The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-05 00:00:00

T.HIS DAY'S SBIPPING.

LONDON, Nov. s.—Wind this day at noon—West;
squally, with very heavy rain.
MARGATE, Nov. 4.—ln consequence of the gale yester-
day, the Lady Katherine Barham, from London, to
Jamaica, which went ashore on Margate Sands, Oct. 30, is
now on her port beam ends, nearly buried in sand, and
with decks, masts, and bowsprit gone.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 4.—The Lady Douglas, from Hartle-
pool, to London, reported as having been abandoned off
Southwold, has been brought in here derelict, she is leaky,
has mainyard carried away and sails split.
DOVER, Nov. 4.—The Orb (brig) of Guernsey, from
Newcastle, to Dartmouth. was in collision last night, four
miles off this harbour with the Becta (s.), from London, to
Aelissa, and sunk about three hours after crew landed here
by the latter vessel.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov, 4.—The Ant, of Stockton, for Fal-
mouth, which was ashore in Langdown Bay, Oct. 24, was
hoved off last night, H.M. tug Echo, but sunk in three
fathoms of water.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Morning.
A very heavy gale from the southward has prevailed in
the Channel all night.
The screw steam frigate Emerald, 50, Capt. A. Cumming,
bound to Halifax, put back to the Sound this morning,
having carried away port davits, lost both her quarter boats,
and sustained other damage.
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—St. Carenton, from Bordeaux; Margaret, from
Cork; Mary, from Waterford; Jessie, Hannah Booth,
Anne, and John, all from Cardiff; Empress, from Llanelly;
Ann Patterson, from Sunderland; Laura, from Shields.
Sailed—Wonner, steamer, for Jersey ; Brisk, for Hurst;
Sophia, for Seeking.
(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 4.—Corea, from Hudson's Bay ; Illing,
from Patras ; Juanita, from Table Bay ; Andromeda, from
Zante.

Arrived. Nov. s.—Stadt Dordreeht, from Dordt;
lead, from Bente; Treaty, from La Vivien.; Bridgtown,
from Barbadoos.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Governor McLean, from Africa, for London.

THE WEATHER.

PROBABLE BEFORE THURSDAY.

North Britain .. E.S.E. to N.E. and N.W., strong; snow

or rain.
Ireland S.V. to N.V., strong to a gale ; snow or

rain.
East Coast S. to S.W. and NAV., strong; showers.
South England. S.W. to N.W., gale to fresh; with snow,

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

This Day,
Letween 8 andi B. E. M. D. F. C. I. S.
9 a.m.
......
Nairn 29/5 48 45 S.E. 3 7 c. 1
Aberdeen 29•35 49 48 S. 5 7 r. 3
Leith. 29'51 51 48 W. 2 8 0. 2
Berwick 29,11 47 45 S. 3 7 f. 2
Ardrossan 29/7 50 41 S.W. 5 7 e. 5
I'ortrnsh
Shields 12043 48 46 S.W. 5 2 c. 4
Galway ; 29'42 43 42 Calm 0 4 c. 1
Scarborough I 29'56 47 46 S.S.W. 3 8 o. 4
Liverpool i 29'44 50 48 S.S.E. 4 9 o. 3
Valentia. 129.53 i 44 40 N.W. 5 4 s. 4
Queenstown 29'51 44 43 W. 4 3 c. 1
Yarmouth 29/2 48 47 S.W. 5 6 0. 5
London 29.721 51 49 S. 5 8 o.
Pover 29130 53 51 W. S.W. 7 9 0. 7
Portsmouth
Portland
Plymouth .... 29'55 54 52 S. 8 7 0. 6
Penzance .... 29'59 I 51 49 W 2 81 r. 4
EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10

to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true--
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ;
f., fog. ; h,, hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0.,
overcast (dull) ; r., rain ; s., snow ; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
-.nee (1 to 9).

DEPARTURE OF PRINCE LEOPOLD FOR THE CON
TlNENT.—Prince Leopold, the youngest son of her Majesty,
left England yesterday for the south of France, attended by
General Sir Edward Bowater, Lady Bowater, the Misses
Bowater, and a physician. The Prince is to spend the
rougher months of the year in a more genial climate than is
to be found in the British isles. Prince Leopold was accom-
panied to the coast by his brother Prince Arthur, on whom
the Hon. Major Elphinstone was in attendance. The Royal
party started from the London-bridge station of the South-
Eastern Railway at 9.40 a.m. yesterday in a special train,
under the charge of Mr. Cockburn, from the manager's
office, Mr. C. V. Walker, tho company's superintendent of
telegraphs, being in ono of the carriages, provided with ap-
paratus for affixing to the wires in case of a necessity on
the jemmy for prompt communication. The train arrived
at Folkestone harbour station at 11.33, where Mr. Gordon
Thomson, deputy-chairman of the South-Eastern Company,
and Captain Boxer, R.N., harbourmaster, were in attend-
once. The young Princes and their attendants immediately
went on board the mail boat John Penn, Captain Pettiek,
which had been provided by the Admiralty, in lieu of the
Black Eagle, to convey Prime Leopold to Franco; and she
steamed out of the harbour and made her way to Boulogne,
where sho would probably bo in time for the Prince to take
the special tidal train for Paris, arriving in that city at 7.25
last-night. When Prince Leopold had sailed Prince Arthur
proceeded to Shorncliffe Camp, accompanied by Major-
General the Hon. A, A. Dalzell, the general in command,
and spent two hours in visiting the quarters of the officers
and men, the hospital, the canteens, stables, &0., of the
camp. Returning to Folkestone, Prince Arthur took the
mail train, arriving at London-bridge at 5.45 p.m.
THE DUBLIN TRIAL.—A rumour has been cur-
rent in Dublin to the effect that Agnes Wyles has 1,... .et
at liberty in etnibetiuuueu Ut U:tpt. rrest, on whose evidence
she was committed for perjury, having discovered that ho
was wrong in stating she sailed in his vessel from Dublin
on the 26th ult. It is very possible there is no truth in
this report; but of the wide-spread publicity it has ob-
tained there can be no doubt.

A new light of great power and brilliancy has
been successfully introduced into the extensive factories of
Messrs. Spill, the Government contractors, at Hackney-
wick. The effect of this illuminative agency is almost equal
to broad daylight, and by its means the most delicate
colors, particulaTly those of a recent discovery, may be
manipulated during hours which formerly were lost. These
it
s
changes, although associated mostly with fashion and
changes, are already in great request for the more perma-
nent articles of furniture covered now so generally withvege-
table leather or American leather cloths, fQx which this firm,
is so

VALETTA, Oct. 30.—At this see son of the year
our harbour generally assumes a lively appearance
from the presence of the fleet. Ituring the past
week the ships have begun to collect here from dif-
ferent parts of the Mediterranean for the purpose
of refitting, &c. Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle
ship Neptune, 86, Capt. G. P. Hornby, arrived on
Saturday from Naples, followed on Monday by the
paddlewheel frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. F. H. H.
Glasse, C. 8., from the same place. On Tuesday
the screw line-of-battle ship Marlborough, 131,
Com. T. Brandreth (bearing the flag of the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir W. Fanshawe
Martin, K.C.8., and having also on board the Cap-
tain of the Fleet, Rear-Admiral Sydney C. Dacres,
C. 8.), returned to this island, also from Naples.
The screw steamsloop Surprise, 4, Commander W.
H. Whyte, which left port on the 23d inst., re-
turned with the Admiral's ship from Messina. The
Marlborough left at Naples the screw line.of-battle
ship Exmouth, 90, Capt. J. A. Paynter ; at Messina
the screw line-of-battle ship Victor Emmanuel, 91,
Capt. W. J. C. Clifford, C.B. ; and at Syracuse the
screw line-of-battle ship James Watt, 91, Capt. E.
Codd. The screw line-of-battle ship London, 90,
Capt. H. Chads, and the screw frigate Liffey, 51,
Capt. G. W, Preedy, C. 8., which for some time
past formed part of the squadron at Naples, have
been despatched to Corfu, where Capt.
,Chads, as
senior :captain, will take command. The screw
line-of-battle ship Hannibal, 89, Capt. Farquhar,
left Malta on Sunday for Corfu, to relieve the screw
line-of-battleship Queen, 86, Capt. C. F. Hillyar,
which has been ordered to Malta. The screw gun-
bo

.at Foxhound, 4, Commander the Hon. A. C.
Hobart, is also shortly expected here from Patras.
The screw sloop Pelican, 17, Com. P. Brock, arrived
on Tuesday from Spithead and Gibraltar. She per-
formed the whole passage, an unusually long one,
under sail. In leaving the British Channel she came
in collision, on a dark and stormy night, with an
unknown craft. It was feared that loss of life was
occasioned, as men's voices were heard in the water.
The Pelican lay to all night and burnt blue lights,
but nothing more was seen of the vessel. As she
showed no lights she was supposed to be a foreigner.
It was announced that the English, French, and
Russian squadrons would leave the coast of Syria
about Oct. Bth, but it appears that their stay, from
some cause or other, has been prolonged, and that
the British ships will not leave until after the arri-
val of the screw frigate Doris, 32, Captain Sir F.
L. M'Clinteck, which took her departure from Malta
on Friday last, to be stationed there as senior ship,
with one or two gunboats. The screw line-of-battle
ship Cesar, 90, Capt. T. Mason, will, it is said, pro-
ceed from Beyrout to the Piraeus of Athens. The
screw frigate Amphion, 36, Capt. T. F. Birch, ar-
rived on Tuesday from the coast of Syria and Suda
Bay (Candia). She left at Beyrout on the 11th the
screw line-of-battle ships Cesar, 90 ; Agamemnon,
9

; Algiers, 91 ; Mars, 80; and the gunboat Lap-
wing, 4. The Gannet, 11, was at Suda Bay on the
25th. The Russian screw steam frigate Le Grand
Admiral, 64, Capt. Stoffiegen (flagship of Rear-
Admiral Schestakoff), arrived on Monday from
Scanderoon. The screw storeship Supply, 2, Master-
Com. Balliston, left on Thursday last for England.
She takes home old stores and sculptures from Cy-
rene. The Rev. R. B. Howe, naval chaplain, took
passage by her. The screw frigate Melpomene, 51,
Capt. Ewart, left this island on Saturday morning
for Tunis, to convey thither the English Consul-Ge-
neral, Mr. R. Wood, who has been absent for some
time past on a mission in Syria. It is rumoured
that a serious disturbance has broken out in Tunis.
The presence of a British frigate in the bay at pre-
sent will be hailed with joy by the Christian popu-
lation. The Liffey, 51 ; Raeoon, 22; and Lapwing, 4,
are ordered home. Her Majesty's ships in port are
the Marlborough, 131; the Hibernia, receiving-ship;
the Neptune, 90 ; the Amphion, 36 ; the Terrible,
21; the Pelican, 17 ; the Intrepid, 6 ; the Surprise,
4; and the Hearty tug. The foreign ships are the
Russian frigate Le Grand Amiral. The Malta and
Alexandria telegraph continues to work admirably.
It has been made over by the contractors to the Go-
vernment engineer, and will be opened to the public
on Friday next, the Ist of November.
The screw steamship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Arthur
P. E. Wilmot, C. 8., at Plymouth, is spoken of there
as likely to be employed in conveying the contin-
gent to Mexico, and Monday next is named as the
probable day of departure.
Orders were received yesterday morning at Devon-
port to put into commission the screw steam sloop
Greyhound, 17, with a complement of 170 men.
The officers and crew of the Gladiator, 6, will be
turned over to the Greyhound, and will form the
main portion of her erew.

The Geyser, 6, paddle, sailed from Portsmouth
yesterday for the Clyde, with fresh spars for the
Black Prince, to replace those damaged by her re-
cent heeling over.
The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent,
gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, yesterday steamed out
of Portsmouth harbour with a flotilla of ships' boats
under sail, and each earrying an Armstrong in its
bows, with which a variety of evolutions were gone
through at Spithead,
The Edgar, 89, screw, Capt. George P. Mends,
refitting at Portsmouth, is reported for service in
the Mediterranean.

The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle yesterday left
Woolwich by an Admiralty order on special service.
Commander Lysaght, in charge of the flagship Fis-
gard, at Woolwich, on Saturday despatched 112 able-
bodied seamen to Sheerness, to assist in manning the
51 screw steam frigate Phaeton, and yesterday he

forwarded an equal number for the same purpose.

Yesterday the shipwrights at Chatham dockyar
commenced removing the launching cleats from the
Rattlesnake, 21, screw steamer, in the fourth dock at
Chatham, and also made preparations for coppering
her. During the time she has been lying in the har-
bour since she was launched, her engines and ma-
chinery have been fitted on board by the contractors,
Messrs. Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., and from the
preliminary trial already made a 'very high rate of
speed is anticipated when the steamer proceeds on
her trial trip.
The Rosario, 11, screw steam sloop, 150-horse
power, was placed alongside the coal-ship in the
Medway yesterday and commenced taking in her
coals preparatory to going on her trial trip for the
purpose of testing her machinery.
The Dutch East Indiaman Constance, which came
into collision with an American liner in the Channel
while proceeding to Batavia with Dutch troops, and
which necessitated her being docked at Sheerness,
has had a thorough refit and the injuries she sus-
tained made good. She has been removed from the
basin to the harbour in order to re-embark her
officers and troops, who have been accommodated
on board one of the vessels of war attached to the
reserve during the time the vessel has been under

repair.
The Firebrand, 6, Commander J. Bruce, has re-
ceived orders to remain at Sheerness until the Orion,
00, line-of-battle screw steamer, Capt. J.B. E. Frere,
is paid ports,that
twill
ocre crew belonging when
she il
to thy 1
embarkwestern
ceed to Portsmouth and Plymouth with them.
Directions have been received at Chatham for the
iron-plated steamer Resistance, 22, to be furnished
with the following armament, in lieu of that previ-
rcmwstt.,roanngds9;
ffoeeutr64oin..pehouens lioerngA;rmfosutrrolnoaoB-:
ously ordered :-12 68-pounder smooth bore guns,
each
o un pounder r9AS
each of 32 cwt. ; and two 100-pounder Armstrong
pivot guns.
The ecrew steamships Conqueror and Donegal,
preparing
at Plymouth for a distant voyage, are
ordered to ship guns, probably Armstrongs, from
the gun wharf in llamoaze.
The screw steam corvette Satellite, 21, was put
into No. 3 dock at Keyham steam-yard yesterday
morning to have her bottom cleaned before making
a trial at sea, and being placed in the first division
of the steam reserve ; she is rigged, stored, &c.
The screw steamship Aboukir, 86, Capt. F. A.
Shadwell, C. 8., at Plymouth, takes on board super-
numerary seamen to fill vacancies in the fleet in the
Mediterranean, where her stay will be short.
Admiralty orders were yesterday received at Chat_
ham for the Severn, 51, screw steamer, 500-horse
power, now attached to the second division Of
steam reserve, to be brought forward for thefitat _

division, to replace the Phaeton, 51, commissioned
by Captain E. Tatham. The Newcastle, 51, 600-
horse power, now belonging to thethird-class steam
reserve, is to be brought forward to take the place
of the Severn, 51, in the second division.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :---George A. Macfarlane, master,
additional, to the Asia, for the Vigilant ; William
Hains, master, additional, to the Indus, for
the Princess Royal ; James M, Shane, mas-
ter, to the Conqueror ; Dr. John T. Caddy,
surg,, to the Phaeton ; William H. Adam, Burg., to
the Cadmus ; George V. M'Donough, surg., to the
Porcupine ; Thomas Rocke, assist..surg., to the
Phaeton; George H. Maunsell, assist.-surg., con-
firmed to the Hornet ; Edward P. Forrest, assist.-
Burg., to the Conqueror; Charles J. Devonshire,
assist: surg., to the Colossus ; W. N. Cooey, chief
engineer, to the Cumberland, for charge of the ma-
chinery of the Orion when paid off ; L. P.
J.W
illiams,
midshipman, to the Donegal ; Abraham
acting assist.-surg., to the Phaeton ; William P.
hC
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ra
ap
e, actingoh d .
confirmed to the
cl attsBs2isatE.s-issutr...ge.n,
gtointehere,Aboukir ; J. Tur-
Ariadne ; J. Wootton, second-class assist.-engineer,
to the Immortalite ; J. Boulton, second-class assist.-
engineer, confirmed in the Doris; E. H. Willey,
second-class assist: engineer, confirmed in the Re-
venge; M. J. Shannon, acting second-class assist.-
engineer, borne in the Indus for the Avon ; C. F.
Gregory, acting second-class assist.-engineer in
the Ajax, allowed to changed ships; W. T.
Wheeler, A. S. De Riddler, and W. T. R. Gow,
master's assistants, additional, to the Orpheus ;
Cecil P. Walker, clerk, to the Sanspareil ; and T.
W. Cleave, clerk, to the Blenheim. First Lieut. J.
M. Hamilton, R.M., to be Adjt. ; First Lieut. J. D.
Broughton, R.M., quartermaster; and Captain J.
Huskisson, R.M., paymaster, of the Staff of the
battalion of the Marines under orders for particular
service.