The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, Amt., 15.—0 n Monday evening the First
Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Ellenborough, accom-
panied by Admiral Bowles and Captain Brandreth, arrived
at Moorhead's Hotel, where his Lordship held a levee on
Tuesday morning.
After inspecting the Dockyard, his Lordship went on
board the Belleisle troop-ship, Captain Kingcombe, and
subsequently visited her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, Captain
Sir H. J. Leek, and her Majesty's ship Albion, 80, Captain
N. Lockyer. His Lordship spent two hours on board the
latter, and went twice over her. The crew were mustered
at divisions, and by the excellent manner in which they
performed their duties elicited the admiration of his Lord-
ship, who appeared highly pleased.
In the evening his Lordship, and the other members of
the Board of Admiralty, dined with the Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., at the Admiralty-
house, where the heads of public departments, with their
ladies, sad the gentry of the neighbourhood were assembled.
To-day his Lordship inspects the' Royal William Victual-
ling-yard and the Royal Naval Hospital, and at half-past 6
o'clock gives an official dinner at the hotel. At 9 o'clock the
Earl and the other members leave for Exeter, where they
sleep, and to-morrow return to town,
His Lordship is unaccompanied by a secretary, and his
visit here is quite of a routine character. He is very minute
in his inquiries, and takes notes himself. The Board do not
proceed Immediately to inspect the Arsenal at Pembroke as
first intended.

We understand her Majesty the Queen Dowager has
been in treaty for the occupancy of Cashiobury-park, the
beautiful seat of the Earl of Essex, near Watford, during the
temporary absence of that nobleman on the Continent. The
mansion and grounds were fully approved, and the only
difficulty was the want of sufficient stabling to accommodate
her Majesty's stud. Could her Majesty have obtained a
lease of the place for four years certain, we are informed that
stabling sufficient for the accommodation of the royal horses
would have been erected at her Majesty's cost ; but the
Noble Earl not being willing to let the estate for a longer
period than two years, the negotiation has been altogether
dropped.—Post.
NATIONAL TRIBUTE TO M. WILDERSPIN, TEE
CHIEF PROMOTER OF INFANT SCROOLS.—GIadIy do we re-
cognise a movement now making in behalf of a true and self-
sacrificing philanthropist—the object of which movement is
to afford Mr. Wilderspin, the well known disseminator of
schemes for the education of children, a means of passing his
old age in comfort. He has for many years so associated his
name with the formation of infant and normal schools
throughout the provinces, that any expatiation upon the be-
nefits which have accrued to his fellow-countrymen through
his unremitting exertions for their welfare, would be more
than superfluous. Throughout the continuance of health and
capacity Mr. Wilderspin has laboured, as a man only can
labour in a labour of love, to promote the social, moral, and
intellectual interests of childhood; and lie has done this
without ostentation in his benevolence, without any ulterior
view apart from the excellence of the cause itself; without
indeed attending to any pecuniary compensation (if any-
thing pecuniary can be considered as compensation for
such industry), or without making any prov'iontiat-
, ever for his declining years. Should such
, disinte-
rested
philanthropy go unrequited? )1r ou hi his contem-
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warning against all future benevolence of a similar character?
We are rejoiced to think that some individuals are ready to
acquiesce in the most rational deductions which can
has been
be drawn
tribute
from these inquiries. In proof of which a
situated
determined upon, with secretaries for its promotion
been
in Edinburgh, Hull, and Manchester. An address has
issued to this effect, calling upon the million tois
demonstration of their sympath. "An association,"
the address,
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offer him, unasked by him. a suitabltebatrti bute for his invalu-
able labours." We have no doubt
the
appeal
glad to think that individual generosity
pass without a suitable response from the will not
general ingratitude.
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