The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

tN I't,LLAGENCE.

The royal yacht Victoria and Alh•rt, Captain Lord
Adolphus Fi,z;lareiic4. and the Fairy, her tender,
Mister Comrnaiibier Welsh, went down to Osborne
ve4terday in.rning; and it was supposed tihic her
M jesty the Queen and Prince Albert would embark
on hoard to witn,ss the trial of salting b-tween the
yacht of the Royal Victoria Club, that stared for
the 1001. cup that her M4jesty has Urea pleased to

The B.►ard of Admiralty have returned to White-
hall from their annual tour of u►spec+ion to the po►rts
and establishments at Portsmouth, Devonport, Pem-
broke, and Holyhead.
Lord John Hay's flag, as rear admiral of the b!ue,
was hoisted on Sunday on board the St. George, 120,
t Devon port, under the usual salutes, but it is not
likely that he will ever Fee it flying. We regret to
state that be was not expected to live over Sunday
night.

A VETERAN FLAG OFFICER.
Admiral M'Kinley, who has accepted the retiring
pension of 1501. per annum, is one of the oldest and
most distinguished flag officers in the service, having
entered the navy so far back as 1773, or 78 years
since ; and in the course of his career, as stated in
the official records of the Admiralty, by Marshall,
O'Byrne, and others, has served afloat no less than 38
years :-
" George M'Kinley, born at Devonport, is the son of
a lieutenant in the Ro) al Navy. One of his brothers,
Samuel, commanded the Comet galley, and died on the
American station; and another, John, who served as a
lieutenant under the late Sir Charles Mance Pole at
the capture of the Santa Catalina, Spanish frigate,
died olf St. Domingo in 1782.
" This officer entered the navy August 5, 1773, as
eaptain's servant, on board the Albion, 74, Captains
Hon. James Barrington and lion. John Leveson Gower,
to which ship, lying at Portsmouth, ho continued at-
tached until 1777. In January, 1771, he rajoined the
former officer, then a Rear-Admiral, On board the
Prince of Wales, 98, and sailed fur the West Indies,
where, on being discharged at the close of the same
Sear into the Ceres sloop, Captain. James Richard
lhores, he was captured while hoHing the raring o'
int.ishipman, by me F.ench frigate R.-gain-
ing his liberty in the early part of 1779, he serv-d
during the n, xt three years, still on the West Lida
station, in the Surprise, Alcmene frigaie (which vrsst-1
he had ss.is•ed in taking from the Fr.i.ch). and Belli-
qaeux, 64. all camintrided by Cap am James Brine
(where he fou4ht u ider in the latter ship in th •
autons of April 29 and S p-emb..r 5, 1781, Off
Viartirequa and the Cn.iap-eke) as tile, in the
rim !fear, 98, bearing the flag of Sir Samuel
o.t the 14th ..t Jinuarv, 1782, Mr. M•ii.
was made !lout natit i,to the Stottuo.it sloop, but that
vess, b ing captured before he could j her he went
nick to the 13.41..ur. ..nd wa. irl co.s.fq
in the actions of the 9th and 12'h of April, and at in.-
cap ore on the 19th of in. mown. of the ertern,'s
stops Jas ,n, C 11,,, /11, Aitnable, aid Ceres, in th. M .11
.assage. dc.e I.,at m •ntioneil he removed to th.-
Chwept,n 21 Cap :A.41 Alex .nder H ..,d, with whom
1,, July. 1783, he returned home titan America it
L'A.tn iga,e. pea-, netween 1794 a. rf
Augu,c. 1791, find him .e, Ting on the N,Vitill+,“l.o'l
4" ti in the room, ,dOOO, Ceptaio William
14•chine.e; Edgar, 74, Cipton Adam Duncan; Trim
(nor. 16 C.ptain Onarles ryler; i,id Itlustrious, 74
aid Formidable, 98, each hearing the tl ,g •f the flon
J. L. Gower. We .11 in the Trim.ner in 1787 Air.
ley was sent to purautt o' a suoggler to to. j .11y 0 i sr,
and during an absence of 30 hours without food was
caught in a heavy gale and all but lost. His first "mama
meet, on leaving the F.irtnidsol. was, Dec. 1, 1792, to
the Mettle, 74. Captain ( ifterwards Commodore tort
R.-sr-Admiral) ,b-rt Li, a al previously to eeeom-
penyiog whom. its 1794. luta the Windsor Castle, 98, he
ptructpat..d (the second time on buard the FortiLuJe,
74, Capt. W. Young) in two uesucceasfal stacks upon the
weer of Aortella Of she island of Corsica. A,sutning com-
mand. in March, 1795, after four mouths of half-pay of
the Liberty, cutter, he cru;sed for upwards of three
yeara in that ves-el on the Ceeneel station, and on the
17th of March, 1796, gained the particular notice of Sir
William Sidney Smith by the gallant and judicious
manner iu which, having entered the harbour 0, uerqui
to company with trio Diamond frigate and Aristocrai,
lue-ger, he went into action with the corvette Etourdie,
of 16 guns, preparatory to her destruction. On the 16 h
of May, 1798, lir. M`Ktnley was promoted to the com-
mand of the Otter fireship. In the following year, being
ordered to accompany the expedition to Holland, b,
witnessed the surrender of Rear. Admiral Storey's
,quadrou in the Text,l, and was placed in charge, with a
detachment of marines, of the lowa of Eaquysen,where
he remained until the evacuation of the Holder and the
removal of the British naval force from the Zuyder Z-.e.
On the 2d of April, 1801, immediately after the battle
of Copenhagen, on which occasion the Otter had formed
part of the light scieedrou attached to Lord Nelson's
division, Captain 11.1iinley was nominated to the tem-
porary command of the Bellotia, 74, whose captain, S.r
Itiornae 13:widen Thompson, had lost a leg in the action.
As soon as he nad refitted that ship he was sup rseded
and sent iu charge of the Ardent, 64, to England,
whence on 20 h of the ensuing October, the very day be
was confirmed in post rank, he sailed for the West
Indies in the Pelican sloop with dispatche. relative to
the treaty of Amiena. He removed, immediately on his
arrival, to the Abergavenny, 54, and was subse-
quently appointed, July 23, 1802, to the Ganges,
74, in which ship he returned home via H4lltax
July 11, 1803, to the Roebuck, 44, employed at first as
a guard.thip at Leith (where the explosion of a powder
horn, while on duty, deprived him of sight for .eve.al
di,cl then as 111 stop to Roar- t drntral Bill}
Douglas in Yarmouth Roads, January 9.3 1806 to tilt,
Q tebec, 32, s,aiion•d off them cast of ti.diariti; 20th
May following w the Lively 38; April 19 1811, to ,he
San Joseph, 110, bearlin4 the fia,r, in the Niediterratit-tin
and ensuin.l of Sir Coarlee Cotton, with whom he c :n-
-tinued 11.311 his death if. Febru.ry, 1812; May 5, in
the latter yi or, to the Bell tool, 74, iu which slip he
cru•std off the Schell , ui do a v. yage to st. lie lona,
ran l serv: J with z Ch fleet. sot (if et' an ii,terva•
of hone N: 'ember 21, 1814. a..d au....;ust 26.
1815 O. the NVonur and Bo wank 74'., flavo..pwo
Li, :lir Charles H.e le), in the lttv,r ;Medway. Durmg
fits ~(ahwatid of t Civaryin M•littiley wee t •I
a ,me ti,u. senior otllc r 'tie ',Noon eta i .n, where he
rentier.,tl au .sse:ittal servic, in bringing away the liri-
n•n factory old all the Engi,fi werch..ut ve.s.-ls lying
in the l'agus, at :s time wrier, fieu• ral Jentit was rapt i,
approaching with y p ul Frern,h •riny to t.k.. tro,
3 ,tin 0. the I".irtiguese ll.plial. co.,duLt, laid-ad
ail .riled so much asti-fscti, n to the in• rchaiirs that the

united in pre•entiog him 'rum a piece of plate. 11.
J•illuery, 1808. the Lively c R dr-Admiral
William &Nu ta.iyay to int, equ id, on etupl•iyed to un-
biocks s of Lisnoti ; and t,,en went ou a cruis•
off ihe Westurn After the convention of Citttra
bar captain was s-nt into ttte Tagil.) with orddrs t iske
charge of the naval arsenal, whieh he retaiiied until t•
P u.. ue..o authoreies 1-1.•
wa. delivi-reit over to the
subsequently cruise,' off Oporru, awl received the thank.
of the merchants there tor his ex•-rtions in clearing the
river Douro of all the British shipping previously to ch..
French entering that city In March, 1809 his resist-
ance being solicited by the iuhabitairts or G4llicia, he
repaired thriller, and toil active part in the °per--
lions which led to the capture of Vigo and Santiago,
On the advenc, or Marshal S itilt towardi
Captain Miliinley was the m and of saving it from c.o
lure by effectu-illy dratroying the ()ridge. In July, 1809,
he convoyed afl et from Liabon to Eogl ind; and on
September 18, in the same y,ar, be contributed to the
capture of L'Aurore, French luv,ger-prtvateer, of 16
guns and 69 men. After lying for a time in the Downs
as flag ship or the late Sir George Campb 11, the Lively.
in April, 1810, conveyed Sir Charles Cotton to Cadiz.
On her return she was ordered to escort the outward-
bound trade to Portugal and the Mediterranean. Atter
executing that service she was unfortunately wrecker),
August 10, 1810, on a reef of rocks near Point Coura,
in the island of Malta, a disaster of any share in which
Captain M`Kinley was by court-martial fully ac-
quitted. On afterwards leaving the Bulwark he was
appointed, January 16, 1813, a captain of the Royal
Hospital. at Greenwich ; and in April, 182 t, he was no-
minated superintendent of the Royal.
Naval Asylum on
the occasion of its incorporation with the former insti-
tution. His services in the latter capacity were ac-
knowledged in 1821 by a special increase of 100/. per
annum to his salary. He became a Rear Admiral July
22, 1830 ; Vice-Admiral November 23, 1841 ; and Ad-
miral last month.
" Admiral M•Kinley married a sister of the late
Vice-Admiral Aiskew Pafford Hollis, by whom he has
issue.

THIS PUPILS or Tam NAVAL COLLIOR OF BREST.
—A French Government steamer and a French cor-
vette arrived at Deptford-yatd on Saturday, with the
pupils of the Naval College at Brest. Shortly after
their arrival, the commanders of the Fhips landed and
paid their respects to the captain-superintendent, who,
it is almost needless to add, received them wi h
every courtesy. The pupils, numbering between one
and two hundred, and who are fine, healthy, active
looking youths, landed at the yard ye-sterd4y morn-
ing (Monday), and proceeded by the railway to town
to view the Exhibition, for which Pure they have
viaited 'hi. coutury. The suitable uniform worn by
'he.giab marine, attracted the attention of the
French marines and sailors, affording, as it does, a
ontr)ist to (11,, uniform (,f their own service.
THE AFFAIR AT VALPARAISO.— WA have received
the following particulars of the affair at Valparaiso
from a correspondent :
Ab .ut the 20 h Jane, a tt•titttiin of ono co* the fuer-
eltnt-ties.sels I} tog th.-re having died, nod the etwthins
of the other ve,8e1.4 wiAhlng to .how t.e decea,ed nil the
reapcet in their power (but the laws of Ch h do nt t allow
the bodies of heretics to be carried through the L)WIIkX-