The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 8.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw three-decker, Cap-
tain H. B. Martin, C.B. steamed out of the factory basin
this morning to the harbour jetty of the dockyard, her
machinery working admirably. She will go out of harbour
for trial on Monday.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—The Duke of Wellington, 131,
screw line-of-battle ship, Captain Henry Byam Martin,
C. B.—We had the pleasure of witnessing this noble
vessel of war under steam, and left entirely to her own
resources, this morning. At 10.30 all being in readi-
ness, " turn ahead" was ordered, at the same time
the dockyard authorities were attending to the leading
guys, and this gigantic war steamer moved out of
the basin. In rounding the north-west angle of the
dock the strength of the flood caught her bow, and the
two port guys snapped like twigs. A heavy charge
now fell upon the assistant master attendant (Mr. Tonkin)
and the pilot (Mr. Jones), who, with consummate skill and
steadiness of nerve, brought her well out of the ticklish
position in which she was placed; neither was their confi-
dence misplaced in the beautiful working of her engines.
Nothing could be more perfect or gratifying than to see
this monster ship handled like a river boat. Such was the
fact. She answered her helm instantly, reversed her engines
at pleasure, gathered way as quicly as a model vessel on
the Thames, and was safely and skilfully laid alongside the
dockyard jetty, where she is taking in coal, ready for her
trial at the measured mile at Stokes Bay, on Monday, the
11th. The scene was enlivened by Blenheim's band strik-
ing up "See the conquering hero comes"—most appropriate
for the occasion.

The Isabel, screw discovery-ship, Commander Inglefield,
sailed from Cowes Roads at half-past 11 this morning for
Behring's

The Arrogalit, 46, Captain Fremantle, left Spithead this
morning for Leith, to relieve the L 2 tinder.
The Basilisk, 6, steam-sloop, Commander the Hon. F.
Egerton, which stranded yesterday off Southsea beach in
coming into harbour at low tide, floated on its rising at
half-past 5, and came into harbour. It is said that the
blame of her grounding rests upon the man employed to
hoist the red flag at the mating shears in the dockyard, to
denote the depth of water to the pilot when vessels are
ordered out or into harbour, he having kept the flag up
when it should have been hauled down. We are informed,
while she was aground, one of her hawsers snapped, and
seriously injured two or three of her crew, one of whom
was obliged to be conveyed to Haslar Hospital.

SHEERNESS, APRIL 8, 8 A.M.
The Persian, 12-gun sloop, Commander Thomas Mitchell,
arrived at the Nore yesterday, at 10.30, a.m., from the
North American and West India station (last from Ports-
mouth) • she saluted the Admiral, which was returned by
the Waterloo, 120-gun flag-ship. The Persian will dis-
charge her powder, shell, &c., at the Nore, after which
she will be taken into the Basin to be paid off here.
The Imperieuse, 60-gun screw steam-frigate, Captain
Rundle B. Watson, C. 8., sent up topgallant masts and
crossed topgallant yards at 8 a.m. yesterday ; her steam
was got up, and at 10.45 a.m. she slipped from her moor-
ings and steamed to the Nore. On rounding the Garrison
Point she saluted the Admiral, which was returned by the
Waterloo flag ship.
The Myrtle steam tender proceeded to the Nore in com-
pany with the Imperieuse, and returned again at 5 p.m.
with the Queen's Pilot.

WOOLWICH, APRIL 8.
APPOINTMENTS.
Masters—William J. Olive (1845), Master in the Samp-
son steam-frigate since January, 1851, to the Bellerophon,
78, on the Mediterranean station ; Charles R. P. Forbes
(1848), to the Sampson paddle-wheel steam-frigate, on the
Mediterranean station, vice Olive.
Clerk F. F. Miller (1853), to the Highflyer steam-sloop
at Portsmouth,
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The Phcenix screw steam-
sloop, Commander Edward A. Inglefield, is to be taken out
of dock to-morrow, and will be ready for sea in about a
week from this time. Mr. Fawckner, appointed a second
master to be borne on the books of the Phoenix, is intended
for service in the Breadalbane hired store-ship, at present
at Deptford taking on board stores for the relief of Sir Ed-
ward Belcher's expedition, and she will be taken charge of
by the Phcenix, and towed, when necessary, to Beechey
Island.

PEMBROKE, APRIL 7.
Saturday, the 23d of this month, has been named as the
day appointed on which the launch of the James Watt, 90
guns, is to take place. She is rapidly being made ready
for the occasion, a great portion of the dockyard strength
being engaged in her completion.
The Asp, Lieutenant Aldridge, surveying steamer, has
been on the opposite shore of the Bristol Channel, survey-
ing the shore in the neighbourhood of Minehead. and
Bridgewater.

Orders have been received that, during the course of the
summer, two ships of the line of 90 guns each, a heavy fri-
gate of 50 guns, with three lighter vessels (two of 16 and
one of 10 guns), are to be laid down. In order to make
room for this accession to our naval strength, several of the
vessels now on the stocks in a state nearly approaching
completion are to be sent afloat. The importance attached
by the authorities to the screw-propeller, as an auxiliary
power for men-of-war, may be inferred from the fact that
all the vessels, large and small, are to be fitted with screw
steam power.

RAILWAY RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts,
1853.
BRITISH.
72% Aberdeen ............. ...... . ....• £1,426 1,549
37% Belfast and Ballymena •• • •• • 612 719
17 Belfast and County D0wn............ 182 231
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire. and Cheshire 1,414 -
26 34 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. 816 796
85% Bristol and Exeter ..... .3,947 3,581
18914 Caledonian.- ....... 8,129 8,951
9441 Chester and Holyhead... • • 2,432 3,404
634 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage .• •• • • 130 179
20 Cork and Bandon 131 189
56 Dublin and Belfast Junction ..... 723 997
b 3 Dublin and Drogheda.... 88i.4 1,314
6 Dublin and Kingstown ........ I,o' 3 1,093
16% Dundee and Arbroath •• ••••• • • • • • 468 I 495
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 61,2
11 733
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen • ...• • • • • .• 157 188
68 East Anglian-. .............. • ... 665 779
81 East Lancashire 4,147 4 870
22 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. 13 956 15,641
95 Eastern Union .. • • •• 2,020 2,418
891,( Edinburgh and Glasgow ... • ........ 3.270 3,619
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... 2,237 2,346
6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • .....• 102 95
19 Furness Railway ... .............. 496 648
171% Glasgow, and South-Westem• •• • .... 4,071 4,409
285% Great Northern and E. .. 11,313 13,526
188 Groat Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,2 '5 4,842
31974 Great Western
25 Irish South Eastern • • •. • • .......... 188 282
90 Lancaster and Carlisle 4,148 4,';12
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • ......... 15,608 17,441
70 Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • •........... 972 1,',71
181 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport • . 26 5 355
5531 London and North Western
5% London and Blackwall 834 1,153
1734 London, Brighton, and South Coast 9,756 10,382
253 London and South Western. 9,681 10,949
34% Londonderry and Enniskillen
11% Manchester, Buxton, and 3latlock, &c -
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 6,278 7,131
934 Manchester and South Junction .... 502 596
28 Maryport and Carlisle, • •
498% Midland ..... ........ • 21,683 23,121
126 Midland Great Western (Irish)
37 Monklands • 85 8 •4
60 Newcastle and Carlisle 2,278 2,526
149 North British ••• . • 3,7 i 3,748
232 North Staffordshire • • • • • • • -
47 North-Western • . • .• •• • • 634 766
50 Scottish Central ..............
32 Scottish Midland 620 620
29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• • •
47 Shrewsbury and Chester 1,669 1,768
29 Shropshire Union ...• •••••• • • • • • • • • 602 576
58 South Dev0n........ ........ 1,801 1,918
28344 Soutl Eastern ••• • • • .... • •
131 South Wales .. ••..••••••• • •• • • • • • • 1,463 2,•98
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole
2,402 2,663
828 1,024
50 Waterford and Limerick • • • • • • • • • • • • 421 379
25 West Cornwall .• •• • • ••••••• •• • • • • 324 461
12 Whitehaven Junction .•. • • • • • • • • • • • • 158 251
3041% York and Newcastle, and Berwick .•• 14.227 15, 77
279 York and North Midland .••••• • • • • • 7,281 7,619
'FOREIGN.
574 Dutch Rhenish •••••••••• • • • • •• •• • • 1,023 1,293
21% 3: aria Antonia ••• • • •
160 144
(3 Montereau and Troyes • • •• .. 1,016 1,016
63 Namur and Liege .. •••••••• • • • • .• • • 1,061 1097
413 North
ern of France •• • • ••• • • • • • 20• 287 24, 262
577 % _ _
Orleans and Central 4,
240
Paris •and Lyons ••• • •
• • • • • • • • •
•• • ... 12,259 14,338
84
Paris and Roden. ••••••••••• •• •• • • • • • 6,659 7,557
392
Paris •and Strasburgh ••.. • . • ..... .• 9,213 16,970
59
Rouen and Havre • • ••.• . 2,414 3,130
99 Western of France ••• • • 3,248 4,423

* The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or-
leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 8.

but not so buoy.
The share market keeps tolerably firm,
ant as yesterday. The public do not seem disposed to pur.
chase share property, notwithstanding the prospective re•
duction of the interest on Consols.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Royal Exhibition Small
Glass for the waistcoat pocket, at S. and B. Solomons',
opticians, 39, Albemare-street, Piccadilly—observe, oppo-
site the York Hotel.—A valuable, newly-invented, very
small powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut,
by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a
half distant; they answer every purpose
shipseonthearrae ccelecaorulnyese,eant
the opera-houses, country scenery, an
at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-
stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers,
and tourists. Telescopes possessing such extraordinary
powers that some, 34 inches, with an extra eye-piece, will
show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the
double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a per-
son's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an
object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other
kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-
course glasses with wonderful power; a minute object can
be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles distant. Invaluable
newly-invented spectacle. Deafness—New Discovery—
The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary, powerful, small,
newly-invented instrument, for deafness, entirely different
from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has
been, or probably ever can be produced. Being of the
.same colour as the skin it is not perceptible • it enables
deaf persons to hear disti 'nctly at church and at public as-
semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in
the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist-
ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons,
Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.—
Observe, opposite the York Hotel.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] The Earl of Aldborough and
Holloway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miracu-
lous medicine after every other means had failed.—See
extract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina,
Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Holloway. Sir—
I beg to acquaint you that your pills have 'effected a cure
of a disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most
eminent of the faculty at home and all over the continent
had not, been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of
Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBoßouGisi.”
These wonderful pins will cure any disorder of the liver
or stomach.— Sold (also Holloway's ointment) at Pro-
fessor Holloway's establishment, x 44, Strand, London,
and by all medicine vendorsthroughont the world.

* When any of these dates fill on a Sunday, the mails will b °
dispatche I on the following day, with the exception of the India (~_"o„,°
Southampton), and the
Malta, both of which will be dispatched 111"
day preceding.

BIRTHS.

OF A SON.

- - - -
On the 3d inst., at Wimborne, the wife of R. A. Long
Phillips, Esq.
On the 6th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. B. Birkett.

OF A DAUGHTER.

On the 7th inst., at 118, Warwick-street, Pimlico, the
wife of Trenham Reeks, Esq.
On the Sth inst., in Guildford-street, Lady Pollock.

MARRIED.

On the 6th inst., at Rochdale, S. Easom, Esq., of Liver'
pool, to Anna Maria, daughter of the late T. Mellor, Esq•'
of Edge-lan9..

—de the sth inst.. at Tathwell, Lincolnshire, the Rev. 0'
Holmes, curate of Fleet, to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr'
Byron, of Tathwell.

DIED.

On the 4th inst., at 5, Charlotte-square, Edinburgh,
Amelia Opie, twin daughter of Robed Nasmyth, Esq.,
F.R C.S.E.

On the sth inst., at Stratford-house, Irela Vial ITO'
Harriette Ward, daughter of Bernard, Viscount Banger.

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Saturday, April 9, 1803.