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NAV. A.L INTELLIGENCE. T
PORTSMOUTII, SIINDAY.—Sir Charles Napier's t-eet removed from Durang-point to
of line of battle :Chips is now at anchor at Spithead, ing---Lieutenant.
Caledonia, 120, Captain Dixon, and the Queen, Ho:,
Captain Sir H. Inc ake, having joined yesterday morning.
The vacant seat at the Admiralty, caused by the re-
moval of VicerAd miral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., to
Greenwich, is at length taken by Rear-Admiral Pres-
cott, an eminently distinguished officer, and one
likely to benefit the „service much by his counsels and
advocacy.
The appointments to the Command-in-Chief in the
Pacific and the superKntendency of this dockyard, vice
Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, C. 8., K.C.H., and
Hyde Parker, C.B , are expected to be co erred on
Rear-Admirals Phipps, Hornby, and Shireff.
The following are the extraordinary particula7s re-
lating to the death of Mr. Thomas Hart, late assistant-
surgeon of the Conway, 26, who destroyed himself by
cutting his throat -with a razor at the Quebec Hotel on
Friday morning last. It appeared in evidence at the iv.-
quest taken before Mr. Cooper, the Coroner for the
borough of Portsmouth, on Friday evening, that
the deceased went to the Quebec Hotel on
the previous evening in company with Mr.
Henry Wilson, :R.N., Acting-Assistant-Surgeon
n:
of the Victory (newly appointed), and :partook -of9a
little draught pale alo about half-past nine in the even-
ing. He bad been paid off the same day. Mr. Wilson
had known the deceased about four years ago, before he
went in the Conway. On the occasion under investiga-
tion he dirt not observe any peculiarity about the
deceased, who appeat7ed in his usual health and spirits,
but spoke vehemently, and indignantly of the degrada-
tion his class was sufVering under the in navy, in being so
ill provided with prayer messmates and accommodation;
he seemed to consider his class ill-used by being com-
pelled to exist in tho midshipmen's berths, and to have
no other associates -than that position provided in the
navy. He did not speak of this personally, but gene•
rally, and after the ;manner of information to Mr. Wil-
son, who was just entering the navy in the first step
(" acting") of the medical branch, and told him (the
witness) that he must be prepared to " rough it." De-
ceased had told him he had lost three 51. notes and a
sovereign, but he believed he had been robbed of it prior
to quitting the Conway after she was paid off. 'This
witness and another friend of the deceased slept at the
Quebec on Thursday night, and were to have started
together some time early on Friday morning, conse-
quently witness ordered the chambermaid to call de-
ceased at seven o'clock, which was done, and he an-
swered, and asked for a razor to shave with. The
girl said they had not one, and asked if she should send
for a barber, which was done, but when he came deceased
borrowed his razor with the profession of intending to
shave himself. He was subsequently found quite dead,
about half. past 8 o'clock, the razor lying near him. He
had cut the jugular and carotid artery. No explanation
was found in the room or on the person of the deceased,
nor any information as to where his relatives or friends
resided, but two certificates were found lying on the
table, worded as follows—
" These are to certify the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty that Mr. Thomas Hart served as Assistant-
Surgeon on board her Majesty's ship Conway, under my
command, from the Ist of September, 1844, to the date
hereof, during which time he has conducted himself with
diligence, :sobriety, and attention, and was always obe-
dient to command.
i" Given under my hand, on board her Majesty's ship
Conway, at Portsmouth, this 15th day of July, 1847.
" WILLIAM KELLY, Captain."
At the bottom of which, in pencil, was written, appa-
rently very hurriedly—
"l should have been recommended for promotion."
The other certificate was worded in precisely the
same term, only the dates were " from the Ist of July,
1846, to the date hereof, Ist of July, 1847," also signed
by the captain, and at the bottom of which was written,
also in pencil—

" Heart broken and disappointed."
It therefore appeared to the jury that on the ship's
arrival at Spithead the deceased had asked for the last
quoted certificate to memoralise the Admiralty with for
his promotion, as he appears on the Navy List as an
Assistant-Surgeon of 1839; but what appears most in-
comprehensible is the fact, proved by the above certifi-
cates, of the deceased's having been on the books and
done the duty of assistant-surgeon of the Conway from
the Ist of September, 1844, until Thursday last, nearly
three years, without his name appearing in the list of
officers' names appointed to the ship shown in the official
Navy List. The jury returned a verdict in accordance
with the evidence—viz., " That the deceased died from
wounds inflicted on himself, but what the state of his
mind was at the time he committed the act there was no
evidence to prove.
In the absence of any relative or friends to claim
the body, the preparations for interment were, with
the sanction of the coroner, immediately made by Mr.
Forbes, of Portsmouth, undertaker and united service
outfitter.

The Comet steam-vessel, of 238 tons and Bb-horse
power, commanded by Lieutenant C. R. Johnson, which
has been employed in all kinds of service, from a royal
yacht to a meal barge, has again worn out her boilers,
and consequently her officers are turned over to another
ship, wo believe named the Fire King, at Greenock.
This little Comet was built in 1822, by Mr. Oliver Lang,
and has never had any breaking down in machinery or
jobbery in hull since she was built. We stated a few
weeks since, in commenting upon the paramount supe-
riority of the work and design of this vessel, in compari•
son with some (and very many) of the steamers of
modern build in the royal service, that she would wear
well to the last timber, and her engines would wear out
all. We were, it seems, closely correct in that judgment
of the nature of the materials with which the first
steamer that ever carried a pennant was constructed.
We hope the new commissioners about to be appointed
for executing the office of surveyor of the navy will take
a lesson from the vast amount of instruction she so
palpably offers, and that the navy may have more
Comets, and fewer Jackals, Bloodhounds, and Tridents
in its list for the future.

The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir F. W. Austen, K.C.8., arrived at Halifax
on the Isth ult., from Bermuda.

The Alarm, 26, Captain Loch, was at Halifax on the
24th ult., having arrived from Vera Cruz to recruit the
health of her crew, who were very sickly, and dying fast
by the last advices.
The Constance, 50, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, was
at Mazatlan on the 30th of April, having relieved the
Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze, which is daily expected at
Spithead with a large freight of specie on merchants'
account.

The Calypso, 20, Captain Worth, arrived at Callao on
the 3d of May from Valparaiso.
The Herald, 26, Captain Kellett, and the Pandora,
6, Lieutenant-Commander Wood, her tender, were at
l'orto Praga on the 14th of May, about to proceed to
Quibo, to continue her surveying operations, whither
the former was to be towed by the Samson steam-
frigate.

The Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Ricketts, was paid
off at this port yesterday.

ROYAL MARINES.
Should there be, as is anticipated, and addition to the
corps of Royal Marines of two field-officers and six
divisional companies, the establishment will then be as
follows, viz.:
5 Colonels Commandant.
4 Colonels Second Commandants.
16 Lieutenant-Colonels.
10 Artillery Captains.
112 1 Supernum. Captain (director at Laboratory).
100 Divisional Captains.
1 Supernum. Captain (Assist.-Adj.-General).
20 Artillery First Lieutenants.
133 133 Divisional First Lieutenants.
Q. C 20 Artillery Second Lieutenants.
67 Divisional Second Lieutenants.
To complete the establishment to which num-
ber Zit will he necessary to promote—
Captains to Lieutenant-Colonels.
9 First Lieutenants to Captains (one for the
vacant Artillery Company).
27 Second Lieutenants to First Lieutenants
(viz., 10 Artillery short at present, 9 Divi-
sional vice 9 promoted, 8 Divisional pro-
portion by augmentation).
38 New Commissions (viz., 7 Artillery short at
prespresent, 27 Divisional vice 27 promoted, 4
Divisional proportion by augmentation).
The above is authentic, and consequently differs from
the statement in the United Service Gazette.
The following are the promotions and appointments of
the past week:—

PROMOTIONS.
Lieutenant—George Smythe (1834), to the rank of
Commander.
Mate—Henry Samuel Hamilton (1845), to the rank of
Lieutenant.

APPOINTMENTS.
Captains—T. Rodney Eden, to the Amphitrite; Fre-
derick H. H. Glasse, to study at the Steam Factory,
Woolwich.
Factory,
Richard R. Quin, to study at the Steam
Commanders—W. C. Chamberlain, to the Britomart;
Woolwich.
William K. Nicolas, to
W. H. Hood to the Birkenhead ;
tothe _es.__ R.
Lieutenants—Norton C. S. Sullivan, to the Vernon ;
the Ocean, Robert J. St. Auhync,,
the
rels
delnst"r" ;
Walter
W. H. Alcock, of the Scout,
Comet, to command the Fire. lti
ht to the Shearwater ; Va-
j...tneg..li. Johnson, from the
Strickland, to thdereAwmsp.llKitilrlitg ,
Masters—An
he Ampitrite.
lentine G. Roberts,
G. to
t eter, to the Amphitrite.
Purser—W. ~._.l;ansnyne,
to the Caledonia.
Chaplain—W. 5 1,
wis W. Young, to the Penelope;
to the Adventurer; John Parsons (acting),
s Braddon, from the Comet to the Fire
to the Odin; S.
King. ilNisf,asters—Le
James W. Poland, to the Re-
FrSaneel:lnndg
Assistant-Surgeons—Henry C. S. Wilson, and Thomas
the Howe; H. Matthias, to the
Victory;•
B• toabbington, from the Comet to
itlor
.At
B.
.eIDI,a.
ilb,
Clerk in Charge—John Macdowall, from the Comet
Re-
sistance;
thei :aStll3:
Firerdneoc eent
K; i n g .
to the Fire King.
Passed Clerk—C. S. Saunders, to the Victory.
Clerks—James C. Molley, in charge, to the Cuckoo; C.
J. Martin, to the Queen; Edward Marcon, to the Re-
sistance; Henry Gray, to the Seringapatam; James H.
Jackson, and W. F. Wentworth, to the Crocodile.
Midshipmen—Henry Batten, to the Dragon; Charles
Hope, to the Excellent; J. W. Parrott, to the Queen;
T. B. Lethbridge, E. H. Standish, E. H. Buck, and John
Burgess, to the Victory ; J. R. Lawrence, to the St.
Vincent.

Masters' Assistants—J. K. Cooke, to the Poictiers ;
Edward Swain, to the Dee • Charles B. M'Dermott, to
the Kite; D. Grant, to the deledonia; J. G. Whitehouse,
to the Victory.
Naval Cadets—Charles N. Streatfield, to the St. Vin-
cent; Frederick Lewis, to the Queen; John Griffiths, to
the Hibernia.
Coast Guard-111n W. S. Ewes (Motor R,N.) is ap-

Lim tenant H. It Rare.
Greeut lastle, as Inspect..

CRICKEt.
SURREY AND KENT.
This singular match being resumed on Friday', at Preston-
hal/ .Park, was renewed and brought to a conclusio tuTch ty. The first score was as follows:
non 84-

ZENT.
NV. hieynn, Esq., b Brockwell 14 run out
C. G. Whittaker, Esq., c
Heath, b Martingell
Hillyer, c Brockwell, b Mar- .......... 3
tingelf
Pilch, b Sherman 8 c Hayward, b Day ... :2(.;
W. Pilch, b Sherman ll b Day ...... ...... . 0
A. Mynn, Esq., c Heath, b
Sherman
'Dorrinton, not out ll b Day
... i
_Martin, b Sherman
.Belton' b Sherman 0 b Day . is
Jones, b Sherman 4 b Day l2
IVilsher, b Sherman 0 b Sherman 0
Byes 5, wide 4, no ball 1... 10 Byes 10, wide 7, no
ball 2.-- .......

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120 99
SURREY.
Chester, b Mynn ...... 1 c Belton, b Hiller.-- 1
Sewell, c Wilsher, b Hillyer 3 c Dorrinton, b Hillyer 8
A. Barnsha-w, Esq., c Belton
b Hillver ..•• ......... .. 2 c Dorrinton, b Hilly-er 7
13rockwell, c _Belton, b Mynn 8 cW. Pilch, b Hillyer 3
Martin ell, b Mynn l2 b Hiller ............ 9
N. Felix, Esq., c Belton, b y
ilillyer ........... ... ,
HDay, cW. Pilch, b Mynn .. 2 b Hillyer ..... .. ...., 4
eath, b Hillyer
C. Marks, Esq., b Hillver ... 0 c Hillyer, b Mynn 0
Sherman, c Belton, b Hilly 7 not out
Hayward, not out .... ........ 0 c Whittaker, b Hillyer 6
Byes 2, wide 1 (Martinoll) 3 Byes 13, wide 2 l6
45
74
Kent ther6foi.e won by 100
runs.

THE HURS GANG.
Among the contrivances on the Scottish central
line, none struck us more than that which is called
the " horse gang." The first sign of this thing
filled us with an undefined feeling of something like
terror : the next with thoughtful solicitude ; and,
finally, with an abortive attempt at laughter, so odd
like, and yet fearsome, did the affair appear to our
unintiated eye. Although it is far from being either
new or uncommon, we cannot resist an attempt at
describing it, that others may go and see it as well
as we. The horse gang, then, consist of what, upon
level ground, would be a wooden platform, five or six
feet broad, and twelve or fifteen yards long, raised
upon one end, and leaning upon the edge of the cut,
at an angle of about fifty degrees ; at least those we
saw at Kippenross were so situated. This, then,
being given, the query is, how is a man to be made
to wheel a loaded barrow up almost this perpendi-
cular affair, and then to take it down again, though
empty ? Well, there is upon the top of the bank
a little gin to serve as a rope, and to one
end of the chain a well-trained horse is yoked,
and to the other a short piece of rope with as
eye at each end, at v:hich place it is strongly
fastened to a piece of board, which we call a protective
board. This rope is then fastened by another strong
eye in the middle to the chain. The rope and board,
fixed as they are together, are then put upon the stilts
of the barrow, in such a manner as that they shall not
slide back, and they cannut get forward for the sides of
the barrow. The man who is to wheel then seizes the
stilts of the barrow with both hands, and intimates to a
driver above that he is ready. The driver then speaks
to the horse, which moves off, and, turning the gin,
brings up both the man and his barrow. It is, however,
the position of the man upon the platform which creates
a feeling of uneasiness in the eyes of the looker-on for
the first time. The man is at right angles to it, and
therefore his safety, and even his life depends entirely
upon the firmness of nerve with which he holds the
stilts of the barrow, as no mechanical means are
used to attach him to it. In short, it seems a
very dangerous mode of working, and yet we never
heard of any accident occurring to those employed
in it, and we understand they get better wages than
any other labourers upon the line. In descending, which
he does at the same angle at which he went up, the
weight of the chain and its friction on the ground
serve to balance him. We are satisfied that no person
can look upon this contrivance without interest. At the
present time, when every exertion is making to finish
the line, the labourers are allowed to work as many
hours as they please each day; and so completely do
some of them enter into this arrangement, that it is no
uncommon circumstance for many of them to work a
whole week with only two nights in bed, and some of
them seek only one by way of brag; and it is but a
short time ago since one fool hardy fellow roughed it
out the whole week. He went out on Monday morning,
and did not return till Saturday afternoon. He was a
" tipper," that is one of those who empty the waggons at
the bank head; and the only rest he got was to throw
himself down on the ground in the intervals between the
emptying of the last and arrival of the next waggon,
when he occasionally obtained a few minutes sleep; and
yet, many of those men who possess such indomitable
and untiring energy work so hard, just in order that at
the end of fuur weeks they may be the more able to
enjoy a day or two more of mere animal gratification,
when jollification and drinking are in the ascendant.—
Scottish Railway Gazette.

Mr. Cobden has arrived at Vienna, where he has
been presented by Lord Ponsonby, the English Ambas-
sador, to the Prince de Metternich and Baron de Kubeck,
Minister of the Interior.

Mr. nurke, of trotting notoriety, performed, over
the Belle Vue Course, which is some yards short of
three quarters of a mile, a wonderful feat in driving two
horses in a tandem, 16 miles, in 58 minutes and 19
seconds, to the entire satisfaction of some thousands of
spectators.

ROBBING THE SAXON MINISTER Or 3,000 DOL..
LAus.—On Saturday information was received by the
police that the Baron Beust, the Saxon Minister, of
Wilton-crescent, Belgrave-square, had been plundered
of the above amount by a person named Ernest
Ramsham, who is supposed to be now trying to get
out to America.

FATAL ACCIDENT WHILST BATHING.---011 Satur-
day a man employed at the floating bath, Blackfriars,
discovered the body of a youth lying in the mud off the
plate-glass wharf, Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars-
bridge. The body was identified as being that of Ed-
ward Poley Gibbons, aged seventeen years, an appren-
tice to Mr. `'Peat, the optician in the Strand. On Mon-
day last the deceased and his master proceeded to the
waterside to bathe, and whilst in the water the swell
caused by the various steam-boats carried him out into
the stream, when he became alarmed, and before as-
sistance could be rendered he was drowned.

ROBBERY AT EARL SomEßs'.-LOn Saturday in-
farmation was given that on Friday a massive silver
ink-stand, twelve or fifteen inches long and five broad,
with a small silver candlestick attached, the property of
Earl Somers, was stolen from his Lardship's seat, the
Priory, at Reigate, Surrey. It was engraved with a
crest, a weed growing out of armour, and a stag, and
with the names of several of the family. The robbery
is stated to have been committed by some go-cart men,
two of whom were seen near the house in conversation
with another man, who offered paper ornaments for
sale, after which they drove to London.

DEATH FROM MORISON'S PILLS.—Last week,
Emma Partington, aged 30, of Love-place, Rochdale,
swallowed in two days, 55. 6d. worth of Morison's pills.
After which her health, which had been delicate, be-
came worse, and she ultimately died. At an inquest
held upon the body, the jury returned a verdict " That
she died from an overdose of the pills."
EXTRAORDINARY SUlClDE.—Saturday a man,
whose name is unknown, committed suicide under the
following singular circumstances:—lt appears that the
deceased was in great distress, and on the previousin.eettnight
st r .
applied for a lodging at the Red-house, in 1,1
St. George's, Southwark, chiefly occupied by cadgers
and beggars. At an early hour he got
b utiently discovered
up-
stairs to his room, where he was subsequently p and went t
ceiling, quite
hanging by a rope from a rafter
immediatelyi under the
dead and cold. On the floor
spot where the deceased as_ ilspended, was writtenn.
:731 striends reside at ,
a bold hand, with chalk,
pwoasckets were searched,
Church-street, Brighton.
found, pawned for
and in one a duplicate of
Brighton, on Monday
a coaty.s
-ard's pawnbroker,
6s. at Mr. Folk ,
last. Mr. Allingharn,
the officer of St. George's, South-
wark, took possession of thebody, which ho removed to
the workhouse.
THB
WEST INDIA MAILS. --SOUTRAMPTON7 Si-
TURDAY.--The Royal Mail steam-ship Dee, 'William
Allan, Esq., commander, left Southampton, at three P.M.'
with the mails for the West Indies and South America.
She takes out 46 passengers for the different islands, and
a vary large and general cargo, including 60,0001. in
dollars and English coin on Government account for
Barbadoes and Bermuda, also a large sum on merchants'
account. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Jupiter, Captain Mehan, left at three o'clock,
for the Peninsula, with thefull and a
mails, acargo,
large number of passengers.
Young, the tragedian, a contemporary of the
Kembles, on Friday, visited Bristol. Though in his
71st year, he is looking both hale and hearty. He came
from Clevedon Court, the seat of Sir Charles Elton.
Mr. Walton, who has been connected with the
Princess's Theatre ever since its first opening,
oi ran
actor (and occasionally as acting manager),
Sa-
turday last, after a few days' illness.
Tourists will learn with satisfaction, that at Naples,
a tariff of charges for the hire of horses
and published ;
and mules to
ascend Mount Vesuvius has been
and also for the charges of the fixedporters and boatmen
their luggage on
employed in carrying passengers and
board the steam-
rculate„Packet:"„it.—On Saturday informa-
tion FOREIGN IIC
with
a
description of a foreigner,
tion was eid, w
afternoon, stole a quantity of valuable
property under
who, on Friday
the
following circumstances, from Mr.
Catchpole, a watchmaker and jeweller, in Regent-street.
The person
mentioned, who, although a foreigner, gave
the name of at Thompson, caked the shop, and selected
a gold watch, with gold guard-chain and brequet key
attached;
a gold ring, set with an emerald; and two
diamond rings (valued altogether at 341.), to be sent for
approval to No. 151, Oxford-street, and a shopman ac-
companied him to the place with the goods. He then,
however, took the shopman to Fiadvoy's Hotel, seven or
eight houses distant, under pretence of getting him a
cheque for the amount, and, leaving him there, returned
to 151, and got possession of the valuable property, with
which he mado off. He is described as apparently about
thirty years of age, five feet eight inches high, with
mustachios and whiskers, cut close and turning grey,
and wore a black frock coat and black trousers.