The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-25 00:00:00

NAVAL OBITUARY.

Captain Philip Henry Bridges (1827), on the retired
list of October, 1846, died at Bath on the 17th ult., aged
63 years. This gallant officer (New Nati', List, by
Allen) was " midshipman of the Loire, at.d officially
noticed while serving in.her boats, cutting out French
brig of War 'Venteux from under the batteries of the Isle
de Bas in IEO3. Lieutenant of the Veteran, and com-
manded a beat in the night attack upon Thulogne
flotilla, 1304; and senior of the Franchise serving in
her boats at cipture of a Spanish national schooner of
superior force off Lea Gnira, and participated in other
b,Jat services, 1806. Senior
Lieutenant of Aigle in the
attack on French fleet in Aix Roads ; and in the Wal-
chcren expedition ; of Hussar at the capture of Java ;
and of Leda, and commanded her boats against the
pirates of Borneo, 1813." His gallant conduct tat the
cutting out the Venteux, in 1803, was netield in the
Gazette, and ho was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
He was made a Commander in 1816, and for his services
received honorary reward from the Patriotic Fund.
Lieutenant George Sandford. (1811) died in the Coast
Guard service, at Margate, on the 12th inst., in the 59th
year of his age. The gallant deceased was a native of
Exeter, and obtained his promotion for his services in the
flotilla at the defence of Cadiz.

Surgeon James Low (1634), of the San Josef, flagship
at Devonport, died on th© 4th inst., at Glenloin, Dum-
bartonshire.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Her Majesty's brig Heroine,
8, is ordered to be brought forward for commission; her
:
spars are landed and are to be examined.
Nineteen shipwrights, three ropemakers, ono caulker,
one sailmaker, and one sawyer, are to be examined on
the 24th at the surgery preparatory for superannuation.
The merchant barque Ipswich, Captain Asplet, of
Jersey, came in this afternoon, after a boisterous pas.
sage throughout of 71 days; left 16th of September. The
Lancaster Witch, of Liverpool, and the Mona, of Lon.
don, started from the Diver Plate at the same date; Ist
of Oatoher, off the coast of Brazil, near the island of
Trinidad, spoke the Alfred, of Belfast, from New York,
for Callao; 26th of October, passed a large steamer
(stpposed to be a mail boat), bound west; 6th of No-
vember, lat. 37'50 N. long. 30'25 W., Janet, of Leith,
from Bahia, for London; 16th of November, lat. 47 N.,
long. 24 W., Admiral Jan Eversten, from Batavia, for
Amsterdam and the Indus, bound east; 17th, lat. 47 N.,
long._ 22 W., Sarah and Elizabeth, for London; 19th, lat.
49 N., long. 15 W , Bremen barque' Sophie, from Ha-
l'annah,Jur Byemen• 21st la, N., long. 7.10 W., brig
Kestrel, ontward.ho'uz, Eddystone; Hamburgh brig
Cyrus, bound to the eastward.
s.txward.
Wind, W.S.W.
sional showers. W .W.; strong breeze, with oeca-
CHATHAM, Nov. 24. The pigmy
and the Adder
steam-vessels, at Woolwich, arerdered to be sent to
this port, and to be kept is reabeioness for service.
The Castor, 36 guns, will mpleted and read for
commission the end of next week. y
The Rochester, Sudwicks muster,i3lo,,,ding with dock-
yard stores for Devonport.
WOOLWICH, Nov. 24.—The members of the Dt„,l,
yard Committee of Revision have proceeded to Deetin-
dockyard to-day to investigate the working satZlizt
rants and other matters at that naval depOt.
Mr. Voules, superintendent of convicts, has been en.,
gaged within the last few days in looking for an eligible
situation on which to erect a prison for the convicts
employed in the dockyard, it having been resolved to
have them confined on shore and detached from the
dockyard during the night.
Mr. Johnson, engineer of the Prometheus steam-
vessel, has suggested a very simple means of extin-
guishing fires on board ships or war-steamers, whether
arising from spontaneous combustion or any other cause,
which he proposes should be effected by having one of
Kingston's valves inserted in the bottom of the vessel
with a connecting rod or key in the captain's cabin, or
other convenient place, under his entire control. By
that means, on an alarm of fire being given, the captain
could admit a sufficient quantity of water to extinguish
the fire, without having to remove the cargo or stores,
and save the bottom of the vessel from being charred,
which is often the case when fires take place, and a diffi-
culty experienced to ascertain the exact spot where it is
burning. Mr. Kingston's valves are used in her Ma-
jesty's steamers for supplying water to the boilers, and
are opened and shut with the slightest pressure.

Prince Metternich, .who is residing with his family
in Brighton, on hearing of the wreck of the two German
emigrant ships on the Goodwin Sands, immediately dis.
patched his son, Prince Richard Metternich, and Baron
Hugel, from Brighton, with a sum of money for the re-
lief of the sufferers, and commissioned his son to inform
them that he would assist them further by every means
in his power. We find in Tuesday's papers an adver-
tisement, with the signatures of Prince Richard Met-
ternich and Baron C. Hugel, expressive of their thanks,
in the name of 160 of their German conntrymen, to the
ninehasabitanta of Ramsgate, for the hospitality and kind-
ness them in their distress.—Brighton Gazette.
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coalstates, France, 4,141,617 ; United
700,000.4,400'000 rKUSSia, 3,500,000 i and Austria,