The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-24 00:00:00

NA VAL 1 N TELLIGENCE.

Captain W. A. B. H.smilton, the Second Secretary,
has left the Admiralty for a short tour in the country.
Commodore Martin's squadron will shortly be com-
plete, and when all the men have returned from leave,
.he ships will proceed on an exercising cruise.
The committee on accounts, consisting of Messrs.
Murray, chief engineer, and Mr. Rice, master ship-
wrights' assistant of Portsmouth yard, and Mr. Laws,
storekeeper of Sheerness yard, has arrived at Chatham for
the phrpoae of examining the accounts kept at that yard.
THE NEW STEAM-YARD AT KEYHAM.—We are glad
to find that the present Board of Admiralty, convinced
of the national importance of these works, have dekr-
mined that they should be acively proceeded with; and
it is probable a portion of the proposed establishment
mill in the course of the present summer be put into
effective and profitahle operation.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.— the commission appointing
the R. v. E. Pariah chaplain and naval instructor to the
Blenhpim, 60, screw steam guard-ship, has been returned
Lo the Admiralty.
Four field pieces have been ordered to be supplied for
he use of the dockyard brigade.

Commander-in• Chief Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs,
accompanied by Captain Chads, Captain Martin, and
Lieutenant Passey, went out to Spi, bead this morning
in the Sprightly, to muster and inspect the Encounter
steamer, Captain Gordon. The crew were exercised at
gunnery prfactici_..
Oreste>, 14, Commander Hawker, passed yesterday a
most tatisfsctory inspection, after which she discharged
tier powder and came into harbour and unbent sails.
She has this morning commenced returning stores, and
will come alongside the jetty to pay off.
Arrogant, 46, screw steam-frigate, Captain Robinson,
has her topmast lidded, and has commenced rattling
•lown her rigging.
There is a vague report to-day that the officers and
e-mpany of the Superb are to be turned over to
St, Vincent, 110; but we cannot trace it to any au-
thority..

Hogue, 60 gun ship, Captain Macdougall, at Spit-
nev& was exercising her crew at firing at a target this
morning.

It is 'low certain that the Elinburgb, 60, screw ship,
when she comes out of dock, will be attached during the
atunmer months to the Excellent, Captain Chads, as a
tender, end will occasionally proceed to bee, to exarcise
her officers and men at gunnery practice while under
weigh when the ship ha 4 motion, &c. This will ba. a
most advantageous plan; for so still and motionless is
he Excellent, moored head and s'ern as she is, that it is
110 more than mere battery practice that the officers and
men learn in her.
Captain Crispin, of the Royal yacht Victoria and Al-
bert, has gone on a fortnight's leave.
Queen, 116, Captain Wke, flag-ship of Sir William
Parker, has not yet made her appearance at Spithead.
Vulean, iron screw steam-ahip, Commander Von
Donop, is being refitted, and will not be co,yted be-
fore the 151 a June.
Winchester, 50, Captain Loch, is now fully
manntd, and will be ready for sea L, the 10th of May.
The anniversary meeting of the Portsmouth Sailors'
Home was held this afternoon, in Portsmouth, under
the presidency of Admiral Sir Francis Austen, 1i.C.8.,
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Comman-
der-in-Chief, being prevented by important duty from
attending in time to take the chair. The report read
showed the Home to be in most flourishing use and pa-
tronage among those for • whose peculiar advantage it
was established, and as the numbers of applicants for
beds and rations are nightly and daily more by hundreds
than the means of the institution can supply, an increase
,of the establishment is resolved on,...which it is hoped
the public will enable the directors syeedily to carry
out. A note received through LardPeorge 'PI
;Lord in Waiting.en Prim Albert, atin L'l"
ottnced Rosa}
:Highness's llttefitletl of heading a new list of subscribers
for the above objeet vitlth a'donation of 50/.
The Endounter,l4, 'screw,-I
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In-
spected at Spithead to-day by the -Port-Adraira ,
Captain Gordon,was
Thomas Briggs, and her crew excised in gennerY by
Captain Chads, C. 8., of the -Excellent.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Chi f
Mr. George Allen, act-
The
master commanding, took the Commander-in-Chief e
to Spithead, and bore his fl ig on his inspection of the
Encounter. .
ussian merchant birqUe
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY: The R
Gustav, Captain Bjorkroth, from Alexandria or Ghent,
esterday (Thuradayl
last from Fa (mouth, reports that y
morning she saw, between Start Pciolh and the Eddy.
t ree-_docker, with
stone, a large British man-of-war,
an Admiral's flag at the peak, and a two-decker, going
up Channel. Wind, light, from
Letters received here from the Mediterranean state
that her Majesty's ship Vengeance is ordered home to
refit.
go
aratory to calling for
the coat of Africa. william
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Walker,
DEVONPORT. APRIL 22.--O—a.
this er'
son of Commander William Walker,
day been appointed temporary clerk in this dockyard,
vice Mr. Wolrige, lent to Woolwich
The crew of the Vixen steam sloop,
Commander Bar-
i-wl, will be paid the wages duo to them while serving
in the Vesuvius, to-morrow morning, by -Mr. Mills,
master-attendant; the fitments of the Vixen• will be
complete on Saturday.
Hamor:ze, lighter,
_Wood, master, sailed to-day with
Istores for the ()valet surveying vessel, at Sky Island, on
_the ovut of 60011audf she will etal Toiverpow on her

Diligence, naval transport,' loading for Portsmouth
yard, remains.

Thick, naval lighter, with stores from Plymouth and
Portsmouth yards, has arrived.
SIR E. BELCHER'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
ALDBOROUOR, APRIL 22.—Captain Sir Edward Bel-
uher's expedition for the Arctic regions passed here at
11 ; wind E.S.E., fresh.
SOUTHWOLD, APRIL 22.--At 1.45 this day the disco-
very ships, under Captain Belcher, were off this place;
fresh bre ze at E S.E.
LOWESTOFT, APRIL 22.—The Arctic expedition, con-
sisting of six steam-vessels and two barques, passed
north this afternoon.

51 P.M.—One of the steam-vessels passing south.
YARMOUTEI (NORFOLK), APRIL 22.—Two barques, in
tow of two steamers, and two other steamers accompa-
nying, passed this place northwArd, supposed to
ne the expedition in search of Sir Jon Franklin; wind
E.S.E., fresh breez,.—Shipping Gazette

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Pays has the following " communicated note"
respecting the ceremony of the 10th of May :
" To all those who Outing the last few days have an-
eetmeed to us the proclanitifi.in . of the Empire for the_
I 0 !.h of
Mey, we reply,
'That
cannot be serious; it
shows a complete ignorance ef the character of Louis
Napoleon to admit for a moment such a supposition,'
The offi.:isl note communicated by the Government to
.he journals, confirms our previsions. Thus, it is a cer-
ein thing that the Empire will not be proclaimed at the
review of the 10th .M•iy. To those who have studied as
we have done the life and character of the man who is
!low placed at the head of the French nation, that study
:howl a very remarkable fact. This fact is that Louis
Napoleon has always professed respect for the national
sovereignty. Even when he attacked legal order, he
respected it. At STasburg and at Boulogne, he did
no come as a pretender to hereditary right, but as
a pretender to election. We have read and re read
his proclamations, and we only find in them a formal,
explicit, and absolute recognition of the nation to
round its own government. It was therefore from
election that Louis Napoleon dematided power; it is
frein the people ha has received it. As pretender,
exile, prisoner, candidate for the Republican Presidency.
President of the Constitutional Republic,- and Chief a f
Constituent Government; that principle has 13 'en the
invariable rule of his conduct. At thet solemn hour,
when he was paramount, when the Legislative Assembly
bad just vanished, when the army was with him, and
when the rural populations hailed him as their chief,what
(NI ho do ? He departed from the Constitution,
Out he only did so to have recourse to election. Noe,
the Empire is talked cf. Certainly nothing is im-
possible. The Empire is a dazzling name of the
past, which may have its reflection on the page of
the future. • Thus, as Napoleon one day said to
Prince Metternich, ' Human life is a cycle.' Asto-
nishment is felt at succeeding events resembling each
other ; that is caused by nature eternally resembling
itself in the passions and the feelings which are pe-
culiar to it. The Moral world is like the physical
world—it incessantly turns on itself. Only at every
evolution it makes the circle increases like .civilize
lion itself, and like science, every step of which is
one in advance. But how can the Empire be made if it
is ever done? It is by au acclamation of the people and
of the army at a fete? Will the legions raise a new
standard for a new Cmiar? Are we at Rome at the de-
cline of a people and of a world? and are we about to
Leo military despotism rise itself, on the ruins of the
country? No, thank God We are France, we are
a nation which has a feeling of its independence and of
the rights of its sovereignty, and which can only find in
its government the image of its force, and respect tor
its dignity and for its will. Thus, whatever may arrive,
whether we remain a republic, or leave it, national
sovereignty will bo respected. In no wise can military
acclamation replace popular elec.ion. We were before
convinced in our own minds of this, And the official de-
claration just made gives to that conviction the charac-
ter of certainty. We rejoice at it, as a striking homage
paid to the fundamental principle of the political right
in modern society, of the right on which authority re-
poses. We think that the whole of France will rejoice
with us."

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which they will have to decide took place.
The Memoria ißordelais states that
the night of the 0% has been . the frost of
very disastrous fur
the vines in that &pertinent.
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Bomtnes, Pnjols, Podensac, tze . , Sauternes,
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irreparable.
The Mediterraneansquadron,
of Vice-Admiral DR LA under the command
from the islands of the ausBSE, has arrived at TOUICM,
of the Ville de Paris
This squadron con-
sistsloo; Jena,.Bo; "ris, 120 guns ; Henry IV ,
The Constitution Jupiter,l 86 ; and Bayard, 90. .
with respect th s •
71.0 contains Iv grave statement
Spain, the substa - ' •
not only is the electoral I nue of which is that
Constitution is to bealteredaw
to be changed, but the
reduce the Cortes to in such a manner as to
French a position resembling
rather the
Corps Legialatif than the 13
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liament. speak of the British Par-

The same paper rejoices that the triumph gained
by the Moderate and Conservative party at Berne
puts an end to all apprehension on the score of S wit-
mrland. The Grand Council have had a majority of
7,000 votes out of the 80,000 polled, so that the pre-
sent Government remains. This is the first time,
since 1830, that the Conservatives have achieved a
victory over the Radicals, at Berne, and the tact
marks a reaction in the spirit of the country, which
will probably save it from occupation by a foreign
army. The Debuts remarks as follows on the
triumphs of the Conservatives at Berne :
" It is unnecessary for us to enlarge on the importance
of such an event. It will have for affect to stop the pro-
gress of the Radical ptrty, and the development of
system to which the cantons of Argau,
Thurgau, as v, ell as the whole of French Switzerland,
the Radical tendencies of which, it is well
krretive
enw
were about to rally. The victory of the cono: 1830,
party will have another consequence. Sin
to the
every time that the people of Bane ba
suited, their votes have always beent tO3O that it has
established system. Wbis is lintfisrGovernment. May
declared for the maintenance of
favourable change has
contrarybeen con-
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Oar accounts from Madrid are of the 18:.h inst.
The QUEEN had receive-d an su .ograph letter from
the i'NESIDLNT of the United States congratulating
her on her escape from assassination, and thanking GOD
for his merciful interposition on that occasion, adding
that he spoke the sentiments of the whole Govern-
ment and people of the United States.
It is stated that the American Government had
taken every possible means of preventing any invasion,
of Cuba tram the States.
The Bth being Sunday, no Bourse.