The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26. Rear-Admiral Phipps
Rornby and suite embarked this morning in the Asia,
84, and will sail to-morrow for the Pacific.
The remaining companies of the 69th Regiment, em-
barked from the Clarence-yard, yesterday, in the Maria
Somes transport, and were to have sailed to-day for
Malta, for which purpose the Echo steamer was got
ready to tow her out. Orders were, however, received
to detain her twenty-four hours.
Rear-Admiral Shirreff, superintendent of this dock-
yard, we regret to say,las been dangerously indisposed.
We hear, however, this afternoon, the gallant officer
is somewhat better.

The President, 50, Captain Stanley, flag of Rear-Ad-
miral J. R. Dacres, Commander-in chief on the Cape of
Good Hope station, was at Port Louis Mauritius, on the
15th of September, a letter from her, of which date,
says,—" We arrived here on the 11th of this month,
having left Simon's Bay on the 21st of August. We had
been ready to sail for two months, but the Admiral
could not get any letters from England, and he had not
received any English letters for more than five months
from the Admiralty, and he would not start until he
received some. When we left the Cape I didnot see any
chance of the Kafir war being settled. Everything as
going on just the same at Simon's Bay as before, and no
changes. We had rather a rough passage up, but got on
very well. We shall take a cruise down the Mozam-
bique on our return to the Cape. We shall remain here
about a month or six weeks, but not longer. . . . The
Brilliant, 26, Captain Rundle D. Watson, is here, but is
going to take an officer of the Ceylon Rifles to Johanna
and Madagascar, to try to get recruits for that regiment.
I send this by the Benjamin Brook Green, one of Blyth's
Indiamen ; she made a passage out here in 62 days, the
shortest ever known. Sbe was built by White, of Cowes."
The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle,
Bart., entertained the following distinguished party at
his mansion this evening :—Sir John Burgoyne, Col.
Armstrong, commanding the Royal Artillery in this
garrison • Major Calamy, RN., and Mrs. Calamy ;
Major and Mrs. Lethbridge ; Captain Yates, R.N. ; Mrs.
Talbot, Mrs. Ogle, Captain and Mrs. Savage, R.M.A. ;
the two Mrs. Baynes ; Captain Baynes, R.N. ; Captain
Larcom, R.N. ; and Mr. Pennel, storekeeper of this
dockyard ; Commander Crispin, R.N. ; and Flag-Lieu-
tenant Cochran, Sir Charles commences his series
of banquets and balls about the middle of next month.
Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzelarence, the Go-
vernor‘entertained the following circle at the Govern-
ment-house last evening :—Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, G.C.H.; Colonel M'Callum, Second Com-
mandant of the Royal Marines ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Ballinghall, R.M. • Sir George Wombwell ; Captain
Sherringham, R.N.; Major Lethbridge, R.A.; Com-
mander Crispin, R.N. ; Major Crombie, 60th Rifles;
Colonel Nesbitt, 60th Rifles; Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon,
R.M.; Captain Manners, Governor of Southsea Castle;
Mr. T. T. Grant, F.R.S., of the Clarence-yard; Mr.
Branche (ex-Mayor of Portsmouth); Rev. H. A. Veck,
of St. John's, Forton, and Chaplain to her Majesty's
Forces in Forton Barracks ; Mr. Stewart, Ordnance
Department; Dr. White, Staff Surgeon; and Rev. W.
MitchelL

In Harbour—The Victory, Excellent, Victoria and
Albert, Blenheim, Bellerophon, Terrible, Oberon, Light-
ning, Undine, Fairy, Myrtle, Echo, Cockatrice, and
Maria Some&

In the Basin—ThePrince Regent, Retribution, Firefly,
Swallow, and Rocket. _

In Dock—The Leander, Ajax, Kite, Sappho, Orestes,
Emerald, and Rifleman.

On the Slips—Royal Frederick, Princess Royal, Ar-
rogant, and Plumper.
At Spithead—The Asia, 84.
Wind E., light breezes, weather foggy, with incessant
rain.

SHEERNESS, Nov. 26.—Nearly all the energies of this
establishment are concentrated on the fitting of the
Plover brig, to proceed in search of Sir John Franklin.
She is to be ready by the 20th of next month, as she is
to sail on the Ist of January, 1848.
Fifty additional shipwrights, 10 joiners, and 20 la-
bourers are to be hired until the 31st of March to expe-
dite this and other pressing work, and they are besides
to work extra time.

CHATHAM, Nov. 26.—The Ganges, 84 guns, was
towed into this harbour on the 24th inst., by the African,
Cuckoo, and Fearless steam•vessels, to have her masts,
shifted, and to be taken into dock to have her copper
cleaned.

The Waterwitch, 10 guns, Commander Birch, was
paid off on the 24th into ordinary.
The Cyclops steam-vessel came into harbour yester-
day. She is now alongside the sheer hulk receiving her
masts. She returns to Sheerness to be fitted.

—....—. —..------ -
The Meander, 44 guns, Captain the Hon. Henry Kep-
poepl,seaindock,to
is having her bottom new
pebe completed by the dock-
cred. fitting
Shefor is ordered
yard on the 18th of next month,
The Daphne, 18 guns, in dock repairing and fitting
for sea, has had her bottom re-coppered.
The Goodwill, Pledge, master, and the Duck, Savage
master, remain loading for Woolwich and Deptford
yards.

ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.
(From th© Athenaum.)

We were the first to announce, a fe;v weeks ago, that
Government purposed taking immediate steps to send
out expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and his
party—and have since been earnest in pressing, on the
plea of the public anxiety, that nothing might be
omitted or postponed which the real circumstances of
the case demanded. We are now enabled to present our
readers with the following particulars, which proceed
from the highest official authority. Thre© expeditions
will be sent to the Arctic regions: one will be dispatched
in the course of a few days to Baring's Straits; the
second will sail early in the ensuing spring to Baffin's
Bay, and will be under the command of Sir James
Ross; and the third will consist of an overland expedi-
tion to be placed under the direction of Sir John Ri-
chardson.

The boats, with their crews of twenty men, belonging
to the last-named expedition went out to Hudson's Bay
during the late summer; and intelligence of their sate
arrival at York Factory and departure for the in-
terior has reached this country. They were to
winter at Cumberland House or at Saskatchewan
River; and as soon as the navigation opens in
the spring are to resume their voyage to the Mackenzie
River. Sir John Richardson and another officer will
leave England in March next for Canada ; and byte
veiling in light canoes by the usual route of the fur-
traders to the north-west, they hope to overtake the
boats in July, and with them to reach the Arctic Sea in
the beginning of August, with an ample supply of nu-
triti ,us and solid food. The intention of this party is to
track the coast to the eastward of the Mackenzie River,
to communicate with the various tribes of Esquimaux,
in expectation of gleaning some tidings of the discovery
ships ; to examine Wollaston Land, and trace, as far as
practicable, any inlets that may lead to the north : to
erect landmarks on various headlands, with written
communications buried underneath:; and, when the sea-
son closes, to repair to winter quarters at Great Bear
Lake, by the Coppermine River. The boat parties to be
sent out from the vessel which is to winter within
Behring's Straits, together with parties over the
to
the spring, will, it is hoped, fully explore the
westward of the Mackenzie ; and, as one of Sir ,Tames
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mine River. The search of the coast and of Wollaston
and Victoria Land will be resumedli:li:
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the first year that he has been enabled to clear Bch-
ring's Straits this October ; in which case they look for
tidings either through Russia or by the Isthmus of Pa-
nama, in February next. He heel provisions enough, it
seems, to enable him to winter the season in the Arctic
Sea, if he had penetrated so far to the west as to render
the prospect of his passing Behring's Straits next sum-
mer such as to make his stay a third winter expedient.

STOPPAGE AND RE-OPENING OF A PUBLIC PATE.—
We announced in our last that Mr. Campbell Wyndham
had closed the entrance to one of the most favourite
walks in his locality. A party of" nt,beccaites," strong
in number and resolution, repaired to the spot at an early
hour on Wednesday night, and speedily opened the
communication through the park. They found that the
posts were sunk several feet deep, and that the barriers
were very strongly put together ; but, by dint of hard
work, the boarding was removed and the posts sawn off
a little height from the ground. It is said that the
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certain it is the path is now open to the public.—Sher-
borne Journal.