The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-17 00:00:00

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE

Lau. 15.—0 n Monday evening the First
Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Ellenborougb, accom-
panied by Admiral Bowles and Captain Brandreth, arrivedat Moorhead's Hotel, where his Lordship held a levee
Tuesday morning.
After inspecting the Dockyard, his Lordship went on
board the Belleisle troop-ship, Captain Kingcombe, and
subsequently visited her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, Captain
Sir 11. J. Leek, and her Majesty's ship Albion, 80, Captain
N. Lockyer. His Lordship spent two hours on board the
latter, and went twice over her. The crew were mustered
at divisions, and by the excellent manner in which they
performed their duties elicited the admiration of his Lord-
ship, who appeared highly pleased.
In the evening his Lordship, and the other memberss of
the Board of Admiralty, dined with the Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., at the Admiralty-
house, where the heads of public departments, with their
ladies, and the gentry of the neighbourhood were assembled.
To-day his Lordship inspects the Royal William Victual-
ling-yard and the Royal Naval Hospital, and at half-past 6
o'clock gives an official dinner at the hotel. At 9 o'clock the
Earl and the other members leave for Exeter, where they
sleep, and to-morrow return to town,

His Lordship is unaccompanied by a secretary, and his
visit here is quite of a routine character. He is very minute
in his inquiries, and takes notes himself. The Board do not
proceed immediately to inspect the Arsenal at Pembroke as
first intended.

THE CORN BILL AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS---We
have never been amongst those impatient and querulous
people whose tempers cannot bear the stoppage or the dila-
tory progress of the great measures now before the House of
Commons. Never having viewed the House of Lords as a
body particularly likely to be overcome by a rush and a
shout, when it would resist a more deliberate and methodical
att ck, our confidence in the final passing of Sir Robert
'Peel's great measures has not been at all shaken by their
postponement until after Easter, and the delays experienced
and in prospect from the introduction of the Irish Coercion
Bill. We believe that the best chance for the ultimate suc-
cess of the Corn Bill in the House of Peers will be found in
giving their Lordships ample time for consideration before
they commit themselves by voting upon it. While the con-
versions from the ranks of monopoly are numerous and im-
portant, we hear of no deserters from free trade; and it may
possibly turn out that Lord George Bentinck and his friends,
by the delays which they have interposed to the passing of
the Bill in the Commons, have been really engaged in se-
curing its success in the Lords. We are glad to learn, from
a variety of sources, that opinion in well- informed circles in_
London now runs very decidedly in favour of the p.asstlloar
the Bill through the Lords. The current estimate
majority of about twenty—some say twenty-tfo
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live—has already been secured,
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further concessions, from the change ?,,,ouse.....diran_
taking place amongst Members of the Upper
chestcr Guardian.
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station at this place, discovered
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put off with a boat's cre‘ir.
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tubs of foreign spirits.ee
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