The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE COAST OF AFRICA SQUADRON.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 13.—The Waterwitch, 8,
Commander T. Francis Birch, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning from the west coast of Africa sta-
tion, where she had been engaged in the suppression
of the slave trade, chiefly on the Kabenda station.
She is last from the island of Ascension, which she
left on the Ist ult., at which time the Tortoise store
and guard-ship, Captain Hutton, was the only man-
of-war at the island. The Commodore Sir Charles
Hotham, K.C.8., in the Penelope steam-frigate, was
at Kabenda, together with the Heroine, 6, Com-
mander Edmunds.
The Actaeon, 26, Captain Mansel, second in com-
mand, was at St. Paul de Loando at the above date,
and had just previously taken a fine prize, with about
300 slaves on board.
The Styx steam-sloop, Commander Chads, was off
Congo; all well.
The Flying Fish, 12, Commander Dyke, had gone
to St. Helena.
The Hound, 10, Commander Wood, was off Cape
Lopez ; all well.
The Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, was off
Mayumba Bay.
The Ferret, 8, Commander Spigg, was off Banda
Point.
The Ranger, 6, Commander Anderson, had relieved
the Flying Fish at Benguela.
The Grappler iron steam sloop, Lieutenant Corn-
mender Lysaught; the Bittern, 16, Commander
Hope ; the Kingfisher, 12, Commander Horton ; the
Devastation steam sloop, Commander R. C. Mitchell ;
the Albratoss, 14, Commander Farquhar ; and the
Snap sloop victualling tender, were in the Bights ;
the latter had been armed with one of the Water-
witch's guns, and papers by the Commodore, and
put upon the establishment of the slave cruizing
squadron.
The Philomel, 6, Commander W. C. Wood ; the
Favourite, 18, Commander Murray; the Rolla, 6,
Commander Ellicombe ; the Rapid, 10, Commander
Dixon, were at the Gallinas, or on the Sierra Leone
station.
The Britomart, 10, Commander W. C. Chamber-
lain, on her passage from England, had not arrived
upon the coast when the Waterwitch sailed.
The Dart brigantine, Lieutenant Commander E.
A. Glyn, had arrived at Ascension prior to the Water-
witch sailing thence, and had gone to report herself
to the Commodore.
The squadron generally was exceedingly healthy.
The cruizers had been very fortunate in captures in
the Bight. The Contest had taken two recently in
those waters. Ascension was particularly healthy;
water and turtle were plentiful. The Waterwitch
has been especially vigilant in the search and capture
of slavers, of whom she has taken twelve, and 1,060
slaves on board of them. Lieutenant Payne, late of
the Heroine, has come home by Admiralty order, and
Lieutenant Carmichael from the Devastation, inva-
lided. The Waterwitch has been very healthy all the
time she has been out, only having lost one man by
sickness on board. She has proved hersellf a fast
sailer and an excellent sea boat. Mr. White, of
Cowes, built her, and she was a member of the first
experimental brig squadron of 1844. She has gone
to Sheerness to be paid off.
The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Rigge, sails this day for Lisbon with dispatches and
supernumeraries for Sir Charles Napier, &c. Captain
Bruce goes out in her to join the Queen, and Com-
mander Little to join the Caledonia.
The Baretto Junior transport, Lieut. W. Thomas,
agent, returned from Cowes to Spithead last evening.
An accident having occurred on the Dover packet
station, by which the Garland steam-vessel, Mr. Luke
Smithett, Alaster Commanding, has been disabled,
having been run into, the Undine steam yacht,
Master Commanding George Allen, was ordered from
this port to supply her place pro tem., and sailed yes-
terday at noon accordingly.
The Sinbad lighter sailed yesterday with stores
for the eastern yards.
The Birkenhead steam transport, Commander A. 11.
Ingram, having at last, after seven weeks' labour,
been refitted for service, sailed to•day for Plymouth,
to be employed in the transport of troops.
The Helena, 16, and the Frolic, 16, have been re-
moved from the basin, and the Prince Regent and the
Retribution will be also removed as soon as the tides
will admit, in order that the experiment of docking
the Terrible may be tried.
His Highness Prince Callimaki will accompany
his Excellency Suleiman Pacha, Ottoman Ambassador
at Paris, in a visit to this dockyard and the Govern-
ment establishments at this port to-morrow. They
are expected here about half-past one, and will be
accompanied by the Ottoman Consul-General.
The following arc the appointments of the past
week :
Captain—G. F. Rich, to the Vanguard, vice Wil-
les, deceased.
Commanders--G. Kenyon, to the Cygnet ; Lord
A. Bcauclerk, to Stromboli.
Lieutenants—The llt.n. A. A. Cochrane, to the
Terrible ; C. R. Bamber, to the Victory F. Go-
(lenge, 11. F. Mills, W. Creek, R. Ward, T. Bridges,
anti A. Grose, to the Blenheim ; W. K. Jolliffe, to
the Cygnet ; Waiter J. Pollard, to the Penelope ;
Thomas Davies and Henry Harvey to the Strom-
boli ; J. R. Thompson, to study at the steam factory,
Woola ich ; Thomas Tribe, to the Coast Guard ;
William Bowden, to the Gladiator.
Mssters—S. S. Flinn, to the Blenheim ; T. B.
%yells' Acting, to the Cygnet; W. J. Wood, to the
Coast Guard.
Pursers—R. 11. Goddard, to the Blenheim ; S. J.
Spark, Acting, to the Rapid ; Edwin M. Stone, Act-
ing, to the Stromboli.
Chaplain—G. R. Lewin, to the Blenheim.
Surgeon—Hugh Jameson, to the Blenheim.
Second Masters—lV. P. Heins, to the Porcupine;
H. J. Josephson, to the Birkenhead ; W. Turton,
Acting, to the Maeander; C. J. Pulfer, Acting, to
the Prospero; E. Youell, to the Oberon.
Clerks—R. Curgenven, in charge, to the Comet;
11. F. Kirkham, A. Arlington, and C. J. Webb, to
the Blenheim ; N. Giles, to the San Josef.
Assistant Surgeons—W. C. Patrisk and J. C.
Ingles' to the Victory; J. C. Murray and 11. Loney,
to the Bittern ; H. D. Scott, to the Columbine ; 11.
Arnot, to the Scout; Arthur Adams, to the Fisgard;
J. Henderson to the Ocean ; J. Muirhead, to the Fly ;
E. Adams, to Plymouth Hospital ; R. C. Scott, to the
San Josef.
Midshipmen—W. D. Garland and John Bushell, to
the Fly; E. Smithett, to the Grampus; and E. Dali-
son, to the Stromboli.
Naval Cadets Alexander Macdonnell, to the
Acheron ; Philip Patrickson, to the Fly ; W. M.
Crawford, to the Terrible ; IV. Parry, to the Trafal-
gar ; Oldmixon, to the Queen ; Charles Hemsted,
to the Stromboli ; J. F. Lenon, to the Asia.
Masters' Assistants—G. H. Burney and Edward
Smythe, to the Blazer ; Charles M. Palmer, to the
Mzeander ; T. C. Jones, to the Birkenhead.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 12. Her Majesty's brigantine
Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. Robert
F. Boyle, arrived here yesterday from Pertsmouth,
and anchored in the Sound.
The merchant schooner Flora, of Exeter, Captain
soranges a fnotr. Pliimeroumtha
jeasntdy,Es xsteet:mr,-sloop
W. Pearce, which came in yesterday with wine and
Commander James M'Cleverty, and a French gun-
nery frigate, were lying in the Douro. Political
animosities at Oporto have ceased,
and business has
resumed its wonted course. There are about thirty
or forty English merchant vessels in the port.
Freights 40s. per ton for London. Wine trade brisk,
prices range high. Oranges 7s. to 7s. 61. per box.
The grain crop in the neighbourhood is indifferent.
The barque Lady Peel, of Falmouth, Captain
Johns, which left Quebec on the 14th of October, and
arrived yesterday, spoke the Lady Milton, of Liver-
pool, on the 16th of October, off Cape Cattie, bound
to Quebec, and on the 6th inst., passed the barque
Catnbria, of Gloucester, dismasted, waterlogged, and
abandoned.
Nov. 13.—Her Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, 3,
Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. R. F. Boyle, which
put in yesterday, last from Portsmouth, bound to the
coait of Africa with dispatches, has received so much
damage that she is obliged to go into harbour to make
good defects.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Tartarus arrived from
Portsmouth yesterday, on her way to Malta with
supernumeraries for the squadron under Vice-Admiral
Sir IV. Parker.
Her Majesty's ship San Josef, 110, Commander
Hall, is to be paid off, and will be re-commissioned
by Captain Sir Henry Leeke for the Flag of Admiral
Sir John West.

There are belonging to the various clubs 621
yachts, measuring 29,250 tons, and manned by 4,430
men besides 800 masters and stewards.
USELESSNESS OF HONG-KONG.-ISt. It can never
be a colony, by reason of its limited size (eight miles
long by two to four in breadth), rocky, barren structure;
incepthility of producing any of the necessaries of life
for the consumption of even one day. 2d. It cannot
ever be a commercial emporium, by reason of its bad
geographical position, distance from any populous or
productive territory ; by the poverty and piratical
character of its inhabitants; and the absence of all im-
port or export trade of any kind, after six years' occu-
pation, and an expenditure amounting to several millions
sterling.—Montgomery Martin's China.
Mr. Charles Grey, of the Treasury, one of the
secretaries to Lord John Russell, has gone for the benefit
of his health, with his family, to Malta, where he will
spend the winter.—Observer.
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