The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, 7"--tryvsnLY.—Sorge geed shot
abed lit/twice aftez.n9o:l on b P
Exe2llemy Capt%in. 11-; D. Ch
in the preLeneJ ot Rear-Adrziral F. lia.lbr't
C. 8., M.P.. one of the Lordiof Aclmirairy.r6lo44l4
ttii; Lion. T. Dundas, and Captain Sir Thornag as'
of the Ordnance department, and other d _ sifat
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officers, wore present. The practice took rt.! 43-#:O2 A •/j:
stage alongside the Excellent, the old but'
Top..ae 'nuik forming the targets. Captain
shell seemed to be the best tried yet. The pl
be continued during the week.
Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Cape', -
nozndsr-in-Chief, struck his flag last evening at sunset
and went on leave until Friday.
The Cumberland, 70, Captain G. H. Seymour, thg of
Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., arll the
willorn ecesitveeamadvance for their crews on Monday.
troop-frigate, Master-Commander
Penn,Vulc R
The Penelope, 22, steam frigate, is receiving her
anchors, painting down, &c., and will be ready in a few
days for re-commission.
The Fairy Royal yacht, 1-aster-Cemmand'er Welch,
proceeded out of harbour this morning to try her screw.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, MARCH s.—Lieutenants Frank K. Haw-
kins (1845) to the Impregnable flag-ship at Davenport;
Edward Marshall (1843) to the Penelope, 16, steam-
frigate, at Portsmouth. _ _ _

Mute Frederick Pyne (1850) to the Prince Regent, 90 ,
at Portsmouth.

Second-Master Frederick William Rea (1849) to the
Victory, flag ship at Portsmouth.
Midshipmen Stratford Juke and H. C. Wogan to the
Prince Regent.
_ .

Master'-Assistant Samuel Sibby to the Banshee
steam-vessel, at Woolwich.

Clerk William S. E. Freeman (1849) to the Alecto
steam-sloop, at Woolwich.
The armament of the Alecto steam-sloop, Commander
Larie, consists of four 32-pounder broadside guns of
32 cwt. each; one 32-pounder long gun of 40 cwt.
mounted on {pivot-carriage; two 12-pounder brass
howitzers of 6 cwt. each; one 6-pounder brass gun, and
one 12-pounder brass howitzer mounted on field battery
carriage for service on shore.
The Shearwater steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Turnonr, was paid off here to-day, and will be taken
into the basin to-morrow on the Alecto and Banshee
steam-vessels being taken out.
In the navy estimates for 1851-2 a vote is to be taken
for 7,0001., and a further estimate of 9,5001,, or a total
of 16,5001., is calculated as being required for the erec-
tion of a new cable-store and rigging-house at the west
end of the dockyard immediately adjoining the basin.
The remarks on the necessity for this outlay are that
" the present cable-store and rigging-house is riot only
in very bad condition, but being situated at the extreme
end of the yard, every fathom of rope or rigging returned
to or issued from store has to be carried 900 yards to
and fro. A new cable-store and rigging-house was pro-
jected 12 years ago, but has not yet been carried out; it
is most urgently required."

LONDON HOSPITAL.—The quarterly court of the
governors of this institution was held yesterday, at the Hos-
pital. The secretary, Mr. Nixon, read a report of the ope-
rations of this society for the past quarter, which stated that
during that period 471 in-patients had been cured, 387 re-
lieved, and 64 had died. The number of in-patients remain-
ing in the hospital is 306, and the number of out-patients
now on the books 1,934. Notice had been received during
the quarter of two legacies to the charity, one from Captain
Bean, amounting probably to 800/., the other 50431., from
Thomas Corey, Esq., of Bristol. The governors have also
received a life-governor's benefaction of thirty guineas from
the son of an accident patient, in acknowledgment of benefits
received by his father. The report having been adopted,
some routine business was disposed of, and the court then
adjourned.

A JUDICIAL OPINION ON " THE SOFTER SEX."—
At the Northampton Assizes, the other day, in the course of
a trial for poisoning, before Baron Alderson, several interrup-
tions took place in consequence of the over-crowded state
of the court. The crowd consisted chiefly of women, two
of whom fainted, upon which the Learned Judge expressed
his surprise that women should be so anxious to be present
at such dreadful investigations. It was, however, a matter
of taste. They were called " the softer sex," but he thought
incorrectly.

MONEY MARKET—The quotation of gold at Paris is
3 per mille discount, which, at the English Mint price
of 31. I;s2loid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.10 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at
short being 25.021, it follows that gold is 0.30 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Earn-
burgh the price of gold is 4244 per mark, which, at the Eng-
lish Mint price of 31. 17s. wid. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 13,4 k; and the exchange at Ham-
burgh on London at short being 13.61, it follows that gold
is 0.76 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh.

About a week since M. Salto, a rich proprietor, a
native of Perugia, died at Rome, aged seventy-two, and was
interred there. On opening his will, which was in his own
handwriting, at the top of that document, instead of the pro.
fession of religious faith generally used in such cases, there
was a note to the following effect :-=" As I have always
doubted of the existence of God, I omit here the ordinary
preamble to a will." The cardinal vicar of the diocese of
Rome being informed of this atheistical declaration, imme-
diately ordered the body of M. Salto to be disinterred and
removed to the corner of a cemetery set apart for the burial
of criminals who refused religious succour at their execution.
—Galignani.

ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.—On Tuesday
the Sardinian brig Arpia, Captain Bartholetto, arrived in the
Mersey with the expected Hungarian refugees. The vessel
is direct from Constantinople, and brings 262 passengers.
These people are confided to the care of the authorities here,
who have made arrangements with Mr. Sabell, of the Emi-
grant's Home, in Moorfields, to receive them. They will be
landed to-day and taken to the refuge. Though the vessel
which brought them over is small, there has been no sick-
ness on board, and they speak in high terms of the treat-
ment they have met with on the voyage, and also of the
conduct of the Turkish people during their stay of 18 months
in that country. They consist chiefly of Poles, mixed with
Italians and Hungarians, and they are of all grades in rank.
They are exceedingly poor, though healthy and in good
spirits. An attempt will now be made to further their in-
terests by opening a subscription in this town, with the ob-
ject of forwarding them to America. The costumes of the
refugees are various, and we believe that they will be found
to be a fine set of men. These refugees have appealed to
us in distress ; they have been unfortunate, but they are
brave men, and there can be little doubt that the appeal to
English sympathies will be liberally responded to.—Liver-
pool Courier.

A deputation from the Seamen of the Port of
London, consisting of Mr. George Riddle and Mr. John Ka-
vannagh and Mr. Mollie, had an interview yesterday with
the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, at the office of the Board of
Trade, when they presented him with the memorial of the
Master Mariners' and Seamen of the Port of London, relative
to the new Mercantile Marine Act of 1850. The Right Hon.
Gentleman received the deputation with great courtesy, and
promised them an answer to their memorial to-morrow.
BOYS' MAnnr.Es.—There is something ingenious
in the manufacture of these toys. The greater part of them
are made of hard stone found near Coburg, in Saxony. The
stone is first broken with a hammer into small cubical frag-
ments, and about 100 to 150 of these are ground at one time
in a mill somewhat resembling a dour mill. The lower stone,
and which remains at rest, has several concentric circular
grooves ; the upper stone is of the same diameter as tho
lower, and is made to revolve by water, or other power.
Minute streams of water are directed into the furrows of the
lower stone. The pressure of the runner on the little pieces
rools them over in all directions, and in about one quarter of
an hour the whole of the rough fragments are reduced into a
nearly accurate sphere.

MANUFACTURE or STEEL AND GAS BY ONE PROCESS.
—Mr. William Dick, of the Veterinary College, Edinburgh,
has just obtained a patent for improvements in the manu-
facture of steel and gas, enrolled Feb. 22. The patentee's
invention consists in the manufacture of steel and gas at one
and the same time. His process is as follows : —Heat an or-
dinary gas retort (that made of fire-clay preferable) to the
temperature required for the manufacture of gas, and having
placed a layer of small coke on the bed of the retort, lay
thereon the bars of iron to be converted into steel. These
bars may be of any length; but it would be better they
should be of the same length as the retort. Then charge
the retort with coal, as in the ordinary method of manufac-
turing gas; work off each charge in the usual way; and
when the coke from each is successively withdrawn, turn
over the bars of iron, so that each part may be fully sub-
mitted to the cementing action of the coke. Continue the
process until the required degree of cementation is obtained,
which may be ascertained by testing the bars in the usual
way—by withdrawing them from the retort, cooling sud-
denly, and breaking them, when, by the appearance of the
" pith" it will be ascertained whether the conversion of the
iron is complete. The patentee does not claim the manu-
facture of steel by means of carburetted hydrogen gas, as
that is not new ; but he does claim the manufacture, of gas
and steel at one and the same time.—Minin.9 •kurn. 6
A other flare*
THE SON OF MARSHAL JUNOT.--•
• distinguished persons of
has to be added to the obituary of
distlOf the most popular
the present year. That name was I 1
coeval with that of
to be found in the military annals ofo one of
Revolution and
the Empire, and whose fame almostis_ake
of Abrantes, the elder
aPhtluenatic asylum near Paris.
Marshal, has just died in
Bonaparte.ofui
etwo sonNsawpohloeosnoJrvlonet,d
tending the great irregularities of
entric career of the deceased are thus
twithsl be explained bypartial insanity,
the on y
accounted the . filth yfoera:r—o f,.. hiso e age
possessed talents of no mean
inative facult'
hT
illsel
iifve i, l dwofh youthijchsu ncia,tule a g
published several pieces asof
pporeetdominhant
order. As
the son
may be supPo
ry w lc
had considerable merit notwithstanding, or perhaps because
He was also
of their eccentricity. the author of several fie comp "d
dra-
matic pieces, and published a considerable number of ro-
mances separately, or in literary periodicals. He was also All
excellent musician ; he spoke and wrote with much correct-
ness the English, Spanish, and Italian
an excellent .classical scholar. For the last few years of his
life, and during the intervals of his malady, he devoted
himself to the produceion of what he considered his most
important work—a translation of Shakspere, in verse and
prose, into French. The work is, it appears, considerably
advanced, and it is curious that it was while he was em-
ployed on the tragedy of Lear that the most decided symP•
toms of his malady appeared. The only surviving brother of
the deceased, and the inheritor of his title, is now a captain
on the staff of General M'Mahon in Africa.
INTENDED DUEL BY LADIES.—Great sensation
has been lately caused at Florence by an intended duel with
pistols between two countesses, in consequence ofiae political
an
dispute. One of these ladies had taken
the active
other is part
in
a fair
the war of Italian independence, and tv
daughter of the North, whose name
is
well known in the
on the ground, and
di-
plomatic world. The combatants were
' husbands ar-
the pistols charged, when, fortunately, their
rived, and put a stop to the affair.
THE SAILORS' STRIKE —Upwards of 400 sailors
two days
have been in Manchester these tsso past collecting
money to support the strike against the Mercantile Marine
Act. They have been very peaceable, but the police have
kept an eye upon their movements, to see that no sort of
produced by men moving•
intimidation was
..
numbers, as they usually d 0....
It is stated that, at dinner, no one is ever per-
mitted to sit at the same side of the table with Carding
Wiseman, and that the dishes are presented to him on bends
knee.
THE IRISH LINEN TRADE.—The exports during
the past week were as follow :—Linen, 649 boxes, 231.
packages ; yarn, 9 packages; thread, 260 boxe&—Beliast
Arco; Later.

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