The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 2.—The Prince Regent. 92,
Captain Martin, bent sails on Tuesday, and will go out
of dock to-morrow, and out of the harbour on Monday
as at present arranged. She still wants about 100 men
to complete her complement.
The Undiue steamer will be ready for service again
to-morrow, when it is expected she will be sent to
Dover to do the work of a packet which has become out
of repair.
The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Henderson, was at
Alexandria on the Bth of February, waiting to embark
Viscount Hardinge, the late Governor• General of
India, for England ; but it was not expected his Ex-
cellency would arrive at that place before the 20th of
February.

The President, 50, Captain Stanley, flag of Rear-,
Admiral Daeres, Commander-in-Chief on the Cape
station, was in Simon's Bay on the 14th of January. as
was the Seringapatain store-ship. The Arab, 12, Com-
mander W. M. Morris, sailed from the bay on that day
for the Mauritius.

The crew of the late Snake, 16. have been removed to-
day from the Resistance to the Victory, on board which
they will be tried by court-martial.
The Sappho, 16, was removed from the Basin to-day
into ordinary. _ _

The Persian, 16, Commander Coryton, sailed yesterday
for Woolwich to be paid off.
The troops brought home by the Resistance are ordered
to be landed at this port.

Wind N.N.W., fresh breez.?s and cloudy weather.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH I.—Her Majesty's frigate Eagle,
50, Captain George B. Martin, was yesterday towed by
steam-tug from the Sound to Hamoaze. In passing be.
twee❑ St. Nicholas Island and the main, by the northern
passage, she touched the ground in Firestone Bay, but
the tide rising she was soon floated off.
There is no further intelligence of the fate of the four
missing mackerel boats, and in all probability they were
swamped at their nets in the severe storm of Friday
night. The four boats possessed a complement of about
thirty men, who have thus perished while industriously
employed in their dangerous occupation. The losses of
those engaged here in the fishery this season will be very
great. The value of the four beats and their gear is
about 2,0001., and the ♦alue of the nets lost in the gale of
Friday by the other boats will considerably exceed that
amount.

ASCENSION, JAN. B.—ln harbour—The Tortoise, 12,
Captain F. Hutton, and the freight-ship.
At the Banana Islands—The Penelope steam-frigate,
with the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Charles
llotham; the Favourite, 16, Commander Murray; and
the Mariner, 16, Commander Matthison.
At Cape Mount—The Philomel, 10, Commander
Wood; the Rapid, 10, Commander Dixon; and the
Dart, 3, Lieutenant Glyn. The above vessels compose
the northern division, which the Commodore is now in
course of inspecting.
On passage to England—The Flying-fish, 12, Com-
mander Dyke; and the Banger, 8, Commander Ander-
son.

Neither the Amphitrite nor the Hecate has yet made
their appearance here, but they are daily expected. They
may possibly have been detained by the Commodore at
Sierra Leone.

In the Bights of Benin—The Albatross, 12, Com-
mander Farquhar; the Bittern, 12, Commander Hope;
the Kingfisher, 12, Commander Horton; the Devasta-
tion and Grappler steamers; and the Britomart, 8, Com-
mander Chamberlain.

At Cape Lopez and cruising as far south as Benguela
—The Hound, 8, Commander Wood; the Contest, 12,
Commander Macmurdo ; the Ferret, 8, Commander
Sprigg ; the Heroine, 8, Commander Edmonds ; th•
Siren, 16, Commander Chaloner; the Wanderer, 12,
Commander Montresor; and the Styx steamer, Com-
mander Chads.

The Snap---Steamer, Master Commander Raymond,
arrived from the Bights on the 10th ult., with the pleasing
intelligence that the vessels composing the division there
were in excellent health, and that few slavers had been
seen since August last—one cnly had been captured
since that time, an empty vessel, by the Devastation.
The town L f Quetah was in course of arising from its
ashes, the natives having made their peace with their
Danish neighbours of the fort by paying a sum of some
5,000 or 6,000 dollars.

The Penelope steamer, with the broad pendant of the
Commodore, sailed on the 12th ult. for Cape Mount and
Sierra Leone.

The Snap steamer sail. d on the 22d ult., with provi-
sions and stores for the vessels in the Bights.
The Louisa Baillie, freight•ship, Roxby master,
arrived on the 3d ult., with materials for a new store-
house and a convalescent ,hospital, about to be erected
half way up the Green Mountain. She sailed on the
sth inst. for Mauritius.

The Lady Sale, freight ship, Bruar master, arrived ost
the 9th ult., with provisions and stores, and sailed oa the
25th for Singapore. . _

The -,-Weight ship, arrived on the sth inst., from
England, and remains.

APPOINTMENTS.
ADMIRALTY, MARCU 2.—Edward Johnson Acting
Gunner, to the Excellent; W. E. Seacombe, Inspector
of Shipwrights, Pembroke Docks; Thomas T. Murray,
Ist class Assistant Engineer, to the Fisguard ; H. M.
Moore, Clerk, to the Victory ; Kempster M. Knapp,
Naval Instructor, to the Havannah ; Richard B. Howe,
Chaplain, to the Ganges ; Edmund E. Turnour, Lieute-
nant and Commander, to the Shearwater.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 2.—The Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company's ship Avon, Lieutenant Phillip Bast,
R N., Commander, sailed to-day, with the usual West
Indian and Mexican mails. The machinery of this
beautiful ship, originally constructed by Messrs. Acre-
man, Morgan, and Co., of Bristol, has undergone con-
siderable alterations and improvements, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Mills, the company's superintendent-engineer.
The new b. ilers, on the principle of Mr. Mills, are on a
most excellent plan for economising room and lessening
consumption of fuel; their increased facilities for gene-
rating steam, and consequently producing greater speed,
have induced the directors of the company to order that
all their vessels shall in future be fitted with boilers on
the same construction. The Erin, Capt. Russel, sails
to-morrow for Gibraltar, Malta, and Constantinople.
COMMUNICATION WITH FRANCE. BRIGHTON,
THURSDAY.— It is already known, that at the request of
the Board of Admiralty, who sent down to Brighton a
special messenger on Sunday, the steam-vessels of the
Brighton and Continental Steam Packet Company were
got in readiness for sea with the utmost dispatch, for the
purpose of plying between this and the opposite coast in
order to bring away the English residents who might
desire to leave the French ports. Two of the boats leflt
Newhaven harbour on Monday. Yesterday afternoon
the Brighton steamer, Captain Ryan, left Havre at three
o'clock, with dispatches from the French Provisional to
the English Government. She arrived at Newhaven at
nine o'clock, having made the passage in six hours. Mr.
Iron, secretary to the company, who was waiting the
arrival of the packets, immediately started for Brighton
with the dispatches which the Hon. Captain Hothatn,
chairman of the company, conveyed to town by a special
train- Havre was quiet, and the English residents
did not feel inclined to take advantage of the means
of returning home which had been provided for them
by the care of the Government. The Newhaven, Cap-
tain Moore, arrived at Newhaven harbour to-day at one
o'clock, bringing dispatches for the Government. These
were handed to Mr. Iron, who immediately proceeded to
Brighton, and arriving there too late for the regular
trains, he was furnished with a special engine, with
which be forthwith started for London. As stated above,
the Newhaven was sent to Havre at the desire of the
Lords of the Admiralty, the captain having orders to
attend to the instructions of the British Consul. From
that officer the captain received instructions to sail to
Dieppe, the main object being, as we believe, to pick up
any members of the ex Royal Family who might be
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threatened by some of the badly disposed among the
democracy. The Dieppe left for Havre this morning at
half-past five. The Brighton left at eleven, with return
dispatches for Havre. The Dieppe will leave Newhaven
to. morrow morning at four.

JERSEY.—The Reform party here are all on the
move, and have determined to present a petition to the
Government arid Members of the States of the island
for an increase in the number of their representatives in
the Assembly. A committee has been appointed to
carry the desire of this portion of the population of the
island into effect. The object they have in view is to
increase the number of their representatives by fourteen
Members, who are to be elected by the ratepayers, and
they suggest the general elections should take place once
in every three years on the same day, the constituency
having the right of choosing from the whole island the
persons whom they may think worthy of their suffrages.
TAXES ON HEALTH—STATE-IMPOSED AND SELF..
INIPOSED.—As to the taxes on light and air, and that n•
less obnoxious tax on drainage in particular, and on
health and safety, as well as comfort in general, the brick
tax, pressure from without must be brought to bear on them.
And now is the time, for, be it noted that the present
debate on the health bill proves that powerful support
and seconding inside the Commons will be given to such
a pressure from without. The agitation against the
" light tax" increases in extent every day, public meet-
ings are being held to protest against it all over the
.
country, lectures are being delivered shewing its ukiu-
rious effects and unjust operation, and
are in course of organization to obtain its repeal. h
9,4!ruerrytawblei.r:
local societies
the subject
shape oorf the
investigationoth er , sanitary
comment.reform is
re-
ports of meetings, pamphlets, and books, bearing on the
literally groaning under the pile of communications,.
question. Nor is this excitement to be wondered at, the
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money, excetds in amount ten millions a year, and that
it costs more money to create disease than to prevent it,
there being no one structural arrangement, chargeable
with the production of disease, which is not also in itself
an extravaAance. Results, however, are now wanted.
Let not the satirist still be able to say—
" Talk if you like about nuisance,
'Tis cheap to expen only breath;
But leave rule and empire to muck and to mire,
'Till King Dirt yields the throne to King Death."
o a..t _es.
This is a question which belongs to all part i
tneu; and we trust that every effort will be made out of
doors to aid Lord Morpeth in carrying his measure, and
that the only contention within the House will be as to
who shall do most to improve its details.—Buieler.
AN UNLOOSED-FOR WITNESS.—A paper tells of
" a singular occurrence attending the journey of one of
the witnesses in the Lyme Regis election petition. A
certain girl 'of the town,' who was enceinte, was unwill-
ing to leave without a nurse, who, ere they arrived at
Taunton, proved to be much wanted, for on approaching
Donyatt it was evident that the party was about to
be increased, and while in the fly, which contained per-
sons of both sexes, she was safely delivered."—Sherborm
, Journal.