The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

THE GREAT BRITAIN.

TYRELLA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30.—The weather fur
the la.t 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 th..
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 appear
by the progress made, 14 boxes being in places, and two
more on the move, that their power will be tested. The
small spars have been radidly disappearing from off the
breakwater, and are used up as shorts 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 five 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 or,
from the southward; but Captain Claxton kindly ex
plained to us that they were intended for a fulcrum, on
which the large sparsof 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 for a similar purpose, at the stem of the ship,
probably the power will be doubled, while 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 th.-
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
further inside; all hands, however, since Monday, seem
to have had their hands full, and are 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 corn-
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 by Cap-
tain Claxton, which has succeeded in keeping her up
nearly five feet. It is said Mr. Bremner has contrived a
very ingenious mode of assisting this operation, but I
have not been able to learn the process; by my next I
hope to do so, as all connected with the ship are civil,
obliging, and cotnmunica4ive.—s-elvry Telegraph.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVEN T.GARDEX.
On Saturday evening her Majesty's box was occupied b)
the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe and Miss
Macdonald, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, the lion. Col.
Phipps, George E. Anson, Esq., the Mon. Mrs. Anson,
Major General Bowles. There were present the Belgian
Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Duchess 01
Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, the Duchess of
Hamilton, the Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady
Rachel Russell, the Marquis of Douro, Marchioness of
1 Bristol, Earl and Countess of Fingall and the Ladies
Emma and Henrietta Plunkett, the Countess-Dowager
of Essex and Miss Johnston, the Earl of Cawdor,
Viscount Clitden, Viscount Dupplin, Count Metaxa,
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 Georgiana Codrington, Hon. E. Fane, Hon,
George O'Callaghan, Hon. C. Neville, Hon. Mr. Carew,
Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitz Gibbon, Lion. Mr. Plunkett,
Hon. Miss Stanley, Hon. John Fortescue, lion. 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,
Sir S. and Lady Scott, Baron Para-
Ladygham Graham, Sir H. Meux, Sir R.
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Camp e , Sir Thomas Hare, Sir C. Kent, Lady Whych-
L'icnincih'3'BlSacliorr:Brel,ealuSleiinir John Campbell, K.C.T.S., and Lady
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Marshall, Lady Maclean, H. Baring, Esq., M.P., Sir
Bart
cote, Sir John and Lady Jervis, Lady Wilson, Sir C.
Offley Wakeman, ~ Colonel Rolleston, M.P.. and
NI P John Stanley, Lq., M. Rebello,
Leslie, Esq., i • ..
Irs and Miss Whitbread, John
Forbes Campbell, Esq., b .
and Mrs. Dennistoun Miss
Mrs. Rolleston, W. H. Gregory, Esq., M.P., C. P.
Dennistoun, Esq., M.P., .- Esq.,'
14.'Sq., Captain Baillie,
Burdett Coutts, Frank
Esq., Dudley Carleton, Esq., ---
Colonel Knox, Colonel Blane, Mr. and
'Howard, Charles Greville, Esq.
S. Ja.rieLsulsvhiennigtosns,
Windham, Esq.,)'
Mrs. Bates, Miss
Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan,
E. Delafield, Esq Arthur 'Webster, Esq., Lloyd.
Mr. Riddell, Ch
Clayton, Esq., Henry 11. Clayton, Esq.,
Byrne, &c.
GREENWICII HOSPITAL.—We understand that the
Governorship of Greenwich Hospital, the Misses
vacant by the
death of Sir R. Stopford, will be conferred on' Sir
Zdward Codringtom