The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE•

APPOINTMENTS.
Naval Instructor—Francis William Fowler (1544)
to the Dido, 18, at Sheerness.
Mate Hugh A. Hinde (1850), to the London, 92,
flag-ship, at Sheerness.
WooLwica, Ocv. 15.—The Marion hired convict
ship, Surgeon-Superintendent Le Grand, has arrived
off the Royal Arsenal, to take on board male convicts
for the Swan River settlement, and they will receive
tickets of leave on their arrival in that colony. A
detachment of the Royal Sappers and Miners from
head-quarters at Woolwich will embark at the Royal
Arsenal on Friday next, to do the duties of a convict
guard during their passage to Swan River, where
they will serve out their full period of military ser-
vice, with the view ultimately of becoming settlers.
We are infurmed by a correspondent that all the
officers and crew on board her Majesty's steamer Alec to,
off Aghwey, West coast of Africa, were in good health
on the 12th of June, 1851.

THE PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL SURE W

SHIP SHANGHAI.

A few days since we noticed the very excellent
performance of a new screw-steamer the Shanghai
(the first of a squadron), built by Miller, Ravenhill,
and Salkeld, of Black wal, for the Peninsular and Ori-
ental Company, on her passage from the Thames to
Southampton. Since her arrival at the latter port she
has taken in most of her cargo, and on Saturday, with
about 400 tons of dead weight on board, she was offi-
cially tried by the superintendent, Capt. Engledue, and
the superintendent engineer of the company, Mr. Lamb,
in the Solent, for more than six hours. Proceeding
to the Government measured nautical mile in Stokes
Bay, she ran down in 7 minutes 13 seconds, and up
in 4 minutes 53 seconds, giving an average speed of
10.3 knots, or 12 statute mites an hour, and with
most of her canvas set she attained an average of 10.8
knots, or 121 miles an hour. The highest speed of
the engine was 96 revolutions per minute, and the
vacuum 261, with an abundant supply of steam.
The Shanghai was also tried under canvas alone,
and was found to stay and wear most satisfactorily.
When close hauled, with the wind moderate, she
made six knots, and with the wind on the quarter
seven knots. -Under these circumstances, the screw
being stationary, the speed of the vessel was somewhat
retarded.

When it is recollected that the Shanghai is a vessel
of nearly 600 tons, with a nominal horse-power of 80,
it will be admitted that with such proportions of
power to tonnage, her performances are comparatively
the best ever yet recorded.
The Shanghai, as we have before observed, is well
armed and equipped ; her crew are picked men, and
have been selected by Captain Engledue (who was
one of the earliest as well as the must efficient gun-
nery lieutenants of her Majesty's gunnery ship Ex-
cellent), for the purpose of not only conveying her
Majesty's mails, but also with the view of taking care
of themselves among the Chinese pirates. Her pre-
sence in the China seas will be an additionalis irity
or protection to British mercantile interests.

DIFFEREN2' VIEWS OF TLIEBLO ER
COSTUME.
(From Punch.)
Don't a lady's dress of the present day take so many
lengths to make up, according to the taste of the wearer?
but with the Bloomer costume, I should be sorry to ;ay
to what lengths the lady who wears it might feel in-
clined to go to!—An Indignant Milliner.
Should the Bloomer costume be adopted, petticoats
will go out, and petticoats going out, there may be an
end, at last, of all petticoat government, of which no one
will bo more heartily rejoiced than—The Hen-in-clad
Husband.

Ere's the jolly good health of the Bloomer costume.
For I tell you what, Bill, our 'bus, with all the shaking
in the world, won't carry more than sixteen ladies, pack
'em as tight as you will; but I find that it will take
twenty Bloomers comfurtably, and 'allow each on 'em a
Bloomer baby on the lap. It's the dress, my boy, vot
makes the difference.—The Bus Conductor.

Oh, dear! how delightful it will be for jumping over
the stiles!—The Fast Young Lady.
I'm in favour of the new costume; because if my wife
bothers mo for a new dress, I shall refer to the tailor,
and I can make out a tailor's bill, and I know all his
prices; whereas I defy any man to uaderstand a milliner's.
—The Mean Husband.

This new dress will take all opposition off the road—
for, really, the long dresses of the ladies swept every-
thing so clean, that there was nothing left for us to clear
away after them. In short, I look upon the Bloomer as
the very best friend to the Broomer.— The Street Orderly.
I don't care how my girls dress, as long as they dress
decently; but lam sure—as sure as quarter-day—that
they will hang on the skirts of this new Bloomer costume
—that is to say, if it has any skirts—if it is only for the.
sake of getting a now dress; for I never knew any girl
of mine let a new dress slip through her fingers when she
had a chance of getting one.—The Good-natured Papa.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.-NOTTINGIIAM, TUESDAY
EVENING.—Great sensation was excited in the neighbour-
hood of Menton-street, by a rumour that Mr. James Beards-
ley, a highly respectable chemist, had committed suicide.
On inquiry, we learnt that this morning, about nine o'clock,
Mr. Beardsley left home for the purpose of going to his gar •
den, situate at Menton, and in the afternoon his wife and
eldest daughter went to join him. Having arrived at the
garden, near the summer-house, to their great horror, they
discovered the unfortunate gentleman suspended from the
roof. Every assistance was rendered, but it proved of no
avail; life was extinct. The deceased was exceedingly well-
known ; and there is no doubt that temporary derangement
was the cause of this rash act.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The establishment
and transit of this line by Boston has been the means of
creating a trade in fish on an extensive scale that did not
before exist, through its connexion, by means of other rail-
ways, with London, and the manufacturing districts. Up-
wards of fifty-six tons of shell fish, gathered by the Boston
fishermen from the sands about Boston Haven, and which
before the railway ran remained uncollected, are now taken
daily to Leeds, Liverpool, and the populous inland towns,
and sold at a remunerative profit by the fishermen, who are
established in a trade only called into exercise previously on
a very small scale, and "real" Boston shrimps, by means of
railways generally, are now to be found in every quarter of
the kingdom daily.

ACCIDENT TO GEORGE CHILTON, ESQ., JUDGE Or
THE LAMBETH COUNTY COURT, DENMARX-lIILL.—A serious
accident occurred to this learned gentleinan yesterday morn-
ing (Wednesday), while on his way to preside at his court.
He was on horseback, and had pulled up under a tree by the
roadside, in Lordship-lane,Dulwich, to adjust his overalls, and
when in the act of doing so the umbrella he held collapsed,
and caused his horse to shy. The Learned Judge was
thrown violently off, and fell into a deep cutting by the side
of the road, his horse falling directly over him. Luckily the
cutting was just wide enough to admit a moderate-sized per-
son, but too narrow for a horse, so that, although it may be
said his Honour had a narrow escape, we regret to add he
sustained a serious injury by both his ancles being sprained.
AMERICAN GALLANTRY AND BRITISH LOYALTY.—
It has hitherto escaped the various chroniclers of the aquatic
events on the Mersey, on the recent occasion of the Queen's
visit to Liverpool, that the United States mail steam-ship
Pacific, Captain Nye, was the first to commence firing a
royal salute of 21 guns on the instant of her Majesty's
em-
barkation. Immediately the Pacific's first gun was fired,
the salute was taken up by the Royal Mail steam-ship Nia-
gara, and responded to by the whole of the steamships then
moored in the river.—Liverpool Chronicle.
Y sterday information
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES.
May-
fair, had been plundered of four x
was received that the premises,—
dollarsl ditto, and three two
reign of Charles IV., six fourteen_
h of Clarence, Vauxhall-
-34'
'etellenertridla-rstgroeledt'pliecrag
Si. notes; a
dollar; fromle4o7,frLe
other property, value 50/. ; also from
Leicester-square, sovereigns, and three
bridge-road, jewels and
emicesthteer-
, Belvidere-road, Lambeth, a cash-box,
the Waterman
7 notes and gold; also from 361, Oxford-street, a
with 13" in •an set with rubies, diamonds, and ewe-
the residence of W. Busk, Esq., Rotten-
raids
also "
frabout 1001. worth of jewellery, 401. in cash, and
den, Sussex,
number of costly rings,
Buglawton Hall, Congleton, had been
a quantity of North American coins; also that the residence
and costly silver plate, value 200/.,
carried off.
of S• entered,Escl.

Sri us ISLAND.—A proclamation has been issued
from Dublin Castle, declaring that henceforth the island of
Spike, near Cork, is to be a depot for the reception of pri-
soners under sentence of transportation ; and all boatmen
and others are cautioned against landing on said island under
Any pretext whatever, undoes duly authorised.