The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-23 00:00:00

S N 7 DECEMBER 23„ 1848.

taken in all standing, and will come out of dock again
to-day. She will be ready for service this evening.
The Echo steam-tug went down to the Hashemy,c9n-
vict-ship at the Motherbank, yesterday morning, taking
necessaries for the sick from Haslar Hospital, and was
out the greater part of the day, probably removing
some of the convicts to the Menelaus, if the medical
men thought that step necessary. The reports were
favourable from her on Thursday night ; no new case
had appeared, and the sickness (which had not attacked
either the crew or the soldiers' guard) was confined to
the convicts

The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert has returned
the barges and boats at Portsmouth, and most of the
portable furniture has been returned to the dockyard,
where it will remain till required for further service.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY, k ivx P.M.—Fresh winds from
the eastward, with very fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 20.—This morning there has been
anchored in the mouth of Catwater a ship the disposal
of which will prubsbly furnish a fertile subject fur liti-
gation. The bark Foam, Captain David Pugh, belong-
ing to Messrs. Phillips and Tinlady, of London, left the
Thames in the summer of 1846, fitted as a whaler, and
destined, it is stated to supply the Chinese with opium.
After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, she was over-
taken by a storm, and ran ashore on the coast of Mozam-
bique. Captain Pugh, after survey, sold her by auction
in November, 1846, as a wreck, to Mr. Lukonksy, a
Pule, carrying on business as a hatter in Cape Town,
Cape of Good Hope. Her new purchaser put her in
charge of Captain Nance, then commanding the brig
Pilot, belonging to the same owner. The Foam was
temporarily repaired, and under jurymasts, without any
keel, left in March, 1847, and in a two months' passage
reached Cochin, on the Malabar coast. Here she was
thoroughly repaired, and being partly laden with plank
and coir rope, arrived at Colombo, the capital of the
island of Ceylon, the 21st of January, 1848. The ship
was deficient of legal papers, and Mr. Lukonksy made
formal application to the Collector of Customs, who
referred him to the Court. For the purpose of proper
measurement the Foam went to the inner anchorage,
where she was unexpectedly seized by the Custom-house
authorities. She remained in this condition two months,
and Lukonksy, fearing that, like vessels in similar cit..•
cumstances, a heavy expense would be ultimately
thrown on her, went on board, cut her chain cables in
two with saws, and although insufficiently supplied,
boldly sailed out of the port. Eleven days after she
was joined by his brig the Pilot, furnished with papers
and necessary sails and provisions, and then being
under the sole command of Captain Nance, her course
was shaped for the Sechelle Islands, which she reached
in May. Mr. Lukonksy was to have resumed charge
of the Foam there, but not having appeared after the
time appointed, Captain Nance, who seems to have
acted with great skill and energy throughout, resolved
at length 4o sail for England, there to obtain legal
settlement of the question regarding the ship.
On the 18th of September, being short of provisions,
he touched at Cape Verde, where his papers were
disputed by the Portuguese authorities, who. handed
her over to the British Consul. This functionary, on
request from Captain Nance, applied to Commander
Newland, of her Majesty's brig Ranger, who sent Mr..
Willshire, master's assistant, to take neminal charge of
the barque to this port. Mr. Willshire, under instruc-
tions from Port-Admiral Sir W. Hall Gage, has handed
over the barque to the Custom-house authorities, who
.have placed shipkeepers on board. The Foam is now
in ballast; she was built in the Isle of Wight, as a yacht
for Lord Yarborough, registers 309 tons, and is a fine
sightly-looking craft.
CHATHAM, DEC. 22.—The Vernon, 50 guns, in dock,
has been surveyed, and the whole of the hands are taken
off the ship, to await the decision of the Admiralty re-
specting her.
Mr. Richard Carter, Measurer in Sheerness Yard, is
appointed Measurer at this yard, vice Mr. Joseph Chase,
who has been superannuated on a pension of 801. per an-
num, being an increase of 261. over his former pension
of 541. per annum; and Mr. George Pain, Stationed
Shipwright, recently superannuated on a pension of 241.
per annum, has had his pension increased to 341. per
annum.

WooLvvicri, DEC. 22.—The Teazer, steam-vessel,
Lieutenant-Commander Selwyn, left Woolwich this
morning to have her compasses adjusted at Greenhithe,
and to take her powder on board, and she will then
proceed round to Portsmouth, where she will remain
until the next mail is ready, to be sent by her to the
coast of Al rica.

The Basilisk steam-vessel, with paddle wheels and
engines of 400-horse power, has been coppered, and was
taken out of dock to-day, to be tried with the Niger
steam-vessel, fitted with screw propeller and engines of
400-horse power; both vessels being exactly similar in
other respects, the comparative merits of paddle-wheels
and the screw-propeller may be fairly tested in them.
Moorings are to be laid down in the river, opposite No.
4 slip, to test the exact power of the engines in each
vessel before the trial down the river takes place.
Mr. Maurice Johnson, engineer of the Firebrand
steam-vessel, who recommended the application of
Kingston's valves to the bottoms of vessels, to aid
in extinguishing fires arising from spontaneous
combustion, or other causes has, in obedience to
the orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty, forwarded drawings of the plan he has sug-
gested for their Lordships' inspection. The plan Mr.
Johnson proposes is very simple, being merely to admit
the water through one of Kingston's valves, which can
be regulated with the greatest nicety to any quantity,
and conducted round both sides of the vessel in pipes,
perforated on the upper side, and running parallel a
short distance below the water line. On the valve being
opened, on an emt rgency, the water would escape from
the perforated pipes and run down the sides of the vessel
to keep the timbers cool, and extinguish fir• below the
water line. The water can afterwards be easily pumped
out, in the same manner as bilge water, on the valve
being shut. As a proof of the advantage of admitting
water into vessels by Kingston's valves for the purpose
of rendering them healthy, it may be mentioned that
Mr. Johnson, previous to leaving this country, as engi-
neer in the Blazer, then under orders for the West In-
dian station, admitted about two tons of water at a time,
pumping it out as it mixed with the bilge water until it
was pumped out nearly pure. The good effect of the
plan was made evident by the health enjoyed by the
crew, as only one boy died during the period of twenty-
two months the vessel was employed on the stttion at
the West Indies; other vessels, the Hecla for instance,
having, during the same period, lost several men,
owing, it said; to thd muddY state of the bilge water on
board..

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked, at an early
hour this morning, in the pleasure grounds adjacent
to the Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the four younger royal children,
took their accustomed airings to-day.
In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness again promenaded in the Home Park.
Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mr. Anson will
have the honour of joining the royal dinner circle
this evening,
Her Majesty's private band attend this evening in
the Castle, and perform the following pieces :
Overture, "Les Monsquetaires de la
Reine " • • • • Halevy.
Selection, "Malek Add " • • .. Costa.
Marche Heroic • • • • .. Beethoven.

Air, "Marie" ..
Balmoral Walzer • •

Herold.
Labitzky.

Lord Elphinstone is the Lord in Waiting to the
Queen, and the Hon. Colonel Boyle the Groom in
Waiting to her Majesty.

Sir H. Ellis and Mr. Gillespie had interviews yes-
terday with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere.

Tni ROYAL ETCHINGS,—In consequence of Vice-
Chancellor Knight Bruce not having delivered judg-
ment in the two causes of her Majesty's Attorney-
General v. Strange, and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert v. the same, before the Christmas vacation, it is
not now expected that the judgment will be pronounced
until the commencement of Hiliary Term 1849. The
answers to the amended bill and information (in the
original of which Mr. Strange only was a defendant) of
the defendants, Mr. Judge and his son, were sworn to
and filed in the Court of Chancery on Thursday last.
These two causes will come on for argument at the
earliest possible period ; but not, it is rumoured, until
after the judgment has been given in the case of Mr.
Strange.
THE BARON OF BEEF AND THE ROYAL BANQUET
AT WINDSOR CASTLE, ON CHRISTMAS•DAY.—The baron
of beef, which will form the principal dish on the Royal
banquet table, at Windsor Castle, on Christmas day, is
a portion of a splendid ox, bred by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, at Flemish Farm, near Windsor. This
extraordinary animal, which has been pronounced by the
first judges to be perfect in point of symmetry and
breeding, was from a buffalo cow by an Ayrshire bull,
and was four years old when slaughtered. The baron is
of the great weight of 94 stone, or 7521b5., and will
occupy at least ten hours in cooking before the large
range in the royal kitchen at Windsor.
SIR CULLING RARDLEY.—The address of thanks
of the Honourble Baronet for the support given him at
the recent election, will be found in another column. It
is characteristic in the spirit and manliness of its tone,
and the force and clearness of its appeal. To the Whigs
who opposed him it will be of very difficult digestion.
Sir Culling Eardley left Yorkshire on Tuesday, having
suffered in health by his electioneering visit, but having
immensely raised himself in public estimation, and put
to shame the miserable prejudices that bad been circu-
lated against him. He has gained the warm and affec-
tionate confidence of his. supporters, who were never
more proud of their candidate than when he was speak-
ing at the declaration after his defeat. Never was there
exhibited more of the mingled courage and courtesy of
the high bred E:gligh gentleman, combined with ad-
mirable talent, than. when
rn-..
the Tory hustings ho stood up against the un-
nnerly ulterrupttons of
in-
flicted his dignified rebukes on the vulgar and ' arid
unfeeling
men, who, though they knew his feeble state of health,
annoyed him with their clamour.—Leeds Mercury.

[PRin SD.

WEST -INDIAN AND MEXICAN
MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 22.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steam-ship Great Western, commanded by
Captain W. Clark, arrived this morning at halt-
past nine, with the usual West Indian and Mexican
mails.

Her dates of sailing are—Vera Cruz, 15th Nov.;
T.ampico, 13th ; Havannah, 26th ; Honduras, 6th ;
Jamaica, 21st ; St. Jago de Cuba, 19th ; Demerara,
19th , Barbadoes, 28th ; Grenda, 22d; St. Kitts,
30th; Nevis, 30th; Porto Rico, 25th; St. Thomas,
Dec. Ist ; Bermuda, 7th.
The Great Western brought twenty passengers,
amongst whom were—Mr. Robert Knight, Mr.
Eugenio Pain, Mr. William Magor, Mr. Aime
Bodier, Assistant-Surgeon Madden, Ist West India
Regiment, Lieutenant M`Court, 2d West India
Regimen; Lieutenant Snell, R.N.,Mr. Rovenburg,
Rev. William Fox, Mr. Thornton, olonial Secretary,
and Lady, Mr. Perrinnon, late Governor of Marti-
nique,. Lady and three children, Mrs. Rayner and
daughter, &c.

'rhe
fieight brought by the Great Western was
exceedingly valuable, comprising 2,054,216 dollars
on merchants' account, 37,313 dollars for the divi-
dends, 135 serons of cochineal, 16 ditto of Jalapa, 44
cases cigars, 87 bales tobacco, 3 cases succades, and
42 packages of sundries.

The Mexican Government was sending troops and
warlike stores to Tampico, to resist any attempt at
separating the state of Tamaulipas from the rest of the
Republic._

General Paredes was supposed to be on his way to
the Mexican coast, to escape to some foreign country.
The yellow fever raged at Barbadoes and Jamaica
amongst the troops, and carried off many victims.
All vessels from England were to be put under
quarantine at Havannah.
At Barbadoes the yellow fever has been raging for
some time amongst the troops, and it is said that
about one-third of the artillery have died from it, as
well as a large number of the 66th Regiment.
The crops at Demerara are represented as being
remarkably fine. There was no appearance of sickness.
The news from Jamaica is not of importance. The
yellow fever was prevailing amongst the troops here,
as well as at Barbadoes. Captain Minty, Ist West
India Regiment, had fallen a victim to it.

The news from the other islands is to the effect
that sickness was prevalent.

At St. Lucia the Governor's lady, Mrs. Darling,
had died of the yellow fever.
Mr. Glass, consul at Tampico, died there on the
12th of November, after suffering amputation of his
leg one week prior.
Her Majesty's brig, Hound was at Vera Cruz on
the 15th of November; her Majesty's ships Wel-
lesley, Scourge, and Kite, at Bermuda, 7th of De-
cember, all well.

Major-General Bunbury, the newly-appointed
commander of the forces, had arrived at Jamaica,
in the steamer Tay, from England.
The disagreement between the Governor and the
Legislative Assembly was not abated. On the 16th
a message was received by the Assembly from Sir
Charles Grey, to the effect that he had received a
dispatch from the Colonial Secretary, with a copy of
a memorial which had been transmitted by him to
her Majesty in January last, signed by nineteen mem-
bers of the commissioners of public accounts, in re-
spect to some contemplated alteration in the office of
receiver general, and praying that no renewal of the
patent of that office should be made, and to which
his Excellency had added the information that. Mr.
Barclay had been provisionally appointed to the office.
In answer to which the Colonial Secretary declared
that the mode of making up the public accounts
under the several Acts of the island was anomalous,
and that they should be audited by an officer of the
Crown ; and in the event of that alteration being made,
her Majesty's Government would not object to any
reduction being made in the salary of the Receiver-
General, leaving him sufficient to support the effi-
ciency of his office; and that the Governor had npt
received any intimation of a new appointment having
been made, and, therefore, Mr. Barclay still con-
tinued provisionally to fill the office of Receiver-
General.

Next day two resolutions were agreed to, to the
effect:—

" That it was the sole right of the house to origi-
nate and deal with all measures appertaining to the
raising or granting of money ; and to interfere there-
with in any manner, either in respect to the conditions,
limitations, or applications, is a breach of the un-
doubted privileges of this House. That his Excellency
the Governor's message of the 2d of November
instant was a breach of the privileges of this House. ,
The result of this was, that at the next sitting a mes,-
sage was received from Sir C. Grey, expressing hi 4
regret that his recent communication should have
been considered a breach of privilege, and to assure
the Hon. House that nothing had been further from
his intention.