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EVENING SUN.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 21.—Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Adam hoisted his flag yesterday on board the Pique, 36,
and sails direct for his command in the West Indies.
The Dido, 18, arrived on Monday from the Mediter-
.xanean, and sailed on Wednesday to the eastward, to be
paid oft
The Samarang, 28, Captain S. Scott, arrived on Tues-
day from China, and came into harbour on Thursday, to
be paid off.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Avon, Lieutenant Com-
mander R. D. Pritchard, arrived at Gibraltar on the sth
of August, with despatches for Captain M. F. F.
Berkeley, of her Majesty's ship Thunderer •, but found
that that officer had left his ship and proceeded to Eng-
land in the Peninsular steamer Braganza. The Avon,
after towing her Majesty's frigate Vernon out cf Gib-
raltar Bay on the Bth August, returned to Portsmouth
on Tuesday last, having touched at Lisbon, which port
she left on the 10th, and Vigo on the 13th instant. The
Lizard, steam-vessel, Lieut. Estcourt, with an American
frigate and corvette, remained at Gibraltar ; the orien-
tal steamer Great Liverpool arrived and sailed again
for Malta and Alexandria on the 6th Auust ;
the Jasseur, 16, was cruizing between Malaga and Car-
thagena ; the Savage, 10, had gone to Madeira ; the
Espoir, 10, was at Lisbon ; and the Montrose, Peninso
lar steamer, arrived at Vigo on the 13th, and sailed
again immediately for Lisbon, Tagus, and Gibraltar.
The Avon spoke the English brig Caledonia, of Arbroath,
from London to Rio Janeiro .; Lively, of London, from
Liverpool to Pernambuco, and RaCehorse, of London,
from London to Trieste, in the Bay of Biscay, all well.
The Avon brings home passengers—Captain Paget and
Mrs. Steven, from Gibraltar. A private of the 7th
Royal Fusiliers was hung at Gibraltar, for the murder of
a woman in a fit of jealousy.
The Dublin, 50, Captain Tucker, went out of har
boor on Wednesday, and proceeded yesterday to Ply-
mouth, to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Thomas.
This ship was only commissioned on the II th May ;
and has been fitted out and completely manned in 'a
much shorter time than any ship we remember for her
size.

PRICE 5d

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DEVON AND EXETER. RACES—THURSDAY.
Handicap Purse of 30/4 added to a Sweepstakes of 3
sons. each. Heats, Two Miles and a distance.
Mr. Downe's Craci:sman, 5 yrs, lOst 91b
Mr. Kingsland's c by Hindustan, out of Nancy,
Dawson, 3 yrs, tist 41b•• 2 0 2
Mr. Ley's Abracadabra, 4 yrs, 7st. 1116
Mr. Budd's Adrian, aged, lOst 716 3 dr.
Wr.n by two lengths. The•second was a dead heat.
The County McmlierS' Plate of Sq. Heats,-three-quar-
tors of a mile.
General Gilbert's Stork, '5 yrs, 9$ 51b...(Cowley) 1 1
Mr. Budd's Adrian, aged, SA 131 b
Mr. Arundel's c by Rajah—Termagant, 3 yrr,
7st 416

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The Scout, Commander Larcom, has left Gillinghau
for Spithead. ..
The Alban, steamer, left yesterday, with the depot
companies of the nth Regiment, for Cork.
Fair Rosamond, schooner, arrived at Halifax on. the
20th ult. in 30 days from Portsmouth.—The hydra
steamer arrived at Barbadoes on the Bth July.—The
, Cleopatra, 26,..arrived at SL John's, Newfoundland, on
' the 22d ult.—The Victor, Commander Dawson, was at
Jamaica -on the 2d of July. -- -- -- - -
The following ships have this week been commis-
_ail' mied;,-the Wurspite, 50,-10, E,'stphsin Lord John Hay;
and the Madagascar, 44, by Captain John Foote, at this
port; the Malabar, 72, by Caprsdn'G, R. Sartorius; and
the Cambrian, a new 36, by Captain (Muds, at Plymouth;
the Isis,• 44, by Captain Sir James Marshall; and the
Aigle, 24, by Captain Lord Clarence Paget, at Chatham.
The Hastings; 72, Captain Lawrence, C. 8., sailed on
Sunday from Plymouth for Malta. The Melville, 72,
Captain the Hon, R. S. Dundas, was paid off to-day.
The Hercules, 78, at Chatham, is ordered for commis-
sion. . The Spartan frigate, 26 guns, was launched at
Plymouth on Monday, and is to be forthwith com-
missioned. The Harlequin, 18, is ordered to be
commissioned. The Heroine, 10, was launched at Wool-
wich on Monday.
The Driver, steamer, is to be armed with three hollow-
shot guns. one of them amidships, which is intended to
travel fore-and-aft, and to be used as a broadside gun.
The Princess Charlotte was taken out of, and the Bel-
lerophon into,
_dock on Thursday. • •
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTIONS.—Mates—E. M. Hogge (1829), and Da-
vid Buchanan, (Lightning), to the rank of Lieutenant.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captains—Lord John Hay, .to the
Warspite ; G. R. Sartorins, to the Malabar ; John
Foote,, to- the Madagascar (vice Bowyer) ; H. D. Chads, •
to the Cambrian ; R. A. Yates, to' the Pique ; Sir John
Marshall, C. 8., K.C.H., to the Isis ; Lord Clarence
Paget, to. the Aigle.

Counnanders—PhiNott, to the Impregnablx, Tice
Forbes, to the Illustrious.

Lieutenants—W. 11. Bridge, from the Excellent, to
the Sonthampton ; Walter Reid and W. Austin, to the
Madagascar ; Edwin W.. Sanders, to the Excellent ;
George Beaufoy, to command the Speedy ; W. Houston,
to be Flag Lieutenant to Sir C. Adam ; J.B. Dickson.
and J. A. Gordon, to the Warspite ; H. Ellis, Electra ;
J. M. Boxer, to Caledonia ; Winthrop (additional).
to flu! Illustrious ; H. G. Morris and E. B. Nott, vice
.Hodgkinson, to Siren ;E. S. Smith,-to the Madagascar.
Pursers—W. Lawes, to the Packet Establishment at
Liverpool ; Wilson, from the PaCket Establishment
at Weymouth, to the Isis ; Hobbs (additional Clerk
of th Queen), to be Purser of the Harlequin ; Mr. J.
Jacobs, to Warspi tc.
Mates—E. A. T. Lloyd, to the Madagascar -L. Ti.
Hammer, E. Inglcfield, and U. Borland, to the Lim:-
trims.
Midshipmen—C. Rowley, to the Madagascar ; F.
Warren and H. Grant, to the Illustrious.
.Volunteer Ist Class----W. R. Hepburn and J. Elliot, to
Illustrious ; J. Ward, and Newport, to Warspite ;
Iluxham, to Madagascar. •
Assistant:Surgeon—Dr. M. Burton, to the Queen.
Acting7Master—A. L. Vanzetti, to the Warspite.
Naval Instructor—T. Eastman, to the Dublin.
Cisrks—W. Donald,-in charge of Jamaica Yard ; W
H. Wiseman, in charge of Stores at Valparaiso ; J. M.
Jefferson,
,to.lmpregnable.

COAST GUARD—Lieutenants Charles Goullett, (1814),
and William Bay, (1830), to be Chief Officers.
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Indies, put in at Portsmouth on Monday, having come
in dreadful collision, in the Channel, with the Norway
barque Olsen, Captain Mattieson, from Christian-sand
to Nantes. The unfortunate accident happened between
nine and ten o'clock on Sunday night last, and from the
accounts received from the crews of both vessels, it ap-
pears to have been caused entirely from not steerinsr the
course properly defined in the navigation rules laid down
by the authorities of the Trinity House. 'The Vernon,
which is one of the first-class ships, left tho river Thames
in the latter part of last week, having a valuable cargo
on board, as well as several passengers. The Olsen was
a large three-masted vessel, having no cargo, with a
crew of fourteen individuals, besides the master, Cap-
tain Mattieson. At the time before-mentioned both
vessels were nearing the South Foreland, under a press
of sail, with a strong breeze from S.S.W., the Ver-
non bearing her course ' down Channel, and the
other in the opposite direction. Whether there was a
proper look-out or not on board the vessels is not yet
correctly ascertained, but it is asserted by the crew of the-
Vernon that the Olsen was not observed until she was
within half-a-dozen cables' length. They instantly
attempted to put the ship "about," and hailed the Olsen,
but the crew being foreigners, could not understand.
They, however, perceiving danger, used every effort to
prevent coming into collision, but without effect. The
concussion wits tremendous. The Olsen being the light-
est vessel received the most injury. The Vernon run-
ning completely into her boty,s down to the waters' edge,
carrying away her own cntwater, besides causing other
extensive eaznaze. Crt the vessels being disengaged,
it was discover* i that the Olsen was sinking.—Fortu-
nately Cap'ain Mattieson and his crew got on board
the Vernon immediately, and in a few minutes after-
wards the Olsen went down head foremost, in deep
water. The Vernon being in a very dangerous state,
Captain Gimlet lost no time in making for this port,
which he reached early on the following morning, and
landed the crew of thR Olsen and his own passengers.
In the course of Monday several vessels proceeded to
the South Foreland, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether there was any chance of raising the ship, but it
it is feared to be totally impracticable, in consequence of
her lying on her beam ends, and in very deep water.
The vessel is stated to be insured, and her loss is supposed
to be 2,0001.
OPERATIONS AGAINST THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL
GEORGE —PROPOSED EXPLOSION.—DUthT the three
weeks that have elapsed since our last notice of these
operations, the removal of the wreck has been going on
steadily and successfully, under the active superintend-
ence of Lieut. Hutchinson. More timber was got up on the
2d inst. than on any former day of the present season.
and this morning a brass 24-pounder was fished up by
Corporal Harris, being the fifth gun this season. On
the 16th inst., a charge of 1601b5., placed by Corporal
Harris, was fired against a small bank of mud, full
of staves of casks, &c., which it demolished ; and on
descending again, the corporal slung a number of large
fragments, laid bare by the explosion. The charge
was fired by a young lady, daughter of a General Officer
who was present ; and the explosion was witnessed by
the French General Vicomte be Henin, who was in
Sir Edward Codrington's yacht at the time with his
family. A very great improvement in the mode of get-
ting up the timbers of the wreck (suggested by private
J. Skelton, one of the military divers, who is also a good
mechanic), has been in full operation this season.
Every diver is provided with an iron pricker, with
which he feels for large timbers buried under the mud ;
on discovering any of which he introduces an iron dog
below it, with an eye at top, to which a strong rope is
attached, and worked by the men at the crab or capstan
of the lump from which he descended. Thus the floor
timber, or whatever it may be, is raised above the sur-
face of the mud ; after which the diver, wfio stands by
watching this process, interchanging signals with the
men above, attaches chain slings to it, by which it is
finally raised. Without this ingenious though simple ex-
pedient, not above one-half of the masses of wreck re-
moved this year could have been got up. On Wednes-
day next, the 25th inst., another charge of 6501b5. will be.
fired at three o'clock, which will probably be the last of
that magnitude this season, though smaller charges will
be fired from time to time, whenever the state of the
bottom may render it necessary.

On Friday evening, about seven, two persons
one a fine youth apparently eighteen, of the name of
Mason ; the other about eight, of the name of Wallis,
were drowned in. a reservoir of water communicating
with the River Lea, and close by the White Hart
public-house at Temple Mills, near Xackney-marsh. it
appears they were both from Stratford, and were amusing
themselves catching small fish, when the younger
one fell in, and while struggling in the water, the other
(Mason) went in to rescue him, when, unfortunately,
both were drowned. Fifteen minutes elapsed before they
could be got out.
The extreme length of the judgment of the Privy
Council, delivered by Lord Lyndhurst, in the case of
" Wood v. Goodlake, Helps, and others," and the nu-
merous points it involves, hare rendered it difficult for
ordinary readers to understand its decision. We are
happy to state, that divested of its technicalities, and
freed from the obscurity which veils the import of long
legal disquisitions from common eyes, it decides the
mare question in favour of Alderman Sir Matthew Wood,
who takes under the will now established a very large
j amount of property.