The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

A MIDSHIPMAN OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP BEL
LEROPHON AND NINE OTHERS DROWNED.—On the
afternoon of the 12th instant, Mr. Kemp, a midship-
man of her Majesty's ship Bellerophon, 78, Captain
Baynes, C. 8., lying off Leghorn, was sent ashore in
charge of the cutter to bring off some men who were
on leave. He reached the shore, embarked his men,
and left to return to his chip. In the meantime,
however, the breeze, which was little or nothing on
leaving the Bellerophon, had freshened considerably,
and it appears the cutter had proceeded one-third of
the distance from the shore to the ship, when, in
consequence of shipping a great deal of water, Mr.
Kemp bore up for the purpose of returning to
the land, the boat at the same time carry-
ing a press of sail. More water was shipped in the
act of bearing up, which was kept under by baling ;
but, unfortunately, the sail having been lowered, and
the boat having nothing to force her through the
water, she became almost waterlogged, and ship-
ping water on both sides, she filled, and shortly
afterwards turned bottom up. This fatal catastrophe
having been seen, both from the Bellerophon and her
Majesty's steam-vessel, Porcupine, boats were in-
stantly lowered from those vessels and dispatched to
the assistance of the cutter ; but before they could
reach the spot the following poor fellows had disap-
peared and were drowned :
Mr. Kemp, midshipman.
Matthew Odgers, coxswain of the cutter.
Jeremiah M'Carthy, able seaman.
Jones Gray, ditto.
William Deaken, landsman.
John Winnister, ditto.
William Short, first-class boy.
James Wheat, private marine.
John Rayner, ditto.
George Watt, ditto.
William Harvey, ditto.
John Williams, ditto.
Mr. Kemp, is the son of the late Lieut. Kemp,
R.N. He was very steady in his duties, was con-
sidered to be very competent in managing boats, and
was altogether a very promising young officer.
Rear-ta dmiral Prescott, superintendent of Ports-
mouth dockyard, visited the Admiralty yesterday.
The Amphion screw-frigate was towed from the
west shore in Sheerness harbour into the basin on
Monday, to be brought forward for service.
The Vulture steam-frigate, at Sheerness, is in the
basin taking in coals. Her yards are across, and it is
expected she will be sent in a few days to Portsmouth
to be put in commission there.
The Revenge, 76, is nearly broken up at Sheerness.
By the end of this week the dock will be cleared of
her timbers. The men employed on this work are to
have ss. 6d. per ton for the job.
It is rumoured at Sheerness that the Wellington,
72, depot ship of the ordinary in that harbour, is to be
sent to Queenstown as flag ship for the admiral com-
manding on that station.
A timber laden merchantman arrived at the line on
Monday, with military invalids from the Cape colony.
They are detachments of the Rifles, Royal Artillery,
the 20th Foot, &c., about 150 in all. The steam tug
African took them out of the ship, and conveyed them
to the invalid depot at Chatham.
THE ROYAL YACHTS.—Her Majesty's steam-
yachts Fairy, Commander Crispin, and the Elfin,
Master Commander.A. Balliston, arrived in the river
last evening from Portsmouth, to be in readiness to
attend at the opening of the New Coal Exchange on
the '3oth. The royal barges to be used in the pro-
cession have since arrived in the Portsmouth steam-
tug Echo.
The steam-sloop Stromboli, Commander Lord
Amelius Beauclerk, arrived at Portsmouth from the
river on Sunday morning, after taking the shore and
firing guns of distress on working in to the anchor-
age. She sailed on Monday morning for Plymouth,
with supernumerary seamen, &c.
CHATHAM, OCT. 23.—The Raleigh, 50 guns, Corn-
modore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., Captain the
Hon. G. Hope, from the south-east coast of America
(relieved by the Southampton, 50 guns), is ordered
to this port to be paid off without any f her bulk-
heads being disturbed.
The Magicienne steam ship, built at Pembroke, is
now getting her engines on board, from the engineers,
Messrs. Penn, of Greenwich ; when completed, she
proceeds to Chatham, to be fitted for commission.
A general court-martial assembles on Wednesday,
the 24th inst., on board the Ocean, stationary flag-
ship, at Sheerness for the trial of Daniel Donovan, a
gunner on board the Latona, 42 guns, for drunken-
ness. He was found drunk on the sth inst. by
Lieutenant Carter, and from that day the prisoner
has been confined on board the Poictiers; the pri-
soner has twenty years' service as a gunner in the
Royal Navy.
WooLwlcu, OCT. 23.—The Firebrand steam-
frigate, Captain T. 0. Knox, is under orders to leave
Woolwich on Thursday for Portsmouth, where she
will receive further orders.
The Styx steam-sloop had her steam up to-day to
try the evaporation of her boilers, and it was found
that B,ooolbs of water was evaporated in her boilers
in 22 minutes, with the exception of 41bs. in the
midships, and 31bs. in each of the wings.
A series of experiments have been commenced at
the west end of the factory department by Mr. Coad,
with a boiler having three furnaces, to test his plan of
building a brick arch round the sides and roofs of
the furnaces. The bricks are mostly placed endways
next the fire, with a space of nearly three inches
betwixt each other in the tiers, to create a greater
draught, and admit the heat to the boilers. The fires
burned remarkably bright, and if bricks can be ob-
tained that will resist the intense heat to which they
will be subjected, the plan will answer very well.
The evaporating power, and the quantity of coals and
time occupied, will be given when the experiments
are completed. •

IMPRISONMENT FOR CHURCH RATES.—By a recent
Act of Parliament (12th Victoria, chap 14) a limit is
fixed for the first time to imprisonment for nonpayment
of church-rates. The ninth section of the statute de-
clares, " And whereas it is desirable to limit the time
within which a person assessed to a church-rate may be
imprisoned for non-payment of the same, be it enacted
that every person now undergoing any such imprison-
ment shall be discharged from such imprisonment as
soon as he or she shall have been imprisoned for three
calendar months, or shall sooner pay the sum or sums
with which he or she is charged; and that hereafter no
person shall be imprisoned for non-payment of any
church-rate for any time exceeding three calendar
months." Until this Act was passed persons were kept
in custody for indefinite periods.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—Yesterday, at a vestry
meeting of the ratepayers of Lambeth, held in the
vestry-room (the Rev. C. B.,Dalton, the Rector, in the
chair), a resolution was proposed in favour of the esta-
blishment of baths and washhouses under the Act 9 and
10 Victoria. The resolution, the adoption of which was
forcibly urged on the ground that the poorer inhabit-
ants in many parts of the parish are in want of the
necessary means of cleanliness, and that, therefore, it is
the duty of all connected with the locality, by providing
those means, to guard as far as possible against the re-
currence of an epidemic such as that which had recently
been so severely felt in Lambeth, was, after a short dis-
cus•ion, carried on a show of hands without a dissen-
tient, amidst loud cheers.

MARC RESTER.— STATE OF TRADE, TUESDAF.^—
The market has not been active to-day tor either cloth
or yarn, but rates obtained have been fully equal to
those of last week where parties have been willing to
sell. In general there has been more of a disposition to
hold than to enter into contract, unless, indeed, at rates
with which buyers are not prepared to comply. Upon
the whole the feeling is healthy. The mills are in
fuller work than a short time age, and if the present
rage for cotton speculation could only be suppressed, the
manufacturing districts would continue to increase their
trade. The prices of cotton quoted yesterday were id.
advance since Saturday.
Not until he is at the verge of the grave, when he
is about to enter into the realm of unknown beings,
does man fully feel how much he loves such as are
already known to him, who suffer like himself, who die
as he does,-41ixa Cook's Journal