The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20. Rear-Admiral —Superin-
tendent Prescott, C. 8., we are happy to state, is
much better to-day.

We are informed that very much trouble exists in
obtaining the money awarded by the Admiralty to
the officers and crews of those ships and vessels last
year employed in the " relief-service" in Ireland and
Scotland.

The half-pay of the wives and relatives of the sea-
men who have been lost in the Avenger having been
stopped, it is hoped a subscription will be set on foot
for the purpose of raising a fund, out of which the
necessities of those thus suddenly and awfully de-
prived of the means of support may be temporarily
relieved. The Admiralty will doubtlessly admit the
claims of the relatives for lost clothes and service pro-
perty, but further we are not aware they can grant
any compensation to the suffering relatives of the
drowned crew ; it is, therefore, intrusted to the bene-
volent and philanthropic public to alleviate, by a volun-
tary act of charity, those distresses which no
pen can adequately paint the poignancy of. We
know of several families who were solely depen-
dent upon the trifle they periodically received from
those suddenly thus snatched from them. Nor are these
sorrowful cases confined to the lower deck, the gun-
room also contained officers who in more ways than
we can describe contributed entirely to the support of
fatherless families. Other frightful casualties have
only had to be made public and the sufferers thereby
have at once found friends in a charitable and humane
public, and we trust a similar spontaneous feeling will
be shown in the present distressing case, than which
none can be possibly more deserving of relief, or
better entitled to the exercise of the noblest senti-
ments of humanity.

The Undine steam-vessel was docked yesterday
for some extensive repairs to her boilers and ma-
chinery, her Master, Mr. G. Allen, and crew, having
been turned over to the Fire Queen for the present.
The Blenheim, 56, steam•guard•sbip, Captain W.
A. Yates, and the Prince Regent, 90, Captain W. P.
Martin, were removed from the basin to-day, the
former having been placed alongside the Blake hulk,
the latter alongside the jetty.
The Britannia, 120, advanced ship, was brought
from her moorings and placed alongside the Victorius
hulk to-day. To-morrow she will be taken into the
basin, where she is to be rigged by the dockyard rig-
gers—for what purpose is not at present known, but
it is supposed as a " demonstration ship."
Wind, N.E.; moderate breezes, and very dark
hazy weather. _

WOOLWICH, Jan.2o.—An inquiry took place to-day
before Commodore Sir G. Bremer, K.C.8., K.C.H.,
relative to the fire which occurred yesterday on board
the Dee steam transport-ship, Master-Commander
Thomas Driver, when it was elicited that a camp-
forge had been used for heating rivets within a few
feet of the spot where the fire appeared to have origi-
nated, and that the fire in it was put out at a quarter
before twelve o'clock. The mainmast of the vessel,
made of the best New Zealand pine, and said to he
worth 701., is so mOch_ charred that a new mast will
have to be substituted.

Tho Charon, formerly a Dover packet, and now
attached as a tug to Chathain Dockyard, was tried
down the river to-day, and on being again ready for
service will proceed to that port ; in the mean time
her crew will serve in the Fearless.

The Monkey steam-vessel, Master- Commander
William Bryant, is ordered to proceed to Limehouse
to•morrow to tow Termagant steam-vessel from the
City Canal to Woolwich.

[Any ewristmENT.]--A SURPRISING CURE bp A
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110LLOWAY'S PILLS.—Jane Kruz er, residing at 33, Cur
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skeleton, owing to a violent cold, so that her liver and
lungs had beCome dangerously affected. When she lest
attended Bartholomew's Hospital, her mother was told
by a medical gentleman "that 'no scarcely thouOit she
would live to reach home." Her father then, as a forlorn
hope, commenced rittl'oing her chest, sides, and loins
with Holloway'; Ointment, and gave her these famous
pills twice day, which, to the surprise of all, saved
the child's life. Sold by all vendors of medicine through-
out the civilised world, and at Professor Holloway's
establishment, 244, Strand, Loudon.