The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Fire Queen steam-
yacht, Master-Commander Allen, embarked their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of
Cambridge at Cowes, yesterday morning, having termi-
nated their visit to her Majesty, and brought them to this
harbour. her Highness landed at the Victoria Pier,
Portsmouth, under the usual honours, and proceeded
under the escort of the Governor (Lord Frederick Fitz-
clarence, G.C.H.) and staff to the Government House,
where the Royal Duchess was received by Lady Fitzcla-
rence, and partook of refreshment. The Duke of Cam-
bridge, attended by Sir Charles Ogle, Commander-in •
Chief, was landed from one of the royal barges at the
Clarence-yard, and proceeded to London by the 12 30
(express) train from Gosport, the carriage being brought
into the yard by Mr. Superintendent Stevens, of the
railway company. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester crossed the harbour by the floating bridge,
and left for town by the 2.30 train.
Me Myrtle steam-vessel, Master Commander Ballis-
ton, arrived on Friday night from Woolwich, to be at-
tached to this port.
The Llewellyn steam-vessel, Master Commander
Grey (acting), put in here yesterday morning on her
way to Liverpool, with a quantity of rockets on board.
She replenished fuel and proceeded in the evening. The
missiles are for service in Ireland.

The Virago steam-sloop, acting Commander Harris,
arrived here yesterday on her way to Ireland. She put
in here to make good defects, and obtain some necessary
stores, having been sent from Sheerness on Friday with
200 marines in great haste. She is now complete and
will wail this evening,
The Fairy and Fire Queen steam-yachts are both dis-
abled. The Fairy failed on Friday afternoon, and the
Fire Queen struck last evening, and was towed into har-
bour by one of the island packets.
A great number of coast-guard men have been brought
to this port from the coasts of Kent and Sussex by the
Vulcan and other revenue vessels to serve in Ireland.
They are to be put on board the Dragon, which will
leave with them to-morrow or Tuesday morning.
Wind, south; moderate breezes, and cloudy weather.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 29.—The steam-frigates Cyclops
and Driver arrived this forenoon from Portsmouth and
proceeded to the Royal William Victualling-yard, where,
between one and two o'clock P.M., they embarked the
35th Royal Sussex Regiment (900 strong), and at two
o'clock precisely started with them for Dublin, where
they expect to arrive to-morrow afternoon.
The Rifleman steamer arrived last night from Ports-
mouth, and remains in liamoaze.
The Adventure, naval transport, sailed this afternoon
with 1,600 bags of bread and other provisions for Admiral
Sir C. Napier's squadron at Cork.
The Birkenhead, steam transport, arrived at seven
o'clock this evening from Portsmouth, and after running
in abreast of Drake's Island, and signalizing some time
with the Port-Admiral, she proceeded to the outer an-
chorage of the Sound and brought up.
In the Sound—Caledonia, 120; Pantaloon, 10; Nauti-
lus, 10, and Birkenhead, steamer.

DR. TURNBULL'S CURE FOR
DEAFNESS.

[The following paragraphs, extracted from two of
our provincial contemporaries of Saturday last, will
bring to the recollection of our readers the notices which
have repeatedly appeared in this journal respecting the
treatment of the deaf and dumb by Dr. Turnbull, of 48,
Russell's-square. At present we content ourselves with
simply transcribing tho subjoined announcements.—ED.
of The Sun.]
Dr. Turnbull, of London, who has for many years
devoted great attention to diseases of the ear, appears to
have discovered a method of conferring the faculty of
hearing on deaf and dumb persons who have not decided
malformation of the ear, produced by disease or other-
wise. As far back as 1842 there was a very favourable
notice of his cures in Chandpers's Journal, and they were
attested by medical men of eminence. Having now, by
the experience of years, proved that the cure is per-
manent, Dr. Turnbull has visited Manchester, and is
now in Leeds, for the purpose of bringing his cure be-
fore the medical profession and the public. At Man-
chester he operated on eighty or ninety persons, who had
been born deaf and dumb, and of those about forty were
cured. We see details in the Manchester papers, and
we have also seen letters from Mr. Samuel Lucas
(brother-in-law of Mr. Bright, M.P.), stating that his
own son, who was born deaf; has been restored to hear-
ing by Dr. Turnbull. The doctor makes his experiments
on deaf and dumb persons gratuitously, and always in
the presence of medical men, who examine and attest the
state of the patient both before and after. We under-
stand that he is ready to do this at his lodgings, No. 1,
King-street, Leeds. Should the efficacy of the cure be
established, it will be a great blessing to mankind. The
process is painless. Dr. Turnbull intends to make it
tully known after he has decisively established it in the
opinion of medical men by the results of his public expe-
riments.—Leeds Mercury.
The Manchester papers of this month give some very
interesting details of experiments tried in that town re-
cently, for testing the success of Dr. Turnbull's treat-
ment of deafness. These reports attract our attention at
this moment the more particularly, because Dr. Turn-
bull is on a visit to Leeds for the purpose of affording
demonstration of the efficacy of his treatment. Our
Manchester contemporaries speak in eulogistic terms of
the doctor's success, which has been exemplified in the
cases of persons who were either born deaf or who lost
the faculty of hearing at so early an age as never to
have acquired the use of language. Some remarkable
attestations aro also given in favour of Dr. Turnbull's
treatment from other quarters; we may mentio❑ Cham-
bers's Edinburgh Journal, as well as Mr. Lucas, whose son
(a nephew of Mr. Bright) was a remarkable instance of
successful treatinent.—Leeds Intelligencer.