The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEVONPORT, JULY 13.—THE ST. VINCENT, 120.—Sir David
Milne, the Port Admiral at Devonport, has struck his flag
on board the Sylph tender, and has hoisted it on board the
St. Vincent, 120; Captain Rowley, in Plymouth Sound. Or-
ders were issued on Saturday morning that the morning and
evening gun is to be fired from this ship. Thus our uniform
statement respecting the St. Vincent is verified, and those of
our contemporaries proved to be unfounded. The St. Vin-
cent •was never ordered on foreign service, nor was such an
order ever contemplated.
The Indu, 78, lately paid off at Devonport, will come out
of dock to-day: We mentioned a fortnight since that she
was to be fitted as an advanced. ship. She is preferred to the
Malabar. She is a very fine ship, and her late officers and
crew give her an excellent character. It is said she stows
70 tuns of water more than the Albion, 90.
The Emerald tender, which arrived from Portsmouth on
the 11th, with the men belonging to the St. Vincent, who
were left behind when that ship sailed, returned to Ports-
mouth on the 12th, with supernumeraries for the Coiling-
wood.

A survey of seamen and marines takes place at the Royal
Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, this day.
DOCKYARD.—The following have been superannuated
during the past week :—Richard Hunt and Francis Cann,
shipwrights, on 241. etch ; George Frood, Stonehouse, la,
bourer, on 17/. ; and George Harrison, of a mooring lighter,
on 20/. per annum.
ROYAL MARINES.

The following promotions and appointments have taken
place in the Royal Marine corps, dated the 12th inst.:—
To be Captain-Ist Lieutenant Peter Trant Murray Payne,
of the Chatham division; and appointed to Plymouth division,
vice Brevet-Major Mends, deceased.
To be First Lieutenant-2d Lieutenant George Drury, of
the Portsmouth division, and appointed to the Chatham
division, vice Payne.
Secend Lieutenant John William Comm to the artillery
companies of the corps.

QUOTED PRICES OF ENGLISSI WOOL.—It not .un-
frequently happens that the quoted prices of English
wool at Leeds and Bradford are actually lower than the
prices quoted for the same wool when sold at the Lei-
cester wool fairs. The cause of this is, that a usage
exists at Leicester, which has grown into a rule of the
fair, of making a return or drawback on the part of
the seller ; so that the price actually paid is less than
the nominal and published price. It seems that at
the last fair, on the 26th ult., an increased draw-
back was asked for by some of the buyers ; whilst the
Hon. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Chapman stoutly protested
against any drawback at all, saying that it was a childish
practice, and advocating its abolition. In consequence
of their refusal to make the drawback, they did not sell
their wool. It is evident that the practice which these
gentlemen opposed cannot have the slightest effect on
the price actually paid for the wool; if the seller knows
he has to make a drawback, he will, of course, ask just
so much the more in the first instance for his wool, and,
therefore, the drawback might be abolished without
making the difference of one farthing either to buyer or
seller, whilst it had the advantage of making the pub-
lished quotationi of prices correct and consistent, instead
of being incorrect and puzzling,..—Leeds Mercury.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—W OOLWICII, JULY 15.—
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Commander S. B. Cook,
has been placed under orders to proceed to Antwerp, tc
embark her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Ma-
jesty's suite, on the 23d inst., on the return of the Royal
party from the Continent. It is expected the Queen
Dowager will land at Woolwich. The members of the
Board of Admiralty contemplate visiting Woolwich
dockyard to-morrow. The Comet steam-vessel was
commissioned to-day at Woolwich, by Lieute-
nant William Prettyman (1823). The Light-
ning steam-vessel, Master W. Roberts, and the
Monkey steam-vessel, Master W. Bryant, received on
board this morning the baggage of two companies of the
Royal Artillery, and to-morrow morning Major Wright's
company, 7th battalion, under orders for Newfoundland,
and Captain Dacre's company, sth battalion, under
orders for Quebec, will embark in these vessels for a
passage. to Chatham, where they will embark in the
Apollo troop-ship for a passage to their respective desti-
nations. Captain Dacres is at present at Newfoundland.
and will proceed with his company to Quebec, having
been recently promoted from Captain Flude's company,
under orders to return home, after nine years' service at
Newfoundland.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday Mr. Baker held
an inquest at the Spotted Dog, High-street, Poplar, on
the body of Joseph Good, aged twenty-eight, a foreman
on board the Royal mai: steam-packet the Thames, re-
cently arrived from the West Indies. Joseph
Farrer, another foreman, stated that whilst he was
employed in taking off the floats from one of th,
paddle-wheels, ne saw the deceased, who was in a
state of intoxication, come across the deck of the
vessel and stand upon the sponson of the paddle-
box, where witness was at work. He had not been
there above a minute, when by some means
his foot slipped and he fell from a height of eight feet
into the water and immediately sank. The drags were
instantly procured, but the tide running up at the time.
upwards of half airbour elapsed before the body could be
recovered. Mr. Bains, a surgeon, of Poplar, was promptly
in attendance, and for tvi o hours and :a half used every
means to restore animation without effect. The man had
but a few minutes previously to the occurrence sent a
message on shore for his wife to come on board to him,
and she was on the point of embarking in the boat when
the accident took 'lace. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental death. '

DEATH OF THE EARL. OF KINTORE.—WE regra
to say that this nobleman died on Thursday evening, at his
residence at Keith-hall. His Lordship has, since the melan-
choly events that have lately taken place in his family, been
in a depressed state of mind. This affected his health, and
last season he relinquished, his darling amusement—fox-
hunting, for which he was celebrated in this and the neigh-
bouring counties for many years, and sought to recruit his
constitution in the milder air of the Continent. He re-
turned some time ago, and for a short time had been trying
the benefit of the spas of Strathpeffer, but without any ad-
vantage. The immediate cause of his Lordship's death, we
understand, to have been an injury that he had received in
the chase, many years ago, and which, although partially
cured, had left effects from which his Lordship never alto-
gether recovered. His Lordship was accounted the boldest
huntsman of the day, and a letter which, some months ago,
appeared in our columns, evinces the ardour for the field that
animated him, even after he was unequal to the boisterous.
task. This devotion to the chase formed his Lordship's ex-
ternal character, and by that, many were apt to judge him.
But few knew the "pearl of price" that was contained
within. Few noblemen can boast of equal kind-heartedness
and generosity. His tenants idolized him, and, to our
knowledge, many a one will now miss the kind hand that,
unknown to them, supplied their wants and distributed un-
sparingly the gifts which Providence bad assigned to him,
without permitting it ever to come to light by whom the
means were supplied. His Lordship has left two sons by his
second Marriage, one of whom, a minor, succeeds him in the
title and family possessions. ilia Lordship was in his 50th
year.-46erdica