The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

CAPTAIN AUSTIN'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION-
The arrival of the Lightning steam-tender, Master-
Commander Petley, at Woolwich, from Captain
Austin's squadron, has brought us half-a-dozen letters
from the ships. They are of the 15th instant, and all
dated " at sea."

From the Resolute our correspondent writes :
We are now fairly off and in blue pater; but the
wind is dead in our teeth. We expect a change, how-
ever, very soon, which must be for the better. The
Dasher, Lieutenant-Commander Parks, is towing us. All
goes on very well, and we are now getting over our home
sickness."

A letter from an officer of the Assistance says :
" We left Long Hope this morning at 11.50, the Re-
solute, Captain Austin, C. 8., in tow of the Dasher, and
the Assistance, Captain Ommanney, in tow of the
Lightning, which vessel does her work well, and is a
capital exchange for the African. I have kept this
open for the last moment of the departuro of the
steamers.

" The screw-tenders Intrepid, Lieut.-Commander
Cator, and Piorneer, Lieut.-Commander Osborne, came
down to Long Elope from Stromness yesterday morning,
having completed their water and coals there. The As-
sistance completed her water at Long Hope, and took
on board about a ton of Cannel coal for the use of the
stoves. It was part of a cargo of a vessel lately wrecked
on the islands. The Intrepid beats the Pioneer in
steaming."
A letter from the Intrepid says :
may 15, 12 noon—All of us weighed from Long
Hope; light airs from the westward.
"3 P./t.—Stopped the engine, something wrong with it.
" 8 P.x.—Pioneer has the Intrepid in tow, and we are
proceeding."
The Lightning towed the Assistance twenty miles
to the westward of the Pentland Frith, where she
left the expedition all well and the respective crews in
good spirits.
COMMANDER FORSYTH'S BRANCH EXPEDITION.--.-
Commander Forsyth has been down at Aberdeen for
the last week superintending the fitting, &c., of his
ship; she is being fitted in the yard of Mr. Duthe,
who is most interested in getting her ready, and has
now employed more than 50 men on her ; he is
strengthening her in the most approved and superior
manner, having had great experience in the many
whalers fitted out at Aberdeen. There is every pro-
bability of Commander Forsyth leaving on the 2d of
June ; he has shipped two ice masters and a quarter-
master ; one of them has made fourteen voyages to
Davis' Straits and Lancaster Sound as harpooner and
mate ; the other has been master of a whaler in
Davis' Straits fishery for many years ; the quarter-
master has been twice as far as Fury Beach in Prince
Regent's Inlet, so that there will be no lack of expe-
rienced men. Wm. Hogarth, Esq., who superin-
tended the fitting of Captain Penny's vessel, has
kindly undertaken to assist the expedition. The pro.
visions and stores of every description are ready to
be put on board at a moment's notice. The charts-,
instruments, &c., supplied by the Admiralty, as well
as the ordnance stores, howitzers, &c., went down by
the last steamer. Commander Forsyth is to be sup-
plied with Mr. Smith's kites, Green's balloons, smoke-
balls, and all the new invented means for distant sig-
nals. The crew are all ready, and are a fine set of
men. They have been mostly employed in the Green-
land Fishery, and a few Orkney men are shipped for
travelling parties. They are to be each supplied with
extra clothing, boots, &c., suitable for the climate.
The pemmican made at the Clarence-yard has also
been forwarded. No pains will be spared, as tar as
he funds will allow, to make everything as efficient
as possible, but most of the expense will fall on poor
Lady Franklin, if further and more liberal subscrip•
tions do not come in,

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.
Extract of a letter from Hong-Kong, dated March
29 :

The Reynard, 11, Commander Cracroft, arrived
here from Foochowloo on the 22d inst., and next day
intelligence having reached the Governor that acts of
piracy and murder had been committed in the imme-
diate vicinity of the colony, he requested that Captain
Morgan, the senior officer of her friajesty's naval forces
in China, would detach u man-of-war in pursuit of the
perpetrators, and at half-past four o'clock P.M. the Rey-
nard was steaming out of the harbour in quest of them.
We are expecting the arrival of the Admiral by the next
ma►l, after whim her Majesty's ship Hastings will in
all probability go to the l'hilipine Idles, and then oa
to India.

" The Arab, 12, Commander Morris, is at Whampoa.
" The Mariner, 12, Commander 11l atheson, at
Shangui.

" The Hastings, 72, Captain Morgan, the Royalist, 8,
Commander Bate; and the hospital and store-chips
Minden and Alligator, are in Victoria Harbour.
" The Reynarti is about to take a trip to Pekin, with
a letter from Governor Bonham to the Emperor.
" The Royalist proceeds in a few days on a aurveyicg
cruise to Manilla and Palawan.

" The Pilot, 12, Commander Ince, is at Shanghai.
" APPOINTMENTS.
_

" Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Graham, M.D., from her
Majesty's ship Beatings to the Hon. Company's steam-
sloop Yhlegethon, vice Sturtion, invalided.
" Midshipmen—James Saumarez and G. Golden from
the 'Testing to the Reynard."
The Birkenhead, iron steam-troop-ship, during her
late transport service under Commander J. A.
Stevens, of the Blenheim, has steamed 1,605 miles,
carrying 4,618 soldiers, women, and children, in 16
days ; '286 tons of baggage were taken on board, and
then landed, making it equal to 572 tons, and she was
in nine ports. These statistics show the advantage of
steam transports over sailing-vessels in an astonishing
degree.
I'Lvktouzn, MAY 18.—The liamosze lighter, with
jury gear a
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The Stromboli, 6, Commander Lord Amelius Beau-
clerk, with the iron steam-vessel Greenock, is hourly
expected from the Clyde.
The Wizard was docked on Tuesday. She is to be
fitted as an exercise vessel for the apprentices of Ire-
land, and to be stationed at Cork.
The Dockyard Battalion assembled to-day at two
P.M., when a general inspection took place in presence
of the principal officexs of the yard.
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miles south of the Manacles. Crew saved.
Wind, northerly.
MAY 19.—This morning Mr. Cuddeford, Customs'
warehousekeeper, and Mr. Rae, tide surveyor, with
two or three hands, in the merchant yacht
10111 s,
captured the Jersey cutter Zeus, off the Eddystone.
The master, Charles George Matthews, Thomas Gates,
a third man, and a boy, were in charge. Besides an
ordinary cargo of 15 tons of potatoes, she had three
tons and a half of tobacco, principally manufactured.
The cutter is now being dismantled in Sutton Har-
bour, and the contraband goods are lodged in the
Queen's warehouse.
Wind, easterly; very light.

THE BRAZILS.
FALMOUTH, MAY 19.—The Penguin packet, Lieut.
Leslie, arrived to-day with the Brazil mails, after a
very tedious passage, in consequence of light and
variable winds, having sailed from Rio de Janeiro on
Imperial
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ifnreiggohltd, about 1t001.000301: of which
Brazilian Mining Association. JObil Luke, mine
captain, and the sailmaker and steward's mate of the
Penguin, died of the yellow fever the day the packet
sailed, and after she left Rio de Janeiro. Lieutenant
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o state climate,
that
Leslie, and several of his crew, had a severe attack of
abeigeohulyntsbyfever, but they quickly rallied after leaving the port
it
theis
the Penguin are much more favourable, and that the
gbeinetrioa
fever was on the decrease.
and satis-
factoryg getting ttion
In the beginning of March the exchange was 28f
to 28i, when the market advanced, coeval with the
coffee purchase., to 29 to 29k, and subsequently bu-
3iness was done at 29i to 29i. Stock flatter; sales
at 87 to 86i to 86k. Specie, little done, except in
Patriot doubloons at 29 dolls. 550, and '29 dolls.; 600,
in payment of River Plate bills, and in old porta at
16 dolls. 650.
COFFEE.—prices have scarcely varied from the 7th
March, when the sales amounted to 60,000 bags.
Since then nothing was noted. Of these, three car-
goes were for the Channel, two for the Mediterra-
nean, one Hamburg, one Copenhagen, and about
35,000 bags for the United States. Washed Coffee
was 675. Id. ; superior, 635, 6d.; first good, 61s. Bd.
on board. Freights : a few vessels have been char-
tered at 30s. for the Channel.
British ships of war at Rio de Janeiro, Tweed, Ex-
press, and Crescent ; French steamer Archimidei
American storsship Leziugtou; Portuguese, Vasco
de Gun stied Uji,

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