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[PRICE SD.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

IRELAND.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Sampson steam-frigate,
Captain T. Henderson, sailed this afternoon for Wool-
wich, to be paid off. The freight she brought on mer-
chants' account, amounting to 2,500,000 dollars (65 tons
16 cwt. of specie), was taken up from the Portsmouth
terminus of the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway to London-bridge by a special train, which
started at three o'clock this morning, under the charge of
Mr. Superintendent Sutton and special guards.
The Plumper screw steam-sloop, Commander M.
Nolloth, went to Spithead to-day, saluting the Com-
mander•in-Chief's flag as she passed the Castle. Before
she left the harbour, her crew were paid two months'
wages in advance. She tried her speed on the mile in
Stokes Bay for some hours before she finally anchored.
The following was the result.—The mean of five runs,
with 44.8 revolutions, or 112 of the screw, steam 141 b.,
vacuum 264, produced a speed of 6 497 knots per hour.
Her load draught was 12 feet 2 inches forward, and 12
feet 4 inches aft; consumption of fuel, 51- cwt. per hour
at the above rate; slip of the screw 10 per cent. On the
trial of the Reynard, sister vessel, Commander Cracroft,
last week, the result in her case was 7.059 knots per
hour, but the slip of her propeller, owing to the swell
caused by a strong southerly wind, amounted to upwards
of 19 per cent., or 7 per cent. more than on any previous
trial. Both vessels are now at Spithead, the Reynard
having gone out of harbour yesterday, saluting as she
went the Commander-in-Chief's flag.
The St. Lawrencs, American frigate, Captain Pauld-
ing, arrived at St. Helen's last night from the Baltic.
She weighed at 11h. 30m. A.M. to-day, and proceeded to
work deliberately through Spithead and the Solent to
the Motherbank, turning in and out among the ships of
Sir C. Napier's squadron quite at her ease, and taking
no more notice qrll3oe. flag,ship there or the one in the
,harbour than ihe-bid.nf the royal standard at Osborne or
of the Powerful when she passed to the eastward on the
4th of October.

DUBLIN, DEC. I.—There is little intelligence of in-
terest in the provincial journals received this morning.
LIBERATION OF PRISONERS FROM NEWGATE.—On
Wednesday evening the following persons, who had
been confined in Newgate under the Habeas Corpus
Suspension Act, were liberated on bail:—Dr. West, on
the certificate of the medical gentleman, who stated that
longer confinement would be fatal to his health; Mr.
Timothy Sexton, Mr. Edward Trouton, L.nd Messrs.
Bryan and Bergin, natives of America, who had entered
into sureties to leave this country forthwith.
MR. HALPIN.—Mr. Halpin, the Secretary of the Irish
Confederation, has been, at his own request, removed
from Naas to liilmainham gaol. He was in almost
solitary confinement in the former prison for nearly
three months.

THE LORD MAYOR.—The Lord Mayor was yesterday
elected a town councillor for St. Patrick's Ward, by a
majority of 53 over J. A. Purcell, Esq., barrister, who
stood on the Conservative interest. At the close of the
poll the numbers stood, for
The Lord Mayer ... 98
Mr. Purcell ... .•• ... 45
Majority
THE NIMROD STEAMER.—This steamer, Captain Pile,
belonging to the Cork Steam-packet Company, on her
voyage from this port to Liverpool, fell in with, on the
13th inst. in lat. 47, long. 9, the Elizabeth, Scott master,
from Zante, laden with a valuable cargo of fruit. The
Elizabeth having been dismas6d at sea, jury masts were
erected, but the unfortunate vessel was totally un-
manageable, and had been drifting about for some days.
Captain Pile instantly bore dowa on her, when the first
cry of her crew was for food, their own having been
completely exhausted. Meat,- bread, and brandy were
immediately supplied from the Nimrod, which "as
quickly demolished amid fervent prayers of thankfulness
from the famished mariners of the Elizabeth. Captain
Pile then took the Elizabeth in tow, and arrived with
her in Liverpool in safety. Every credit is due to Cap-
tain Pilo fbr his timely assistance, as were it not thus
given, there was every chance of the Elizabeth being
totally lost. Captain Pile and crew have lodged a claim
for salvage on vessel and cargo for 1,000/.---Curk Con-
stitution.

The Rifleman screw-schooner, Lieutenant S. S. L.
Crofton commanding, was nndocked this afternoon.
In Port and Fitting—Victory, 22, flag-ship; Illus-
trious, 10, ordinary guard-ship ; Excellent, gunnery
exercise ship ; Victoria and Albert, Royal yacht ; Su-
perb, 80; Blenheim, guard. ship for steamers; Rolla,
exercise brig for naval apprentices; Sharpshooter, Rifle-
man, Fairy, Fire Queen, Echo, and Bee steamers; Fanny,
Port Admiral's yacht ; Portsmouth, Admiral Superin-
tendent's yacht.
At Spithead—St. Vincent, 120 ; Prince Regent •,
Powerful, 84 ; Orestes, 14 ; Stromboli, Reynard, and
Plumper steamers.
In Dock—Princess Charlotte, 104 ; Collingwood, 80;
Pembroke, 72; and Flying Fish, 12.
In the Ship-basin—Defence, convict depot; Vindic-
tive, 50 ; and Malabar, coal depot.
In the Steam-basin—Ajax, steam-block ship ; Retri-
bution and Centaur, steam-frigates ; Cormorant, Sala-
mander, and Phoenix steam-sloops ; and Otter and
Jackal steamers.

DALHEY ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.—The Dalkey
Railway, which has been stopped for some days, in con-
sequence of an accident to the valve of the air-pump,
was re-opened yesterday with a locomotive engine. To
effect this the Princess engine has had her chimney cut
down, so as to pass under the low arches and tunnels on
this line, and a cover, or shield, has been placed over
the engineers, to guard against accident. The water-
tank has been lessened, in order that it might pass over
the tube, and other necessary alterations have been made
to guard against delay or accident. Yesterday the
Princess made her trial trips, first with one, and then
with two carriages, laden, and performed the journey most
satisfactorily. It will be recollected that both curves
and gradients are very severe on this line. The average
gradient is 1 in 115, and in one part it amounts to 1 in
57. The sharpest curve has a radius of less than one-
third of a mile. The car-drivers took every advantage
of this brief stoppage of the traffic, and insisted upon
Bd, and ls. each for conveyance to and from Dalkey
and Kingstown. The railway will be re-opened in a
few days.
LORD ROSSE'S MONSTER TELESCOPE.
The Rev. Dr. Robinson, at a meeting of the Royal
Irish Academy on Thursday, said he would beg leave
to notice a fact of some interest, which he lately
observed with the Rosse telescope—it related to a
remarkable planetary nebula, Herschel's figure 45. This
looks like an oval disc, reminding one of the planet
Jupiter; but it appeared to be a combination of the two
aysters which he had formerly described, In both these
the centre consists of a cluster of tolerably large stars;
in the first, surrounded by a vast globe of much smaller
ones—in the other, by a flat disc of very small stars,
which, when seen edgeways, has the appearance of a
ray. Now this nebula, which he had recently observed
through Lord Rosse's telescope, has the central cluster,
the narrow ray, and the surrounding globe. He would
also add, as a remarkable proof of the defining power of
this vast instrument, that he saw with it the companion
of the well-known Gamma Andromedae, or two blue
stars, which he had never before seen. It was disco-
vered by the celebrated Strue, with the Pulkova Re-
fractor, and is a very severe test. He further wished to
mention that, as La Place had anticipated, the ring of
Saturn, which was quite visible, showed irregula-
rities, which are most probably mountains on its east-
ern side. The Rev. Gentleman was loudly applauded
on resuming his seat.
The President expressed the high sense which he
entertained of the value of Dr. Robinson's discovery, as
to the effect which may be produced by the application
of the electric current to platina wire; and observed that
the society must feel deeply indebted to the Rev. Gen-
tleman for the valuable and interesting information
which he had afforded them on that point, and also with
regard to the nature of the nebula, as shown by Lord
Rosse's telescope.
RIOT AND AFFRAY, WITH LOSS OF LIFE.
On the night of the 21st instant a party of idle fellows
went into Robert Service's public-house, at Rashee, near
Ballyclare, and commenced to play cards. The owner
of the house hearing of it, went into the room and
ordered them out, but they did not go. Service,
having to attend at his bar, left them ; and, in the
meantime, Robert M'Meekan and two others (uncon-
nected with the former party) came into the room, and
almost immediately a fight commenced (the cause of
which is unknown), which so far ended in the former
party being beat out of the room, and to the road ;
but in about ten minutes returned with a strong
reinforcement, and attacked the house with stones.
Unfortunately, however, M'Meekan and his friends went
out, and were instantly assailed by the mob, who had,
in the mean time, armed themselves with dangerous wea-
pons. M'Meekan's two friends were knocked down; but
the poor fellow himself was so brutally beaten and in-
jured, having received twelve cuts in his head, and his
skull fractured with a shoemaker's hammer, that he was
left for dead upon the road. It would appear that he
was the principal object of their revenge; for, as sown as
he fell, the mob dispersed. M'Meekan was then conveyed
in a state of insensibility to a neighbouring house, where
medical attendance was procured for him, but of no avail.
He lingered till Monday, 27th, when death put an end to
his sufferings. On Tuesday an inquest was held on the
body, by Alexander ,Markbam, Esq., coroner, and a
jury, when, after a patient and searching inquiry, the
following verdict was returrred, viz. :—" That Robert
M'Meekan's death was caused in consequence of blows
which he received in the head with [dangerous weapons,
in a riot and affray at Rashee, on the night of the 21st
of November instant, which fractured his skull and
caused compression of the brain, said blows having been
inflicted by Robert Hunter, Samuel Todd, Robert Wilson,
and Samuel Todd ; and that William Buchannan and
Robert Finlay were aiding and assisting, and taking
part in said riot and affray." One of the witnesses
proved that he saw one of the Samuel Todds (Tom's
Sam) striking some person furiously with a shoemaker's
hammer, who, he has no doubt, was the deceased, and
that he sprung in and took the hammer from him,
which is now in the custody of the police ; and another
proved that he (Todd) came into her houso just before
the " hurry" commenced on the road, and took a shoe-
maker's hammer away with him. This same Todd and
Robert Wilson had been arrested by the constabulary of
Ballyclare, under a warrant from J. Smyth, Esq., J.P.,
and were fully committed to Carrickfergus :gaol by the
Coroner, to abide their trial at the next assizes ; and it
is hoped that all the others concerned in this disgraceful
outrage will be made amenable, as warrants have been
issued for their apprehension. M‘Meekan was the son
of a respectable nurseryman of that name near Doagh,
and was a sober, well-conducted, industrious young man,
only 22 years of age.—Northern Whig.

The royal steam-yacht Fairy, Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitnlarence, was dispatched yesterday from Portsmouth
to Southampton, to embark the Premier and convey him
to East Cowes, the Noble Lord being invited to
Osborne.

The Reynard screw 12-gun schooner, Commander
Cracroft, left Portsmouth harbour for Spithead, to join
the squadron under Sir Charles Napier's ,orders, on
Thursday.
Wind W., fresh breezes and cloudy.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 30. The Amazon, 19, Captain
Edward N. Troubridge, lately paid off at this port after
arriving from the Mediterranean, came down to the
Sound to-day and saluted the flag of the Commander-in-
Chief in passing. She has been refitted and repaired
while in Hamoaze, and is now as trim a looking frigate
as any in the navy; and she sailed down with a light
wind in gallant style. Though entered on the navy list
as a 19-gun frigate, she appears to carry 26 guns of very
large calibre, and with her full complement of men and
stores draws 18 feet of water. She dropped anchor
abreast of the Breakwater, where she will await her
orders to proceed to China.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—Arthur Mellersb, Charles Pechell, and
W. H. Conolly, to the Superb, 80-gun ship, at Ports-
mouth.

Master—Perceval B. Roberts, to the Superb.
Chaplain—William Bell, to the Superb.
Clerks—W.'C. Brown and C. J. Warren to the Superb.
.

. _
Naval Instructor—William Johnson, to the Superb.
Midshipman—Edwin Field, to the Orestes, corvette,
at Portsmouth.

Master's Assistant—l. P. E. Clements to the Superb.
Clerk's Assistant—John Thurston to the Superb.
Naval Cadet—T. W. Simeon to the Daphne, corvette,
at Plymouth.
APPOINTMENTS, &0., IN THE RIVER PLATE.
Lieutenants—Henry A. Hollin worth, first lieutenant
of the Grecian sloop, to command the Lizard, steam-
vessel, vice Pearse, sent home. H. F. W. Ingram, of
the Commodore's ship Raleigh, to the Inconstant, 40-
gua frigate, gone to the Pacific station. F. H. Stevens,
of the Inconstant, to the Alecto, steam-sloop. J. B.
Ballard, of the Alecto, to the Raleigh.
Master—Charles H. Dillon, of the Raleigh, to com-
mand the Raneira tender.
Surgeon—Dr. Crawford, of the Naval Hospital, to
the Raleigh, vice West, invalided.

Clerk-:Mr. Bright, clerk's assistant, of the Crescent,
receiving ship at Rio, to be secretary's clerk in the
Raleigh.
The Spider, packet, and Alecto, steam•sloop, left Rio
de Janeiro for the River Plate on the 27th of September,
the latter having Mr. Southern (tire new ambassador)
and suite on board.

The Inconstant, 40-gun frigate, Captain Sheppard,
arrived from Monte Video on the 28th ult.
On the 4th of October, the heir to the throne of the
Bracils was publicly christened. All the men•of-war in
harbour and forts saluted; and the festivities were kept
up until the 13th and 14th.
Her Majesty's ship Grecian, 16 guns, Commander
Tindal, sailed on the 7th of October to tho southward,
on a cruise.

The United States corvette St. Louis, arrived on the
evening :of. the 13th ult., a ith the American Minister's
lady and family.
The vessels in harbour at Rio are her Majesty's ships
Inconstant, Crescent, and packet Kestrel; the French
corvette Triumphante; United States frigate Brandy-
wine, bearing their Commodore; the St.. Louis corvette,
andjAlleghanny steamer.
CHATHAM, DEC. I.—Tho Boscawen, 70 guns, was
taken into dock the early part of the week to have her
cabins and other internal fittings put up, and to be cop-
pered to the ordinary line of watermark; her present
unsightly stern is to be removed, and a new one put in
its place.
The Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander Foote, sailed
out of this port to the Little Nore on the 26th ult.
The Phaeton, 50 guns, launched at Deptford on the
28th ult., was towed into this harbour by the Adder and
Pigmy steam-vessels. The Adder returned to Dept-
ford with the men who assisted to navigate the Phaeton.
The Pigmy remains. The Adder will return to Chat-
ham, and, with the Pigmy, be kept in readiness for
service.

The Acorn, 16 guns, fitting for commission, was put
I out of dock on Wednesday last, and the Phaeton was
taken in the same day to have her bottom coppered. On
the water she has a yacht-like appearance, her stern being
much below the level of her bows, but when her masts,
rigging, and stores are all on board, her bows will be
brought down, as her store-rooms and magazines are all
forward. In dock she looks a most magnificent vessel,
and her decks are much more lofty than those of other
ships of the same class.
The shipwrights are busily employed opening the
Vernon, 50 guns, in dock, for the general survey about
to be made of her. Many of her timbers are so rotten
that they scarcely bear being touched with the chisel
and mallet.

The Admiralty have issued circulars to the different
dockyards, that in future the issue to the residences of
the officers in the yards of such articles of furniture as
floorcloths, window-blinds, mats, &c., is to be discon-
tinued, and the houses placed on tho same footing as
unfurnished houses belonging to or rented by private in-
dividuals, excepting those of the Admiral Superinten-
dents or Captain-Superintendents of the dockyards, who,
paying a per tentage, their residences are to be supplied
with the same articles of furniture es heretofore.

MEETING OF ME. DENISON'S METROPOLITAN
FRlENDS.—Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a meet-
ing of gentlemen, friendly to Mr. Denison, and having
votes in the West Riding, was held in the British Hotel,
Cockspur-street, for the purpose of adopting measures to
canvass the electors resident in the metropolis. The
Hon. Mr. Stuart Wortley, M.P., was called to the chair.
Among the gentlemen present were Sir George Armi-
tage, Mr. Hardy, son of Mr. Hardy, late M.P., and a
number of barristers connected with some of the leading
families in Yorkshire. The room was crowded. Reso-
lutions were proposed, and adopted, recognising the fit-
ness of Mr. Denison to represent the West Riding, and
pledging the meeting to use every effort in their power
to promote his election. A committee was formed for
conducting the Hon. Candidate's election, so far as re-
garded those constituents of the West Riding who are
resident in London, and ten or twelve gentlemen, among
whom were several barristers, volunteered their services
to make a personal canvass of the electors. A sub-
scription was also opened to defray the expenses ofl,r 1
Denison's election, which the Hon. Chairman headed
by.
putting down his name for 501. About 2001. was sub-
scribed on the instant, and it was announced that a
similar subscription had been begun in Sheffield, which,
in less than an hour, exceeded the sum of 5001. The
meeting lasted till four o'clock, when a vote of thanks
having been given to the chairman, the assemblage
broke up.
WEST RIDING ELECTION.--The deputation ap-
pointed by the Leeds meeting, on Wednesday, having
waited upon the committee of Sir Culling Eardley
Eardley, to suggest, according to their commission, that
the Hon. Baronet should be withdrawn from the contest,
to make way for Mr. Roebuck, but the committee de•
clined to accede to the request of the meeting. The
friends of Mr. Roebuck have, however, dispatched their
requisition to that gentlemen, inviting him to become a
candidate; but it is not expected that Mr. Roebuck will
comply with their wishes. The requisition was not very
numerously signed. Sir C. Eardley and Mr. Denison
visited Wakefield
_yesterday, and addressed the electors,
the lion. Baronet being introduced by Mr. Bright, M.P.
PROCLAMATION OF THE WRIT FOR TEE WEST
RIDING ELECTION.—On Thursday afternoon Mr. Dodg-
son, Sheriff's officer, received the writ for the election of
a Member for the West Riding, and, according to custom,
proclaimed the document from the Market cross at
Wakefield. The nomination is fixed for Monday, the
11th Dec., and the polling to take place on Thursday
and Friday, the 14th and 15th inst.—Leeds Mercury.
Strawberries and violets are now growing in the
open air, in the garden of H. S. Powell, Esq., Strange_ !
ways-torrate, 'Truro.—Plyotoutli Jountul.

The Aid, Sniallman master, arrived yesterday from
Portsmouth, with stores for this yard. The Rochester,
Sudwicks master, remains loading for Devonport, and

sails to-morrow.

One sergeant and five privates, with two women and
eight children, in charge of Assistant surgeon A. J.
Dolce, of the medical staff, arrived at Fort Pitt, to be
discharged on pensions. This detachment belonged to
the' St. Helena Regiment, having left that island on the
12th of October, by the ship Childe Harold, Captain
Lilly, a trading vessel from Bombay. Also arrived at
the invalid depot, one sergeant and six privates of the
16th Regiment, from Southampton, likewise to be pen-
.

sioned off
Woof:men, DEC. I.—The Llewellyn steam-vessel,
under the charge of Mr. Grey, Master-Commander, with
Lieutenant Robertson, assistant to Captain Austin, C. 8.,
having had a new cylinder put in her by her contractors,
Messrs. Miller and Ravenhill, proceeded down the river
yesterday on trial, and answered very satisfactorily,
having made a speed of fifteen knots per hour. She will
shortly be ready to proceed for service as a packet on
the Holyhead station.
The Arrogant frigate, 46 guns, fitted with screw pro-
peller, when brought down from Deptford on Tuesday
last by the Monkey steam-vessel, was cast off when op
posits lintel:wall, and, her auxiliary power being set in
motion, she made very good progress down the river to
Woolwich, her speed being about eight knots per hour.
She answered her helm well, and it was remarked that
she turned round in a very moderate space when bring-
ing up to her moorings in the river.
The Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Thomas Hen-
derson, is hourly expected here to be paid off, and the
Niger szeam-vessel has been removed to make room
for her.

The Hermes steam•vessel was taken into the basin
yesterday to be refitted.

REPORTED DEATH OF. DR. CHAMBERS.—The edi-
tor of the Lancet. states, in this day's number, that he
has received intelligence of the death of the above-named
elujacait physicii4u.