The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-16 00:00:00

the contractor may be lost by the contracts having
expired, and the accounts having been closed before
the receipt of such details of purchase.
"6. I am to add that the necessary forms cf
account for carrying into effect these instructions
can be obtained upon application to the chief clerk of
the principal storekeeper of the Ordnance Department,
Tower.

" I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" L. SULIVAN."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
APPOINTMENTS.

ADMIRALTY, TlTEiDAY.—Master John R. Aylen
(1838), of the Fisgard flag-ship, at Woolwich, has
been appointed to command. the Birkenhead iron
steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, as a troop-ship, that
vessel having been most expeditiously, successfully,
and economically employed on previous occasions for
the conveyance of troops.
Second Masters—E. M. Vincent (1844), of the
Britannia ordinary guard-ship, at Portsmouth ; and
F. It. Ch►ld (1845), late of the Athol! troop-ship, to
the Birkenhead.
Clerk—W. H. J. Brown (1849), to the Birkenhead.
Master's Assistants—J. R. Allen and H. P. Ward,
to the Birkenhead.
The Right Hon. Sir F. Baring, Bart., First Lord
of ti!e Admiralty ; Rear-Admiral the Hon. M. F. F.
Berkeley, C.B. ; and Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8.,
with the Surveyor of the Navy, Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker, K.C.B and the Chief Civil Engineer and

Director of Works, Colonel Green, left the Admiralty
yesterday, on an official visit to Chatham and Sheer-
ness Dockyards. Their Lordships proceeded from
Chatham to Sheerness in the Admiralty yacht, Black
Eagle, Master-Commander Cook, ordered round from
Woolwich to the former port.
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., has returned
to the Admiralty, from Chipping Norton.
Captain A. Milne has proceeded to Inveresk.
The promotions for services in the North Star,
Master-Commander Saunders, have been made. They
include the Assistant-Surgeon, Dr. James Rae;
Second-Masters, Way and Norman ; and Clerk in
Charge, James J. Rutter.
Assistant-Surgeon Richard Croker Russell
(1844), from the Britannia, at Portsmouth, to the
Wizard, apprentices' brig, at Queenstown, vice Dr.
Henry F. William, who has resigned the service.
The Mediterranean fleet is now, we are happy to
say, clear of the cholera.
We regret to state that Lieutenant Norton S.
Sulivan (1846), who has been serving as chief officer
of the Prussia Cove coast-guard station near Pen-
zance, fell from his horse on Saturday last and was
killed.

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE MODESTE.-Halford and
Co. have given notice to the officers and crew of the
Modeste, Harry Eyrs, Esq., captain, that on the 6th
of November next they will be paid, at 41, Norfolk-
street, Strand, their proportions of bounty money re-
ceived for the Anna Feliz, captured Nov. 26, 1839;
and the shares will be re-called every Wednesday
and Thursday for three months to come :-Flag,
131. ss. 10d. ; commander, 241. 18s. 6d.; first class,
71.188. 7d.; second, 41. 15s. 2d.; third, 21. 7s. 7d. ;
fourth, 1/. lls. Bd.; fifth, 15s. 101 ; sixth, 103. 6d.;
seventh, ss. 3d.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE DART.-Halford and Co.
have given notice to the officers and crew of the. Dart,
when commanded by Lieutenant Edward Hill, that
on the 6th of November they will be paid at Norfolk-
street, Strand, their proportions of bounty money and
proceeds received for the undermentioned captures,
and the shares will be recalled every Wednesday and
Thursday for three months to come. Boni Destino,
captured Sept. 19, 1848 :-Flag, 551. 2s. 6d.; third
class, 1361. 7s. 10d.; fourth, 34/. ls. 11d.; fifth,
301. 13s. 9d.; sixth, 201.95. 2d.; seventh, 17/. Os. 11d.;
eighth, 131. 12s. 9d.; ninth, 10/. 4s. 7d.; tenth,
Cl. 16s. 4d.; eleventh, 51.23. 3d.; twelfth, 3/. Bs. 2d;
thirteenth, 2/. 11s. ld. For New Packet, captured
October 4, 1848, a boat of her Majesty's ship Pene-
lope in company :-Flag, 44/. Bs. 11d.; third class,
97/. 178. 3d. ; fourth, 24/. 9s. 3d. ; fifth, 22/. Os. 4d.;
sixth, 14/. 13s. 7d. ; seventh, 121. 4s. 7d.; eighth,
9/. 155. Bd.; ninth, 71. Cs. 9d. ; tenth, 4/. 17s. 10d.;
eleventh, 3/. 131. 4d. ; twelfth, 2/. Bs. 11d. ; thirteenth,
1/. 16s. Bd.

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE DOLPHIN.— Ommanney,
Son, and Co., have given notice to the officers and
crew of the Dolphin, when commanded by Lieut.
the Hon. R. Boyle (whom we regret to find re►nains
unpromotcd) who are entitled to share for the Brazi-
lian brig Braziliense, captured on the 12th of October,

1848, that a distribution of the bounty monies granted
for the said capture will be made at No. 40, Charing-
cross, on the 6th of November next, and that the
shares not then paid will be re-called at the same
place :—Flag, 1921. 12s. 5d.; lieutenant and com-
mander, 4741. 123. 6d. ; fourth class, 1181. 13s. ld. ;
fifth, 1061. 15s. 9d.; sixth, 71/. 33. 10d. ; seventh,
591.65. 6d. ; eighth, 471.95. 3d. ; ninth, 351. lls. 11d. ;
tenth, 231.145. 7d.; eleventh, 17/. 15s. 11d.; twelfth,
111. 17e. 3d. ; thirteenth, 8/. 17s. 11d.

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE 130 NETTA.-Messrs.
Stil well have given notice to the officers and company
of the Bonetta, Frederick E. Forbes, Esq., lieutenant
commanding (now commander), that they will be
paid, on Tuesday, the 29th instant, at No. 22,
Arundel-street, Strand, their respective proportions of
proceeds and bounty for the slave schooner Louisa,
seized on the 4th of September, 1848, in company
with her Majesty's sloop Sealark, and that the list
will be re-called on Tuesdays and Thursdays the
three following months :—Flag share, 131. ls. Id. ;
lieutenant commanding, 11/. 15s. ; fourth class,
21. 18s. 91. ; fifth, 2/. 12s. lid.; sixth, 1/. Ma. 3d.;
seventh, 1/. 93. sd. ; eighth, 1/. 33. 6d.; ninth,l7s. Bd. ;
tenth, lie. 9d.; eleventh, Bs. 101; twelfth, ss. lid.;
thirteenth, 4s. sd.
MORTALITY ON THE COAST OF AFRICA.—We
have seen a private letter from the coast of Africa,
dated Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Adams, Bight
of Benin, Aug. 10, 1850, in which, to our great re-
gret, it is stated that two melancholy and fatal inci-
dents connected with the Gladiator's prizes had oc-
curred. In one of the prizes which she had captured
and burnt, Second Master Mliiddle and two seamen,
who had been actively employed in her, were
seized with the fever. Happily the officer re-
covered • but the poor men died. The other prize
was a ene vessel of 200 tons, and she was sent away
to St. Helena, in charge of Mr. Jones, master's as-
sistant. Two days after he left the Gladiator he was
seized with the fever; he lingered for twelve days,
and then expired, leaving directions about the naviga-
tion of the ship. Shortly after, however, two of the
men also fell victims to the fever, and the remaining
six, being more or less ill, determined to bear up for
the coast. In doing so they got on shore at Fernando
Po, but: 'ere assisted off without damage, and at the
date of our friend's letter she was in harbour there,
and it was likely she would be ordered to be dis-
charged..

The Gladiator was coaling for the first time for
three months, and was receiving on board 200 tons.
The Hccla steam•vessel, Commander Beauchamp,
and Wolverine, 12, Commander M. Falcon, had each
taken a prize. The former was off Lagos; the latter
was off Porto Nuovo.
The Jackal', tender to the Gladiator, was off
Prince's Island.

Commodore-Superintendent H. Eden, of Wool-
wich Dockyard ; Captain-Superintendent Richards,
C. 8., of Chatham Dockyard ; and Mr. Nicholls,
Clerk of the Cheque at Greenwich Hospital, have
been constituted a committee at Deptford Victualling
Establishment to investigate some matters of com-
plaint with respect to the bakery department.
The Hercules troop-ship, Master-Commander
Fulton, will be ready for reloading, at Greenhithe,
on the 17th.

The Resistance troop-ship, Master-Commander
Bradshaw, will not receive the baggage of the troop
at Woolwich before the 20th instant.

The Retribution, 22, steam-frigate, Captain War-
den, left Queenstown on Sunday for a cruise.
PORTSMOUTII, TUESDAY.—The Dauntless steam-
frigate, Captain Halstead, has been paid advance at
Spithead to-day, and will sail to-morrow morning for
Cork, and thence to Lisbon.
The following officers passed the College last week :
For Lieutenants—Messrs. Lewis Barstow, F. M.
Noel, W. H. Truscott, and Thomas Stackhouse.
For Masters—Messrs. F. C. Cooper, J. Winnicott,
T. S. Hayward, J. Hutchings, and G. R. Morrison.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander G. S. Hand,
is fitting out for service on the home station, it is re-
ported in the room of the Stromboli.
The Birkenhead iron steam-frigate was ordered to
be brought down from her moorings and immediately
equipped, to transport stores and provisions with all
dispatch to the Island of Ascension.

A FEMALE BURNT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.--
On Monday morning Mrs. Stacey, a young married woman,
Snow's-fields, Bermondsey, left
who resides at Suffolk-place,
the Waterloo station for Windsor by the 9 30 excursion
train. The carriage in which she travelled was an open one,
and contained about twenty passengers. On arriving be-
te, een Richmond and Twickenham her muslin drew; was set
on fire by a spark from the engine, and in an instant she was
enveloped in flames. Fortunately a gentleman, who was
sitting by the side of her, had the presence of mind to throw
the affrighted woman down on the flour of the carriage, thus
saving her face front the flames, which extended above her
'aead, and with the prompt assistance of other passengers
succeeded in extinguishing the lire. On arriving at Windsor
Mr. Willmer, the station-master, immediately sent the
sufferer in a carriage to the Royal Dispensary, where she
was attended by Dr. Eton. Fortunately it was then dis-
covered that although her gown and all her under clothes
were burnt en ono side, from the lower part to the waist,
she had miraculously escaped with the burning only of one
of her hands, but was, naturally, in a state of great nervous
excitement from the fright.

FIRE.-A fire was discovered to have broken out
on Monday evening last, about half-past eight o'clock, in a
barn in the occupation of Mr. Cox, near Brockley Hall, in
the parish of Brockley, Somerset, by which about 150 bushels
of wheat were destroyed, together with other property, but
it was got under without doing any extensive damage. Ile
cause of the conflagration is at present unknown, but a
rigorous investigation will take place.