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NAI A L iNTELLIGENCE..
PortzsmonTri, Fnroa v.—There is r, Very laudable oi-
detiv, .ur tiLaking tilliOi;" a gall int and iciltienlial el us
here to raise funds for founding and maintaining a home
ashore for seamen of the Royal Navy at this port. Fore-
most in this good work is Captain Hall, F.R.S., of the
Dragon steam-frigate, whose efforts have been most suc-
cessfully directed to the same philanthropic end at
other ports and places. The object of ail, institution is
to provide seamen when paid cif; or utht rwise without rs
ship, board, lodging, and medical attendance, at as mo-
derate a charge as possible, in order that their clothes,
bedding, money, and persons may be properly protected
from the designing, who are always on the watch to
inveigle the unguarded and thoughtless seamen, This
institution will encourage seamen to habits of economy;
it will also provide the 9a with religious and intellectual
ins•ruction until they can againprovidethernselves with

a ship. A reeding room and library will be attached to
the institution. The First Lord of the Admiralty has,
(we arc informed) consented to become patron of tne
institution if his colleague, Sir George Siaunton, with
him will become joint patron, but as Fit st Lotd of the
Admiralty Sir Francis Baring do es not patronise the
scheme, The Board were applied to for the old labora-
tory—a most eligible building, admirably apapted to all
the requirements of such an establishment as a Sailors'

Home,-but their Lordships stated that they wanted
a barrack fin- the crews of steamers in commission whilst
under rPpair in the steam-basin.

The Lords of (he Adrniriilty went on board the ap-
prentices' brig Rolla, Lieutenant- Commander Fenwick,
this morning, and afterwards to the Excellent gunnery-
ship, Captain Chads, C. 13., where the perfection of man-
of-war discipline and firing was exhibited; but, strange
to say, tillhough the water was "smooth as the glassy
surface of a lake," they did not pay a similar visit to the
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Superb, SO, at Spithead. If the board intend keeping the
latter ship many more months ut Spithead it would be

an act of benevolence to allow her captain to litt anchor

two or three times a week and run out to sea, just to
relieve the monotony of the officers and men's duties,
as well as to give them a change of air in these sickly

lines.

An inspection of the gun wharf, under the direction
of Mr. Stewart, the chief of that department of the
Ordnance at this port, concluded the perambulations
of the Lords of the Admiralty, who left by the one
o'clock train on their return to town.
The Dragon steam-frigate being found too efficient for
the Royal Navy with her present complement, the
Lords of the Admiralty have reduced it fifteen men.
Twenty-four labourers in this dockyard, hired for the
survey, are ordered to be discharged tc-morrow.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius
Beauclerk, sailed this afternoon, for Aberdeen, to aw.vit
the pleasure of her Majesty.
THE DOCKYARD BATTALION.—The drills for this
summer concluded last eveuing, when Major Edwards
(storekeeper), of the artillery companies, dismissed his
%ling of the body with an animated and suitable address,
which drew hearty cheers from the whole.
Wind—S. by W., light breezes and fine weather.
PLYAtorTu, AUG. 3 o.—Her Majesty's frigate Arethuss
arrived on Sunday from Pembroke, and was on Monday
towed by the steam-vessel Salamander from the Sound
to the sheer hulk in Hamostze, where she is to be dis-
mantled.

Her Majesty's packet Crane sailed on Tuesday for
Falmouth.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrtle arrived on the 28th
from Portsmouth.
COURT. MARTIAL ON COMMANDER PITMAN.—SZ-
COND DAY.,—AUG. 29.—The court was occupied more
or less, from nine o'clock in the morning to half-past five
this afternoon in the cross-examination of Mr. A. B.
Elliott, the master, by Commander Pitman. The only
points worth extracting were as follow :—" Mr. Elliott
entered the service in 1813, and joined the Childers in
August, 1846. Declined to state whether he was put
under arrest on the 25th of June, 1847, for being asleep
on his watch. Regarding the Marine Hague, said to
be invalided as insane through Commander Pitthan's
severity, witness had been told that, before joining the
Childers, Hague broke into the Rodney's cellar, fitolo
wine, became intoxicated, fell into the dock, and was
then injured. Had heard the Marine White (who
drowned himself) make a desperate oath, that if flogged
he would jump overboard. Did not know if it was by
Commander Pitman's special order that the boys were
" scrubbed at the ship's head," The desertion at Hobart
Town was caused by the cruelty on board, and not by the
high wages offered by the South Sea whalers. Had not
heard that the men were dragged ashore. Knew that the
mess servant Allen was brought on board in a state of
stupor from drunkenness; his previous good character
saved him from flogging. The special instances of
cruelty were towards the marines Hague and White, the
boy Cleverton, two seamen, Gillman and Kitts (Rho
died in China), and the midshipman's steward, who
committed suicide. Had seen Cleverton cruelly dis-
figured; heard him scream, but did not remember his
being flogged. Know Commander Pitman struck the
boy with his fist. Kitts was kept standing with his
hammock on his shoulder several hours at night when
general sickness prevailed in the ship. Gillman was
punished more severely, being ordered to stand in the
same manner after working hours, a period of forty or
fifty days, after which he went into his hammock and
died, declaring that the cruel treatment to which he had
' been subjected was the cause of his death. The mid.
shipman's steward was flogged two or three times, and
being three:end with a repetition of the punishment,
jumped overboard and was drowned. During the three
years witness served in the Childers eleven commis-
sioned officers left the ship either invalided or by ex-
change.
PEMBROKE —The Triumph, one of the lazarettos of
the port of Milford, has been removed to the Pembroke
yard, where she is now moored, by directions from the
Board of Admiralty, to set ve as a cholera hospital ship
in the event cf an outbreak of the epidemic. This is,
we are glad to state, only a precautionary measure, no
decid, d case of cholera having appeared in the district.
We understand that two new frigates of the first class,
to carry 60 guns each, have been ordered to be built at
Pembroke. They are to be named the Melpomene and
the Immutalite. The coppering of the Octavia first-class
frigate, launched some days ago, is proceeding rapidly;
when jury-rigged she will be navigated to Devonport.
The following are her dimensions:—

Length over all
Length of keel ...
Extreme breadth ...
Tonnage ditto ...
Moulded ditto
Depth of hold
Burden

R. In.
- 180 6
-. 146 10
-. 52 3
_. 52 2
-. 51 4
-. 16 3
-. 2,125 tona

OPENING OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH AT THS
GENERAL POST-OFFICE.-All the wires having been laid
down from the chief Electric Telegraph-office, Loth-
fairy, to the branch office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, the
employes commenced yesterday for the first time sending
off expresses from that establishment. The advantage
to the Post-office of this facility of communication will
be important, as the Postmaster-General will be made
acquainted with the arrivals and departures of all the
foreign and colonial wail packets immediately, and also
for the transmission of orders to the various parts of the
country connected with that department.
INSTITUTION FOR THE ADULT DEAF ANDDIJIIE, 26,
RED LION-SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY.—At a meeting of the
committee of this excellent institution, held in the board-
room, 26, Red Lion-square, Bloomsbury, it was stated
that the progress of the several inmates in learning the
trades carried on in the institution had been highly
satisfactory and gratifying. It was further observed
that numerous applications bad been made on behalf of
of and dumb individuals both in the metropolis and
the provincial districts, including several of an urgent
and deserving nature; but it was regretted, that owing
to the want of funds the applicatious could not be en-
tertained however pressing they might be, and however
worthy the objects were of sympathy and charitable
consideration. A hope having been expressed that the
co-operation of the affluent might early warrant the
extension of the good works of the charity, the meeting
passed sonic routine business and separated.
THE FIRE or LONDON, 166 G.—The day and hour
of this national calamity corresponds with the ensuing
recurrence of its anniversary. The fire commenced at
the house of Mr. Farryn,r, a baker, in Pudding-lane, at
one o'clock in the morning of Sunday, Sept. 2, 1666;
and, according to the inscription on the Monument,
" Adjecit, quoque supplicationes annuas et ad eternans
posterior= memoriam—lL C. P. C." This day is still
kept in solemn remembrance, by the preaching of a
morning sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral. This duty
devolves, officially, upon the Rev. S. R. Catley, the Lord
Mayor's chaplain, who has greatly distinguished himself
by his ;pulpit treatment of anniversaries of a aims ar
kind, and who, it is expected, will not omit the oppor-
tunity thus afforded him, to lead the attentwnciotty hisof
hearers to the serious visitation under which the
London is now suffering.
A'udt-g the
judge),
last Aylesbury County Court (
PUBLICANS AND SUNDAYsirfr.R.
JA.VEWL.LEWEiSn.:
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a person named Laegforde
victualler, brought
a nt
o a crteicoonv recover lfis.
damages, alleged 5? h
t
Mr. Kingham,
a iicaevnesd
been sustained by the plaintiff
in eousequenc© of the
defendant declining to supply
,aeaither to himself or horse, on Sunday, the
It appeared, from the plaintiff's state-
ment,ri :ft
of r h
Junett abt:l lson
the
day in question he was proceeding
with a horse
:el cart, heavily laden, from Oxford to
Leighton Buzzard, and that upon calling at the defend-
ant's house for refreshment it was refused; the plaintiff
stating that he was, in consequence, compelled to proceed
four miles further on his joarney before he could pro-
cnre anything; and that the heat of the day, and the
want of refreshment, hail such an effect upon him that
he was obliged to lay up for the whole of the followin“.
week, by which he was damaged to the amount of 1817
The judge, however, refused to give the plaintiff the
whole amount he claimed, but awarded the defendant to
pay 55., and the whole of the costs of the day.
CLEAN SHIRTS IN CUMBERLAND.—A Cumberland
paper says:—" That an establishment exists in the
Market-place, Whitehaven, where labouring men resort
on Saturday nights to procure clean shirts for Sunday.
Having bought the original shirt at this shop, the owner
takes it back on Saturday night, after a week's wear, and
exchanges it for a clean one on payment of three half-
pence, being one halfpenny less than would be charged
by the washerwoman. An extensive business is done its
this way.
BLOCKADE OP THE COAST OF CORD.—Last night's
Gazette contains a notification that Viscount Palmerston
has received from Mr. Ridel, the British acting Consul-
General at Caracas, a dispatch, dated the 12th of July
last, reporting that a blockade of the coast of Coro,
between the mouths of the rivers Yaracuy and Oribono,
had been declared by the Government of Venezuela,
and enclosing a copy of the decree issued by that Go-
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