The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Arrogant, 36, screw-frigate, Captain Fitzroy, is
now lying ready for sea at Spithead. She has every
store on board, and she was, we understand, much ad-
mired by the Royal party on board the Fairy as she
passed through Spithead this day. She has received
her shot and shells, and her draft of water, &c., are as
follows :—Her line of copper is much higher out of the
water than we reported. Aft, from the keel upward,
she is coppered 22 feet 7 inches; draft of water, 20 feet;
forward she is coppered from keel upwards, 22 feet 1
inch; draft of water, 19 feet 1 inch; her, bowsprit sill,
height from water, 10f. midship port, height from
water 9f. 51in.; after port, height from water, 9f. 7in.
She has 250 tons of coal on board, and a bower anchor
and 30 fathoms of chain out. When she went out on
Tuesday her funnel was not quite completed, but the
men from the factory at Portsmouth were at work all
night on board. It is supposed the Arrogant will sail
this evening for Gibraltar and Malta, and have two
months' cruise in the Mediterranean, when she will re-
turn to Lisbon, and there await further orders.

The Plumper, screw-sloop, Commander Nolloth, will
eome into dock at Portsmouth to-day, to have one of her
valve cocks repaired, which was broken by accident on
board.

The dockyard shipwrights at Portsmouth have been
at work on board the Mount Stewart Elphinstone, in
building additional cabins. She is bound for Melbourne,
New South Wales, with 250 convicts, and it is ru-
moured that the additional cabins are for state prisoners.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY,—The Fairy royal yacht,
Commander Crispin, embarked the Court at Trinity-
pier, East Cowes, this afternoon, about half-past two
o'clock, and bore the Royal party to this port, under the
usual ceremonies. At the Royal Clarence Victualling
Establishment, Gosport, the Royal party was received
by Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Cape!, K.C.8., the
Commander-in-Chief; Major-General Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence, G.C.H. ; Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott, C.B. ; Captain Superintendent Sir Edward
Parry, and the usual other officers of the port and gar-
rison. The royal train was set in motion by Mr. Gooch,
the chief of locomotion of the South-Western Railway
Company, and left at 27 minutes to four, in the charge
of Mr. C. Stovin, the manager of the company.
The Fairy was afterwards docked, to examine her
bottom, and ascertain the relative merits of compositions
for prevention of the adhesion of submarine excrescences
to the bottoms of iron vessels.
_ _ _

The Success hulk, 74, is ordered to be broken up in
dockyard.

THE GIGANTIC PACKET-SHIP

CONSTELLATION.
The splendid packet•ship Constellation, the largest
merchant vessel afloat, having completed the discharge
of her ponderous cargo, is now in our docks; and as she
presents to those interested in the growing trade of •' the
good old town," as yid! as to the many strangers that
will visit Liverpool during the present week, a field of
attraction that cannot fail to awaken the enthusiasm of

unqualified approbation, we subjoin the following notice

of her:—

The Constellation was built at New York, by Messrs.
Westervelt and Mackay, from the drawings and under
the personal superintendence of William Skiddy, Esq.
Her length of keel is 195 feet; her length over all, 226
feet; her beam measured from ceiling to ceiling, 43 feet;
and the depth of hold, 28i feet. Her tonnage, estimated
by the customs (or new) measurement, is 1,950 tons, but
she possesses capabilities for the storage of nearly 3,500
tons of ordinary goods. It would not for a moment be
supposed that a vessel of such giant-like proportions
would be completed without a due regard to comparative
strength, nor has that important object been neglected.
Her hanging and lodging knees are- all cut from Even-
formed timber, of great thickness and depth in the
throat, and each is finished in superior style. The tim-
bering of the Constellation is excellent, and her sides,
with ceiling and outer planking, form one solid, mass.
She has no bilge pieces, but the ceiling is from 1 inches
to 10 inches in thickness, from the kelson to the d(ringer,
which is 14 inches square ; and thus her timbers and
outer planking form a sold thickness averaging 3 feet
4 inches. Her kelson and sister kelsons are bolted per-
pendicularly to the keel, as well as diagonally, and
horimtally. The deck staunchtons are kneed to the
kelson, and in the upper deck's are'turned as pillars, but
well secured by being bolted through an ornamental iron
cap. In the fore peak there is an inner bow framing of great
strength, and between each of the hanging knees there
is a diagonal trussing running reverse from amidships,
aft and forward, which adds materially to her longitu-
dinal strength, and prevents the probability of her be-
coming " hogged." The Constellation is built of the
very best materials, and her bolts and fastenings through-
out are all square.
The appearance of the Constellation when afloat,
though magnificent and mighty, is not exactly what
would please a connoisseur in clippers; for in order to
give her the greatest possible accommodation on deck,
which is most advisable in the trade for which she is in-
tended, the deck beam is carried so far aft that it gives
her the appearance of being heavy in quarters; but we
had the pleasure of seeing her " high and ry," and
found her perfectly the reverse—in fact, if anything, her
lines are too fine, and there can be little doubt, from her
being clean fore and aft, and sharp without being wall-
sided (as she is not in sailing trim till drawing 23 feet
of water), she will carry a press of canvas that cannot
fail to drive her through it. The stem is adorned with
a well-carved figure of Commodore Truxton, the com-
mander of the Constellation, American frigate ; and the
stern is relieved with beautiful scrollwork. She has all
the modern improvements in rigging, and, from the
royalmasts downwards, lightning conductors of copper
are let into the spars, and carried through the keel into
the water, thus almost averting the possibility of accidents
from electric fluid. _ _ _

Many very excellent improvements are introduced for
the comfort and convenience, as well as the health, of
passengers, which so far exceed the ordinary arrange-
ments that they merit the highest commendation. The
Constt-llatiou has three decks, but, in order to give full
light and a free current of atmospheric air, she is con-
structed with eight hatchways, of capacious measure-
ment, as well as side lights and ventilators fore and aft.
The lower deck is appropriated solely to steerage pas-
sengers, with the exception of a store-room, which is
latticed off. The upper deck is also divided abaft, to
form a cabin, wish permanently-erected state-rooms, for
the more respectable emigrants, and though this only
occupies a small space, being calculated for 80 persons,
it is a great desideratum, as it presents an apartment
far more comfortable than the cabins of many first-rate
ships. The state rooms are large, and are each dis-
tinctly lighted from the side; some are furnished with
bedding, and all with toilet ware, washstand, &c. Down
the centre is a long mahogany dining-table, and fitted to
it are reversing seats. Each room is painted and grained
in imitation of oak, and the whole apartment is symbolic
of " home," " cleanliness," and " comfort."
The deck arrangements are most admirable. There is
topgallant forecastle, and a poop or quarter-deck, while
amidships there are erections which are divided into se-
veral apartments, some of which serve as covered com-
panion-ways. The passengers' galleys are all separated,
so that each department of the ship has its particular
allotted cocking-room. In the centre there is a sick-
bay, fully fitted out, into which invalid passengers may
bo removed; another division forms a complete car-
penter's shop, another an icehouse, a boy's room, rooms
for the stowage of coals; and, in fine, every required
convenience is presented. From the quarter deck to the
houses on deck there is a neat suspension bridge, and
forward gang ways to the topgallant forecastle, making
her almost a " four decker."

Beneath the quarter-deck are the captain's cabin and
the ladies' cabin, both of which aro most gorgeously
finished, and are not only lighted from the deck but by
stern ports. The ceiling is formed into panels by the
deck beams, which are finished with neat mouldings,
painted in dead white. An architrave of burnished
white, relieved with graceful carvings in gold, sur-
mounts the rich cabinet-work of the room. Pilaster:
enamelled in white and gold, with a relief of lake
gold caps, and veined marble pediments, form thsci,:!_tna:taes:
room entrances. The intervening space at thlse sides,
with oc-
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mention. She is pumped by a double-action machine,
worked with two fly wheels. To the same shaft a power-
ful air-pump can at all times be attached to exhaust any
foul air that may have accumulated between decks. It
is also applicable to a fire-engine, and from a jet with
hose of 75 feet in length an equal stream can be ejected.
A visit to this monster ship will repay amply the ex-
penditure of time, and we feel assured that Captain Luce
will exhibit that attention and urbanity of manner to
visitors which, with his thorough knowledge of the ad-
venturous career he follows, has placed him in command
of the finest ship afloat. Since Thursday the Constella-
tion has been visited by thousands; and amongst those
on board yesterday was Lord Howard, son of the Duke
of Norfolk, in company with Thomoi Sands, Esq., (late
Nlayor of Liverpool), and George Brown, Esq., as well
as many of our merchants. Lord Howard expressed
himself highly delighted.
The Constellation is consigned here to Messrs. Spooner,

Ina Congregation holden at the same time the fol-
lowing degrees were conferred:—
Masters of Arts—The Rev. Samuel Frederick Big-
nold, Baliol, grand compounder; James Ed win T. Ititers,
Magdalen Hall; Rev. Jonathan Douptirate, Magdalen
Hal; Rev. Frederick Wilson liittermaster, Pembroke;
Rev. Hanmer Morgan, New Inn Hall; George David
William Dickson, Exeter; Watkin Homfray, Exeter;
James Pascoe, Exeter; Thomas Espinell Espin, Fellow
of Lincoln; John Russell Baker, Lincoln; Charles
Frederick Hayden. Scholar of Corpus; John Charles
Smith, Queen's; Rev. Alfred Povah, Wadham; Maze
William Gregory, Wadham; William Blake Dovetou,
Trinity; William Park Dickins, Fellow of Merton;
Rev. Richard Lloyd, Merton; Rev. Robert Arrowsmith,
Oriel; John Heyward Jenkins, Oriel; John William
Robins, St. John's; the Hon. and ltsv. Charles F.
Cranstoun, Jesus; Charles Tamberlane As:ley, Jesus.
Bachelors of Arts.—Charles Frederick Tink, Exeter,
grand compounder ; Alexander Dixon, Lincoln, grand
compounder ; Edmund Powell, Lincoln ; Charles Ed-
ward Shirley Woolmer, Exeter ; Freeman Wilson,
Thomas West, Richard Austin Tuckniss, Thomas Wim-
berley Mossman, James Siely Wilkinson, Edmund Hall;
John Rushworth Pilling, Magdalen Hall ; George Fre-
derick Bullock, Queen's ; William Ogle, Fellow of
Corpus ; Osmond Casey, Edward Jonathan Birch,
Wadham ; Charles Richard Will. Waldy, Edward
Chivers Bower, University; Hon. William John Monson,
Thomas Mainwaring, B. Bulkeley Owen, William
Wither Branston Beach, Henry William Parry Richards,
Matthew Watkin Davies, Maxwell Close, William Gas-
kell Rouse, Christchurch; John Ewing, George Norman
Maule, St. John's ; Charles Iltid Nichol), Alfred Wil-
liam Howell, William Lawes Henderson, Richard John
Mahony, Worcester; Nathaniel Alexander Nicholson,
Trinity ; David Lewis, William Hughes, David Owen
James, Jesus.

SIR WILLIAM I3ROWNE'S MEDALS.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 30. —These medals have been ad-
judged as follows :
For Greek Ode.—J. D. Williams, Trinity College.
For Latin Ode.—D'Arcy W. Thompson, Pembroke
College.
For Epigrams—J. D. Williams, Trinity College.
THE DOWNING PROFESSORSHIP OF THE LAWS 07
ENGLAND.

Andrew Amos, Esq., M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity
College, has been unanimously selected as the successor
in this professorship of the late lamented Professor
Starkie by the electors, who are the Archbishops of Can.
terbury and York, and the Masters of St. John's, Clare
Hall, and Downing..
The Cambridge Chronicle, in allusion to this appoint-
ment, says—" The various grounds of Mr. Amos's emi-
nent fitness for this chair. are too well known to require
enumeration.

" Since, however, this professorship has acquired
additional importance, in consequence of the scheme fur
Professional Lectures lately adopted by the Senate, it
may be as well to mention that in addition to other qua-
lifications, as well personal as professional, Mr. Amos
was for five years one of the four members of the Su-
preme Council of India, and that during this period he
h id the principal charge of the self. legislation of that
important colony, vested in the Governor-General by the
last charter. Since his return from India, he has been a
member of the Commission for Revising the Criminal
Laws, and also judge during the two last years of a very
populous metropolitan district of County Courts. We
may add, that ilr. Amos's eminent success as a lecturt r
to large law classes in London, at University College,
furnishes the best guarantee for the efficient discharge of
the more immediate duties of his new office."
CONGREGATION.

At a Congregation holden this day the following graces
passed the Senate:-
1. On the recommendation of the Observatory Syndi-
cate:—

The flat roof of the tower of the small dome of the
Observatory being in a defective state, and not water-
proof, to authorise a contract to be made with Messrs.
Peck and Son, builders, for repairing it at a cost of 701.,
according to a specification of Mr. T. Smith, curator of
the Fitzwilliam Building.
The specification and plans were laid on the Regis-
trary's table.
2. On the recommendation of the Press Syndicate:—
To grant from the common chest an annuity of 651. to
James Twitchett for the remainder of his life, in consi-
deration of his faithful services at the press during a
period of 55 years.
3. On the recommendation of the Library Syndi-
cate:—

To authorise the Vice-Chancellor to insure the new
building of the library for the sum of 2,0001., and the

. .
books, bookcases, and furniture therein for the cam cf
4,0001.

4. To confirm the report of the Syndicate appointed

to confer with a committee of the parishioner's- of St.
Mary-the-Less ; and to authorise the Vice-Chancellor,
under the advice of counsel, to take the necessary steps
for resisting the claim made upon the Fitzwilliem fund
for the payment of parochial rates on account of the
museum.

A report respecting the affairs of the Pitt Press (pre-
pared by the Syndicate) was laid on the RQgistrary's
table.

At the same Congregation the following degrees were
conferred :

Masters of Arts.—H. B. Sands, Trinity College ;
J. 11. Simpson, Trinity College ; H. J. Wilkinson,
Trinity College ; J. J. Beresford, St. John's College ;
Walter Chamberlain, Corpus Christi College.
Bachelors of Arts.—J. A. James, King's College;
M. Forster, Trinity College; E. M'Niven, G. A. Nichol.
son, Trinity College; H. T. W. Ralph, Trinity College;
S. N. Yowler, Trinity College ; J. F. Gresham, St.
John's College; S. W. Lloyd, St. John's College; F. J.
Rawlins, St. Peter's College; A. Smith, St. Peter's Col-
lege ; B. W. L. Tollemache, St. Peter's College; Jer.
W. Haddock, Clare Hall; J. G. Baker, Caius College;
11. E. Yeeman, Trinity Hall; J. W. Sharpe, Corpus
Christi College ; R. Charlton, Queen's College; R. G.
H. Ware, Queen's College ; L. A. Way, Magdalene
College ; G. H. F. E. Hodson, Emmanuel College ; J.
G. Pearse, Sidney College.