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plorable. Anterior to Barry Cornwall, the prince of
English songsters, the name of Dibdin is the most
conspicuous. And Dibdin profaned his powers to make
himself a recruiting officer for the navy. He var-
nished over the foul oppressions and cruelties which
at that time (the service is wonderfully improved
since) made a sailor's lire, to thousands, scarcely
endurable, and rendered many a man-of-war a
" floating hell." The cajolery of Dibdin co-operated
with the violence of the press-gang. If the discre-
pancy between the song and the ship be now much less
than it was, we may thank the influence of such prin-
ciples and feelings as are exhibited in the volumes
before us. They have made the old sea songs come
true at last. And if it have long been known that
" the earth bath bubbles as the water hath," the songs
of Eliza Cook, by the side of those of Dibdin, show
that the earth also Lath pcetry as the water bath;
nor will the land service yield to the marine in all
that constitutes the lowliness and power of song.
Poetry began her work in the world by chaunting
oracles and laws, assuming to be the voice of God to
man, dictating his politics and religion. And then
she sang of savage wars, the shock of battle, and the
slain dragged at the victor's chariot wheels. From
scenes of blood she sought relief in the pastoral strain,
piping to listening flocks the artless love of shepherds.
in minstrel guise, she entered baronial halls, reciting
legends of the feats of feudal chiefs. Half turning
from the banquet, she crowned the revellers with
flowers, that wine and luxury might be restrained
from excess by dainty phantasies. Her inspiring
voice has ever and anon sounded the march of patriot-
ism for the assertion of right. And, now, thanks to
such writers as the one whose likeness we contem-
plate, she sojourns in cottages and lowly homes, irra-
diating them by her presence, which, in its influences,
makes them, though all the winds of heaven may
whistle through their walls, fairer than fabled bowers,
statelier than the palace, grander than the castle, and
holier than the temple. PUBLICOLA.

THERE'S NOTHING IN VAIN.
Oh! prize not the essence of Beauty alone,
And disdain not the weak and the mean in our way,
For the world is an engine—the Architect's own,
Where the wheels of least might keep thelarger in play.
We love the fair valley, with bloom in the shade,
We sing of green hills---of the grape and the grain;
But be sure the Creator did well when he made
The stark desert and marsh—for there's nothing in vain.
We may question the locust that darkens the land,
And the snake, flinging arrows of death from its eye;
But remember they come from the Infinite Hand,
And shall Man, in his littleness, dare to ask why?
Oh ! let us not speak of the "useless" or " vile,"
They may seem so to us—but be slow to arraign:
From the savage wolf's cry, to the happy child's smile,
From the mite to the mammoth, there's nothing in vain.
There's a mission, no doubt, for the worm in the dust,
As there is for the charger with nostrils of pride;
The sloth and the newt have their places of trust,
And the agents are needed, for God has supplied.
Oh! could we but trace the great meaning of
ALL,
And what delicate links form the ponderous chain;
From the dew-drops that rise, to the star-drops that fall,
We should see but one purpose, and nothing in vain.
ELIZA COOK.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court on
_Saturday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace.
His Excellency the Duke de Broglie had an audience
of her Majesty, to deliver his credentials as Ambassador
Extraordinary fram his Majesty the King of the
French. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Mas-
ter of the Ceremonies.
The Queen gave audience to Viscount Palmerston.
Her Majesty was attended by Lord 133 ron, Lord in
Waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, Groom iu Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback
on Saturday, attended by the Hon. Miss Murray, Colo-
nel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and their Royal
Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited the Queen and Prince
Albert on Saturday, and partook of luncheon with her
Majesty and her Royal Consort.
His Royal Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh vi-
sited the Queen on Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, at-
tended by Baron de Laner, Count Oriola and Count
Groeben, visited her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians
on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by
Dr. Carswell, returned to Buckingham Palace from
Claremont, at half-past five o'clock on Saturday after-
noon.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured
the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suites con-
sisted of the Countess of Desart, the Countess Vander-
straten, Lord Byron, Major de Moerkerke, Colonel
Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary. Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Sa:s3 Weimar, and Prince Peter
of Oldenburgh, honoured the performance at her
Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, with her
presence. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses
were attended by the Countess of Sheffield, the Countess
of Assenburg, Hon. William Ashley, Count do Beust,
and Baron de Ziegesar. Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron
Hammerstein, also honoured the performance with their
presence.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
took a carriage drive on Saturday, and their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took
pony and walking exercise. Yesterday the Royal
children took their usual airings.
The Queen and Prince Albert the King of the Bel-
glans, the Ladies and Gentlemen, of the Court, and the
domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday,
in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The Hun.
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Their Majesties the Ring and Queen of the Belgians
visited her Majesty the
Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited their.-
Majesties the Kin and Queen of the Belgians yesterday.
the Queen Dowager, and his Royal
Her Majesty Queen Dowager yesterday, at
Highness the Hereditary Grand Dare of Saxe Weimar,
attended Divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal,
"
St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev.
J. V. Povah, and the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore.
The sermon was preached by the Rev.
from St. Luke, chap. 8, verse 2. The anthem was " 0
Lord give ear" (Green). The sacrament was adminis-
tered by the Rev. Dr. Wesley
The .
tier Majesty was attended by the Countess of Shef-
field and the Hon. William Ashley. Dr. Wesley,
Hereditary
Grand Duke was attended by Count de Beust.
The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in
waiting. .Among the nobility present were Ladies
Fortescue, Wilton, and St. Germans, the Duke of Beau-
fort, the Marquises of Anglesea, Ormonde, and Win-
chester ; Lords Bandon,
St. Germans, Wilton, and
Cawdor.

the Chapelll°Y
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of
St. Albans, and the Mauis of Anelesea, attended the
early service, yesterday, in
al, St. James's.
The Rev. Mr. Haden officiated, and preached the sermon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, on Saturday, at
Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at-
tended Divine service, yesterday, in St. Michael's Church,
Chester-square. Baron Knesebeck and Baroness Ham-
merstein were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses.
The Duke of Cambridge attended avine service, yes-
terday, in Grosvenor Chapel. Sir William Davison was
in waiting on his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baroness Hammerstein, honoured Viscountess
of Drawings of India and the
Palmerston with her company on Saturday evening, at
her residence in Carlton-gardens.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia,
on Saturday, at his residence in
at-
tended by Baron Lauer, Count Oriole, mad Count 6 roe-
ben, visited the Exhibition
Colonel Reid, had an
Punjaub, by the Hon. Charles Harding°, on Saturday, at
Mr. McLean's gallery.
Grey on Saturday, at the
His Royal Highness prince Waldemar of Prussia
honoured the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, with
his company at dinner,
Carlton House-terrace.
Mr. Hatnrnick, and Mr. Mr. Bond Cabbell, M.P., and
interview with Sir George
Home-office.
The French Ambassador visited Viscount Palmer-
ston on Saturday, at the Foreign Office.
Sir Benjamin Brodie,
Ed-
ward Rushton, had interviews with Sir George Grey on
Saturday at the Home Office.

have commenced running
Shoreham Harbour to Dieppe
LONDON TO PARIS.—The Brighton and Continen-
tthaleiSr Steam- ppaaccikt eettsCio.rmompasnhyor,
in five hours, and from Shorehata to Havre in six hours.
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Madlle. Rachel arrived in. LondpoarsiseonneSraitnurdtahye
from
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the St. James's Theatre this evening, in the tragedie of
Les Hyraces.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.---A novel
and most attractive exhibition took place in these gar-
dens on Friday and Saturday. The Siege of Gibraltar,
which is attracting all classes to witness it, was repre-
sented by daylight, for the gratification of the juvenile
visitors. The idea was a happy one, and we confess
that we had our doubts as to the effects that could be
produced—we were most agreeably surprised. We cer-
tainly might have reflected that as far as fact was con-
cerned the advantage was in favour of a daylight repre-
sentation, and we feel assured the proprietor may, from
the success which has attended the first attempt, repeat
the same with the like gratifying result.
fZiOn the 28th ult. serious disturbances took place at
Groningen, in Holland, on account of the excessive
dearness of food. The troops had to be called out.
They u
anda made
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their t
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as and, it is said, killed foci!
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of them very seriously..
Most of the wounded persons had taken no part in the•
disturbances, having been present only as spectators..
On the morning of the 29th order was re-established.
At Amsterdam, during the last eight days, the price of."
the four-pound loaf has been reduced five cents, about. ,
15 centimes.

• PORTUGAL.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 3.
The Dublin Steam-paeliet Company's steam-ship
Duke of Cornwall, Captain Robert Kempstone,
which has been these last three months in the service
of her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, came in this
afternoon for coal, bound to London. She left Lisbon
on the 28th of June, Oprto on the 30th, and Vigo
on the 30th. She brings English passengers—Mr.
Burnett, Mrs. Appleby and daughters, Miss Barry
and Mr. Ottley, with dispatches for the Admiralty,
and letter bags from her Majesty's ship America, her
Majesty's brig Nautilus, her Majesty's ship Gladiator,
and her Majesty's steamer Jackal.
At Lisbon—Her Majesty's flag-ship Hibernia, 104,
Captain Peter Richards ; her Majesty's ship Trafalgar,
124, Captain John M. Knott; her Majesty's ship Su-
perb, 80, Captain A. L. Corry; her Majesty's ship
Canopus, 84, Captain P. Moresby ; her Majesty's
sloop Amazon, 19, Captain James J. Stopford ; her
Majesty's steam-sloop Bulldog, Commander A. C.
Key; her Majesty's steam-sloop Phmnix, Commander
James S. A. Dennis ; her Majesty's steam-frigate
Sidon, Captain William H. Henderson ; her Ma-
jesty's steam-frigate Terrible, Captain Ramsey.
At Oporto—Her Majesty's ship America, 50, Capt.
Sir Thomas Maitland ; her Majesty's brig Nautilus,
10, Commander W. T. Rivers • her Majesty's steam-
vessel Gladiator, Captain Robb; her Majesty's steam-
vessel Jackal, Commander George Western.
The Queen's authority has been fully established
at and near Lisbon. The prisoners taken by the
British forces have in great numbers volunteered into
the royal service. The rest are sent to their homes.
The Government had issued a decree to the mer-
chants, in expectation of raising a loan on payment of
the duties at Oporto, but money was very scarce.
The harvest is promising. There is no fruit for
shipment.
The ships Royal Tar, Mindello, Oporto, and
Eighth of July, captured intthe employ of the insur-
gents, were all given up, and are now recommissioned
by the Portuguese Government.

The Spaniards, under General Concha, were vir-
tually in possession of Oporto. A skirmish took
place at Villa Nova, to the south of that city, on
Sunday last, the 27th ult., between the Queen's
forces and the insurgents, when about fifty on either
side were killed. The insurgents there are ready to
lay down their arms and surrender when they know
who is to pay their arrears for past service. The
English residents are respected and protected at
Oporto.
At Vigo the English ships which have been de-
tained by blockade were about to sail, on the 30th
ult., for Oporto.

THE SPANISH INTERVENTION
IN PORTUGAL.

BADAJOZ, JUNE 22.—Notwithstanding that the civil
war in Portugal may be said to be at an end, the Spanish
Government have not desisted from their determination
to interfere, and, in consequence, the division of the
army of operations which belongs to the district of Es-
tremadura will this day cross the frontier, and
march on Ylves and Estremcz. The force of
this division is about 4,500 infantry, three
battalions of artillery, and 400 horse, to which may be
added a few detached bodies of infantry and cavalry
which had crossed the frontier several days ago, as I
mentioned in a former letter, and now occupy Ylves,
Campo Mayor, and other cantonments on the high road
to Lisbon.

The motive assigned for this division penetrating into
Portugal is, that the Government of the Queen Donna
Maria has asked for a force of the Spanish army to occupy
the principal fortresses and towns of Alemtejo, over which
are now dispersed the disbanded forces of Sa Bandeira and
the Count Mello, to secure the public tranquillity for the
present, and give time to the Government of Lisbon to
re-organize the administration of the country, at present
in a state of the utmost confusion.

The Captain-General Nozagaray, who commands this
force, has to-day published a proclamation to the army
inculcating the utmost order and discipline in this move-
ment, and promising the severest punishments to those
who attempted in the least to injure or ill-treat the Por-
tuguese inhabitants. The detached parties of Spanish
troops which have already entered Portugal from this
place, and which were thrown forward as feelers to ascer-
tain the state of feeling of the people, were very well
received; and no doubt, should the main body of the
division which this day marches on Ylves conduct them-
selves in a temperate and orderly manner, they also will
bo well received, because the peaceable inhabitants only
seek for security for their lives and property, and gladly
receive any force which will secure them, for the present,
tranquillity in their homes.
Several Portuguese refugees have entered Spain along
the line of frontier. A depot is ordered to be formed at
Mcrido, on the road to Madrid, for their reception,
where there are given rations for the men, and a small
allowance, according to rank, to field-officers and subal-
terns. From everything I can learn from Portugal I
can safely assure you that it will be the presence of a
foreign force which can alone preserve order and
tranquillity there for the present, and that it would be
utterly impossible that a Government of any party
could re-organize the administration of the country if
left to depend on its own resources to insure peace and
order.

I follow the army to Ylves and Estremoz, and I shall
detail to you, on the spot, the features of affairs, after so
long and violent a political struggle as that which has
just ended.— Times.

THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
On Friday night, at eight o'clock, a s►eeting of Mr.
C. Lushington's general committee was held at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on the business of
the election. Mr. Henry George Robinson, of St.
George's pariah, in the chair.

G. HUGGETT, the secretary, said that since the
last general meeting several sub-committee meetings had
been held, and that gentlemen connected with various
parishes had come forward volunteering their services to
canvass their respective districts ; that some parishes
had been almost entirely gone through, and the result of
the canvass was most satisfactory.—(Hear.)
Mr. HEALEY observed that some persons had been
threatened with actions, in consequence of the circular
emanating from the society. It would be well, perhaps,
to consider what course the committee should pursue in
the event of Mr. C. Cochrane taking legal proceedings.
Mr. LEWIS, jun., said that they would hear enough of
law proceedings during the election, after which they
would hear no more. He would suggest to those who
had received letters to keep them in their pockets.
Mr. PROUT said it was stated in the report given in
the Morning Advertiser of that day of the meeting held
at the Hanover-square Rooms the previous day, that if
only one-tenth part of the allegations in the circular
were true of that with which he had been charged, that
he ought to be scouted from all decent society. What-
ever the committee had published in their circular they
would prove to be true.
Mr. GUTHRIE observed he was happy to hear the
observation, as it would leave a strong impression upon
those who had been induced to give their promises to
Mr. Cochrane.

The meeting separated, measures having been taken
o carry on the canvass.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured
the performances at this theatre on Saturday with their
presence. The royal suites included the Countess of
Desart, the Countess Vanderstraeken, Lord Byron, Col.
Buckley, Lieut., Colonel Seymour, and Major Moerkerke.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his
Imperial Highness Prince Peter and the Princess Olden-
burgh, and by their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and attended by
the Countess Assenburg, the Hon. Miss Eden, the Count
de Beust, the Baron Zeigesar, Captain Taylor, and the
Hon. William Ashley, were also present. Their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by the Baroness Hammerstein, the Baron Knese-
beck, and Mr. E. St. John Mildmay, occupied her Royal
Highness's box. Amongst the general company were
his Royal Highness Prince George, the Duke of Wel.
lington, the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Duke and
Duchess of Cleveland, and Lady Augusta Paulett, the
Duchess (Dowager) of Cleveland, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Douglas, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Camden, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of
Westminster, Marchioness (Dowager) of Sligo,
and the Ladies Browne, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, the Baroness Brunnow and Madlle. Olga de
Lechner, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Cardigan,
the Earl and Countess of Caledon, the Earl and Countess
of Jersey and Lady C. Villiers, the Earl and Countess of
Leven and the Ladies Melville, the Countess of Chester,
field, the Earl of Munster, the Earl De Grey, the Earl
and Countess of Wilton,:the Earl and Countess of Glen-
gall, the Earl of Aboyne, the Earl and Countess of
Harrington and Lady Jane Stanhope, Viscount Somer-
ton, the Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Middleton,
Viscountess Dungannon and Miss Irvine, Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, Lord and Ludy Marianne Alford, Lord
Southampton, Lord Sandys, Lord Saltoun, Lord Ribbles-
dale, Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord James Stuart,
Lady Meux, Lord Forester, Lord Macdonald, Lady
Braybrooke and the Hon. Miss Neville, Lord Burleigh,
Sir P. P. Acland, Sir G. and Lady Houston, Sir An-
thony and Ludy Rothschild, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir
H. Willoughby, Sir Henry Meux, Lady Foulis, Sir G.
Wombwell, Bart., Baron Koller, Baron Nicolay, Baron
and Baroness Lionel Rothschild, Baroness Rothschild,
Count Koudriaffsky, Miss Burdett Coutts, General the
Macdonald,
Hon. A. P. Upton, Captain the Hon. James
Chief Justice Doherty and Mrs. and Miss Doherty,
Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, Captain and the Hon.
Mrs. Ryder Burton, Mr. and Lady
Augusta Wentworth,
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rC. o lone
Hon. Mrs. Rtnhout, Hon.. W. Arbuthnot,Hon. Mrs.
Tollemache, Hon. C. Forester, Colon
el
Buckley, Bailey,
l
Gardiner, Colonel Campbell, Major
Mon-
tague Gore, Captain Smith, Captain Reynolds, Mr.
Brereton Trelawney, Mr. I'. S. Duncombe, ALP., Mrs,
and Miss Trelaveney, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Williams,
Mr. TJzielli, Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., Mr. and Mrs.
Hodgson, Mr. Errington, Mr. Broadley, Mr. Hubert De
Burgii, Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Read-
ing, Mr, Mildmay, Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Mr. and Mrs.
Huxley, Mr. Askew, the Rev. Gerard Wellesley, Miss
S. L. Fox, Hon. G. Byng, Captain Duncombe, Mr. and
Mrs.wheeler, Mr, and Mrs. E. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs.
••
Grimwood, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Majoribanks.
THE ' DEVONSHIRE RIOTERS. - Several persons
were tried at the Exeter Quarter Sessions, last week,
for the late food riots in that district, and those who
were found guilty were mostly recommended to mercy on
account of the dearth, and discharged on their own re-
.coguizances.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 4.—The Vestal, 26, Captain
Charles Talbot, arrived this morning from the China
and East India station, whereon she has been employed
the last three years and a half, under the command of
Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker and Rear-Admiral
Sir Thomas Cochrane. She left Hong Kong on the 4th
of March, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the 27th
of April, and lift on the sth of May, bringing the latest
news from that colony; passed St. Helena on the 23d of
May, but did not communicate, neither did she call at
Ascension. She has brought mails from the Cape and
squadron employed on that station, under Rear-Admiral
Dacres, the Commander-in-Chief, whose flag-ship, the
President, 50, Captain Stanley; the Conway, 26, Cap-
tain Kelley; the Nimrod, 20, Commander Dacres; and
the Medea, steam-sloop, Commander T. H. Mason, were
all in Simon's Bay when she sailed. The Helena, 16,
Commander Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, sailed from Simon's
Bay for St. Helena, Ascension, and England on the 30th
of April. The Conway, 16, Captain Kelly, was to sail
on the Bth of May (three days after the Vestal) for Eng-
land. The Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander Foote,
left Simon's Bay on the 4th of May, with a levy of
Hottentots for Waterloo Bay. Squadron all well. The
other ships not mentioned were cruising. One of
Green's fast sailing ships, the Stag, Capt. Parish, sailed
out of Simon's Bay on the 29th of April for Eng-
land. The Vestal has experienced a very long suc-
cession of fine weather, has never had double-reefed
topsails but twice, and did not take in her royals for
5,000 miles. She came up to Spithead under royals
and flying jib this morning in most gallant style, and
shortened sail and furled very smartly. The ship ap-
peared to us to be in admirable order, the effects of ex-
cellent discipline and system being everywhere visible.
She saluted the Commander-in-Chief with 17 guns.
Mr. King, late Master Commanding the store-ship
Minden :at Hong-Kong, has come home passenger in
the Vestal, the only officer from the squadron.
The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle,
returned from his inspection of the Channel Islands just
before sunset on Friday evening, when he changed his
flag from white to red at the main on board the Victory,
and all the ships at the port under his command
changed their ensigns accordingly. It is 10 years since
the flag of an Admiral of the Red has flown in this har-
bour, the last occasion being that of the late Sir Philip
Durham, when Commander-in-Chief of this port. We
are happy to state that Sir Charles Ogle enjoys excel-
lent health, and is beloved by all who know him.
While the courts-martial on the officers of the Lily
were yet pending, the Admiralty sent down orders for
her immediate paying off. Yesterday morning, however,
this order was superseded by one, by electric telegraph,
to say she is not to proceed with preparation to pay off.
The Rifleman and Sharpshooter steam-gun vessels,
both propelled by the screw, arrived at this port on Fri-
day from Woolwich, the former shortly after five o'clock,
and the latter an hour afterwards. Both vessels are
from the same design, by Mr. Fincham, master•ship-
wright of this dockyard, the Rifleman having been built
of wood under that gentleman's superintendence, whilst
the Sharpshooter is of iron, and built by Ditchburn and
Mare, of Blackwall. The engines of each vessel are of
the collective power of 200 horses, and so arranged as to
be several feet under the water-line. They are the pro-
duction of .Messrs. Miller and Ravenhill, of London, and
have been constructed on precisely the same plan. In
order to get the machinery thus low in the vessel, the
cylinders are placed on their sides, similar to those of a
locomotive engine, and the connexions made to the
driving wheel are also effected by a like arrangement.
From the trials that have been made between the two
vessels the speed has been in favour of the iron vessel,
which is supposed to be owing to some difference in the
form of the vessel in the immediate neighbourhood of
the screw aperture. In a trial of speed which took
place during their passage here the Rifleman was beaten
by the Sharpshooter apparently at the rate of one mite
per h.mr, but in consequence of the former having had
the spare gear and stores of both vessels on deck, be-
sides all the masts, spars, and rigging of the Phcenix,
weighing together not less than 30 tons, she cannot be
said to have had a fair trial with her competitor. We
understand that both vessels were considerably detained
during the night owing to the unsteady state of their
compasses. The Rifleman is to be docked immediately
with the view of making an alteration to the screw
aperture, which will, perhaps, when completed, render
her speed under all circumstances quite equal to that of
the iron vessel. Both will be commissioned at this port
by lieutenants. They were tried yesterday in the mea-
sured mile in Stoke's bay.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lusbington, was sud-
denly ordered out of harbour yesterday morning, and
out she went accordingly, and joined the squadron at
Spithead, but is not yet placed under the orders of Sir
Charles Napier.
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert was brought
down from her moorings yesterday morning to a buoy
opposite the Clarence. yard, and preparations are mak-
ing for sending her to Woolwich.
The boilers and part of the machinery for the Ajax,
56,:steam guard-ship, arrived on Friday in two merchant
vessels. On of the boilers was put on board the Ajax
yesterday.

- All th© ships composing Sir Charles Napier's squadron
are to take on board five months' provisions and water,
and to be ready on the 10th at Spithead.
The following are the promotions and appointments
for the past week:—

PROMOTION.
Mate—Philip Saumarez (1845), to the rank of Lieu.
,enaut.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commanders—Henry G. Shute, G. A. Halsted, and
George Morrett, to the Coast Guard Service.
Lieutenants—Lumley W. Peyton, from the Penelope,
to the Favourite,. vice Strangways, invalided; R. A.
Powell, to the Styx; John Parsons, to command the
Crane packet, vice Lewis; E. H. Lambert, to the
Raleigh.
Mate—John P. Miller, to the Vixen.
Naval Instructor—G. H. Mackay, to the Odin steam.
frigate.

Midshipman—Henry Decie, to the Raleigh.
Clerk—George A. Eversfield, of the Prometheus, to
be acting Paymaster and Purser of the Favourite, vice
Wilson.

Naval Cadets—F. L. Barrington, to the Odin; W.
T. W. Hambly, to the Belleisle ; A. C. H. Eckford, to
the St. Vincent.

Master's Assistants—J. M'Niel Dyer, to the Thetis ;
Charles Williams and J. B. Miller, to the Caledonia ;
David Brown, to the Victory.
ROYAL MARINES.—Second Lieutenant A. Ellis, to the
Chatham Division.

MARINE CADETS.—The following young gentlemen
have been appointed by Lord Auckland Marine Cadets
to the Excellent, gunnery ship, to study for commissions
in the corps of Royal Marines :—Mr. Whylock, son of
Major Whylock, of the Royal Marines ; Mr. Lock,
grandson of Admiral Lock ; Mr. Travers, son of Sir
Eaton Travers, Bart., and Mr. Slivery.
WOOLWICH, JULY 3.—The Garland steam-vessel,
Captain Smithett, is expected to arrive at Woolwich
on Sunday from Dover to convey the King and Queen
of the Belgians to Ostend. Their Majesties intend to
embark at W6olwich on Monday on their return to the
continent.

The Athol troop-ship, Master Commander Pearn, is
hourly expected at Woolwich to embark two companies
of the Royal Artillery for Ceylon, and will take out
large detachments of the 7th Dragoon Guards and 73d
Regiment of Foot, to join the head-quarters of their
respective corps at the Cape of Good Hope. 2 cornets,
1 sergeant, 2 corporals, 1 trumpeter, and 50 privates of
the 7th Dragoon Guards; 2 ensigns, 1 sergeant, and 42
privates of the 73d Regiment of Foot, arrived at Wool-
wich on Monday, and will remain in billets until they
embark in the Athol.
The report credited and promulgated by many re-
spectable persons of the finding of a number of doubloons
in a box in the Royal Arsenal proves to be incorrect on
inquiry of those who have the best means of knowing
officially all that takes places in the establishment.
CHATHAM, JULY 3. On Friday, the 2d inst., the
Royal Marines of this division, comprising about 700
men, including non commissioned officers, were inspected
in the square of the barracks by Major-General
Thomas William Brotherton, accompanied by the
Commandant, Colonel John Wright, K.H., and Colonel
Charles Menzies, K.H,, second in command of the
division, which was drawn up in line at eleven o'clock.
,The line was then opened, and the Major-General,
attended by his Aid-de-Camp, Lord de Ross, and Colonel
Sir John Owen, K.H., Deputy-Assistant-General
of Royal Marines, and Captain Logan, of the Royal Ma-
rine Artillery, passed up the front line and down the
rear, and inspected each company minutely. The clean
and soldierlike appearance of the men, who are nearly
all recruits, being in excellent order, gave great satisfac-
tion. The Inspector-General then proceeded to inspect
the barrack room, and the non-commissioned officers'
mess-room, containing a most excellent libraryu,taBnod
then the boys' and girls' school,. containing
children, who underwent an examination, and readyntatbibeoen
had
answers given by them proved that great attention
Sergeant
.egruallaraintyd
been paid to their instruction by their master,
William Maxwell, who was highly
occasion, and the Inspector-Geneexpressed
Inspector-General his most
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complimentedse on the
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thfirinignspaencdtitohne mapro-
ceeded to the gun-battery and
other officers at the cTonhceluosirodnne.
of the great gun exercise, as taught on board the Excel-
lent at Portsmouth. .
of the guns were directed by Captain J. T.
ma-
noeuvring
Brown. At the conclusion, the Major-General, after
paying a just tribute to the Commandant, proceeded to
Maidstone to inspect the troops there.

DEATH OF AN OLD ANGLER By DROWNING.--A
few days ago an aged angler, named William Wooton,
who had lived nearly a century of years, while pursuing
his darling avocation on the banks of " soft flowing
Avon," near Pershore, by some :mischance fell into the
treacherous stream, and being unobserved, was drowned.
The veteran was at the river side as early as eight
o'clock in the morning, and on a person going about
noon to fetch him to dinner, his basket was found on the
bank, and his hat being observed on the surface of the
water, the river was a, arched, and the body of the de-
ceased was found. Mr. Best, coroner, held an inquest on
the body, when it appeared that the deceased had been
subject to fits, and as there :could be but little doubt
that he vas so afflicted when he fell into the water,ii
verdict to that effect was returned.—Gloucester Journal.
Ctain
! WEST INDIA PINES.--The Trinity yacht,
Hounsell, has arrived in 25 days trcm the W
consigned to Keeling and Hunt, bringing
tahneesnalrteeribaderiigenosg:
consisting of 35,000 pines, a portion of
in the soil in
brought on the deck of the growingvessel,d
which they were originally planted.
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House
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IRELAND.
THE ELECTIONS.
DUBLIN, JULY 2.—The contest for the county of Cork
may be said to be virtuallyat an end, unless, indeed, the
Conservatives take heart and make a rally for their can-
didate ere it is too late. At the close of the poll yester-
day the numbers on the gross poll stood thus :
Power 712 •
Leader
Majority for Power
FALL IN THE PRICE OF GRAIN.
The corn market to-day showed a still further ten- •
dency to downward rates, and the " re-action" which
was expected to have set in at least a month before
the present time, appears to have now actually com-
menced. The splendid weather of the last week has,
of course, mainly contributed to reduce prices to their
ordinary level. The Corn Exchange report of this day
says :

--•` The continued favourable weather and the very de- ,
pressed state of the English markets have influenced our
market considerably ;to-day; even the best wheat and
oats were offered at a reduction of 2s. on the former
and ls. on the latter; but only the most trifling retail
business could be done. Prime Indian corn was held at
nearly the prices of Tuesday, but buyers generally re-
fused to purchase. Other descriptions of this grain were
unsaleable, though a very smart reduction would have
been submitted to. White wheat, 435. to 485.; millers'
red wheat, 40s. to 455.; barley, 245. to 265.; oats, 175. to
225.; oatmeal, 225. to 245. 6d.; second flour, 245. to 265.;
Indian corn, 355. to 495. (per 4801 b.)
ARRIVAL OF THE EARL OF CLARENDON.
JOLT 3.—The Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of
Clarendon and suite arrived at Kingstown at a quarter
before six o'clock this morning, and having disembarked
proceeded by special train to the Westland-row ter-
minus of the railway, where carriages were awaiting his
Excellency's arrival. The Viceregal party reached the
Lodge in the Phcenix Park at seven o'clock.
The following is from the Evening Post:—
" This morning his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,
the Countess of Clarendon, and their four children,
Ladies Alice, Mary, and Emily Villiers, and Lord Vis-
count Hyde, arrived in Kingstown harbour shortly before
six o'clock. His Excellency was attended by Mr. Corry
Cornellan, Private Secretary, and the Hon. Gerald Pon-
sonby, Assistant Private Secretary, Captain Henry
Ponsonby, A.D.C., the Hon. Captain Daly, A.D.C., and
Captain Willis, Gentleman Usher. On coming ashore
his Excellency was received by Major Turner, Master of
the Horse, and Mr. Fitzgerald, A.D.C., under a royal
salute of 21 guns, immediately after which his Excel-
lency and the Countess, accompanied by their children
and suite, proceeded to the railway station, where a
special train had been in waiting to convey them to
Westland-row; on arriving at which place, private car-
riages being there to receive them, they drove off to the
Viceregal Lodge, where his Excellency and the Countess
and suite are staying. .His Excellency and the
Countess of Clarendon have already become the patrons
of Irish manufacture. When coming ashore this morn-
ing his Excellency and the Noble Countess wore several
articles of Irish fabric, and their patronage of Irish
artisans having been reduced to practice at this early
stage of what we hope will be their lengthened career in
Ireland, the most beneficial results may be anticipated
from so auspicious a beginning."
THE ELECTIONS.
The Repealer has won the day in Cork. The gross
poll at the close yesterday stood thus—
Power ..
Leader

831
550

Majority —2Bl
The Cork Examiner sacs :
" It is stated that Mr. Leader has sent in his resigna-
tion to the Sheriff, and that Dr. Power will be conse-
quently declared elected this evening."
The Hon. Vesey Dawson (Whig) is positively to be
one of the candidates for the county of Monaghan, and
it is said that no doubt is entertained of his success as
well as that of one of the present Members (Mr. C. P.
Leslie.)
The rumour is again revived that Viscount Jocelyn,
who is extremely popular in Ireland, intends to
solicit the suffrages of the electors of Dundalk, in
succession to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, whose re-
tirement has been already notified. There is some pro-
bability of a contest for the borough of Carlow, although
as yet€,Major Layard is the only candidate who has ad-
dressed the constituency; but it is stated that Mr. John
Sadleir, of Ems, a gentleman of independent fortune.
has commenced an active canvass upon Liberal princi-
ples. The Carlow Sentinel says—
" Mr. Sadleir is a non-repealer, and declares his inten-
tion to maintain the interests of the country without
reference to party or Governments. Of the precise
nature of Mr. Sadleir's principles we are not informed,
but we suppose upon this point we shall not be long in
ignorance, as he has taken the field in earnest. The
'Liberal' electors were canvassed on Thursday last with
the view of ascertaining the precise number of suppor-
ters both gentleman could calculate upon, and if the ma-
jority were favourable to Mr. Sadleir, Major Layard
would be called upon by his friends to resign. This was
done, we apprehend, to prevent a division of the 'Liberal'
interests!'

Nevertheless, there is scarcely any doubt of the re-
election of the present gallant and popular representative.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.
TYRELLA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30.—The weather for
the last few days has been remarkably fine, and the wind
light, consequently the tides have at length ebbed out
sufficiently to allow all the work outside and inside the
ship to be proceeded with, but the boxes not being all
up, and none of them having been filled, no attempt has
been made to raise her higher; the springs did not rise
to the calculated height. By the next springs, it appears
by the progress made, 14 boxes being in places, and two
more on the move, that theitpower will be tested. The
small spars have been radidly disappearing from off the
breakwater, and are used up as shores to the upright
bulks, or the boxes themselves; and many have, under
Mr. Bremner's direction, been brought down to the rock,
in a line of four or Live yards—abreast of the engines,
remarkably close together—between and beyond the
boxes, spars, thereabout, to which they are attached by
a stout beech tree, resting on the top, and abreast of
them smaller ones, and about six feet high. This, at
first, gave an idea they were intended to sustain the
spars against the sea, should a sudden gale come on
from the southward; but Captain Claxton kindly ex-
plained to us that they were intended for a fulcrum, on
which the large spars of the breakwater were to rest with
their butts under the bilge keel, at an angle of 45 degrees;
and at the upper ends of these trees weights were either
to be suspended, or ballast laid on stages—it is presumed
in bags, so as to act like ballast-levers. The large spars
of the breakwater were, a good many of them, taken
down yesterday, and a dozen or two are being placed
to-day on this fulcrum; as they are more then 50 feet
long, and as the butts will touch the ship at about
seven or eight feet from the fulcrum, the leverage will
be very great, it is said, equal to 200 tons, and as a set
of American elm bulks are being braced together on the
strand fur a similar purpose, at the stem of the ship,
probably the power will be doubled, whilp the 20 boxes,
it is said, will be good for 800 or 1,000 tons. An officer
of the Royal Engineers, whose name we could not learn,
came down to the ship with Captain Claxton on Mon-
day, and passed some hours on the foundation of the
breakwater and afterwards in the ship. Yesterday he
was to be seen taking notes and making 'measurements
with Mr. Bremner and Captain Claxton; he is still here.
Since my last communication nothing could be much
worse, as far as the ebbing out of the tides went, for the
operations. For nine whole days the poor fellows who
had contracted to remove the still remaining portion of
the breakwater were unable to perform a stroke of work
upon it; and Mr. Crew, the head man of the smiths or
boilermakers, said he had not been able to do anything
turther inside; all hands, however, since Monday, seem
to have had their hands full, and aro making the most
of the smooth water. The interest seems to increase, if
one may judge by the numbers of carriages, cars, and
visitors; and, as she will be probably raised on the com-
ing springs (about ten or twelve days hence), it is not
likely to fall off. A large lot of stones has been col-
lected to place under her, after the plan adopted
byCap-
taino
operation, a t
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next but
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hope to do so,
nearly Claxton,which, i
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learn
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as allconnteelith t;hTeelesyhriappahr.e civil,
obliging, and communicative.—Newry

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COYENT.GARDEN.
On Saturday evening her Majesty s box was occupied by
Tn.hFer°ex.
the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe and Miss
, Esq., the Hon. Mrs. "
wM•eraenpicrestehnet thileo.Bn'elgCianl
Phipps, George E. Anson
Anson,
Aiblaajcod:Gaeldn,ertahleßßoigwllletslif
Minister and Madame Van de W
Beaufort and Lady Blanche eyer, the Duchess of
-Somerset, the Duchess of
Hamilton, the Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady
Rachel Russell, the is o Marquis
Bristol, Earl and Countess-u
off 11,)ouro, Marchioness of
all and the Ladies
Emma and Henrietta Plunkett,
the Countess-Dowager
of Essex and Miss • Johnston, the Earl of Cawdor,
Viscount Clifden, Viscount Dupplin, Count hletaxis:
Viscount Maynard, and the Hon. Misses Maynard, Lady
William Poulett, Lady Suffield, Lord Ernest Bruce,
Lord Otho Fitz Gerald, Lord Wallcourt, Lord Henry
Lennox, Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord and Lady Car-
rington, Lord Suffield, Lord George Manners, Lord
Bateman, Lord and Lady Templemore, Lord Macdonald,
the Hon. Sir Edward and Lady Butler, Hon. Mrs. Ba-
' thurst, Hon. T. Byron, Hon. Henry Chichester and the
lion. Misses Chichester, Hon. P. Barrington, Sir Wm.
and Lady Georgians Codrington,
.Hon. E. Fane, Hon.
George O'Callaghan, lion. C. Neville, Hon. Mr. Carew,
Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitz Gibbon, Hon. Mr. Plunkett,
Hon. Miss Stanley, Hon. John Fortescue, Hou. Mr.
Duncombe, Hon. Mrs. Ives, Hon. Geoffery Browne, Sir
W. de Bathe and Captain de Bathe, Sir Henry Webb,
Lady Wilson, Lady Chantry, Sir W. and Lady Moles-
worth, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Lady Jodrell,
Lady Macfarlane, Sir S. and Lady Scott, Baron Para-
vicini, Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir H. Meux, Sir R.
Lynch Blosse, Sir John Campbell, K.C.T.S , and Lady
Campbell, Sir Thomas Hare, Sir C. Kent, Lady Whych-
cote, Sir John and Lady Jervis, Lady Wilson, Sir C.
' Marshall, Lady Maclean, H. Baring, Esq., M.P., Sir
Offiey Wakeman, Bart., Colonel Rolleston, M.P.. and
Mrs. Rolleston, W. H. Gregory, Egq., M.P., C. P.
Leslie, Esq., M.P., John Stanley, Esq. M. Rebello,
Forbes Campbell, Esq., Mrs. and Miss Whitbread, John
Dennistoun, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Dennistoun, Miss
Burdett Coutts, Frank Mills, Esq., S. J. Lushington,
Esq., Captain Baillie, Mr. Ridded, Charles Wemyss,
Esq., Dudley Carleton, Esq., Windham, Esq.,
Colonel Knox, Colonel Blanc, Mr. and Mrs. Bates, Miss
Howard, Charles Greville, E: q., Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan,
E. Dclafield, E,q., Arthur Webster, Esq., Lloyd
Clayton, Esq., Henry IL Clayton, Esq., the Misses
Byrne, &c.
GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—We understand that the
Governorship of Greenwich Hospital, vacant by the
death of Sir R. Stopford, will be coaterred on Sir
Edward Codringtoll•