The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-24 00:00:00

Lower deck

Calibre. Cwt. eacb. Feet Inches. No.
8-inch 6i

... 32-pounders 58 or 56 9 6 :.:
Middle; deck .. 8-inch 65 ~.... 9 0
~ ... 32-pounders 5B or 56 9 6 :::
Main-deck 32-pounders. 42
~ .. 32-pounders. .25
Upper-deck ... 68-pounder i. ,5
10 0 ..,
pivot

Engines of 800 nominal horse-power are being
manufactured for the Royal Sovereign by Maudslay
and Ce., and will be fitted immediately, and. one
of the Lords of the Admiralty wilt be present a'id
some distinguished visitors. The vessel will be
named, in the absence of- Royalty, by one of the
ddughtet s of the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-
`Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.B. Every pre-
caution has been taken to prevent her hanging
upon the way:, which so signally marred the effect
of the launch of the Marlborough.
Orders have been received at Chatham Garrison,
directing that the non-commissioned, officers and
men belonging td- the depots of those Indian regi-
ments which are serving iu the Bengal Presidency
are to be immediately medically inspected,
with the view of ascertaining the number of
troops fit for embarkation, in order to enable the
autboritie < to tike up the necessary- amount of ton-
nage for their conveyance, to join the head-quarters
of their respective corps. On the receipt of the
order at the Provisional Battalionupwards of 2,000
non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the
depots of the Bth (the King's), 21th, 27th (Ennis-
killens)' 32d, 35th, 52d(Light Infantry), 53d, 606,
(Royal Rifles), 61st, 70th, 75th, 81st, and 87th

{Royal Irish Fusiliers), the head-quarters of which
regiments at e serving iii Bengal, were inspected yes-
terday and the previous day at the garrison hospi' al,
Chatham, by' Dr. A: Maclean and the medical staff
at that estahlitthmEnt. The above depots will give
nearly 3,000 tror,ps to the service companies of their
regiments in India, the whole of whom are in a high
state of discipline and have gone through a course
of instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle.

The Scout, Coastguard cutter, Mr. Leaman,
Commander, arrived at Sheerness at 10 a.m. yes-
terday, having on board M. Hawkings, ordinary
mariner, being the only survivor of the crew of the
Curlew, Coastguard cutter, Mr. W. Shepherd, late
second mate in command. It appears that the Cur-
lew and Scout anchored on the previous night on
the flat f the Mouse Saud, the Mouse light-vessel
dtstaot faun the Curlew about half a mile, the light-
vessel bearing north-west, and the Scout was at an-
chor about a quarter of a mile from the Curlew. M.
Hawkins r, lie ved the look-out man on the deck of
the Curlew at 12 ()clock. At about 1 a.m. Hawk-
ings perceived at a short distance a large steam-
veasel coming right on for the Curlew. He imme-
diately rae to the companion, and called out for all
hands to come on deck as quickly as possible—that
there was a large- atelmer steering direct upon the
Curlew. He th-n ran aft, 8, epped up on the tsf
rail of the Curlew, and called out as loudly as he
could, but in a few. seconds the steamvessel
came stem on to the Curlew, a:riking her
tafeall right. in midships, and breaking the
main boom. Hawkings jumped up, and caught hold
of the bobstay of the steamvessel. He then heard
some person on board the steamvessel say, " Why
did you net s'a)w a light 1" and the same person
said " Stop her I" Hawkings heard
no more, he Lund himself under water, and shortly
after on recovering himself he found he had hold
of the rigging at the mast-head of the Curlew. He
was entangled in the standing and running rigging
of the Curlew's topmast, the topmast.being carried
away. He then clearly saw the steamvessel lower
a boat, the boat was manned, but he positively
states that all the boat's crew lay on their oars after
laying the stesmveasel, and that they drifted from
him with the wind and tide, and never once pulled
towards him. 1u about half-an-hour afterwards he
was taken off the rigging by the boat's crew of the
Scout iu a very exhausted state from hr ving been
under wet.-r some time, and bruised by the steam-
vessel running over him. The crew of the Scout
identified the stettnvemel as being the Baron Osy,
of Antwerp, from Antwerp, bound for London.
The Scout's boat remain I about the mast of the
Curlew for some hours to recover the broken spars
and rigging, also h ping that some of the bodies
might rise to toe surf.ice. At the time the Curlew
was run down it was rather dark, but not densely
dark. The persons drowned are Mr. Vim. Shep-
herd, second mate in command ; Alegi. Twinney,
marin,r ; Henry Whi!e, gunner ; Wm. Redding,
mariner ; Edward White, mariner ; Wm. Weeller,
ordinary marner ; and Joseph Mathews, first class
boy. On the sad affair being made known to the
port authorities by In-pecting Commander Wm C.
Forsyth, it. N., immediate arrangements were made
for the steam-vessels Lizard, Lieut. Thomas B.
Christopher, and the African, Rheuben Harvey, to
t Ake on board an etlicient number of riggers, &c.,
with' weiating gear, and proceed down to the
Curlew. B st-ani-vessels left Sheerness between
1 and 2 o'clock, the riggers being under charge of
Mr. John Jackson, the Assistant-Master-Attendant
of the yard. Capt. Forsyth also proceeded to the
spot to render such assistance with his men as the
natute of tee case required. During the night the
wind veered front north-west to west, from that
to north-east, and at timoi to the eastward.
There is' no doubt that iu two or three tides
the Curlew will be got in on the ebb dry on the
Mouse, or, if practicable, towed to Sheerness be-
tween the two st,:am-wssels sent out to raise her.

Tile Avon, 3 guns, paddle wheel steam-vessel,
tender to fl,ig-ship at Devonport, arrived at Sheer-
ness yesterday at noon from Devonport and Ports-
mouth with supernumeraries and seamen" for the
Cumberland, Capt. John B. Dickson. The Cum-
berland is setting up her lower rigging and has
sent up topmasts; she is progressing rapidly in her
equipment.
The Giraffe steam-vessel, R. B. Hart, corn-
minder, and the Columbine steam-vessel, John
Target, curnmander, arrived at noon, the former
from Flushing, the latter from London, for the
purpose of taking away four mortar vessels (which
have been lent to the General Steam Navigation
Company) to raise the ship Ravensbourne, belong
ing to that company, which is sink in ten fathoms
water oil Flushing. The company have engaged
the services of Mr. W. Orchard, of her Majesty's
dockyard at Devonport, who is the inventor of au
improved method. of raising sunken ships.
The Lyra, 9' guns, new screw steam-sloop, at
Deptford, is ordered to be placed in the second di-
vision of the steam squadron of reserve at Sheerness
on her arrival there.
The Scout, new screw steam corvette, from
Woolwich for Sheerness,. was tried for speed at the
measured mile in the Lower Hope on her passage
down. Her mean speed was 11 knots 8 decimals,
her engines making 67 revolutions per minute with
20 lb. steam pressure. Her engines worked isatis
factodly. There were no hot bearings or priming.
She ran from Gravesend to Sneerness in one hour
and 50 minutes.

The Japanese yacht, thoroughly fitted and com-
pletely furnished, left Woolwich on Wednesday to
adjust compasses at Greenbithe, and was ordered
to sail yesterday for the West, to be paid down, and
proceed 011 her voyage.
Tbe sailing troop-ship Neleus, having em-
barked two companies of Royal Arbillery at
Woolwich for Hong Kong, left the pier yesterday
luorniug The designation of the troops embark-
:ng is as follows—namely, Captain Knox, iu
command of the 4th company, 9th battalion ;Se-

ClerkB—Humphrey Brett, to the Cumberland ; Juba
P, Dore, to the Impregrable.

i'H2 ONEIDA.

Ti-morrow we ought to have telegraphic nsws
from Suez, Aden, Point. de Gage, and Singapore,
and also from Mauritius to the Ist inst. 17p to this
latter date the Oneida would have been out 55 days
from King George's Sound ; so that if she was
crippled and made for the Isle of France, she would
probably have reached that place by the last-men-
tioned date. To-morrow week we ought to hear
from Australia, by way of Marseilles: lt.iS a satis-
faction to know that the steamer European, which
should have arrived at Suez on Wednesday, has
been over the track of the Oneida, and that the
steamers Simla and Columbian are now crowing
the Indian Ocean, also in her track, so that :alp-
posing she broke down, and was becalmed, she is
likely to have been or to be met with. '.the steed
of the Oneida, if she were obliged to sail, would be
reduced one-half in consequence of the screw not
lifting. A sailing vessel was one time eight months
crossing the Indian Ocean, having been becalmed
six months of the time. The islands in the Indian
Ocean nearly in the track of the Oneida are Christ-
mas Keeling, and the Chagos Islands. The Oncida
left king George's Sound on the 4th Feb. last. By
to-morrow week we may have news from Mel-
bourne up to March 13 ; from King George's Sound
up to the 23d, au! Singapore to the 28th of that
month ; from Mauritius up to April 1, and Galle
to the 7th, Aden to the 17th, a.nd Suez to the 22d
of the present month. A hurricane blew in the
Indian Ocean for about five days, about the middle
of last February, in the latitude where the Oneida
should have been at that time. The European and
Australian Company d'scontinued, a week or two
since, paying the wages of the crew to the families
of the latter, but payment has now been resumed.
The insurance rate on the gold on board the miss-
ing steamer is at the present time enormously high.