The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH •THURSDAY.—The funeral of the late
Rear-Admiral Shirreff, late superintendent of this
dockyard, will take place on Wednesday next, in ac-
cordance with arrangements made to-day by the
Naval and Military Commanders-in-Chief, and sub-
mitted to the Lords of the Admiralty. The remains
of the gallant deceased will be interred in this gar-
rison Chapel burial-ground.
The Bellerophon, 78, Captain R. L. Baynes, has
been paid advance wages to-day at Spithaad.
The Sharpshooter iron steam gun boat (screw) has
been docked, and is being prepared for the reception
of the composition of the Chemical Assistant on one
side of her bottom and on the other the preparation
invented by Baron Wetterstedt.
The Rifleman screw gun boat has been out to-day
to try her rate of speed after her alterations.
The Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander Seymour,
is hourly expected at Spithead from the Pacific, with
freight on merchants' account. She was to have
sailed from Rio on the 10th of October.

Wind W. by S.; moderate breezes; dark, hazy
weather.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. I.—Her Majesty's steam-tug
Confiance, Jago master, was dispatched on Monday
in search of the Lady Kennaway East Indiaman,
abandoned in the Bay of Biscay, and subsequently
taken in tow by a Danish schooner.
The Alert sloop, 6, sailed yesterday for Lisbon,
Ascension, and the coast of Africa.

The Arabella, American liner, from Liverpool for
Boston, put back yesterday leaky.
Her Majesty's ship Asia, 84, flag of Admiral
Phipps Hornby, sailed this morning for Madeira,
Rio, and the Pacific.
Wind southerly, very light.

A PARDON—FOR NOTRING.—In October last a
young woman, named Mary Ann Turford, was tried in
the Central Criminal Court for stealing a watch. She
was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment at Brixton. The theft, it appears, was committed
by another person. One James William Ward has been
convicted of the same offence, of which, moreover, he
has confessed himself the perpetrator. The innocence
of the girl thus having been clearly esatablished, a re-
presentation of her case was made by Mr. Norton to the
Under Secretary. Sir Denis Le Marchant, we are
told, writes back, and says that Sir George Grey, taking
into consideration the facts as set forth in Mr. Norton's
communication, has recommended her Majesty's free
pardon in the case of Mary Ann Turford. As a pardon
means the forviveness of an offender, and Mary Ann
Turford committed no offence, the propriety of the term
as applied to the remission of her sentence, may
be questioned. But this is a shallow cavil. A
philosopher has said, that men have the greatest
difficulty in forgiving those whom they have in-
jured. It is with the law as with mankind
in general ; the law, therefore, has stretched a
point in having forgiven Mary Ann Turford. To con-
sider that tho order for her liberation should have been
accompanied by any expression of regret—not to say by
any compensation for her month's false imprisonment—
is to be extremely ignorant of human nature—at least
of Home-office humanity. Of course Mary Ann Tur-
ford may think herself very well off. She has received
a pardon—for nothing.—Punch.
SUICIDE -IN DUBLIN.—A coroner's inquest was
held in Dublin, on Monday, on the body of Mr. Richard
Wall, bookkeeper to Messrs. Williams, stockbrokers, of
Dame-street, who had been found with his throat cut in
the water-closet of Messrs. Dame's offices. He had had
lately several causes of irritation. His son had enlisted,
some tenants bad net paid rents, and he had committed
an error of about 601 in over-paying some one who. had
transactions with his employer. On the floor of
the
water-closet was a piece of paper with the
following
inscription, in the deceased's handwriting:—" Worn
down by misfortunes unparalleled, and unable teo bear
up against them, I can live no longer, and trust in the
merciful Saviour that he will receive my soul. God lookwith pity on my wife—the best.. Mr. Thomas 11-
hams said the firm always placed the highest confi-
dence in Mr. Wall's integrity, and had never for a
moment had reason to believe that their confidence had
been misplaced. A verdict of '• Temporary insanity" was
returned.

ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—TWO non-com-
missioned officers and 44 privates of this branch of her
Majesty's service left Woolwich yesterday for Chatham,
to acquire a knowledge of fortification and mining works.
The staff of the ISth company, which the strength of
this force is to augment, is to be formed during the pre-
sent month.