The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-25 00:00:00

OF DERBY.

IA Potter, E.sq., not out 13
J. Clarke, Esq., b Clark 0
G.Clifford,Esq., c Martingell 3
IJ. H. Story, Esq., b Clark 1
C.W.Hunter,Esq.,c Hinkley 4
G. Curzon, Esq .. .. 0
IJ. F. Bateman, Esq.
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 23.—The Hermes steamer, Martin
master, sailed last evening for Portsmouth, from whence
she will take supernumeraries to Cork, and then return
to this port.
The Southampton, 50, fitting at Chatham, for the
Cape of Good Hope station, will be paid advance at
this port.
Admiral Sir William Hall Gage struck his flag on
board the San Josef on Monday, and proceeded on leave
of absence; the duty of the port devolves on Admiral
Superintendent Sir John Louis.
The Admiralty have determined that only one of the
advance ships at each port is to retain its lower masts,
and that all the rest shall be taken out, and carefully
stowed away in the dockyard. It has also been deter-
mined that a frigate,'as well:as a line•of•battle ship, shall
retain her masts, and the Calcutta and the America are
selected at this port.
THE SQUADRON OF EXERCISE.

Coax, AuG. 21.1—The Tweed corvette, 18 guns, Com-
mander Lord Francis Russell, arrived yesterday from
Waterford, whence she brought a number of the
Royal Marines, detached from the fleet on the ex-
pected outbreak on that part of the coast. This day a
gale has been blowing so furiously that all the fleet
have been lying with both anchors down and top-gal-
lant masts on deck. Sir Charles Napier's squadron,
comprising the St. Vincent, 120 guns, Captain S. C.
Dacres (flag-ship); the Prince Regent, 90, Captain W. F.
Martin ; the Bellerophon, 80, Captain R. L. Baynes,
C. 8.; the Amphion, 34, Captain W. J. Williams ; the
Tweed, 18, Commander Lord Francis Russell ; the
Stromboli steam sloop, 6, Commander Lord A. W .
Beauclerk ; the Helena, 16, Commander G. W. Smith ;
and the Frolic, 16, Commander Vansittart, will sail on
an evolutionary cruise when the weather moderates, and
will be joined by the Blenheim, 55, steam-ship, Captain
H. D. Chads, C. 8,, and the Pilot, 16, Commander E. M.
Lyons. The steam-ship Amphion had met with an
accident to her best anchor ; the particulars are not
stated.
DOCKYARD BATTALIONS.—The recent order of the
Horse Guards, and the accompanying recommendation
from the Admiralty authorities to these bodies, to salute
a la militaire all naval and military officers whom they
may meet when in uniform, has produced considerable
discontent in several of these bodies. The men generally
have no objection to salute their own officers whenever
they meet them, but they object to pay homage to mili-
tary and naval officers not attached to their corps. The
last instance of refusal to cede the complimentary salutes
to the "regulars" occurred when the order was read to
the Portsmouth battalion, the boat brigade of which force
steadily and almost unanimously shouted " No," when
asked on parade to comply with the order.
WOOLWICH, AuG. 24.—The Monkey steam-vessel,
Master Commander W. Bryant, returned from Sheerness
yesterday evening, after the arrival of the Sharpshooter,
and entrance to that port, and the former vessel towed
the Adventure transport steam store-ship to Deptford
this morning.
The Lotds Commissioners of the Admiralty, in con-
sideration of the valuable services of Mr. Bellamy,
Assistant-Master Attendant at Woolwich Dockyard,
have promoted him to be Master-Attendant, and ap-
pointed him to Woolwich Dockyard, vice Elson, de-
ceased.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 23.—The new Belgian ship Clotilda,
Captain Brebander, SOO tons, from Antwerp on the sth
instant, bound to New York, put in here last night,
having, on Sunday night, the 20th instant, off the Scilly
Islands, encountered a heavy gale from S.S.W., which
hove the ship on her beam•ends, and compelled the crew
to cut away her gear. She has lost her bowsprit, fore-
mast about 20 feet from the deck, maintopgallant mast,
maintopmast, and all the sails and rigging attached, top-
gallant rails and bulwarks, headrails, berthing, &c. The
Clotilda has 250 German and Prussian emigrant pas-
sengers, who pay 140 f. Swiss, or about nine louis d'or
each for passage, including rations.
THE ROYAL MARINE CORPS.

THE COMMAND OF THE PORTSMOUTH DIVISION.—
This appointment, ♦ecant by the voluntary retirement of
Colonel Thompson Aslett, has been conferred upon
Colonel Charles Menzies, second Commandant of Chat.
ham division. This officer entered upon the duties of
his advanced post on Tuesday, and yesterday made an
elaborate inspection of the various departments of his
division. Colonel Menzies is an officer of much merit,
as will be seen by the record of his services in the Army
and Navy Lists. Ile was first lieutenant, and corn-
manded a detachment, and landed at Port Jackson dur-
ing an insurrection of convicts in 1804, and was mainly
instrumental in restoring tranquillity in the colony.
lie served in the boats of the Minerva at the cap-
ture of five luggers protected by a battery, in Finisterre
Bay; was in the barge at the capture of the Spanish pri-
vateer Buena Dicha, of one long gun, and 26 men; com-
manded a boat at the capture of the Spanish gun-boat at
Carril, and commanded the marines at the storming of
Fort Finisterre in 1806-7; served in boats at the capture
of the Spanish national vessel of war San Josef, and
landed and made prisoner the Spanish commodore; was
in command of the marines at the capture of Fort
Guardia, and slightly wounded in cutting out the French
corvette Mozelle in Basque Roads; he served at the
taking of Fort Camarinas, and gun-boats, and was re-
peatedly engaged in boat actions and against batteries.
Colonel Aslett was Second Lieutenant, serving in the
Montagu at Camperdown.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, AUG. 24.—The Penin-
sular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Indus, Captain Soy, with the homeward East India,
China, and Mediterranean mails, may be expected here
about Sunday next, provided she has not been detained
at Malta to perform quarantine, in consequence of the
cholera raging in Egypt at the date of her departure
from Alexandria. The Jupiter, Captain F. Meehan, is
appointed to take out the next Spanish and Portugues
mails, The 27th falling on Sunday, the mails will be
made up in London on the morning of the 28th, and the
Jupiter will take her departure on Monday. The Sultan,
Captain Brooks, will sail on Sunday, for Gibraltar,
Malta, Constantinople, and the Black Sea ports. The
steamship Queen (lately running on the Peninsular
line) has been sent to Constantinople, to run between that
port and the Island of Candia, as a privateer steamer.
The Tagus, Captain R. W. Evans, is to sail on Tues-
day, the 29th, for Gibraltar, Genoa, Leghorn, and Ci-
vita Vecchia. The new steam-ship Malta, Captain S.
Lewis, will leave this about the Ist of September, for
India, to take up her station in carrying her :Majesty's
mails between Ceylon and Hong-Kong. The Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Forth is appointed
to take out the West India and Mexican mails of the
2d proximo. Steam-ships in dock—Forth, Great Wes-
tern, Jupiter, Iberia, Montrose, Sultan, Malta, and
Tagus. The American barque Attica, Captain
M‘Lellan, with 2,750 boxes of white sugar from Ma-
tanzas, arrived off Cowes yesterday, for orders, and the
American barque Aquila, Captain New, with sugar
from Havannah, sailed yesterday for St. Petersburgh.
KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—We have been in-
formed that the Committee of Management of King's
College Hospital have succeeded in purchasing a large
plot of ground, on which they propose to erect a new
hospital on such a scale as will afford ample accommoda-
tion for the suffering poor of the densely-populated dis-
trict around it. The ground extends from Carey-street
to Clement's-lane, and is of considerable size. This is
a very important acquisition, not only for the hospital,
which now occupies a high position among the charitable
institutions of the metropolis, but also for the neigh-
bourhood, which cannot fail to be greatly improved by
the removal of the old decaying houses now standing
upon the ground and the erection of a handsome build-
ing instead of them. A new street has been long talked
of in this locality to relieve the overthronged thorough..
fare of the Strand ; and we cannot help thinking that
the Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements, if
disposed to act in conjunction with the authorities of
the hospital, might find their objects much facilitated by
this new acquisition on the part of the committee.
The Queen and Prince Albert have jointly sub-
scribed sul. to the fund for building and endowing a
church et York Town, for the benefit of the Royal Mili-
tary College and its :neighbourhood. The Queen Dow-
ager has also subscribed 501,, and many noblemen and
military officers t ducated at that institution have libe-
rally contributed to the fund, which now amounts to
1,900/., about 9004 more being required to complete the
undertaking.
RURAL FETE AT 05floaNE.--Iler Majesty gives a
grand fete at the marine palace of Osborne.
Cne_on.lssloerto,sf
' Wight, to-morrow, in honour of the Prince
birthday, to the chief of the neighbouring gentry and
the naval and military Commanders-in-Chief of Ports-
' mouth, the Admiral-Superintendent, and the Captains
of the Fleet, &c.