The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-20 00:00:00

THE BRITISH FLEET IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN.

Letters from Malta of the 12th instant announce
the return of the six line-of-battle ships, namely,
the Queen, Caledonia, Powerful, Vengeance, Howe,
and Bellerophon, in consequence of the termination
of the Greek affair. These ships were accompanied
by two steamers, the Dragon and Firebrand. The
Spiteful was dispatched by Sir W. Parker to Naples,
with a view, it was said, of demanding reparation of
the KING for losses sustained by the English in 1848.
The Vengeance was to sail for England on the'l4th,
and the Howe on the 16th. The Trident packet had
arrived from the lonian Islands and Greece ; 'all was
tolerably quiet there. The Growler hid seen oidaed-
to Corfu from Cephalonia,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Amongst the visitors
present at 'her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, we
remarked his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and
Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulet, the Duke of
Leeds, the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow, Madlle.
Olga de Lechner and Madlle. de Brunnow, his Excellency
the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excel-
lency the American Minister and Mrs. and Miss Abbott Law-
rence, M. de Berg, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Douro, the Countess of Glengall, the Earl of Malmesbury,
the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Aboyne. Her
Majesty's box was occupied by Lady Caroline Barrington,
Miss Barrington, Mrs. Lambton, the Misses Lambton, Mr.
Barrington, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and
party. There were also present Viscount Cantilupe,
Vis-
count Dupplin, Viscount Clifden, the Baroness (Dowager)
de Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild,
Sir Anthony and Lady Rothschild, Lord Sandys, Lady Har-
riet Hay, Lord Harry Vane, Lord George Paget, Lord and
Lady Francis Gordon, Lady Julia Hay, Lord William Clin-
ton, Lord Gardner, Lord and Lady William Powlett, Captain
the Hon. A. Vivian, the Hon. R. C. Neville, the Hon.
Claude Lyon, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward and Miss
Cox, the Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope, the Hon. Gilbert Stapleton,
Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Major-General Sir Richard
Armstrong, Bart., Lady Montresor, Mr. and Lady M. Mil-
banke Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., and
Miss kerrison, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Wood-
ford, Bart., and Lady Woodford, General Sir F. French,
Bart., Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart., Mr. and Lady Jane
Repton and Lady Elizabeth Repton, Sir Michael Hicks
Birch, &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty's box, on
Saturday evening, was occupied by the Earl and Countess
of Shelburne, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn and party.
Amongst the more distinguished company present we re-
marked his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and
Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis of Granby, M.P., the
Marquis of Douro, M.P., the Marchesa Brancaleoni and
Madlle. Brancaleoni, the Marchioness Dowager of Downshire
and Lady Mary Hood, the Countess of Wilton and Lady C.
G. Egerton and Lord R. Grosvenor, the Earl and Countess 4?f
Bradford and the Ladies Bridgman and Miss Moncrietr, the
Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Gifford, the Earl Bruce, the Earl
of Mountcharles,. Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Somerton,
M.P., Viscount Combermere and the lion. Miss Cotton; and
Major the Hon. Stapleton. Cotton, M.P., and Mrs. Stapleton
Cotton, Lord George Manners, M.P., Lord Cosmo Russell
and Lady Rachel Russell, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord and Lady
Poltimore, Lady Charlotte Egerton and party, Lady William
Powlett and party, Lady Caroline Morse and the Misses
Morse, Lord and Lady Eddisbury and the Hon. Misses
Stanley, Hon. Francis Charteris, • M.P., and Lady Anne
Charteris, Hon. Elmund Phipps, Lord Colville, lion. Theo
bald Dillon, Hox. George Milles, Hon. Mrs. E. P. Bouverie
and party, Colonel the Hon. R. Fitzgibbon, Mrs. Fitzgibbon,
and party, Major the lion. R. Needham, Hon. John Fortes-
cue, M.P., Hon. A. Willoughby, Sir Harry Webb, Sir G.
Armitage, Sir G. and Lady H. Boswell, Sir F..Thesiger, M.P.,
and Lady Thesiger and Miss Thesiger, Sir Thomas Hare,
Lady Hall and party, Lady Johnstone and Miss Johnstone,
Mrs. Charles Mills and Miss Mills, General Count Cabrera
and Miss Richards, Lord and Lady Paget, lioa. Frederick
Leveson Gower, Lady Augusta Vernon Wentworth and Miss
Wentworth, Sir Robert and Lady Pigot, Sir John Burgoyne
and Mi,s Burgoyne,Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss Vernon,
Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Colonel Blane, Lord Ernest
Bruce, M.P., &c.
A BRITISH MAN-OE•WAR AS SHE OUGHT TO BE.
—lt is ',nil known to all our naval readers that H.M.S.
Thetis, Captain Codrington, is in a high state of discipline.
In one of our letters from the squadron at Lisbon we find
the following statement :—On a recent occasion, all the cap.
tains of the squadron being assembled on board the Commo-
dore's ship, the Commodore, observing that the decks of the
Thetis were encumbered with sails, preparatory to bending
them, said, "Now, I will show you how that ship works";
and made signal, "Send all your boats, manned and armed,
to the flag-ship." Now, the severity of the trial consisted
in the fact that the decks were lumbered. The boats were
tossed out, and left the ship in sixteen minutes, fully armed
and equipped—great guns, email arms, provisions, arid 60-
rounds of ball cartridge each man. On the arrival of the
boats at the flag-ship, the Commodore gave then a most
ecrutinous overhaul, and not an article was found missing of
the hundreds which go in the boats on such occasions, and
he then made the signal, "The boats were sent with great
expedition and in excellent order." After the boats had left,
and notwithstanding the withdrawal of so many men, the
remainder bent sails: One night the Commodore visited her
in the middle of the night. They instantly beat to quarters,
and in eight minutes the ship was cleared for action, guns
loaded, magazine open, &c., &c.-Portsmouth Times and Nava
Gazette.

FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Thursday morn-
ing, shortly after nine o'clock, the inhabitants of Gower-
street, Bedford-square, were thrown into a state of consider-
able alarm by the frightful catastrophe which occurred at the
residence of W. Wren, Esq., of No. 73, Gower-street. The
governess to the family of the gentleman abovenamed had
been for a considerable period in charge of the younger chil-
dren. On Thursday morning the family were suddenly
aroused by a fearful shriek from one of the domestics, and,
upon rushing into the passage they ascertained that the
governess had precipitated herself from the third floor win-
dow into the back area—a depth of 60 feet. She Was raised
up totally insensible, and shockingly injured. The unfortu-
nate creature having been carried into the house, she was
promptly attended by Mr. Whedburne, who foudd that she
had sustained concussion of the brain, a compound fracture
of the left arm, and such other complicated injuries that,
after affording temporary assistance and restoring her to a
partial state of consciousness, he suggested her removal to
the University Hospital, where she received every possible
aid that medical skill could devise. Last evening she was in
a very precarious condition.

POOLE.—aCCIDENTAL DISEOYS/LF OF LARGE
QUANTITY OF ToitiAcco.—A few days since, as party of
lads were out, getting birds' eggs, in a part of he cliff at
Studlaud, near Ballard Head, they accidentally d covered a
large quantity of unmanufactured tobacco, whiclf had evi-
dently been secreted there. Information having been for-
warded to the Customs the whole was taken posselsion of on
Friday, and lodged in our Custom-house. The quantity, it
is stated, is upwards of two tons welght. 7.11 fortunate
finders will, of course, be entitled to a large h'itha, r the dis-
covery.--Sherburne Journal. • +;t J.;
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