The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

No. 17,045, LONDON, T URSDAY II ,„NING

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINMENTS.
At the MESIC-lIALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
On MONDAY EVENING, May 10, at EigLt o'clock, Mr. WILSON
will give an Entertainment on the
SONGS OF

SCOTLAND,

In which he will sing a variety of Popular Songs andßallads.
In the course of the Evening, Mr. Wilson a ill, by request, sing
Burns's song of "GO FETCH TO ME A PINT 0' WINE.",
PART FIRST.-0 weel may the Boatie row—Of a' the Alrts the
Wind can blaw—Wha'll buy Caller Herring—Hame came our gude-
man at e'en—Over the Water to Charlie—Bonnie Bessie Lee—The
Mar. ied Man's Lament— Pibroch o' l )onald Dhu.
PART SECOND.—The Flowers o' the Forest—The Auld School—
Woo'd an' married an' a'—Auld Joe Nicholson's Bonny Nannle.
Get up and Bar the Door.
Tickets, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. Gd. ; Private Boxes for Six Per-
sons, 15s. ; for Eight, 1/.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU-
RANCE SOCIETY.
OFFICE, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital 500,0001.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na-
tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance-
ment of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies,-bavincreceived
the approbation of a considerable body cf the active members sod
officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan
Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a
Branch Office in connexion with the.. Societies and the Operative
Classes generally, in which their services might be successfully en-
gaged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open
communication with the different Societies, with the view of more
effectually disseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus-
trious classes, and a plan has been )roposed with that object.

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T" E WELLINGTON SURTOUT.
CAUTION.—The great success of the Wellington Surtout
having caused several unprincipled persons (against two of whom
proceedings have been:commenced) to imitate thin registered coat,
'although in a material derogatory to its reputation, all persons are
hereby warned that to make any garment (having sleeves) whether
worn by male or female, WITHOUT SHOULDER OR SLEEVE-
Top SEAMS, whatever may be its shape in other respects, is a
direct infringement of the patentees designs, and will in every case be
visited by an action at law.
Every genuine coat has a stamp bearing the royal arms, with a
number indicative of the size, also the name and address of the
patentee, JAMES FOUGEItE, 6, CONDUIT-STREET, REGENT-
STREET, and 11, POULTRY, near the Mansion-House, LONDON,
to imitate which is felony.

IT. THOMAS'S CHURCH, BREAMS-
BUILDINGS, CHANCERY-LANE.
On SUNDAY NEXT. the 9th of MAY, TWO SERMONS will be
Preached in this Church, arid Collections made towards Defraying
the Expenses of Conducting Public Worship ; that in the Morning
by the Right Reverend the LORD BISHOP of CHESTER, that in
the Evening by the Reverend CHARLES CLAYTON, M.A., a Senior
Fellow of Caius college, Cambridge, and Secretary to the Church
Pastoral Aid Society.
Divine Service will commence in the Morning at Eleven, in the
Evening at Half-past Six.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PoaTsmourit, MAY 4.—The Courts. martial on the
officers and crew of the Thunderbolt took place to day.
• The Alert, 6, Commander Ellis, sailed last night for
Plymouth, to be paid off. When she left Sierra Leone,
the Freo6 Admiral, Montaigne de la Rome, was at
anchor there with his flag in the Narval, an iron steam-
vessel of 4 guns, which was coaling preparatory to mak-
ing a tour of the station. The Alert parted company
with Commodore Sir Charles Hotham off Neo Jess, on
the 3d of March, on which day he sailed in the Penelope,
accompanied by the Devastation, for the South. The
Rolla, 10, Commander Ellicombe, relieved the Alert at
Tobacconee on the 6th of March. The Contest, 12,
Commander M'Murdo, was communicated with at Cape
Mesardo on the 10th, and the Favourite, is, Commander
Murray, on the 13th, off Shebar. The officers and men
off all these vessels were in good health.
The Athol troop-ship, Master Commander Pearn
sailed early this morning for Woolwich.
The Kestrel, 4, Lieut.-Commander Baker, sailed this
afternoon for South America.
The Recruit, 12, Commander Slade, was undocked to-
day and moored in Blockhouse-hole, where, if she re•
main long, sbe will accumulate more rubbish than before,
notwithstanding her bottom-polishing.

ROYAL MARINES.
Her Majesty, by Order in Council, dated the 24th of
April, 1847, has been graciously pleased to direct that
three Artillery
of the Royal Marines, and that each of the ninety-four
divisional companies shall have a further number of
privates. Companies shall be added to that branch
The re-distribution of the corps is therefore to be as
follows :

A divisional company, to consist of 1 captain, 2 sub
alterns, (two-thirds first, and one-third second-lieute
nants), 5 sergeants, 5 corporals, 3 drummers, 94 privates
—112; and 10 artillery companies—each to consist of 1
captain, 2 first-beute,ants, 2 second, 7 sergeants, 7 cor-
porals,-3 bumbardlirZ3 drummers, and 125 gunners
150 ; malsingrthii whole establWinienkot Marines, both
officersand mew .J.L-
Divisional 6brnpantes 10,434
Artillery companies ... ... 1,500
Staff ... ... 67

Total ... ... ... ... 12,001
The appointment of officers consequent on this aug.
mentation will be hereafter notified.

WooLwicn, MAY 4.—The Blenheim, 72 guns, was
taken out of the basin at a very early hour this morning,
for the purpose of being docked but the tide did not
rise sufficiently, and she will have to remain in the har-
bour, owing to her great draught of water, until the next
spring tide, a fortnight after this date.

- The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsey, is still in
the harbour here, and her officers and crew have left
the Dragon steam-frigate and resumed their duties on
board. Captain Hall, in command of the Terrible, during
the absence of Captain Ramsey with the Dragon, con-
veying provisions to Ireland, is to be berne on the books
of the William and Mary yacht for the present.

WRECK OF HER MAJESTY'S
STEAMER THUNDERBOLT.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4.—The inquiry into the circumstances
attending the wreck of her Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt,
in Algoa Bay, in February last, commenced yesterday by
court-martial, ordered by the Admiralty to try Commander
A. Boyle, and the officers and crew, for their conduct on the
occasion.

The members of the court consisted of Rear-Admiral
Parker, C. 8., president; Captain Pasco, Victory; Captain
Chads, C. 8., Excellent; Captain Milne, St. Vincent; Cap-
tain S. C. llacres, Avenger. Mr. G. L. Greetham officiated
as judge-advocate. _ _

It appeared by documentary and oral evidence that the
Thunderbolt was proceeding to Algoa Bay, in pursuance of
orders from Rear-Admiral Dacres, to convey from thence
to Simon's Bay part of the 90th Regiment; that on Feb. 3,
about noon, while entering the bay, and rounding a reef, she
struck on a sunken rock, and received such severe injury
that Commander Boyle deemed it advisable to use his
utmost endeavours to run her on shore to save the lives of
the crew, the leak being so extensive ; that having done
so, he tried, with his own crew and the assistance of some
troops from the shore, to land the stores and pump the
vessel dry, and, if possible, repair the damage, and was
subsequently aided in his exertions by seamen from the
President and the Eurydice, when those frigates joined,
nineteen days after the accident; but finding all their
efforts fruitless, and the executive officers giving as their
opinion that if afloat she could not be repaired in Algoa Bay,
the senior officer determined on abandoning her to the
Government authorities on shore, which was done accord-
ingly, and they were instructed to sell her to the best ad-
vantage. The officers and men, with great part of her stores,
were then embarked in the Eurydice, and she carried them
to the Cape. The reading of the narrative of Commander
Boyle, the reports of Rear-Admiral Dacres, Captain Stanley,
and Captain Anson, and the examination of witnesses as to
the track of the Thunderbolt, the precautions taken
to navigate her in safety, and other matters relat-
ing to the transaction, and such as are customary in
inquiries of this nature, occupied the Court all the
day, when, it being four oclock, the Court signified to
Commander Boyle, and Mr. Milne, the master, that they
were prepared to thear their defences, and on those officers
requesting until this morning to prepare, the Court complied
with their wishes and adjourned. The Court assembled at
ten o'clock this morning, when Commander Boyle and the
Master produced their statements of the occurrence, which
were read to the Court, and afterwards placed with the
proceedings. The attention of the Court yesterday was
most pa, ticularly directed to the circumstance of a com-
pliance with the Admiralty sailing instructions, which
direct that in entering Algoa Bay all ships should give
the reef on which the Thunderbolt struck a clear offing
of two miles; in this instance the Thunderbolt was steered
within one mile, and the officers admitted that if she
had been kept acccording to the sailing instructions she
pronounced the
would not have been lost. This departure from a most
important regulation evidently influenced the Court in their
judgment, for, after it had been cleared to deliberate on the
sentence, and the public admitted to hear it read, the Judge-
Advocate, after reciting the usual form, ronounced
opinion of the Court to be, that her Majesty's late steamer,
Thunderbolt, had been wrecked through inattention and
neglect, and sentenced Commander Alexander Boyle, and
master Mr. J. D. Milne, mustd her Majesty's ser-
vice ; but, in , to be distmaseequence of the production of high testi-
monials of former character and ability, recommended them
to the favourable consideration of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty,
tial, the same members were sworn to try the carpenter of
the Thunderbolt for drunkenness, subsequent to leaving her,
and while on board the Eurydice taking a passage to Simon's
fully proved, an
Aftet the conclusion of this Court-Mar-
Bay. The charge was
and he was sentenced to
be dismissed the service.