The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—C. A. P. V. Robinson (1849). to the
Volcano steam vessel, fitting at Woolwich for the coast
of Africa; Samuel Twyford (1849), to the Penguin, 6,
to be re-commissioned at D-vonport.
Mager—John Kellock (1841), to the Phaeton, 50 at
Portsmouth, vice Mowll.
Acting Masters—Henry Hutchings (second master of
1843). to the Volcano; W. B. Edwards (second master
01 1844), of the St. George, 120, to the Penguin.
Acting Paymasters—William J. Jenkins (clerk of
1543), late in charge of the Porcupine steam-vessel, and
formerly of the Myrmidon, Crocodile, Minden (in
China) and of the Eclair before paid off, to the Penguin;
C. E. P. Hall (1842), to the Volcano.
Clerks—Thomas Waterfield, to the Volcano; T. R.
Dennis, to the Penguin.
Midshipman—C. A. J. Heysham, to the Impregnable
flag-ship, Devonport.
Masters' Assistants—H. S. Brodie, to the Penguin; J.
H. Kerr, to the Victory, supernumerary for disposal.
Naval Cadets—R. K. Scott, to the Victory tiag-ship,
Portsmouth; W. H. Elton, to the Impregnable.
Gunner—David Horn, to the Volcano.
COAST GEURD.—Lieutenauts—W. Lyons, command-
ing the Glenarn station, to be inspecting lieutenant of the
Keele Achill district, vice Mr. T. Lambe Wood, de-
ceased; J. W. Bedford, from Mouth of Boyne to Kul-
lough station, vice Mr. George Stovin, second master,
removing to Month of Boyne, vice Bedford.
The new commander of the Penguin, late Brazil
packet brig, and just paid off at Devonport, we believe
will be Commander Thomas Etheridge, 1848.
The Steward of Greenwich Hospital, Paymaster
Thomas F. Jessop (1797), died on Friday last, aged 72.
This veteran officer was purser of the Diane, in the ex-
pedition to Egypt in 1801, of the Northumberland at St.
Domingo, and of the Ramilies in the operations on the
coast of America in 1813, 1814, and 1815. He held the
appointment at Greenwich from April 16, 1834, and was
generally respected and esteemed throughout the esta-
blishment. The salary of the appointment is 5001., with
apartments, &c., and it is reported that Mr. John
Elliott, one of the senior and most distinguished pa) -
masters in the service, now storekeeper at the Victual-
ling-yard, Deptford, will succeed to the vacancy. This
officer has seen a great deal of war service, and has
four medals for his gallantry. He is brother of that
highly-distinguished officer, the late Captain Sir W.
Euiott, and in the course of his career, we find by
" Allen's New Navy List," served as midshipman in the
Mars, 84, at the desperate capture of the Hercule, in
1798; was clerk of the Russell, at Copenhagen; purser
of the Elk, in action with a Spanish flotilla off Cartha-
gena, on the Spanish Main, in 1805; and of Arethusa,
at the taking of Curacoa, in 1807; was officially men-
tioned for services in the Arethusa's beats on the north
coast of Spain, particularly at the destruction of the

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batteries, &c., of Bsgnio, in 1809. Whilst performing
the duty of a lieutenant, this officer has been repeat-
edly and most creditably engaged in cutting-out ser-
vices, &c.

Many are named for Mr. Elliott's vacancy, and
among them we may prominently mention Mr. Tris-
cott, who has served with much satisfaction for a Lag
period, on foreign stations, and was late agent vic-
tualler at Bermuda, but who has been trausterred to
Plymouth Victualling-yard ; and Mr. Ede, assistant-
storekeeper at Deptford.
THE INCONSTANT.—COURT OF INQUIRY.—DxFON•
PORT, FRIDAY.—The Court of Inquiry on the Na►al In-
structor is still progressing, nn boar, the Impr, gnable
flag-ship, with what result is not known. The Incon-
stant will be paid off to-morrow.
Geyser, 6, steam-sloop ,Commander Tatham, arrived at
Madeira from Davonport, Nov. 19, and left the twat du_

for the Brazils.
Phaeton, su, Captain G. Elliott, was taken out of the
Angle Dock on Saturday, and will go out of the basin
alongside her hulk to-day. She is rigging fast, and has
already her topgallant masts pointed through the cups.
She has a novel invention (we believe French) for set-
ting up her lower rigging. She has no dead eyes, her
shrouds are turned round a smallish thimble, with a
large score, and instead of rope she has iron plates for
lanyards ; the lanyard (or substitute) is in two pieces,
the upper half, fast to the shroud thimble, has two
sides, or is what may be called a long jaw, the lower
piece fast to the chain-plate is a single piece, both have
cirrespondicg holes, and when the shroud is taught a
short bolt is put through the holes and secures both
pieces together. The rigging is set up in a very simple
.and ingenious manner ; a strong arm of iron is hooked

to the chain-plate, and a short "poweiful lever, which is
worked with a common Taff tackle, when one shroud is
up this iron lever, &e., is shifted to the next shroud.
These iron lanyards look light ; they are supposed to be
capable of bearing a strain equal to about 15 or 20 tons.
One was tried last week, and a strain equal to 36 tons
put on, when the shroud broke, and from the jar of the
shroud breaking the plate broke.
The Sprightly, steam tender, Dilater-Commander
armed at Portsmouth, from Devonport, on Sun-
day afternoon.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Amphitrite, 24, will be
removed from dock on Wednesday, refitted for re-
commission.

The Castor, 36, Commodore Wyvill, Commander-in-
Chief on the Cape uf Good Hope station, was in Table
Bay on the 6th of October from the Mozambique.
Captain George Woolcombe (1830) has accepted the
retirement of 18s. per diem.
A letter from the Sharpshooter iron screw-sloop,
Lieutenant-Commander Bailey, dated Rio, September
the 20th, states that while lying at anchor off the Island
of Francisco, about 200 miles to the northward of Rio,
she observed a suspicious sail in the tifing, to which she
gave chase, and in two hours boarded, when she proved
to be the melia, a small cutter, fitted for the slave trade,
with 74 human beings on board, ail of whom were chit.
dren averaging from eight to nine years of age, whom
she shipped at Elephant Bay, having previously marched
them 19 miles for embarkation! Twenty of these poor
creatures died on the passage, and many others were in a
dying state when captured, owing to want o• good wafer
and wholesome food, both which necessaries she had run
out of several days prior to her capture. This is the
fifth prize made by the Sharpshooter since she has been
on the station—scarcely three months.
The Hercules, -2, store ship, Kist er-Commvnder
Fulton, arrived this morning fr.m t•ye

She sailed from Gibraltar on the 29th ult. Mrs. Lis-
celles (widow of the late Lieuteuant Colonel
of the 66th) and family came home pswogerq from
Gibraltar in the Hercules, which awaits orders to pro-
ceed to the eastward.

The Sprightly steam• tender arrived this afternoon
from Devonport, with seamen end marines belonging to
this port paid off from the Inconstant.
The Penguin, 6, is ordered to be commissioned at
Devonport, by Lieutenant Samuel Twyford.
The Waterwitch and the Cyclops are hourly expected
at this port, from the coast of Africa. Tne former left
St. Helena on the 18th ult., to collect the mail for
England.
PLY:mourn, DEC. 7.—The crew of her Majesty's ship
St. George were paid off on Thursday in anticipation of
the now regulations, which come into operation on the
Ist of January next.
Her Majesty's brig Harlequin, 12, Commander Wil-
mot, is appointed to go out of harbour to-day and to sail

on the 101 inst. with the mails for the coast of Africa,
touching at Madeira.
The Calliope, 26, was commissioned on Tuesday by
Lieutenant Marcus F. Brownrigg, Flag-Lieutenant to
Port-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, for Captain Sir
James Everard Home, and is to have a complement of
195 officers and men. _ _

The Astrea store-ship at Falmouth is to be brought
here and paid off.
The merchant barque B. B. Greene, Captain Miller,
from the Mauritius the 29th of September, was off this
port on Friday, the 6th inst., and landed passengers—
Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. Sweeting and Captain H. F.
Strange, Royal Artillery; Lieutenant F. W. Le Strange
and Lieutenant W. R. C. Potrer, sth Fusiliers; and ad-
ditional Lieutenant Charles W. Russell and Mr. Wilson,
invalided from her Majesty's frigate Castor, 36, Commo-
dore Wyvil, Commander W. H. Bunce.
The Castor arrived at the Mauritius on the 19th of
September. There was great sickness on the Mozam-
bique coast, and as many as 117 had been on the list on
board the Castor. At the time of the departure 22 had
died and 90 were on the list.
The Greene did not touch at the Cape of Good Hope.
At St. Helena, on the let of November, were Mr.
Rowe, of her Majesty's steam-vessel Rattler, and Mr.
Davis, R.N. both in charge of prize slave ships.
Off the Western Islands spoke the brig Eliza Robson,
from Buenos Ayres for London.
The barque David Malcolm, Captain Smith, five and
a half months from Manilla, and two months from
the Cape of Good Hope, was off Plymouth on the 6th
instant.

His Imperial Majesty's corvette Olivouza. 26, Com-
mander Jean Sout,choff, tor Rio Janeiro, left the Sound
on Friday. During her stay hero the officer, hive been
frequently ashore, and have visited and inspected the
dockyard and other public establishments.
The arrow steam-ship Bosphorus, Captain Hall, the
first of the contract mail packets for the Cape of Good
Hope, is appointed to arrive here on Friday next, the
13th lust., and to sail for her destination on Sunday, the
15th inst.

The emigrant ship Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Cap-
tain Loney, sailed with przsengers for Adelaide and Port
Philip on Thursday.
The trawl sloop Mary, R. Wells master, belonging to
Mr. Samuel Dyer, of this port, while trolling for fish off
the harbour on Thursday morning, at half:past .-igt,t
o'clock, was run into by an American steam-Pwket from
New York, said to be the Warrington
Wa=bineton.
The steamer took the sloop on her quarter, knocked off
part of her taffrail, and broke or carried away stern-
timbers, knees, ledges, chucks, upper planking of the
stern, and goose-neck of main boom, split and tore main-
bryko ruain-sheet, and out ber rigging, &C. the

Jd the harbour in the afternoon ;-"the steamer
up Channel, it is supposed for London.
.Cg, DEC. 7.—The Advice steipa-vessel will
oolwich for Cork on Tuesday next;•Lin obarge of
Master Commandiag the Lightning; the Ad.
Jen -rye as a tender to the Ajax steinaguard-
i
at that station.
_lle Tiger steam-sloop is ordered from Chatham to
Portsmouth, where she will rep:lila as an advanced war-
steamer ready for commission whe'n required.
The Penguin, 6, gun-brig, 'Up Falmouth packet, -
commissioned by Lieutenant Tiiy„ford, is intended for
service on the coast of Africa, and iiiling=iAssels, Wdl
continue to be sent to that station as formerlyr stated,
until a .sufficient number of steam-vessels can' iie'lllade
ready of.the requisite draught of water and other capa-
bilities for the t•e7vice, when ste.aruprs only will be sent.

PLYMOUTH AS A P.47-==IaKET STATION.
hWe are happy in born!, able to state that
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aving been selected by the Screw Company as the port
Qf arrival and departure of the Cape mail steamers, the
first steam-ship, the BosphoruF, Captain J. V. Hall,
will be dispatched on Sunday, the 15th inst. -She will
be f 'flowed by a steamer every succeeding month for the
Cape, calling at Madeira and Sierra Lone. -Probably
other ittermediate ports will be touched at for mails.
This is but a commencement. There can be little
douht that wite fneigs end co- ep-ration among the in-
; habitants—by the exhibitien of public spirit, and a de-
sire to facilitate the arrang! llamas and further the
view§ of these who may have the opportunity of pro-
moting the commercial importance of the neigbourhood
—the capabilities of the port will be mere and more de-
veloped and its natural and other advantages more and
more appreciated. Not only therefore fur what it is in
itself, -but for what it will in all probability lead to, we
hailthe selection if this port as the rendezvotis of the
Cape Mails as an important era. We understand that
with respect to the company who have obtiined the
contract, there is a probability of their increasing the
tonnage and steam power of the vessels to enable
them to proceed direct to the East Indies, and that re-
gular communication with 'Australia—a subject that has
been strongly urged by. influential persons7-may be
reasonably expected shortly to follow.—Devonport in-
dependent.

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.
Generals—Sir P. Rita', Col. 15th F., Paris; Ham-
mond, Lieut.-Gov. Edinburgh Castle, London.
Lieutenant-Generals—Middlemore, C. 8., Col. 48th F.,
Tonbridge-wells; Mawby, London.
Colonels—Keate, late of Scotch Fus. Gds., London;
Morrison, Capt., h,-p., 23d Dra.; Delap, 2d Surrey Mil.
Lieutenant-Colonel—Walker, Royal Artillery, Leith
Fort, N.B.

Cciptains—Bayley, Ceylon Regt., Ceylon; Sutherland,
ret. f.-p., sth Vet. Bat.; Adair, Unatt.; Beretze, b.-p.,
Ist Vet. Bat., Malines, Belgium.
Lieutenants—Hare, 14th F., 4stlebar; Snowe, 55th
F., Dungarvon; Moller, 98th F., Peshawur, Punjaub;
Searanoke, h.-p., 4th Dr. Gds.; Moore, h.p., 7th F.; D.
M'Donald, h.-p., 40,h F., Canada; French, h.-p., 67th
Stirling; Humberstcne, h.-p., Can. Mil.
Cornet and Ensigns Wilson, h.p., Hompesch's
Mounted Riflemen, Taunton; Palmer, 56th F., Gibral-
tar; Hobro, h.-p., Prov. Bat. of Mil.; Lewis de Sichart,
h.p., 2d Line Bat., K.G.L.

Barrack Muster—Huddleston, Cephalonia.
Adjutant—Howe, North Down Md., Capt. Newton,
Ards.

Quartermaster—Chisholm, 37th Foot, Ceylon.
Burgeons—Ledingham, 83d F., Poona, Bombay; Pink,
Prov. Bat., Brompton, Kent; Taylor,Surg., Ist Class,
h ..p., London.

Deputy Purveyor—R. Leave, h.-p., Malta.

MR. SIDNEY HERBERT AND THE
_ PUSEYITES
_

Mr. Sidney Herbert has been making a speech to his
constituents, assembled in county conference, on the all-
engrossing subject of the day. With a certain con-
sciousness of being what in the Reign of Terror was
called " one of the suspect," the astute representative of
Wiltshire has deemed it safer to volunteer his own ver-
sion of the matter than to wait for int. rrogation.
"I shall be very frank," said the Right Hon. Gentleman
at the commencement of his curious oration. That was
what the late Sir Robert Peel invariably used to say
whenever he meant to be particularly cloudy..
The Member for Wilts was one of his favorite dis-
ciples ; and, to du him justice, he seems to be au adept
in hi . master's ways of political speech. His promise
" to be frank" he cnaainly kept, so far as the things
done by the Roman Church and the things left un-
done by the Anglican Church are concerned. He had
no hesitation in abusing the Pope and bantering the
Cardinal, Ho called the tone of the bull " blasphe-
mous," and ridiculed the style of the Pastoral as a bad
imitation of that in use among the Chietillat His
audience obligingly cheered the former and laughed at
the latter remark. Furthermore, he confessed that our
bishops had rather too much pay and our working clergy
too little. He openly pronounced in favour of church
extension in its widest sense, and solemnly declared that
when he saw and beard all that was passing around him,
he thought the assumption that England was about to
become reconciled to the Papacy, one of the—but he
would not utter the word that his indignation put upon
his lips! The mingled force of candour and of charity
could no further go; and a discriminating audience, fan-
cying that the speaker had actually said something,
cheered in the usual manner.

Only unto one is the crowd did the gift of inter-
preting tongues appear to be given. In a brief pause
of the Peeitan oration, a aide voice in the multitude
was heard to exclaim—" What is to be done with the
visitors in our own camp?" As if awakened from •
meemerising process, everybody suddenly seemed to
remember that this after all was the main question at
issue, and the only one to which, as electors of Wilts,
that they were interested in getting from their Right
Hon. Lecturer a categorical reply. Vehement cries cf
Hear," interspersed with yet more pointed exclama-
tions, bespoke the ready and unanimous assent of all to
the blunt but moat pertinent is terrogation.
But their adroit representative was not to be caught so
easily. It was a critical moment for a gentleman who had
for years been supposed to be no parsimonious contributor
to the propagation of that peculiar form of faith now
branded as insidious heresy. To flinch, in the face of his
country, from whet he had hitherto professed to patro-
nise, would have been shabby, and useless into the bar-
gain. To avow it manfully would have required what
Mr. Roebuck calls " civil courage"—a quality which
no man of Mr. Sidney Herbert's school was ever
supposed to possess. Oae only alternative remained—to
be " frank," in the Peelite and Puseyite sense—that is,
intensely evasive, unintelligible, and obscure. " What is
to be done with the traitors?" ejaculated the ex-Mi-
ulster: "I am glad that question is asked, and I shall
answer it frankly." Whereupen the polemical Candide
went off at a right -augle upon the capacity and disposi-
tion to judge fairly of the quarrel, and then passing by a
circuitous detour through the heathen deserts within
the realm of England, where the scene of church
exteusion labaurs is said to lie, the wily worthy
came to a rotund conclusion, without venturing even
once within &peeking distance of the notable question
with which he was to have dealt so frankly, and with
which he was in fact so delighted to deal! Not a word
Ives said on the subject. Ihe traitors and treason re-
main, and will so continue, as well as the far more effr-
ciest anti sabti, eneini: s of genuine Protestantism than
reseripts or bishops appointed by R tine, for
tete ht that memner for Niles or the Rignt Rev. Lord
of (Wow will eo .ttwards tteir eviction.
It Mr. Sidney liernert cholislies any ambition to stand
for the county next time (end the occasion may be
neater at hand than people iussgine), he must choose de-
finitively what side he intends to espouse in future, and be
prepared, at least for a decent while, to stick to it. If
his mind be so coustituted that he finds it hard to
nold heartily any opinion, or to entertain zealously
any attachment to party iu Church or State, that is his
misfortune tor which he may be with more reasoa
pitied than blamed. A man who feels no confidence
inspires none; a man wno is conscious of no enthusiasm
clan never become its object. He may be a convenient,
conventional, commonplace person of station and in-
fluence; more he can never be. But even for that
third-class position he must have or assume the pluck to
say out what he allows his friends to suppose he thinks
upon vital questions. County electors are easily duped
enough, Heaven knows, and sometimes too easily made
to submit to supercilious contempt from their represen-
tatives. But even Wiltshire farmers may find out that
they have been done. And finished as their Russian
envoy is in the arts of diplomacy, there are subjects to
which these accomplishments are misapplied, and the
national religion is one of them.—Daily News.

ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—A collision occurred on the London and North-
Weste•n Railway on Saturday evening, under circumstances
that deserve especial notice. The Tring train due at Eus-
ton-square at a quarter to nine P.M. reached the Harrow aide
of the Primrose•hill Tunnel, when some fog signals exploded,
and the train stopped close to the signal-hut there. On this
spot it stood for a very considerable time, but was at length
moved some short distance within the tunnel, and then again
stopped. Two faster trains were becoming rapidly due, and
the condition of the passengers became more and more
perilous. Still the train stood still for a period that seemed
hours, which, in fact, was, it is stated, full 50 minutes,
when the expected shock came, the following train
entering the tunnel and ran into the carriages
waiting there. The collision was so severe that the last car-
riage in the still train was broken in all directions. The
train, however, was shortly after got slowly into motion, and
arrived at Euston station. Happily no lives were lost, but
the driver of the Tring train was thrown by the collision
with great violence against the boiler, and had one of his
arms much cut and bruised. Only one of the passengers in
this train appears to have been seriously hurt, though all
were of course much shaken. It is a rather remarkable fact
that the two passenprs who were the most injnred occupied
the centre compartment of a first-class carriage about the
middle of the Birmingham train. One was a gentleman
named Weston, resident in Dover-street, Piccadilly, whose
legs were much hurt; the other gentleman resides in St.
James's•street, and he has had his shins severer• cut. One
passenger in the Tring train, resident in the Westminster-
road, was also slightly injured.

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT ISLINGTON.-011
Saturday, between the hours of one and two in the afternoon,
a tire broke out on the premises of Mr. Borlinder, No. 21,
Richard-street, Islington. The flames were first seen issuing
from several of the windows. Messengers were immediately
dispatched, and three engines were speedily in attendance.
After great exertions the fire was prevented from extending
beyond the first floor ; but the property in the house was
considerably damaged, and an old lady, aged 71, named
Frances Borlinder, the mother of the owner of the house, was
unfortunately burned to death. Her body, when discovered,
was completely black. It is not known how the fire
originated. . .
ST. BARNARA6, , PIMLICO.—The usual service of
this church was yesterday performed without those interrup-
ti.,ns which for some weeks past have disgraced the 'mpious
aggressors. The congregation, however, on leaving the
s cred walls, were received by an irate mob assembled in the
street, and some violence, but not Of a penned character, le
tgBYO be u Wizaaittel