The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:

We aro pleased to hear that Commodore Lord John
Hay, superintendent of the dockyard at Devonport, is
again convalescent, but we understand, in deferunce to
the wishes of his medical attendant, the Gallant Com-
modore will absent himself on leave for a short time.

The members of the Plymouth Royal Naval Club dine
together at Elliott's Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 6th
of August, the anniversary of the naval engagement off
the Dogger Bank.
Lieutenant Dorville, late first lieutenant of the Gram-
pus, has been, appointed to the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth.

Dr. Geor:ge Rae (1850) has been appointed surgeon,
and Johr, M'Swiney:(lB47) has been appointed assistant-
surgeo,n of the Calypso, 18, at Chatham. Dr. Rae
served during the operations in China; was senior as-
si•stant-surgeon of the Canopus, 84 guns, in the experi-
mental squadron; and afterwards was promoted from
the Wellesley, flag-ship in the West Indies. Dr. Rae is
made honourable mention of by Dr. Wilson,
hospitals in China, for his services in the hospital-ship
Minden, during the extreme prevalence of sickness in
that ship in 1848. inspector of
Eagle, 50, was taken out of No. 5 dock at Devonport
on Monday ; and the Styx, steam-ship Commander W.
K. Hall, will be taken in to clean her copper this day.
Trafalgar, 124, Captain Greville,
weighed anchor at
Spithead yesterday at 11.30 A.M., and made all sail to
royals, with a light northerly breeze. At noon she
set her studding sails, and was soon afterwards outside
the Nab light-vessel. She takes several officers, seamen,
marines, and marine artillery to fit up
ships in the Me-
diterranean.
Oberon, iron steam-packet, got up steam, and left at
the same time as the Trafalgar. The Oberon is in
charge of Lieut. Norman, and is manned by a party
from the Trafalgar,
DOCKYARD.—John Wallis, shipwright, who has been
ill for some time, with no prospect of returning to his
duty, has been discharged from DeVOIVOrt dockyard,
their Lordships having granted him a gratuity of four
months' wages.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 30.—Her Majesty's steam-ship
-
Magicienne,' in charge of Mr. Biddlecombe, which left
Portsmouth on Monday morning at 3 A N.,
notwith-
standing a strong head wind, made 11 knots an hour
under steam, and arrived here at 8 P.M. the same day.
Thu brig Express, 6, Commander Fend, was warped
to her moorings on Saturday and was towed yesterday
by the Kite from Hamosze into the Sound. The boy
which is to accompany her to Bermuda is also in the
Sound.
The steam-vessel Styx was warped yesterday from
her moorings to this jetty. To-morrow she will be exa-
mined and have her copper repaired, and on the sth
proximo she is to be ready for sea.
The contract ship William Hyde, Captain Apple-
whaite, with Burrs Barra copper ore from Port Ade-
laide, ore and flax from Auckland, and spars from New
Zealand for the dockyard, arrived last evening. She loft
Auckland on the 9th of April, touched at Pernambuco
on the 15th, and sailed therefrom on the 17th of June.
Passengers:—The Hon. Miss Clinton, niece to the
Duke of Newcastle ; Mrs. Pitt, widow of General
Pitt, late Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces
at New Zealand, three Misses Pitt, and five
children; Captain Pitt and lady, 80th Regiment; Lieu-
tenant Page and lady, 58th Regiment; Miss Morton;
Dr. Campbell, one of the Emigration Commissioners
surgeons; Mrs. Applewhaite and child, and five servants.
Off the Western Islands spoke the ship London, 84 days
from Valparaiso, for Liverpool; and the Hamburgh
barque Johannesse, 45 days from Bahire, for Cowes.
Emigrants are much required at New Zealand, where
farm labonrers are getting 201. to 251. per annum besides
rations. Trade brisk at Pernambuco, only one or two
cases of fever had occurred. In harbour no men-of-war
but many merchant vessels—the British chiefly from
Liverpbol.
WooLivicn, JULY 30.—Mr. John Lee, second-class
clerk at Woolwich Dockyard, is promoted to be first-
class clerk, vice Peter Morgan, appointed store-receiver.
The Polyphemus, 5, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 200-
horse power, having undergone a thorough repair at
Deptford Dockyard, was towed down the river to-day
to Woolwich, to be made ready for commission, and is
expected to be employed on the Mediterranean station.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
The performances of the rustic corps de ballet, under
the superintendence of Mr. Flexmoro, have proved a
source of so much pleasure and attraction, that the
management have effected a re-engagement with that
talented and popular artist. The effect of the May-
pole dance is singularly pretty, and the running in
sacks, wheelbarrow races, jingling, &C., excite peals of
laughter. The manner in which the fete is altogether
got up, reflects high credit on the taste of Mr. Flex-
more, who must have gone to no inconsiderable ex-
pense for the dresses and garlands, which have a fresh
and brilliant appearance, without the slighest tawdri-
ness. We have never seen an entertainment of the
kind produce so striking and pleasing an effect es
was the case on the sunny afternoon of Tuesday last.
These sports of " Merrie England" will be repeated in
the gardens to-day, at halt-past four o'clock.

STOPPAGE OF BLACKFRIARS-BRIDGE.--From the
Ist of August the thoroughfare for carriages will be stopped.
Foot passengers will, however, be permitted to pass over as
usual. The committee have been reluctantly obliged to
adopt this step, the continual sinking of the defective pier
giving rise to serious appehensions for the safety of the
public. On the exclusion of carriages from the bridge the
superlncumbent weight will be taken off the crown of the
arch, and the necessary steps adopted for the safety of the
structure.