The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Cyclops steam-frigate,
6 guns, and 220 horse power, was commissioned here
yesterday by Lieutenant Compton, of the Victory, for
Capissin the Hon. G. F. Hastings, 1845, who is appointed
to command her. She is ordered a compliment of 195
officers and men, for sea service. The following officers
are also appointed to her :—Lieutenant A. Hodgkinson
(1841) ; Paymaster and Purser, H. R. Cole (1842); se-
cond master, A. 0. West; midshipmen, E. A. Tweeddale,
W. Simpson, and J. Goodenough ; clerk's assistant, J.
Ch_fpman.
The Driver steam-sloop, 6 guns, and 280 horse power,
Commander C. R. Johnson, returned this morning from
Aaterford to be paid off, and resume her former posi-
tco among the ,advanced steam squadron in this har-

bcur.
The Hecate steam-sloop, 6 guns, and 240 horse power,
Commander Moorman, is ordered to be refitted, but not
for the usual term.
The Adventure, naval transport, Master Commanding
Wellington, came in this morning from Plymouth to
discharge stores and ship others. The Aid, navy
lighter, also came in to-day from the eastward to dis-
charge stores.
The F.,piry Rbyal yacht, Master Commanding Welsh,
Brent to Osborne this morning with dispatches.
The Earl of Hardwicke, Indianian, arrived at Spit-
bead to-day, outward bound.
This morning early the body of a seaman was picked
up at.§outhses Castle, washed ashore, bearing marks of
vtelotce. An inquest is summoned for to-morrow.
Four of the convicts who escaped from the York hulk
on Thursday evening have been retaken and brought
back to the ship.
The Ajax, screw guard-ship (reseed 74), will be ready
for trial about Thursday, when the Admiralty are ex-
pected to witness the experiment.
Mt NEU' MAIL TO THE COAST OP AFRICA.-Her
Majesty's steam-packet Dover, ofeoo-horse power, iron
eenatinctiun, lately employed between Dover and Calais,
is commissioned at Woolwich to convey the October mail
to the wester coast of Africa.
Her Majeety3s steam-sloop Devastation was spoken
apeken with on the passage from the Cape of Good
Hope for England, on the 3d of July, in lat. 33 15 S.,
lon. 14 40 E.
The ambridge, 76 guns, and the Anatttlen, 20, will be
put out of dock, at Devonport, on Thursday next.
The Cape of Good Hope, flag-ship, Rear-Admiral B.
Reynolds, was expected to hoist his flag ;on board his
ship, the Southampton, 50 guns, in the Sound, at Ply-
mouth, on Saturday.
PLeatorru, Sauer. 8.-Her Majesty's troop-ship Bel-
leisle, 24,. Captain John Kingcome, was paid off yester-
day; and her Majesty's brig Ferret, 8, Commander
George Sprigg, to-day.
The steam-vessel Hermes, 6, arrived on Thursday
from the Cove of Cork, having in tow the Andromeda,
store-ship.
The lad James Morley, one of the few survivors from
the steam-frigate Avenger, wrecked in the Mediterra-
neau, has been entered in the rope factory as a house,
boy. Tho artizsns of the yard have made a subscription
for him.
The merehant-ShipWilliam Parker, Captain Smith, from
Pert PhAftp the 27th of March, passed up Channel for
Eondon last night and landed Messrs. Lemann and Ro-
bertson, her only passengers, with two mails. She has
300 tons of copper ore from Adelaide, and 1,000 bales of
wool from Port Philip. When becalmed near the line,
about two months since, spoke tire ship John Horrocks,
from LiVerpool for Arioa, and saw thirty or forty sail of
merchant vessels, chiefly outward bound; two weeks
after the brig Narcissus, of Scarborough, from London
for Ceylon, out thirty-four days; about the 30th of July
the karqnes Winifred, from Hartlepool for Maranham,
and Marx, from London, for Rio Janeiro; and on the
10th ef" August the ship Recorder, homeward bound,
from Calcutta.
Ilex Majesty's frigate Southampton, 50, flag of
Rear4dmiral Reynolds, came in this morning from
Chatham.
The Andromache, 26, store-ship, master Commander
Johnson, arrived on Wednesday night, from Ireland,
and was towed into harbour by the Hermes, steamer,
which vessel also arrived from Ireland.
The Ferret, 8, Commander Spriggs, was paid
yesterday. Commander Sprigg received the com-
mendations of the admiral for the internal appear-
ance of the vessel and the efficiency of the crew, particu-
larly, in gunnery; of eight shots fired, five passed
through the target.
The Amazon, 23, and Cambridge, 76. having under-
gone repair, will be put out of dock on Thursday next.
The Indefatigable, 50, lately launched at this
,yard, is
fitting as an advanced ship.
IN EIARBOUR.-Sap Josef, 110, Captain Sir Thomas
Vaitland, with the fl .g of Sir William H. Gage; Agin-
court, 72, Captain Mends, with the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir John Louis; Peterol, 6, Lieutenant Thomas Creser;
and Andromache, 26, Master Commander Johnson.
IN THE SOUND.-Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W.
Cotter; and Southampton, 50, Captain Corry.
APPOINTMENTS.
Commander-Arthur Vyner (1843), who was severely
wounded on the coast of China, when mate of the Blen-
heim„ 74, to the Royal NavaliCollege for study.
Lieutenants-G. B. Laurence (1843), late commander
of the Jack ;surveying schooner, and W. Mooney (1844),
late of the Thunder surveying ship, to the Fiagard pen-
dant ship at Wool wich, to complete the drawings of their
surveys; W. H. Hood (1846), to the Coast Guard ser-
vice; A. B, Hodgkinson, to the Cyclops.
Paymaster and Purser-H. R. Cole, to the Cyclops.
Secoixl Master-A. 0. West, to the Cyclops.
Assistant-Surgeon-H. 11. Macieenzie, to the Penelope
steam flag-ship on the western coast of Africa station.
hater's Assistant-T. H. James, to the Penelope
steam-frigate.
Midshipmen-J. Goodenough, E. A. Tweedale, and W.
Simpson, to the Cyclops.
Naval Cadet-His Serene Highness Prince Victor of
Holienlohe Langenbourg, to the powerful, B4-gun ship,
at Portsmouth.
Clerk's Assistant-Jabez Chapman, to the Cyclops.
SIR WILLIAM PARKER'S FLEET.-At anchor off
Naples, August 30: The Hibernia, 104 guns, Captain
Wise, bearing the flag of Vice:Admiral Sir William
Pager, K,C.8., Commander-in-Chief in the Meditera-
nean; and the Queen, 116, Captain Bruce. At Castel-
a-Mare: The Rodney, 92, Captain Edward Collier, C. 8.;
the Vengeance, 84, Captain S. Lushington, C. 8.; the
Howe, 120, Captain Sir J. Sterling, Knt.; the Vanguard,
80, Captain Rizh; the Superb, 80, Captain A. L. Correy.
At Leghorn: The Thetis, 40, Captain H. J. Codring-
teya, C.B. At Palermo: The Odin steam frigate, Cap-
tnn the Hon. F. T. Pelham. On a cruise: The Spartan,
26, Captain Symonds; the Harlequin, 16, Commander
John Moore; the Terrible, 21, steam-frigate, Captain
Ratriswysi the Gladiator, 8, steam-frigate; the Sidon, 12,
steatn-frigate, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8.; and the
Spitfire, Porcupine, and Locust steamers. At the
Pirmus of Athens: The Mutine, 12, Commander J. Pal-
mer; and the Meteor, steam- vessel, Commander Butler.
At Constantinople: The Tartarus steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenant Skr Godfrey Webeer, Bart., R.N. The Superb
wail 'about being detached from the fleet and sent to
Pertsmoseh to be paid off.
CHATHAM, SEPT. 8.-The Nerbudda, 12-gun brig,
paid off on the 19th of June last at that port, on her ar-
savat from the East Indies, is ordered to be fitted for the
nrdinary.
The Boscawen, 70 guns, at Sheerness, is to be removed
to Chatham, and taken, into dock for the purpose of hav-
ing her internal works fitted.
An Admiralty circular to the Captain-Superintendent
of this yard orders that the line-of-battle skips and fri-
gates now constructing on the slips shall not be launched
until they are properly seasoned, or until required for
sereeine. They are, however, to be completed in every
respect as far as possible.
Sailed.-The Aid, Smallmsn, with stores for Ports-
mouth; and remains, the Rochester, Sedgwick master,
loading for Portsmouth and Devonport yards.
SPIEIRRNESS.-The Miranda, a steam-sloop, of 250
horse-power, upon the paddle-wheel principle, was corn-
:amused building at Sheerness Dockyard on Monday
Past. She is on the lines of " many parents," being upon
upon the construction of the Committee of Reference on
Shipbuilding. Her dimensions, as ordered, are as fol-
low:

Feet. Inches.
Length between the perpendiculars 196 0
Length of keel for tonnage
Bxtreme breadth
Breadth for tonnage
Breadth moulded 32 10
Depth of hold 2O 9
Burden, 1,039 30-94 tons. Power. 250 horse.

TRAMPB.—By an Act passed on the 4th instant,
from and after the 30th instant until 30th September,
1849, tramps are to be relieved from the common fund of
poor-law unions, and not, as against common sense at
the east of the parish where the union-house is situated.
It was reasonably expected that a more stringent law
would have been enacted applying to tramps refusing to
perform a. task of woiek and destroying their clothes in
workhouses.

USEFUL APPLICATION OF DISEASED POTATOES.—
Sinoe the recurrence of the potato disease, those who
visit the eotaages of the poor may often see a panful of
potatoes; partially decayed,'cut up into a small compass,
in preparing for the daily meal, and where no pig is
kept the refufse thrown away as utterly worthless. It
blight; therefore, preserve many a bushel for a useful
purlanse, if the 'visitor would inform the busy housewife
Winter Store
of arrow-root might be preserved for her
ting Itp by a simple process, almost as easy as cut-
smell bole° bucketfull of potatoes into the space of a
doubtless agePa°4aprid c.ertaitnly more profitable. She is
and perhaps a
ye rovided with a large earthenware ,
en the rim, andri eoarse cloth, of sufficient size toret
to the required alp like a bag into. The only addition
pierced through apparatus is a small sheet of thin iron,
the lielp of this she c a strong nail like a grater. With
Pali Nrate and macerate the diseased
potatoes previously
, into a mass of pulp, which the
cloth receives in the e
gluten
will
soort
passpatinarnearly full of water. The
thrown awa she volt findokigh, and the water being
y ,
in lumps at the bottom of
the pan. In order to render the ar!ow- root of a fine qua-
lity, should pour water on it a and stir it well up.
After a quarter of an hour, shrnest again throw away
the water and then dry the arrowm-uroout in the sun, or by
athpueck of hour will
the tire. One pound of this added t
ghly dried,
fluke an extra loaf. The pulp, when
will keep any length of time, and if ground has the ap-
pearance ot brown meal, and would forma valuable ad
junet to the wash trotigh; should she be fortunate en g
-
enough
to possess a tenant in the adjoining stye. We have
seenu
specimens both of the brown meal and the arrow-root
and they appelr to be excellent.—Hereford Journal. ,
The. Duke of Wellington, as Lord Warden, came
over from Waloaer Castle, on Thursday, to preside at
the Harbour seisions. his Grace appeared in his usual
good health and spirits. his Grace surveyed the har-
bour works, and expressed his satisffiction with the pro-
wess being made in them.—Dover Chronicle.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN.
On Saturday the half-yearly meeting of this company
was held at Edinburgh. Mr. J. Balfour, of Balbirnie,
presided.
The report stated that since the last meeting the whole
of the line to Ferry-Port-on-Craig on the one hand, and
to Perth on the other, had been opened for traffic. The
first eleven miles of the Dunfermline Extension was on
Monday last opened for passenger traffic, leaving little
more than three miles of that line unfinished. The works
at the Tay Ferry have been proceeded with vigorously,
in order to insure permanent accommodation for at least
a portion of the Dundee traffic in the course of the pre-
sent autumn. The branch to Kirkaldy-harbour is nearly
completed, and the works at the Granton station are so
far advanced as already to afford greatly increased
facility for conducting the traffic in connexion with the
pier and ferry. The directors deemed it the most pru-
dent course to drop their proposed branch to Queens-
ferry, at the same time that the Edinburgh and Glasgow
and Stirling and Dunfermline Companies abandoned
their schemes in the same direction. The Bills for ex-
tending branches into the various coal districts, and
for improving the harbour of Burntisland, were
proceeding with successfully; and the directors enter-
tain no doubt that, hereafter, the construction of them
will add greatly to the revenue. The great depression
in the value of all kinds of railway securities has placed
difficulties in the way of realising, with punctuality, calls
upon capital, and of obtaining loans on debentures. The
demands on the proprietors have been made with great
reluctance. The suspension of the works, after nearly
1,500,0001. had been expended, would, in the opinion of
the directors, have been most unjustifiable, and would
have rendered dormant this large amount of capital, al-
though requiring but a comparatively limited additional
outlay to bring it into productive operation. The pre-
sent traffic returns afford no fair criterion of the real
value of the line; it is for the substantial good of all con-
cerned that. the necessary parts of the works remaining
unexecuted should be proceeded with and completed.
The directors urge upon the proprietary the expediency
of enabling them to carry on the Tay Ferry works,
to complete the remaining link of line between Cross-
gates and Dumfermline. Since the opening of the
line to Perth the average weekly receipts have been
2,205/., of which 1,8004 arises from passenger traffic
alone. Looking to the inconvenience to which the com-
munication with Dundee is still subject, and that Danferm-
line has not yet been reached, the directors consider the
state of passenger traffic to be most satisfactory, while
the comparatively small revenue from goods and minerals
is clearly to be attributed to the almost total want of
accommodation for those branches of traffic at any of
the termini. The directors are satisfied that when
these impediments to the full development of the traffic
are removed by the completion of the works, the, re-
ceipts will amply justify their previous expectations.
They request that the power of making further calls, of
proceeding against defaulters, and of raising money by
loan on debentures, may be given to them. The di-
rectors do not propose at the present time to commence
the execution of any of the branch lines hitherto sus
pended, nor of those works for which legislative powers
were obtained during the late session of Parliament.
The number of passengers carried during the half-year
amounted to 547,585. The directors proposed that the
nett balance from revenue, 19,9481., should remain as a
loan to the capital account till the close 'of the year.
The shareholders in the late Edinburgh, Leith, and
Granton Company are entitled to receive a small sum as
the proceeds of their line from the Ist of February to
15th of May last. The capital account showed that
1,722,213/. had been received and expended, including
327,778!. due to the bankers and others. The revenue
account for the half-year stated that 34,0281 had beet
received, and 22,921/. expended, leaving a balance of
11,1071, to which was added 8,8401., brought from the
last account, making the total balance in favour of the
revenue account 19,948/.
The CHAIRMAN said, that since last meeting great pro-
gress had been made towards the completion of the main
line, extending to Perth on the one hand, and to
Ferry-Port• on-Craig on the other. The line also had
been partially extended in the direction of Dunfermline;
and, upon the whole, the traffic on the main portion of
the line had been such as he thought to realise their ut-
most expectations, with regard to the traffic in passen-
gers. The Scottish ;Central Station at Perth gave there
fair accommodation so far as passengers were concerned,
and they had nothing to complain of on that account.
The branch line to Dunfermline had only been opened
within the last week, and he did not expect that the)
would have any great addition to their passengers' re-
turn from this branch until the connexion was completed
to Dunfermline. But, on the whole, he might say, with
out hesitation, that the traffic in the last few months ga%
promise of their being able to meet all the expectation:
which were held forth to the proprietors. (Hear, hear.)
The works at Ferry-Port-on-Craig were undoubtedly
large; and they would enable them to carry on a consi
derable export trade in coal, and also so as to place the
goods traffic on an efficient footing. With regard to the
station at Perth, their goods traffic there had been ex-
ceedingly limited. In fact, although they had an op-
portunity of carrying coals into Perth ever since the
line was completed, they had not as yet carried a single
tun of coals into that district, simply because they were
not in a state to receive them at that station. The con-
trol of that station was in the hands of the Scottish
Central Company, and therefore they were in a manner
obliged to submit to the arrangements of that company.
Negotiations were now going on, and he had no doubt,
by a little management, they would be enabled to have
matters satisfactorily arranged. The bills for extending
the branches into the coal districts, and for improving the
Barbour of Burntisland, had been carried through suc-
cessfully. He thought that these Bills would place them
in an advantageous position. The negotiations with the
Dundee and Arbroath Company had been 6 carried on by a
committee of the directors in London, and they had ter-
minated in a satisfactory manner. Arrangements and
negotiations were at present going on with a view to the
amount of the toll that was to be charged by the Scot-
tish Central Company; and he trusted that they would
be able to come to terms without any expense in the
way of reference. They would meet the question fairly,
and he had no doubt that they would meet with equal
fairness on the part,of the Scottish Central directors. In
conclusion, he had only to say that the attention of the
directors would in future be confined to decreasing the
expenses of the line, to the completion of the works al-
ready in operation, and to rendering the capital hitherto
expended as productive as possible, and the property as
safe as possible. The directors would carry on the af-
fairs of the company with the utmost zeal in their
power ; and he had to inform them that it was their re-
solution to close the capital account at as early a date as
possible.—(Hear.) The chairman then proposed a series
of resolutions to the effect, that the report and accounts
be approved; that the directors be empowered to borrow
on mortgage or debenture, on such terms as they might
consider proper, the sum of 126,6851.; and that the 20L
and 25/. shares paid up be converted and consolidated
into capital stock ; and with regard to such shares on
which the arrears of calls had not been paid up, that the
same be in like manner converted and consolidated into
stock from time to time as these arrears were paid.
Mr. JAMES AYTON seconded the resolutions.
Several questions were pat to the Chairman by Mr.
MACINTYRE and Mr. KINNEAR, in regard to the manner
in which the state of the accounts had been made up,
which were answered satisfactorily.
Mr. MUNRO read a letter from Mr. Robertson, stating
that ho was determined to oppose any attempt to saddle
the shareholders with the payment of tho shares pur-
chased by the directors in the Stirling and Dunfermline
Railway. He also objected to their proceedings in re-
gard to the Dundee and Northern Junction. He declared
that it was illegal for the directors to take the funds of
the company for such purposes; and, even although it
might be said that the shareholders had approved of
what had been done, yet, as the act itself was illegal,
their approval of it could not render it a valid or a bind-
ing one.
The CHAIRMAN said it was the intention to go to
Parliament to obtain powers for the company to hold the
shares which had been purchased in that line.
Mr. ELLIS, M.P., vindicated himself and his colleagues
in the direction for what they had done in reference to
the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. He expressed
eMn rh.
eßhoabde rs sl
eo
ys haopupl dr nowapproved
come
for forward na
bejnetc object, hen ht
last meeting of the course pursued by the directors. He
showed that by holding shares in that line they were in
possession of a check upon the Edinburgh and Glasgow
and Scottish Central Railways, and secured to themselves
the traffic betweeen Dundee and Glasgow, upon which
in no small degree the prosperity of the Edinburgh and
Northern depended.
Mr. LYON, a shareholder, also justified the directors
for what they had done.
The Chairman's resolutions were then agreed to.
MAIXIAND lIERIOT proposed a motion to the
effect that no trains be run on the Sabbath-day. This
was met by an amendment of the previous question by
Professor Dick.
On a vote being taken the amendment was carried by
a majority of 404 votes to 142.
The meeting then broke up.

IFATAL TERMINATILON OF ANELO . PEMENT An
excitement of a very extraordinary and painful nature
has been occasioned in the parish of St. Luke's, Old-
street, by the elopement of Mr. Bacon, the master of
the workhouse, and Mrs. Walter, the workhouse school-
mistress, both of them married persons with families of
young children, and now known to have been amongst
the passengers on board the ill-fated emigrant ship
Ocean Monarch. Bacon had obtained leave of absence
for a fortnight upon a plea of urgent private business
to settle in the country; and a few days after his depar-
ture, Mrs. Walter, the schoolmistress,:also obtained leave
for a short absence, alleging that she had been sent for
by her mother, who was dangerously ill in Devonshire.
A few days afterwards certain circumstances led to in-
quiry, which resulted in the discovery that the missing
pair were together, intending to take flight to America.
Walter, the husband, who was the workhouse school-
master, had no opportunity of observing any of these
movements, being a prisoner in the -House of Correction
for a misdemeanor. Mrs. Walter took with her her
youngest child, leaving the rest. The respective rela-
tives have ascertained beyond doubt that the fugitive pair
embarked on board the Ocean Monarch, and together
with the woman's chill, nerished when that ship was de-
stroyed by fire.
The number of bakers in Paris is 601, divided into
four classes, according to the amount of their business.
The first class consists of such as bake upwards of four
sf.cakns of fbur a day, and the fourth such as bake less
than two.
parlotietcoitiylfef Parisb accordsT a premium of llf.
per sack, so that a first-rate baker thus gains 44f. a day,
of a baker ia set down at
bound .to furnish to the
or sufficient to supplycityyaborenatdl.s,ohoo.o
fv !lure
aco
hf thbeaksetrcciks
Each time the
thepiice
cording to his business,
(iif theilo
flour
from 50 to 130 sacks, se-
giving a totalof 12,118,830 kileg.
augmentsfor
if. twenty-five3oc . th
ed ales..
zrical quintal,capital
k the kilogramme.
price of bread is raised one centime