The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PRIZE MONEY FOR TUE FLYING FlSlL—Messm Chard
ve given notice to the officers and company of her
llajesty's ship Flying Fish, H. J. Robins, Emq., liente-
nant in command, that an account of the bounty money
on the tonnage of a slave felucca, name unknown, de-
stroyed on the 17th of April,:lB46, and also while under
the command of Commander P. H. Dyke, Esq., of the
launty money on the tonnage and of the sale proceeds
of the Jupiter brig slave-schooner, captured on March
18, 1847, will be deposited in the registry of the High
Court of Admiralty, or on before the 25th day of De-
cember next.

PnomarroNs.
Clerk--Henry D. Collins (1839), who has been act-
ing paymaster and purser of the Vixen steam-sloop, on
the West India station, the fourteenth in seniority on
the list, an officer who volunteered to serve in the boats
at Nicaragua, in the affair for which his commander was
promoted, and the commander of the expedition was
made a C. 8., has been promoted to the rank of pay-
master and purser.
Clerk—Thomas C. J. Dryden (1839), the thirteenth
in seniority on the list, clerk in charge of the Ardent
steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean, has been promoted
to the rank of paymaster and purser.
The promotion of the above officers will give satisfac-
tion even among their own class.
APPOINTMENTS.

Clerk—H. C. Pool, to the Royal Sovereign, yacht, at
Pembroke.
Midshipmen—Edwin Field, to the Orestes, at Spit-
head; Q. J. Rowley, to the St. Vincent, 120, at Spit-
-head; S. F. Jeayes, to the Plumper, screw-schooner, at
Portsmouth.
The squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir C. Napier,
K.C.B. was expected to sail to-day, there having been
a fine breeze from the north all day. At half-past nine,
A.M., the squadron got up topgallant masts, and crossed
topgallant and royal yards, but shortly afterwards made
all snug again. When the move was first made every
one thought the ships were about to start, and numbers
planted themselves in the most convenient places to
observe the manoeuvres, but were doomed to disappoint-
ment. It is understood at present they will sail to-
morrow. The alarming illness of Captain S. C.
Dacres, of the flag-ship, is said to be if some part the
cause of the squadron not proceeding. The Plumper,
12, Commander Nolloth, and the Reynard, 12, Com-
mander. Cracroft, screw-schooners, have been placed
under the orders of Sir C. Napier, who will send them
to Spithead after he has tried them.
The Reynard went to Spithead, on Thursday, to try
her engines and speed. The engines worked admirably,
and her speed was about the same as her last trial,
knots 1-10th, with 58 revolutions, with a multiple 01
two, fan revolutions 116. The mean speed from eighl
trials along the measured mile was 7 knots, steam pres-
sure 12 5, drawing aft 12 feet 5} inches, forward 11
feet. Her fan is 8 feet 6 in. in diameter, six inches less
than her sister vessel, the Plumper, at a pitch of 9 feet,
while the pitch of the Plumper screw is only 6 feet. The
trial altogether was most satisfactory, but her speed is
not quite equal to the Plumper. It should be stated, how-
ver, that the Plumper was then comparatively light,
while the Reynard has all her weights on board.
These vessels have, so far as they have been tried, in-
contestably proved their superiority over the 16-gun
brigs, and will, doubtless, supersede the building of any
more of Ibis class. These vessels are armed with 10
32-pounders, of 25 cwt. each, and 2 pivot-guns, of 56
cwt. each; they stow three months' provisions, and about
20 days' coal. The Plumper has more depth in hold,
and has much more facilities for stowage than the Rey-
nard, which, as we have before stated, is only a pirated
copy and specimen of navy-office smartness, and by an
error, the occurrence of which is much to be regretted,
the Plumper's masts are two feet shorter than the Rey
nard's.

The Victory, flag-ship of the Commander•in-Chief at
Portsmouth, Captain F. P. Blackwood, has been made
snug for the winter months, her topgallant masts are got
on deck, and in lieu has shipped pole flag-staves ; her
topmasts are struck, and htr fore and main yards
lowered.

The Castor, 36, will be completed at Chatham, and
ready for the pendant by the end of next week.
The Sappho, 14, has been brought alongside the jetty,
at Portsmouth, to be further fitted in her rigging.
The Nautilus transport, from the Falkland Islands,
has been ordered to Woolwich.

The Encounter, screw ship, went out from Portsmouth
Harbour yesterday, to try her speed, under command of
Commander Stevens, of the Blenheim. She had all her
guns, shot, and stores on board, and drew about l 2 feet
1 inch aft, 11 feet 4 forward. It is considered that her
crew and other weight to be put on board, when fitted
for service, would be from 60 to 70 tons more, which
would probably bring her four or five inches deeper in
the water. A great number of officers and gentlemen
went out in her, and Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott, C. 8., followed her out, and went on board her
in Stokes Bay. Her engines worked most splendidly.
She made, we understand, 74 to 75 revolutions: the last
time she was triad, when light, she made, we believe, 78.
Her mean speed yesterday was 9 knots 3-10ths, on five
trials along the measured mile. She returned into har-
bour at three o'clock. We understand she will be a
elptain's command,.instead of a commander's, as at first
intended.

The_ Driver stearn-sloop, Commander Johnson, sailedfrom Portsmouth yesterday morning, for Portland, with
68 convicts, who are"to work on the breakwater at that
place.
The Rosman steam-sloop, Commander Foote, will be
sera pia by the dockyard at Chatham, on Saturday
eveninE, and is expected to leave the port early next
week, for Devonport, whence she proceeds to Naples,
after she has been paid advance.
Mr. Lang, maser shipwright at Wo3livich Dockyard,
has been or4eied to join Mr, Watts, AzsisWa-Surveyor
of thp. Navy, . and, in conjunction with the aioers of
Chathiana ILckyard, to assist in the general survey of
the -Vet-flop, 50, when she is ready, this ship having been
built by sir. Lang.

NAVAL OBITUARY.
Captain Henry 13:1,1f4-<?s (1827), on the retired
Orcui;.r, died at Berth on the 17th ult., aged
6.1 par:, This gallant officer (New Icavy List, by
Alice) was " midshipmen of the Loire, and officially
noticed while serving in her boats, cutting out French
brig of war Venteux from under the batteries of the Isle
de Ras in 180.3. Lieutenant of the Veteran, and coin-
munded a boat in the night attack upon Boulogne
flotilla, 1801; and senior of the Franchise serving in
her boats at capture of a Spanish national schooner of
superior force off La Guira, and participated in other
boat services, 180 G. Senior Lieutenant of Aigle in the
attack on French fleet in Aix Roads ; and in the %Val-
cheren expedition ; of Hussar at the capture of Java ;
and of Leda, and commanded her boats against the
pirates of Borneo, 1813." his gallant conduct at the
cutting out the Venteux, in 1803, was noticed in the
Gazette, and he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
lie was made a Commander in 1816, and for his services
received honorary reward from the Patriotic Fund.
Lieutenant George Sandford (1811) died in the Coast
Guard service, at Margate, on the 12th inst., in the 59th
year of his age. The gallant deceased was a native of
Exeter, and obtained his promotion for his services in the
flotilla at the defence of Cadiz.

Suigeon James Low (1534), of the San Josef, flagship,
at Devonport, died on the 4th inst., at Glenloin, Duni-
bartophire.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Her Majesty's brig Heroine,
8. i 3 ordered to be brought forward for commission; her
spars are landed and are to be examined.
Nineteen shipwrights, three ropomakers, one caulker,
one sailmaker, and one sawyer, are to be examined on
the 24th at the surgery preparatory for superannuation.
The merchant barque Ipswich, Captain Asplet, of
Jersey, came in this afternoon, afier a boi6terous pas-
sage throughout of 71 days; left IGth of Sepkmber. The
Lancaster Witch, of Liverpriol, and the iklona, of Lon-
don, started from the River Plate at the same date; Ist
of Oatobcr, off the coast of Brazil, near the island of
Trinidad, spoke the Alfred, of Belfast, from Ncw York,
for Callao; 26th of October, passed a large stearatr
(supposed to be a mail boat), bound west; Gdt of No-
vember, lat. 37.50 N.. long. 30'95 W., Janet, of Leith,
from Bahia, fur London; 16th of November, lat. 47 N.,
long. 24 NV., Admiral Jan Eversten, from Batas is, fur
Amsterdam, and the Indus, bound east; 17th, lat. 47 N.,
1"g 22 W., Sarah and Elizabeth, for London; 19th, lat.
49 N., long. 15 W., Bremen barque Sophie, from Ha-
vannah, for Brem..n; 21st, lat. 50 N., long. 7.10 W., brig
Kestrel, outward-bound,off Eddystone; llamburgh brig
Cyrus, bound to the
eastward.
Wind, W.S.W. to w.-N.
sional showers. W.; strong breeze, with occa-
Crtxrnix, Nov; pigmy and the Adder
steam vessels, at Woolvv►
is ich,ar!i,7 epr—gred to be sent to
this port, and to be keptguns;
will readinessbee° for service.
The Castor, 36
leted and ready for
commission the end of next week:DP
yard
The Rochester, Sudwicks master. leadm g with dock-
WOOLWICH, Nov. 24.—The members of the Dock-
yard Committee of Revision have proceeded to Deptford
dockyard to-day to investigate the working eatibuZ
men ts and other matters at that naval depot.
Mr. Voules, superintendent of convicts, has been en-
gaged within the last few days in looking for an eligible
situation on which to erect a prison for the convicts
employed in the dockyard, it having been resolved to
have- them confined on shore and detached from the
dockyard during the night.
Mr. Johnson, engineer of the Prometheus steam-
yess6l, has suggested a very simple means of extin-
guishing fires on board ships or war-steamers, whether
arising from spontaneous combustion or any other cause,
which he proposes should be effected by having one of
Kingston's valves inserted in the bottom of the vessel
with a connecting rod or key in the captain's cabin, or
other convenient place, under his entire control. By
that means, on an alarm of fire being given, the captain
could admit a sufficient quantity of water to extinguish
the fire, without having to remove the cargo or stores,
and save the bottom of the vessel from being charred,
which is often the case when fires take place, and a diffi-
culty experienced to ascertain the exact spot where it is
burning. Mr. Kingston's valves are used in her Ma-
jesty's steamers for supplying water to the boilers, and
are opened and shut with the slightest pressure.

Prince Metternich, who is residing with his family
in Brighton, on hearing of the wreck of the two German
emigrant ships on the Goodwin Sands, immediately dis-
patched his son, Prince Richard Metternich, and Baron
Ilugel, from Brighton, with a sum of money for the re-
lief of the suflerors, and commissioned his son to inform
them that he would assist them further by every means
in his power. We find in Tuesday's papers an adver-
tisement, with the signatures of Prince Richard Met-
ternich and Baron C. Hugel, expressive of their thanks,
in the name of 160 of their German conntrymen, to the
inhabitants of Ramsgate, for the hospitality and kind-
ness. shown to them in their distress.—Brighton Gazette.
Great Britain produces annually 31,.500,000 tons of
coal ; Belgium,
ium,t,4_,960,077 ; France, 4,141,617 • United
states, 4,400,700,000, uvu Prussia, 3,500,000 and 'Augria,