The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE FRENCH FLEET.—We announced ,yesterday
the departure of the French fleet from Torbay, at
four, p.m., Tuesday. On that day the French ad-
miral's ship was boarded by Lieutenant Westbrook,
in command of the revenue-cruiser Stag. On Wed-
nesday they passed close to Salcombe harbour, stand-
ing to the eastward, and at four, P.M., put back into
Torbay, and anchore3, the wind being westerly.
Captain Chads C. 13 , returned to his duties at
Portsmouth from leave, on Wednesday, coming up
from Plymouth in the Sprightly.
Dr. Henry F. *Williams, M.D., late of the Royal
Navy, has (since he resigned his employment in the
Ajax steam-guard ship, at Queenstown) received a
very lucrative and honourable appointment at Calcutta.
Caradoc, late Holyhead, packet-steamer, was tried
on Wednesday (having previously taken on board 18
tons of coal), along the measured mile in Stokes Bay,
to test her speed, to see what difference there would
be in wFkisig tiorfarstAes with.=tom boiler iusteati of
two. The two boilers now occupying nearly all her
stowage, in her present state, she_ can only carry a
little more than one day's consumption of coal; by re-
moving one boiler she would carry six days' supply.
She was tried on Wednesday, using both boilers,
when she made a mean speed of 13 nautical miles and
ono-tenth. By using the steam of one boiler only,
she made 11 two-tenth miles—the latter speed being
very fast, and much superior to any of the English
steam-packets now in the Mediterranean. Captain
She did not return
firm of Seaward
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wentM r . B
outr u ni en t te,
her.o f the
into harbour till after five o'clock.

Diligence store-ship, Master Commander Mitchell,
p!ning,and Macdougal,went into Ports-
went into Portsmouth Harbour yesterdaY morning,
got
to discharge her stores and invalid couviets.
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toegaume,
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BhP' Captain
and will huglkeight o'clock.
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She
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pra-
bably go into dock in a. day or two.
Wasp, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Crozier, his
some trifling defects, which will detain her a day or
so at Portsmouth, when she will proceed to Plymouth,
to take out the coast mail on the sth proximo.
PLYMOUTff, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate
Cambrian, 40, Commodore James H. Pluoaridge, ar-
rived yesterday morning. Left Trincomalee on the
29th of July, arrived. at Mauritius on the 18th of
August and left on the 19th, touched at St. Helena
on the 17th of September, and at Ascension on
the 22d.
Her Majesty's sloop Orestes, Commander Henry S.
Hawker, was at the Mauritius; Commodore Christo-
pher Wyvill, in the Castor, 36, was in the Mozam-
bique; at St. Helena, the brigantine Spy, 3, Lieu-
- ns
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TGoerotrpgi
see
,12 Western
Captain F. R. Hut-
; and at Ascen-
sion,
with her tender, the Snap.
teon,ntth-Ce osm store-ship
Spoke, September 27, 'lat. 2 N., long. 20 26 W.,
the barque Windermere, of London, 37 days from
London, for Hobart Towfl ; Sept. —, the Margaret
Gibson, 24 days from Liverpool ; Oct. 14, lat. 33 6
N., long. 22 49 W, the barque Trident, of Greenock,
22 days from Greenock, for Berbice; 'Oct. 15.,
lat. 35 40 N., long. 20 56 W., the St. Mary, brig, of
Glasgow, 22 days from Greenock, for Havannah ;
Oct. —, lat. 35 55 N., long. 22 24 W., the brig Car -
natie, Rogers, of Liverpool, 12 days from
Liverpool, for Charleston ; spoke and boarded
the French merchant brig Le Moise, off
the Start, three days from Havre, bound to Cali-
fornia ; on the Bth Aug., signalled an English ship,
2 D. F., No. 56, 37 days from Calcutta, bound to
Bombay ; exchanged colours with the Thomas Met-
calf on the 31st of Aug., 42 days from Madras, bound
to London, in lat. 35 29 S., long, 2,3- 08 E. ; on the
14th of Sept., spoke bt;tius Pitticiipr f- Liverpool,
100 days from China, bound to England, in let. 21
24 S., long. 1 .51 E. ; on the Ist of Oct., passed an
English barque, 80 days from Callao, name and
number unknown ; also signalled the English barque
Pelican, 95 days from Calcutta, bound to Liverpool,
in lat. 14 50 N., long. 26 30 W. ; on the same day
spoke the Dutch barque Rembrandt ; on the sth of
Oct., spoke the Ann Bedwin, two days from Cape
Verde, in lat. 14 50 N., long. 26 30.
Like the Mariner, which arrived here on Tuesday,
the Cambrian had north-west winds in the parallel
of the north east trades, and in consequence made a
very unusual home passage to the east of the Western
Islands.

The Cambrian has brought a few invalids from the
Eist India squadron. At Trincomalee she received
the boatswain of the hulk Sapphire, Mr. Burnett,
with his wife and four children. Mr. Burnett died a
few days after embarkation.
The crew of the Cambrian are healthy ; she has
been out upwards of three years; the majority of the
officers who have left her have gone on promotions.
Since her present commission (sth August, 1847)
there have been no courts-martial or courts of in-
quiry ; only 23 cases of corporal punishment have
occurred, and 10 of these took place during the ab-
sence of the Commodore, when doing duty as Com-
mander-in-Chief.

The Cambrian will go up harbour to-day to be paid
steam-vessel Pluto, 4, off ; her unserviceable stores
Lieutenant-
Commander W.
eKu.aseltoullfiff,e
Africa. will be returned,
and she will not be dismantled.
only
Her Majesty's
came in yesterday after-
arrivedratAhscension the 26th, and
after-
noon from the Left Cabenda Bay
arrived at Goree on the 10th,
left the 22d of August ;
3the t
nBth f of
A August,
ngnst,
and left the sth of September ;
anded sailed
da
thL ee olnleththe
f
•
September.
At
Bay
were the steam-frigate Centaur,
Commodore Arthur Pariahs
Philomel, 8, Commander T. G"'and the sloop
Forbes. The Cen-
taur, on the 6th of August, took a prize, a fine brig,
Commander Frederick Patten, and the
with 737 slaves on board. At Ascension, the store-
ship Tortoise. At Sierra Leone, the Hound, brig, 8,
ahtupa Richardbnut Ranger sloop,
8, Commander Thomas Miller; the
i he
at the
eßanger bad
baracoons
Cygnet sloop, 8,
bCommanderrou 4o slDa.vWeschforiatensmt„.
thesailed on the 28th of
August for the South
Gallinas. At Goree the merchant barque Helen
Russell, of Whitby, which had experienced a heavy
north-west gale off Cape Verde, lost mizenmast and
maintopmast, and sprung a leak ;was
her cargo of Cochin timber for repaiwas discharging
rg• The Panta-
loon, 8, Commander H. Parker, was refitted in Simon's
Bay, Cape of Good Hope. The Castor, 36, Commo-
dore Wyvil, was at Zanzibar on the 14th of July.
The Dart, 3, brigantine, was cruizing in the Mozam-
bique. The Hermes, steatn-sloop, Commander E.
G. Fishbourne, was at Simon's Bay- The Sharp-
shooter had taken three prizes while on the station.
The squadron was healthy na the coast. On the 26th
of October fell in with L'Emetile, Dyer, from Ham-
burgh, with 400 emigrants on board, chiefly Ger-
mans. On Tuesday afternoon spoke the yacht Her-
mione, in lat. 58 40. N., long. 640 W., which vessel
communicated that a large ship was off the Lizard
bottom upwards, no one near, the crew not seen.
The coast was remarkably healthy.
The Pluto has brought home a few invalids from
the African squadron, and the crew of the merchant
to M.
shi Nautilus belonng essrs Remore and
Sons,, London, whichgi was stranded, condedmned, and
sold on the coast.
The Pluto has lost only. one of her crew by death
(dropsy) since her commission, March, 1848. She
has taken ten prizes, two of which were full, having
together about 900 slaves; five of the prizes were
disguised during the chase under American colours,
which were hauled down and throw overboard pre-
vious to capture. One of the fiven was the Ann
Richardson, with a very valuable cargo of slave com-
modities.
The Pluto is gone up Hamoaze to coal, and starts
for Portsmouth this afternoon.
Her Majesty's ship Bellerophon was yesterday
towed into Barnpool by the Coufiance steam-vessel.
Six full-rigged men-of- war, supposed to be the
French fleet from Cherbourg, for Brest, were offthis
morning.
port yesterday morn •
hey were
, l ere seen by the
Th
pilot-boat Zadora at eight o c ock, four leagues from
the Bolt, reaching down Channel with their heads
to the westward, under all to 1
Pga.lantsaila ; wind
1 W.S.W., good sailing breeze, thick weather. At nine
o'clock they were observed by a fishing smack half
Belt and the Eddystone.
The between the B one.
The schooner Edina, of Exeter, Capt. Mears, from
Liverpool, with a general cargo for Genoa, expe-
rienced a tremendous gale on Saturday last, the 26th,
when 250 miles south-west of Scilly, which threw
her on her beams, when the crew were obliged to
cut away both masts. She was towed by a trawl
sloop into Plymouth this morning.
`WOOLWICH, OCT. 31.—The Geyser steam-vessel,
Commander Tatham, left Woolwich
this morning
shortly before nine o'clock, and after taking in her
powder at Purfleet, and making a few hours' stay at
Greenhithe, will proceed to the eastward to be paid
advance, and then leave for the Brazils.
' The Teaza was taken out of dock on Tuesday, and

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, OCT. 31.—Wind W., fresh. cloudy.

Arrived—The George, from Oporto; the Isis the
Jane, and the Gem, from Patras; the Condo444lin
Bombay; the Yorktown, from Now York; the John
Fox, from Danz;c; the Ealing Grove, from Dominica;
the Indefatigable, from Callao; the Gills, from Fecamp;
the William and James, from Leghorn; the Acadia.
from Ceylon; the Fame, from Calais; the Earl of
Auckland and the Rhine, from Rotterdam; the Princess
Victoria, from Antwerp; La Polak,. from Cherbourg;
the Phcenix, from Honduras; the Sultan, from New-
foundland; the Josephine, from Gene; the Mellow),
from Guernsey; the Farmers. from Malaga; the William
Reed, the Mornington, the John Scott, the Elizabeth,
the Isabella, the Petrel, the Ariel, die Platoff, and the
Conquest, from St. Petersburgh; the Hero, from Ma-
deira; the Bellvue, from Ceylon; the Soubandar, from
Calcutta; the Persia, from Ceylon; the Dartmouth; from
Denia; the Vallisneris, from the Cape; the Martha,
from Dunkirk; the Oscar and the Rindoo, from
,the
Baltic; th‘Margaret and 4 the Jolla, from Guernsey;
the William Tolltffe, from Havre; the Magnet, from
Amsterdam.

Sailed—The Gloriana, for Madras; the Elizabeth, for
GreEada; the Reward, for Jamaica; • the Antilles, for
Berbice; the Concordia, far Rio de Janeiro; the Olive,
for Ostend; the Sir Robert Peel, for Dunkirk; the.
Soho, for Antwerp; the Menai, for Calais; the Vene-,
zuela, foe Havre; the Fyenoord, for Rotterdam.' the
Partook-hall, for St. Kitts; the Mary Cazaphell, for
Berbice.

CASUALTIES. •
Enterprise, from New York to Liverpool, arrived 29th
inst., experienced a succession of southerly and easterly
gales. On 12th inst. encountered a very heavy kale
E.S.E. tnE.N.E., which carried away foretop-gal-
!ant and roycl mast, flying jibboom, sails, Sec., and
sprang foremast—Liverpool, Oct. 31.
Jane, which arrived in Table Bay on the 25th
from Icbaboe, with damage, was in contact' with' the
Amelia (loaded) on the Ist of August. when bOth Ves-
sels received considerable damage. The Amelia was
seen four hours afterwards hove to, and apparently re-
pairing damages.—Cape of Good Hope, Aug. 30. •
Tessie, of Piston, Kelly, rehdy for sea' at this place,
and bound to Hull, after cutting away her foremast,
&c., is the gale of Sept. 8, dragged her anchors and
struck the ground several times, when five feat water
being found in the hold, she was assisted back here;
she "has partly discharged her cargo, been surveyed, and
found to have sustained very considerable damage—Pug-
wash, N. S., Sept. 17.
Leocadia Anna, from Bordeaux to the Mauritius, was
wrecked on Hartwell Reef; Boa Vista, Cape de Verdi,
and the United States sloop of war Yorktown, on the
north part of St. Jago, Sept. 25; crews saved.—Reported
by the R. Y. schooner Ariel, from St. Jago to Biirba-
does, which was spoken Oct 2, in lat. 14 N., lon. 27 W.,
by the Queen Mab, arrived at Liverpbol.
London Packet (schooner), Phillips, from Malaga for
Huil, this morning, about 10 o'clock, in reaching down
off Caister, caught the ground on a shoal near the
Barber Sand, and laid fast; efterwards, by the assist-
ance of a boat and crew, was hove off without apparent
damage, and proceeded on.her voyage.—Yarmouth, N.,
Oct. 30.
Oceana of Cork, Jones, from Callao to Liverpool, •wsii
fallen in with On Oct. 7,-in lat. 48 47 W., .in g
sinking state, and witltrudder gone, -and, the crow taken
off by the Penelope, Pottingev, arrived off this port,
which saw the Oceana go down in a, violent gale 'fitful
the east, which 'sprung up On thc 'same day; and lasted
until the 'l3th.—Dover, Oct. 30. •
VEsauLs SPOKEN MTN.

Adeline (barque), bound out, ;Oct. 27, rat. 44.7 N., loh.

9.33 W.
Athens, of Philalelphla, outwardbotind, Oct. 26, lat. 49
N., lon. 12 W.
Aim'(brig)," of Liverpool, ontwardbood,
_Oct. 13, lat.
42.28 N., lon. 15 W.; all well. •
Achilles, from Qiiebec for Sunderland, Oct. 27, lat. 49.,
lon. 11.

Brilliant, from Quebec for London, Oct. 22, lat. 51.34 N.,
lon. 24.38 W.

Beethoven, from Madras for Liverpool, July 18, lat. 5 S.,
lon. 93 E.

Belmont, for Jamaica, Oct. 1, lat. 25 N., lon. 32 W.
Briton, Oct. 14, lat. 42 N.,-lon. 31 W.
Dpuntless (schooner), from Bristol for Barbaioes, Oct
26, lat. 48 N., lon. 9 W.

Gridn, from Johanna Island fot London, Oct. 3, lat. 27
N., lou. 35 W.

Gem (schooner), for Genoa, with loss of foretopmast,
Oct. 15, lat. 42 N., lon. 12 W.
Gambia, Bristol for Africa, Sept. 26, lat. 16 N., long.
26 W.
Herculean (barque), from Liverpool, bound south, Sept.
29, lut. 9.06 N., lon. 24 50 W.
John Campbell, Hall, from Liverpool for Bombay, Oct.
1, lat. 10.16 N., lon. 24.4 W.
Joseph Yeward (barque), of and from Liverpool, out
10 days, for Lima, all well, Oct. 7, lat. 38.30 N., lon.
14.26 W.

John Melhuiah, from Liverpool for Calcutta, Sept. 29,
lat. 16 N., ion. 27 W.

Jane Strong (barque), from the Mediterranean, out 65
days, for Falmouth, for orders, Oct. 16, let. 46.00 N.,
lon. 14.45 W.
Joseph and Ann (brig), of South Shields, Oct. 5, Off
Cape de Gatt.
Mersey (ship), in the Gut, bound out, Oct. 22.
Palmyra, from Smyrna for Londonderry, Oct. 27, let.
50.38 N., lon. 12.30 W.
Robina Mitchell, Calcutta for London, Sept. 12, let. 12 S.
Vivacious, front Almeira for London, Oct. 14, off Cape
St. Vincent.
Wandsworth, Oct. 9, in the Gulp, from Quebec for Port
Glasgow.
Woodman (barque), Oct. 21, let. 47 N., lon. 10 W.