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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Lords of the Ad-
miralty attended service in the Dockyard Chapel
yesterday morning, after which the Earl of Auck-
land (First Lord) and Sir Charles Ogle went over tai
the Clarence-yard to meet Lord J. Russell, who'
arrived at half-past one o'clock by the South-Western
Railway. The Earl accompanied the Premier to
Osborne, where Lord John was invited as the guest
of her Majesty, the Earl proceeding to Ryde to dine..
with Sir Augustus de Clifford. The other membeis
of the Board dined at the George.
This morning, at half-past nine, the First Lord,
accompanied by Rear-Admiral Prescott, Captain
Berkeley, Lord John Hay, Lords of the Admiralty,
Captain Eden (secretary to the First Lord), and Mr.
Henry Woolley, of the Secret Department of the
Admiralty, embarked at the Sallyport-stairs in their
barge, and were conducted by Lieutenant Mills, their
barge lieutenant, to the Excellent gunnery ship ;
Captain
chads, C. 8., who received the Board at the
entrance port, and presented Commander Hewlett;
First Lieut. Hodgkinson, Lieutenant Wolrige, gun-
nery lieutenant, to the Earl of Auckland. The in-
spection of the ship and practice of the crew'
immediately after commenced, prior to which the
official- party were joined by Lord Downes and
Captain Vansittart (army). On proceeding to the
lower deck we found the guns secured for sea.
and the ports lowered. The drums then beat to action,
and in an instant the deck was peopled, and the
order given to fire at the 800 yard target. The first
shot was fired (every store having been provided
from its secured receptacle, and the opposite guns also
loaded) within three minutes from the moment of
giving the word. A broadside was then fired at the
target, moored at 800 yards, and every shot struck
it. Division firing then commenced, the first divi-
sion firing at a target at -600 yards distance, the
second at a target at 800 yards, and the third ,at a
target 1,000 yards seawards. All struck with ad-
mirable precision. The guns crews then secured
themselves and gear from a raking fire and then fired
two rounds ; one extreme trained to the right and the
other to the left; both fired in one minute and eight
seconds. Six shells with concussion fusees were then

fired at a butt, all of which went remarkably true
and burst at the right moment. A shell projected at
a target 800 yards seawards struck, and three at the

Leviathan hulk, moored at 2,400 yards, were equally
well aimed, the first striking and shattering the bul-
warks right amidships. This concluded the firing.
Commander Hewlett then exercised the crew on the
upper-deck, in manceuvring and arming ship, and small
arm exercise, which was admirably executed. The
scaling-ladder exercise concluded the inspection ; a
few men, having carried four ladders (spars lashed
together, as if at the spur of the moment) to the
afterpart of the vessel, planted them, and scaled them,
to the number of 200, in 1 minute and 23 seconds.
The whole of the exercise and practice on board this
ship was such as to draw from the First Lord and
every other member of the Board the most unquali-
fied eulogium, especially the proficiency exhibited by
the boys in the scientific branches of gunnery. Four
boys (Elworthy, Burroughs, Sherrington, and May),
chosen indiscriminately from the mass, went through
all the manoeuvres and gave all the directions of the
firing with as much exactness as a clear reader could
do from a book. This is worthy of notice, as showing
the elaborate nature of the gunnery education pur-
sued on board this ship. It is also essential to state
that after the first word was passed for action, the
officers' gun e. a gun manned and served by the
officers of the ship, 13) was the first ready. Lord
Auckland expressed to Captain Chads his high gra-
tification, and complimented him and his officers
upon the very apparent efficiency of both officers and
men.

From the Excellent their Lordships were steered
to the north end of the dockyard, and landed on Mr.
P. Rolt's works of the grand steam-basin and depot,
where Mr. Smith, the representative of the contractor
(Mr. Rolt), explained the progress of the works; and
Mr. Woods, the clerk of them, pointed eut by plans
the state and condition of the whole, by which it ap-

peared that, at the end of the financial year, this mag-
nificent national work will be available for use. Their
Lordships expressed warmly their satisfaction at the
rapidly approaching completion of the work, and then
proceeded to inspect Mr. Bramble's new slips, but
which do not seem to get on so rapidly as those
alongside of them. All, however, we must suppose
is going on as fast as possible.
From these works the board proceeded to inspect
the bottom of the Undine steam yacht on the graving
slip, which has been coated on one side with Mr.
Hay's (the chymical lecturer to the dockyard) com-
position, and on the other with red lead, to see which
was most efficacious in preventing the adhesion and
growth of rubbish. It was palpably apparent that
the red lead was of no use, as the side coated with it

was covered with weeds, muscles, shrimps, carbun-
cles, grass, nine inches long, and such like rubbish;
whereas the composition side was as smooth and clean
:is new iron. Lord Auckland and the other inemtx-rs

the hoard, as well as Sir C. Ogle and the scientific

officers of the dockyard, expressed their strong opinion
in favour of Mr. II ty's valuable invention, which will
doubtles, be generally adopted, and obtain for its
patentee a permanent place and adequate remunera-
tion. A letter from Commander Slade, of the iron
brig Recruit was read by their Lordships, proving
the good properties of the compo,ition of that vessel,
and the total inefficacy of the the red lead on the
other side of her.

From the Undine their Lordships adjourned to the
Royal Naval College, the official residence of Captain
Chads, and partook of the hospitality of that gallant
officer, afterwards receiving the reports of several
committees, of which the Committee on Naval Achi-
tecture, and a Committee appointed to select the best
spot and means for establishing coal depots, were the
principal. From the college their Lordships pro-
ceeded, at three o'clock, on board the Victory, and
mustered the whole of the ordinary officers and men,
and exercised the boys with whom she is "' manned,"
whose performances yielded much satisfaction.
From the Victory the Board proceeded to Rat
Island, opposite the Clarence Victualling-yard, and
inspected the plans of Lieutenant Savage, of the
Royal Naval College, for service batteries, one of
which is erected on this island. After this the Board
returned to the George Hotel, where the First Lord
of the Admiralty entertained the following officers at
a superb banquet :—Rear-Admiral Prescott; Cap-
tain the Hon. G. F. F. Berkeley ; Lord John Hay ;

the Hon. W. F. Cowper (Lord) ; Captain Henry
Eden (Secretary) ; Mr. Henry Woolley ; Colonel
Irvine, Royal Engineers; Admiral Sir Charles Ogle,
Bart.; Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker; g Flag-Lieu-
tenants Cochrane and Spencer; Colonel Aslett,
Royal Marines ; Colonel Lewis, Royal Engineers ;
Capt. Sir W. E. Parry, Royal Navy; Captains Pasco,
of the Victory ; Chads, of the Excellent ; Williams,
of the Amphion ; Pelham, of the Odin ; Warren,
of the Trincomalee ; Hall, of the Dragon ; the
officers of the Russian squadron ; James, Royal
Engineers ; Commanders Goold, of the Victory ;
Hewlett, of the Excellent ; Caffin, of the Scourge ;
Willcox, of the Fury ; and Sherringham, of the
Dasher. Captains Plumridge, of the Cambrian, and
Hastings, of the Endymion, were also invited, but
could not attend.

The Geyser steam sloop, Commander F. T. Brown,
arrived this morning from Lisbon, bringing 79 super-
numeraries and invalids from Sir W. Parker s

squadron.
Mademoiselle Jenny Lind, accompanied by. Signor
Lablache, arrived yesterday by the same tram with
Lord John Russell, and proceeded in the Undine
steamer to Osborne-house. They will return to town
to-morrow.
The Garland steamer, Master Commanding L.
Smithett (acting), arrived this morning from Dover,
having landed his Serene Highness the Prince of
Leiningen (and) atwho wilOsbornme p
ol accoann thy e
w the
ayQueen in her
trip to Scotl.

The failure of Mes.srs. Lesley, Alexander, and Co.,
was announced yesterday morning, and created general
surprise. The firm were engaged in the corn trade, and
the
their liabilities are alleged to be about 400,0001. The
alarm consequent upon a stoppage so unexpected and se-
rious was, however, mitigated during the day by an un-
derstanding that in all probability the creditors would
ultimately receive 20s. in the pound. Mr. Alexander,
the senior partner, is represented to possess estates in
the north of Ireland, yielding a rental of 7,000/., and
valued at 200,0001., entirely free from any encumbrance,
and there can be little doubt, under these circumstances,
that the favourable result anticipated will be realised.
During the day, indeed, it was reported that the house
had resumed business, but this proved to be an error. A
meeting of the creditors, however, will take place on
Wednesday to consider whether that step may not be
practicable. Various additional failures were rumoured,
te
and one other well known house was mentioned u
Corn Exchange, but in the course of the day
state-
ment was distinctly contradicted. the°
STATION HOUSE.—
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A ix, a man who was
Yesterday morning, at half-past
taken into custody on Sundayind-conveyed to the Gar-
dener's-lace James's park, on a
charge of indecent exposure, and-conveyed
suspended by his
handkerchief to
station house, as
end of a rail. He was cut down
and appeared insensible,thene but a surgeon being summoned,
were opened, and the man re-
the veins of both arms
covered sufficiently to be removed to Westminster Hos-
pital, where he continues in a precarious state.
FATAL. ACCIDENT FROM FIRE-ARMS.—On Sunday
evening, about six o'clock, the following deplc Table and
fetal occurrence took place in Battersea-fields :—David
Day, a young man, about twenty years of age, who was
employed in Mr. W ilson's candle-manufactory, at
Wandsworth, had been out with some of his fellow•
workmen, shooting at the small birds in Battersea-fields,
the greater part of the day, when in making his way
through a hedge on Mr. Graham's farm, his gun, which
he was dragging by the muzzle, exploded, and the con-
tents passed through his neck, causing almost instanta-
neous death. Deceased was taken by his companions to
his father's residence in the Wandsworth-road, where
the body lies to await an inquest.