The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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THE VACANT AIDES-DE-CAMP.—It is currently
reported hire that the three vacant naval aides-de-
camp to the Queen will be filled up by Captains
Pechell, Wyviil, and Sir C. Hotbam.
Commander Lord John Hay returned to Devon-
port Dockyard on Thursday morning from Fester
House, Haddlirton, where he has been attending the
funeral of his late lamented uncle, Rear-Admiral
Lord John Hay.
Virago steam-sloop, Commander W. H. Stewart,
sailed from Devonnort on Thursday morning for the
Pacific.

Grecian, 12, Commander the Hon. G. Keane,
will sail this day from Devonport for tho Cape of
Good Hope.
Styx steam-sloop, Commander W. K. Hall, that
sailed from Plymouth for the Cape the .sth August,
arrived at Madeira after a favourable passage on the
9th, all well. _ _

Calypso, 18, Captain Forbes, sailed on Thursday
at noon for Halifo.x.

D EVOISPORT, TuuasDAY.—The wind has been fresh
all day, which has prevented the Bellerophon, 78,
Captain Lord G. Paulet, being swung to adjust her
compasses. It will be done as soon as the weather
permits, after which she will be paid advance to her
crew. .

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—Rear-Admiral W. W.
Henderson, C. 8., K.H., with Flag-Captain Cannon,
Commander Jenner, Flag-Lieutenant Goodenough,
and Secretary Triphook, embarked on board the
Centaur steam-frigate at Spithead at three o'clock
this afternoon, bearing the Admiral's flag, when he
was received with manned yards, guard of marines,
and all the officers of the ship in full dress, as usual
on such occasions. To-morrow the Centaur sails for
the Brazils.
The Shearwater steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Horton, sailed last evening for Plymouthand
the Mediterranean.

The Seaflower cutter, Lieutenant-Commander
Fletcher, is refitted, and will proceed to resume her
station off Jersey in the early part of next week.
The Defence convict-ship has bent sails, and will
proceed to the Thames in a day or two.
The Hercules, 72, fitting for the Mediterranean re-
ceiving ship, is being newly coppered, and will come
out of dock on Monday. So eminently successful has
been Mr. Peacock's (the superintendent of the
Southampton Docks) composition on the bottom of
the Apollo troop-frigate in preserving tin copper,
that the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered the
Hercules to have two coats of it, and the Iris, at
Chatham, two also ; and the Vulcan, iron troop steam-
frigate, is ordered to have three coats of Mr. Peacock's
improved preservative for iron bottoms.
The Dauntless steam (:crew) frigate, Captain Hal-
stead, has topgallantmasts pointed, and is " rattling
do w n."
The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Grahame, C.B ,
has topmast up and fidded, and topmast rigging fitted.

APPOINTMENTS.

Woormica, SEPT. 12.—Surgeons Superintendent
M'Crea (1843), to the Anna Maria con-
vict ship.
Second Masters—A. J. A. Parks (1850), to the
Sprightly paddle-wheel steam-vessel, of 100-horse
power, tender to the Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth ;
Charles Turner (1845), to the Hercules, 10, store-
ship, re-commissioned to-day at Portsmouth for par-
ticular service.
Assistant-Engineer—John M. Smith to the Asp
paddle- wheel steam surveying vessel, tender to the
Fisgard, flag-ship at Woolwich, for service at Holy-
head.
Midshipman George B. Cooper, to the Albion, 90,
on the Mediterranean station.
Gunner—Stephen Hayward to the Hercules.
Boatswain—William Davies to the Hercules.
Carpenter—John Reid to the Hercules.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
YACHTS WITH WOODEN SAILS.
Strange as this announcement may appear, such
things may daily be seen in Cowes harbour. Thanks
to the talented builders and riggers of the America,
we say riggers, because, in spite of what the writers
in the Times, Herald, &c., may say, we hold to our
original opinion, that the cutting and the setting of
the sails has as much to do with a vessel's fleetness as
her hull. Our builders and sailmakers are alive to
this fact, and during the week the Whites and Ratsey
have been trying all sorts of experiments. Having
the lines of the far-famed America, and the little less
celebrated Madeira packet brig Brilliant, they have
constructed models of both, and schooner:rigged them,
ala America, with wooden sails. They are each six
feet in length, and it surprises every one to see how
swiftly they cut along, and how close they sail to the
wind with their wooden sails flat aft, or go ahead
boomed out when before the wind. Lord Mount
Edgecumbe, C. M. Talbot, Esq., and a number of
other yachtsmen, who are about to build new yachts,
or to have their present ones altered to suit the times,
are daily witnesses of the different experiments. The
sails are made of thin fir board, the thickness of veneer,
but Ratsey is now making canvas sails, of the Ame-
rican cut, for them. The Marquis Conyngham's yacht
Constance, 218 tons, is dismantling, to be ready to
be hauled up and lengthened 12 feet by the bows ;
as is Earl Fitzhardinge's, to be lengthened 10 feet.
The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe has given orders to
White to build him another yacht, of about 80 tons.
A gentleman has offered to sail his yacht against
the America for 5,0001., but as we see no probability of
the match ever coming off, we do not mention names.
We have at present no yacht at all equal to the
America for fleetness ; ours have all balloon main-
sails, foresails, and staysails, and they are not fit to
go to wind with.
We expect daily to receive orders to insert adver-
tisements of a number of fine sea boats being for sale,
good burdensome vessels of from 30 to 200 tons, well
adapted for the foreign fruit trade, all well fitted and
well found, and built of the very best materials, well
known as the Cowes Fleet.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, TiIUESDAY, SEPT. 11.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Royal,
the Princess Alice, and the Prince Alfred drove yes-
terday in an open carriage.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer
stalking. The Prince of \Vales accompanied his
Royal Highness to the forest.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty yesterday evening at Balmoral.

Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday from Minto
House, near Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colo-
nial-office to the Governors of the North American
Colonies.
His Excellency the American Minister, with Mrs.
and Miss Lawrence, left town on Thursday for a tour
in Ireland.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO LANCASHIRE.
The royal route through Manchester, on the occa
sion of her Majesty's visit on the 10th of October, has
been received by the Mayor, and is found to embrace
a circuit of three miles. It commences at Victoria-
bridge, and includes the following streets :—Victoria-
street, Market-street (to lligh-street), high-street,
Shade-hill, Swan-street, Oldham-street, north end of
Piccadilly, Mosley-street, Peter-street, Deans-gate
(to King-street), King-street, Cross-street, St. Ann-
street, St. Ann's-square. Her Majesty, Prince Al-
bert, and suite will here visit the Exchange, where
an address is to be presented to her Majesty. The
route then continues by the north end of St. Ann-
street, Deansgate, Bridge-street, and the Albert-
bridge, across the Irwell into Salford. From Salford
the royal cortege will return (by the road it came) to
Worsley. The entire route from Worsley and back
will be about seventeen miles.
The Royal party will pass through Salford on
their way to Manchester. The route lies close by
the walls of the Peel Park, and her Majesty and
Prince Albert, being patrons of the extensive public
library and museum recently established here, it is
proposed to invite a passing visit. The park contains
about 30 acres of ground, picturesquely overhanging
a bend of the river Irwell on its right bank, is well
wooded, has handsome carriage drives, garden plots,
shrubberies, and spacious lawns, so that it presents
some rare attractions for a people's park. The library
and museum occupy a well-built modern looking hall,
approached by a good carriage drive, at a distance of
about 100 yards from the entrance to the park. The
mansion itself cost the builder, Colonel Ackers,
30,0001 ; but the proximity of factory chimneys,
vomiting clouds of smoke incessantly, though not so
near as to prevent healthy vegetation in the park, ren-
dered it latterly an undesirable residence for a gentle-
man of fortune, and the Park Committee purchased
V-e building for 6,0001. It is proposed that the
Mayor and corporation shall present an address to
her Majesty in the park, and that the Sunday School
children of the two boroughs shall also be congregated
on the lawns (to the number of 60,000 or 70,000),
and sing the national anthem.
The county magistrates are anxious to testify their
respect for their gracious Sovereign, but whether it
shall be done at the south or the north extremity of the
county is a question to be determined. The ancient
castle at Lancaster, once the palace of John o' Gaunt,