The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-04 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 3.—The Reynard steam-eloop,
11, Commander Cracroft, went out cl harbour yesterday
afternoon, deeply laden with various manors for the
places she will touch at between.this and India (Madeira,
Cape de Verde, Ascension, Sierra Leone, St. Helena, the
Cape of Good Hope, &c.), rarticalarly presents from her
Majesty to the King of Dahomey and other African
potentates, with nhich she sailed from Spithead about
halt-past six, to touch at Plymouth.
The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, having
refitted, was towed out of harbour last evening to Spit-
head, whence she sailed this afternoon for Cork, to em-
bark the 59th for Hong-Kong, where she will embark
the 95th for England,

The Hecla steam-sloop arrived here yesterday to em-
bark the baggage, &c., for the Cleopatra, to take her to
her destination. She towed the Cleopatra from Sheer-
ness to the Wight, and then cast off. She will proceed
to Plymouth to join the advance steam squadron of that
port.

The Lark, schooner, Lieutenant-Commander Hall, ar-
rived at Terafugal Bay, coast of Africa, from Plymouth,
on the 28th of April. The Rifleman, 10, Lieutenant-
Commander Crofton, sailtd from Madeira with her, and
passed her the same evening. The Lark carried away
her foretopmast, flying, and swinging booms, &c. She
was to sail from the above place on the 30th of April.
One letter says—" I feel sorry to tell you- an accident
happened to our quarter-master, John Davis, whose leg
was caught in the chain cable, whilst paying out, and
crushed flat; his leg will be amputated halt-way up the
thigh."

itessrs. H. Campion, B. G. W. Nicholas, and C. J.
Jago, mates, Royal Navy, have been airpointod to her
Majesty's yacht Vietoria and Albert, for promotion.

OBITUARY.

Commander John Morgan (1837) died on Saturday
at his residence, King's-terrace, Southsea, aged fifty-six
years. He was a lieutenant of 1815.
Lieutenant John Compton, of the Victory, died in
the naval Hospital at Haslar, on Friday, deeply re-
gretted by his messmates and friends. Since the absence
of Lieutenant Cochrane in the Hecate' steam-sloop,
Lieutenant Compton had been doing the duty of flag-
lieutenant to Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladon Capel, and
about a week back was obliged to go into the hospital.
He was a lieutenant of 1838.

Lieut. Charles Atkins (1846) died on the 31st ult., at
Belmont-place, Stoke, Devorport. Lie was the son of
Mr. James Atkins, late master shipwright of Sheerness
Dockyard.
Master—Robert Troughton (1827) died recently in the
west of England.

Engineers—George William Putt, of the Firequeen,
steam-tender, died at Ilislar Hospital, on the 27th ult.,
aged 24, and Scotten, second engineer of the Victoria
and Albert Royal yacht, died at Portsmouth, on the 29th
ult., aged 26.

APPOINTMENTS.
Midshipmen—Jamas Saumarez, to the Hastings, 72,
fl,g-ship, in the East Indies; James W. Ea,t, to the
Raleigh, 50, flag-ship, at Monte Video; C. C. Ricketts,
to the Excellent, gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth.
Naval Cadets—J. W. O'Grady to the Dragon, steam-
frigate, at Kingstown; John Drorne, to tha Bastings;
A. W. Kortright, to the Raleigh.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ATTACK BY SAVAGI4:S ON THE GOVERNOR,

CONINIANpER FITZGERA,LD, R.N.

We are indebted to a private correspondent for the
following account of an attack on the Governor, %hilst
on au exploring expedition. The leqer 1) dated
" Peal), South Australia, January, IS-19.

" We ware on an cxploring party 200 miles north of
aiie, when an at:ack was mad,, upon our small party by
bctwec n 60 and 70 natives, we being cnly seven, four of
us on ponies and three soldiers on toot. They (pito
surreuuded us, evidently in,eut upon disarming ue, sard
leaving none to tell the story. They laid hold of the
private secretary in the first instance, and of one of the
soldiers. At this moment ours was a painful situation.
The secretary, whilst being forcibly h. Id, called out to
Captain Fitzgerald, the governor, It is time, Sir,
that something was done.' The soldiers, also, asked
if they were not to fire, before being disarmed- and
trurdereo. Up to this moment no .attack was
made further than holding the secretary, who, with
a pistol in his hand, could have shot the man, tut
prudently forbore doing so, and it was not until
after a spear had been thrown at the secretary, that the
order was given to fire, when one of the ringleaders
was shot. This made the party re treat a few yards.
which enabled us to get out of the thicket we were in to
open ground, and where we got cur ammunition► out of
the pecks, and had just time to reload when a volley of
ep• ars cattle amongst us, one of which narrowly missed
passing through the Governor's back, but lodged in his
thigh just above the knee. I never saw more determi-
nation than on the part of these savages, for although
we had reason to think that three of th...m were shot
they folLwed us more than twenty miles to Champion
Bay, where our colonial vessel waited us. Here the
Governor had a si coed narrow escape from an instru-
ment called a kyley, hurled at his head, which only
struck his ear. The objet in following us so far no
doubt was their thinking we must pitch our tents some-
where in the night, when they could have speared us to
Meath without our seeing where they were; as it was our
escape was miraculous. Two days after this one of the
natives of the north came into Perth, and said the natives
that attacked us were canniLls, and wanted one of us to
eat, Ite."

AI AIL COMMUNICATION BRTWEEN ENGLAND AND
DUBLIN.-It is understood that the following is the in-
tended change'to take place in the dispatch of the mail
from Dublin after the 20th inst , consequent on the
doing away with the contract mail paukets to Liverpool
from Kingstown:—The mail to leave the General Post-
office at ten minutes to six o'clock P.M. (instead of tt n
minutes to four o'clock as at present), leaving Kings-
town for Holyhead at half-past six o'clock. From Holy-
head the correspondence, &c., will be dispatched about
midnight, so as to arrive in Liverpool for first delivery
of letters in the morning there. Letters from London,
&a, by the above mail will be sent from Chester by
morning express train, reaching London about ono
o'clock in the day. From Liverpool there will be but
one dispatch daily for Ireland—viz., at nine o'clock P.M.,
ria Chester—whence the correspondence will be brought
by the down night mail from London, arriving in Dub-
lin about twelve to one o'clock (neon), instead of, as at
present (in ordinary weather), seven o'clock in the morn-
ing. No change in the dispatch of morning mail for
London, &c., at 11.30 A.M. from Kingstown. The morn-
ing mail at ten o'clock A.m. from London will be dis-
patched as at present; but the Irish correspondenCe is to
come via Chester, where it will reach at 4.15 P. M., re-
main there till the arrival from London of the five
o'clock express train, due in Chester at 10.15 P.M.,
whence the Irish mail bags will be immediately for-
warded (after six hours' detention), arriving at Holyhead
about half-past one in the morning; the packet to leave
there about two o'clock A.M., ant, be due at the General
Post-office at seven o'clock A.at.

ATTEMTED MURDER BY A JEALOUS HUSBAND.—..
A few days ago we gave the particulars of an ettemit
at murder in Salford, made by a young married man,
named John Burton, on an acquaintanceof his, a widower,
named Giles Hardman, the assignable motive being a
suspicion on the part of Burton that Hardman had been
engaged in a criminal liaison with his wife. As we then
stated, acting on this suspicion, which had received
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at the assizes.

THE 1, ox CLUB.—The fifth meeting of the Fox
Club was held at Brookeb's oil Saturday, when tittle
were pric.:ent at the dinner—the Earl et Scsrbor,.ugh,
the Earl of Strafford, the Hon. E. L. Most; n, Lord Ca.
moys. Mr. Siepher.son, the Right Hon. Sir IL Adair,
Mr. Alston, Mr. A. Stephrnen, Earl l',lzharCiinge,
LorilCr,rnorne, Lord De Mduley, the ILin. Col. Kerpel,
floe. IT. Tracy. Mr. Sank;rd, Lid Sudelpy, Viscount
Enfield, Mr. Langsten, Mr. G. Craig, &e.
FATAL ACCIDENT. Yesterday one of those
occurrences so frequent on the Thn:nes during the sum-
mer season, occasioned by the reprehensible -custom of
letting boats to youths unskilled in their management,
took place about five o'clock, off Nine Elnif, arising
from a boat in which were four lads getting athwart the
mooring chain of a tier of barges. The lads, in their
fright, rose simultaneously, which capsized tile boat, and
they were all immersed. A number of being close
at hand, three of the party were rescued, but the fourth,
a youth aged sixteen, named John Tennant, residing in
Regent-street,.Westininster, disappeared, 4414-114 b9f3Y
W& not recuerel