The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-14 00:00:00

NOVEMBER - 14: r 1851.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.
Second Mister—J. 0. D. Davis, to Birkenhead.
Clerk—Richard Shambler, to Rapid.
Acting G-unner—Thomas Pope, to Rapid.
PROMOTION.
William Thurston, to be
acting carpenter.
Lieut. Curtis, Commander of H.M.S. Locust, died
at Bahia ou the morning of the 19th October, after a
short illness.

MOYEMENTS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.
At Rio de Jan eiro—Boneta, Cormorant steamer,
Crescent; Geyser steamer, and Havannah. The latter
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At Monte Video—Tweed and Rifleman.
At Bahia—Conflict and Locust.
In the Tagus—Prince Regent, Leander, Arethusa, La Hogue, Dauntless. Also, the Pren h c men-of-war,
Henri IV., 120, and Narval steamer.
The Severn exchanged night signals with the
Royal Mail Company's steam ship Teviot, on the 26th
October. The company's steamer Princess sailed for
the River Plate on the 14th ultimo.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Sharpshooter iron
steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Bailey, arrived
this afternoon from the Brazils station, to be paid off.
She has brought no news, having left Rio as far back
as the 13th of September. The squadron was dis-
tributed as follows :—The Southampton, 50, Rear-
Admiral Reynolds, was at Monte Video, to which
place the Geyser steam-sloop was on her way with
supplies for the squadron ; the Tweed, 14, Com-
mander Lord F. Russell, and the Rifleman steam-
vessel, were also at Monte Video; the Cormorant,
Commander Chamberlain, the Harpy steam-tender,
and the Crescent receiving-ship, were at Rio--the
Cormorant hors de combat ; the Conflict, 14, Com-
mander Drake, and the Locust were at Bahia. The
Sharpshooter called at Pernambuco on the 3d ult.,
and at St. Vincent's on the 18th. The Severn Royal
mail packet, outwards, had touched at Pernambuco,
and passed on on the Ist. Lieutenant Carnegie has
come home on promotion in the Sharpshooter, which
has been very successful in capturing slavers, having
taken as many as nine during her service on the
coast, viz. :—One brigantine with slave equipments,
off Rio, by cruising; one brigantine equipped for
slave trade, off Cape Trio, by cruising ; one two-top-
sail schooner equipped for slave trade, out of Mocabe,
by information ; one topsail schooner fully equip-
ped, off Campos, by cruising (she was heavily armed,
had been chased four days previously by the Sharp-
shooter, and had then a cargo Gf slaves on board) ;
one cutter, off Manguinas, having 74 slaves (26 had
died on the passage over), taken by cruising ; one
brig fully equipped, off St. Paul's, Bahia, taken by
cruising ; one schooner, empty, off Rio, by informa-
tion (this was the Valaroso) ; one brig, off Busios,
102 slaves on board, taken by cruising on information ;
one schooner, taken out of Tigucas river by four boats
and 36 men of the Sharpshooter, and one boat and six
men of the Locust.

The Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George Allen,
Acting-Master Commanding,
,has been undocked to-
day.
The Elfin, royal dispatch steam-boat, Mr. Alfred
Balliston, Acting-Master Commanding, has been re-
moved from the steamer basin to the south dock, to
have her bottom examined.

The Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, has been docked
to-day to have her bottom examined.
IVOOLIFICH, Nov. 13.—The Monkey steam-vessel
is placed under orders to tow the! Northumberland
prive life-boat, made by James Beeching and Sons,
Great Yarmouth, from Woolwich to Ramsgate to-
morrow, where she will remain in charge of Mr.
Samuel Beeching until the other life-boats are ready
for being tested in the open sea off Brighton.

ROYAL MARINES.
Colonel David Anderson Gibsone, of the artillery
companies at Portsmouth, is appointed Col.- Com-
mandant of the Woolwich division, in the room of
Col.-Commandant Thomas Adams Parke, C. 13 , pro-
moted by brevet to the rank of Major-General.
Major M'Kinnon, of the Chatham division, has been
removed, with his recruiting party, from Bury St.
Edmunds to Inverness

Captain Charles C. Williamson, of the Chatham di-
vision, has been removed, with his recruiting party,
from Stamford to Stirling.
Captain Thomas Hurdle, of the Chatham division,
has been removed, with his recruiting party, from
Chelmsford to Swaffbarn.

MR. FREDERICK PEEL, 31. P.
(From the Morning, Herald.)
It has always been our opinion that young Mr.
Frederick Peel, who has succeeded to the post vacated
by Mr. Benjamin Hawes, did not accept that onerous
and thankless berth without consulting the confidant
and friend of his late father—without having the ad-
vice and approbation of the Right Hon. Baronet the
Member for Ripon. This, which might at the first
blush, seem to be shrewd surmise, is now almost re-
solved into positive certainty. We learn from a Car-
lisle paper that, shortly antecedent to his being
gazetted, Mr. Peel made a flying visit to Netherby,
and having remained there a night wended his way
back to Whitehall, and thereupon said " yes" to Lord
John Russell. Lord Bacon tells us that straws
thrown up show what way the wind blows, and by
so slender a sapling, and by so very young a political
twig as the M.P. for Leominster, we are enabled to
learn how it fares with the older trees of the forest. To
drop everything like metaphorical meaning, it must be
very plain to every human being that, with his present
Cabinet, Lord John Russell cannot go on till March.
Against colonial mismanagement, against Grey arro-
gance, wilfulness, and petulance, the country cries
out with one loud voice. England, as Kossuth
said at Manchester and Birmingham, and as he re-
peated yesterday at the Hanover-square Rooms—
England is not a country circumscribed within the
handful of territory embraced in these little British
isles ; but has colonies far and near in every latitude
and in every sea. If the prestige of our country go
in reference to one colony, in what position are the
remaining ones ? It is not merely the expense or the
enormous outlay, therefore, that in such a state and
conjuncture would be in question, but the reputation
—and on the reputation depends the power of Great
Britain. Let but the despotic Powers of the Conti-
nent know we are in trouble, and think you they will
not strain every nerve and put forth all their means to
aggravate and increase that trouble ? The Premier
sees and feels this. He full well knows that the ad-
ministration of Lord Grey will not bear an examina-
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tion, and therefore he needs must strengthen himself
by some of the ablest of the Peelites. So, with this
view the narrow edge of the wedge is introduced
first, to the end that the Cabinet door may be forced
open for a Graham, a Gladstone, and a Lincoln.

OPENING OF THE SUB-MARINE

TELEGRAPH.
Yesterday the success of this important and inter-
esting undertaking, was again demonstrated by a
variety 'of experiments, which were performed at
Dover under the superintendence of Mr. Statham, of
the Gutta Percha Works, Wharf-road, City-road,
and Mr. Crampton and Mr. Wollaston, engineers to
the Electric Telegraph Company ;-Lord de Manley,
Sir James Carmithael, Mr. Campbell, solicitor to the
company, and many other gentlemen who left London
for the purpose, of being present on the occasion. The
event created much excitement in the town, and a
large number of the inhabitants assembled on the
beach to witness the operations. On former occasions
during the last few weeks, telegraphic communica-
tions have been transmitted to Paris by means of the
sub-marine telegraph from the South Foreland, about
four miles from Dover, and the success of the under-
taking has been already amply demonstrated. It
however remained for those who have embarked in
the undertaking, and to whose exertions the public
are indebted for all that has been done, to com-
plete their work by proving the facilities for com-
municating between Dover and Calais. The
object of the proceedings of yesterday was to
establish the principle of submarine communication
in its fullest integrity, by "opening" the
tele-
graph to the 'public, who have now the satisfaction of
knowing that they can transmit messages, in the space
of a few minutes, direct from London to Paris. On
the present occasion the opening and the closing prices
of the Paris BOurse were transmitted to the Stock
Exchange in London during business hours I To add
to the interest which attached to the proceedings of
the day, several guns were fired through the medium
of electricity, as formerly described, when certain ex-
periments were tried at the gutta percha establishment
for the purpose of testing the efileieneY of the wires.
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Dover, the
electric spark was communicated from Calais, and the
report on this side the channel was instantaneous.'
His Grace the Duke of Wellington being at Dover,
in attendance at the sessions, was saluted on his
leaving the town by a discharge from a 32-pounder
placed in the east bastion of the Castle, the electric
spark by which it was fired being sent across the
Channel, from batteries at Calais, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Brunton, chemist to the Gutta
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INCREASE IN THE PRICE OF MurroN. --The de-
mand for good mutton was so great at the Oxford monthly
cattle market, on Wednesday last, that a very considerable
rise took place. Good 'wether mutton realized from 3s. Bd.
to 4s. per stone. A pen of prime Downs (fed by the Duke
of Marlboro4n), realized nearly 60. per lb. Good ewe
:mutton was worth from sd. to sd. Store sheep of all de-
scriptions were sold 'at higher prices. • Beef 'fetthed 3s. '4d.
per etone. Good English bacon hogs and porkers made t3s.
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