The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-06 00:00:00

WAR STEAMERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—Can you inform me why our steam-vessels of war
are fitted with engines of power so inferior to these in use
on beard merchant steamers? I observe, by yeur Paper
of Friday last, that the tonnage of the new war steamer
Driver is 1,400, and her steam power 280 hon;c7.. The
tonnage of three steam-vessels in the empinyment of llle
Peninsular and OticntalStcam NavigationCompany,which I
'elect from an advertisomcnt in )our Paper ut January the
25th, it in the tyllowing proportlon to tiieir steam-power :
Tons. Horse power.
Liverpool
Tagus
Braganza ... 657
I can certify, from experience, that the latter has none
to spare. Your obedient servant,
Bristol, Feb. 3, 1841.

LIE MAST.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

( From the 1-Vnloulh Journal.)
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 4 —Mr. John Fiuchem is appointed
foreman of this dockyard.
The Pi,cenix steamer sailed on Friday for Malta.
The Inconstant paid advance on Monday, and sailed on
Tuesday for the Mediterranean.
The EnJymion paid advance on Monday, and sailed on
Tuesday for the East Indies.

The Iris arrived oa Sunday, with supernumeraries from
Portsmouth.

An order was this week received at this division of
Royal Nlatines to forward immediately recruiting parties,
each composed of three Sergeants, three Corporals, and
one private to the following places :—Tu Derby.•under the
command of Capt. D. Campbell; to Grantham, under
the command of Capt. Mercer ; to Wolverhampton, under
the command of Capt. Totill ; and to Hereford, under
the command of. Copt. Pearce.—Two recruiting parties
are -also ordered out, from Woolwich, one to Edin-
burgh, under the command of Captain Philips, and
another elsewhere, under the command of Capt. Wright.
The standard is lowered half an inch ; it is now 5 feet 6.
I: is understood that the number of companies, about to
be raised, is 12, which will give commissions to 12 Cap.
tains and 12 First Lieutenants, and the appointment of 60
sergeants and 60 corporals, 5 sergeants and 5 corporals
being attached to each company of Merines ; while there
are only 3 sergeants and 3 corporals attached to com-
panies of the line.
We understand the crews of the Iris and Pelican have
generously followed the example of the crews of the Avon,
Rapid, and Viper, and given a day's pay for the relief of
the widows and orphans of the crew of the Fairy. Through
the kind exertions of Lieutenant Sheringhain, several small
sums have been collected in this neighbourhood, for the
same object. Mr. Langley, ordnance storekeeper, has
given a donation of 1/ to the fund.
SLAVE TRADE ON TILE EAST COAST.--The Spanish
barque Amelia, of 278 tons, but under the Portuguese
flag, from ilevannah, bound to Mozambique, was taken
off the harbour on the 31st ult., after an arduous chase
of 21 hours, by her Majesty's ship Acorn, Captain J.
Adam=, being fully fitted for slaves, and having on
board 27,000 Spanish dollars for the purchase of the
same, and has been sent into Table Bay with ten slaves
on beard, taken out of a large dow, of 150 tons, also
captured by her Majesty's ship Acorn, with thirty slaves
(the remaining twenty taken on board the Acorn), but
is said to have landed 200 near Mozambique Harbour
the evening previous to her capture. The hull was to be
desttoyed. A large brig, the Portia, sailing under Por-
tuguese colours, had been fined previous to the Acorn's
i.rrival at Mozambique Harbour, and allowed to depart
with a passport for the Havannah ; but on gett;ng outside
the slaver commenced levying cont,ibutions of slaves
from the different ports, and plundering the Arab down
along the coast. Not having water casks on board (they
having been burned at Mozambique Harbour), she stood
over to the Island of Joanna and levied a contributi, n
from an English schooner and an American whaler lying
there, after which she continued het course for the island
of Mayotte, where she anchored, and the captain sent
to the King to procure him two hundred slaves, with
a sufficient supply of rice and water to raain:ain them.
However, he ended his cruise here, for a Fri nch corvette
happened to come round the island, and on observing the
vessel at anchor sent her beats and took her. She was
sent into Mozambique Harbour, and it was said that she
had on board 250 Arabl, negroes, &c. The three Spa-
nish slavers condemned by the local Government at Mo-
zambique Harbour have since been ascertained to be the
Grand Antilles, Relampego, and Emprendedur, but sail-
ing under Portuguese colours, with the following names,
Gloria, Maria Segunda, and Emprendedor ; the cargoes
and specie they had on board were given up to the
masters, after heavy fines had been levied on them.
The prize brig Rclampago, taken into the Government
service, and fitted up as a men-of-war, had been expedited
for the different ports along the coast, with orders for
taking any vessel that might have entered fitted for the
slave trade ; the Governor-General, besides taking v, ry
active step: to suppress the slave trade, had removed from
their post all the Governcrs of the dfferent ports suspected
of riving any countenance thereto.
The Avon steamer arrived on Thursday, with volunteers
from Liverpool, and sailed on Monday for Pembroke, with
a party of men to bring round a new ship.
Remaining in Ilanioaze.—Caledonia, San Josef, Raven,
Sylph, Netley, Carron steamer, Pluto steamer, Comet
steamer, Diligence No. 7, Duck liehter.
In the Sound.—lmpregnable, Belleisle, and Iris.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LoNnoN, FEB. s.—Wind this day at noon, fresh easterly
breeze, and clear, sharp, frosty weather.
DEAL, FEB. 4.—Wind E., strong breeze.—Sailed the Re-
nown, Napier, for Calcutta ; Lady Feversham, Webster, Bom-
bay ; 23th of May, Schrader, Hasannah ; Toronto, Gres-
wohl, New York.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Wind E. to E N.E. strong gales, and
squally.—Sailed the Lyra (packet ), for West Indies.
l'i.v-stoCTII, FE n. 4.—Wind E. N. E.—lt has blown a strong
gale all night. A number of iron-hound casks, marked [SI,
with red heads, was passed off the Scilly, by the Tanjore, ar-
rived here.

Hum.. Wind E. S. E. , strong breeze.—The Ami, Eratt,
which sailed hence on the 26th ult. for Hamburgh, has
put back, after being 70 stiles of Heligoland, and it is expected
that the rest of the vessels which sailed at the same time will
reurn.

Livettroor„ FEB. 4.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrived the Jef-
ferson, from Virginia. Sailed the Eupherni •, Duff, for Port
au Prince ; Jessie Mitchell, Thompson, Hayti ; Triumph,
Armstrong, Windsor, N. S. ; Mary Ann Hutton, Nero, New
Orleans ; Monarch, Bombay; Dorothea, Bart, Valparaiso;
llosendale, Friend, Bahia ; Donald, Allison, Berbice ; John
Davies, Barbadoes ; Hebron, Carr, Mobile ; Jamaica, White,
Jamaica; Leila, Higgins, New York. Off port the Indus,
from Calcutta. The Cambridge, 13ursley, from New York,
has arrived off port. The Irene, from Stockholm to New
York, was wrecked near the latter port, previous to the Sth
ult. Greater part of the cargo was expected to be saved. A
large American ship was seen on shore on Sall Key Bank, near
llavannah, previous to 16th December.

TILE FAILURE OF MESSRS. KEASLEY, THE
TANNEAS, OP BEKISONDSEY.—Since the bankruptcy of
Messrs. Wright, the bankers of Heurietta•street, Covent-
garden, no failure has excited so much astonishment, or has
been attended by such melancholy results, as the failure of
the Messrs. Keasley, the tanners, in Long-lane, Bermond-
sey. The firm was considered the richest in that part of
London, and the horses and harness were exceeded by no
house in town, or perhaps the world. The Messrs. Keasley
had for a long series of years carried on one of the most
extensive trades in Bermondsey, or within five miles of it.
The liabilities of the firm are variously stated, as amounting
from 100,000/. to 250,0001. The chief creditors are re-
ported to be Messrs. Streatfield and Lawrence, leather-
sellers, of Lime-strest, to the amount of 17,0001. ; Mr.
Sharp, currier, of Russell-street, Bermondsey, 7,0001. ;
the firm of %Verret' and Co., blacking makers, 20,000/. ;
Messrs. Boucher and Mortimer, leather-factors, of the
New Leather-market, Bermondsey, 7,000/ ; Mr. Vousley,
who keeps a public-house in Long lane, 2001., for a cheek
which be cashed,:besides a large amount owing by the men,
who " used" his house. The consternation which this
bankruptcy has caused is great, and has placed out of em-
ploy all, or nearly all, the men. Messrs. Keasley are also
said to be the contractors to Government fur the patent
'leather belts.

DEATH OF SIR DAVID ERSKIYE,
We have to announce the death of the above Baronet.
The deceased was born in 1792, and married, in 1821,
Miss Jane Williams, daughter of the late Mr. Hugh Wil-
liam?, and is succeeded by his eldest son, now Sir Tho-
mas Erskine.

STORMS.—A sudden and violent storm of wind
passed over Bordeaux a few evenings since. Several trees
were blown down, and a boat on the river, with four men
on board, was upFet, and all were drowned. A farmer at
Blaiville, in the Calvados, had one of his fields much da-
maged last week by a flood of water that passed over it ;
but in a hollow formed by the current there was laid bare
a terracotta vase, containing 300 Roman bronze coins.
On Monday last were lauded at Harborough
the Captain and crew of the schooner Eden, of Sunder-
land, which was lost on the 23d ult., about 40 miles to
the eastward of Aberdeen, during a gale of Rind and a
heavy sea, in consequence of her having sprung a leak.
The Captain and crew were rescued by Captain Craw-
ford (and his crew), of the Esker, of Dundee, and !t.,out
an hour after they saw the Eden sink. Mu i
ch praise is
due to Ceptain Crawford for his gallant manner n saving
their lives and for the kind treatment while on. board
.his
vessel. The Ann, Randall, from Seville, for Leith,
arrived in the roads on Thursday :
ilohset
itiheerrime:st,e
sovtoeari
board on her passage. His name was. Geo. Smith, sup.
Newcastle, posed to be a native of this
lost the master and one
dart, from Quebec, for
Americanae
man overboard or. the passage. The man's.
namelst
week
wask
Charles Fisk, and supposed to belong to Nutford, in Suf-
folk —Cambridge Advertiser.
A discussion on the merits of the
colony for free men of colour on the shores of Africa has
beer. proceeding during three evenings of the
oNfliatshheiTngton,
.Unit.ed
anti-Slavery.
bseotevii•eetcyn
and the
t hSee oßbel ev,. thesir aGurleydvocat advocate
of
The animation
States, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
of the debate, and the temarkable oratorical
combatant: has been
_such as to chain to their seats powersseats oaf.
nthu
e-
merous audience during three or four hours. each evening.
-morrow evehing eight o'clock.
The adjournment is to to
The admission is gratis.