The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 13.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel
Myrtle arrived on Sunday from Portsmouth, and
sailed on her return there on Wednesday.
The Arethusa is ordered to be got ready for the
reception of the pendant on the sth of January, 1850.
The first-lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Indefati-
gable fell from the maindeck into the mainhold of
that ship on Tuesday, sprained his ancle, and was
otherwise bruised.

The masts of the Constance were landed at the
dockyard on Monday ; the mainmast was fished both
on the port and starboard side, and was much crip-
pled ; the foremast was also greatly damaged.
The emigrant ship Glentanner, bound to the Cape,
was docked on Tuesday. she having touched the
ground in the Downs. It was found that she had
carried away several sheets of copper aft. In con-
sequence of the men working day and night all re-
pairs were made good, and she was undocked yester-
day, and towed into the Sound by the Phamix, mer-
chant steamer.

The barque Blenheim, Captain Mollison, for Lon-
don, put in last night, in 123 days from oacutta, and
51 days from the Cape of Good Hope.
The packet Brilliant, Captain Newton, from
Madeira for Southampton, came in yesterday and
landed her mails, which were forwarded at 20 minutes
after 6 o'clock by the South Devon Railway. Cap-
tain 'Newton has brought from the island• Captain
Smith, Mr. Dixon, engineer, and seven more of the
crew of the late steatn-vessel Pandora. Captain
Smith has written the following particulars relating
to the loss of his ship :—" Sailed from Gravesend,
October .15, for Alexandria, calling at Ryle, Dart-
mouth, sled Falmouth. Departed from Falmouth
28th; 10 30 , 29th, encountered fresh breezes
from south-west, with a heavy swell, which caused
the vessel to strain much and make a deal of
water, and the engine-puin;i was therefore kept
constantly working. At daylight in the morning,
finding the leak increased, all hands were employed
pumping and bailing at the hatchways, and removing
the coals from the fore hatchway to lighten her. At
eleven A as., wind and sea increasing, and the leak
still gaining, it was found imprudent to pursue our
course in the daogerous state the vessel was in, and
therefore bore up for IT•hant or Brest. 11.30 AAi a
sail hove in sight, steering towards us, and at 12.30
P.M. we spoke the Asia emigrant ship, from Ply-
mouth bound to Australia. We had not long passed
the Asia when we found that the leek was still in•
creasing and our vessel settling down by the head very
fast; we then thought it advisable to make signals for
the Asia to return, at the same time bearing away for
her. The Asia immediately hove to, but, bearing to
leeward of us, it was some time before the Pandora
reached her, owing to her settling down fast, not
answering her helm, and the engine ceasing to work,
on account of the water putting out the fires.
At 2.30 r. as we succeeded in getting
near the Asia, and Captain Rochelle, of that ship,
seeing the Pandora was in a sinking state, rent his
boats to render assistance, and the crew of the Pan-
dora, which had six feet water in her hold, having
aband.oned her, were conveyed to the Asia." They
had not been on board the Asia more than fifteen or
twenty minutes before the decks of the Pandora blew
up and she went down sternmost, in lat. 48 31 N.,
long. 619 W., by account. The captain and officers
of the Pandora acknowledge with gratitude the kind
and benevolent assistance rendered the crew on board
the Asia. Having strong gales, sail was made for
Madeira, where they arrived on the ith of November,
and after performing a quarantine of five days the
crew, fifteen in number, remained at Funchal under
orders of the British Consul, who, on the 30th of
November, sent them on board the packet Brilliant,
bound to Southampton. Captain Newton treated
them most kindly on the passage, and lauded them at
Plymouth on the 13,h of December.
Wind easterly, blowing strong.
CIIATHAM, DEC. 14.—The Dasher steam vessel,
Lieutenant Parks, arrived here on the 9th inst. and
embarked the following day aparty of Royal Marines
from this division, consisting of 3 sergeants, 3 cor-
porals, 1 drummer, and 86 privates, under command
of Captain Walter Cossar, with Second-Lieutenant
Theophilus Vaughton, for service on board the
Phaeton, 50 guns, recently commissioned by Captain
G. Elliot, and which is fitting for sea at Sheerness.
She is to have a complement of 500 men.

The Daring, 12 guns, which has been under repair
in dock for some time, was put out of dock this day.
She is fresh painted, and is expected very shortly to
be placed in commission.

The Childers, 12 guns, and the Wanderer, 16 guns,
were each taken into the dock this day vacated by the
Daring, to undergo the necessary repairs for com-
mision.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, DEC. 14.—Chaplain—John R. I3unce,
B.A. (1845), to the Phaeton, 50 gun frigate, at
Sheerness.

Naval Instructor—William Roy (1846) to the
Phaeton.

Midshipmen--Claude de Cressigny to the Phaeton ;
and H. It. D. M'Murdo, to the Contest, 13 guns, at
Portsmouth.

Naval Cadet—Thomas H. koyse to the Phaeton.

PROMOTION.

Peer M'Dowall to be chief engineer.
The Ariel steam-vessel, fitted with a smc,ke con-
suming apparatus, went down the River today, on
an official trial. The fires were lighted, and the steam
got up some time before starting, which took place at
1I ZO A m., the vessel being under the charge of
Lieutenant Robertson, with Mr. Casey, of Captain
Austin's steam department, Commander Forsyth
studying steam, and Mr. Taplin, second assistant to
the chief engineer. At starting, the engines made
19 revolutions per minute, and went gradually down
to 18, 17, 15, 13, and as low at one period as 11 t.
The pressure of steam at starting was slb. to the
square inch (the highest scale on the indicator), but
it gradually went down until the indicator showed
only a pressure of 11b. to the square inch. The speed
was consequently not very great, as it at no time ap-
parently exceeded about four knots per hour. The
smoke was certainly better consumed or abstracted
than it had been on any previous trial ; but the fires
got so dull during the temporary stoppage of the re-
spective fanners to feed the furnaces that the steam
was greatly reduced, and very little progress made
with the vessel ; on the return back from Halfway-
reach she came to a dead stop opposite the east end of
the Royal Arsenal, the whole of her steam being ex-
pended and the fires insufficient to generate what was
requisite to keep the engines in motion at the slowest
speed. Under these circumstances it was found
necessary to cast anchor, as the vessel was drifting
down the river with the ebbing tide. A short
period sufficed to get the steam up again, and the
vessel returned to Woolwich at 3 45 P.m. The
great difficulty in working out the patent appears to
be in having to stop the fanners of one set of furnaces
while a fresh supply of coals is added, and if that could
be obviated the steam might be kept up, as the fan-
ners gave a great current when in full operation. The
two farmers are set in motion by a small donkey
engine of four-horse power, charged in the first in-
stance with coke, and it was expected that there
would have been sufficient waste steam from the
boilers of the engine to work the vessel and the fan-
ners, with very little aid from the donkey:engine, but
the result showed that the apparatus was not sufficient
for the purposes intended in this instance.
The Archer steam-sloop left Woolwich this morn•
ing. under the charge of Mr. J. E. Mills, Assistant-
Master Attendant at Devonport, and having on hoard
Mr. Humphreys, chief engineer, and Mr. Trickett,
chief engineer of Woolwich, dockyard. She is to try
her iron screw to-day, between the Nore and Mouse
lights, and her brass metal screw to-morrow.
Captain Collinson, C.B , visited Woolwich Deck-
yard at an early hour this morning to make arrange-
ments relative to the Enterprise, about to proceed in
search oflSir John Franklin, and the officers and
crews of the Erebus and Terror. The Investigator
was also taken out of the basin to-day, and now lies
alongside the wharf wall, opposite the sawmills at the
east end of the yard, ready to be taken into dock to
be coppered.
The Monkey steam-vessel left Woolwich at the
same time as the Archer this morning, to attend
during the trials, and bring the persons attached o
the dockyard and spare articles back to Woolwich.

FUNS IN AmisEa.—We are requested to state that
this work, by Miss Pardoe, authoress of " The Pretty
Woman," &e., will be Published immediately by Mr.
Shoberl, No. 20, Great Marlborough-street. Also just
ready:-2. Scenes of the Civil War in Hungary, in
1848 9, with the Personal Adventures of an Austria*
Officer in the army of the Ban of Crcatia, 1 vol., 7s. 6d.
bound. 3. Country Quarters. By the Countess' of
Blessington; with Portrait, and Memoir by her Niece,
Miss Power. 4. Now ready at all the Libraries, Napier's
Southern Africa; with plates, 2 vois.—" A mass of
woll-
arranged and wt 11-described facts in connexion with s.
colony towards which recent circumstances have tended
to direct a largely-increased share of public attention.—
Mc)/ n ing Advertiser.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS —The sittings of this court
for the en.uing year base been fixed by a committee of
magistrates appointed for that l urpose, and an important
alteration has been made in reference to the sittings at
Westminster by adjournment from Clerkenwell. The
court is bound by a provision in an Act of Parliament to
sit periodically at the Westminster Guildhall, for the
purpose of holding a " Westminster session," but it is
a tn« re formality, there not b,ing (except when eases are
specially adjourned from Clerkenwell) above one case
for trial in six of such sittings, tut nevertheless a full
panel of grand and petit jurors had to be summoned, an
expense of nearly 8001. a year being entailed upon the
county by such proceedings. Four only of these sittings
(half the usual number) have been appointed for 1850—
an alteration by which much inconvenience and expense
will be avoided.

hirORTATION OF GUANO.—Two vessels, the Com-
merce and the Mary Ann, have arrived in the West India
Docks from Herne thy, with cargoes of guano, ex
the ship Digby, wrecked on the coast on her voyage
from Callao to London,