The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, PRIDAY.—The Caryi.fort, 26, Captain Sey
mour, left Porland Road?., on the 18th, for !,ydney.
The Bth ( King's o,n) Regiment, under the command of
Colonel Sir Henry Bayley, G.C.H., and Lieutenant-Colonel
Hartley, was inspected this afternoon, on Southsea-common,
by Major.o neral the Hon. Sir Hercules Pakenham, K
in command of the south-west district, and Lieutenant-
Governor of this garrison. The men were put through the
various evolutions by their respective officers in a manner
showing the well-skilled officer and practised soldier, and
pertormi d them with a precision and minuteness of detail we
never saw surpassed by any regiment in the service. The
Gallant General was pleased to express his warm praise at
the highly efficient state of the regiment. the excellent order
of their movements, the precision of their tire, and their war-
like and soldierly appearance, beft;re leaving the ground. The
Bth now musters 900 strong, which will be increased to 1,,000
before leaving on tineign service.
It has been reported that the Bth is ab ut to proceed to
India, but we have good authority for stating no troops will
proceed from this quarter for India before June. Notices for
tenders f ar conveying troops to India are not yet issued by the
Government or East India Company.
CHATHAM, MARCH 20.—The African steam-vessel, J. King
master, arrived here on the 18th instant with seamen from
the Trafalgar, flag-ship at Sheerness, for the Raleigh, 50
guns, Captain Sir T. Herbert, K.C. 8., and returned to Sheer-
ness again the same day, taking the Goodwill lighter in tow,
loaded with stores for that eockyard. _
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The Duck, Savage master, arrived on the 19th inst. with
stores from Portsmouth yard.

The Cockatrice scho,,ner, fitting for a victualling vessel for
the coast of Ireland, is nearly completed, and is now getting
her masts in place.
The Magpie, fitting for a water tank, is masted and nearly
completed for service.

The Teazer steam-vessel, building—The caulkers have
completed caulking this vessel. She is expected to be ready
fur launching the middle of next April.
The Raleigh, 50 guns, is nearly cotapleted in her rigging.
The painters commenced yesterday painting her. She is ex-
pected to be ready for service next month.
A party of caulkers have been lent from this yard to caulk
the Sidon and Hound steam-vessels building at Deptford, and
another party are ordered to be lent to Sheerness to caulk the
Trafale-ar in dock.
Fifty ropemakers and eighteen boys are ordered to be en-
tered in the ropery at this yard.
‘VooLwicit, MARCH 20.—The Black Eagle steam-vessel,
Master-Commander S. 13. Cook, returned to Woolwich on
Monday, after having conveyed •he Lords of the Admiralty
to Slieernots and Chatham, on a visit to these naval porte.
She is to be fitted with new boilers.
The Myrmidon steam-vessel. Lieutenant-Commander Jen-
kins, went to Greenhithe on Monday to have her compasses
adjusted. and subsequently proceed-d to Portsmouth where
she will be paid in advance, and is expected to serve on the
Mediterranean station

The Phoenix st,am-vessel. Commander Dennis, will be
ready for sea on Sunday. S.ie will be paid advance at
Portsmouth.
The Terrible steam-fiigate, Captain Ramsey, was taken
out of the basin at Woolwich on Tuesday afternoon, in the
presence of a great number of naval and military officers,
who had visited that fine vessel during the day. She will
leave for Greenhithe about the middle of next week.
The Mas-iff, Master-Commander Thomas, with her tender,
the Woodlark, left Woolwich yesterday for Kincardine, on
the coast of Scotland, to resume her surveying duties.

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The Violet steam-vessel, built for the Dover station by
Messrs Ditchburn and Mare, and fitted with engines by
Penn, was tried down the river on Tuesday, and her average
speed was found to be 14.270 knots per hour.
Captain Jerningham has continued his experiments in
Woolwich marshes during the week, with a view of ascer-
taining the simplest and most effective mode of saving lives
from shipreck, and to-day Lieutenant Knolleart, corn-
man,ler of the Adder war schooner. belonging to his Majesty
' the King of the Netherlands, attended in the marshes to wit-
ness them. The mortar 4 were fired at an elevation of 33 de-
grees, and charged with 12 ounces of powder, which enabled
the shot fired to carry a strong rope if Manilla hemp. one
inch in circumference, and very elastic, a distance of 320
yards. The Manilla rope was rolled up on this occasion in
the manner used by riggers, and the inside end of the ball
attached to the .hot; the ball was then placed in a tub and
run out when fired atl clear, and this app-ared to be the best
plan yet tried. Tile anchor was also tired, arid carried a dis-
tance of 182 yards, and when it alighted its holding powers
were so great that the united strength of twenty men could
not bring it home. Yesterday two lines ogre fired at one
time, -nd carried a distance of 210 yards, and this mode gives
great advantages, at, on being spliced. those on board and on
shore could make an endless rope of them, whicn would be
of great assistance during shipwreck.

SUICIDE OE CAPTAIN INPLEOD.
The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr.
Santos, agent for the Peninsular and Oriental Company at
Cut-uvula, dated March 12 :
" I returned from the wreck of the Great Liverpool cm the
11th inst., and have relieved Mr Baker, from the temporary
duty as agent to your company at this place.
"The melancholy death of Captain M'Leod, which took
place on the morning of the Rth instant, has, as you may
well suppose, added greatly to my labours, and, indeel, mu t
plead for my present hasty report. relyi g upon your indul-
gence to permi me to furnish more details when the depar-
ture of the Q seen shall afford me more quiet and
" Pocr Captain 11PLeod has been, ever since the unfortu-
nate loss of the Liverpool, in an extremely &pressed sta•e,
and caused me very serious apprehensions. At five o'clock in
the morning I went to the habitation where he, with one of
his officer-4 and the doctor, had been sleeping. I told them
to get ready, as everything had been arrrnged by me
fur an early start for Corunna. I asked Captain M'Leod
how he had rested, when he replied that he had not
chsed his eyes, went to the window, and agreed with me on
our having fine weather for our journey; immediately
alter he took off his coat and Rent into his sleeping-
room, I thought to wash; we soon heard a noise, am" the
landlord coming in to report the same, made us all rush
into hi, room, where we found him weltering in his blood,
and his throat cut from, ear to ear. All our efforts could
not prevent his expiring within ten minutes, so effectually
had the rash act been done. You may well conceive
consternation we were thrown into, but, overcoming my
feelings I immediately proceeded to go through everything
that was necessary to be done. I sent for the judge, and ar-
ranged matters fqr holding an inquest. I interred the body
of the untortunate Captain 31'1..44 the same evening, and
early the next morning set out upon my journey with all the
remaining officers and crew."

The following additional particulars are contained in a
Fetter from Southampton:—

" I have very little to communicate in connexion with
the melancholy death of poor Captain M'Leod, of the
Great Liverpool steam-ship. It appears that everything
WAS in readiness to depart from the inhospi table shore
on which the remainder of the passenaers and crew had
been located since the untbrtuna:e wreck, and (:aptain
Nl'Leed had retired to his room to make prepa-ations for
his departure. His protracted stay was remarked; and on
one of the party knocking at the door of his room, to an-
nounce that every person was in readittess, no answer
,vas returned, a,+l af•er repeated knockings with the same
!vault, the door was opened, when the horrid spectacle of the
wife, tunate gentleman with his throat cut from ear to ear,
presented itself to view. So determined was the suicidal act
that lite was quite extinct. He was butiedia the village of
Lee, where the distressing catastrophe was perpetrated, every
:me of his fel:ow sufferers following his remains to the grave
A ith heavy and mournful hearts.
" Captain I%l'Leod was a gentleman of extremely high spirit
and honour, and it is not improbable that the severe suffer-
ng4, anxiety, and trials the loss of the vessel entailed upon
superinduced the committal of the dreadful deed.

" Mrs M'Leod, with her yonthful family (and a prospect
If further increase shortly), is resi=ient in Southampton.
Die distressing intelligence was communicated to her as
cately as possible immediately on the Queen's arrival,
:rut it is impossible to describe the agonising state of mind of
this truly unfortuirde lady.
" Captain iNPLeod was a lieutenant in the navy; his com-
,ni,sion nears date the 19th of July, 1823.
" The conduct =-t the natives is described by the pa,sen-
,,ers as villanous in the extreme; they openly gle!)ed every-
fling they could I ty th: it hands upon, accompanied in many
instances with acts of vi,leuce. Even the gulras sent by
the British Consul at Coruna are, it appears, not exempt
from the charge of robbery. An investigation, it is sa.d. is
'bout to take place on a charge brought forward against one
of these worthies, and, if proved, no doubt the rascal will be
ilia. •

" The unf.rtunate ship had entirely disappeared ; not a
vestige of her was to be seen. Oecasiutlally, however, thins
floated ashore, but they were qui, lily poulx,ed upon by tho!,e
avenous wolves in human sit/Iw, and divided amongst
1 hem."

LOSS of T N E (-; it EA 'r LI E'ER POOL.
PAESENC TO lIER MAJESTY —Some time after the passen-
gersof the unfortunate steamer, the Great Liverpool, had
been safely landed, it occurred to the late Captain MtLeod
hat it was possible to save from the wreck a box which had
been specially c,nsigned to his care, containing a prisent
to her Majesty from a wealthy native merchant of Bombay.
Captain AI•Leol. accompanied by the chief officer, Mr.
Hamilton, and two of the crew, git on board the steamer,
and cut through the deck to the place where the box
was deposited, and with great danger and difficulty got
it on shore, and from thence it was conveyed with the
mail boxes to Corunna, snd consigned to the care of the
consul, who fearing it might have beer. damaged by being
so long under water, unpicked the box in the presence of the
captain and officers. Although it was inclosedin many
cases, the water had penetrated through them to the morocco
case, which was richly ornamented with the royal arms of
England. The present coml> ted of a large sized and richly
wrought gold box, an exquisite specimen of Eastern work-
,nanship,; worthy of Benvenuto the box was sup-
ported by four stands in the form of snakes, and it contained
several dresses of the most elegant and costly fabric, worked
by the needle, and of cobweb texture, but the salt water had
penetrated, and the consul's wite had them carefully washed
and repacked, and they were transuitted with the mails to
Sour luimptun It was fortunate that the box escaped the
clutches of the Spanish briganas, whose infamous conduct
has been already described.
Just before Captain 31.'1.(0d committed suicide, he gave
into the charge of the consul a handkerchief c.ntaining gold,
with which he had been entrusted, to deliver to a merchant
in London, with a special recommendation that it should be
forwarded to its destination.
The escape of one child was miraculous, and has not yet
been mentioned in the accounts published of the disaster.
The first boat, it has been stated, was upset in the raging
surf, when three persons lost their lives, aad a second child
was supposed t ) have been drOwned, but when theboat
righted the infant was found floating at the bAtom, and was
taken on beard the vessel as it was going to pieces; restora-
tives were applied, and the child was saved. The chief
officer, Mr. Hamilton, was not on duty at the time when the
steamer struck, and is now in town.

• There were present at her Majesty's Theatre, on
Saturday night, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
accompanied by Lord and Lady Dalhousie, Lady Mary
Howard, and the Hon. Captain Murray, and attended by
Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Cowper; her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended bs Baroness
Ahlefeldt and the Baron Kaesebeck ; his Royal Highness
Prince Geotge of Cambridge ; the Duke and Duchess of
Beauf irt, Marchioness of Worcester, and the Ladies Blanche
and Rosa Somerset ; the D.Jte of Wellington ; the Margoisses
of Clanricarde, Ha Utley, Londonderry, PAlacino, anti
field ; the Marchioness of Douro; :he Earls t f Fal nowt),
Lonsdale, Catdigan, and Munster; Count de Nouill. a; Vis-.
C unts Castlereagh and Cantalupe ; his Excellencv the
Rus-ian Ambassador and the raroness brunnow; 'Lords
Brook. Lilford, Duncannou, Lascelles, E. Bruce, and Canter-
bury; Baron de Brennes and Baron de Kubeck ; Ladies
Charles Wellesley, Boyer Smyth, Gage, Goldsmith, Wilson,
and Pollington ; Sir Ralph and Lidy Howard; Honourables
O'Toler, B. Baring, Colonel Fitzgibbon and family, Spencer
Cowper, James Johnstone, and Mts. Dawson Darner and
Miss Dawson Darner; Sirs Andrew Barnard, H. Webb. F.
French, T. Hare, and H. Willoughby; Colonel Webster;
3ltjtirs Buckley and Whyte, &c. &c.
MAILS FOll INDIA, VIA 'MARSEILLES. The text
mails for the Mediterranean, India, Egypt, Ceylon, China,
Marseilles, will be dibpatchtd on the evening of the
24th hut. (to -morrow.)

THE CORN TRADE.

LIVERPOOT, SATURDAY.—Then is a fair quantity of flour
from Ireland this week ; but of other articles thence and
coastwise the arrivals are limited.

We have had a tolerably good demand for wheat., and more
partial's, ly fur old, for which very full rate: have been ob-
tained. The infe.ior d scriptiuns of wLea: have had little
attPntion.

Flour has had a steady Bale, and both sacks and barrels
maintain late price s.
Oats and ordnear have each commanded a small advance.

Barley, beanF, and peas, are without alteratioTt
in value. -
I3t:LL, TUESDAY.—At to-day's market there was a mode-
rate supply of wheat from the farmers, and Mark-lane ac-
counts brig better, our millers were obliged to give rather
more money for good wheat; secondary sorts unsaleable.
It, lwans, peagand barley, no alteration.
Several samples of oats showing, and rather more money
paid.

In Linseed the business passing is immaterial, and the
arrivals are not large. Linseed cakes have been selling at
lower rates, and more buyers have come forward in conse-
quence.

No rapeseed in the market. Rape cakes arrive more freely,
mid sales are effected at full rate:.
Bones are in pat.(' demand.

Gu :no
move off pretty freely at a shade more money.
WAKEFIELD, FAIDAY.—The supplies of all grain are mo-
derate.- We had more busines doing in wheat to-day, and
in Rune iwtances the finest qualities made rather more
money ; there was alea. a liPtter inquiry for common sorts.
Fine barley w.,s easy sale, other descriptions in dow re-
quest at previous tateA.
Beaus s old at a slight advance.

Oats 13d. per ston;, and Shelling 6d. per bad higlie-.
Mal:- as bef .re.

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AnItINGTON, WEDNESDAY.—At the market the supply
of wheat is rather short; prices were about 1-st week's
quotation, with a slight tendency downwards, say 7s. to
7s. 6d., 7s. 9d. and Bs. per 701 b.
Oats (.eed) 3s. Bd. to 4s. per 4515.
Hour, best seconds, 36s to 38s.
Mtrl, 335. to 345. per 240 lb.
Of potatoes there were very few at the market, and all
were suld at. 6d. per load more money ; Pink-eyes, its. 6d.;
Radicals, for seed, wers dull sale at 6s. to Bs. per load of 2531 b.

DitEiIDFUL FIRE
FOUR- LIVES LOST, AND SEVERAL PERSONS
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
This morning (Mon.lay), shortly before one o'clock, a fire,
attended with fatal coroequences to four persons—father and
three children,—and serious results to several other parties,
broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. Timpson,
chemist, No 77, Crawford-street, Maryleb-ne. The dis-
covery was made by a policeman of the D division, whilst
passing along his beat. Smoke which he saw issuing, front
the shop window-shutters convinced him that the building
was on fire. Without delay the officer raised an alarm,
and after some trouble succeeded in arousing several
of the inmares. Other constables having --arrived at
the spot, some were sent for the fire-engines and escapes.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Life from fire had
the escape from Baker-street, Portman-square, station very
early at the scene. The first thing the conductor of the
machine attempted to do was tni ascertain it all the parties
had escaped. Before, however, he ltd succeeded in affixing
the escape to the front of the premises, a female, apparently
about forty or forty-tire years of age, suddenly approached
one of the front windows, and threw herself into the street.
She fell partly on her back and head. The poor creature
was picked up, but she was so dreadfully injured that the
only thing she could say was, " Oh, my poor children are in
the house." This becoming known, the conductor of the
escape ran up the machine in the expectation of being
enabled to save the parties in the place. When, however,
he had got upon the top of the escape, a sort of explosion
occurred in the shop, which blew the shutters off, and the
thines rushing through set the escape in a blaze. The poor
man attempted to slide down the canvas bag, when lie fell
through the hole made by the -action of the fire. Falling
upon his head he received a serious, if not fatal, injury to the
skull. The female and the man were promptly removed to
the hospital.
The em tines of the brigade from Baker-street, Portman-
square, King-street, and Wells-street stations were early
in arriving, and were set to work under the direction of
Mr. Staples, the foreman of the district. The G unty
engine from Regent-stre, t, with Mr. Garwood and the cont.
liany's firemen, fitllowed immediately after, and also the pa-
rochial engines of St. Marylebone. The mains of the West
Middlesex Company atfordtd an abundant supply of water,
and the engines having been set to work, a powerful stream
or the antagonisti element wa. thrown Otto the blazing build-
ing. but upwards of an hour elapsed before the firemen suc-
ceeded in getting the flames extinguishel• By that period
the shop, kitchens, siaiicase. anti the major part of the se-
cond floor, were destroyed, and the remainder of the premises
seriously damaged its tire.

As soon as the building was sufficiently cooled, a number
of firemen entered the wreck to search for the p trties miAsing.
Upon entering the second flour a sight of a most distressing
character presented itself. In one of the rooms were to be
seen the bodies of Mr. Robert Batters and his three children.
They ware not much burned, and death appeared to have re-
tilted from suffocation. They were got out as soon as pos-
. ible, and taken to the house of Mr. Bateman, a surgeon op-
posite, and afterwards conveyed on the police stretcher to th 6
workhouse. The unf eunate maa Batters was the husband
of the female befure spoken of as having jumped out of the
wind, bw. They occupied the second floor.
Had it not been for the explosion of something in the shop,
which vet the escape on tire, it is highly probable that the
whole of the inmates wouli have been rescued by the machine-
men.