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S Ny DECEMBEE, 2, 1848.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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, 5f 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
,-She Motherbank, turning in and out among the ships of
Sir C:"Napter's squadron quite- at her ease, and taking
no more notice of the flag-ship there or the one in the
harbour than she did of the royal standard at Osborne or
of the Powerful when she passed to the eastward on the
4th of October.
The Rifleman screw-schooner, Lieutenant S. S. L.
Crofton commanding, was undocked 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 Spitheads—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.
The royal steam-yacht Fairy, Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, was dispatched yesterday from Portsmouth
to Southampton, to embark the Premier and convey him
to East Cowes, the Noble Lord being invited to
Osborne.

IRELAND.

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, r.nd Messrs.
Bryan and Bergin, natives of America, who had e itered
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 Kilmainham 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 dismaseed at sea, jury masts were
erected, but the unfortunate vessel was totally un-
manageable, and had been drifting Ltiout for some days.
Captain Pile instantly bore down 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 was
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 Pile for 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 I,ooo4—Cork Con-
stitution.

DALKEY 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 Is. 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 h© 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-

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 Mellersh, Charles Pechell, and
W. H. Conolly, to the Superb, 80-gun ship, at Ports-
mouth.
Master—Perceval B. Roberts, to the Superb.
Chaplainfr•William Bell, to the Superb.
Clerks—VV.:C. Brown and C. J. Warren to the Superb.

ern side. The Rev. Gentleman- was loudly applauded
on resuming his seat.