The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

When made up in ' From what When
PLACES. (General Post-office port dis-
London. patched.
America (by Brit. pkt.)N April 11 Liverpool .. Arrived
America (by U.S. pkt.) N April 8 .. .• Liverpool . April 13
America (by U.S. pkt.) M April 23 .. Southampt. April 10
Africa, (West coast).. N 14th of the month 'Plymouth April ii
Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo.lDover .. April 18
Belgium .. N Daily ..Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. • . M 9th of the month ,Southampt. April 12
Buenos Ayres M 9th of the month (Southampt. April 12
California(viaChagres)M 17th of month Southampt. Apr 1 5
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.• April 3
Constantinople* .. N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. April 10
Central America .. M2d ic 17th of mon. 'Southampt. April 5
Channel Isles N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th.S a
Chili .. M 17th of the month ,Southampt. April 20
Franco .. 31 &N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twieedally
Greece* .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover .. April 10
Hambrirgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Molland MsWednes. & Satur.SLondon Moa.Thcr
Honduras 11;17th of the moath'Southampt. April 20
Ireland .. M & *Twice daily.. .. SHolyhead Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) M.2oth of the month ISouthampt. April 28
India (via Marseilles) N7thei, 24th of mouth 'Dover • • April 23
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .. M 20th of the month Southampt. April 28
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. Nl7th&24tlt of month Dover • • April 23
Mexico 31,2 d of the month.. Southampt.SApril S
Madeira • • .. 3119th of the month Southampt. 'April 12
Malta* •• Nfith,l7th,l9th,27th
I Dover April 10
& 30th of month
Naples* .. N'3th 15th 25th of moiDover .. April 12
Papal States* .. N 511115th 25th of moiDover .. April 12
Peninsular M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Arrived
Peru .. .. 31 17th of the month Southampt. April 20
Tuscany* N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover • • April I
West Indies M 17th of the month Southampt. April 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Southampt. April 5
* The mails to those c ountries thus marked (5) are conveyed lyt
French packet Ir!ii Marseilles.
CALIFORNIA.— Mails to and from California, via the United States
are now despatched and due by every American packet.

and from Caliform
lue by every Amer

la, via the United states
packet.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The members of the Portsmouth Royal Naval Club
have invited Admiral Sir John Ommanney, K.C.8., to
an extra club dinner, previous to his removing from that
neighbourhood, to take the appointment as Commander-
in-Chief at Plymouth. The dinner will take place at
the Portland Hotel, Southsea, on the 22d inst., when
Admiral Sir Bladen Capel is expected to take the chair.
The Gallant Admiral Sir J. Ommanney may be con-
sidered the founder of this club, and he is held in high
estimation by the members, who have thought it right
to pay him the complement of a farewell dinner.

We understand that Admiral Sir John Ommanney will
take the eon of his esteemed friend, the late Admiral
Warren, as his flag lieutenant. Mr. F. P. Warren is now
serving as flag lieutenant to Commodore Lord John Hay,
Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard.
THE STEAM BASIN AT PORTBSIOUTH.—It is supposed
that some further progress will be made towards the
completion of this work during the ensuing summer.
For the last twelve months nothing has been done, and
the plant is rotting. The inlet, or dock, at the south-
east corner of the basin is to bo completed; but the
inlet, or dock, at the north east corner of the basi❑
will, it is said, be filled up and levelled over,
leaving the stone work, &c., in the present state,
that it may be again excavated and completed, if
required. If this be true, we think it bad economy; it
would be doubling the expense, merely for the sake of
deferring it for a year or two.
Wind—N.E., moderate and cloudy.
Rear-Admiral Sir John Hill. late captain•superin-
tendent of Deptford, has received his new commission.
A congratulatory address to the gallant officer on his
elevation to his flag rank is talked of.

Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, C. 8., G.C.H., in his
flag-ship Cumberland, 70, Captain Seymour, is by this
time clear of the Channel.

PROMOTION.
Engineer—Edward Blackburne, to be acting chief.
APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—James Byrn Kinsman, to be in com-
mand of the Romney coast-guard station, vice Mr. Saun-
ders, appointment cancelled; William Henry Goslen,
from Cloggan to Ballycotton station, vice Mr. Edwards,
removed.

Mate—R. G. Douglas, to the Victory, flag-ship a
Portsmouth.

Assistant Engineers—Thomas T. Murray, R. L.
Canney, and Thomas Duncansor, to the Tartarus steam-
vessel, fitting at Woolwich; John Singer, to the Ajax,
60, screw guard-ship, Queenstown; R T. Martell, to
the Retribution steam-frigate,Devonport.

Argus steam-corvette, will be taken out of dozlr, at
Portsmouth, on the 12th, and will bo completed by the
30th.

Advice steam-tender has proceeded from Queenstown
to Bristol, and relieved Sparrow in her service of raising
men for the Prince Regent, the Sparrow, under Com-
mander Frani-, having bees ordered to resume her sur-
veying duties on the coast of Ireland.
Caradoc steam-packet, fitting at Woolwich, for Medi-
terranean, will not be completed by the shipwrights
before the 30th inst. Her machinery will bo all right
by the Bth inst.
Diligence transport, Charles Mitchell master com-
manding, arrived at Devonport on Friday, from Wool-
wich and Deptford, laden with stores for Bermuda. Mr.
John Martin, first clerk to the naval storekeeper at Ber-
muda, will take a passage in her.
Penelope. 16, steam-frigate, Captain Lyster, fitting at
Portsmouth for the broad pendant of Commodore Bruce,
has had her complement increased to 313; she will be
ready to go out of harbour on the 12th, and will be
ready for sea on the 16th inst. She is manned within
half-a-dozen ratings, kept open.
Prince Regent, 90, Captain Harris, will be out of the
hands of the dockyard at Portsmouth by the 17th, and
will go out of harbour on the Ist May, and be ready for
sea on the sth pros. She is about 200 blue jackets
short.

Shearwater's (steam-vessel) machinery is to be made
good at Woolwich, at the expense of 4001.

THE COAST OF AFRICA.

The Rattler, 6, screw atalm-sloop, Commander Arthur
Cumming, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning,
from the coast of Africa. Her dates are—St. Helena,
Jan. 30 ; Ascension, Feb. 10; Sierra Leone, Feb. 26;
and the Gambia, March 8.

The Wasp, screw steam-ship, Commander Crozier, and
the Tortoise, guard-ship, Captain Hutton, were at As-
cension; and the Centaur, steam•frigate, Acting Captain
Patten, with the broad pendant of Commodore Fanshawe,
and the Cygnet, 6, Commander White, were at Sierra
Leone.

The islands and squadron were healthy. The Heroine,
Commander March, was the next vessel for England, to
he followed by the Phcenix, ateam•aloop, Commander
Lysaught.
The Rattler camp home entirely under canvas,
having left all her coals for the use of the squadron;
her engines are said to be in excellent order. She has
been principally cruising in the Bights and on the
south coat, and has been very fortunate, having taken
eight vessels, three of them full of slaves, in all about
900. It is expected that the share of prize money for
an able seaman on board the Rattler will ainount to
about 501., thus more than doubling his pay for the two
years' cruise.
There appears at the present time to be nothing doing
on the coast; the cruizers on the coast of Brazil, and the
new regulations there, have nearly stopped that traffic,
and what is now doing in the African coast is by Por-
tuguese vessels.
Dr. Jones, late of the Hospital at Ascension (re-
lieved by Dr. John Davidson), and Mr. Loder, mate of
the late Snap, have come home passengers in the
Rattler.

The Snap had been broken up at Ascension. The
remains of the Flamor bad been sold to the Liberian
Government; and the engines that were formerly in the
(late) Albert, steamer, have been brought home in the
Rattler.

Rattier has been very healthy during her term of ser-
vice. She has only lost one person by death, namely,
Mr. Chace, the chief engineer, who died about twelve
months back from fever. Rattler proceeded on
Saturday evening fur Woolwich to pay off.
Beela, steam-sloop, Commander Beauchamp, was off
the Congo. Phoenix, screw-sloop, Commander Lysaght,
off Coquimbo. Philomel, 6, Commander Forbes, off
Benguela. Sealark, 8, Commander Sotheby, off Am-
britz; and the remainder of the squadron in the Bights.
Centaur was expected to proceed to the South Coast
bhortly after the Rattler sailed for Sierra Leone.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Ti he Britannia, 120, ordi-
nary guard-ship at this port, s to be fitted for sea Hr.

vice, and the S. Vincent, 101 guns, will succeed the
Britannia in the har'oaar duty. The London, 90 is
ordered to be brought forward at Sheerness to replace
the Ocean flag-ship there.
The Marlborough, 120, building in this yar.l, is com-
plete in her frame. There are now four first-rare ships
standing on adjoining slips to each other in this yard, a
feature nowhere else to be met with in the kingdom, or
most probably out of it. The other ships are the Royal
Frederick. 120; Prince of Wales, 120; and Royal Sove-
reign, 120. The R )yal Frederick has been on the
stocks 10 years, so when the four will come eft seems
rather a remote probability. The Royal Frederick is
built after the Q teen; the other three are upon the stele
model, lengthened by six feet, being 210 feet long
between the perpendiculars, and 60 feet in extreme
breadth, with a tonnage of 3,185 tons. The original
designs for these ships were by Sir William Symonds;
the alterations have been made since the appointment of
Sir Baldwin Walker to the surveyorship of the navy.
WooLwica, APRIL s.—The Tartarus steam vessel,
Lieutenant Commander Risk, was taken out of the basin
to-day, and will soon be ready to leave for the coast of
Scotland. to protect the fisheries in that quarter.
The officers of the Governolo, Sardinian steam frigate,
entertained a number of the officers of the Royal Artil-
lery on board the vessel today.
The London, 90, at Sheerness, is to be taken down on
Nfonday to the station occupied by the Ocese, 80, Cap-
tain Henry Greville, and flag-ship of Vice- Admiral the
Hon. George Elliot, C. 8., at the Nore, and the officers
and crew of the Ocean will be transferred to the London,
which will be appointed to carry the flag of the gallant
Vice-Ad miral.

The Trafalgar, 120, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stop-
ford, it getting her rigging and other equipments into
seagoing order, and will move to the Nore by the end of
the present month, where she is to be stationed for some
time.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
, GENERAL ORDER.
"Deputy Adjutant-General's-once,
Woolwich, April 4.
" The Master-General has been pleased to appoint
Colonel Griffith George Lewis, C. 8.. Royal Engineers,
to be Lieutenant-Governor of the R iyal Military Aca-
demy at Woolwich, vico M►jor-General Parker, de-
ceased.
". H. D. Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General."
Colonel Lewis has seen considerable service, having
served in the campaign in Naples and Calabria in 1805
and 1806, including the battle of Maida and siege of
Scylla Castle ; at the capture of Ischia and Procida, in
the Bay of Naples, in 1802, and the siege of the
Castle of Ischia; siege of the fort of Santa Maura, in
1810 ; and campaign of 1813 in the Peninsula. He
was wounded at the assault of the breach of St. Sebas-
tian—lost the left leg above the knee. He received the
silver war medal with two clasps for Maida and St
Sebastian.

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.—Her Majesty's steam•sloop
Magicienne, in charge of Mr. Brown, second-master at-
tendant, having had her ballast shifted and restowed, left
the port on Thursday for a trial cruise in the Channel,
and returned again this afternoon.
The Retribution steam• frigate, which arrived from
Lisbon on the 25th alt., having bean refitted and coaled,
is now ready for sea, and is waiting sailing orders,which
will in all probability be for the Cape of Good Hope.
The Rhadamanthus steam•vessel, Master• Commander
Belem, which arrived on Tuesday from Sheerness with
arms and ammunition for the forces at the Cape, has also
shipped here from the dockyard 100,0001. in specie for
the earn• purpose. her crew were paid wages in the
pay-office at the dockyard this morning, and in the
afternoon she sailed for her destination. A melancholy
event took place in connexion with her departure. Mr.
Smitfeers Aldess, Inspector of Police at the Royal Wil-
liam Victualling-yard, accompanied by Mrs. Aldess, an
unmarried daughter, and Mrs. Mills, who is the wife of
Mr. Mills, one of the engineers of the Rhadamanthus,
left their residence in the yard, and proceeded to the
water's edgis to observe the steamer going out of Ha-
moaze. When on the Clarence-wharf where they waved
their hands to their friend on board, and immediately
afterwards Mr. Aldess fell in a fit of apoplexy brought
on probably by the excitement, and being conveyed
home, expired within half an hour. Deceased was 63
years of age, and was formerly sergea❑t-major of the
Woolwich division of the Royal Marines; on retiring he
joined the Government police either there or at Dept-
ford, and came here several years since to undertake the
duties of inspecter, from which he has been cut off in
such an untimely manner.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, April 4.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall•street.

George May, Cursitor-street,Chancery-lane, builder,
April 26, at half• past eleven—Edwin Trent, of Sher-
borne, Dorsetshire, and Yeovil, Somersetshire, draper,
April 26, at half past twelve—John Bates, Kettering,
Northamptonshire, watchmaker, May 2, at half-past one
—James Barr, Turnstile, High Holborn. and Old-road•
St. Pancras, builder, May 2, at one—Richard Groves
Ward, Brownlow-street, Drury-lane, coach currier, May
2, at one—Edwin Bliss, Barbican, brushmaker, May 1, at
one—Samuel Hogg and Henry James Hogg, Laudport,
Portsea, Hampshire, auctioneers, April 26, at twelve—
Joseph Nash and Thomas Neale, Reigate and Dorking,
Surrey, bankers, April 26, at eleven—John Jones and
Alice Brown, Shoreditch, licensed victuallers, April 26.
at half-past twelve—James Moses Bridgland, Prom I,x•
street, Soho, and Denmark-street, Soho, pianoforte-
maker, April 26, at eleven.

In the Country.
E. and J. Williams, Dudley, Worcestershire, millers,
April 26, at ten, at the Courts Birmingham—J. Worsey
and J. Biggs, Aston, Warwickshire, wire manufacturers,
April 29, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingbara—T.
Bourne, Birmingham, coal dealer, April 30, at
twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. L. Wilks,
Worcester, tailor, April 30, lat twelve, at the
Court, Birmingham—J. L. Findley, jun., Birmingham,
tailor, April 29, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—
G. Everard, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, earthenware
and china manufacturers, April 29, at twelve, at the
Court, Birmingham—J. Davies, Kiegton. Herefordshire,
mercer, April 29, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham
—W. Cousins, Wolverhampton, coach builder, April 29,
at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Davis, Brist,l
and Nailsea, tanner, May 1, at eleven, at the Court.,
Bristol —W. Wilson, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham,
maltater, April 30, at elt-ven, at the Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—J. Reid, Newcastle. upon-Tyne, ship broker,
April 29, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—
S. F. Martyn, Bishop Auckland, Durham, draper, April
30, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--W.
B. Harrison, Sunderland, draper, April 30, at one, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —J. Robinson, Stanwix,
Cumberland, cattle dealer, April 25, at eleven, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—S. Parma', East Looe,
Cornwall, grocer, May 1, at one, at the Court, Exeter—
T. Daniell, Boulogne, copper smelter, April 29, at eleven,
at the Court, Exeter—G. and J. Blake, Liverpool and
Dublin, soap manufacturers, April 25, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—G. F. Allmey, Sheffield, hosier, April
26, at ten, at the Court, Sheffield—R. Day, Doncaster,
innkeeper, April 26, at ten, at the Court, Sheffield.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

Stole and Hodgson, Christian-street, St. George's
East, vinegar-makers, 3s. 7icl., on Saturday next, and
three sunsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City.
Trego, Coleman-street, builder, 2s. 4d., on Satur-
day, April 5, and three subsequent Saturdays, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-
court, Basinghall-street.
C. Veals, Uifculme, Devonshire, baker, ls. 7ift, on
any Tuesday or Friday after the 10th inst., between
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Liernaman, Exeter.

R. Upton, Dawlish, Devonshire, grocer and tea dealer,
Is. 3.1., on any Tuesday or Friday after the 10th inst.,
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Herne-
man, Exeter.

JKyrke„Glascoed, Denbighshire, lime burner, 35., on
Wednesday, April 16, or any subsequent Wednesday,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Dawson, Northfieet, Kent, shipowner, April 28,at
two—C. Porter, Braintree, Essex, grocer, April 30, at
twelve—G. May, Cursitor- street, Chancery-lane, builder,
April 26, at half-past eleven—F. Masters, Reading,
Berkshire, plumber, painter, and glazier, April 30, at
one—F. G. Johns, Great Queen-street and Drury•lane,
medical and general fixture dealer, April 25, at two.
In the Country.
W. Atkinson, jun., Goole, Yorkshire, shipwright,
April 28, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—G. Woods,
Liverpool, surgeon and druggist, April 25, at eleven, at
the Court, Liverpool—J. Robinson, Stanwix, Cumber-
land, cattle dealer, April 25, at half-past eleven, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—S. F. Ma tin, Bishop
Auckland, Durham, draper, April 30, at twelve, at the
Court, Newcastle. upon-Tyne—W. B. Harrison, Sunder-
land, draper, April 30, at half-past one, at the Court.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne—G. F. Allmey, Sheffield, hosier
and draper, April 26, at ten, at the Court, Sheffield—
W. Hale, Bishampton, Worcestershire, baker, April 30,
at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham-4. Holland, and
E. Warden, Preston, Lancashire, tallow-chandlers,
April 28, at twelve. at the Court, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES GRAN FED.
J. Bickerton, jun., Bread-street, Cheapside, hat manu-
facturer, certificate of the second class—T. Tufheld,
Hoxton Old-town, tallow•chandlor, certificate of the
second class—H. Williams, Great Distaff-lane, builder,
certificate of the second class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
A. Sherlock and L. Ackerley, Manchester, smallware
dealers—W. Brown and J. Howard, Leicester, hatters
A. Mills and M. Bothwell, Charlton-upon-Medlock
Lancashire, beersellers—M. A. Simpson and J. Simp-
son, Leeds, painters—H. Clarke and G. S. Broderick
Bank-chambers, Lothburv, stock brokers—M. Barnes'
and T. Barnes, Matfield, Kent, grocers—S. Mills and F.
J. Burgis, Sandhurst, Kent, auctioneers—F. H. Fariow
'
W. Connington, E. Saunders, J. Emery, H. Broughton'l
J. Perkins, J. W. J. Williams, A.. White
Emery, Adelphi Pier Company—T. G. Fuller' and M
and J.
J. K. Boote, Brunton's-wharf, Commercial road, East,
chemists—S White and W. H. White, High-street,
Sbadwell, butchers—H. R. Pooley, E. Pooley, and M.
Jones, Holles-street,: Cavendish-square, dressmakers—
S. Bennett and E. 11. Eykyn, Shiffnal, Shropshire, sur-
geons—P. Falk and D. Falk, Manchester, jee ellers—
G. J. Beaumont and T. Emett, Preston, chi mists—J.
Prescott and J. Tailor Manchester, auctioneers—T.
Davis and J. Reith, evy'Sarum, Wittshire, linendrapers
Ruppersberg and J. J. Bowe, Staining- lane,
City, furriers—S, T. Winstanley and H. N. Winstanley
Liverpool, auctioneers—W. Billiter and T. R. Pinches,
Oxenden-street, Haymarket, dye sinkers—C. Arthur,
W. Collins, and J. Parkin. .Lostwithiel, Cornwall, iron
dealers-8. Powell and C. Silter, Cornhill, City, tailors
Wass and J. Wholey, Dewsbury. Yorkshire, gro-
cer,—L. Ogilvie and T. 0. Clarke, Lime-street-square,
Middlesex, West India agents—J. Ogden and E. Sum-
12:1@r, Liverpool, brewers—W. Seaman and T. Weddill,