The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

COAL MARKET.rIy.STERDAY.

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Buddle's W. Hartley.. 13a 6dißraddyD• • lss 3d
Carr's W. Hartley l3s 6d Hetton
Chester Main l2s Oil Haswell lbs 9d
Davison'sWestHartley 13s 6dlKeepier Grange
East Adairs Main.... lls Od,Richmund .
Holywell
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 138 ed Lambton
Tanfield Moor .... ..... 12s 6d iScarborough l3s 3d
Tanfield Moor Butes... 12s OdiStewart's
Walker's Primrose ... lls rd Caradoc ..... .....
West Hartley
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. !Ileugh Hall
Bewicke and Co.
Gosforth . .•
Hotspur l3s 3d West Hetton l3s 3d
Hilda l3s Od Whitworth ............... Ils 9d
Riddell
Wharncliffe
Walker
Eden Main •
Belmont l3s 9d Ships at market, 163.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Geyser, 7, steam-sloop, Commander F. T. Brown,
which strived on the sth instant at Portsmouth, from

the Cape of Good Hope station, left Simou's Bay on the
sth of May last; on the 6th she experienced a strong
gale off the Cape, when, unfottunatay, James Donohoe,
able seamen, who bad served in her from the date of her
commission, was washed overboard from the jibboom.
This is only the second death that has occurred during
her servitude of nearly four years, having at all times been
particularly lu-filthy, which is attributed to the extreme
cleanliness of the vessel.

Commodore Wyvill, in the Castor, left on the 22(1 of
February to visit the stat. on, and was not expected at
Simon's Bay until September next, having received on
board a large quantity of stores and provisions for the
ships cruising in the Mozambique.
The Orestes had been rather sickly at Mauritius, at
which place she is stationed, and had proceeded to
Seychelles for the benefit of the ship's company's health,
at which time a most severe hurricane was experienced.
The Pantaloon had been most successful in the Mo-
zambique, at which place the slave trade had revived
with all its horrors. She had captured three vessels,
mostly good prizes, one very valuable, the American flag
being still used to cover these flagrant and diabolical acts
of slavery; and until the British Government are enabled
to prevail on that Government (whose :flag is so vilely
abused by Portuguese, Spaniards, &c.) to employ their
cruisers on that part of the African coast, it will be
almost an impossibility fur British cruisers to prevent
its use.

The Hermes and Dart had not arrived, but were
daily expected when she left. She brought passengers
and invalids; Captain Somerville, 6iti Regiment; Mr.
Turpin, second master of Seringapatam (invalided); Mrs.
Filmer and child, widow of the late Mr. Filmer, master
commanding the Dee, and an immense tortoise, said to
be 150 years old, from H. D. Shea, Eiq., surgeon
of the Royal Naval Hospital, being, from his extreme
age and size, considered most rare, none of the same
dimensions and weight having before been taken to
England. It has been presented to her Majesty by that
officer.
She steamed only three days and a half on her pas•

gaze to Ascension, it which place she arrived on-the
21st, passing St. Helena on the 16th, making the passage
in the short period (for a steamer under sail) of fifteen
days and a half, at which anchorage she found the
Centaur, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Fan-
shawe, C. 8.; Tortoise, guard-ship; and Jackal!: tender
to Gladiator, having her rig altered, increased masts,
&c. On the 22d she left, after completine water, re-
ceiving on board ten tons of coals, and Mr. Dathan,
second master of Firefly, with a prize crew of that
vessel, officers, other supernumeraries, and invalids.
The coast was considered to be very healthy, and the
slave trade brisk. The next ship for England was the
Star, and the Centaur was waiting for the arrival of the
Bonetta with tubes for her boilers from Sierra Leone;
after performing that service she would also proceed to
England. Turtle and water were very plentiful on the
island, and vegetation increasing abundantly, as Also
rabbits and guinea fowls, and they are now enabled
to supply all vessels with vegetables, which is greatly
appreciated by the cruisers after a lengthened trip on
the coast. The residents are extremely healthy, and
urhappyanituyndaerndsukchindannesosfficiderl as
whoC visitsptin Hutton, whose
Ascension ex-
perience, and it gives us great pleasure in stating that
it is fully appreciated in such a lonely
.and monotonous
place. On the 29 sh, in let. 4 deg.. 8 min: north, long. 19
deg. 24 min. west, spoke the English ship Candahar, of
London, with emigrants for South ‘tistralia, all well, 38
days from Plymouth; on the 31st, in lat. 8 dcg. 34 min.
north, long. 21 deg. 17 min. west. spoke the barque
Stately, of Sunderland, for Valparaiso, all well, 35 days
from Hartlepool.
The Geyser made the passage from Ascension in 44
days under sail, excepting seven days and a half under
steam, which she was only enabled to perform on the
lowest camb of expansion from the very detective state
of the tubes of her boilers, most of them being completely
worn out and unserviceable.
This ship was commissioned in October, 1846, and
was employed in the conveyance of meal on the coasts of
Ireland and Scotland for many months during a severe
winter. During the performanee of this duty her ser-
vices were highly appreciated. She then proceeded to
join Sir William •Parker's squadron at Lisbon during
the iosurrootioa is Portugal; thence to blockigle St.