The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

No. 17,383.] LONDON, TUESDAY NING

BRITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL FIRE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
37, New Bridge. street, Blackfriars, London.
THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE applied to Life Assurance has met
with extraordinary and long continued success.
FIRE ASSURANCE, however, is almost exclusively conducted
on the proprietary system.
The evidence is complete that large profits are derivable from Fire
Assurance.
BY THE MUTUAL PLAN all these profits are divided among
the Assured, who alone have the control. The Directors are chosen
by the Members from among themselves.
The success which has attended the progress of the British Mutual
Life Assurance Company has led to the establishment of this Society
on these principles, and which is now effecting Assurances against
Fire at the London and Provincial Offices, where Prospectuses may
be obtained.
Application for Agencies may be made to
Se( SOITER, Secretary.
W. ecretary.

nIDLAND RAILWAY.
ACCELERATION OF MAIL TRAINS between LONDON,
RUGBY, EDINBURGH and GLASGOW, via., DERBY, YORK,
and NEWCASTLE.
From and after SUNDAY, 18th of June, the down Night Mail Train
will continue to leave London at 9 P.M., and Rugby at 12 5 A.m., and
will from thence be accelerated to arrive at Edinburgh at 2 15 P.M.,
instead of 4 P.M. The Up Mail will leave Edinburgh at 11 A.M., in-
stead of 9 A.M., and be accelerated to arrive at Rugby at 1 A.M., and
London at 4 30 A.M. (the present time) see time bill.
The Down Express Train from London to Edinburgh, via., York
and Newcastle, leaves London at 9 30 A.M., arrives at Edinburgh at
955 r.m., and at Glasgow at 11 20 P.M. The Up Express Train
leaves Glasgow at 8 A.M., Edinburgh at 9 30 A.M., and arrives in
London at 10 10 P.M., performing the distance between Edinburgh
and London in about 121/.', hours.
(By order) J. F. BELL, Secretary.
Derby, June 7, 1848.

FREEHOLD ESTATES, consisting of Small Farms and valuable
Woodland, in Kent and Sussex, with possession at Michaelmas.
MR. BEADEL is directed to SELL, by AUC-
TION, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Ashford, Kent, on TUES-
DAY, the 20th June, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, in Ten Lots,
the following valuable Freehold Property :
IN SUSSEX.
The New Bridge Marshes, in the parish of Iden, containing 44a. 2r.,
in the occupation of Jeremiah Smith, Esq.
IN LENT. .

The Church Moor Estate, at Woodchurch, in the occupation of Mr.
George Hammond. containing 26a. Ir. sp.
The Hook Wood, Biddenden, in hand, including 78a. Ir. 32p. of
valuable Wood Land.
The Long Wood, at Warehome, in hand, consisting of 38a. 2r. 38p.
Rucks, or Binch Hill Wood, at Kennardington, in hand, containing
Ba. Ir. 10p.
The Bourne Ground, adjoining the Turnpike-road from Tenterden
to Woodchurch, in the occupation of Mr. William Hilder, containing
96a. Or. 7p. of Grass Land of first-rate quality, with Barn and Cattle-
shed.
Walter House Farm, in the parishes of Woodchurch, Appledove,
and Kennardington, including a good House and Farm-buildings, and
76a. Ir. 37p. of Arable and Pasture Land, occupied by Mr. 0. Cas-
singham and Mr. William Hilder.
Fourteen Acres of valuable Marsh Land in Snargate and Fairfield,
in the occupation of Mr. William Hague.
Particulars may be obtained of Messrs. Dawes and Sons, Solicitors.
Angel-court, Throgmorton-street ; of Messrs. J. C. and H. Freshfleld,
Solicitors. New Bank-buildings, Lothbary ; at the Saracen's Head
Inn, Ashford ; the Rose and Crown Hotel, Tunbridge ; and of Mr.
Beadel, 25, Gresham-street, City.

" Edition for the Million." 2s. 6d. fr e, by post 6d. extra, of
SKETCHES of her MAJESTY'S HOUSE-
-17 HOLD, and GUIDE to SITUATIONS at COURT, now pub-
lishing by W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, and by order of all Book-
sellers.
" A secret survey of the Royal Household."— Court Journal.
" This book is calculated to attract attention."—Era.
" The writer has been much behiad the scenos."—Mornlng Adver-
tiser.
" It shows how money Is expended by royalty."—Dispatch.
Ask for the Half-a-Crown " Edition for the Million."
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This Day, Two Volumes fivo., 305.,
lI'STORY of the ROYAL SOCIETY.
Compiled from Original Authentic Documents.
By C. R. WELD, Barrister-at-Law, Assistant Secretary and
Librarian to the Royal Society.
London : John W. Parker, West Strand.

THE KALOS GEUSIS SAUCE.
"Reform Club, Dec. 21, 1847.
" Gentlemen,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your Sauce,
which I must say is far superior in strength and flavour, than any
which have been submitted to me.
" I am, Gentlemen, most respectfully yours,
"A. SOYER.

" To Messrs. Win. Clayton and Co., 72, Watling-street."
This unrivalled adjunct to the dinner table or Cuisine is almost the
only Sauce used in these regions of Curries and Condiments, the East
and West Indies. Its wholesome and stimulating stomachic proper-
ties render it an indispensable luxury.
To be had of all respectable houses in Great Britain and the Co-
lonies; and wholesale only, at 72, Watling-street, City.

EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE-
RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
a few drops of which cure headache In a few minutes ; it is also a
most delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size,
7s. ; and double this size, l ls. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con.
:Rising testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c."
By post, 4s. 6d., 7s. fid„ and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale only at Grinastone's Ilerbary, Highgate, near
London ; aid by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
Oxford-street; Messrs. Butler and Co.,Cheapside Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnstoa, medicine warehouse, 66, Cornhill •
and by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
R. Raimes,Leith-walk; for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver
User-office.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH PRISON.
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR.
The SITUATION of GOVERNOR of the BOROUGII PRISON is
now vacant. Applications for the Situation, with Testimonials,
must be sent in or before the 2,lth'instant, addressed "To the Mayor
of Liverpool," stating the age, quailfication, and previous occupation
of the Candidates.

Salary 4501. per annum, subject to the approval of the Town
Council. with a House in the Prison.
The Governor will have to enter into a Bond for faithful perform-
ance of the duties of his office, and provide sureties in the sum of
2,0001.

Applicants are requested not to appear in person, unless required.
Town-hall, Liverpool, June 10, 1848.

QALMON, ODIC, and CO. most respectfully in-
k-, form the public that their PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING
TRUSSES have been in use thirty years, and continue to be recom-
mended by the most eminent surgeons in town and country; they
will answer for right or left side, also admit of increase and decrease
in size and force, requiring no under-strap or any galling bandage.
N.B.—Persons in the country are requested to send the circum-
ference of the body one inch below the hips.
Sold by one or more druggists in every city and provincial town in
the United Kingdom.
Manufactory, 292, Strand, London.

sHaunn
jteors,eMciss Cole, and Dr. Low, surgeon, to join the

The Flamer, having been nearly five years in com-
mission, is now ordered to Woolwich to be paid off.
THE SELECT COMMITTEE.—The Committee continue
to call for returns from the dockyards, and to examine
officers connected with the various departments. Mr.
Lloyd, chief engineer and inspector of steam machi-
nery., has undergone a lengthy examination with re-
ference to his department, and more especially with
regard to the cost and working of screw-propelling
machinery. Last week the Committee was furnished
with some important returns of the cost of first build-
ing and subsequent repairs and fittings of ships of all
classes of Sir William S monds's designing from the
Queen downwards, and likeywise of some of the old ships.
As the labours of the committee seem to be retrospec-
tive, in order, as we presume, that from the experience
of the past they may give advice as to the future, we
would suggest to them the propriety of calling for a re-
turn of the expenses incurred in fitting out the Rattle-
snake, 28, and dispatching her to the Pacific in 1832;
showing, also, by whom she was commissioned, the pe-
riod and nature of her service, the amount of freight she
conveyed, the date of paying off, together with the cost
incurred for wages of officers and men during such ser-
vice.—Herald.
THE AVENGER SUBSCRIPTION.—The committee for
managing the Avenger fund met on Saturday morning
at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and distributed
relief to about one hundred and fifty applicants, being
the mothers, widows, and relatives of the crew that pe-
rished on the wreck of that vessel. A number of per-
sons
with similar claims living ut a distance (in various
parts of the kingdom) had also sums awarded to them;
these sums were in general sent to the resident cler-
gymen of the parishes in which the applicants live, to
be distributed according to the necessities of the different
cases.
THE AMPHION, AUXILIARY SCREW STEAM-FRIGATE.
—We stated last week that this ship had arrived at
Spithead, and had been ordered to be refitted for sea
with every dispatch. The Amphion has not been con-
sidered an experimental frigate sinceleaving the Tagus,
in the light in which she went out there. The cruise
home to Cork, with Sir C. Napier's squadron, was en-
tirely performed under canvas, and she proved herself
very seaworthy, and last in trying weather. The small
amount of service available for the Amphion since her
departure from the Tagus has not greatly favoured the
development of the screw with reference to steam tac-
tics ; but its advantages, under the circumstances in
which it has already been called into play in the short
period alluded to, point in an eminent degree to the
value of the instrument when exercised according to its
legitimate intention. She ,steamed all the way from
Cork to Dublin, and got over the distance, under all
circumstances, remarkably well, and with celerity,
sufficient to establish the success of the experi-
mental application of the screw to such a vessel. She
came to an anchor at. Spithead, on Thursday morning,
at nine o'clock, after a very favourable passage from
Kingstown. She left Kingstown Harbour about seven
A.M., on Monday, the sth inst., under steam, and con-
tinued steaming against contrary winds until four o'clock
on the following morning, having made good a distance
of 110 miles during the time. The wind being now
favourable, the funnel was struck 'and screw raised out of
the water, and the frigate converted, both in appearance
and effect, into an ordinary sailing ship. The greatest
speed under steam alone was six knots, and coming up
Channel, nine; nine knots were attained under canvass,
with studding-sails and royals set. We have thus
traced, in a measure, the Amphion's services as briefly
as may be; we consider the outline, nevertheless, to be
interesting to those who are watching what a screw-
frigate is worth, whether, indeed, they are failures or
not. There are not a few naval officers who consider a
frigate utterly ruined by the introduction of steam.
Now, it remains to be seen whether, in a great navy
like ours, there is not room enough, and work
enough, in a squadron, for vessels of this class, in-
dependently of steamers, properly so called. A ship
of this kind, when detached, as she was in Ireland,
for example, where agitators, like ignes fatui, were
incessantly flitting from one spot to another, would
on any coast, be of incalculable service in the event of
a war. Three years' services of a ship like this, duly
chronicled, would throw much light en the subject; and
every contribution to our stock of knowledge must serve
the Government in determining when to advance or
when to withdraw from other projections of a like
character to that of the Amphion. The machinery is no
doubt a difficult problem, but the competition of talent
in the country, will, in all probability, soon conquer the
difficulty. At all events, in this instance, the construc-
tors of the Amphion's machinery have led the way, and
so far as they have gone, most nobly so, under very
great disadvantages, and they will doubtless reap their
reward among the profession and in the scientific world
in general for their exhaustless patience and their labo-
rious skill.—Herald.

SCREW SCHOONERS.—The Reynard, screw steatn-
schooner of 60-horse power, built at Deptford, by the
Navy Office, with engines by Messrs. Rennie, will be
commissioned in a few days. It is reported that Com-
mander Cracroft, who recently studied steam at 'Wool-
wich, will have the command. She will try with the
sailing brigs. The Plumper trial screw-schooner de-
signed by Mr. Fincham, is receiving her engines, of 60-
horse power, from Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., and will
be also commissioned for experimental trials as soon as
she is ready.—United Service Gazette.
BALLASTING Suira.—Capt. Ilendry, who has attained
some credit in the navy as the builder or designer of the
16-gun sloop Frolic, just re-commissioned at Portsmouth,
has originated a plan for stowing the ballast of large
ships, such as the Howe and St. Vincent, say 200 tons.
He suggests that it be placed in one-third of the length
of the ship, and winged up in two tiers of 18 and 12
pigs, diminishing to 6 and 4 at each end. Several
officers conversant in stowing ships, and ship builders,
whose avocation it is to calculate the method in which
weights ought to be distributed in such floating bodies,
warmly advocate the proposition, and recommend its
adoption.
SOCIETY ISLANDS.—Captain Ricardi and crew: of a
small French schooner have been massacred by the
natives of Barclay de Tully, one of the Paumotu
Islands, a dependency of Queen Pomare. A French
war steamer visited the island and brought away
twenty natives. They were tried by the authorities
at Otaheite. Ten had been acquitted, four sentenced
to forced labour for life, and six condemned to
death. Of the latter six, three were reprieved until
their cause should be pleaded before the King of France.
The remaining three under sentence of death, were con-
veyed in a war steamer to their native island, there to
be executed. They were accompanied by the Rev. Mr.
Thompson, English missionary. On the trial it appeared
that all were implicated in the massacre. They acknow-
ledged the deed, but pleaded in extenuation that formerly
Captain Ricardi had tired upon some of their canoes and
killed some of their people. This Ricardi has been for a
long time notorious for his hostility to the natives. He was
connected with the famous " dog" affair at Otaheite, and
was the prime instigator of the bloody affair at Huahine
in the spring of 1846, when the French burnt the town,
and lost snore than 100 of their men, while only a few of
the natives were killed. Ricardi's death appears a most
remarkable instance of retributive justice, executed by
those towards whom he manifested such bitter hostility.
—Valparaiso Neighbour.

DEVON AND CORNWALL WRESTLING.—The an-
nual competition for prizes, in the aggregate amounting
to 1001., which is liberally given by the noblemen and
gentlemen of the above districts, began yesterday at the
Brocknock Arms, Camden-town, and despite the un-
favourable weather the number of visitors fully equalled,
if it did not exceed, former years. The lowering clouds
rendering out-of-door play impracticable, Messrs. Bruce
and Gibson placed their large ball-room at the disposal
of the managers, and there the play was most satis-
factorily carried on. The first bout was between Par-
ker, (Somerset) and Gifford (C.), which resulted in the
former being thrown. Trinalett, sen., (D.) and Nichols
(C.) came next, when, after a brace of severe bouts, the
Devon man was victorious. Radford. (D.) and Rogers
(C.) got a fall each, when the. Cornishman stood on the
third bout, having downed his opponent by a fine back
GTehffeerrey
were being
several defeated
other after
fall. Nichols and Geffery (both new men from the west
county) played two of the prettiest bouts
lot for some time to witness,
one hour's excellent play.

matches.
ENTERTAINMENT IN TUE LONDON DOCKS.—Yes-
terday a grand entertainment was given by the owners of
the American line-of-packet ships, on board the ship
Devonshire, lying alongside the jetty in the London
Docks, to celebrate the first voyage of that vessel to this
country. Amongst the
no were the Belgian
Mi-
nisterMi-
and Madame Van de Weyer, the Bavarian
visitors inspected the vessel,
nister and Baroness de Cetto, the Spanish Minister, the
Buenos Ayres Minister, the American Minister and Mrs.
t6obebde the largest ship that ever Bancroft, Baron Isola, Benjamin Hawes, Esq., Miss
Burdett Coutts, and Mr. Bankes, Envoy of the German
Dwbieitn.h
isT hnuendsilinregdui
en-
tered the London Docks. The Devonshire sails on
Thursday next, and will take on board upwards of 200
emigrants, principally agricultural labourers, from the
Home counties, and 70 steerage passengers.
LOSS Or TILE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STEAM-SHIP ARlEL.—lntelligence of this disaster has
been received at Lloyd's. The Ariel was a new iron
passengers and a full
steam-ship, 850 tons burden, with engines of 300-horse
power, commanded by Captain Caldbreak. She was
employed on the Mediterranean, Peninsular, and Italian
with''t,rianeegnnuo knotsmfbthe er
pero2ld inst., she was steam-
in .
hour, when suddenly
it was discovered that the vessel was runningt
service, and left Genoa for Gibraltar and Southampton
of
no angr thegaut.
a27os tphi
el
cut
dbl teo' thirteen .
° nengines
ho intole
a reefthe
were in-
stantly
time to back
astern, she struck with tremendous force, knocking her
bottom in. By the aid of the boats,
situate
stopped 12 miles
;fr
bo
umt Leghorn.beforut there
was
passengers and crew were saved. The steamer and cargo
are yarned at 150,0001.
IMPORTATIONS or CYDER.—Large quantities of
cyder are at present being imported from the Channel
Island of Jersey into this country at some of the ports
on the coast, as well as the metropolis. Some arrivals
of this esteemed summer beverage have also recently
alien place from the United States of America.