The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-24 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Surgeon—Joseph Browne, to the Rapid.
Carpenter—Jonathan May, to the Waterloo.
Gunner—Joseph Woodman, to the Waterloo.
Mate—John B. Anderson, to the Arethusa.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Fairy royal yacht,
Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., em-
barked the Queen and Court at Gosport yesterday, at
half-past twelve o'clock, and conveyed them to Os-
borne under the usual ceremonies. This being the
first reception of the Queen by the new Port-Admiral,
Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., be was presented to
Prince Albert at the Clarence-yard, by Lord Adol-
phus Fitzclarence, and his Royal Highness presented
him to her Majesty, as was also Lieutenant-General
D'Aguilar, C. 8., the acting Lieutenant-Governor,
when both officers had the honour of kissing hands on
their appointment. Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8.,
Captain-Superintendent; Sir Edward Parry, Flag-
Lieutenants Pasley and Aplin, Messrs. Davis and
Pinhorn, R.N., and Mr. R. Willoughby Stevens, of
the South-Western Railway Company, were also
present at the royal reception. The guard of honour
was furnished by the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and com-
manded by Major Wilbraham.
The Pembroke, 72, at this port, is reported about
to be converted into a screw-ship.
The Portland, 50, flag of Rear-Admiral Moresby,
C. 8., Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, was at
Valparaiso on the Ist of October.
The Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, arrived at
Calcutta on the sth of October, from Penang.
The Amazon, 20, Captain Barker, arrived at Sin-
gapore on the 16th of September, from Penang, and
sailed on the 2d ult. for the Pedier Coast, Captain
Barker having been instructed to inquire into the
outrages alleged to have been committed by the Reja
of Sawang in the case of the ship Lady Raffles.
The Hastings, 72, flag of Rear-Admiral Austin,
C. 8., Commander-in-Chief, and the steam-sloop
Sphynx, Commander Shadwell, arrived at Singapore
on the 20th of September from Penang, and left
again on the 24th for Hong-Kong.
Mr. David J. Simpson, Paymaster and Purser of
the Leander, is selected by Rear-Admiral Dundas,
the Commanner-in-Chief elect of the Mediterranean
Fleet, to be his secretary.
PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.—Major-General Arbuth-
not will succeed Lieutenant. General Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence in the Lieutenant-Governorship of
Portsmouth, and the command of the south-western
military district.
WooLwicg, Nov. 22.—The Rapid, 8, brig, Com-
mander George Blane, will leave Spithead on Thurs-
day next for the East Indies, and the officers recently
appointed to ships on that station will take their pas-
sage out in her.
The Kassard Khier, or Good Omen steam-yacht,
for the Pasha of Egypt, made her final trial trip
down the river on Friday, Nov. 21, with Mr. Robert
Taplin, Assistant-Inspector of Steam Machinery at
Woolwich Dockyard, on board, and, when tried at
the measured mile in Sea Reach, the average of four
runs, two down and two up, was found to be about
12i knots, or nearly 14 miles per hour. The working
of her machinery and the result of the trial were so
satisfactory that on her return up' the river she was
taken over the same evening by the Pacha's agent,
and will shortly leave for Alexandria.
LAUNCH OF A 12 GUN SAILING BRIG.--The Dia-
patch, 12, now built at Chatham, is ordered to be
launched on the 25th instant. This is one of the 16-
gun Symondian class, and, we believe, one of the few
remaining on our slips. At all events, we trust she
will be the last turned off as a mere sailing vessel,
for the new screw-sloops have Bo entirely superseded
them, that it is a mere waste of public money to send
any more such vessels as the Dispatch into the water.
It would be far more economical to convert them into
screw vessels, and if unconvertible to take them to
pieces, and adapt the timbers to some more appropriate
service. The armament of the Dispatch is two 32-
pounders, 39 cwt., 7 feet 6 inches long, and ten 32-
pounders, 25 cwt., 6 feet long. Such a vessel as the
Plumper, with her auxiliary screw-propeller, is a
match,for two Dispatches, and, altogether, such ves-
sels as the Rifleman and Sharpshooter are preferable.

THE LATE KING OF HANOVER.
COLLEGE OF ARMS, Nov. 22.
THE EARL MARSHAL'S ORDER FOR A GENERAL MOURN•
ING FOR HIS LATE MAJESTY THE KING OF HANOVER.
In pursuance of her Majesty's commands, these are
to give public notice, that upon the melancholy occasion
of the death of his late Majesty the Ring of Hanover,
uncle to her Majesty the Queen, it is expected that all
persons do put themselves into mourning for ten days, to
commence on Sunday next, the 23d instant.
NORFOLK, Earl Marshe'
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.HE Ew CHELSEA SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—The
works for the erection of the new bridge, which is:intended to
connect Belgravia with Battersea-park, are in active opera-
tion. One of the large iron piers on the opposite side is
nearly completed, so far as the foundation and buttresses are
concerned, and the pier on the Chelsea side is in a state
almost equally advanced. The greatest exertions are made
to complete the bridge within the specified time, viz., two
years from the commencement of operations in June last,
and no fewer than nineteen pile-driving machines are daily
at work. The line of the Thames embankment is also being
marked out ale river I)3'

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA,
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.
By the Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Lang, corn-
mender, we have received advices from New York to
the 11th inst., Boston to the 12th, and telegraphic
accounts from New York, viii Halifax, to the 13th
inst. She has 180,000 dolls, in specie on freight.
The Europa sailed from Boston at 12.3 P.M. on the
12th inst. with a light breeze from the northward ;
on the 13th, at 5 15 A.M., she passed the Royal Mail
steam ship Cambria (with the mails of the let inst.)
for Boston, and at 8.50 P.M. same day arrived at
Halifax, after a fine run from Boston of 32 hours and
47 minutes. At 10.42 p.m. she again proceeded to
sea, and during the latter part of her run experienced
strong winds, with a heavy sea. At 5.28 P.M. passed
the steam-ships America, Pioneer, and Frankfort;
and at 10.11 P.M. arrived off the Rock Lighthouse,
after a fine run oflo days, 3 hours, and 36 minutes,
mean steaming time.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, Harrison
commander, with mails of the 28th ult., together with
the steam-ship Africa's mail, arrived at New York at
4 A.m. on the 9th inst. She sailed from Liverpool at
1.30 P.M. on the 28th ult., and has made the run in
11 days, 19 hours, and 15 minutes, mean time.
The United States' Mail steam-ship Baltic, Com.
stock, commander, which sailed from Liverpool at
12.30 P.M. on the 29th ult., arrived at New York at
7 A.M. on the 9th inst., after a run of 10 days, 23
hours, and 15 minutes mean time.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, Stone, com-
mander, arrived at Halifax at 3 A.at. on the 12th inst.,
and shortly afterwards sailed for Boston, and was
afterwards passed by the Europa between Halifax
and Boston.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune says—
" Mr. Webster has rejected the proposition of the
Spanish Government, made through its Minister here,
for the settlement of the late difficulties about Cuba, and
for a better understanding between the two countries. The
proposition was for the American Government to invite
the Spanish Consul to return to New Orleans, to bring
him in a national vessel, and to salute the Spanish flag
over him; and, further, to restore the value of the pro-
perty of the Consul, and of the Spanish citizens of New
Orleans, which was destroyed by the rioters. Ia case
this proposition should be rejected, the Minister was in-
structed to demand his passports and return. Of course,
M. Calderon de la Barca is in a diplomatic category."
In contradiction to the above the Herald says that
matters are in a fair way for adjustment.
The United States' steam-ship Mississippi arrived
at New York on the 10th.
Mr. Kingsland, the mayor of New York, had re-
ceived the following letter from Kossuth :
"TO HIS HONOUR A. C. EINGSLAND, MAYOR CF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.
" Sir,—The United States ordered the steam-frigate
Mississippi to conduct me out of my prison to freedom,
and by freedom to life, because to activity.
"I hailed this generous resolution as the greatest
honour which a man can meet. I hailed it as a ray of
hope and consolation to my down-trodden, to my bleed-
ing, but still not broken, native land. I hailed it as a
highly encouraging manifestation of your glorious
people's sympathy to that principle which was, and will
ever be, the aim of all the endeavours of all my lite.
" And when, with the noble minded conseutment of
the Sultan, I stepped on board the Mississippi frigate,
and, once more free, because under your glorious flag,
heard the warm, generous, welcoming cheer of the
officers and crew—those frank, loyal, gallant men, the
true representatives of American freedom, American
greatness, American generosity—l could not forbear to
have the impression that the spirit of America'. young
giant has shouted over the waves to old Europe's op-
pressed nations, 'Don't despair—here is a brother's
powerful hand to your aid!' These being my senti-
ments, you can judge by them, Sir, how fervently I must
have wished to have the honour to bo conducted by this
very frigate to the United States.
" But I know that the smpathy of the United States is
not given to any man in the world for his own sake, but
for the principle's sake that ho represents. And so I
felt convinced that I should prove unworthy of this sym-
pathy (this highest treasure of my life) should I neglect
for a single moment the duties which divine Providence
has assigned me; should I neglect to provide, accord-
ing to the exigencies of circumstances, for the interest
of yonder cause which the glorious Republic of the
United States honoured with its approbation and its
sympathy.

" It became, therefore, an imperious duty of honour
and conscience to me not to leave Europe without ar-
ranging my public and private affairs, and carefully pro-
viding against any harm to the sacred aim of my life, for
that time which I shall have to eijoy the honour of the
hospitality of your glorious land.
" So the most imperious duties of a patriot, a father
and a man, impose upon me the necessity to stop for a
few days in England before I continue my passage to the
United States.
" Commodore Morgan, at Spezzia, and afterwards Cap-
tain Long of the Mississippi, here did, with the noble
kindness of a true American heart, appreciate the
motives of this necessity, and generously consented to
wait with the Mississippi in the bay of Gibraltar for
my return from England with the packet boat which
leaves Southampton on the 27th inst.
" But the Government of the French Republic' (not
the French nation, but its present Government) refused
to grant me permission to pass rapidly through France,
by which passage I might have spared time and suffer-
ings to my wife and children. And now the first means
of conveyance to England I can avail myself of is only
a packet boat, expected to-morrow to arrive from the
Orient; and this, too, making eleven days to England
from here.

" On ,the other hand, Captain Long informs me that
any longer delay here would render not only my asso-
ciates, but also the officers and crew of the Mississippi,
liable, in approaching the coast of the United States at
a late season, to many sufferings, by having to endure
excessively severe cold and stormy weather.
" So considering, on the one side, that the most sacred
duties force me not to leave Europe for some time, before
providing for my affairs in England, and considering, on
the other side, that only staying eight or ten days in
England, it were entirely impossible to join again the
Mississippi here before the 18th of November, so that, of
course, we could only arrive in the second half of De-
cember on your hospitable shores, it became absolutely
a duty of honour to me not to cause any augmentation
to the hardships and sufferings to the officers and orew
of this ship, and not to embarrass them in their public
service, as also to alleviate my own associates in their
passage to the United States.
" These are the motives, sir, which deprive me of the
honour to be conducted to the your glorious shores on
board the Mississippi frigate; but I feel consoled at the
idea that in adopting such a course I not only have re-
lieved those who are on board the Mississippi from some
sufferings, but myself also will have the high satisfaction
an entire month sooner to enjoy the happiness of land-
ing at New York, as I am decided to leave England on
board that steamer which leaves Liverpool on the 7th of
November for New York.
" Having had the inestimable pleasure to read re-
ported in the public papers that the city of New York
resolved to honour, with a generous reception and hos-
pitality, in my undeserving person, the cause and prin-
ciples I represent, I regard it to my duty respectfully
to inform, you, sir, and by your kind interference, the
generous city of Now York, about these accidents, and
about my intention to leave Liverpool for your city on
the 7th of November.
" I confidently hope that the people and Government
of the United States will appreciate my motives, and ap-
prove the course I was bound to adopt.
" Let me hope, also, sir, that I might nothing have
lost by the imperious necessity of this course from you
and your people's sympathies which, though conscious
not to have merited, I consider the greatest honour of
my life, the highest reward for my sufferings, and the
most honouring encouragement steadily to go on toward
that noble aim which the people of the United States has
sanctioned and sanctified by its sympathy.
"Be pleased, sir, to accept the expression of my
highest regards, lasting gratitude, and most distinguished
consideration, with which I have the honour to be, your
most obsequious servant, TTOSSIITH.
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" United States' Steam-frigate Mississippi,
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Bay of Gibraltar, Oct. 14."
Advices from Port au Prince to the 23d of October
announce that the Emperor had compliewdas
alsowith the
demand of foreign Powers, and had concluded a truce
for one year with the Dominicans. He
give one year's notice of the commencement of hos-
tilities,
The Nova Scotia Legislature opened its session on
the 4th instant, The speech of Sir John li
was exclusively devoted to the railroad
questiona.rvHeye
distinctly stated that the home Government had
offered to aid both lines.