The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

COAST GUARD.

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Fin.avirndc.rpo.fßtohnevßeraine,ff district, vice Commander Bouverie ;
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vice Commander Triscott, period of service expired.
Lectti:eutenants, R.N.—G. T. S. Winthrop, to command
the Craufield Point station, vice Lieut. Collins • H. C.
Toby, to command the Newcastle station, vice Mr'. gay, removed removed ; George Durbin, to Command No. 3, Tower
station, vice Lieut. Shillingford, resigned ; Edward Algae
to command No. 31, Tower station, vice Mr. Burchard,
previously removed ; Francis Collins from the Craufield
Point station, as inspecting lieutenant of the Rutland dis-
trict, vice Mr. Heard.
Chief Officers.—Richard Heard, from the Rutland to the
Sbeephaven district, vice Mr. Mitchell, superannuated ;
James K. White (late of the East India Company's
vice), from the Arthurstown to
the Islands of Kane k Sta-
tion, vice Mr. Nixon, removed ; G. Wellington Andrews,
to command the Glenarm station, vice Crofton, previously
removed.
In the event of the recent order in Council, relative to
appointments and promotions in her Majesty's dockyards,
being adhered to, it is expected M., Francis Johll Loire,

master-shipwright at Chatham Dockyar , will be appointed
master-shipwright at Woolwich, in the room of Mr. 0.
Lang, deceased ; and Mr. Samuel Read, master-shipwright
at Sheerness Dockyard, be transferred to Chatham, in the
room of Mr. Laire. Mr. Henry Chatfield, as senior as-
sistant master shipwright, would be promoted to be master-
shipwright, and appointed to Sheerness Dockyard, in the
room of Mr. Read, or Mr. Charles Wilcox, master-ship-
wright'at Deptford, be transferred to Sheerness, where
the salary is 1001. more than at Deptford, and Mr. Chat-
field be appointed to Deptford. The salaries of the master-
shipwrights of her Majesty's dockards are 6501. at Wool-
wich, 6501. at Chatham, 6501. at Portsmouth, 6501. at
Devonport, 6001. at Sheerness, 6001. at Pembroke, and
5001. at Deptford. The assistant master-shipwrights have
each 4001., two serving at Woolwich, two at Chatham,
two at Portsmouth, two at Devonport, one at Sheerness,
but none at Pembroke or Deptford.
THE SUPERINTENDENTSHIP OF MALTA DOCKYARD.—
We understand that Rear Admiral Houston Stewart,
C. 8., has been formally relieved from his painful and sub-
ordinate position as successor to a major in the army, as
secretary to Lieut. General Lord Ragland, and has been
officially appointed to succeed Rear Admiral Harvey as
Superintendent of Malta Dockyard. Admiral Stewart
must be very glad to get back to his own service again,
the dignity of which we cannot help saying has been
lowered by his acceptance of his late office. Admiral
Stewart's term of appointment is five years. He has been
one of the lucky few always employed in some way or other.
A poor dockyard man is threatened with the loss of his
bread if he applies to his local representative to use his
interest to prevent Sir James Graham, or Admiral Berke-
ley, or Mr. Bernal Osborne, from importing their voters or
voters' sons into the dockyards, from Carlisle, Gloucester,
Middlesex, or elsewhere, to the disadvantage of himself or
family; but a naval officer well connected with the Liberal
interest, like Admiral Stewart, can, without question, get
the appointment to the command of the coast guard, and
then to a lordship of the Admiralty; and if he should have
fought an unsuccessful contest for a seat in Parliament, he
is offered a military secretaryship, and now is compensated
for his political services by one of the best appointments
under the Admiralty for five years.—Herald.
DEPARTURE OF THE LONDON.—MANNING THE NAVY.—
It will be seen from our Portsmouth correspondence that
Captain Eden has not only joined the London, 92, but she
is already off and away down Channel. We presume her
complement has been made up by drafts from other ships.
If so, the Admiralty may depend upon it there will very
soon be some vacancies if any chance is offered for a " run.'
It is no use for her calling at Plymouth for men, for the
three-locker Queen,
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at that port, is no less than 470 blue-
jackets short of her
sea- oin complement ; the Prince Re-
gent, 90, with good and
popular captain and officers, has a
dozen vacancies of petty officers and seamen, caused by de-
sertion, yet to fill up, and there is scarcely a ship there,
inclu ing the Vulture, that has not a list of men reported
" absent without leave." The Queen has entered about a
dozen men in about six weeks, and even the substitutesfor
seamen—the " stout landsmen"—ordered to be entered on
board the Excellent, are very shy of the men of war. At
Southampton, however, we hear there is no difficulty what-
ever in getting good seamen at 50s. a month. And yet Sir
James Graham does not attribute the wholesale desertions
in the service, and the indisposition to enter the navy, to
the disgraceful punishment of flogging a petty officer, with
17 years' good character. Let Sir James give an assurance
that petty officers shall not be subject to corporal punish-
nt, and there may be some chance of manning the navy.
—Herald.

The Hercules, emigrant-ship, Commander Bayntun, has
re-embarked her Isle of Skye emigrants, and has at. length
left Queenstown, on her passage to Australia.
The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Captain Hyde Parker, was at
Lisbon on the 14th of April.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 16.
Captain Charles Eden arrived here this morning, and
succeeded Captain G. R. Mundy in c immand of her Ma-
jesty's ship London, 90, at Spithead.
The Basilisk steam-sloop was haule I out of the fitting-
basin this day, and will take in stores for foreign service.
The Gorgon paddlewheel-sloop ha had her steam up to-
day to try the working of her engines. She is being very
neatly rigged, and will soon be ready to join the reserve
squadron.

APRIL 17.

Her Majesty's ship London got under weigh this after-
noon and proceeded down Channel with a fair wind. Her
destination is not known (at least on shore) ; one report is
Cork, another that she is to cruise in the Channel, and a
third (which seems more probable), that she is to join the
squadron in the Mediterranean.
Wind, S.W.; weather, cloudy.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 16.
The steam-frigate Cyclops, having in tow the Melampus,
42, with boilers and machinery for the St. Jean d'Acre,
arrived from Woolwich on Thursday. Mr. Brown, assistant-
master-attendant, and a party of riggers and seamen, who
navigated the Spiteful from this port to Woolwich, re-
turned in the Cyclops.
The Leander, 50, Captain King, which returned on Tues-
day from Leith and Spithead, was yesterday towed into
harbour by the Cyclops and Confiance. She is to be fitted
for the reception of Lord Ellesmere, who proceeds in her to
New York, where his lordship will represent the British
nation at the Exhibition of Industry in that city. The
Leander is to be ready in about ten days.
The Avon steam-tender, Second-master Alfred Veitch,
which sailed on Thursday with supernumeraries for Ports-
mouth, returned here to-day,

SHEERNESS, APRIL 17.
The Persian, 12-gun sloop, Commander Thomas Mit-
chell was paid off on Friday last. A great number of the
crew have been loudly complaining against the commander,
in consequence of the word `Qfair " being only given them
in their character. In several cases the men have thrown
their dialarge and character into the fire, and declare that
they would rather lose their time and begin afresh than
present such a character to officers under some of whom
they had previously served.
The African steam-vessel proceeded to Chatham with
the Marines, and such of the seamen as wished to avail
themselves of the opportunity of getting to the North
Kent Railway, en route for London.
The Barracouta, 6 paddlewheel steamsloop, Commander
Georga Parker, now riding at the Nore under sailing
orders, is expected to return here to be taken into dock, in
cor sequence of some defect in her steering.
The Conquestador, 50, has been taken into dry dock for
survey, and in consequence of her present state she will
not be considered in future as an advanced ship ready for
commission. The Cornwall, 50, is also to be returned into
ordinary with the Conquestador, and they will remain in
their present divisions.
The Waterloo, 120 guns, the Monarch, 84 guns, and the
Horatio, 24 guns, have all sent their top,gallantmasts on
end, and are now all ataunt, being ready fur sea on reeving
running gear and bending sails. The only deficiency is in
seamen to man them.
The Chichester, 50, in Ordinary.—A seaman named
Frederick Paine was unfortunately drowned from this ship
while stepping from her boat after she was hoisted up, be-
fore the boat could be lowered, the night being dark ; and
at 8.45, on search, he could not be found.
Royal George, 120, screw steam-ship.---It is reported,
from quarters not to be doubted, that Captain the Hon. T.
S. Carnegie, now commanding the Horatio, will commis-
sion this ship immediately on her arrival here from Chat-
ham ; and it is expected the lloratio's crew will be forth-
with turned over to her.
The Wildfire, steam-tender to the Waterloo, 120, has
returned from her service at Gravesend, searching out-
ward-bound merchant-ships for deserters from the navy.

ALTA, APRIL 8.
The regiments appointed to relieve the 76th and to in-
crease the garrison have all arrived, viz., 41st, 47th, and
49th.
The arrivals by the 41st have already reached you. The
47th, in the Anna Maria, Lady Clark, and Andromache
troop-ships, arrived on the 30th of March and Ist and 21
of April respectively, and comprised Colonel Haly, Captains
Lsrdner, Fordyce, Villiers, Lodder, and Hamilton, Lieu-
tenants Philips, Wollocombe, Stevenson, Ehison, Hunter,
and Pilkington (adjutant), Ensigns Lowry,Buchanan,
Ward, and Gaynor, Paymaster William Eyre, Quarter-
master Mackintosh, Surgeon Battersby, and Assistant-
Surgeons Mackenzie and Gibson.
Tho 49th, by the Santipore and Emerald Isle, arrived on
the sth and 6th inst., Colonel Adams, Captains Grant,
Powell, M‘Lean, Lieutenants Armstrong, Rocke, Bellairs
(adjutant), Nason, and Gostling, Ensign Bond, Paymaster
Michell, Quartermaster Fraser, Bellair, surgeon, and Weld,
assistant-surgeon.
Yesterday the remaining detachment of the 76th em-
barked in the Anna Maria and Lady Clark for Halifax—
Major Gardiner, Captain Tydd, Lieutenants Preston and
Brett, with Dr. Gordon, 133 rank and file, 8 women, and
26 children, by the Lady Clark ; by the Anna Maria, Cap-
tain Ferns, Lieutenants Poole and Wedderburne, Assist-
ant-Surgeon Wilkinson, 133 rank and file, 6 women, and 4
children.

The want of barrack room is sadly felt.
The Fencibles have received, or are to receive, lodging
money—captains 251., and subalterns in progressional de-
crease.

In naval matters wo have nothing new. The floet is still
in port, but with sails bent, and ready for a cruise at an
hour's notice.
The Rev. Mr. Howe, chaplain of the Britannia, retires
on half-pay, and is succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Fox, from
the Vengeance, who is succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Bunce.
Dr. Wells retires from the Modesto, and proceeds to
England.
The French steamer, with some papers, has arrived this
morning.
The Ripon is expected momentarily, though she is not
as yet telegraphed.
The Balbec, screw, arrived ye3terdy from Liverpool,
and leaves to-day for Constantinople.

THE STEAM-SHIP CONFLICT.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE MORNING HERALD.

_wtteeofutuhdeer9ttaninastt.h:—at
tt tion 11118 been drawn to the following
• as a first reserve steamer at Portsmouth, had
her fittings .
the Conflict would by this time have been completed in
she not been obliged to unstow her holds in order to re-
ceive 50 tons of ballast, in compliance with an Admiralty
para,B,irrPH—EpMhsYTinEaAthmee..nsUtonoitedp
cSoerN;ieueoG:ze
order just discovered in the shipwright's department,
dated some six. or eight months back ! It is to be re-
gretted that the service should be delayed
and so much
labour lost through the neglect of nnsystematical dockyard
departments!'
Will you do me the favour to state, that the ount of
the weekly paper is incorrect, and the reflection on the
shipwrights' department at Portsmouth is most unjust,
and I regret for the character of the journal that it is not
better informed. The ballast has been ready to be shipped
on board the Conflict whenever demanded, and the Con-
flict has not waited even for a minute by reason of any
delay arising from any neglect in the shipwright depart-
ment.—Yours, &c.
1

JIISTITIA.

STRANGE STORY.--We read in the Paris Constitution-
net :—" A respectable merchant of the Rue Montmartre
a few days back, at a family fete which he gave to some
of his friends, feeling an itching in his ear, endeavoured
to put a stop to it by pressing with his finger the part
affected. This proving of no avail, he took up a chemi-
cal match and introduced one end of it into his ear. In
the warmth of conversation he forgot to look which end
he put in and unfortunately introduced that which
could take fire. In rubbing the match in his ear he
set fire to the end inside. The pain was so excessive
that he uttered a loud cry, and his friends were Some
before they could imagine any means of affording
him relief. A surgeon being sent for found thatt the
and
much
inflammation had supervened.
He
endear
1 vain, as after
°
interior of the ear was much burnt,
urethdaby
applications to remedy the but all
"
two days' suffering the patient expzed in the midst of
convulsions." frightful conyulsiu." local