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NAVAL INTELLIGEICE.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPTiMBER 2.—We had a very
severe storm of thunder and lightening on Satur-
day night at Portsmouth, accompanied, we are
happy to say, with a deluge of rain; it com-
menced at eight o'clock and continued till midnight.
The rain will be of vast benefit to the health of the
town, cleansing the sewers, the drains, and the
gutters. The cholera, which still occasionally breaks
out and proves fatal in some of the unwholesome
localities, will, no doubt, now take its final departure.
For the ast four or five days past we have had dull,
heavy, sultry weather, with a sort of sirocco wind,
which the thunder and lightning of last night cleared
away.
The Gitana; schooner yacht, belonging to the Earl
of Lincoln, has been brought in the graving slip at
the dockyard to repair.
The Victoria and Albert will return most of her
cabin furniture, and go up to her winter moorings
early next week.
The Stromboli steamer, Lord A. Beauclerk, sailed
for the eastward, supposed Aberdeen, on Friday night.
The Ilendrik Hudson, American liner packet, ar-
rivtd from the river last night ; she has embarked
passengers, and will sail this evening for New York.
Wind S.S.E.. moderate breezes and cloudy.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. I.—The Rhadamanthus steam-
vessel went down the river to Sheerness, where she
will remain until further orders, being now ready
for sea.
The experiments on board the Niger, to test the
evaporating power of her boilers, were concluded
yesterday, and although the final calculations have not
been yet completed, we may state that the result is of
a favourable nature.
ROYAL MARINES.—A general court-martial was
held at the barracks here during the present week,
for the trial of Sergeant Robert Morris, 94th com-
pany of Royal Marines, on the undermentioned
charges.
Lieut.-Colonel M'Adam, president ; Lieut.-Colonel
Pratt, Lieut.-Colonel Coryton, Brevet-Major Philips,
Brevet-Major Hamilton, Captain Edleston, Captain
Buchanan, Captain Fosbroke, Lieutenant Hambly,
Lieutenant Rider, Lieutenant Butcher, Lieutenant
Kennedy, Lieutenant Bunce, Lieutenant Casey, and
Lieutenant M'Arthur, members. Lieutenant and
Adjutant Foote, officiating Judge-Advocate.
First charge—For disgraceful conduct, in having,
at Woolwich, between the 30th of June and the 80th
of August, 1848, embezzled or fraudulently misap-
plied certain sums of publie money, as hereinafter
stated, entrusted to his care agreeably to the practice
of the service, for distribution in payment, or
to be otherwise accounted for by him in his ca-
pacity of pay-sergeant of the 4th grand division or
7th and Bth parade companies of the Woolwich divi-
sion of Royal Marines, and for which duty the said
sergeant was receiving a pecuniary allowance from
Government, in addition to his military pay, the said
sums of money being more or less as follows :-1. By
moneys overdrawn on pay-bill of the 7th parade
company, July, 1848, 8/. Is. Bid. 2. By moneys
overdrawn on pay-bill of the Bth parade company, for
July, 1848, 211. 1 ls. 4id. 3. By moneys overdrawn
on pay-bill of the 7th parade company, for August,
1848, 101. 7s. 21d. 4. By moneys overdrawn on pay-
bill of the Bth parade company, for August, 1848,
41. 2s. Bid.
Second charge—For having deserted from the
Royal Marines at Woolwich, on or about the 30th
August, 1848, and not returning until on or about
the 16th August, 1849, when he surrendered himself
as a deserter at the Royal Marine Barrack, Wool-
wich, to Sergeant-Major Thomas Corbett, of the
Royal Marines.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty to both charges, and
the Court having returned the sentence passed on him,
adjourned, and resumed their duties until the decision
of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty is known.

[PRICE 'SD.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, 10 P.M.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's packet
has arrived here with the usual Spanish and Portu-
guese mails, in charge of Lieutenant Inglis, R.N.
She brings a large cargo of grapes and lemons, and
a small quantity of specie.
Our letters from Lisbon, of the 29th ult., mention
that the resignation of the Duke of Saldanha, as
Ambassador to Paris, had been accepted by the
Government.

The special committee and general assembly of
shareholders had voted the necessary authority for
the required loan to the Government. The
principal clauses appear to be that 600 contos
of Treasury-bills were to be created, the Bank
being authorized to issue or negotiate them to
the extent of 400 contos, at the rate of 20 contos
a week, these bills to be paid on maturity by the Bank
out of two thirds of the current decimal tax of 1849.

Investigations into the various fiscal establishments
were still the order of the day in Lisbon, and many,
irregularities bad been detected. The vexatious re-
,trictions upon the transfer of foreign goods from
Lisbon to Oporto had been taken off, and henceforth
merchandise thus closed can be received under bond.

Portugal was perfectly tranquil ; the Court was at
Cintra. The exchanges on London, for three months'
bills, were quoted at 53! to with a good demand on
the part of private houses as well as the Board of
Public Credit. Government securities continued in
fair demand. The Five per Cents. were selling at
from 57 to 68 ; Four per Cents. at 47 to 48 ; Lisbon.
Bank notes, 381 per cent. discount.
Advices from Oporto of the 30th ult. quote the
rate of exchange on London, at three months, 54k,
with a good many transactions.
Brazilian bills were offered freely, and much paper
remained over.

London wine freights, 223. 6d.
Indian corn was likely to be abundant, but
olives less plentiful.
Two Sardinian war steamers had arrived to con-
vey the body of the ex-King Charles Albert to
Genoa.

Tho Mediterranean Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company's steamer Erin, Captain Olive,
has just arrived from Civita Vecchia, Leghorn, Genoa,
and Gibraltar. By this steamer w•e have advices from
Gibraltar to the 25th ult., three days later than
brought by the Pacha. Exchange on Loudon, 90
days' date, was quoted 501.
Her Majesty's steamer Janus was at Gibraltar.
Steam-ship Ripon, with outward India mails, ar-
rived on the 26th, and sailed the same day from
Alexandria.

LONDON FEVER- STILL —lt has been fallaciously
argued that no ill effects arise from burials in vaults, in
consequence of the bodies being encased in lead, and
some say that they would think it a great hardship to
be prevented from being placed after death among their
family. Although the crypt of Bow Church is by no
means the worst in Loudon, still its atmosphere is a
proof against the above assertion, and Mr. Walker and
others have given evidence on the point beyond contro-
versy. Wishing to obtain another opinion in addition
to those already recorded and our own, we wrote to
an able surgeon and chemist to the following effect :
"It having been stated that the practice of encasing
bodies in lead previous to interment will prevent
poisonous gases from being dispersed throughout the
vaults in which such bodies are laid, will you in-
form us if you think it is possible by any such
process to confine the gases which are generated
by decomposition?" In reply, he said—" They would
be completely confined by such cases made of lead
until by their accumulation the case would no longer re-
sist the pressure; the result would be either the sudden
rupture of the case, or the production of a small fissure
allowing a gradual escape. As to the production of such
gases, there can be no doubt that they are always
produced by the gradual decomposition of animal bodies,
and a case must be far stronger than is ever used to
resist their pressure. The simple fact of exclusion from
the air could not prevent their formation." We have
also put the following question to a person who is ex-
tensively employed as an undertaker:—" Do you think
that the lead coffins at present in use are capable of con-
taining the gases which are generated by decomposi-
tion ?" Ho said :—" I do not think they can answer any
poisonous
such purpose, and it is a common practice among the
trade t) make certain holes, which are partly concealed
by the coffin-plate, for the purpose of preventing the
coffin from bursting." We can from our own knowledge
speak of coffins in these London vaults bursting with a
report like a pistol; and it is not unusual for the sexton
to nt
to go round with a long iron spear and puncture such
doubt
coffins as he thinks suspicious. There can be d
of
character, and
ape
that
of
ftht to continue
the vault of a church is not only fearfully daugeriou, ton
clict gases, e
tdO also
of theirtoimou i
the congregation, but the whole neighbourhood.—.The
Builder.
of candidates for the vacancy
SEPT. 2.—The nominationKIDDERMINSTE
R ELEIPTION!-- KIDDERMINSTER,
representation of this borough through the
death in the e
death of the late Member (Mr. Godson) takes place on
Tuesday next (to-morrow), and the polling on Wednes-
day. The parties in the field remain the same. Mr.
John Best is the candidate in the Conservative interest,
and Mr. Gisborne on the Liberal side, The proceedings
canvassfor the
bpastas oug fortnightbeen finishedhave been n of
bathlittle
sides,inte r e
there Th e
remain the usual average number of unpledg anded electors
who in these small constituencies have always a great
difficulty in " making up their minds " until the
been
actual
day of election. On the present occasion there has
ample opportunity afforded them of weighing the
merits
of the two candidates, who have now been Mote the
electors for some weeks. Meetings of electors and non-
electors have been held in the borough almost nightly,
and the candidates have addressed the electors over and
over again in iteration of their claims to support; still
there is a sufficient number of electors (as at Leominster)
who decline to promise either party left to turn the
scale in the balance of parties here, and it would be
difficult to prognosticate which will be the successful
candidate.
A SEA MONSTER.—In the early part of the week,
some fishermen brought up the river (Wisbeach), as far
as Pauper's Cut, a bottle-nosed grampus, about 20 fee
long, which was taken dead on the sands. The state of
the fish was very offensive, and it was cut up for
blubber. We hear the men took it to Boston, in the
first instance, but the authorities of that town order'
them to sake it back to see.

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