The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-28 00:00:00

ROYAL MARINES.

Captain Thomas Park, of the Chatham Division,
a gallant officer of 40 years' full pay service, having
retired, vice Brevet-Upj.)r Gordon, lately deceased,
the following promotions take place :
First Lieutenant Coode, of the Plymouth Divsion
to be Captain, vice Park. ,
Second Lieutenant Pearse, of the Artillery Corn•
panies of the Corps, to be First Lieutenant, vice
Coode.

A guard of honour was draughted from the Ports •
mouth Division this day to rEceive their Royal High-
nesses the Princess Royal and Prince Alrred. Capt.
Nepean commanded.
Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, the surveyor of
the navy, visited Portsmouth on Monday to inspect
his last ship, the Constance, 50, which said for
Plymouth early yesterday morning to be put out of
commission.

PLYMOUTH, Nor. 25.—The Pandora, 6, surveying
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander James Wood, will be
paid off on Tuesday.
The Britomart, 8, Commander Chamberlain, sailed
from the Coast of Africa on the Ist of November, and
will be paid off at this port on her arrival.
Mr. W. Langdon, son of Mr. Langdon, of this
town, has been appointed chief accountant and as-
sistant secretary to the Great Indian Peninsular
Railway Company, at a salary of about 6001. a year.
WOOLWICH, Nov. 27.—The Garland Dover mail
steam-packet, 120-horse power, Lieutenant Com-
mander Benjamin Aplin, arrived at Woolwich yester-
day afternoon, and was taken into the basin to ba ready
for being decked and refitted.

The Violet Dover mail steam-packet, 120-horse
power, Master-Commander Robert Sherlock, is
ordered round to Woolwich on the Ist of December,
t. have her defects made gool at this port.
The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Ross, was paid
off yesterday at the same time as the Investigator,
Captain Bird, and one sergeant, one storroral, and six
privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines
from each of the vessels rejoined the Woolwich divi-
sion from service in the Arctic regions. The
corporal of the Royal Marines on board the En-
terprise was promoted to sergeant on arriving at
Woolwich.
The Terrible steam frigate, Captain Hope, C. 8.,
was visited to-day by her first-lieutenant, David
Miller, and two sergeants, one corporal, one bomba-
dier, and 50 gunners of the Royal Marine Artillery,
arrived at Woolwich barracks this afternoon, from
Portsmouth, under the command of Lieutenant
Thomas Quin Made, for service in the Terrible.
The Vulcan steam•frigate was taken out of the
basin to-day, and instead of waiting to be taken to
Chatham by the navigators of the Horatio round to
Woolwich, she is to leave this port to morrow at eight
A.m., and will be towed by the Black Eagle, Master-
Commander S. B. Cooke, and the Lightning, Master-
Commander Petley, the parties to navigate her being
supplied from the Fisgard and Black Eagle.
The keel of the Malacca, a steam-frigate, ordered
to be built by Mr. Moultne•in in the East Indies, was
laid on September 13. Thelength of the keel is 187
feet, and the height of the. knight-heads on the stern
from the under part of the main keel is to be 32 feet.
Mr. Metrld has already supplied several vessels of
very creditable workmanship of the best timber the
country produces.

THE ROYAL YACHT AND nen Com—Under this
head we yesterday quoted a paragraph from the United
Service Gazette, setting forth the enormous cost of her
Majt sty's yacht, which is set doe n at " nearer 200,0001.
thaa 100,000/.," and deprecating the expenditure of so
much money upon a vessel which has done so little
service as the Victoria and Albert for such outlay;
showing also that the vessel is " ordered to be docked at
Portsmouth to have an entire refit, and to have new
boilers:planned for her," which " will be the third set
of new boilers within five years." As such statements
are naturally calculated to mislead the public, we are
requested to contradict the statement as to cost, and to
set forth the reason of the change of boilers, as three
sets of boilers in five years bear the appearance either
of gross extravagance or dangerous mismanagement.
The first set of boilers, thee, supplied to the Victoria
and Albert were what wero termed "flue" boilers.
During the period comprised in the time of their being
put in the vessel until she had run a season and WAS
laid up for the next winter, "tubular" boilers had
been invented, and the Admiralty, judging that
a better speed could be got out of tubular
than flue boilers, decided on taking the latter
out, and substituting the newly-invented article. The
flue boilers were then taken out of the Victoria and
Albert, and put into the steam-sloop Devastation, in
which ship they now remain, about to servo a three or
four years' commission. The tubular boilers put into
the royal yacht about five years and a half ago have
lasted ever since, without repair. On examination
lately, however, they have been found to require re-
pair; the Admiralty have therefore decided on taking
those boilers out (which, when repaired, are to be placed
in a war steam-sloop), and giving the Queen's vessel the
benefit of all the science latterly brought to bear upon
boiler making, which, as compared with those made
five years and upwards ago, it is supposed and believed
will furnish a much greater power in the same space,
thereby accelerating the speed of the yacht half a knot
or more per hour, and consequently adding to the cc rn-
fort and convenience of the Sovereign when travelling
by sea. To prove that the Victoria and Albert has not
had the money wasted upon her that the public might
infer from the paragraph in the professional paper
abovenamed, we have only to instance that in foul
weather she is a most comfortable "sea boat," and as
regards speed, we have merely to mention that last
year she steamed from Aberdeen to Osborne-house at
the average rate of 12 knots per hour, and in the sum-
mer steamed from Cowes roads to Cork harbour at the
average speed of 11 knots 6-10ths, and after landing the
Queen at Greenock, she ran from that port to Cowes
roads at the average rate of 11 knots 7- 10ths.— Times,
TTPOGRAPRICAL WIDOW AND ORPHAN FUND.--
We noticed, a tew weeks since, the appointment of a
provisional committee of compositors connected with the
daily press, for the purpose of drawing up a series of
rules for the guidance of a society having for its object
the affording assistance to the families of their decnsed
brethren. Tho committee have just completed Vieir
labours, and issued a set of rules for the approval of the
trade. They have already received the names of about
thrte hundred compositors, expressing their willingness
to join the proposed society, and are daily enrolling
fresh names. A public meeting of the members of the
trade favourable to the object, will, we understand, be
held on Saturday evening, Dec. 15, when the rules will
be submitted for confirmation, and the necessary officers
appointed fur the management of the society. By a
small weekly subscription the family of a member will,
at his deatb, receive a sum of twenty pounds.
VALUE OF LAND.—The Louth Advertiser states
that an estate in that county has been disposed of at so
highs rate ts, twenty-six years' purchase.

THE WEATHEP..—StrN ()JUICE, Nov. 28.
TnrßitoKETEn: Lowc!t, 22; Highest. 31; Noon, 25.

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