The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

SHEERNESS, JUNE 15.
The Monarch, 84, guard-ship of ordinary, Captain
Charles Hope, is now all ataut, her standing rigging is
being dressed down, and she is all ready for reeving run-
ning gear and bending sails.
The Nerbudda, 12, gun brig, Commander Boyd, has
this day been inspected, and officers and crew mustered,
by Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, flag captain, in
consequence of the indisposition of the Commander-in-
Chief the Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8., &c.
The Cyclops, 6, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, now in
charge of Mr. Benjamin Renand, master, R.N.(lent from
Horatio), is ordered to return all her armament (except
two small guns) and ammunition to the ordnance de-
partments at Chatham and TJpnor, and it is reported
that she will in future be appropriated as a steam trans-
port and employed on particular service (like the steam-
transport Rhadamanthus), and be commanded by a
master in service. Mr. Renand, now in charge, is
spoken of as likely to retain his present command.
The Horatio, 24 guns, screw steam guard-ship, on
her crew being turned over to the Tribune, will be ap-
propriated as a receiving ship for the instruction of
seamen. Able-bodied landsmen will be permitted to
enter the service, and will be instructed in seamanship
and gunnery, &c., on board this frigate, and when qua-
lified will be draughted into other ships as ordinary
seamen. An order has been received, giving directions
that in future the crew of this ship are not to be em-
ployed, as formerly, in rigging and getting ready for
being commissioned ships ordered to be brought forward,
and for that purpose taken into the fitting basin. This
duty, in future, will be carried out, under the directions
of the Master-Attendant, by the seamen riggers belong-
ing to the dockyard. We have known, for many months
past, of fine healthy countrymen, who have left their
agricultural pursuits and arrived here, not doubting for
a moment thatithey could be entered in the navy ; and
who, on being rejected, have immediately proceeded to
the garrison and enlisted in the Royal Artillery corps.
Many of these are now smart and well-drilled artillery-
men, and the same time would have made them smart
active seamen could they have entered.
The Royal George, 120, screw steam-line-of-battle
ship, will be put out of dock at Chatham on the 23d
inst., and will be immediately towed down here and
taken into the fitting basin. Her boilers and machinery
are to be sent down here from Woolwich and Blackwall,
and she is to receive them on board here while lying un-
der the masting sheers, for the convenience of the appa-
ratus for transshipping and lowering her boilers and
other heavy parts of her monster machinery into their
respective positions.
The Boscawen, 70, guard-ship-of-ordinary at Chatham,
Captain Peter Richards, is ordered to be appropriated for
receiving landsmen, precisely on the same principle as
the Horatio.

The Cuckoo paddle-wheel steam-vessel has been
ordered to return from Gravesend, where she has been
for some time past engaged in searching outward bound
ships for deserters. Her officers and crew will be re-
turned to the flag-ship Waterloo to-morrow.
The Myrtle, paddle-wheel steam-tender to Monarch,
has repaired her defects, and left the basin to-day. She
has again taken her moorings ready for service when re-
quired.
THE STEAM-SLOOP PHOENIX AND ARCTIC SQUADRON.
—By a letter received here from a friend at Stromness.
under date of the 9th inst., it appears there are a large
quantity of letters, newspapers, &c., now lying at that
post-office, addressed to the officers and crews of the
Phoenix, Barracouta, and the Diligence transport. All
the letters lying there on the 22d of May last for the
Desperate were forwarded to Queenstown, county Cork,
Ireland, by an order from the officers of that ship, sent
from the Downs on the 18th of May. In consequence
of the postmaster not having received orders from any
of the other ships all the letters, papers, &c., remain.
This information may prove satisfactory to many of the
families and friends of the officers and crews of the ships
referred to, and enable them to get their papers and
letters returned, and take the earliest opportunity of
sending them by some other route.
THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.—The contract has been
taken for the erection of a new formidable battery which
is to be built on Gram Spit, opposite the Garrison Point
at the entrance of the river Medway. The Admiralty
have been pleased to issue an order that the Captain-
Superintendent of this dockyard is to supply on loan any
lighters, boats, cranes, or gear of any description the
Ordnance may require to facilitate the erection of the
said battery, the foundation for which has been laid for
some time past. This battery will not only command
the fairway ship track up Sea Reach, abreast of South-
end, but will also form a most commanding and destruc-
tive concentrated crossfire with the garrison batteries
here against any ships attempting to enter the Medway.

PEMBROKE.
The launch of the Rover brig of war has been ap-
pointed to take place on Tuesday next, the 21st inst.
Immediately after being ballasted and jury-rigged she
will be navigated round to Devonport, and for this pur-
pose the Master-Attendant, Mr. Brown, with his party
of seamen riggers, attend at this establishment. The
Hamoaze lighter brings round jury-gear and rigging
from the above yard.
The newly appointed Master-Shipwright, Mr. 0. Lang
(son of the late Mr. 0. Lang, Master-Shipwright at
Woolwich), has been required to attend before the Par-
liamentary committee now sitting on the communication
between London and Dublin.

The Caesar, two-decker, of 90 guns, will be launched
during the month of August next, and in order to expe-
dite her completion the major portion of the dockyard
labour is placed upon her, the workmen being in clusters
about her. She is being fitted with the auxiliary screw-
propeller.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM HOUSE, JUNE 16.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Catharine, from St. Übes ;
Fennechiena, Groningen ; Mary Ogle, Rostock ; Peri,
Lisbon ; Hebe, Stettin ; Cybele, Stettin • Victor, Caen ;
Gem ge Frederick, Konigsberg ; de Vrow irentje, Ditsum ;
Pauline, Caen ; Atalanta, Cronstadt ; Lydford, Callao ;
Mary Hounsell, St. John's, Newfoundland ; John Lave-
rack, Rouen ; Concordia, Randers ; Gilbert Munro, St.
Lucia ; Symmetry, St. Petersburg ; Dois Caracoes .Unidas,
Para ; Albert Gallatin, Baltimore • Emanuel Boutcher,
Barbadoes ; Ada, Algoa Bay ; Bella Fegnerende, Bahia ;
Jabez, Barbadoes ' • Maria and Juana, Havannah ; Turk-
loveret, Oporto; Tanjore, Madras, &c.; Constantine,
Calcutta ; George Reynolds, Buenos Ayres • Antje, Leer ;
Tryphena, Macao ; Frau Antje, Leer ; Waterloo, Sydney ;
Simon Magnus, Grenada ; Jacobs, Helena, Amsterdam
Rambler, Trinidad ; Eliza Sharp, Demerara ; Gratitude,
Cochin and Ceylon.

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Cybele, for
Berbiee ; Sophie, Odessa.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Celeritas, for
Monte Video and Buenos Ayres ; Constance, Havre ;
Hercus, Sydney ; Wilhelmina, Altona ; Rapid, Elsi-
nore and Riga ; Sebaois, Boston ; Amicitia, Amsterdam ;
Why Not, Leghorn ; John Myers, Rouen.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 16.
The St. Lawrence, Aberdeen to Quebec, was spoken
May 23, off Gaspe.
The Agamemnon, Glasgow to Quebec, was spoken May
25, off s. W. Anticosti.

Tho Henry Williams was spoken June 1, lat. 48 N.,
long. 43 W.

The Atalanta was spoken Juno 8, lat. 51 N., long. 24 N.
The Gratitude, Ceylon to London, wrs spoken April 14,
lat. 28 S., long. 10 E.
The Tartar, London to Algoa Bay, was spoken May 5,
on the Line.

The Bella was spoken May 10, lat 7 N., long. 25 W.
The Barrick was spoken May 19, lat. 21 N., long. 37 W.
The Narcissus was spoken June 6, lat. 45 N., long.
23 W.
The Chilton was spoken June 5, lat. 51 N., long. 24 W.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Malabar (s), Bombay to the Clyde, lat. 40 N., long.
31 W.

The Sophia, London to Sydney, N.S.W., April 30, la,t.
5 N., long. 20 W.

Tlie Nina, Bristol to Port Philip, May 2, lat. 5 N.,
long. 21 W.

Tile Netherlands Konig, Liverpool to Adelaide, April
18, lat. 29 S., long. 21 W.
The Eden, Bombay to London, April 27, lat. 16 S., long.
6 W.

The Diana, London to Port Philip, May 9, lat. 5 N.,
long. 22 W.

The Christiana, Savannah to Liverpool, May 7, lat. 31
N., long. 79 W.
The Tartar, for Algoa Bay, May 5, upon the Equator,
long. 22 W.

The Bella (clipper ship), May 10, lat. G-N., -long. 24 W.
The Barrick, (British barque), May 19, lat. 21 N., long.
37 W.

The 'Narcissus (brig), Juno 6, lat. 95 N., long. 23 W.
The Anne Jane, Callao to the Mauritius, March 5, lat.
30 S., long. 89 W.

The Goleonda, outward-bound, April 30, 1at..5 S., long.
89 W.

The Wanderer, London to Adelaide, S. A., off Cape St.
Vincent's, June 30.

The Unicorn, London to Port Philip, May 2, lat. 6 N.,
long. 24 W.

The Corea, of Belfast, Liverpool to New England, May
28, lat, 40 N., long. 20 W.

SOCIETY FOR THE PRCPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN
FOREIGN PARTS.--Yesterday afternoon the Lord Mayor
and corporation, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a
large number of the bishops and other dignitaries of the
Church, assembled at St. Paul's Cathedral, to celebrate
the 152 d anniversary of this society, the oldest and
most successful of the improving- institutions in con-
nection with the Church of England. Full choral ser-
vice was performed, ard a sermon preached by the Right
Rev. Dr. Prince Lee, Bishop of Manchester. It was
stated that the society has 460 missionaries labouring in
the various colonial dioceses, together with 300 divinity
students, catechists, and school-masters. The society,
after a century and a half of labour, and in the re-
ceipt of a very considerable income,
.has yet before it a
large field, in the cultivation of which it wants the ability
to enter. While some of the old missions are assum-
ing by slow degrees a position of independence, invita-
tions which cannot be disregarded are made or renewed
with increasing frequency from all parts of the empire,
and even beyond. At the present moment it is solicited
to aid in extending the blessings of the Gospel among
the heathen millions of Borneo ; in Delhi, where there
is a population of 66,000 Mahometans and 71,000 Hin-
doos, without a single Christian missionary • among the
degraded natives of South and West Australia' • among
115,000 Zulus in the province of Natal, and the 500, ooto
of heathens who dwell in other parts of the diocese of
Cape Town ; in the Mauritius, where the large liberated
population seem almost abandoned ; in Guiana, where
the
Coolies are importing the degrading idolatry of
India ; in the thinly-peopled, but vast territory of Hon-
duras ; and in the Melanesian Islands. The bishop
made. an eloquent and earnest appeal in behalf of the
society's funds, and it was responded to by a liberal
subscription.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Am.unt 1
Name of Company. per of , Paid. Price.
Annum. Share. I
£ s. d. i £ s. r.
Assam Tea ••.. • • .... 50 0 0 20 0 0 10%
Auction M art •• • • •• . • 2/. ss. 50 0 0 35
Australian Awl' culturl 1/. 100 0 0 35 0 0 71
Australian Trust .... 6t. per cent. 35 0 0
Australian Royal Mail 10 0 0 6 0 0 1 3N.
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 1/ 10s. 10 0 0 110 0 0 2.5
British American Land 15s. 38 10 0 71
Canada ... •..... —.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0
I>o. 5 per cent Bonds Si. per cent. —102 N
Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 41. per cent. 116%
City Navigation Bonds 31 per cent.
Electric Telegraph (A) 25 0 0 20 0 0 21N
Ditto.. •••• • • • • (13) 25 0 0 10 0 0
Equitable Reversitnary 51 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1163(
Ditto Xevr ........ 50 0 0 12 10 0
Oen. Revers. /I; Invest. sp. c.B: Ls, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0
Geu.SteamNavigation 10 p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 31
Hudson's 8ay........ Stock. I 224
Hungerford ...... •• .. 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 100 0 0 4731
London Institution ... _ _
London Reversionary Si. per cent. 15 0 0 15 0 0
Russell Institution.... 12 10 0
Prico's Patent Cand. Co. 101. per cent. ,20 0 0 117 10 0 29
Reversionary Int. Soo. 4311. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 10G
Royal Mail Steam.... 41. a. share. 100 0 0 160 0 0
South Australian 5l per Mare. 25 0 0 25 0 0 404
Trust and Loan Comp
of Ulmer Canada 20 001 3 0 0

EXTENSIVE FIRES IN CLERKENWELL AND WHITE-
CHAPEL.—This morning, between the hours of 12 and 1
o'clock, a serious fire commenced in the premises of Mr.
Busbey, a leather merchant, &c , carrying on business
at No. 55, Turnmill-street. A plentiful supply of water
having been procured, the engines were set to work, and
copious streams were thrown over the blazing premises.
At half-past 1 o'clock the fire was nearly subdued. By
that time, however, the factory in which the fire origi-
nated was destroyed, the front warehouse severely
damaged, and two or three of the houses in Flag-court
and Butt-alley are likewise extensively damaged by the
action of fire. The premises adjoining, in Turnmill-
street, in the occupancy of Mr. Okey, glass-cutter and
stainer, have also received damage by fire and water.—
Shortly before this fire was discovered, one of a very
extensive character broke out in Osborne-street, White-
chapel, which was attended with fatal consequences to
no fewer than 6 valuable horses, independently of de-
stroying a great amount of property.
PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST IN FRANCE.—The mer-
cantile letters from the west of France state, with regard
to the prospects of the harvest in that region, that they
were still a subject of much anxiety. The weather con-
tinued get, and the growing wheat was so tender, after
nearly three months' rain and low temperature, that it
was apprehended it would be scorched by the first sum-
mer's heat. Barley, rye, and beans, however, were
looking well. Prices for both flour and wheat had ex-
perienced a considerable rise, and, as this would prevent
,
exportations, it was thought that the stocks of last year s
crop remaining in farmers' hands might prove :suite=t
until the middle of August.