capstans, and armour plates, for
the iron-cased steamship Ocean, building at Devon-

port. The Rhadamanthus was detained some days
at Woolwich, awaiting the arrival of the great Hors-
fall gun from Shoeburyness,for conveyance to Liver-
pool,but,on account of some defects to the machinery,
intended for its removal, the gun had not arrived,
and will be shipped in the Rhadamanthus on her
next return voyage from Woolwich.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Edward J. Jermain, to
the Cambridge ; Francis J. Lory, paymaster, to the
Royal Adelaide, for service as secretary's clerk ;
Thos. D. Roe, M.D., assist.-surg., to the Trafalgar ;
Thos. F. Hall, supernumerary in the Fisgard, pro-
moted to be chief engineer ; Wm. Gilbert, 2d-class
assist.-engineer, to the Eclipse. The following
supernumeraries in the Euryalus have been con-
firmed as 2d-class assist.-engineers--Jos. R. Beal,
James Radford, Joseph Sharpe, Peter M'Cormack,
Benj. F. Lewarn, W. C. Amos, E. Fisher, Francis
Andrew, and Wm. H. Moore.
The following appointments have been made in
the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Lieut., Alex.
Bowers; to be Sub-Lieut., James Sturroek Peters.

brigade.
" The following changes have been;sanctioned:—Between.
Capt. P. J. Campbell, of D battery, 9th brigade, and Capt.
J. A. P. Adams, No. 6 battery, 3d brigade ; between Capt.
W. L. Dumaresq, No. 5 battery, 7th brigade, and Capt. and
Brevet-Major A. Brendon, of No. 4 battery, 15th brigade.
"Doubts having arisen respecting the manner in which
men convicted by courts-martial, but whose sentences nre
remitted, should be dealt with. commanding officers are ill-
formed that article: 9, page 21, of the " Artillery Finance
Regulations" is cancelled ; and attention is requested to the
1731 Article of War, which directs that men shall forfeit
their pay and service while confined awaiting trial, or while
convictions by courts-martiat remain recorded as entrances
in the defaulters' hook. Notwithstanding the remission of
the sentence, illegality of court-martial or acquittal can
alone be received as exemptions.
" The officer commanding Royal Artillery at Guernsey
1 will obtain the sanction of the General officer commanding
Writers, mechanics, and la-
' the troops for the removal of Second-Capt. Roberts from
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erartmentS of Woolwich Arsenal, in order to reduce
the number to what id. termed the peace establish-
ment. 400 left the Royal Laboratory, and 600
more are to be dismissed from the department dur-
ing the present month. In Consequence of the great
destitition in the neighbourhood, burglaries at night
and depredations in the common thoroghfares by
day are of such frequent occurrence that requisitions
have been made to Sir Richard Mayne to provide
and increase of the police force.

711 E DUKE OF SOMERSET ON 711 E
AMT.RICAN WAR AND THE DISTRESS.

A very influential county meeting was held at
Exeter on Friday, to express sympathy with, and
offer aid to, the distressed operatives in the north.
The Higlieheriff presided. Tile Duke of Somerset,
Sir L. Palk, M.P., Mr. Kekewich, M.P. Hon. C.
R. Trefusis, Sir H. F. Davie, M.P., Sir M. Lopes,
M.P., and other gentlemen addressed the meeting.
Above L6013-was subscribed in the room, and acorn-
mittee was appointed to assist the High Sheriff in
obtaining subscriptions throughout the county.
The Duke of SOMERSET, in the course of his
speech, said he believed they had reason to hope
that India would to some extent supply that quan-
tity of cotton which the English could not now re-
ceive from America. This of course would take
time, although they might hope that next year they
would have a larger supply than a few months ago
was expected. Yet it would take considerable time
to restore the vigour which the cotton manufacture
had lost, and during that time there would of
course be great suffering. They heard of a thou-
sand substitutes for cotton, but for his own part he
did not think it was for persons who were n©t
manufacturers to give advice to the manufacturers
themselves on that head. Of course the manufactu-
rers were awake to this, and if there were any sub-
stitutes for cotton, they were the people most likely
to find them. Let us hope that the disaster would
come to a speedy end, and after at least one winter
they might see the war concluded. He could only
say that which every Englishman felt, that they
should be delighted to see the war brought to a
conclusion, that war which was most sanguinary
and which had been conducted in the most savage
manner in the destruction of life and property. An
offer of mediation might be received only with re-
sentment, and the time and opportunity must there-
fore be carefully watched. The Government of this
country, as well asevery other Christian Government
in Europe, would be too glad if they could see the
means of assisting to put an end to the strife. But
they made an allowance for the belligerents. He
saw in the papers that there were violent articles
written against each party. But tijaen they took
the matter as it stood, they would see that the
quarrel having been commenced, there were great
difficulties in it, and that there were also great diffi-
culties in bringing about peace ; for if they expected
to put aside that strife they could not do as some
people talked of. In some of the papers of America
they read a great deal of subjugation; but subju-
gation did not belong to a land of freemen. They
read a great deal about extermination ; but exter-
mination did not belong to a land of Christians.
(Applause.) As to what would bring about an end
to that war there were many opinions ;but let them
hope that it soon would come to an end. The only
means to accomplish that, as far as he could see, was
by mutual concession ; but then came the great diffi-
culty, where should be the boundaries, and what
the frontiers, of the respective Powers. That was a
question full of difficulty, therefore we mast make
an allowance for the position in which the Ameri-
cans were placed, and not wish to say one word
which might tend to excite ill-feeling either in the
Northern or in the Southern States, for we knew
what excitable people the Americans were. All he
could say was, that he should be most happy, and.
he believed every Englishman would, to see that
war settled without sacrificing the honour of either
party. The great amount of sympathy that was
shown throughout this country towards the dis-
tressed operatives of Lancashire, if it did no more,
certainly would show other countries that we are a
united people, and that we are bound together by
loyalty to our Sovereign and by mutual affections.
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TUE LA7E GALES.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF A SCREW STEAMER.

SHIELDS, SATURDAY NIONT.
Within the past three days several missing ves-
sels which were out in the late gales have cast UP,
amongst which may be mentioned the Clarendon,
and the Fransisca Marie, the latter an Austrian
barque, which every person here thought was lost,
having been abandoned by the steamboat that was
towing her from Scotland. She was a light ship,
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ships by a heavy sea, thrown on her beam ends, and
I completely disabled. The crew, after clinging to
the wreck for three days, were rescued from their
perilous position by the captain and crew of the
Nuova, at great risk to themselves. The crew were
rescued on the 22d ult. in lat. 55 51 N, long. 5 30
W. The intelligence has reached this town to-day
that the Margaret Knight, belonging to Blyth, has
been lost, and that all her crew were drowned but
two. On the morning of the day—viz., Oct. 20—
, followed by the fearful gale which broke upon the
I North Sea, the Addison Potter, a large now screw
collier of 800 tons burden, sailed from the Tyne for
Hamburg, coal laden. She had a crew of 17 hands
on board, and was considered to be a fine vessel.
Since the day of her departure from the Tyne (now
a fortnight) not a word has been heard of her, and
there is every reason to fear that she foundered in
the terrible gale which burst over our coast the
night after she sailed, and that every soul on hoard
of her perished. Another iron screw steamer,
which ran upon Souter Point, within three milee of
the Tyne, this week, is likely to become a total
wreck. She was the Port Mulgrave, with iron ore
from Cleveland, for the TyLe. There are four
laden collier brigs missing, which sailed from the
Tyne before the gale, and there is too much reason
to fear that they have foundered and drowned their
crews. Every day that passes makes the prospect
of their safety more hopeless.

qtr For full particulars of amusements see first page.
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN,
This Evening, TANA.
Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
This Eveninc,, at Seven, THE COLLEEN BAWN.
at,
half -past Nine THE RELIEF OF LIICKNOW. And

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
This Evening., A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. After which,
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With DUCK HUNTING.
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
This Evening., THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by
THE SHILLING DAY.
_ Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
This Eveninz, TIME TRIES ALL. After which, THE
HUNCHBACK.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
This Eveninv, IT MUST BE T R.UE, `TWAS IN THE
PAPERS. Followed by PEEP O'DAY. To conclude with
KILLAttNEY.

Commence at 7.

W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,
Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross.
Commence at 8.

MR. and MRS. GERM AN REED, with MR. JOHN
PARRY, Every Evening (except Saturday), at the Royal
Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, at 8.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay-
market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing.

CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.—
Grand Operatic Selection and Cantata -Unaworth, Eugene,
and Duley, the great comic trio, drc.
Lommence at 7.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY
EVEN IN G. —Donizetti's "Don Sebastien," Verdi's " 11 Cor-
saro" and "Nabuco," and Lewie'rk "May Day," with full
b ind and chorus.—Drew Dean, the great Flautist—the Nea-
politan Minstrels—the comic performance of Miss Caroline
Parkes— sir. Maclagan's Entertainment -12nsworth, the
original of " Or any other man," Szc.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHI-
THEATRE. -- Olmar every Evening. —Grand Musical En-
tertainment, 60 performers.
Commence at half-past 7.