The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

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Hungarian Military sketches.
The Message of Seth. By Delta.
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British Labour and Foreign Reciprocity.
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
We regret to hear that the gallant and much re-
spected superintendent of the Dover packet service, Capt.
Balduck, has sustained a serious calamity, in the almost
sudden decease of Mrs. Baldock.
Assistant-Surgeon John Weir Duncan, of the Persian,
12, Commander Bulman, died of fever, at sea, Sept.
22, off Grey Town, Mosquito. lie was only son of
Henry Duncan, Esq., of Comeley Garden, Glasgow.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
We have intelligence from Malta to the 22d inst. A
! correspondent says the fleet under the command of Vice-
Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., G.C.8., has not
arrived.
The Medusa steam-packet, with the London mails of
the 7th inst., entered Malta harbour at one P.M. on tho
13th, having made one of her good runs from Marseilles.
She left on the same day for Alexandria, and may be
momentarily expected on her return. To Alexandria
she conveyed the India mail and 51 passengers, two
infants, and seven servants. Of the gentlemen, six
were obliged to be content to sleep upon or under the
table for want of accommodation, whilst the ladies' cabin,
with 16 uncurtained berths, was rendered more agreeable
to its occupants by the introduction of the female ier-
vents to the number already there, and to whom the
sofas were assigned as dormitories.
The Terrible, 21, steam-frigate, Captai❑ Hope, C. 8.,
and Scourge, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord M. Kerr,
are at Malta.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats arrive
in Malta about the 13th of each month, generally after
the departure of the Rostend Company's French steamer
for Marseilles. The Rostend boats run only once a
month. Now, if her Majesty's packets shotal be allowed
to carry merchandise, the goods brought down from
India and China could be transmitted at the same time
as the mails, vs hick leave Malta about six hours ufter the
arrival of the company's vessel.
The difficulty does not exist to such an extent on the
return passage from Marseilles to Malta, as the French
Government packets take goods on freight (a very heavy
one, however). The want of conveyance is tench felt
between Malta end Alexandria, and Malta and the
lonian Islands, and it will probably continue so lon4 as
the commercial enterprise of the British is thwarted by
she mails being conveyed by Government packets instead
of by mercantile steamers, to which freight would be an
assisting revenue.

I ROW AT MALTA.
Three officers of her Majesty's 44th Regiment, and a
youngster of the Powerful, are now lying in prison on a
charge of having premeditatedly assaulted William Lamb
Arrowsmith, Esq., on the night of Thusday, December
19. From some events that have taken place—not,
however, in which the present party is at all mixed up—
there may appear some reason to have induced a
belief that the assault was premeditated; but the fact is
far otherwise, as I have the firmest conviction.
The parties are Lieutenant Baroherd, Lieutenant and
Adjutant Colpoys, and Lieutenant Micklethwaite; Mr.
Vaughan is the middy. It seems that Mr. Arrowsmith,
returning from the opera with his lady in his caleche,
had the window of his carriage broken; the carriage
proceeded on till Mr. A. reached the police-station, and,
getting out, he made his complaint, took a police-
man with him, and stopped the gentlemen. The
language on the occasion seems, on both sides,
to have been strong, and Mr. Arrowsmith
received from Lieutenant Barchard a blow—
slight hided, but intended to mark his sense of Mr. Ar-
rowsmith's language. Mr. Arrowsmith, however, ap-
pealed to the police, and Mr. Harper, the magistrate,
remanded them till next day, but as the fact of preme-
ditation has been sworn to, he holds out the fear that
his duty will compel him to commit them for trial.
It becomes necessary to explain upon what surmise the
charge of premeditation is grounded. It is this:—
About the 12th or 13th instant Mr. Arrowsmith made
a complaint to the governor that some sixteen lamps at
Florian had been broken by some officers of the 44th,
and the conclusion is jumped at that the officers now in-
carcerated took this mode of revenge. Now, the high
character they bear for gentlemanly conduct, and the
absence from all former rows, to which may be honestly
added the fact that they were not the lamp breakers,
renders it improbable they would have avenged the
simple act of Mr. Arrowsmith's having reported them;
but it is moreover due to them to affirm that, had they
known a lady was in the carriage, the act of breaking
the windows, however stupid and unjustifiable, would
never have been committed. The prisoners are re-
manded; the proceedings are looked forward to with in-
tense anxiety, for the prisoners are much beloved, and
cannot by the laws be held to bail should the magistrate
resolve on committing them. The professional services
of Dr. Diogli, a young advocate of high promise in his
n profession,en v ibalea are engaged the gentlemen thus placed in
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position.
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WooLwicg, DEC. 30.—Master-Commander John E.
Petley, of the Lightning, and the men who navigated the
Advice steam-vessel from Woolwich to Cork, left her
there as a tender to the Ajax steam guard-ship, and re-
turned to Woolwich yesterday.
The Rosamond, 6, steam•sloop, of 287-horse power, is
ordered to be made ready for sea, and will proceed down
the river on Monday next to Greenhithe, where she will
have her compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson, and
on Wednesday leave the river for Devonport in charge
of Lieutenant Robertson, of the steam reserve, and will
remain at that port as an advanced war-steamer ready
for commission.

The Argus, 6, steam-sloop, fitting at Deptford with
engines by Jobn Penn and Son, will be taken down the
river at the latter end of the present or in the course of
next week on trial, and when found perfect in her ma-
chinery will proceed to Portsmouth to be fitted at that
port for sea. _ _ _

The African steam-vessel has arrived from Sheerness
to be repaired at Woolwich.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander
S. B. Cook, has taken on board a supply of coals, and
had her steam up to-day to ascertain the working condi-
tion of her engines.

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