The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-08 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant Robert Reid (1843 ), late first lieutenant of the
Sappho, to the Mariner,. 16, at Devonport.
Acting-Master William Thomas Chapman, second master
of 1844, to the Volage, surve3 ing vessel for the Mediter-
ranean.
Surgeon William Folds (1830), to the Royal Sovereign.

Pay-master and Purser C. Little (1835), to the Volade.
Chaplains—Rev. G. Bellamy (1840), to the Ocean, vice
Fielding; Rev. Charles L. Bell (1846), from the Avenger,
steam-frigate, to the Rodney, 92.
Second Master—James F. Tomlin, from assistant-master,
to the Yolage.
ROYAL MAnnsiss.—Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wearing,
Captain Phineas Priest, First Lieutenant John Manger, and
Second Lieutenant John Barlow Butcher, to the Plymouth
division.

The following ships are confidently spoken of as under con-
sideration for forming the chief members of an experimental
squadron for 1847 :
Britannia,_ 120 guns, 2,616 tons, built by rule in 1820,
stationed at Portsmouth.

Howe, 120 guns, 2,619 tons, built by rule in 1815, sta-
ioned at Sheerness.

St. Vincent, 120 guns, 2,612 tons, built by rule in 1815,
stationed at Portsmouth.

Queen, 110 guns, 3,083 tons, built by Symonds in 1839,
stationed at Devonport.
l'owerful, 84 guns, 2,296 tons, built after the Canopus in
1826, stationed at Portsmouth.
Formidable, 84 guns, 2 ,289 tons, built after the Canopus in
1825, stationed at Sheerness.

By a letter from the Hibernia, 100, Captain Richards, flag
of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, dated off Lisbon,
February 19, we are furnished with the following statement
of a trial of smartness in executing the important manoeuvre
of sending down and sending up lower yards and topmasts
by the fleet then eff Lisbon :

Sending down. Sending up.
Minutes. Minutes.
Hibernia, 100, Captain Richards (flag) 12 9
Trafalgar, 120, Captain Nott 22 30
Canopus, 84, Captain Moresby .........
Superb, 80, Captain Corry 23 18
America, 50, Captain Sir S. Maitland 33 38*
Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington 42 28
Mutine, 12, Commander Tryon 27 18
Captain Frederick Wood (1842) died at Southsea yester-
day morning, aged 48. He was made a Lieutenant in July,
1851 ; Commander June, 1838 ; and Captain Septem-
ber, 1842.
Mr. Vincent Pappalardo is appointed Vice-Consul for the
Brazils for this port and district.
The Royal Humane Society of London yesterday sent a
most handsomely-worded certificate, and the committee of
Lloyd's an unanimous vote of thanks, expressive of their
sense of the noble gallantry displayed by Lieutenant Clarke,
R.N., of the Hayling coast-guard station, in rescuing the
lives, at the risk of his own, of nine men belonging to the
brig Gipsey, wrecked on the Woolsners, near Portsmouth,
during the late gales. Lieutenant Clarke was Admiralty
midshipman (supernumerary in the Leander frigate for a
passage to join his proper ship, the Pactolus) at the battle of
Algiers, where he was wounded in the left arm. He has lost
five brothers in action in the naval service of his country.
The Undine steam-vessel, Master. Commander Allen, is
placed under the orders of Commander Crispin, of the Royal
Yachts, and will be employed chiefly as a dispatch-boat, and
relieve the Fairy frequently in the duty of • conveying her
Majesty's papers, letters, &c., during the sojourn of the Court
at the Isle of Wight.
The Britannia, 120, has been hauled down from her moor-
ings, it is asserted, to be prepared for commission by Captain
Sir James Stirling. This ship has been four or five times in
commission, whereas neither of those fine 120's, the Nelson
or the Neptune (although the former has been lying in this
harbour ever since she was brought from Woolwich in 1814,
and the latter ever since she was launched at this port in
1832), have ever hoisted a pennant.
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Milne, flag of Admiral Sir
C. Ogle, Bart., Commander-in-Chief at this port, is about to
have a thorough overhaul and refit. She will have entire
new rigging, which she will commence being fitted with to-
morrow morning. We expect to see her at Spithead by the
latter end of May.
The Favourite, 18, Commander Murray, was at Sierra
Leone on the 18th of January, all well ; and the Kinfisher,
12, Commander Horton, at St. Helena, on the 11th of
January.
The -Rapid, 10, Commander Galwey, was cruising off
Benguela on the 2d of January, in company with the Espoir,
10, Commander Hand, which latter was under orders for
England, and was to proceed round the coast to commu-
nicate with the different officers in charge of the cruising
grounds. She is to come home in company with the Cygnet,
the latter in a leaky state. They may both (says our let-
ter) be expected at Spithead in April. The Kingfisher
gave a parting dinner to the officers, and three cheers when
they took their departure. Commander Galwey, of the
Rapid, has come home invalided in a merchant vessel, which
has put into Penzance ; lie was rowed on board the King-
fisher, which took him to St. Helena. All healthy on the
Benguela station. The Wanderer, 14, Commander Somer-
ville, was at anchor off Sierra Leone at the above date. She
was to have received pratique about the Ist of January, the
fever having left the ship. Commander Galwey was much
beloved and respected by his officers and men, who wit-
nessed his departure with deep regret.
steam-vessel, Master-Commander -Battiston,
lighter, arrived yesterday with stores from
Plymouth yesterday morning.
The AM
arrived T he
the eastward.
freiel, rtmyle
navy
(From the Deronport Independent.)
Her Majesty's steamer Volage, was commissioned on Mon-

* And not finished at that time,

day by Lieut. Gabriel Johnson, for Captain Thomas Greaves.
She is to be employed on sun-eying service in the Mediter-
ranean.

The -Mariner was docked yesterday to have her copper
cleaned. She will be taken out of dock to -day, and on Mon-
day will go into Barnpool, to have her compasses adjusted,
prior to sailing for the coast of Africa.
The Peterel packet, is having her defects made good, and
will not be out of the hands of .the dockyard till the end of
next week.

Mr. Alexander Leg, first engineer, and Mr. W. H. J.
Newberry, third engineer, of the Avenger, steam- frigate,
have been dismissed the service, for neglect of duty in letting
the water ous of one of the boi tors, thereby seriously injuring it.
H.M.S. Cleopatra, 26, Captain Wyvill, has been spoken
with in the Channel. She is from the Cape of Good Hope
station, and has landed her mails and dispatches at Penzance.
H.M.S. QUEEN, 110.—We have frequently had occasion
to notice the smart and seamanlike activity of the crew of
this splendid ship, under the able command of Capt. Sir
Henry Leeke, K.H. To the instances we have before given
we have now to add two others, alike honourable to the officers
and ship's company, and to the navy in which they serve. A.
man need not rank very high in nautical knowledge to un-
derstand that the " fitting out" of a frigate is no small per-
formance. Without efficiency of discipline, and regularity
and method of proceeding, it must be a matter involving
not. only much confusion, but a corresponding amount of
time. We shall see how the officerland crew of the Queen
regard such a "piece of business." They commenced their
duties in reference to the Tyne, 26, at a quarter before 12
o'cloCk on Friday, and on Saturday last at 2 r.ss she was ready
for sea, and the first cargo of meal went off to her for Ireland.
The Portland, 50, was commenced on Monday morning,
at seven o'clock, and they bent sails by five
c" clock ! Now, such expedition as this deserves more
than an ordinary paragraph. It shows not only what might
be doneibut actually what is, which is infinitely more satis-
factory generally speaking,—it shows too, what thoroughly
good, officer-like management can be productive of, for we
have the greater pleasure in referring to this subject from
our knowledge of the system pursued on board. The lash
is completely at a discount, the punishments are always mild
and always rare, everything goes on quietly and effectively,
because, from the Captain to the most inferior officer, the
orders are wisely given, and steadily, and firmly seen exe-
cuted. The kind, but just example of the Captain is not
lost upon the other officers, nor is their consistent demeanour
without its legitimate result upon Jack. We must not
close this, without stating that the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty have in the strongest terms of approbation,
conveyed their sense of the singular activity displayed by
the officers and crew of the Queen, on the occasions we have
referred to.

In Harbour—Queen, 110, Captain Sir H. Leeke, ICH.,
with the flag of Admiral Sir J. West, K.C.B. ; Caledonia,
120, Captain M. H. Dixon, with the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir John Louis, Bart. ; Mariner • Volage; Avenger, and
Confiance, steam-vessels ; Peterel, packet ; Svlph and Net-
-1.7, ,
cuuzilmueo,Brazilian ingste.
In Barnpool—Recruit.
WooLwzcu, MAROS 6.—Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam,
K.C.8., Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8., Lords of the Ad-
miralty ; Captain Ellice, Controller of Steam-machinery;
and Captain Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy,
visited Woolwich Dockyard to-day, and were received by
Commodore Sir' James G. Bremer, K.C.B. and K.C.H. ;
Superintendent Lieutenant Fowler, and Mr. Dyer, Secretary;
Captain Beatson, ILE., in charge of works; Mr. Lang,
master-shipwright; Mr. Read and Mr. Chatfield, assistants
to the master-shipwright; Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer; Mr.
Atherton, assistant to the chief engineer • Mr. Jenkins, store-
receiver ; Mr. Elson, master-attendant at her Majesty's
dockyard here ; Mr. Miller. of the firm of Miller and Raven-
hill ; and Mr. Smith, inventor of the screw-propeller.
Their Lordships arrived at two o'clock, and shortly after
proceeded to the Amphion steam-frigate, at present in the
east dock, opposite the blacksmiths' shop, and, having de-
scended the steps leading to the 'bottom of the dock, ex-
amined the stern part, where the sci ew-propeller, 15 feet in
diameter, is fitted. Their Lordships, on coming up from the
bottom of the dock, went on board the Amphion, and a por-
tion of the crew, under the command of Lieutenant Sibbald,
manned the capstan, and raised the powerful screw-pro-
peller from its position at the bottom to the level of the
maid. deck'of the vessel. This is effected through a well cut
in the stern, to admit of the screw-propeller being entirely
detached, and taken on deck when necessary, or when
it is desirable, to make the vessel depend upon her can-
vass alone, without the aid of steam. Their Lordships
appeared to think it would be advisable to raise the screw-
propeller about 6 feet higher than it was raised during their
visit, which may be easily effected by raising the supports of
its great weight to allow more space for working the blocks
by which it is raised. On the screw-propeller being again
let down to its working position, their Lordships descended
to the bottom of the dock, and held a long conversation
with the heads of the departments on improvements which
the working of this invention would admit of. Their Lord-
ships went on board the Amphion a second time to examine
the engines and boilers, and the mode in which the axle of
the screw-propeller is adjusted, with the manner in which it
is connected and disconnected, and altogether remained at
the Amphion upwards of an hour and a half.
From the Amphion their Lordships proceeded to visit the
Royal Albert, of 120, guns, and Mr. Lang conducted their
Lordships under the larboard side of this splendid vessel,
to show them the strong manner in which the oak planking
was attached to the frame. Their Lordships then went on
board the Royal Albert to witness the progress she is
making ; the cross -beams of the orlop deck being nearly
half laid, and they give an appearance of great' strength,
owing to the massive timber required for the breadth
of beams- in a vessel of the magnitude of the Royal
Albert. Their Lordships subsequently visited the Terrible
steam-frigate in the basin, where she is fitting with Captain
Smith's paddle-box boats, and a number of artificers and
others are employed upon her to make her ready for sea.
The Terrible is under the charge of Lieutenant Murray ;
Captain Woodford J. Williams, her commander, being en-
gaged in charge of the Odin steam-frigate, with provisions
for Ireland. Their Lordships remained at the dockyard
until 5 o'clock, when they lett by the west gate on their
return to town.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Findon hds., 'rues., Parham Park ; Thurs,, Wipping
Thorns; Sat., Piecombe— 11.
Wheatland hds., Tues., Lound Coppice ; Fri., Cound--101.
Herefordshire hds., Tues., Ullingswick Village ; Fri., 'flu
Hill.
Ludlow lids., Tues., Wigmore Rolls; Fri., Orleton Com-
mon-10.
United Pack, Wed., 3lainstone Wood-9.
Earl of Harewood's lids., Mon., Kirk Deighton ; Wed.,
Bilten Banks; Fri., Bickerton Bar-10i.
Holderness hds., Mon., Tickton ; Tues„ Beverley Queen's
Gate Tollbar; Thurs, Burton Constable; Sat., Warter Hall.
Cheshiri hds.. Mon., Warningham Village; Wed., Booth's
Obelisk; ThUrs., Duddon Heath; Sat., Sutton Finfold-11.
Sir W. W. Wynn's hds., Tues., Iscoyd ; Wed., Wynnstay ;
Fri., Nescliff; Sat., Holt-10%.
Montgomeryshire lids., Tues., Cock Inn, Forden ; Fri.,
Kerry.
Mr. Trelawney's Ms., Tues., Train Brake; Fri., Plym
Bridge.
Mr. Deacon's hrrs., Wed., Roborough ; Sat., Lamberton
Green-10.
Suffolk hds., Tues., Pakenham-street ; Fri., Dalham Hall.
Baron Rothschild's stglids., Thurs., Aston Clinton.
- Sir C. Constable's stghds., Wed., Conistan-111,4.
Bedale lids., Wed., Camp Hill; Fri., Streatlam
Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues., Bradfield-street; Fri., Dal-
ham Hall--101.
V.W.H., Tues., Three Magpies; Thurs., Wroghton; Sat.,
Eastcourt Mouse.
Berkshire hds., Wed., Fyfield Tree; Fri., Btiscot Park.
Mr. Brand's hds., Fri., Coleman Green-10i.
Cleveland hds., Thurs., Osburn's Rush-104.
Mr. Theobald's staghs., Wed., Quy ; Fri., Eight-mile
Ditch.
Devon hds., Thurs., Sandy Gate-11.
Essex Union hds., Wed., Beckingham Hall; Sat., South-
minster.
Mr. Drake's hds., Tues., Soulderon Gate; Thurs., Edgcot
Village ,• Sat., Byfield Tollbar.
Lord Parker's hds., Toes., Thame Park ; Fri., Farley.
F. B. hds:, Wed., Tresillian Bridge; Fri., Bishop's Wood
—10%•
Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Wed., Gadden Windmill; Fri.
By thaw Tollbar-10.
Badsworth hds., Tues., Bamsdale-bar ; Thurs., Askern ;
Sat., Brierley—loi.
Lord Yarborough's hds., Wed., Newsham Lodge; Fri..
Crosby Village-11.
Lord Redesdale's lids., Wed., Eyford ; Fri., New Barn ;
Sat., Enaham Hall.
Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Wed., Belman, Stamford-bridge,
and Helmsley; Fri., Scampston House-10%.
Haydon hds:, Wd., Causbum House; Sat., Lough Green.
Oakley lids., Thurs., Chicheley Hall ; Sat., Milton Mill
14 to 11.
Mr. Horndon's hds., Thurs., Litton Park-10i.
Hurworth lids., Tues., Croft Bridge; Sat., Leven Bridge
—lO%. •
Mr. S. Lowndes' hds., Wed., Drayton Cross Roads ; Sat.
Twnmile Ash-11.
Puckeridge hds., Wed., Peverils ; Sat., Layston-10%.
Raby lids., Wed., Hartforth ; Fri., Hamsterley-11.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time :

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10.
tdinburgh and Glasgow.
Wexford and Valencia (Killarney to Valencia).

FRIDAY, ntiaat 12.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. I—Exten-
sion and Amendment).

FEVRE IN LlVERPOOL.—Government ought at
once to be moved to erect enormous sheds in Ireland, where
as in barracks, the destitute poor may have shelter and
warmth, in good air. All paupers leaving Ireland for Eng-
land should be told that they will be immediately liable to be
sent back again by the parochial authorities of-Liverpool,
Bristol, &c.; and back they should go if they tame and re-
quired relief at our expense. We have no right to sit still
and let pestilence walk in amongst us. At this moment the
progress of the fever in the cellars and garrets of Liverppol is
most alarming. The first flush of warm weather will spread
disease and death into hundreds of streets. The filthy state
in which the poor people arrive, and the shocking dark damp
dirty places in which they herd—as many as 30 in a cellar—
are the most certain constituents of malignant fever; and
deeply shall we suffer in a few weeks by the loss of many of
our valued townsmen and towns-women, if the evil now
growing around us be not stayed.—Liwpool Mercury.
It has been currently stated that the King of the
Belgians, who has been staying at Paris for the last week,
would proceed to England with a view of restoring a more
cordial feeling between the Courts of France and England.
Several very ingenious comments have been expended in
discussing the affairs to be settled, and the mode of arranging
them to everybody's satisfaction, as if his Majesty could not
pay a visit of friendship to his royal relatives without some
deep political design. All speculation, however, will be at
an end by the announcement, which we believe we can vouch
for, that his Majesty is not expected in England at present,
and that he did not contemplate extending his visit this time
beyond Paris, whence he will return to his own dominions.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CLERKENWELL.Yester-
day morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out at 22, Amw%ll..
street, Clerkenwell, in the occupation of Mr. L. Tanis, pub.
lisher. It commenced in the lower part of the house and
,
discovered by the police-constable on the beat. An in.
stant alarm was given, and after a deal of trouble the inmates
were aroused, and happily effected their escape in safety.
The engines were early at the scene, and no time was lost in
setting them to work, but the flames continued to progress,
and at one time the residence of Mr. George Cruikshank, the
artist next door, was in great clan The firemen, however,
laboured until nearly five o'clock, when they at length sub-
dued the tire. By that time the whole of the back portion
of the house was consumed, and the front severely injured.
The two adjoining houses, in the occupation of Mr. George
Cruickshank and Mr. Everard, have
The origin of the outbreak is veewsnustained trifling
injury.

DEPUTATION FROM THE iRriR

PARTY TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
Pursuant to previous arrangement, the result of a °erre•
spondence between Lord John Russell and Lord Mout:eagle,
a deputation from the Irish party, consisting of Lord Mont-
eagle, the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, M.P., Mr. George
Alexander Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Edward Grogan, M.P., and
Mr. Anthony Lefroy, M.P., waited upon the Prime Minfoster
at his official residence, Downing-street, on Saturday last, for
the purpose of submitting to his Lordship certain resolutions
adopted at a meeting of Peers and Members of the House of
Commons connected with Ireland, condemnatory of the pre•
posed new poor-law, as regards the extension of ont-door
relief to the destitute able-bodied labourers, the assessment
on unions at large. instead of electoral districts, and the
powers intended to be conferred on relieving officers.
Lord John Russell received the deputation most graciously.
Lord tiforrrEsGrx informed the Noble Lord that the depu-.
tation from the Irish party waited upon him for the purpose
of bringing under his consideration and that of Government
a series of resolutions, adopted at a meeting of Peers and
Members of Parliament connected with Ireland, and subse-
quently approved and signed by many noble lords and
honourable representatives, who, either in consequence of
absence from town, or other unavoidable circumstances, were
unable to attend the meeting. Those resolution had ap-
pended to them the signatures of sixty-four Peers and forty-
three Members of the Commons House of Parliament, who
respectfully, but firmly protested against the permanent
Poor Relief Bill, proposed to be enacted for Ireland. The
Noble Lord then read the resolutions, which were as fol-
lows:
" That any abandonment at the present of the system of
electoral divisions, by which the poor-law assessments of
Ireland is generally regulated, for the purpose of;substi-
tilting the larger divisions of unions, appears to us to be
fraught with danger, as lessening the motives for a liberal
and enlightened management of estates. and the consequent
improvement in the condition of the occupying tenantry, and
also lessening the means of administering relief with that
discrimination and economy which are perfectly compatible
with real charity and benevolence.
"That a departure from the permanent system becomes
the more fatal if applied to the out-door relief of the able-
bodied labourer, because such relief is, of all modes of ap-
plying the principles of a poor-law, the one which requires
the greatest care and caution, to prevent it from leading to
consequences dangerous to property, subversive of social
order, and ultimately injurious to the best interests of tha
labouring classes.
"That the principle of giving out door-relief to the able-
bodied labourer of Ireland has been condemned by :the
various parlimentary committees and commissions as well
as by the public officers appointed to consider this subject,
and that the experience of the last twelve months, by which
it has been shown how relief, even though accompanied
with work, has interfered with ordinary agricultural labour,
and endangered the future production of food for the
neonle. demotuttrat PA r. on e.ln si v how much more fatally
a system of gratuitous out-door relief to the able-bodied
labourer will produce and perpetuate the same lamentable
consequences.
" That these resolutions are intended to apply exclusively
to the permanent laws propose to be enacted, and not to the
temporary measures which the present calamity may rendez
it expedient to enact,

" That our Chairnian be instructed to present these rear .
lutions to the Peers and Members of Parliament connected
with Ireland, who have been unable to attend the meeting,
requesting that such of them -as may approve of these re so..
lutions may return them with their signatures affixed, with
the view that the whole should be submitted to her Majesty'a
Government for their most serious consideration."

ASSENTED 08, SIGNED BY
Leinster De Vesci Bateson, T.
Waterford Doneraile Barron, H. W.
Headfort Lifford Chichester, J.

Coote, C. FL