The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

MAIL ETEAM-PACKETS.

At Metz—The Oberon, Lieutenant Gardiner; Ante-
lope, Lieutenant Smith; Medina, Lieutenant A. Darby.
En route from Malta to Marseilles, the Merlin, Lieut.
J. H. Turner.

En route to Malta from Alexandria, the Medusa,
Lieutenant Ba•hurst.

En route to Malta from the Tonian Islands and Greece,
the Triton, Lieutenant J. C. P. Glinn.
At Naples—The Spiteful, Commander J. Carmichael.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM-

PANT'S FLOTILLA.

At Southampton—The Pacha, Queen, Tagus, Elaine,
and Pottinger.

En route from Southampton to Malta, the Ripon.
En route from Malta to Southampton, the Indus.
En route to Malts from Constantinople, the Sultan.
Between Constantinople and Trebizond, the Erin.
UNITED STATES SQUADRON.
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En route from Naples to Gibraltar, the Independence
frigate, bearing the flag of Commodore Charles W.
Morgan.
En route from Messina to Trieste, the Cumberland,
Captain Latimer.

En route from Naples to the United States, the Relief
store-ship.
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At Spezzia—The Mississippi steam-frigate, Captain
Long.
At Genoa—The Constitution frigate, Capt. Conover.
At Naples—The St. Lawrence, Captain Paudling.
At Palermo—The Erin store ship and Jamestown
corvette.

BIIIPS OP WAR IN PORT.

The Firefly and Nautilus yachts.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY I.—The Vengeance, 84, Captain
Sir Healy Blackwood, arrived at Spithead this morning
from the Mediterranean station to be paid off. She will
be mustered and inspected tc-morrow by the Port-
Admiral, and come into harbour to be paid off all stand-
ing. She lett Malta on the ISth of May, arrived at
Gibraltar on the Ist of June, and sailed on the 4th. She
Las had three cavains during her commission. She
was pteoent at the bombardment of Palermo and Genoa,
during the time of her detached services from the Ad-
miral. She has brought home Lieutenant George Begot,
of the 69. h Reeiment, on leave; 73 men of the 44th
li.,glment; and 80 men of the 69:11 ltgiment, sent home
tor the purpose of obtaining their discharge in conse-
quence of the late reduction in the army. The Yen-
gooice was commissioned on the 17th of October, 1846,
by Captain Stephen Lushingtun, new Commodore of the
Indian navy. The following are the only officers who
have served in her throughout her commission:—Lieu-
tenant Joseph 13iek1ort1; Mr. Robert Salmond, Master;
Mr. J. Mounsteven, Paymaster and Parser; Dr. Robert
Wallace, Assistant-Surgeon ; Mr. E. Death and Mr.
T. U. Stote, Clerks; Mr. Ley, Master's-Assistant; Mr.
Brett, Midshipman. Her military invalids were in
charge of Captutu Tothill,
The Ilo%ie, 120, Captain Sir James Siding, arrived
at Spithead this af.ernoon from the Mediterranean, to
be paid off.
Spithead has not been so full since the experimental
squadron of 1849. We have the Howe, 120; Vengeance,
84; and Medea steam-sloop, of the Royal navy, and the
Barham, 1,150 tons, Captain Grlnblett, from London
for Calcutta, full of passengers and freight. The Se-
ringapatam, 1,000 tons, Captain Furnell, for Bombay;
and the Bucephalus, 1,000 tons, Captain Bell, for Madras
and Calcutta, with troops.
PLYMOUTH, JULY I.—Letters dated May 19, from
her Mejesty's troop-ship Apollo, Commander Raw-
-1 storne, at the Cape of Good Hope, state that she left
Hong-hoe; with the 95th Regiment, about 800 rank
and file, on the Ist of March, touched at Anglers on the
23d of March, and arrived at St. Simon's Bay on the
Bth of May. During the passage great sickness pre-
vailed among the troops, caused in the first place by
their protracted residence aboard. The whole ship, for
a long period, was quite like an hospital, as many as
100, and sometimes 150, being sick at a time of dysen-
tery, of which 40 soldiers died. Only one of the officers
had been ill, and he recovered. On arrival at the Cape
all the sick were sent to the hospital, and
the rest of the troops were lauded at the dockyard ;
six men who were very ill when landed died ashore, and
more will probably die before reaching England. How-
ever, only four or five fresh cases occurred after arrival,
and the weather was very fine. No mention is made of
any sickness among the crew. The senior medical officer
at the Cape has been on board and inspected' the
Apollo; she was to be cleaned and purified, provisions
got on board, and everything ready to receive the troops
by the 26th of Islay; but the medical officer thought
they ought not to go before the Ist of June, so as to
give the men time to recover previous to embarkation.
All the sick will be left behind, and this will in some
measure prevent overcrowding. The Apollo, it is sup-
posed, will be paid off on arrival home. She has not
sufficient height between decks, and is otherwise ill
adapted for the conveyance of troops, of which fact
there has been very fatal evidence since she left
England.
COAST OF AFRICA.—By accounts received from the
sloop Ranger, 8, Commander T. Miller, it appears that
on the sth of December last, while off the coast of Africa,
after experiencing a very heavy short sea for two days,
she encountered a tremendous squall, with variable
wind, accompanied with terrific thunder, a deluge of rain,
and vivid forked lightning from nearly every part of the
horizon, a flash from which struck the ship and came
down the main mast, passed through the gunroom, and
escaped by the third Lieutenant's cabin, where the con-
ductors lead overboard. The First-Lieutenant was
sick in bed at the time, and the purser sitting outside
talking to him. Both of these saw the lightning come
down and escape in the manner described. The officers
consider that, under Providence, the conductors, which
are on the plan of Sir William Snow Harris, were the
means of saving the ship, if not all on board. The
weather was so thick at the time that half the ship's
length could not be seen from any part of her. Had
either of the masts gone, a considerable sacrifice of life
must have occurred, as he crew were of course on deck.
The commander observed the lightning strike the fore-
mast in a similar way. The ship was exposed to the
rage of the thunderstorm from 5 to 9 ear., that is to say,
four hours. _ _ _

The Thetis, 40, Captain H. J. Codrington, is to go up
Hamoaze to•day.
The iufantry of the Royal Dockyard Battalion were
exereisc-d in Granby-square on Saturday afternooon.

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