The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PonTSMAITII, WEDNESDAY.—The Trident steam-
loop, Lieutenant-Commander Rigge, arrived at Cow..s
last night laic, and came up to Spithead this morning
From the Mediterranetin. She brought the latest news
from Lisbon and Oporto. This vessel lett Chatham
only last August, to be employtil by Lieutenant Wag-
Porn in the trial of the Trieste against the Marseilles
route fur carrying the Indian mails. She made but one
attempt to reach Trieste, and failed, having knocked up
at Corfu. She has never answered, aliin,u..th she looks
perfect, and presents a graceful and pretty model upon
the water; she is of 850 tons, and 350-hnrse power,
propelled by paddles. She left Malta on the 16th of
March, leaving there the Rodney, 92, Captain Collier,
C. 8.; the Albion 90, Captain Fremantle; and the Locust
-!eam-sloop, Lieutenant-C' mmander Power. The Re-
,istat.ce Cornminder Lowe, sailed the same
.ft•rnoon with the second battalion of the 42d High
'aniters. for Bermuda.

The Tr.d..nt arrived at Algiers on the 20th of March.
Engli-h men-of-war were there. She I-ft on the
23d, :,rod arrived at Gibraltar on the 26th. The Virago
.isatn-sloop, Commlinter Lunn, was al, only
ar thee. She left on the 30 h. and at% ived
the 241 in-t_, band there the Hib-rnia, 104. Captain
tichards, 11,g of Vice-Admiral Sir W. l'erkir-r. coin-
r.in chief; the TrabiL ar, 120. Capt•liti NotI; the
`anopus, 84, Captain Moresby, C. 8.; the America.
io, Captain S,r l'hornits 'Maitland. The Pt cen,x, meam-
-L.l), Commander Dennis. arrived on the itay the
iri,!ent left for Oporto ( l'uesthy, tfe 6th inst.). whrre
;tie arrived on the billowing morning. the 7th, and found
here the Gladiator t.team•frgat-.. ('aott,iii Robb ; tie
Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Comini/nder Rivers ; and ihe
fack,l rettin-vus,,A, Lieut,nsot Commander Western.
•he left on the Bth for Spithead.
C.) ,:wander Spong. late of the Ardent steam-sloop,
;iron:toted, has come home in the Trident; also Captain
Chill. paymaster of the 88th regiment, at Malta, and a
-ew naval and military invalids.
The America was to sail on the 7th for Malta.
'The Trident came into harbour at eleven this morn-
lig, to replenish hid before going round to the river.
Tne Thetis, 36, Catalan Codriegton, C 8., was docked
eaterday. The injury sustained by getting ashore on
,ntering the hat hour of Lisbon consists of the foremost
tower puce of iehe keel haring been carried away, and
,he upper piece forced slightly to port ; the gripe was
Ise, a little started. The topsides and (treks have been
oaulked to-clay, which, we understand, is quite usual
:new ships after the first cruise, as the catilkine generall)
quires to be brought Lao close contact with the plank-
ing, which may have shrunk a little. All these trithint
lefects are expected to be completed by Saturday, so
that the ship can proceed again to sea nrxt we, k.
The foLowing is a copy of a " General Order" re-
garding "relative rank" in the medical department. re-
cently issued to the American bevy by the late chief of
its ex--cative, Mr. Bar croft:—

" Surgeons of the, tl et and surgeons of more thin 12
years will rank with commandvrs.

" Surgeons of than 12 years with lieutenants.
" PaNsrd assistant-surgeons next after lieutenants.
" Assistant-surgeons net passed mxt after masters.
"Commanding and executhe officers, of whatever
grade, when on duty; will take precedence of all medical
officers.

This order confers no authority to exercise military
command, and no additional right to quarters."
',The above important order, so gratifying to the me-
body in the United States navy, has been obtained
through the instrumentality of Dr. William Maxwell
Wood, now surgeon of the fleet in the Pacific, who has
also been the means of obtaining many other gratifying
orders tending to improve. the condition and standing
of the medical gentlemen employed in the American
service.

The Britannia, 120, ordered some weeks since to be
brought forward for commission, was taken into the
basin this morning, and will be decked as soon as the
Thetis comes out, to have her " ordinary" fittings re-
moved and sea-going ones substituted.
The Talbot, 26, recently paid off, from the Pacific,
was brought alongside the dockyard jetty to day to be
dismantled ; she will, therefore, not be employed in the
meal service.
The Fairy Was taken out to-day to Southampton
water to cleanse her iron below the water, which had be-
come foul. _ _ .

WooLwrcn, APRIL 14.—The Mastiff surveying
vesst-I, Commander Becher, with her tender the Wood
lark, are to be paid wages in advanc-, at Woolwich to
morrow, and will leave on Saturday, the 17th instant, to
resume their surveying duties at the Orkney Isl Aids.
The Falmouth will leave this port to-morrow with a
dredging machine and stores for Portsmouth and &ma.-
ampton.
The Nankin, 50-gun frigate, building on the east slip
in Woolwich Dockyard, from a design by Mr. Ling,
assistant to the Mastt r Shipwr4ht at Chatham Duck-

yard, where all her timb rs ale converted, is txogressing
rapidly, the whole of het frame being completed with the
exception of a small part of her stern.
The Rifleman, wood:-n vessel, went down the ri ,er
yesterday afternoon, to try her screw propeller ; and the
Sharpshooter, iron vessel, went down to- day for a similar
purpose.
A large anchor, of Porter's construction, weighing 55
cwt. 2 qrs. and 11 lb., was tested at the machine in this
dockyard yesterday, with a strain of 451 tons, and will
be sent round to Portsmouth f, r service in ti,e Retribution
steam-frigate.
A ;wiles oft xperiments are in progress at the testing
room here to ascertain the comparative string h t.f u
oew (It scription of blocks for 4,10ps and svani-vessels
!wide of gtov4t.ised iron, and patented by Leunt.x and
Gt. One of these blocks, six and a halt inches in
•iiameter, on being ti stet] bo 'e a strain o 61tans, an.•
„ith op it, poser did not appear to be in tt,e least it.jured,
he hook attached to it being the part which broke
during the operation. The usual strain appl eel to blocks
metal or brass of the same diameter is 3i tons which
is saficient to pass them for service. A stronger cl,-
scription of hook has been attached to the galvani,ie
metal blocks still to be experimented with, ani will be
tried un'il the blt.ck and hooks of this invention are of
equal power. The result has ,urprised all whu Lave wit
hessed the testing*.

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY DITENSIO•4•—Ye*ter•
day the whole of the houses in the Westminster•bridge-
road, and the Lower and Upper Marsh, Lembo'', were en-
t:relv demolished. so that the whole tine of extension to
IVdterloo-bridge, with the exception of a few houses in
York-street, is now entirely cleAred, and the viaduct on
which the trains will run, complete us far as High-street,
Lambeth.
lIVALTH AND MORTALITY IN THE METROTOLIS.—
The deaths returned by the metropolitan registrars for the
week ending Siourday last were 1,051, being en increase of
47 on the mortality of the previous week, end 137 in excess
of the weekly average of five springs. This result is, to a
certain extent, attributable to the unusal coldness of the
weather at the commencement of the present month, and
tf•nds to illustrate the ascertained influence of tr mospheric
circumstances on certain torms of disease. Bronchitis and
other diseases of the organs of respirxti.Ni. instead of yielding
under the influence of spring, continued to swell the morta-
lity
indicated by the returns, in which nearly one-third of
the whole number o.F deaths are referred to this class of com-
plaints. Diseases of an epldemic character appear to have
increased, particularly booping-cough and other complaints
incident to chiliren ; the deaths from typhus are also more
rumerous than in the preceding week. As rega,ds
the excess of mortality over the spring average was greatest

in the south and wesi districts, but was e•hared by ad the
groups of districts into which the metropolis is diviyed
the liecistrar-Geveral. The mean temperaure 01 the will
was
.47.9, 110 less than 11 degrees above that of the previous
wed:,

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IA vERrooL, EDNEsDAY.--13v tier I3ellona, arrived
at !!lasunw, advicPs from New York to the 20th ult. have
been rec. at that city. 0. e paper only of the 17th ha-,
however, reached Liverpool. There is nu tie v.s f an.) interest
by this a•rival.
FAiaticATING INQUESTS.—At an inquest held by
Mr. Mills, on Tuesday, in the Middlesex 11..spital, the
Coroner alluded to the surprise which Mr. Wakley,
experienced en reading in last Sunday's rapers the report of
an inquest, said to have been held by him on the body of
FrederickNicklewright, the bailiffot Sir W.Clay.Bart., A!.P.,
but which he had not held until Mondayafternuou. Mr. '4i ak-
ley's surprise was how any one could attempt thus to ati!i-
cipate an inquest, and after having fabricated the reps 5. toist
it upon a public journal. A gentleman observed that if such
a practice was tolerated, all necessity for coroners and coro-
ners juries would at once be done away with.
CHARGX OF NEGLI.CT AGAINST A MEDICAL PARO-
CItIAL OFFIcElt.—An inquest wEo held by Mr. Milts yes-
tertlay, at the Horse and Groom, John-street, Clerkenwell,
upon Harriet Shearer, aged fitty-seven. Front the evidence,
which occupied upwards of two hours, it appeared that the
deceased and her daughter had been reduced to such an
awful state of destitution that for three da)a in the week out
of seven they frequently went to bed without toot!, canac, or
fire. They then entered the workhouse, which they soon
left, the deceased having been allowed a shilling and a
quartern loaf weekly by the parish. Alter some tints de-
ceased became so iil that Mr. Goddard, the parish surgeon,
had to attend her, vi hich he did, although her case was
hopeless, until he found that another medical gentleman had
been called in, when he diecontinued his visits, and the de-
ceased died in a few weeks afterwards. Mr. JoLn Welt!',

surg,,on to the Finsbury Dispensary, who pet-6qm rd_
body
post mortem examination, deposed that externally theopening
presented a very emaciated appearance, and uponbi was
the body he found a cancer in the stomach, w
.8 ho_
sevetrtre
a,
cause of death. In his opinion the disease wA,
After
£ very,
years standing, and could not be cured,fr.
odderd very
len° thened and angry discussion between.D
Mr. Smith, the medical gentleman that
professional etiquette and the treatment
deenattb..
jury returned a verdict of" Natural elecdeasie;d,uptbone
committee meeting of the
o'rhecadl
ItlC.—At a recent
RED LION-BQUAdumb, it
for the adult deaf snit
IssmurioN FOR THR ADULT DEAr AND DUMB,
above excellent institution
!mess the Duke of Cambridge,
was stated that his Royal .
stibnleg ob; ee had kindly consented
lgof beu,voleoce promoting
anniversary of the Dent and
to pre.ide at the wthiettclahuissewoeflitl!:l7cnharti
forthcoming
Dumb Institution, to be held on the 12th proximo at the
Freemasons' Tavern. Great Queem.stre, t. Lincoln's Inn
fields. Previous to the annual meeting, however (it "as
stated by the secretary, J. G. pimp-on, l,rq ), the. committee
had iieterniked to hie' ease, as tar as the funds of the charity
would permit. the present number cf ihniai es, row for that
laudable taupe- e nalloting papers tor the election were issuer:
tor the 3d of May t ext. 'fhs indetstigahle txe tions of the
members of the society forming the above ins! it In ion, on be-
half of the happiness and conitort id Our aftlicteo fellow-
creatures, are well worthy of public commendation and sup-
port, the charity being the only one in Ecglatal e,tahlished
for the adult deaf and dumb, which teaches troles and in-
culcates sound 'novas and religion orinvitiks.
ItoCIIDALE.—TUIth -out or MasoNs.—On Monday
morning the storemas, nn of Roctdale and the neigh-
bourhood, who are members of the Trades' 'Union,.
turned out for an advance of wages to the amount of
6d. per day. The men have had 4s. per day during the
winter, and they now want 4s. 6d. The mastt,rs,,eunad demand.
the present depression of trade, refuse to pay the
MEICKWORTH.-011 Saturday last
mem,
mernemphryed on Lord Torringtores.,.eatlEo
*erseth.eir
'with
iveitiam""f-GulanLbWrl4lVrdrlitikbia Lordship's
taini-
lies, wherewith to reg.tle themselves, an
health on leaving England for the ACeLit of lairutlicia.l duties.
.-.Plaidetone Gazette.