The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Ajax, 56, screw
guard-ship, went out of harbour this morning at half-
past nine o'clock to try her engine and speed. Rear-
Admiral Prescott, C. 8., Captain Austen, C. 8., with a
number of other officers, Mr. Smith, At.. Brown, and
many other scientific gentlemen, -were also on board her.
The day was remarkably fine, a light wind blew from
the N.W., with the water as smooth as at a millpond,
On her proceeding out of harbour round the Spit Buoy
the screw appeared to he working mo:it admirable, the
large hulk gliding through the water without the least
noise, her screw occasioning but the least possible ebul-
lition of the water under her stern, and the ship the least
possible undulation. We should say that in passing
along Southsea beach she was going ahead at least four
knots, with a flood tide of one knot against her. This
would give her five knots speed. The Ajax proceeded
through Spithead to Stokes Bay, where she unfortu-
nately broke down by breaking one of her pistons before
any account was taken of her speed. Should she, how-
ever, be found to have a speed of five or six knots, it
would decide the authorities on not going to the very
costly expenses now effecting in altering the Blenheim.
Of course the admiral and officers returned to Ports-
mouth, and the Echo tug was dispatched to tow her up,
but she will not come into harbour before six or seven
o'clock. On her trial to-day the Ajax had only her bare
lower masts and bowsprit in.
The Grampus, 50, Captain H. Martin, was towed into
harbour, and brought alongside the dockyard jetty. She
looked well, her rigging and ropes were as taut as bars,
and her tops and mast heads remarkably clear of all top
hamper. She was down very much by the stern, occa-
sioned by her enormous freight, about 80 tons. Her lower
mast did not seem to stand well, her foremast standing
too far forward. They were painted black, with white
mast heads. This evening her people commenced de-
livering her freight, but it will not be all got out to-
night. Messrs. Casher have charge of it, and will convey
it to-morrow, by the South-Western Railway, from
Portsmouth to London. We cannot exactly tell the
value of it, as there is a box of diamonds and some gold;
but the greatest proportion is in silver bars and dollars ;
it is said to be worth 3,700,000 dollars. The money is
on merchants' account, and by the present most unjust
and iniquitous mode of appropriating the per ceetage for
the payment of the freight, Captain Martin will pocket
6,0001. or 7,000/., while the officers and crew of the ship,
who have all the trouble, get nil. The Grampus is dry-
ing sails, and will immediately prepare fur paying off.
The Comet (steam-vessel), Lieutenant Commander
Rigge, arrived to-day from Oporto, to pay off.
Wind northerly, light breeze, with fine weather.
APPOINTMENTS.
Commander Henry Harvey, to the Kingfisher; Lieu-
tenant. J. W. Pike, to the Kingfisher; Master Henry T.
Ellis, to the Kingfisher; Midshipman George B. Cooper,
Henry J. Urquhart, S. Babington, and Henry Capron
Bridger, to the Kingfisher; Acting Gunner Henry Bluff,
to the Excellent; Boatswain George Faulkner, to the
Illustrious; Master's Assistant, Thomas A. Bower, to
the Penelope; Master's Assistsmt James Boulton, to
the Stromboli; Master's Assistant Frederick Howard,
to the Driver; Clerk's Assistant F. F. Miller, to the
Kingfisher.
THE NEW RIGGING WARRANT.—The Lords of the
Admiralty have appointed Captain Horatio, C. 8., of the
Blenheim steam guard-ship; Charles Brown, Esq.,
master-attendant of Portsmouth Dockyard; W. H.
Thompson, Esq., master of the flag- ship Victory; and
R. C. Allen, Esq., master of the Blenheim, to be the com-
mittee for revising the rigging warrants of the steam
squadron at Portsmouth.
The Kingfisher, 12 gun sloop, was hauled from her
moorings in ordinary at Portsmouth, down to the mut-
ing jetty, on Tuesday night, and yesterday her masts
were put in, and a number of men put upon her, to
rig her. She will be commissioned in a day or two to
carry the November mail to the western coast of Africa.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, 6 guns, in Portsmouth
harbour, will return to the Tagus shortly.
The Driver steam-sloop, 6 guns, sailed from Ports-
mouth on Tuesday night for Jersey, to land a company
of Royal Artillery, and relieve the company serving
there.

THE AVENGER Sinsscauflosr.—The committee for
the distribution of this bounty to the relatives and
nearest of kin of those drowned in the Avenger steam-
frigate have announced the distribution of further re-
lief to the recognised recipients of the monies of the
fund at the Royal Naval College, on Saturday next, the
14th inst.
The Earl of Auckland has left the Admiralty on a
visit of inspection to the Admiralty works at Holyhead.
Thence his Lordship proceeds on a short visit to his
brother, at the Isle of Man.
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., late Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth, has arrived in town. His Ports-
mouth friends will be glad to hear that this gallant and
much respected flag-officer has improved much both in
health and appearance since he lett the harassing duties
of port admiral.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., Com-
mander-in Chief of the Channel squadron, is in town on
leave of absence. The ships under his command:—St.
Vincent, 120, flagship, Captain Dacres; Prince Regent,
90, Captain W. F. Martin; Bellerophon, 78, Captain
Baynes, C. 8., and Reynard, 8, screw-schooner, Com-
mander Cracroft, are ordered to have their defects made
good at Portsmouth, and to be kept ready for sea.
The Bellerophon, it is understood, will be the first
ship dispatched to the Mediterranean to relieve one of
the line-of-battle ships there. The Stromboli, steam-
sloop, Commander Lord A. Beauclerk, is to be ready at
Spithead.
MANNING THE NAVY.—IIaIf a dozen sail-of-the-line
could be well manned in a very short time, with no diffi •
culty, were the Admiralty to give the word. The King-
fisher, 12, Commander Harvey, was manned at Ports-
mouth in a few hours after orders for her commmis-
sioning.
Captain Chads, C. 8., and his officers and men,
returned to his own ship, the Excellent, at Portsmouth,
on Wednesday, and Captain Austin, C. 8., and his
officers and crew, returned to the Blenheim, from the
Blake, the former resuming her position as the advanced
screw guard-ship of the steam reserve at Portsmouth.
The Gossamer tender, at Cork, has been appropriated
as an exercising vessel for the naval apprentices there.
The Comus, 18, Commander D'Eyncourt, arrived at
Sheerness on Wednesday, to be paid off.
The Jumna, 2, Lieut.-Commander Rodney (acting),
will be paid off at Chatham on she 14th.
The Seagull packet-brig, Lieut.-Commander Dicken,
has arrived at Devonport to be refitted.
The Amphion steam screw-frigate, Captain W. J.
Williams, is ordered to be paid off at Sheerness on the
16th.
The Cyclops, 6, steam-frigate, Captain the Hon. G.
F. Hastings, left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday for the
coast of Africa.
The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Commander Dumaresq, has
had her completion deferred by the engineers at Ports-
mouth until the 17th, when she will proceed to the
Channel Islands to resume her duties.
The Urgent steam-packet, Lieut.-Commander Mann,
is ordered to be paid off at Portsmouth after her crew
has had the usual notice. Her defects are then to be
made good.
The Lucifer, 2, steam-vessel, Lieut.- Commander Lloyd,
is ready for sea at Devonport, and is to be paid advance,
preparatory to proceeding to Scotland to protect the
coast fisheries.
The Sharpshooter, screw-schooner, Lieut.-Commander
Barley, has been ordered to have new trusses provided
for her and cleared of her present armament. She is to
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ROYAL -DOCKYARD BRIGADES.—The Admiralty have
issued directions to all the, krigades that the field pieces
attached to the corps shall be kept, in the respective
dockyards, under she!ter when it can be done, during
%inter', and to be in charge of the drill serjeants.
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rLYMpIITH, OCT. 11.—Her Majesty's steamer Comet,
Lieutenant-Commander Rigge, came in yesterday from
Ireland.

THE GERMAN Rocx AGAIN.—Her Majesty's packet
brig Seagull, Lieutenant-Commander James Smail in
entering liamoaze from the Sound yesterday afternoon
at half-past one o'clock, with a stiff breeze from north.
west, grounded on the outer German Rock. Signal was
immediately made :for assistance from the ships in the
harbour, and help was speedily sent from the dockyard.
At high water, two o'clock, she fortunately floated off
without much injury. This is the second Government
vessel which has been ashore this month on the German
Rock. The first was the Peterel brig, mentioned on the
4th instant. She was going out at ebb tide with a fresh
breeze from the south.

Captain M'Quhae, of the frigate Dxdalus, has
brought from China a variety of works of art the
produce of that interesting country. We have had
an opportunity of inspecting some of these speci-
mens at the Royal William Victualling Yard. Be-
sides several elegant China vases and tea sets, &c., there
was a josshouse table and a sacrificial pan. The
table was formerly used in a josshouse at Chingkiang
Foo, and was presented to Captain M'Quhae by a native
merchant. It is about five feet long by two feet wide,
and massively made from a dark heavy wood. It stands
high on four dragons scaled legs, the clawed feet clasp-
ing four balls; the framework of the table is full of alle-
gorical figures curiously carved and gilt. This specimen
is, we believe, to be presented to some public institution.
The sacrificial pan is stated to be 2,000 years old. It is
roughly made of brass, of a circular shallow form, and
capable of holding seven or eight quarts, supported on
three short legs, which spring from rams' heads of a
more finished character than the other parts of the ves •
eel. By these heads the date of manufacture is calcu-
lated. The pan rests on an elegant hollow-work stand,
carved from the hard root of a dark-coloured tree, and
has a cover of the same material. The stand and cover
are of modern construction, and are replete with well-
executed representations of leaves, flowers, and reptiles.
The pan was obtained from a josshouse at Foo-chop-foo,
where it had been used to receive the blood of animals
sacrificed in the performance of certain religious cere-
monies.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 12.—The Athol troop-ship, Master
Commander Pearn, embarked Captain the Honourable
R. Handcock's company, Ist battalion of the Royal
Artillery, for Barbadoes, and Major Barnaby's company,
6th battalion, for Jamaica, and was towed down the
river yesterday at twelve o'clock by the Monkey steam-
vessel. Strong detachments of the 2d, 4th, 6th, and Bth
battalions embarked at the same time to fill up the

companies at those stations whose turn of relief has not

yet arrived.
The Teazer steam-vessel is ordered to be made ready
for the sea by the 15th inst., and the men are employed
from the earliest hour of daylight until dark in the even-
ing to forward the works required upon her. She has
been supplied with a 32-pounder gun of 56 cwt., instead
of the 8. inch gun originally intended for her, and will
be commissioned to take out the next mail for the coast

of Africa, where she will be stationed for some timoin

pursuit of slavers.

Major James's company, 9th battalion Royal Artillery
left the garrison here on Tuesday to relieve Captai
Hennis's company, 2d battalion, at Jersey, the latter
being under orders to return to head-quarters.

_•
UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, OCT. 12.—The Junior Proctor will receive
the names of undergraduates who intend to offer them-
selves for the Responsions in Michaelmas Term, on
Friday, the 20th instant, from two till three o'clock;
and Saturday, the 21st, from one till three o'clock.
It is necessary that each candidate should bring his
matriculation paper, and the certificate of having sat
in the schools, or copies of them, attested by the re-
gistrar.

These papers must either be presented by the candi-
date in person, or transmitted through his tutor.
Those candidates who may need a dispensation from
the Vice-Chancellors and Proctors, in order to having
their names inserted in the list, are required to attend at
the Vice-Chancellor's house on Saturday, the 21st
instant, at twelve o'clock, and to bring with them from
the head or tutor of their college or hall a statement in
writing of the grounds on which the dispensation is
sought for.
CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 12.—TuE CAPIIT.—The under-
mentioned gentlemen will form the Caput for the year
1848-49:—The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Broadley, Trinity,
Law; Dr. Webster, Jesus, Physic; Rer. T. H. Woollas-
ton, St. Peter's, Senior Non Regent; Rev. J. Rickards,
Sidney, Senior Regent.
The Norrisian Professor of Divinity's lectures in
Michaelmas Term, 1848, will commence on Thursday,
October 19, at one o'clock. The lectures will be con-
tinued, at the same hour, on each Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday, throughout the remainder of the term.
The Regius Professor of Physic has given notice that
the next medical examinations will commence November
6, at ten o'clock A.M., in the schools under the public
library; those persons who intend to offer themselves for
this examination are requested to send their names to Dr.
Haviland, on or before Monday, October 30.
The Lectures on the Principles of Pathology and the
Practice of Physic will commence on Monday, October
30, at ten o'clock A.M., in the Anatomical Schools.

LORD GEORGE BENTINCK.
At the anniversary meeting of the Waltham Agri-
cultural Association, held some days since, the Duke
of Rutland in the chair, it was resolved,. on the
motion of Mr. Newbolt, of Sleaford, seconded by
Mr. Beasley, of Harston, that some tribute of re-
spect should be paid to the memory of Lord George
Bentinck ; and that, as a preliminary measure, the
Duke of Rutland should be requested to communi-
cate with the Duke of Portland, expressing the loss
the society had sustained lsy the death of the Noble
Lord, and condoling with his Grace upon that me-
lancholy and unexpected event.
The following correspondence has taken place:—
" Palace, Sept. 27, 1848.
"My dear Duke,—My first impulse, on learning the.
sad intelligence which has carried desolation to your
house, was to write to you; but I forbore on recollect-
ing how little consolation I could impart, and how con-
fidently rely upon your giving me credit for the acute-
ness of my sympathetic feeling, the consequences not
simply of long-continued and strong attachment towards
yourself, but of the friendship and regard which has
subsisted for so many years between your deeply-la-
mented son and myself.
" It is now a satisfaction to me that I did forbear to
write to you, for I am commissioned to do so officially;
and to communicate to you the feelings and sentiments
of a large company, over which I had the honour to
preside on Monday evening last, namely, the Waltham
Agricultural Association.
" As President and Chairman, it was my intention to
have proposed the memory of poor George Bentinck to
be drunk in melancholy silence; but a wish was ex-
pressed to me by several agriculturists present, that it
might originate with them; and it was moved by Mr.
Newbolt, from near Sleaford, seconded by Mr. Beasley,
of Harston, near Belvoir, and cordially and unanimously
agreed to by the whole company, that a resolution
should be conveyed to you by myself, expressive of the
deep sympathy and condolence of the Waltham Agricul-
tural Association, on the occasion of the irreparable loss
with which it has pleased the Almighty to afflict you:
their earnest hope is, that the same hand which inflicted
the blow will support you under its effects; their
grateful sense of the benefits which they and the agri-
cultural body of the kingdom have derived from his
able and persevering advocacy of their cause; and their
admiration of his great and manifold talents as a
public man.
" That the communication, although it may not con-
sole, may at least soothe you under this deplorable dis-
pensation of an all-wise Providence, is the sincere wish of
"My dear Duke, yours most truly, -
" RUTLAND,,

" His Grace the Duke of Portland."

" Welbeck, Sept. 29, WU.
" Dear Duke of Rutland,—Nothing can be more con-
solatory than such communications as those contained in
your letter, and which have reached me from many
quarters.
" I am sure I need not say that if anything could add
to their value, it would be that they come from you.
" I remain, dear Duke of Rutland,
"Yours, very sincerely,
" SCOTT PORTLAND."

•. AILWA Y SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 12.
STOCK ExCHANoE.—Little business has been done, and the
market generallyii less healthy than yesterday, and prices are
lower. The aales are—Eastern Counties, 11%—Great
Northern, 131/2 dis.—Ditto (A), 214—Lancashire and -York-
shire, Fifths (late M. and L.), 5% dis.—London and
North Western, 103%—Ditto, Quarters, 2
3g dis —Ditto,
Quarters (A and B), par—Ditto, paid up, 20—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, lOU dis.—
Ditto, Eighths, 8/. Is. 3d. dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, 9
Ditto (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 30% dis.-;-
Midland Stock, 76—Ditto, New Halves, 12% die.—North
Staffordshire, 714 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 2,
12% dis.—itto. No. 4, Thirds, 64 6s. 3d.— York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 4 dis.
MANCHESTER, Om 12.
Srocx Excluamm.—The sales are—Birkechead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 93j4 dis.—East Lancashire,
Preference, dis,—Caledonian, Preference, 1 9-16 dis.—
Newcastle Junction, 214 dis.—Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarters (A and 13), par—Ditto„
North Staftbrdshire Quarters (C), 1/ c. p.—
, c. dis.—Shropshire Union, 3% dla.
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 5-16—Midland,
East Lancashire. New., 1134 dis.—Ditto, Old, 12!i—She 77
ffield,
Eighths, 7% dis.—Leeds and Think, 16%—Ditto, New,
31% dis.

BIRMINGHAM, Ocr. 12.
STOCK Exc.:RANGE.— The sales are—Midland, 761/2 —North
Staffordshire,to (B 7% dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A),
7A) dis.—Dit), 41/2 dis.—Shropshire Union, 3% dis.
YORK, OCT. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows :—Great Northern, 11A—North British, Thirds,
4 %-- Ditto Quarters, 31/2—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(G. N. E. 'Purchase), 4%.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Ocr. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hartlepool Dock and
Railway, 140—North British, 15—Ditto, Quarters, 31/2.
GLASGOW, OCT.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, 195. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, B—Glasgow,
Dunahies, and Carlis'e, 4%—Glasgow Kilmarnock, and
Ayr, 50—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 555.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2,
525. 6d.—Great Northern, 725. 6d.—Midland, 75—North
British, 'Thirds, 835.—Scottish Central, 213/4—Wishaw and
Celtness, 37g.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Dreadful Enlargement of
the Knee, Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—
Abraham Banks, an elderly man living near the Dry
Creek, South Australia, had such a painful affection
and enlargement of the knee, that he dispaired of ever
recovering the use of his limb, the numerous remedies that
he made trial of failing to banish or even to mitigate the
disease. In this suffering condition he was advised to
try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and he commenced
a regular application of them, which in a short titne
effected a complete cure. The Adelaide Observer of Cie
25th March, 1848, publishes this as one among the many
astonishing cures effected, in South Australia, by these
invaluable medicines.—Sold by all Druggists, and at
Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, OCT. 12.—The Ame-
rican steam-ship United States, Captain W. G. Hack-
staff, sailed at noon Co-day for New York.. She took out
about 80 passengere and a large cargo of near 500 tons
measurement goods, principally from France. The re-
pairs of the machinery of the United States have been
effected at the factory of Messrs. Smith and Ashby, of
this place. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company's ship Jupiter, Captain F. Meehan, with
the mails from Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib
raltar, may be expected on Sunday.

BLICTEI3.
On the 7th inst., at Thurlow-square, Brompton,
Timothy Richardson, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Sedbury, the wife •f George Gilpin,
Esq., of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Corran-brook, Laugharme, Carmar-
thenshire, Mrs. alpole Willis, of a daughter.
On the Bth inst., at Park-street, Grosvenor-square, the
lady of the Rev. J. E. Carter, of a daughter.
On the Bth inst., at Moreton Rectory, Essex, the wife of,
the Rev. R. B. Tower, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at the Lower House, Stoke-by-Nayland,
the wife of W. Hoy, Esq., of a daughter.
Onithe 9th inst., at Cavendish-road, St. John's-wood, Mrs.
G. Horne, of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at Berkeley-square, the lady of H. IL
H. Hungerford, Esq., of a daughter.

MARIED.
On the 10th inst., at Walcoß t
Church, Bath, Henry Lucas
Bean, Esq., second son of Reginald H. Rodbard, Esq., of
Backwell-house, Somerset, to Emilia, eldest daughter of the
late W. Blathwayt, Esq., Captain in the 3d Light Dragoons.
On the 10th inst., at Subdeanery Church, Chichester,
Harry, youngest daughter of George Whieldon, Esq., of
Springfield-house, Warwickshire, to Francis Jane, only (laugh'
ter of Joseph McCarogher, Esq., M.D.
On the 11th inst., at St. Mary, Stratford, Bow, John F.
Derrett, Esq., of Forest-gate-lane, Stratford, to Caroline,
third daughter of W. Hunter, Esq., Bow.

DIED.
On the 28th ult, at Ilfracombe, Devon, Mary, youngest
daughter of John S. Down, M.D.
On the 6th inst., aged 15, William Edward, only son of
Mr. A. W. Davis, of the Stag Brewery, Pimlico.
On the Bth inst., at St. Mary-le-Strand-place, Old Kent•
road, aged 69, John Wilson, Esq., of the department of the
Surveyor of the Navy.
On the Bth inst., at Paley Rectory, Herefordshire, Love'
day, the wife of the Rev. P. G. Blencowe.
- On the 10th inst., Marianne, wife of J. Eliot, Esq., of Pee-
bles, North Britain, and of Larnbourne, Essex, aged 65.
On the 10th inst., at the Mall, Kensington, Miss Eleanor
Hotchkin, aged 76.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG,
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 113
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county el,,
fiiiddlesex, Yo October 13, 1848.