The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

WooLwicx, MAT 11.—Surgeon—James J. Paul,
M.D. (1845), from the Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, on the
soul:-east coast of America station, to the Pro-
metheus steam-sloop, commissioned on the 9± iust.
at Woolwich.

Assi*tant-Surgeon—Charles D. Shephard (1845),
to the Prometheus.

Chief Engineer—George Russell, to the Prome-
theus.

Assistant-Engineers—George Crichton, William
Austin, and Samuel Griffiths, to the Prometheus.
The Crocodile, 8, formerly receiving-ship at Cork
and recently paid oft' at Sheerness, was towed up the
river to-day, by the Adder and African steamers, to
opposite the Tower of London, where she is to be
stationed as a receiving-ship, instead of the Perseus,
now so old as to be only fit to be broken up.
The Lizard, iron steam-vessel, is ordered to be
taken to Sheerness after all ber stores are put on board ;
she is at present in the basin at Woolwich.
The Banshee, llolyhead mail steam-packet, Master
Commander Smithett, having been ordered round to
Chatham to be paid off, the following detail of the
total distance gone over by each of the vessels of her
'Majesty's Holyhead mail steam-packets since launch-
ing, including trial trips, passage round, and passages
made on the Liverpool stations, may prove interest-
ing to the public:—
The Banshee, constructed by 0. W. Lang, and
fitted with engines of 350-horse power, by John Penn
and Son, was commissioned by Master-Commander
William Smithett on January 5, 1848, and including
her trial trips, passnge round, and passages made on
the Liverpool station, ran over 42,000 miles at the
rate of 16 miles per hour of average passage.
The Llewellyn, constructed by Ravenhill and
Miller, and fitted with engines of 350-horse power
by Miller and Ravenhill, was commissioned by
Master-Commander John Grey on May 3, 1848, and
including her passage trips, passage round, and pas-
sages made on the Liverpool station, ran over 28,500
miles at the rate of 15.5 miles per hour of average

- The Caradoc, constructed by Sir William Symonds,
and fitted with engines of 300-horse power by Sea-
ward and Co., was commissioned by Lieutenant-
Commander Charles P. Ladd on April 4, 1848, and
including her trial trips, passage round, and passages
on the Liverpool station, ran over 27,300 miles at the
rate of 14.2 miles per hour of average passage.
The St. Columba, constructed by Laird, and fitted
with engines of 350-horse power by Forrester, was
commissioned by Second Master-Commander Richard
Michael on March 1, 1848, and, including her trial
trips, passage round, and passages on the Liverpool
station, ran over 36,600 miles at the rate of 14 miles
per hour of average passage.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Wednesday the Bth, was a long debate
on the order for a second reading of the Irish
Fisheries Bill ; which appeared to be a contest
between Mitlers and Salmon-fishers. In which the
Millers carried the day, by a majority of 197 votes
against 37. An Extra-Mural Interments Bill was
thrown out by a majority of 123 against 4; the
reason of its unpopularity appearing to be that it
interfered with plans more promising of ultimate
success.

On Thursday the Elections (Ireland) Bill was
proceeded with in Committee, and a disputed ques-
tion in clause 22 carried by 157 against 44; which
looks as if there vas steam sufficient for the general
purposes of the Bill. The Benefices in Plurality
Bill was read a third time, and passed.
On Friday was a debate of unwonted interest for
a Private Bill, oa the Manchester Rectory Division
Bill. A round amount of revenues is to be divided
among the clerg.7 there ; and a Committee upstairs
(which means a Committee of a dozen or fifteen Mem-
bers sitting in a room upstairs by themselves) have
recommended a mode of division, giving to each
of certain Canons 8501. a year in the whole. On
this came for ward the Tory and Ecclesiastical party
in the House, and vigorously contended that (to use
their own words) the clergy at Manchester were
required to mix v nth millionnaires and rich people, and
therefore—what ? That it was expedient to cut down
the incomes of tile fifty inferior clergy, to make
up the
s
the
This`
oughtb to
toin be comuesndoefrtsiti understood:
eCci Canons to
Manchester. l, 0 00/. a Tear.lt i
is
snake rich" principle of Protection introduced
into the Chinch. Possibly it may sharpen
the disposition of the fifty to sift and exa-
mine the principle in which they and their flock
are to be Equally concerned. We shall possibly see
some of these clorgymen at the next Anti-Protection
meeting in the Free-Trade Hall. It is very likely
that their theolc,gical studies were never broken in
upon by such is direct inducement to enter into a
question of Poli: ical Economy before.
It is a favours ble measure of the disposition of the
House of Comm sne, that this new Protectionist out-
break was put d, )wn by 193 votes against 60.
On Friday th: t Parliamentary Voters &c. (Ireland)
Bill was debated on the third reading by the whole
force of the Pro itectionist party. Like the boy who
would not learn A because it would lead to his being
asked to learn 8., they stood upon the certainty that
an extension of :be suffrage in Ireland roust be fol-
lowed by the seitue process in other places. With a
rare ingenuity, they mixed up the question with their
war-horse of tk.e hour ; asserting in two following
breaths, that th whole of the community was with
them on the subject of Protection, yet to extend the
suffrage would he the death of them. The Prime
Minister answered with energy and point. His 'at-
tack on the " paternal 'government" of the opposite
side, consisting, he said, in " keeping the Irish from
the suffrage and! taking care of their fisheries," was
worthy of iuroi ean celebrity; and the astonishment
is, that a leader' who sees so clearly into tbeco
n-
nexions and con. it quenees of things, should be found
lying in his quarters without any plan of campaign
eXCept opposing the enemies when they chute to
come to him.
The majority vas not a very -a
got e,
one, being
only of 254 against 186.
The
could only be
loudly vaunted, t hat if the Ministershould have a
made to dissolve Parliament,fthFe4 ttering
ryee Trade has been
ma-
jority of forty. The cause
that there is no improbabi-
lity badly fought ever sinceothe League divided its
funds on the dram-head,
Sir, your obedient servant,
lity in somethinj;
am,lik it taking place.
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 13th May, 1850.