The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

MALTA, OCT. 4 —On Saturday afternoon the
Frolic hove in sight, making signals that her second-
lieutenant, Dent ; her surgeon, M`Whinnie ; her
assistant-surgeon, Rose ; and four men, were ill, and
she wanted a boat to convey them to the hospital. A
covered boat was immediately sent by order of Rear-
Admiral Harvey, and the lieutenant and surgeon with
four men put on board and conveyed to the hospital;
the Rear-Admiral shortly after visiting them, and
offering consolation in a manner so unaffectedly and
friendly as to convey an immediate sense of his sin-
cerity and goodness of heart to the suffering patients.
Mr. Rose, the assistant-surgeon, it was not thought
necessary to send to the hospital, but in the crippled
state of the Frolic's medical means, the Rear-Admiral
gave immediate orders to Assistant-Surgeon Chapman
(of the Medina) to proceed on board and assume the
duties of the surgeon, then seriously ill in hospital—a
mandate which Mr. Chapman most willingly obeyed,
although suffering from weakness of body, having
only quitted the Royal Naval Hospital two days
before, in which he had been labouring under a very
severe illness, consequent on two attacks of cholera.
It is most gratifying to report that Dr. Chapman's
exertions have been crowned with the most complete
I success ; he had got the assistant-surgeon round, and
on the Bth of October, when the brig came in for
stores for a few hours, his list of sick was very consi•
derably diminished, and but three bad cases remained.
The conduct of Captain Vansittart, as well as that
of his officers and those of his men who were yet
unscathed, was most exemplary. They lent every as-
sistance in their power, the men receiving from the
officers noble examples of what could be done, and
vieing with each other in rubbing those who were
seized with cramp, and administering aid to the
medical men, whose onerous duties were divided
among so many.
If I remember aright, Mr. Chapman, who is an as-
sistant-surgeon of eight years' standing, most emi-
nently distinguished himself in his professional capa-
city in 1847, both in Ireland and Scotland, during
the famine, more especially when engaged in assisting
the distressed districts of the highlands and islands
on the north-west coast of Scotland, in the Porcu-
pine steamer, in which he was then serving, and his
conduct on that occasion called forth the warmest
thanks of Commander R. Maclean, who was engaged

as an inspector in the relief operations. The —aid
thus rendered was acknowledged subsequently by the
Lords of the Admiralty, in their official letter to the
senior officer on the station, Captain H. Layton.
Of the forty-five actual cases of cholera, dysentery,
and diarrhoea on board, only eleven proved fatal, viz.,
three on board and eight in hospital.
I may state, in conclusion, that Lieutenant Dent
and Dr. I\l'Whinnie are doing well, as are all those
under cure.
On board, too, the disease has yielded to the active
remedies employed • and, unless from causes as yet
unforeseen, the Frolic will in all probability escape
the further effects of the dreadful affliction.
It is worthy of especial remark, that when the
Frolic was out of sight of the island, no attacks were
recorded ; but no sooner had she reached the island
than the disease manifested itself.
It is impossible to assign any cause for the sudden
appearance of the dreadful malady after the brig bad
been in port without a single case occurring a full
fortnight.

THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE
OF TRAFALGAR.
The anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar was
celebrated yesterday at the various professional clubs
in town and country, and on board many of the ships
in the ports.
At Portsmouth the old Victory was dressed out
with wreaths of evergreens at the trucks of her mast-
heads and ensign staff, &c.
The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir B. Cape!
(who had the honour to command the Phoebe frigate
in this memorable action), gave a grand dinner, and
Lady Capel had a ball in the evening, to which a
large number of ladies and naval and military officers
were invited.
Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence also
had a grand field-day on Southsea-common, in honour
of the occasion ; he commanded in person. The
Royal Marines came over from Forton. The 28th,
50th, and 82d Regiments—Royal Marines, Royal
Marine Artillery, and Royal Artillery, with their
guns—were brigaded, and went through a variety of
field evolutions.
The following are the surviving Trafalgar officers
on the flag-list :—Admiral Sir Edward Codrington,
G.C.8., G.C.M.G., the only survivor who commanded
a line-of-battle ship (Orion), in the action; the Hon.
Sir Thomas Bladen Capel, Commander-in-Chief at
Portsmouth; Vice-Admiral R. Thomas; Rear-
Admiral Pasco (Nelson's flag-lieutenant who gave
the memorable signal) ; Sir A. P. Green, K.C.H. ;
Sir G. R. Sartorious.
Retired Rear-Admirals—T. F. C. Mainwaring,
Abel Ferris, Colin Campbell, J. Symes, L. Holes,
F. J. Thomas, H. Robinson, D. Scott.
Captains (Greenwich Hospital)—G. Moubray, T.
Dickinson.
Captains (Retired)—G. W. H. D'Aeth, W. S.
Lovell, K.H. ; J. Rattray, G. Hewson, E. Barnard,
J. Hay, H. Patton, H. Forbes, A. D. Y. Arbuthnott,
R. Patton, J. W. Dalling.
Captains (Active List)---W. W. Henderson, C. 8.,
K.H., J. Carter, Earl of Egmont, Sir J. A. West-
phal, W. Walpole, H. W. Bruce, N. Duff, J. H.
Plnmridge, Sir J. Franklin, C 8., J. Lyons, W.
Blight, S. Burgess, J. Hindinarsh, K.H., J. Drake,
W. A. Herringham, W. Robertson, R. Meredith, M.
H. Sweny, Sir W. H. Pierson, A. Jackraft, W.
Shepheard, J. P. Parkin, J. Gape, W. J. T. Hood.
Captains (Retired 1840)—W. Coote, Thomas Pinto,
G. Brown. H. N. Rowe, J. Clepham, W. Buchanan,
and W. Murley.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN (COLE.—The decease of Cap-
tain Charles Crole (1828), has been reported. This
gallant officer, who was related to the late Earl of
Egremont, entered the navy in 1806, and has served
afloat 18 years. In November, 1809, when belong-
ing to the Chiffonne, 36, he participated in the attack
on the pirates in the Persian Gulf; was promoted
October 1813 ; was flag lieutenant to Sir C. Home
Popham and Sir C. Rowley; was promoted to the
command of the Icarus, sloop, May, 1822, afterwards
commanded the Surinam, 18, in the West Indies, and
was promoted from command of the Columbine, 18,
since which time he has not served afloat.
Surgeon William Vellacott (1809), died, Oct. 11,
at Braunton, North Devon, aged 63. He was on the
list of surgeons unfit for further service at sea.
Alban, steam-tender, Lieut. Commander Cranford,
arrived at Antigua from Devonport, Sept. 21, short of
coals, and proceeded to Jemaica.
Lightning, steam -tender, Lieut. Commander
Pettey, arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday from
Woolwich, and remained about two hours, when she
proceeded on to the westward.
APPOINTMENTS IN THE COAST GUARD.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 21.—Commander John Elliot
Bingham (1840), from the Clyde, to the Hastings
district, vice Mottley (1843), whose period of service
has been completed; Henry St. John Georges (1845),
to the Harwich district, Nice Alfred N. Fairman
(1846) to the Clyde district; Alexander Little (1846),
to be an inspecting commander of the Lyme dis-
trict, vice Thomas Carpenter (1841), resigned, owing
to ill health.
Lieutenant George Bourchier Dewes (1841), to
the command of the station at St. Lawrence, vice
John H. Crang (1840), appointed to the Geyser
steam-sloop at Woolwich.
Second Master John Hales (b) (1829), to com-
mand at the station at Prussia Cove, vice Lieutenant
Norton S. Sulivan.
The Leopold, 12, steam-frigate, building at Dept-
ford, and to be fitted with engines of 500 -horse
power, is ordered to be launched on thu sth of No-
vember next.
The Furious steam-sloop, having had her mainmast
taken out and the 500 tons of ballast she had on board
when brought round to Woolwich, is to be taken up
to-morrow to the East India Docks at Blackwell to
have her engines put in. The Monkey steam-vessel,
after towing her up the river, will proceed to Dept-
ford to tow the Iphigenia to Woolwich to be dis-
mantled, previous to her being broken up at Deptford.
The Resistance, • Master-Commander Bradshaw,
has taken the baggage:of the three companies of Roy al
Artillery under orders for Gibraltar, Malta, and
Corfu on board to-day, and the companies embark at
1 P.M. to-morrow. The Resistance will leave Wool-
wich on Thursd ly for her de_stination.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime
than the most noble and most expressive eloquence.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.
ZOOLOGICAL CUIOSITIES.--"Galignanis Paris Mes-
senger says—The Jardin des Plantes at present possesses two
animals which are altogether out of the common pale of
zoological classification. One is an hermaphrodite ass, am.
the other a calf with two heads. The former is a native o
Africa, of small stature, grey in colour, and timid of character;
the latter is a stout healthy animal of a black colour, having
affixed to its regular neck a long, thin, cord-like appendage,
in wh ch an artery is felt to beat, and which terminates in a
sort of fleshy ball, divided at the end, and having two jaws
and a sort of tongue, the latter always in motion. Both of
these animals may be seen in the large rotunda in which the
zebras are placed.
OAKTIABL—A man named Jacob Cliff, of Morcott,
was yesterday. morning apprehended it this place, by Mr.
Garton, superintendent of police, having in his possession
the hair of more than 40 tails of horses, supposed to have
been cut from animals iu the neighbourhood. A large quan-
tity of hair from the manes of horses and from the tail of a
cow was also found upon him, and a fowl, partly plucked.
He is remanded until inquiries are instituted in order 1,0 find
owners for the property.—Stamford Mercury.
The Lord Bishop of Exeter held a confirmation at
Dawlish on Friday last, when about 1,500 received the bless-
ing, The display of head gear made one of the most ex-
traordinary spectacles ever witnessed in a Protestant church,
and one could scarcely bring himself to believe that a sister-
hood of nuns were not taking part in the ceremony from the
white veils thrown over the face, which was, we understand,
the order of the vicar of West Teignmouth. —Exeter Flying
root,