The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-04 00:00:00

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Fair Wind.

Revolutions
Barometer

Stearn. ...

28
27
8 lb.

Foul Wind.
No hot bearings. Very little priming.
Temperature.
Engine-room behind cylinder ... 68 deg.
Starting place 68 deg.
Stokehole forward ... ... 60 deg.
„ aft ... 64 deg.
The Dauntless returned into harbour at four p.m., with
every one on board drenched to the skin and glad to get
ashore.

The Conflict, 8, screw sloop, is ordered to sail to-mor-
row for I)ovonport, to join the steam reserve. Her
steam was got up to-day to try her engines.
Spithead has not been visible at any time during the
day, owing to a continuous fall of snow.
We are requested to state that the Medea, whose
narrow escape from total loss on the Lincolnshire coast
we lately described, was, at the time of her running
aground, in charge of the pilot, who will be brought to
a court-martial. The Medea is ordered round to Ports-
mouth to be docked.

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY EVENING.
A very sever' gale from east north east sprang up
last night, and has caused the total loss of t-,,v0 schooners
near Dawlish.
The Atalanta, of Exeter, coal-laden., was wrecked on
Exmouth Bar. Crew saved.
The Friends, of Exeter, with 110 tons of coal, from
Hartlepool, struck a sandbank called the Poles, and,
having sprung a leak, her master, Henry Dailey, with
the hope of saving the lives of the crew, ran her ashore
on a beach half-a-mile east of Dawlish abmit 7 o'clock
this morning, when the sea was very high and the tide
had two. hours to rise. She lay about 40 yards from the

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sea wall of the South Devon Railroad, and Mr. Mar-
gary, engineer on the line, speedily proceeded to the
vessel with some of his men, two of whom, Eli Pike
and Tucker, following his example, went into the sea at
the risk of their lives, and succeeded in throwing on
board a lead, to which was attached a line and a rope.
Four of the crew tied the rope round them in succession,
and were hauled ashore ; the fifth, William Pile, of
Woodbury, unfortunately perished. The Friends (a
very old vessel) went to pieces immediately. Mr.
Mansfield, of Teignmouth, was ready with a volunteer
crew to take the lifeboat round, but she could not be
got over the bar, in consequence of the severity of the
weather.

The merchant-ship St. Hilda, Kirby, of Liverpool,
from Manilla for London, out 178 days, put into Ply-
mouth Sound last evening, with loss of main and mizen-
mast, pump disabled, and crew much exhausted.. Oct.
25, spoke the Robert Stephenson, from Algoa Bay for
London ; Dec. 27, the Hudson, from Mauritius for Lon-
don, out 133 days. She reported having passed, on the
20th, a vessel with mainmast, mizentopmast, and fore-
topsail-yard gone, decks swept, and no appearance of
any one on board. January 1, passed a brigantine under
jurymasts, having lost her foremast and mainmast, head
bulwarks, rails, &c.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 3.
The Cressy, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, Captain
Richard L. Warren, has this day been placed under the
masting shears in the fitting-basin, for the purpose of
being masted. She is to be masted and rigged as a
second-class line-of-battle ship. The extreme circum-
ference of her mainmast is 10 feet. Her standing rig-
ging is all ready to be sent over the mastheads imme-
diately the masts are stepped. She will be out of the
master-shipwright's department, as it regards her hull
fitments, in the early part of next month. The following
officers have taken up their commissions, and joined this
ship :—Lieutenant—Nicholas E. B. Tournour (28th Sept.,
1849) ; Chaplain—John Gurney (10th Feb., 1853), from
the Leopard, 18 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at
Portsmouth ; Clerk—W. H. Stevens, from the Water-
loo, 120 guns, flag-ship at this port.
The Majestic, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship.—This
ship has received all her engine machinery on board, and
immediately the Cressy is masted the boilers of the Ma-
jestic will be put into their places, when a large number
of engineers, boilermakers, &c., will be set on to com-
plete the setting up of her engines and getting her
ready for sea.
The Monarch, 84 guns, guard-ship of ordinary, Captain
Charles Hope.----On the paying-off of this ship on Friday
last, and recommissioning her on the following day (as
reported), only such seamen as had served their three
years were actually paid off : other seamen who had
joined under the new Admiralty regulations for con-
tinuous service, and such as had not completed their
three years, were paid down and transferred from the
old to the new commission on this ship's books.
The new contract for the supply of vegetables to the
fleet in the Medway has been taken here by Mr. Aaron
Brown, potato salesman, residing at this place, in con-
sequence of which a daily supply of fresh vegetables can
be obtained for the use of the crews of all ships in com-
mission at this port—an advantage not hitherto enjoyed
for many years past at this place. On many former
occasions surveys have been called, and vegetables con-
deinned on such surveys and destroyed ; this has caused
great inconvenience to the service, which, by the present
conditions of the contract now entered into by Mr.
Aaron Brown, is not likely to occur here again.

WOOLWICII, JAN. 3,

APPOINTMENTS.

Henry 13raxton (1846), at present serving in the Cro-
codile, 8, receiving ship, off the Tower of London, is
appointed Clerk-in-Charge of that ship.
Clerks. —Edwin Harris. (1851), from the St. George,
120, guard-ship of ordinary at Devonport, to the Eurya-
lus, 50, screw steam-frigate at Chatham ; John T. Wells,
to the St. George ; Richard Munday (1850), 'from the
Impregnable flag-ship at Devonport, to the Pique, 40, at
Devonport ; W., H. Turner; to the Impregnable ; F. G.
Pearn, to the Neptune, 120, guard-ship of ordinary at
Portsmouth.