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walls, &c., but not in regular bodies ; these com-
panies being drawn as much as possible from the seat
of war pnd the capital, may be estimated at 4,000
men, and would be exempt from drawing for the mi-
litia. Thus there would be nearly 100,000 men in
the south of England, some "0,000 in Ireland, and
5,000 in Scotland. The militia would be called out
but though 85,000 men would thus be obtained, still,
for some time, they could only be looked on as a
reserve force.
Let us now look to the points of disembarkation.
The Ist corps, 32,000 men, are to land at Bristol six
and a-half days after the arrival of the 2d corps at
Plymouth. It would have no safe harbour for the
ships, and if the approach to the port of Bristol, up
a narrow tide river, with very high banks, was not
defended, still this division would leave in its rear
Pembroke dockyard, communicating with Ireland and
Liverpool, and with unlimited command of transports
and steamers.
The 2d corps landing near Plymouth 43,000 men,
it would find a small fleet ready to annoy and retard
the landing. As we have supposed that the attack
would be known six days previous, it is not improbable
that with the present garrison, dockyard battalion,
out-pensioners, and troops from Chester and Birming-
ham, together with the local volunteer marksmen, the
garrison could be augmented 'to at least 7,000 men.
Most of these troops should take up defensive posts
to cover the dockyard; heavy stationary batteries of
ship guns must cover their front, and every impedi-
ment thrown in the way of the French troops pene-
trating into the interior, or receiving any supplies.
The protracted defence of Plymouth would be of the
greatest moment, as the Ist and 2d corps could not
advance till their rear was safe ; in the meantime,
and
every exertion should be
augment the squadron, made at Portsmouth to
cut off all communication
between the 3d corps and Cherbourg.
The regiments at Chichester, 'Winchester, New-
port, &c., would be called in,
and with the present
garrison, dockyard battalions,
pensioners, and volun-
teers, would render the place defensible. As for the
coup de main on the Gosport lines, it would be a most
dangerous step to take. That they could not resist a
regular attack is quite certain, but there is no reason
why two advance line-of-battle ships might not be
anchored as floating batteries
above the Clarence
yard,
to fire in front of the lines, whilst heavy sta-
tionary batteries of ship-guns would be mounted in
a few days all along the works. The attacking force
would have to advance against a heavy fire of artil-
lery to escalade : a very serious thing, witness New
Orleans and Chillianwalla.

DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE AT WINDSOR
CASTLE.
(From the Court Newsman.)
W FIDAY.
The third dramatic performancelNDSOß at the, Ous R
tle took
placo this evuuing. Leigh Hunt's play of A legend of
Florence was selected upon this occasion, and the parts
were filled according to the following programme:—
Francesco'Agelant ILEGFAND OF FLORENCE.
{Mr. Phelps
Antonio Rondinelli
Noble Florentines
J IMr. Leigh Murray
Cesare Colonna ...
Fulvio da Riva ... . ... .(A Poet). Mr. Bartley
Matteo
(A{
LAqeii)rovOpapsntc)ejuoarfatshe 1
Mr. J. F. Cathcart
Giulio ..... .... ........ (A Page) Miss Marshall
Ginevra
) a ...... .(Wife to Agolanti) Mrs. C Kean 5
••• (Friends of Ginevra)
...
Olimpi
Diana
c Miss Vivash
J
Fiordilisa ...(Ginevra's Handmaiden) Miss Robertson.
Servants, &c.
Scene—Florence and its neighbourhood.
Time—During the Pontificate of Leo the Tenth.
Direct0r............. . Mr. Charles Kean.
Assistant-director.., Mr. George Ellis.
The theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr.
Thomas Grieve.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Albert, with tne elder Royal children, entered
the Reubens Room from the north corridor, accom-
panied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Dent, his
Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, the
Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady Constance Leveson
Gower' his Excellency the Baron and the Baroness Brun-
now, Lord and Lady Seymour and the Hon. J. Hermione
St. Maur, the Earl and Countess Grey and Lady Alice
Lambton, the Earl and Countess Bruce, Viscount Can-
ning, the Right llon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
Sir James and Lady Graham, and Col. Wylde.
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting on her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness, and the Ladies in Waiting
to the Duchess of Kent, and the Baroness de Speth,
were in attendance.

The Queen, the Prince, and their illustrious guests
having taken their seats on the Haut pas, her Majesty's
private band performed some appropriate music, and the
play commenced.
Thd following had the honour of receiving invitations
t) witness the performance:—
Lady Emily Seymour, Lady Caroline and Miss Bar-
rington, Colonel Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel
Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Hon. H. Ashley, Sir
George and Lady Couper and Miss Couper, Sir Theo-
dore and Lady Brinkman, Right Hon. Henry Labou-
chore, Vice-Admiral and Mrs. Sykes, Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Hon. C. Forester, commanding officer; Captain Lord
Alexander Lennox and Cornet Jorge George Lennox,
of the Royal Horse Guards; Colonel Craufurd, com-
manding officer; Lieutenant Hogg() and Lieutenant
Maxse, of the 2d battalion of the Grenadier Guards;
the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, the Rev. W. and Mrs. Canning,
Mrs. Harcourt, Mr. and Mrs. H. and Miss Seymour,
Mrs., Miss, and Miss Gertrude Lambton, and Mr. and
Miss Ricardo.
Refreshments were served in the Throne Room.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

The 3d corps ararmie is the principal one, and lands
at Rye 76,000 strong.
The garrisens of Chatham, Woolwich, and Sheer-
ness could safely be withdrawn, leaving the dockyard
battalions to protect these places (the whole French
fleet being already employed). The cavalry depot at
Maidstone and the regiment at Brighton would fall
back, whilst some artillery and infantry should be
sent to augment the garrison of Dover.
All the troops near London, and those arriving
from Ireland and the north, might be concentrated by
rail about Reigate, at the point ofjunction of the
Dover and Brighton Railway; it is probable that in
eight days after the troops leaving Paris, Which is the
possibly be
earliest period that the 3d corps could
ready to advance from Rye, our army would amount
to at least 30,000 men, viz. :

Mr. Bunu commenced his operatic season last night.
The preparations which he has made for conducting this
department of his undertaking were thus to some extent
developed. The quality of his orchestra and the effici-
ency of his chorus were exhibited in their fullest force;
while two or three of the debiitants whose names appeared
in the lace-bordered circular which announced the
opening of the theatre, made their first vocal attempt
before a metropolitan audience. The exertions made
by Mr. Bunn to revive the operatic prestige of Drury-
lane Theatre merit success. His ingenuity as a manager
has long been remarkable, and the engagements into
which he has entered to restore the vogue of the house
are at least creditable to his enterprise. Operas, ex-
pressly written for the establishment, by Balfe, Mac-
farren, John Barnett, and Edward Loder, denote excel-
lence and industry of intention, as well as a whole-
some desire to benefit the British musician,
and give him that status in operatic annals
to which he is entitled. The performance of last
night was the Robert the Devil of Meyerbeer.
This vast work has been prepared with considerable
care, and a grandeur of ensemble has been attained, not
only by the fullness of the resources pressed into the
service, but by the excellence of the principals. The
way in which the Robert has been got up is entitled to
almost unqualified praise. The chorusses, upon which
the value of the representation so much depends, were
executed with unvarying breadth and spirit; added to
which the orchestral playing, under the conduct of M.
Schira, was noticeable for its closeness and delicacy—
for a quality of tone, in short, and for a practical ability
to which we have hitherto been strangers in an English
theatre. A new Robert appeared in a Mr. Fedor, a light
and agreeable tenor, welt skilled as a musician, and of
unquestionable taste. The real event of the evening was
the debut of a young lady of the name of Crichton, who
as the Princess Isabella displayed accomplishment as a
singer which cannot but make its way. The part, we
need not observe, involves responsibilities of no mean
and trivial kind. The voluble "En vain j'espere" is a
trial for the most matured capacity; nevertheless Miss
Crichton rendered it with an ease, grace, and certainty,
which at once stamped her as a finished vocalist—one
gifted by nature with a pure and beautiful organ, for
which ort has done its best. In every sense of the word
a first appearance, it was not to be wondered at that
Miss Crichton should exhibit tremulousness of demeanour
and elocutionary awkwardness; but even this seemed to
depart when she sang that exquisite burst of affectionate
exhortation, " Robert, toi quo j'aime," into which she
threw an amount of tenderness and passion, to say
nothing of executive tact, which more than corroborated
the claims to admiration which she had already evoked.
Miss Crichton, in a word, made a more triumphant im-
pression than we ever remember to have attended a de-
butante, and there can hardly be a doubt of her becoming
a great vocalist. The fiend fell into the hands of Mr.
henry Drayton, a gentleman of concert-room fame in
this country, and, as we now find, of considerable dra-
matic ability. His singing, discreet in method, clear,
doliberate, and articulate, was extremely effective—qua-
lities equally observable in Mr. Manvers, who presented
a version of Baimbault as remarkable for its comic
point as for its vocal proficiency. Mdlle. Evelina
Garcia, the representative of the peasant girl Alice, com-
pleted a very superior and effective cast. This singer,
overflowing with energy, laboured sedulously to win
favour; and the two charming romances which belong to
the part lost no practicalimporetffianciceenitniyhgeirvehna.nds.ThAerle-
together the opera was most
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thin
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iemeenecto r encore,
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was that
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trio in the cavern scene, was
which
ness and precision winch we confess we had by no means
reckoned upon. The mice en scene was excellent, The
audience did not withhold during the performance' of the
opera loud and enthusiastic applause. Miss Crichton
was call for at the close of the third act, and when
the opera terminated appeared again, in company with
the other principals. Mr. Bunn was also invited to re-
ceive the congratulations of the house; and profoundly
did he bow as he strode across the stage.

Men.
Foot Guards •••
•" 3,000
Regular Infantry ... ••• ••• 10,000
Out-pensioners ••• •,. .•• 6,000
Regular Cavalry ••• ••• 4,000
Yeomanry ... ••• ••• 3.000
Artillery (at 10 men per gun-200
gunh*) ..• 2,000
Volunteer Marksmen, .•
40 eomPanieg,
60 men

2,400
Total ... ••• ••• 30,400
At the same time, an army of reserve could be
formed near Reading, and communicating by rail
with the division at Reigate, and the garrisons to the
south and west ; thus, in 12 days from the opening
of the war (some time before Ist and 2d corps could
possibly have got in communication with the 3d
corps), would number 29,100 men; viz.---
5,000
Regular Infantry ...
Out Pensioners ... 2,000
Do. new levy 20,000
Regular Cavalry 1,000
Artillery Pensioners ... ••• 500 50 guns.
Volunteer Marksmen 600

29,100
The military state of the country would then be,
supposing the enemy bad landed without much loss—
At Pembroke and South Wales—About 6,000 men,
partly drawn from Ireland, with a small squadron,
threatening the rear of the Ist corps, and obliging
part of that army to remain at Bristol.
At Plymouth—lf not relieved, probably holding in
check the 2d corps for some days-5,000 men.
At Portsmouth—Prepared to resist the attack of
the Ist and 21 corps darmie, or attack the flank of
the 31 corps near Ilastinga-7,000 men.
At Dover Castle—On the other flank of thi 3d
corps, wit,h a small garrison.
The army at Reigate-30,400 men covering Lon-
don.

The army at Reading-29,100 men, ready to co-
operate with the above-named troops ; these two di-
visions would be stronger than the 31 corps
darmee,
which would have to detach a considerable force to
watch the garrisons of Portsmouth and Dove;, and
cover their open camp at Rye.
The militia and volunteers to form a third camp at
Birmingham.
It is to be hoped that the difficulty of invading
this country has been pointed out pretty clearly in
this sketch of the campaign. v
vhas
been allowed the invading forces,''
and
dyadvantage
l itt
le orno re-
sults supposed to occur from the use of our powerful
fleet, though this is all but impossible. Ten to one,
the 2d and 3d corps would, on leaving Cherbourg
and Brest, fall in with our ships of war, and suffer
severely, especially their transports. The delay in
landing would be fatal' as every day would add to
our power of defence. The Ist corps, arriving in the
Severn six and a-half days after the proposed landing
at Plymouth, would certainly have to engage the
Pembroke squadron under the greatest disadvantages.

* It will startle many officers to seo 900 guns dpeci ly when ut
down with the
troit iop at
Lt
s „
eigate, and .50 at Readinpg;
essls known that throughout England
and Ireland we have now only 56 field
guns horsed—
hut some of these guns should be pieces of position.
Such as 8 and 10 in howitzr)rs, and 12 and 18 piece brass
(runs on siege carriages—with the vast means of trans-
command in the capital, the moving these
port at
H.ins into battery would be easy, Messrs Chaplin and
orne, and Messrs. Pickford, would contract to do the
whole. It must also be rensenabered, that England with
its h,dges and inclosures, is not a country for rapid
movements of artillery and cavalry, ao that these heavy
batteries would require only a ,
whilst the drivers and horses i t_lbw-
.gut in most cases be non-
real artillerymen,
combatants. There are plenty ,
01 guns and harness, but
the number of carriages in store
can only be known to
the Board of Ordnance.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,
Bear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., left the Admiralty
on Friday for Portsmouth, on a visit to his flag-ship, the
Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith. The ship will bo
complete by the 27th, and will be ready for sea by the
7th of February. She is about 130 men short.
Commodore Eden has returned to Woolwich Dock-
yard, and having resumed the superintendence of the es-
tablishment, Capttlin the lion. K. Stopford has returned
to the command of' the London, 92, at Sheerness.

Captain Henry Smith, C. 8., will pay off the Ganges,
84, at Sheerness, on the 27th instant.

Captain Cory will pay off the Southampton, 50, at
Chatham, on Monday, the 26th inst.
Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie has commissioned
the steam guard-ship Horatio, 24, at Sheerness, She
will be taken out of dock, and will bo completed by the
engineers by the 23d February.
Commander Stephen L. Crofton (1850), who was pro-
moted for his gallantry against the Brazilian slavers,
when commanding the Rifleman, screw-schooner, has
been appointed to succeed Commander Lavie, in the
command of the Alecto, steam-sloop, on the coast of
Africa.

COURT cut(;
uULAR.
The following had the hnnen'''lNDSOß, JAN. 23.
irgihss the Duchess of
table last evening:—Her Royal /1.49 f dining at tho royal
Kent, his Serene Highness the i,ne
nee Leopold of Saxe
Coburg, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady
Gower, the Baron and Baroness,
th runnow, the Lady in
Waiting to the Duchess of Kent B
Lord and Lady Seymour and the Ilearoness de Spetb,
Maur, Earl and Countess Grey,ou. J. Ilermione St.
Bruce, Viscount Canning, Lady ieEarl and Countess
le Lambton, Sir Jas.
and Lady Graham, and Colonel %V
The band of the Royal Horsoiedeent
.ds was in attetd-
ance, and played the following p
Overture—" Lac dos Fe :s" 3:---
Silection—" Ern9.ni" ... . .
. .... ••• Auber.
Waltz—" Rein° Victoria" ... Verdi.
.
Selection—" Walpurgis Naeht" ... ••• Bossisio.
Pas Redouble—" 'frornpeten" ... ••• Mendelssohn.
Her Majesty's private band afterwar;it; IC-uhner.
performed the following compositions :-... attended, and
Overture—" 11 Seraglio" ... ...
Trio in A flat, Allegro, Moderato, Po•e•o. Mozart.
Ad 11,1 io, Allegro—Pianoforte, Violin
and Violoncello—Messrs. W. G. Cusins,
Sainton, and H. Chipp ..• -• ... At
~._, ayseder.
The Queen walked in the Home Park
morning. ""u Slopes this
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
younger
members of tho Royal Family took their
:tit shooting
pony and walking exercise. accustomed
His Royal Highness Prince Albert wieLnst
this morning, attended by Colonel F.
accompanied by Prince Leopold of Saxe c
otliour, and
Seymour, Earls Grey and Bruce, Viscount rg, Lord
and Sir James Graham. Canning,
Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ar-
rived at the Castle this afternoon.
Previous to the dramatic performance this event?,
the band of the Grenadier Guards was inpaaityteencidtahno-c-e-Fn
the Castle, and during the Royal dinner i
fol-
lowing pieces:—
Introduction from " Robert lo Diable" ... 1,..
ileYerbeer.
Arietto from " La Part du Diablo"
Mazurka from ''Les Porchorons" ... :.: Auber
Romanza e Coro di Banditti, from "Catarina

Mr. J. J. Lindsay (1845), clerk in charge, serving in
the Plover, iCaptain Moore, in Behring's Straits, has
bean promoted to the rank of paymaster.
Lieutenants John Seccombe (1842) :and J. P. Palmer
(1842) have been appointed to the Horatio.
Dasher, steam-vessel, Commander Lefebre, at Ports-
mouth, is ordered to accompany the Lightning steam-
tender, Mager Commander Allen, with the officials to
the Channel Islands.

Neptune, 120, Captain Yates, ordinary flag-ship at
Portsmouth, has crossed her lower and topsailyards.
Sprightly steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen,
took stores for Portsmouth, but the weather bring so
boisterous with a heavy sea, wisely held on in Devon-
port harbour.
Sparrow ketch, G. H. Hills, second emaster, will be
ready for paying off at Devonport this day.
THE WEST INDlEs.—Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour,
C. 8., G.C.11., in his flag-ship Cumberland, 70, Captain
Seymour, was at Jamaica, Dec. 30, with Arrogant, 46,
screw-frigate, Captain R.- S. Robinson, and Devastation
steam-ship, Commander Colin Y. Campbell. The In-
flexible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Dyke, was at Ha-
vannah, Dec. 25. and Express, 6, Commander Fead,
was at Grey Town, Dec. 30. Sappho, 12, Commander
A. L. Cochrane, was at Carthagena, Dec. 27. Scorpion,
surveying vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Lawrence, was
at St. Thomas's, Jan, 2. The Sappho is orderd home to
be paid oil.
DEVONPORT DOCKYARD.—The following
superannua-
tions have taken place at this yard:—William Thomas,
leading man of shipwrights, 301.; William Sararohnnand
Alexander Townsend, shipwrights, each 24/.; 11.
Bayley, labourer, and Thomas Williams, labourer, 151,
per annum each.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Hecht steam-sloop,
Commander Beauchamp. arrived at Spithead this after-
noon from the coast of Africa, on which sho has been
very successful in the capture of slavers, having taken
ton vessels, amounting to 1,590 tons, end having on
steam-sloop, Commander
board 613 slaves. She left the Congo on the 10,h of
Thomas 11. IL
December, leaving there the Prometheus steam-sloop (at
bringing Thomas
,9ttoh.b e She!
tried.i
girl named
SBthraarnkg-ep,oainndt)ihethAethAolrsethoreershispleLamieutenant-Conam aril r
eftsAh:eaelnso.,
Pearce. She left AomfbArizscoennstihoen
lionieel
Peel, the
ethe
murderer
eorf
of December,
Perkins,
r-
geant of the Island
brings all the
the
in . v 0
sus
e, the
Commander
instant,
witnesses except one, a
Coombes, who died on board two days ago from exces-
sive
sea-sickness. The Ihela arrived at Sierra Leone
on the 31st of December, and left ~,,~
Firefl ste
leaving there
Sotheby,
from which she has brouel t invalid
outward i ,
4th she passed the GU OUR(' Ca-,
h 1 ~ On the
p of Good Hope
packet. She arrived at Terieriffe
on the 13th, and
trailed Ou th° 146 h i til° plat© is Sit, y *ski, un 111 d .

Cornaro" ••
Waltz —"Die Industrielien"...
Der Feier Abend Polka ...

••• Lochner.
••• Gungl.
••• Vahrhuch.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Masterrnan,,, tu, ~..
P., the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., Mr. Barkworth'
Mr.
M Smith, and r. Bamford, had an interview with Lord
John Ruswll yesterday, at his official residence in Dovrn_
ing-strect.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) will
give a full-dress dinner to a party of Peers on Monday,
the 2d of February, at his residence, Lansdowne House,
Berkeley-square.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterdaY
for Windsor Castle.
Dispatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands were received yesterday at the coionia.
91iice,

SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1852.

quarantine. On the 17th instant she passed
and exchanged numbers with the Birkenhead
iron steam frigate, Master Commander Sal-
mond, 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 encoun-
tered a terrific gad©, which brought her under reefed
storrnsails. The Rattler steam sh,oP• Commander Mel-
lercb, 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 in-
jured her main keel, &c.); the Niger steam-sloop, Com-
mander Heath; Philornel, 8, Commander G. T. Forbes;
Alecto steam-sloop, Commander Lavie; and Volcano
steam-sloop, Commander Coote, wire off Lagos, pre-
paring to bring the authorities of that place to eccount
for the late attack upon the British cruisers. The re-
sult 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, Com-
mander 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 deli-
vered 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 " pre-
served 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, in-
valided 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 Com-
modore Martin's squadron to Spithead.
The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Belgrave, hauled
alongside the dockyard to-day, to take on board lug-
gage, &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.