The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

IAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.-The. Resistance troop-
ship, Captain Patey, arrived at Spithead this morning,
from the Cape of Good Hope. Her dates are, Simon's
Bay, Sept. 5, St. Helena, Sept. 18, and Ascension, Sept.
28. Lieutenant John Stevens and Colin Douglas, and
Mr. Taylor, master, all of the Childers, 16, Commander
Pitman, came home invalided. A few other invalids
from the squadron, and a mail, is all that the Resistance
has brought ;no troops. Having left only the day after
the Sappho, the Resistance has brought no later news
from the frontier.

The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Radcliffe, whose
narrow escape from total wreck we reported on the ar-
rival of the Sappho, was refitting as expeditiously as
possible, and would sail, if possible, on the 6th of Sept.,
for Algoa Boy, with the 73d Regiment, to reinforce the
Governor on the frontier. She left St. Helena on the
same day she arrived. Just before getting under way,
however, the Waterwitch, 12, Commander T. Francis
Birch, arrived from a cruise, bringing in for adjudication
a flue prize, full of slaves. There were no other men-of-
war at St. Helena when the Resistance left. She merely
touched at Ascension, which island was healthy, but
turtle was very scarce ; there were not half a dozen in
the ponds. The Actaeon, 26, Captain Mansel (senior
officer on the station) ; the Cnique steam prize, in
charge of a warrant officer ; and the Tortoise store and
guard ship, Commander Morrell, were the only men-of-
war at the island.

The Resistance is ordered into this harbour to be paid
off, and re-commissioned immediately. Captain Patey,
an experienced and gallant officer, was promoted from
the rank of commander, on the 27th of June last, by
Lord Ellenborough.
Captain Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., was entered
yesterday on the books of the Victory as Superintendent
of the Packet Service, at Southampton, in the room of
Captain Ellice, whose term of service has expired.
An order from the Board of Ordnance was promul-
gated this morning for the immediate supply of 25 rounds
of cartridges, with shot, for each of the 32-pounders
mounted upon the fortifications of these towns. Six
68-pounder guns are to be immediately mounted on the
King's Ravelin Battery in this garrison. All the guns
(sixteen 68's) are also to be mounted on the lower tier
of Blockhouse Fort as soon as possible; and all the guns
at present in this garrison are to be mounted as soon as
the carriages can bo got ready.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. Carttar held
an inquest at the., Coach and Horses, Blackheath-llill,
on the body of Mr. John Scrivener, who met his death
under the following circumstances :—Edward Cobley,
son-in-law of the deceased, and a floorcloth printer, in
the employ of Messrs. Cobbett and Co., Deptford-bridge,
deposed that himself and others were engaged in raising
a piece of floor cloth, by means of tackle, when the rope
slipped, and the roller fell against another roller weigh-
ing upwards of 4 cwt., which forced it against deceased,
who was knocked down, and the entire weight came upon
him. Deceased was conveyed home, where he died on
Monday night, from internal injuries. It appearing that
the occurrence was purely accidental, a verdict to that
effect wile returned.