The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-06 00:00:00

on the 3d of October. The Flatter had received her
orders for England, the Pilot relieving her.
THE COMMAND OF THE VENGEANCE.—It is reported
that in the event of Captain Lushington going to India,
Sir Henry Leeke will apply ter the command of the
Vengeance. We have also seen it reported that Captain
Sir Henry Blackwood (1827), lately second in command
in India, is a candidate for the command of the Ven-
geance. We believe that bosh offi2ers require to serve
some months to make up their sea time for the flag rank.
The Admiralty have ordered that the Buzzard and
Magicienne steam• sloops are not to be launched for the
present at Pembroke Dockyard, but are to be completed
and retained upon the stocks until the first spring tides
in March next. In the meantime the machinery, rigging,
and stores for each are to be completed and kept ready.
DISTRIBUTION Ow PRIZE MONEY.—The distribution
of the proceeds of a great many slave prizes has been de-
layed in consequence of the authorities of Sierra Leone
neglecting to acknowledge the receipt of the proclama-
tion of 1846. We are enabled to state, however, that
the Admiralty have decided upon allowing the distribu-
tion to take place immediately, under the new scale of
shares.

FOREIGNERS IN THE ROYAL DOCKYARD.--We called
attention a fortnight since to an inconsiderate order of
the Admiralty, giving permission to two officers of the
Swedish Royul Navy to inspect our Dockyards, and to
make drawings and notes of what they saw there. We
are gratified to hear that this order has since been re-
scinded.

TILE ADMIRALTY COMMITTEE OF DOCKYARD REY'.
arorr.—We lave heard that the Committee will leave
Devonport Dockyard about Wednesday next, arid will
proceed thence to Pembroke, and after visiting that es-
tablishment, will go on to the Holyhead and Liverpool
Packet establishment, returning to Woolwich by about
the 21st instant.

THE BELGIAN Mems.—lt will be remembered that
we gave an account last week of her Majesty's steam-
packet Vivid having, from stress of weather, been pre-
vented from entering Dover harbour, was obliged to bear
up for Deal, to land her mails, &c. This has frequently
been the case during the last two years, when there has
been some difficulty in procuring boats, and more ex-
pense has been incurred in the hire of them. To avoid
both difficulty and expense in future the Admiralty have
issued orders to the clerk in charge of her Majesty's
establishment at Deal that the boats and boats' crews of
that yard are to be employed in landing and embarking
the mails by the Belgian packets, as is at present the
practice at other Government stations.
P

iORTSMOUTH, iov. 3.—The Orestes, 14, Commander
Hawker, has her tops and lower rigging over the mast-
heads, and is otherwise progressing rapidly in her outfit.
Some defects have been discovered already in the en•
gineering department aboard the Sharpshooter, which
Captain Austin and the chief and assistant engineers of
the dockyard, Mr. Murray and Mr. Taplin, have been
ordered to examine and report upon.
The Jasper steam mail-packet, Master E. Rose com-
manding, from Pembroke, arrived this morning, and
sailed again this evening for the eastward, to be paid ofE Lieutenant Edward D. Ashe, of the St. Vincent, is
appointed to the Daphne, 18, Captain E. G. Fanshawe,
at Sheerness.
In Port and Fitting—Victory, 22, flag-ship ; Illus-
trious, 10, ordinary flag-ship; Excellent, gunnery prac-
tice ship; Victoria and Albert, royal yacht; Blenheim,
56, guard-ship of steamers; Orestes, 14, and Rolla, 6,
boys' exercise brig. Stromboli, Reynard, Rifleman,
Fairy, Myrtle, Fire Queen, Echo and Bee, steamers.
Fanny and Portsmouth, admirals' yachts.
At Spithead—St. Vincent, 120, flag-ship; Prince
Regent, 92; Powerful, 84; Driver, steam-sloop; Sharp-
shooter, steam-vessel.
In the Basin—The Ajax, 56, steam block-ship; Mala-
bar, coal depot ; Defence, convict hulk; Reynard and
Plumper, steamers.
In the Steam-basin—The Centaur, Retribution, Strom-
boli,Cormorant, Salamander, Phoenix, Jackal, and Otter,
steamers.
In Dock—Princess Charlotte, 104 ; Collingwood, 80 ;
Pembroke, 72 ; Vindictive, 50 ; Flying Fish, 12 ; and
Urgent steam- vessel.
The steamer+ in -the basin which belong to the ad-
vanced squadron are dismantling.
The Eucounter steam- sioep was taken out yesterday,
under the command of Commander Stevens, of the Blen-
heim, to try her rate of speed at the measured mile in
Stoke's Bay, at a lighter draught of water than when
last tried. She ran at the rate of eleven knots, which
was a decided improvement on former performances.
Commanders Crispin, Strange, Grenfell, Lieutenant
Vansittart, Mr. Murray, C.E., Mr. Baker, inspector of
machinery, and other officers, were on board during the
trial, which lasted five hours.
The Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pen-
dant of Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., &c.,
was all well off Kabenda on the 15th of August, expect-
ing the Cyclops, Captain the Hon. G. Hastings, as her
relief, when the Amphitrite, 26, Captain T. R. Eden,
would be dispatched to the Pacific.
The Pluto steam-sloop, Lieutenant Commander R.
M`Kinley Richardson, was at St. Paul de Loando at the
same date, refitting.
Wind, W.S.W., light breezes and dark cloudy weather,
with rain.
THE COAST DEFENCE BRIGADE.—The crews of 45
vessels, not 37, were drilled in this brigade, and the sum
total expended was 8501., not 1,0001., as stated on
Tuesday. With this trifling sum six platform batteries
were constructed at Sheerness and Portsmouth dock-
yards, by the carpenters of the respective revenue cruisers,
and 2,500 men have been drilled to the great gun
exercise; ti e amount of ammunition expended his been
much under the amount of one shot per man, and they
are now as good gunners as any afloat.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2.--Iler Niajesty's brig Kingfisher,
12, Commander W. Horton, arrived from Portsmouth
yesterday, and will be paid advance of wages to day.
Forty-five seamen were on Tuesday draughted from
her Majesty's ship San Josef to her Majesty's frigate
Amazon, 26, Captain Troubridge.
Wind, N. W. by W., light brt ezes.
CHATHAM, Nov. 3.—The Vivid Dover steam-packet,
Master and Commander Luke Smithett, was taken into
dock on the 30th ult , to make good the damage she
sustained in a gale of wind on her getting into Dover
harbour last week. The dock was vacated by the Iris,
26 guns, the same day.
The Rosomond steam• sloop, of 4 guns, Commander
John Foote, arrived here on the 27th ult. to be paid off,
is to have her defects made good, and refitted without
delay for service at sea.

Tile Fearless steam-vessel, Second Master in charge,
Mr. John Wells, is in the harbour, having arrived from
Sheerness ; she is to be taken into dock to have her de-
tects made good.
The Daphne, 18 guns, Captain Edward G. Fanshawe,
fitting for sea at this port, received yesterday on board
her marines, consisting of 1 lieutenant, 1 sergeant, 1
corporal, 1 drummer, and 29 rank and file. The detach-
ment belongs to the Woolwich division.

The Vernon, 5 guns, Captain John C. Fitzgerald, is in
the harbour to be paid off. All hands are busy in re-
turning her stores to the dockyard. She is expected to
be paid off on Tuesday, the 7,11 iust. She will then be
taken into dock for the purpose of being very minutely
surveyed by the officers of the yard, i❑ conjunction with
Mr. Watts, assistant surveyor of the navy, who has been
directed by the Admiralty to attend for that purpose.
Captain Sir Thomas Bouchier, Superintendent of this
yard, returned from leave of absence yesterday to re-
sume his duties.

A circular order has been issued to the yards calling
for a return of the ships commissioned and paid ff from
the Ist of January, 1847, to the 30th of June, 1848.
WOOLWICH, Nov. I.—Two officers and 100 non-com-
missioned officers of the Woolwich division of Royal
Marines have been placed under orders to proceed on
Monday next to Portsmouth, for service in the Superb,

80 guni.
The Monkey steam-vessel brought down a quantity of
stores from Deptford, to be put on board the Medina
steam-vessel, fitting at this pert for the Mediterranean

station. During the time the stores were transferring to the
Medina, some of the convicts who were assisting managed
to abstract a small bale, containing 100 black silk
handkerchiefs. The property was not missed until
Wednesday, when information having been given, Mr.
Field, head inspector of the dockyard police, pro-
ceeded to the Warrior, convict-ship, and with
the prompt assistance of Mr. Masterman, the su-
perintendent, one of the prisoners was found able
to give such information as led to the recovery of
the cover of . the bale, which was found con-
cealed under some timbers near the place whence the
bale was found. One of the gangsmen also stated
that he observed two of the prisoners near
the place opening something, and will be able to identify
them. Mr. Voules, head superintendent of the convicts,
is to make a searching inquiry amongst the suspected
convicts in this case. As yet no traces of the handker-
chiefs have been obtained.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians left Clare-
mont on Saturday morning, at nine o cluck, and pro-
ceeded by the South-Western Railway to the Waterloo
station, and from thence to the South-Eastern Brick-
layers'-Arms station, where a special train was in readi-
ness. Her Majesty was attended by Madame la Com-
tesse d'Hulste and Major Moerkeerk, and by the Belgian
Minister M. Van de Weyer and M. Droaet, charge
d'affairs to the Belgian Legation. The special train
arrived at the Dover terminus a few minutes after one
o'clock, where her Majesty was received by the Duke of
Wellington, who awaited her arrival on the platform.
The Queen embarked immediately on board the Gar-
land, Captain Smithett, for Ostend, with every prospect
of a good voyage.
How TO MALE GAS CHEAP AND GENERAL.—The
only hepe for the-disunited mass of gas consumers and
would-be gas consumers, is centred in association. Let
them even associate merely in their own more limited
districts, at first, and determine either to be supplied,
through a single meter of their own, as an association,
at the price charged to a large consumer, or at such
price as they may deem reasonable under all the circum-
stances; or failing that, let them increase and extend
their body until they can threaten, with weight and will,
to carry out what the very object of the gas companies
iu being so very reasonable to large consumers in their
charges is to prevent, namely, their own associated
en-
terprise in the manufacture. Only let the gas consu-
mers of a district so unite, and in the first place give to
some one gas company an order for a large consumption
of gas at such a reasonable rate, and they may depend on
it, especially when there is competition, that one com-
pany or other will then be ready and willing to treat
with them, leaving both company and association very
great profilers by the bargain. Our object is to make
the advantages of gas general, and in order that it may
be so, we must have gas cheap and good.—Builder.
The Liverpool Stock Exchange have passed a reso-
lution limiting the period for the delivery of railway
stock to seven days from the account day for transfer
stock, and to three days for scrip. They have been in-
duced to adopt this course from the great dissatisfaction
expressed by the buying portion of the public at thedelay in the delivery of stock which the late system al-
'lowed