The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, STINDAT.—SIR CHARLES NAP
EISR'S
SQuADßoN.—Another experimental squadron is in
course of collection, and will sail on or about the
loth of July from this port, under the command of
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. The
ships comprehending the squadron for 1848 will be
the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Dacres (flag of Sir
Charles) ; the Caledonia, 120 Captain T. R. Carter ;
the Prince Regent, 92, Captain Martin ; the Power-
ful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C.B. ; the
the Blenheim, 56 (screw), Captain Horatio Austen,
C.B. ; the Amphion, 36 (screw), Captairi,Hilliams ;
the Dragon steam-frigate, Captain W. ; the
Tweed, 18, Commander Lord Francis Russell the
Pilot, 16, Commander Lyons; the Frolic, 16,
Com-
mander Vansittart ; the Helena, 16, Commander G.
W. Smith ; and the Reynard (screw), 8, to be com-
missioned by Commander P. Cracroft. This cruise,
we are informed, will be more for the purpose of
testing the efficacy of screw line of battle or block
ships than for any other " experimental " purpose, and
with this object the Blenheim will be tried under all
possible circumstances. We have no doubt but that
the experience of Captain Austen will show the
Blenheim to great advantage.
The Encounter steam-sloop, of 895 tons and 360.
horse power (screw), arrived here yesterday from
the eastward to be fitted for commission.
The Excellent gunnery-ship, Captain Chads, 0.8.,
is again fully manned, notwithstanding the great
number of men sent away this year to other ships.
It would be good policy to allow the Excellent to
enter as many men as choose to volunteer for her,
because all her entries are petty officers or A.B.'s,
consequently are worth keeping, and teaching that
which is of the highest importance in case of war.
If the efficiency of a man-of• war is tested by the
number of men who join her, which it may fairly
be, certainly the Excellent is doubly efficient now,
as she victuals nearly double the number she for.
merly did.

MILITARY.
The Bombay transport, Lieutenant Still, R.N.,
agent, arrived yesterday with the 77th Regiment
from Quebec, under the command of Major Eger-
ton. The 77th embarked for Malta in November,
1:47, and has consequently nearly completed eleven
years of foreign service, during which it has been
stationed at Malta, Corfu, Jamaica, Nova Scotia,
and the Canadas. The Bombay has also brought
numerous invalids and detachments from the follow.
ing corps serving in North America :—Royal Ar-
tillery, 19th, first battalion of the 20th, reserve
battalion of the 20th, reserve battalion of the 71st,
reserve battalion of the 23d, Rifle Brigade, and Royal
Canadian Rifles, as well as some distressed British
subjects, and the widows and orphans of deceased
soldiers. She left Quebec on the 22d ult., but was
detained by contrary winds in the St. Lawrence until
the beginning of the present month. The 77th were
relieved in Canada by the 19th Regiment from Bar-
badoes. In addition to the officers of the 77th the
following came home passengers in the Bombay :
Captains Crawley and Stevens, of the 20th, and En-
sign Burns, of the 19th. The 79th Highlanders were
expected to arrive at Quebec in the course of the
present month in the Resistance,
,from Gibraltar, to
relieve the 93d, ordered home. Tne first battalion of
the 23d Fusiliers, also under orders for home, were.
to be relieved at Halifax about the same time by the
first battalion of the 97th, expected in the Java freight
ship from Malta direct. The 77th will disembark at
this port to-morrow, and. proceed by rail to Winches-
ter, where they will join the depot companies, and
remain in quarters there.

ROYAL MARINES.
The following cadets passed their examination last
week at the Royal Naval College for commissions in
the Royal Marine Corps ; the examinations concluded
yesterday : Messrs. Richards, Thelwall, Henry,
Reed, Kelly, Tinklar, Farmar, Evans, Jolliffe, Searle,
Dowell, and Jeffries.

El\ CH tOiIIivIUNISM.

BY EBENEZER ELLIOTT.
Lord, send us weeks of Sundays;
A saint's day every day;
Shirts gratis, ditto breeches ;
No work and double pay.
To slow and fast one meed allow ;
Tell short and long they're both short now ;
Let Louis Blanc take Ashley's cow,
And Richmond give him hay.
—Leeds Mercury.

ACCIDENT AT THE RAILWAY TUNNEL AT SwAN-
sna.—On Friday morning, just after the hour of our
publication, information reached Swansea that another
dreadful accident had taken place at the tunnel, resulting
in the loss of four lives. Such a rumour, as might be
expected, produced a painful excitement in the town and
neighbourhood., c,Happily, when the fact was ascer-
tained, matters were found not so bad as they were re-
presented to be. The facts are as follows:—Early on
Friday four men, instead of going down the pit en the
ladder, entered a skip, and were let down. Whilst
about half way down the chain snapped, and the un-
happy men were dashed to the bottom—a tremendous
depth—and were greatly injured. One of the four,
named David Rees, died in a few hours afterwards.
The others are in a fair way of recovery, under the care
of Mr. Michael. An inquest on the body was held on
Saturday and Monday, at the Ty Melyn, before Charles
Collins, Esq., and a respectable jury, of whom Mr. J.
Oakshot was foreman, and a verdict of " Accidental
Death" was returned.—Cambrian.
ACCIDENT ON THE STAGE.—A painful accident
occurred to Mr. Pritchard, the lessee and manager of our
theatre, on Wednesday evening, while he was playing
the part of Macduff to Macready's Macbeth. In the
fight represented in the last scene the point of Mr.
Macready's sword unfortunately struck Mr. Pritchard on
the face with such force as to cut through the cartilage
of the nose and the upper lip, penetrating to the bone.
It was with difficulty Mr. Pritchard was able to retain
his place on the stage till the conclusion of the scene,
and he could not speak the remainder of his part in con-
sequence of the blood which filled his mouth. Mr. S.
Smith, surgeon, was promptly in attendance and dressed
the wound, which, being made with a blunted weapon,
was much lacerated, and required to be closed with
sutures. Though we have the satisfaction to learn that
the wounded gentleman is going on as favourably as
could be expected, he will necessarily be incapacitated
from pursuing his avocations for some time, the situation
of the injury requiring him to abstain from speaking,
and being otherwise of an irksome and distressing nature.
—Leeds Intelligencer of Saturday.
OXFORD, JUNE 23.—This afternoon the following
gentlemen were elected postmasters of Merton College
—viz , Messrs. David W illiam Bernard, George Noel
Freeling, and George Edward Martin, Commoner of
Christ Church.
WBST INDIA PINE APPLES.—The Tay steamer has
brought a large parcel of this fruit, consigned to Messrs.
Keeling and Hunt, the season for which up to the period
of the sailing of the stea•rier was unfavourable to the
growth of the crop, and a number of vessels from Eng-
land and America were detained in consequence of the
difficulty of obtaining cargoes.

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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CLXXVII., ‘sill be published on Thursday neit,

CONTENTS :-
1. Provencal and Scandinavian Poetry.
2. Sharpe's History of Egypt.
3. Piracy in the Oriental Archipelago : Rajah Brooke's Journals.
4. Strauss's Political Pamphlet : Julian the Apostate and Frederic
William IV.
5. Herschel's Observations at the Cape.
6. The Revolt in L.,mbardy.
7. Academical Tests : the Universities of England, Ireland, and
Scotland.
3. •Fomter's Life of Goldsmith.
9. The French Republic.
13. The Germanic Empire.
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Jilt MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Wile. JENNY LIND.

The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully
informed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURS-
DAY next, June 29, on which occasion 31,111 e. JENNY LIED will
appear in one of her favourite characters.
With various- novelties in the Ballet Department, combining the
talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, Mdlle. M.
'foghorn NI dile. Cento, &c. &c.
The Erse List Is suspended, the public Press excepted.

Pit Tickets may be obtained its usual at the Box-office of the
Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls,
and Tickets are to be made.

BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
It is respectfully announced that, by special command of her
Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, oa MONDAY, July 10, will be
presented the first three acts of Shakspere's Historical Play of
HENRY THE EIGHTH, which terminates with the tall of Car-'
&Mal Wolaey. After which will be performed tin three acts) Col-
man's Comedy of the JEALOUS WIFE, being the FAREWELL
BENEFIT and LAST APPEARAXCE of Mr. MACREADY pre-
vious to his departure for America.

The Box-office of the Theatre wiY be opened on Monday, July 3.
Boxes, 7s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Galleries, 2s. and Is.
Applications for Reserved Places in the Boxes, for Pit stalls, and
Private Boxes, may be immediately made to Mr. Chapman, at Mr.
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street, to whom the Com-
mittee have entrusted the entire arrangement of those places.

THEATRE ROXL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES KEAN respectfully inform the
puollc that their BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY, the 3d
of July.
Places and Boxes to be had at the Box-Wilco, and of Mr. C. Kean,
Long's Hotel!, Bond-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING.
Will be presented Donizetti's Opera of
DON PASQUALE.
liorina, Madame Tadolini; Dr. Malatesta, Signor Bellottl ; Er-
nesto, Signor Labocetti; Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache.
To conclude with the highly successful I.4levr and Original Ballet
Divertissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Sig. Pugni, entitled,
LES QUATILE SAISONS.
Slimmer, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Autumn, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati ;
Winter, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni; Spring, Mdlle. Cerito.
PAS.—Regne du Printemps, du Printemps, Regne de l'Ete, de
l'Ete, Regne de l'Autortune, de l'Autounne, Regne de Mint-, de
l'lliver, du l'Union des Saisons.
Applications for Boxes, ;Stalls, ant Tickets, to be made at the
Box-office of the Theatre.
Doors open at halt-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock.

IIAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
AND MRS. ciLutLEs KEILN.
ulll3 EVENING

Will be performed a sew and original play, entitled THE WIFE'S
SECRET. Lord Arden, Mr. liovve ; Sir Walter Amyott, Mr.
Charles Mean ; Jabez Sneed, Mr. Webster; Harrington, sir. litria-
d*n ; Brouillard, Mr. Rogers ; Lady Ereline Amyott, Mrs. Charles
Kean; Wad, Mrs. Keeley.
Alter which a new piece called the PAS DE FASCINATION ; or,
Catching a Governor. Michael Browsky, Mr. Keeley ; Katherine
Kloper, Mrs. Kee:ey.
Nijo conclude with the Farce of SPRING GARDENS. Lord Court-
ington, Mr. A. Wigan; Setiaup, Mr. Keeley; Lady Clarissa, Mrs.
seymour ; Mrs. Scureup, Miss Julia Bennett.
,Slane Alauager, Mr. Eanen; Acting manager, Mr. F. Web:ter.
J. T. Archer, I-lox-hook keeper.
Boxes, Is.; Pit, as. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is.
Not" opal at Rall-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELI'LIi.
Linder the direction M Madame Celeste.

TILLS EVENI:NG
"..:,,,erformed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST
• . - charactors by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert,
• • uoro, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
w s, Miss Turner, &c.
new Farce, called GOING TO TIIE DERBY THIS
. Mr. Jerein alt Twiddle. Mr. Wright; Mr. John
Jam ". Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ;
c . 'Sirs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar.
To c,.;:!to vith THE MARRIED BACHELOR.

i;ox.ss, 45.; fit, as. Gallery, is.

~,;,en at bait-pam.:;ix, l'erluiquance -tk-, commence at Sevan.

LtOYAL LYCEUM TIiEATRE.
Under the Management ut Madame Vestria.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Matkews.
'l' ILLS EVEN IN G,

Will be performed a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD
JUDGE. Characters by Messrs. R. Raxby, Diddear, Parselle, Har-
ley, Meadows, Bellingham, Charles Mathews ; Miss Jane Coleman,
and Miss Lee.
Alter which, THE BEUGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath,
Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. F. Matthews ; Polly, Miss Kath-
leen Yltzwitham ; Lucy, Madame V estris , Jenny Diver, Miss Jane
Coleman.
kTo conclude with a new comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR
A CHANGE. Characters by Messrs. Ilariey, C. Mathews, Honner;
111r3. L. Murray, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Marshall.
're conclude with a Comte Drains, called A ROUGH DIAMOND.
Characters by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Buckstone; Mrs.
Lelgt Murray, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
Dress 13uxeg, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No
ball-price us any part of the house.
Tile -sew liox-onice, No. 9, Wellington-street, is open to the
IPutelc every day, from Ten till Six.

Pltlli C ESS'S THEATIZE.

Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duahesa-street,

l'ortiaml- place.
TIIIS LVENING,

Will be performed THE DAUGHTER or THE REGIMEN r.
To conclude with TIIE SPIRIT OF GOLD.
Dress Circle, 55.: 13..x.e, 45.; Fit, 2.. ; Gallery, Is.

kEL PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TIILATItE.
Lessee, Mr. Johu Mitchell, 33, Oid Bond-street.
THIS EVENING

The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock when
Will be performed LES DEUX COUPABLES.
After which, the vaudeville of LE BON HOMME RICHARD.
To conclude with LA RUE DE LA LUNE.
bs.; 33. dd.; Amphitheatre, 35.; Gallery, 2s
Boxes and Stalls may be obtaiwal at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33, 310 Lund-street.