The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain Penny, in command of the Lady Franklin
in the search for Sir John Franklin's expedition, ar-
rived in town yesterday, and reported himself to the
Admiralty.
THE LATE REAR-ADMIRAL LORD JOHN HAY,
C.B.—The Sprightly steam-tender, with the remains
of the late lamented Lord John Hay, C. 8., arrived at
Leith on Friday morning last, when a hearse and
coach were waiting her arrival. The body of his
Lordship was removed to Yester House, and was in-
terred the following day. The funeral was strictly
private, the only attendants being the Marquis of
Tweeddale, Lord James Hay (who arrived expressly
from Paris to attend, returning the evening after the
funeral),tLord Edward Hay, Captain Sir Thomas
Maitland, C. 8., and Commander Lord John Hay, late
his Lordship's flag lieutenant.
Centaur steam-frigate, Captain St. Leger Cannon,
hoisted the flag blue at the mizen of Rear-Admiral
Henderson, C. 8., at Spithead on Wednesday morning.
Rear-Admiral Prescott and the gentlemen from the
pay-office proceeded to her yesterday morning to pay
the crew two months advance. The Centaur will sail
on Saturday next for South America.
Shearwater, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Hor-
ton, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning and
proceeded in the afternoon for the Mediterranean,
where she will be stationed in the Dardanelles to
wait on Sir Stratford Canning. She takes out letters
and dispatches.
Defence, old 72, convict-ship, has bent sails, and
will haul off from the Portsmouth jetty into the
stream, and sail in a few days under charge of Mr.
Roberts for Woolwich. None of her fittings have
been disturbed, and she has still the square box fore-
castle and poop, and will remain at Woolwich as a
stationary convict-ship.
Hercules, Master-Commander Fulton, was paid off
at Portsmouth, on Tuesday last, and was taken into
dock on Wednesday, to be examined preparatory to
going out to Malta, and to take the place of the Cey-
lon. She was paid off with all her standing rigging
and spars aloft.
Fairy, royal yacht-tender, Master-Commander
Welch, has returned up from Osborne, and remains
in Portsmouth Harbour. The Royal children have
only embarked once since her Majesty and Prince
Albert left, as the easterly winds that have prevailed
make a considerable surf at Mead Hole, and render
embarkation from Osborne somewhat difficult.
We hear the Simoom, new steam-screw frigate,
will be shortly commissioned by a master.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Calypso, 20, Capt.
Forbes, sailed to-day for Plymouth en route to Cuba.
The Rolla, 8, Lieutenant-Commander Fenwick,
was under way at Spithead, this morning, exercising
her apprentice crew at great gunnery. We have the
pleasure of announcing that Charles Lexton, the sail-
maker of the Rolla who gallantly jumped overboard
on the 26th ult., in the Straits of Dover, while the
vessel was under way, and saved the life of a boy, has
been awarded the silver medal of the Royal humane
Society for that action.
By letters from the coast of Africa we learn that
the Penelope steam-frigate, Commodore Bruce, was
at Prince's Islands on the 31st of July, about to sail
that evening for the south. The slaver cruising
squadron was perfectly healthy. We regret to an-
nounce a melancholy catastrophe which occurred at
Badagry on the 27th of June. It appears Commander
Heath, of the Niger screw steam-sloop, with Assis-
tant-Surgeon Duffus, and a boat's crew from the
Niger, had been on shore to assist the people who
were wounded in the late affray between Badagry and
Lagos, and were returning to their ship when the
boat capsized in a heavy surf and Mr. Duffus was
drowned. Commander Heath was exhausted when
taken out of the water. Every precaution has been
taken to insure the safety of our missionaries and
others at Badagry. The Bloodhound iron steam-
tender to the steam-frigate Sampson, Captain L. T.
Jones, captured an empty slaver in the New Calabar
river on the 7th of July, which is the only movement
recorded among the slave traders.

APPOINTMENTS.

Master Frederick J. Gruzelier (1840), to the
Grecian, 12, sloop, at Devonport.
A ssistan t- Surgeons —Edward,W. Pritchard (1846),
to the Dido, 18, at Sheerness, under orders for the
Pacific station ; and Edward Pearce (1847), to the
Modeste, 18, sloop, at Sheerness.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon—Owen J. Llewellyn
(1851), to the Rattler steam-sloop, at Woolwich.

FLAX CULTIVATION.—Mr. Warnes, of Triming-
ham and Bolwich Hall, has this year grown a much larger
quantity of flax than upon any previous year, the quantity
sown being fifty acres. The crop is the finest that he has
yet succeeded in producing; and the whole of it was pulled.
stooked, ricked, and stacked in fourteen days. Upon the
occasion of the flax harvest-home one hundred and fifty of
the poor people employed partook of a substantial dinner of
old English fare, in one of the large barns. A largo number
of hands are already employed in threshing the seed, and in
steeping and preparing the stalks for scutching in the winter;
and Mr. Warnes calculates that in a short time, populous as
is the district in which his new property is situated, it will
be as comparatively free from pauperism as Trimingham,
the small village in which his first laudable and praiseworthy
efforts to afford extended employment by the cultivation and
preparation of flax were made. It may be remembered that
about this time last year we dispatched a special correspon-
dent to Trimingham, to furnish us with accounts of the pro-
cess and mode of managing the flax adopted by Mr. Warnes,
and of the social condition of the inhabitants of the village.
These accounts were in the highest degree satisfactory, and
we are exceedingly glad to find that the good example set
by Mr. Warnes, and our endeavours to draw attention to it,
have had the effect of leading to a much larger quantity
of flax being grown in this country than in any preceding
year.— Cht onick.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAT.—BROXBOURNX, HERTS, THURSDAT.—A lamen-
table accident, terminating fatally, happened last night at the
Broxbourne station of the Eastern Counties Railway, to a
passenger named James Grass, stated to be a tavern-keeper
at Braadon, in Suffolk. The facts, as furnished ns, would
show that the unfortunate occurrence was entirely owing to
the imprudence of the deceased. It seems that he was a pas-
senger by the Norwich up-train, which reaches here at 9.20,
and wishing to alight at Lea-bridge, where that train did
not stop, he got out for the purpose of taking his seat in
the last up Hertford train, which called at the station at
which he desired to stop, and which, as usual, bad been
shunted into a siding, in order to allow the Norwich train to
pass on. On leaving the train, he suddenly stepped behind
the screen of the up-platform, unperceived apparently by the
officers, for a certain purpose, although the ordinar7 place
was in full view only a few paces distant. On
shunt out the Norwich
train leaving, the Hertford train proceeded to of
the side, and in doing so caught the unfortunate man and
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cated with all despatch, and pr
veyed by the train to Lea-bridge, and then removed to the
house of some friends at Walthamstow. Early medical aid
was rendered him, but his internal injuries were too frightful
for him to recover, and in an hour or so he expired. His
body awaits an inquest. There does not seam to be any
blame attributable to the company.
Lieutenant Pritchard, RN., is appointed to the
Coast-guard Service in Sligo district, vacant by the death of
Lieutenant Hamilton, R.N., killed by a fall from his horse.
The eldest son of Lieutenant Hamilton is appointed to
Lieutenancy in the I,ieyenue 1'40!