The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The First Lord of the Admiralty and party have
returned to town from the Channel Islands. -
Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8., we regret to
state, is still very unwell, and not able to quit his
official residence at Devonport Dockyard.
Captain F. P. Blackwood, of the Victory, at Ports-
mouth, returns from leave of absence on the 10th inst.
Captain Nias, of the St. George, at Devonport, is
on leave of absence ' • and it is hoped that the Admi-
ralty will be liberal enough to grant him another
month, in order thoroughly to inspect the rare speci-
mens of naval architecture at the Great Exhibition.
Advice, steam-tender, Lieuteaant-Commander
Mun ton, and Wizard, tender, Lieutenant• Commander
Barnard, are at Kingstown from Cork during the
regatta.
Avon, steam-tender, has been taken into No. 5
dock at Devonport to have some defects made good.
Calypso, 18, Captain Forbes, fitting at Chatham for
the West Indies, will be out of the hands of the dock-
yard by the 30th inst., and will be ready for sea by
the 6th September. A crack complement is sure to
be entered for her.
Cuckoo, steam-vessel, lately paid off at Sheerness,
is ordered to proceed to Woolwich to have her defects
made good.
Dolphin, revenue cutter, Lieutenant Hire in com-
mand, having had her defects made good, was put out
of dock at Chatham on Friday ; and the Jumma, 12,
was taken into dock to examine the copper on the
bottom.
Desperate, screw-sloop, at Sheerness, is ordered to
be tried under the superintendence of Mr. Dunnen,
chief engineer.
Encounter, 14, screw-corvette, Captain Gordon,
was at Gibraltar, from Cadiz, on the 17th ult.' and
was ordered to rejoin Commodore Martin's squadron.
Express, 8, Commander Fead, with the Devonport.
tender hoy, in convoy, sailed from Plymouth Sound,
for Bermuda, on Sunday morning.
Linnet, 8, has been repaired at Davenport, and is
now ready for commission.
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on Friday afternoon to be
Honourable H. Keppel, went
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paid off. She has arrived home 40 short of her
complement.
Resistance, troop-ship, Master Commander Brad-
shaw, will be refitted at Sheerness by the 14th inst.,
when she is to come up to Woolwich, to receive on
board naval stores and convey them to Gibraltar and
Malta, and return to Spithead, calling at Gibraltar
and Lisbon, for stores, &c.
Styx, steam-sloop, Commander W. K. Hall, is
filling up at Devonport with coals, and will be ready
to sail on the 7th instant, with mails for Madeira and
the Cape of Good Hope.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Phcenix steam sloop
8, Commander Lysaght, arrived at Spithead this
morning from the west coast of Africa station, in a
very dangerous and unserviceable state, so far as her
steam-power is concerned. She left Benguela on the
26th of May; St. Paul de Loando the Ist of June;
Ascension, the 16th; and Fayal, the 26th of July.
The Philomel, 10, Commander T. G. Forbes, was off
Benguela, sickly. The Phcenix brought a number
of invalids from her. The Ranger, 10, Commander
Miller, was off Lobieto on the 27th of May. She
had been very sickly, but her crew were convalescent
at the above date, except one invalid, brought home.
The Sealark, 8, Commander E. S. Sotheby, was at
Loando on the Ist of June; she, too, had been sick-
ly, and sent a few invalids by the Phcenix to Ascen-
sion, at which station, at the above date, lay the Pene-
lope, 22, Captain Lyster, bearing the broad pendant of
Commodore Bruce, the Commander-in-Chief; the
Tortoise guard and store ship, Captain Hutton ; the
Teazer steam-vessel, tender to the Penelope ; and the
Volcano, 5, steam-vessel, Commander R. Coote, which
latter arrived from England the morning prior to the
sailing of the Phcenix homewards, and was about sailing
with the mails for Sierra Leone. An awful murder had
taken place at Ascension, which had affrighted the
usually quiet inhabitants by its horrible details. The
victim in this case was a sergeant of the Royal Ma-
rines, named Perkins, who held the situation of clerk
in the storehouses on the island, and was generally
much respected. The assassin was his son-in-law, a
sort of working engineer, named Peel. On the night
before the Phcenix left the father and son quarrelled,
when the latter ran home, armed himself with a wea-
pon, and stabbed his parent to the heart. The inquest
was sitting on the body when the Phcenix sailed.
She reports the slave trade, on the part of the coast
she has been stationed on, as almost extinct. Large
bankruptcies had taken place at Loando among the
slavedealers. The Phcenix has made 11 prizes. On
Thursday last her fires were let out, for fear of con-
sequences if steam were attempted to be kept up.
Her tubes went at the rate of five and six a day; the
men were repeatedly scalded at them ; she had not
had a ton of coal on board from January last until
she took in some at Fayal on her way home. The
Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Adams, had gone to
the south coast from Ascension; the Alecto steam-
sloop, Commander G. Lavie, had gone to the Bights ;
the Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Temple, had
gone to the south coast; the Firefly steam-
sloop, Commander G. A. Seymour, was off
Congo ; the Wasp, 14, screw steam-sloop,
Commander W. P. Crozier, was off Ambrizette. The
following officers have come home in the Phccnix
Commander E. A. Glynn, invalided from the Pene-

lope, and Mrs Glynn ; Lieutenant Edward Marshall,
second of the Penelope, had been made acting com-
mander, vice Glynn; Lieutenant Helby, from the
Philomel, invalided; Lieutenant Wylde, R.M,, from
Ascension ; Mr. Cooper, midshipman, invalided from
the Penelope ; Mr. Pennington, acting second master
of the Tortoise; and Messrs. Miller, naval cadet of
the Philomel, and Urquhart, naval cadet of the Gla-
diator, have been sent home by Commodore Bruce,
to be disposed of as the Lords of the Admiralty may
direct. Commodore Fanshawe bad given the death
vacancy command of the Spy brigantine to Mr.
Morrell, mate of the Heels, but Commodore Bruce
(in whose gift the appointment was) has given it to
Lieutenant H. B. Beresford, additional lieutenant of
the Penelope. The Phoenix saw the Trafalgar, 120,
courses down, off Plymouth, on Sunday afternoon
about four o'clock. She also spoke, on the 21st of
June, in lat. 1 N., long. 21 W., the French brig
Louise, of Cette ; on the 25th, in lat. 10.35, long.
24.43, spoke the Dutch ship President Vanderkouten
(No. 759); on the 31st of July, in lat. 47 N., long.
15 W., exchanged colours with a Bremen brig (No.
204). At Fayal, two days before the Phoenix sailed,
the English ship Hashemy, from New South Wales
and St. Helena, sailed for England. The Phoenix
left Spithead at five this afternoon, for the eastward,
to be paid off.
The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, returned
from the Channel Islands at five o clock this morning.
Sir Francis Baring, First Lord of the Admiralty,
Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Rear-Admiral M. F. F. Berkeley, Lord of the Ad-
miralty, and Colonel Greene, Director of Engineer-
ing and Architectural Works, landed from her at
eight o'clock, at the Royal Clarence-yard, and pro-
ceeded by the first express train from Gosport for
London.

The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Rawatorne,
sailed to •day for Chatham, to be paid off. It is
reported she will be re-fitted to take the place of the
Ceylon receiving-ship at Malta.
The Basilisk, new steam-sloop, was taken out to
Stokes Bay to-day to try her speed and machinery.
The Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.E-1., went out this morn-
ing, and after a trial ran out to the Knab light and
down to the Solent and back, and brought up at
Cowes, to be in waiting on the Queen.
The Pique, 40, has been brought under the shears
to-day to be masted and juryrigged for navigation to
Pembroke.
The Southampton American packet-ship arrived
to-day from the Thames.
WOOLWICH, AUG. 4.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant Julian Foulston Slight (1842), to the
Centaur steam-frigate at Portsmouth.
Hervey George St. John Mildmay (1844), to the
London, 90, at Sheerness, and to be Flag Lieutenant
to Vice-Admiral Jocelin Percy, C
Com-
mander-in-Chief at the Station.
Benjamin
Wilson Pidcock is appointed Second
Class Clerk at Woolwich Dockyard, vice Lee, pro-
moted to First Class.
Mr. Pearson is appointed Third Class Clerk, vice
Pidcock, promoted.
bur. WArthur is appointed on the establishment,
vice Pearson.
Notices have been put up that 14 stokers are
wanted for the Centaur steam-frigate, and seven for
the Dauntless s' e lir...frigate, both at Portsmouth.

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The reports of the week from the Amsterdam and
Rotterdam produce-markets notice rather more firmness in
coffee, the announcement of the quantity to be offered in the
autumn by the Dutch East India Company having favour-
ably influenced business. Sugar was maintained, but the
high rates preveated activity; pepper was in greater de-
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