The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

In consequence of the strong south-west gale yes-
terday, the Phaeton, 50, Captain George Elliot, is
still at Spithead, and will not sail for Lisbon till the
weather is more settled.

The Hogue, 60, will, we understand, come into
Portsmouth harbour again to-day, and probably ship
another screw, and complete her coal.
The Tiger appears a fine vessel ; she carries 14
guns—viz., on her quarter-deck, one 68-pounder
solid shot gun, 91 feet, 86 cwt., pivot-gun, and four
long 32-pounders, 50 cwt. ; forecastle, one 68. pou-
nder, 10 feet, solid shot, 86 cwt., and two 32-pounders.
On her main deck, abaft engine, four 32. pounders,
9 feet, 50 cwt.; before engine, two 32-pounders, 50
cwt. She steamed round from Chatham at the rate
of 11 knots per hour. Mr. Belem, the master in
charge, and the men belonging to the Ocean, who
navigated the Tiger to Portsmouth, will probably
return by railway.
PORTSMOUTLI, SUNDAY.—The Hecate steam-sloop,
Commander G. S. Hand, arrived from Lisbon yester-
day with supernumeraries and invalids. Sbe sailed
from the Tagus on the 9th as the Peninsular packet
from Gibraltar was entering. She reports political
affairs as in statu quo, and the community in some
commotion in consequence of the recent arrival of a
new Cardinal, whose installation took place on the
4th with grand eclat. A regal entertainment was
given on the occasion, to which acout 400 of the elite
of the country were invited, among whom were the
British Minister and the officers of the British
squadron, who, however, says our informant, de-
dined the honour to a man. Commodore Martin's
uadr o n experienced very heavy weather during
their late experimental trial, every ship prov-
ing herself an able sea-boat except the Dauntless,
which is reported to have rolled terrifically, losing all
topgallant-masts over the side in one of her heavy
lurches ; in running she beat every ship, but on a wind
was the leemost. The Arrogant is reported by far th•
most efficient vessel, being able to steam (sails
furled) 8.6 knots per hour, while the Dauntless can
only keep up with her at that rate by the aid of her
sails. The latter sits deep in the water, and com-
pared with the Leander, Arethusa, and Arrogant is
low and ugly. The general appearance of these
beautiful frigates is perfectly yacht-like. It is
thought the Phaeton's sailing was unfair and spoilt by
the disproportioned show of canvass, and Captain
Gordon, of the Encounter, holds the opinion that it is
impossible to determine the fastest rate of sailing in
any frigate under the present system of allowing each
captain to trim his ship in accordance with his own
fancy. The Prince Regent is in admirable order.
The Hecate experienced awful weather on her pas-
sage out (eight days from Plymouth), meeting a gale
off Cape Finisterre, which washed away the captain's
gig and a considerable portion of her port paddle-
box. She lay to three days under storm trysails and
power of steam sufficient to keep steering way. She
is replenishing fuel, of which she brought home
half what she took out, although she did not coal at
Lisbon, and will be ready for service again in a day
or two.

The Persian, 12, Commander Bulman, having suf-
fered much from sickness whilst at Grey-town, Mos-
quito, and lost several hands, it may be well to pub-
lish the names of those who have fallen victims to the
pestilence, in order to allay the apprehensions of
friends and relatives of survivors on board :—Assist-
ant-Surgeon Duncan ; quartermasters James Graham
and John Quinn; blacksmith, Timothy Collins;
captain of the mast, George Simmonds ; carpenter's
crew, John Turner ; ordinary seaman, John Colter,
first-class boy s, William Gill and Edward Storey ;
private marine, Abel Skinner.
The Amphitrite, 25, is ordered to be recommis-
sioned at this port by Captain Charles Frederick
(1842). She will be ready to hoist the pendant on
the 31st inst.

The Havannah, 22, Captain Erskine, was at Auck-
land, New Zealand, on the 25th of July, having made
the passage from Sydney in the extraordinary short
space of six days and five hours. She was on the Ist
of August on a cruise to the islands northward—New
Hebrides, Loyalty, New Caledonia, and Soloman, for
the protection of British traders. She would return
to Sydney in November. All well.
PLTMOUTII, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate Inde-
fatigable, 50, Captain R. Smart, entered the Sound
yesterday afternoon, left Port Royal early in No-
vember, and touched at Bermuda on the 24th. Al-
though the yellow flag was flying at her mast head,
there was no sickness on board, and she was quickly
relieved from quarantine.
The crew of the Indefatigable have, during her
stay in the West Indies, suffered severely from yellow
fever and cholera. When the fever appeared among
the crew, at sea, the ship went to :Port Royal ; on
arrival, they signalized their condition to the authori-
ties, and were answered that the cholera had just
broken out among the inhabitants ashore. The full
complement of the Indefatigable is 500 men, but she
is now 127 short of that number. Of these, 36 in all
have died, and about 80 are left in hospital at Port
Royal. There bas been but one death since leaving
Port Royal, and three occurred before reaching Ber-
muda, when she was under quarantine. All the best
men have been attacked, and, it is said that she
has not now more than 30 thorough-going seamen
on board. With the exception of Captain Smart,
First-Lieutenant R. J. Balfour, and one or two others,
all the officers have been ill, but no deaths have oc-
curred among them.
The chief boatswain's mate had his foot crushed
when assisting in getting out the ship's boat at Port
Royal; amputation was performed, and he is now on
board on duty.

The Indefatigable has experienced very wild
weather for the last few days.
The crew of her Majesty's ship Albion, 90, Captain
\V. J. 11. Johnstone will be paid wages on the 16th,
and on or about the ?oth she will leave the Sound
and proceed to Queenstown, to relieve the Ajax, 60,
Captain M'Quin, which screw steam-ship will then
come to this port. On her return to Queenstown the
Albion will sail for Lisbon.

The Winchester, 50, is getting on very rapidly in
her shipwright department. There are 462 men of
different departments employed upon her, and sbe
is to be out of hand by the 31st instant. She is to
relieve:Admiral Lord Dundonald's flag-ship, the Wel-
lesley, on the North American station.

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Lieutenant Skombe having_pefnpleted fitting the
atTeNes of the St. George, 120, and Albion, 90, at tho
westward, and the Britannia, 120, and Vengeance, 84,
at this port, by Admiralty order, on his plan for lay-
„ing out anchors and chain cables, will now, yye trust,
receive the just reward of his meritorious arid benefi-
cial services—promotion.—Portsmouth Times and
Naval Gazette.
Penguin, 6, was commissioned on Tuesday, for
Commander Thomas Etherridge, and is to have a
complement of 76 officers and men. Her armament
will be 4 32-pounder carronades of 17 cwt., and 2
32 .pounder guns of 32 cwt., on Hardy's slides. She
was taken into dock the following day to make good
defects.—lbid.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, DEC. 14.—Commander Byron Drury
(1845), to the Pandora, 6, brig, commissioned this
day at Devonport.

The Hercules store-ship, Master. Commander Ro-
bert Fulton, has arrived at Greenhithe' towed by the
Monkey and Jasper steam•vesrels, and has brought
home a large quantity of old stores from Gibraltar
and the Mediterranean.
It is understood here that the seamen and Royal
Marines of the Plover Discovery ship, commissioned
on November 17, 1847, by Commander Thomas E.
L. Moore, for the expedition to Bhering's Straits,
will be sent home, their period of service having now
expired, and their places will he supplied by volunteers
from the ves,els on the Pacific station. The Plover
will continue the duty for which she was commissioned,
and this arrangement is certainly far preferable to
commissioning another vessel to relieve the Plover.
It is intended to commission a steam-vessel fur ser-
vice on the New Zealand station, and it is probable one
of the iron war steamers will be selected for that
purpose, as it is not likely that she will be en-
gaged in warfare, which would injure her in that
part of the world. The iron steamers already built
might be usefully employed on many of the distant
stations, by employing one on each for general
purposes until they are worn out, which they will
be as soon, although unemployed, in home ports as
they would be in active service in any part of the
world.

General Radowitz, recently Prime Minister to
the King of Prussia, is at present on a visit to
this country, and has obtained official permission to
visit all her Majesty's dockyards. The Geni'ral
visited the Rayal Arsenal here on Wednesday laA,
and was accompanied over the foundry, the earriago
and laboratory departments, and the extensive rang.
of store rooms, by the heads of the various depart-
ments, who explained the nature of the works carried
on in em, and the purposes for which the prepared
stores are intended, giving information at the same
time of the quantities that can be made ready in a
limited period.

SHIP NEWS.
LITERPOOL, DEC. 14.—Wind S.—Arrd. Patna, from
Shanghae; Abeona, from Rio Grande; Sobraon, from
Demerara; Eagle, from La Gusyra; Porcupine, from
Smyrna; Caroline, from Zante; Wave, from &ilia;
Adam Clark, from Robat; Julia, from Tarragona; John
Paley, from St. Gilles; William, from Prince Edward's
Island; Queen, from Calcutta, after touching the ground
at the Lighthouse; Lord Elgin, from Bonny, towed is
from Waterford dismasted; Joseph Sanderson, front
Calcutta; Mirazapore, from Calcutta; Carmata, from
; Nimrod, from Bombay; Fairfield, from Bombay;
Sultana, from Valparaiso; Abeona, from Para; R. D.
Shephard, from New Orleans; John Currier, from
Chad( 'ton; Mary Pleasant, from Philadelphia; J. H.
Shephard, from New York; New World, from New
York; Ashburton, from New York; William Nelson,
from New York. Cleared outwards—Grecian, for
Malta; Maria Helena, for Lisbon; La Belle Barbara,
for Rio Grande; Larne, for Valparaiso; Isabel, for An-
tigua; Princess Victoria, for Maranham; Truant, for
Leghorn; Sarah Briggs, for Jersey; Phoenix, for Ma-
deira and Antigua; Helen, :for Malta; Mary Queen of
Scots, for Buenos Ayres; Fingal, for Valparaiso; Bel-
lona, for Demerara. Sld. Commodore, steamer, for
Havre; Baltic, steamer, for New York; Thomas Mellor,
for Pernambuco.

BRIDLINGTON QUA.; DEC. 13.—The weather becamw
very thick again last night. This morning ten sail of
light colliers got on Flamborongh Head rocks, but the
wind being light and sea smooth they have all been
floated off, and proceeded northward.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 12.—The Elizabeth Adnett brig, of
and for London, from Shields, got on a knoll, grown out
from the Barber Sand, yesterday, but after heaving coals
overboard and taking assistance she was got off and
into the roads, making no water, and will proceed.
13th. The John and Isabella, Shields for London, which
put into the Roads yesterday leaky, was assisted into
the harbour this afternoon.
ANTWERP, DEC. 13.—The Enfans Cheris was aban-
doned in a sinking state in the Gulf of Genoa, Nor. 26;
crew saved by the Gretchen, arrived at Genoa.
MANDAIIL, NOV. 30.—The Sultana, of Culmar, Bre-
men for Rio Grande de Sul, put in here Nov. 20, with
loss of sails, caboose, &c.

ELSINEUR, DEC. 7.—The Therese, from Kioge, with
a cargo of barley, is reported by pilots to be on shore
near Gillele, three miles north of this place.
The Rustornjes Cowasjee, which left Singapore on
the 26th of July for China, has not him.) been
heard of.

The Orion, Hull to Newcastle, which was assisted into
this port on Dec. 5, after being on Flamborough Head
rocks, left yesterday for Hull in tow of a steamer.
On Oct. 6 a pigeon was caught with a small piece of
tape attached to its wing, on which was written, Jules
de Nant: s 66, Joures do Mer, 36 Sad. 30 Est," by the
Marianne, Campbell, arrived off Queenstown.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Martha Shallcross, Rio Janeiro to London, Nov. 1, lat.
9 N., long. 13.
Champion barque, of London, standing westward, Dec. 1,
lat. 47 N., long. 15 W.
Gipsy ship, Liverpool to New Orleans, Nov. 28, lat. 43
N., long. 14 W.
Zdpha P. Brown, New York to Cadiz, Nov. 14.
Dauntless, Liverpool to Maranham, Oct. 30, lat. 5 N.,
long. 65 W.
William Nelson, New York to Liverpool, Nov. 23, lat.
39, long. 79.
Damerseive, New York to Cadiz, Nov. 20, lat. 39,
long. 71.
Kolonol Koopman, Dec. 6, lat. 49 N., long. 13 W.
Honesta, Palermo to New York, Nov. 20, off Mrca.
Heart of Oak (barque), Liverpool to Bahia, Nov.N 28,
lat. 44 N., long. 13 W.
Lady Lucy (schooner), of Scilly, from Nowfotmdland.
Nov. 22, lat. 37 N., long. 11 W.
Fortuna (Danish brig), for Havre, Dec. 1, lat. 47 IS.,
long. 24 W.
Conside, for California, Oct. 26, lat. 1 N.

Lady Blaney (ship), Oct. 10, lat. 49, long. 9 W.
Matilda, for the Rio del Plata, Oct. 2, let. 24 S., long.

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24 W. - _
Fairfield, of and for Liverpool, from Bombay, Nov. 30,
ht. 40 N., long. 30 W.
Graf Von Nassau (Spanish barque), Oct. 10, lat. 54 S.,
long. 61.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY EVENING.
The little business done was entirely confined to the,
Wolverhampton Steeple Chase.
THE DERBY.—Many inquiries have been made during
the week after Newminster, but nearly all the books
being full, very little has been done; he cannot, how-
ever, be quoted at more than 16 to 1 (an offer to take
1,800 to 100 met with no layers). The others as before.
No change in the Chester Cup—nothing done upon it.

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN AND VOLTIGEUR.
Mr. North, clerk of the course, York, has sent the
following notification respecting the actual completion
of the match between these celebrated horses, h ft, which
is to come off at the York Spring meeting, on Tuescia,Y,
May 13:—
" TUESDAY.—Match 1,000, h ft; two miles, over tbstr
Old Course—Lord Eglinton's br h The Flying Dutch-
man, 5 yrs, Bst 71b, agst Lord Zetland's b c Voitigeur,
4 yrs, 7st 121 b."
The York race committee give 400 soya. to be run for,
and the meeting wil take place on the 13th and 14th
of May.
SPELLTEIORNE COURSING MEETING.

The Produce Stakes for eighteen puppies were won
by Mr. Long's Leading Article; Mr. Longman's Lyon
run up.
The Cup was won by Mr. Long's Lablache, and the
Sweepstakes by Mr. J. R. Phillips's Patchwork.
The Overton Four Dog Stakes were run by Mr.
Long's Laura; the Clatford Stakes (four dogs) by Mr.
Longman's Lightning; the Kennet Stakes by Mr. Batt's
Bordeaux; the Averbury by Mr. Batt's Bordeaux; the
Visitors' Stakes by Mr. Long's Lockeridge.

Tug GAS QUESTION.-It appears that a strong op-
position has been got up in the parish of St. James's, against
an amalgamation of the Chartered, Equitable, and London
Gas Companies, who have given notice to Parliament for a
Bill to unite their interests. The object, as fully set forth
in their public notices, is, by concentration to limit their ex-
penditure to the utmost possible extent, and thus put them-
selves in a position to supply gas at the lowest remunera-
tive price, and prevent the interminable inconvenience
to which various portions of the metropolis are now put
by the opening of the streets for pipes. It is stated that the
companies will, by this proposed amalgamation, be enabled
at once to reduce their price for gas at least 20 per cent. It
cannot be doubted that existing companies, who have ex-
pended an enormous amount of capital in laying pipes and
constructing works, must feel it their interest, as it must urr-
doubtedly be their conviction, that " half a loaf is better than
no bread at all." And the quotation of gas shares in the
market is perhaps the best evidence that the flourishing
statements made by projectors of new schemes have their
existence rather in the imagination than in the actual re-
venue of gas companies.—Heruld.
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
THIS EVENING.
shave ST WEEK of the present season.
The Directo the utmost pleusure in annonucing that they
have been enab'ed to secure the valuable services of
3fadlle. ANGRI
for a few Extra Nights.
Spohr's New Grand Descriptive Symphony," The Seasons."
The Grand Battle Overture, Lindpainter.
Selection from the Opera of " The Seige of Rochelle."
Grand Selection from Halevy's New Opera, " La Tempests :"
Angri, Miss Poole, Molique, Barret, Baumann, Blaygrove, Ar-
ban, Zeiss, Winterbottom, Prospere, Franc, Remusat, and Richardson
Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. lialfe.
Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Laisitzky.
Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery} , 6
and Pit Stalls)
The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com-
mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven.
Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Bex-office, where Programmes
of the performance ri ay be obtained.
Mr. Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseum,
and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh-
ments and Wines, &c., &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
MR. MACREADY.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed KINS JOHN.
Atter which A RADICAL CURE.
With LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be perfbrmed a new and original Drama. entitled JESSIE
GRAY. Characters by Itessrs. Hughes, Boyce,-0. Smith, P. Bed-
ord, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
Alter which a new Farce called THE SCFIOOI FOR TIGERS
or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kltetlyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff,
Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright ; Alexander Paaels, Miss
Chaplin.
To be followed by a new and original Farce, In the Vulgar
Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN ; or, Hints on Eti-
quette.

ROYAL PRINCESS 9 THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
tinder the Management of Mr. C. Kea* and Mr. Keeley.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. Faistrff, Mr,
Bartley.
To conclude with THE WONDER.
Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
Massinghant ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented FORTY AND FIFTY.
To be followed by A DAY OF RECKONING.
With SERVE HIM RIGHT.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
,
Will be performed THIS
PHILIPEVENING OF FRANCE AND MARIE
DE MERANEE. Characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, H. Farrell,
norton, W. Farren, jun., Johnstone, G. Cooke, Diddear ; Miss Helen
Follett, and Mrs. L. Murray.
After which COUSIN CHERRY. Cousin Cherry, Mrs. Stirling.
To be followed with NOT TO BE DONE. ,

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPUITHEATRE.
'Hader tha Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Memnd week of the
Revival of TURPIN'S JUDE to YORK.
THIS EVENING;
The Grand new Spectacle of KENNIL)S ORTIf ; or the Golden Days
of the Virgin Queen. with new and costly costumes,
Together with Ratty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing
the Magniticeat Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes.
The whole concluding with the Equestrian Drama (for the first
Store these five years) of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK.
Extensive ureparations are now being made for the production of
a new and original Equestrian Comic Pantwutme, written expressly
for thia Theatre, by G. H. Rodwell, Esq.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

A WELL-EARNED COMPLIMENT.—CAPT.BINSTEAD.
On the ith inst. Captain Binstead, R.N., received a letter
from the secretary of the Royal Humane Society, informing
him that the Court were pleased to " award him the medal
for his humane and noble conduct in recently plunging into
the river Calder, and saving the life of a beautiful little girL"
Tk,is intimation, couched in such expressive language, cannot
Fail to be highly gratifying to the gallant captain for the
disinterested services rendered to an helpless child. It is
not, however, the possession of this testimonial which has
been presented to Captain Binstead that will prove the most
enduring, but the satisfaction in feeling that he has been the
instrument in snatching from a watery grave a fellow-
creature, though it was nearly at the cost of his own life. It
will be rilnembered that a child had, some time in October
belt, unThrtunately fallen into the river Calder, near Wake-
'and would most certainly have -been drowned had not
yant.sin Binstead come up at the moment, when he imme-
.lB'tely plunged, iu his clothes, into the water.—Doncaster
vasette.
DRAT'S OF WALTER BAINE, ESQ., OF GREENOCK
—We learn, with pain, from the Greenock Advertiser ofyes-
tarday, that our revered friend, Mr. Walter Baine, of that
town., is no utere. His public usefulness was acknowledged
by his towtismen, who elected him successively to almost all
the office of honour and trust at their disposal, including
the rep: esentation of the burgh in Parliament. It is chiefly,
private gentleman, high-minded merchant,
however,
and a liberal promoter of every charitable object, that his
los's will be" deplored. Ile was a man of lofty integrity, of
b.rge and earnest sympathies, of most courteous and nuns-
'turning manners, and of superior literary taste. We do not
suppose that Mr. Baine has left behind him a single indivi-
dual aerleainted with his tine character who will not long
venerate ffis memory as one of the most upright, intelligent,
and gentleuhearted of men.— Gusglow Citi;en.
Tula CONvlcr HACSETT.—On Friday afternoon
information, was received at the various metropolitan and
City polict,stations that Hackett, who has made himself
.so
isotarious of late by his daring escapes, had been seen in the
High-804n; Berolzgh, walking leisurely along the pavement
with a svtord-cane.in' his hand. He was well-dressed, and
there is no doubt as' to-his identity, because the party who
conveyed the infornlation was formerly a fellow-prisoner
with Hacket.t*Maidstotte"Gaol. This person followed hint
for some aistance in"Sout-hwark, watching for a favourable
ePportnni4 to seems the. moan and the reward, when Hackett,
seeing htnwai- foll9ted;, tOaed down a narrow alley and
made his escape.' - • -
Tun ATaultr.E Aacs.--It ia rumoured that a final
datertranadOii, eks heeiu cei4Rfo that.thie arch ahall be erected
at C,:latberranct-gatel itYcte-Park;

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in
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YE MAIDEN AND YE MARRIED LIFE
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loving courtship, her unhappie marriage, her departure from her
husband's borne, and her return and perfecte reconcilement."
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