The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-11 00:00:00

CHOLERA ANL) DIARRHCEA

RETURN OF (:ASES, OCT. 9.
THE METROPOLIS.
SUPERINTENDING REGISPRAR's DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Dlarrh.

WEST DISTRICTS.

Kensington
Chelsea...
..•
St. George, Hanover-square ...
Westminster
St. Martin-in-the-Fields ...
St. James, West.emster

Marylnborn)
Hampstead
St. Pancras
Islington
Hackney

St. Giles

Strand

--- •
Holborn Union
Clerkenwell .
St. Luke
East London
West London
City of London

NORTa DISTRIc CS.

••• "..•

••• ... -
CENTRAL DISTRICTS.

• • • ."".

••• ....

• • • ..-.

... ......

••• •'.

•••
EAST DisTitic rs.

shoreditch
Bethnal-green •••
Whitechapel
St. George-in-the ast
Stepney ••• •.•
Poplar ...

••• ..

£OIITH DISTRICTS.
St. Saviour, Southwark
St. (Have
Bermondsey
St. George, Southwark
Newington ...
Lambeth
Wandsworth
Camberwell
Rotherhithe
G ret nwich

Total

•••

o 1
o 1
o 0
o 0
o 0
o ' 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

1 0
O 0
O 0
O 0

o o
0 0
1 0

1 0
0 0
2 0
2 0
0 0
1 1

2 0
0 0
0 0

0 0

Total deaths from cholera, registered from
Sept. 17, 1848, to Oct. 9, 1849... ... 14,448
Total deaths from cholera, registered from
June 17, 1849, to Oct. 9, 1849...

... 13,357

• The return has not been. received from Mr. G.
Yarrow, registrar of St. Leonard's, sub-district of Shore-
ditch.

NOTE.—The district of Kensington comprises the
parishes of Kensington, Hammersmith, Fuiham, and
Paddington. Westminster district comprises the
parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan-
gelist, with Privy Gardens and Whitehall, and the
close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. St. Giles's
district comprises the parishes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields
and St. George, Bloomsbury. The following are co-
extensive with the unions of the same name:—Hackneyf
Strand, Holborn, East London, West London, City o,
London, Whitechapel, Stepney, Poplar, St. Saviour, St.
Olave, Wandsworth (Wandsworth and Clapham),
Greenwich, and Lewisham. The remaining districts
are co extensive with the respective parishes of the same

name.

THE COUNTRY.
The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diarrhce4 reported to the General Board of Health
the 10th day of October, 1849 :

Alnwick ••• ••• •••
Axbridge
••• •
•.•
Barnstaple ... ..• ...
Bedminster ... ..•
Big4leswade (Patton district)
Bradford, North Bierley, Pudsey,
Thornton, and Bowling ...
Bridgwater ...
Bristol
Bury (Elton and Heywood) ...
Carlisle •••
••• •••
' Castle Ward (Stamfordham)...
Chorley
••• ••• •••
Chorl ton (Hulme)
•• •
Clifton Union (St. Philip and
Jacob) ... -••--
Darlington ••• ---
Dewsbury (Soothill) •••
Droitwich ••• •••
Dudley (Srdgley, Tipton, and
Ro•.vley (Regis) ... •••
East Stonehouse •••
Eccleshall (Bierlow) ... •..
Falmouth (Constantine district)
Faversham ..• •••
Gainsborough (West Bubber-
nick, Owston)
•••
Gateshead (Dunston, Wickham)
Goole (Snaith and Armin) ...
Great Loughton •••
flal,fax (Sowerby)
Hardingstone (Paddington)
Elastings
fiayfiell ••• •••
Elitchin and Baldock
Huddersfield (Lockwood and
Slaithwaite)
••• •••
Hunslet, Kirkstall, and Rothwell
Lancaster

Lceds
Lewc s ...

••• ....

Liverpool ... ...
Louth ... •••
Sladeley (Much Wet,lock) ...
Sheelesfield (Bolliugton)
Nlanehester

••• •••••

Milton r ext Sittingbourne
Milstead ..• ... • ...
Newcastle-on-Tyne ..•
Newtown ... •••
Northwick and Weaverham
Peterborough ••
Pontefract (Lumley, Castleford,
and More)
Rochford
Rotherham (Wad)) ...
Runcorn and Badworth
St. Albans
Sculcoa Lc ... •
Selby••• •••
South Shields (Weston) ... -
Stockport and Marple...
Stockton (Hartlepool and Yarm)
Stoke-upon-Trent (S belton)
Stourbridge (Kingswinford)
Thetford ...
•••
rutnes -
(Brixham)
Fruro
I'ynemouth ( Bly th and Earsdon)
Uxbridge (Hillingdon district)
Wakefield (Stanley) ...
Wal-all and Darlastnn
•••
West Bromwich (Wednesbury
and Oldbury)
West Derby (Toxteth Park and
Walton-on-the-Hill)
Wept outh
Whitby
Whitehaven
Wigan
Windsor (Clever) ...
Wolverhampton (Bilston and
Wombourne)
Wycombe ...
Yarmouth, Great

•••. ...*

••• ......

Deaths.
Cholera. Dlarrh.
3 0
1
1 0
1 0
1 0

••• ...

••• ...

• • • .....•

Total ...

• . • .....

SCOTLAND.

Arbroath ...
St. Vigen3, Arbroath
Dundee ••• ••• •••
Bones. (6th and 7th inst.).
...
Blair Drummond, parish of
Kincardine, Stirling (for 3d
and 4th)

• • ...."

Total ... ...
General total:—
Metropolis ...
Country ...
Scotland ...

••• ".

14
1
1
4
0
0
5
5
1
8
2

13,896,894
Loan in Jan.

49,430,267 I
1848.

No. 11. Income and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the 10th October, 184, and the 10th October, 1849,

Quarters ended Oct. 10.

1849

••• ....

iii• .....

Total

site ....

14
199
10

NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im•
practicable to distinguish every place separately.

CHOLERA.
Mon. Tue.
Oct. Oct.
Bth. 9th.
4 0
4 1
3 1
11 3
16 9

DIARRHCEA.
Mun. Tue.
Oct. Oct.
Bth. 9th.
4 2
5 3
1 0
4 4
6 2

38

14 20 11

5,483,832
1,318,233
1,035

98,642
426,570
428,746

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA Y EVENING OCTOBER H, 1849

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING OCTOBER 10, 1849.

No. I.—An Abstract of the N. t Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended 10th of Octet). r 1848, and lath of Oetobur, MP showing the
Increas.? or Decrease on each head thereof.

II
YEAR '!
QUARTERS ENDED QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
______________A____ , I ended ,- __________A___ , . ended ' Year ended Oct. 10. quarter ended Vet. 10.
r-
Jan. 5, April 5, ' July 5, Oct. 10, Oct. 10, , Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Oct. to 1 (-________&____, r_______A__ ---,
1848 1841 1843 1843 1841 ! 1849 1849 1849 1849 1849 I Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
- • - -
X-
X .£ X
Customs ••••••• • • • • • • • 4,111,862 4,392,650 4,447,432 5,406,183 , 18,358,827 4,682,395 4,593,119 4,128,777 5,253,272 18,657,593 ' Customs . . 298,736 153,211
Excise.. .... ... •••• • • • 3,246,'483 0,002,601 3,473,803 4, , 02,574 i 12,825,861 3,25:3,162 1,820,575 3,020,602 i 4,287,577 12,381,916 i Excise ..... ....... •• • • •• -
Stamps.
125.108 .. 224,8(5 •• ..
Taxes
.... ,
.12,599
Property Tax..
I'ost-0t1ice..,.......... 208,000 221,000 136,000 221,000 786,000 I 198,010 231,000 126,000 1 224,000 852,000
~
3,000 .
Post-office ..• 6670 2,299 21,116 .
.0.0
Crown Lands - - ... •.. 40,000 21,000 10,0)0 20,001 91,000 30,000 40,000 40,000 1 '20,000 130,000 ! Crown Lands ••• • • • 39 000 .. • • ...
•- - 668,611 ~146,244 44
,903 :1;810
Miscellaneous ........ 11,746 56,307 9,227 13,923 91,293 , 21,709 98,792 70,140 21,902 212,543 Miscellaneous.- - .. • •
1..
121340 - -- - -
--- -
Total Ordinary- Revenue 11,561,696 70,497,764 12,657,036 13,334,498 43,019,968
,12,003,311 10,495,277! 12,163,186 13,610,561 48,272,335 Total . .
455,02: 84 _B4 . .. • • 81,284 China Money ...- -
China Money- - .. •• ; • • 455,021 • • -.
30,914 24,452 163,60 n 165,437 302,103
,•,3‘,.,.,,,, i 204,361 109,875 120,134 553,265 ', Imprest Moneys, &e . 1 :0:: :6522
D831:60197:3:7
4.„5,...07
I 1- ' • ' ••••
Imprcst Moneys, &c. ..!
Repayments of, Ids-daces 74,043 74,133 84,813 112,605 347,604 140,695 87,643 170,1341 1 166,199 595,383 ; llepayrntsofAdyncs. 217,779 •-, • • .... 48,263
• • • • 53..594
Total Income • • 11,605,353 11,051,379 12,912,4,19 13,615,510 49,244,696 :12,352,185 110,787,2 12,143,932 113,8(.43,894 i 49,480,267 • i Total
--
Amount applied to Con. i I 11
~
.4 , , . Deduct
solidated Fund*
- Decrease '1" ' '''' 1 Deduct
Ditto, as Advances .•• - ' 310,833 149,059 231,111 428,746 1,149,746 ' 134,330 ; 135,554 393,077 490,420 1,253,437 I,'
Ditto, as Ways & Means 1
,
1 -
Increase
of the Year --- - - 4,889,744 4,946,003 , 5,863,319 5,956,3:38 21,655,489 3,193,653 ' 4,704,432 4,830,517 5,107,494 17,836,131 j , ' Increase
- - - - , I 235,5711 on 281,384/ on tire
the Year. Quarter.
Total. •• • • 12,241,133 11,051,379 12,912,449 113,615,5101 49,820,471 ,12,352,185 10,787,236 12,443,902 113,896,8941 '49,-130,267 1! .
• Exclusive of Advances and inclusive of Loan in Jan. 1848. .

Quarters ended Oct. It',

5,469,666
1,292,376

I 0,:350
98,695
409,282
490,426

the Hon. Sir T. B. Capel, K C B. (captain of the P. was
at Trafalgar); Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8.; Sir F. W.
Austen KC 13. (commander of the Petrel at tire cap-
ture of La Legurienee, and of the Cano; us at St. Do-
mingo); Sir J. A. Ouamanney, K.C.8.; Sir E. D. limg,
K.C.H. (captain of the Grenada at the capture of Gua-
deloupe); Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G. (captain of
the Atlas at at. Dow ago); Sir Samuel Pyrn, K C. 8.;
Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C.8., K C. 11.; Richard Thomas, J.
R. Dacres, the Hon. Donald H. Mackay, Sir Lucius
Curtis, Bart., C. 8., and Sir John Louis, Bart. Oat of
the above hat the flag officer afro has servkd longest in
command in chief is that gallant, distinguished, and able
officer Sir E. D. King.
Captain Slade bas been appointed additional to the
flag-ship in the Mediterranean, to be employed upon any
service in which his great experience in Oriental man-
ners and customs, and proficiercy es a linguist, may be
made available at the discretion of the Gallant Corn
mender-in-Chief; and as it may be advisable to keep tip
an uninterrupted personal communication between the
Admiral and the British representative at Censtan i-
nople, and 'moreover as the services of an adlicer of
Captain Slatie's abilities as a linguist and O. kids! tra-
veller may be required in diplomatic intt reeurse Nesse-en
the authorities above-mentioned anti the rowers of
France, Turkey, Austria, and Russia. Cepteio Sieve
has been selected as a meta able and coetidenti d eaeua
Captain Slade (within 48 hours of his eppointuant)" left
London for Marseilles on Saturday last, and proceeds
thence by the steam packet that conveys the outward
overland Indian mail of last night to Malta, en route
to join the flag-ship in the Mediterranean, to
report himself to Vice-Admiral Sir IV. Felker. It
is expected that he will find the fleet at Athens. Cap •
lain Slade is nut only intimately . and mitutely ac-
quainted himself with Turkey and its inlets, and the
resources and capabilities of that empire, but in a two
volume work, entitled "Records of Travels in Turkey,
and of a Cruise in the Black Sea with the Caei'aa
Pacha, in 1829-30 31," he has succeeded iu improtieg
the information of the public. During the late ref:data'
in Portugal, Captain (then Commatater) Slide we. dis-
patched in command of the Recruit, 12 gun stoop, to
Madeira, on a &I:caw and confidential mission, which
he fulfilled with great credit to himself. His Com-
mander-in-chief, aiir C. Napier, however, was not at
all disposed to appreciate his services on this occasion,
and if report says truly, he even went so far as so ex-
press some slight disapprobation of his proceedings ; nut
the gsllant commander consoled hina,-eft with au Atimi.
rally letter in his p,cket, thanking hirer fur the manner
in which he had performed the duty entrusted to him.
In fact, for this service he eas noted for promotion to
his present rank by the late Earl of Auckland, %hosts
intention was carried out after his Lordship's lamented
death by the Board of Admiralty, by wle.m he has
now been appointed to another important and confiden-
tial post.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
DEATII OF ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD W. C. R.
Ownx, G.C.8., G.C.H.-Aelother pliant flag officer
of. the Royal Navy has gone to his last account.
AdMiral of the White Sir Edward William Camp-
bell "Rich Owen, G.C.8., G.C.11., died on Monday
last, at his seat at Windlesham, near Bagshot, Surrey,
full of years and honours, having attained the ad-
vanced age of seventy-eight. The name of the gallant
deceased, either by his father's, his own, or his bro-
thet's gallant deeds, has been well known in the navy
for the last ninety years ; but especially that of Sir
C. Owen, who having been in the naval service for
almost three quarters of a rentury, served on full
pay no less than fifty years of that time. As Corn-
modore Owen, however, he will be best known to
posterity, for his great and incessant services in the
Channel against the French will live for ever. His
name on the French coast was held in the utmost
terror, kr wherever his gallant frigate " Imincrtalite '
. .ghti .
went there was stern fighting with and destruction to
the enemy. Sir William OWen's father was a Captain
in the navy ; as a midshipman he lest his right arm
at the taking of Pondicherry from the French in
1760, and was accidrntaily killed at Madras in 1788,
when returning to England with dispatches announc-
ing the second capture of Pondicherry.
Sir W. OWen represented Sandss ich in Parliament
in 1826 ; in Alay, 1827, he was appointed to the
office of Surveyor General of the Ordnance; and in
March, 1828, formed one of the Lord High Admiral's
council. From the Admiralty he was appointed
Commander in-chief of the East India station ; and
from 1834 held for a short time the office of Clerk of
the Ordnance. The details of his career in the navy
are thus given in O'Byrne's " Naval Biography," but
they are necessarily somewhat abridged :-
"This officer entered the navy on August 11, 1773, as
captain's servant on board the Enterprise, commanded
in the Mediterranean by Captain Sir Thomas Rich, with
whom from 1780 until 1782, he served in the West In.
dies in the Princessa, Sandwich, and Princess Rey al.
In July, 1786, he rejoined the same captain as midbeep.
man on board the Culloden, 74, lying at Plymouth, and
while on the books of that ship be was on two occa-
sions lent to the Fairy sloop, Captain Isaac George
Manly, and Leander, 50, bearing the broad pendant at
Helifax of Commodore Herbert Sawyer. In the early
part of 1790, after his servitude of two 3 ears on the
Channel and Mediterranean stations in the Loss estoffe
frigate, Capt. Edward Dodd, he passed his examination.
H then became, in succession, attached to the Thisbe,
28, Capt. Rupert George ; the Dido frigate, Capt. Ed wd
Butler; the Vengeance, 74, Captain Sir Thomas Web;
the Hannibal. 74, Captain John Colpoys; the Porcupine,
24, Captain Edward Buller; and Culloden again, Capt.
S.r Thomas • Rich, in which ships he served on the
North American, home, and West India stations. until
made Lieutenant, Nov. 6, 1793, into the Fortue6,-, 36,
Captain Wooldridge, off Cadiz, where he soon removed
to the Hannibal, still commanded by Captain Culpoys.
His next appointments were July 22, and Dec. 15, 1794,
to his old ship, the Culloden, and to the London, 98,
hearing the flags in the Channel of Admirals Sir
Thomas Rich and J. Colpoys ; by the latter, we be-
lieve, of whom he was nominatt d, after having enacted
a part in Lord Bridport's action, acting Captain in
March and May, 1796, of the Impregnable, 98, and
Queen Charlotte, 100. Being awarded a second pro-
motel commission, bearing date Sept. 19, 1796, Captain
Owen, in Jan., 1797, rejoined his friend Admiral Col-
poys as a volunteer on board the London, on leaving
which ship in the ensuing May he was for two months
employed in the command of the gun-brigs stationed in
the Thames and at the Noi-e Under .the orders of Com
modore Erasmus Gower. He obtained post rank on
April 23, 1796,in the Northumberland, 74, lying at Sheer-
ness, and he was subsequently appointed, tor a short
period in the summer of the same year, to the Irresisti-
ble, 74, stationed in the river-Medway; Jan. 1, 1801, to
the Nemesis, 28; May 11, 1802, to the Immortalite, 36;
March 21, 1806, to the Clyde, 36; Dec. 6, 1810, to the
Inconstant, 36; Feb. 17, 1813, to the Cornwall, 74;
July 30, 1814, to the Dorset, yacht, off Deptford; Dec.
12, 1814, to the chief command on the Lakes of Canada;
Feb. 6, 1816, fur six years, to the Royal Sovereign
yacht; Nov. 25, 1822, to the Gloucester, 72. In the
Nemesis Captain Owen commanded a detachment of
vessels off the Scheldt and the neighbourhood of Dun-
kerque; and in the Itnmortaltni he was at first employed,
as senior officer, during the peace of Amiens, of a
squadron of frigates lying in readiness for service in the
Downs. On the renewal of hostilities we find him sta-
tioned with several slooops and smaller vessels under his
orders on the coast of France, where his activity and
zeal kept the enemy in a constant state of alarm. In
June, 1803, he drove on shore, near Cape Blanc-nez, Le
Commode and L'lnabordable, a French brig and
schooner, each mounting four guns. On the 14th of
September, following he bombarded with effect the towns
of Dieppe and St. Valery-en-Caux; and in July, 1804,
he directed an attack upon a powerful division of the
French invasion flotilla, consisting of forty five brigs
and forty-three loggers, part of which was endea-
vouring to effect a passage from Boulogne to Etaples.
In August of the same year he was for several days en-
gaged with the enemy, partici:W-1y on the 25th and
26th, when the interchange of fire with their vessels and
batteries in the vicinity of Boulogne was frequent and
heavy. On the 23d October, 1804, the ImmortatinS and
her consorts sustained a eunnirg action cif an hour, be-
tween Capes Blanc-nt z and Grtantz, with three prattais,
seven brig;, and fiitein luggers, and in July, 1805, they
took part in a very smart affeir nil the enemy near
Ambleteuse. On the latter occit!ion the Immorialue
had her foremast, maintopmast, spanker-boom, and
three boats shot through, 11, r rigging and sails much
cut, her hull struck in several places, 2 carronadea dis •
abled, and 4 man killed and 12 wounded, several of them
severely. She had previously, March 7, 1805, captured
El Entrepeda Curune Spanish privateer, of 44 guns and
66 men. On his removal (alter having had command of
a squadron.stationed in the rivers Elbe and Weser, fir
the purpose of embarking the troops under Lord Cath-
cart) to the Clyde, Commodore Ow.n (he had been
ordered to hoist a broad pendant) superintended in Oc-
tober, 1806, a decisive and very successful experiment ,
made with Congreve's rockets on the town of Boulogne,
where many of the buildings and several vessels were
destroyed. Accompanying the expedition of 1809 to
Walcheren, the Commodore throughout the operations
which there took place distinguished himself in a high
degree by his gallant and liii animated conduct, and
obtained warm commendation for the manner in which
he discharged the various arduous duties he had to per.
form. His skill and judgment were in particular de-
monstrated in the position he assigned to the bomb and
other vessels under his orders in the attack upon Flush-
ing, and his activity and, zeal in the assistance he
afforded the St. Domingo, the flag-ship of the Comman-
der-in. Chief, when aground under the enemy's fire,
which, through his exertions, was speedily slackened.
In the Inconstant, Commodore Owen made a voyage to
Vera Cruz and back, and was for some time attached
to the fleet off the Scheldt ; where, on his appoint-
ment to the Cornwall, he assumed the command of
the advanced portion of the shipping. At the close
of 1813 he tendeied himself conspicuous by his ex-
emplary conduct at the head of a body of seamen
and marines landed to co-operate with the Dutch Royal-
ists in the defence of the island of South Beveland.
While in command of the Royal Sovereign yacht, he bad
the honour of conveying to this country the present
Queen Dowager, the Dukes and Duchesses of Kent,
Cumberland, Cambridge, and Hesse Homburg, and
Grand Duke Michael of Russia. With the exception of
some months in 1823-24, Sir Edward Owen-who had
been nominated K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1805; invested with the
honour of knighthood May 14, 1816; and appointed
c donel of Roy al Marines July 19, 1821-continued in
the Gloucester, on the West India station-where the
House of Assembly of Jamaica passed a vote of thanks
to him for his prompt attention to commercial and naval
interests-from the date above-mentioned until that of
his promotion to flag rank, May 27, 1825. On Dec. 20,
1828, he was appointed to the chief command on the
East India station, whence he returned in Oct., 1832;
and he was next-from Oct. 14, 1841, until Feb., 1845-
intrusted with the command in chief on the Mediterra-
nean station, be having attained the rank of vice-admiral
on Jan. 10, 1837, with his flag successively in the
Queen, 110, and Formidable, 84. His nomination to the
G.C.H. took place on Oct. 24, 1832, and to the G.C.B.
May 8, 1845."

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant Francis S. Short (1843), to the Firebrand,
steam frigate, titling at Woolwieh.
Mater—lt. P. Forbes (1848), who navigated the
Adelaide steam-vessel to Port Adelaide, to the Spiteful,
stt am-sloop, fitting at Divonport.
Chief Eiigincers—William Templeton, to the Conflict,
:crew-sloop, at Devonport; Archibald Bain, to the
Virago. steam-81°14 at Devunport; William Richardson,
to the Spiteful, steam-sloop, ,at Devonport.
Mate—John C. Soady, to the Spiteful.
Assistant Engineers—Charles Moore, Isaac Cocper,
4. A. Be:ond, to the Conflict; Robert Drummond,
Charles Cotton, and William Wotton, to the Spitetut;
James Morris/James Connor, and IL J. Willits, to the
Virago.
Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. Johnstone Christie (1846),
to the Conflict; Alexander Robertson (1841), to the
Victory, flag-ship at Portsmouth; Robert Mungle
(1846), to the Shearwater straw-vessel, Queenstown.
Clerk—T. H. C. Gray (184), to the Eisguard, flig.
ship at Wo,lwich.
Master's Assistant—J. W. need, to the Firebrand.
Clerk's Assistant—W. P. Braidwood, to the Spiteful.
Naval Cadet—Henry F. Campbell, to the Encounter,
screw corvette, at Spithead.
Mr. Dinnan, inspector of steam machinery afloat, and
who has been most actively and incessantly employed
fur many years in the various branches of marine steam
machinery, and who was appointed inspectOr of steam
machinery in the last experimental sqaadron, has been
appointed to the staff of the swim department of Somer-
set-house, at a salary of 4501. per annum. This is a
most just and well-deserved appointment. Mr. Dinnen's
great practical experience afloat renders him a MJst
valuable servant.
REMOVAL OF SUNKEN SHIPS IN PoRTSMOTITH HAR-

Sir Edward Owen married, in 1829, the daughter of
Captain J. B. Hay, RN., but we believe he has left no
children. Rear-Admiral William Fitzwilliam Owen is
his brother, and is scarcely less distinguished for ser-
vice, although he has not been fortunate enough to have
any appendages to his celebrated name. We believe be
is now in his seventy-eighth year; he has been seventy-
one years in the service, and of this period has actually
served forty-four (not thirty-four, as stated by the
authority above quoted) sea service.
By the death of Su. Edward Owen, the following
promotions take place:—
Vice-Admiral Alexander Wilmot Schomberg, to be
Admiral of the Blue, vice Hugh Downman, to be Ad-
miral of the White.

DOUR —For the last fortnight past a party of divers and
seamen from the Excellent have been employed in
clearing away the wreck of two vessels which were sunk
and lying in the wake of the new slip on which the
Furious steamer is building, she being the first vessel
built thereon. These vessels were sunk a')out 60 years
back, as a sort of breakwater, when that part of the
dockyard wall was first built. Their removal bas been
attended with a good deal of trouble, and blasting was
resorted to; but a chlrge of ten pounds of powder,
placed under one of these vessels, so shook the new
wall, that it was deemed prudent to desist using powder,
and the wreck of the vessels is now being got up piece-
meal by grapnels or dogs. One vessel was foreign, her
timbers and planking, which are quite sound, having
been all fastened with dowels.

There was some report abroad at Portsmouth that the
Britatinia, 120, is to be taken (loan and commissioned
in lieu of the Victory, and tba; the guard-ships at the
principal ports are all to be efficient ships.
Captain Edward Purcell has returned to his ship, the
Superb, 80, at • Spithead, from Admiralty leave. The
boats of the ship, with their guns in, and otherciise
manned ar.d armed, were exercised at Spithead on Mon-
day, firing at a target.
Toe L andt r, 50, Captain S. C. Darrel, has entered
three-fir hs of her complement of 500, and so far has a
king set of men. Iler topmasts are pointed, and
r b.ivr silit nearly clothed, and she will be ready for
sea by the .nd of the month,
The Brilliat, t, 20, Captain B. B. Watson, C. 8., was
paid oil at Sheerness, on Tuesday. A variety el ships,
just conmis,iontd, offer to the ISO blue-jackets good
opportunities for further employment in her Majesty's
Service.
The Serpent, 12, Commander Barker, bas been taken
into the Angle duck, at Portsmouth; she is having her
copper patched, and will be taken out of dock this day.
She is nearly manned, and seems to have a capital
crew, all stout, active fellows. She has been rigged with
great expedition, and will be soon ready for sea.
The Wolverine, 12, Commander Falc,in, will bo ready
to leave Chatham on the 14th iust. She has nearly
completed her crew.

Tile Termagant, 24, screw-frigate, will be ready for
hoisting the pendant in the course of a fortnight.
The Terrible steam-frigate, at Woolwich, has been
under the hands of the Woolwich " rippers and break-
ers," and is now a wreck of what she was a fortnight

The Sidon steam-frigate has received her four boilers
at Portsmouth. She has as many men about her as can
find room to work. She will be masted to-day, and will
be out of the hands of the engineers by the 14th of next
month.

The Vulcan iron steam frigate, at Woolwich, is re-
ported complete for service in the engineer department,
and will be out of the hands of the shipwrights by the
15th Oct.

The Firebrand, 6, steam frigate, Captain Knox, is
complete in the shipwright and engineer's department at
Woolwich, and has entered above 120 out of her 200
complement.

The Styx, 6, steam-sloop, of 280-horse power, fitting
at Woolwich, is ordered to be made ready for commis-
sion at this port as early as possible. The armament of
this vessel will consist of one 68-pounder, of 90 cwt.,
and 10 feet long; one 10-inch gun, of 85 cwt., and 9 fret
4 inches long; and four 32-pounders, of 42 cwt. each, 8
feet long, on pivot slides and carriages. She will have a
crow of 160 men.

The Scourge, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord F.
Kerr, has been masted at Portsmouth, and is partly
rigged. She has about 50 vacancies to fill up.
The Confiance steam•vessel, Master - Commander
Martin, is detained at Woolwich, to have some defects
made good.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, FIVE p.m.—Wind N.H.,
light airs, and fine.

—Trio Sir Robert Peel, a new liner-packet, bound to
New York, embarked passengers, and sailed yesterday
morning.

Rear• Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart., to be Vice-
Admiral of the Blue, vice Sir Charles Richardson,
K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White, vice James
Noble, to be Vice-Admiral of the red.
Captains (retired)—Charles Bertram, George hills,
Henry Fanshawe, Isaac Hawkins Morrison, George
Barns Trollope, 0.13., Sir Thomas Mansell,
Thomas Groube, Hercules Robinson, and William
Black (1814), in accordance with the terms of the orders
in eouncil of 1846, are promoted to the rank of Rear-
Admiral un the retired list, but without any additional
pay.
Captain Ralph Randolph Wormley (June, 1814), to
the rank of Rear-Admirel of the blue, vice Jol.n Pascoe
to be Rear-Admiral of the white, vice Cearles Siblorp
John Harem) ne to be Rear-Admiral of the red.
By the above promotions Sir Edward Durnford King,
Kt., K.C.H., becomes the senior Vice-Admiral, and
Brian Hongson, Esq , becomes the senior Rear- Admiral
OD the list for promotion.
Captain Hayes O'Grady (1814), becomes senior Cap-
tain on the active list. Captain Richard Augustus Yates
(1827), now in command of the Illustrious, dr pot ship
of Portsmouth ordinary, comes within the 14s. 6d. per
diem half-pay list, and Captain John Drake succeeds to
the half pay of 12s. 6d. der diem.
In addition to the admiral's good-service pension of
3001. per annum, the appointment of superintendent to
Devonport Dockyard becomes vacant by the promotion
of Sir John Louis, who has held the appointment since
Dec. 16, 1846. The good-service pensh n will, no doubt,
be easily disposed of. As a matter of course, the candi-
dates will be limited to those holding the rank of admiral
or vice- admiral. The officers of those grades who are not
already in receipt of gcod•service pensions, or equiva-
lents, and who have been in command as admirals, are
Sir Charles Ogle, Bart.; Sir John West, K.C.8.; Sir
William Hall Gage, Sir Graham E. Hamond,
Bart., K.C.B. (captain of the Blanche at Copenhagen);

LADY FRANKLIN.
This amiable lady arrived at Aberdeen on Satur-
day from Stromness, by the Pharos, light-house
steamer. Her Ladyship was accompanied by her
daughter and a maid. They did not remain long in
town, but proceeded to Peterhead, from which they
returned to Aberdeen on Monday. She left Leith on
Tuesday. No further particulars of Sir John have
come to light.
ARRIVAL OP LADY FRANKLIN IN EDINIILIRGII.—
steamer
Bonny This lady, accompanied by her niece, arrived at
Granton. last nighfrt„omat
Aberdeen.six
o'cloe by
yhe the
pr
Bonny Dundee,
immediately in a conveyance to Cibb's Royal
Hotel, where she intends to make a short stay
prior to setting out for the south, in order to
promote and org:lnise such plans as may be consi-
dered most expedient for relieving the expedition of
which her gallant husband has the command from its
long imprisonment and present perils. We under-
stand that her Ladyship is in expectation of receiving
additional information by the Advice, of Dundee, the
arrival of which at some of the northern ports is
daily expected. This vessel, it will be recollected,
accompanied the True-Love for some distance,
in the ineffectual attempt that was made to
penetrate Lancaster Sound, with a view to obtain
further intelligence regarding the expeditions of
Sir Jchn Franklin and Sir James Ross. We
learn that Lady Franklin received the gratifying
intelligence of her husband's safety, at a place where
she was residing, near Stromness. The news was
conveyed to her by the authorities in that quarter,
who had got it from some of the crew of the True-
Love that were landed at Kirkwall. A correspondent
informs us that her Ladyship arrived in Aberdeen on
Saturday from Stroßmess, by the Pharos light-house
steamer. She did not remain long in that town, but
proceeded to Peterhead, from which she returned to
Aberdeen on Monday, and left for Granton on Tues-
day by the steamer, arriving here, as mentioned above,
last night.—Scotsman of Wednesday.

LADY FRANKLIN.-PETERHEAD, OCT. B.—Lady
Franklin, in prosecution of her iudefatigab'e exertions to
obtain information respecting her husband, arrived here
on the 6th inst., and left this morning on her way t
London.—Shippirty Gotak.

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