The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 3.--The Howe, 120, Captain
Sir James Stirling, sailed last night for Sheerness to
be paid off.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir Henry Black-
wood, hauled alongside the dockyard jetty yesterday
morning to return superfluous stores prior to re-
fitting. She has been already recommissioned by
Sir Henry Blackwood.
The Medea steam-sloop, Commander N. Lockyer,
will be paid off on Friday. We are requested by
Commander Lockyer to state we were in error with
regard to the threat of firing upon his ship at the
Mauritius.
Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8.,
struck his flag last evening at sunset and went to
London to attend her Majesty's levee this day.
Wind S.S.W., strong gales.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 2.—Her Majesty's frigate
Thetis, 40, Captain H. J. Codrington, was yesterday
visited by Port-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, in
the Sound, when the ship was thoroughly inspected
and the men mustered and exercised with small
arms. The Thetis has her boats stowed in a peculiar
manner, the thwarts of the launch and pin-
nace are made to shift, and being fitted one in the
other, and the barge inside the pinnace, they
occupy very little space on the booms amid-
ships. When the Admiral inspected the ship the
nest of boats was covered over and firmly secured to
the deck for sea service. Within fourteen minutes
after the order was given the boats were cleared,
hoisted one out of the other, thwarts fixed, guns,
provisions, and water placed in them, and the men
fully armed and equipped were on board and alongside
the frigate ready for any service in any direction.
This smart evolution had never been performed be-
fore in less than sixteen minutes. The Confiance last
evening towed the Thetis up Hamoaae, where she is
to be paid off all standing, the unserviceable stores
only to be sent ashore.
When the Thetis was attached to Admiral Parker's
fleet in the Mediterranean, and had her regular sea
stock of water and provisions on board, she took 1,000
bags of bread and 150 tons of other provisions from
Malta to the Dardanelles. Notwithstanding this
great addition to her ordinary equipment, every gun
was ready for action, the capstan clear for working,
and a fair way left to the ship's store-room and
powder magazine. Admiral Parker inspected her in
this eondition, and expressed his admiration of the ar-
rangement effected by Captain Codrington, which was
cleverly done by stowing the goods in the'tween decks,
and berthing the men on the main deck during the
passage.

The merchant ship Eliza, Captain Thomas Pain,
which left Sydney on the 11th of March, and
dropped her mail at Falmouth on the Ist instant, was
off here yesterday and landed Mr. Manning and
Mrs. Wheeler, passengers from China. Trade was
brisk at Sydney, where 14 ships were berthed fur
London, and eight or nine for California. At Ho-
bart Town 19 vessels, measuring in all 3,200 toes,
were laid on for the gold region. The Eliza has pas-
sengers, Captain Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Stranger,
Miss Sands, Mr. F. Smith, Mr. Crighton, and Mr.
Sharpin ; her cargo consisted of 250 tons of copper
ore from Adelaide, and 3,200 bales of wool, besides
oil, tallow, and whalebone from Sydney. She got to
the tropics in 48 days, without going below 57 or
57f deg. June 1, lat. 22 deg. 38 min. N., long. 38
deg. 10 min. W., spoke the Ellen from Glasgow for
Honduras ; on the 3d, lat. 26 deg. 49 min. N., long.
39 deg. 54 min. W., the Medusa, from Ceylon to
London ; on the 4th, lat. 39 deg.: 37 min. N., long.
41 deg. 19 min. W., the Vrow Johanna, from Bata-
via for Rotterdam, out 96 days ; and on the 19th, lat.
43 deg. 16 min. N., long. 29 deg. 10 min. W., the
Caroline, from Barbadoes for Dublin, out 27 days.
Wind S.W., smart breeze.

WooLwictr, JULY 3.—The following promotions
were made yesterday at the Admiralty, they are all
dated July 1 :

Mate John K. Simcoe (1848), recently serving in
the Alarm, 26, on the North America and West Indies
station, to be Lieutenant.

Mate John Trevenan (1848), serving iu the Ocean,
80, flag-ship at Sheerness, to be Lieutenant.
Mate Thomas B. Legh (1848), serving in the Fire-
brand steam-frigate, on the Mediterranean station, to
be Lieutenant.

Mate George Grey (1848), serving in the Bonetta,
3, brigantine, on the coast of Africa, to be Lieu-
tenant.

date John Hutchinson (1848), serving as acting-
mate in the Herald, 22, surveying-vessel, i❑ the Pa-

cific, to be Lieutenant.
Mate Arthur R. Fox (1848), serving in the Helena,
16, sloop, on the North America and West Indies sta-
tion, to be Lieutenant.
Commanders W. F. Burnett (1846), John Ormsby
Johnson (1849), and T. A. B Spratt (184 S)), com-
menced a course of study of steam at the factory at
Woolwich on the 26th of March last, and having
completed the requisite period of study, were ex.
amined by Mr. Trickett, assistant to the Chief Engi-
neer, and have this day obtained certificates of their
proficiency.
Lieutenant Meynell IL M. Mundy (1846) is ap-
pointed to study steam at the factory at Woolwich
Dockyard.
Sir Francis T. Baring held a levee yesterday at
Whitehall, which was .attended by the following
officers :

Vice-Admiral Thomas Brown.
Rear-Admirals-John Bret Purvis, Fairfax Moresby,
C. 8., and the Hon. George Poulett.
Captains-Donal Henchy O'Brien (1821), George
R. Lambert (1825), and William J. C. Clifford (1847).
Commanders-John Tudor (1811), Thomas Baring
Bond (1825), James A. Stevens (1842), James B. Wil-
loughby (1846), George Harper (1847), William
Critchell (1848), Gerard John Napier (1849), Richard
Purvis (1849), and Arthur Mellersh (1849).
Lieutenants-William Richard Smith (1841), Gran-
ville R. Moyle (1842), and Francis A. Close (1850).
Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., First Naval Lord,
held a levee yesterday, and it was attended by the
following officers :-
Rear-Admirals-Fairfax, Moresby.
Captains-Donat Henchy O'Brien (1821), William
Ramsay (1838), and Arthur Farquhar (1849).
Commanders-Thomas Baring Bond (1825), James
Agnew Stevens (1842), Charles Starmer (1842), George
Harper (1847), John Ormsby Johnston (1849), Edward
W. Vausittart (1849), and J. F. Arnold (1850).
Lieutenants-Thomas S. Scriven (1822), Edward
Martin Hogge (1841), William Richard Smith (1841),
Granville Richard Moyle (1842), Arthur Robert Henry
(1842), Charles M. Aynsley (1845), Douglas Herbert
(1846), Lemley Woodyear Peyton (1346), John J. S.
Josling (1847), Thomas Saumares (1848), John Bythsea
(1849), and Gilbert Elliot (1850).
Masters-W. H. Thompson (1829), J. B. Tucker
(1830), and John C. Hutchings (1838).
Paymasters and Pursers-J. Mason (1808), Joseph
Martin (1843), and Samuel Winter (1846).
Clerks-E. J. Besuett (1843), and Aug. Ovey (1848).
The Polyphemus steam-sloop is ordered round from
Portsmouth to Woolwich to be made ready for sea at
this port. She is to take round the furniture of Mr.
Macdonald, appointed master-attendant at this yard,
and will leave Portsmouth on the 11th inst. The
riggers employed to bring her round are to return in
the Retribution steam-frigate, and will assist in navi-
gating that vessel, under the charge of Lieutenant
Robertson, to Portsmouth.

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EYENING.—A rather
alarming accident, fortunately attended by no serious
consequences, occurred at twelve o'clock to-day, at the
terminus of the London and North-Western Rail-
way, in Lime-street. A cheap trip bad been got up
in Staffordshire, and a train, consiting of 22 car-
riages, containing probably 500 or 600 persons,
started from Uttoxeter this morning for Liverpool.
At each station at which the train stopped fresh con-
tributions of passengers were supplied, and it pro-
ceeded on its journey " like a snowball gathering."
On arriving at the station at Edge-hill, the guard
of the North Staffordshire Company, who had the
charge of the train, received the assistance of two
experienced breaksmen belonging to the London and
North-Western Company, to conduct the train safely
down the tunnel to Lime-street. As usual, these
men applied the breaks as the train descended the
tunnel, but the North Staffordshire guard, being igno-
rant of the angle of declivity, is supposed to have ne-
glected the same precaution. The consequence
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traffic through this tunnel been managed, that we
believe since its opening this is the only accident
which has occurred.

ADVICE IN STORMS.—At this season of the year,
when we are so often visited with thunder storms, it is, per-
haps, our duty to warn parties from sheltering themselves
under trees of hard wood, which generally attract the electric
fluid. Soft wood is not so dangerous, and, indeed, the beech
tree is said to be a non-conductor of lightning. So notorious
is the fact, that the Indians, wkenover the sky wears the ap-
pearance of a thunder storm, leave their pursuits, and take
refuge under the nearest kcpsh ,toe. Ip .Tetiessee, the
people"cdifsider it a complete prOtection. Dr. Beaton, in a
letter to to Dr. Mitchell, states that the beech is never
known to be struck by atmospheric electricity, while otha
trees an often :battered into oplintem—Seth qagette.