The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Royal yacht Fairy is
in dock, being expedite d for the service of Prince Albert
on the 30th instant. She is to be in the river by the
25th. His Royal Highness will embark at Deptford for
Gravesend.

The Grappler iron steam-vessel, Commander T. H.
Lysaght, arrived this afterit;:on from the coast of Africa,
and came into the harbour to coal. She had upwards
of eighty supernumeraries on board. her dates are—
Sierra Leone, May 2; Madeira, June 1. She did not
touch at Ascension.

The Shearwater steamer, Lieutenant-Commander E.
E. Tumour, with Viec-Admiral the Hon. D. H. Mackay
on board, arrived this morning from Cork, and came
into harbour.

The Goodwill lighter,: with stores from Plymouth,
arrived this afternoon.

Wild—N.N.W., moderate and cloudy.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—Henry Dickson Parker (1836), from the
brevet retired list, to be retired commander under the
order in council of 1816.

Lieutenants—W. H. Fen wick, just promoted, to be
additional of the Victory, flag-ship at Portsmouth, for
service in command of the Rolls, o. tender for exercis-
ing the apprentices ; Thomas Cull (1812), to the Agin-
court, depot-ship of Devoeport ordinary ; Alfred Luck-
raft (1846), late of the Melampus, and who brought
home and p4id off from the Ea,t Indies the Ringdove,
10, has been appointed to the Ranger, sloop, for service
on the coast of Aided; J. W. Webb, recently promote,'
to the Ranger.

S.3.ond-Master—R. 0. White (1842), acting-master,
to the Ranger.
Clerks—A. F. Benham (1842), acting paymaster and
purser, and William Dewan, to the Ranger.
Master Assistant—J. S. Wortley, to the Ranger.
Boatswain—Simeon Ruby (acting) and carpenter
James Tegg (acting) to the Ranger.
OBlTUARY.—Lieutenant Henry Walker (1810) died
at Manchester on the 7th, after a protracted illness, at
the age of sixty-five years. This neglected officer was
midshipman of the Bellerophon at Trafalgar, of Fou-
droyant at capture of Marengo and Belle Poule, 1806;
of Polyphemus during the attack upon Buenos Ayres,
1807; of Cleopatra at capture of French frigate Topaze,
under a battery at Guadaloupe; and at the reduction of
Martinique, 1809, together with many other minor ser-
vices. Lieutenant of Menelaus, and assisted in her
boats at capture of two vessels of war and convoy in the
harbour of Corigeou, 1815, and of Leander, and wounded
at Algiers.

GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT

INSTITUTION.

The asylum for aged governesses, %inch has recently
been established as a branch of the above institution, in
Grafton-street, Kentish Town, was opened yesterday,
and the event was commemorated by a fancy fair, held
in the grounds of the house. The attendance was
considerable, and the weather being fine, notwith-
standing the cold and partial cloudiness of the
atmosphere, the festival passed off with considerable
klat. The tents were pitched on the east side
of the building, forming a sort of open piazza, through
which the company walked, and transacted business
with the fair presidents of the stalls, who conducted
the process of selling their merchandise with a deli-
cate and fascinating skill. The names of the ladies
who thus lent their services as amateur shopkeepers
were recorded over the booths, and among them we
observed Lady Bra lumen, Ledy Robert Grosvenor,
Lady C. Egerton, Lady . Guernsey, Lady Charlotte
Guest, Lady C. Bathurst, Lady Donally, Lady Geor-
gians Fullerton, Viscountess Masareene, Countess An-
trim, Mrs. J. Buller. Mrs. Coombes, the Hi nouratie
Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. W. Kinsey, and other kind and
strenuous patrons of the institution. The articles of
sale were, of course, chiefly of drawing-room manu-
facture, laborious feats of Berlin work preponderatiug
among the prints, trinkets, and ornamental nicknacks
with which the tables were loaded. Tho band of the
Scorch Fusiliers were in atteAttnce, and played a
variety of exhilarating airs, aided by the boys of the
Scotch School, who marched in battalions round the
place, and regaled the hearers with pungent tunes on the
bagpipe.

The arrangements for the fair were admirably plannf d
and excellently carried out, and reflect the highest credit
on Mr. Thomas Belshaw, of Manchester, to whose judi-
cious superintendence they were confided.
The asylum was to have been opened by the Duke
of Cambridge; but his Royal Highness was unfortu•
nately unable, through indisposition, to fulfil his pro-
mise. The ceremony, therefore, was performed by
the committee, followed by a brief address by the
honorary secretary, the Rev. D. Laing. The building
was then thrown open, and the visitors were
allowed to saunter through the rooms during the
remainder of the day, having every reason to admire
the comforts which the refuge provides for those
who are unhappily in need of a home and protection.
The asylum is a neat structure in the Tudor style, com-
prising some eighteen or twenty bed-rooms, seven of
which are furnished ready for occupancy. There is a
large dining-room and a drawing-room, and a convenient
basement of household offices. It is purposed, when the
funds of the asylum are in a sufficiently flourishing state,
to add a couple of wings, which will not only complete
the architectural design, but multiply the opportunities
of relief. • It is calculated by the architect," say s the
printed statement of the committee, " that 2001. will at
any time secure the addition of rooms for two more
Occupants. The endowment required is 5001., or 15/.
per annum, I.gally and 1 ermanently secured ; and a
definite oject is thus offered to donors."

FOUNDERING OF MORE EMI-
GRANT SHIPS.— ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Advices d yesterday from Quebec state that at
midnight on the 10th of last month, the Maria, from
Limerick, an old vessel, manned by a crew of ten hands,
with 111 passengers, when within fifty miles from St.
Paul's, ran into an iceberg wiih terrific force. The whole
of her b•;ws were stave in, and the next moment the see
was rushing into the hold with the violence almost of a
cataract. A piercing shriek was heard from below, but
it was only of a few moments' duration, as the ship went
down almost immediat, ly. It was the mate's watch.
who, with one seaman and a cabin boy, succeeding in
saving three lives by one of the boats which floated from
the wreck as she foundered. About twenty of the pas •
srngers managed to reach the deck ju=t before she went
down, some of whom jumped on to the ice, while others
clung to the floating spars. Nine only, however,
could be preserved, six men, two women, and
a boy, who bed got on to the ice. Nothing
was seen of the master or the rest of the crew; they all
perished with the remainder of the passengers.
Exposed in the boat to the most inclement weather, the
helpless survivors remained the whole of the fol-
lowing day. Eventually, a barque, named the Roslyn
Castle, and the Falcon, a brig, approached,
.and took
them on board. The poor creatures had suffered severely
from cold,: and their condition was the most heartrend-
ing. Their names are given as follows :—Michael Cos-
sack, Joseph Linch, Bridget O'Gorman, spinster,
Conners, William Brew, John Hogan, and Patrick
M•Teque ; the survivors of the Maria's crew are—
William Collins (mate), John Pickering (seaman), and
Michael Tague (cabin-boy), making in all, out of the
one hundred and twenty-one souls on board, only twelve
saved. In consequence of the brig Falcon being short
of water, those who were picked up by her were trans-
ferred on board the Res'yn Castle, which proceeded
direct to Quebec, and arrived there last Saturday fort-
night.
In addition to the loss of the Maria, the Hannah, an-
other emigrant ship, foundered near the same bearing.
The master portion of the crew left the ship when
she was foundering with the two hundred passengers,
many of whom were subsequently rescued, having been
picked up four days after the melancholy event, and had
been landed at Quebec.

The Right Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., is to be Lord-
Lieutenant of Fiirfar, in place of the Earl of Airlie.
Lord Dufferin will succeed the Earl of Morton as
Lord in Waiting.
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Mr. Pattison-paired off in favour of the Parliamen-
tary Oaths Bill with Sir Edmund Hayes.
NEW POTATOES.—We have seen a good-sized
basket of new potatoes, of the finest and largest descrip-
tion, grown on Mr. Kay's ground, on the Blackrock-
r. ad. They are perfectly free from any trace of disease.
The gardener, Daniel Creedon, states that they have
been dug at various times since the 15th of May.—Cork
Examiner.

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UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN FRANCE.
—A " Red"- journal has the following statistics of the
distribution of wealth in France :—Thera are 19,119,000
paupers, 5,750,000 quasi paupers, 6,180,000 persons in
embarrassed circumstances, 244,000 persons in a state
of affluence, and 6,600 persons having at least an income
of 6,600 francs. " Such," exclaims our Red contempo-
rary, "such is the society that the Malthusians and the
Moderates would save!"
APFROACHING GRAND SCOTTISH FETE IN LONDON.
—A knot of patriotic Scotch noblemen whom fortune
has located in the "great metropolis," have, as our
readers are already aware, lately formed themselves
into a society called the "Scottish Society of London."
In Hanover-park, Peckham, they have established a
club-house and laid out practice grounds, their object
being to enjoy the exhilarating amusement of archery,
encourage Scottish national sports and pastimes, and
give a grand benefit once a year to the London Scottish
charities. The first annual "gathering" of this great
national association is fixed to take place on Wednes-
day, the 20th of June. Lord Holland has granted the
use of his spacious park, at Kensington, for the purpose,
and the arrangements now in progress are on the
most magnificent scale. The ground will be alive
with archers in Lincoln green, sinewy Borderers to
throw the hammer or toss the caber, " lads wi' the
philabeg" to dance the strathspey and sound the pibroch,
and " ladyes fair" to smile approval of the successful
competitors. The fete will last two days, and will con-
clude with a grand banquet under the presidency and
vice-presidency of the Marquis of Breadalbane and
Viscount Drumlanrig, at which the various prizes
offered for competition will be delivered to the cham-
pions. To complete the strangeness and moral interest
of the spectacle, and reader it still more illustrative of
the altered times and manners—of ancient feuds forgot-
ten, and martial exercises transformed into gala-day
sports—a large body of the French National Guards are
expected, we understand, to mingle their showy uniform
with the picturesque and sculpture,que costume of the
Colts, the graceful attire of the belted followers of Rubin
Hood, and the newest fashions of Bond-street and
Regent's-park.—Glasgow Citizen.
We understand that the beautiful estate of Glen-
ormiston, in Peebles-shire, has been purchased by Wil-
liam Chambers, Esq., of this city, at a shade above
twenty-five thousani pounds, which may be considered
as a moderate price, but not one arguing the prospect of
any considerable decline in the value of land.—Edin-
burgh Advertiser.