The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-20 00:00:00

THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.

PORT MAHON, MINORCA, Nov. 29.—The Queen, 110,
flag of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, is here, with
the Caledonia, 120; Powerful, 84; Ganges, 84; Superb,
80; and steamers Terrible, 16; Dragon, 6; Firebrand,
8; and Scourge, 6; all healthy. The Dragon arrived
here on the 21st, having left Malta on the 17th. The
Queen has lost 50 hands by cholera since leaving Malta.
The Dragon was put in five days' quarantine; since her
arrival the Zephyyretta yacht put in from Algiers with
a case of cholera on board. The Admiral has lent the
assistant. surgeon of the Terrible to the yacht, and she
left the harbour; she is now at anchor in a neighbour-
ing bay. The squadron have taken out their bills
of health, and expect to sail in a day or two, but for
what plane is not known. It was imagined
the force would return to Malta after Christmas. It
has been said Sir William Parker would take the squa-
dron off Barcelona, and go in there himself in the Scourge,
but the season is now so far advanced it is thought he has
given up the intention. The squadron will, perhaps,
look in at Spessia, which is an excellent harbour about
fifty miles E.S.E. of Genoa. The anchorage (Spezzia)
has been talked of as the winter quarters of the squadron;
latterly the American ships have frequented Spezzia in-
stead of Port Mahon. The people here are disposed to
be very civil to the squadron. Our Gallant Chief has
given one ball, and the officers have given another.
There is a very fair opera company, and altogether
Mahon seems an agreeable place enough; indeed, any-
thing for a change would have been desirable after the
late protracted cruise.
The Growler steam-sloop has gone to Corfu to join
the Frolic, stationed there.
In about tour or five months the new Commander-in-
Chief is expected, and it is pretty well known here who
it is to be, although so much mystery is observed at
home about him.

The squadron is frequently exercised at general
quarters. _ _ .

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate Inde-
fatigable, 50, Captain K. Smart, discharged her powder
on Monday, and was yesterday towed by the Avon
steamer, Master• Commander Veitch, from the Sound
into Hamoaze. After being cast off by the steamer,
the hawser broke, and the frigate tailed down upon the
Cerberus hulk, damaging her stern and carrying away
the figure head and bulwarks of the hulk. After refit-
ment the Indefatigable, it is now said, will proceed to
the West Indies to relieve her Majesty's ship Wellesley,
72, Captain G. Goldsmith.
The Advice steamer, which arrived on Sunday from
Woolwich, sailed yesterday from Queenstown, where
she remains as a steam tender. _

Her ;Majesty's ship Albion, 90, Captain W. H. John-
stone, was paid advance on Monday, and is appoint( d
to sail to-day with supernumeraries tor Malta, where she
relieves her Majesty's ship Powerful, 84, Captain the
Hon. B. S. ,Dundas.
The steam-vessel Vulture made an excursion trip
round the Eddystone on Monday. She started at 11 30
A.m., and returned at 3 30 P.M.
The Liverpool emigrant •ship, Levoic, from Liverpool
for New York, put in yesterday with loss of foreyard
and maintopsuil.
The screw-ship Bosphorus, Captain Hall, sailed at
half-past seven yesterday morning for Madeira, Cape
Verds, Sierra Leone, and the Cape of Good Hope. She
is supplied with 375 tons of Warliche's patent fuel, suffi-
cient for twenty-eight days' consumption. Her screw
propeller is on a novel principle; when not in direct
,ac-
Lion it can be placed fore and att, parallel to the ship a
keel, and thus avoid any impediment to her progress
when under CaTITEW
S only, The experiment is a very