The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-28 00:00:00

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In 12nm., price 2s. sewed, or cloth 24. ,1(1..
.14. N ACCOUNT of A JOURNEY through
NOILTII-EASTERN TEXAS, undertaken in 1849, for the
Plirposcs of Em;gration. Embodied in a Report : to which are
appended, letters and vei,tal communications from erninent indivi-
daaals lists of temperature ; of prices of land, pr3duce, and articles
of merchandise, and of co3t, of carriage and labour, in several parts
of the western and southern states; and the recenily-adopted con-
stitution of Texas ; with mans from the last authentic survey.

EDIVAIZI) 8.A.. &c.
"A very able wore."—Sun, 'Jan. 21st, 1850.
London :iton Adams and Co. Birmingham : B. Hudson

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rear-Admiral Austen' C. 8., tho newly-appointed
commander-in-chief to the East India station, and
his secretary, go out overland to the East Indies ; but
his fig-lieutenant, Mr. Purvis, will proceed by the

son route in the Hecate steam-sloop, Comniander
Shad xell, expected at Portsmouth from Washington,
which vessel will return her present crew to the Ex-
cellent, and enter a new ship's company, and will be
employed on the East India and China station. She
is hourly expected at Spithead, having left Bermuda
on the Bth.
L'eutenant Rice, appointed second lieutenant of the
Hastings, accompanies the Gallant Admiral overland
to join his ship.
We hear that the Fury steam-sloop, Commander
Willcox, communicated to Commodore Plumridge, in
the Cambrian, 80, the intelligence of the death of

Sir F. Co r, and then proceeded to Bombay to be
docked. Commodore Piurnridge had hoisted a red
pendant, and had given Commander Morris an acting
appointment as captain (the second time during. the
C unbrian's service on the station). It was likely the
commodore would proceed to China by steam-packet,
leaving the Cambrian to follow him.

VICE-ADMIRAL THE EARL OF DUNDONALD,
G.C.8., THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN THE WEST
INDIES.—We learn be letters from Bermuda that the
Noble and Gallant Commandetein-Chief was to leave
that place in his filg•ship for Port Royal on the 16th
January. The screw-corvette, Plumper, was to ac-
company him.
THE COURT OF INQUIRY AT DEVONPORT.—The
Court of Inquiry at the Royal Naval Hospital termi-
nated their labours on Thursday, and transmitted
their report to the Admiralty. Sir W. Burnett was
not a member of the court, but was present by order
of the Admiralty on the first day. We copy the fol-
lowing
from the United Service Gazette :—" The
present inquiry, from all we can gather, is instituted
to ascertain the facts with reference to certain returns
of the number of cases of cholera in the hospital
during the late awful visitation in that neighbour-
hood. Same culpable errors, it is alleged, have been
committed in the description. In the weekly returns
made to the captain superintendent during the pre-
valence of the epidemic, the number of cases is
stated at 60, and the deaths 35 ' • but in the
nosological quarterly returns it is shown that there
were 112 cases, with the same number of deaths
(35), making it appear that the medical staff had
been doubly successful in their treatment of cholera ;
whereas the true state of the case is, that nearly all
the cases of diarrhea that appeared in the weekly
returns have been twisted into cholera." Another
authority (the Devonport Telegraph), says—" As far
as we can glean, the inquiry appears to have arisen in
the inspector, Dr. Rae's, refusal to comply with a
request of the captain-superintendent to be furnished
with information on modes of medical practice, a
request which the inspector considered extra-judicial,
and on this ground refused compliance. A lengthened
official correspondence was the consequence, and
eventually Dr. Rae requested he might be suspended
until the question between himself and the super-
intendent, Captain Toup Nicolas, was officially
decided." A third report says it was in consequence
of Captain Nicolas's discovery one morning that a se-
vere case of cholera bad been brought to the hospital
one afternoon, and the head of the medical establish-
ment knew nothing about it the next morning at
nine o'clock. Captain Toup Nicolas, at the opening,
protested against Sir W. Burnett being present, and
his name and conduct having been freely introduced,
applied to the President to be heard before the Court
on the following day, which request was granted, and
the Curt re-assembled at half-past one, P.M., on
Thursday, when further evidence was brought for-
ward, Sir William Burnett not being present on this
occasion. It appears that there have been constant
bickerings between the executive and the medical
men ; the former maintaining his superior authority,
and the other class regarding its exercise as unwar-
rantable interference. Those, however, who know
anything of Captain Nicolas may be well assured that
he will not omit a single point of duty himself, nor
will he allow any one under him to do so ; and that,
so long as the Admiralty retains him at the head of
the establishment, he will do his duty, and that
without fear or favour.