The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, Nov. On Sunday last, a little before
noon, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam—
ship Achilles was telegraphed, and, notwithstanding the
roughness of the weather, ahe gallantly breasted the
waves, and gained the great harbour at half-past two
o'clock, having at her maiu a red ensign, indicating that
Sir P. Stuart, Gov,anor of Malta, was on board. On
the vessel taking Y p her moorings, she was immediately
visitedby Mr,4lSorAavia, superintendent of quarantine and
marine police, ar.oompanied by his assistant, Mr.
teetheFench,
who, after the 'asual interrogataries, gave Feratique
steamer.
By the arrival of the French steamer Longsor, on the
14th inst., advices from Bombay to the 15th ult. were
received here, having arrived at Alexandria on the 10th
inst., and forwarded. The bulk of the mails arrived by
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Oriental
this day.
The Lengsor pursued her voyagetto Marseilles on the
day of her arrival.
The Neapolitan stef..inaer Mongibello left port for
Naples and ports of Sicily on the evening of the 13th
instant.
On the 15th inst. the French mercantile steamer
Hellespont arrived here with passengers from Mar-
seilles. She encountered very severe weather, and
received some damage, of a very inc•onsiderable nature,
however.

The. Hellespont left port for the Levant on the follow-
ing d.ay.
Tile French merchant stes.ny?r Bosphore, from the
Levant, also arrired on Sunday last.
The English steamer Levantinft.., from the Levant, ar-
rived here on the 16th instant, ar.d continued her route
to Liverpool on the same day,
Her Majosty's steamer Spitfire, with the Indian mail
sent through France, arrived on the 1611; London letters
of the 7th instant were received by this occasion.
The French steamer Lycurgue, with mails for Mar-
seilles, touching at ports of Italy and Sicily, left port on
the morning of the 16th instant.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ariel, which has relieved the Iberia on this station, left
port en the 16th instant for Alexandria, with mail& And

passengers for India, received by the Achi vz4
Southampton, and the Spitfire from Marseilles.
By the Spitfire orders were, it is reported, rccr:lved to
send home her Majesty's ship Inconstant, t') b% relieved
by the America.
The Amiralty have also ordered an inruiry into the
report made from Malta of an unusual d,o ee of punish-
ment having been inflicted on board the Amazon. That
ship is ordered to join the fleet of Sir W. Parker in the
waters he now cruises in.
Orders are equally given for the Heels to be relieved
by the Gladiator, the Locust, the Jackal, end Blood-
hound steamers, all on this station, to be sent hone with
the least possible delay.
Tier Majesty's ship Tyne is ready for sea. She will
be paid off on her arrival in England. In mentioning
her departure, it is gratifying to report her one of the 1
finest crafts ever seen in these waters. It is not less gra-
tifying
to add, that a black list has never been known
during, the three years and a half slie was commissioned
by Captain Gescock, nor has a maa ever been put
in irons.

The French steamer Tan'a,ide, from Marseilles and
ports of Italy, arrived here on the 17th instant, and
proceeded on the evening of the same day to the Levant.
The French steamer Zaire, from Marseilles direct,
arrived here also on Tuesday last, and proceeded on the
same day to Alexandria and Beyrout.
roiersetorTu, Nov. 29.—The Rattlesnake surveying-
-vessel, Captain Owen Stanley, having had her corn-
-passes adjusted, will go out to Spithead to-morrow. The
Lord Bishop of Norwich (her gallant captain's father)
read prayers, and delivered a most eloquent and suitable
discourse this morning, to the officers and crew.
By the latest advices, we learn that the Inflexible
steam sloop, Commander Hoseason, made the passage
out from Plymouth to the Cape of Good Rope in fifty
days, without coaling on the way. It will be remem-
bered that the very unfavourable news brought by the
Mutine, 12-gun brig, Commander Crawford, of the
dreadful; head to whieh the Kafir insurrection had ar-
rived, caused the Inflexible to be hurried away without
even allowing time for her necessary equipment, and a
most unusual step was taken to hasten her departure—
viz., her crew were paid their advance wages on a Sun-
day, the 9th of August, on which day, at 9 A.M., she
left Devonport for her destination. A Cape paper in-
terestingly details the voyage out thus
The Inflexible is the first steamer that has ever
sailed direct for the Cape without calling anywhere.
-She has steamed a distance of 5,500 miles (sailing the
remaining distance) on the small quantity of fuel origi-
-nally taken on board when she was expected to join the
experimental squadron of steamers, the whole being only
390 tons—her coal-bunkers Lot even being filled, as she
was started without her commander having been af-
forded time to get the Tiantity of fuel on board which
he deemed necessary, namely, 80 tons more; the want of,
which, it is estimated has protracted the voyage 10 days.
Notwithstanding this drawback, the voyage has
.been
completed in about the shortest time taken by a mer-
chant steamer (calling at several ports en the way), and
in considerably less time than any ether man-of-war
steamer, ban yet been able to aoeornplish it, although
with a much greater expenditure of fuel, purchased on
the we.y at an enormous cost, the contract price at Ma-
deira being 5/. per ton. Had even SO tons bean purchased
there, the cost vv( uid l-ave been greater than that of all
the coal she had originally on board, as the contract
price to G s-ernineut in England is about 16s. per ton.
Apart frem the fvet of the voyage having been done in less
time than that taken by any other steamer, our colonial
readers will rejoice to perceive the energy and prompti-
tude with which this vessel was dispatched, as shown
in the saving of Monday, by running her out on the
coals already shipped, and which would probably have
sufficed had she not encountered weather particularly
unfavourable, not having experienced any N.E. trade
to help her engines, as is invariably counted on at or near
Madeira. She was consequently obliged to steam ail h-
ont intermission across the line, and into the S.E. trade,
before she could be placed under sail; steaming without
stopping her engines 3,859 miles!"
The Inflexible is a steamer built upon the design of
Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, of 1,124
tons, and 378 horsepower, built at Pembroke in 1844,
this being her first trip. She arrived at Table Bay on
the morning of the 28th of September, where she landed
Lieutenant-Colonels M'Kinnon, Montrevor, Nicholls,
and Napier, and Majors Stocks, Whitnall, and O'Grady,
and Mrs. O'Grady ; also 55,0001. in specie, arms, &c. ;
then went round to Simon's Bay to refit, prior to leaving
for New Zealand.
The Hydra sleam-sloop, Commander Young, sent in
a fine prize slaver to St. Helena for adjudication on the
6th alt.—the Amelia.
The Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch, sailed from St.
Helena on the 14th ult. for a cruise. She took into St.
Helena a prize on the 7th, named the Tarracona.
The Grappler steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Lysanght, arrived yesterday morning from Woolwich.
, She is intended for the coast of Africa; and takes out
Captain Hutton, to succeed Commander Morrell in the
Governorship of the Island of Ascension. She will
come into harbour to-day to complete fuel, and make
good defects, after which she will be paid advance at
this port.
The Belleisle, 72, troop-ship, Captain Kingcome, sailed
from St. Helen's on Friday night for Devonport.
The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Radcliffe, was
towed into harbour on Friday. It is expected she will
be
The
off.
The 2golus, Provision depot, Master-Commander
Thomas, has arrived from Sheerness.
The Mutine, 12, Commander Tryon, had her com-
passes tried on Friday, and will be ready to go out of
harbour to-day.
During the past week 700 charges, of 101 b. each, for
shotted 32-pounders, mounted round these walls, have
been made up in this garrison, and are deposited in the
magazines at the Queen's bastion, ready for use. We
mentioned the order for their supply some weeks since.
It is understood to be the intention of the Board of
Ordnance to remove the laboratory from its present site
near the extremity of the Portsea lines to a spot at
Hardway, on the Gosport side of the harbour.
The Myrtle steam-dispatch•boat, Second Master-
Commander Battiston, conveyed dispatches to Osborne
yesterday, which arrived from London by express.
APPOINT3LENTS.—AIexander J. Cambier, Naval Cadet,
to the Raleigh ; Maurice Craigie, Midshipman, to the
Excellent ; John De Courcy Agnew, Lieutenant, to the
St. Vincent ; Assistant-Surgeon Robert P. R. Sparrow,
confirmed to the Resistance.
PlosloTlON3.—Lieutenant George Blanc, to Com-
mander ; Lieutenant James A. Mends, to Commander ;
Lieutenant George C. Adams, to Commander.

rhscoVBXY Or A DHAD CHILD IN A RAILWAY
FHIDAY.—About nineteen
PACKAGE.—NOTTINGHARt,
days ago, a wicker basket was booked at the railway
station in this town, and was sent off in a regular way
by train to London. The person bringing the basket
particularly requested that it might not be placed out-
side the carriage, nor crushed, and if possible it might
be put inside upon a seat along with the passengers, as
it was to be conveyed with great care. The parcels
office being at the time rather thronged, the porter,
Willoughby, did not take particular notice of the per-
-5011 giving him the directions, but to the best of his
recollection it was a female, rather low in stature, and
of a dark complexion. Yesterday (Thursday) the basket
having been refused was brought back to the station
by the mail train arriving at half-past two o'clock in
the morning, and, according to custom, when an owner
for a parcel cannot be found, Willoughby opened the
basket, when, to his utter amazement, he found a dead
infant. Its mouth appeared to have had considerable
moisture in it, which had become quite mouldy and
green. Underneath the infant was a quantity of cloths
and straw, and a letter addressed to " W. J. Smith, Esq.,
Suffolk." The letter was in a decent handwriting, and
from a young female in a village within six miles of
Nottingham, and after requesting that the father of the
infant would take care of it, warned him against seducing
any one as he had done her. The basket with the child
and letter were immediately handed over to the police.
(tan inquest was held b Mr. Coroner Browne, on Satur-
ofy last,
eht,Att the watchhouse, Nottingham, on the body
lid. No clue, however, to either the mother or
&me party to whom the parcel was directed having yet
bealleonwdieeefurtZeerielasort the inquiry
be
was adjourned sine die, to
EXTAADHDINAIIy D e made.
parcunttabrr.4.
ver*AltniAlLAlNcl or A RAILWAY
wgrztraordinary event has just
taken place in the
aseconnected with the Scottish
Central Railway_,Lit._wars- !mum" to erect an embank-
thineentrailfiftwysfyeewast higtoapiasnsa. nitnezrean Bridge, where
tuenced, and many thousand loads o;Lecertdhfinowgelrey epilled.
in the requisite. place and the work was left
pose of acquiring solidity, but on visitin r the•Pur-
was found to have disappeared, with the exception of it
few feet. On inquiry it was found that the field had
originally been bog, and the weight of the soil neces-
sary to form the embankment had broken through the
external solid earth.