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PROMOTIONS.
The annual Coast Guard promotion came out as fel-
lows, yesterday :
mmander John Talbot (1829), inspecting comman-
der o e Hyde (Isle of Wight) district—he was a lieu-
tenant o he Rose at the battle of Navarino—to the
rank of Ca sin in the royal navy.
Lieutenant Lazarus Roberts (1815), of the North Yar-
mouth station, who was a midshipman of the Montagu
at the evacuation of Scylla Castle, in 1808; of the Re-
venge, and employed in boat service in the Walcheren
expedition, and who was present at the attack on the
French fleet in Aix roads in 1809, to the rank of Com-
mander in the royal navy.
Lieutenant Thomas Thompson (1830), in command of
the Greyhound cruiser, in the Leith Waters, to the rank
of Commander.
Lieutenant John Hains (1815), of the Stonehouse-
point station, to the rank of Commander.
Second Masters—Thomas Huss (1846), of the Cale-
donia three-decker, at Plymouth; John H. 11. T. Norris
(1842); and W. H. Mallard (1844), late Acting Master
of the Hecate and Apollo—to the rank of Masters.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—It has been remarked as
strange that the flags of her Majesty's ships have not
been lowered half-mast on the news of the melancholy
death of the First Lord of the Admiralty being officially
communicated to the Port Admirals.
The Sharpshooter steam-schooner, Lieutenant-Com-
mander J. C. Bailey, went from the harbour to Spithead
this morning.
It is reported the Driver steam-sloop, Commander C.
R. Johnson, is to be sent to the West Indies to relieve
the Scourge steam bomb-vessel, Commander H. E. Win-
grove, whose term of service has expired.
The Apolline freight-ship arrived last evening from
the river, and proceeded this morning to Cowes to em-
bark soldiers. She is to return again to Spithead to em-
bark 100 convicts.
Wind E., fresh gales and cloudy weather.

WRECK OF THE MUTINE,

We announced yesterday that the Mutine, 12, Com-
mander Palmer, was wrecked off Venice. The following
official letter, with which we have been favoured by the
Admiralty, it will be seen, confirms our intelligence:—
"By accounts received at the Admiralty on the Ist
instant, from Captain Symonds, of the Spartan, it ap-
pears that her Majesty's ship Mutine was wrecked at
Chioggia, off Venice, on the 21st December last, during
very heavy Weather. The loss of the following officers
and one private marine are reported with deep regret:—
" Mr. George Whiting, acting mate.
" Mr. H. E. Charlton, acting mate.
" Mr. James Burke, assistant surgeon.
" Mr. William Dowse, carpenter.
"Edward James, private uterine.
" The remainder of the officers and crew of the Mutine
are saved, although many of them have suffered consi-
derably from intense cold.
"Admiralty, Jan. 2, 1849."
As we stated yesterday, the commander had gone on
shore with dispatches, and had not returned to his ship
when the gale came on, consequently the command of
the Blutine devolved on Lieut. Curtis, whose noble and
skilful conduct, under the trying circumstances in which
the ship was placed, is the subject of general commen-
dation. The Ardent, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander
Newell, has arrived at Naples, with the officers and
crew, who were to be tried by a court martial as soon as
the vessel was relieved from quarantine, after which they
will be sent home.
The Blutine is the second of the five experimental
brigs that has been wrecked; for the Osprey, it will be
remembered, was lost at Now Zealand. The Mutine was
designed and built by Mr. Finchman (now master
shipwright at Portsmouth dockyard), at Chatham, in

1844. —She was 428 tons, and was considered
one of the handsomest vessels of the squadron.
Her sailing qualities, as well as her general
qualities as a man-of-war, were of a very superior
character; although she was considered to be inferior
on the trials to the Daring and the Espiegle. She was
first commissioned by Commander Crawford, and after
the experimental sailings proceeded to the Cape station,
where in the Mozambique division she captured every
slaver she chased, one of them was a notorious and suc-
cessful craft that had always ran away with ease from
the brigs of Sir W. Symonds's construction. Whilst on
this station she had several trials with the Helena, one
of the surveyor's crack brigs, and the Cleopatra, 26, one
of his corvettes, when her superiority in every point of
sailing over both vessels was admitted by all. She was
sent home from the Cape in consequence of having been
aground in one of her chases after slavers; and on her
arrival at Chatham, in August, 1846, was paid off. She
was refitted, however, and was very soon after re-com-
missioned by Commander Tryon, and sent to the Medi-
terranean; and on that gallant officer's promotion, in
October, 1547, her present commander (who was also
promoted at that Limo) was appointed to her.
The following is an extract from a letter, containing a
more detailed account of the loss of the Mutine. The
etter is dated " Venice, Dec. 24,1848.

" Fearful that exaggerated reports may reach home,
I write by the earliest opportunity to inform you of the
wreck of the Mutine, which took place on the 21st at
Palestrina, about ten miles from Venice, in one of the
heaviest gales of wind (commonly called "Boras" in
this part of the world) I ever saw. Fortunately every
one has been saved, with the exception of four officers
and one marine, viz., Edward Whiting (acting mate),
drowned in a most gallant attempt to get on shore in the
dingy with a line; H. E. Charlton (acting mate), dead
from exhaustion and intense cold ; James Burke
(assistant-surgeon), whose death was caused in
a similar manner ; James Dowse (carpenter), who
fell out of the bowline-knot us they were
hauling him on shore, and was drowned ; and
Edward James (private, Royal Marines), found
frozen to death under the forecastle. how so many
were saved appears to be almost miraculous, after being
exposed nearly thirty hours to the most dreadful wea-
ther; the cold being so intense that the seas froze on
every thing as they came en board. Many are suffering
severely from their hands and feet being frostbitten. It
is impossible to speak too highly of the kindness and
hospitality evinced by the inhabitants and authorities of
Palestrina, who seiz,. d officers and ram as they were
landed and carried them up into the houses, actually
giving up their own beds and supplying them with
warm drinks; and, in fact, doing everything their dearest
friends could have done for them. The ship is now
lying within twenty yards of the shore (haviog beaten
over three quarters of a mile of shoal water), with her
masts and rudder gone, and back broken. It is expected
we shall save the greater part of the things on board,
though there is no hope for the ship.
" The people on board were landed by means of a
hawser run out to the shore, with a bowline•knot and
hauling- line."

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2.—The Royal Mail Steam-
packet Company's ship Severn, Captain W. Vincent,
sailed to-day with the usual British and foreign West
India mails, and the mails for New Orleans, Havannah,
and Mexico, in charge of Lieutenant Joseph Ray, R.N.,
Admiralty agent. The Severn had only a few passen-
gers, amongst whom were Captain Childs, Captain John-
ston, and Dr. Linton, for Barbadoes; Rev. W. Grey,
Bermuda, &c. The small number of passengers arises
in some measure from the quarantine regulations which
have been imposed on the company's ships at Ilavannah,
&c. The steamer has u fall general cargo, but no quick-
silver or specie. The American frigate St. Lawrence,
44, Captain 11. Paulding, will in all probability take her
departure for Lisbon and Cadiz to-morrow or 'Thursday.
EXPLOSION IN EDINDUROIL—On Saturday even-
ing, about six o'clock, a tremendous explosion took place
in an arched vault, under the pavement of the High-
street, close by the entry to Blackfriars' Wynd, the cause
fosTatirsyeaps
vault
rso n a li
and means of which are as yet involved in mystery. The
explosion tore up the strong and firmly built arch be-
neath the pathway, carrying with it the large flag-stones,
raising a dense cloud of dust and lime, and opening up
a charm in front of the houses from about fourteen to
sixteen feet square. The shock occasioned was most
violent, causing infinite terror in the neighbourhood,
shaking the contiguous houses like an earthquake, and
in its suddenness extinguishing many of the lights ;
and while it was heard at a great distance from the spot,
it was described by those near it as like a volley
of artillery, or rather, a tremendous and instant crash,e
with little reverberation, rendering the horror the more
intense intense by the silence which succeeded. MOSS fo the
n Injury.quei.
dentially, this occurrence, so fraught with danger unat-
crowds of passers by in this busy locality, Iv
w can ascer.
tended with the loss of life, and so
unaerstood to be
e! been directly
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cause without
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the
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oonr ebviiesn 1 ii3omeTliay
which, casually ig.
gas, or foul air of some description,
ascertained, although it is
bore result.
niting, occasioned the a .
ronmonger, but who has
unaccountably issu•
lion belongs to Mr. Steel, 1
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since
not
caused the
it and the cellar beneath his
communication between
.0 believe, i
to be built UP, " a consequence of
own shop
some bad air The .
used it for a year or two, and ''''"'"u
e &sag et 0 smell Was thus in some
ing from it. d
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measure stop° • report that it wae caused by '
gun
was current, but of this Mr. Steel
powder keeps at pre-
sent but a small quantity in his shop. The greatest
the ignition, which
is else involved in mystery.—C, id •
a e onlan Mercury.
TIII SURREY AND
Yesterday the Surrey and KENT Ttnitnrii.E-R0AD5......
Kent turnpike-roads, known
as the New-crossturnpike-roads, which extend a consi-
derable distance into the two counties, came into the
hands of the trustees. They were put up to auction at
'Tavern Blackheath, on the 19th ult., by
the trustees, at the sum of 10,500 t. per annum. There
Was then not a single offer, though the room was
crowded with trustees and others interested in that de-
scription of property, by some of whom it was suggested
that they should be offered at 9,000/. The Chairman,
kr. Jackson, observed that if the tolls were not taken
by private speculators, that the trustees would take them
and pay their value. Mr. Levy, the extensive proprietor
of me:ropolitan and other trusts, observed, that they
would then find their value, and stated that they could
not legally be sold by private contract, but at the sum
they produced the previous year, which was 11,230/.
Those tolls hare enormously depreciated since the com-
petition of railways. They previously realised as much
as 17,0001. a year.
DM n FROM CULOROFORM.—The Glasgow Herald
I sist
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account
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and
doir
states that recently a young gentleman returned from
Australia to visit his relatives in the neighbourhood of
Govan, but before leaving the colony ho met with a
slight accident in the foot, which being, perhaps, ne-
glected during the passage home, caused his
pain
great-
toe nail to grow into the flesh.
Toremove the I
d
and inconvenience, the gentleman reso ve to submit
to an operation, which a respectable surgeon in Govan
was employed to perform on Tuesday last. Prepara-
tory to doing so, the surgeon resolved to make use of
chloroform; but the patient, after inhaling the gas, al-
most instantly expired. An investigation of the ;flair is
in progros.

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