The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-14 00:00:00

PAYMENTS.

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33, just commissionedad t
aabkn by
Plumridge, to relieve the Fox, on the East India and
The Cambrian,passageC apjtir n.
General
ir awillHarry
touch
Smith a t
atnirde
aatz
in her. She was masted to-day.
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The Amphitrite, 26, Captain Eden, and the Trico-
malee, 26, Captain Warren, are progressing in their
equipment for sea, the former very rapidly, and the
popularity of the captain is drawing some very good
hands.
The Palinurus transport, Lieutenant Thomas agent,
sailed this afternoon for DepttOrd.
The Superb, 80, Captain Corry, was in the Tagus
on the 4th instant. A letter from her, of which date,
says, " We leave thif for Malta on tl.e lilt, with
the Admiral, in the Hibernia. Tht. CHnopus and
America remain here, and the other members of tl.e
late blockading squadron are distributed as per toy
last." _ _

The following letter was yesterday received from
the Admiralty, and was read to the battalion by their
respective commandants at parade evening

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" Portsmouth Dockyard, Aug. 11, 184 i.
" GENERAL MEMORANDUM.
" With reference to the inspect;onot the lloysi Dock-
yard Battabon by Prince Albert on the iih itiq.oit,'
have to acquaint you that the L •rd. Commissiot.ers of
fficers,
the Adminity have sign tied their approbation ol the
null • C9lll r.biont•Cl
appiarance of the battalion on the occa,,iort, and you are
directed to express to the i
otlicors, and men. their Lordships' saisfaction at the •
progress already made in their t xerci,es, lid at the ala-
crity and zeal with Which the views of the Government
and tile Board of Admiralty have been carrn d out
" Their Lordships are confident there will be no re-
laxation of those Ixertions that have athanc„l the bat-
talion of the Portsmouth and Clarenc, ards to their -
present state of forwardness, and they rey on a conti-
nuance of that ready z,tal (both tin the part of the officers
and men) in all that rel,:ues- towards proficiency which
has throughout marked the progress of these battalions,
a-id which has manifestly contributed, under the active
directions of the superior (officers of the battalion, to
render these corps so-. deserving the approbatiou they
met with from his Roj al Highness.
" HYDE P.tRKER, Rear Admiral,

" Master Sbilll4lgia."
WOOLWICH, AUG. 12 —The whole of the Dock-
yard battalion assembled yesterday in their unitorms,
for the first time, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Elson, and went through their various ex•
ercises in a highly creditable manner. Ali jor Jen-
kins, storekeeper, was deputed, at the conclusion, by
the officers who were all assembled, to present a re..
gulation mold to Lieutenant Chri-tie, the adjutant
of the battalion, as a mark of their re-pect and ap-
probation of the manner in which he initiated them
in the exerci-es and duties of their respective ranks.
Captain Schwabe, of the Russian navy, arrived at
the dockyard, Woolwich, this afternoon, to witness
the testing of one of Porter's anchors of 55 cwt.,
ordered to be supplies to the Russian frigate Pallas,
of 52 guns, of which ship the Grand Duke Colston-
tine is an officer. The testing toik place before Mr.
Jenkins, storekeeper, and Mr. Atherton, chiet engi-
neer, by special order from the Admiralty. The
usual strain of anchors of the same weight is 45f
cwt., and in this instance a stain of 49i- cwt. was
applied, when the deflection of the shank appeared to
he l inches. On the strain being within-awn the
shank returned inch. The snow is ordered ex-
pressly for service on board the Grand Duke Con-
stantine's own ship, and will be forwarded immedi-
ately by railway to its destination.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.— fhe Odin steam- frigate,
Capttin the Hon. F. T. Pelham, left Spithead last
night, with letters and dispatches for Rear-Admiral
Sir Charles Napier, whose siitt-tdron she has orders to
look for off Cape Finisterre until the 221 instant, at
the expiration of which time, sh uld she nor fall in
with him, she is to proceed off Cape Clear, Ireland,
and wait for him.

The Geyser steam-sloop, Commander F. T. Brown,
was undockei thi. morning, a.,(1 the Phceaix screw-
sloop, Commander Dennis, docked in her room, to
repair damages caused by leakage in the neighbour-
hood of the screw shaft.

The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Radc:ifie, will
take the sth Regiment to the Mauritius after refitting.
In Harbour—The Victory (flag), Excellent, Cam-
brian, Trincomalee, and Amphitrite, the three latter
fitting for sea ; the Apollo, Lightning, M) rtle, and
Echo.

In Dock—The Prince Regent, Phoenix, Leander,
Sappho, Ore.t s, Rifl.rnan, and Rocket.
In the Basin-11e Fury, fitti Jg for sea, Retribu-
bution, and th-ys r st-arners,
At SpitLead—No man-or-war.

CAUTION TO r,mEN.—Under the be4.(l:ng of
01. 13th o':August, the Cum ricge Aderriser p-s-
-terday stv)s—" We wish aim st t"ut. our-ivi=s, and
perhqs a single companion o; ,ympathaie wfee
trans!orintql into a br.,.ee of grouse for twiluy four
hours." We do not know wh,tt vffeet the pre3enee of
our contemporary might ha‘e up .11 the fe an, red tribes
on the molls, but we do think if his mish he grant, d, le
should no: bo carry 1.17.. y of his own thundrr
with Lim, and thui.!,p4 sport.

FATAL FALL FROM TUL HOOT OF A HOUSE.—Mr.
P4yne held an nicp... st yesterday. at St. Bann.,loinew's
Hospital, on the body ui C- arks t ()unities, aged tvtenty-
ion
at the
s
cs:fil
egtatodeo
(Jett
Ch.h,rerri po;
through
ib,stht
ue:rimt:lmhdeei.
nmOrg:;),:ienr,ntreiu,e,
ell top
htlylhi eseo;.
:ees.
wad hen
eets tei
waihat
tr
com-
pletelyll of
xse
side
smashed by the fall, and he died half an hour
after his admission to the above Venda—
" Aceidentnl

SALE ENTRAORDINARY.—The Prest, n Guardian
of Saturday last announeuti for Rule a atiyor and a
foal." Any town wanting a chief magistrate will, there-
fore, have the orportnialy of purct.a‘ing one, with a
profaning colt, which in time may .erne for an alderman.
—l',e.•ton Chronicle.

RUSSIAN GRAIN.—The latest arrivals have in Auded
a vessel from Archangel, with a cargo consisting of 1.450
quarters of barley. We do not think that, of the laW
extensive arrivals of grain from Russia, there has, pre-
viously to the one under notice, beet], a single supply from
this particular part. Annther vessel arrive donl he same
day from Archangel with 1,200 quarters of wheat, the
produce of Rus.iu.
EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL OF STRENGTH.—On last
Tuesday seme of the tn. n employed at the Ntuditture
part of the Portudown and Armagh line of railway took
a wager for upwards of 201., to be giv,n to whichever
party would carry the greater weight et* stow, in a
handriarrow a distance of twenty yards. The competi-
tors were John M'Veigh, a yinith about fourteen years
of age, six fee t high, and fully fourteen stone wetcht,
with a man named Patrick Quinn, alias Political I'at,
who has seen some fity summers, against James Dm.
nelly and John WC.oiley. The weight fixed, 18 1.3 d
cwt. of limestone. Precis,-le at two o'clock both parties
started, and did cell for a distaste of two yards, when
the latter party fell to the gritted fainting the ugh ex-
haustion; but the others, as if nerved to greats exertion
by their opponents' defeat, puraled their may amid
deafening cheers until they got two yards beyond the
testing-place, and were accordit.gly awarded the prize.
—Armagh Guardian.
ACCIDENTS AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE MERSET.
Yesterday morning an accident of a very serious, and,
we regret to add, of a fatal eharac:er, occurred,conocktn_
river. It took place ahrut aqu trier ps.t eightt"ii; tme
v-rtfi :," Li ~,e a Prus-
so suddenly that few who were ore the qr.ieuiligito, he.
witnessed it, or are able to give at'Y
count of how it exactly hap'ened. Ad
the Erleuard. was
sian barque of medera.e size,
what is called " dcrtging" up
Irht'o doek ised discharge
sails, waiting for sufficient
w4ite:thers of corn, with whieta
"mr'ver under h r top.
,he cargo, seine say of timber,
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~z,c. %Viten she got
she struck tin- a
she was
eh-east or the Bay' -'''' . ars b,-er I oy •
bank, which hts for yr r tn iv, to form
"spit" or heavily latn, tkreit."k api,.r
there at this sea,
•on. and eider' runs out a consider-tble
the direction t I
distance in the river in iti tock Ferry.
_keel She immediately cap?itsed. Ijer was vis llr from
the shore, and it is supposed th tt her yard-, which
struck iiet downwards, prevented her 'rota rolling corm.
pletely over. Three of the hands, consislino. ofthe
r til '''
mate. carpenter, and a seaman, the late,
whom veil-
lying sick in the forecastle,. wi re i t 1 i
tIS. mi.), drowned; and
the wonder seems to be how evtr"strut
r,n heard did trot
perish with them. Fortunately. however, the lest of the
crew contrived to lay holil of
ho
hold themselves tip until theysome of the ropes, and to
the side of the hull that, was
wet e able to clamber on
th at was trot of the water, where
ey remained until a coupe if
tieir assistance, and tout
thei tughole steamers put off to
number, on board. The El d" athew'
ten
in.
ouar remained on the bank
U•rtil the tide rose, and then.
m lea no the river o a bank
off Jericho, wilt re
captat
•n is - he was drifted.s shout foot
called the Snuff Mil Bank,
she at present lies. The name attar
Kranse. There was a pilot on board at the
time of the accident, and the only excuse we have heard
offered for him is, that no was ignorant of the existence
of the tio.,ly -..
termed bank off the Brurseirk Pier. or
he never would have taken the vessel near it, and into
such shoal water. Two other accidents occurred on the
river, which were fortunately unattended with any loss
of life. One vessel broke her back in front cf the Co-
-burg Dock; and the Fingal, from Quebec, while attempt-
ing to dock, took the ground, and when she came off on
the flood she was making much water.—Liverpool Con.
rier of Wednesday.
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