The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

COMMODOREMARTIN4FRIGATE SQUADRON.
Commodore Martin, with the frigate squadron, left Lisbon
on Frid .5r morning, February 28, on a cruise. The squadron
consisted of the Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, with the com-
modore's red pendant; Indefatigable, 50, C iptain i- mart,
KH. ; the Phaeton, 50, Captain G. Elliot; the Arethusa,
50, Captain Symonds; the, Dann Uwe, 24, screw-frigate, Cap-
tain Halsted; and the Retribution, 28, steam-frigate, Cap-
tain Warden.

The Arrogant, 46, screw-frigate, Captain Robinson ; and
the Encounter, 14, screw-corvette, Captain Gordon, were left
behind—the former in consequence of some defects in her
machinery requiring repair. ehe had broken the coupling of
her screwshaft. The Arrogant, before she returned to Ports-
mouth, was very much infest d with rata, and great exer-
tions were made by her Majesty's rat-catcher to destroy
them, but without effect.
The squadron would have started on the 25th, but it blew
a very heavy gale, causing such consi lerable surf on the bar
outside, that it was not deemed advisable to move. On the
26th the ships unmoored, but did not quit until the 28th, as
above stated.
The cruise, it is reported, will extend so far as Madeira,
and the ships will be absent for about a month.

The seamen and the marine artillery belonging to the
Hogue,_ 60-gun ship, Captain Macdougall, and the Ajax, 60,
screw flag-ship, Captain Quin, together with the naval ap-
prentices, under their respective captains and other officers,
were landed on Friday at Queenstown, and in the presence
of Rear-Admiral Dickson, the Commander-in-Chief, were
put through the various exercises with field-pieces, small-
arms, &c., in which they excelled to the satisfaction of the
Gallant Port Admiral.
Birkenhead, troop-steamer, Master-Commander Penn, and
Hercules: store-ship, Master- Commander Fulton, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 4th of March.
Sampson, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Jones, with her tender,
Bloodhound steam-vessel, put into Lisbon on the 27th ult.,
and would leave for the coast of Africa in the course of four
or five days. They had hard weather in the Bay of Biscay,
and the Sampson took her tender in tow, but this did not
answer, as every hawser was carried away, and the bows of
the ship were almost torn out.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCII 10.—The Cumberland, 70, Captain
Seymour, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir George F. Seymour,
K.C.8., appointed to succeed Earl Dundonald on the West
India and North American station, was paid advance this
day by Rear-Admiral Superintendent Prescott, C.B. She
will re-hoist Sir Francis's flag to-morrow, and sail on Wed-
nesday.
The Penelope, 22, Captain Lyster, was taken out of the
steamer basin to-day. She will be removed under the
shears to be masted as soon as the Powerful, 84, is placed in
ordinary.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH I—Let ters received yestereay trom
the Mediterranean state that her Majesty's ship Caledonia,
120, Captain T. W. Carter, was to sail this day, the eth, from
Malta for Plymouth, to be paid off.
The officers and crew of the brig Kingfisher were paid
off to-day at the Pay-office in the dockyard, and her sea-
men gunners sailed in the Avon steamer for Portsmouth this
afternoon.

The Vulcan and Acheron steamers are hourly expected.
The steam-ship Megicienne is ordered to cruise seven days
in the Channel to try her ra a of sailing.
SUNDAY, 5 r.m. There is no indication of the approach
of the Cape mail •packet Bosphorus, hourly expected here for
some days past. It is possible that she may have been
detained for urgent purposes by the Governor, Sir H. Smith.
FALMOUTU, MAscx 9. Her Majesty's packet Peterel,
Lieutenant Thomas Creser commander, has this morning ar-
rived from Rio de Janeiro with the Brazil mails, which port
she left on the 12th of January. She brings about 6,0001.
on freight, and Senhor Dionysius Verge and a miner as pas-
sengers. The intelligence brought by this packet has been
completely anticipated by the arrival of the Seraphina at
Liverpool from Pernambuco, bringing four days' later dates
from Rio de Janeiro. The Peterel has experienced very
severe weather on the passage.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP IMPREGNABLE.—Since our last
publication three f the officers of the flag-ship have been
superseded, in consequence of having served the usual period
of three years. First-Lieutenant Harry T. Veitch is to be
succeeded by Lieut. R. B. Miller; Lieut. Spencer H. Pickard
by Lieut. F. Hawkins; and Paymaster and Purser James
Ozzard by Mr. Thomas Shanks, formerly of the Vanguard.
The first officer we have named, Lieut. Harry T. Veitch,
entered the service in 1830, and from that time (with the ex-
ception of two months) to the present he had been most
most actively employed. We happen to know that
he has earned the good opinion and warmest
approbation of every officer under whom he has
served—among them the late respected Admiral Sir
Charles Paget, Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer, Cap-
tains Sir Richard Grant, S r Henry J. L eke, Captain
lAwrence, Captain A. Milne, and others of high standing in
the service. During the three past years Lieutenant Veitch
has evinced the greitest zeal in training the naval appren-
tices on board tte Impregnable, and keeping that fine ship
in the best possible i
order and discipline, by carrying out
effectually the Admiralty nstrunior s and these of his gal-
lant Captain. As the son cf a mentor our veteran, who at-
tai ed the rank of Post-Captain entirAy by arduous services
as First-Lieutenant of frigates during the late war, and as an
officer who has given universal satisfactini to his superiors,
we venture to hope that the First Lord of the Admiralty will
which his activa and fa thful services so eminently deserve.—
Devonport Independent. grant him that promotion
look favourably on his claims, and

MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS
OF THE LONDON DISTRICT.
A meeting of the Roman Catholics of the London dis-
trict was held at one o'clock yesterday, at the Freema-
sons' Tavern, Great Queen-street. The meeting was
very fully attended: Amongst those on the platform we
Hig-
gins, M.P., Mr. Serjeant Shee, Ain Reynolds, M.P.,
Mr. Amherst, barrister; the Rev. Mr. O'Neill, Mr.
Mr. Ouseley Hig-
:ac.dPo"nell. Mr. Howard
omboseorrvee,d:lrr..,l2'huidlipm.rH.
Eownaerads,
occupied the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said that the object of the meeting
was to defend their own cause and rights, now assailed
by the Government; and ho was sure that in doing so
they would do so with temper and moderation. Ho con-
gratulated them on the alterations which had been made
in the Bill of the Government, but it still contained the
principle of persecution, and therefore it was their duty
to persevere in their efforts, and he was sure that in
propos.ed tho first resolution,
another month the Bill would be consigned to oblivion.
parts; it.declared reverence and
Mr. AMHERST read letters. from Lord Petre and other
Roman Catholics, excusing their absence from the
meeting.
and. Bisb9ps to be of a purely
whichMobediencer
spiritual nature, without interfering with the duty of
Sergeant
to tconsistedh e
of
t oEripEoe
their Sovereign; and in the second part of the resolu-
tion they expressed their resolution and right to have
the free exercise of their religion. They were met to
protest against the Bill of the Government, and resolu-
tions in furtherance of that object would be proposed
to them by gentlemen better qualified than himself to
address them.
Several resolutions protesting against the Bill were
then proposed and unanimously agreed to, the last of
which was the following, ybY Mr. ENEAS MA.-
DoNNEEL:—" That, while we conscientiously resist
enactments which we know to be injurious and un-
warranted, we are at the same time perfectly willing to
make large allowances for the adverse courses of others,
who, either influenced by erroneous impressions or sud-
denly excited by authoritative appeals, have unjustly
assailed our sentiments, practices, and objects; and we
wish that the mutual interchange of Christian charity,
social confidence, and friendly neighbourhood will ere
long be established between us and our Protestant fel-
low-subjects of all classes and denominations, solemnly
pledging ourselves, as we now do, that no effort shall be
wanting on our part to effect that happy consummation."
The meeting then separated.

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