The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-24 00:00:00

Grand total 26
The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain W. H. Henderson,
C. 8., arrived this morning from Woolwich. She is
ordered into the harbour to have some alterations made,
and has come in this evening.
WooLwicn, DEC. 23.—The Mastiff surveying vessel,
Master-Commander Thomas, and her tender, the Wood-
lark, will be paid off in a few days, and recommissioned
by Commander Becher, R.N., of the surveying service,
and for some time past employed in the Hydrographer's-
office at the Admiralty.
The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain W. H. Henderson,
C. 8., left Greenhithe on Friday last, for Portsmouth.
The Amphion steam-frigate, Captain Williams, is
nearly rigged, and will be ready for trial in a few days,
previous to proceeding to sea.
The Medea steam-vessel, Comander Hammond, will be
completed about the Ist of January next ; and it is ex-
pected she will proceed to the Mediterranean, for duty at
that station.
The Geyser steam-vessel, Commander Brown, will
leave Woolwich soon, being now ready for sea. Her
destination is not known.

The Rosamond steam-vessel, Commander J. Foo

has nearly completed her refitting, and is reported to be
the vessel destined to relieve her Majesty's steam. vessel
Hope Thunderbolt,
thelatter Commander
having
been
commission. upwards of four years in

The Rhadamanthus, steam-vessel, for troops, Master-
Commander Aylen, left Woolwich on Monday for Ports-
mouth, where she is to receive her final sailing orders, it
being uncertain whether she will proceed to Malta, the
coast of Scotland, or the coast of Ireland.
The Centaur steam frigate went down the River on
Saturday, and returned on the following day, although
the trial was satisfactory, as she requires to be fitted
here with spare gear. It is now expected these fittings
will occupy about ten days, when she will be navigated
to Portsmouth by Mr. D. Davy, master-in charge, and
the crew who brought round the Encounter steam-
fr igate.

The La Hogue steam-guard•ship was towed from
Blackwell to Deptford, yesterday, to receive her steam
machinery.
_ The Fearless steam-vessel, Master-Commander Wells,
left Woolwich on Monday, for Chatham, having had a
thorough repair of her hull and machinery, in addition
to new boilers.

The Monkey steam vessel, one of the first steam-
vessels employed in the British Royal Navy, has been
undergoing great repairs during the last three months,
and is now nearly ready again for service. The per-
formances of this vessel on many occasions have re-
flected great credit on her designer and constructors,
and it is probable she will outlive and be of equal,
if not greater, service than many of more modern con-
struction.

Vessels in Harbour—,The William and Mary yacht,
bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir J. Gordon
Bremer, K.C.B. and. K.C.H.; the Ceres tender, Black
Eagle, Lightning, Amphion, Porcupine, Teazer, Minx,
Charon, and Centaur steam-vessels ; the Mastiff sur-
veyiyig-vessel and her tender, the Woodlark, the Cocka-
trice victualling transport, and the Sulphur, depot for
the Royal Marines.
In the Basin—The Growler, Medea, Rosamond,
Geyser, Avon, Gorgon, Dwarf, Monkey, Tartarus,
Niger,
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Colonel John Hewes, Royal Marines, has accepted the
retirement, which promotes Major Wearing to the rank
of Lieutenant-Colonel.

In consequence of an alteration respecting the trans-
porting of convicts to Van Diemen's Land, 200 will
shortly be sent to Woolwich, in addition to the present
number, for labour in the dockyard.

INDIAN RAILWAYS.
The following, it is understoood, are the conditions
upon which the Board of Control and the Directors of
the East India Company have at length decided upon
giving their sanction to the introduction of railway
communication into British India:-
1. The Direct Trunk, or East India line, is adopted.
2. This line (which connects' Calcutta with the North-
west Provinces) is to be constructed in sections.
3. The Government guarantee 4 per cent. to the
shareholders.
4. The amount guaranteed is fixed at 3,000,000/. to
commence with.

5. The section out of Calcutta to be first executed.
6. The guarantee to extend over fifteen years.
7. The rates of payment to be made by the Govern-
ment for transport of mails, troops, stores, &c., to be
agreed upon hereafter.
8. The interest to be received either in India or in
London, at the option of the shareholders, as soon as
500,0001. is paid into the India House.
9. The land to be obtained by the Government for the
railway company.
10. Government to have the privilege of purchasing
the railway after thirty years from the date of its com-
pletion, at the then fair market value of the property.
11. No limitation is to be fixed to the profits of the
company, but the rates of charges are to be reduced
when the returns admit of it.
12. It is also understood that no rates or tolls will be
assessed upon the railway company, and that the import
duties on the stock and materials for the railway will be
remitted.

13. The company to be incorporated by an act of the
Legislative Council as well as by charter.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENT AT CROSBY
HALL.—The series of seven entertainments on the songs
of Scotland, which Mr. Wilson announced at Crosby
Hall, came to a conclusion on Tuesday night, when he
was honoured with a brilliant and crowded room, and as
usual the audience were highly delighted, and very en-
thusiastic. Mr. Wilson was in excellent voice and sung
with great effect in all his styles, pathetic, humorous,
and heroic. The programme contained a great variety
of songs ; among those that were not Scotch, the " Sol-
dier's Dream " produced a great effect—in fact, it was
as fine a piece of musical declamation as weever listened
to. Many of the songs were encored, and in addition to
those in the programme, Mr. Wilson sang " The Lass
o'Gowrie," and the excellent song of " Tullocbgorum."
At the end of the performance Scotia's own minstrel
awnans mu
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London in April. In the meantime Mr. Wilson visits
Dublin, and several of the provincial towns of England
and Scotland.

PAROCHIAL MEDICAL NEGLECT.--Last evening
Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Clerkenwell Work-
house, Coppice-row, on the body of Ann Wright, aged
16, a servant. It appeared that on Wednesday last,
about one o'clock, deceased returned ill from her situ-
tion to her-mother, who resides near the workhouse.
Deceased complained of severe pain in the chest, :and
in an hour after her return her mother obtained an
order for medical relief at the workhouse. The order
was on Mr. Gill, one of the parish medical officers, and
the mother took it without delay to his house, at which
she knocked and rang for a quarter of an hour, without
receiving en answer. The house appeared to her as if
shut up. She returned to the workhouse and reporter)
her ill success. She was told to go back to Mr. Gill's, and
knock until she was answered. She did so about four
o'clock, and saw Mrs. Gill, to whom she delivered the
order. That lady told her that her husband was seri-
ously ill, and could not attend, but that her son should
as soon as he came home, which would be at five o'clock.
The mother returned to her daughter, who was still
suffering severe pain, and seven ole.lock arriving, with-
out the attendance of Mr. Gill, jun. she returned
to
his house, and he prescribed jun.,
her daugh-
ter on having her symptoms mentioned to him,
telling her that if any change ivy the worse took place,
to come againat atwt
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he
would
call day.
She administered the remedies prescribed by Mr, Gill,
jun., and no change taking place in her daughter she
and to
seehim
did go and see him again that night. Ne:ct morning
her
her daughter was able to get up, but afterwards w'e'nt to
bed again, and twelve o'clock having struck t fr,
, and 4-
Gill, jun., not coming, deceased expressed anxiety and
disappointment, and died at a quarter to one o'cloc;.,
that gentleman not having seen her at all. Dr. Quain,
who had made a post mortem examination of the body, 1
stated that the cause of death was inflammation of the
lining membrane of the heart, of recent standing. Mr.
Gill, jun., said that he did not understand from the
mother that her daughter's case was an urgent one. She
gave him a history of it, and from the symptoms he con-
sidered that the girl was suffering from influenza. Ver-
dict—" Natural death from the effects of pericarditis;"
the jury adding, "we do not consider that the deceased
bad received that efficient and prompt medical aid which
her case required."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.-A court-martial was
ordered to assemble to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock,
on board the St. Vincent, to try Commander Patten and
the officers of the Osprey, for the loss of that vessel, but
the inquiry has been postponed in consequence of the
non-arrival of some important witnesses.
The Comet steam-ve;sel,Lieutenant-CommanderJohn-
ston, took forty sacks of biscuit and forty sacks of Indian
meal from Westport to Dugort, on the 18th. A letter
from her, dated Westport, Dec. 19, says :—" Her Ma-
jesty's ship Comet has now anchored at Dorench, some
six miles from the anchorage at Wana-head, our usual
anchorage, having returned from Achill-bay, whither she
had been with biscut and meal. The towu of Westport
was convulsed on the evening of the 18th by some two
or three thousand of the country people, who assembled
before the houses of the principal merchants, demanding
a reduction in the exorbitant price of flour and meal,
also of provisions generally, especially of oats.' After
an harangue with some of the millers and merchants of
the place, they returned to their starving families very
much dissatisfied. The shops were closed, and a good
deal of alarm was experienced. The military were
under arms at the barracks, but did not make their ap-
pearance. Indeed, the multitude were peaceable, and
paraded with the stipendiary magistrates. They prin-
cipally assembled from a place called the Irish Ough-
sowe,' about three miles out of Westport, to the south-
ward. . . . A few more
parishes' are expected in
shortly—all as hungry as people living in the mountains
without anything to eat may needs be expected to be."
The Resistance troop-ship, Commander Lowe, was re-
moved from the basin this evening.
The Drake lighter arrived to-day with stores from the
eastward.
The Penelope steam-frigate has taken on board her
powder and shells to-day ; her present armament is as
follows :
On the upper deck—Two 42-pounders, 10 feet long,
84 cwt. ; eight 421 b. carronades.
On the main-deck—Eight 68. pounders, 9 feet long,
65 cwt. ; two 681 b. carronades; and two 421 b. carronades.
Boat guns—Two 241 b. carronades ; one 121 b. carro-
nade ; and one 61b. long brass gun.
Total for ship's armament .. 22
Total for boats' armament 4