The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander Forsyth and Mr. Snow, both of the
exploring vessel Prince Albert, bad a consultation
with Captain Sir Edward Parry and Sir John Ri•
chardson, M.D. at Haslar Hospital, on Saturday, re-
specting the relics of the encampment found at Cape
Riley. The piece of Woolwich rope, and some beef
and pork bones, were examined, and we understand
that both Sir Edward Parry and Sir John Richardson
expressed their belief that the encampment at that
place was made either by Sir J. Franklin or some of
his party. Commander Forsyth afterwards called on
Mrs. Austin, at Southsea, and personally imparted to
her all the information that he had respecting her
gallant husband in the Resolute, now in the Arctic
regions.
Soon after the Fairy, with the Court on board,
went out of harbour, the Dauntless, 24, screw-
steamer, Captain Halsted, got up her steam, cast off
her moorings, and steamed out of harbour, still dressed
in colours. She went out under all speed, and
looked remarkably well, making a wake as straight
as a drawn line, and so smoothly, that except about
her bow she scarcely caused an undulation of the water.
Admiral Sir Bladen Cape], Rear-Admiral Prescott,
Mr. Smitho, Mr. Murray, and a number of gentle-
men, went out in her, the Sprightly following to
bring back the company. The Dauntless proceeded
down the Solent, and along the measured mile, an-
choring at Spithead a little before sunset.
COAST• GUARD APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant John
H. Shairp, R.N., from Poole Harbour, to Sidmouth
station, vice Mr. John Hoare, from Sidmouth to
Poole Harbour station, vice Lieutenant Shairp, R.N.;
Mr. Burrows Irwin, from Broughty Ferry to Sea-
ham Harbour, vice Lieut. John Coleman (b), R.N.,
to Port Cswl station, vice Lieut. Quinlan, R.N.,
previously removed; Mr. James Harry, from Coon-
hill to Portmuck station, vice Mr. Montgomery
Campbell, resigned.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN CARPENTER, K.H.—Captain
Carpenter (1821) died Oct. 5, at his residence, 7,
Lansdowne-parade, Cheltenham, at an advanced age.
He was on the retired list of 1846, and although he
had not been employed from the date of his post rank,
he had seen 21 years' service during the war.
Paymaster Henry King Conquer died on the 13th,
on board the Alarm, 26, at Antigua.
The flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8., the
commander-in-chief for the Pacific, will be out of the
hands of the dockyard, Devonport, about the 16th,
and will be ready for sea by the Ist of next month.
A great many hands are employed on the Leopard
steam-frigate, building at Deptford, to get her ready
for launching by the 22d inst.
Seagull, 6, packet-brig, Lieut.-Commander Smail,
has arrived at Devonport to refit.
The shipwrights of Deptford have completed break-
up the old Perseus. Her timbers were in a very
rotten state, and will be disposed of by auction the
latter end of this month or beginning of next. It is
said that the Ipbigenia is to be the next ship to be

thus disposed Of.
The Growler steam-sloop, Commander Stoddart,
has left Marseilles (where she has been waiting for
five or six weeks) with the Nepaulese, for Alexandria.
She does not call at Malta, but at one of the Neapo-

litan ports.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 11.—This morning, between ten
and eleven o'clock, a gig belonging to her Majesty's
ship Impregnable was upset while under canvass when
just off Cremill, at the entrance to Hamoaze. The
first lieutenant of the Impregnable, his son, and the
gig's crew, were all happily saved.
Her Majesty's frigate Thetis, 36, Captain Kuper,
sailed for Lisbon yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, at
three o'clock.

The Pandora packet arrived on the 10th from Fal-
mouth, and went up harbour to refit.
The Tortoise lighter, with stores from Pembroke
for Plymouth, its reported to have gone ashore in
Carmarthen Bay on Sunday ; crew saved.
The Tyne, 26, was commissioned on Monday by
Master-Commander Wellington, placed in dock on
Tuesday, and on Wednesday her copper was stripped,
and she was lifted to have her garboard caulked.
It is reported that the Bellerophon, from Malta, is
to cruise at sea until all appearance of cholera has
disappeared.
O❑ board the Albion, 90, in the Sound on Sunday
evening, when sending down the top-gallantmasts,
James Pappen, A. 8., of Newquay, Cornwall, fell from
the foretopmast, struck against the rigging, was
launched overboard, and unfortunately drowned.
APPOINTMENTS.

Gunner James Anthony, to the Impregnable, 104,
flag-ship at Devonport.
Boatswain Thomas Jasper, to the Impregnable. •
Carpenter Edward Rcgers, to the Impregnable.
The buoys at the moorings at Woolwich dockyard
having become unserviceable, two new buoys have
been made of wrought iron, one 12 feet by 7 feet '2
inches, weighing 3 tons 9 cwt. and 391 b., and the
other 11 feet by 6 feet 4 inches, weighing 2 tons
3 cwt. 3 qrs. The iron is 9-16th of an inch thick,
and an opening is made in them that they may be
painted inside.
THE MEDITERRANEAN.

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We have letters from Malta to the 2d inst. A cor-
respondent says :
" My last report of the cholera was favourable, as
indicating a very sensible diminution, which, I am
glad to say, has since continued; the attacks yester-
day being but four, and no deaths to register.
The following are the names of the persons who
died on board the Bellerophon while she was lying

at Malta during the prevalence of the cholera at that
station :—James Jackson, Samuel Cambridge, George
Macnamwar, Edward Kingwill, Archibald Southey,
and Junes Cullum, able seamen; Charles Robin,
captain afterguard ; Thomas Evans and James
Thompson, carpenter's crew; Charles Elms, Charles
Butterfield, James Sibley, and Finemore Jones, Royal
Marines.

Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker's fleet was still
absent from Malta. The gallant chief was off Ma-
jorca on the Ist of October ; the Scourge, steam..
sloop, Commander Lord F. Kerr, was in Palma Bay
with the purser of the flag .ship, procuring supplies
of fresh provisions in quarantine. The cholera had
entirely left the Queen for ten days previous to the
Ist instant, and there did not appear the least fear of
a return.

Letters from Madrid, of the Gth instant, state that
it was announced et Madrid that the fleet was perform-
ing quarantine at Mahon ; and the British Consul
had apprised the Captain-General, Don Ramon de la
Rocha, that the &et would proceed•to Barcelona in the
course of a few days.
The Volage, surveying-ship, Captain Graves, and
Research, cutter, had left Smyrna for Candia, en route
to Malta, on the 27th September.
The Indus, from Southampton, and Triton, from
Marseilles, arrived at Malta on the morning of the Ist,
with the outward mails and passengers for India. The-
Triton steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Glinn,
continued to Corfu, and the Indus to Alexandria
during the day.

A LARGE STEAMER BURNT IN

THE ATLANTIC.

Much anxiety has been evinced in the City the last
few days respecting the loss of a first-class steamship,
which is reported to have been totally destroyed by
fire in the Atlantic. The following details were fur-
nished by Mr. Barras, captain of the William, from
Quebec, who communicated the loss to the authorities
at Lloyd's :—The William left Great Metis, in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the 4th ult., and on the
evening of the 12th a large steamer with three masts
was observed in lat. 46.14 N., long. 56.27 W., steer-
ing to the N.W. The mention of this circumstance
is more necessary in order that she might not be con-
founded with the one that was subsequently seen on
fire, as she was proceeding in quite a different diree-
tion. Towards dusk on the following day a strong
lurid glare was noticed about 15 miles to the south-
ward, and Mr. Barras, concluding that it was some
unfortunate ship in flames, very promptly bore down
towards her, with a view of picking up the crew. He
directed a good look out to be kept, it being thought that
those on board had left in the boats, and were knocking
about in the ocean. During the period the William was
making for the blazing ship, the wind blowing from
N.E., the flames raged with terrific violence, and, to
use an expression of one of the crew, " it looked more
like a mountain of fire than a ship in flames." The
scene is described to have been one of awful gran-
deur, both ocean and sky being illuminated as far as
the eye could reach. In the course of two or three
hours the William got within a quarter of a mile of
the flaming wreck ; it was enveloped in flames from
stem to stern, and from its light build and a quantity
of ironwork, it was apparent that it was a steamer,
and that of a large class. She was burnt within a
foot of the water's edge. Mr. Barras states that he
saw the platform between the paddle-boxes, the iron
stanchions, and the davits for the stern-boats—a rig
only adopted by steamers. They had a full view of
the deck of the vessel, and nothing could be seen of
the crew or the passengers, if there were any
on board. It being supposed that they had taken
to the boats and had been picked up by one
of the many vessels that take that track at this
period of the year, the William, after con-
tinuing in the vicinity of the blazing wreck, was
held to her course on the wind, a bright light being
kept up, and a good look-out in all directions. A
sail was observed in the south steering N.W., and it
was thought she might have succeeded in getting
those belonging to the steamer on board. At day-
break hands were sent up to look round in all points
for the boats, but none were to be seen. A craft was
noticed in the N.E., steering west, but nothing else.
Mr. Barras can give no opinion as to where the un-
fortunate vessel was from, or to where she was bound,
but be is confident she was a steamer. The place of
her destruction was about four days' run from ,Hali-
fax, but not being in the usual course for that port
will account for the American mail not bringing
tidings of the conflagration. It is the impression of
those belonging to the William that the crew and
passengers had escaped. When they got down to the
wreck it apparently had been burning six or. eight
hours, and, as the weather had been very fine, the
moon being up, they concluded that all had got away
in the boats, and had been picked up by some vessel
sailing in that direction.