The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

I 274,348
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should
be held :—Newton Abbott, Totnes, Dartmouth, Kings.
bridge, Plymouth, Tavistock, Holsworthy, Oakhampton,
Saltash.

DISTRICT No.
Proposed to consist of
Registrar's Districts :
Name. Population.
St. Austell ... 31,417
Bodmin... 20,8001
Camelford
.•. 8,06311
St. C01umb16,167
Falmouth
... 21,654
Helston
••. 32,546
Launceston ... ••• 16,746
Liskeard
••. 26,484
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held:—Launceston, Camelford, Bodmin, Liskeard, St.
Austell, St. Columb Majcir, Truro, Penryn, Redruth,
Helstone, Penzance.
N.B.—The population is here taken from the account
printed 2d October, 1841 (52) ; it differs slightly from
the more correct return afterwards given
in the census.
The latter, being arranged in hundreds and parishes,
could not be used for the present purpose.

,9.--CORNWALL.
Le following Superintendent

Name. Population.
Penzance 50,100
Redruth 48,062
Scilly Islands 2,582
Stratton ..: 9,432
Truro ... ... 43,137

327,190

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PORTNsmAouVTuA, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
affrighted from its propriety by the reports of musketry,
and the rapid flash and roar of great guns, daoting
some awful calamity in the vicinity of this dockyard.
This extraordinary circumstance soon caused a vast
multitude to assemble on the shore on either side the
harbour, with anxious faces, asking each other, " Where's
the fire?"—the zeneral belief being that a fire had
broken out in on of the ships up the harbour, the re-
peated discharge of guns appearing to confirm that
opinion. Nor was the alarm and apprehension thus
'mated confined to the shore. About a quarter to ten
'clock, the third great gun in succession having been
fired, and the flash and report having been _made out to
proceed from the north -east quarter of the dockyard,
the Victory, 100, Captain Pasco, ordinary guard-ship,
then becoming alive to the fact of some most unusual
and incomprehensible disaster having been discovered in
some important portion of the naval establishment in or
adjacent to the harbour, beat to quarters; the men in-
stantly " turned out" of their hammocks, manned all her
boats, hoisted the signal of " fire" (four lanterns vertical)
at the peak, and dispatched the boats, each in charge of
an experienced officer, to ascertain the whereabouts and
the particulars of the supposed calamity, and render all
the assistance in their power. All this naturally in-
creased the alarm already most general ashore, and
watermen's boats were seized by the eager throngs to
follow the men-of-war's men, we have no doubt with the
same most praiseworthy and laudable intention.
The first boat manned was dispatched to the St. Vin-
cent, 120, flag-ship (on board of which the most unac-
countable apathy seemed to prevail), a few oars' strokes
across the harbour, to inform them that firing was going
on up the harbour, when the officer in the boat was
coolly informed over the side of the ship—" Oh, we heard
you beat to quarters, and expected you to come; it's the
Excellent practising with shell at the old Leviathan;
we've three boats away guarding the creeks!" The
officer in the boat then pulled across to the Victory, to
allay the increasing alarm on board that ship, which was
also communicated to the whole fleet in ordinary.
Upon these extraordinary facts being made known to
our correspondent, he immediately took boat and pro-
ceeded as far towards the scene of folly as the " boats
away guarding the creeks would allow him, and then,
surely enough, he found the Excellent blazing away with
live shell at the helpless old hulk, which, notwithstanding
the lull moon, was illuminated from stem to stern (I), to
render her a more certain sacrifice to the famed profi-
ciency of the " Excellent" gunner. Having taken up a
favourable position, he watched with chilly impatience
for an hour and a half the progress of the firing, but
not one of the fiery-tailed missiles did he see strike the
illuminated target.
Independently of the unnecessary alarm created ashore,
great blame attaches to some one afloat, as, why were
not the ships in ordinary (all having officers and men
quartered in them) and the ordinary guard ship, Vic-
tory, 1, t into the secret as well as the St. Vincent ? And
why, again, did not the St. Vincent immediately com-
municate with her opposite neighbour when she heard
the drums beat to quarters, instead of allowing the
officers and crew of that ship to be disturbed from their
rest, and the boats to be lowered and manned, and dis-
patched in various directions ?

The Emerald tender, which returned yesterday from
Devonport, was dispatched last evening to order the
Nautilus, an old coffin of the 10-gun class, from her sta-
tion off Brighton fisheries, into port, to be in readiness
to take dispatches to Lisbon ! The Nautilus made Spit-
head about ten last night, and awaits orders.
The Scourge steam bomb-vessel, Commander Caffin,
arrived this morning from Rochefort, and came into har-
bour to coal.

The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Johnstone, arrived at Cork from this port on Thursday
last, and found there the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel,
Master-Commander Aylen; the Acheron steam-vessel,
Lieutenant z>".2l.p, SLo 3)... °towns vooeci,
Master-Commander Driver; the Blazer steam-vessel,
Captain Washington; and the Myrmidon steam-vessel,
Lieutenant-Commander Jenkin; which vessels were
about being sent to various ports along the Irish coast
with meal to relieve the prevailing distress, which is in-
creasing along the coast to the westward. _

The Sampson steam-frigate, Capt. Henderson, was at
Valparaiso on the 27th July, all well.
The Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, was in Fun-
chal Roads on the 4th of Sept., about to sail immediately
for the coast cif Africa.
The Columbia steam surveyiug-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander Shortland, was at Campo Bello on the 9th
of October, and with no praspect of returning home for
the next twelve months.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 3.—The Belvidere, formerly a
36-gun frigate, and now converted into a store-ship,
arrived at Woolwich to-day, having been towed up the
river by the African steam-vessel. She will be taken to
Deptford to receive stores for the poorer inhabitants of
the western coast of Scotland.

Captain Williams, late of the Avenger steam-frigate,
with the other officers and criw of that vessel, arrived in
the Belvidere, and the Captain and a part of the officers
went on board the Amphion steam-frigate, to which they
have been appointed.
The Vixen steam-vessel has been taken into the west
dock to have her defects made good.
The Monkey steam-vessel was undocked to-day.
The Sphynx steam-frigate, Captain Cragg, left Wool-
wich at eleven A.m., for Portsmouth, where she will be
paid advance, and receive further orders.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander
Petley, arrival at Woolwich yesterday evening, and is
taking in a fresh supply of coals.
The Gladiator, Captain John Robb, on her arrival at
Portsmouth, was ordered on an immediate particular
service, and the orders for the embarkation of Major-
General Sir H. Pottinger and suite in her were counter-
manded. Subsequent orders have been issued, and Sir
H. Pottinger, with Captain Young, of the Royal Artil-
lery, his aide-de-camp, will embark in the Pottinger,
belonging to the Oriental Steam Company, for a passage
to the Cape of Good Hope, that vessel proceeding round
the Cape to India on her next voyage.
A series of experiments have been made in the pre-
sence of a board of officers from her Majesty's dockyards
to test the qualities of cables made by hand at Deptford
dockyard, with cable of the same dimensions, made by
machinery at Chatham dockyard. The experiments
were made with six fathoms of cable, of hand and ma-
chine to
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machine-madeexperimentsaveraging
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factory results in the first instance, and at a later period
the hand-made had the advantage. It is, therefore,
int nded to repeat experiments of a similar nature
before the report of the committee is given in to the
Admiralty. The experiments took place at Woolwich
dockyard, with Bramah's powerful hydraulic machine.

THE TEMPLE Cuuncu.—On Tuesday, the 3d inst.,
a notice was affixed at the Temple Church, intimating
that daily morning service, at nine o'clock, is again re-
sumed until further notice.

liAawica.—On Tuesday the Mayor and Town
Council of the Borough, gave a sumptuous entertainment
to their worthy High Steward, J. Bagshow, Esq. The
dinner and wines were most excellent, and the whole
affair did great credit to Mrs. Bull, the excellent caterer
of the Three Cups Hotel, where the dinner was given.
The whole affair went off in an excellent convivial way,
the more so probably from its being the 6rst occasion of
this Corporation ever entertaining their High Steward,—
Ipswich Express.
PRICE —The premium on gold at Paris
is 16 per milk, or GO
w LD.hich, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 55 ; and the exchange at Paris on.
London at, short being 25 65, it follows that gold
is 0.39 per cent, dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 432
Per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.175. 10id.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 8i;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being also 13 Bf, it follows that the price of gold is at pre-
sent the same at Hamburgh and London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London is 108; per cent.,
and the par of exchange beutisvoterekbnebdEeeinnaggulcantfeoddr
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PIGILISM.—BARNASII (Of WESTMINSTER) AND
HAZELTINE (or WIIITECIIAPEL) FOR 501. A SlDE.—These
opponent stars
.of the East and West brought their
differences of opinicn, as to the better man, to an issue
on Tuesday, at Dartford-level, Long Reach. The muster
of sages of the East and denizens of " the far West"
was extraordinary. The orientals, however, prepon-
derated. Fifteen rounds sufficed to settle the question
of the Israelite's capabilities for contest ; and at the end
of forty-seven minutes, the sponge being thrown up from
Hazeltine's corner, as the signal of defeat, the West-
minster hero was hailed as conqueror. We cannot close
this brief paragraph without adding a line in commen-
dation of the vast body of the friends of
submission
Hazeltine who
were present, whose wise conduct and quiet
to " the fortune of war" did every credit to their love of
_
fair play and good order, even under trying and adverse
circumstances.