The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Centaur paddle-
wheel steam-frigate, by Symonds, 1,269 tons, 540 horse
power, by Buniton and Watt, a IIPW ship, is ordered to
be fitted at this yard fur the first-class pendant of Com-
modore Fanshawe, the newly selected Comsnander-in-
Chief or the coast of Africa. The order came down
this afternoon. As the Commodore's stuff will embrace
a flag captain, commander, and secretary, increased ac-
commodation will have to be cons'ructed; for this pur-
pose a poop will be added to the Cer.taur.
The Siren, 16, Commander Chaloner, sailed last night,
about rine o'clock, for Sheet-Less, to be paid off.
The Myrtle steam-vessel, Master-Commander Ballis-
ton, put the draught of seamen, gunners, and gunners'
mates of the Excellent (25 in number) on board the
Prince Regent, 92, at Spithead, to-day, for passage to
Sir William Parker's fleet.
THE COAST OF AFRICA.

The Rapid, 8, Commander Dixon, took an empty prize
off the Congo in August. She is to leave for Ascension
on the Ist of November, to get a new bowsprit, and then
proceeds direct for England, with the November mail.
The Pluto steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander R.
M'Kinley Richardson, is to relieve the Dart. The
Waterwitcb, 8, Commander Quin, is gone to Sierra
Leone. The Britomart, 10, Commander Chamberlain,
has taken the Siren's station off Mayumba. She took
her first prize on her way down, with 450 slaves, in a
state of great filth and wretchedness. The prize was to
have taken 700, but the Britomart took her before she
had completed h r cargo. She had lost nine slaves in
seven days. The Pluto is sent up the Congo for 90
days' wood. She has also taken a prize, but as they
could not get her out of the creek, a Lieutenant of the
Rapid remained o❑ board all night, and they landed 12
out of 15 prisoners; and it was well they did, or sbe
would have been retaken in the night; as it was, they
had an engagement in the morning after the Lieutenant
of the Rapid left her.
Wind W.S.W., strong breezes, and hazy weather.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. s.—Her Majesty's frigate Amazon,
26, Captain Troubridge, bound to the coast of Africa
and the East Indies, and her Majesty's sloop Daphne,
18, Captain Edward G. Fanshawe, bound to South
America, are detained in the Sound, waiting a favour-
able wind. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Rosamond, bound
to the Mediterranean, is in Barn Pool. Orders have been
received to make every dispatch for sailing. The state
of affairs in Italy is supposed to be one cause for the ur-
gency.
Notice has been served on the person who contracts
for the purchase of the waste chips, shavings, and saw-
dust from the Devonport dockyard, that the contract
will terminate at the end of three months. It is intended
to consume these materials at the steam engines in the
smithery, by which a saving in coal was is expected to
be obtained.

WooLwlcir, DEC. 6.—The Sampson steam-frigate,
Captain T. Henderson, is ordered to be paid off here on
Saturday next, the 9th inst.
The Niger steam. vessel is now ready for service, but
she will remain here until an opportunity is afforded of
crying her comparative merits with the Basilisk steam-
vessel, fitted with engines of the same number of horse
power for working paddle-wheels. Both vessels are on
the same lines, and as near as possible in every respect,
with the exception that the Niger is propelled by a
screw, and the Basilisk by paddle-wheels.

THE ROYAL Ezcnirtos.—The case of " Her Ma-
jesty's Attorney-General v. William Strange, Jasper
Tomsett Judge, and Jasper Augustus Frederick Judge,"
and also that of his Royal Highness Prince Albert
against the same defendants, has been appointed to come
on for argument in Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce's
Court, Lincoln's•lnn, on Saturday morning next, at the
opening of the court at ten o'clock. The counsel on the
part of the complainants are the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr.
James. Mr. Russell, Mr. Warren, and Mr. J. Sydney
Smith have been retained on the part of the defendants.
From the great number of affidavits which have been
put upon the file of the court by the complainants, and
the voluminous nature of the answer to the information
and bill which has been filed on the part of the de-
fendants, the arguments and speeches of counsel ate
considered likely to occupy the Court the greater part
of the day. This case, from its extreme novelty and
the many nice legal points which are involved, excites
the greatest interest, not only in legal circles but
throughout the country.
POST• OFFICE NOTICE.—The Overland Mail, via
Marseilles, for India, Egypt, Alexandria, Aden, Ceylon,
and the Mediterranean, will be dispatched trom the Ge-
neral Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, this evening, the
7th inst.

COUNT .11 .....ATEIYANY.- Sir, I have seal with pain-
ful surprise in the Times and some °dux. journals a
letter dated the 28th November bearing us signature the
words, " The Count Bathyany." Asa Hungarian, an
intimate personal and political friend of the Counts
Louis and Casimir Bathyany, and holding in the highest
esteem and regard the reputation of that illustrious
house, I feel it a duty to notice that letter through the
channels in which it bas been circulated, and to assure
those who may have read it that that letter does not
proceed from Count Louis Bathyany, lately president
of the Hungarian Ministry, nor from Count Casimir,
now in the field in defence of the institutions of his coun-
try, nor from any other
member of the patriotic Bathy
any family, who residing in Hungary is conversant
with ber affairs, or enjoys there any note as a public
man.—Count LADISLAS TELERI.—Paris, Dec. 4, 1848.
CHOLERA.—Yesterday the following fresh cases of
cholera were reported to the Board of Health :—W hite-
chapel, 3; Poplar, 1; Lambeth, 1, fatal; Woolwich, 1,
fatal; the provinces, 14, 6 fatal; Scotland, 24, 11 fatal;
Total, 44 cases; 19 deaths.