The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OS BORNZ, MONDAY.
The Queen and Prince took their uf ual early walk
in the Park at Osborne this mornir.g.
Th.o.otinger branches of the Ruyai Family also walked
and rode in the grounds.
The royal dinner party yesterday included thelAra`r_
qui, and Alarchioness of Abercorn. the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, and Lord John Russell. His Lordship left
o:borne this morning for London.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—Lord
John Russell, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor. .of the
Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, the Right Hon. H.
Labouchere,
_Lord Campbell, Sir John Hubhouse, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, and Viscount lifOrpeth. The
Council sat two hours.

Lord John Russell arrived in town at three 'O'clock
yesterday afternoon from her Majesty's marine residence.
Osborne, Isla of Wight.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
oflice, from the Governor of Canada; and also from the
Governors of the other North AmeriCan provinces.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 7.—The Princess Royal trans-
, port, Lieutenant Harris agent, Mr. Looney master, 33
days from Barbadoes, brought home invalids from the
following corps: Ist Royals, 19th, 54tb, and 66th Re-
giments, 72d Highlanders, 88th and 97th Regiments, and
Royal Artillery, in charge of Lieutenant Robeson, Ist
%Vest India Regiment, and Dr. Gordon, medical staff.
The following officers came home as passengers:—
Captain Spalding, R. 111., promoted from She Amphitrite;
Lieutenant Clarke, 72d Highlanders; Dr. Montgomery,
66:h Regiment, and lady; Dr. M`Cartney, medical staff;
Mr. Loney, master of the Trincomalee, invalided; Mr.
Watson, of the Quartermaster-General's department,
Barbadoes, and lady; Mr. Justine, late stipendiary
magistrate at Grenada, &c. In the Channel the
Princess Royal was run into by a Spanish Teasel,
but fortunately sustained no material damage. When
she sailed from Barbadoes that island was tolerably
healthy, but a number of men of the 66th Regiment had
died of yellow fever. The other neighbouring islands
were generally healthy. General Berkeley and staff had
recently made a tour of inspection among the islands in
the Princess Royal, which in going into St. liitt's got
ashore for a short time, but got off without damage on.
the following day. The Trincomalee was at Barbadoes
when the Princess Royal sailed, and was the only man-
of-war there, and she was about leaving for Antigua to
lay up for the hurricane months. Sho is the only man-
of-war on the windward station of the West Indies, and
consequently has more than her share of work to do; she
has been incessantly employed since she left England,
and never bad her anchor down more than a fortnight
at a time. She is very short of officers; her surgeon
having come home invalided and since died (Dr. Lam-
bert); her master is invalided; and officer of Matinee
promoted and come home, leaving only three lieutenants
and the purser to carry on the duty. Fortunately the
officers and ship's company have been generally healthy,
The Java, 50-gun advanced frigate, was taken from
the ordinary to the jetty of Portsmouth Dockyard yes-
terday, to be repaired, it is supposed prior to being com-
missioned.

The Undine steam yacht, employed in the mail
packet service on the Dover station, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday morning, in the command of Lieutenant
H. P. Jones, RN.

The Fire Queen steam tender, Mr. George Allen,
master, R.N., commanding, having disjointed her engine
gear, has been taken into the new basin at Portsmouth,
to undergo the necessary repairs.
The Reynard steam sloop, Commander Cracroft, R.N.,
sailed from Portsmouth on Sunday morning for Cork, to
juin Sir C. Napier's squadron.
DEVONPORT, SATURDAY.—The men of the outer boat-
brigade, i. e. employed on the Breakwater, &c., under
Lieut.• Col. 'Walker, commenced ball practice at the
target, on the west side of the harbour, from the Hot-
spur, moored alongside the dockyard this morning.
The 28th regiment was inspected this morning, cm
Mount Wise, by Major-Gen. the Hon. 11. Murray ; they
are about 700 men.

Wind, W.—A fine breeze.
The Emerald Isle, Buckmaster, detained for having a
large quantity of gunpowder on board, has been re-
leased, the cargo proving to be the property of Go-
vernment.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—D. A. Preston, to the Southampton, 50
gun frigate, at Chatham.
Master.—C. T. Tucker, to the Crocodile, flag ship of
Admiral M‘liay, at Cork.!
Surgeon—D. Deas, to the Southampton.
Assistant-Surgeons—W. Lawrence and W. Dairy, to
the Southampton ; W. B. bproull (acting), to the San
Josef, flag ship, at Plymouth.
Clerk—F. T. Rubins, to the Blenheim, steam guard
ship, in the Shannon.
Gunner—W. Russell, confirmed to the Griffon brigan-
tine, on the Brazils station.

THE DOTTED LIST of FLAG•OFFICERS.—A return of
the number of flag•officers on the present list who have
not served the proper time to quality them to b© paid as
Vice-Admirals:—
Admirals
Vice-Admirals
Rear-Admirals

... 13
... 20

Total ... ... 37
That is, those 37 flag-officers have not served as cap-
tains in command of ships for four years during war, cr
six years in time of peace. To show the general ab4ur-
dity of this qualification, the number of years' sorittude
of each of these 37 flag-officers should have been given;
and sp, cifjing how long they had served as captains.
(1,, admiral who was placed on the dotted or unqualified
list, we believe, had actually served five )ears and eleven
months as captain.

COUNCIL OF NAVAL ARCIIITECTUILE.—Mr. Abethell,
master shipwright of Pembroke, and Air. S. Read, mas-
ter shipwright of Sheerness, who have been at Ports-
mouth on dficial bueiness, have been ordered to return
to their respective dockyards. Air. Large, who has
most ably filled the appointment of secretary to the
committees of reference, has been ordered to return to
his duty as foreman at Woolwich.
RESERVE OF SEAMEN.—An addition of twenty-five
seaman-rigger 6 have been entered in the dockyards, on
the new arrangement fur providing a reserve force of
seamen. There were soon treble the amount of appli-
cants. A great many prime seamen are knocking about
the ports in want of employment. The Admiralty have
ordered that a certain number of the men paid off from
the Fox frigate, last week, shall be entered as seamen-
riggers, at Devonport Dockyard, as vacancies occur.
The copper 6 heathing of the Flying Fish, and King-
fisher, and the Cormorant, steam-sloop, is ordered to be
stripped off at Portsmouth, with the view of submitting
it to experimental tests.

The men of Sheerness have applied to the Admiralty
for a small steamer to be attached to that port for the
purpose of conveyii.g them to or from the ships afloat;
but their Lordships decline to accede to their request.
Would not the valuable time saved by Speedy transition
cover the expense of fitting a launch with a screw pro-
peller for the use of the workmen.
Wooewleir, AUGUST 7.—Captain Korniloff and Com-
mander Arkass, of the Imperial Russian navy, attended
at Woolwich dockyard to-day to witness the testing of
two anchors, the one supplied by Lieutenant Rodgers
and the other by Brown cud Lenox, for the Vladimir
frigate, of 1,200 tons burthen, commanded by the latter.
named Russian officer. Lieutenant Rodgers' anchor
weighed 29 cwt. 2 qrs. 9 lb., and on a test of 10 tons
being applied the deflection was found to be I
of an inch; a strain of 20 tons, f inch, and a strain of
281 to the proof strain for anchors of the same weight
and the deflection reached and on the strain
being withdrawn it returned to 3-16ths. The other arm
of the anchor was then tested, and 10 tons gave a deflec-
tion of of an inch, 20 tons 7-16ths, and 281 tons
11-161hs of an inch. At the request of Lieutenant
Rodgers an additional strain of five tons was given,
causing a deflection of one inch, which, on the power be-
ing withdrawn, returned to 11 of an inch. The addi-
tional strain of five tons made the proof the same as it
would have been had the anchor been 36 cwt. The anchor
made by Brown and Lenox, and weighing 32 cwt. I qr.
21b., on being placed in the testing frame, and a strain of
10 tons given, deflected a of an inch, with 20 tons 5-16ths
and with 30/ tons, the proof power, of an inch, and,
on the strain being withdrawn, the deflection returned
full home, as if no strain had been applied. .The other
arm, on being tested, gave very nearly the same,result,
as the first tried, the greatest deflection with the proof
power of 30i tons being 1, and returning to the exact
point from which the deflection commenced on the
strain being removed. The measurement of the deflec-
tions in both anchors was made by a rod six feet eight
inches long.

a FATHER by his SON.
7.—On Saturday last. a young man,
was committed to the Castle t
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led to a suspicion falling upon the prisoner ; but at the
inquest, held on the 20th of the same month, the jury,
after a lengthened inquiry, came to the conclusion that
there was not sufficient evidence to justify them in re-
turning a verdict of guilty against the prisoner, and he
was consequently discharged. The inhabitants, not sa-
tisfied with the result of the inquest, caused further in-
quiries to be made into the matter, when additional
evidence was obtained, and the prisoner was taken into
custody, and brought before the Rev. Mr. Potchell on
Saturday, when be underwent a final examination, which
ended in his being committed as above stated. It ap-
pears the deceased, his wife, and ton lived together in a
cottage at Corby, near Grantham; the two former led a
very disreputable life, and on the day that the alleged
murder was committed the prisoner and the deceased
were down stairs, when an altercation took place, and
his wife, who was up stairs, heard the report of a gun,
but although the prisoner told her that " bis father was
shot dead," his wife did not think it necessary to come
down and ascertain the fact, or send for medical assist-
ance! The report, however, alarmed the neighbours,
and they, consequently, entered the house, when they
found the deceased as already described. The prisoner,
iii defence, said that " the deceased met with his death
entirely from accident ; that he (prisoner) had a gun in
his coat pockets, in two parts ; the barrel, which was
loaded with powder and shot, fell from a hole in his
pocket, when the contents were discharged, and his
father was shot."

NEW CAVALRY BARRACKS —The Swansea Herald
says it is the intention of Government. immediately to
commence extensive barracks at Longcrois. near Csr-
did', which are to be on a scale sufficiently large to ac-
commodate 600 men, with their iioMmis