The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-17 00:00:00

at two or three different points was a purely casual coin-
cidence. We shall return to the subject of Cuban des-
potism. But meantime we are content to appeal to such
facts as those which we have stated already; and it is
without hesitation as to the answer which will be given
by Englishmen, that we ask—" Ought the nations of
Europe, in the nineteenth century, to sanction the con-
tinuance of such,a Government as this?"—Herald.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE CHINA SQUADRON.

HONG-KoNG, APRIL 24.—The Braganza, Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamer, arrived here with the
mail on the 18th inst., bringing with her the new Flag-
Captain (F. W. Austen) to join the Hastings, 72, who
received the command of her from Captain Morgan the
same day. Captain Morgan goes home overland by this
mail, and his departure from China is universally re-
gretted. The admirable state of order and discipline in
which he handed over the flag-ship to his successor was
only in accordance with his well known abilities as an
officer, while his urbanity of manner and obliging de-
portment rendered him generally popular, and will cause
him to be much missed in the naval and social circ!es of
this station.

The Commander-in-Chief (Rear-Admiral C. J. Austen,
C. 8.), remains at Singapore with his family to recruit
after the fatigue of the overland passage, and has ordered
the Hastings to join him there as soon as she is relieved
by the arrival of some other ship at Hong-Kong. She
has remained at anchor in Hong-Kong roads nearly
seven months without once moving (I), and both officers
and crew begin to wish fur a change of scene.
The Arab, 12, Commander Morris, is lying at
Whampoa.
The Royalist, 8, Commander Bate, left this place on
the 2d for Manilla and Palawan, where she arrived on
the 4th.

The Reynard, 11, Commander Cracroft, left for
Shanghai, en route to Pei-ho, on the 10th inst. She
had reached Amoy on the 18th, where the Mariner, 12,
Commander Matheson, is still stationed.
The Pilot, 12, Commander Ince, is at Shanghai.
The Amazon, 24, Captain Troubridge, is in the Straits
of Malacca.

The Cambrian, 40, Captain Morris, and the Fury
steam-sloop, Commander Wilcox, are on their way to
Singapore from Colombo, with detachments of the
Ceylon Rifles on board to reinforce the garrison of
Hong-Kong.
Although the Mariner is ordered home, it is not the
Governor's intention to part with her yet.
The pirates captured by Commander Cracroft in the
Reynard have been tried—three are to be hanged, nine
transported for life, and two were acquitted.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 16.—The westerly gale moderated
on Saturday, and drew round to N.N.E. At noon the
Victory telegraphed to the Ajax, at Spithead, to get up
steam and proceed to Plymouth and Cork, and she soon
went away with a fair wind.
On the arrival of the Vengeance, 34, at this port from
the Mediterranean station, she will be paid off all
standing, and recommissioned by Captain Sir Henry
Blackwood, with a complement of 330 men, for home
service.

The Fairy Royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, G.C.IL. will embark her Majesty and the Court
at Osborne on Tuesday, at a quarter-past two r.m., for
Gosport, en route to London.
The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Commander Dumaresq, and
her tender, the Seaflower, are ordered to be paid off here.
The former is also ordered to be recommissioned for sea
service with a complement of sixty men.
The mainmast of the new steam-frigate Termagant,
24, is ordered to be shifted seven feet further forward.

I'EMBROICE, JUNE 15.—Moorings for a line-of-battle
ship and a frigate are immediately to be laid down off
this yard. It is expected that this step is preparatory
to a man-of-war being permanently placed on the station,
as this important arsenal is the only naval establish-
ment which is left without the defence of a single vessel
of war.

The Triumph, 74, on* of the lazarettoes at the port
of Milford, is being taken to pieces in the dockyard,
being much too defective to be repaired. She is an ex-
tremely old ship, having been launched at Woolwich in
the year 1764, and wa►s built on the lines of the Invin-
cible, captured from the French. She is of 1,825 tons
burden. Her copper materials and the sale of the old
timber will realise a considerable sum above the expanse
of breaking up.
It has been decided that a hospital shall forthwith be
erected for the benefit of the troops in the garrison. This
measure, though involving an outlay at first, will ulti-
mately prove a saving to the country.