The Sun. — 1849-05-02 (London, England)

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Plumper steamschooner, Commander Nolloth, landed her 25 cwt. guns yesterday afternoon, and is to receive carronades of the same calibre in their stead. The Reynard, Commander Crr croft, is also to have carronades instead of her present 25 cwt. guns, and also to land her after-pivot gun, which was, in the late gale, found to be too much for her. The Plumper has retained both pivot guns, so that her weight of metal will not be at all reduced by the exchange. The Elfin dispatch-boat for the Queen, Acting Master Balliston commanding, is expected here from Woolwich this evening. The ship Constantine will leave Deptford to-morrow for this port, to embark draughts of the sth and the 15th Foot for the Mauritius and Ceylon. The latter detekhment, from the 15th depot at Brecon, will arrive at Gosfort on the 4th, via Reading and Basingstoke. The freight-ship Apollino leaves Deptford for the Isle  PLYMOUTH, of Africa, e3d 0. he er y of Wight on the 4th, to embark a draught of the 97th re I Regiment for Halifax. Favourite, 14, Commander Alexander Murray, from the Coast e sAlt earjdeas: morning from Portsmouth. She scaled guns to-day in the Sound, and is ordered up Hamoaze preparatory to being paid off. Among other vessels which took shelter here last week in consequence of the northern hostilities was the Holstein brig Zampa, Captain Groot, which brought passenger from Laguna Captain Wortermann, late of the brig Fortuna. The circumstances connected with the loss of this vessel must prove interesting to masters of ships bound to Mexico and California, for which coasts so many charters are now taking up. The following is translated from an authentic account published in A I Monitor, at Mexico, Feb. 3:— " On the 20th of October last the German brigantine Fortuna was wrecked on the coast of the island of Santa Maria, between the rivers of El Fuerte and Sinaloa. Through the efforts of the supercargo, captain, and crew a great partof the cargo was saved; but the vessel was entirely lost. The cargo was bound to Guyamas, the nearest port whence assistance could be obtained; and at the instance of the supercargo the Government of Guyamas immediately sent away the captain of the brigatine Hawavan Carlota with his vessel and a few large boats, which returned with a portion of the cargo on the 28th of November. They started again on the 2d of December, and collected the greater part of the remainder. On the 31st of December, at eight in the evening, the mate received a communication ashore from the Administrator of Revenues of El Puerto, Don Francisco Chavez; and at half-past eight, before the mate could deliver the message on board to the captain, or that they could consult together on the subject, a party of cavalry and intautry, consisting of forty men, armed with carbines and lances, fell upon the people ashore when quietly takiug their supper, fired at and pursued them into the sea, which offered the only refuge from this murderous attack. Three men were killed, viz., the principal stevador of the port, Thomaso Deano; the carpenter of the Fortuna, Frederica Trimpf ; and one of her crew, Juan Carteus; and two wounded—an Indian named Capeto and Manuel Jellerias. The assassins then took possession of the few things that remained ashore, and the vessel set sail the next day, the 14th of December, for Guyamas, where a protest was drawn up at the request of Senor Don Juan A. Robinson, United States' Consul, and certified copies thereof delivered to the Government of Sinaloa and to the General of Division, Don Juan Pablo Anoya, who, it is hoped, for the honour of the Mexican nation, will speedily discover and bring to justice the perpetrators of these atrocious acts." The Fortuna's cargo, with which she left Valparaiso on the 26th August, consisted of wine, brandy, cocoa, and dry goods. The wind was S.S.W. when she went ashore, and Captain Wortermann attributes her loss to the incorrectness of his chart, an English publication. After the protest was noticed the Captain went to Masaltan, thence to San Bias, where he crossed the coutitinent to Vera Cruz, and then took passage in a ship to Laguna. The Nautilus three-masted iron steamer, Captain Parson, came in here this morning for water. She has been hired by the German Government, through the Prussian Consul-General in London, to lie off this port and give warning to all Germau merchants vessels entering the Channel of the renewal of hostilities by the Danish Government. Wind southerly, light breeze, and fine weather. WooLwicu,