The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Orestes, 14 gun corvette, Commander Hawkes,
left Portsmouth Harbour for Spithead yesterday after-
noon. There were at that roadstead last evening the
following ships and vessels :—St. Vincent, 120 guns ;
Prince R-gent. 92 ; Powerful, 84 ; Superb, 80; Orestes,
14 ; Renard, 12 ; Driver, 6 ; Stromboli, 6. By to-mor-
row, the Amazon, 20, Captain Troubridge, is expected to
join from Plymouth.

The Sans rareil, 80-gun chip, building at Devonport
dockyard, is ordered to be proceeded with, and to be fit-
t<.l for the reception of steam machinery of 330-horse
power. The Niobe, 28 gun corvette, also building in this
dockyard, but the progress of which was suspended by
order of the Admiralty, is now ordered to be completed
and launched.

EAST INDIA AND CHINA SQUADRON.—The Hastings,
72 guns, Captain Morgan, had not arrived at Singapore
from Rio, to take the lig of Rear-Admiral Collier, the
commander-in-chief on the above stations, at the
latest ad vices.

The Cumbrian, 40-gun frigate, bearing the pendant of
Commodere Plumridge, the second in command on the
above station, was at Hong-Kong on the 28th of Sep-
tember, at which date the following vessels were stationed
as under :

At Hong Kong—The Alligator hospital ship, Minden
store ship, and the Childers, 14-gun sloop, Commander
Pittman, last from Shanghae.
En route to England—The Espeigle, 12-gun sloop,
Commander Campbell, arrived at Singapore from Hong-
Kong on the 23d of September, and sailed on the 30th
for England, with Mr. Campbell, the late acting Chief
Justice of Hong-Kong, on board.
At Woosung—The Mariner, 12-gun sloop, Com-
mander Matheson.

At Amoy—The Columbine, 16-gun sloop, Commander
Hay.

At Foochowloo—The Scout, 14-gun sloop, Comman-
der Johnson.

At Whampoa—The Medea, 6-gun steam-sloop, Com-
mander Mason.

At Labuan—The Meadder, 46 gun frigate, Captain
the Hon. Henry Keppel, and the Royalist, 10-gun brig,
Commander Gordon. This colony had been visited with
severe fever incidental to the climate. The Royalist's
crew were on half rations, owing to a dearth of provi-
sions at the settlement at the (Lite of these advices (26th
of September.) Commander Gordon has completed his
survey of the coast of Borneo; he has also surveyed the
mouths of the rivers in the bay between Sarawak and
Cape Sirick, and took his vessel up the river Rejang, as
also up the Sirike, a small river branching off the Re-
jang. Having completed a survey of the river, the
Royalist proceeded towards Cape Sirick, and thence
along the coast towards Point Barham, where her
tender, the Breeze cutter, was caught in a squall, got
into the heavy breakers, and went down. She was
subsequently got up, but her chronometer, &c., was
destroyed.

PLYMOUTH, NOT. 18. The Indefatigable, 50 .gun
frigate, has been fitted as an advance ship, and placed
at her moorings ready for commission.
Orders have been received from the Board of Admi-
ralty to fit with engines of 330 horse power the Sans
Pareil, laid down by orders of the late board on No. 5
slip. A model of her is also to be forwarded to head-
quarters.

In order to e Kpedi te the completion of the Niobe, 28,
building in No.. slip, four divisions of shipwrights will
be employed on oer on Monday.
The Amazon, 1:6 --•Li go into the Sound on the 20th.
A chequered red and white buoy has been placed off
Penlee Point, to 'mark the shoal which extends there
200 fathoms from the level, in a S.E. direction. The
buoy has been moored at the extremity of the reef, where
there are only 2i fathoms of water, and where the water
deepens quickly. Half-way between the buoy and the
shore there is only one fathom at low water. Large
ships should always pass to the southward of the buoy.
The marks for the buoy are:-1. A house in a line with
the rocks above water, off Redding Point. 2. The Break-
water Beacon—in a line with the upper corner of the
southernmost quarry at Bovisand.
Wind N.W., variable, occasional showers.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Superb, 80, Captain
Corry, anchored at Spithead last night about five
o'clock. She sailed from Malta on the 7th and Gib-
raltar on the 31st ult. She has brought home Lieutenant
Rowles, of the Queen, invalided, and 1)r. Millar, surgeon,
of the Hibernia, the latter to join the Plymouth division
of Royal Marines. She spoke the Bellerophon, 78,
Captain Baynes, C. 8., in the Straits of Gibraltar, and
exchanged numbers with the British barque Palmyra on
the 15th inst., in lat. 46 14 N., long. 952 W. She
buried two men at sea on the passage. The Com-
mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir T. Bladen Capel, K.C.8.,
went out this forenoon i❑ the Fire Queen steam-vessel,
accompanied by Captain Chads, of the Excellent, and
Flag-Lieutenant Cochran, to inspect the Superb prior to
her coming into the harbour to be paid off. The in-
spectio❑ and exercise lased till nearly three o'clock in
the afternoon. If possible, the Superb will be got in to-
morrow
morning. She has to get out her powder, and
lighten to 22 feet 6 inches, therefore cannot be got in
to-night.
Toe Reynard, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Cracroft, is
not intended tor the coast of Africa station, as has been
stated. Commander Miller, of the Royal Naval College,
proceeds to sea in this vessel as the guest of Coin-
mender Cracroft, to acquire practical knowledge of
steam machinery, especially as applied to screw pro-
pulsion.

The day's proceedings of the Rifleman and Sharp-
shooter on Saturday, which we noticed yesterday, re-
sulted in the Riflenian (wood), of 100 horse-power,
heading the Sharpshooter (iron), of 202 horse-power,
without consuming two-thirds so much fuel. The
Rifleman steams 23 miles with one ton of coals, at the
speed of 7i knots per hour. They anchored in Yar-
mouth Roads at sunset on Saturday night, and lay there
all day on Sunday. This morning they started afresh
upon their cruise, which they are to continue until they
have encountered a. heavy gale of wind, in order to as-
certain the superior power of the Sharpshooter when the
Rifleman can make no head way.
From the above eur readers will perceive the error we
fell into iu our detail of the intended cruise on Satur-
day. For Sharpshooter read Rifleman throughout the
paragraph alluded to, which will set matters in their
proper light.
Wind, S.W. by S.; fresh gales, and squally weather,
with rain.

WooLwicir, Nov. 20.—Captain Milne, one of the
Lords of the Admiralty; Mr. Ward, First Secretary to
the Admiralty; and Capt. Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8.,
Surveyor of the Navy, members of the Dockyard Revi-
sion Committee, visited Woolwich Dockyard officially
today, and were received by Captain Fitzroy, acting
superintendent, and the heads of the various depart-
ments. The members of the committee immediately
proceeded to investigate the different places, com-
mencing with the rigging store-houses at the east end
of the yard, and were.attended by Captain Fitzroy and
\tr. Jenkins, store receivcr, during the txamin-Ltion of
the store Now.. .

The Black Pone., 72 guns, has arrived at moorings
opposite Woolwich Dockyard, where Ehe is to bo con-
verted into a convict ship, to be stationed opposite the
Royal Arsenal.

NOTTINGHAM, SUNDAY MoarriNG.--Scareely had
the sensation caused by the melancholy fate of the
Rev. W. Brown subsided, whoa the town was again
thrown into a state of excitement by the suicide
of a young woman, named Pbeebe Green, aged twenty-
five, residing in Cumberland-street, and who had
lived for about six years with Mr. Aulton, lace
manufacturer. An inquest was held on the body
on Thursday night, and by adjournment on Friday,
when the evidence went to prove that the unfortunate
young woman had taken a quantity of laudanum, in con-
sequence of its having come to her knowledge that Mr.
Aulton was about to be married to another person. The
jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."—.At
the time this adjourned inquest was holding a most tragic
affair was nearly comsummated at the residence of a
young woman of the name of Cant, whose occupation is
that of a lace-mender in one of the warehouses of the
town. It appears that some time since she became ac-
quainted with a young man named Everard Gadd, a
joiner, whose father was averse to the acquaintance, and
tried every means in his power to break it off.' They
were,olhowever,
not
o
heard to say, that "if they
u
would die. together," and on
eivveer, together frequently
tiley
Friday last proceeded to carry that threat into execu-
c
execu-
tion. A quantity of arsenic was procured from the
shop of a druggist; they then mixed the poison with a
small portion of flour, and made two cakes, which they
ate, the young woman taking the greater share. The
effects soon became visible, and a. person in the house
was immediately dispatched for the young man's father.
Surgical aid was at once procured, the stomach:pump
was applied limit vigorously,and after passing a night of
excruciating torment, more favourable symptoms were
visible on Saturday. Medical aid was also pro-
cured iu the case of the young woman, who suffered
even more than her lover. They may both, however, be
considered out of danger.
ABSURDITY OF BUILDING HOUSES AS it roil,
BURNING.—On examining into the causes of the rapidity
of the spread of the flames in London houses when on
fire, it will almost invariably be found, that, whatever
may have occasioned the fire to break oat, the rapidity
of its progress has been in proportion to the greater or
less extent of the lath and plaster partitions, the hollow
wooden floors, and the wooden staircases. Were the
occupiers of houses sufficiently aware of the danger from
lath and plaster partitions, especially Is hen they enclose
staircases, they would never occupy such houses, or if
they did, they would not give such rents for them, as
they would for houses with bricknogging partitions.
Again and again we protest against the absurdity of
constructing buildings as if for the express purpose of
readily burning, and urge, on the other hand, the im-
portance of adopting every practicable precaution to
render them fire-proof, and the sin against society which
the neglect of these precautions involves.—Builder.
CHOLERA.—Two fatal cases of cholera have occur-
red at Monkwearmouth Colliery within the last few
days ; otherwise the town continues free from the epi-
demic. At the colliery the most perfect arrangements
have been made to mitigate the disease, should it unfor-
tunately prevail in that quarter.—Newcastle Guardian.