The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

SDAY MORNINO,_

INTELLIGENCE.
Ponrsatourir, Max 16.—The Prince Callimaki, the Turk-
ish Ambassador, and M. Zohrab, Ottoman Consul-General,
visited this port yesterday. The illustrious visitors put up,
at the Railway Hotel, Gosport, where, atter the inspection
cf sundry objects of interest on both sides of the harbour,
they dined, and left by the last train for London.
The Driver steam-sloop, Captain Hayes, having coaled,
left the harbour yesterday afternoon and proceeded to Wool-
wich to be paid off. She took with her the officers and
crow of the Atnphion screw steam-frigate, who have been
navigating the Odin during her " relief service." When the
Driver left Rio commodore Herbert's squadron in the River
Plate were all well ; the Brews and marines still ashore, pro-
tecting British property—consequently there are no cruizers
to prevent the clove traffic, and slaves were being landed in
thousands along the unwatched parts of the coast with the
most commercial coolness. $h
reports that the Inflexible
ststm-sloop, Commander Hoseason, had run from the Capp
to Vert Jaason, Sydney, a distance of 6,392 miles, it; it.s days
0 hours.
The St. Vincent, 120, Captt,i-.; Milne, ilag of Admiral Sir
Charles Ogle, Bart,4l,ses-ii; sails yesterday, and made the ne-
cessa7.7 Pi-eplirltions for going to Spitbewl tills day. The Cen-
t* steatllifrigate of s•4ohol'sQ V;wer, Master-Commander H.
Davy, got her steam Hp thismorning to take her out, and took
her in tc7 quarter before twelve. Urfortunately, before
sha steamer could get suLient way on her to give her fl
proper command over the St. Vincent's Illetioßk
the 'tatter
took a sheer to starboard, in i.rx:ingtp piintaract which the
steamer re"^ --:;•:kottivalatx..thr2Vg 13,road on her port, which
w4g alsqq her lee how ; aT the same time the starboard hawser
snapped, and alter a vain attempt to recover her proper pc,
sition the steamer was compelled to cast off aAttNothar, on
account of her drifting so near the ?,17;,-i.s, being pnly about
thirty feet from the CoA'ei-house watch-house. In the
mean time, Shree•rdecser, syittt only her jib set, was
rapidly seggine to leeward towsrila the beach near the
Quebec I.Tote-1, Every exertion was made to get the ship
Under canyass4 but !Afore the topsails could be got on her it
was evident the wind was not suitable to enable her. 4* W-
ther Point. The starboard anchor was imingclialety let go,
but the scope was too small for the ani.:hor to bring her up,
and she drifted; breatleiile on, to the beach, but whether she
toncbert the ground or not we will not trust our own eyes to
determine, as the opinion of the multitude was divided at to
whether the did or not. She certainly appeared in bang a
little. By the most skilful exertion; of the officers on
board she was immediately ezricated from her dangerous
position. Warps were immediately run out to the nearest
buoys, and she was got thereby further into the harbour
channel, whence, at a quarter to two, she was hauled, with the
assistance of her jib and foretopmast staysail, back to her
moorings off Stony Steps, having slipped her cable opposite
the Quebec Hotel, the occupants of which were much
frightened in consequence of be:ng bailed to get out of the
house at a time when it ,appeared very possible the ship
would strike and crush it. The hotel was deserted accord-
ingly until the danger was past. The Queen, 110, was
nearly being the destruction of the Quebec, in a somewhat
similar manner, when she left this harbour last. A. very
experienced harbour pilot, Mr. Davis' as well as Mr. Brown,
the master attendant; Mr. Bellamy, his assistant; and the
experienced master of the St. Vincent, Mr. Biddlecome,
were on board and exerted themselves to the utmost. To
attempt to describe the excitement caused by this affair
would be a work of no ordinary difficulty. It seemed as
though the inhabitants of the three towns had suddenly
fallen from the clouds upon the beach on either side of the
harbour, so instantaneously was the shore peopled with
anxious crowds. Nor was the bustle confined to the
shore; the boats of the ship, on the first alarm, were
lowered and manned, and others from the other ships quickly
joined to carry out hawsers and render assistance. Great
credit ,:se to the officers, who, by their skilful and judi-
ciorc rliiections, eitricated the ship from her dangerous

posit ion.
The Fairy Royzd yacht was taken on to the graving slip
yes:erday morning to be fitted with a new three-fan screw.
The opportunity was taken at low water to examine the state
of her bottom, in reference to Mr. Hay's composition, applied
to it two months since, when not the slightest symptom of
weed or vegetable matter could be discovered en it, whilst
the painted streak in imitation of copper had the seed of
the barnacle freely deposited on it. This result was very
satisfactory to Commander Crispin, but for whose warm re-
commendation and strenuous exertions this composition
would never have been applied to the bottA;m of the Fairy.
The Commander-in-Chief and a number of scientific officers
made an inspection of the bottom of the vessel, and it was
the general opinion that the application was a good one,
although Mr. Owen, the chief metallurgist of Chatham dock-
yard, was of opinion that the inspection was premature, and
that to juigs of the effects or value of the application it should
have been on twelve months. So far as present appearances
went, however, the opinion was general that the application
was of service to iron vessels. It remains now to be seen
whether the red lead applied to other iron vessels will have
equally beneficial effects in preventing the adhesion of
rubbish.
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