The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1847.

MAIL STEAM•PACKETS.

At Malta, the Flamer, Commander Lavie ; and the
Ardent, Lieutenant-Commander Baker.
En route from Malta to Marseilles, the Volcano,
Lieutenant J. Craig.
En route from Malta to the lonian islands and
Greece, the Locust, Lieutenant Power.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S FLOTILLA.

At Southampton, the Oriental, Achilles, Ripon,
Tagus, and Indus. _ _

En route to Gibraltar and Southampeon from Malta,
the Tiger.
En route from Gibraltar to Malta, the Canopus,
the Thetis, and the Sidon steam-frigate, and Achilles,
Peninsular and Oriental Company.
En route to Constantinople and ports of the Black
Sea from Malta, the Erin.

En route to Alexandria from Malta, the Hindostan,
At Malta, the Ariel and Sultan.
FOREIGN SHIPS 01' WAR AND PACKETS IN PORT.

French steamers, Leonidas and Osiris.
Yacht, the Louisa.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 11.—We have the pleasure to
announce the promotion of a deserving young com-
mander to the rank of captain, the Earl of Auckland
having conferred one of the vacancies caused by the
deaths of more than three captains on Commander
Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton (1844), who lately paid
off the Frolic, 16, after a long commission on the
Pacific and south-east coast of America stations,
when his ship and crew were in such a high state of
efficiency and discipline as to reap the reward of
universal praise from all who had an opportunity of
inspecting her.
At daylight this morning the Howe weighed with
a light air from the eastward, making signal at the
same time for the Scourge to weigh and take her in
tow. By the time the steam of the latter was up,
and her anchor at the bows, it was 20 min. to seven.
The rest of the squadron were in the meantime pre-
paring to weigh, and tripped their anchors successively
as follows :—Arab, at 656 A.M.; Nautilus, at 7 15
A.M. ; and Amphion, at 7 20 A.M. By this
time the Scourge had got hold of the
Howe, and was towing her briskly out to
the S.E., so that the whole of the squadron
started nearly together. The Howe rounded the

light vessel at the Knab at aquarter past eight, and
was finally lost sight of at a quarter past ten, still in
tow of the Scourge, and with no other sail set but
her jib and spanker, a moderate breeze from S.S.E.
and steering S.W. The breeze still continues. The
rest of the squadron were in sight till nearly noon.
The Fire Queen steamer, Lieutenant-Commander C.
R. Johnson, was sent after her with letters and
papers, and left the harbour at thirty-four minutes
after nine A.m., and overtook her, delivered her dis-
patches, and was in the harbour again ten minutes
before one !

The Hermes steam-vessel, Lieut. Bridge, arrived
to-day from Cork, and came into the harbour.
The Vixen steam-sloop, Commander A. P. Ryder,
went to Spithead to-day.
The Alban steam-transport, Master Commander M.
Bradshaw, sailed to-day for Plymouth, with a floating
fire-engine in tow.
Extract of a letter from the brigantine Kestrel,
Lieutenant-Commander Baker, dated Aug. 7, 1847 :
—" We left England on the 4th of May, and arrived
at Madeira on the 25th, after rather a long passage,
owing to head winds the whole way. There we found
the Thetis, from Lisbon. On the 27th we sailed for
Rio, the Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, having left
the morning before for St. Michael's. I forgot to add
that we lost a first-class boy (James Sangman) over-
board on the 12th of May. The Peterel packet, from
Falmouth, left Madeira on the 24th. We arrived
at Rio OR the 24th of June, where we found the
Griffon brigantine, but the packet had not yet arrived.
The Peterel arrived on the 25th, and we started on
the 29th, at daylight, with the mails for the squadron
at Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. We had three
patnpiros on the passage, and arrived at Monte Video
on the 11th, where we found the Raleigh, 50, Com-
modore Sir Thomas Herbert ; the Eagle, 50, Captain
T. B. Martin ; the Melampus, 42, Captain J. N.
Campbell, under way for the Cape of Good Hope ;
the Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain Hope ; the
Alecto steam sloop, Commander Massingber ; the
Ilarpy iron steam. vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Tomlinson, and the Lizard iron steam-vessel,
Lieutenant- Commander Pearse. The Comus, 18,
Commander D'Eyncourt, was at Maldonado; the
Grecian, 16, Commander Findal, was blockading
Buenos Ayres ; and the Satellite, 18, Commander
Rowley, was at Colonia. We arrived at Buenos
Ayres on the morning of the 13th, after a splendid
run of 13 hours from Monte Video.

" On the 16th we left, and arrived at Monte Video.
On our return voyage (on the 18th) here, we heard
of the English blockade being raised on the 13th,
that the Rattler had left for England with the news,
and that in all probability the French would do the
same. The Alecto was sent up with the news on the
morning of our arrival at Monte Video, and both she
and the Grecian are now at this anchorage. There
is apparently a very strong feeling against Lord
Howden on account of his raising the blockade.
He was to sail from Monte Video for Rio on the 26th
of July or thereabouts, in the Eagle. We were de-
tained at Monte Video three days by a very strong
pampiro, and left on the 23d in the evening. The
Charte French frigate, from France via Teneriffe and
Rio, arrived on the 18th. We arrived at Rio on the
3d of August. On the 7th the Seagull sailed for
England. The Eagle arrived from Monte Video in
the night of the 4th, with his Excellency Lord
Howden on board. He landed under a salute next
morning. The Racer, 16, Commander Reed, sailed
on the Bth for Buenos Ayres and Monte Video,
and we await the next mail from England. The only
foreign man-of-war here is the American Columbia,
carrying a commodore. I re-open this to tell you that
the Brazilian frigate Constitucion is off the harbour from
England, Lisbon last, with the mother of the Emperor
of Brazil on board. His Majesty was afloat yester-
day, the 6th, when all the men•of-war saluted him.
He inspected the fort of Santa Cruz?'
The death of Captain Edward Boxer, 1814, places
another promotion to that rank from the commanders'
list at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
Five o'Clock,
Pin. :Wind S.E. by E., moderate
breeze ; weather fine
WOOLWICII, OCT. 11.---The Tartarus steam-vessel
was commissioned to-day at Woolwich by Lieutenant
Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart., who will command her.
The Banshee steam-vessei, built by Mr. Thompson
at the Commercial Dock Pier, Deptford, from a de-
sign by Mr, ca. •W Lang, jun., assistant to the
master shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard, was to be
launched at half-past two o'clock, l'•m• The first
cheer, after the bottle had been broken on her bows,
had scarcely ended when the vessel stopped on the
slip after having glided onwards about forty feet,
Every exertion was subsequently made to set her in
motion again, and continued until half-past four
o'clock, when the tide had receded so much that it
was considered necessary to shore the vessel up and
wait for the afternoon tide of tomorrow. The Mon-
key steam-vessel, Master Commander William
Bryant, was in attendance with a Number of the crew
of the Black Eagle steam-vessel, to assist in navigat-
ing her after the launch to Messrs. Seaward's shears,
where her boilers are to be put on board, and the
dasidif
not i t had
mope beeino
the
crew of the Monkey attached a seven-inch hawser to
the Banshee to aid in towing her off; but on the
power of the Monkey being applied the hawser broke
a piece
le aos ftdegree.
thread,
supposedßanshee
the stoppage arose from the cradle having become
riband bound, owing to the guide planks laid
upon the ways being narrower near the river
than they are at the starting point; and this
is more likely to be the cause, as the united
powers of the Monkey (Government), and Unity
(hired), steam-tug, in addition to a powerful screw at
her bows and a large tree used as a battering-ram,
with levers to raise the fore•port, did not move her
nearer the river. It was fortunate she did not pro-
ceed aunrd,
deth ehnusttoapt,
p she is quite safe,
as
sresent
she would in that case
have
although it may cause some trouble to get her afloat.
fhueretuh eirnj
The Banshee is built of wood, and is a remarkably
fine vessel in appearance, firmly put together although
light ,in her outline to the eye. She is intended to
run as one of her Majesty's Holyhead mail packets,
and is of the following dimensions :—Length, 189
feet ; breadth, 27 feet ; depth, 14 feet 6 inches ;
tonnage, 670 ; h
_ orse-power, 350
; paddle-wheels 26
feet in diameter by 9 feet broad; and as her draught
is only nine feet
her paddle boxes appear a great
height above her deck. The brass band of the Royal
Sappers and Miners were present, and thousands of
spectators remained until
.they ascertained that no
further attempt would be made during the afternoon
to launch her.

&C._ WINDSOR, INDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.
--Artufßour COURT,ocIe k this afternoon her Majesty rode out
W
.carriage following with
open
naids of honour. Colonel
in her pony phaeton, driven by his Royal Highness the
tPrincehe l is d )C-
Seymour and General Bowater attending on horseback.
Previous to her A. fajesty descending from her private
apartments an accident occurred which for the moment
caused considerable alarm. . Ono of the led horses, a
ionn
waningsort, anaont another rt h
eo
beautiful grey from the Prince Consort's stud, broke
away from the groom who had care of him, and galloped
furiously round and round the great quadrangle, becom-
ing more and more excited every moment at the attempts
made to stop him. At length, while dashing across the
pavement under the clock tower, he fell with such force
as to slide several yards on his side, but he was then
secured and sent back to. the stables uninjured, and
without her Majesty having been made aware of the
accident. Her Majesty returned from her ride about six
o'clock.
ectly
Tranquillity having been perf re-established
in Galicia, the Austrian Government has given orders to
place the troops there on a peace establishment.
ANDOVBIL
—We regret to hear that our late re-
spected Member, Ralph Etwall, Esq., is confined to his
house from an injury received by being overturned in
his carriage.—Hants independent.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al-
bert took their accustomed early walk.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, took walking and
pony exercise this morning, on the eastern terrace
and slopes.
Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this
morning, accompanied by Lord John Russell. His
Royal Highness was attended by Colonel the Hon. C.
B. Phipps, Gen. Bowles, and Col. Seymour.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Holstein Glucks-
bourg, his Serene Highness the Prince William of
Holstein, and his Excellency Count de Reventlow,
are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit
to the Queen.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and Lord
Edward Howard are also expected to arrive on a visit
this evening.

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
is expected to include her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness the Duke of
Holstein Glucksbourg, Prince 'William of _Holstein,
his Excellency Count de Reventlow, Lord John Rus-
sell, Viscount and -Viscountess Palmerston, the Lady
in 'Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de
Speth, Lord Edward Howard, Miss L. Dawson
Darner, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards at-
tend in the Castle.

Earl Grey arrived in town last evening from the
seat of Earl Fitzwillism, near Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Sir George Grey arrived in town yesterday even-
ing, from his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch returned to
town on Saturday night from Gosport.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of New South Wales and
Cape Coast Castle.

ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCE OF
WALES AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
An accident, which was fortunately not attended
by any serious results, occurred to their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of \Vales and the Princess Royal,
yesterday morning, in Windsor Home Park, while
their Royal Highnesses were taking their usual
equestrian exercise upon the Shetland ponies, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock. A Lilliputian Java
pony, not more than twenty-seven inches in height,
which was presented to her Majesty by Lord Charles
Wellesley about three years ago, generally accom-
panies the Royal Family during their rides in the
Home Park. The Java pony, while the Prince and
Princess were taking their exercise, attended by the
grooms and one of their governesses, having dis-
played some curious antics, the two Shetland ponies,
ridden by the Prince of \Vales and the Princess
Royal, started off at full speed, before the grooms
had the power to secure them, bolting across the park
in different directions. The Prince of Wales fortu-
nately retained his seat, showing great skill in the
management of his steed. The Princess Royal, how-
ever, not having the same command over her pony,
was thrown from her seat, providentially alighting
upon the turf without. sustaining the least injury.
The royal children lost no time in proceeding to the
Castle, arriving there before the news of the accident
had reached the ears of her Majesty or the Prince
Consort. Not the least blame is attached to the
grooms in attendance, who exerted themselves most
praiseworthily in rescuing the royal children from
the danger in which they were involved. Orders have
been given that the Java pony, which was the cause
of the accident, is not to be permitted to be in the
Home Park for the future during the time the Royal
Family take their morning rides in the vicinity of the
Castle.

DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN

DOWAGER.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY. - The Queen Dowager
sailed in the Howe, 120, from Spithead, this morning
before seven o'clock, accompanied by the Duchess Ida,
the Prince Edward, and the Princess Amelia and
Anne, of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Dowager
Lady Clinton, Colonel Sir llorace and the Hon. Miss
Seymour, Lord Scott, Colonel and Mrs. Cornwall,
Lieutenant Reding, R.N., Sir David Jone 3, the Rev.
J. Hudson (chaplain to her Majesty), and thirty-six
domestics.

The Lightning steam-packet was sent out with dis-
patches, but returned without putting them on board,
and the Fire Queen ultimately took them out and de-
livered them when the squadron had got twenty
miles from the port. The Amphion, Nautilus, Arab,
and Scourge (the latter towing), accompanied the
Howe to sea.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND LOSS

OF L 1 FE.

Last evening, at a quarter-past seven o'clock, the
premises belonging to Messrs. Whitaker and Co., the
furniture brokers, of 28, Water-lane, Blackfriars,
were discovered to be on fire. The building, which
was three floors high, and contained in the lower por-
tion a great quantity of furniture, was in a very few
minutes in flames. At the time of the outbreak, Mr.
and Mrs. Whiter were from home, but Mrs. Ham.
bleton, one of the lodgers, and her three children, were
in one of the upper rooms, and it was with great
difficulty that they escaped. With as little delay as
possible the engines of the parish, London esta-
blishment, &c., arrived in rapid succession, and
there being an abundant supply of water flowing
from the mains of the New River, several engines
were set to work, and a powerful stream of the
antagonistic element was thrown upon the burning
mass ; notwithstanding the flames continued to travel,
seizing upon evierything of an ignitable character,
until the premises were nearly gutted. The fire, it
is to be regretted, has been attended with fatal con-
sequences
to an elderly female, who lodged in the
upper part of the house, and known as Miss Purday,
a teacher of music. At twenty minutes past nine
o'clock, whilst Flemming, one of the brigade men,
was examining the premises, he came to an object in
the attic which he at first imagined to be a feather
bed, but upon closer examination he found to be the
body of a female, most shockingly burned, so much so
that none of the features could be recognised. It
appears that she lived in one portion of the second
floor, and when the alarm was given she was in her
sitting-room. The poor creature was told by one of
the females that a fire was raging below, and that she
must make the best of her way down; instead of
doing so she ascended to the upper floor, where she
was eventually discovered by the fireman. Police-
constable Harrison, who first discovered the out-
break, immediately had a ladder brought to the spot,
and two constables, at the risk of their own live's,
mounted the roof, and inquired at the windows
whether or not any one was therein. No answer
being received, it was at that period concluded that
all the inmates had effected a safe retreat. A shell
was immediately procured, and the body was lowered
from the top of the building with as much privacy as
possible and placed therein, and taken to the dead-
house, where it awaits a coroner's inquest.

AWFUL CATASTROPHE.

DESTRUCTION OF LISSANOURE CASTLE
BY GUNPOWDER.

An awful and almost unprecedented occur-
rence took place on Tuesday last at Lissanoure
Castle, near Ballymoney. Mr. George Macartney,
the proprietor of Lissanoure, previous to the reduction
of the yeomanry force was captain in the body, and
was in the habit of storing large quanties of gunpow-
der in the castle for the use of the small staff when
called out to practise. There were from eleven to
thirteen barrels of powder lying in the mansion for a
considerable length of time. It was usually kept, as
being most out of the way of danger, in a dark and
narrow passage leading from one wing of the castle
to the other. In this passage, very little traversed at
any time, some of the gunpowder had become damp,
and was ordered by Mr. Macartney to be laid out
to dry. What quantity was taken from the barrels
is as yet unknown, but it must have been consider-
able from the effects which ensued. The powder
had remained for some days spread out in the
passage. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Macartney,
the lady of the proprietor, having occasion to pass
through the passage, took with her a lighted candle.
Whether she knew that the destructive material was
in the situation described, no person can tell ; but she
had scarcely been a minute in the place when an ex-
plosion took place, the roar of which was heard like
a burst of thunder, and in an instant, with the excep-
tion of the opposite wing from the spot, the castle
was a mass of ruins, the unfortunate lady being blown
to atoms! It is impossible to know how the melan-
choly event primarily ensued. Whether Mrs. Ma-
cartney had stumbled and fallen with the light among
the powder, whether a snuff had fallen from the
candle, or whether it had accidentally dropped from
her hands, are matters that will in all human likeli-
hood remain a secret for ever. The state of mind
into which Mr. Macartney has been thrown by the
lamentable occurrence, the strongest terms for the
deepest agony would be weak to describe—reason for
the moment seems to have tottered under the weight
of the calamity. Although there were a number of
servants in the castle at the time of the explosion, no
one was injured save their lady, they being in the
wing situated at the other extremity of the building.
The lady who met so sudden and violent an end was '
universally esteemed.

THE RECENT EXECUTION AT

TRIAL OF M. DE BEAUVALLOPI.

On Saturday the trial was resumed, and the Cour, t
was as much crowded as on the preceding day.
M. Capo de Feuillide appeared as the advocate or
the prisoner, but some considerable time was taken
up with what in England would be considered an
irregular discussion upon almost every point in the
case, and many indeed which had no apparent con-
nexion with it. Several witnesses, however, gave
evidence, in addition to that which had been pre-
viously received, of the prisoner's having practised at;
a mark with the pistol used in the duel up to the
very moment appointed for the meeting.
M. de Thorigny then commenced his requisitory,
and after ably summing up the evidence against
Beauvallon, demanded his conviction.
Capo de Feuillide replied in behalf of the pri-
soner in a speech in which he recited, in the mos 4
glowing terms, the history of his client from his very
childhood, pointing out the precocious marks of ge-
nius which had distinguished in him while still a
boy the future journalist and man of feeling. He
proceeded to defend the antiquity of the Beauvallon
family, and although checked by the President, who
remarked that no one denied it, he ingeniouily suc-
ceeded in explaining that his family was the most
respectable in Guadaloupe, that the best road
in the island bore its name, that there were two,
cannon there which had bombarded an English
frigate, and that these two cannon had been com-
manded by the father of Beauvallon. He deprecated
the harshness which would punish immorality in a
boy like the prisoner, a journalist, who, at twenty-
three years of age, had become the director of the
literary department of an important newspaper, and
who had written a book which had elicited a compli-
ment from Chateaubriand. He reminded M. Meynard
that he had had a brother shot in a duel ; and after a
pathetic appeal to his client that he would never
again fight a duel, to which he replied, " Oh, never,
never!' concluded by supplicating the compassion
of the jury for a man whose friendship for his second
had alone induced him to put himself in danger by
presenting himself as a witness in his defence.
Beauvallon was then asked if he had anything to
add, and having answered in the negative,
The President asked the jury to retire and consider
their verdict.

In ten minutes the jury returned, finding the pri-
soner Guilty, but with extenuating circumstances.
The Court then retired to deliberate on its sentence,
and on returning condeninei the prisoner to eight
years of imprisonment (reclusion), and to the
expenses of the process.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, OCT. 11.
This being the first day of term, a convocation was
holden. The Pro-Vice•Chancellors, who were nomi-
nated on Saturday, qualified for that office. Those
officers of the University whose office is annual were
re-elected.

There were no candidates *r degrees, which has
not been the case on the first day of term for a great
number of years past.
Congregations will be holden for the purpose of
granting graces and conferring degrees, on the fol-
lowing days in the present term :—Thursday, Oct.
21; Friday, Oct. 29 ; Thursday, Nov. 11; Thursday,
Nov. 25 ; Thursday, Dec. 2 ; Friday, Dec. 17.
No person will on any account be admitted for the
degree of B.A. or M.A. (without proceeding through
Arts), whose name is not entered in the book kept for
that purpose at the Vice-Chancellor's house, on or
before the day preceding the day of congregation.
The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History
proposes this term to read " Eusebius," and " Eva-
grins." The lectures are open to all who have passed
the B.A. examination ; and those persons who wish to
attend either course are requested to call on the Pro-
fessor between eleven and one o'clock on Saturday,
Oct. 23.

CAMBRIDGE, Ocr. 11.
FRESIIMEN.—The entries at the various colleges
this term fall short of those of last year. Returns
from all the colleges have been made up, with the
exception of Downing and Trinity Hall. Taking
the number at these two to be the same as last year,
a decrease of 22 on the grand total is shown. The
relative numbers are as follow :

1846. 1847. ! 1846. 1847.
Trinity
Christ's
Clare
P,rubroke . . 5 ... 8 Downing 3. . 2
Corpus
Caius
Queen's
Emmanuel
Magdalene