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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 4.
The Contest, 12, Commander the Hon. J. W. S.
Spencer, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, from
the East India and China station, to be paid off. She
sailed from Trincomalee on the 15th of May, and the
Cape of Good Hope on the 10th of July. No news
from the latter colony. She brought home Lieutenant
W. C. F. Wilson, promoted from the Winchester flag-
ship ; Mr. Harvey, surgeon (late of the Sphynx) ; Mr.
Cave clerk ; and Mr. Daniels, naval cadet ; and seven
invalids
from all from the Winchester, and other
from the squadron. On her way home from the Cape
the Contest spoke the following ships;--The Hebe, from
Cork to Calcutta, with troops on the 31st of July, in
lat. 2 13 30 S., long. 19 26 W. ; the Adele, French
barque, from Macassar to Marseilles, on the 2d of Aug.,
in lat. 1 39 N., long. 22 30 W., 164 days out ; exchanged
colours with an English brig, in lat. 31 19 N., long. 32
32 W. on the 17th of Aug. ; the Teviot steamer, from
Southampton to the West Indies, 11 days out, on the
19th of Aug., in lat. 33 40 45 N., long. 32 05 15 W. ;
on the 24th of Aug., in lat. 39 49 N., long. 27 34 W.,
exchanged numbers with the English steamer Thames,
bound to the West Indies ; on the Ist of Sept. spoke the
Red Gauntlet, and on the 2d her Majesty's ship Lon-
don. Having been three years and three quarters in
commission, the Contest (one of White's justlycelebrated
sailing brigs) will now be paid off at this port, and her
commander most probably raised to post rank on the
visit of the Lords of the Admiralty this week.
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.O B. the Port
Admiral, returned from Torquay on Friday. night.
The Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, Master. Com-
mander Belam, arrived yesterday morning with Major
Young's company of Royal Artillery, from Jersey. She
embarked Captain Elliott's company of Royal Artillery,
frypa Pprtsnleptb_yq,today, and left with them last
night for Devonport.
The Sprightly, tender to Victory, Master Commander
Allen, hauled into dock to-day, to examine her bottom,
and which was found to be exceedingly foul and covered
with weed and barnacles, which had impeded her pro-
gress more than a knot an hour, although it is not many
months since she was in dock to have her copper cleaned.
She will haul out on Monday.
The Rolla, 6, naval apprentices' instruction-brig, Lieut.-
Commander Fenwick, came into harbour this morning,
from her weekly Channel cruise.
The Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, was taken into the
steam basin out of dock on Friday, and is to be got
ready for re-commissioning forthwith, it is said, by semi-
official report, to relieve the Penelope, as the flag-ship
on the western coast of Africa station. We give this
just as we have heard it, and as it is reported in the
local paper of this day, but assuredly such a wanton dis-
regard of consequences cannot be entertained in high
quarters for a moment. The Dauntless has already
proved the coffin of one-third of her ship's company on
the West India station, and now to talk of re-commis-
sioning her so soon after her return from that sickly
region to send her to the professedly most unhealthy
station under the pennant seems to us so horrible that
we trust some official contradiction will be given to the
rumour.

HARWICH, SEPT. 2.
Sir James Graham, First Lord, Admiral Dundas, and
the Hon; W. Cowper, Lords of the Admiralty, and Sir,
John Burgoyne, Inspector-Gesral of the Fortifications,
arrived in our harbour this morning at 8 o'clock, in the
Vivid, Commander Smithett, from Sheerness, which
they must have left at a very early hour. After a sur-
vey of the shipyard and premises which belong to the
Government, the party went up to the redoubt along
with Major Moulsworth, R.E. and on their return were
attended by Mr. Walker and Dir. Cooper, the engineers,
and Mr. Lee, the contractor, in examining the progress
of the improvements, by which, when they shall be com-
pleted, the capability of our fine harbour will be much
increased. The Trinity-house superintendent was in at-
tendance to inform their lordships as to the different
buoys and lights near the entrance of the harbour. Their
lordships afterwards crossed the harbour to Landguard
Fort, which they visited, and then returned to the
Vivid, which immediately started for the river.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN SIR W. C. H. BURNABY, BART.
—The death of this gallant officer has been reported.
Sir William Crisp Hood Burnaby was only son of the
late Sir William Chaloner Burnaby, Bart, by Eliza-
beth, second daughter of Crisp Molyneux, Esq.
Gar-
boldesham, county Norfolk, and grandson' of ?
of
Admiral
Sir William Burnaby, Bart., who successively held the
chief command on the Leeward Islands and Jamaica
stations, and died in 1777. He succeeded his father as
third baronet, in 1794. He entered the Royal Naval
Academy in 1803, and embarked Oct. 11, 1806, as mid-
shipman, on board the Montagu, 74, Captain Robert
Wailer Otway, with whom, on proceeding to the Medi-
terranean, he assisted at the evacuation of Scylla, under
a smart fire from the enemy on the Calabrian shore, and
was afterwards actively employed in co-operating with
the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, where he witnessed
the capture of the fortress of Rosas. In Nov. 3, 1809,
was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and under
Captain Hatton, in the Port Mahon, took part in many
warm encounters with the American enemy, particularly
on the 20th of the following June, when, we believe, he
contributed, in company with the Narcissus and Barrosa
frigates, to the complete discomfiture, at the entrance
of Norfolk river, of 15 gun-boats, that had been dis-
patched for the express purpose of capturing the Junon,
after an action of three hours, during which the latter
had two men killed and three wounded. He was pro-
moted, May 26, 1814, to the command of the Ardent
prison-ship at Bermuda, and since May, 1816, when
that vessel was placed out of commission, has been un-
employed. Sir William Burnaby married May 2, 1818,
the widow of Joseph Wood, Esq., of Bermuda,

Mr. Rawson, the head master of the School for Royal
Naval Shipwright Apprentices in this dockyard, has
been appointed the successor of Dr. Woolley, in direct-
ing the mathematical studies of the school of mathe-
matics and naval construction, the Rev. Dr. Woolley
having been appointed Admiralty Inspector of all the
Dockyard Schools. Professor Rawson is a gentleman
of acknowledged reputation in mathematical science,
and his appointment is looked upon with satisfaction by
all who desire to see those improvements in naval archi-
tecture still further developed which have distinguished
the surveyorship of the navy of Sir Baldwin Walker.
Sir James Graham. First Lord of the Admiralty, is at
Cowes. He will embark to-morrow morning early in
the steam-yacht Fire Queen, Master-Commander Paul,
for this port.
The fine frigate-built Indiaman Prince of Wales sails
from Spithead this evening for India full of passengers
and merchandise.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 3.
Her Majesty's frigate Daedalus, 20, Captain George
G. Wellesley, which arrived here on Monday from the
Pacific, and sailed the same day for Portsmouth to land
her dollars, after being detained by wind and fog at
Spithead, returned to the Sound to-day. It seems
strange, now that Plymouth has complete railway and
telegraphic communication with the metropolis, that the
nation could not be saved the detention and risk of the
voyage, and the expense of a week's pay and provisions
fur the crew of this frigate. Private merchants and ship.
owners manage such affairs differently. In June last,
when the steam-ship Sarah Sands arrived from the dig-
gings, although she was bound to and went on to Lon-
don, all her gold was landed here and sent up by rail-
way. The Daedalus has discharged her powder and
shell, and goes up harbour on Monday to be paid off.
Two fine emigration ships arrived yesterday, and
sailed to-day far the colonies. Tne Waterloo,- Captain
Greene, has above 900 tons of manufactured goods, ale,
spirits, &c., and 35 passengers ; she anchored in the
Sound about 5 p.m. on Friday, and departed about 4
p.m. on Saturday for Sydney. The Anglesea, Captain
Thorn, has about 800 tons of general cargo, 35 cabin,
and GO steerage passengers ; she anchored at 9 p.m. on
Friday, and left 20 minutes after the Waterloo for Port
Philip and Sydney. Both tnese ships, through the
agent, Mr. J. B. Wilcocks, have in the short interval
been amply provided with live stock, sheep, pigs,
poultry, and other stores, and have embarked their pas-
sengers, among whom are many experienced colonists,
who selected Plymouth as their port of embarkation.
The Waterloo, which belongs to Messrs. Dunbar, left
the port September 20, 1852, and reached Sydney Jan.
1, 1853-98 days. She started from Sydney on the
return on the sth of March, and arrived home June 12
—99 days, having accomplished the voyage out and
home in eight months and a-half. The Anglesea belongs
to Messrs. Green. She was noted immediately at the
period of her first departure as being five times as long
as she is broad. The Anglesea left Plymouth on the
Ist of September, and arrived at Port Philip in 94 days.
She occupied 100 days in the return, with 29,000
ounces of gold, and arrived on the 17th of June. On
this, her first voyage, it was found that too much reli-
ance had been placed on the fineness of her lines, and
that nut sufficient canvass had been allowed. Since
then she has been newly masted and rigged, her yards
are more square, and her canvas has been increased
nearly one-third. This alteration has greatly increased
her sailing qualities ; she left the Downs at 2 p.m. on
Monday, against a strong head wind, in company with
an American liner, which she beat by 23 hours on the
passage only to Portsmouth. ,

IRON LIGHTHOUSES.

SEPTEMBER 4.
Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Rhadamanthus, Mas-
ter-Commander Belam, which left Portsmouth on Wed-
nesday for the Channel Islands, arrived here this morn-
ing, at 11, with artillerymen, in exchange for those on
duty at Devonport.
A t noon to-day a paddle-wheel bark-rigged man-of-war,
apparently homeward bound, was observed under steam
inside the Eddystone at 12.30 ; when near the Mewstone
she set her fore and aft canvass, the wind having veered
from north-east to north.

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 3.
The Cyclops steam-transport, Mr. Charles Pope, mas-
ter commander pro tem., from Woolwich, was taken into
the fitting-basin with the boilers and machinery for the
Cressy, 80, screw steam ship this day.
The Netherlands ship Jan Hendrik, H. de Jong com-
mander, was put out of the basin, and left here for Lon-
don in tow of the steam-tug Perseverance at 6 a.m. this
day.

DEVONPORT, SEPT. 4.
The Daedalus, 20, Capt. Wellesley, returned to this port
yesterday from Portsmouth, where she was sent to land
her freight, at an expense to the countryofa week's
pay and provisions to officers and crew, as the . freight
might have been landed here, and forwarded by rail with
equal facility to that afforded at the eastern port.
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The Leander, 50, Capt. St. Vincent King, discharged :
OVEMENTS. - The Com-
her powder yesterday, preparatory to coming into hair-
the parties claiming bout to refit for general service.oPritks having settled with all
The Prussian corvette Dantzic, Capt. Indebeton, has compensation, the area of the pro-
arrived from the North Sea, having been out for the posed park has been cleared, with the exception of the
purpose of trying her capabilities of steam power, and British Flag beer-shop and a few small tenements, which
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for carrying her heavy armament, which consists of 12 will be forthwith pulled down. The sum allowed to Mrs
68-pounders on the upper deck, four guns weighing 95 Wright, widow of the late proprietor of the Red House,
cwt., four weighing 60 cwt., and four weighing 52 cwt. was 11,0001. The construction of the Suspension-bridge,
each. Her engines are made by Mr. Scott Russell, who which had been stopped for some months, has been re-
attended the trial. Her tonnage is 1,100 tons ; her en- Burned. In addition to these important improvements
gines are nominally 400-horse power, capable of working ' the Commissioners of Works have directed their sur-
up to 1,200-horse power. Her armament has been sup- veyor to proceed with the Thames embankment, ex-
plied by Mr. Ferguson, of London. She was built
at tending on the Middlesex side of the river, from Batter-
Dantzic, from English lines, and in her past trials has sea to Vauxhall-bridge, about 400 feet of which hatbeen
proved herself to be everything that can be desired as a already formed. The embankment is to be 80feet wide,
man-of-war, and a first-class going vessel under steam and the elevation will be 4 feet above high-water mark.
power. She has done with steam power alone, under The river wall will be sof highly-tempered bricks with
favourable circumstances, 12 2 10 knots clean
off the granite openings, and an internal shield of concrete.
reel. At her running at 8i knots her consumption of The estimated cost of the embankment is 100
0,a4000/
h to. the
coals is half a ton per hour. She is rigged and fitted in elusive of the expense of the northern appnumber
a very superior and ingenious style. Her rigging is set Suspension-bridge. On the Surrey side a vast
up by Mr. Scott Russell's screw plates. These plates of detached villa residences have already been com-
give more advantages than any other plates yet designed, menced.
turn to parliament which
as a boy can do the work when required without a PUBLIC-HOUSES.—From are
s that from 1845 there
chance of deranging them. In fact, in every depart- was on Friday published it apphear•l,s6
7 signatures, pre-
went of the fitment of hull and rigging she is complete. have been 182 petitioenfq, wit 5
Commons, praying that a law
Her topmasts, being lidded with the double wedge fids, sented to the House
all public-houses, and to pro-
can be sent down at a moment's notice. She has been might be passed to close
te
- drinks, during the whole of
supplied with coals from the Government depot, Forti- hibit the sale ofhinetod.exeicrLiset,
of intemperance 3,063 peti-
tude. Her entire crew consists of 196 officers and men. Sunda For
been For the decrease
with 612,802 signatures.
tions had presented,
She has a first-rate crew. Her officers visited the NEWPORTdock-
AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.
yard here ; most of them speak very good English, and OPENING OF THE
of the Newport,
have been most courteously received by the Captain- —The day for the openingßailw: y
has been fi Aberga.ed
Superintendent Charles Hope, R.N. The Royal George venny, and Hereford
when a single lineofrail definitely
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will be
was a source of great attraction to them, and they very for the 4th of October,
properly say the Dantzic is a Royal George in minia- opened for traffic.
ture. She !eaves here to-morrow morning for Ports- , DOWLAIS IRON w ORKS .
,—We ale happy to state that
mouth and Constantinople, calling at Gibraltar and the colliers of this place, after being out six weeks on
Malta. Capt. Indebeton and a portion of the officers strike, resumed their work on Wednesday. This result
dined at the admiral's house last evening. was brought about chiefly through the interference of
the shopkeepers, whose interests were materially affected
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 3. by the strike. A donation was offered to every collier
APPOINTMENTS. who should return to his employment within a given
Master John Tucker (b) (1841), formerly serving in i time, and the expedient had the desired effect.—Tines.

the Arrogant, 36, screw steara-fri t r R.l Vai Mk 4
screw steam-ship, at Cork. tfN
Surgeon Robert Pottinger (184 ria,ql 46
p 4, 0461. fry
paddle-wheel steam-sloop, at Porte.. M.
Naval Instructor the Rev. William .)
from the Ajax to the London, 90, at Ports '77
Clerk George N. Warren (1847), from thri. .
the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw steam-ship, at 'orts-
mouth.
The Vivid mail steam-packet, Captain Smithett, after
conveying the members of the Board of Admiralty on'
their official visit to the naval ports from Chatham to
Sheerness, on Thursday last, remained in attendance at
the latter port, and on Friday morning proceeded with
refugetheir
gHarwichthere,
to inspect the harbour of
and passed Woolwich on
Friday afternoon, with the Admiralty flag at her mast-
head, on her way up to Blackwall, where their lordships
landed, and returned to the Admiralty. The Vivid
again passed Woolwich about half an hour afterwards,
and held on for Dover, to resume her duties at that
station. The Royal Artillery fired the large guns re-
cently mounted on the fortifications at Dover for the
protection of the harbour of refuge at the time their,
lordships were visiting it, and they were perfectly satis-
fied with the result, the shot in every instance falling
far to seaward, beyond the outer works of the harbour.
Vise-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., Rear-Admiral M.
F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., Lords of the Admiralty, and
Mr. Ralph Osborne, M.P., First Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, remained on duty at Whitehall, while Sir James
Graham, Rear-Admiral R. S. Dundas, C. 8., Osiptain
Alexander Milne, and the Hon. Wm. Francis Cowper,
M.P., Lords of the Admiralty, and Captain William A.
B. Hamilton, R.N., Second Secretary of the Admiralty-,
proceeded on the official visit to the dockyards on the
Thames and Medway.
THE ROYAL ALBERT, 131, SCREW STEAM-SHIP. .
The figurehead, a splendid and gigantic bust of hii
Royal Highness Prince Albert, was brought down the
river on Wednesday last from Blackwell, where it wai
carved by Mr. Hellyer, and the various pieces of which
the figure will be composed are now lying under the bow
of that splendid screw steam-ship preparatory to being
put up in the proper position. Some idea may be
formed of the large proportions of the figurehead wheat
it is stated that the carved and finished head is three
feet in diameter, and, although the figure is only a bust
of his Royal Highness, it is 17 feet long.

An interesting illustration of the extended purposes
to which iron is applied in the present day was lately
given at Messrs. H. and M. Grissell's Regent's
Canal Iron Works. A cast-iron lighthouse ordered by
the Lords of the Admiralty was lighted up for inspec-
tion. The tower and internal fittings were manufac-
tured by Messrs. Grissell, the lantern and light appa.
ratus by Mr. W. C. Wilkins, of Long-acre. The light-
house is understood to be intended for the Falkland
Islands, and a similar one is constructing for Jamaica,
while, another was sent some time.-age.to-k
is esinmilsepo.......----•_
The forM of the present lighthouse that 'of a, <I4IIV
tram of a cone, having a height of 47 feet from the
base to the balcony floor, and a diameter of 14 feet at
the base and 9 feet at the top of the tower, where the
plates forming the balcony floor project beyond the body
of the tower, and form a parapet around tile outside
of the lantern, the parapet being supported by 18 orna-
mental cast-iron brackets fixed to the shell of the tower.
Around the outer edge of the balcony floor a flange
4 inches deep is formed, which shields the connec.
lion of the ornamental brackets with the balcony
floor, and the whole forms a circular abacus 15 feet
in diameter as a capital to the tower. The shell of the
tower consists of 60 concentric plates 1 inch thick, with
flanges on the inside 4 inches wide, having holes to
' admit i-inch bolts, drilled every 6 inches apart, both
in the horizontal and vertical flanges. In the centre
of the tower a cast-iron column is fixed for support.
ing the lighting apparatus of the Messrs. Wilkins, of
Long-acre, being a catoptric system of the second class.
having 15 improved argand lamps placed in the foci of
silver-plated and highly polished paraboloidal reflectors,
illuminating an arc of 225 degrees of the horizon ; upon
this column pockets are cast to receive the T iron joists,
which support the two floors of wrought-iron chequered
plates, there being an aperture in the floor to allow of
sufficient headway up each staircase. The staircase con-
sists of two stringings of wrought-iron, 5 inches wide
and 1 inch thick, having pieces of 3-inch angle iron
rivetted on the inside, to which are bolted the oak
treads ; to each step ;here is an iron balluster i-inch
diameter, and fixed at the top to a wrought-iron hand-
rail 1 inch wide and 1 inch thick ; the staircases
wind helically around the inside of the shell of' the
tower, and bolted at the top to the T iron joists which
support the floor. There are three rooms in the
tower, the first having a height of 16 feet 1 inch ; the
second, 15 feet 8 inches ; and the third, 15 feet 3 inches
from floor to floor of each room respectively. In each
room there are four windows, having a strong oak case-
ment each, 16 inches square and 11 inch thick, glazed
with polished plate glass 91 inches square. The en-
trance to the tower is by means of a doorway formed
in the centre of one of the concentric plates, having a
strong oak door opening outwards, as also do the win-
dows. The form of the lantern is octagonal, having a,
diameter of 8 feet over the corners and a height of 11
feet to the caves of the lantern roof, which terminates
in a cowl of peculiar construction. On the summit of the
roof a conical pipe is fixed, in the inside of which is the foot-
step or pivot and the guide for the rod of the arrow vane,
' and fixed to the rod of the vane is a large hollow
ball, having the conical pipe inserted into it on the un.
derside, the ball being free to swing round the pipe ; the
hollow ball is fixed to this vertical rod of the vane, and
is perforated on that side next to the feather of the
arrow, so that the heated air and gases from the bur-
ners may always rush through the perforations into the
partial vacuity created behind the ball by the force of
the wind. The total height from the base of the tower
to the top of the vane is 67 feet 6 inches ; the height
from the base to the centre of the system of lights is 55
feet ; the total weight of tower and lantern inclusive is
nearly 50 tons.