The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-18 00:00:00

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 17.—The Termagant, steam-
frigate, 24 guns, 1,556 tons, and 620-horse power
(screw), by Seaward, was tried again to-day at the
measured mile, in Stoke's Bay, under most favourable
circumstances, when she realised the most gratifying
result she has yet attained in any trial, leaving little
to be desired with regard to speed, as the following
results will show :
Runs.

Time. Knots.
min. sec. per hour.
First ... ... 6 40 ... ... 9
Second ... ... 6 19 ... ... 9.490
Third ... 6 13 ... ... 9.651
Fourth ... 6 27 ... ... 9.302
Fifth 6 0 ... 10.000
Sixth ... ... 6 45 ... ... 8.889
averaging a speed of nearly 9} knots per hour. Her
draught of water was as follows :—forward, 16 feet ;
afr, 18 feet, with 260 tons of coals on board, in addi-
tion to her armament of ten tons ; pitch of the new
screw 17 feet 21 inches ; pitch of the former screw
18 feet ; vacuum, 27f ; revolutions, from 36 to 37 ;
steam 141 b. Captain Caffin, Captain Hayes, Com-
mander J. A. Stevens (in charge) ; Master-Atten-
dant Macdonald ; Mr. R. C. Allen, Master of the
Blenheim ; Mr. T. T. Grant, of the Clarence-yard ;
Mr. Brunet, from Seaward's the officers of the engineer
department of the dockyard, &c., were on board
during the trials. Mr. Grant's distlling and cooking
galley was in work during the trial, and in twelve
hours, with the ordinary amount of fire used for
cooking the ordinary meal, distilled 500 gallons of
pure water from sea• water.
The Terrible steam-frigate, 21, Captain J. Hope,
C. 8., has taken on board 531 tons 12 cwt. of coals,
which has brought her down by the head upwards of
a foot, altering her trim and appearance most
seriously. She will go out of harbour to-morrow,
and sail for Plymouth.
The Sidon steam-frigate, 22, will be tried again
to-morrow in heavy trim.
Air. Edward Waller, R.N., paymaster and purser,
1845, died yesterday morning at Stakeshill-cottage,
Purlirook, aged 47, deeply regretted. He served as
secretary to Admiral Sir John Ommaney, K.C.8.,
when Commander-in-Chief in the Tagus, and in the
t,mporary command-in-chief of the Mediterranean
station ; afterwards with Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas
Cochrane, Commander in the East Indies for upwards
of five year, and shared in all the operations carried
on at Borneo. His last appointment was Secretary
to Rear-Admiral B. Reynolds, C. 8., Commander-in-
Chief on the Cape of Good Hope station, whence he
was compelled by ill-health to invalid home in her
Majesty's steamer Inflexible. Long service in India
and China broke up his constitution.

A handsome bark of 256 tons was launched yes-
terday afternoon from the shipbuilding yard of Mesrs
'homes and John White at Cowes. She is named
the Earl of Hardwicke, in compliment to the Gover •
nor of the Southern Whale Fishery Company. She
will be fitted out with all possible dispatch, and be
followed in succession by other vessels, now in an ad-
vanced condition, building for that company. The
ceremony of naming the vessel was performed by Said
Effendi, one of the three Turkish pupils studying
naval architecture in that establishment.
The keel of a second vessel is about to be laid down
by Messrs. White for the same company.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICIT, JAN. 17.—Chief Engineer—George
Glasson to the Gladiator steam-frigate at Devonport.

____._
Midshipmen—G. M. Comber to the Castor, 36, at
the Cape of Good Hope • C. 11. Branwell to the
Gladiator ; and Arthur Traherne to the Prince Re-
gent, 92, ordered from the Mediterranean to Lisboa.
Naval Cadets—Charles F. G. Urquhart to the
Gladiator, and John B. Warren to the Superb, 80,
at Cork.

Master's Assistant—John V. Giles to the Crocodile,
receiving ship at Cork.
Rear-Admiral Charles John Austen, C. 8., ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy on
the East India and China station, arrived in town to-
day from Devonport, and had an official interview at
the Admiralty.
The heads of the various departments of the Ad-
miralty at Somerset-house are to meet their Lord-
ships to morrow with reference to the estimates in
course of preparation for the ensuing official year.
Captain Henry James, officer ,of Royal Engineers,
in charge of works at Portsmouth Dockyard, visited
Woolwich Dockyard to-day. It is not unlikely that
this gallant officer will succeed the late Lieutenant-
Colonel Irvine, C. 8., as director of engineering and
architectural works at the Admiralty.

THE BURRING'S STRAITS EXPEDITION.

It is gratifying to be able to announce that the
Rev. Mr. Miertsching, late a Moravian missionary
on the coast of Labrador, has arrived in London, and
will leave this evening for Plymouth, to join the
Enterprise, Captain Collinson, C. 8., as interpreter to
the expedition when they arrive in Bhering s Straits.
The liberality of the Admiralty in furnishing the ex-
pedition with everything they can want has been well
seconded in this instance by the Rev. P. Latrobe,
secretary to the Moravian Mission in London, who
has exerted himself to bring Mr. Miertsching from
Germany at a few days' notice. Mr. Miertsching
only returned from Labrador in October last. A
vocabulary of the Esquimaux language, as far as the
resources of their country will afford, has been com-
piled by Captain Washington, R.N., for the use of
the expedition, in a small portable form, which cannot
fail to prove serviceable, as the only vocabularies at
present existing are contained in the quarto voy-
ages of Parry, Beechey, and Ross ; and, conse-
quently, are too cumbersome for daily use in the
boats and for parties who may land to communi-
cate with the natives. The vocabulary is divided
into four columns—the first, English ; the second,
Esquimaux language, suited to the natives of Kotze-
bue Sound or Western ; the third, to Winter Island
and Iglulik or Central ; and the fourth, to Labrador,
or Eastern.

-- ---
CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—On Wednesday night
last,
ibne,twreesein sidingx and
atN St. Luke's,
veonyuen,amedUnw George
6.
I an,
gri °atch. -motion-maker, 17,
in the employ ( f Mr.
Pa. P was -
os.evetLi o'cloteln,_sa
Pr- siden.-stre( t, King-squal o, sent with a case con
f
the x bourbood. After the delivery f the g, ode,
tainting gold wat2hes to the amount ( 50 . ton customer
oinn -hi; I;el—uhrn to his employer, be was suddenly stopped
in King--quare by two men, one of whom was masked,
who attempted to seize the case. Upon the boy crying
Murder," one of the robbers struck him on the head
with a sharp stone six inches in diameter, tied in a
pocket-bankerchief, inflicting a most frightful wound.
On the alarm being given a cabman who was driving by
inst•lntly alighted and pursued the thieves, but without
success. The boy was conveyed to the surgery of Mr.
French, in Brick-lane, who dressed the wound, and pro-
nounced it of a most dangerous character. The stone
as afterwards discovered in the as en of an adjacent
house, and was found to be a rugged flint. .employers
cannot bo too cautious in sending valuable goods at
night, as highway robbery is of frequent occurrence.