The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-11 00:00:00

LONDQN, SATURDAY

terfjool, soda water manufacturers—J. Dey and J. B.
Kirk Leeds, cloth dyers—J. Quilter and J. Taylor,
Gra, r's Inn-square, solicitors —J. Ayling and C.
Scov vll, Southampton, shell-fish merchants and smack
ownss—Elizabeth Pipes and W. Bowman, Beverley,
I(ol.la:hire, chemists and druggists—W. S. Johnson and
VI. M 'Neill, Stewart's-buildings, Battersea, naptha and
vamp ,ine manufacturers—H. E. Scott, Regent's-square,
Middy 'sex, civil engineer, and J. S. Burke, Gwern
Llwyni 'with, Glamorganshire, engineer —T. Flaming
and J. Everitt, Halifax, button and card manufacturers
—J. rddwards and J. E. Bennett, Belvedere-road,
Lambea th, hay and straw salesmen—R. Wilcock and J.
Smith, Preston, Lancashire, joiners and builders—T.
Listet, jun., and W. Lister, Addingham, Yorkshire,
tallow .chandlers, raalsters, grocers, and druggists—E.
Leckie., D. Luckie, D. F. Luckie, and G. J. Luckie,
Fenchu rch-street and Demerara, merchants and ship-
owners. (so far as regards E. Luckie).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

William, Ord, Warwick-street, Pimlico, doctor of me-
dicine.
Evan 'Jenkins, Vine-court, Lamb-street, Spitalfields,
milkman.
'cute Durrant, Gorleston, Suffolk, iutcher.
Frar eis Newman. Ostler, Newport Pagnell, plumber.
WPAliam Fisher Crouch, Iwerne Courtney, Dorsetshire,
ig dealer.
John Lawrence, Leigh-street, Burton-crescent, cheese-

monger.
Thomas Drew, jun., Landport, Southampton, butcher.
James Robinson, Maidstone, boot and shoemaker.

Joseph Magenis, Henry•street, Kennington-lane, Lam-
beth, baker.
Richard Thomas Waller, Goodman's-stile, Church-lane,
Whitechapel, brass manufacturer.
Charles Williams, Charlotte-street, Somers Town, clerk
in the Customs.
Elizabeth Needham, Little Smith-street, Westminster,
general shepkeeper.
Richard Downes, Duke-street, Westminster-road, bed-

stead maker.
Robert Peacock de la Noy, Kingston-upon-Hull, licensed

victualler,
James Benham, Bradford, dyer.
James Stokeli. Sowhill, Yorkshire, butcher.

Joseph Kilburn, Batley Carr, Yorkshire, weaver.
Abraham Gambles, Bramley, Yorkshire, clothier.
Richard Wood, Whitby, Yorkshire, porter.
John Wood, Woodhouse, Yorkshire, plumber.
William Fox, Bishop-bridge, Lincolnshire, warehouse-

man.
James Button, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, shopkeeper.
William Ferrer, Pontefract, Yorkshire, innkeeper.
Jonas Haywood, Crossland-moor, Yorkshire, woolsorter.
Issac Schofield, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, cloth manufac.

turer.
Thomas Greenwood, Sutton, Yorkshire, blacksmith.

Aaron Buckler, liolsworthy, Devonshire, watch and
clock maker.
Hyam Cohen, Exeter, clothier.

Thomas Turk, Pillgwently, Monmouthshire, general
outfitter.
Christopher Addison, Tamworth, Staffordshire, news

agent.
John Edward Henry Groves, Stratford-upon-Avon,

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attorney.
Charles Shorrocks, Manchester, warehouseman.

John Hughes, Frowhanlog, Carnarvonshire, miller.
Henry Holmes Perry, Everton, Lancashire, attorney's
clerk.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A.- Beith, Glasgow, manufacturer, to meet Sept. 15
and Oct. 6, at twelve, within the writing-chambers of
Forbes and Reddie, writers, Glasgow.
J. Rankin, Glasgow, baker, to meet Sept. 15 and Oct.
6, at one, within the writing-chambers of Messrs. Scott
and Stevenson, writers, Glasgow.
J. Patterson, Kirriemuir, manufacturers, to meet Sept.
15 and Oct. 6, at twelve, within Robb's Commercial Inn,
Kirriemuir.

D. Gardner, Laurieston, Glasgow, baker, to meet
Sept. 17 and Oct. 11, at one, within the office of T.
MsEwan, Esq., writer, Glasgow.
M. Taylor, Edinburgh, commission agent and banker,
to meet Sept. 15 and Oct. 6, at three, within the chambers
of Messrs. Cairns and H. Moffat, solicitors, Edinburgh.
M. Peterson, Glasgow, merchant, to meet Sept. 17 and
Oct. 15, at two, within the writing-chambers of Messrs.
A. and J. Morrison, writers, Glasgow.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week
_ending September 7,
1847, is 255. 10d. per cwt.)

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SQUADRON.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 10.—The following letter
from a highly intelligent practical seaman in the fleet
under the command of Sir Charles Napier is interest-
ing as a sound opinion upon the merits of the re-
spective ships and vessels :
" Her Majesty's ship —, Lisbon, Aug. 28.
" • • * On the 18th we received orders from the
Dragon (which vessel had been cruizing off Cape
Finisterre two days in a fog without finding us) to
proceed to Lisbon, and the same day we bore up for
this place, where we arrived on the 21st. The wind
was light when off the port, the steamers were conse-
quently employed towing the ships into the Tagus,
which they did very well. The Avenger (650-horse
power), towed the St. Vincent; the Odin (560-horse
power), the Caledonia, and the Vixen (280-horse
power), the Howe, at the rate of seven knots, quite
calm ; the Vengeance sailed in. The squadron left
Plymouth on the Ist and cruized off the Eddystone,
where the Caledonia and Vixen joined, and on the
.sth bore up for Cape Finisterre, with a fresh gale
from north-west ; very little difference with sailing
of the ships the whole of the passage to Cape Finis-
terre; generally the Vengeance was first, the Queen
second. Every day some sail was shifted by the
squadron per signal, the St. Vincent occasionally was
first, Queen generally, Vengeance next ; Caledonia
also very smart.
" The ships all started from Spithead full up with
water, four months and a half's provisions ; the
Queen and St. Vincent carrying 100 tons more water
than the Howe or Caledonia. The Howe is certainly
the crankest ship in the squadron ; the Vengeance is
also cranker than might have been expected ; that is,
on trials. The St. Vincent and Caledonia are as stiff
as the Vengeance. The Queen has a decided superi-
ority in being stiff.
" We had one good trial of sailing on a wind on the
14th of August, single-reefed topsails, topgallant sails
courses, and jib, when after four hours trial the Ven-
geance beat the Queen about 400 yards ; the Howe,
St. Vincent, and Caledonia, were so equal that it was
doubtful which was the best.

" Touching the steamers—the Amphion (screw) is
a dead failure as a steam man of war, but an admir-
able sailing craft, which she proved by going round
the fleet on joining in gallant style, a feat not easy to
accomplish in these days, when so much is sacrificed
to obtain speed in building ships. Her machinery is
all to pieces, and she has gone home to get it put in
order, but it will never do, as you will see. The Odin
appears a fine vessel, and is very stiff, but her immer-
sion (this is the grand bungle in nearly all our
steamers) being more than was anticipated her
main deck guns are very low. The Dragon appears
to have some difficulty with her machinery (the old
complaint), as she cannot get her engines to start the
vessel for a quarter of an hour occasionally when re-
quired to move on' ; she, however, seems very fast
when she does go. The Vixen appears to answer
well ; her funnel reefs, and when her sails are set
does very well, and consequently keeps her station
with the fleet. The Stromboli also answers pretty
well, but the weather was so foggy all the time off
Cape Finisterre that very little could be done in the
way of trial railings.
" A great deal of attention has been paid to the
gunnery this cruise. Sir Charles Napier is indefa-
tigable in getting the ships into gunnery order. A
day of firing with shot took place the day prior to
our arrival here, when the firing was admirably true.
Evolutions have been more attended to than in former
years. The squadron has since its arrival here been
augmented by the Amazon, 20, and Sidon steam-
frigate, and the Thetis, 36, is hourly expected from
Madeira. Sir W. Parker only left behind him the
Canopus, 84, America, 50, (damaged by getting
ashore), and Jackal iron steamer. All the other
ships he took with him to Malta."
Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright of this estab-
lishment, is ordered to build a first class paddle-wheel
steam sloop, and a 12-gun brig, on his own designs—
the former to be named the Argus, and the latter the
Plumper. The following will be their respective
dimensions::—

- 'Argos. Plumper.
Ft. Ft. n.
Length between the perpendiculars l9O oln. .. 140 I 0
Length of the keel for tonnage 168 4
... 124 104
Breadth extreme 33 6 ••• 27 4
Breadth for tonnage.
Breadth moulded
Depth in hold 32 4 ... 26 6
............... ...
Burdens in tens 1 ArgUS
Plumper .
The Plumper is being proceeded with, and will be
a noble brig ; the timbers for the steamer are in
course of preparation.
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The Ar-gu; will have engines of 300-horse power,
and the Plumper an auxiliary power of 60-horses.
Both will be built in this dockyard.
Artizans are busily at work taking to pieces that
nearly completed 90-gun ship, Princes Royal, on the
slip in this dockyard, as she is ordered to be recon-
structed upon the designs of the Committee of Refe-
rence on Naval Architecture. When this ship is
built up again, she will be two feet narrower, and
made fuller below.

Commander J. 11PDougall is appointed to the Asia,
84, equipping at Sheerness, for the Pacific, to carry
the flag of Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., who
has selected Paymaster and Purser Arthur Jones
(1844) to be his secretary.
The Amphitrite, 25, Captain T. Rodney Eden, was
inspected and her crew mustered by Admiral Sir
Charles Ogle, Bart., this morning. The order to pay
her men two months' advance wages arrived to-day.
She will be paid to-morrow, and it is understood she
will sail hence on Sunday.
The Drake lighter arrived from Jersey to-day.
In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Amphion, Trin-
comalee, Cambrian, Belvidera, and Seaflower. Fury,
Lightning, Comet, Myrtle, Swallow, and Echo
Steamers.
At Spithead—Amphitrite.