The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELL rGENVE

The: Apollo troop-ship, C mander Radcliffe, is on
her passage from the Mauri.ius to Portsmouth, with
the 35th Regiment on board.
The Prince Wgent, 90 gun-ship, has bent sails, and
will go out of Portsmouth harbour to the roadstead to-
morrow. The steam-frigate Stromboli, Lord Beauclerk,
went to that anchorage on Saturday, to await orders
from the Admiralty.
The order for the removal of the Royal Marines of
this division to Forton barracks, which was to take place
on Tuesday next, has been rescinded ; it is now post-
poned until the Ist of April.—Hants Telegraph. The
Marines give a grand ball at their barracks in Ports-
mouth this evening.
The Java freight ship, with the 76th Regiment on
board for Corfu, is still at Spithead. Two new cases of
measles broke out among the troops on Thursday, and
on Saturday morning, orders having been received to
disembark those men who had never had the disease, 170
of them were accordingly iandcd in the afternoen.

The Wellesley, 72 guns, at Ptymouth, flag ship of
the Earl of Dundonald, is expected to be in the Sound
by this time, orders having been i3sued to expedite her.
The 90 gun. ship Aboukir, built et Devonport, on the
plan of the late Surveyor-General of the Navy, is ex•
pected to be launched on the 4th proximo.
The Driver, Spiteful, Phoenix, and Sphynx steamers,
are ordered from Woolwich to Sheerness, to be stationed
ready for service.
We have communications from the Asia, 84, Rear-
Admiral P. Hornby, dated January 28t.h, in latitude 4
23 N. and longitude 25 47 W.; all well.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMETS.

PROMOTION.
Lieutenant C. Jafferi( s, to be raired commander
under the regulations of 1830.

APPOINTMENTS,

Captain E. J, Bird to the Investigator, discovery ship,
at Blackwall.

Lieutenants—Melville G. H. W. Ross, to the Investi-
gator ; Edmund E. Tumour, to comnyind the Shear-
water, steam-vessel, at Holyhead; Richard M'Kinley
Richardson, to command the Pluto, steam-vessel, at
Woolwich; R. J. M. M'Clure, to the Enterprise, dis-
covery ship; J. M. Jackson, to the Star; J. J. Barnard,
to the Investigator.
Surgeons—W. Houghton, to:the Ganges, 84,;at Sheer-
ness; R. Anderson, to the Investigator.
Chaplains—The Rev. Samuel Blackburn, to the
Powerful, 84, at Portsmouth; Rev. H. F. Edgell, to the
Havannah frigate, at Sheerness; Rev. R. B. Howe, to
the Ganges.
Naval Instructor—K. M. Knapp, to the Havannah.
Second Masters—William Fatter, acting, to the In-
vestigator; C. Smart, to the Pluto.
Clerks—H. M. Moore, to the Victory; J. H. C. Grey,
el veestloey thfleag IfsvheipstigoaftoEra;
B
IA charge, to the Andromache store depot on the coast
of. Scotland ; J. D. Gilpin,
Matthews,
to
rl Dun-
donald, at Devonport.
Midshipmen—J. H. E. Wemyss and J. Jenkins, to the
Powerful, at Portsmouth; F. M. Noel, to the Champion,
at Portsmouth.
Assistant Surgeons—H. -Wellings, to the Albatross;
S. Adams, to the Enterprise; W. Dunbar, to the An-
dromache; H. Matthews, to the Investigator; J. Little-
john, R. C. Scott, and J. Murphy, to the Vernon fri.
gate, in the East Indies.
Master's Assistant—A. F. Gibbons, to the San Josef.
Naval Cadets—F. M. Norman, to the Havannah; G.
Tryor, to the Imaum, in the West Indies.
Coast Guard Appointments—T. E. Symonds, to the
Exmouth district; Commander A. N. Fairman, to the
Kinsale district. Removals—Lieutenant J. G. S. M.
Moore, from Lymo Cabb to Brixham; Lieutenant J. B.
Clarke, to Hayling Island; Lieutenant J. Clarke, from
Hayling Island to Lyme Cabb.

LITERATURE.
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

Although this is, strictly speaking, a quarterly
publication, it comes this month more aptly under the
category of magazines. Several of the papers con-
tained in the North British Review for the present
quarter are as light and unsubstantial in character as
any one of the contributions in any one of its monthly
contemporaries. Take, for example, the eccentric
chapter, entitled " Criticism's Christmas Carol"—a
title by the way which, although pleasantly alli-
terative, is horribly ungrammatical, for it leaves the
mind in doubt as to whether criticism is intended to
be an impersonation or an ideality. Some portions
of the effusion are, in spite of its pervading grandi-
loquence, smart and sparkling. "The Female Cha-
racters of Goethe and Shakspere," are worthy of a
profound analysis, such as that of Pudor, or that dainty
and bewitching one of Mrs. Jamieson. The reviewer
here gives us a rapid, but in several instances very inge-
nious comment upon these commentators, a criti-
cism on criticisms, a dissection of dissections.
" The Art of Angling" is a refreshing essay,
suggested by the recent publications of Stod-
dart and Ephemera exquisitly Waltonian in
relish. Of the excessively repulsivst paper on what
the reviewer indecorously calls " Mariolatry," we can
only say that it might have been conceived by M.
Michelet and vended under the porch of Exeter-hall
by the Pere Duchesne. It were well if the writer
would read the preface to Leigh Hunt's "Jar of
Honey," and remember the eleventh commandment,
which is there spoken 6f—that sublime commandment
which seems to be the very epitome of Christianity—
" Love ye one another !" The placard said to have
been posted up in the window of Messrs. Richard-
son and Son, the publishers, concluded with this
significant paragraph (see North British Review, No.
xvi., p. 341) :—" Catholics do not adore the Blessed
Virgin Mary, ncr the angels, nor the saints, nor any
being whatsoever except God Almighty. All charges
against the Catholic Church on that head are grounded
on misconception of her doctrine." If the reviewer,
therefore, like the King in Hamlet, instills the poison
into our ears, he also pours out the antidote. In a
different sense from that applied to the phrase
in Divine Writ, we may say of the reviewer,
the zeal of his theology hath eaten him up. There
are three or four clever contributions of a political
character—such as one on " Settlement and Poor
Removal," another on " Colonization from Ireland,"
another on "The Scotch Marriage Act," and another
on " The Hampden Controversy." The posthumous
works of Dr. Cnalmers are also noticed at considera-
ble length, the reviewer giving of that remarkable
man a very striking biography, and a very impassioned
panegyric. Besides this, the Astronomical Observa-
tions of Sir John Herschel are mentioned in befitting
terms of eulogium.

Lord John Russell left town on Saturday for St.
Leonard's, where he intends to recruit his health by a
residence of a few days. lle sulNred severely from an
attack of influenza some time since, and the urgency of
public business has hitherto prevented his complete re-
covery. His Lordship's general health is, however, said
to be unimpaired.
NOVELTY IN THE APPLICATION OF STEAM
PowElL—On Wednesday week, Messrs. A. and A.
Shaw, of Park mills, Shaw, near Oldham, gave an en-
tertainment to their numerous work-people and a large
circle of friends in the new buildings recently erected
by them, on the occasion of the first starting of four
new and powerful steam-engines. The engines were
made by Messrs. E. and J. Taylor, of Marsden, near
Huddersfield, and do great credit to their mechanical
skill. Each engine is of upwards of thirty horse power,
but the chief point of interest connected with them
arises from their all being united together in one
engine-house, a thing never before witnessed.
in
this country. The whole power of the four engines
is concentrated at one point, and works so that
two cranks are up and two down, and thus ob-
viating the hitherto existing weakness of the or-
dinary engines, where the desideratum is supplied by
the momentum of the fly-wheel. Their 'first trial, com-
bined in this manner, was looked forward to with some
anxiety, and at the time appointed for starting, a large
number of spectators, including the owners, the makers,
and several iron-founders of the district, assembled to
witness their first efforts. At a given signal the steam
was turned on, and the whole moved together in the
most perfect unanimity, eliciting marks of approbation
and affording conclusive evidence of the complete suc-
cess of this "quadruple alliance," where uniform motion
is indispensable. After being fully satisfied of the
undoubted success of these iron Goliahs, and the pro-
prietors having, according to custom, with all duo
honours, bestowed upon the engines the name of the
" United Brothers," the whole ,party adjourned to the
large building, where the evening's entertainments were
kept up until a late hour.—Leas Mercury.
FIRE AT BOLIIOLD PRINT WORKS, BURY.
About halt-past eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, a
lire broke out in the machine drying room, at the print
works of lir. James Sudrew, of Bolhold, near Bury,
and such was the rapidity of the flames that the roof
fell in by nine o'clock. It cannot be ascertained how
the fire originated. There were seven engines on the
spot in a very short time. The stock and premises are
insured in the West of England and Imperial offices for
8,7001., and the loss will be about 2,5001. Fortunately
no lives were lost. The fire was got under about half-
past twelve at night. The fire will throw a large
number of persons out of employ
ment.—Manchester
Guardian.
ANTIQUITY OF CIVILISATION IN OHIO. —lt is
stated upon good authority, says a New York paper,
that the man who cut the first tree in the wilds of Ohio
is still alive. his name is Daniel Cush_ well. He resides
on a small farm in Oneida county, New York State,

Observer.
STUCCO V. STONE AND BRICK.—The use of stucco
has been the fruitful source of much that is vile in con-
struction, and puerile and tasteless in art. Monstrous
caricatures of architecture, things utterly impossible to
be executed in real stone, have been perpetrated
in the counterfeit, whilst the first cost cheapness of
stucco, which is the tempting lure, soon becomes at
much a fallacy as the other advantages to which it
makes claim. It is notorious to all that can and will
judge fairly on the subject, that since the general intro-
duction of compo as an external decoration, excellence
of construction in brick-work has been almost entirely
lost sight of—one has only to approach a shamstone facade
to be certain to detect a thousand cracks and fissures in
the work, which all the future stopping s and patchings,
and at last paintings over, will never effectually conceal
or remedy. However, I firmly believe that the persua-
sion that compo is not so cheap in the end as some sup-
pose it to be, is gradually forcing itself on the building
mind, for even in the last twelve months we may per-
ceive an inclination in many (planers to return to the
honest English practice of building in brick and stone,
when the entire expense of stone cannot be afforded.
Correspondent of the Builder.