The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

In consequence of the strong south-west gale yes-
terday, the Phaeton, 50, Captain George Elliot, is
still at Spithead, and will not sail for Lisbon till the
weather is more settled.

The Hogue, 60, will, we understand, come into
Portsmouth harbour again to-day, and probably ship
another screw, and complete her coal.
The Tiger appears a fine vessel ; she carries 14
guns—viz., on her quarter-deck, one 68-pounder
solid shot gun, 91 feet, 86 cwt., pivot-gun, and four
long 32-pounders, 50 cwt.; forecastle, one 68-poun-
der, 10 feet, solid shot, 86 cwt., and two 32-pounders.
On her main deck, abaft engine, four 32- pounders,
9 feet, 50 cwt.; before engine, two 32-pounders, .50
cwt. She steamed round from Chatham at the rate
of 11 knots per hour. Mr. Belam, the master in
charge, and the men belonging to the Ocean, who
navigated the Tiger to Portsmouth, will probably
return by railway.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.--The Ilecate steam-sloop,
Commander G. S. Hand, arrived from Lisbon yester-
day with supernumeraries and invalids. She sailed
from the Tagus on the 9th as the Peninsular packet
from Gibraltar was entering. She reports political
affairs as in statu quo, and the community in some
commotion in consequence of the recent arrival of a
new Cardinal, whose installation took place on the
4th with grand eclat. A regal entertainment was
given on the cccasion, to which acout 400 of the elite
of the country were invited, among whom were the
British Minister and the officers of the British
squadron, who, however, says our informant, de-
clined the honour to a man. Commodore Martin's
squadron experienced very heavy weather during,
their late experimental trial, every ship prov-
ing herself an able sea-boat except the Dauntless,
which is reported to have rolled terrifically, losing all
topgallant- masts over the side in one of her heavy
lurches ; in running she beat every ship, but on a wind
was the leemost. The Arrogant is reported by far the
most efficient vessel, being able to steam (sails
furled) 8.6 knots per hour, while the Dauntless can
only keep up with her at that rate by the aid of her
sails. The latter sits deep in the water, and com-
pared with the Leander, Arethusa, and Arrogant is
low and ugly. The general appearance of these
beautiful frigates is perfectly yacht-like. It is
thought the Phaeton's sailing was unfair and spoilt by
the disproportioned show of canvass, and Captain
Gordon, of the Encounter, holds the opinion that it is
impossible to determine the fastest rate of sailing in
any frigate under the present system of allowing each
captain to trim his ship in accordance with his own
fancy. The Prince Regent is in admirable order.
The Hecate experienced awful weather on her pas-
sage out (eight days from Plymouth), meeting a gale
off Cape Finisterre, which washed away the captain's
gig and a considerahle portion of her port paddle-
box. She lay to three days under storm trysails and
power of steam sufficient to keep steering way. She
is replenishing fuel, of which she brought home
half what she took out, although she did not coal at
Lisbon, and will be ready for service again in a day
or two.

The Persian, 12, Commander Bulman, having suf-
fered much from sickness whilst at Grey-town, Mos-
quito, and lost several hands, it may be well to pub-
lish the names of those who have fallen victims to the
pestilence, in order to allay the apprehensions of
friends and relatives of survivors on board :—Assist-
ant-Surgeon Duncan ; quartermasters James Graham
and John Quinn ; blacksmith, Timothy Collins ;
captain of the mast, George Simmonds ; carpenter's
crew, John Turner ; ordinary seaman, John Colter,
first-class boys, William Gill and Edward Storey ;
private marine, Abel Skinner.
The Amphitrite, 25, is ordered to be recommis-
sioned at this port by Captain Charles Frederick
(1842). She will be ready to hoist the pendant on
the 31st inst.

The Havannah, 22, Captain Erskine, was at Auck-
land, New Zealand, on the 25th of July, having made
the passage from Sydney in the extraordinary short
space of six days and five hours. She was on the Ist
of August on a cruise to the islands northward—New
Hebrides, Loyalty, New Caledonia, and Soloman, for
the proteatioa of British traders. She would return
to Sydney in November. All well.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate Inde-
fatigable, SO, Captain R. Smart, entered the Sound
yesterday afternoon, left Port Royal early in No-
vember, and touched at Bermuda on the 24th. Al-
though the yellow flag was flying at her mast head,
there was no sickness on board, and she was quickly
relieved from quarantine.
The crew of the Indefatigable have, during her
stay in the West Indies, suffered severely from yellow
fever and cholera. When the fever appeared among
the crew, at sea, the ship went to :Port Royal; on
arrival, they signalized their condition to the authori-
ties, and were answered that the cholera had just
broken out among the inhabitants ashore. The full
complement of the Indefatigable is 500 men, but she
is now 127 short of that number. Of these, 36 in all
have died, and about i o are left in hospital at Port
Royal. There has been but one death since leaving
Port Royal, and three occurred before reaching Ber-
muda, when she was under quarantine. All the best
men have been attacked, and, it is said that she
has not now more than 30 thorough-going seamen
en board. With the exception of Captain Smart,
First-Lieutenant R. J. Balfour, and one or two others,
all the officers have been ill, but no deaths have oc-
curred among them.
The chief boatswain's mate had his foot crushed
when assisting in getting out the ship's boat at Port
Royal; amputation was performed, and he is now on
board on duty.
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The Indefatigable has experienced very wild
weather for the last few days.

The crew of her Majesty's ship Albion, 90, Captain
W. J. 11. Johnstone will be paid wages on the 16th,
and on or about the :20th she will leave the Sound
and proceed to Queenstown, to relieve the Ajax, GO,
Captain M'Quin, which screw steam-ship will then
come to this port. On her return to Queenstown the
Albion will sail for Lisbon.

The Winchester, 50, is getting on very rapidly in
her shipwright department. There are 462 men of
different departments employed upon her, and she
is to be out of hand by the 31st instant. She is to
relieve Admiral Lord Dundonald's flag-ship, the Wel-
lesley, on the North American station.

Lieutenant Secombe having completed fitting the
launches of the St. George, 120, and Albion, 90, at the
westward, and the Britannia, 120, and Vengeance, 84,
at this port, by Admiralty order, on his plan for lay-
ing out anchors and chain cables, will now, we trust,
receive the just reward of his meritorious and benefi-
cial services—promotion.—Portsmouth Times and
Naval Gazette.

Penguin, 6, was commissioned on Tuesday, for
Commander Thomas Etherridge, and is to hare a
complement of 76 officers and men. Her armament
will be 4 32-pounder carronades of 17 cwt., and 2
32 .pounder guns of 3? cwt., on Hardy's slides. She
was taken into dock the following day to make good
defects.—lbid.

WOOLWICH, DEC APPOINTMENTS.
. 14Commander Byron Drat"'
(1845), to the Pandora, 6, brig, commissioned this
day at Devonport.
The Hercules store-ship, Master. Commander Ro-
bert Fulton, has arrived ut Greenhithe, towed by the
Monkey and Jasper steam-ves,sels, and has brought
home a large quantity of old stores from Gibraltar
and the Mediterranean.
It is understood here that the seamen and Royal
Marines of the Plover Discovery ship, commissioned
on November 17, 1847, by Commander Thomas E.
L. Moore, for the expedition to Bliering's Straits.
twill be sent home, their period of service having now
expired, and their places will he supplied by volunteers
from the vessels on the Pacific station. The Plover
will continue the duty for which she was commissioned,
and this arrangement is certainly far preferable to
commissioning another vessel to relieve the Plover.
It is intended to commission a steam-vessel fur ser-
vice on the New Zealand station, and it is probable one
of the iron war steamers will be selected for that
purpose, as it is not likely that she will be en-
gaged in warfare, which would injure her in that
part of the world. The iron steamers already built
might be usefully employed on many of the distant
stations, by employing one on each for generAl
purposes until they are worn out, which they will
be as soon, although unemployed, in home ports u
they would be in active service in any part of the
world.

General Radowitz, recently Prime Minister to
the King of Prussia, is at present on a visit to
this country, and has obtained official permission to
visit all her Majesty's dockyards. The General
visited the Rayal Arsenal here on Wednesday last,
and was accompanied over the foundry, the carriage
and laboratory departments, and the extensive range
of store rooms, by the heads of the various depart-
ments, who explained the nature of the works carried
on in them, and the purposes for which the prepared
stores are intended, giving information at the same
time of the quantities that can be made ready in a
limited period.

SHIP NEWS.
LIVERPOOL' DEC. 14.—Wind S.—Acrd. Patna, from
Shanghae; Abeona, from Rio Grande; Sobraon, from
Demerara; Eagle, from La Guayra; Porcupine, from
Smyrna; Caroline, from Zante; Wave, from Scills;
Adam Clark, from Robat; Julia, from Tarragona; Joke
Paley, from St. Gilles; William, from Prince Edward's
Island; Queen, from Calcutta, after touching the ground
at the Lighthouse; Lord Elgin, from Bonny, towed in
from Waterford dismasted; Joseph Sanderson, from
Calcutta; Mirampore, from Calcutta; Carmata, from
; Nimrod, from Bombay; Fairfield, from Bombay;
Sultana, from Valparaiso; Abeona, from Para; R. D.
Shephard, from New Orleans; John Currier, from
Charleston; Mary Pleasant, from Philadelphia; J. g.
Shephard, from New York; New World, from New
York; Ashburton, from New York; William Nelson,
from New York. Cleared outwards—Grecian, for
Malts; Maria Helena, for Lisbon; La Belle Barbara,l
for Rio Grande; Larne, for Valparaiso; Isabel, for An-
tigua; Princess Victoria, for Maranham; Truant, for
Leghorn; Sarah Briggs, for Jersey; Phenix, for Ma-
deira and Antigua; Helen, :for Malta; Mary Queen of
Scots, for Buenos Ayres; Fingal, for Valparaiso; Bel.
lona, for Demerara. Sld. Commodore, steamer, for
Havre; Baltic, steamer, for New York; Thomas Mellor,
for Pernambuco.

BRIDLINGTON QUAY, DEC. 13.—The weather became
very thick again last night. This morning ten sail of
light colliers got on Flamborongh Head rocks, bat the
%lad being light and sea smooth they have all been
floated off, and prooeeded northward.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 12.—The Elizabeth Adnett brig, of
and for London, from Shields, got on a knoll, grown out
from the Barber Sand, yesterday, but after heaving coals
overboard and taking assistance she was got off and
into the roads, making no water, and will proceed.
13th. The John and Isabella, Shields for London, which
put into the Roads yesterday leaky, was assisted into
the harbour this afternoon.
ANTWERP, DEC. 13.—The Enfans Cheris was aban-
doned in a sinking state in the Gulf of Genoa, NOT. 26;
crew saved by the Gretchen, arrived at Genoa.
MANDAHL, Nov. 30.—The Sultana, of Culmar, Bre.
men for Rio Grande de Sul, put in here Nov. 20, with
loss of sails, caboose, &c.

ELSINEUR, DEC. 7.—The Therese, from Rioge, with
a cargo of barley, is reported by pilots to be on shore
near Gillele, three miles north of this place.
The Rustornjea Cowasjee. which left Singapore on
the 26th of July for China, has not sines been
heard of.

The Orion, Hull to Newcastle, which was assisted into
this port on Dec. 5, after being on Plamborough Head
rocks, left yesterday for Hull in tow of a steamer.
On Oct. 6 a pigeon was caught with a small piece of
tape attached to its wing, on which was written, l• Jules
de Nantcs 66, Joures de Mer, 36 Sad. 30 Est," by she
Marianne, Cam bell, arrived off Queenstown.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Martha Shallcross, Rio Janeiro to London, Nov. 1, lat.
9 N., long. 13.
Champion barque, of London, standing westward, Dec. 1,
lat. 47 N., long. lb W.
Gipsy ship, Liverpool to New Orleans, Nov. 28, lat. 43
N., long. 14 W.
Zilpha P. Brown, New York to Cadiz, NOT. 14.
Dauntless, Liverpool to Maranham, Oct. 30, lat. 5 N.,
long. 65 W.
William Nelson, New York to Liverpool, Nov. 23, lat.
39, long. 79.
Damerseive, New York to Cadiz, Nov. 20, lat. 39,
long. 71.
Kolonel Koopman, Dec. 6, let. 49 N., 10ng.13 W.
Honesta, Palermo to New York, Nov. 20, off Majorca.
Heart of Oak (barque), Liverpool to Bahia, Nov. 2s,
lat. 44 N., long. 13 W.
Lady Lucy (schooner), of Scilly, from Newfoundland,
Nov. 22, lat. 37 N., long. 11 W.
Fortuna (Danish brig), for Havre, Dec. 1, lat. 47 N.,
long. 24 W.
Conside, for California, Oct. 26, lat. 1 N.
Lady Blaney (ship), Oct. 10, let. 49, long. 9 W.
Matilda, for the Rio del Plata, Oot. 2, let. 24 S., long.

24 W.
Fairfield, of and for Liverpool, from Bombay, Nov. 30,
lat. 40 N., long. 30 W.
Graf Von Nassau (Spanish barque), Oct. 10, lat. 54 8.,
long. 61.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY EVENING.
The little business done was entirely confined to the
Wolverhampton Steeple Chase.
THE DERBY.—Many inquiries have been made during
the week after Newminster, but nearly all the books
being full, very little has been done; he cannot, how-
ever, be quoted at more than 16 to 1 (an offer to take
1,800 to 100 met with no lavers). The others as before.
No change in the Chester Cup—nothing done upon it.
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN AND VOLTIGEUB.
Mr. North, clerk of the course, York, has sent the
following notification respecting the actual completion
of the match between these celebrated horses, h ft, which
is to come off at the York Spring meeting, on Tuesday,
May 13:—
" TUESDAY.—Match 1,000, h ft; two miles, over the
Old Course—Lord Eglinton's br h The Flying Dutch-
man, 5 yrs, Bst 71b, sgst Lord Zetland's b o Voltigeur,
4 yrs, 7st 121 b."
The York race committee give 400 SOTS. to be run for,
and the meeting wil take place on the 13th and 14th
of May.
SPELLTIIORNE COURSING MEETING.

__ ..._. ______. .....___.....
The Produce Stakes for eighteen puppies_ were won
by Mr. Long's Leading Article; Mr. Longman's Lyon
run up.

The Cup was won by Mr. Long's Lablache, and the
Sweepstakes by Mr. J. R. Phillips's Patchwork.
The Overton Four IDog Stakes were run by Mr.
Long's Laura; the Clatford Stakes (four dogs) by Mr.
Longwan's Lightning; the Kennet Stakes by Mr. Batt's
Bordeaux; the Averbury by Mr. Batt's Bordeaux; the
Visitors' Stakes by Mr. Long's Lockeridge.

THE Gas QUESTION.—It appears thct a strong op-
position has been got up in the parish of St. James's, against
an amalgamation of the Chartered, Equitable, and Landon
Gas Companies, who have given notice to Parliament for s
Bill to unite their interests. The object, as fully set forth
in their pablie notices, is, by concentration to limit their ex-
penditure to the utmost possible extent, and thus put them-
selves in a position to supply gas at the lowest remunera-
tive price, and prevent the interminable inconvenience
to which various portions of the metropolis are now put
by the opening of the streets for pipes. It is stated that the
companies will, by this proposed amalgamation, be enabled
at once to reduce their price for gas at least 20 per teat. It
cannot be doubted that existing companies, who have ex-
pended an enormous amount of capital in laying pipes and
constructing works, must feel it their interest, as it must un-
doubtedly be their conviction, that " half a loaf is better than
no bread at all." And the quotation of gas shares in the
market is perhaps the best evidence that the flourishing
statements made by projectors of new schemes have thew
existence rather in the imagination than in the actual re-
venue of gas companies.—Herald.
CHEAP LITERATURE.—In accordance With the
general demand for cheap books, we observe that Mr.
re-issue of
burn has announced the publication of a ah,ecanpee,,, ln five
Pepys' celebrated " Diary and Correspondence,"
monthly volumes, price 6s. each bound, the
to appear on the Ist of January,lBsl.
restored from the
contain the whole of the passages lately
additional notes. In this
original manuscript, and all the -eTfihrisst eodfitwiohnicwhiiBll
be " the best book of the kind in the
by the Athena.lllll to
" will doubtless meet with thousands of
English language,.
cheap form this remarkable work, which has been pronounced
LARGE •
PIG•—On Thursday last a pig of the short--
taken in at the store of Mr. John Walker,
purchasers who have been hitherto unable to possess it.
eared breed was
cost(
Scales hileeishgßtohbeinlsoarne.
this season.—Carksle
pig slaughtered in that neighbourhood
bacon curer,
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Journal.
James Carter, Esq., puisne judge of the Supreme
Court of New Brunswick, is appointed el justice of that
court.
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