The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Elfin royal steam-yacht, Master-Commander Bal-
liston, with Captain Crispin on board, proceeded from
Portsmouth to Southampton at seven o'clock yesterday
morning, on purpose to convey his Royal Highness
Prince Albert across the Solent and back.

Vice-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour hoisted his flag
(blue at the fore), on Thursday afternoon, on board the
Cumberland, 70, at Chatham; it was struck at sunset, the
Admiral proceeding on leave of absence.
Fairy has gone int ) the Camber at Portsmouth, but
in consequenes of the south-west wind backing the water
in the harbour, she has not been able yet to ship her
new screw.

Captain Sir B. W. Walker, the Surveyor of the Navy,
visited Portsmouth yard on Thursday, going on board
the Arrogant and Tiger steamers.
Penelope steam-frigate got up her steam at Ports-
mouth, on Thursday, in the basin, to try her machinery
after repair.
Amphitrite, 26, Captain Frederick, is alongside the
dockyard at Portsmouth, and is taking her guns on
board.

Spy brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Edward Hill,
is completed by the dockyard at Chatham, has entered
her complement of men, and will be ready for sea in a
few days.
Bonetta brigantine is in dock at Chatham, nearly com-
plete in her rigging, and will be ready for the pendant
in about a fortnight.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—It blew an excessive gale,
accompanied with squalls of wind and rain, last night.
There was a very high tide, but we have not heard of
any mischief being done. The Fantome brig still lies at
Spithead, wind and weather bound; and the Margaretta
Evans and the London, New York packet-ships, are at
the Motherbank. The London sailed yesterday, but put
sack at night.

Letters from China to-day inform us of the death of
Mr. Crouch, chief cleric to the secretary of Rear-
Admiral C. J. Austen, C. 8., the Commander-in-Chief.
The young gentleman was carried off by fever on the
20th of November. The Admiral and family wore in
good health, but had been bumped ashore in the Hon.
Company's steamer Phlegethon, just below Canton,
where she took the rocks and knocked three holes in
her bottom. Letters from the squadron say the Admi-
ral contemplated a voyage to Calcutta, in his flag-ship,
the Hastings, 72.
The Birkenhead iron steam-frigate has been taken
into the Sidon dock to-day, to have a topgallant fore-
castle fitted.
The Simoon iron steam-frigate has been brought
down alongside the jetty to-day, for overhaul. It is ru-
moured a treaty of sale to a commercial company is
pending respecting her.
The rumour is very strongly revived again here re-
sprctir g the Mediterranean command and Admiral
Dundas.

DEVONPORT, THURSDAY.—It blows as bard As ever.
Lieut. Sctumarez, who was swamped in the boat return-
ing from the Volcano yesterday, is very uswell at his
lodgings, but no danger is apprehended. The Knack
Industry, of Guernsey, waterlogged and abandoned,
drifted into the back of the Mewstone yesterday, but
went 0 pieces immediately. A portion of the stern
washed on shore, with the name. All hands are sup-
vsed to be wasted overboard. In the Sound, the
Volcano.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Thetis, Captain Roper,
which sailed from this port, October 10th, arrived at
Madeira on the 20th, ssiled from Madeira the 22d, and
arrived at Rio on the 21st of November, all well.
This place and the vicinity have lately been visited
by a succession of heavy gales, which have, however,
committed no material damage within the limits of
the port. The shipping both to the eastward and west-
ward have suffered.
Le Fletan, French brig, Captain Khnel, froni St. Va-
lery, on the east, having on board the owner, M. de Reg-
nac, of Barsac, near Bayonne, for which port she was
bound, put into Merlaix through stress of weather, and
sailed therefrom on the 7th of January. On Tuesday,
the 14th, she was struck in the Channel by a very heavy
sea, which threw her on her beam ends, when her owner,
panic-struck, jumped into the brig's long boat and cut
the eizings, when it immediately capsized. Three of
the crew and the cabin-boy got into a lesser boat, which
also capsized. The master loft with only one man,
speedily cut away the weather landyards, when the
brig's mast gave way and she soon righted, which being
observed by the three seaman, they crawled over the
floating rigging and got ou board again, but in order to
save the boy were compelled to retur❑ tied fasten a rope
round his waist. The unfortunate owner was observed
to sink just under the brig's stern. It was impossible to
hoist any canvass, and to prevent the vessel from going
ashore on Tuesday night her captain lowered into the
sea a large hemp cable to act as a drag. On Wednes-
day morning they found that they could not make Ply-
mouth Sound, and as the brig's ballast sand had been
pumped out, pumps choked, and the vessel leaky and un-
manageable, they were compelled to run her ashore in
Whitnaud-bay, and selected a beach near the Preventive
station at Downderry. The master and another, who
could swim, leaped into the sea with a small rope and
safely reached the shore, where they found Mr. J. G.
Anderson, Master R N., and the men belonging to the
station, who humanely assisted in saving the remainder
of the crew, conveyed the whole to their cottages, and
furnished them with clothing and necessaries. The brig
has since gone to pieces. Mr. Luscombe, the French
Consul at Plymouth, is protecting the interests of all
concerned.

Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, a sunken sloop
was observed between the Mewstone and Shagstone, to
the eastward of this port, and she eventually came ashore
near Wembury Church. The name ludustry can be
made out indistinctly on her stern, the print of a Jersey
sailmaker is on her jib, and from the fact of her having
ring bolts in her stiles it is concluded that she must be a
cattle trader from the islands. The body of a seaman,
apparently one of the crew, ftiated ashore in the even-
ing. Her boat having been picked up three or four
days since at Yealm, it is supposed that she was disabled
in the storm of Wednesday, the Bth inst.
The screw steamer Propontis, with the mails for the
Caps of Good Hope, will not go to sea before to-morrow
(Friday).
Wind southerly, blowing strong, with thick weather.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 17.—The Apollo troop-ship, Com-
mander James Rawstorne, when the whole of the lug.
gage of the troops she brought home from Jamaica is
discharged, will be taken to Sheerness, and it is expected
she will be paid off at that port, having been in commis.
sion since the 29th of December, 1848. The Resistance
troop-ship, Master Commander Bradshaw, remains for
the present at Woolwich. The officers of these vessels
dined yesterday evening at the mess of the Royal Ar-
tillery iu the garrison.
Commander Edmund Anthony Glynn (1848), who
had for several months studied steam at the factory at
Woolwich Dockyard, was examined yesterday as to his
knowledge of the working of marine steam-engines by
Mr. Humphrys, Chief Engineer, and having passed in
a highly satleactory manner, received his certificate
to-day.

SUICIDE FROM WATERLOO-BRlDGE.—Yesterday
morning, between three and four o'clock, an alarm was raised
that a respectable female, having first divested herself of her
bonnet and shawl, had jumped into the Thames from one of
the recesses of Waterloo. bridge. It being a fine moonlight
night, the unfortunate creature's struggles were distinctly
visible, and some lightermen hastened to her assistance, but
she sunk and was drowned. About half-past six her body
was found in the mud on the Lambeth shore ; it is that of a
female about 23, dark complexion and middle stature, wear-
ing a plum-coloured !ilk gown it was removed to the vault
of St. John's Church, Waterloo-road, for an inquest and to
be identified.
We understand it was resolved by the Gresham
committee yesterday that on and after Monday, the 27th
instant, the hour of closing the gates for admittance to
'Change shall be a quarter to four instead of a quarter past
f,,ur, as hitherto. The final clearing of the Exchange will
take place at a quarter-past four, instead of half-past. This
arrangement, we believe, will meet the views of all parties.—
Times.
POLITE, BUT SLow.—A stuttering Vermonter was
asked the way to Waterbury. With great politeness he
strove to say that it was right a-head, but in vain. The
more he tried the more he couldn't. At last, red in the face,
and furious with unavailable exertion, he burst forth with
" Gug-gug-go-long ! darn ye; you'll gig-gi-get there afore I
can tell ye !"—.New York Cyclops.