The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-05 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

Dysart
Ferryden, Craig, Montrose

... - 1 0
... - 12 0

Total ... ... ~, ~,

GENERAL TOTAL.
England and Wales ... 50 8
Scotland ... • 13 0

Total ••• 63 8
NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im.
practicable to distinguish every place separately'. - - -

SIR GEORGE HAYTER.—The friends of Sir George
Hayter, who was stated a few weeks back to be suffering
under a severe attack of cholera at Neuilly, near Paris,
will be glad to learn that he was sufficiently recovered-
to return to his residence, Montague-place, Russell_
square, last week, and though still suffering froth weak-
ness, may be considered to have escaped from the fatal
results of the epidemic.
Dispatches were received on Saturday, at the
Colonial-office, from the Governors of the West India
Colonies.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
I DEATH OF ANOTHER FLAG OFFICER.
_ l'lre have to announce the death of another flag
officer—Rear-Admiral of the White, Sir Samuel
John Brooke Pechell, C. 8., K.C.H., F.R.S., which
took place suddenly on Saturday last, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, at his residence, 27, Hill-
street, Berkeley-square, in the 65th year of his age.
This gallant officer, who served 21 years on full
pay, was well known to the service as one of the Lords
of the Admiralty in successive Whig boards, that is
from 1830 to 1834, and from 1839 to 1841, during
which time he represented first Hallestone and then
Windsor. He was the eldest son of the late Major-
General Sir T. B. Pechell, Bart., MP. for Dounton,
by Charlotte, second daughter of Lieut.-General Sir
John Clavering, Bart., K. 8., who died commander-
in. chief in India ; was brother of the present Captain
Pechell, R.N., M.P. for Brighton; grandson of Lieut.-
Colonel Sir Paul Pechell, who was created a baronet
for his services May 1, 1797 ; great grandson of the
first Earl Delawarr ; nephew of Admiral Sir J. B.
Warren, Bart., G.C.8., and first cousin of the late
Captain S. G. Pechell, R.N. His grand uncle,
George Pechell, a lieutenant of Royal Marines, was
killed at Carthagena. We subjoin the following
epitome of the services of the distinguished baronet
from " O'Byrne's Biography :"
" Sir John Pechell, who succeeded his father as
third baronet, June 18, 1826, entered the navy in
July, 1796, as first-class volunteer on board La
Pomona, 40, commanded by his relative, Sir John
Borlase Warren ; and, from August, 1797, until no-
whirled 28th_ Feb., . 180;aeting 'ieutenant of the
Active, 38, Captain Charles Sidney Davers and
Richard Hussey Moubray, was employed as midship-
man and master's mate, under the late Sir Robert
Barlow, in the Pbcebe, 44, and Triumph, 74. In La
Pomone he saw much service on the coast of France;
and in the Phoebe he assisted at the capture of two
French frigates (La nreide, of 36 guns and 330 men,
and L'Africaine, of 44 guns and 715 men, including
400 troops and artificers), one large corvette, Mien.
reux, of 22 guns and 220 men, three privateers,
carrying in the whole 58 guns and 455 men, and a
letter of marque, L'Hazard, of 10 guns and 60 men,
laden with spices, ivory, and gum, from Senegal,
valued at 10,000/. La Neretde did not surrender
until after a close action of 45 minutes, productive
of a loss to herself of 20 killed and 50 wounded,
and to the British, out of 261 men, of 3 killed and
10 wounded; and the resistance of L'Africaine was
protracted until, in the course of a desperate night
action of two hours, she had sustained (although the
Phoebe, out of 239 men, had but one killed and 12
wounded) the terrific loss of at least 200 killed, and
143 wounded, the greater part of them mortally. For
his gallantry in the latter exploit, which was achieved
on 'the 19th of February, 1801, Captain Barlow was
rewarded with the honour of knighthood. On leaving
the Active, to which frigate, employed on the Medi-
terranean, North Sea, and Cork stations, he had been
confirmed Ist April, 1803, Mr. Pechell, in January,
1806, joined the Foudroyant, 80, bearing the flag at
the time of SirJ. B. Warren, under whom we find him,
on 13th of the following March. witnessing the capture
of the Marengo, 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
Linois, and 40-gun frigate Bell• Poule He wee made
commander, 234 March, 1807, into the Ferret, sloop of
war, on the Jamaica station ; was advanced to post rank
in the Cleopatra, of 38 guns, at Halifax, 16th June,
1808 ; and was subsequently appointed, 25th Sept.,
1810, to the Guerriere, of 48 guns, also on the Hali-
fax station ; in July, 1811, again to the Cleopatra,
employed off Cherbourg, in the -North Sea, and at
Gibraltar; 20th Oct., 1812, to the San Domingo, 74,
hearing the flag of Sir J. B. Warren, in North
America, where he remained until August, 1814 ;
and, Ist of July, 1823, to the Sybille, 48, stationed at
first in the West Indies, and afterwards in the Medi-
terranean. In the Cleopatra, Captain Pechell, on
being sent to the West Indies, fought, 22d Jan.,
1809, a close action of 40 minutes, reflective of
credit on his intrepidity and judgment, as well as on
the high discipline and steadiness of his crew, with
the French frigate, La Topaze, of 48 guns, anchored,
with springs on her cable, under a small battery to
the southward of Point Noire, Guadeloupe. At the
expiration of 50 minutes from the commencement o

the conflict, the Jason, 32, and Hazard, 18,
having come up, the enemy surrendered. The
Cleopatra, the only British ship that suffered 10,s,
had two seamen killed and one wounded ; the Topaze
on the other hand, out of
.a complement, including
100 soldiers, of about. m 430 en,._iocurred a loss of
men killed and 14 wounded. She had.on, board 1,100
barrels of flour. As a mark of the sense entertained

he the Admiralty of the Cleopatra's conduct, her first
lieutenant, Mr. William Simpson, was promoted to
the rank of commander. A few days after the ex-
ploit Captain Pechell, although still belonging to the
Halifax squadron, joined the expedition proceeding

against Martinique, during the siege of which island
he distinguished himself by, working into Fort
Royal Bay, previously to the surrender of Pigeon
Island, thereby cutting off the retreat of the
enemy, and compelling them to destroy all
the shipping at that anchorage; among which was
the Amphitrite, another frigate of the largest class.
When subsequently in the same ship on the Gibraltar
station, Captain Pechell made a survey of the
harbour of Ceuta, and drew up a plan of the forti-
fications, together with remarks on the navigation of
the Gut. In June, 1813, being then in the San
Domingo, and under the immediate orders of Rear-
Admiral Cockburn, we find him uniting in the attack

on Crany Island and the destruction of the enemy's
camp at Hampton; on which latter occasion he com-
manded the boats and tenders detached to cover the

landing of the troops under Sir Sydney Beckwith.
During his command of the Sybille, Captain Pechell
was actively employed in the suppression of piracy
and the protection of the lonian Islands for a period of
three years, during which his boats were frequently
involved in sanguinary actions with the freebooters.
He paid the Sybille in November, 1826, and attained
fin rank, 9th Nov., 1846. Sir Samuel John Brooke

liechell was nominated a C.B. 4th June, 1815, and a

K.C.H. 6ch Jan., 1833. Sir John was the author of
a valuable pamphlet, entitled " Observations upon the
Defective Equipment of Ships' Guns." He married,
15th April, 1833, Julia Maria, only surviving daughter
of Robert Edward, ninth Lord Petre, and was left a
widower 6th Sept., 1844."

By the death of Sir John Pechell, Captain Sir
David Dunn, K.C.11., becomes Rear-Admiral of the
Blue, vice William Fitzwilliam Owen, Rear Admiral
of the White ; and by this promotion a captain's good
service pension reverts to the patronage of the Fire.t.
Lord of the Admiralty.

Captain Edward Richard Williams (1827) suc-
ceeds to the half pay of 14s. 61. per diem, and Cap-
tain Sir Philip Broke, Bart. (1835), succeeds to the
half pay list of 12s. 6d. per diem.
By the promotions consequent on the death of the
Admiral of the Fleet retired Captains Thorn& Dick
and William Isaac Scott (1C14) obtain their promotion
to the retired flag rank ; and by the death of Sir
John Pechell, retired Captain Bertie Cornelius Cator
(1814) becomes a Rear-Admiral on the retired list—
these promotions taking place without any advance
of pay.

Ttie senior captain now on the active list is Fairfax
Moi-esby, C. 8., late the gallant, distinguished, able,
and efficient commander of the Canopus, 84.
There are now vacant an appointment of naval
aide-de•camp to the Queen, and a good service pen-
sion. For the former, the name of the Hon. Captain
H. J. Rous (1823), the 17th senior on the list, who
is not in command of a dockyard, and who is not in
the enjoyment of pension or place. Should it be con-
ferred on Captain Rous, it is scarcely likely that he
would receive the emoluments of the office for more
than 18 months, by which time he will, in all proba-
bility succeed to his flag rank.
The appointment, on Thursday last, of Admiral
Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.8., to be Admiral
of the Fleet, vice Whitshed, deceased, having been
approved by the Queen, the Commander-in Chief at
Portsmouth, Admiral the Hon. Sir Thomas Bladen
Cape', K.C.8., shifted his flag at the main from blue
to white yesterday morning, when the Illustrious
flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Prescott, saluted the white
flag with 17 guns, which the Victory acknowledged
with 11, and the ships under the orders of the Port
Admiral shifted their blue ensigns and pendants to
white.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant Frederick H. Stevens (1841), an officer
of long servitude as a first lieutenant, his last ship
having been the Inconstant, 36, in the Pacific, has
been appointed to the Agincourt, depot ship at Devon-
port ; W. P. Johnson, to command St. Catherine's
coast guard station, vice lloffmeister, resigned ; J.
A Pritchard, to be inspecting lieutenant of the White
Horse coast guard district; C. B. Bailey, to be in
command of a coast-guard station ; J P. Sanderson,
from Bridge of Don to Lannig station, vice Macna-
mara, appointed to the Wellington depot ship of Sheer-
ness; H. N. Atkinson, from Sladdocke to Eastbourne
station, vice Conjad, placed on coast-guard retired
list; J. H. Jeffries, placed on coast-guard retired list.
Master—John Garner, to command the Cove Bay
coast-guard station. J. W. King's appointment has
been cancelled.

Chaplain—James S. Robson, of the Prince Regent,
90, to the Ceylon, depot•ship, at Malta, for dockyard
service, vice Watson, to the. Thetis, 36, vice Richard
Crooker, to the Prince Regent.

Naval Cadets—John Gaud, to the Impregnable,
flag-ship, at Devonport; Ralph Brown, George L.
Bridges, and Charles F. G. Urquhart, to the Victory,
flag-ship, at Portsmouth, Oncas B. Read, to the
Ocean, flag-ship, at Sheerness; Edward Poulding and
Stephen Ratcliffe, to the Hastings, 72, flag-ship, East
Indies.
COAST GUARD.—Lieut. George Phillips, Royal
Marines, from Cove Bay to Grand Redoubt station,
vice Mr. William Popplewell, superannuated ; Mr.
Samuel Barnes Stellard, late East India Company's
service, from No. 2 Battery, to Lymington, vice Lieut.
Rothery, R N., placed on coast guard retired list.
On Saturday afternoon a new large building or re-
pairing dock, in connexion with the new basin, was
added to the other stupendous works completed in
that arsenal. This new adjunct to the ship building
resources of Portsmouth yard), was contracted for at
the same time as the basin of Peter Rolt, Esq., the
eminent contractor for such works, and was com-
menced simultaneously with the greater excavation
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coping, 32 ; water in area at lowest spring tides, 21.
Materials used : Purbeck stone, 20,800 cubic feet;
beech timber, 52,800; Portland stone, 10,300;
granite, 119 960. Shingle, 16,660 tons. Bricks,
2,954,300. Iron used in pile shoes, &c.' 1,018 cwt.
Two other docks at the extremity of the basin op.
posite the above are in progress of construction, and
will be opened for use the latter end of next year.
The above dock was opened on Saturday; in the
presence of Admiral- Superintendent Prescott and all
the other officers of the-dockyard, by floating in her
Majesty's steamer, Sidon, to be completed for trial.
Captain James gave a " spread " in the steam-fac-
tory office on the occasion, and the affair was con-
cluded with considerable éclat. We are glad to
add that no accident whatever attended the opening
of the dock. which is one of the most beautiful
specimens of masonry in the world, and reflects
the highest credit upon all concerned.
SAILORS' HOME, PORTSMOUTH. —Commander
C. R. Egerton has presented 201. to this philanthropic
institution; and M. Ommanney, navy agent of
London, has also given a donation of 101. during the
last week.
The Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, has hauled
alongside her hulk. She has taken in all her heavy
stores, and has only the ship's company's traps to get
on board. She is very buoyant (like the Arrogant),
and we think she will have to take on board about
100 tons of iron ballast to bring her down to her pro-
per draught in the water.
The Wolverine, 12, Commander Falcon, sailed
from Plymouth, on Friday morning, with the mails
for the coast of Africa.
The Hound, 8, at Devonport, will be commissioned
in a few days for conveying the mails of the Ist De-
cember to the coast.
The Lily, 12, and Fantome, 12, brigs, have been
taken alongside Portsmouth Dockyard, to be brought
forward for commission.
The Spiteful, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Car-
michael, left Devonport on Saturday morning, for
the Mediterranean.

The Myrtle, steamer, on Saturday evening, took
out to Spithead, 10,0001. in silver coinage, and put
it on board the Serpent, 12, Commander Barker, for
the use of the commissariat at Hong-Kong. She
was to have sailed last evening for Singapore.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, FIVE P.M.—Wind light and
variable from the northward, with thick foggy
weather.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2.—fler Majesty's steam-frigate
Firebrand, Captain Knox, which came in yesterday
morning from Portsmouth, sailed in the evening for
the Mediterranean.

The frigate hulks Tyne and Andromache, which
have for the last seven months been moored in the
merchant anchorage in the Sound for the accommo-
dation of cholera and other patients from emigrant
ships, were this morning sent up Hamoaze, to resume
their old quarters.
Ten hired shipwrights are ordered to be entered on
the establishment of the dockyard.
The bark King William, Captain Avery, which
came in from London on the 30th ult., sailed this
morning for Port Natal. She has on board 120 emi-
grants, selected by Mr.-J. C. Byrne, of London ; and
50 from Plymouth, by Mr. J. B. Wilaocks. These
emigrants who go out under the auspices of the Natal
Colonization Association, are all possessed of means,
having among them more than 25,0001. in money,
besides goods. The King William, which registers
463 tons, has for the colony an entire cargo of Bri-
tish manufactured goods, consisting of six iron houses
with glazed windows complete, wooden houses, and
agricultural implements, such as drays, carts, wag-
gons ploughs, &c.
Wind, easterly ; fresh breeze.
THE PACIFIC.
The Asia, 84, Captain R. Fanshawe Stopford, left
Callao August 12, and returned to Valparaiso with
Rear-Admiral P. Hornby, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief,
and remained there all well, August 29.
By a letter received in town from the Constance,
50, Captain Courteney, we hear that, as we stated on
Saturday, she sailed from Valparaiso August 29,
having on board a freight in value to two millions of
dollars, consigned on its arrival to Messrs. E. and E.
Emanuel, of Portsmouth and Portsea, goldsmiths and
freight agents. The Constance may be expected in
about a fortnight at Spithead.
The Inconstant, 36, Captain J. Shepherd, arrived
at Valparaiso, August 20, from San Francisco. She
had not lost a single man from desertion, whilst the
American men of war on the station were almost all
deserted.

The Daphne, 20, Captain Fanshawe, had gone to
Pitcairn's Island.

Tne Champion, 14, Commander Hayes, arrived at
Mazatlan, from Callao, August 16, and remained
there, Sqltember 1.
The Pandora, 6, surveying-vessel, Lieutenant Corn-
manthr Wood, left Valparaiso, calling at the Falkland
Islands and Rio on her way, August 9. She has a
large freight of gold dust, consigned to Mr. Robert-
son, of Shaw and _Maxwell's, Strand.
The Cockatrice tender, Master Commander Rundle,
left Valparaiso, August 28, for Talcuhuano.
The Gorgon, steam sloop, Commander Paynter,
arrived at Callao, from Valparaiso, August 24, and
left on the 29th for Central America.

THE THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS.—NOTTINGHAM,
Nov. 4.—Msjor-Gen4,ral Thorne (general of this district)
arrivedi n Nottingham on Friday last, and in company
with Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur, the commander of the
regiment. waited upon the chief magistrate (Thomas
Carver, Esq.) to inquire into the circumstances of the
late assault committed by cne of the privates upon the
police. It will be remembered that on the 27th ult.,
policeman Gascoigne was on duty its Pelham street, and
that private Broker, after threatening the policeman for
his interference in the late disturbance, committed a
violent assault upon that individual. The language of
the soldier appearing to intimate that other men in the
regiment would, whenever an opportunity presented
itself, " serve out" the police fur the part they took in
the matter, an inquiry was considered necessary. The
interview of the two gallant officers with his worship
was of a private character, but we have been informed
that the inquiries were highly satisfactory to the major-
general, and that the regiment looked, upon Broker's
conduct as highly. censureable. Private Moffatt, who
escaped from the guard. room a week ago, has not been
retaken. He was seen three days sg,) at Loughborough
(fourteen miles from Nottingham), where a troop of his
regiment is quartered. He has, however, not been heard
of since, and the probability is that he will finally escape.
A district court-martial is to be held on the remainder
of the insubordinates this week. Great sympathy is
openly expressed by the regiment for the men under
confinement for the late mutiny, and the general opinion
is, from the letter of the Commander•in-Chief, and other
circumstances, that the punishment awarded to them
will not be severe.

STRIKE AMONG THE WILTSHIRE LABOURERS.—
On Monday morning the peaceful villages of South
Newton, Stoford, and Wishford, presented an unsual
feature, owing to the farmers having reduced the
wages of the agricultural labourers, upon the
ground of the low prices of produce. The labourers
resolved to go en masse to the fountain head, from
the farmers of Mr. Hart, of Wishford, Mr. Newman,
of South Newton, &c., there to reason the mstter with a
gentleman who has acknowledged that " the very rich
are every day becoming richer, and the poor every
day poorer." About seven AM. upwards of six;y
labourers set off on their road to Wilton-house. Their
behaviour was remarkably good. They first halted in
South-street, Wilton, where the steward of the Right
Honourable Gentleman resides, and thence they
proceeded to the Abbey, where they had, as requested,
an audience with Mr. Sidney Herbert, M.P. They
told the Right Honourable Gentleman that their
wages were reduced to 6s. and 7s. per week, and that
it was impossible they could live on it, and that they
were now worse off than when bread was dearer.
The Right Honourable Gentleman having listened to
their simple, unvarnished tale, begged them to return to
their work. He said his steward (Mr. Robson) was not
at home ; when he returned some endeavour should be
made that they might have the same wages as before,
and if either of them should lose employment by the
peaceful course which they had adopted, be would give
such persons employment in the park. The men kindly
thanked Mr. Herbert, and returned home in the same
order.