The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-17 00:00:00

NAVAL iNTELLIGLNCE.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8.,
M.P., leaves the Admiralty 'or Gloucestershire this day.
Captain Milne has left the Admiralty for Mussel-
burg, Inveresk.
Mr. Ba!dock, the newly-appointed storekeeper to
Devonport, vice Jenkins, deceased, has arrived at that
dockyard, and has entered upon the duties of his office.
Mr. Dent, we believe, has declined the vacancy at
Sheerness.
The office of chief engineer, vacant by the removal
of Mr. Charles Atherton to Woolwich, vice Hum-
phreys, is not to be filled up. The official residence
lately occupied by the chief engineer is to be appro-
priated to the residence cf the chaplain, at Devonport,
the Rev. J. Briggs, who has hitherto received 501. per
annum, as " lodging money."
ANOTHER SLOOP DESTROYED RY LIGHTNING.—
BOSTON, JULY 2.—The Sallie Fearu, Owen, of Bath,
from New Orleans for Liverpool, was struck by light-
ning, and burned to the water's edge, prior to June 28.
in lat. 37, long. 71—crew, passengers, and 135,000
dolls. in specie saved, by the Frank Johnson, Brown,
from Hevannah for St. Peteraburgla. Happily the ships
of the royal navy are secured from the awful effects of
the destructive element, for, by positive Admiralty
order, the entire navy afloat is fitted with Sir W. Snow
Harris's lightning conductor.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16.—Magicienne steam-frigate,
in charge of Mr. Buidlecumbe, of the St. George, 120,
Master commanding, arrived this morning from Devon-
port with supernumeraries for the Tra^algar, and pro•
ceeded on with Mr. Pope, Assistant-Master attendant
and party (who had navigated the Desperate to Devon-
port), for Sheerness, and thence to Woolwich.
Dauntless steam-frigate, 22, Captain Halsted, has been
taken into the basin to-day to be refitted and receive
larger masts.
The Royal yachts have been brought down from their
moorings to-day. Tne Fairy has been taken out to try
her engines, and the E:fin has been taken en the Gra-
♦ing slip to have her bottom cleaned.
Letters from China state the Hastings, 72, Rear-Ad•
miral Austen, C. 8., left Trincomalee for a cruise on the
12th of May, and on the 14th anchored at Pondicherry,
the old French settl,raent, where uo English line of•
battle-ship had touched for upwards or 30 years.
Reynsrd hie beau relieved by the Salamander, and ie
on her way to Eigland, via the Cape.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 16.—Her Niejesty'a steam-vessel
Magicienne, with Mr. Brown, Master-Attendant, and a
party of rigger. and seamen, sailed yesterday for Sheer-
ness, with the seaman aad riggers who navigated the
Desperate to port.
The brig Heroine was unmasted yesterday; her officers
and men will be paid off at the Dockyard Pay-office to-
morrow.
Yesterday morning, a boy belonging to her Majesty's
ship St. George, 120, fell overboard and as the tide was
running strung he Boon drifted away. A seaman,
named Boyd, jumped after him, but not being able to
swim could render lietle assistance. Both being, there-
fore, in a peeilous situation, Mr. Julian, second master,
the officer of the waech, gallantly plunged overheard and
providentially sustained them until rescued by a boat,
when a considerable distance astern. Mr Julian wes
full dressed. This is not the first instance or his gal-
lantry.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's ship
Sir Robert Peel, Captain Bexer, sailed at two o'clock
yesterday afternoon for S:. Vincent, Sierra Leone, and
the Cape of Good Hope She had a full cargo of British
manufactured goods, and several passengers, including
Paymaster Timbrel, Lieutenaat Reeve, and Cornet Gab-
butts, 19th Lancers; and Messrs. E. Moore, P. Moore,
Friedland, Hopewood, Josiah Lewes, Hancock, and
Connor. The Sir Robert Peel made her first trip to the
Cape and back in a most creditable manner, and, it is
hoped, she will do so again now; but her tonnage is too
small for such a distant voyage, and we hope soon to
announce the appearance of a more powerful steamer to
take her place.

A PATRIARCHAL LOTHARIO.—An old man, aged
86, belonging to Strati%lass, who had five eons, two daugh-
ters, and torty-two grandchildren, recently got married to a
fair maid of 30! One of the bridesmaids on the occasion
was great-granddaughter to th• woman who acted in that
capacity at his fist marriage, sixty years ago. But to crown
all, his forty-third grandchild was baptised by the same
clergyman immediately after the marriage ceremony was per-
formed. So much for the salubrity of Strathglass. —John
o' Groat's Journal.

The accounts from the Amsterdam and Rotterdam
produce markets reports greater firmness in the prices for
coffee and sugar. There was not much doing in other ar-
ticles, but rates, on the whole, were steadily maintained.
The Hamburgh and Antwerp advices also mention a more
favourable tendency in business, but coffee had chiefly ex-
perienced benefit from the change.

The mercantile intelligence from America this
week is unimportant, warm weather having set in and
caused as far as possible a suspension of business. Although
the present packet has brought 165,0001. of specie for this
country, and 25,00 1. for France, the impression was that
further shipments would c ntinue to be made. Three
failures had occurred, but had not in any way interfered with
the prevailing confidence. The parties were, Samuel Jau-
don and Co., whose suspension is attributed to losses on stocks,
and also in connexion with cotton bills; E. D. Hulbert and
Co., who had been for some time considered weak, and Fal-
coner and Co., who had been shippers to California. The
accounts from the south s ate that the cotton plant had been
much benefited by recent rains. The prospects of the grain
crop are said to be favourable in all quarters.
THE POTTERIES, JULY 13.—fhe trade of this
district continues active. The whole of the hands are in
full work, except in Burelem and Tunstall, where the m-n
have scare ly recovered from the effects of last week's
" wakes." The export branch of trade is especially brisk.
The American consumers are aimost unable to get their
orders supplied. A large proportion, however of the ex-
ports which travel across the Atlantic are unfinished. The
American tariff operates to the exclusion of our painted and
gilded porcelain, and merchants therefore purchase white
ware, in which state it passes the Custom-house at a nominal
duty, and is afterwards " got up" by English and continen-
tal artists. Several firms have received large orders for
goods to correspond with those exhibited at the Exhibi-
tion. The artistic departments are as brisk as the more use-
ful branches.

SHIELDS.—SId. Marchioness of Londonderry, Csl-
- Th,,mas. New York.
CHATHA3I, JULY 16.—Wind Colo-
hue, Quebec.