The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-02 00:00:00

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.ING, OCTOBER 2, 1851.

NAVAL INTELLIGEN C.E.
MALTA, SEPT. 26.—The .Merlin steam, packet,
Lieutenant-Commander Turner, with the Born h,ly
snails, arrived from Alexandria at eleven A.as. this
day. The mails have been transferred to her MajeEtv's
steamer Caradoc, leaving at three p.m.,•for conveyance
to Marseilles.
The Oberon steam-packet, arrived from the squa-
dron on the 22d inst. She left Palma on the 18th;
and it was then intended by Admiral Sir W. Parker,
Bart., for the ships to proceed to Barcelona, where
the Trafalgar, 120, Captain Greville, was waiting, and
after to Roses.
The ships have been trying their sailing qualities,
and the result of the first trial was that, steering west,
Ganges beat _Albion, from eight to heif-past eleven
o'clock, 1,920 yards; Superb, 1,430 yards; and In-
defatigable, 590 yards. The Queen did not try her
rate of sailing. Second Trial—On a wind, from two
to five P.M, Ganges beat Albion 1,203 yards; Superb,
1,374 yards; and Indefatigable, 1,213 yards.
Major Johns, R.M., of Ganges, has invalided, and
leaves for England by Caradoc.
It is reported that her Majesty's ship Vengeance,
84, Captain Lord E. Russell, and Encounter, 14,
screw-corvette, Captain Gordon, have been ordered
direct to Alexandria, in advance.
Phaeton, 50, Captain G. Elliot, left Malta, for the
squadron on the 24th, taking Commander Fellows to
replace Commander Boyd, of the Superb, superseded
at his own request.
Our prospects respecting the orange crop this
season are very gloomy, and it is feared that through-
out the country there will not be one-tenth of the
crop of last season.
The talked of abolition of quarantine upon arrivals
from ports in the Levant, when furnished with clean
bills of health, will greatly benefit the island.
The steam paper-mills of Messrs. Tonna were set
work on the 24th inst., having first received the be-
nediction of the Catholic bishop.
The Hon. H. Lushington, chief secretary to Go-
vernment, was amongst the passengers, per Helle-
spont, to Italy on the 22d inst. His absence will not
extend over three weeks, and is absolutely necessary
for the recovery of his health.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Tagus arrived from the Levant on the 21st inst.,
and left eight hours after for England, the Jupiter
last evening, and leaves to-day. The Government
steam-ship Medusa, from the lonian Islands, arrived
at Malta on the 22d inst.
The new Navy List, by authority, published yester-
day, brings Captain Furneax (1829) within the se-
nior list of captains, and Sir Baldwin W. Walker,
K.C.8., within the second senior list.
OBITUARY.--Officers whose deaths have been offi •
cially reported since July 20, 1851:
Flag Officers—Admiral Sir Henry Heathcote, Knt.,
1848 ; Rear-Admiral Lord John Hay, C. 8., 1851 ;
Retired Rear-Admiral Samuel Leslie, 1846.
Captains—Samuel Burgess, 1830; William B.
Greene, 1834; Edward Hutchinson, 1840; George
Truscott, 1845 ; John Fisher, 1851; Abel W.Thomas,
1851.
Commanders—(x) Thomas Crawley, 1814 ; (y)
Saunderson Allen, 1845; (y) Edward Luscombe,
1851.

Lieatenants—John Grierson, 1810; James H.
Andoe, 1815 ; Robert Butcher, 1815 ; John Grind-
red, 1815; William Boulton, 1817; Richard H.
Wharton, 1841 ; James S. Mann, 1845.
Chaplain—Edward Pettman, 1822.
Medical Officers—Surgeons—Thomas Robertson
(a), 1794; Edward Tudor, 1798 ; Francis Beall,
1798. Assistant Surgeon—John M. Duffus, 1849.
Royal Marines—Colonel—Thompson Aslett, 1846.
First Lieutenant—James Holmes, 1798. Second
Lieutenant—William Cary, 1847.
Paymasters and Pursers—Peter Ilenwood, 1798 ;
James Thain, 1830 ; Walter Clatworthy, 1833.

APPOINTMENTS.
Surgeon—Dr. Thomas R. H. Thompson (1S41),
to be Surgeon• Superintendent of the Marion convict-
ship.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.--Admiral Sir Thos.
Briggs, G.C.M.G, hoisted his flag (blue at the main)
on board the Victory at nine o'clock this morning,
when it was saluted by the Britannia, 120, bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral Superintendent Prescott,
C. 8., second in command, with 17 guns, which the
Victory returned with 11. Sir Thomas's flag was
also saluted by the Lieutenant-Governor from the
Platform Battery, with 17, which was acknowledged
by a similar number. The ships and vessels on the
station at the same time changed their pennants and
ensigns from red (the squadron to which the late
Commander-in-Chief belonged) to blue, and Sir
Thomas Briggs's command-in-chief here commenced
therefrom.
The Sutlej Indiaman arrived at Spithead to-day
from the Thames.

Woomvicn, QcT. I.—The Anna Maria female con-
vict ship, in charge of Surgeon-Superintendent Mg Crea,
at present lying off the Royal Arsenal, has taken on
board about 200 female convicts, several of whom
have their children with them, for conveyance to
Hobart Town. The majority of the convicts are
of Irish extraction, and mostly from Liverpool.
There are two, however, on board, each under
sentence of fourteen years' transportation, in conse-
quence of articles being found in their posses-
sion which they had received from the male associates
of the Uckfield gang. A boy, the offspring of one of
these women, was put on board yesterday to accom-
pany his mother to Hobart Town. The child was
born in gaol, and is now upwards of two years of
age, and has been well taken care of in one of the
workhouses in East Kent since April last.
The Lady Franklin and Sophia, recently paid off
at this port by Captain Penny, on his return from
the Arctic Regions, are ordered to be taken to Chat-
ham, where they will he laid up for the winter.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander
Petley, left Woolwich on Monday, and proceeded
round to Chatham, where the Right Hon. Sir Francis
T.Baring, Bart. (First Lord of the Admiralty), Rear-
Admiral F. M. Berkeley, C. 8., Rear-Admiral Hous-
ton Stewart, C.B. and Captain Alexander Milne
(Lords of the Admiralty), Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker, K.C.B. (Surveyor of the Navy), and Colonel
Greene (Director of Architectural and Engineers'
Works), embarked in her, having arrived at Chatham
yesterday morning, via the North Kent Railway.
The Black Eagle conveyed their Lordships down the
Medway, on an official visit to Sheerness, and returned
to the terminus of the North Kent Railway, at
Strood, in the evening, and by railway to town.

SHIP NEWS.
OCT. I.—Wind S., stormy, with heavy rain.
Arrived—Caesarea, from Hamburgh; Batavier, from
Rotterdam; Rhine, from Ostend; Albion, from Bou-
logne; City of London, from Dunkirk; Scinde, from
Denis; New York, from Gefle; Mary Ann and the
Durham, from Quebec; Tweed and Robert Baillie, from
the Baltic; Edwin and the Carrs, from St. Petersburgh;
Reliance, from Guernsey; Ceres and Amazon, from
Memel; Fertchett and Zephyr, from Dantzic; Otto,
from Christiania; King, from St. Petersburgh; Eu-
phrates, from Jamaica; Jane, from France; Margaret,
from Quebec; Mississippi, from Havre.
Sailed—Eliza, for the North; Robert Newton, for
Ferrol; Thomas King, for Sydney; Caledonia, for
Hamburgh; Seine, for Boulogne; William Jolliffe, for
Ostend; Trnfall, for the Baltic; Citizen, Ocean, and
Roscommon, for Rotterdam; Hercules, for Memel; City
of Rotterdam, for Dunkirk; Governeur Van Eyck,
for Antwerp; Lover, for Harlingen; Stadt Dordt, for
Dordt.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Irving, from Galway from New York, Sept. 1, in lat. 45
N., long. 56 W.
Owen Glendower, from London for Bombay, Aug. 10,
in let. 12 N., long. 27 W.
Roscoe, from Liverpool for Bombay, Aug. 30, in lat. 15
N., ong. 25 W.
Canada, from Colombo for London, June 2, in let. 20
S., long. 64 E.
London, from the Mauritius for London, July 6, in lat.
31 S., long. 83 E.
Poictiers, from Madras for London, Aug. 21, in let. 5
N., long. 24 W.
John King, bound S., in let. 15 N., long. 27 W.
Dublin, from Newport for St. Thomas, Sept. 8, in let.
32 N., long. 34 W.
Belle, Sept. 10, in lat. 43 N., lang. 66 W.
J. Dare, Sept. 20, in let. 46 N., long. 56 W.
Clydesdale, Sept. 23, in let. 51 N., long. 37 W.
Ann Kenney, Sept. 25, in let. 52 N., long 22 W.
Ellen, from Newcastle for New York, Sept. 21, in lat.
50 N., long. 20 W.
Robert Kelly, from Liverpool for New York, Sept. 23,
in let. 51 N., long. 10 W.
Hope, from Liverpool for Guatemala, Sept. 22, in Ist.
46 N., long. 11 W.
Brilliant, from Quebec for London, Sept. 14, in let. 35,
lung. 47.
Betty, for Rio Janeiro, Aug. 16, in let. 19 S., long.
33 W.
Mermaid, from Rio Janeiro for Cowes, Aug. 20, in lat.
9 S., long. 30 W.
Berkshire, from Boston for Bombay, Sept. 8, in lat. 30
N., long. 36 W.
Old Engltmd, from Callao for Queenstown, Sept. 9, in
lat. 31 N., long. 35 W.
Wuzaer, from Calcutta for Liverpool, Sept. 10, in let. 33
N., long. 34 W.
Anne, boned west, Sept. 25, in let. Si N., long. 9 W.
Ilindostan, from the Clyde for Valparaiso, Aug. 23, in
let. 10 N., long. 24 W.
Chandos, Buenos Ayres for Falmouth, Sept. 12, in lat.
31 N.long. 37 W.
Burns, bound for Quebec, Sept. 10, in let. 46, long. 55.
Stebonheath, of London, standing S.W., Sept. 13, in lat
•
42, long. 11.
Beanies, from Carthagena for Newcastle, Sept. 23.
Mobile, from New Orleans for Liverpool, Sept. 6, in lat.
27 N.
Como, from Bristol for New York, Sept. 8, in lat. 51
N., long. 23 W.
Hermann Theodore, from New York for Bremen, out
21 days, in let. 49 N., long. 15 W.
Queen, from Bristol for Newfoundland, Sept,
47 N., long. 51 W. 6, in let,
Robert M‘Williatn, from Aberdeen for Quebec, Sept. 7,
in lat. 48 N., long. 42 W.
Glenswilly, for Poole, bound west, Sept.
long. 50. 8, in lat. 46,