The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

S 17 Er, DECEMBER 7, 1847.

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GRANT TO THE NAVY FOR
THE RELIEF SERVICE IN IRELAND.
The Lords of the Treasury having had under
consideration the services of her Majesty's ships and
vessels engaged in the relief service during the recent
operations on the coasts of Ireland and Scotland, have
awarded the sum of 8,6001. to be distributed as gra-
tuities to certain officers, men, and boys employe.l,
according to the extent of their several duties, as
compensation for their extra expenses, and I,r the
wear and tear of the clothing of the working men
and boys.
The grant is distributed to no less than forty-seven
men-of-war and other vessels of the navy, carrying
pendants, and to three victualling lighters, the Ant,
Swale, and Arthur, and the sums vary to the working
men from 51. to 11.
The following ships having seen the most severe
duty, many of them in the partial famine of the pre-
vious year, viz :
The Alban steam-transport, Master• Commanding
Bradshaw; Rhadamanthus steam-transport, Master-
' Commanding Aylen ; the Dee steam-transport, Mas-
ter-Commanding Driver; the Stromboli, steam-sloop,
Captain Fisher; the Pluto steam -vessel, Commander
Lowe; the Blazer steam-vessel, Commander Win-
grove ; the Lucifer steam-vest•el, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Smith; the Comet steam-vessel, Commander
Johnson ; the Dasher steam-vessel, Commander
French; and the Zephyr steam-packet, Lieutenant-
Commander Ladd, have had awarded to them 50/. to
the commanding officers. To the officers' messes of
all descriptions, a sum equal to 10/. each. To the
working petty officers, seamen, stokers, marines,
supernumerary marines, &c., 51. each ; and to the boys
21. 10s., or amounts in proportion, according to the
time served and employed, except the Stromboli and
her crew,•from its numbers, will share but 31. per
man.

To the Gipsy, Mercury, Emerald, Lively, Cocka-
;rice, Gossamer, and Swallow, 31. per man, and 201.
and 25/. to the commanding officers.
To the Firefly steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Buchan ; Avon steam-vessel, Commander
Smith ; Porcupine steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Tumour; and Acheron, steam-vessel,
Lieutecant-Commander Dunlop; commanding offi-
cers, 251. each ; officers' messes, an average of Si.
each; to the men, 2/. 10s. each, and boys, 11.55.
To the following five frigate depOts :-Madagascar,
Master-Commanding Burney; Andromache, Master-
Commanding Thomas Johnson ; Andromeda, Master-
Commanding R. Thompson ; Belvidere, Master-
Commanding Wellington ; and tEolus, Master. Com-
manding Tucker, commanding officers, 251. each ;
gunners, boatswains, and carpenters, 71. each ; other
officers, Si.; to the men ss. per month for a period of
eight months ; and to the boys, 3s. per month for the
same time ; to the marines of the Devon lighter 21.
each, and to the Adventure 1/..---the former having
been stationed at Skull, and the latter at Kenmare.
The following ships have had awards for the work-
ing men, to be equally distributed, share and share
alike. Boys half share :-
The Myrmidon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Roberts, 501.; Tartarus steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Cole, SOL; Urgent steam-packet,
Lieutenant-Commander Symes, 30/. ; Fearless steam-
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Glyn, 20/. ; Sinbad
lighter, 10/. ; Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Com-
manding Petley, 221. 10s. ; Shearwater, Lieutenant-
Commander Sir Godfrey Webster, 30/. ; Centaur
steam-frigate, Master-Commander Davey, 751.;
Dauntless steam-frigate, Master-Commander M'Do-
mild, 501.; Scourge steam-sloop, Captain Caffln, 100/. ;
Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, 1001.;
Avenger steam-frigate, Commander Potbury, 100/. ;
Bull-dog steam-sloop, Commander Davies, 501.;
Terrible, and Dragon, steam-frigates, Captains Ram-
say and Hall, 1001. ; Odin steam-frigate, Captain
W. J. Williams, 751.; Birkenhead steam. vessel,
Commander Ingram, 301. ; Portland, 50, frigate,
Commander Schoenberg, 751. ; Tyne frigate, 501.
The victualling hoys Ant, Swale, and Arthur,
employed on the coast of Ireland share in the grant-
The masters, 101. each ; mates, 71.; men, 51.; and
boys, 21. 10s. And the Portsmouth hoymen at the
Royal Clarence-yard have not been forgotten, but
have also been duly compensated.
The master millers, bakers, leading men, &c., of
the Deptford, Clarence, and Royal William victual-
ling yards have had awarded to them for their extra
duties during the relief operations sums of 201., 151.,
arid 10/. each; and the two bakers' boys that were
injured by the machinery have had liberal gratuities
granted to them.
Tne clerks in charge of her Majesty's ships, as
compensation for their trouble and responsibility in
the care and custody of the relief supplies, and for
the extra expenses incurred, have been awarded sums
varying from 25/. to 101. each, in addition to their
shares of the grant for their respective ships' com-
panies.
The Treasury have made their awards from the
extent of the services performed. Of the fifty Go-
vernment vessels enumerated, the meal and bread
stuffs carried and distributed by each varied from
3,200 tons to 50, and from 80 trips of distribution to
one. The work, risk, and labour, fell upon the small
and not largely-powered steam-vessels, with crews
from 30 to 70, and consequently the larger gratuities
have been granted to them, while her Majesty's more
powerful and gigantic steam. frigates, such as the
Terrible, Dragon, Odin, &c., with competent crews,
made but a trip or two direct from England to Ire-
land ; but the task of relief fell upon the Blazer, Comet,
Lucifer, Dasher, Zephyr, and the small sailing craft,
to put to sea in all weathers for the distressed and suf-
fering parts of Cork, Kerry, Galway, &c. And it is
truly remarkable that during the 18 months' famine,
and the presence of 40 men-of-war on the coasts, not
an accident or mishap occurred, while to the foreign
and coasting trade the shipwrecks were many and
disastrous. This speaks volumes for the efficiency of
her Majesty's naval service, as the estimation in which
the coast of Ireland was held during the war must be
in the recollection of some of our gallant officers, now
admirals. Liberally have the Lords of the Admiralty
marked their sense of the service performed by the
promotion of two commanders, four lieutenants, two
clerks, and we hope it is in contemplation to promote
some medical officers and second masters, and not
forgetting, at the same time, the " working petty
officers."

To Captain Layton, late in command on the coast
of. Scotland, the sum of 10s. per day (the allowance
to a commodore of the second class) has been granted.

PuIILIC PETITIONS...—The second report of the
Select Committee of the House of Commons on petitions
has just been published. It appears that up to the 39th
ult., twenty-two against the removal of Jewish dis-
abilities, with 932 signatures ; while four, with sixty-
thi ee signatures, were presented in favour of such remo-
val. Against coercive measures (Ireland), five were
presented with 229 signatures, and 13 with 10,836 sig-
natures, with a similar prayer, but also requesting that
measures of amelioration should be enacted for Ireland.
Of these petitions, one was presented by Mr. F. O'Con-
nor, from Wigan, with 4,924 signatures; one from
Bradford (Yorkshire), with 3,032 signatures, presented
by Col. Thompson; and also one from Heaton, York-
shire, with 1,005 signatures. One of these petitions,
from the " United Ladies Boot and Shoe Makers of
London," with 97 signatures, also prayed for a repeal of
the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Some petitions were presented for inquiry into the case
of the Raja; of Sattara, with 4,156 signatures. One
petition from Bristol for the abolition of the punishment
of death had 3,200 signatures.
PROPOSED CHANGE IN SUTHERLAND.—We lately
announced the intention of his Grace the Duke of
Sutherland to break up the large farms on his estate as
soon as the present leases shall expire. We have since
learned that the propriety of such a change was fully
acknowledged by the late Duchess Countess of Suther-
land, and would have been acted upon when the existing
leases were renewed, but for the consideration that her
Grace was in reality unable to meet the great cost of
the proposed measure. The leases so renewed were the
first that were given subsequent to the original or first
letting after the introduction of sheep farming on an ex-
tensive scale. The farms were then laid out, not on the
best system, but on the best that could be adopted under
existing circumstances. The present size of some of
the farms was the result of necessity, not of choice. On
occasion of the next letting, however, all such anemo-
nes can be removed, and the patriotic wishes of Ban
Alhorar Chat—the illustrious lady of Sutherland—and
the intentions of the present benevolent representative
of the noble family be fully carried into effect.—lnverness
Courier.

DISTURBANCE AT AN AUCTION AT WISDEACII.—
An unction of the stook of a company of travelling
drapers, on Monday evening, was interrupted by a num-
ber of young men, drapers and others, who, considering
those auctions, which are now very frequent, an infringe-
ment upon the fair trade of the established houses in the
town, assembled with the avowed intention of putting a
stop to it, which they succeeded in doing. A tumult
and pell-mell fight ensued, the worse consequence being
a broken leg ; this occurred to a master draper, living on
the North Brink, Mr. Durrant.—lpswich Express.
RAPID PASSAGE.—On Friday last the. Courier,
the last new vessel of the South-Western Steam Navi-
gation Company, made the quickest passage on record
from the Channel Islands to Southampton. The vessel
started from Jersey at ten minutes past eight o'clock A.M.,
proceeded to Guernsey, where the detention occupied
half an hour, and then pursued her voyage, and reached
Southampton at half•past five o'clock P.M. The pas.
sengers were conveyed to London by the train which
leaves Southampton at six o'clock.