The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

SOUTH-EAST COAST OF AMERICA.

By the arrival at Falmouth of the Express packet-
brig, Lieutenant-Commander Lory, we have later
dates from Rio.

The Southampton, 50, Captain N. Cory, with the
flag of Rear-Admiral Reynolds, C. 8., having been
relieved at the Cape, by the Castor, 36, Commodore
Wyvill, had arrived at Rio, and was there, Oct. 9, to
relieve the Raleigh, 50, Captain the Hon. G. Hope,
with the pendant of Commodore Sir 'Thomas Herbert,
K.C.8., ordered home to be paid off, Rear-Admiral
Reynolds having ibeen appointed to the command of
that station.

The Raleigh was daily expected from Monte Video.
The Constance, 50, Captain W. C. Courteney,
had arrived at Rio, from Valparaiso, August 27, en
route, to Spithead, with her freight of specie. She
remained Oct. O.

The Tweed, 18, Commander Lord F. Russell, was
at Bahia; and the Griffin, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant-
Commander Thurburn, was at Pernambuco.
The Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Skipwith,
ordered home, was at Rio October 9, with the Cres-
cent, dept ship, Master -Commander Bradley.
The Athol, 2, troop-ship, Master Commander Pearn,
from Woolwich, on her to the Cape and Mauritius,
arrived at Rio, Sept. 19, all well.
The Scourge, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord M.
Kerr, was also to have sailed for Lisbon on Satur-
day afternoon, but an electric message was sent
down, ordering her to await the arrival of the
Stromboli from Sheerness, she having some seamen
on board for the Indefatigable, which the Scourge is
to leave at Plymouth. The Stromboli, steam-sloop,
Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk, will be paid
wages on her return from Sheerness, and will remain
at Spithead.
The Conflict, screw-sloop, Commander Drake, or-
dered to accompany the Leander to Lisbon, proved
on her second trial at Devonport to be anything but
a swift steam-vessel. She did not go out so tar as
the Eddystone. The wind was strong, and from the
N.N.E., and under the most favourable circumstances
only eight knots could be got out of her. She was
paid advance, and was mustered and inspected by
Vice-Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart., on Saturday,
and waited the arrival of the Leander.

DOCKYARDS.-The storekeeper at Chatham has
been ordered to make himself acquainted with the
system of individual payments, with the view of its
introduction to that dockyard. Captain Mould, R.E.,
director of works, has been ordered to furnish a plan
of a seawall at Gillingham, and an estimate of the
necessary repairs. Messrs. Baker and Sons' tenders
for constructing the dams of the north and south
basins at Keyham steam establishment have been
accepted. Six millwrights are ordered to be hired
to assist in the erection of new machinery at the rope-
house at Devonport.
ROYAL MARINES.-Lieut.-Colonel William Taylor
died on Thursday: morning, at the residence of his
nephew, Mr. P. O'Connor, Ryde View Villa, South-
sea, aged 64. The gallant deceased entered the ser-
vice in 1805, and last served in the Howe, 120, in the
Mediterranean, from which he was removed on pro-
motion. The commissions of Lieut.-Colonel William
Taylor are dated as fellows, viz, :-Second lieutenant,
Sept. 30, 1805 ; first lieutenant, Sept. 4,1809; captain,
A prill6, 1832 ; brevet major, Nov. 9, 1846; lieutenant
colonel, April 25, 1849. He served on board her
Majesty's ship Glory, Dec. 11, 1805, to Feb. 12,
1808, at the blockade of Brest ; cruising in search of
Jerome Bonaparte ; capture of a French frigate, and
blockade of Cadiz. In her Majesty's ship Sybille,
from Oct. 9, 1809, to Jan. 31, 1810, on the Irish
station, Coast of Greenland, and conveying transports
and troops to Corunna. In her Majesty's ship Bar-
badoes, from May 8, 1810, to Nov. 16, 1811, East
Indies, blockade of Cherbourg, at the capture of two
French timber ships, action with five French armed
ships, which were sunk and destroyed. In her
Majesty's ship Melpomene and Crescent, from Oct.
31, 1812, to Oct. 11, 1814, conducting French pri-
soners of war to Scotland, in charge of convoy to
Halifax and Quebec, capture of an American priva-
teer. Her Majesty's ship Superb, from Dec. 20,1
1825, to Jan. 24, 1826, guardship at Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's ship Melville and Spartiate, August 3,
1826, to Nov. 27, 1827, Lisbon, landed at Fort St.
Julian, north coast of Spain during the operations,
from Oct. 16, 1830, to Jan. 9, 1840. Battalion in
Ireland, Nov. 12, 1843, to March 25, 1846. Her
Majesty's ship Howe, May 8, 1847, to June 19, 1849.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY EVENING.---The American
frigate St. Lawrence, 50, Captain Paulding, again
passed through the anchorage at Spithead under all
sail, from Southampton waters, supposed to be bound
for Lisbon and the Mediterranean. Since her ar-
rival Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon's cutter has been
in communication with her.

The Northumberland, American packet, arrived,
embarked passengers, and sailed for New York on
Saturday.

The hutch 50-gun frigate Prince of Orange passed
up Channel on Thursday last ; she took a pilot on
board off Weymouth, and landed him at St. Leanord's.
She is from Batavia, bound to the Texel.
The Pandora, 6, Commander Wood, arrived at
Spithead on Friday evening from the Pacific, as
briefly reported in The Sun of Saturday. She sailed
from Wahoo, Sandwich Islands, on the 28th of May,
to proceed to England, via Otaheite, Pitcairn's Island,
and Valparaiso, which latter port she left on the 9th
of August with freight in Californian gold to the
amount of 80,000 dolls.-3,4501. worth of which was
consigned to Messrs. Stilwell: and Sons, navy agents,
of Arundel-street, Strand, and the residue to Messrs.
Shaw, Maxwell, and Co., of Salisbury-street, Strand,
wine merchants, &c., on account of the merchants of

London, which Mr. Robertson, of the latter house,
will convey to the Bank to-morrow.
The Pandora has no news of political importance
from Valparaiso, the packet having since she left
brought later advices. She touched on the 4th of
September at the Falkland Islands, which she found
in a highly promising state, vegetation and husbandry
springing up on every side. She sailed from Rio on
the 21st Sept. There was then, the reports, about an
average business doing in bills of exchange on Eng-
land, at 25id. to 26d. The Six per Cent. Stock was;
quoted at 88k to ; freights were 403. to London,
and 455. to Liverpool. The Hydra, Crescent, and
Spider, were at Rio at that date. The Harpy put
in for dispatches for Commodore Sir T. Herbert, who
was at Monte Video in the Raleigh, 50, in company
with the Griffin brigantine, shortly after the Pandora
anchored. She heard nothing of the Neptune convict-
ship, for the Cape. The Athol troop-ship arrived out
two days prior, with troops for the Cape; all well.
The Southampton, 50, was daily expected at Rio,
with Rear-Admiral Reynolds, to succeed Sir Thomas
Herbert in the command of the squadron. The
Constance, 50, with freight from the coast of Mexico
for England, was daily expected at Rio, and may
consequently be daily expected here. The Pandora
has been out nearly five years, employed in the survey
of the north-west coast of America (in conjunction
with the Herald, 26, Captain Kellet, which has been
dispatched inisearch of Sir John Franklin), and of all the
officers who went out to serve in her the following only
have come home :—Lieut. Wood (commander), Mr.
Elliott, clerk in charge, and Messrs. King and Stanton,
master's-assistants. Surveying voyages, like the one in
which_ the Herald and Pandora have been engaged, are
not usually attended by those brilliant incidents
which attract the notice of the world, but their
results are chiefly reduced to practical value in the
shape and form of maps and charts, and while labo-
rious to the officers and men engaged in them are
equally creditable to those nations which sustain them
for the benefit of all commercial countries. The Pandora
sailed this morning for Devonport to be paid off. The
following officers came home in her :
Lieutenant Jeffreys, first of the Driver steam-sloop,
from Valparaiso, to be Flag Lieutenant to Rear-
Admiral Dixon at Cork. (Mr. R. G. Tufnell, of the
Gorgon steam-sloop, succeeded Mr. Jeffreys as senior
lieutenant of the Driver prior to his departure.)
Lieutenant Ashe, first of the Daphne, from Val-
paraiso.
Mr. Henry Johnson, Assistant Surgeon, from the
Driver.

Mr. F. A. Maxse,' Midshipman, from the Raleigh,
at Monte Video.

Mr. Hill, carpenter, and nine invalid seamen from
the Herald, from Honolulu.
The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, had a grand
" field day" at Queenstown on the 13th. Rear-
Admiral Dixon, the Commander-in-Chief, went on
board at 10 30, A.M., and remained until 3, r.m. He
visited every part of the ship, then mustered the crew,
afterwards beat to quarters, when they fired three
rounds, blank cartridge, as quickly as they could ;
then general exercise, main and lower deck exercise,
shift breechings, trucks, &c. ; then called the boarders
by divisions, covered by the small arm men firing;
next, the fire quarters ; afterwards divisions of musket
and cutlass exercise; concluding with ball practice at
a target moored 800 yards seawards, when some
"excellent" gunnery was exhibited. Admiral Dixon
on leaving the ship expressed the warmest satisfaction
at the state of discipline in which he found her and
her ship's company. She is ordered to fill up her
complement with as much dispatch as the lateness of
the day in which the order was made would admit of,
being ordered to join the squadron of evolution at
Lisbon. Lieutenant Conolly has been dispatched to
Dublin to enter men for her; Lieutenant Pechell has
been dispatched to this port to open.a rendezvous for
the same object; and Mr. Alexander (mate) has been
also dispatched to the same port to look up men.
Those that have been sent to her from Plymouth,
Bristol, and other places, are wretched—regular Lord
Mayor's men. The Superb was 180 short of her
required number (750) on the 14th. All this expen-
sive " hurry-scurry" at the last moment might have
been avoided had the ship been ordered or allowed to
enter her crew at Spithead, where she lay eight or
nine months while thousands of prime seamen were
being disbanded.
_ _

The Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, sailed yesterday
for Lisbon, calling at Plymouth, to join the experi-
mental or evolutionary squadron.
Mr. Samuel Wyatt Garratt, of the firm of Garratt
and Gibbon, agents to Lloyd's at this port, is appointed
Vice• Consul for the United States of America for
Portsmouth, vice Pappalardo.
Wind W., fresh breezes and cloudy.
WOOLWICH, Nov. 17,—The copper on the bottom
of the Terrible steam-frigate having been examined
in dock and found in good condition, she was taken
out of the dock this afternoon, and has been moored
in the river opposite the dockyard, and is ready for
commission.

A large screw-propeller, made of the best gun
metal, by Messrs. Seaward and Co., at their canal
iron-works, was landed at this dockyard yesterday.
It is 16 feet in diameter, with a pitch of 19 feet, and
is intended for the Hogue, 56-gun steam guard-ship,
with engines of 450-horse power, and employed on
particular service, under the command of Capt. John
M'Dougall.
A fine bust of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker,
G.C.8., is being carved by Messrs. Hellaer and Son,
to be placed as a figurehead over the bows of the
Nankin, 50. gun frigate, building at this dockyard.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander James A. Legard (1838) to study steam
at Woolwich.

Lieutenant Henry A. Hollinworth (1843) to the
Indefatigable, at Devonport.

ROYAL MARINES.

Lieutenant and Adjutant William Francis Foote,
of the Woolwich division, having been promoted to
Captain, First-Lieutenant John William Alexander
Kennedy, at present Acting-Adjutant at Pembroke, is
to be Adjutant of the Woolwich division.

THE LAST OF THE MANNINGS.
The bodies of the two convicts were placed in shells,
after casts of the head and synopsis of the brain of
each had been taken, and in the evening both were
deposited in a grave prepared for them in the corridor
leading from the yard to the chapel. The coffins were
partially filled with lime in order to insure an early
decay of the remains, this plan being invariably
adopted within the walls of a prison. The phreno-
logical development of the heads is said to agree in a
very remarkable manner with the character of the
convicts as at present known ; and Mr. Donovan, who
has prepared the synopsis, will shortly publish the
result of his examination for the information of the
more curious in these matters. It will have been
remarked that Manning stated that his wife was an
Atheist, and that her belief was that, after death, the
living individual became a lump of clay. How far this
may be true it is, perhaps, difficult to say, but one
thing is certain, viz., that the wretched woman exhi-
bited no Atheisticalleelings during her confinement in
llorsemonger-lane Gaol. She was always punctual
in her attendance at chapel, and, as far as outward
form could indicate the fact, she was imbued
with religious feeling. In her letter addressed to
her guardian, and written only a few hours before
her execution, she expresses very confidently
her hope of obtaining in another world that mercy
which had been refused to her in this. It is worthy
of remark that she thus commenced it :—" The Queen,
like all judges, has a heart of rock, and it is determined
that I shall die." She then goes on to state that she
has been murdered by her husband, and that he would
have to answer to God for her blood. This statement
is not very consistent with her apparently affectionate
conduct to Manning in the chapel and on the scaffold ;
but this again may be only another phase in the
scheme of hypocrisy, induced by a desire to create an
impression of her innocence. The whole of the pro-
perty found in the possession of Maria Manning, and
that discovered at the South-Eastern Railway station,
still remain in the hands of Inspector Yates, and Bur.
ton, the police-constable. The latter only holds a few
trifling articles; but the former has property in the
police-station said to be worth nearly 2001. Mr.
Binns, Manning's solicitor, has laid an embargo on the
whole of it, by a suit against Manning, for money
lent in defending him ; and the Secretary of State has
directed it to be detained until the bill of costs be sent
in. The property will be sold in the course of a few
days, and, after paying the legal gentlemen who de-
fended the convicts, the surplus will be handed over
to Mr. Edmund Manning, the brother. Among the
property are several valuable satin dresses, a number
of lace veils, ruffles, two gold watches, some French
Rentes worth 701., and a large assortment of female
wearing apparel. The property which belonged to
O'Connor is being administered to by his brother, and
will shortly be given up.—Weekly Chronicle.

INNER TEMPLE, Nov. 16.—The ordinary course
of exercises, &c., required of the students of the Society
of the Inner Temple to qualify for their call to the bar
in the present term having terminated, the undermen-
tioned members were called to the degree of Barrister-
at-law on Friday evening last:—Benjamin Bright, of
University College, M.A.; Henry Thurston Hollanri,
of Trinity College, 13. A.; George Arthur Knightly
Howman, of Balliol College, Cambridge, M.A.; George
Hailey Prentice, of Trinity College, Cambridge, ALA .
John Maurice Foster, of Lincoln College, Oxford, B.A.'
.:
Alfred Walker Simpson, of Jesus College, Cambridge'
M.A.; George Cooper Butler, of Oriel College, Oxford,
B.A.

MR. MACREADY.—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.—
Mr. Macready having tendered his gratuitous services
for the benefit of the Queen's Hospital in this town,
appeared this evening at our theatre in the character of
Lord Townley, in the Provoked Husband. lie was ably
„ upported by Mrs. J. F. Saville, as Lady Townley. The
house was a bumper. Mr. Macready experienced a
most enthusiastic reception, and the charity on behalf of
which ho appeared will be largely benefited by his
services,