The Sun. — 1852-01-24 (London, England)

SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1852.  quarantine. On the 17th instant she passed and exchanged numbers with the Birkenhead iron steam frigate, Master Commander Salmond, with troops on board for the Cape, in latitude 34 deg. 30 mire N., longitude 14 deg. 40 min. W. On the night of the 22d instant the Heela encountered a terrific gad©, which brought her under reefed storrnsails. The Rattler steam sh,oP• Commander Mellercb, was at Ascension on the 24th ult., on her way to India. The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Lyster, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Bruce, with the Sampson steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones (which had been ashore, knocked all her false keel off, and injured her main keel, &c.); the Niger steam-sloop, Commander Heath; Philornel, 8, Commander G. T. Forbes; Alecto steam-sloop, Commander Lavie; and Volcano steam-sloop, Commander Coote, wire off Lagos, preparing to bring the authorities of that place to eccount for the late attack upon the British cruisers. The result we shall not hear until the arrival of the next mail from the coact. The Gladiator steam-friga.e, Captain Adams; the Wasp, 14, Commander Crozier; tho Wale verton, 12, Commander Falcon; the Cygnet, 8, Commander R. D. White; and the Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander Foote, were stationed on the south coast. The Sealark, 9, Commander Sotheby, was senior (facer on the north coast; the Dolphin, 3, Lieut.-Commander Temple was cif Cape Lopz. The remainder of the squadron was in the Bights. The Heels took the captain and crew of the condemned vessel Isabel, and delivered them up to the Spanish authorities at Teneriffe. The Ileela had brought home about 2001. in gold on freight, and something not quite so precious, or so well worth the carriage-2,3771 e. of Goldner's " preserved meats" to return-5291b. from Ascension, and 1,8481 b. from Sierra Leone. The character given this stuff by those who have been "condemned" in a strait to partake of it is worse than any we have ascribed to it. The following persons have come home passengers in the Heda:—.Lieutenant J. 11. Glover, lately promoted from the Tenzer; Mr. Wilson, surgeon, invalided from the Sealark; Mr. Thomas Yeatman, second-master, invalided from the Tortoise; Mr. John Etherington, chief engineer, to join the Fisgard; Mr. John Barrett, master's assistant, from the Tortoise (late of the Gladiator), sent home for the disposal of the Lords of the Admiralty; Mr. W. B.A. F. Paterson, mate, to join the London; and E. Deane, acting gunner, to join the Excellent. The following are the witnesses she has brought home in the case of the murder of Perkins:—Joseph Paul, boatswain; Thomas Bradley, tailor; W. H. Knowles, gunner's mate; John Harrison. boatswain's mate; Michael rhino, cooper; Henry Fox, holder up; S. R. Lewin, cooper; W. H. Herring, sergeant; John Fig, sergeant; Thomas White, sergeant; Henry Hills, assistant-surgeon; Ann Evans, Rebecca Perkins, Rebecca Perkins (daughter of the foregoing), Elizabeth Herring, Harriet Coombs, Emily Coombs (the young woman who died from sea sickness), and Mary Ann Peel, the wife of the prisoner. The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, has been swung to-day for the adjustment of her compasses. Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., arrived here to-day from the Admiralty, and soon after two o'clock proceeded on board the Britannia in Rear-Admiral Prescott's galley. It is rumoured in the dock-yard that Rear-Admiral Dundas intends to hoist his flag to-morrow, at nine A M. The Fury, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Tatham, was paid advance this morning and sailed in the afternoon for Lisbon, it is rumoured with dispatches recalling Commodore Martin's squadron to Spithead. The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Belgrave, hauled alongside the dockyard to-day, to take on board luggage, &c., for the new Governor of the Cape, who is expected to embark here on Tuesday next. A court-martial is ordered to assemble on Monday on board the Victory, for the trial of First-Lieutenant Lewis Scott Reeves, of the Royal Marines, belonging to her Majesty's ship Rodney, on two charges of absence without leave from his ship. Courts-martial are also ordered to try two privates of the Royal Marine corps on charges of desertion from her Majesty's ship Asia, on the South American station.