The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—Orders were received
this morning for the 'Tecate steam-sloop, Commander
G. S. Hand, to proceed forthwith to Newcastle, for
which port she sailed at 3 P.M.

The Samarang freight-ship embarked three officers
and 155 men, 7 women, and 12 children, of the 59th
Regiment at Cowea yesterday for Hong-Kong. The
Government steam-tug Echo towed her back to Spithead
in the evening to await sailing orders.
The Amphitrite, 24, Captain Frederick, went out of
harbour to Spithead yesterday. She will sail about Sa-
turday for the Pacific.

APPOINTMENTS.

Woo',wren, JAN.
.29.—Clerk—Harry T. Nettleton
(1845), borne on the books of the Ftsguard flag-ship at
Woolwicb, for service in the Woodlark, to the Indefati-
gable, 50, at Devonport.
Clerk's Assistant—Julius Ibettson to the Cumberland,
70, at Sheerness, making ready to proceed as flag-ship
on the Pacific station.

Mate Mark B. Peden, of the Cumberland, opened a
rendczvous yesterday, at the Ship Hotel, Woolwich, fur
the entry of able and ordinary seamen for service in that
fine vessel; and men producing certificates of good cha-
racter will be engaged and obtain one month's leave of
absence. before being called upon to join at Sheerness.

EXTENSION OF THE EPISCOPATE.—The Channel
Islands contain a large population—quite large enough to tax
all the energies of an active prelate. Why might they not
form a diocese separate and distinct from that of Winchester?
Lord Auckland, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, has
about fifty thousand persons within the range of his
bishopric; surely Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, which
greatly outnumber that population, might have the advan-
tage of an accessible bishop, instead of being placed as now,
under the control of a prelate whose diocese extends from the
boundaries of the islands to the foot of London-bridge. The
question of the extension of the episcopate must, ere long,
come before Parliament. We hope the Channel Islands will
not be forgotten when the arrangements are under considera-
tion.— The Protector.

STAPLEHURST. HONESTY AND LIBERALITY.—
One day last week, just after the arrival of the four o'clock
train, a 101. note of the London and Westminster Bank was
found outside the station-door. A name was on it, which
WAS thought to be that of ➢ir. Punnett, of Chart Sutton-
place, who had come down by the train, and to whom the
finder, accompanied by another man, immediately took the
note. That gentleman would not own it, but he most hand-
somely presented each of the men with five shillings, and
treated them with the most liberal hospitality, as a reward of
their honesty.—Maidstone Journal.

A MAN BURNT TO DEATH.—One of the most hor-
rible catastrophes that has occurred in this neighbourhood
for along time took place on the morning of Sunday last.
AR old pensioner, named Joseph Healey, residing at Castle-
hill-side, near Almondbury Poorhouse, in a low miserable
hovel, without anybody to take care of him, went to Al-
mondbury on Saturday night, where he remained till early
the next morning. He returned to his home in a state of
intoxication, and, there being very little fire in the grate, he
sat down in front of the fireplace, resting his elbow on one
of his knees, and his head upon his hand, stretching his
other leg straight out close to the fire-grate, in which posi-
tion he tell asleep. Some time during the night his clothes
got on fire, but how it is impossible to conjecture; but,
they being woollen, would not blaze, but gradually
smouldered away. Not making his appearance at the usual
time in the morning (9 o'clock), one of the neighbours broke
a pane in the window and put aside a thick packsheet which
was hung up for a blind, and discovered the man all in a
glow of tire. The door was instantly broken open, and the
poor fellow was found quite dead and still; with a portion of
his clothes still burning; the flesh being completely burnt
off his legs, so as to exhibit the bare bones. He was in the
same posture as when he fell asleep. An inquest was held
on the body on the following day (Monday), before Mr.
George Dyson and a respectable jury, at the Woolpack Inn,
when, after a patient investigation, the jury returned a ver-
die t of "Death from suffocation and burning."--Halifax
Guardian.