The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. IT.
The officers and men belonging to the fleet in ordi-
nary were mustered for the first time by Rear-Admiral
Superintendent Fanshawe, C. 8., this morning ; they
afterwards were granted leave tor the rest of the day.
The Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship in ordinary, Cap-
tain Henderson, C. 8., resumed her moorings this morn-
ing to re-ship her stores from the Illustrious, and re-
ceive her crew.
The Odin, 16, paddle steam-frigate, Captain Francis
Scott, hauled out of dock to the fitting basin this after-
noon, after having her copper cleaned. She left the
basin this evening.
The Sidon, 22, paddle-firigate, Captain Goldsmith,
had her steam up this afternoon to try her engines.
The Basilisk, 6, paddle steam-sloop, Commander the
Hon. F. Egerton, has completed coaling, and is ordered
to Spithead.
The Prussian corvette Mercuri, sailed from the Mo-
therbank this morning for the westward.
The St. Vincent convict-ship sailed from Spithead this
morning, with transports for Gibraltar and Australia.
The Hendrick Hudson and Sir Robert Peel, American
line of packet ships, sailed from the Motherbank this
morning, for New York.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. G. Allen, acting.
master commanding, has been undocked to-day, after
repair, and taken to her moorings.

Her Majesty's frigate Phaeton guns, Captain
George Elliott, arrived at the Little
50
Nore yesterday, at
3.45
Vice-Admiral from Portsmouth, and saluted the flag of
of the White the Hon. Josceline ewes
returned at the Nore, &c. The salute was
returned with seven guns by her Majesty's ship Water-
loo, 120, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford. The
Phaeton will be inspected to-day by Vice-Admiral the
Hon. Josceline Percy, and immediately the tides permit
she will be taken into the fitting-basin to be paid off. It
is expected that several of her A.B.'s will volunteer for
her Majesty's screw steam line-of-battle ship Agamem-
non, of 91 guns and 500-horse power, Captain Sir Tho-
mas Maitland, as several of them have previously served
with some of the officers of the Agamemnon on foreign
stations in other ships. It is a' well•known fact that
men-of-war sailors always show a desire to follow cer-
tain officers, entirely setting aside the rating of the ship.
At present very few A.. B.'s have volunteered for the
Agamemnon ; her present deficiency in her complement
is among her A. B.'s.

Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-sloop Barracouta,
Commander George Parker.—The court of inquiry on
the clerk of this sloop was adjourned on Saturday last,
and they will assemble to-day for the purpose of proceed-
ing with the inquiry.
Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Amphion Captain
Charles G. E. Patey.—lt is reported that this 'frigate is
to have two more guns mounted, which will make her a
36-gun frigate. If so, her complement of seamen will be
increased from 28 to 30 men, in addition to her present
complement. Her seamen gunners, from her Majesty's
ship Excellent, are, with the exception of one or two,
the only A.B.'s rated on her books up to this time.

OOLWICH, JAN. 17.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. S Wir Fleetwood Broughton
Reynold Pellew, K.C.11., leaves England by the next
packet, to take command of the naval forces in the East
Indies. •

It is reported in naval circles that Rear-Admiral
Corry wishes to give up the command of the Channel
Squadron, and, if his wishes are complied with, it is
likely he will be appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral
Edward Harvey, Admiral-Superintendent at Malta. In
the event of these changes taking place, it is very pro-
bable Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., will be
appointed to command the Channel Squadion.
Commander Houston Stewart, who recently resigned
the command of the Virago, paddle-wheel steam-sloop,
serving on the Pacific station, was induced to do so, it is
said, owing to ill health. He is the son of Rear-Admiral
Houston Stewart, formerly one of the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, and is a most experienced and zealous officer.
During the time he has commanded the Virago, he has
had several dashing affairs with the pirates, and cleverly
captured the Chilians who had planned the destruction
of a vessel and crew. Commander Houston Stewart was
promoted to that rank in 1848, and has served as com-
mander of the Virago since the sth of August, 1851,
and, if he is promoted to the rank of post-captain on his
arrival in England, has deservedly earned a promotion
which his father might have conferred upon him previ-
ously to his vacating his office as one of the Lords of the
Admiralty.

DEATH OF COMMANDER HENRY WINGROVR.—It is
our painful duty to record the death of Commander H.
Wingrore (1846), who expired at his brother's residence
in the City, on Friday evening last, after a service ashore
and afloat of upwards of 40 years. Commander Win-
grove entered the navy during the war, in July, 1812,
and having served the usual period passed for a lieuten-
ant in 1819; but he did not receive promotion to that
rank till 1826, being thus employed 14 years as midship-
man and mate. He served in the West Indies, the
Coast Guard, the North Sea Channel and Irish station,
as lieutenant, and being afloat at the brevet 'of 1846 was
made commander, and re-appointed to her Majesty's
.'team-vessel Blazer, which he then was commanding as
a lieutenant on the relief service in Ireland, under the
orders of Vice-Admiral Sir H. Pigot. The services
rendered by the late Commander Wingrove during the
period of that awful visitation, thq, Irish famine, with its
accompanying sickness and suffering, will never be
effaced from the kind recollections of the good people
of the coasts of Cork and Kerry, and has ever been
with them the theme of grateful acknowledgments. In
the hour of trouble, when matters had arrived at starva-
tion point, sure and certain was the "Old Blazer" to be
descried in the offing, braving the broad Atlantic's
swelling wave with its western wintry blast. Our co-
lumns at that time gave full details of these events ; and
we well remember that the " Blazer's " services were
conspicuous with the Alban, Rhadamanthus, Stromboli,
Zephyr, and many other of the 40 odd pendants on the
coast of Ireland ; and we believe that had Commander
Wingrove completed the time required, of which he was
some five or six weeks short, he would have been in-
cluded in that well-merited promotion sanctioned by the
government of the day. That excellent First Lord, the
late Lord Auckland, had, we believe, a high opinion of
Commander Wingrove's zeal ; and no doubt, had he
been spared, would have eventually promoted him.
Commander Wingrove was appointed to her Majesty's
steam-sloop Scourge, and served under Lord Dundonald
on the West India station, carrying out his orders with
his usual zeal, much to the satisfaction of his lordship,
and at the end of her service the Scourge was paid off
at Portsmouth in most high and creditable order / We
could have wished to have recorded this officer's death
as a captain instead of that of a commander, but promo-
tion goes not in the navy by old gradation.
CAPTAIN CARPENTER'S SCREW TRIAL.—OR Saturday
last a trial was made of Captain Carpenter's little steam-
boat, constructed at Mr. Green's yard, Blackwall, on an
entirely new plan, with two keels and two rudders. .She
is propelled by means of two oscillating engines entirely
separated one from the other, and two screw propellers
also quite distinct. She is directed by two rudders aft,
instead of one only as formerly. She is of sufficient size
to give a correct demonstration of principle, and it is
reported that the plan'answers admirably.
The buoy-
ancy, stability, and capacity of the boat are quite extra-
ordinary. The rolling and tremulous motion is much
diminished compared with the single screw. The shift
of the screw is said to be almost imperceptible, and the
speed for so small a power to be very good. The boat
leaves the Thames for the Mediterranean on Thursday
night.

THE DUKE'S PILLAR ON BLACKDOWN HILLS.--A
meeting was held,pursuanto
raise
thntoderefqouristihteionr,eeaotnTetarnunettoio%
onthe 13thi inst., to
and repair of the Wellington Pillar. The High. Sheriff
took the chair. • The resolutions were carried unani-
mously by a very large assemblage of the nobility and
gentry. The Lord-Lieutenant (Lord Portman) moved
the first resolution ; in seconding which Mr. B. Bscott
said there was no Somersetshireman man who followed
the obsequies of the great Duke of Wellington who did
not feel very happy that from his soil was derived the
ship
were cyoianl
00X0; and
noblest lineage and the most renowned of titles. —S r -
setshire County Gazette.
:---Tll7s,eooBOhli
woCremasN
follows,SlPENvTizS:3o,ooo/. by th Canoe, both for Sydney;y 2o,oool.anb
the Sapphire, for Geelong and Port Philip ; 20,000/. Y
the Bruunette, and 20,000/, by the Potentate b by
Launceston ; and 21,7671. in .
and . , oth for
specie jewellery by the
Teviot for the Brazils. The to •
tal shipments from the
kingdom for the week are th •d -
us raise to about 786 000/
and there is, consequently, a balance of • ' "
exports to the extent of between 660,
0. imports over
00 1 and 670,000/.
EMIGRATION TO MRLBOIJ
, RNE.----The following is an
extract from a letter dated 1852 : "—" The ex dated
' Melbourne, September 26,
a-year leaves me es
here are so enormous that 1001.
and lodging cost me
with hardly a penny for myself ; board
washing . more than 11. 12s per week, and
18 9s per dozen • in fact everything is three
times as dear as at home, and
e, and no doubt, with the thou-
sands pouring in, will be as much again. I hardly know
what people here will do for bread in a few months, as
no corn has been sown nor the fields tilled to produce
anything, so that we here shall be dependant on America
if you at home do not supply us. Now, regarding persons
emigrating to these colonies, I from experience say that
the working man, the mechanic, and the tradesman
the only fit persons to venture here; the gentlemannaWs with-
out
~ the
out capital, the clerk, &c., are in as bad a positoti
persons
pauper at home, and are not wanted ; and as
situations
in either of the last named positions giving re-
of only 100/. a-year, if permanent, they 7313,1
-,I this to place
gret the day they made so fatal a step-
way, or advising
you on your guard against being led a
mentioned. There is,
others to act in the way I haves moid
in the fields, but
no doubt there is, a great deal ot Is successful—though
still it is not every person who
bers
work for months,
hundreds, and numbers
hardly imagine the
many make
You can
and make not a penny.
"contend with in winter from
difficulties a digger has to
the roads being a
beg for 10 and 12 miles to-
!west a
gether, so that the party who is travelling gets over his
_
sometimesd up to hi nue&
knees in mud and water, an
a man to pull you out, the mud.
requires
and it actually
is so tenacious. Then the company at night, should
each an inn—sleeping in a blanket
you not be able to r
or dexpecting every moment to be roused up and
rug, an
. robbed by the bush rangers. When you arrive at the
gold fields, almst 100 miles from here, you then set to
work, and of course almost break your back, and com-
pletely skin your hands with using the spade or pick;
then if you persevere—strength; constitution, and health
good—you may be successful ; but thousands,come down
without any gold—in truth it is a complete lottery. I
have known persons in their first hole take 401 b. weight
of gold ; others work for two months, and, just as they,
were thinking of leaving in despair, come upon hundreds,

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 15.

Dean Ireland's Professor (Dr. Hawkins) of the Exe-
gesis of Holy Scripture proposes to resume his lectures
on the interpretation of the Bible at the Clarendon on
Tuesday, the Ist of Fetruary, at eleven o'clock (the
lectures during this term being upon the mystical inter-
pretation of Scripture) • to be continued on each suc-
ceeding Tuesday. On Thursday and Saturday he pro-
poses to read some of the Epistles at his own house.
These lectures are open to members of the University
who have passed the examination for the degree of 8.A.,
and those who desire to attend them are requested to
leave their names at the Professor's house, Oriel Col-
ege, on Saturday or Monday, the 29th and 31st of
January.
The Regius Professor of Divinity proposes to resume
his private lectures on the Book of Common Prayer, on
Tuesday, the 25th inst. Any members of the University
who have passed the examination for the degree of 8.A.,
and may be desirous of attending, are requested to call
on the Professor on Monday, the 24th inst., between
the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock.
Christchurch, Jan. 15.