The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Commandcr.—Graham Ogle, to St. Vincent.
Lieutenants.—F. D. Young to St. Vincent; C. G.
Mc Gregor, to Raleigh.
Master.—Thomas Edwards (additional), to Caledonia,
for service of Plymouth Hospital.
Acting mite.--W. H. J. Brown, to St. Vincent.
Acting Second Master.—Henry J. Josephson, to the
St. Vincent; Joseph Walker, to ditto.
Clerk.—Stewart Watson, to St. Vincent.
Chaplain —Rev. C. L. Bree, to Vanguard.
Acting Assistant Surgeon.—Frederick Manger, to the
Victory.

Assistant Surgeons.—Robert Wallace, M.D., to Ven-
geance; C. 11. Morrison, to Constance; T. B. Purchas,
(acting), to Caledonia, for service of Plymouth Hospital.
Midshipmen.--John H. Ormond, to St. Vincent; W.
Gore Jones, to Excellent; E. F. Loder, to Sidonn; John
James Onslow, to St. Vincent; Webb B. Stone, to Ex-
cellent; John Haward, to ditto.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The hopes hitherto entertained of
saving the hull of the Sphynx have been abandoned. Last
night the Scourge, Commander Caffin, Rattler, Commander
Moorman, and the Echo steam-tug, the latter with the
mooring lump in tow, returned from Freshwater Bay with
the news that the grand effort to move her yesterday at high
water had failed, a tremendous roller having burst in, carried
away purchases, warps, and tow-ropes, and thrown the ve.ssel
her full length farther in towards the cliff, slewing her round
so as to bring her head rather towards the sea, and giving
her a careen to the shore. This morning the Dragon, Cap-
tain Ramsay, and Porcupine, Lieutetunt l‘Porman, returned.
All the working parties, including millwrights, shipwrights,
riggels, seamen, and marines have been left behind 011 shore_
to endeavour to save the engines and stores. Thfe is possible,
if the weather remains moderate; but we suggest that hand-
some extra pay should be given to the persons employed, as
it is a service of great risk.
The Dragon, Captain Ramsay, and the Scourge, Com-
mander J. C. Caffin, sailed this afternoon for the westward—

it is supposed for Biistol and Cork. mouth, arrived
Rochester lighter, with stores from Ply
rh
to-day.
The
Crocodile, Lieutenant Protheros, was towed to Spit
head to-day.
In Harbour.—St. Vincent, Victory, and Excellent; Sidon.
Porcupine, and Echo steamers.
and Crocodile.
At Spithead.—Rattler, Itlutine,
In the Basin.—Edinburgb, Myrtle, and Kestrel.
In Dock.—Prince Regent, Victoria, and Albert, Ajax,
Leander, Champion, Serpent, and Dauntless.
The Dockyard hands returned this afternoon in the Pearl,
Cowes packet, leaving their officers behind to wait favour-
able events.
CHATHAM, JAN. 20.—The Semarang, 26, Captain Sir F.
Belcher, was paid off on the 18th inst., and was taken into
also
dock on the following day, to ascertain if she had sustained
coppered. -4)
any-particular damage in the heavy gale she encountered
near the chops of the Channel the day before Christmas -day,
It is discovered that her gripe had been knocked awa -
part cf her fa se keel and main keel on the starboard side,y
little abaft the midships, and part of the false keel a
stern. The copper is much worn and torn off in places, at the
to have been paid
that she will requi-e the bottom to be re.
re to
vesel, bring-
The Warspite, 50 guns, fitted for commis ion, was put out
of dock on the Ith inst., and taken to Wllingham-reach, to
be laid up
The Daphne, 20, Captain Onslow, was
bTdultnotilryvinigt`Ttot htehpe rle:,ei
lndtfi.
off yesterdainn°
ing up the intelligence that a court-martial is to
Portsmouth on the captain, Captain Onslow, th be held at
of several of the officers and crew is required, e attendance
Chatham on Thursday morning for the above and they left
-named place.

°VD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, VA'
1;3:4_ • 23•—Wind S.E., light breeze, and dul
hazy weather. ,
m._
DEA f. . JAN. 42' L'l.,r. a 1 , IVind
Demerara;N . W N.W.
Itiroi nzer E.S.E.N elw'.3lß"edcfaoTrndl .
RiVer, Lady Katharine Barham, Freeman,
agrel, Demerar_a ; Marianne, Jamaica;
—ArArirvr.edd. from the
s,
spr
Haward, Reulson, New
Robin-
sin, New Orleans.
ytn. and Elizabeth, Mott, Philadelphia;
JAN.Be'l‘videre, Cork, Charleston for
Rajah Cobb, New o
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Yanforl3llEAacalu.. rigilELA)l9pthorter, New York, for ditto.
Antwer • Shakespeare,
FAimpo'unr, JAN. 22.—Wind
_S. to S.S.W.—Off port 20th,
Sarah Maria, New Orleans, for London. Arrived Fyn,
2,.„_.. .....S.W.—Arrd 13 t
9 111 n. d ':
. arre o,
Krense, Matanzas.
Jun., , PORTSn . I' ul'grng ui
IT, 1 ' Rio
l Janeiro.vr. 20.
.....
s.and Americanjame
s Engle,B ai
INewßailey,
OFF THE LIZARD,
JAN. 19.—Wind S.S.E.—Sophia (cf
delphia.
22.—Wind S. to S. S.E., moderate.—Arrd.
1S
BrLOerini:eE.n2iP,.oßENoi.:Le,Ar:GtcNaE.;2b2.i....a.
Ann Baldwin, Farley, Lima Cosmopolitan, Ambriz, sailed
Pearßce:hia\V;lP'ithilorin'eal7,nl43e;ll,
92d Oct. ; Matthew
Smith, New York.
Harry orrequer, Jeffares, New
Sid. Argentina. Trotter, Rio Janeiro ;
D Trinidadal at
ia;
11%3Iearri di
na,r eStak
r Skelly,,eTwoop
rplienagn, s ;
Orleans; Glasgow, Manson, Mobile; Ashburton, Howland.
New York. Off port, Isabella, Stewart, Crowe; Naw Or-
leans, General Parkhill, 11PKown, Charleston ; Lochinvar,
Westcott, Charleston ; John Ravenall, Wimbersie, Baltimore ;
Republic, Philadelphia ; Rappahannock, New York ;
Prince Edward's Island, . Alexina,
IMERICK, JAN. 21.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. Maria, New
Yor k.
WATERFORD, JAN. 21.—Wind S. to S. W.—Arrd. Speed
Santander. Sld. Laurence Farrestal,_ Took, New York. '
CLYDE, JAN. 20.—Wind E. N. L.--Arrd. Actmon, Derby,
New Orleans! Cheshere, Hutobinson, New York. Sld.
(,'llo-ali,r. Tri,,idrio.Callpo ; Now York, Vermont, New York
OFF PENZANCE, JAN. 21.-- W illa S.W.—Fame, Dixoa,
Veueiier, Martillt Bahia, for ditto;
Hewluras, for London;
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HER MAJEST Y'B STEAMER
SPHYNX.
(FROM A CORRF.SPONDF.NT.)
lIIOTTISTON, ISLE OF WIGHT, FRIDAY, 7 A.M.—As we anti-
cipated on Wednesday, the weather came on thick, and the
wind southward, and though it was almost a calm, with a
smooth sea off, the heavy groundswell returned, and all hands
were landed from the Sphynx for the night. Had the fine
weather continued, she would have been off, as, with the as-
sistance of the two steamers, we had moved her some feet out
of her berth; but at high water this day she parted her
three cables, swung round as if on a pivot amidships, and
now lies with her stem off and her stern on the shore, much
nearer in. As the tides are falling off, there is no chance till
next spring, if she should hold together so long; all depends
on the weather—one south-wester, and it is all over. Nearly
all the shipwrights, &c., from Portsmouth Dockyard are
leaving for Cowes—only 16 remaining out of 80. If possible,
her copper is to be stripped off to .day. Everything move-
able was thrown overboard on Wednesday, and some fear she
may swing round on the guns or other things, and injure her
bottom.
THREE O'CLOCK.—Another of the bodies have been found.
The wind is from the S.S.W., and a heavy swell, but the ship
lies well up on the beach. The captain's lady is better to-
day, as is the master. The ship is ashore at. Little Mottis-
ton. Mr. Watts, the Government Superintendent, leaves
to-morrow.

NEGLIGENCE OF STEAM-SHIP

COMPANIES. --
The wreck of a steamer in the offing of Cork harbour adds
another to the long list of disasters in which the dangers
arising from uncontrollable accidents at sea are frightfully
increased by the culpable negligence of the companies
whose duty it is to provide against them. The Sirius.
Captain Moffett, struck on a reef of rocks, and on being
backed off was found to have sustained such extensive
damages as to render her sinking a dead certainty. By
what infatuation sea captains, in nine cases out of ten,
are induced to accelerate the fate of their vessels, after
a hole is knocked through them, by backing into
deep water, we never could comprehend : but that
is not the main point to which we now desire to direct
attention. When, however, the ship was found to be
filling,she was again run ashore ; and the one thing needful in
the emergency was boats, for passengers and crew numbering
ninety I The life boat was lowered--blunderingly, on the
wrong side ; but no sooner was it launched, than it was
found unable to accommodate, with safety, more than eight
persons. Twenty crowded into it in the thoughtless despera-
tion of the moment ; before the steamer was well cleared it was
swamped, ts a matter of course; and every soul but one was
drowned. Those who remained on board the steamer
reached the shore through the exertions of the coast-guard.
The steam company who sent out to sea ninety passengers
in a ship having a life-boat that could carry only eight per-
sons, have been guity of a mad recklessness of human life,
differing but little from premeditated manslaughter. Had
the accident occurred at a more remote distance from the
harbour, in all probability not one of the seventy who escaped
a watery grave would have lived to relate the disaster. There
is surely some call for interference on the part of the Govern-
ment. *Steam Companies should be compelled to provide
boats sufficiently commodious for their full complement of
passengers and crew in case of wreck.—C2rlisle Journal.

STEAMERS' BOATS.
• The wreck of the Sirius, Irish steam-packet, between
Dublin and Cork, presents another lamentable example of
the consequence of not compelling the owners of packets to
provide their vessels with boats of a size and build to ill's in
a heavy sea, and stow safely a large number of persons.-
As usual, the best boat of the Sirius was launched only to
be swamped, and fifteen or twenty lives were lost. As the
boat was over-crowded by fifteen or twenty passengers, we
infer what the size must have been, and how unfit for the
exigency. One of Captain G. Smith's paddle • boa boats
would have received forty or fifty people without danger.
The boats which packets ordinarily earry are worse than
useless. It would be far better for the safety of passengers
that they had none. In this instance of the Sirius the lives lost
were lost through the boat. Had there been no bad boat to
trust to, all would have been saved. Packets should either
be provided with good boats, such as the paddle-box boat
with flat floor and wide beam, and ample stowage, or they
should have none, to serve only as a false reliance and a
snare. A thimble for a reservoir of water would be as good
a safeguard against fire, as a commo❑ ship's boat is in a
thronged packet against the dangers of shipwreck.—
Erg/liner.

V- LECT
to
IO N.
promptly replied the
vitation of the Westmin
3ter Reform Society that he would
come forward as a
e ntcandidate for that city on the next disso-
lution'tion. Mr. Lushington's answer to the
ChEarSlesTLillhiinNgtSonThEas
R E
society is as follows :
of Parliament, when Mr. Leader retires from that
honourable post
a 1, Palace-gardens, Westminster, Jan. 21, 1847.
sir, —.4 beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of yesterday's date. conveying to me the resolution
passed at the last meeting of the 'Westminster Reform
Society, that I be adopted by the society as the candidate
to represent the city of Westminster in Parliament as suc-
cessor to J. T. Leader, Esq., M.P., at the next election.
Be pleased to submit to the society the expression of my
deep sense of the honour thus conferred on me, with an inti-
mation that I shall be prepared to act in conformity thereto
when the proper occasion shall arrive.
I am, Sir, your faithful and obedient servant,
"To George Huggett, Esq., Secretary to the
Westminster Reform Society." •
The independence and thorough Liberal principles of Mr.
Lushington will most probably ultimately obtain for him the
united and zealous support of the constituency. Asa tried
public man he requires no compliments and no warranty
beyond his own name.

ALTERATIONS IN THE POST-
OFFICE.
CARLISLE.—The following notice of important altera-
tions in the arrival and departure of mails on and after
the Ist of February next, bi s just been issued by the
Postmaster of this city :

ARRIVALS.

Whitehaven at 10 15 a.m.
London (First Mail) .
Newcastle
Wigton
2 30 p.m.
Glasgow (First Mail)
Edinburgh .
Dumfries and Portpatrick
Longtown
London (Second Mail) lO 15 p.m.
Glasgow (Second Mail, with Edinburgh
Baga)
DISPATCHES.

Box Closes for
Paid Letters

Mails
Dispatched

London (First Mail)
Edinburgh
Glasgow (First Mail)
Dumfries and Portpatrick
Wigton
Newcastle
Whitehaven
London (Second Mail) ...
Glasgow, (Second Mail,
with Edinburgh Bags)...
Longtown

10 0 p.m.
10 24 a.m.
10 24 a.m.
10 24 a.m.
10 24 a.m.
11 10 a.m.
2 43 p.m.
2 43 p.m.

12 40 a.m.
11 5 a.m.
11 5 a.m.
11 5 a.m.
11 10 a.m.
11 35 a.m.
3 30 p.m.
3 23 p.m.

10 0 p.m.
10 0 p.m.

10 35 p.m.
10 45 p.m.

The Newcastle Mail will be dispatched at 8 50 a.m.,
and arrive at 8 25 p.m. on Sundays.
The messengers to Wetheral, Kirklinton,Port-Carlisle,
and Low Hesket, will arrive at 10 a.m., and be dis-
patched at 11 20 a.m.
Tht Dalston Messenger will arrive at 9 p.m., and be
dispatched at H 20 a.m.
The Thursby and Kirkbanipton Messenger will arrive
at 2 30 p.m., and be dispatched at 11 10 a.m.
Money orders will be granted and paid from 9 a m. to
6 p.m.—except during the intervals of dispatching the
Mails.
Letters to be registered must be brought to the Office
half an hour before the closing of the box.—Carlisle
Journal

DARING ROBBERT.—On Friday information was
received at all the metropolitan police-stations of the follow-
:as, daring and extensive robbery, committed early on the
morning of Wednesday last, from a bedroom in the Royai
Oak Inn, Croydon, the property of Mrs. Henning, the land-
lady ;-501 in Bank of England notes ; 45/. in gold, includ-
ing an old guinea; 51. in silver, two fourpenny picas, with
holes in each; twelve silver teaspoons, four marked" M. H.,"
one " J. C." and the others not marked, and a double cased
silver watch. The robbery was committed by two strangers,
who slept in an adjoining room; one from twenty to thirty
years of age, tall, black whiskers, thin face, dressed in a dark
brown great coat, light coloured wrapper, with dark spots,
round his neck, and black hat with crape round it; the other
about twenty -tire years of age, not so tall as the former, fair
complexion, and dressed in a drab coat, and bad the appear-
ance of a horse-dealer or cabman.
FIRE AT QUEEN HITHE.— On F iiday night, between
8 and 9 o'clock, a fire broke out in the range of wemists
belonging to Mr. Holskamp, late Adlard, wholesale stationer,
1, Queenhithe. The accident originated in a cellar under the
main warehouse, and fortunately the flames were confined to
that place, the firemen having set to just as they were as-
cending the staircase.

The deputation on the malt tax to Lord John Russell, on
Friday,- was composed of the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of
March, M.P., Mr. W. Miles, M.P., Mr. A. S. O'Brien, M.P.,
Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. Wodehouse, M.P., Messrs. W.
Bennett and J.Pain, from Beds; Messrs. R. Baker and W.
Fisher Hobbs, from Essex ; Messrs. Ball and Jonas, from
Cambridgeshire • Mr. J. Moseley, from Suffolk ; Mr. G.
Shacks!, from Berks ; Mr. J. Ellman, from Sussex; Mr. T.
Weall, from Surrey; Mr. Brown, from Wilts; Mr. G. Hilditch,
from Salop ; and Mr. J. Warsop, from Huntingdonshire.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a com-
mittee meeting on Saturday.
Mr. Wickham' ,Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an
interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, on Satur-
day, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yester-
day, In the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr.
Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. At the daily
service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore, and
the lessons by the Rev. J. V. Powell. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The anthem was, "Lord
let me know my end," (Greene). Mr. Turle presided at the
organ. Lords Salisbury, Spencer, Fortescue, Ebrington, In-
gestrie, and Canterbury, were among the nobility present.

THE CONTEST- BETVirEEN THE
COURTS OF ALDERMEN AND COMMON
COUNCIL.
Saturday, the committee of the whole court appointed
at the last Court of Aldermen, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the grand matter in dispute between
the two courts assembled in the Guildhall; the Right
Honourable the Lord Mayor in the chair.
Deputy PEACOCK rose the moment the Lord Mayor
took the chair, and congratulated his Lordship upon the
excellent temper and judgment exhibited by him in
meeting the Common Council in so friendly a disposi-
tion. Every one, he stated, must have been delighted
with the unanimity which existed on the subject of the
appointment of the committee, for that unanimity com-
prehended the belief in the necessity of the reform which
must take place in the Court of Aldermen. He and
several other members with whom he was in communi-
cation, entertained the firm conviction that there were
three pints which must be carried before it could be said
that the court was reformed. The Aldermen must allow
the Common Councilmen to make such references as the
latter should consider to be expedient for their own govern-
ment. The Aldermen must not meddle with the city
cash, except jointly with the Common Council: an i the
Aldermen must be subject to periodical election. These
three great principles must be carried during the present
mayorality.—(Hear, hear )
After some discussion as to the propriety of opening
the doors to the public during the deliberations of the
committee, which terminated in permission for strangers
to be present. Mr. John Wood continued the protest
which he had made`in 'the court against the removal of
the notice from the paper of business of the third read-
ing of the Qualification Bill.
Mr. I'. H. HALL suggested the propriety of at once
proceeding to the consideration of amending the minutes
of the court at which the Lord Mayor refused to put the
question. It was evident that a serious misrepresenta-
tion had been made in entering these minutes; he ad-
mitted that the error had not originated in the intention
of the officer who had made it, but until the corrections
were effected no good could be accomplished. He sub-
mitted a motion recommending to the Court of Common
Council to amend the minutes read at the last court.
Several members objected to the course just proposed,
and were strongly in favour of referring the whole
matter connected with the subject to a sub-committee.
It was, they said the opinion of some that the minutes
were literally, though not in spirit, correct; and of
others that there were several inaccuracies in the record.
However, there appeared to be no difference at all on
the great question as to the right of the Lord Mayor to
refuse to put the question of the third reading of the
Qualification Bill. The whole subject, they thought,
could be much more profitably discussed by the sub-
committee. As unanimity was considered to be indis-
pensable in the case, the members, after some observa-
tions, agreed to the proposition that a sub-committee be
appointed to consider the reference from the Common
Council of the 21st of January, 1847, with full power
to proceed therein, and to report thereon from time to
time to the committee. The sub-committee, consisting
of a proportionate number of aldermen and common
councilmen, was then appointed, and the committee ad-
journed.
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