The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-31 00:00:00

No. 16,885. LONDON, SATURDAY
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BEARD'S COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTRAITS.
At 34, Parliament-street, Westminster;
85, King William-street, City ;
And the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.

GLOBE HOTEL, PLYMOUTH.
REPORTS being most industriously circulated, evidently
emanating from interested parties, that the greater portion of the
Bed rooms • are temporarily destroyed by the alterations making in
the above hotel.

W. RADMORE deems it necessary to inform his Friends and the
Public that such is not the case, and he has so arranged that the
whole improvements NOM be carried out without in the least degree
Interfering with the comfort of his guests.
Plymouth, Oct, li, 1846.

DR. LATHAM ON DISEASES OF THE HEART.
PUblished this day, Vol. 11., 12m0., Ss. cloth,
LECTURES on Subjects connected with CU.
LAICAL MEDICINE, comprising Diseases of the Heart.
By P. M. LATHAM, M.D. •
Physician Extraordinary to the Queen ; and late Physician to St.
Bartholomew's llospitsd.
** The Work complete In 2 vols. 12ino. price 16s.
London Longman, Brows, Green, and Longman&

IMPERIAL FOLTO.—FULL MUSIC SIZE.
Early in November will appear, the.
LLUSTRATED MUSICAL ALMANAC :
Visiting Table-book and Drawing-room Annual for 1847. Price
ad-a-Crown.

SA Ne' Musical. Compositions by
lfe, I I
Alexander Lee, ' Crouch, and
Benedict,' I Wallace, Hatton.
TWELVE ORIGINAL SONGS. By F. W. N. BAYLEY.
ONE HUNDRED AND. FIFTY BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Kenny Meadows, Yin; and other eminent Artists.
A COMIC MUSICAL ALMANAC. By the Author of " The New
Tale of a Tub," " The Comic Nursery Stories," and Three Years
of the Comic Almanac of George Cruikshank.
H. Hurst, 27, King William-street, Strand.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH," OCT. 28.—The Comet steamer, Lieu-
tenant-Commanding Charlei IL Johnson, sailed last
evening for Ireland, where she is to be employed under
the orders of Commissary-General Ilewetson. She has
been armed to be prepared for attack or defence, if

necessary.
The officers and crews of the Avenger steam-frigate,
Captain W. Williams, have been turned over to the
Amphion, 36, steam-frigate, at Woolwich, and took
pissage to-day with their baggage in the provision depot
Belvidera, Naster-Comrhanding P. Wellington, to join
her. The latter was towed out of harb.ur to-day by
the Echo, and sailed for Deptford, where she embarks
provisions for the coast of Scotland.
The semaphore telegraph on the Port-Admiral's house,
iu the dockjard, to communicate with the flag-ship, has
recently been removed from one of the wings to the top
of the central building, where a " hurricane house" is in
the course of construction for the shelter of the men
employed in working it, it having been Once blown off in
a gale, fortunrtely without damage. If great care is
not taken in securing it, a heavy gale will be likely to
.en,-1 it into some of the streets in Portsea. The removal
of the apparatus from the wing to the top of the main
building is caused by the progress of the erection of the
new boat-house, which stands directly in the way of the
line of communication from the wing of the mansion'to
the Victory and flag-ship in the harbour. To surmount
this difficulty, the above alteration is in progress.
OCT. 29.—The Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Robb,
went out of harbour at daylight this morning, and
having taken on board her powder, shot, shells, &c„
left this afternoon to join the squadron of Vice-Admiral
Sir William Parker (for whom she carries Admiralty
despatches of importance), off Lisbon. She also took
out reinforcements and letters for the ships of the squa-
dron.

The Naiad coal and store ship, for Callao, was com-
missioned this morning, by Mr. W. L. Brown, Master
(1S31), who is appointed to command her.
The Sappho, 16, Commander Gambier, will be stripped
to her girtlines this evening.
The Cambrian, 36, was brought alongside the jetty
this morning, to take on board her iron ballast. •
The Echo -tug returned into harbour last evening,
after towingthe Belvidera out clear of the Owers, and
was immediately despatched out again, to tow in an
American ship, disabled outside of the Isle of Wight,
which sho took down to Cowes, to which port her cargo
belonged.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 27.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commander Henry Layton, to the Belvidera ' • First'
Engineer William Rumble, to the William and Mary
Midshipman A. "T. Thrupp, to the Vengeance ' • Clerk
H. H. Gilbert, to the Caledonia Clerk W. H..Ozzarcl,
trr the" Victory; Clerk W. Simmonds, to the Thetis ;
Master's Assistant John E. Knight, to the Caledonia ;
Boatswain Robert Knight, to the Rattlesnake • Boat-
swain E. R. Douglas, to the Victory ; Master's Assistant
G. A. C. Brooker, to the Amphion ; Master Wm. Tozer,.
to the Adventure transport ; Master Samael Jago, to
the Hamoaze lighter ; Lieutenant George Sandford, to
the coast guard ; Assistant Surgeon Francis Anderson,
to the Sappho ; Commander Francis T. Brown, to the
Geyser.

IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDI-
TION OF THE LABOURERS OF DORSET.

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DORCHESTER, TUESDAY. —A highly influential meeting.
was held in the Assize Hall here yesterday afternoon,
under- the auspices of the High Sheriff of, the county
the Lord Bishop of the diocese, Sand a host of county
magistrates and clergymen, lor the purpose of " esta-
blishing a Labourers' Friend Society for the district.
with the vicar of bettering the condition, morally am
physically, of the rural labourers and working mechanic.-
mti artisans, by carrying oat the field-garden allotmetr
system, under judicious regulations." At the time th,
High Sheriff took the chair, we noticed around him—
['he Right Rev. Dr. Denison, Lord Bishop of Salisbury;
John Floyer, Esq., M.P.; Richai d Brimley Sheridan,
Esq., M.P.; the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Scott ; A. H. D.
Acland, John Cree, F. B. Martin, Robert
John Mansell, Esqs. ; Captain Foster, the Rev. J. A.
Templar and John Venables, county magiArates ; th(
Venerable the Archdeacon of Dorset, the Revs. C. W.
Bingham, .J. Lan, E. Ludlow; G. Wood, R. Smith, G
Fisher, N. Handley, Sanderson Robins,•.T. -Philips, T.
Thcmpson, J. 'Frenow,' 0. Fisher, &c. Among the
ladies—Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs. John Floyer, Mrs. C. W.
Bingham, Mrs. Martin, &c. &c.
The Mon SHERIFF, after briefly touching upon the
general objectaof such societies as they had met to
form, said that it had been generally understood from
what took place at a large preliminary meeting of the
committee, that the society would not confine itself to
the objects specific/ in the printed advertisements, and
be confessed that' he hopped to see a considerable eaten •
sion of those objects,_ He hoped to see such an amount
of funds - •
' things as
those who
time, and
garden—ft
pepuli at.
hi had omit.