Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-08-29

10 HALIFAX allowance s. day. Guns houssd,-ws-
tor casks fore and aft-not quite secured-soldlers
without sea legs and very sck-heavy iurcn-a sol.
der fell down the main hatch and cask on nim-oed
in the night frem the blew. Got to Halifax pretty
wel-when there, fire near the magsz'ae-o9t with
out much alarm. From thence, money and troops
10 Quebec-tred the gut Of Canso-caught IN the ice
not able to advance retreat-lecked IN u days
sounded and made chart Of the place. Ice enabled
them TO m0ve-skipper took charge OF snip while the
officer went to dlnner-struck and grated the
shoal marked on the chart-same not published. To
Quebec. Home. In harbor-heavy and unwieldy-
let 60 anchor-chain cable broke in the middle. In
dock-has occasoRed more trouble in getting in than
any known for nonths--not very surprzlng however,
when at least ten commandants were giving orders at
one ume-compeled TO move the aft guns forward
nearly tore all the windows out of the Hastings stern
damage six feet of the false keel gone right aft
false keel shook amldship-coPpsr rufficd forward.-
Has been four times in dock at Portsmouth, but was
out today.
The Gorgon steam fngate, to which Commander
Dacres, and the of the Saamander have been
turned over, made an experimental crulze down the
river the I'd instant with Lord Mimic, and other
Lords of the Admiralty, and the Surveyor Of the Ma
w, &c, on board, and notwithstanding her immense
bulk and her draft of water, Is IT, forward and Ia f.
in. abaft she attained, after trials, two with
the tide, and two against it, average of velocity
through the water of III miles per hour the engines
making l9A strokes per minute without the least sen
slbe vibration on board; her Storage was perfect
man at the wheel being found sufficient for all 0rd
nary purposes. She was turned round repeatedly IN
the river in about four times her own length, occupy
ING in the evolution from 24 to % minutes. The con-
sumption OF fuel ascertaincd by weighing was one
ton OF Welsh Goals per honr equal TO lbs per horse
per hour at full speed. The coal boxes holding 400
tons OF Goals in the engine room, will be sufficient for
seventeen days consumption, at full speed ten days
more coal may be occasionally slowed in the fore and
after hold making in the whole, fuel for twenty
days; this, at an average speed of nine miles, will
carry her distance of $500 miles by steam alone
As this steam fgate will carry beside the 1000
troops, with stores and provisions fer tive months, il
is evident that might, pleasure, transport
gimen 10 Odessa, Constanlnope, any of the perts
IN the Mediterranean, or to St Peiersburgh or any Of
the northern cities 10 the West Indies, and prRci
pal Amercan ports at once without waiting for wind
or stopping for fuel The Gorgon proceeded yestcr-
day week from Woowich with the food tide, and did
the distance to Gravesend in one hour and forty mi
nutes and from thence to the More Light in two hours
making the whole distance from Woolwich to the
More Light (about SO miles) three hours and forty
minues. She ran the mile in Long Reach against
the flood tide, in six minutes and fifteen seconds
equal to IL miles per hosr; the consumption of fuel
full speed 40 strekes) was one ton per hour, or lbs
per horse per hour. She is now fitting for sea, at
Sheerness, and is expected to go down Channel in
three weeks.
DIED.-The Naval Service will hear with great re-
greet that Admiral Sir Putency Malcolm, g. C B +,
died yesterday at Enfield in Middesex, in the list
year of his age. SIR Pa,eney was officer who
was looked on in the service as rallyrg point,
pivot man in an extreme case, and possessed in a
greater degree the confidence OF his blue coated breth
rem than any other officer we aware of. He has
been for many months seriously indsposed, and hav-
ing been anxious for his welfare, have by eur in
qures respecting IT, for some time past anticipated
this event Sir Pulteney entered the naval service
the year IT'S when he was ten years Of age and
first went with his maternal uncle, Sir Themas
Paisley, who lost his leg the first of June action, in
hich he I'D C,v ptlls
ncy was posted into the Fox frgate In 1894 and per-
formed eminent in the East Indies. In the
command of the Donegal in 1905 he pursued the
French feet from the Mediterranean through the
West India Islands back again TO Europe and was
prevented from partaking OF the eores of Trafalgar
only by the distressed state Of his ships yet during
that action he worked out Of the Gut of Gibraltar and
picked up the FL Rayc of 100 guns, which he endea-
vored TO pres erve but withou success, she was
wrecked with about 30 of the DoRegals crew his
ship, however, succeeded in securing some other of
the prizes Early in the next year find him in the
action off ST. Domingo, for his conduct in which he
received a medals and he had the singular good for
tune to convoy the army TO Portugal under the COM
mand of Sir Arthur Wellesley which Immediately af
ter gained the battles Of Vlmera and Roeia, and
which founded that series Of victories which deser-
vedy transformed Sir Arthur INTO the Duke Of Wei.
lIngton Sir Puteneys ship, the Donegal, was one Of
the conspicuous in the attack on the French
squadron in the Basque Roads, in 1909; in the Amer
lean war he was actively employed al New Orleans;
and during the Ieace he commanded the ST. Helena
squadron, employed TO secure the continuance OF Ma
poleen on that leland.
game Of billiards had been played at Paris, for a
wager, on horseback.
HoT DAYS ELsEwHERE.-On the 18th, at Bor-
deaux, the heat marked 99i Of Fahrenheit.
Another Paris Journal "La France Septentronalc,'
has been auaigned for publishing the proceed
ngs Of the Chamber OF Peers.
Orders have been sent TO Touon, to fit out all
vessels of war; &c. and great activity exists.
Great dissatisfaction prevails in France the recall
Of Gen. Negrer from Constantine. 1t is rumored
from Bona the 18th June, that all the Kabes were
about submitting 10 the French.
Some of the PARIS papers announce the arrival there
of The Duke of Sussex. Gallgnani contradlctsit.
Thunaersiorms have been general and destructive
in France. At Compegne, at Polk, at Rozieres, and
at Amiens considerable damage had been done by
the lightning. In Paris and its vicinity the weather
continued beautiful and the temperature delightful,
ranging from go to 20 degrees Of Farenheit.
Marshal Souit had arrived al Birmingham from
London in special tram Of rail road cars, coming in
five hours, and proceeded Immediately on TO Liver
pool
An interesting spectacle lately took place in Paris.
One msrning cortege of 80 carriages waa seen upon
the Rue SAINT Jacques. IL was ascertslned they
were the 500 pupils preceptors, &C. of the ancient col
egc of Louis lie Grand, who were gong to visit YER
sailps whittier they soon arrived, and were mo; by
the King unattended, Salon des Baaillcs took
peep in the orun gere, and thence accompanied the
King 10 the theatre OF the Palace, where after taking
their places in the boxes, mis- mejesy made them
aft ctiona speech, opologzlng to them he had no