The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

It is intended to relieve the vessels serving on the
coast of Africa station at shorter periods than hitherto.
They are not in future to run more than two years.
The Dolphin, 3, brigantine Lieut. the Hon. R. F.
Boyle, just arrived from the coast, has been under
two years and two months in commission, and the
Britomart, 8, Commander Chamberlain, expected

home next month, will hare been under two years and

a half in commission.

It is reported that the master ropemaker of Devon-
port dockyard is about to be superannuated. He is
one of the best practical ropemakers in the service,
and although on the wrong side of sixty, from what
we could see a short time since, was equally as
efficient as his first foreman. The Admiralty will
lose a good and now a very valuable servant if they
superannuate him. .

The naval apprentices at the Forts have been ma-
terially reduced by drafts to the hhips commissioned,
and their vacancies are now ordered to be filled up to
1410 in each tender at Portsmouth and Devonport.
There are about five candidates for one vacancy.
Lieut. George Bury (1841) died October 12, at
Newton House, county Kildare, in the 59th year of
his age. He had been on full pay for 20 years during
the war. He entered the navy June 9, 1803, on board
the Colossus, 74. He served in the Canopus, 80, on
the Mediterranean station ; and on October 26, 1809,
contributed to the destruction of the French line-of-
battle ships Robuste and Lion. He was promoted Jan.
11, 1814, into the Jasper, 18, Captain George Edward
Watts, and after an intermediate and very active em-
ployment in the Chesapeake, returned home in the
summer of 1814.

Lieut. Charles Shortt (1821), of the coast guard
station of Long Island, died a few days since.
VOLUNTEERS FOR THE NAVY.—The Stromboli, 6,
steam sloop, Commander Lord A. Beauclerk, has
gone to Queenstown for volunteer seamen. The
Shearwater, 3, steam-vessel Lieutenant-Commander
Tumour, has gone to Devonport from Queenstown
with seamen volunteers for the Ganges. The Lucifer,
steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander Lloyd, is at
Bristol, raising seamen. The Trident, steam-vessel,
Lieut.. Commander Risk, is at Liverpool, raising men ;
an-I the Dasher, steam-vessel, Lieut.- Commander
Parks, has been at Hull and Yarmouth for a like
purpose.
THE STEAM NAVAL RESERVE.—The following
steam-vessels are ordered to be expedited in their
building and launching, and in their fittings of ma-
chinery, hull and rigging, for reserve or commission.
Building or converting :—The Horatio, screw•frigate,
converting, and Miranda sloop, at Sheerness ; the
Leopard, steam-frigate, at Deptford; and the Tiger,
steam-frigate, at Chatham. To be expedited in fit-
ting, &c.—Amphion, 30. auxiliary screw, at Sheer-
ness, will be ready by 16th of November, the Vulture,
6, frigate, will be ready for removal to Portsmouth by
the Ist of November, at Sheerness; Devastation,
sloop (twelve months in hand), at Portsmouth; Niger,
screw-sloop (for commission) ; Retribution, frigate,
and Desperate, screw-sloop, at Woolwich ; Buzzard,
(paddle) and Mae,icienne (screw), sloops, Deptford
and East India Dock. The Greenock, iron screw
steam-frigate, at Greenock, now nearly completed, is
ordered to be inspected and reported upon, preparatory
to removal to Devonport, and the Rhadamanthus,
steam-transport, is ordered to be kept ready for im-
mediate service at Sheerness.
Mr. Donovan, a supernumerary gunner of Chatham
ordinary, and who was in charge of the Latona, 42,
was tried by court-martial on Wednesday, on a charge
of drunkenness, preferred against him by Lieutenant
James Carter, and sentenced to be dismissed the

service.
The Firebrand, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Knox,
will be paid at Portsmouth, and will proceed to
Devonport, where she will be joined by the Spiteful,
6, steam•sloop, Commander Carmichael, and both will
proceed to Malta, to be under the orders of Sir Wil-
liam Parker, relieving the Bulldog and Rosamond
steam-sloops.
The Cuckoo steam• vessel, Commander Dumaresq,
is ordered from Jersey tol'ortsmouth, with a detach.
ment of troops.
The Dasher steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Parks, is ordered to have new boilers prepared for
her at Woolwich.
The Rocket, old iron steamer, is ordered from
Sheerness to Woolwich, to be surveyed by the master
shipwright and chief engineer.
The Volcano steam-vessel, recently paid off at
Sheerness, is ordered to Woolwich, on 20th Novem-
ber, to be surveyed.
The Britannia, 120, is to be made efficient for ser-
vice as economically as possible, at Portsmouth. if
no defects are visible the shipwrights are not to make
any by splitting, and tearing, and breaking, as is
usually the case.
The Rodney, 92, is to be considered as an advanced
ship at Portsmouth, and is to have everything pre-
pared accordingly, instead of Colussus, 80.
The Ganges, 84, Captain Smith, C. 8., the Seagull
packet-brig, and the Conflict screw steam sloop,
Commander Drake, were completed by the dockyard
at Devonport on Saturday.
The Penguin, 6, packet-brig, Lieut.-Commander
Leslie, arrived at Devonport on Friday, to be re- fitted.
The Andromache and Tyne, corvette, now that
they are no longer wanted in the service to receive
cholera patients, are ordered to be taken to harbour
moorings up Hamoaze.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—Wind N.W.,
moderate breeze, with mild cloudy weather. The
London, East Indiaman, arrived from London yes-
terday, bound to Madras. She remains to embark
passengers and stock.
THE CERRA SQUADRON.

The Hastings, 72, Captain Morgan, flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir Francis Collier, C. 8., K.C.H., was at
Singapore on the 7th ult., together with the Meander,
44, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel. The flag-ship was
very healthy, and had not lost one man since she left
England. Sir Francis Collier, however, is, we regret
to add, laid up on shore at the house of Colonel
Butterworth, the Governor of Singapore; he is still
suffering severely from paralysis, and it is understood
to be very doubtful how far he is in a condition to
carry on the duties of the command-in-chief on the
station in the emergency which appears to be ap-
proaching. The Hastings will sail on the 10th of
September for China.
The Meander has received her orders for Port
Essington, Sydney, and Tahiti on the homeward
route, and will be in England with a large freight
about July, 1851, " certainly not before," says our
letter.
The following is a letter from Whampoa, of the
latest date:—
" Of course you will have heard of the sad fate of
Senhor Amaral, the Governor of Macao. At all
events the story is short as it is melancholy. I shall
give it to you here :--On the evening of the 22nd of
August he and his Aide-de-Camp went out for a ride.
They had not got to the barracks, when they were
met by about 20 Chinamen, who appear to have been
on the look out for him. He was shot in two places,
one bullet went through the breast ; they cut off his
head and arm,'which they took with them on board some
boats, and went, it is said, direct to Canton. The
Aide-de-Camp was wounded, but escaped with his
life. Nothing has since been heard of the assassins.
Mr. Bonham has addressed a letter to Seu on the
subject, but, of course, he will know nothing of it.
It is said here that Mr. Bonham was for some time
past aware that a reward had been offered by the
Mandarins for Amaral's head, and that he was often
cautioned against exposing himself. He was ob-
noxious to the Chinese on several accounts, and lately
in making a new road he had it cut through one of
their burial places. Her Majesty's ship Amazon went
over in tow of the Medea as soon as the news arrived,
merely with a view to protecting our own people if
necessary. It is a great pity that the scoundrels are
likely to escape with impunity. The Portuguese are
able to do nothing of themselves, and those who are
would rather not
Lieutenant Nicholson, of the Mariner, 16, has in-
valided home overland.
Messrs. Greig and Ferguson, midshipmen of the
Hastings, are appointed to the Albatross.
The Eurydice, 24, Captain Talavera Ansor,, is
hourly expected at this port from the Cape of ood
Hope, and will be paid off here.
WOOLWICH, Ocr. 28.—The Firebrand steam-
frigate, Captain T. 0. Knox, left Woolwich yesterday
morning, at 6 o'clock, for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
the Mediterranean. In addition to the 1 sergeant, 1
corporal, and 25 privates of the Woolwich division of
Royal Marines, who embarked at this port, she is to
take out others from the Portsmouth and Plymouth
divisions, making in all about 100 men, to augment
the number of Royal Marines in the vessels of the
Mediterranean. One sergeant and 12 privates of the
Woolwich division of Royal Marines arrived at head-
quarters here on Thursday last, from Plymouth,
having been paid off from the Trident steam-vessel.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.—The
new chapel in connexion with this valuable charity
appears to be proceeding in a manner alike creditable to
the architect and the builders as satisfactory to the do-
nor of so invaluable a gift. The whole of the building,
with its approaches, it is expected will be roofed before
the winter sets in. When completed, accommodation
for the observance of Divine service will be available for
upwards of 200 in-patients. In reference to the final
completion of the hospital, several meetings have re•
cently been held by the building committee, and the
most cheering prospects are entertained for the speedy
consummation of this truly national undertaking.
GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON. Yesterday
(Sunday) morning a sermon in aid of this most useful
charity was delivered at the church of St. Margaret's
Fenchurch-street, by the Rev. Charles Day, L.L.8.,
vicar of Muckling, Essex. During a most impressive
and eloquent discourse the Rev. Gentleman warmly
alluded to the utility and necessity of the charity. A
collection was made by the vice-presidents at the church
doors, to the amount of 451.

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