The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25.—The Bellei-le, 72,',Captain King-
come, arrived this morning frottl The West Indies, bringing
the 71st.: (Highlanders) Regiment, from Barbadoes. She
came into harbour this evening to disembark the troops. We
regret to announce a most melancholy catastrophe which oc-
curred on board the Belleiale on her passage home. Captain
Kingcome's son, a midshipinan, with another young gentle-
man of the same rank, was " skylarking" in the dusk of the
evening about ten days since and chasing each other about
a ship, and having gone aloft, Mr. Kingcome missed his
footing, and felt tutu we sea, at a time when the ship was
going very ft.iat throygh the water. She was put about,
the boats hoisted Out, and every exertion made to recover
the unfortunate youth, but all was of no avail. Mr. King-
come was a gallantly-disposed and daring youth, and exhi-
bited considerable promise. He was Universally beloved by
All who knew.him.
The African steam-tug arrivel this morning from Ostend,
bringing the carriages and baggage of Sir Hamilton. Seymour,
G.C.8., who is going out as Minister to Lisbon.
The remains of the late gunner of the Sphynx (Mr. Har •
ris) were interred to-day at Gosport. During the time the
body was crossing the harbour, the flag and other ships in
commission lowered their colours half-mast. The corpse was
carried by a party of men of the Excellent. All the officers
of the same rank the deceased held followed his remains to
the grave.
The Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, was at Sierra Leone
on the 10th of December—all well on board.

The Cygnet, 10, Commander Montresor, a' the above date
was ordered home.

Heavy gales from S. by E. to W.S.W. have been blowing
during the last two days and nights. Two merchantmen
have been towed in to-day considerably damaged in their
rigging. It is feared bad news will be heard from the
Sphynx. No communication has been made to-day with
this place. Mr: Murray, Chief Engineer of this dockyard,
ent dciwn to the wreck yesterday.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
,LL
Loxno7, JAN. 26.—Wind S.W. by S., light breeze, and
line, clear weather.

JAN. 24.—Wind W.S.W., very strong, with heavy
equalls.—Arrd. Varuna, Mould, Calcutta.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Thos.
Fielder, Blackstone, Calcutta; Andes, Patrickson' Bahia;
Helen Hamilton, Nicol, Maracaibo; Achiever, Johnson.
Savanilla •' Tyrian, Walker, Demerara; Camilla, Jackson,
ditto; Gleaner, Barett, St. Domingo; Parsee Merchant,
Poole, New Orleans; John Cumming, Dwight, Savannah;
Merchant. Clark, New York; St. George, Ferris, ditto;
Janet, M'Lean, Sheppegan. Off port, Warren Hastings, New
Orleans.

HULL, Jas. 2.s.—Wind S.W., strong.—Sld. Pulsone, Ask.
am, Savanilla.

NEWPORT, J. 25.—Wind S.W.—SII William right,
Curlett, Grenada.
ronrsmourn, JAN. 25.—Wind W.S.W., squally.—Arrd.
her Majesty's ship Belleisle, Barbadoes; Robert M‘William
WDonald, Quebec.

BOWM I. (ISLAY).—Arrd. Walfaille, Ritchie, Dalhousie
for Greenock.

CAMPBELTOWN LOCH.—Arrd. Highlander, St. Kitts.
SWANSEA, JAN. 24.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Circassian.
Cuba.

GALWAY, JAN. 24.—The Manchester, of New York, Cap-
sized in the dock this morning during a heavy squall, and
remains on her beam-ends. The Emma Prescott, of New
York, and the Redwing of Dublin were driven on shore and
dismasted.

BA LItON'A LD, NORTH 151ST, JAN. 13.—The Hayti of
Westport struck on a rock llth inst. and sunk; crew saved.
.RELATING TO THE ST. GEORGE, OF GLASGOW.
A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from the Admi-
ralty, reporting assistance r.ldered to the Sr. George of
Glasgow, by her Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus, by
means of paddle box boats.

CURRENT OF THE OCEAN.
The French Consul- General has transmitted to Lloyd's a
paper which was found in a bottle, picked up at the beginning
of the present month on the coast of Roscoff. Like many
others of a similar nature, it had evidently been thrown over-
board witbout any other motive than idle curiosity.

THE LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM.
A gen!ral court of this corporation was held en Mcrt lay at
the Lund in Tavein, Bishopsgate-street, t receive the an-
nual report of the Institution, and to transact other business
prelinainar to the current year.
Mr. Merman Thompeon took the chair at eleven o'clock.
The Rev. J. P. WRIGHT, Flon. Secretary to the Institution,
reed the report. It stated that during the past year sixty-
five children had completed their term of residence at the
institution, in place of whom fifty-five candidates had been
admitted, and ten under Rule 37 by payment; that there
were 129 candidates that day, out of whom the cornmittee
bad resolved on electing thirty-six for admission ; which
number, added to the present beneficiars, would make
the , total number of children in the institution
amount to 374, and the entire number of those who have
leaped the benefit of the foundation, 1,620. It added, that
the amount of donations and subscriptions this year was
below the average ; and announced the following legacies,
which had been bequeathed to the institution during last
year:-3001. from .11rs M. W. Egerton ; 1504 stock from
Isaac Cohen, Esq. ; 501. from 11. Seam bier, Esq.; and 1,0004
from Mrs. M. Weybridge The committee regretted the
loss of the late Geortee Byng, Eeq., M.P., and Mr. Capell
from the direction and generous support of the institution.
The accounts laid before the meeting by the treasurer
showed the amount of receipts to be 10,4611. ; the domestic
expenses, 4,013/. ; clothing,- 1,083/. ; and outfits, 517/. ;
besides sundry caller expenses, which, when deducted, left a
balance of cash in the hands of the treasurer of 11/. 15s. 7d.,
*ssd the following stock, funded in the name of the Corpora-
tion :-6,571/„ Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities; 461/.,
Three per Cent. Consols; 3,309/., Terminable Annuities;
3,471/., Reduced Presentation Fund ; and 4,7001., New Three-
ond-a-Quarter Annuities, Wellington Fund Stock.
Mr. C. BROWN, in moving the adoption of the report, drew
the attention of the public to the strong claims of the institu-
tion, and its gr.iwipg necessities.—itesolution camel.
Mr. Maaatiorr moved a vote of thanks to Alderman
Thompson, and his re-appointment as treasurer.
Mr. Alderman Tuomrsox, in acknowledging the vote that
bad been passed, said he could not avoid solicitin4 their at-
tention to a bequest which had been made to the
institution
last year, and which appeared to him more than anything
eelex: to commend the institution. He said a hurnlil;
'equal in the City, who hal laboured hard to earn his sub:
nistence, a clerk-in the house of Ralli, Brothers, had be-
queathed the whole of his hard earnings, a'te' three lives,
to the London Orpl $ t Asylum. What maee it more re-
markable was, that Jr. Crickmas was hirns(l- a Ge!man, a
stranger among them, who bad no tie to this country, except
that his labour had bqn rewarded. The reversion was
40004, and it seemed tci bim to speak volumes in favour of
the asylum.
After the services of Rev. J.-P. Wright and Rev. C.
Mackenzie, hon. seen tirieS, had been acknowledged by a
Tote of thanks, they, the auditors
,and the committee, were
re-appointed, and several ilistingiushed names were added to
the list of patrons andt
pa.ronesses Of the institution.
This closed the business of the lueLe'.ine., an 1 the members
proceeded to ballot for the candidates to adinitted into the
asylum.

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TIDE 110 HE WA R D BOUND lilt E.—A. dispatch
has been received at Lloyd's from the Admiralty. annotinc.'n
Vie return of her Majesty's ship Queen to Plymouth from the g Chops of the Channel, and reports having fallen in with
Several vessels, but w:t i the exception of one, they had a
air wind up Channel, generally S. by E. to S.S. W.
...The Rev. Dr. Croli has been elected to the office
In afternoon preacher at tfte Finindling Hospital.
ARK'—fie RIJOf' T PTCY HE LEEDS AND WEST RIDING
Oldindieation 3
;:i llderstand that;. the application to set aside the
biblY be hearde r.
Commissioner Burge in this case will pro-
' PRICE or t..l's Court of lOvicw to-day.
wii.mwEit...._Thet-yoolrritTOES AT THE SOUTHWARK
per ton ; the produe, ofßegents stand at from 200 s. to Me.
per /ditto; Lincoln am '-',e. midland counties, 150 s. to 170 s.
ditto; Lincoln an,l c.,,,,,Thrlirddge, from 1455. to 180 s. per
red-nosed kidneys, 140 s. to
1451, per ditto; Essex ancllcetn
wiiitetskidneys,
sound regents from 900.,. to
.40i. per ditto; Essex and
evil fie as high as 170 s
beet samples; and French 205 e. ditto, the
per ton. The supplies have
that the winds have
tbhut notwithstandin P
ritt up the prices, under the impreger,, )1' Y l'em• kept back to.
proved :unfavourable to their aprrriii,c-iasl:-I
Chet season will (vet
fti. y attempt to aggravatA- the
rate in favour of immediate arrivals.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WE it,
SULWAY.—On Monday, as the express-train from
the tire of the driving.lt-.
tor, arriving at Paddington, at 4h. :30m., was passing
lbw o'clock down train at Southall,
If heel flew of 1; and striking a second-class carriage on-th
down-train, broke the upper part to pieces, killing._Qn the
several others. A lady in the
'pot two men, and wounding
=press-tram was also injured by the rebound of a part of
Vie broken wheel. Neither train was thrown off the rails,
Sad the express was not travelling at above its thual speed.
CHELaisioup UNION.—Tha contracts for the fol.
trilig places, which suddenly,Ncame vacant, owing to do-
t in the contractors, -Were—on Tueiday last taken as
tinder:—Bread, for the onion workhouse. and second district,'
lit. B. Bryant, at 73,4 d. the 41b. loaf ; Ist district, Mr.
George Markham, Scl. Flour for the union house, Mr. James
'Webster, sun., at 533. 65:1.,2"--er sack, of good seconds fl _our.—
„Nsser Herald.

The Conde de Monternolin attended on Monday
"let at fps, House of Commons to hear Lord Juba Rus6ell's
wpb.