The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-27 00:00:00

LAUNCH OF THE ODIN STEAM

FRIGATE.
This fine steam-vessel, built at Deptford Dockyard from a
design by Mr. Fincham, master shipwright at Portsmouth
Dockyard, was launched on Friday in the presence of a num-
ber of spectators, although the weather was very unfavour-
able. It was expected that Lady Monteagle would perform
the office of naming the vessel, but her Ladyship was pre-
vented attending owing to the state of the weather.

The company—beganio arrive ZOrtiy after one o'clock, and
on the arrival of the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, accompanied by
her brother, she was conducted by Captain-Superintendent
Sir John Hill, Knight, to the gallery erected at the bow of
the vessel.
At twenty minutes past two o'clock a bottle of wine was
opened, and the usual toast having been drunk, the bottle was
broken on the bows of the Odin, and the vessel in a few
minutes afterwards glided slowly and majestically into her
future element amidst the prolonged cheers of the spectators.
Captain Johnson and Captain Davis, R.N. ; Dr. Nesbitt,
Greenwich Hospital; Mr. Ward, jun., son of the Hon. Secre-
tary to the Admiralty, were present to witness the launch.
The following are the dimensions of the Odin, placed on
the blocks on the 29th of February, 1845 :—Length between
perpendiculars, 208 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 183 ft.
8i in. ; breadth extreme, 37 ft. ; breadth for tonnage, 36 ft.
6 in. ; breadth moulded, 35 ft. 10 in.; depth in hold, 24 lt.
2 in. ; burthen in tons, 1,326 4-94; horse power, 500. To
carry 400 tons of coals.
The Leopard, a sister vessel in every respect, designed also
by Mr. Fincham, will be immediately commenced on the
same blocks.

Mr. Lumley entertained on Friday at dinner General
Sir Andrew Barnard, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of
Lonadale, his Excellency General Count Bjornstjerner, the
Marquis of Sligo, Baron Augustus Rothschild, Mr. Broad-
woed, M.P., Mr. Eaton, M.P., Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P.,
Mr. Frank Mills, Baron Oscar, &c., &c.
The Right Honourable H. Labouchere has appointed
as his private secretary, Mr. W. Torrens.M'Cullagh, the author
of the " Industrial History of Free Nations."
We read in a Berlin letter of the 15th:—" Two
brothers, who bad established here a gambling-house, have
just become bankrupts. Their debts are said to exceed a
million of francs."
public MEETING IN SOUTHWARS.--On Friday a
Town-hall, in compliance with a meet-
ingre-
of the inhabitant householders of the borough of South-
wark was held a the
quisition to the Hign Bailiff, ' for the purpose of considering
he has performed in the propriety of presenting an address of thanks to Sir Robt.
Peel, Bart., for the great seryice
carry-
ing the Corn-law Bill, and similar addresses to those Mem-
bers of the House of Commons who have most prominently
assisted in the passing of free-tra e measures, as well as to
Bailiff was signed
such other advocates of freetrade as he meeting may consi-
der proper."—(The requisition to the High,
by upwards of 300 persons of influence in the Borough.)—
OF A. DUTCH WAR SCHOONER BY
W. Pritchard, Esq., the High Bailiff of Southwark, presided.
DESTRUCTION
PlRATrS.—Letters from Singapore have been received, dated
the 28th of May. communicating the_ particulars of the cap-
ture of the Dutch war schooner Chameleon, on the Bunke
coast, and the massacre of the officers and crew by the horde
of pirates that infest that part of the globe. She was on
gun, ancl manned tiy silty men"
her way to Minton, when she was attacked by forty boats,
each aimed with a long
all on board,
they plundering the schooner and__ destroying
they sunk her. They then landed on the Island of Bunk;
sacked the village, and killed all wh? offered any resistance.'
with them a number
as slaves, and a quantity of
The pirates then re-embarked, carrying
of men, women, and children
treasure. It is stated that they are under the command of a
circumstances of
Dutch renegade officer, who was.
.dismissed from his own ser-
vices some years ago under peculiar dis-
grace. He fled to Illanoon, and married the daughter of one
of the chiefs, and has since been active in training the pirates
for service against the country and trade. On the receipt
of the intelligence the Merapi steamer, after landing her
mails, went in pursuit of the murderers.
ROBBING 4 MAN AND LOCKING HIM OUT OF HIS
HOUSE.—On the return of 11Ir. Vauderpump and family
from Vauxhall-gardens, on Friday morning, between one and
two o'clock, to his residence in Sloane-street, Chelsea, lie
was unable to obtain admission. After knocking for nearly
two hours, he got over the garden-wall of the adjoining
house, and in at the first-floor window of his own house,
when he discovered that the servant had decamped, carrying
off a quantity of plate, jewellery, and wearing apparel ; also
241. in cash, that the had broken open a desk to got at.