The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-17 00:00:00

‘3 • NA VA L TEJZIGE'
• SIR CHARLES NAP- SQI-TADRON.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. M.—By the mail which al,.
highly rived yesterday we are pat in pn of further
esseseio
47-4 ) interesting details respecting the movements
of Sir Charles Napier's squadron
" The steam squadron, consisting of the Sidon, 560
-".1.----liorse power, Captain Henderson, a ith the flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier; the Odin, 560
horse power, Captain Pelham ; the Avenger, 650
horse power, Captain Dacres ; the Dragon, 560
horse power, Captain Hall ; the Vixen, 280 horse
power, Commander Ryder; and the Stromboli' 280
horse power, Commander Fisher, went out for a
trial on the 3d instant. They started in the morning
with about the following quantities ofcoal on board:—
Sidon, 360 tons; Odin, 325 tons; Avenger, 400
tons; Dragon, 340 tons; Vixen, 340 tons; Strom-
boli, 240 tons. Something detained the Avenger in
starting, her gear being bent; that, however, was
soon ptit to rights, and she started, and met the test
outside the bar, where a trial of steaming, bead to
wind, commenced, when it was very doubtful whether
the Sidon or Olin was the better sailer. The re-
maining vessels were slightly beaten. They were
then all stopped, when lying in a heavy sea ;
the Vixen and Strombeli here signalled to
know if they could clear for action. The
Stromboli replied, No.' The Vixen might per-
haps have done it, but the superiority Of the Sidon
over all was unquestionable, in being exceedingly
Aeady and unable to clear for action without the
least difficulty. Her appearance, too, compared with
rite Odin, is very superior. She carries eighteen
fighting guns, and would without doubt carry even
a heavier armament, with the. advantage of striking
her funnels, thereby enabling her to set a square
mainsail, which the other vessels, except the Vixen,
are unable to do, besides being able to stow in her
hunkers 700 tons of coals. The Dragon is said
to be leaky. The Howe, 120, is to leave this
to-morrow (the 10th) for Spithead ; and as a steamer
will accompany her, it is supposed the Dragon will
go. The Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, sailed this
morning for the Mediterranean ; and Sir Charles
Napier's squadron, consisting of the three-deckers,
St. Vincent and Queen, the two-deckers, Canopus
and Vengeance, and all the steamers, are to leave
Lisbon for a cruize to-morrow, and will perhaps
accompany the Howe some distance, returning in a
few days, leaving the Caledonia, 120, and America,
.50, with the Jackal iron steamer at this place (Lis-
bon), which is, although quiet to all appearances, any-
thing but settled, the troops net being paid, nor are
there any funds in the treasury to pay them with. Great
attention is paid to Sir Charles Napier's opinion, as
he is said to understand the state of this unhappy coun-
try well. The squadron has been exercised at shifting
topsail yards, jib-boom, topgallant masts, sails, &c.;
:old the Caledonia is in general the smartest, Queeu
next, and the others about equal, except the Ven-
geance, which is generally last; but this may be ac-
counted for by the youth and inexperience of the
whole or nine-tenths of her crew."
Another letter, dated Lisbon, the Bth instant, says,
=peaking of the trial of the steamers, which lasted
from seven o'clock in the morning until four in the
afternoon of the 3d :
" The Sidon and Odin had the advantage so long
As they could keep steam, which they could not do
for any length of time ; the others could not consume
all their steam, consequently, in a long run, they
would come up with the two former. The Sidon
is certainly a fine-looking vessel, and appears to fleet
much more buoyantly than any of the other steamers.
They came in after the trial, one after the other, in
gallant style, against a strong ebb tide ; first, the
Sidon, then the Odin, Avenger, Dragon, Vixen, and
Stromboli.
" On the 4th instant two Portuguese brigs, having
the liberated prisoners from Angola on hoard, arrived.
They reported that Bornfin had made his escape on
hoard a merchant ship, hut was chased and rec.,ptured
by one of our slave cruizers, the Flying Fish. It is
supposed he will be given up to the Terrible, which
is expected here next week. The Thetis left all quiet
at Madeira ; the Recruit, 12, was, however, ordered
to remain there at present.
" A French steam-frigate, with the broad pendant,
and a schooner, left early in the morning of the 7th,
and the frigate Armide sailed in the afternoon. There
are now left the Iphegenie and a brig; the former
is the French Excellent, or gunnery ship; she is a
fine double-banked frigate, and exercises her crew
at sea instead of, as we do, in harbour. She has
been out since we have been here, when we heard the
constant roar of her guns booming in the distance.
Thetis the way to acquire proficiency in ship gun-
nery. _ _ _

[PlarlOß SD.

"-The squadron has been exercised daily since
they carne here (after refit), shifting either a sail
or a spar, reefing, furling, &c., but with the watch
only.

A. poor fellow belonging to the Avenger was
stabbed the other night on shore, and died yesterday
morning.
," It is signalled that the squadron will proceed to
Ara on Friday, and is expected to remain out five or
six wesilii after escorting the Howe as far as Cape
I±'iniste e. Another renqrt among us..-is, that the
.frcn the squadron will be broken up,
when the Admiral will return to Lisbon, where, re-
port says, he has taken a house for three years. The
Caledonia and America do not accompany the squa-
dron, but remain here, as also a steamer, to bring out
the letters which will come by the packet of the 7th
from England. There are now lying here, the Bri-
tish ships of war St. Vincent, Howe, Caledonia,
120's; Queen, 110; Vengeance and Canopus, 84's ;
America, 50; and steamers Sidon, Odin, Avenger,
Dragon, Vixen, and Stromboli. French ships of
war—one frigate and one brig. Spanish—two fri-
gates, two corvettes, one brig, and one steamer. Por-
tuguese-Lone line-of-battle ship, a frigate, and two
corvettes.
" The Admiral inspected the Howe yesterday. It
is rumoured the Vengeance will be sent home
shortly and refit for Mediterranean service.
" Mr. Oswald, mate of the St. Vincent, died on the
sth inst."
The Sealark, 8, Commander R. D. White, sailed
last evening for Chatham, to be paid off.
The Blazer steam surveying vessel, Commander
Henry E. Wingrove, arrived last evening from Cork,
bringing a few marines, lately forming part of the
battalion serving at Spike Island. She has come here
to embark a quantity of surveying stores, which were
landed here when she was sent on the relief service to
Ireland. She is to resume her station at Harwich
under Captain J. Washington.
The Fury steam sloop, Commander James Wilcox,
went out of harbour this afternoon.
The Amphitrite, 25, Captain T. R. Eden, and the
Trincomalee, 25, Captain NVarren, will be paid to-
morrow or Saturday, and sail on Sunday on a trial
cruize. The Commander-in-Chief; Sir Charles Ogle,
Bart., had appointed to-day for the in-pection of the
Trincomalee, but, in consequence of the boisterous
state of the weather, has deferred it till to-morrow.
Rear-Admiral Robert Bloye, C 8., died at his re-
sidence, King's-terrace, Southsea, on Tuesday night,
which sudden circumstance had so powerful an effect
upon Mrs. Bloye that she died iii three hours after-
wards of grief. The gallant retired Rear-Admiral
was midshipman cf the Marlborough in Howe's
action of the glorious Ist of June; commander of the
Lyra on the north coast of Spain in 1812 and 1813 ;
in active co-operation with the patriots, particularly
at the defence of Castro, vaille. serving on shore at
the siege of St. Sebastian. Gazetted 1812, 1812,
1813, 1813. (Vide Allen's New Navy List.) His
commissions bore date—Lieutenant, October 1800 ;
Commander, August 1806 ; Captain, September 1810;
of October,
retired Rear-Admiral,lB46.
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It is now positively
Co.,
settled that the draughts of
Prime, Ward,
and
as
roengeayrdeat
remain to come
on failed houses in this country,
will all be protectfeodrw;
forward
dd it isnbeliei-ed that n
importance
a nount, or with respect to the protection of which there
will to any doubt.
Mrs. Frances Knight, of Downton Castle, Here-
ford, who died very recently possessed of funded and
other property—which, independent of freeholds, was
valued at 70,0001. has by her will left the plate which
had been presented to 'her late husband by different
learned societies, to be held by her daughter, Mrs.
Acton, for her life, and then to such son of Sir William
Boughton as may cosne into possession of the Wormes-
ley Grange estate, Hereford, which was her late hus-
band's. The silver cup given to him by the Haber-
dashers' Company she leaves to her grandson, Horace
Walpole, together with a pecuniary legacy ; also
pecuniary bequests to others of her family and friends ;
the remainder of her funded property to be divided
between her daughters, Mrs. Acton and Mrs. Walpole.
All other property constituting the residue is lett to
Mrs. Acton, who, with John Arkwright, Esq., are the
acting executors of her will.
The will of the late Earl of Longford, K.P., the
father of the present Earl, a Peer of Ireland, and Baron
of Sdchester of tho United. Kingdom, though proved in
Ireland soon after his Lordship's death, and there being
personal property. in England belonging to the late
Earl's effects amounting to 5,000/., his Lordship's will
was only proved in London, in the Prerogative Court of
the Archbishop of Caaterbury, on the 14th of Septem.
ber instant, by the acting executor, Henry Hamilton,
Esq., cf Fitzwilliam street, Dublin. The other executor
is the Hon. and, Venerable Archdeacon Pakenham, the
uncle and the guardian of the minor children. From
his .Lordship's Irish property he made ample provision
for his five younger sons, and an annuity of 3001. a year
for 'each of ,his.three daughters. His Countess was in
the receipt of 1,0001. a year, left by her late father from
the estate of her brother, the second Earl of Beauchamp.
Many bequests end annuities are secured to the family ;
the residue to the present Earl, requesting that the
several small pensions and allowances which had been
usually paid by his farm-steward at Pakenham Hall to
the widows of his labourers end to their children, under
the age of fifteen, or until able to earn their own Hi/oi..
hood, should be continued to them in the same manner
as he himself would have done if living.