The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-13 00:00:00

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He had not spoken on the general question of the re-
port. There were some important points in that docu-
ment, especially the Brazilian contract, to which he was
deArous to allude. He thought that -time ought to be
given to the proprietors to look into that contract be-
fore they gave their sanction to it. The Hon. Proprie-
tor, amid much confusion, proceeded to remark upon
the excess of expenditure that had not been noticed in
the working account, and to deprecate the course that
had been pursued by the directors in advancing money
to the Government of Grenada.

The C.AIRMAN said, with respect to that subject
money ha i be n advanced by the company to complete
the road between Panama and Chagres, which it was
of great interest to the company should be completed.
The return of that money had been wel secured to the
company, and it was being paid off by monthly instal-
ments with interest.— (Cheers.)
Mr. COLBORNE thought that the chairman and the
directors were well entitled to the thanks of the
proprietors for their eminent services. He thought the
proprietors ought to be perfectly satisfied with the
dividend.

After some further discussion the report was agreed
to, ordered to be printed, and circulated among the pro-
prietors.
The CHAIRMAN said the dividend would be payable
on the 17th. In answer to a question from Mr. Mox-
hay, he observed that he had never heard of se-
curity being required from the captain of a ship
to incur a penalty if ho lost it. The company had
adopted the beat course they could to their officers by
paying them liberally, and if they were careless they
were dismissed; that was the extent of punishment that
had hitherto been awarded to them. The question of
wheth( r something could not be done with captains to
make them more careful was under the consideration of
the directors. _ _

John Irving, Esq., and Charles William Short, Esq.,
were re elected directors, and Abraham George Roberts,
Esq.. was re-elected auditor.

question from a pro-
pritethoer,C iu
said that tevei n answerryt to a
been done in order to
everything
ghad
press the claim of the company upon the estate of Aera-
man and Co., of Bristol, but ho was afraid there would
not be a great deal got out of it.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and directors,
and the meeting broke up.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.
Commodore Superintendent Henry Eden, of Wool-
wich Dockyard, is on leave of absence. Captain
'olfe, additional of the Fisgird, is carrying on the
duties of the port, as senior officer; and Mr. Bellamy,
the master attendant, is carrying on the dockyard duties.
ERRATA IN THE OBITUARY OF THE NAVY LIST.—
The deaths of Paymaster and Purser Richard Gilbert
(1790) and James Yorston (1813), are reported inac-
curately as " assistant surgeons." Paymaster and
Punier Robert Burn (1800) has also died during the
last quarter.

. -
Lieut. Sampson, of the Royal Marines, who has been
adjutant of the royal dockyard brigade at Deptford,
died a few days since. The vacancy is to be filled up by
one of the most deserving and efficient sergeants of the
Royal Marines.

APPOINTMENTS.
Master—Edward Maunder, recently promoted, to the
Scorpion, surveying•vessel, fitting at Devonport.
Second Masters—Alfred Veitch, to the Hart, survey-
ing-tender; John Parsons, to the Scorpion.
Midshipman—H. F. Brown, to the Stromboli, steam-
sloop, at Portsmouth.
Gunner—William Bartlett, to the Plumper, screw-
sloop.
Boatswain—John Rice, to the:North Star.
Carpenter—Daniel Thompson, to the North Star.
SIIIPS TJ BE PAID oFF.—The St. Vincent, 120, Capt.
S. C. nacres, will be paid off at Portsmouth on Saturday
next. The Penelope, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Lewis
T. Jones, will be paid off at Portsmouth on the 1601;
and the Polyphemus, 4, steam sloop, Commander R.
B. Crawford, was paid off at Portsmouth yesterday.
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The North Star, Master Commander Saunders,
fitting at Sheerness for the Arctic expedition, will
proceed after the 14th instant to Woolwich, to be com-
pleted in her stores and provisions. She will be taken
out of dock at Sheerness on the 12th.
The Castor, 36,'has been towed to Sheerness from
Chatham, and is to be taken into No. 2 dock there, in-
stead of removing the Amphion out of her dock.
The Basilisk, paddle-wheel steam• sloop, and the Niger,
screw-sloop, are now reported complete, at Woolwich,
prep.iratory to proceeding to trial, en route to Devonport.
The Lightning, steam-tender, Master Commander
Petley, is ordered to proceed from Woolwich to
She:-rness on the 15th instant.
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which she stood in need, put to sea from the grand harbour
for Sicily, where she would fall in with the fleet under
Sir William Parker's command, and be attached to his
flag. The movements of this splendid vessel were very
beautiful, and, the breeze being stiff and fair, she went
out beautifully.
On Tuesday last the screw steamer Earl of Auckland,
on her homeward route to London, from Constantinople,
came into port, and having run up her quarantine flag,
put on her steam, and proceeded to the top of the har-
bour, where she ran herself aground. This proceeding
appeared very singular, until the fact became known
that at 11 P.M. on the preceding evening she bad run
over a rock, about ninety miles due east of the island,
in lat. 35 deg. 50 min. N., and long. 16 deg. 22 min. 30
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commanding the surveying ship Volage, having learned
that a vessel had struck on it, went out in a cutter to
ascertain its precise position, and was six weeks thus em-
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her surveys; and, as Captain Graves is ordered to survey
the waters of Cyprus, he most likely will set the ques-
tion at rest as to the existence of the danger. It has
been reported by persons said to have seen it that it is
very small, not more than 10 feet square, and having 12
feet water on it, with no ground around it at 200
fathoms.

) The outward India mails have arrived. The bulk by
the Indus reached Malta on the evening of the 30th, hay-
ing run out in.ten days and three hours; those overland
by the Medina, four days later from London, on the
31st. The Indus left for Alexandria on the evening fol-
lowing her arrival.
The Locust steamer, serving as a tender to the Triton,
will proceed to the lonian Islands to-day, at 2 P.M.
News has reached Malta from Constantinople thatthe
Russians aro intriguing to effect a passage through the
Dardanelles with their fleet. To blind the Ottomans, or
to procure their ready assent to the /An, they are ad-
vancing money to them to enable them to put their
navy in condition, but the Plot having been discovered,
had been checked by the English and French Am-
bassadors.
News has also reached this place from Constantinople,
that the Count de Sartiges, French Minister at Teheran,
was very unpopular. The Schah had refused to accept
the grand cordon of the Legion d'Honneur from the
French. lie had lately given to the Russian and
English Ministers his portrait set in diamonds, but the
French Minister was not so favoured; whereupon he de-
manded a similar mark of favour in terms somewhat in-
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PORTOIOE7TH, WEDNESDAY.—By letters from Rio we
are informed of a court-martial about to be held upon
Lieutenant Blennerhasset, of the Alecto steam-vessel.
Lieutenant Reed, of the Inconstant, has joined the
Alecto.

Lieutenant Ballard, of the Alecto, has been appointed
to the Raleigh.
Mr. Waddilove, mate, has been appointed Acting-
Lieutenant to the Alecto.
Mr. William Graham, acting mate, and Mr. Phillips,
midshipman, of the Amphitrite, have joined the Hydra.
The Daphne, 20, Captain Fanshawe, sailed from Rio
for Monte Video, from England, on the 7th February.
The Amazon, 26, Captain Troubridge, arrived at Rio
from England and Liberia, on the 23d February, en route
to the East Indies. The assistant-surgeon, gunner, and
boatswain were invalided from her on the 24th.
The Amphitrite, 25 Captain T. R. Eden, arrived at
Rio en route to. the Pacific, from the coast of Africa, on
the 17th January, and sailed subsequently to the 25th
for Valparaiso. Messrs. Graham and Saunders have
passed their examinations for Lieutenants; the former
remains in the ship, the latter volunteered to stop on the
coast of Africa; both highly promising young officers.
The Arrogant, 46, auxiliary screw steam-frigate,
Captain Robert Fitzroy, bent sails yesterday morning,
preparatory to going out of the harbour.
The Diligence naval transport arrived yesterday morn-
ing at Spithead, with stores from the eastward, and was
towed into harbour last night by the Echo steam- tug,
which vessel likewise brought up a new vessel built by
Mr. White, of Cowes, for the Board of Ordnance, for
carrying shells to and from ships.
The Polyphemus steam-sloop, Commander R. B.
CrAwford, was paid off this morning, and has since been
hauled alongside the sheer jetty to have her masts taken
out.

Wind—N.N.E.; fresh breezes and cloudy weather.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 11.--The Sampson steam-frigate
had her steam up yesterday in the basin to try her
engines.

The Gladiator steam••fligate was taken under the
sheers to dad• to have her masts put in, and when ready
for sea will proceed with the Sampson steam-frigate to
Plymouth, to bo kept as advanced war steamers at that
port.

•
PORTSMOUTH.--There is no truth in the report cir-
culated at Woolwich, that Sir Charles Napier will hoist
his flag in the Superb and proceed to Cork to "relieve
Itear•Admiral Mackay, at present in the command of
that (or any other) part of the coast of Ireland."
Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., has arrived
in town, and paid a visit to the Admiralty yesterday.
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain S. C. Dacres, is nearly
dismantled at Portsmouth. She will -have returned all

her stores by to•night, and will be paid off on Saturday,
as we have betore stated.

Tbo •Apollo, 8, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne,

and the calls that might I arrived at Corfu
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on the 26th of March, after a passage of
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were

the en•
termed the Commander and officers of the Apollo ut
dinner.

The Arrogant, 46, screw steam-frigate, Captain Fitz-
roy, was tried at Portsmouth yesterday. This chef
d'oeuvre of naval architecture went out of harbour in the
morning at eleven o'clock, having on board Rear-Admiral
Superintendent Prescott, C. 8., Rear-Admiral Sir Thos.
Cochrane, Captain Chadds, C. B , and a number of other
distinguished officers, with a number of gentlemen be-
longing to the steam department. She was fully rigged,
having her sails bent, and top gallant yards across; her
stor. a and weigh of all description:, were on board, with
the exc -ption of pow d,r and shells, and the clothing snd
traps belonging to her crew; she lied also about 300 tons
of coal on board, sufficient for about fourteen days' con
sunipton; with all these weights, she was one streak and
rather better of copper out of the water : her draft was
forward, 18 feet 2 inches; aft, 19 feet 5 inches. She went
out against a flood tide at the rate of about six knots,
scarcely making a bubble at her bows, gliding impercep-
tibly through the water without noise or commotion.
We should say she carried her main-deck guns at least
12 feet above the water. We have before stated the
splendid way in which this ship came into harbour,
when she arrived from receiving her engines at Wool-
wich. With her 360 horse power she came into Ports-
mouth harbour against a hurricane of wind dead in her
teeth, proving the power of the screw (although light in
proportion to this vessel of 1,900 tons burthen), to pro-
pel ber against wind and tide. Independent of her aux-
iliary screw, she is decidedly ono of the finest frigates
that ever was built. She proceeded round Spithead, and
along the measured mile, when the result of the trials
were as follows:

Min. Sec. Knots.
Ist mile in 7 29 ... 8.07 Mean speed knots
2d mile in 7 5 ... 8.47 S 8.294
3d mile in 7 18 ... 8.219
4th mile in 7 15 ... 8.275 S
Number of revolutions made, 55; not up to the full speed,
ship passing through the water very easily, and the en-
gines working most satsfactorily, the ship not feeling
the least vibration from the working of the screw. The
Arrogant returned into harbour at halt-past four o'clock,
and to-day will go into the angle dock to have her copper
broom( d down; whence she will come out again, pro-
bably, on Saturday, and will proceed an the 17th to
Cork to try her steaming and sailing power at sea.
The Penelope, 16, steam-frigate, Captain L. P. Jones,
has nearly returned her stores at Portsmouth, and is
diFinantling in readiness to be paid oil' on Saturday next.
The Plumper, 12, Commander Holloth, has reshipped
her bowsprit, with more stave than formerly. She has
taken her lower rigging off the mastheads, and,is getting
her tops over. For what purpose she is delayed a month
by the engineer we know not.
The Reynard, 10, Commander Cracroft, is in the basin
at Portsmouth, having her hawse holes altered, and re-
ceiving six new timber heads, which were carried away
on her port quarter by a heavy sea that struck her during
her last cruize.

8.295

SUPERANNUATIONS.—The following officers of Devon-
pert have rect ived notice of the amount of pen3ions or
superannuation :—Mr. Ancell, inspector (formerly mea-
surer), 821. Bs. per annum ,• Mr. Lacey, inspector,
461. 17s. 6d.; and Mr. F“x, 431. 15s.
PROMOTIONS.

Second Master—T. W. Sulivan (1844), formerly se-
cond master of the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and
now acting master of the Harlequin, 12, at Lisbon, has
been confirmed to the rank of mater.