The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WooLwicit, Nov. 25.—The Wilberforce steam-
vessel, Lieutenant- Commander Webb, is ordered to
*Woolwich to be paid off. This vessel was the last
to leave the Niger, and has brought home the few re-
maining parties who went out on that unfortunate ex-
pedition. The model farm has been entirely broken up.
The Merlin steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Keane, will sail to-morrow for Liverpool, to resume
her duties at that station. This vessel has been com-
pletely refitted at Woolwich.
The Gorgon steam-vessel will not proceed to
Portsmouth at present, as recently ordered.
The Falmouth left Woolwich on Monday, for Ply-
mouth.

The Hermes steam-vessel w•as towed up the river
on .Monday, the 21st instant, by the African steam-
vessel, from Chatham, and is to be taken up the river
to be fitted with her engines by Maudsley, Field, and
Co. The African returned. to Chatham on Tuesday.

The Cormorant steam-vessel has had her engines
fitted by Fairburn and Co., andleft for Sheerness on
Monday.

The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master S. B. Cook,
left Woolwich, for Chatham, on Monday, thc. 21st
instant, to wait on his Imperial Highness the Arch-
duke Frederick of Austria, and returned on the !23d.
The Duck sailed for Chatham yesterday.
The Diligence transport ship will sail to-morrow,
or on Monday, from Woolwich for Pembroke.
The Modeste steam-vessel, Commander Watson,
was to leave Nankin (China) for England on the
14th of September.

(From the Deronport Independent of this day.)
Her Majesty's ship Royal William, 120, was taken
into dock on Monday, to be repaired and new
coppered, previous to being fitted as an advance ship.
Her Majesty's ship Calcutta, 84, Captain G. Rich,
(acting) was paid off on Monday last.
Her -Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus, Master-
Commander T. Laen, arrived from Portsmouth on
Wednesday, on her way to the Mediterranean, and
came into harbour for a supply of coals. She is to
take out some officers appointed to ships on the above
station, and a number of supernumerary seamen and
boys.

FRAUDS IN THE COFFEE TRADE.
Yesterday a meeting of those interested in the co-
lonial and foreign coffee trade was held at the Com-
mercial Sale-rooms, Min&ng-lane, for the purpose of
considerreeeiving a
Report
from tthoebCe oamdnmpittetdeetnaprpeodirresites se-
rious to
the best
means
grievances to which the trade has for a long
period been subjected. The Chair was taken by Mr.
Ed wards. •
The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee ha-fol had
interviews with the Directors of the principal docks,
who had promised every assistance in remedying the
evil complained of. He moved that the Report of
the Committee be read.
The Hon. SECRETARY then read the following Re-
port
" That in pursuance of the desire of the trade,
they have solicited and obtained interviews with the
Directors of the East and West India, the London,
and the St. Katherine Dock Companies, and haVe laid
before them statements of the losses constantly sus-
tained, in consequence of the delivery weights of
coffee being seriously short of the landing weights,
on which payments are made both for coffee and duty.
They have also drawn the attention of the several
Directors to the great discrepancies which are shown
in the delivery weights, and have ventured to express
doubts as to whether such discrepancies can be solely
the effect of natural causes.
" That the Directors of the several Dock Compa-
nies have declared their readiness to act in any manner
which may be suggested, in order to prevent such
losses, and to exercise the greatest care and vigilance,
so that deficiencies may not be the result of want of
attention, or any other cause which such care and
vigilance may prevent.
" That not any of the Directors seem, however, to
subscribe to the opinion that any other cause but that
of absorption by atmospheric influence has operated to
produce the loses complained of.
"That notwithstanding this conviction on the part
of the Directors, the Committee cannot but retain
their former opinion, that many cases show discre-
pancies quite irreconcileable with such conclusion,
and also that the business of weighing and taring
packages on landing is frequently carried through so
hastily as not to insure proper security to the buyers;
and that many coffees are landed in packages not suf-
ficiently strong to bear farther transit, and which the