The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The broad pendant of Commodore Seymour was
struck at sunset on Monday evening., on board the St.
George, 180, in Hamosze ; and the commodore pro-
ceeded on six days' leave of absence, in order to bring
down his family. The duty of the dockyard will be
performed by Mr. Mills, master attendant, and that of
the ordinary by Captain Joseph Nias, Companion of
the Bath,

A superannuation board sat at Devonport on
Monday, at the Commodore Superintendent's-office,
iu the dockyard, Devonport, consisting of Commodore
M. Seymour, Captain Nios, of the. St. George; the
master-attendant, Mr. Mills ; Mr. Turner, acting-
master shipwright ; and Mr. Folds, surgeon, when
the whole of the men on the list returned from the
Admiralty were inspected, with a few others who are
considered worn out, and the opinion of the board was
to he transmitted to the Admiralty.
Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain Halsted, and
Sutlej, remained at St. Helen's, and were not likely
to get away yesterday, as it blew a gale with foul
weather from the westward.

Elfin royal yacht-tender, Master Commander Bal-
listen, returned to Portsmouth from Osborne yes-
terday morning.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—This morning ali the
officers of this dockyard were personally presented
to the new Cornmqnder-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Thomas
Briggs, 6-.C.M.G., by Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott, C.B ,at the Admiralty-housT. Each officer
received a most cordial and courteous recognition from
the Port Admiral.

The Odin steam-frigate, Commander Sir W swam
Wiseman, will come into harbour to-morrow, to re-
sume her former position.in the ordinary.
The Avon steam-vessel, Master-Commander Veitch,
came into harbour this morning from the eastward,
on her return to Plymouth.
The Furious, new steam-frigate, was taken into the
Angle Dock to-day to be coppered.
The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Graham, C. 8.,
is entering hands but slowly, men not being so plen-
tiful here as was supposed, and none being accepted
for this ship but fine ablebodied men.
Woonwicn, OcT. 6.—The Resolute, Captain Ho-
ratio T. Austin, CB. the Assistance, Captain Eras-
inn Ommanney, and the Intrepid, Lieutenant-
Commander John B. Cater, all arrived at Woolwich,
between twelve and one o'clock to-day, and the two
sailing vessels were brought up at moorings opposite
the dockyard, while Mr. Atherton, chief-engineer,
went on board the Intrepid screw steam-vessel, and
went down the river a short distance in her, to be able
to report the state of her engines. The whole of the
vessels employed under Captain Austin in the Arctic
Expedition are to be paid off at this port on Thurs-
day next.
Captain Ommanney has brought home the first
relic that was found by him of the traces of Sir John
Franklin's party at Cape Riley. It appears in the
form of a rake such as is used by persons employed
in collecting seaweed. The handle is about twelve
feet long, and the gathering part about two feet six
inches long, on which six teeth have been fixed, about
five inches in length, formed of narrow hoop iron
curved inwards. Captain Ommanney
brought borne a young man, about nineteen years
of age, of the Esquimaux tribe,
and who to
habit the country beyond Cape York,
.1,
1849. The
the place where the North Star wintered
in
of Esquimaux youth is clothed in the same
cos-
tume as the other sailors, and apairaigst,
le with a remarkablyface
reau Chinese,is very
also
but
voefraynflaflat
and Asiatic cast,
more nearly like
eblri kraTternhhetael laEnesoyql,uai
and has been
good tempered and stout for his lit has
much attached to Captain
gallant officer who
s country, and the name of the
cape where be came from. The charts brought home
by the respective vessels are now nearly completed,
broughtn am named
Erasmushim t o York,t
_
and afford evidence of the exertions of the officers in
the execution of their arduous duties, and will add
many hundreds of miles of hitherto unexplored lands
to future maps of the Arctic regions, and many parts
only put down in haste by former navigators have
been corrected by Captain Ommanney. Bathurst and
Cornwallis, bo‘,ll deeee ibed as islands by former navi-;
eators, have bee!, found connected together, and to
the rnainlend, by Captain Austin's expedition.
The effic'ers and crews of the whole of the vessels
heve returned in tolerable health, and only one man
has died since the expedition left Woolwich in June,
1850.

PROPERTY IN GREAT BRITAIN.—The Committee
of tue House of Commons, in their report on the law of part-
nership, which has, with the evidence, just been printed,
state that, in round numbers, in thirty-three years since
the peace, whilst lands in Great Britain hfive increased
1848 only 8,500,000/. in annual value, or a little more than
5 per cent., messuages (being chiefly ouses and manufac-
tories and warehouses in and near towns, and inhabited by
persons depending greatly on trade and commerce) have
augmented above 26,000,000/. in annual value, or about 30
per cent in the same period. The value of railways, gas
works, and other property chiefly held in shares as per-
sonal property, had increased about twelvefold in the same
period.