The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-03 00:00:00

SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 18-18.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Rear Admiral Sir Charles Napier, having Leon
in town en leave it absence for the last week, returns t,
his fl g.hin at
Resr Admiral the Hon. IL 1). Mackay, commander in
chief on the coast of Ireland, remained at Dublin on the
31st, his flag being hoisted on board the. Dragon, steam-
frigate. Captain W. 11. Hall.
IHREGELAn PUNISHMENTS IN THE NAVY.--We stated
a abort time since that the Admiralty were determined
to put down all irregular punishments in the navy. It
will be seen by the following cautionary document that
their Lordships have practically followed up their ex-
pressed determination :
May 31, 1848.—The Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty regret to observe that with a view to avoid
corporal punishments, a system of secondary punish-
ments severe in their nature, and contrary to the usages
of the service, has been adopted in some of her Majos-
ty 'a ships.
"They cannot but consider that such a practice, how-
ever plausible, or even praiseworthy, the motives that
have led to it, is contrary to the rules established for the
good of the service and the due protectionof all engaged;
and they consequently direct that in future a bank shall
be kept in all her Majesty's ships, to be called the " Je-
faulter s Book," in which the nature and degree of every
offence committed, with the punishment awarded in each
case, to every person onboard under the rank of quarter.
deck officer shall be entered. The captain, or other
officer in command of the ship, will be held responsible
for the proper keeping of this book, and the correctness
of the entries made in it, and he is to produce it when-
ever his ship is inspected by a senior officer, or whenever
he may be required to do so by superior authority.
"Their Lordships take this opportunity to impress
upon all commanding-officers the necessity of holding
themselves accountable for each and all of the minor
punishments inflicted upon those under their command,
and et confining themselves strictly within the limits
which the usage and the customs of the service prescribe.
They are part of the system by which discipline must bt
maintained, and my Lords will always hold it to be the
imperative duty of an officer in command to make him-
self acquainted with the most trifling punishment in-
flicted on board his ship, and to satisfy himself as to their
justice and necessity.

(Signed) " C. OGLE, Admiral.
"To the respective captains, &C."
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE ESPOIR AND KINGFISHER.-
Messrs. Stilwell have given notice to the officers and
company late of the Espoir, Commander Hand, that they
will be paid, on Tuesday, June 20, at 22, Arundel-street,
Strand, their respective proportions of proceeds and
tonnage bounties for the Brazilian slave schooner
Ligiero, seized May 12, 1846, in company with the
Kingfisher : - Commander, 271. 4s. 50.; first-class.
101. lis.; second, 6/. 95.; third, 3/. 4s. 6d.; fourth, 2t 35,;
fifth, 11. Is. 6d.; sixth, 14s. 4d.; seventh, 7s. 2d.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE STAR.-Messrs. Chard have
giver! notice to the officers and company late of her Ma•
jesty s ship Star, Commander - Dunlop, Esq., that the
proportions arising from the bounty money on the ton-
nage of the slave brigs Descobridor, captured October
21, 1845, and name unknown, December 24, 1845, after-
wards lost, will be paid to those who were actually on
board at the time of capture, or to their
on and after the 14th instant, at 3, p esentatives.
ClifForred'sr i Pro.
portions for the Descobridor:-Conamander, ':1/.n1n9s.10d.;
first-class, 301. 6s. 10d.; second, 181. 4;11d ; third,
2/. 25.; fourth, Cl. Is. 4d.; fifth, sj. Os. tii;
sixth,
Prize, Os. 5d.; seventh, 11. Os. 2d.
Prize, name unknown-Commander, 511. 4s. 3d.; first
class, 20/. 10s. 5d.; second, 12/. Gs. 3d.; third, 6/. 3. Id.;
fourth. 4/. 2s. Id.; fifth, 2Z IL; sixth, 1/. 7s. 4d.; seventh,
13s. ad.
The Vulture, 6, steam-frigate, Captain /ll'Dougall,
was paid off yesterday, at Sheerness.
The Styx, 4, steam-sloop, Commander Chads, will be
paid off at ‘Voolivich, on the 7th inst.
The Sharpshooter, screw steam gun-vessel, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Bailey, has arrived at Devonport,
from Portsmouth, with marines and supernumeraries.
She is to return to Portsmouth to embark forty seamen
riggers for Pembroke, to assist in rigging and navi-
gating the Colossus, 80, to Portsmouth.
The Pluto, 3, steam•vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Richardson, left Devonport on Thursday morning, for
the coast of Africa.
The Trident steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Risk, sailed the previous day from Devonport for Cork,
•PPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant—George 0. Willes (1344), to command the
Spitfire steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean.
Assistant-Surgeons—George Moore, acting, to the
Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth; John W. Cleave,
acting, to the San Joseph flag-ship,
Second Master—Thomas Mansel to the Bellerophon at
Spithead.
Master's Assistant—John W. Reed, to the Spitfire
steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean.
Naval Cadet—George S. Peard, to the Ocean flag-
ship, at Sheerness.
Gunner—James Milton, acting, to the Excellent.
Boatswain—Thorns. Whitlock, confirmed to the Wel.
ling ton.
Carpenter—John /ditcher, acting, to the Belleisle.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAT.—The new 12-gun brig Ner-
budda, Commander Edward Peirse, arrived this morning
from the East Indies. She was launched on the sth of
February, commissioned on the 20th, and sailed *en the
29th of the same month. She did not call at the Cape,
and has come in forty days from St. Helena, and thirty
tive from Ascension. Both islands were very healthy;
there were no men of war at the former; at the latter
were the Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Jones, with
the Commodore, Sir Charles Hotham, on board;
the Amphitrite, 25, Captain R. Eden; the Tortoise store
lnd guard-ship, Captain Hutton; the Sealark, 10, Com-
mander Money penny; and the Bunetta brigantine, Lieut.-
Commander Forbes. A court-martial had been held
upon a Second Master, and resulted in the prisoner being
found guilty of the charges brought against him, and
dismissed his ship. The r,quadron on the coast was very
healthy. We regret to announce the death, three days
prior to the arrival of the Nerbudda at Ascension, of
Commander R. T. L. Levinge, of the Penelope, a cir-
cumstance most unlooked fur, and which cast a gloom
over all at Ascension. lie was a good officer, and, as
such, respected by his superiors and looked up to by his
juniors. Lieut. Gilbert B. Rutherford (1840), First
of 'the Penelope, has been promoted to the vacancy.
Tbe Jumna, 16, tender to the Nerbudda, will follow her
to :England in three weeks in charge of the First-Lieu
tenant of the latter.' The Meaner, 80, building at Bom-
bay, about which we have heard so much, and the
havoc made in her timbers by that destructive insect
the white ant, will be launched in October. Com-
mander Prim was the senior officer of a Board of Sur •
vey held upon her to examine into and pronounce upon
her state after the discovery of the mischief. Messrs.
Lewin, Bojer, and Helby, midshipmen of the Vernon,
50, also all the late Admiral Englefield's domestics, in-
valids from the East India squadron, and supernume-
raries, and one prisoner (a marine deserter), have been
brUught home by the Nerbudda, together with a mail
from Ascension, and dispatches from Sir Charles Ho-
them. The Nerbudda sails swiftly, and is pronounced a
very superior sea-going vessel, as nearly all Symonds's
sqall vessels are.
The Sharpshooter screw-steamer, Lieutenant Com-
mnnding J. C. Bailey, returned this morning from Ply-
mouth with marines for the Mediterranean squadron to
be,embarked in the Howe, She came into harbour this
afternoon.
The Netley tender, Mr. Drysdale, Second Master,
commanding, arrived from Plymouth to-day with newly
entered men.

The Medusa steam-packet, Li, utenant J. 0. Ba-
hCrst, Commanding, was docked to-day, with orders for
be workmen employed on her to work extra time for
er completion, which it is estimated will occupy three
reeks.
COMMISSIONED SHIPS AND VESSELS IN PORT.
The Victory, flag-ship ; Illustrious, ordinary guard-
ship ; Excellent, gunnery-ship ; Victoria and Albert,
Royal yacht ; Blenheim, 56, steam-guard-ship ; and
Hastings, 72 , the Sharpshooter, Fire Queen, Fairy,
Lightning, Medusa, Merlin, Echo, and Bee, steamers ;
the Portsmouth (Admiral Superintendent's) yacht ; the
Fanny, Mercury, and Netley, tenders.
At Spitbead—The St. Vincent, 120 ; Howe, 120 ;
Prince Regent, 92 ; Powerful, 84 ; Bellercphon, 76 ;
Nerbudda, 12 ; Rolla, 6 ; Blenheim, transport ; and
Tebarkeis, 30. Egyptian frigate steamer.
In Dock—The Ajax, Pembroke, Medusa, Fire Queen,
and Orestes.
In the Basin—The Malabar, Cormorant, and Growler.
In the Steam-Basin—The Jackal and Merlin,
Wind W.S.W., strong breeze and cloudy weather.
ROYAL MARINES.
An exchange of divisions has been sanctioned between
Captain J. P. Stevens, of the Portsmouth Division, and
Captain S. N. Lowder, of the Woolwich Division.
Captain Fielding Campbell, of the Chatham Division,
has ordered a passage to the Mediterranean in the
Howe, 120, to relieve Lieutenant-Colonel M'Adam, in
command of the detachment on board the Queen, 110;
and Capt. W. Lee, of the same division, to replace Capt.
MillHATer, lately invalidtli from the Vanguard, 80.
dock the
CHA, JUNR 2.—The Southampton, 50 guns, is in
; painters have completed painting her, and are
fast progressing with her rigging; she is fitted with
Lieutenant James Rigmaiden's plates for setting up the
rigging, which supersedes the use of dead eyes.
The Ranger, it guns, goes out of dock to-morrow,
when she will be taken alongside the Tartar frigate, to
serve as a hulk, for the use of the officers and crew
whilst fitting for sea. She is to have a complement of
60 men, including one sergeant, one corporal, and 10
ipr of the Royal Marines. She is ordered to be
re dy to proceed to sea by the middle of this month, to
to e the July Mail to the Coast of Africa, Commander
C. F. Newland commissions this ship to-morrow.
The Chatham yacht left this morning, with the clerks
from the pay-office of the dock-yard, to pay off the
Vulture steam frigate, Captain John M‘Dougall, which
arrived on Monday afternoon last from the East Indies.
This morning Colour-sergeant William Delaney, of
the 24th Regiment, was presented by Major T. S. Con-
way, C. 8., with the gratuity medal for good conduct
under the warrant of the 19th December, 1845, and on
his discharge he will receive 151. This non-commissioned
officer has been twenty-two years and six months in the
service, during which time he was never reported for
misconduct. He has also been presented with the an-
nuity medal and 15/. for length of service.

RAILWAY.—BIRMINGRA3I,
ACCIDINT ON TUB BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM
FRlDAY.—Between four and
five o'clock this morning, a fatal accident took place on
this line of railway, near the Camp hill station. It ap-
pears that some goods waggons, were being shifted off
the main line to a siding to allow a train toast when
from some cause the trucks received a shock, which had
the effect of throwing the fireman, Rupert Cooke,
from the engine to the ground, when his legs became
entangled with the wheels, and atter being dragged a
short distance, they passed over his head, killing him on
the
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