The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

ADVANCED SHIPS OF THE LINE AT SHEERNESS.—TO
the seventeen advanced line-of-battle ships complete at
Devonport and Portsmouth, we are enabled to add the
following reported complete at Sheerness :—Howe, 120;
Waterloo, 120 ; London, 92 ; Asia, 84 ; Achilles, 76 ;
Hawke, 72 ; Hercules, 72 ; Russell, 72. Total at the
three ports, 25. The Cornwall, 50, is also fitted as an
advanced frigate, so that there is now ready a frigate at
each port. The Ganges, 84, at Sheerness, will be com-
plete on the 30th March.
The Trafalgar, 120, advanced ship of the line at Cha-
tham, is fast progressing in her fittings, and will be
ready to go out of dock by the end of next month.
The Dee troop transport, Master Commander Thomas
Driver, arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday, from
Ireland, last from Plymouth. She has been brought
alongside the dockyard jetty to have several defects made
good.
The Prince George transport, Lieut. Ward agent, ar-
rived at Portsmouth from Woolwich yesterday morning,
and came into harbour to embark a draft of the 20th
Regiment for Bermuda, to which island she is bound
with government stores ; she has also on board a party
consisting of 60 men of the Royal Artillery and Royal
Sappers and Miners, going out to join their respective
corps, stationed on that island.
The Scourge, first-class steamer, about to be built at
Portsmouth yard, is ordered to be ready for going into
the water by the Ist of September next.
The Centaur, first•class steamer, will be laid down as
soon as the Scourge leaves the dock in which she is to
be built; in the meantime her keel and other timbers of
her frame will be all prepared; she will consequently be
ready very early in the spring. The Centaur is to be
similar to the Scourge, excepting she will be longer ;
she is to be 200 feet between the uprights.
The Daring, 12, built at Portsmouth by Mr. White
(the yacht builder), is to be floated out on the 29th inst.
No man of war at Spithead.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE ACORN.-2,371L 14s. 6d. more
prize-money is announced for distribution to Com-
mander Adams and the late crew of the Acorn, 16,
being proceeds arising from the capture of the Portu-
guese slave-vessel Minerva, on the 31st of December,
1841. The payments will be made on and after the 6th
of March next, in the following proportions :—Flag of
the station, 1481. 4s. Bd. ; commander, 2771. 18s. 9d. ;
first class, 95/. 13s. Bd. ; second, 57/. Bs. 2d. ; third,
28/. 14s. 14.; fourth, 191.25. Bd. ; fifth, 91. Ils. 4d.; sixth,
61. 7s. 6d. ; seventh, 31. 3s. 9d.
CHATHAM CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT.—The whole of
the officers belonging to the convict establishment at
this port have been informed that their services will not
be required here after the 31st of March next. Those
whose periods of servitude entitle them to receive it
will be recommended for superannuation; and the con-
vict guards, whose servitude is short, will have the op-
portunity afforded them of proceeding in the same capa-
city on board the Thames to Bemuda.

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PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DIVIDENDS.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The Penelope steam frigate, Captain W. Jones, passed
Falmouth, on her way to the coast of Africa on Monday
last ; the Prometheus steamer, for the same destination,
called in at Falmouth, but proceeded on her voyage the
following day.
The Hydra steamer left St. Helena, for the coast of
Africa, on the 30th of December. The Madagascar,
44, was at Ascension on the 7th January.
The Tortoise store-ship, Commander Finlaison, the
newly-appointed Governor of Ascension, will call at this
port from Sheerness, to complete her stores, and take
on board some officers and supernumeraries for the Afri-
can squadron. The Tortoise is to be stationed at Ascen-
sion as a depot for coal, for the use of the steamers on
the coast of Africa.

The Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Tringham, sailed on Tuesday
for Brighton, to protect the fishery.
The America, 50, has been commissioned at Plymouth,
by Captain the Hon. John Gordon.
The Caledonia, 120, was to have been docked on
Tuesday last, at Devonport (but there was not sufficient
water for her) to have leer copper cleaned and examined,
and not in consequence of having touched the ground,
as stated in our last paper.
The Dee steamer, Mr. Driver commander, arrived on
Wednesday from Ireland, for some slight repairs ; she
will return to that station.

The Styx steamer will be ready for sea by the 7th of
next month ; the Lucifer, for the Irish survey, about
the same time ; the Rattler steamer is still under experi-
mental trials with her crew.

The six iron steam-vessels, contracted for by Messrs.
Napier, of Glasgow, and Ditchburn and Mare, of Black-
wall, are to be named Lizard, Jackal, Bloodhound,
Torch, Harp, and Myrmidon.
The Prince George, transport, came in yesterday from
Deptford, to take a detachment of the 20th Regiment
from the Isle of Wight to Bermuda.
We find the navy is to be reduced to seven sail of the
line in commission ; that is, three first-rates for the Port
Admirals in Englaud, and three second or third rates for
the flags in the Mediterranean,. East Indies, and West
Indies ; and one, we presume, for extra service. The
Hastings will be commissioned for the next flag officer in
the North American command. s s

The following line-of-battle ships are reported com-
plete for sea service :—Britannia, Neptune, Royal Ade-
laide, Howe, Waterloo, of 120 guns each ; Nile, London,
Vengeance, Powerful, Calcutta, Bombay, Clarence, Van-
guard, Collingwood, second rates ; Bellerophon, Foud-
royant, Edinburgh, Pembroke, Hastings, Achille, Hawke,
Hercules, Russell, and Implacable, with the Cornwall,
President, and Endymion frigates.
The Scourge, a first-class steamer, as Firebrand, but
with 190 feet keel, is laid down in this yard : she is to
be completed as quickly as possible.
The Daring, one of the new 12-gun brigs, will be
launched hero in a few days.
DEVONPORT, FEB. 23.—The Dee steamer, Mr. T.
Driver, commanding, arrived on Friday from the Coast
of Ireland, with 100 Marines which were left at Spike
Island when the Caledonia returned to this port. The
Drake lighter sailed with stores for Portsmouth last
Saturday. The Express packet, 6, Lieut. E. Herrick,
arrived from Falmouth on Saturday, and came into
harbour to have her defects made good. The America,
50, was undocked on Saturday, having had her copper
cleaned and repaired. The Penelope steam-frigate,
Captain W. Jones and Prometheus steamer, Lieutenant
Pasco, sailed on Monday for the Cuast of Africa. The
Crane packet, 6, Lieutenant T. A. Lewis, (a) sailed for
Falmouth on Tuesday, and will take out the next Bra-
zilian mail The Dee steamer sailed for Woolwich on
Tuesday. The Netly tender, arrived from Cork on
Wednesday. The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane,
arrived from Cork, on Wednesday. The Albion, 90,
Captain Lockyer, was to sail from thence the 21st for
Lisbon. In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Resist-
ance, Express packet, Diligence transport, Confiance
steamer, and Lancier Dutch schooner. In the Sound
—Larne.

Sir Richard Dobson's retiring salary from Greenwich
Hospital, whore he was chief of the Medical Department,
is 700/. a-year. Sir Richard was a Surgeon of 1797,
and has been 20 years on the Staff of Greenwich.

PROMOTIONS.--Lieutenants—Richard W. Pelly (1836),
Charles F. Schomberg (1838), of the Tartarus, and Cos-
patrick Bailey Hamilton (1840), of the Winchester, to
the rank of Commander.

APPOINTMENTS.—Captain—The Hon. John Gordon
to the America..

Lieutenants—George Marriott, from the St. Vincent,
to the Formidable; C. E. Rowley, from the Queen, to
the St. Vincent; G. Johnston (additional), to the Pro-
metheus.

Purser—B. Wickham, to the Tortoise, as Storekeeper
of the Island of Ascension.

Surgeon—John H. Steele, to the Resistance.
Assistant-Surgeons—J. Gordon, to the Penelope, 'or
service on the Coast of Africa; R. Douglas, to the Crane;
H. H. Mackenzie, to the Caledonia; C. A. D. Newman,
to the Lucifer ; John Reid, to Devonport Dock-yard,
vice Newman, to the Lucifer.
Clerk-in-Charge—John Bell, to the Lucifer.
Second-Master—A. D. West, to the Lucifer.
Mr. W. S. Fowler, to Excellent, to qualify for:Nayal
Instructor.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
W. Mott, laceman, Regent-street, Piccadilly, March 15, at
twelve—R. Champion, furrier, Friday-street, City, March 15,
at eleven—S. H. Smith, coach maker, Cambridge, March 15,
at half-past eleven—S. Chew, flour dealer, Clipaton, North-
amptonshire. March 15. at eleven—J. Martin, woollen ware-
houseman, King-street, City, March 15, at one—J. Whitfield,
grocer, Tooley-street, Southwark, March 15, at half-past
eleven—l. Hughes, shoe maker, Chelmsford, March 15, at
eleven—W. Cock, grocer, Bungay, Suffolk, March 15, at
twelve—G. H. Bush, upholsterer, Edgeware-road, March 15,
at twelv e.

CERTIFICATES te-be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
C. D. Leeder, cattle dealer, Billingford, Norfolk, March 22
.—W. Cox,- money scrivener, Daventry, Northamptonshire,
March 15—J. Bell, ship owner, Greenstield, Northumberland,
March 19—T. Bentley, cloth manufacturer, Rawden, York-
shire, March 29—W. Wood, screw manufacturer, Burton-
upon-Trent, Staffordshire, March 16—T. W. Jones, draper,
Wellington, Shropshire, March 18—R. Pusey, baker, Abing-
don, Berkshire, March 15—T. Donkin, victualler, Cambridge,
March 15—F. Barry, miller, Rye, Sussex, March 15--T.
Thorpe, plumber, Chertsey, Surrey, March 15—T. Waters,
hay dealer, I'illgwenlly, Monmouthshire, March 15—B. Mus-
grave, dyer, Leeds, March 15—C. Leaf, warehouseman, Wood-
street, Cheapside, March 15—J. Edmondson, miller, Marsden,
Lancashire, March 15—R. Mason, corn dealer, St. Alban's,
March 15--J. Hudson, calico printer, Gale, Lancashire,
March 15 —J. Pearson, scut nail manufacturer, Darlaston,
March 15—D. llague, paper manufacturer, Horsforth, York-
shire, March 15.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. and G. Mabyn, linen drapers, Bristol—G. and T. C.
Dlackley, grindery warehousemen, New Inn-yard, Shorediteh
—W. Curran and A. Thomas, stone dealers, Liverpool—J.
Lomax and W. Wilson, ship builders, Liverpool—R. Titley
and G. Bragg, wine merchants, Birmingham—J. Williams
and C. Murcott, factors, Birmingham—P. Morgan, J. Mor-
gan, and W. Morgan, drapers, Madeley, Shropshire—G.
Hemming and R. Steed, tailors, Pershore, Worcestershire—
C. Tolley and E. Trimmer, brewers, Gloucestershire—B. A,
Adams and H. Capell, grocers, Weedon Beck, Northampton-
shire—H. and D. Brook, cloth dressers, Upper Thong, York-
ahire—J. Fielding and J. Crossley, drysalters, Halifax, York-
shire—C. Alexander and W. Goddard, bakers, Brixton—J.
Lowe and A. Grounds, shoe makers, Billinge, Lancashire—J.
George, T. Sully, J. W. Sully, J. James, and T. Nicholson,
carrying on business as the Park-end Coal Company—P. W.
and A. H. Wagstaff, surgeons, Leighton Buzzard, Stafford-
shire—W. King, W. Chapman, and J. King, carpenters,
Wells-row, Islington—J. Sherratt and J. Lomas, silk manu-
facturers, Macclesfield, Cheahire -- T. and. H. George,
builders, 'New Windsor,

SALMON FISIIING.—The fishing for salmon in the
Tyne opened on the 10th inst. Several have been taken singe
that time, but the price continues high. The fishing season com-
menced in the Tweed on Thursday last, In consequence of the
melting of the snow up the country, the river was too mush
swollen to admit of work being resumed at all the stations. At
those, however, at which it did commence, the success was very
encouraging; all of them having obtained fish; some of them six
and seven each.—Newcastle Advertiser,.

THE NEW FACTORIES BILL. „
The manner in which the new Factories Bill will
affect employers and workmen in the country districth
and especially in the woollen manufacture, is shown in
the following letter from a highly respectable manufao•
turer to a gentleman in office. We do not know hog
it will be possible to work the Bill when the mills 211,11
be running only eight hours a day, as they w
ere for
three fourths of the year from 1839 to 1842 inclusive.
The children can then only be worked four h°l
to let
earn, the day I and for the pittance which this won]
earn, their parents will hardly be induced et
them work at all. We think the mill-ownerg in
the woollen trade will do well to consider the stl
gestions in the following letter ; and if they think
them well-founded, to get up memorials and petitions
against the Bill, and to send deputations to represens
their case to Ministers and Members of Parliament. TM
Bill goes into Committee next Friday, so that there is D°
time to be lost.

The following is the letter we have referred to:--
" Birstal, near Leeds, Feb. 17, 1844' 9
" Sir,—l have received copies of the New Fectorie
Bill from Mr. Aldam and Lord Ashley. The country
mill-owners still entertain the strongest objection to
tba
half-time clause in the new Bill. A deputation veQu „
certainly be sent from Batley, if we could entertain any
opinion that our representations would receive attention'
but all trading matters receive such slight attention fora,
the Government or the Parliament, that all feel such ,
sense of injury that no one will troublehimself further,
except in cases where the whole country can be stirred up
to take an interest in the subject.
The clause which prevents the employment of wools;
more than twelve hours daily, is a good and Yabl'ab f
alteration. While I freely acknowledge and approve nd
this change, I should be wanting in duty to myself, this
those by whom I have been formerly deputed on
question, as well as to the labouring classes themsels;
if I did not protest against the half-time clause as I,P
cable to woollen mills. The case of woollen
peculiar, and ought not to be subjected to the same der
tail of legislation. Allow me, once more, to go °Y
shortly the points of objection—
eti
" 1. In Mr. Saunders's Report the objection of inereasot
expense is mentioned, but he does not allow it sufficiethe
weight in the declining and unprofitable state of 0
woollen manufacture, which it is admitted can bear
an ,„.•
additional burden. As he admits, there will be "I.o'
crease of wages necessary to procure short time Piecata
as compared with full time hands, I need not go In
the reasons for it. I may just mention that their -0v ,
garments is one, and that this will be an objection
their attending schools for other children.
" 2. It will be felt to be a great hardship when child
who have attained to twelve years of age, are contra'
to work for half-time wages.
" 3. As our country mills work for hire, and are use
err
gularly employed, working generally during 'the
e say
months only eight hours, or merely during the
light,—to employ children six hours, and that ouly be awl
er after noon, will subject them to inconvenience eeot.e
loss. If we work only halt the day, and that only be`fip
twelve, or after one o clock, we shall have to begin ea'9o ;
and light up our mills at a great and needless ex,__,Veating
if we begin at noon, we shall have the cost of jib:tool
up at night. To be compelled to employ two ele
children for eight hours' labour will be an intoleTos
grievance. During the last four years, our Mille the
not been employed more than eight hours daily for
greater part of each year.
4,4, In times of good trade we found it difficult 000
min children for piecers, because their parents ean, to
earn a sufficiency, and will not trouble themsenliii
send their children early. and regularly to mint og-ei
difficulty will be greatly increased when only btu
f
are to be earned. frond"s. In our country mills, to which children coluetted
all quarters, and from eonsiderable distancea, the
school will often be impossible, and will be si:bar'l°er
employment of children so situated. At present, ni:cee
the eight hours' system, where any number of eltndet
are employed, schobls are kept on the premises-
the halftime system, this cannot be done better tbt
as the
may now be done; besides, parents will not be a thel
expense of making a separate provision of dinners of
now do. In populous towns the half-time sY6teag.
work well, but cannot do so in our country situat,nf the
"6. Nothing can show the oppressive nature 0 0
present short time enactment in a more forcible no,Pobet
than Mr. Saunders's own report, dated 20th 0e',.40
last, in which it is stated that, with an actual iocioL-90$
of 15,000 hands, there is a decrease in the ernpleYe 000,
of children under thirteen years of age of abollt -aria%
Taking into consideration the condition of the labote
classes, this statement, properly understood, inuf
violas
their deteriorated state, and the oppressiee
the short time clanks.
" If is not practicable to retain the eight hours elitatelligl
for woollen mills in the present temper of Govern , i;
and the house of Parliament, I would submit thscio,
would be for the benefit of all p ~,,
arties to all°w,eye
dren to enter on full work in woollen mills at cei
years of age. It would materially
lessen the
woollen- millowners,- benefit the parents; an of
mote a more cordial attention to the efluesv°o ty
i
children, and lessen the inducements to infringe ulso ea,e
correct observance of the Act. If this cannot be obtsustor
clause ought to be inserted to enable children to 1/4
ployed eight hours, when.. the mills work .01219,
hours; at any rate during six hours of daylight
ter, wlien the mills only work that time. f the.: oplf
is enacted in its present extreme character, it W.' al be
produce a dogged sullen acquiescence, and there w'
no cordial effort made it will be felt to 'be gate'
e;
rows, and an undue interference with labour. nod
" The clause permitting the employmeat of cbuu'i eel
alternate Saturdays the whole•day is oraittect,uotri
there will be some difficulty about clocks; our 'lli be e
ehurch clocks are so irregularly kept, that .they w
very imperfect guide. g„,i for
from
"I am at a loss what to say about comPenSa"—, froPi
cident's it seems to me, unjust tq.require dieliageo
millowners not required from any .other dept lese~
employment. Accidents generally happen-from eal;feeti
ness and inattention, which millowners cannot Pnwee
I think there ought to be a clause restricting the
prosecution to cases of wilful neglect after nocce:i.eor,
We find that the workpeople in the neigh ndie
of Batley are quite as strongly oppoeed tile reree4
tions of the new Factories Bill• as their eraPlo ha,o
we know that those of Pudsey, Parsley, 80., pre,:
same objections. They feel that the half-titatto
sion will make the labour of their children of
blot, eferto,
no value to them. The families of the poor__,.. fys
,
since the commencement of the manufactnrimP bour,„
derived most important benefit from the 'lit tO.P''
the children; which, when so regulated as 13°;bi1d..4
jure their health, is a positive- benefit to the 'well',
themselves, in giving them habits of industry, aficiotei%
in providing for their better nourishment eluded et oThe workpeople are, therefore, quite alarm
chi
prospect of the time being so arranged that the c
the. 0
can never work more than six hours a day (°- oiegto
hour is merely put in to cover accidental overstePin
the rule by a few minutes)—that generale:, el 4
woollen district, where the day's work is el° a.* St
they will only be able to work five hours silo, 0170
a-day,—and that in bad times, when the mils h°
eight hours, they will only be able to work ly;t4400;,
a-day. We last year published a letter frora a sing,
in a large mill a few miles from Leeds, exPre troPslol
behalf of himself and hisiellow-workmen, the steel
objections to the proposed plan. We have int. 44 oetid
a communication from a meeting of the workito
Batley, written in evident and lively alerni• - ...r0te:1,43
clearly how the Bill will affect both their emPlO
themselves. The following are two or three ,
of their letter :
" You are right when you say it (the --
nish the income of labour: it will to a great
,a7,,fitbSie
will be impossible for it to work in this distres" An 10
d:,7
a great disadvantage both to the labouriag cqlcapie.
millowners,_ more than anything that ever ett
or
operation before. In winter time, the child'. to,!),
drawn out of bed at five o'clock in, the mornt o'ol°',4e
(in order to complete six hours' labour before 003,---;'),
and they then will have to play in the eft*.l.oiiio
stroying the capital of the employer M light.' „or
morning, to play the day-light away." ' vuosr
They call the Bill "one of the Me! :
weschemes that ever was invented by mail- ty
wen
It behoves the workmen generally, 0 concur. :1121;li
ployers in the woolen districts, if thetiitionely'-_,
ge
views. taken above to move instantly. embipie
sent from Batley and the neighbouring to,verlie,, /0010
by all classes. But,, if any good is to be
worLan id
tions both of masters and of intelligent n seseeet
be sent up to London, to wait on Ministers auf,n,itteer/
of Parliament; and as the Bill goes' into Cnol;iiiari,e•
Friday next, the deputations should. lteleber°
otherwise they will not be able to see the .1".
fore the Bill has passed.—Leeds Mercury.

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DEAL —Government has sent gratnitieS ini li ,
oi (li
three boats' crews who so intro idly ventured tile-wd 01, ok
a few weeks back, to save the crew' of a brig Wre.'.r",) ain°eJ
Goodwin Sand. A subscription was also eatered Int cell
the inhabitants, when between 30/. and 40/. 1,119 '
and distributed among them. ------' ..---
----- olle,
IRTHS.
On the 20th inst., Mrs. Joseph Dodson, White Ligstr 6,
of
Tottenham, of a daughter.Catilill
On the 22d inst., at Reading, Berks, the lady' otirki
Tupman, RN., of a son. . 'clt-Oti
On the 23d inst., in Henrietta-street, Brutowl
Mrs. James Ewell, of a eon.
Ifog;
MARRIED. 089 iott
On the 22d inst., at North Shoebury,Essel, Cl'-n cot tp,
Esq., surgeon, of Finsbury-place South, London, ,0,, of
Benton, youngest daughter of Samuel Benton, •r" '
log,
former place, gall, Jute'
On the 22d inst., at the Holy Trinity Chard', - yort,--,j,
Gee, Esq., of Cottinghatn and Bridlington-W.IIY, 14013'
to Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of Thomas ""
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•
Esq., of Hull. he Sev hi''
On the 22(1 inst., at Trinity Church, Chelsea, thisdelP
Ekins, 8.C.L., Reetor of Sampord, Essex, to 0,P61'
Jane, second daughter of the late George Hart PY
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DIED. ;n Ger°
On the 11th of January last, at Mannheim, --
Captain William Payne. picV". of
On the 12th inst., at Leamington Priors, Mrs-
~,,bor
On the 20th inst., Mrs. Phoebe Money, second (18 4,
the late John Priest, Esq., of Farnham. ~.-;Acert 9
On the 20th inst., Juha, the wife of John Wol". . ..ir
of Hull. ° I Sew'
On the 22d inst., at Charlton, Mary, the ITife A
Louglands, Esq. gboffi Id Willjr
On the 22d inst., at Bolsover, near ,----- e. s-
~nole'
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Joseph, eldest child of William Rose, Esq. r"
On the 22d inst., in Caroline-street, Eaton-84 ..II
wife of Mr. Henry Baker.. frolltr
Anne
On the
third daughter 22d inst., r
of the at Stolate E, Livke-by-Naylaneing,
d,
EPuliq ,
, ghte
On the 22d inst., at Bishop's Hull, near Taun. t°l' 01
the wife of the Rev. Dr. Everard. d, are' et
On the 19th inst., M. Joseph Almerie de St. Altifnrid c CO./
officer of the Guards of his late Majesty Louis 2CV11::„...." _ si
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