The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

* A double return.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.-Rear Admiral Hyde
Parker, C. 8., acting Commander-in-Chief, he been
employed to-day in mustering the crews and inspect-
ing the Agincourt, 72, and Curnoa, 24, prior to, their
proceeding to their respective ports to be pai St off.
Captain Chads, C.B. of the Excellent, also offi aially
exercised the crews Of these ships in gunnery OD as•
certain their proficiency, which yielded a result b tighly
satisfactory to the Commander-in-Chief.
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.JC.B.,
struck his flag on board the Agincourt at aunt it last
evening.
The Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander J. Bay,
sailed last evening for Woolwich to be paid off.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager is expec tud to
arrive at this port to-morrow morning en rc ,t 4 to to
Ryde, Isle of Wight, at the Pier Hotel of viThich
fashionable watering-place it is said her Majest y will
sojourn until the Howe, 120, is ready to convt t:f her
to Madeira.

FACTS REGARDING SALMON.—TWO years Ai ro, a
number of foul fish were taken in the Tay, by oi er of
Lord Glenlyon, now Duke of Atholl, and marl :e I by
having a medal attached by a copper wire to the dead
fin, or fasten( dto the tail, the medal having the name
of his Grace and the number of the fish engraved. ;One
of the fish was retaken last season in the Tay, about
three months after it had been marked, when its as 'eight
was found to have increased from 31 lbs. to 2l'. lbs.—
17f lbs. in three months ! Another of the marl d fish
was taken on Saturday last in the same river. Its Is 'eight
was 181bs. The reason assigned for this fish not b eying
grown better is, that the wire round the tail vas too
tight, the akin being cut all round.—Dundee Ad ve rtiser.
ANCIENT RELICS.—The discovery of humat a bones
by the workmen engaged in preparing the gro aad for
the railway terminus at St. Leonard's, in Per t. h, has
been followed by other and more extensive r e mains.
Several stone coffins of Saxon workmanship ha v e bean
come to, containing burnt clay urns, with a s hes in
several cases; showing that this had been a publi c bury-
ing place lung ere the Catholic days. A very s igular
discovery has also been made of a Roman road,, many
feet below the present surface, and immediately 1, slow a
deep bed of clay. Perth, or Victoria, is well kn o ,wn to
have been one of the principal Roman stations r: sorth. of
the Forth; and the remains of the roads commur citing
with the camp at Ardoch in the west, and at De
,1 yin on
the Tay, are still to be seen.—North British Mail:
PROPOSED DINNER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL AT :NEW-
CASTLE.—A special but private meeting of the re embers
of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce "I is held
yesterday to consider the propriety of evincing 7, their
sense of the services rendered to his country by 'Sir ii,.
Peel, an opportunity for such an expression of feeling
being likely to ariie in consequence of the ugh t Hon.
Baronet's visit tei Wynyard next week, to be pre tt ,nt at
the marriage erf the Earl of Portarlington and Lady
Alexandrine Vane. We understand that the ch: ti rman
of the meeting (Mr. W. Armstrong, one of th e vice.
presidents of the chamber,) %%as authorised to cc imu-
nlcate with Sir Robert Peel with the view of obt al ning
his attendance at a public dinner, which it is pro, eosed
to give in hie honour.—Newcastle Advertiser.
and
den 7a. veryper
lb. arehi
We are sorry to say that, as far as the seascin has
gone, the ss.lmon fishing on the Clyde and its es tus tries
has
unproductive.gherCotbnasnegautentthlyis theseo
coaEk
prices,
9d.
former years.—Greenock Advertiser.