The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

• • PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—The Comet steam-vessel,
Lieutenant-Commander Johnston, arrived at Kingstown,
Dublin, on Monday, from this port, at-5 and landed
20,000 i. sterling of the /money she carried out for the
relief of the distressed Irish. On Tuesday she proceeded
to Waterford, where she would land another moiety of
the 80,0001. From Waterford she would proceed to
Cork. No other man-of-war was at Kingstowii when
the Comet left.
The Bulldog steam-sloop, Commander Davies, will
be ready for sea, if no fresh disaster befall her, to-
morrow night. Her newly appointed engineers have

joined. -
The Myrtle steam-vessel, a little craft of 116 tons and
60-horse power, arrived yesterday evening _ from the
eastward, to supply the Comet's place as a dispatch
boat during the absence of-the latter on. the coast of
Ireland, distributing money and meal to alleviate the
prevailing distress.
Her Majesty's ship Scout spoke, April 20, in lat.
26 degrees N., long. 18 degrees 40 minutes W., the
barque Esk, from Trieste, bound to Pernambuco ;
May 6, in latitude 1 degree 30 minutes N., longitude
22 degrees 42 minutes W., the ship Hamilton, from
and of Greenock, to Valparaiso ; May 15, lat. 17 de-
grees 25 minutes S., long. 27 degrees 48 minutes W., the
barque Josephine, Liverpool to China, 57 days ; May 16,
lat. 18 degrees 32 minutes S.„long. 29 degrees 1.0 minutes
W., the brig William Woolley, London, to Algoa Bay,'
56 days ; May 18, lat. 22 degrees 31 minutes S., long. 29
degrees 23 minutes W., the ship Nepaul, Ewing master,
of Greenock, bound to Bombay, with loss of main and
mizen masts,—after rigging jury masts for her, parted
from her, bound to Rio Janeiro to refit.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 16.—His Imperial Majesty's Rus•
Sian corvette Abo arrived here from Naples on the 11th
instant, bound to Cronstadt, has been since detained
by light contrary winds. During her detention Captain
Nordmann and other officers attached to her have
visited the Port-Admiral, Sir John West, Admiral-Su-
perintendent Sir Samuel Pym, and other heads of de-
partments.
In company with the Russian Consul, Mr. Luscombe,
the following gentlemen attended the ball given on Mon-
day night in aid of the Female Orphan Asylum at Stoke,
which was under the patronage of the Earl of Auckland,
viz. :—Captain Nordmann, aide-de-camp to his Imperial
Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias ; Captain Rud-
ner, Lieutenant Golovin, Lieutenant Corosackoff, Baron
Luvenstern, and Count Aprafin, officers of the Abo. The
same gentlemen were yesterday afternoon conducted over
her Majesty's dockyard by Sir William Symonds, the
Surveyor to the Navy.
DEVONPORT, SEPT. 16.—0 n Monday evening the Earl
of Auckland and the Lords of the Admiralty dined with
the Hon. H. Murray, Commander of the Forces in the
Western District, at Mountwise.
On Tuesday morning their Lordships transacted
business at the Royal Hotel. At eleven o'clock they
visited the Royal Naval Hospital, the Royal Marine
Barracks, and the Royal William Victualling: yard at
Stonehouse.

TO-day the Lords of the Admiralty inspect the River
Tamer, and in the evening dine with the Earl of Mount-
Edgecumbe.

To-morrow, in all probability, their Lordships will
proceed in the Lightning steamer to inspect her Majesty's
Dockyard at Pembroke.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 17.—Her Majesty's steam-packet
Garland, Captain Smithett, has resumed her duties on
the Dover station, having been absent three weeks,
attending on the Queen during the royal cruises. The
Garland appears to have gained great favour with her
Majesty from the extraordinary speed she manifested
the whole time she was with the royal squadron, no
other steamer having the smallest chance of keeping pace
with her, much to the astonishment of every officer and
person on board the other vessels.
The Garland is ordered to be at Ostend on the 20th
inst., to meet Lieutenant Waghorn, RN., who is ex-
pected to arrive there on that day with the overland
mail from India, vid Trieste, Germany, Belgium, &c. In
the event of the dispatches reaching London on Monday
next, it will be an extraordinary triumph for this truly
enterprising gentleman and all concerned in the experi-
ment.

The Athol troop-ship was brought down the river
yesterday from Deptford to Woolwich, and her neces-
sary repairs are expected to be completed by Monday
next, when she will embark Captain Thorndike's com-
pany of the Royal'Artillery for Barbadoes, and Captain
D'Arley's company of the Royal Artillery for Bermuda.
No. 1 Company of the Royal Sappers and Miners, sta-
tioned at present at Woolwich, have been ordered to em-
bark in the Athol, under the command of Captain Gor-
don, of the Royal Engineers, for a passage to Bermuda,
to relieve the company at that station. No. 1 Compaip,
will embark 70 strong, and on arriving at Bermuda will
be joined by 30 of the youngest privates serving there
at present, to raise the company to 100 men. The others
will return to head• quarters at Woolwich.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master Commander
S. B. Cook, returned to Woolwich at half-past seven
o'clock yesterday morning from attending on his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief, and the
Marquis of Anglesey, Master• General of the Ordnance,
during the visit of these distinguished officers to Sheer-
ness and Chatham.

The Aurora corvette, belonging to his Majesty the
King of Sardinia, and commanded by Captain the Mar-
quis Spinola, arrived at Woolwich at eight o'clock P.M.
yesterday, and remains at moorings opposite the Dock-
yard. The gallant Captain came on shore at eleven
o'clock A.M. to-day, and accompanied the Sardinian
Minister to the Royal Arsenal. There are betwixt 30
and 40 officers employed in, or studying for, the naval
service of the Sardinian Government on board, who have
come to this country to visit the principal naval and
military establishments in England..
The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Henderson, remains
opposite the Dockyard, Woolwich, and a number of ship
carpenters are employed upon her to get her ready for
sea. A very serious accident occurred on board on
Tuesday evening on her arrival at Woolwich, imme-
diately after her return. It appears that two fine able-
bodied seamen were stationed at her bows to let go the
anchor to hold the vessel in the river, and that by some
means the cable caught hold of them, and tore off the
left arm of George Bone, and three fingers of the right
hand of William Bayly. The sufferers were, immedi-
ately attended to, and in the coarse of the night brought
on,shore to the Royal Marine Hospital, where they re•
main, in a better condition than could have been expected
under the circumstances and the severe nature of the
injuries they have sustained.
The Emily and Henry hired convict-ship, with 176
female convicts on board, hoisted her sailing signal this
morning, and is expected to leave her moorings, opposite
the Royal Arsenal, in the course of the afternoon.
PROMOTIONS. _

William Weod, retired Commander, 1830, to be Re-
ired Commander, 1816.
James Butler, to be Acting Boatswain (Caledonia).
APPOINTMENTS.

James S. Mann, Lieutenant (Rodney).
Charles P. Fielen, Clerk's Assistant (America).
George Griffiths, Third Engineer Supernumerary
William and Mary).

COAST GUARD APPOINTMENTS.

Justus B. Kooystra, Chief Officer, Coast Guard.
A. IL Shairp, Chief Officer, Coast Guard.

TnE SEANIsn MaTcn.--:All the jewellers and gold-
smiths of Paris are at work on ornaments for the mar-
riage of that poor little victim the Queen of Spain,
doomed to be executed to her cousin. The finery is
spoken of, by competent judges of such matters, as being
very superb. The diamonds are said to be as bright and
almost as numerous as the tears. shed by the bride, and
the gold trinkets almost as heavy as her sighs. Her
hymeneal manacles, though they may gall her to the
bone, will at least be magnificently chased. No Hindoo
widow'vias ever burned with greater splendour than will
attend the Spanish bride to the altar. She will be sacri-
ficed to marriage like a Queen. And when she has
given her'hand to her cousin, and promised'to give her
heart, the spirits of hypocrisy, and guile, and fraud
(especially invoked for the solemnity), will chant an
epithalamium expressly composed for the occasion by
that great master of domestic discord, the parent of
all falsehood. An amnesty will, it is said, be granted,
and all political offences forgiven, on the marriage of the
Queen. Poor thing 1 She herself may forgive her
enemies, but, as the Italian says, " it is not ordered that
we should forgive our friends ;" and Isabella may
bitterly rememher that exception and privilege.—Punch.

The last published annual account of the Equitable
Assurance Society shows that the directors in the year
1845 paid for claims on policies 365,0001., and for addi-
tions made to them 429,0001., being a total of 794,000/.
At the close of that period, and after all these payments,
the invested capital of the society was 5,715,000/. Three
per Cents., and 4,050,0001. on mortgage. The society
has lately paid claims on policies exceeding the sum
originally assured, in some instances five times, and in
others six times the amount. On a sum assured of
5,0001. the amount paid was 26,610/. ; and in another
case for 2,000/. an amount of 10,040/. was paid ; while
in a third case for 700/. assured the amount paid was
4,980 L Among the causes which acpear to have con-
tributed to these important results, is the reservation at
each decennial division of one-third of the surplus fund
for future appropriation. The amount of the additions
made to the oldest 5,000 policies at the last decennial
division, in 1839, was 4,094,6614 estimated to be worth
in present money 2,969,502/. ; and the third reserved for
future accumulation and division was 1,484,751/. The
third reserved in 1799 was 225,000/. The 5,000 oldest
policies, it is stated, are entitled to share in the additions;
and should the life assured die before January Ist, 1850,
being within such 5,000, two and-a-half per cent. per
annum on the sum assured will be added for every pre-
mium paid subsequently to 1839, or subsequently to the
admission of the policy into the above number. The
actual number of policies existing on the 31st December
last was 6,537. The number of policies which have
annually become claims, on an average of the last 14
years, having been 235, it is expected that all the poli-
cies now existing will be admitted into the number of
8,000 within the next seven years.— Times.
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE BRANDING JUNC-
TION. RAILWAY.—SUNDERLAND, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
On inquiry
.being made this afternoon, at Monkwear-
mouth, relative to the state of Hall and Henderson, the
engineman and fireman who were severely injured by the
accident on this railway (a branch of the York and New-
castle), on Monday morning, parties were informed that
they are " doing well. At first they were not ex-
pected to rfrover; they have been attended by Mr.
Gregory, surgeon, who now entertains the strongest
hopes of their complete restoration to health. They
cannot give any
further account respecting the accident
than has been already published. It appears that a
young girl, wbo was one of the passengers, was also
slightly injured. The line was cleared, and the broken
rails replaced on Monday night, since which time the
trains proceeded regularly. The engine has been removed
to Gateshead, where the crank pin of the connecting lever
will be replaced.